1 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:42,000 And when it fire burns My heart is cultured to work 2 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:55,000 I haven't meet the burning fire Or sound of grave things 3 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:02,000 I haven't meet the burning fire 4 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:35,000 And bring forth fruit with patience 5 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Luke 8 verse 15 6 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Keep it and bring forth fruit with patience 7 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Let's read that from a couple of versions 8 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Luke 8 verse 15 9 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:39,000 So from the New Living Translation 10 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Luke 8 verse 15 11 00:02:49,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Good news translation 12 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Luke 8 verse 15 13 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Good news translation 14 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Luke 8 verse 15 15 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Luke 8 verse 15 16 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Luke 8 verse 15 17 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Luke 8 verse 15 18 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Luke 8 verse 15 19 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Luke 8 verse 15 20 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Luke 8 verse 15 21 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Luke 8 verse 15 22 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Luke 8 verse 15 23 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Luke 8 verse 15 24 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Luke 8 verse 15 25 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Luke 8 verse 15 26 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Luke 8 verse 15 27 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Luke 8 verse 15 28 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Luke 8 verse 15 29 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Luke 8 verse 15 30 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Luke 8 verse 15 31 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Luke 8 verse 15 32 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Luke 8 verse 15 33 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Luke 8 verse 15 34 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Luke 8 verse 15 35 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Let me read from the King James 36 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,000 You're going to enjoy today's service I'm telling you 37 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 I am the true vine 38 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,000 My father is the gardener or the husband man 39 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Hallelujah 40 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Where's your own Bible? 41 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 What's your own Bible? 42 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 What are you showing? 43 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Do what you are doing 44 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 When you finish God, send it to me 45 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Yes 46 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,000 I am the true vine and my father is the husband man 47 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Every branch in me that bear not fruit, he take it away 48 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Hallelujah 49 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Every branch that doesn't bear fruit, he does what? 50 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 He take it away 51 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 What does it mean he take it away? 52 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Amazingly, it's not what they've told us 53 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,000 He take it away actually means that he keeps it 54 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 He dresses it 55 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,000 He keeps nourishing it till it grows 56 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Hallelujah 57 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,000 That's what the Greek word means 58 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 But that's what we are looking at maybe one day 59 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 So every branch in me that bear not fruit, he take it away 60 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 And every branch that bear fruit, he purge it 61 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 That it may bring forth more fruit 62 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you 63 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Abide in me 64 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Now underline that word 65 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Abide in me 66 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 And I in you 67 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself 68 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Except it abide in the vine 69 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:29,000 No more can ye except ye abide in me 70 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Now let me read that portion again 71 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Abide in me 72 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,000 And I in you 73 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Now you can see abide in me 74 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:53,000 What is the mark there? 75 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 It's comma right? 76 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 What do you call it in English? 77 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Pantrecy 78 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,000 So what is the pantrecy in me? 79 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Comma 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,000 So it means that the end there cannot be translated as witches 81 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 So this is different alright? 82 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 So abide in me 83 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Comma 84 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,000 And I in you 85 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Why do we have to abide in him and he in us? 86 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Because as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself 87 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,000 Except it abide in the vine 88 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 No more can we, what does that mean? 89 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:39,000 No more can ye means no more can you bear fruit except ye abide in me 90 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,000 I am the vine, ye are the branches 91 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Now so what is Jesus trying to say? 92 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I am the vine, ye are the branches 93 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,000 What is he trying to say? 94 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Okay 95 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:01,000 He told you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself 96 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Alright except it abides in the vine 97 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 So you also cannot bear fruit except you abide in me 98 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Why? 99 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 I am the vine, ye are the branches 100 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Hallelujah 101 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 He that abideth in me 102 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 And I in him 103 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 The same bringeth forth much fruit 104 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:26,000 For without me ye can do nothing 105 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Without me you can do 106 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 So listen to it 107 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:39,000 What does it mean to be a good ground? 108 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,000 What does it mean not to be a thorny ground like we have studied? 109 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Those of you who are coming to church today we are very sorry you may not understand 110 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 What does it mean not to be a thorny ground? 111 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:55,000 A wayside ground and a stony ground 112 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:02,000 What does it mean to be a good ground? 113 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Colleging onto? 114 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Jesus says that 115 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 It what? 116 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 To abide 117 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 All together 118 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 It means to abide 119 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:25,000 So the parable of the sower can be said to mean abiding in the word 120 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Is that okay? 121 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Now it's only in this place we can do this synonymous exegesis 122 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Alright? 123 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Now I know some of you say what is synonymous exegesis? 124 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 It's none of your business 125 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Listen 126 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,000 If the word is going to work 127 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Which in other words is called 128 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 A good ground 129 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Alright? 130 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,000 What is the meaning of good ground? 131 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:58,000 From what we have been talking about what does it mean of good ground? 132 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Understands 133 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Alright? 134 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Keeps 135 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:13,000 So understanding the word means abiding in the word 136 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Do well to understand what I'm sharing with you 137 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,000 So 138 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 It never would help us say amen 139 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:32,000 So to understand the word means to abide in the word 140 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Hallelujah 141 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:42,000 It means that anybody that has back and forth with the word is somebody who does not understand 142 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Are we following that? 143 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,000 If you understand the word 144 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:53,000 We will see it in your abiding in the word 145 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:58,000 Now go to James when James spoke about do not be heirs 146 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 And you will know that 147 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Or let me leave that we'll get there 148 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,000 So understanding the word means what? 149 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Abiding in the word 150 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 And abiding in the word means what? 151 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Being a good ground 152 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:22,000 So abiding in the word of God, understanding the word of God is the same as being a good ground 153 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:38,000 So the parable of the sower can be said it is the parable of understanding the word or it is the parable of abiding in the word or it is the parable of keeping the word or it is the parable of doing the word 154 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000 As we see that in James 155 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Come on, hallelujah 156 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:51,000 So if the word is going to and also abiding in the word means abiding in Christ 157 00:19:51,000 --> 00:20:00,000 So the parable of the sower, the parable of the good ground simply is abiding in Christ 158 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Come on, I believe we are fine with that 159 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:12,000 So if somebody asks you what is the meaning of the parable of the sower? 160 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:17,000 I say the meaning of the parable of the sower is to abide in Christ 161 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:22,000 And what does it mean to abide in Christ? 162 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Abiding in Christ simply means abiding in the message of Christ 163 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,000 What is the message of Christ? Abiding in the gospel 164 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:36,000 So the parable of the sower means they are abiding in the gospel 165 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Are we together? 166 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:49,000 So the good ground simply means the heart that receives and keeps the gospel 167 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Hallelujah 168 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,000 Come on, we have done this thing since when? 169 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Last three days or last four days? 170 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Yes, so you should understand that 171 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 So now let's come back to what Jesus said 172 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Jesus says abide in me 173 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Now, the word abide is menno, M-E-N-O 174 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Write that down quickly 175 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Let's do this 176 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Menno, say menno 177 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Oh, menno people are here 178 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Menno means to remain 179 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000 All right? 180 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Menno means what? 181 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 To remain 182 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000 It also means to continue 183 00:21:45,000 --> 00:22:07,000 It also means to continue 184 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,000 So you're going to have in different versions that will say remain in me 185 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Some will say abide in me 186 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 Some will say continue in me 187 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Hallelujah 188 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Okay, now 189 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Write this down 190 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Number one 191 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:36,000 To abide means to tarry or to wait 192 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Write that down 193 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,000 To abide is to tarry or to wait 194 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Are you all there? 195 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Good 196 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,000 You can see example of that in Luke chapter 8 verse 27 197 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Luke 10 7, John 7 9 198 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Are you all there? 199 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Are you all there? 200 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Are you all there? 201 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Are you all there? 202 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Are you all there? 203 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Are you all there? 204 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Are you all there? 205 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Are you all there? 206 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 John 7, John 7 9 207 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 What's the name of John 7 9? 208 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Somebody read that for us 209 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 John chapter 7 verse 9 210 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Sit down, sit down with me 211 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,000 When he has said these things 212 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 He remain in 213 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Are we together? 214 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000 So when he has said these things 215 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000 He remain there 216 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,000 So to abide means to stay 217 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 To remain, to tarry 218 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Alright? 219 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Okay, so if it means it's to tarry 220 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Then it means it does not mean to go away from 221 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Alright? This is very important, just be right with me, you understand it 222 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Okay 223 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 So I said it also means to remain, right? 224 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,000 It also means not to depart 225 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Not to leave or to continue to be present 226 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 To continue to be present 227 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 So when Jesus says 228 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Abide in me so that you can bear much fruit 229 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 What does that mean? 230 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Continue to be present in me 231 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 I know 232 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Graceful people will say I live in Christ and Christ dwells in me 233 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 That's all he's talking about 234 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Hallelujah 235 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,000 You see, oh the Bible says abide, we are abiding 236 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 We are not abiding 237 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Hallelujah 238 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 So he's going to abide 239 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 It's not something Christ has done 240 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 It's something you do 241 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Hallelujah 242 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Come on, it's something you do 243 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Are we together? 244 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 So he says that abide 245 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 What does that mean? 246 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Continue to be present 247 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 So continue to be present in the world 248 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Now I'm talking about the good ground 249 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 The keeping of the world 250 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,000 It meant that those that had good heart or good grounds 251 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Whose heart were good grounds 252 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:38,000 These are people who continued to be present in the world 253 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Hallelujah 254 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Alright, let's get into the word 255 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 First John 2.19 256 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:54,000 First John 2.19 257 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:02,000 You can also see John 14.16 258 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Some read any 259 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Some read any 260 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 They went out from us 261 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000 They went out of us 262 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,000 If they had been of us 263 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,000 They would have continued with us 264 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Now that word continued with us means they would have continued to be present 265 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Are we together? 266 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,000 So abide, meno means continuous present 267 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 It's like, what is it? 268 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Continuous present tense 269 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Or continuous tense, whatever it is 270 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 You get it 271 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 So to be there 272 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Not to leave and to come 273 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000 But to be there 274 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Now if we are going to get the word of God to work 275 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Which is our faith working 276 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Or our faith becoming audacious 277 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Then it means that there is a necessity 278 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Or that there is necessity on us to abide 279 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 What does that mean? 280 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000 To continually be present 281 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Now if you hear the word today 282 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000 And you stay in the world for a week 283 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000 And three weeks later 284 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 You are looking for a new word 285 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Your faith cannot work 286 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 Praise the name of the Lord 287 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Now look at all those people who crave for revelations 288 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Today they need this mystery 289 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 They are doing this wonderful mystery 290 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,000 You know, it goes nowhere 291 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000 But for your faith to work 292 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,000 For your life to take an upward turn 293 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000 There is the necessity to abide 294 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000 To continuously be present 295 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000 In the world 296 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Hallelujah 297 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Tell somebody, continuously be present 298 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Alright, now let's get into 299 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:40,000 It also means to continue to be 300 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,000 To continue to be 301 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:52,000 Or to endure 302 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:58,000 To continue to be or to endure 303 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Hallelujah 304 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,000 So when Jesus says abide in me 305 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000 What does that mean? Endure in me 306 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000 So remember he says those who received the word in a good ground 307 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,000 They kept it and they endured 308 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Hallelujah 309 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,000 The message says no matter what came 310 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000 They cling to the word, they kept on to the word 311 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000 I want to get out of this place 312 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Come on, I want to get out of this place 313 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Good 314 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,000 So I said it means what? 315 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Come on, it means what? 316 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,000 To continue to be 317 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,000 To endure 318 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,000 Alright 319 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,000 Now it also means 320 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Is the state or condition 321 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000 Alright 322 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,000 To remain as one is 323 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,000 And not to become another or different 324 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000 So is the state or condition 325 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,000 Where one remains as he is 326 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:18,000 And not becoming a different person or a different thing 327 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000 Hallelujah 328 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Now John chapter 12 verse 24 329 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Look into the word, John 12 verse 24 330 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000 The Bible says 331 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:38,000 When a grain of corn 332 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,000 Except it dies 333 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,000 It remains or it abides alone 334 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000 Alright 335 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,000 So it talks about not changing states 336 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,000 Are we together? 337 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,000 Not to change states 338 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,000 To remain the same 339 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000 To remain the same 340 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000 Over and over and over and over 341 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000 Time doesn't change you 342 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000 So it means that those who received the word 343 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000 And got result of the word 344 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,000 What did they do? 345 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000 They did not change form 346 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000 Hallelujah 347 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000 They did not change 348 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000 And what is that? 349 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000 To be consistent 350 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Hallelujah 351 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000 So when Jesus says abide in me 352 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,000 He was saying don't change form 353 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Come on, hallelujah 354 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000 Don't change form 355 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000 Be consistent at the word 356 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:42,000 So the parable of the sower can be said 357 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,000 It is the good ground can be said 358 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,000 It is a parable of consistency with the word 359 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Hallelujah 360 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,000 See there are a lot of us or a lot of people 361 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000 They can't, they always 362 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,000 You know it's human tendency to be changing 363 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Alright 364 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,000 When you get one thing for a long time 365 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000 Now you are there 366 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,000 Now I know 367 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000 I mean just imagine you come to church 368 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,000 And everyone is preaching the same thing 369 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000 You understand? 370 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000 But what makes or what brings results is not 371 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,000 Is not different, different, different, different things 372 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:32,000 It is the unchangeability that brings results 373 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 Come on, are we together? 374 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,000 So the parable of the sower is not just about 375 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000 The parable of the sower is not just about 376 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,000 The parable of the sower is not just about understanding 377 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000 So he understood the word 378 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000 What does it mean to understand? 379 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,000 To understand means to be unchanging 380 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000 Hallelujah 381 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000 See that's why I told you that 382 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000 You can't use the English dictionary 383 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000 To study the Bible 384 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,000 Because in English 385 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,000 The synonym of not changing 386 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 Is not understanding 387 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:18,000 But in the Bible the synonym of not changing is understanding 388 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,000 It doesn't make sense, that's how we study the Bible 389 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000 So 390 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,000 To not change, to not change form, to not change style 391 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:33,000 To not change, you know, shape 392 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Not changing shape 393 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000 Not changing form 394 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Abiding 395 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,000 It abides, it remains alone 396 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,000 John 12, 24, quickly 397 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000 John 12, 24 398 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000 Huh? 399 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000 Read it 400 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Very, very I say unto you 401 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,000 Except a corn of wheat 402 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Falls into the ground and dies 403 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000 It abides alone, so like you pick this one 404 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000 You pick a corn 405 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000 And the corn is in your hand 406 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,000 Dry corn in your hand 407 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:18,000 It will never change its form, it will never multiply 408 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000 Are you understanding? 409 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:25,000 So when I say it abides alone, it means that it doesn't change form 410 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:32,000 Don't think about it, I mean like you're receiving the word, you're going to church today, your mind is here, tomorrow your mind is this, today you want to go to church, tomorrow you don't want to go to church, you know? 411 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000 That is changing form 412 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:42,000 You can go off one month, then somebody will try and meet, the person is pulling you, pulling you, pulling you, pulling you, before you come to 413 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:49,000 You will live a very long time in church and you will not have results of your faith 414 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,000 Are we together? Yeah 415 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000 You know what, because you are not constant 416 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000 You are not constant 417 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,000 Small issues will, when something small hits you, it will break you down 418 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:07,000 And you will take you time, time, so that weeks, months to recover 419 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000 When you do that, you can have, how do we call it? 420 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,000 You can have results, your faith cannot be audacious 421 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Because you see, audacious faith is a product of consistency with the word 422 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Hallelujah 423 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,000 Your faith is audacious 424 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Bold 425 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Working 426 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:34,000 You have stayed at the feet of the word of God 427 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,000 Praise the name of the Lord 428 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000 I entreat you 429 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:45,000 No, look at, look at all the people who go to church on Sundays alone 430 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,000 Nothing good comes out of your life, I mean like church becomes like a fashion 431 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,000 If you really want to know people who are serious for God 432 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,000 Go to evening services 433 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000 Midweek services, the Friday services 434 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000 The prayer booth services 435 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000 The services of labor 436 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000 Are you understanding that? 437 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,000 I mean, we cannot come here on Sunday and then let's say 438 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,000 The choir have to come and sing, then I'll just come and then I'll just take the microphone and be talking 439 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,000 It doesn't happen very often 440 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:26,000 But midweek service, yes there's structure, but there's no really structure like that 441 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000 You come for, like what's his name? What Francis said? 442 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,000 He said on Saturday, after the prayer, he said, pastor 443 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000 Meet the hand of God 444 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,000 He said to me 445 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,000 The whole body was right by here, those kind of meetings 446 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000 When the church embarks on a fast 447 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,000 When we are going for meet, you see the meetings that will make you uncomfortable 448 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,000 That is where to show 449 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000 That's where you will see people who are constant in the word 450 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,000 Yeah, I went together 451 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000 That's how you are going to see the people 452 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000 No, no, no, he said also come to church on Sunday, you know what I mean 453 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000 They are well dressed and stuff like, no 454 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:14,000 Constancy in the word is when you go for the meetings that are not pleasant 455 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,000 One prayer topic, three hours you are praying 456 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,000 You are tired, you are still praying 457 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:27,000 Constancy in the word, and it is in those things that you get your faith working 458 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000 God doesn't come to church on Sundays 459 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,000 God actually comes to church in midweek services 460 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,000 The evening service, where he knows he will not come 461 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000 Yeah, where you are too busy to come 462 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:46,000 Then we show up, you come on Sunday and say, no, I'm not coming here 463 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000 That is how your faith begins to work 464 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,000 That's how you begin to get results of your faith 465 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:58,000 Because most of you as you are seated here, the things I am teaching today, you don't even know where I am coming from 466 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000 Yeah 467 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,000 The whole week, the 12 days we are having fun 468 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,000 We are supposed to be in church every evening 469 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,000 You just want to come to church when it's church day 470 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,000 Pastor cannot kill you, nobody can kill you, but you know what? 471 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:18,000 You will grow to become spiritually moral 472 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,000 You know why? 473 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,000 Because you are not constant at the word 474 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:30,000 Jesus says that, abide in me and I in you 475 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Hallelujah 476 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,000 He says the branches cannot bear fruit 477 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,000 Except it abides in the vine 478 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,000 And that's not confession, you can't come and say I abide in Christ 479 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:49,000 You can only, this kind of confession, you say it when you are doing 480 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000 You don't say it to do because it's your responsibility to do it 481 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000 I went together 482 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000 You cannot stay at the feet of the word of God for 20 years 483 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,000 And still come and tell us that you didn't receive anything 484 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:11,000 Everybody that complains, I have followed your prayer 485 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,000 He never did, she never did 486 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,000 You understand? Today someone was asking me a question 487 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,000 So I just burst out in laughter this evening 488 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,000 The person asked me a question, the person says, how can you know the purpose of God for your life? 489 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,000 I didn't ask, you know the answer I gave, I said by being in a responsible local church 490 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:33,000 Then he said, okay please, is that all? I said yes that's all 491 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:40,000 No, how can you want to know the call of God for your life? 492 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,000 And you are not in church 493 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,000 No, we all have one purpose 494 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:56,000 We all have one destiny, it is not anybody's purpose to become a president, it's a career 495 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,000 You choose what, and it's not God's problem 496 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,000 You decide I want to be a doctor, you decide I want to be a teacher, you decide I want to be a banker 497 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,000 But you can't decide you want to be what? 498 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,000 No, that one, every Christian, we all have 499 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,000 The one who says, those that are in for you 500 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,000 He predestinated to be conformed to the image of his son 501 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,000 We are all to be conformed to one thing 502 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000 And that is our predestination 503 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,000 The destiny God prepared before the time began 504 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,000 Yeah, hallelujah 505 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000 So you can't come and say, the Lord says that you should go and become a doctor 506 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,000 God does not talk rubbish like that 507 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:48,000 You can come and say there's a call of God for my life, I say yes, I know that's what God is saying 508 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000 Hallelujah, come on I said hallelujah 509 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000 Constancy at the word 510 00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:00,000 You are going to church, you are coming 511 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,000 It looks like nothing is happening, nothing is happening 512 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,000 Very soon I will start giving you assignment on faith 513 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,000 Before this one ends 514 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,000 I'll group the whole church, they are giving Bible assignment 515 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,000 You are walking, you are reading, you are praying, you are this, you are that 516 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,000 It looks like a person is warning you 517 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000 But by the close of some years 518 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,000 You will know that ah, it's like a lot has happened to me 519 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:37,000 A lot, a lot, a lot of many various happenings have happened to me 520 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,000 Are we together? Yeah 521 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:47,000 So subject yourself to abide in the word 522 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000 Come on, hallelujah 523 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000 Subject yourself to abide in the word 524 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,000 You see it does not matter what you call your weakness 525 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,000 It does not matter what, forget about all those things 526 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,000 Just abide in the word because as you keep on abiding in the word 527 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:05,000 You will be, you see, the word will grow 528 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,000 Like on the thorny ground where the word starts growing and then the thorns 529 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000 It will try to grow the word 530 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,000 So this one, it doesn't matter what is inside you, what weakness you have 531 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000 Just keep at the word 532 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,000 And the word will grow so much powerfully above every kind of weakness 533 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000 Now where you are weak, the word is strong 534 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:28,000 Are you understanding that? Yeah, where you are weak, the word is strong 535 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:33,000 You cannot be like a Dacica with church, with the word of God 536 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:38,000 Where the word of God is taught and expect to become a meaningful Christian in life 537 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,000 Your life will not amount to anything 538 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:48,000 The Christians whose life, they have the holy ghost in them but their life amounts to nothing 539 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Hallelujah 540 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:55,000 You cannot call them out as people who are doing exploits 541 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,000 You can't call them out as people who are doing that 542 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,000 No, you just count them as members 543 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,000 Why would you want your life to be like that? 544 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,000 Say my faith is going to work 545 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,000 Oh come on, like you mean it, say my faith is going to work 546 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:15,000 See, we don't grow by abiding in entertainment 547 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:20,000 We don't grow by abiding in things of pleasure 548 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,000 Hallelujah 549 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:29,000 As you are coming to church, then we declare one night praise aton 550 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:34,000 You know, then all the praises, everybody is wearing jeans, some white jeans, tattered jeans 551 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:40,000 What was the name of those kind of shoes that people go to heaven don't wear? 552 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,000 Sneakers, long sneakers, boots and stuff like that 553 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:48,000 You know, all kinds of colors and you wear all kinds of wigs and you come and somebody is standing here 554 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,000 And you are being entertained and you are jumping 555 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:55,000 No, that doesn't bring results 556 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,000 That doesn't bring results 557 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:02,000 Our church is very boring, our church, man of God, every day we are praying 558 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,000 We are going to enjoy ourselves 559 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,000 You know, like we bring a comedian, like at least sometimes, you know, a day off 560 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:15,000 We bring a comedian here to comedy for us to laugh 561 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:19,000 At least we are all in different, what do we call it, football clubs 562 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:25,000 That one day declare Jesse Sunday, rep your Jesse 563 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,000 You come to church, someone is wearing a basketball, someone is wearing a gun 564 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,000 Someone is wearing a house of folk, someone is wearing all kinds of things 565 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,000 It will never happen in this church 566 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,000 No, it will never happen in this church 567 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:44,000 Our excitement is the wax of faith 568 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:50,000 Come on, hallelujah, very important 569 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:55,000 Come to church and you see someone like Rashid who come and Rashid has pierced wine ear with earring and standing ear 570 00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:00,000 And his brother signed with earring 571 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,000 Come, put your head down 572 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,000 Hallelujah 573 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:15,000 Why you think about the Christian ladies who are, who now they are debating whether you can tattoo or you can't tattoo 574 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,000 Whether tattoo is a sin or it's not a sin 575 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:26,000 Have you seen a Ben Scarlet they write on it before, Sirius Ben Scarlet they write on it before 576 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:34,000 You see a guy was like he's going to blow his hair 577 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,000 And it's not a sin 578 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:41,000 Then the person is asking, is it a sin that a Christian to blow your hair 579 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:46,000 Then I say after you have fasted for a while you will know the answer 580 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,000 This is why you don't have to go and read the Bible, just fast, be praying, fast, be serious with church 581 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:57,000 You know that you can call it a sin but you will not have time to go and do that nonsense 582 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:02,000 I mean what's wrong with you 583 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:08,000 Oh gentlemen, you go and you blow your gold, you dye your hair 584 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:15,000 And you are asking whether it's 585 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:21,000 When you see now you see musicians when they are coming this one is wearing dread, this one is wearing, which one? 586 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,000 I mean what's wrong with you 587 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,000 It's a sign that they are not irresponsible churches 588 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,000 Hallelujah 589 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:35,000 You can carry yourself anyhow if you are serious with God 590 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,000 Oh come on I'm serious here 591 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,000 You are a Christian, child of God, born again, a man like you 592 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:48,000 You go and buy earring, put it inside your ear, then you go and blow your hair, for what? You say fashion 593 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:53,000 You think church is a place for fashion? 594 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,000 I'm serious 595 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,000 Young girl like you, you've, you've, you've, you've 596 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,000 Here, you've pierced here, you've pierced here, now you pierce here, now you pierce four here 597 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,000 And you still call yourself a Christian 598 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,000 You still pray in tongues 599 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,000 How do you manage to pray in tongues? 600 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:17,000 As having 60 earrings on your body 601 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,000 Who are you? 602 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,000 No, who are you? 603 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,000 Oh, you, sometimes you ask yourself, why did the church get it wrong? 604 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:31,000 A person is teaching about sex in church 605 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,000 You know? 606 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:38,000 When you marry you must do this, when you marry you, and it's like, that's what we want to, that's the trending message now 607 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:43,000 Every preacher, the preacher is a preacher, and the wife is a relationship coach 608 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:48,000 So when the women are having a relationship, they come to the wife 609 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,000 It will never happen in this church 610 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:54,000 Because the word of God you are hearing, it has to solve all your issues 611 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,000 Hallelujah 612 00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:02,000 Now we're going to have marriage seminars and stuff like that, we'll come, we'll talk about, then pass out, we'll come and wear pants, how you are to dress it 613 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,000 Army call us Satan 614 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:09,000 Abiding in the word 615 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,000 Hallelujah, abiding in the word 616 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,000 Do you know if you abide in the word? 617 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,000 All these matters will be sorted out 618 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:22,000 Abide in the word, that's what Jesus says, if you abide in me, you abide in the word 619 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:27,000 You will be able to bring forth much fruit 620 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,000 Much fruit 621 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,000 Remain in the word, be constant with the word 622 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:38,000 You cannot be saying for five years you got born again, every day when you pick Bible to read, you don't know what to do 623 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:44,000 Something just come upon you and you feel like you want to sleep 624 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:50,000 Abiding in the word, abide in the word, tell somebody abide in the word 625 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:55,000 Constancy, come on, constancy 626 00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:02,000 See the whole thing begins, like I said the last time, when the joy is gone 627 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:06,000 Yeah 628 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:11,000 After the excitement is where real growth begins 629 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:20,000 So if a church, you know, now churches are struggling to bring all kinds of entertainment in the church to keep people in the church 630 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:32,000 So this church is a youth church and the moment they say it's a youth church, it means that there's a lot of 631 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,000 So they pray, they pray kakra, they wear kakra 632 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,000 Then they see Jama'a small 633 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:42,000 Then they bring 634 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,000 Look at it, look at it 635 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,000 Vows day, every church is doing a laugh program 636 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:52,000 It shows that we don't have vision, we don't have focus 637 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,000 Every February, every, almost every church is talking about laugh 638 00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:00,000 And they are doing laugh activities, singles and couples summit 639 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:07,000 Laugh this, laugh what, laugh this and laugh what, you know 640 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,000 No 641 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,000 Valentine does not change us 642 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,000 Are you understanding that? 643 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,000 All of these things are kind of things 644 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,000 That have found themselves in the church 645 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,000 So you will not talk about laugh until February 646 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,000 And who even gave you that calendar as a church? 647 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:34,000 That February is the month of laugh 648 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:41,000 Do you know, do you know Valentine was not a Christian, a proper sensible Christian? 649 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,000 How was your mother? 650 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:51,000 Valentine day 651 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,000 Then you go and wear red, red 652 00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:03,000 How you sick? 653 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,000 So who is taking me out today? 654 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,000 Today is vows day 655 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:13,000 See I know with the way we have sweet names, vows 656 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,000 You are waiting for what? Chocolate 657 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,000 My daughter was saying concrete 658 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,000 This is what you call concrete 659 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,000 And now churches, every person is talking about laugh 660 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:32,000 Love is in the air, this one is in the air, this one is in the air 661 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,000 Just want to abide in the work 662 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,000 See Valentine doesn't change our posture 663 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,000 Christmas doesn't change our posture 664 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,000 Are you understanding that? 665 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,000 Yeah 666 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,000 Doesn't change our posture 667 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,000 What's the other one? Easter 668 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,000 Easter doesn't change our calendar 669 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,000 Hallelujah 670 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,000 It hasn't changed us 671 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,000 Christianity is not a festival oriented whatever 672 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:06,000 We don't even have one single festival in Christianity 673 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,000 Hallelujah 674 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,000 Come on 675 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,000 Christmas is not a festival 676 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,000 Come on 677 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:19,000 Easter is not a festival 678 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:23,000 Yeah, it is not 679 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:28,000 We should not talk about the birth of Christ only in December 680 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,000 It should be every time 681 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:34,000 The birth of Jesus is not only in April 682 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,000 Because historically, Jesus might have not 683 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:40,000 Christmas actually is somewhere around April 684 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,000 Historically 685 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,000 So why the rush? 686 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:48,000 Now we are doing Carol's night 687 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,000 What is Carol's night? 688 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:55,000 The day we are singing and waiting for Christmas 689 00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:02,000 Night of nine lessons of Carol's 690 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,000 Then we are having night of nine lessons 691 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,000 Nine lessons 692 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,000 Then we will come to church 693 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:15,000 Then we will be lying there 694 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,000 We want things that will excite us 695 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,000 Church must not be exciting 696 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,000 Church must be wedded 697 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,000 Hallelujah 698 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:26,000 Are you following that? 699 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:30,000 Are the church must be what? 700 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:34,000 A Christian, if you don't celebrate your birthday, you can sleep 701 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:41,000 If people don't call you to wish you, problem 702 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:46,000 Are you a Christian or you are a Kana'a man? 703 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:51,000 You don't have money, still you are making plans to celebrate your birthday 704 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:52,000 What's wrong with you? 705 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,000 Can't you just forget about this birthday thing? 706 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:57,000 It's not your thing 707 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,000 Hallelujah 708 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:03,000 So abiding in the word 709 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,000 Come on, one more time, abiding in the word 710 00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,000 So it means you are not going to change form 711 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,000 Hallelujah 712 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:15,000 Someone say, oh the church, the same activity 713 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:21,000 You know it's the same activity, we have to put it in different containers 714 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:27,000 It's when there is a special program that you feel like you have to come to church 715 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:32,000 If you say we are having the Nose of God conference 716 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,000 Or God of Iron conference 717 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,000 Then you will come 718 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:42,000 But when you hear midweek, when the flyer is midweek service, that's called midweek service 719 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:46,000 So you know, this is the normal service, where two or three are gathered 720 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:50,000 You hear Sunday service, you hear Friday service 721 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,000 You hear Sunday income 722 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,000 Ask somebody, what's wrong with you? 723 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,000 Don't ask anybody like that, that's a good stick 724 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,000 Say what's wrong with you? 725 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:06,000 Come on, come on, say what's wrong with you? 726 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:12,000 So it means to remain as one is, not to become another or different 727 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,000 Hallelujah 728 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:28,000 It means to wait until 2023 729 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:32,000 Now when a church wants to do a program for people to attend 730 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:35,000 They do it with a musical concept 731 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:39,000 Then they will invite all the celebrities 732 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,000 So you see a church 733 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:45,000 300 people, yet all the stars have come to sing in the church 734 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:50,000 What they call stars, those they call stars 735 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:58,000 Proskino, conino 736 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:03,000 Once we are having a worship concept, we are using our choir 737 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:11,000 We hear them every Sunday, we have important things to do 738 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:17,000 Don't get yourself to become so much of a sinner like that 739 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,000 Hallelujah 740 00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:28,000 Don't show off your sins too much, read it 741 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:43,000 Born and Afflictions what? 742 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:50,000 So the born and afflictions are waiting for you 743 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:54,000 It means they are not going anywhere, they are there, they are waiting for you 744 00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:59,000 So that manual also means to wait for 745 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,000 To wait for 746 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:09,000 You see there is a character for people who get the Word of God working in their lives 747 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:13,000 And maybe I'll take time one day to explain that in one full sentence 748 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:17,000 There's a character of receiving the Word 749 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,000 There is a how 750 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:24,000 To even come to church 751 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:29,000 So you must live always in wait for the Word 752 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:34,000 It actually could mean be ready for the Word 753 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:38,000 So those who got the Word working, which were the good grounds 754 00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:42,000 These were people who were waiting for the Word 755 00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:50,000 People who live in anticipation, excited to meeting the Word when the Word is coming to them 756 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:58,000 Look at somebody who is coming to church, he walks two steps front, one step back, one side side 757 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:01,000 Then he goes to two 758 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,000 What's wrong with you? 759 00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,000 Hallelujah 760 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,000 If you want the Word of God to work for you 761 00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,000 You must be excited to come to church 762 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,000 So you must be excited to see that the Word of God is coming 763 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:27,000 Sometimes you administer and look at somebody's face alone and it can drain your anointing 764 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,000 You say praise the Lord 765 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:33,000 Hallelujah 766 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,000 Turn to somebody and say God is here 767 00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,000 God is here 768 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:42,000 You know the Word is not going to work in your life 769 00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:47,000 Because you don't have any value for the Word of God 770 00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,000 The joy of the Word 771 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,000 Excitement when the Word of God is coming 772 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,000 Hallelujah 773 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,000 Praise the name of the Lord 774 00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,000 So the Bible says, and Samaria received the Word 775 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:05,000 And when they received the Word, there was joy in the city 776 00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:06,000 Joy in the city 777 00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:09,000 When the Word of God is coming, your face is like 778 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:19,000 MacBrown's kitchen 779 00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,000 Yeah 780 00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,000 The Bible says when Samaria was there, there was joy everywhere 781 00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,000 The city was joyful 782 00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:27,000 Why? 783 00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:31,000 If you entered Samaria, you see people laughing, people running, people shouting, people jumping 784 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,000 And you ask what is happening? 785 00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,000 Everybody is happy, they ask what is happening? 786 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:40,000 Who have received Christ? Who have received the Word? 787 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:45,000 Now here our pastor is preaching you are chewing gum 788 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,000 There are people that come to church and they are chewing gum 789 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:52,000 When the Word of God is coming 790 00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:58,000 And you look at their face with the gum 791 00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:02,000 You want to ask the person, why did he come with a chewing stick? 792 01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:06,000 He is chewing gum in church 793 01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,000 Hallelujah 794 01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:13,000 So there is the wait for the Word 795 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,000 Hallelujah 796 01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:20,000 Men are waiting for God's Word 797 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,000 It is in so doing, every day like every day 798 01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:29,000 It does not matter whatever word, whether you have heard it before or not 799 01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:33,000 You hear them say the same thing over and over again, they get bored 800 01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:37,000 This is what every day man of God is talking about 801 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,000 And then you know there are some people too 802 01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:44,000 The simple fact of the gospel does not move them again 803 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:52,000 If you say Jesus Christ died for us on the third day, he came back from the dead 804 01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:56,000 And you know, soul 805 01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,000 Soul 806 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:03,000 If he came back from the dead, what does that mean? Soul 807 01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:07,000 I went to a place and I said to him, you are the light of the world 808 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:10,000 You will see that someone here that is going to be healed 809 01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,000 And they were all there 810 01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:15,000 And I am like, okay 811 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:19,000 That church is a Presbyterian, it is right here 812 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:22,000 See you are the light of the world 813 01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,000 And they were there 814 01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,000 And these guys have boxed me, there is one something there 815 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,000 They have to stand in to talk and they came with a big Bible 816 01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,000 All of them are not even feeling okay 817 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:36,000 Now I am looking for people to respond, they are not responding 818 01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:40,000 That was my shortest message ever preached 819 01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:45,000 I said, wow, God has really sent me to dead people today 820 01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,000 Yeah 821 01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:51,000 So I go, I am just saying, I am just light of the world 822 01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:55,000 I said say Amen 823 01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:58,000 Now they said Amen, I had continued talking 824 01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:02,000 There was a woman sitting there, you want to say Amen 825 01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:06,000 Their mind is not even there 826 01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:09,000 Their mind is not there 827 01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,000 Hallelujah 828 01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:16,000 So to abide in the word also means to continue in the word like I have told you 829 01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:19,000 Now let's go to James 830 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:29,000 James chapter number one 831 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:34,000 Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo 832 01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,000 Man oh my 833 01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:46,000 The word is nice 834 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:52,000 Be ye doers of the word 835 01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,000 And not hearers only 836 01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:59,000 Deceiving your own selves 837 01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:03,000 Now let's read that again 22, one two go 838 01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:15,000 One two go 839 01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:18,000 For if any man be a hearer of the word 840 01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,000 And not a doer 841 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:25,000 He is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror 842 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,000 A glass 843 01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:33,000 For he beholdeth himself and goeth his way and straight away forgetted what manner of man he was 844 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:36,000 But also looketh into the perfect law of liberty 845 01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:40,000 And continuet underline the word continuet therein 846 01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:44,000 He being not a forgetful hearer 847 01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:47,000 But a doer of the word 848 01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:50,000 This man shall be blessed in his deeds 849 01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:53,000 Now so it means that the word is going to produce results right 850 01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,000 That's why I say this man shall be blessed in his deeds 851 01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:02,000 So to be blessed in your deed means the word will bear fruits 852 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:06,000 Some thirty, some sixty, some hundred 853 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,000 Alright 854 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:13,000 So to be blessed in all your deeds here will mean what? 855 01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,000 To be fruitful 856 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:19,000 It means that you are going to have the fruitfulness of the word 857 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,000 Is that ok with us? 858 01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,000 Good 859 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,000 So he says be ye doers of the word 860 01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:27,000 Say I am 861 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:31,000 Doing oriented 862 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:35,000 So he says be ye doers of the word 863 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:40,000 And not hearers only 864 01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:44,000 Deceiving your own selves 865 01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:51,000 The word deceiving there from the Greek means to miscalculate 866 01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:54,000 To miscalculate 867 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,000 Alright 868 01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:01,000 To misjudge 869 01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:09,000 Alright so he says that if you hear the word and you are not a doer you misjudge yourself 870 01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:14,000 A kind of you misunderstand 871 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,000 Alright 872 01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,000 You see how the Bible is in line 873 01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:25,000 So the one that heard the word the good ground was the one who heard the word understanding it 874 01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:30,000 That means we can say the good ground is of the parable of the sower 875 01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:35,000 The good ground is the parable of a doer of the word 876 01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:39,000 And all the other grounds is what? 877 01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:48,000 Deception or people who received the word who heard the word and deceived themselves 878 01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,000 Are we together? 879 01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:54,000 The teaching is very down today you should all understand 880 01:05:54,000 --> 01:06:04,000 So deceiving your own self will mean that you are either a stony ground or a stony ground or a way sided ground 881 01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:10,000 So when you are trod by the cares of this world you are deceiving your own selves 882 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,000 Are we together? 883 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:18,000 When you are trod by the pleasures of this life you are deceiving yourself 884 01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:22,000 It means that if you come to church that you are a Christian 885 01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:28,000 And you identify yourself when you are filling forms and they ask you religion you say Christian 886 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:35,000 Sometimes they ask you your denomination you say gospel is a international church 887 01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:38,000 You say all of that right? 888 01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:50,000 If you are in this church or if you say you are a Christian and your heart is dominated by the cares of this world you are deceiving your own self 889 01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:54,000 It means that we cannot authenticate your Christianity 890 01:06:54,000 --> 01:07:01,000 Because you cannot be a Christian and your life will all be about the cares of this world 891 01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,000 Are you understanding that? 892 01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,000 So you are deceiving your own self 893 01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:11,000 So it says if anybody hears the word and not a doer the person receives, I'm sorry, deceives his own self 894 01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:20,000 So be ye doers of the word and not hearers only 895 01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:28,000 If we want to read it in Matthew we can say be ye good grounds 896 01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,000 Alright? 897 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:36,000 If we want to read it in Luke we will say keep the word 898 01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:37,000 Alright? 899 01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:41,000 If we want to read in Matthew, Matthew is the one who spoke about understanding 900 01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:47,000 Then we are going to say be ye understanders of the word 901 01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,920 So what does it mean to understand the word, to do the word? 902 01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:54,000 What does it mean to do word, to understand? 903 01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:58,040 If A is equal to B, B is equal to A 904 01:07:58,040 --> 01:07:59,880 Hallelujah! 905 01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:02,940 What does it mean to do the word, to keep the word? 906 01:08:02,940 --> 01:08:05,920 What does it mean to keep the word, to abide in the word? 907 01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:10,000 What does it mean to abide in the word, to continue in the word? 908 01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:16,840 So be ye doers of the word it can be said be ye continuers of the word 909 01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:28,920 and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Then he says, for if, let's continue, 910 01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:40,900 verse 23, for if any be a hearer of the world and not a doer, he is like a man who beholds 911 01:08:40,900 --> 01:08:48,040 himself in a mirror. For he beholds himself and goeth his way and straight away forgetteth 912 01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:58,840 what manner of man he was. Hallelujah. Did you see that? So he says, who is a hearer 913 01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:06,240 of the world? A hearer of the world is the one that receives the word and he forgets 914 01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:34,080 it. Alright? The one who hears the word, a hearer only. It also means to be a forgetful 915 01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:41,240 hearer. To forget the word means that you don't consider the word. It's not just a 916 01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:49,280 matter of something in your head. Alright, for example, I mean, you look in the mirror 917 01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:56,520 before you are coming. Alright? And right now, if I ask you, what did you look like 918 01:09:56,520 --> 01:10:01,800 when you look in the mirror, you'll be able to tell me exactly how you look like. But 919 01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:08,440 it is not something that is domineering or that's dominating your mind. So forgetting 920 01:10:08,440 --> 01:10:15,840 the word is not the English to forget where you don't remember. Forgetting will mean you 921 01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:21,600 don't consider. It's not a topmost priority in you. It's somewhere that is hidden somewhere 922 01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:30,360 in your head. You know, some of us, we have a lot of scriptures in our head. Matthew 29.35, 923 01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:42,560 the Lord will boot you. Leviticus chapter 98 verse 29. Mises, Martias, Matashas. You 924 01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:50,680 be quoting strange things. But the word does not dominate. It's, you see, to be a forgetful 925 01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:59,760 hearer means the word does not dominate you. You dominate the word. Hallelujah. And with 926 01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:08,680 that, your faith cannot work. You can be praying, you can be crying, you can be fasting, you 927 01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:14,200 can be wailing, you can be screaming, you can be dancing, you can be jumping. You come 928 01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:25,280 back to zero faith. Faith that is zero. We have a teacher in SMAS, he says zero. He's 929 01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:31,840 the best teacher in the whole wide world. He says zero. You know, you come back to square 930 01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:46,160 zero. What is the square root of zero? One. Square of zero is what? Is one. My God. What 931 01:11:46,160 --> 01:12:04,960 do you, what's up here? Are you teaching again? So like, you are not dominated by the word. 932 01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:07,840 You do the word when you feel like doing it and you don't do it when you don't feel like 933 01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:15,320 doing it. Nobody can arrest you. You see, the word must not be done when you are with 934 01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:25,200 daddy. The word must be done when daddy is not there. Hallelujah. It's not like you do 935 01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:37,520 your face when the word of God is coming and you are. Like what is, it's kicking. When 936 01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:44,640 you are not in church and you are home, that is the time to see whether you are forgetful 937 01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:56,400 here or you are a doer. So what does it mean to do the word? To make the word dominate you. 938 01:12:56,400 --> 01:13:03,320 So we can say that the parable of the good ground is the parable of the domination of 939 01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:18,240 the word or the dominion of the word. Hallelujah. So that land, that the word bore fruits was 940 01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:25,640 a land that the word dominated. So the dominance of the word is actually the practice of the 941 01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:30,120 word and the practice of the word is the understanding of the word. The understanding of the word 942 01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:35,520 is the continuation of the word. The continuation of the word is the weight for the word. You 943 01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:44,720 understand that? So all of these things are synonyms. So put all these things together 944 01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:53,040 so you know where you stand. Hallelujah. If I ask you right now today, what was your, 945 01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:57,920 what was your quiet time? What did you learn in your quiet time? You are likely not to 946 01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:06,000 remember. If we ask you what was the scripture used for today's devotion? What was the scripture 947 01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:18,280 used for today's devotion? Why? Why? Not had time to read it. Hmm. Have you ever read 948 01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:41,640 devotion today? Huh. Lift your hand up high. Hi. Lena, what was the, what was the scripture? 949 01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:52,480 It's not what we are talking about. Yes, the main scripture. Don't have the content, the 950 01:14:52,480 --> 01:14:59,960 scripture. Quote the scripture. So you see, this one will shout when they wake up, just 951 01:14:59,960 --> 01:15:05,360 shout, just put it on her status. Meanwhile, two are the day, it's not in her head. So 952 01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:08,720 what was the content? What was the content of the scripture? Not the scripture, content 953 01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:29,600 of the message. Yes, the content. So you understand, or you want to continue. We should give you 954 01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:57,440 the microphone. So you see, there is the proliferation of words, sayings, to the point that it becomes 955 01:15:57,440 --> 01:16:06,080 so normal that we don't even take into account the things we read or we learn from the word. 956 01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:13,000 Meanwhile, right after reading the devotion, if you may have, if you had met the lady of 957 01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:27,160 God, today's devotion bless you, bless. It took me to heaven. You understand? Yeah. So 958 01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:36,760 it's very critical. So do we say today's devotion is going to work in Eli? No, it can't work 959 01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:44,480 in Eli. If she has to let it work, if she wants to work, she has to go back and get 960 01:16:44,480 --> 01:16:51,040 it and be dominated by it. It's as simple as that. Come on, hallelujah. Some of your 961 01:16:51,040 --> 01:17:05,040 faces are too spiritual. I'm not even, I'm not going into the message yet. So let's continue. 962 01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:13,120 But who so looked into the perfect law of liberty. Hallelujah. What's the perfect law 963 01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:32,680 of liberty? What is the perfect law of liberty? The word of God. So whosoever look at paracoptos, 964 01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:52,160 that's the word look, P-A-R-A-K-O-O-P-T-O, sorry, P-A-R-A-K-U-P-T-O. Paracoptos. It means 965 01:17:52,160 --> 01:18:04,560 to bend to look. To bend to look. Boy, I can discuss that with you the whole of this night. 966 01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:11,560 To bend to look. See, this year don't be missing church meetings. It will not help you. Hallelujah. 967 01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:15,560 It will not help you. You are coming, you are not coming, you are coming, you are not 968 01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:19,560 coming. It will not help you. Because this year too I'm making up my mind that major, 969 01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:26,560 major programs, if you want to hear a word, come here. Yes, I'm gradually changing. I 970 01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:34,560 will make local church meetings more powerful, like more insight. You can't just scratch 971 01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:45,060 their face, we just do pray, we pray more. I just use them to pray for church. Paracoptos. 972 01:18:45,060 --> 01:19:02,060 It means to bend to look. So who bends to look? What does that mean? What does that 973 01:19:02,060 --> 01:19:17,060 mean? What does it mean to bend to look? To give reverence to the word. Hallelujah. Now, 974 01:19:17,060 --> 01:19:24,060 why is it that, okay, so for example, when Esther came to church today, I was seated 975 01:19:24,060 --> 01:19:33,060 there, then she came there and said, daddy please, is she there? Daddy please, good evening. 976 01:19:33,060 --> 01:19:42,060 Oh, that's all you need. Why did she do that? Huh? How those of you can say, daddy, good 977 01:19:42,060 --> 01:20:07,060 evening. Then next time I catch you, you'll be sorry. Daddy. You, daddy. Bring your hand, 978 01:20:07,060 --> 01:20:19,060 get up. No, get up, get up, get up. So you are daddy. Daddy. Good evening. Oh, you mean 979 01:20:19,060 --> 01:20:34,060 I say daddy. Yeah, good evening. And all these people also want to go to heaven. No, you 980 01:20:34,060 --> 01:20:42,060 know, we don't have a refraff in heaven. No, you're saying, oh, that is me a long time 981 01:20:42,060 --> 01:20:49,060 old. And you're doing like this. That is me a long time. Daddy, please, how are you doing? 982 01:20:49,060 --> 01:21:03,060 You know? Hey. Oh my God. How sin has taken over your soul. Yet you don't know. The real 983 01:21:03,060 --> 01:21:10,060 unpardonable sin is what you just did. There's no way God can forgive you. You lost your 984 01:21:10,060 --> 01:21:15,060 salvation the moment you do that. You better stop church and become something. You are 985 01:21:15,060 --> 01:21:22,060 done. God is done with you. You are beyond the saving power of God. Yeah. He can't reach 986 01:21:22,060 --> 01:21:33,060 fatu. He's gone, like you are, you are gone beyond the reach of Jehovah. Hallelujah. Are 987 01:21:33,060 --> 01:21:37,060 you people think I'm joking? I'm serious. I'm teaching you the way. The Bible says for 988 01:21:37,060 --> 01:21:41,060 this cause, some of you are weak. Some of you are sick and even some are dead among 989 01:21:41,060 --> 01:21:55,060 you. That's the cause. Daddy. For this cause. So now when you do that, when I say for this 990 01:21:55,060 --> 01:22:06,060 cause, so you're about to either get sick or die for this cause. So to bear means you 991 01:22:06,060 --> 01:22:13,060 acknowledge the superiority of the world. So look into the world, to look into the perfect 992 01:22:13,060 --> 01:22:22,060 law of liberty does not mean to open the Bible and say, no, it means to have reference for 993 01:22:22,060 --> 01:22:28,060 the world. What does that mean? To consider. Are you understanding that? To consider. So 994 01:22:28,060 --> 01:22:37,060 we can say, um, um, who so ever considers the perfect law of liberty, who so ever has 995 01:22:37,060 --> 01:22:46,060 reference for the word of God. So it tells you that for the word to begin, am I teaching 996 01:22:46,060 --> 01:22:52,060 good? I'm really enjoying the teaching myself. For the word, the first stage of getting the 997 01:22:52,060 --> 01:22:59,060 word to work, the first stage, the beginning of getting the word to work is to have reference 998 01:22:59,060 --> 01:23:10,060 for the word. Yeah. Sometimes, you see, I'm supposed to write a devotion and put it there 999 01:23:10,060 --> 01:23:14,060 so that they will work on it, but I don't, I don't, I don't, I write by inspiration. 1000 01:23:14,060 --> 01:23:20,060 So it's not how you sleep. 2 a.m. I'm done writing. Then I'll tap you. Today like this, 1001 01:23:20,060 --> 01:23:27,060 I'm not stopping him. I call like 20 minutes. He woke up. I went to, when I finished, I 1002 01:23:27,060 --> 01:23:36,060 went to bath. By the time I was coming, we're just to occur and no other. But you know that 1003 01:23:36,060 --> 01:23:45,060 if it's not me, he may not have done it. That is our problem. There are some of us, we will 1004 01:23:45,060 --> 01:23:51,060 study the Bible or we study the word of God only when we know that somebody is supervising 1005 01:23:51,060 --> 01:24:00,060 us. You get, for example, we are all reading Proverbs because you know that if you don't 1006 01:24:00,060 --> 01:24:04,060 read and write what you learn, when you come to the end, that you ask him, that he can 1007 01:24:04,060 --> 01:24:11,060 disgrace you publicly. So you'll be reading. I remember that day, Danny and the, so for 1008 01:24:11,060 --> 01:24:20,060 Danny and Gifty, in the kitchen, they are reading Proverbs, you know, they are writing, 1009 01:24:20,060 --> 01:24:31,060 writing, writing, writing, writing. Why? Because daddy says so. After that, they don't even 1010 01:24:31,060 --> 01:24:39,060 know where the book is now. You understand? So to look into the perfect law, it talks 1011 01:24:39,060 --> 01:24:46,060 about a constant reverence for the word to look into the perfect law. The word look, 1012 01:24:46,060 --> 01:25:00,060 I say it's word parakutu. And it means one, to bend to look. Number two, it also means 1013 01:25:00,060 --> 01:25:07,060 to come to the level of the word. I'm a good teacher of the word, I'm telling you. Or you 1014 01:25:07,060 --> 01:25:27,060 don't believe that. If you don't believe that, get out of this church. Hallelujah. Yeah, 1015 01:25:27,060 --> 01:25:35,060 to come to the level of the word, to come to the level of the word. So you are going 1016 01:25:35,060 --> 01:25:46,060 to bend to look because the thing is not up. Are we together? You have to bend to get to 1017 01:25:46,060 --> 01:25:53,060 the word. The word has not been to you. That I can teach on it for a lot of times. I mean, 1018 01:25:53,060 --> 01:25:59,060 if I'm, if I'm really talking to preachers or teachers of the word, I can really, really 1019 01:25:59,060 --> 01:26:10,060 spend much time. Hallelujah. So let me just do it at your level. It means come to the 1020 01:26:10,060 --> 01:26:19,060 level of the word. If I've met Bible teachers, I'll talk to them. That means exegesis. All 1021 01:26:19,060 --> 01:26:32,060 right? You forget it. So it means you come to the level of the word. The word has not 1022 01:26:32,060 --> 01:26:38,060 come to your level. You know, the word does not say what you want to say. You have to 1023 01:26:38,060 --> 01:26:44,060 say what the word wants to say. So you come to the level of the word. So for the word 1024 01:26:44,060 --> 01:26:50,060 of God to work, you must come to the level of the word. You have to look, you have to 1025 01:26:50,060 --> 01:26:57,060 bend, bend, please have come. Then the word can talk to you. Please, are we together here? 1026 01:26:57,060 --> 01:27:04,060 Are you sure we are together here? Yeah. So this is whoever, read that portion, verse 1027 01:27:04,060 --> 01:27:28,060 25. Uh-huh. Read that portion for me. Now understand that I underline the word whosoever 1028 01:27:28,060 --> 01:27:37,060 you are in your Bible. Now I'm going to talk about it before we close. I can't imagine 1029 01:27:37,060 --> 01:27:43,060 I'm almost doing two hours now. I don't know if we're praying to. By now we wouldn't have 1030 01:27:43,060 --> 01:28:03,060 30 minutes. Well, this today I want to pray. Bye, bye, bye, bye. We look at the time and 1031 01:28:03,060 --> 01:28:11,060 you've done seven minutes. In your mind, you think you've done like 45 minutes. Whosoever 1032 01:28:11,060 --> 01:28:17,060 look at into the perfect law of liberty. So whosoever bend to look, whoever reference 1033 01:28:17,060 --> 01:28:27,060 the word, whoever goes to the level of the word, uh-huh. Whosoever look at into the perfect 1034 01:28:27,060 --> 01:28:44,060 law of liberty and come on and and continuous therein. So you continue it therein. Come 1035 01:28:44,060 --> 01:29:12,060 on, continue it therein. So 25 underline continuous. The word is parameno. Parameno. P-A-R-A-N-E-N-O. 1036 01:29:12,060 --> 01:29:33,060 Parameno. It means it comes from two words, right? That is para and meno. Now I've told 1037 01:29:33,060 --> 01:29:47,060 you men already. Para means besides. Alright. Beside. Beside the word. Now so parameno is 1038 01:29:47,060 --> 01:29:59,060 rooted in to stay beside. Alright? To stay beside. So whosoever look at into the perfect 1039 01:29:59,060 --> 01:30:05,060 law of liberty, whosoever bend to the word, whosoever gives reference to the word, whosoever 1040 01:30:05,060 --> 01:30:18,060 does word again comes to the level of the word and stay beside the word. So to continue 1041 01:30:18,060 --> 01:30:26,060 in the word is to stay beside. It means to be continually present beside. That is why 1042 01:30:26,060 --> 01:30:31,060 they brought the word therein. Because therein is not in the original. It's italicized. And 1043 01:30:31,060 --> 01:30:39,060 what does it mean when something is italicized in the Bible? It's not in the original manuscript. 1044 01:30:39,060 --> 01:30:45,060 It's not part of the original manuscript. Alright. But this therein, is it right or 1045 01:30:45,060 --> 01:30:52,060 wrong? Because sometimes we bring words in that are wrong. So is this not correct or 1046 01:30:52,060 --> 01:31:00,060 wrong? Why is it correct? Because of the word para. Alright. So whosoever look at into the 1047 01:31:00,060 --> 01:31:13,060 perfect law of liberty and continue it. Alright. He stays beside the word. So it's not somebody 1048 01:31:13,060 --> 01:31:23,060 who gets to bend to look and then gets up. That's why he says, if a man is a hearer only, 1049 01:31:23,060 --> 01:31:33,060 he is like somebody who looked into the mirror and he left. So to forget the word means to 1050 01:31:33,060 --> 01:31:41,060 look into the word and leave the word. Whether it's in your head or not, you have forgotten. 1051 01:31:41,060 --> 01:31:54,060 So James defines forgetfulness. As to look and leave. I didn't say to look and leave. 1052 01:31:54,060 --> 01:32:09,060 To look and leave. Now let's go to 22. Quickly. Are you enjoying this thing at all? Okay. 1053 01:32:09,060 --> 01:32:27,060 Ma ma ma ma ma. Be a hearer of the word and not hearer only. Uh huh. Uh huh. For if any 1054 01:32:27,060 --> 01:32:40,060 be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he's like a man beholding himself in a mirror. Uh 1055 01:32:40,060 --> 01:32:49,060 huh. For he looks at himself and do I have people in this church at all? Look into the 1056 01:32:49,060 --> 01:32:56,060 Bible and talk to me. He looks into the, like a man who looks into the mirror and so what 1057 01:32:56,060 --> 01:33:10,060 does it mean to forget? Or what does it mean to be a hearer of the word? A hearer only. 1058 01:33:10,060 --> 01:33:27,060 To look and leave. We can also means, it means to go his way. Alright? To look and leave means 1059 01:33:27,060 --> 01:33:35,060 that you are going in your own direction. To look and leave. It means that the power 1060 01:33:35,060 --> 01:33:43,060 of the sower, of the land that did not work, of a thorny land is, we can say is the power 1061 01:33:43,060 --> 01:33:51,060 of looking and leaving the word. We can also say the power of forgetting the word. We can 1062 01:33:51,060 --> 01:34:01,060 say it's a power of hearing only the word or only hearing the word. Are we together? 1063 01:34:01,060 --> 01:34:08,060 So only hearing the word means looking and leaving. It also means to go your own way. 1064 01:34:08,060 --> 01:34:13,060 Now what does it mean to go your own way? To do what you want. What does it mean to 1065 01:34:13,060 --> 01:34:17,060 do what you want? Not to consider the word. What does it mean not to consider the word? 1066 01:34:17,060 --> 01:34:22,060 Not to be dominated by the word. What does it mean not to be dominated by the word? Not 1067 01:34:22,060 --> 01:34:31,060 to abide. What does it mean not to abide? Not to keep. What does it mean not to keep? 1068 01:34:31,060 --> 01:34:40,060 Not to understand. Praise God. Hallelujah. So he who looks into the perfect Lord, I mean 1069 01:34:40,060 --> 01:34:47,060 he who is a hearer of the word only is like a man who looks into the word and goes his 1070 01:34:47,060 --> 01:34:53,060 own way. So he knows what the word of God is saying but he will not consent to what 1071 01:34:53,060 --> 01:35:00,060 the word of God is saying. He goes his own way. So when you are doing your own things, 1072 01:35:00,060 --> 01:35:05,060 when you do the things you like, no wonder what the word of God is telling you. The word 1073 01:35:05,060 --> 01:35:12,060 of God cannot work in your life. See, you can't walk in disobedience and have the word 1074 01:35:12,060 --> 01:35:17,060 of God work for you. So the word of God says alright, you are going here or you are doing 1075 01:35:17,060 --> 01:35:22,060 this, you are not doing this and then you look at it and still you go your own way. 1076 01:35:22,060 --> 01:35:31,060 What does that mean? You are a hearer only. You are only a looker. You don't look and 1077 01:35:31,060 --> 01:35:38,060 stay. You look and go your own way. I pray for you that from today when the word of God 1078 01:35:38,060 --> 01:35:43,060 talks to you, you will not go your own way. I want to say that so I pray for you that 1079 01:35:43,060 --> 01:35:47,060 from today when the word of God talks to you, you will not go your own way. You will not 1080 01:35:47,060 --> 01:35:53,060 look at the word and leave but you will stay at the word. You will bend beside the word. 1081 01:35:53,060 --> 01:36:00,060 You bend down, you look and you stay beside the word. You will not go and do before you 1082 01:36:00,060 --> 01:36:04,060 remember what the word of God says. No, you will remember what the word of God says and 1083 01:36:04,060 --> 01:36:07,160 means, say that you come and do 1084 01:36:05,820 --> 01:36:09,260 what the word of God says in 1085 01:36:07,220 --> 01:36:11,460 the name of Jesus. Say. You 1086 01:36:09,320 --> 01:36:12,720 will look and you will stay. 1087 01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:14,000 You will look and you will 1088 01:36:12,800 --> 01:36:14,660 stay. Amen. Do you have people 1089 01:36:14,060 --> 01:36:16,160 in the church? I said you will 1090 01:36:14,720 --> 01:36:18,600 look and you will stay. Say. 1091 01:36:16,240 --> 01:36:19,760 You will look and you will stay. 1092 01:36:18,660 --> 01:36:21,540 Do I have people in the church? 1093 01:36:19,840 --> 01:36:23,140 I said you look and you will 1094 01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:24,700 stay. You will not run away 1095 01:36:23,200 --> 01:36:28,880 from the word. You will not go 1096 01:36:28,940 --> 01:36:34,020 So the man who is a hero of the 1097 01:36:34,020 --> 01:36:43,460 still goes his own way. So remember the parable. The one on the the the turning 1098 01:36:43,460 --> 01:36:48,500 ground is the one who hears the word, receives the word and the cares of this 1099 01:36:48,500 --> 01:36:54,820 world and the deceitfulness of riches and the pleasures of this life. Makes the 1100 01:36:54,820 --> 01:37:01,280 word or chokes the word. So it means that that person now goes into the direction 1101 01:37:01,280 --> 01:37:08,980 of the cares of this world. Are we together? Yes that we are not together. One minute of 1102 01:37:08,980 --> 01:37:11,820 madness you are having it. I've been looking at this place for a long time. 1103 01:37:11,820 --> 01:37:22,420 Yeah are we together? Say yes. As I'm preaching I'm looking at all of you. Some of you are 1104 01:37:22,420 --> 01:37:28,500 finding this and you are looking at here. Are we together? I'm here. Are we together? Yes. 1105 01:37:28,500 --> 01:37:48,420 What are you thinking about? Any broken hearts? Is there a low key one? Low key broken heart. So you see that one leads into the 1106 01:37:48,420 --> 01:38:03,540 world and still will choose to be a lover of wealth. He will listen to the word of God and still will choose to be a lover of the 1107 01:38:03,540 --> 01:38:11,380 pleasures of this world. He will listen to the word of God and when offenses come he will be 1108 01:38:11,380 --> 01:38:19,020 offended. When persecution arise for the sake of the word you'll be offended. What 1109 01:38:19,020 --> 01:38:26,660 is a wayside heart hearted person? The one that does not consider the word. So the 1110 01:38:26,660 --> 01:38:30,660 word of God is telling him this but he will not even consider. He does not care. It's not his concern. 1111 01:38:30,660 --> 01:38:43,020 So it is that that will call you a forgetful hearer. So a forgetful hearer is a 1112 01:38:43,020 --> 01:38:49,700 thorny land. A forgetful hearer is a wayside hearted person. A forgetful hearer is 1113 01:38:49,700 --> 01:39:00,540 what? What's the other one? A thorny ground. So it means that your heart, the state of your 1114 01:39:00,540 --> 01:39:06,340 heart is as a result of your relationship with the word of God. Hallelujah. 1115 01:39:06,340 --> 01:39:14,220 The state of your heart is as a result of your relationship with the word of God. 1116 01:39:16,900 --> 01:39:24,300 You cannot claim otherwise. You can't say your heart is pure. Your heart is for the 1117 01:39:24,300 --> 01:39:33,860 word and we don't see it like that. Hallelujah. Praise God. 1118 01:39:54,300 --> 01:40:12,900 What's your name again? Rahel. So 1119 01:40:12,900 --> 01:40:26,820 what are you saying? We are now coming to go into the 1120 01:40:26,820 --> 01:40:32,820 continuum. So yes, that is the real message. 1121 01:40:32,820 --> 01:40:53,380 What is the point? Hallelujah. Smile. Smile. Someone using a long time with smile. Rashid, I say smile. Rashid, lift your head. Smile. No matter what he's doing, just smile. Let's not see that you are smiling. 1122 01:40:53,380 --> 01:41:00,380 If you don't like smiling, you are serious in life. 1123 01:41:00,380 --> 01:41:13,380 Praise the Lord. I say praise the Lord. Okay, so let's get in there. 1124 01:41:13,380 --> 01:41:28,380 But who so looked at into the perfect law of liberty, mastery, and continued therein, he be not a forgetful hearer. 1125 01:41:28,380 --> 01:41:41,380 So what is the opposite of forgetting the word? Is it remembering the word? No. It's what? Continuing the word. 1126 01:41:41,380 --> 01:41:50,380 So you know Lord, I remember one of the days when the word of God told us that people can remember a lot, but they don't continue in what they remember. 1127 01:41:50,380 --> 01:42:03,380 But real scripture remembrance of the word is continuing in the word, staying with the word, abiding beside the word, remaining in the word. 1128 01:42:03,380 --> 01:42:14,380 Hallelujah. Very important. Remaining in the word. See, to be a Christian is a difficult assignment. 1129 01:42:14,380 --> 01:42:21,380 Do you know why it's a difficult assignment? Think about the number of words that you hear. 1130 01:42:21,380 --> 01:42:27,380 Today you are here, tomorrow you are here, tomorrow you are here, and you are to remain. 1131 01:42:27,380 --> 01:42:35,380 There are a lot of us who write notes, we don't even read. The messages are there you don't listen to. 1132 01:42:35,380 --> 01:42:42,380 Think about it. You have the boldness to listen to a song that is worldly. 1133 01:42:42,380 --> 01:42:54,380 I know Loki, that's more of you. You love some secular artist. Loki, when we come here we are all singing Sinatra, we are all holy. 1134 01:42:54,380 --> 01:43:01,380 Loki, when you hear Stone Boy, still things rotate in your system. 1135 01:43:01,380 --> 01:43:13,380 Yeah, of course someone begins to sing, bang, bang, bang, something is, you know, something is... 1136 01:43:13,380 --> 01:43:20,380 You know, is he trying to sleep? 1137 01:43:20,380 --> 01:43:26,380 There was a woman who was preaching, like I'm preaching, then the people played music there. 1138 01:43:26,380 --> 01:43:33,380 And then, yeah, he was just talking, and then the woman heard. 1139 01:43:33,380 --> 01:43:39,380 And I, yeah, I'm living there. 1140 01:43:39,380 --> 01:43:43,380 Then the woman said, you. 1141 01:43:43,380 --> 01:43:52,380 Hey, this woman is not born again yet. 1142 01:43:52,380 --> 01:44:00,380 One time, one time, one time we were in a church, my former former church, and there's a beer bar there. 1143 01:44:00,380 --> 01:44:03,380 And the song was played. 1144 01:44:03,380 --> 01:44:07,380 Then there was this elder or dicky. 1145 01:44:07,380 --> 01:44:14,380 You know, they have where men sit, women, so he just sit there like that. And the thing was playing. The pastor was preaching. 1146 01:44:14,380 --> 01:44:16,380 We saw the man there like this. 1147 01:44:16,380 --> 01:44:22,380 And the tapping of the feet was going with the beat. 1148 01:44:22,380 --> 01:44:26,380 One of the guys, I said, this man said, 1149 01:44:26,380 --> 01:44:38,380 I'm going to put a copyright on us, copyright. 1150 01:44:38,380 --> 01:44:42,380 You have time for this. 1151 01:44:42,380 --> 01:44:48,380 You pray in tongues, that's what you pray in tongues, but low key. 1152 01:44:48,380 --> 01:44:50,380 You listen. 1153 01:44:50,380 --> 01:45:00,380 You know, you know this one, you know, you know, you know, 1154 01:45:00,380 --> 01:45:05,380 sometimes you just put earpiece inside your ear because your house, you know, you also for mommy and stuff like that. 1155 01:45:05,380 --> 01:45:07,380 Yes. You just put like, I listen to gospel. 1156 01:45:07,380 --> 01:45:16,380 When you see a church brother coming, you just. 1157 01:45:16,380 --> 01:45:20,380 Yes. 1158 01:45:20,380 --> 01:45:24,380 Something give it to something give it to. 1159 01:45:24,380 --> 01:45:28,380 I'm going to ride. 1160 01:45:28,380 --> 01:45:41,380 Oh, oh. 1161 01:45:41,380 --> 01:45:47,380 I'm going to get the bone again. 1162 01:45:47,380 --> 01:45:53,380 So to continue in the world is to stay beside the world. 1163 01:45:53,380 --> 01:45:59,380 So to keep the word actually means to stay beside the word. 1164 01:45:59,380 --> 01:46:07,380 Now, what your parents will say, oh, but I'm holding on to God's word. 1165 01:46:07,380 --> 01:46:10,380 It means I'm staying beside the word. 1166 01:46:10,380 --> 01:46:15,380 The word of God says it's not going to work, but the word of God says a different story. 1167 01:46:15,380 --> 01:46:18,380 So I'll stay beside the word. 1168 01:46:18,380 --> 01:46:21,380 Hallelujah. 1169 01:46:21,380 --> 01:46:22,380 They say I'm sick yourself. 1170 01:46:22,380 --> 01:46:24,380 OK. 1171 01:46:24,380 --> 01:46:29,380 As a doctor's report, I'm going to stay beside the word. 1172 01:46:29,380 --> 01:46:33,380 There's a man who is an elder in the church of Pentecost. 1173 01:46:33,380 --> 01:46:43,380 He's the age of 90 years when they went to the hospital, one of their old people and then they found out that the man actually is sick yourself. 1174 01:46:43,380 --> 01:46:46,380 90 years, he's giving birth. 1175 01:46:46,380 --> 01:46:48,380 She has finished giving birth, everything and she was sick. 1176 01:46:48,380 --> 01:46:50,380 He was sick yourself. 1177 01:46:50,380 --> 01:46:54,380 He never had what do you call it? 1178 01:46:54,380 --> 01:46:58,380 When there are crises, he never had crisis. 1179 01:46:58,380 --> 01:47:03,380 He was sick, sir, living up to 90 years. 1180 01:47:03,380 --> 01:47:04,380 I'm sick, sir. 1181 01:47:04,380 --> 01:47:07,380 Is it my grandchild? 1182 01:47:07,380 --> 01:47:09,380 Then he can't walk. 1183 01:47:09,380 --> 01:47:12,380 Staying beside the word. 1184 01:47:12,380 --> 01:47:16,380 That is how you get your faith working. 1185 01:47:16,380 --> 01:47:17,380 Hallelujah. 1186 01:47:17,380 --> 01:47:19,380 So you don't just say my faith is working. 1187 01:47:19,380 --> 01:47:21,380 My faith is working. 1188 01:47:21,380 --> 01:47:23,380 Let's let's close this. 1189 01:47:23,380 --> 01:47:24,380 They're looking for an offering. 1190 01:47:24,380 --> 01:47:25,380 My faith is working. 1191 01:47:25,380 --> 01:47:26,380 My faith is working. 1192 01:47:26,380 --> 01:47:29,380 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it's working. 1193 01:47:29,380 --> 01:47:35,380 No, stay beside the word. 1194 01:47:35,380 --> 01:47:38,380 Stay beside the word. 1195 01:47:38,380 --> 01:47:43,380 When you feel like you can't do it anymore, stay beside the word. 1196 01:47:43,380 --> 01:47:47,380 When you feel like you want to give up, stay beside the word. 1197 01:47:47,380 --> 01:47:51,380 When it feels like hell has broken loose on your life, stay beside the word. 1198 01:47:51,380 --> 01:48:01,380 And the Bible says that the one who continues, who continues with the word, the same is blessed in all his deeds. 1199 01:48:01,380 --> 01:48:06,380 Now, that's why I told you to underline the word whosoever. 1200 01:48:06,380 --> 01:48:11,380 The person may have been broke, the person may have been sick, the person may have been whatever. 1201 01:48:11,380 --> 01:48:20,380 But if that person can be a one who continues in the word, he says, I'm telling you, results is going to come. 1202 01:48:20,380 --> 01:48:23,380 There will be results. 1203 01:48:23,380 --> 01:48:26,380 Hallelujah. 1204 01:48:26,380 --> 01:48:27,380 Because I'm not a guy. 1205 01:48:27,380 --> 01:48:30,380 I'm myself when I'm calling people, they are not coming. 1206 01:48:30,380 --> 01:48:32,380 Keep stay at the word. 1207 01:48:32,380 --> 01:48:33,380 Stay with the word. 1208 01:48:33,380 --> 01:48:34,380 Stay with the word. 1209 01:48:34,380 --> 01:48:36,380 It can take 20 years. 1210 01:48:36,380 --> 01:48:43,380 But you know, by the time the results of the word is coming, it's in full. 1211 01:48:43,380 --> 01:48:47,380 Sixty, thirty, hundred. 1212 01:48:47,380 --> 01:48:50,380 By the time you read it, wow. 1213 01:48:50,380 --> 01:48:51,380 Wow. 1214 01:48:51,380 --> 01:48:53,380 Wow. 1215 01:48:53,380 --> 01:48:55,380 So don't say, ah, it didn't work. 1216 01:48:55,380 --> 01:49:00,380 You see, we are too eager and quick to conclude it didn't work. 1217 01:49:00,380 --> 01:49:01,380 Oh, it didn't work. 1218 01:49:01,380 --> 01:49:02,380 It didn't work. 1219 01:49:02,380 --> 01:49:03,380 No. 1220 01:49:03,380 --> 01:49:05,380 Stay beside the words. 1221 01:49:05,380 --> 01:49:06,380 Are you understanding that? 1222 01:49:06,380 --> 01:49:08,380 Stay beside the word. 1223 01:49:08,380 --> 01:49:10,380 Just walk in the will of God. 1224 01:49:10,380 --> 01:49:12,380 Just walk in what the word of God is saying. 1225 01:49:12,380 --> 01:49:15,380 The one who says go out, go out and reach out to people. 1226 01:49:15,380 --> 01:49:16,380 Do harm. 1227 01:49:16,380 --> 01:49:18,380 Go out and do harm. 1228 01:49:18,380 --> 01:49:19,380 It's coming. 1229 01:49:19,380 --> 01:49:20,380 It's coming. 1230 01:49:20,380 --> 01:49:21,380 It's coming. 1231 01:49:21,380 --> 01:49:22,380 Yes. 1232 01:49:22,380 --> 01:49:23,380 One minute. 1233 01:49:23,380 --> 01:49:24,380 Go out. 1234 01:49:24,380 --> 01:49:25,380 Reach out to people. 1235 01:49:25,380 --> 01:49:26,380 Talk to people. 1236 01:49:26,380 --> 01:49:27,380 Pray for people. 1237 01:49:27,380 --> 01:49:28,380 Just be doing it. 1238 01:49:28,380 --> 01:49:29,380 Be doing it. 1239 01:49:29,380 --> 01:49:30,380 Be doing it. 1240 01:49:30,380 --> 01:49:31,380 Be doing it. 1241 01:49:31,380 --> 01:49:32,380 And stay by the word. 1242 01:49:32,380 --> 01:49:33,380 Stay by the word. 1243 01:49:33,380 --> 01:49:34,380 Stay by the word. 1244 01:49:34,380 --> 01:49:42,380 There is going to be a time where it's called the fruit bearing season. 1245 01:49:42,380 --> 01:49:44,380 The fruit bearing season. 1246 01:49:44,380 --> 01:49:46,380 The fruit bearing season. 1247 01:49:46,380 --> 01:49:52,380 You know we read, he says that, and the one of the good God, the Bible says that then some 1248 01:49:52,380 --> 01:49:58,380 thirty, some sixty, some hundred. 1249 01:49:58,380 --> 01:50:01,380 So then Matthew will say, is it Matthew? 1250 01:50:01,380 --> 01:50:02,380 Or Mark? 1251 01:50:02,380 --> 01:50:05,380 Mark 4 will say, then first the blade. 1252 01:50:05,380 --> 01:50:09,380 I should not have spoken about that. 1253 01:50:09,380 --> 01:50:12,380 First the blade. 1254 01:50:12,380 --> 01:50:16,380 So the blade will start coming up. 1255 01:50:16,380 --> 01:50:19,380 You see now the meetings are changing. 1256 01:50:19,380 --> 01:50:21,380 Meetings are changing. 1257 01:50:21,380 --> 01:50:23,380 People will begin to come. 1258 01:50:23,380 --> 01:50:26,380 Then the people who are coming, they are staying. 1259 01:50:26,380 --> 01:50:30,380 People who didn't used to stay, now they begin to stay. 1260 01:50:30,380 --> 01:50:33,380 People who didn't used to come around, now they are coming around. 1261 01:50:33,380 --> 01:50:36,380 And you are wondering, wow it looks like something is happening. 1262 01:50:36,380 --> 01:50:39,380 And people who are not responding will begin to respond. 1263 01:50:39,380 --> 01:50:43,380 People who will not go for soul winning, now will say, when are we going for soul winning? 1264 01:50:43,380 --> 01:50:44,380 Then they will be coming. 1265 01:50:44,380 --> 01:50:45,380 You know what is happening? 1266 01:50:45,380 --> 01:50:47,380 Blade. 1267 01:50:47,380 --> 01:50:48,380 Blade. 1268 01:50:48,380 --> 01:50:49,380 The growth is coming. 1269 01:50:49,380 --> 01:50:51,380 They are about to sprout. 1270 01:50:51,380 --> 01:50:52,380 Hallelujah. 1271 01:50:52,380 --> 01:50:54,380 I said hallelujah. 1272 01:50:54,380 --> 01:50:55,380 Yeah hallelujah. 1273 01:50:55,380 --> 01:50:58,380 Sprouting is coming. 1274 01:50:58,380 --> 01:51:01,380 You can look at somebody in church and you conclude on the person, this guy is a west guy. 1275 01:51:01,380 --> 01:51:03,380 This sister is a west sister. 1276 01:51:03,380 --> 01:51:06,380 If we are talking about serious case, I will not even mention her name. 1277 01:51:06,380 --> 01:51:07,380 I will not mention his name. 1278 01:51:07,380 --> 01:51:09,380 This guy, you know. 1279 01:51:09,380 --> 01:51:22,380 When the same person stays by the word, and the word that is being taught, you will see that change, sometimes in little, little things. 1280 01:51:22,380 --> 01:51:27,380 You know, it means that, you see, when you put, let's close, we are closing. 1281 01:51:27,380 --> 01:51:28,380 Because of you I am closing. 1282 01:51:28,380 --> 01:51:29,380 Should I close? 1283 01:51:29,380 --> 01:51:32,380 Or I should continue? 1284 01:51:32,380 --> 01:51:46,380 When you put the corn in the ground, there is a point where you will see that, I don't know how many, some of you have never gone to farm before, the land, nothing is on the face of the land. 1285 01:51:46,380 --> 01:51:48,380 Then the thing is inside the ground. 1286 01:51:48,380 --> 01:51:50,380 It looks like nothing is happening. 1287 01:51:50,380 --> 01:51:59,380 Then about two weeks or three weeks, you will go near a catcher and say, oh, a broon in the new aba. 1288 01:51:59,380 --> 01:52:05,380 You will now be seeing something small, small, small, small, small, small, small, on the land. 1289 01:52:05,380 --> 01:52:14,380 So it will start later, later, later, later, later, later, then the blades. 1290 01:52:14,380 --> 01:52:18,380 Growth is coming. 1291 01:52:18,380 --> 01:52:20,380 That's how spiritual growth is like. 1292 01:52:20,380 --> 01:52:21,380 Growth is coming. 1293 01:52:21,380 --> 01:52:26,380 Some rubbish the person was doing, he begins to walk out of them. 1294 01:52:26,380 --> 01:52:28,380 He begins to think differently now. 1295 01:52:28,380 --> 01:52:31,380 You find out the blades are out there. 1296 01:52:31,380 --> 01:52:36,380 And it's like the person is now finding the essence of his Christian life and his Christian faith. 1297 01:52:36,380 --> 01:52:44,380 Then the Bible says, then the sickle. 1298 01:52:44,380 --> 01:52:46,380 You know, it means it's growing. 1299 01:52:46,380 --> 01:52:49,380 Then it's ready to be harvested. 1300 01:52:49,380 --> 01:52:50,380 You know what that means? 1301 01:52:50,380 --> 01:52:52,380 It's ready to be a blessing. 1302 01:52:52,380 --> 01:52:54,380 It's ready to be a blessing. 1303 01:52:54,380 --> 01:52:56,380 So you don't run away from the word. 1304 01:52:56,380 --> 01:52:59,380 Come on, say I don't run away from the word. 1305 01:52:59,380 --> 01:53:00,380 Come on. 1306 01:53:00,380 --> 01:53:02,380 Say I don't run away from the word. 1307 01:53:02,380 --> 01:53:04,380 Stay by the word. 1308 01:53:04,380 --> 01:53:06,380 Lucas always says stay by the word. 1309 01:53:06,380 --> 01:53:09,380 Stay by the word. 1310 01:53:09,380 --> 01:53:12,380 Stay by the word. 1311 01:53:12,380 --> 01:53:14,380 Very important. 1312 01:53:14,380 --> 01:53:16,380 And what does it mean to stay by the word? 1313 01:53:16,380 --> 01:53:18,380 To understand the word. 1314 01:53:18,380 --> 01:53:20,380 What does it mean to understand the word? 1315 01:53:20,380 --> 01:53:21,380 To do the word. 1316 01:53:21,380 --> 01:53:23,380 What does it mean to do the word? 1317 01:53:23,380 --> 01:53:26,380 I don't know the word. 1318 01:53:26,380 --> 01:53:27,380 To abide. 1319 01:53:27,380 --> 01:53:29,380 What does it mean to abide? 1320 01:53:29,380 --> 01:53:30,380 To continue. 1321 01:53:30,380 --> 01:53:32,380 What does it mean to continue? 1322 01:53:32,380 --> 01:53:33,380 To what? 1323 01:53:33,380 --> 01:53:35,380 To remain. 1324 01:53:35,380 --> 01:53:36,380 What does it mean to remain? 1325 01:53:36,380 --> 01:53:37,380 To stay by the side. 1326 01:53:37,380 --> 01:53:39,380 What does it mean to stay beside? 1327 01:53:39,380 --> 01:53:40,380 To what? 1328 01:53:40,380 --> 01:53:41,380 To tarry. 1329 01:53:41,380 --> 01:53:43,380 What does it mean to tarry? 1330 01:53:43,380 --> 01:53:44,380 To bend. 1331 01:53:44,380 --> 01:53:45,380 What does it mean to bend? 1332 01:53:45,380 --> 01:53:49,380 To what? 1333 01:53:49,380 --> 01:53:50,380 To acknowledge. 1334 01:53:50,380 --> 01:53:51,420 To consider. 1335 01:53:51,420 --> 01:54:03,780 to do the work. So don't run away from the word. Continue in the word. Tell 1336 01:54:03,780 --> 01:54:13,980 somebody to continue in the word. Because the word is alive. The word works. The 1337 01:54:13,980 --> 01:54:21,780 word transforms. The word of God changes. The word of God builds.