1 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:55,400 I have in me the burning fire, oh, a shell of grace. 2 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:04,680 I have in me the burning fire. 3 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:33,160 I have in me the burning fire. 4 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:40,040 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 5 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:47,480 The word gifts is italicized and it means that it can be omitted. 6 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:53,740 Now concerning spiritual, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 7 00:01:53,740 --> 00:01:58,640 You know that you were Gentiles carried away onto these dumb idols. 8 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,400 Boy, is amazing. 9 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,400 Say dumb idols. 10 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,120 Come on, say dumb idols. 11 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:18,200 Carried away by onto these dumb idols even as you were led. 12 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:26,720 Wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, calling 13 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:37,520 Jesus a curse and that no man can say that Jesus is Lord but by the Holy Ghost. 14 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:48,880 Now there are diversities of administrations but the same Lord and there are diversities 15 00:02:48,880 --> 00:03:00,400 of operations but it is the same God which worketh all in all. 16 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:10,080 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit without. 17 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,200 Praise the name of the Lord. 18 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:21,300 For one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge. 19 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:31,280 By the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit, to another the gifts of healing, 20 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,440 the gifts of healing. 21 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:42,520 another faith by the same spirit to another the gifts of healing by the same 22 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:51,640 spirit to another the working of miracles to another prophecy to another 23 00:03:51,640 --> 00:04:01,220 discerning of spirit to another kinds of tongues diverse kinds of tongues to 24 00:04:01,220 --> 00:04:09,840 another the interpretation of tongues but all these wicked that one and self 25 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,760 same spirit dividing to every man severely as he will praise the name of 26 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:22,600 Lord for as the body is one and has many members and all the members of that one 27 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:29,200 body being many are one body so also is Christ for by one spirit are we all 28 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:35,740 baptized into one body and align one body into one body whether we be Jews or 29 00:04:35,740 --> 00:04:42,920 Gentiles whether we be born or free and have been all made to drink into one 30 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:51,240 spirit for the body is not one member but many if the underlying for the body 31 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:58,880 is not one member but many if the foot shall say because I am the I'm not the 32 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:05,800 hand I'm not of the body is it therefore not of the body and if the ear shall say 33 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:12,280 because I am not the I I am not of the body is it therefore not of the body if 34 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:17,420 the whole body where an eye where where they hear if the whole body were hearing 35 00:05:17,420 --> 00:05:24,840 where where the smelling that means the notes but now have God set the members 36 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:31,600 every one of them in the body as it had pleased him he has set the members in 37 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:36,480 the body not outside the body he set the members in the body but now are there 38 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:45,520 where are we now there's one there's one and if they were all of if they were all 39 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:52,620 one member where were the body but now are there many members yet but one body 40 00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:58,880 see many members one body and the I cannot say unto the hand I have no need 41 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:06,200 of thee nor again the head to defeat I have no need of you nay much more those 42 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:11,400 members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary man man man man 43 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:18,200 and those members of the body which we think to be less honorable upon these 44 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:23,160 will bestow more abundant honor in our own comely part have more abundant 45 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:28,880 comeliness for our comely part have no need but God has tempered the body 46 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:34,160 together having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked that 47 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:40,560 there should be no schism that means division in the body but that the 48 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:45,520 members who have the same care one for another the members you have the same 49 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:52,520 care one for another and whether one member suffer all the members suffer 50 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:57,880 with it or one member behind it all the members rejoice with it praise the name 51 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:07,560 alone now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular hallelujah and 52 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:17,280 God has set some in the church first apostles secondarily prophets thirdly so 53 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:25,080 first apostles secondarily prophets thirdly teachers after that miracles the 54 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:30,900 workers of miracles then gift of healings helps government diversity of 55 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:37,680 homes are all apostles are all prophets are all teachers are all workers of 56 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,800 miracles have all the gifts of healing do all speak with tongues you are in 57 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:48,960 topic but covert endlessly the best gift and yet show I on to you a more 58 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:55,600 excellent way that is first Corinthians chapter number 12 we are going to pick 59 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:00,840 some few verses and I'm going to give that to you as an introduction then we 60 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:11,080 will continue as the day progress now everybody you know when amazing fact 61 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:16,280 when Paul was listing to another was giving this to another was giving that to 62 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:21,000 another was giving this to another was giving that he did not see but to 63 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:29,600 another nothing was giving now what it means is that in the mind of Paul in 64 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:38,600 every church you have all the spiritual gift in the church so as we are talking 65 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:46,240 right now in this church we have those that have received the gift of tongues 66 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,160 for that almost everybody or everybody and you can't be in this church are not 67 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:57,920 praying talks then in this church we have people who have received the gifts 68 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:06,840 of interpretation of talks now love you have not seen that in manifestation 69 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,680 that is why we are talking about ministry and I'm going to teach you how 70 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:16,600 to identify and begin to mean it's right so in this church we have those with a 71 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:21,160 gift of prophecy we have those with the gift of faith we have those with a gift 72 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,920 of working on miracles we have the one I didn't mention this ending of spirit I 73 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,720 jumped so there's those that have the discernment of spirit and all of that 74 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:39,200 all these gifts process they are giving to one body all right so here this is 75 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:44,520 the body of Christ in this room there is no body of Christ anywhere this is the 76 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:51,280 body of Christ when we meet as a local church we are the body of Christ it 77 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:56,320 means that we are the fullness of Christ when a church is also meeting down there 78 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:02,020 that means they are also the body of Christ and they are a full body now one 79 00:10:02,020 --> 00:10:08,280 distinct factor or one distinct feature of the body of Christ is that the body 80 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:14,760 of Christ is full of gifts praise the name of the Lord one of the distinct 81 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,360 features of the body of Christ is that the body of Christ is full of gift so 82 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:24,960 So wherever he says, and you are the body of Christ, or you are the body of Christ, 83 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:30,240 and you are members in particular, when he talks about members of the body of Christ, 84 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,520 he's talking about functionalities. 85 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:34,760 Praise the name of the Lord. 86 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:40,080 The members of the body of Christ refers to functionalities in the body of Christ, not 87 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:45,480 just associates of the body, or not just parts of the body. 88 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,280 So when the Bible says we are part of the body of Christ, you know, Ephesians, Acts, 89 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:55,200 chapter 5, verse 30, the Bible says you are members of his flesh, of his bones, and of 90 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,400 his what? 91 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,080 Members of his flesh, of his bones, there are three. 92 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,160 Find the other one, of his marrow, or whatever it is. 93 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,360 Let's go to 530, Ephesians, quickly. 94 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:05,360 Let's get it. 95 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,920 You are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 96 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,560 Is that what you have there? 97 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:12,960 Members of his body, of his flesh. 98 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:19,240 Now, so, what we talk about, the members of the body of Christ. 99 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:25,280 God is not looking at human beings. 100 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:31,200 When God talks about the members of the body of Christ, we see a human being. 101 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,440 God is talking more of functionalities. 102 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:40,020 God is talking about diversities of enablement by the spirit. 103 00:11:40,020 --> 00:11:44,520 So when you say I am a member of the body of Christ, man, I feel like I'm going to teach 104 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:45,520 for two hours. 105 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:46,920 The anointing has come. 106 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:53,720 When you say that I am a member of the body of Christ, you are not saying I go to church. 107 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,400 When you say I'm a member of the body of Christ, let me shock you. 108 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:01,520 It does not, you don't even mean that I'm a Christian. 109 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:08,000 When you say I'm a member of the body of Christ, you are saying that I am a functional element 110 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 in the body. 111 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,120 Are you here with me, everybody? 112 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:20,800 So it means that you can't be a Christian and now you are, and then claim that you don't 113 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:33,400 have a gift because the gift is the functionality that is given you or the particular functionality. 114 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:41,840 So listen, all the members of the body he listed in chapter 12 of 1 Corinthians, he 115 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:48,400 listed them with regards to their functions. 116 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,600 So he listed them with regards to their functions. 117 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,600 So he talks about the eye. 118 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,360 Now the eye is for sight. 119 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:56,860 Hallelujah. 120 00:12:56,860 --> 00:12:58,080 He talks about the hand. 121 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,380 He talks about the smelling. 122 00:12:59,380 --> 00:13:06,220 He talks about, so he says that the coming together of these functionalities is the body 123 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:07,720 of Christ. 124 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:13,080 I need some good time. 125 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:20,880 What does the Bible mean when he talks about the body of Christ? 126 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:31,120 So we must use the Bible to explain what body means because the body of Christ is not this. 127 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,800 All right. 128 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,920 Christ is not a human being. 129 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,520 Jesus is. 130 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:44,200 But when the Bible says you are the body of Christ, Vastal. 131 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:45,480 You are the body of Christ. 132 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:46,720 Now let's get into the word. 133 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:53,840 Let me explain some few things to you with the word body. 134 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,240 So put your hands in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 135 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:57,240 All right. 136 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:03,000 Now let's go to Colossians chapter number one. 137 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:18,320 Nine, for in him, chapter two, sorry. 138 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:25,440 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 139 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:32,280 So he says for in Christ, praise the name of the Lord, in Christ dwells the fullness 140 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:37,080 of the Godhead bodily. 141 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,480 He did not say for in Jesus dwells the fullness of the Godhead body. 142 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:49,840 I mean, it's not too much wrong to say that, but that is for babes. 143 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,480 That is what I mean by babes. 144 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,720 That is for those who are not scripturally technical. 145 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:55,720 Hallelujah. 146 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:01,560 But if you are scripturally technical, you will know that there is a difference between 147 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:06,640 Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus, and Christ. 148 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:08,280 Hallelujah. 149 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:16,280 Jesus Christ refers to the one that was born in Nazareth. 150 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:21,920 Jesus Christ refers to the one who died on the cross. 151 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,800 Hallelujah. 152 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:31,120 When we talk about Jesus Christ, we talk more of his human self. 153 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,120 Christ Jesus did not need the anointing. 154 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,560 Jesus Christ needed the anointing. 155 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,120 Now I'm not talking about three different people. 156 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,600 No, I'm talking about one person. 157 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:50,480 For example, Kwame. 158 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:57,020 When you hear Kwame, if somebody is calling me Kwame, then it means that the person is 159 00:15:57,020 --> 00:16:03,680 talking about my family association as the last born. 160 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:10,000 I remember we had a program in our house when my stepdad died and we were having a funeral 161 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000 on Sunday. 162 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:16,160 So they were doing Kwame Pacho Yinsu Omame, Kwame Fawebra, and this one is Kwame. 163 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:17,840 My aunties might this. 164 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:18,840 And then Gifty was angry. 165 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,320 He wanted to go and tell them that, why are they sending me? 166 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,600 And Lady Fever said, hey, your pastor's family, they are not correct. 167 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:26,600 Don't go and bring yourself. 168 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:27,600 Who should they send? 169 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,000 Your pastor is the last born. 170 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Who should they send? 171 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,440 You know, say no. 172 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:33,440 Why? 173 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:34,840 They should not see, they have to know he's a pastor. 174 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,120 Say no, the pastor is not here. 175 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,500 They can choose to refer to me as a pastor. 176 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:47,680 So when you see Kwame, they are talking about the last born. 177 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,320 Are you understanding that? 178 00:16:50,320 --> 00:17:00,040 And then when you see Minister Higher Life, then you are dealing with maybe Reina's fraternity 179 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:06,040 and people who are not so close but subscribe to my ministry. 180 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:14,120 But when you hear daddy, all right, when you hear daddy, when you hear somebody not being 181 00:17:14,120 --> 00:17:17,360 able to actually even say Minister Higher Life, want to say Reverend Asumi, Minister 182 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:21,640 Higher Life, then you know that this is somebody who is very close and the person really Alice. 183 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:22,960 You get it now. 184 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:33,200 So it's one person, but names are identifications of a particular status. 185 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:34,720 Are you understanding that? 186 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:40,200 I believe some of you, the names I call you here, that's not what they call you home. 187 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:41,200 You understand? 188 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:42,200 Yeah. 189 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:47,960 Maybe if I don't think any of you know that Dave is called Wafayao or Yao. 190 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:48,960 What's the name? 191 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:49,960 Wafayao or Yao? 192 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:54,800 Something Wafayao or Na Na Yao or something. 193 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,760 You do know Dave, Dave Nina and Wafayao. 194 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:04,000 Now when he came to me, I say his name is David. 195 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,200 And I say no, I'll call it Dave. 196 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:13,200 He's not a person, he's a person. 197 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:14,200 Something. 198 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,040 I say no, he's got some. 199 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,280 So some of you don't even know he's something, some of you think he's Samuel. 200 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,560 He's something. 201 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:28,800 So you know where it's coming from. 202 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,400 The prophet is a prophet, you know. 203 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:37,080 So Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus and Christ are three different names. 204 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:41,680 That refers to three different things of a particular person. 205 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,000 Hallelujah. 206 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:49,440 So the fullness of God is not in Jesus Christ. 207 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:54,560 When we talk about Jesus Christ, we are talking about the one who died. 208 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,460 We are talking about the one who hanged on the cross. 209 00:18:57,460 --> 00:19:06,240 Now when we talk about Christ Jesus, we are talking of from the resurrection till now. 210 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,680 Out together. 211 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,880 When he died and he rose from the dead, he became Christ Jesus. 212 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:17,480 And the epistles bring that very, very, when you read the epistles, you are not going to 213 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,040 find Jesus Christ. 214 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:24,360 Except they are making references to his death and his natural state. 215 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:26,340 We don't have time to have gone through that. 216 00:19:26,340 --> 00:19:32,660 Then when you find Christ Jesus, especially with Paul. 217 00:19:32,660 --> 00:19:36,800 He begins Christ Jesus. 218 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:43,520 Then we have the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord Christ Jesus. 219 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:44,520 Praise the name of the Lord. 220 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:45,520 Now that's not what I'm teaching you. 221 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:49,680 I simply want to explain to you that when the Bible says, in him draws all the fullness 222 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,040 of the Godhead bodily. 223 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,180 Now he's talking about Christ. 224 00:19:53,180 --> 00:19:57,880 Now so what is Christ? 225 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:04,560 Christ in the scriptures does not refer to a person. 226 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,240 Or let me just bring your mind home. 227 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,920 It does not just refer to a person. 228 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:09,920 Hallelujah. 229 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:20,880 Christ in the epistles refers to the totality of God's efficiency, God's efficacy, God's 230 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,040 power. 231 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,560 Or God's anointing. 232 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,080 Praise the name of the Lord. 233 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:39,000 Now the Bible refers to him as Christ the head of the church. 234 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,800 Christ is the head of the church. 235 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,960 What does that mean? 236 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:54,840 It means that when we talk about Christ, Christ is a part of a whole body. 237 00:20:54,840 --> 00:21:03,720 So Christ then, the church then is Christ plus people. 238 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,560 Hallelujah. 239 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:16,640 It means that when we are talking about Christ, we are talking about Jesus as the head. 240 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,280 Did you hear that? 241 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,000 Jesus as the head, not Christ as the head. 242 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,680 When we are talking about Christ, we are talking about the church, we are talking about Jesus 243 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:37,240 as the head or Christ Jesus as the head, probably so, and the church as the body. 244 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:47,660 So the church, Christ is the body of the Godhead and the church is the body of Christ. 245 00:21:47,660 --> 00:21:50,880 Now what does it mean when we say body? 246 00:21:50,880 --> 00:22:01,240 The word body from the Greek simply talks about the physical representation or the reality, 247 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,240 the substance. 248 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,560 Praise the name of the Lord. 249 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:12,920 So when the Bible says, for in Christ dwells all the fullness, all the totality, all the 250 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:24,840 completeness of the Godhead, bodily, it's simply saying that inside Christ, all right, 251 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:36,840 is the fullness of the Godhead in substance. 252 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,880 So we say the body of the matter is this. 253 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,800 We are simply talking about the substance of the matter. 254 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:43,800 Hallelujah. 255 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:49,040 The body of the matter is that I did not steal it. 256 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:53,360 Now when we talk about the body of the matter, then it means that you have a whole lot of 257 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:57,520 information that seems to be true, but then you say this is the actual body, this is the 258 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:58,520 body of the matter. 259 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,280 It means that this is the intrinsic truth. 260 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:10,600 So when the Bible says, in Christ dwells the fullness of the Godhead, bodily, my, my, there 261 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:17,960 may have been several representations of the Godhead in different forms, but Christ in 262 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:24,220 him dwells the fullness of the Godhead, bodily. 263 00:23:24,220 --> 00:23:29,600 So it means that it's, it's, it's false in line with Hebrews chapter one, God, who at 264 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:34,400 sundry times in the divers madness in time past, spoken unto the fathers through the 265 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:41,320 prophets has at last spoken to us in a son. 266 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,440 Hallelujah. 267 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:48,520 Who is the express image of his passing? 268 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,260 Hallelujah. 269 00:23:50,260 --> 00:23:54,400 So God spoke in fragmentary terms. 270 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:55,720 All right. 271 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:56,720 Peace is here. 272 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:57,720 Peace is there. 273 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,800 Peace is here through Elijah, through Elijah, through this, through that, through this. 274 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:07,440 But then at last he is speaking to us in a son, not in his son. 275 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:13,120 That's two different things. 276 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:14,120 Let's go there. 277 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:15,120 Read it. 278 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:16,120 No, no, you read it. 279 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,120 Don't worry. 280 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:18,120 Read it. 281 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:19,120 You have a son. 282 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:20,120 Read it. 283 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:21,120 Mm-hmm. 284 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,120 That's right. 285 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:23,120 Mm-hmm. 286 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:34,080 Okay. 287 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:43,080 What version is that? 288 00:24:43,080 --> 00:25:02,640 Yeah. 289 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:03,640 Read Amplified. 290 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:24,760 Did you see that? 291 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,440 That is the accuracy. 292 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,440 What is IHG saying? 293 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:43,760 No, that one too is still wrong. 294 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:49,400 By a son is different from in the passing of a son. 295 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,320 In the passing of a son means something is wrong with the son. 296 00:25:53,320 --> 00:26:00,640 In the passing of a son means, in the passing of a son means he has come as a son. 297 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:05,600 Now if you are a very good student of the Bible and of this church, you will know that 298 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,240 when we talk about the son of God, we are not just referring to a person. 299 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,040 The son of God is an office. 300 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,800 It means the God in the flesh. 301 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:21,720 So he has spoken to us in a passing of a son means that he came to explain himself. 302 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:27,440 But that son picked up a body and that natural body is what we call Jesus Christ. 303 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,640 Hallelujah. 304 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:34,060 So we can say the son is an office. 305 00:26:34,060 --> 00:26:42,760 So when we talk about the son, the son of God, we are talking about the body of God. 306 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:47,760 So God said, the Bible says God spoke here, spoke there, and we couldn't quite understand 307 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:53,960 God because in the Old Testament somebody comes to say God kills and God makes alive. 308 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,880 Alright somebody comes to say God makes rich, God makes poor. 309 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,880 Somebody comes to say this, comes to say that and we can't actually have, you can't read 310 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:11,120 the Old Testament and know the nature of God because he looks like a very confused person. 311 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:16,440 Somebody comes to tell us that and he repented God, God, it repented God and God repented 312 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,320 of the evil which he had a purpose to do. 313 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:25,540 You understand, sometimes in the Old Testament he's good, sometimes he's bad. 314 00:27:25,540 --> 00:27:32,080 Sometimes he's killing, sometimes you know, like somebody, what's the name? 315 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,520 There's some guys that make more fear of Moses. 316 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,580 And then God just caused this earthquake, opened the earth and then swallowed people 317 00:27:41,580 --> 00:27:46,600 and closed the earth back. 318 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,720 Some people sin and God forgives them. 319 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:57,000 And some he just opens the earth and then they just fall inside and he closes it back. 320 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,800 What kind of an assassin is that? 321 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:05,000 What kind of an assassin is that? 322 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:12,360 So you look at that and you are confused and it had come to a point, I'm still talking 323 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,520 about ministry and spiritual, don't worry. 324 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:21,760 It had come to a point where the Jews, the custodians, Romans chapter 3, he says that 325 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,520 the Jews, he says what prophet has a Jew there, 3, 1. 326 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:30,440 He says, match every way chiefly because unto them were committed the oracles of God. 327 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,600 So unto them were committed the word of God. 328 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:39,200 So it came to a point where those unto them that were committed the word of God were even 329 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,320 confused about the nature of God. 330 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,920 And because of their confusion, they had accepted everything to have come from God. 331 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:51,640 So you read John 9 and the Jesus was walking with the disciples and met somebody who was 332 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:59,280 blind or crippled. 333 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:05,600 From birth and then the disciples asked Jesus, whose fault is this? 334 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,160 That this man was born this way? 335 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,440 Is it the parent? 336 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:12,440 Is it the father? 337 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:13,440 Is it the mother? 338 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:14,440 Who? 339 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,060 And then Jesus says that nobody has sinned. 340 00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:27,280 So in their mind, you are, you've done something wrong to be sick and all of that. 341 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,560 Jesus made an emphatic statement, he said that, but that the glory of God we made manifest 342 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,800 in his life, King James in full stop, but the glory of God made manifest in his life, 343 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,120 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. 344 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:46,000 So it means that Jesus is saying that it is not the father's will for anybody to be sick. 345 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,000 It's not God's will. 346 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:52,200 And God does not put sicknesses on people to teach them a lesson. 347 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,200 Hallelujah. 348 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:58,400 In chapter 10, verse 38, how God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost 349 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:05,720 and with power who went about doing good, healing all, healing all that were oppressed 350 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,360 of the devil. 351 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:13,760 So Peter says that oppression comes from the devil. 352 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,480 Hallelujah. 353 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:22,120 How God the father anointed Jesus, the son, with the Holy Ghost, the spirit who went about 354 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:23,120 doing good. 355 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:29,800 So the father, the son, the spirit were all in one agenda, doing good and healing. 356 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,920 Hallelujah. 357 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:39,400 So when God actually said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, the word actually 358 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,560 is this is my beloved son in whom I am at home. 359 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,200 I'm at peace. 360 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:53,120 It means that Jesus comes to give up the exactness of God's nature. 361 00:30:53,120 --> 00:31:00,560 That is why what we don't see in Christ, we don't attribute it to God. 362 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:08,240 That's how to be able to know what the things God did and the things God didn't do. 363 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,840 As time goes on, maybe next year or next two years, I'll teach you something. 364 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:22,240 Jesus studies, I'll teach you a principle of biblical interpretation and you will see 365 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:37,160 that there is such a principle as God allowing, God permitting or God doing. 366 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:41,720 God permitting something to happen or God doing something. 367 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:50,680 A lot of the things that are, for example, God says, I will harden the heart of Pharaoh. 368 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,240 So God hardened the heart of Pharaoh. 369 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,720 I will kill. 370 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,960 I will die. 371 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,480 It's not so in the Hebrew. 372 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:11,760 So Jesus Christ came as a perfect representation of the nature of God. 373 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,160 So when we say, I'm still explaining the body. 374 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,160 All right. 375 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:22,040 So when we say body, we are talking about like the truth, the exact. 376 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,260 Come on, I want to get that. 377 00:32:23,260 --> 00:32:24,600 So the body is not talking about this. 378 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,300 We are talking about the truth, the exact. 379 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:33,120 So when the Bible says in Christ dwells, the fullness of the Godhead, bodily, we can say 380 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:40,320 in Christ dwells, the fullness of the Godhead in exactness. 381 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:45,760 In exactness, in correctness, in accuracy. 382 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:46,760 Praise the name of the Lord. 383 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,840 Come on, are you with me everybody? 384 00:32:50,840 --> 00:33:01,600 So when the Bible says that we are the body of Christ, we can put it as we are Christ 385 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,600 bodily. 386 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:11,840 Or we are Christ's body. 387 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:25,840 It means that this Christ, Jesus Christ is not the body of Christ. 388 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:31,120 No. 389 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:37,680 Jesus Christ died to bring us to, to bring the body of Christ. 390 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,480 Now what is the body of Christ? 391 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:50,960 The body of Christ is simply the exact Christ, which is not Jesus. 392 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,760 Which is not Jesus. 393 00:33:53,760 --> 00:34:00,120 Now the body of Christ means Christ in exactness. 394 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,120 Jesus is, I have many things to tell you. 395 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,640 It means that he wasn't done. 396 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:10,560 But there is the exactness of Christ. 397 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,460 And that is us. 398 00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:18,420 So when we're talking about the body of Christ, we are talking about a physical and accurate 399 00:34:18,420 --> 00:34:26,200 and exact representation and presentation of Christ. 400 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,960 Now what is Christ? 401 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:37,520 Christ is the fullness of the Godhead, bodily. 402 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:46,760 So Christ is the, we can say Christ is the exactness of the Godhead in fullness. 403 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,720 Are you all here with me everybody? 404 00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:54,240 Christ is the fullness of the Godhead in exactness. 405 00:34:54,240 --> 00:35:03,320 So when we talk about Christ, we are talking about the totality of God or the totality 406 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:04,320 of the Godhead. 407 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,000 Please are we together? 408 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,640 Now so that is Christ. 409 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:19,580 So if we are the body of Christ, it means that that fullness is translated into expression 410 00:35:19,580 --> 00:35:29,280 in the physical world by us, or we are the translation of the fullness of the Godhead 411 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,720 from the realm of the spirit to the realm of the natural. 412 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:38,240 So when you meet somebody who is part of the body of Christ, or who is part of the body 413 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:44,760 of God, it means that he is part of the people who translate everything God to the natural. 414 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:51,920 Did you hear that? 415 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:58,640 So a Christian, that is why I've said all these things to tell you one thing, that a 416 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:06,040 Christian is not somebody who is empty. 417 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:14,320 When you get born again, so the Bible says, for by one spirit, for by one spirit are we 418 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:24,280 all baptized into one body, meaning that it takes the Holy Spirit to engraft you into 419 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:31,200 the assembly of people that translate the fullness of the Godhead to the natural. 420 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,640 Praise the name of the Lord. 421 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,400 So it takes the spirit. 422 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,760 So you can't just come up and be born again. 423 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,360 Come on, look at me, don't mind that. 424 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,360 You cannot just get up and be born again. 425 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:57,120 To be born again is to be picked by the spirit to engraft you, to put you in the body of 426 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,480 Christ. 427 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,920 Now what is the putting together of the spirit? 428 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:10,880 What is the spirit immersing you into the body of Christ by giving you gifts? 429 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:17,400 What is the body of Christ? 430 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:24,920 The body of Christ simply is the people, alright, I want us to understand, that's why I'm using 431 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:30,880 that, the people who translates Christ. 432 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,800 And what is Christ? 433 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,900 The fullness of the Godhead. 434 00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:41,480 So the body of Christ refers to the people who translate the fullness of the Godhead 435 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:46,000 from the realm of the spirit to the natural. 436 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:54,000 So if you meet any, see we are like cult members, alright, we are like cult members. 437 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:03,040 If you meet a Christian, you have met one of the people who is responsible for the translation 438 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:10,840 of Christ, the fullness of God to the natural. 439 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,840 Say I'm flowing in the spirit. 440 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,920 Say this man, I'm flowing in the spirit. 441 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:24,360 Some of you are not saying something, say this man, I'm flowing in the spirit. 442 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:32,600 You see, so when you meet a Christian, you have met a translator of the Godhead to the 443 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,400 natural. 444 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:43,200 And that cannot be done, that cannot be done without the spirit. 445 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:53,720 So he says, for by one, for by one spirit, are we all baptized into one body. 446 00:38:53,720 --> 00:39:02,880 And we have been all made to drink into the cup of the spirit. 447 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:09,800 So it's a putting into and a drinking. 448 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,880 And he used the word baptized. 449 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:14,880 Very important. 450 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:15,880 Let's get there again. 451 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:16,880 Let's get there. 452 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,880 I mean, are you here with me everybody? 453 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:20,880 Yes sir. 454 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:21,880 Yeah. 455 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:32,240 Listen, for by one spirit, are we all baptized into one body, whether it be Jew or Gentiles, 456 00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:44,040 whether we're born or free and have been all made to drink into one spirit. 457 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:54,080 Let me read from the, just let me read from the easy English. 458 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:58,720 God baptized all of us by his one spirit into one body. 459 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:03,000 It made no difference whether we were Jews or not. 460 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,560 It made no difference whether we were slaves or free people. 461 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:13,240 God gave his one spirit to all of us to drink. 462 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:16,120 So he talks about two things here. 463 00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:21,520 First he talks about a baptism into a body. 464 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:31,360 Second, he talks about a drinking of the spirit. 465 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:32,800 Praise the name of the Lord. 466 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:43,360 Now when you are baptized into something and you are brought out, what happens? 467 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,160 Okay. 468 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:51,280 So if you're baptized into water and then you are out of the baptism, like you've been 469 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:56,080 baptized into water, what do we see? 470 00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:04,960 We see that you are wet, but you see you can be wet without drinking. 471 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:10,120 Then the second thing is that you are made to drink. 472 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:14,200 So by one spirit, we were baptized. 473 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,760 All right, baptized by the spirit. 474 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,880 Number two, we were made to drink. 475 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,680 Now let's see these two things in Acts. 476 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:30,640 Let's go to Acts chapter two. 477 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,280 Acts chapter two. 478 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:38,640 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 479 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:44,420 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind. 480 00:41:44,420 --> 00:41:46,440 Now what is the wind? 481 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,440 Definitely the spirit, right? 482 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:58,800 And it sealed all the house where they were sitting. 483 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:05,280 The wind sealed the room where they were sitting. 484 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,280 What do you think is that? 485 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,440 Oh no. 486 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,640 Baptism. 487 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:20,440 So the spirit overshadowed them and they were in the spirit. 488 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,080 Let's continue verse four, verse three. 489 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:27,120 And they appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire and it sapped upon each of 490 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:28,120 them. 491 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:34,920 And they were all sealed with the Holy Ghost. 492 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,400 So what is that? 493 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,560 A drinking. 494 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:49,160 So they were sealed, but first they were immersed, baptized. 495 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:55,560 And that is called the opponent of the spirit. 496 00:42:55,560 --> 00:43:05,000 Now so every child of God, number one, has been baptized and have been made to drink. 497 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,760 So that's why here we don't talk about water baptism. 498 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:10,760 All right. 499 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:15,920 There is a real baptism and that real baptism is the baptism of the spirit. 500 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,240 Hallelujah. 501 00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:26,480 The spirit baptizes you, the spirit overshadows you and that engrafts you into a reality. 502 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,560 It engrafts you into some exactness. 503 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:35,680 It engrafts you into the body. 504 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,720 I use me. 505 00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:49,480 So when you get born again, the spirit comes to and that opponent is an initiation of God 506 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,960 to say that today you have joined the court. 507 00:43:52,960 --> 00:44:05,160 That court is the court that translates God into the natural. 508 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:06,840 I use me. 509 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,960 So a Christian has one life. 510 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:18,240 The life is that he has been initiated into the life of translation of the Godhead into 511 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:19,240 the natural. 512 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:25,080 Are you following what I'm telling you? 513 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:28,360 And then he is not just doing it. 514 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:36,320 He does it also after he has drank. 515 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,800 He's drunk the spirit. 516 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:40,800 Hallelujah. 517 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,320 So I've drunk the spirit. 518 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:55,440 So now the drinking of the spirit will become the new birth. 519 00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,920 The spirit in us is the new birth. 520 00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:07,280 The spirit upon us is the work, the service. 521 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:13,360 Because Jesus says, and you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you. 522 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:22,280 So remember the Bible says, when the place where they were sitting was filled with the 523 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:32,120 wind, there appeared unto them clothing tongues as of fire and sat upon each of them. 524 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:33,120 What does that mean? 525 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:34,120 What is that? 526 00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:35,120 What is that clothing tongues? 527 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,120 John the Baptist says that in Matthew, let's go to Matthew 11. 528 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:43,360 I'm not supposed to be doing all of this. 529 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:51,920 Are you following this thing? 530 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:58,240 All right, chapter three. 531 00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:11,640 Matthew chapter three, I indeed, verse 11, baptize you with water on to repentance. 532 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:19,520 But he that come after me is mightier than I, whose shoes are not worthy to bear. 533 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:26,240 He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit. 534 00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:33,000 He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 535 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,420 Now what's the baptism here? 536 00:46:35,420 --> 00:46:39,880 He will immerse you. 537 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,960 But your immersion will not be his. 538 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:46,160 I baptize with water. 539 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:50,480 All right, on to repentance. 540 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:57,880 This is baptism is with the Holy Spirit and with fire on to the body. 541 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,600 Did you see that? 542 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:08,440 So John the Baptist baptized with water on to repentance. 543 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:14,760 Now we don't get baptized with the Holy Spirit on to repentance. 544 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:22,440 What we are baptized into is more deeper, bigger, better, stronger, greater than repentance. 545 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,560 We are baptized into the body. 546 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:36,120 See, today I'm just sharing with you why spiritual gifts are important. 547 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,360 That's why I'm picking from there. 548 00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:42,360 So you are baptized not on to repentance. 549 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,760 Baptism with water is baptism on to repentance. 550 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:46,760 Hallelujah. 551 00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:57,240 But baptism with the Spirit and with fire is baptism on to the body of Christ. 552 00:47:57,240 --> 00:48:06,640 Now so it could be seen that when the Spirit came, the Holy Spirit, the Bible says, there 553 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:12,600 appeared upon them, that appeared on to them, clothing tongues as of fire and is settled 554 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,960 upon each of them. 555 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,400 What is fire? 556 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:18,400 Why fire? 557 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:23,080 And he says, you baptize with fire. 558 00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:29,040 What is the significance of the fire? 559 00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,720 It talks about passion. 560 00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:34,160 It talks about fevency. 561 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,320 It talks about heat. 562 00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,800 It talks about a refinement. 563 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,140 Are you understanding that? 564 00:48:41,140 --> 00:48:47,000 So the fire of the Spirit talks about action. 565 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,360 Why? 566 00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:55,840 The Bible says, I made up my mind I'm not going to preach his word or mention his name, 567 00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:02,640 but his word was like, shut up in my bones, like fire. 568 00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:07,240 So when that happened, what happened? 569 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:09,280 He spoke. 570 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:21,020 So fire then, according to what we are studying, is a symbolic representation of action. 571 00:49:21,020 --> 00:49:25,520 So when the guy said you baptize you with the Spirit and baptize you with fire, he was 572 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:30,080 simply talking about action. 573 00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:37,400 You will be immersed into the Spirit and with the fire that will cause you to do. 574 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:43,280 To do what? 575 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:44,280 The body. 576 00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:49,160 Say I do the body. 577 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:53,920 Come on say I do the body. 578 00:49:53,920 --> 00:50:03,040 So that body, so the fire causes you to do the body. 579 00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,000 Praise the name of the Lord. 580 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,240 So now back to what we are saying, the Bible says by one spirit you were baptized into 581 00:50:10,240 --> 00:50:11,240 one body. 582 00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:22,040 And we are told that the body, the body of Christ refers to the coming together of members. 583 00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:34,600 And the coming of the members refers to diverse operations, administrations and giftings. 584 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:40,640 So if we are talking about the body of Christ, we are talking about diverse administrations, 585 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:45,320 diverse operations and diverse gifts. 586 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:51,440 So there cannot be somebody in the body of Christ that the person now will begin to say 587 00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,640 I don't have a gift. 588 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,200 Because the gift is not you. 589 00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,560 It is when you enter. 590 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,000 You can say I have not discovered it yet. 591 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,160 You can say I don't have a gift. 592 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:14,360 Because the body of Christ is a combination of people with diverse administrations, diverse 593 00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,320 operations and diverse giftings. 594 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:22,560 Say I am not empty. 595 00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:28,600 So when you say you are a Christian, you are not somebody who is now going to get a gift. 596 00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:32,280 You are somebody who has a gift and you are discovering. 597 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:37,960 And you see, that's what the Bible says, the gift, the manifestations of the spirit is 598 00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:44,440 giving to profit every man without. 599 00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:50,960 The word profit without is sumfero. 600 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:51,960 Sumfero. 601 00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:53,960 S-U-M-P-H-E-R-O. 602 00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:55,960 Sumfero. 603 00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,960 Sumfero. 604 00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:08,080 Sumfero talks about a contribution in order to help. 605 00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:16,480 An assignment or a project. 606 00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:24,040 So like when we say all right, we are buying this and then you say this is my contribution. 607 00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:25,040 This is my contribution. 608 00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,040 This is my contribution. 609 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,640 Then we are able to go and buy whatever we want to buy. 610 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:32,400 All together. 611 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,760 So sumfero then is that it's a coming together. 612 00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:41,960 The manifestation of the spirit is giving to you to be able to contribute to what we 613 00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:42,960 are doing. 614 00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:48,920 All together. 615 00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:58,760 So what we refer to is what we refer to as spiritual gifts is not for your individual 616 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,760 celebrities. 617 00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:16,120 Any gift given to you by the spirit is for you to be able to contribute to help with 618 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,000 what we are doing. 619 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,000 And what are we doing? 620 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:25,400 We are doing the translation of the fullness of the Godhead into the natural. 621 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:30,360 Are you here with me everybody? 622 00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:39,880 So this is the foundation and the basic I wanted to get before we begin to minister 623 00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:43,580 this April. 624 00:53:43,580 --> 00:53:53,320 So you understand that the gift that you have is not for you. 625 00:53:53,320 --> 00:54:00,960 So you cannot decide when and where to use it. 626 00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:12,560 See and one of the things that we will give account for is the gift that we received from 627 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:13,920 God. 628 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,720 That's that. 629 00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:22,840 When you are needed to come and prophesy and you say you are not in the mood you give account 630 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:26,360 to God. 631 00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:29,320 Because the gift that is giving you is to help. 632 00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,320 For example we are building a house. 633 00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:35,280 We are building a building a house or whatever. 634 00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:41,280 And then the day that the mason is to come or the architect is to come the architect 635 00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:45,120 says I'm not in the mood I'm not coming. 636 00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,560 You will not see that you are delaying the work. 637 00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:52,800 But you would have been a reason for the delaying of the work. 638 00:54:52,800 --> 00:55:01,320 So Paul is very smart because the Corinthian church had gotten the whole thing mixed up. 639 00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,040 They are prophesying for themselves. 640 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:05,800 They are healing to get names. 641 00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:10,640 They are doing everything in the church to get names and to become somewhat important 642 00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:11,640 and valuable. 643 00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:15,160 But Paul says no. 644 00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,480 The gifts are given for some Pharaoh. 645 00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:25,800 They are given so your gifts the gift of the spirit I will come to that. 646 00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:32,080 They are giving for your contribution to help. 647 00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:36,680 So it means that every Christian in fact right now forget about all churches forget even 648 00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:38,960 about our branches I'm talking to you now. 649 00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:46,720 If you are here and you are not contributing to the work of God we are doing God will ask 650 00:55:46,720 --> 00:55:51,800 you. 651 00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:56,840 A lot of people are two steps backwards. 652 00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:02,720 It's a different thing to come to church and not be some Pharaoh. 653 00:56:02,720 --> 00:56:07,880 Hallelujah that would mean all right you are coming so you are getting your this thing 654 00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,560 to be able to some Pharaoh. 655 00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,440 But there are people who are in church they don't do anything. 656 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,520 They don't belong to anything. 657 00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,080 They are not there. 658 00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,440 They themselves don't even win souls. 659 00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:27,480 They don't know. 660 00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:38,080 When you get into an issue when you face something or when you meet anything that kind of brings 661 00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,680 you to a point where you are becoming redundant. 662 00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:47,160 That is a spiritual attack. 663 00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,480 Let me say that again. 664 00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:55,800 When anything happens to you if anything happens you lost your job. 665 00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:56,800 What again? 666 00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:58,920 You got a broken heart. 667 00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:00,300 You got lazy. 668 00:57:00,300 --> 00:57:02,800 You got what again? 669 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,720 You got into social media. 670 00:57:04,720 --> 00:57:06,440 You got into whatever. 671 00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,800 And that begins to affect you. 672 00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:17,520 And how you should you operate or manifest yourself or it affect your contribution in 673 00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,040 the church. 674 00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:23,640 You are under attack. 675 00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:30,520 Because the thing is that all the battle we are in in this world is very simple. 676 00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,800 The devil says you know Paul calls it wrestle. 677 00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,120 He says we wrestle not against flesh and blood. 678 00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,120 Paul didn't use the word fight. 679 00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:38,120 It's not fight. 680 00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,240 No, no, no, it's not fight. 681 00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:42,240 He used the word wrestle. 682 00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:46,640 And the word wrestle in the Greek means you are trying to put somebody down and the person 683 00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:48,160 is also trying to pull you down. 684 00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,080 You know like that game that we do. 685 00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:51,080 You know. 686 00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:52,080 Aha. 687 00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:53,080 It's not fight. 688 00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:54,080 What's the name of it? 689 00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:55,080 Okay. 690 00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:56,080 Aha. 691 00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:57,080 So I'm trying to put you down. 692 00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:58,080 You're trying to put. 693 00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:03,680 So the devil is trying to stop the work and we are trying to progress with the work. 694 00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:11,000 So the whole ministry of the devil with his ministers is very simple. 695 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:15,320 To make sure that the work of God does not progress. 696 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,760 And you see the devil will not go and attack God. 697 00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,880 Even if the devil can fight God and win. 698 00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:25,400 It will still be a foolish fight. 699 00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:32,280 Because the, the, those that put the agent for the progress of the work is not God. 700 00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:33,280 It's us. 701 00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,920 So the devil does not have any issue with, with, with God. 702 00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:40,680 Did you understand what I'm talking about? 703 00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:42,320 The devil has no problem with God. 704 00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,120 He cannot go and fight God. 705 00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:45,120 God is not his. 706 00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:46,120 God is not his matter. 707 00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:48,840 The God wants to do something. 708 00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:52,280 And the thing that God wants to do, he's giving to us. 709 00:58:52,280 --> 00:59:00,600 So we are the agent wherever we find ourselves to bring God into reality in the natural. 710 00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:06,120 So anything that will slow your pace, the devil is very good with a Christian. 711 00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:10,360 If you can be born again and be in the church and not do anything, the devil is okay. 712 00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:15,600 At least you go to heaven, but you don't get a lot of people to go. 713 00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:24,200 It is only when you begin to be a voice for God, it is only when you begin to burn for 714 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:25,200 God. 715 00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:30,760 It is only when you start to become serious with God that you begin to get all kinds of 716 00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:31,760 attacks. 717 00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:39,520 The love Christian, the devil doesn't even know the exist. 718 00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:49,080 He's not, he's, he's not bothered about them until they begin to rise. 719 00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:50,080 Until they begin to rise. 720 00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:54,320 I mean, which people do you hear their names in the news? 721 00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:58,920 You think there are people going here, this pastor has that, or somebody's bashing pastors. 722 00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:02,080 You think they have time for Christians who don't go to church? 723 01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:05,800 No, that's not a problem. 724 01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:09,600 It's not a problem at all. 725 01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:10,600 Hallelujah. 726 01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:14,120 So the whole battle with the devil, we are casting out demon, we are healing the sick 727 01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:15,120 and all of that. 728 01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:20,280 All of that, the grand picture is a sum pharaoh. 729 01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:26,920 It is the sum, the sum, you know, the sum is come together, you know, like when we say 730 01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:28,720 the sum of all things. 731 01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,200 All right. 732 01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:36,100 So, and then the pharaoh then will begin to, it will be like your contribution. 733 01:00:36,100 --> 01:00:39,040 So it's a coming together to contribute. 734 01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:40,040 Hallelujah. 735 01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,880 Praise the name of the Lord. 736 01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:54,440 Now it means that when a Christian also desists, becomes sluggish, like a dastika, with the, 737 01:00:54,440 --> 01:01:00,960 I mean, like a dastika to discovering the particular gift that he has to begin to manifest, 738 01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:06,800 the person is also slowing the work of God. 739 01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:14,600 In the first state, for example, I tell you that maybe we are going to have a spiritual 740 01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:25,440 gift conference and you don't come, you will not be able to know what you have to be able 741 01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:26,440 to work. 742 01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,400 So then we can say, all right, you stay home, relax. 743 01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:31,400 It's not time yet. 744 01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:32,400 You are not grown yet. 745 01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:33,400 When you grow. 746 01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,960 You know what it means? 747 01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,640 Let me tell you something. 748 01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:42,400 So there's a brother, Martin. 749 01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:52,320 So Martin prayed for somebody on campus and then the person's life got changed. 750 01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:57,000 The mother went to visit the child and the child was talking Christian. 751 01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:00,960 Now, let me see what's happened to you. 752 01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:05,160 So when we came there, the senior you gave to me, he was not correct. 753 01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:07,160 So I got a new school father. 754 01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:08,160 His name is called Spider. 755 01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:13,160 Say, ah, Spider, say, I said, that's what they call him on campus. 756 01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:16,360 So for Spider. 757 01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:21,360 So the woman said, then go and call him. 758 01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:27,720 When the child left, the woman said she turned and some people had group and we're talking 759 01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:28,720 about Spider. 760 01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:34,600 They were talking about him in a positive sense. 761 01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:36,920 And the woman said, she began to bless God. 762 01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:41,240 I thank God that my son came to meet somebody. 763 01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:43,160 I'm talking about Martin. 764 01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:49,600 Now, so when Martin came, Martin started talking to the woman. 765 01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:50,600 What does Martin know? 766 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:54,520 Martin started talking to the woman. 767 01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:58,920 Then the woman said, I am sick. 768 01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,640 I've been sick for two years. 769 01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:05,480 Then the woman started explaining the sickness. 770 01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:06,960 That's what my pastor can help you. 771 01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:11,560 I said, really say yes, but please, my pastor is a young guy. 772 01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:18,360 If you are going to inspecting oil, he just, he gave her the disclaimers. 773 01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:19,360 Don't go with oil. 774 01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:20,360 You get angry. 775 01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:21,360 Don't go with this. 776 01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:22,360 Don't go there. 777 01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:29,360 The woman and the husband drove all the way from Massamanca to come and see him in the 778 01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:30,360 house. 779 01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:39,520 So through Spider, the son got saved. 780 01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,360 The woman is saved. 781 01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:50,520 The husband is saved and it will go on and go on and go on. 782 01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:56,440 It is very important that, listen, we come to a point in our lives where it's not just 783 01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:57,840 about the excitement. 784 01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:03,200 We should know that we belong to an agenda. 785 01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:04,200 We belong to something. 786 01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:06,800 See, that's what I mean. 787 01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,400 Sometimes I fight some of you. 788 01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:15,400 I was telling Okwampah the last time, your house is here. 789 01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:16,720 Okwampah's house. 790 01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:19,720 Three minutes walk, he's in church. 791 01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:20,720 Three minutes. 792 01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:28,240 Pastor Margris comes all the way from Achi Kope. 793 01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:31,400 She works like two hours to get to church. 794 01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:36,560 Yet she will get to church and somebody like Okwampah is not in church yet. 795 01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:39,320 He may not even come. 796 01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:40,320 And he's home. 797 01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:41,320 Why? 798 01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:42,320 Grandma says that. 799 01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:47,320 You were born away in 2005. 800 01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:49,920 Prophecy. 801 01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:59,840 So 2005, you'll be like 18 years or so. 802 01:04:59,840 --> 01:05:01,640 I'm just imagining myself at the age of 18. 803 01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:04,640 Grandma says I can't go to church. 804 01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:06,720 At that same age, I was not living with grandma. 805 01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:15,480 I was living with able-bodied, strong, energetic brother who can beat the hell out of you. 806 01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:19,240 I broke every protocol. 807 01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:22,240 You see, my involvement is not about me. 808 01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:26,080 No, no, it's not about me. 809 01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:30,040 I contribute to the work of God. 810 01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:34,800 My gifts are to contribute to the work of God. 811 01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:43,160 So it means that every Christian should be eager to know the way he's been enabled to 812 01:05:43,160 --> 01:05:45,840 contribute to the work of God. 813 01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:46,840 Hallelujah. 814 01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:51,000 Yeah, everybody, you should know. 815 01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:56,000 So whether it's prophecy, the Bible says let us prophesy. 816 01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:58,000 Whether it's in giving, let's give. 817 01:05:58,000 --> 01:05:59,600 Whether it is hospitality. 818 01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:06,160 So whatever area that you have been endowed by the spirit to serve, serve, because listen, 819 01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:11,040 you may be serving in a small church, maybe a small church like this. 820 01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:15,560 But it is a contribution to the body agenda. 821 01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:19,760 It's a contribution to the body agenda. 822 01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:26,880 See, don't have in your mind that you are developing your ministry. 823 01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:27,880 You don't have. 824 01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:36,120 I'm talking about even in the church, like you say, I'm developing my gifts. 825 01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:42,640 You don't take the mind out. 826 01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:49,600 Is to come to contribute to help with what we are doing. 827 01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:58,400 It means that if you are a Christian and all the things that necessitate and facilitates 828 01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:04,960 our doing of the work, you exempt yourself from it, then it means that you are not becoming 829 01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:09,080 profitable in the house of God. 830 01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,640 A lot of people think Christianity is just about going to church. 831 01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:12,640 All right. 832 01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:13,640 Oh, I go to church. 833 01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,640 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 834 01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:24,800 Going to church is very important, but then it is more important when you are working 835 01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:26,960 in church. 836 01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,960 So don't just go to church, work in church. 837 01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:30,960 Yeah. 838 01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,400 Praise the Lord. 839 01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:37,360 You see, and then you're going to see it as a privilege. 840 01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:43,240 You're going to see it as an honor to work at church because you see, you are specially 841 01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:50,720 endowed by the spirit to be, I mean, in the, I was explaining something in the, how do 842 01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:51,720 you call it? 843 01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:59,440 Um, the didasko video that he says that, and I will, I will dwell in them and I walk in 844 01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:00,440 them. 845 01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:01,440 I will advance myself in them. 846 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:04,760 God says he will advance himself in us. 847 01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:08,360 How is he going to do that? 848 01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:13,040 By the special endowment of the spirit and we acting on it. 849 01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:14,040 Hallelujah. 850 01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:15,040 Come on. 851 01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,720 Praise the name of the Lord. 852 01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:26,800 So the, to minister in the gift of the spirit is for the ultimate good of what God seeks 853 01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:32,320 to do on the earth. 854 01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:35,560 Say I belong to the Lord. 855 01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:42,640 So remember what I told you all night, when somebody receives the spirit, the person will 856 01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:45,080 say, I am the Lord's. 857 01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:49,380 It means that I'm going to live for the Lord. 858 01:08:49,380 --> 01:08:50,720 You can't receive the spirit. 859 01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:58,000 You can't have the spirit and believe in your personal life. 860 01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,040 Write it down. 861 01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:07,640 You cannot receive the spirit and have your personal life. 862 01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:12,800 Praise the name of the Lord. 863 01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:15,580 Whoa, glory. 864 01:09:15,580 --> 01:09:23,320 So what you have received is for the benefit of what God is doing. 865 01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:27,800 Now, let me come back to what I said. 866 01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:36,440 So the body of Christ is the coming together of people who are referred or who have gifts, 867 01:09:36,440 --> 01:09:40,480 operations and add restrictions. 868 01:09:40,480 --> 01:09:44,200 So it means that the body of Christ is a functional body. 869 01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:49,080 You see, Peter says something, 1 Peter 2.5, he says that, 1 Peter 2.5, it calls us living 870 01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:51,680 stones. 871 01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:59,760 It's a building, but every block, every sand is alive. 872 01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:02,480 So it's a building, but everybody is alive. 873 01:10:02,480 --> 01:10:03,480 Think about it. 874 01:10:03,480 --> 01:10:12,480 I mean, like a building like this and every stone, every block in the church is alive. 875 01:10:12,480 --> 01:10:15,120 They don't just exist. 876 01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:16,120 They live. 877 01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:17,120 Hallelujah. 878 01:10:17,120 --> 01:10:20,120 Say, I don't just exist. 879 01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:24,600 Come on, say, I don't just exist. 880 01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:25,600 I am alive. 881 01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:26,600 Come on, say it again. 882 01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:29,800 Say, I don't just exist. 883 01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,800 I am alive. 884 01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:35,920 Yes. 885 01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:43,720 So the body, the diversified operations and giftings and all of that is for the ultimate 886 01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:44,720 good. 887 01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:51,040 Now, remember, the Bible says, but unto every man. 888 01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:58,120 It says the manifestation of the spirit is giving unto every man. 889 01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:04,760 Now, every man is in the context of Christians. 890 01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:10,240 So the manifestation, so there's nothing like a Christian who has nothing. 891 01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:17,640 The moment you get born again, you got something. 892 01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:24,160 Unto every man, to the, my friend, is giving unto every man to contribute to the work. 893 01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:25,160 Hallelujah. 894 01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,160 I said, hallelujah. 895 01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:30,980 Come on, praise the Lord. 896 01:11:30,980 --> 01:11:38,880 So God has given you something that you can use or he's giving you something that enables 897 01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:46,160 you to, it means, let's say, you cannot contribute to the work of God just by wanting to contribute. 898 01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:51,200 You cannot be there and say, I want to contribute. 899 01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:53,720 You need a license. 900 01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,400 And that license is the spirit. 901 01:11:57,400 --> 01:11:58,640 Hallelujah. 902 01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:01,920 So I contribute. 903 01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:04,040 Call like you mean say I contribute. 904 01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:05,040 One more time. 905 01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:06,040 Say I contribute. 906 01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:09,480 I contribute to the work of God. 907 01:12:09,480 --> 01:12:13,240 Now let's get in there again. 908 01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:19,960 I'm not doing anything in specific, just giving you an intro. 909 01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:27,400 Now, then is, is let's, let's go to verse 27. 910 01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:29,360 Hallelujah. 911 01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:56,520 Now, ye are members, ye are the body of the Christ that is the fullness of the God. 912 01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:59,960 You are the body of Christ. 913 01:12:59,960 --> 01:13:02,480 All right. 914 01:13:02,480 --> 01:13:12,560 And members in particular. 915 01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:22,240 So you are the body of Christ, but in particular, you are functional parts. 916 01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:31,000 So let's see when the different parts comes together, when it's assembled together, what 917 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:35,760 you have is called Christ. 918 01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:48,880 So Christ is the coming together of the church. 919 01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:52,760 Let's make sense of what I said now. 920 01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:59,760 So in Christ dwells all the fullness of Godhead body. 921 01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:04,640 What does it mean to dwell? 922 01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,760 To what? 923 01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:13,160 To permanently remain to influence. 924 01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:23,880 So in Christ dwells permanently remains and influence that permanently remain and have 925 01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:28,000 influence, the fullness of the Godhead. 926 01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:39,040 And we are the body of Christ. 927 01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:45,320 So listen, when we come together as a church, we come together. 928 01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:51,520 So the church, you plus you plus you plus you plus you, when we all gather together, 929 01:14:51,520 --> 01:15:00,240 it is equal to the fullness of the Godhead in abiding. 930 01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:11,200 So it's like when we come together, you see the fullness of the Godhead. 931 01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:18,120 So then it says, but you are members in particular. 932 01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:19,840 You are members. 933 01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:22,760 You are vital parts. 934 01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:27,520 You are functional parts. 935 01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:29,040 Then he makes a very serious statement. 936 01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:38,360 He says that we must not give honor to the bodies that are allowed. 937 01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:49,700 The bodies that we bestow a lot of honor and forget the comely part, the small parts. 938 01:15:49,700 --> 01:15:57,800 So use a human body that are when, when you're, when you have a problem with your fingernails 939 01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:04,720 or maybe one of your fingers is an issue, but it's not really an issue. 940 01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:06,200 All right. 941 01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:12,840 But when your two hands are chopped off, everybody will now say, Oh, oh, they said, no, don't 942 01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:17,880 do like that in the body of Christ is not like that in the body of Christ. 943 01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:29,880 When a finger is cut off, it affects the whole body. 944 01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:30,880 He's not talking about unity. 945 01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:31,880 It's not unity. 946 01:16:31,880 --> 01:16:36,400 He's talking about. 947 01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:45,880 He's talking about functionalities that if we are in a church and somebody saying, I 948 01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:49,680 need time for this, somebody say, Oh, I am not the pastor. 949 01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,680 Is this, it affects the body. 950 01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:59,800 Give a typical example. 951 01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:04,480 You would think that, Oh, you have the liberty to sleep today and not come to church because 952 01:17:04,480 --> 01:17:10,320 really you are not, you are not the pastor. 953 01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:12,920 He says you are a trouble. 954 01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:21,480 You can say, Oh, I'll not go to church because today I'm not the one who is doing worship. 955 01:17:21,480 --> 01:17:22,480 Do you understand that? 956 01:17:22,480 --> 01:17:23,480 Oh, I'll not go to church. 957 01:17:23,480 --> 01:17:27,480 Oh, my young comrade, because I'm sorry. 958 01:17:27,480 --> 01:17:32,320 Then he says, no, no. 959 01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:40,640 The parts that even we don't put a lot of respect on in the church, he says, God has 960 01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:45,560 put a lot of honor on that part. 961 01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:55,340 So even if your job is just to come and sit down, serve God by sitting down well. 962 01:17:55,340 --> 01:18:00,560 You don't need to be anything that I mean, I come in to stand here and doing all kinds 963 01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:03,640 of things like I'm doing. 964 01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:08,880 No, let's, let's read that. 965 01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:10,880 Are you enjoying this thing? 966 01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:11,880 I can't hear your voice. 967 01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:12,880 Are you enjoying this thing? 968 01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:13,880 Some of you are not talking. 969 01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:16,880 Are you enjoying this thing? 970 01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:18,680 Okay. 971 01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:36,080 Let's go to verse 22. 972 01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:47,120 In fact, some of the part that seems weakest and least important are really the most necessary 973 01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:49,120 from the NLT. 974 01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:51,240 Hallelujah. 975 01:18:51,240 --> 01:18:57,340 And the part we regard as less honorable are those we clothe with the greatest care. 976 01:18:57,340 --> 01:19:03,880 So we carefully protect from the eyes of others, those parts that should not be seen. 977 01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:09,080 Oh my goodness, I need to have pastors to tell them this particular verse. 978 01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:11,680 There's no for you now. 979 01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:14,740 While other part do not require this special care. 980 01:19:14,740 --> 01:19:19,320 So God has put the body together in such a way that extra honor and care are given to 981 01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:22,160 those parts that have less dignity. 982 01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:26,440 This makes for harmony among the members so that all the members care for each other equally. 983 01:19:26,440 --> 01:19:29,360 If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it. 984 01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:33,040 And if one part is honored, all the parts are honored with it. 985 01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:39,160 Now all of you together are Christ's body and each one of you is a separate and necessary 986 01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:45,280 part of it. 987 01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:52,720 Everyone of us is a separate and necessary part of the body of Christ. 988 01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:54,360 Praise the name of the Lord. 989 01:19:54,360 --> 01:20:00,200 So you are going to make use of the gift of the endowment of the spirit that you have. 990 01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:01,720 Hallelujah. 991 01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:03,920 Come on, praise the name of the Lord. 992 01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:08,320 See there are people they don't regard their gifts. 993 01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:13,320 They don't regard whatever blessing God has on them. 994 01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:15,480 They can close it anytime they want. 995 01:20:15,480 --> 01:20:17,480 They can forget it anytime they want. 996 01:20:17,480 --> 01:20:20,280 They can abandon it anytime they want. 997 01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:24,920 Because you see, they feel like, oh, I'm not the pastor. 998 01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:32,960 There's something I told one of the pastors one time, we're talking about something and 999 01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:40,040 then he said, you are, we met in a car and we're talking and say, oh no, you are, as 1000 01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:43,720 for you, you are the vision bearer. 1001 01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:47,240 That's why you are the vision bearer. 1002 01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:48,240 So you can't do this. 1003 01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:49,240 And I said, okay. 1004 01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:50,240 So what are you? 1005 01:20:50,240 --> 01:21:01,440 So as far as we are helping the vision, I said, that's where the problem is. 1006 01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:05,680 Because in your mind, thank you for the opportunity. 1007 01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:07,320 Thank you, sir, for teaching me. 1008 01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:09,800 I love you, sir, with all of my heart. 1009 01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:13,680 Means that you are talking to a vision bearer. 1010 01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:16,680 So what are you bearing? 1011 01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:19,960 Oil. 1012 01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:24,160 That is wrong. 1013 01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:26,480 We can't go and tell God that God, you are the vision bearer. 1014 01:21:26,480 --> 01:21:29,120 We are the vision bears. 1015 01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:32,480 You caught the vision and we bear the vision with you. 1016 01:21:32,480 --> 01:21:36,400 So I was, we are co-libs together with God. 1017 01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:37,600 We are not sub-libs. 1018 01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:38,600 We are co-libs. 1019 01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:39,600 Come on. 1020 01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:42,600 Bible didn't say we are sub-libs. 1021 01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:43,600 We are co-libs. 1022 01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:45,080 You have to feel my pain. 1023 01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:48,080 I have to feel your pain. 1024 01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:54,640 I should not work more than you. 1025 01:21:54,640 --> 01:21:55,640 The hard things are not for me. 1026 01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:56,640 It's for all of us. 1027 01:21:56,640 --> 01:22:07,640 Imagine if I am there and I say I am not today. 1028 01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:17,040 Because when I woke up, you know, the mountain of Jerusalem had fallen on me. 1029 01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:20,720 I just knew today the mountain has come. 1030 01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:25,600 But you know, you would expect me to come. 1031 01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:26,600 Why? 1032 01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:29,600 Because I am the vision bearer. 1033 01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:32,600 I should come and preach. 1034 01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:36,680 Because when I caught the vision, you were not there. 1035 01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:37,680 No. 1036 01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:43,640 If you are a member of this church and you behave like that, that oh you are not the 1037 01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:47,960 pastor, you are not this, so you can become this, it means that you don't even have any 1038 01:22:47,960 --> 01:22:50,960 focus to be a pastor. 1039 01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:55,600 Because if you really want to, then you have to know when the person is tired, he is coming. 1040 01:22:55,600 --> 01:22:56,600 When he doesn't want to come, he is coming. 1041 01:22:56,600 --> 01:22:59,600 And you are learning for your whole pastoral experience. 1042 01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:04,840 So we had a program last week, so everybody sleep. 1043 01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:07,800 We'll come back to church next week. 1044 01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:08,800 We are all meeting online. 1045 01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:11,800 And then we all meet online. 1046 01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:16,800 Then you are praying three minutes at 21, 22, 23, 24. 1047 01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:19,800 Then you go and do other things. 1048 01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:20,800 No. 1049 01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:21,800 No. 1050 01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:24,800 I read about Jesus yesterday. 1051 01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:32,800 And I think in Mark 1.35, 34 says that he had healed a lot of people, prayed for them, 1052 01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:33,800 healed their sicknesses. 1053 01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:37,560 And then right after that, he went to pray. 1054 01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:41,080 When he went to pray, I don't know. 1055 01:23:41,080 --> 01:23:43,400 He prayed through the night to dawn. 1056 01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:45,800 Then the people came looking for him. 1057 01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:46,800 Where have you been? 1058 01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:47,800 All men are seeking you. 1059 01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:50,800 I said, ah, Jesus, after healing service, go and rest. 1060 01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:53,800 After healing service, he went to pray. 1061 01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:57,680 After the prayer, he came to meet those who are looking for him. 1062 01:23:57,680 --> 01:23:58,680 Heal them again. 1063 01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:01,680 I said, boss, you took this work too personal. 1064 01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:02,680 Too personal. 1065 01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:09,200 And the people Jesus healed were many than what we had here in New York conversion. 1066 01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:13,880 He healed like 200, 300 people. 1067 01:24:13,880 --> 01:24:19,200 Out, out, out, out, out, out, out. 1068 01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:22,080 My head, my head. 1069 01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:23,560 Every part is healing me. 1070 01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:25,160 We go, oh, out. 1071 01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:27,640 You know, you throw your hands like this. 1072 01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:29,880 That time you will not see. 1073 01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:32,680 There's a moment that is called the anointing is lifted. 1074 01:24:32,680 --> 01:24:39,040 That's how you feel it. 1075 01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:43,920 It's like all the sicknesses you healed and the demons you casted, now they have come 1076 01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:44,920 to be on you. 1077 01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:45,920 That's why people have spiritual attack. 1078 01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:46,920 I understand now. 1079 01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:47,920 Very important. 1080 01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:52,920 So you don't behave like, oh, I am not important. 1081 01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:53,920 No. 1082 01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:57,280 Oh, me, when I go to church, I don't go. 1083 01:24:57,280 --> 01:24:59,280 It's not really anything like that. 1084 01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:02,120 Oh, when I joined the evangelist, I don't join. 1085 01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:03,120 I don't preach like that. 1086 01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:07,920 So there's no any, oh, if I don't go, it will not be anything. 1087 01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:09,880 It will not be anything. 1088 01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:13,120 It means that the problem is not because you are tired or the problem is not because you 1089 01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:14,120 don't want to go. 1090 01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:15,120 No. 1091 01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:16,120 The problem is simple. 1092 01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:21,640 You are not seeing that it's a necessity that is laid on you. 1093 01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:26,480 Right now, Pasalina will never say that you will not go to a parical. 1094 01:25:26,480 --> 01:25:30,920 We are, we are sharing groups from next week. 1095 01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:31,920 Nobody will be going there again. 1096 01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:36,760 I mean, we'll go in batches, but she will be going. 1097 01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:39,680 Right now she'll be under compulsion to be there. 1098 01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:42,480 She will move from the state of my leg is paining me. 1099 01:25:42,480 --> 01:25:45,720 Me 90 mean to me. 1100 01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:46,720 Right now you're a vision bearer. 1101 01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:47,720 Parical vision bearer. 1102 01:25:47,720 --> 01:26:00,960 All of us here that we are sleeping today, like Miriam, if I make Miriam a pastor, case 1103 01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:02,960 close, she will go. 1104 01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:04,280 She will not be there. 1105 01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:05,640 She feels like I don't have money. 1106 01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:09,400 She will, the money is in the calling. 1107 01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:13,400 That's how she will know it. 1108 01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:14,680 It's very critical. 1109 01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:22,600 So today is that the balance, if you hear his voice today, have they not your heart? 1110 01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:30,600 There is no other, you see, the only way to be a Christian is to work for God. 1111 01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:33,160 The only way to live as a Christian is to work for God. 1112 01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:39,600 In fact, to be actively involved with what God is doing. 1113 01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:40,600 Who is a Christian? 1114 01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:46,320 A Christian is one that is supposed to be actively involved with what God is doing. 1115 01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:57,640 It means that daily our lives must be a channel for the contribution to help the work of God. 1116 01:26:57,640 --> 01:26:58,640 Praise the name of the Lord. 1117 01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:01,640 See, what we'll talk about a powerful church. 1118 01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:04,400 We'll talk about a powerful local church. 1119 01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:07,560 Like I said, these churches are very powerful. 1120 01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:11,640 It's not the man of God. 1121 01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:13,160 I'm not a powerful man of God. 1122 01:27:13,160 --> 01:27:14,160 We are a powerful church. 1123 01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:15,160 Hallelujah. 1124 01:27:15,160 --> 01:27:16,160 Can I say that again? 1125 01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:21,680 We are not a powerful, we don't have a powerful man of God. 1126 01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:33,360 Our powerful, our prophet, our life coach, our mentor, our papa. 1127 01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:36,960 You know, like the guys called Ezra, Papa Ezra. 1128 01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:37,960 Our papa. 1129 01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:48,040 I want to give our minister, minister higher life, our prophet. 1130 01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:51,040 My life, my everything, my joy. 1131 01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:52,040 The man of God is my everything. 1132 01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:57,800 See, most of the times I'm very careful when people are saying my everything. 1133 01:27:57,800 --> 01:27:58,800 I can't be your everything. 1134 01:27:58,800 --> 01:27:59,800 I can't be your husband. 1135 01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:00,800 I can't be your wife. 1136 01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:01,800 I can't be your anything. 1137 01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:07,480 By me, I understand the context. 1138 01:28:07,480 --> 01:28:08,800 But what is a powerful church? 1139 01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:10,480 What's a powerful local church? 1140 01:28:10,480 --> 01:28:19,760 A powerful local church is where everybody is serving God. 1141 01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:26,440 A powerless church is a church where the bedding of ministry is on the pastor and the leaders. 1142 01:28:26,440 --> 01:28:29,440 That church is a very crazy church. 1143 01:28:29,440 --> 01:28:32,280 Somebody is a doctor, so he's busy, he can't come to church. 1144 01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:35,520 Somebody is an IT software engineer, he cannot come to church. 1145 01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:41,160 Another person is a, what? 1146 01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:47,440 So all of them business people, when they meet together, big boys are in church. 1147 01:28:47,440 --> 01:28:51,760 Last week we had a meeting with the president. 1148 01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:56,480 When they are about to finish their lives, then it's like that. 1149 01:28:56,480 --> 01:29:01,040 So they go up and they meet to Ben. 1150 01:29:01,040 --> 01:29:03,720 We were having a meeting with the president last night. 1151 01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:17,080 So far I'm on the microphone and we're talking about the economy. 1152 01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:20,360 That's how they behave. 1153 01:29:20,360 --> 01:29:22,600 The church is full of business people. 1154 01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:36,440 When you enter the church, glamour, screens everywhere, sound, light, you enter the church 1155 01:29:36,440 --> 01:29:44,440 and say, ah, you go and say, am I in Ghana? 1156 01:29:44,440 --> 01:29:47,440 Sensible air condition. 1157 01:29:47,440 --> 01:29:48,440 Yeah. 1158 01:29:48,440 --> 01:29:56,680 That's when the air condition, they blow, ah, then they start blowing heat. 1159 01:29:56,680 --> 01:29:58,680 Then now they cool again. 1160 01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:01,680 Sensible one. 1161 01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:03,680 Ambience. 1162 01:30:03,680 --> 01:30:11,360 Then you look at the dresses of the people. 1163 01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:14,000 They are tired. 1164 01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:20,200 Solomon was that kind of pastor. 1165 01:30:20,200 --> 01:30:30,440 He saw beauty, excellence, gold caps, gold attire, gold this, gold that. 1166 01:30:30,440 --> 01:30:34,560 But Solomon was building shrines. 1167 01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:38,440 So it's not every ambience that is from God. 1168 01:30:38,440 --> 01:30:39,440 All right. 1169 01:30:39,440 --> 01:30:43,080 So you go to that church and everybody is rich. 1170 01:30:43,080 --> 01:30:49,000 The smallest car you can find there is a Bentley. 1171 01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:54,400 You see make all this. 1172 01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:57,720 A church that does not just have only car park. 1173 01:30:57,720 --> 01:31:00,720 They have helicopter park. 1174 01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:03,720 Okay. 1175 01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:10,080 This guy's not born again. 1176 01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:19,120 When people come to church in helicopter. 1177 01:31:19,120 --> 01:31:21,480 You have about 70 people in the church. 1178 01:31:21,480 --> 01:31:25,080 Everybody has a private jet. 1179 01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:31,600 Yet they don't, they don't even remember the last time they had an outreach crusade. 1180 01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:37,360 If the pastor want to call for 3 million Ghana cities in less than five minutes, the money 1181 01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:38,360 is settled. 1182 01:31:38,360 --> 01:31:40,760 Yet they don't even remember. 1183 01:31:40,760 --> 01:31:44,880 They don't go for outreach because when the pastor makes a mistake of saying that we are 1184 01:31:44,880 --> 01:31:48,360 going to have a crusade, nobody will come. 1185 01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:52,600 Nobody can come. 1186 01:31:52,600 --> 01:31:55,780 The members of the church, they don't know anything about laying hands on the sick. 1187 01:31:55,780 --> 01:31:57,880 They don't know anything about casting out demons. 1188 01:31:57,880 --> 01:31:58,880 They don't know anything. 1189 01:31:58,880 --> 01:32:05,040 All that we know is from one business to the other, from one project to the other. 1190 01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:08,960 Today this one is building school, tomorrow another building hospital, after building 1191 01:32:08,960 --> 01:32:12,600 hospital they are building mortuaries, private mortuaries. 1192 01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:16,840 You could see that money is frustrated in their hands. 1193 01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:22,600 They are building businesses, accumulation of a lot of money in their bank account, they 1194 01:32:22,600 --> 01:32:25,800 are resting and all of that. 1195 01:32:25,800 --> 01:32:28,760 Yet you go to the church and there's no life. 1196 01:32:28,760 --> 01:32:30,760 That's not a powerful church. 1197 01:32:30,760 --> 01:32:39,080 And like I always tell God, I would prefer a church with rubbish sound with men on fire 1198 01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:43,360 than a church with exquisite ambience. 1199 01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:45,560 It doesn't mean that I like this. 1200 01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:46,560 No. 1201 01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:51,520 If we continue to be on fire and you have the sound and everything, it's, you know, 1202 01:32:51,520 --> 01:32:55,040 it boosts your immune system as a church. 1203 01:32:55,040 --> 01:33:00,720 Yeah, but if it will be a church, no fire. 1204 01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:03,400 One is busy with work. 1205 01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:06,960 This one is here, this one is there, this one we meet together is a big man talk. 1206 01:33:06,960 --> 01:33:10,160 We're talking about contract. 1207 01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:11,160 Church. 1208 01:33:11,160 --> 01:33:14,200 You can be the next billionaire. 1209 01:33:14,200 --> 01:33:17,120 You can be the next, what's that? 1210 01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:18,120 No. 1211 01:33:18,120 --> 01:33:19,120 Hallelujah. 1212 01:33:19,120 --> 01:33:28,000 A powerful church is the church where its members are busy working, contributing to 1213 01:33:28,000 --> 01:33:29,000 the work of God. 1214 01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:32,000 Not just the money, their lives included. 1215 01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:33,000 I'm finished. 1216 01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:36,000 Let's go to Ephesians chapter four. 1217 01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:45,000 Although we didn't shout, did you enjoy church? 1218 01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:50,040 All right. 1219 01:33:50,040 --> 01:33:56,400 Let's begin from verse 11. 1220 01:33:56,400 --> 01:34:07,400 From the NLT. 1221 01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:12,600 He is the one who gave these gifts to the church. 1222 01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:21,680 The apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers. 1223 01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:30,920 Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the 1224 01:34:30,920 --> 01:34:31,920 body of Christ. 1225 01:34:31,920 --> 01:34:36,480 Let me read that again. 1226 01:34:36,480 --> 01:34:46,520 Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the 1227 01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:47,520 body of Christ. 1228 01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:50,520 Are you following this everybody? 1229 01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:52,000 No. 1230 01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:55,960 What is my responsibility in your life? 1231 01:34:55,960 --> 01:34:58,480 Come on number one. 1232 01:34:58,480 --> 01:34:59,480 And then what? 1233 01:34:59,480 --> 01:35:06,500 Okay, let me read it for me. 1234 01:35:06,500 --> 01:35:10,480 To equip God's people to do his work. 1235 01:35:10,480 --> 01:35:13,120 So don't just say to equip you. 1236 01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:16,200 I can equip you to do something else. 1237 01:35:16,200 --> 01:35:20,920 But my equipping of you should simply be to do God's work. 1238 01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:27,540 That's my simplest assignment. 1239 01:35:27,540 --> 01:35:31,320 My assignment is not to equip you to marry. 1240 01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:34,120 My assignment is not to equip you to pass your exam. 1241 01:35:34,120 --> 01:35:40,400 I know it doesn't sound good. 1242 01:35:40,400 --> 01:35:44,680 I can, if I know something about the business or I can tell you. 1243 01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:47,840 But that's not my work. 1244 01:35:47,840 --> 01:35:48,840 Praise the name of the Lord. 1245 01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:54,920 See, God is not going to judge me by how many poor people are in my church or how many rich 1246 01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:55,920 people are in my church. 1247 01:35:55,920 --> 01:35:59,680 That is none of my business. 1248 01:35:59,680 --> 01:36:02,480 God is simply going to say, let me see your people. 1249 01:36:02,480 --> 01:36:04,960 Did they do my work? 1250 01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:07,120 Were they equipped to do my work? 1251 01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:08,120 Hallelujah. 1252 01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:12,080 Come on, praise the name of the Lord. 1253 01:36:12,080 --> 01:36:18,160 So the work of the pastor, prophet, teacher, evangelist, what again? 1254 01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:22,560 Pastor, prophet, teacher, evangelist, and what? 1255 01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:30,780 Apostles is to equip the people of God to do the work of God. 1256 01:36:30,780 --> 01:36:37,680 So it's either I am not equipping you or you are not allowing yourself to be equipped. 1257 01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:47,280 Now let's continue and build up the church, the body of Christ until we come to such unity 1258 01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:51,880 in our faith and knowledge of God's son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord 1259 01:36:51,880 --> 01:36:56,280 measuring up to the full state of Christ. 1260 01:36:56,280 --> 01:36:58,520 That's not for today. 1261 01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:03,080 Then we will no longer be like children forever changing our minds about what we believe because 1262 01:37:03,080 --> 01:37:07,640 someone has told us something different or because someone has cleverly lied to us and 1263 01:37:07,640 --> 01:37:12,360 made the lie sound like the truth. 1264 01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:17,640 So there's somebody that can lie to you cleverly and make the lie sound like a truth. 1265 01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:22,120 My way is full of everything. 1266 01:37:22,120 --> 01:37:23,440 Yeah. 1267 01:37:23,440 --> 01:37:27,560 Instead, we will hold the truth in love. 1268 01:37:27,560 --> 01:37:30,280 Man, I wish we had time. 1269 01:37:30,280 --> 01:37:34,560 We will hold the truth in love. 1270 01:37:34,560 --> 01:37:40,640 One of the signs of maturity is sticking to the truth in love. 1271 01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:42,640 All right? 1272 01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:46,840 I found a new church. 1273 01:37:46,840 --> 01:37:51,000 Man of God, your grace is sometimes you do it was when we knew you that you were preaching 1274 01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:52,000 grace. 1275 01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:55,640 Right now your grace, grace is not grace. 1276 01:37:55,640 --> 01:37:56,640 Your grace is balance. 1277 01:37:56,640 --> 01:38:01,280 It's not hyper grace. 1278 01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:03,280 Somebody has lied to you cleverly. 1279 01:38:03,280 --> 01:38:06,200 I don't know what you Jesus again. 1280 01:38:06,200 --> 01:38:07,200 Why? 1281 01:38:07,200 --> 01:38:18,600 I don't think Jesus thing is real. 1282 01:38:18,600 --> 01:38:29,200 Your face like flat bottom flask. 1283 01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:35,520 How many of you know that? 1284 01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:39,760 Instead we'll hold the truth in love becoming more and more in every way like Christ who 1285 01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:47,080 is the head of his body, the church under his direction, the whole body is fitted together 1286 01:38:47,080 --> 01:38:51,720 perfectly as each path does its own special work. 1287 01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:57,840 It helps the other parts to grow so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full 1288 01:38:57,840 --> 01:38:59,360 of love. 1289 01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:02,600 Let me read that portion again. 1290 01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:08,120 Under his direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly as each part does its own 1291 01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:11,600 special work as it to let me read it again. 1292 01:39:11,600 --> 01:39:16,360 Under his direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly full stop as each part 1293 01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:18,960 does its own special work. 1294 01:39:18,960 --> 01:39:24,600 It helps the other parts grow so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full 1295 01:39:24,600 --> 01:39:26,520 of love. 1296 01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:35,560 So a perfect church is a church that the other parts are doing their own special work. 1297 01:39:35,560 --> 01:39:40,720 So it means that if all of us will be serving God, if all of us will be serious with serving 1298 01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:45,280 God, will be serious with the gift of God giving us what is going to happen, we will 1299 01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:47,960 see a powerful church. 1300 01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:53,480 So a powerful church is the church that everybody is doing the work of God. 1301 01:39:53,480 --> 01:39:55,480 Hallelujah. 1302 01:39:55,480 --> 01:40:00,960 Then it means if there's somebody in the church who is not interested, who is indifferent 1303 01:40:00,960 --> 01:40:06,400 or who is not on fire to do the work of God or to work in the ministry, the person is 1304 01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:09,880 causing the body to be sick. 1305 01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:11,880 Hallelujah. 1306 01:40:11,880 --> 01:40:15,760 So I work for God. 1307 01:40:15,760 --> 01:40:16,760 Hallelujah. 1308 01:40:16,760 --> 01:40:21,820 Now, so when we meet again, I'm going to talk to you about how to minister in the gifts 1309 01:40:21,820 --> 01:40:22,860 of the Spirit. 1310 01:40:22,860 --> 01:40:26,400 So the gift of the Spirit, we are not going to talk about the administrations by the Lord. 1311 01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:30,520 We are not going to talk about the oppressions by God the Father, but we're going to talk 1312 01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:32,280 about the gifts of the Spirit. 1313 01:40:32,280 --> 01:40:37,480 Now, so I would want you to go and get the messages that I taught on the gifts of the 1314 01:40:37,480 --> 01:40:39,280 Spirit and listen to them. 1315 01:40:39,280 --> 01:40:43,160 Yeah, we had a series on the gifts of the Spirit so that you know, I'm not going to 1316 01:40:43,160 --> 01:40:48,080 teach you what the gifts are because right now you know how many gifts are there in the 1317 01:40:48,080 --> 01:40:49,440 Spirit. 1318 01:40:49,440 --> 01:40:50,440 How many? 1319 01:40:50,440 --> 01:40:56,320 Number one, working on miracles, blah, blah, blah, right? 1320 01:40:56,320 --> 01:41:01,160 So go and listen to what they mean because I think I explained all of them. 1321 01:41:01,160 --> 01:41:06,280 So it was going to go to the Charisma Iyam, but go and listen to all of them, prophecy, 1322 01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:08,240 all of that. 1323 01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:10,040 You don't have them. 1324 01:41:10,040 --> 01:41:11,040 Yes. 1325 01:41:11,040 --> 01:41:14,600 So get to pastor David and get that message. 1326 01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:20,520 And I'm going to teach you how to minister in the gift. 1327 01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:24,880 Today I just want to let you know how important it is the gifts of the Spirit are. 1328 01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:25,880 Hallelujah. 1329 01:41:25,880 --> 01:41:30,120 They are special endowments, special abilities. 1330 01:41:30,120 --> 01:41:31,840 Hallelujah. 1331 01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:38,880 Giving to us, to help us to be able to fulfill the work of God. 1332 01:41:38,880 --> 01:41:39,880 Hallelujah. 1333 01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:46,040 So every single Christian has the gift of the Spirit. 1334 01:41:46,040 --> 01:41:47,040 There's no Sakura Christian. 1335 01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:48,040 Tell someone there's no Sakura Christian. 1336 01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:54,360 Tell another person there's no Sakura Christian. 1337 01:41:54,360 --> 01:41:56,040 Say you are gifted. 1338 01:41:56,040 --> 01:41:58,200 I am gifted. 1339 01:41:58,200 --> 01:42:00,200 So we do the work of God. 1340 01:42:00,200 --> 01:42:01,200 Hallelujah. 1341 01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:02,200 Let's be outstanding. 1342 01:42:02,200 --> 01:42:30,720 The anointed, the sickened were were以上 진짜 noch guessing 1343 01:42:30,720 --> 01:42:31,720 why. 1344 01:42:31,720 --> 01:42:35,720 In the midst of fire burns 1345 01:42:36,720 --> 01:42:41,720 My heart is cultured to learn 1346 01:42:43,720 --> 01:42:49,720 I have in me the burning fire 1347 01:42:50,720 --> 01:42:55,720 Oh, a sound of cravings 1348 01:42:55,720 --> 01:43:00,720 I have in me the burning fire