1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,200 The Word of God is food for the spirit and health to the body. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:12,200 Through the spirit of revelation, we are guided into the wisdom and deep mysteries in His 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,080 Word that make our lives vibrant and productive. 4 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:19,040 Welcome to the Mercure Focals with Church podcast. 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:24,400 As you're listening, the glory of God will be quickened and activated in your life. 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,040 Now, the Word. 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:31,600 We've been looking at a series connected to the covenant of God. 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:39,960 This morning I want us to meditate upon something that is connected to walking in covenant with 9 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,960 God. 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,320 That is, we were created for His glory. 11 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:53,200 We are fashioned, we are alive today to glorify God. 12 00:00:53,200 --> 00:01:01,760 We are alive, we have a purpose of manifesting the glory of God through our lives. 13 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:07,600 I want us to establish this first of all by looking at a few foundational scriptures in 14 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:08,600 the Bible. 15 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,800 Let's look at Colossians chapter 1 verse 16. 16 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,200 This is by way of introduction. 17 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:22,200 I want to lay foundation to what the Lord has for us this morning. 18 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:33,600 Colossians chapter 1 verse 16 says, For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven 19 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:41,920 and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities 20 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,640 or powers. 21 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:53,080 All things were created by Him and for Him, for Him. 22 00:01:53,080 --> 00:02:01,680 What is important in life is not just for us to seek our happiness, our comfort, and 23 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,280 our well-being. 24 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:08,720 What is foremost is that we glorify Him first. 25 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,800 Our needs come second. 26 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,320 Our comfort, our happiness comes second. 27 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:22,840 The number one thing that we are here for is for Him to manifest His glory. 28 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,260 If you can get that, that is the message for you this morning. 29 00:02:27,260 --> 00:02:31,280 You and I are created for the glory of God. 30 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:40,200 In Colossians chapter 1 verse 37, To whom God would make known, what is the riches of 31 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:50,840 the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 32 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:58,160 God's glory, God's riches of His glory are manifold. 33 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:04,520 We as Christians are a telescope. 34 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:10,280 A telescope does not create what is seen through a telescope. 35 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,560 The telescope manifests what is there. 36 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,420 The telescope magnifies what is there. 37 00:03:19,420 --> 00:03:23,240 With your naked eye, you can't see the galaxy. 38 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:24,240 It is beautiful. 39 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:29,040 They use a telescope called the Hubble Telescope. 40 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:39,240 It is an instrument that NASA, an agency owned by the US that is involved in exploring the 41 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:40,520 space. 42 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:46,760 This powerful telescope looks into the sky and they get those images. 43 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:51,320 Now, you may not see them now, but they're there. 44 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:58,000 But when you use the telescope, you're able to manifest this magnificent world out there. 45 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,080 There are so many stars, so many planets. 46 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,040 Some of the pictures there are awesome. 47 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,600 They're so beautiful. 48 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,640 But you can't see them using your naked eye. 49 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,280 You need a telescope. 50 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,680 That is why we are here on Earth. 51 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:22,780 The God may use us to manifest the riches of His glory. 52 00:04:22,780 --> 00:04:28,920 We are created by Him for Him that God may use your life. 53 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,600 He may use your circumstances. 54 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,760 He may use your enemies. 55 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,800 He may use your challenges. 56 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,640 He may use your needs to manifest His glory. 57 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:45,000 You see, people can't see God unless He's working through you. 58 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,800 That's why the Bible tells us in Philippians chapter 2 that we've been given a name above 59 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,920 every other name. 60 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:57,440 At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow. 61 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:04,800 As a church, we are called to use that name and cause situations to bow. 62 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:10,680 That the riches of the glory of God may be manifest through us. 63 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,480 Hallelujah. 64 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:18,280 Of things in heaven, things in the earth, things under the earth. 65 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:27,440 And that every tongue, hallelujah, every tongue should confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory 66 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,400 of God the Father. 67 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,200 Isn't that wonderful? 68 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:40,200 That God has put you on Earth to use your circumstances, to use your challenges, to 69 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,880 use your life to manifest His glory. 70 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:50,440 He has given you a name when you use that name and you cause every knee to bow. 71 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:56,520 You cause every tongue to confess that Jesus is Lord, riches of His glory are made manifest. 72 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,080 It's like that telescope. 73 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:03,640 People are able to see the power of God, the glory of God. 74 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:09,360 Now let's look at the scriptures and see this in action. 75 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:17,840 In John chapter 9, I want us to read from verse 1 to verse 5. 76 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:21,120 John chapter 9. 77 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:31,640 Okay, the Bible says, John chapter 9 verse 1 says, and as Jesus passed by, he saw a man 78 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,080 which was blind from his birth. 79 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:41,320 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents? 80 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,760 That he was born blind. 81 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:50,840 Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the works of God 82 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:56,840 of the glory of God should be made manifest in him. 83 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:58,380 Hallelujah. 84 00:06:58,380 --> 00:07:01,320 I must work the works of him that set me. 85 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:08,120 For it is day, the night cometh when no man can work. 86 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:16,440 Jesus is walking and as He's walking, He's intrigued by a situation. 87 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:21,880 He fastens his gaze and looks at a man. 88 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,480 He takes interest in this man. 89 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:31,440 And because he's fixated with this man, the disciples look and see what has captured his 90 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,560 interest and they see, oh, they probably knew the beggar. 91 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,840 They probably knew him. 92 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:38,840 And they knew his situation. 93 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,800 They said, Lord, who's sinned, this poor man who's sinned? 94 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,520 Is it this man or his parents? 95 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,740 He was born blind. 96 00:07:47,740 --> 00:07:55,960 It is a terrible, terrible experience to come out from your mother's womb blind. 97 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,960 You've never seen your mother's face. 98 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:00,280 You've never seen your hand. 99 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:01,280 You've never seen your face. 100 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,280 You were born blind. 101 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:07,200 It's a horrible, horrible experience. 102 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:12,540 This man is probably about maybe in his 40s, he's an adult. 103 00:08:12,540 --> 00:08:17,280 Maybe 40s, he's a mature man. 104 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:18,880 But he's blind. 105 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:26,780 And because of his condition, his parents for some time tried to take care of him. 106 00:08:26,780 --> 00:08:28,960 But after a while, they got tired. 107 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,320 They said, no, you go and fend yourself. 108 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,980 We are tired of taking care of you. 109 00:08:34,980 --> 00:08:39,320 So the man began to live on the streets to beg for food. 110 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,600 He became a beggar. 111 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,720 He was disowned by his parents and friends. 112 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:49,880 And Jesus as he walked by, he's so human. 113 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:55,680 And the Cypher says, what is the cause of this situation? 114 00:08:55,680 --> 00:09:01,840 Jesus changed the emphasis from the cause to the purpose of the condition. 115 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:08,880 He said, some things you waste your time to look for the cause. 116 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:15,200 Some situations in your life, you may never know why they are there. 117 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,800 Why you were born in Katanga. 118 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,040 Why you were born blind. 119 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,440 Why you were born crippled. 120 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,800 Why you were born in a poor family. 121 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,280 Why? 122 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:35,620 Sometimes you waste time looking for the reason why. 123 00:09:35,620 --> 00:09:42,700 The better way of approaching these things is look at the purpose. 124 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:49,120 Some things are set up by God to use them to manifest his glory. 125 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,240 As simple as that. 126 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,440 You don't waste time asking questions, but why? 127 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,040 Some of the things we don't know exactly why. 128 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:12,440 But we know in this life, the worse things are, the better for God to manifest his glory. 129 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:23,640 When odds are up against you, when your enemies are more than you can count, when your enemies 130 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:32,760 are stronger than you, when you are at your weakest time, that is the best time for God 131 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,840 to manifest his glory. 132 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,240 He will use your situation. 133 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,720 He will use your condition. 134 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,040 Jesus said, ah, let's not go there. 135 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:54,160 This is an opportunity to manifest the good Lord of God. 136 00:10:54,160 --> 00:11:01,480 There are people here this morning that are battling with situations, and you're fighting 137 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:08,360 enemies that are numerous and strong, and they're giving you sleepless nights. 138 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:09,360 You say, but why? 139 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:10,360 Why is it me? 140 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:15,800 Why is it that I am the one, you know, all the time having to face these things? 141 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:20,040 You may spend all of your life asking the question why. 142 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:26,420 But this morning, change your focus. 143 00:11:26,420 --> 00:11:35,240 Look at it as an opportunity that God will use to manifest his glory through you. 144 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:40,200 Because that is his agenda. 145 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:45,320 We are made by him and for him. 146 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:50,880 The Bible says in Romans that he is the porter with the clay. 147 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:56,320 Romans, Paul says, doesn't the porter have power over the clay? 148 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,080 Of course he does. 149 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,680 The porter can squash the clay in any shape. 150 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:06,560 He can form the clay in any way he wants. 151 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:11,160 Paul says he makes some for honor, some for dishonor. 152 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:12,720 And don't ask why. 153 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,000 The clay can't ask the porter, but why have you made me like this? 154 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,840 You, why have you made me like this? 155 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:24,440 The clay can't ask the owner, the porter those questions. 156 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,280 Because the porter has power over the clay. 157 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,840 And he can do with it whatever he wants. 158 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:38,040 However, whatever he wants, because we're made by him and for him. 159 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:44,120 That is the eternal purpose of God, that he may be glorified in the earth. 160 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,120 Hallelujah. 161 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,840 Oh, I love it. 162 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,440 Let me, let's look at this text a little bit more. 163 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,160 Oh my goodness. 164 00:12:54,160 --> 00:13:07,960 He says, I must walk the walks of him that sent me while it is day. 165 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:14,400 Jesus gives us a wonderful example of a life of a believer. 166 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:21,000 You've been sent to walk the walks of God, that is to manifest the glory of God in your 167 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,000 life. 168 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:31,880 You are sent, you are not here at co-existence, you have a mission, you have a purpose. 169 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:43,600 I have a mission to use my life, use my family, use everything I have for the glory of God. 170 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:51,440 I look at life, I look at opportunities as a way of manifesting the glory of God. 171 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,520 I have realigned my thinking. 172 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:59,440 The car, everything I have, my health must be used for his glory. 173 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,280 I have been sent to do the walks of God. 174 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:09,120 Our walks include manifesting the manifold riches of his glory. 175 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:16,360 We don't live for ourselves, we live to glorify him. 176 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:23,720 You might be here, you're saying, pastor, I want to have a wife, I want to have a husband, 177 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:29,080 yes, but bottom line, why do you want a husband? 178 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,320 Why do you want a wife? 179 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,480 Why do you want to have children? 180 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,260 Why do you want to have a good job? 181 00:14:35,260 --> 00:14:37,760 Bottom line, what is the motive? 182 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,480 I'll tell you what should be. 183 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:44,040 The bottom line should be that God may be glorified. 184 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,240 That is the bottom line. 185 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,560 We must score in that goal post. 186 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:57,200 Everything we do, everything we try to do in this life must score in the goal post of 187 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,040 glorifying God. 188 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:04,440 He says, I have been sent to do the walks of God. 189 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:16,440 Then he says, while it is a day, there is a period given to every man and woman, Jesus 190 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,240 says, I've been given a day. 191 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:26,840 He's describing his life figuratively in a day, in 12 hours. 192 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:32,680 All of us have got a day to manifest the glory of God. 193 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:37,120 You are not here to stay here permanently. 194 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:41,880 Your time has been set by the maker. 195 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,560 You have a day to serve the Lord. 196 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:46,220 You have a day to manifest the glory. 197 00:15:46,220 --> 00:15:49,760 You have a day to do the works of God in this life. 198 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:54,160 Night comes when no one can walk. 199 00:15:54,160 --> 00:16:00,560 There will come a period when your time expires and however much you want, you can't come 200 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:01,560 back. 201 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,120 You can't. 202 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:09,800 But while it is a day, do the works of God. 203 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,200 Manifest glory. 204 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,480 Walk in obedience. 205 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:21,280 Live a life that glorifies God. 206 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:30,200 Whatever you do, the overarching motivation, the overarching factor should be how is God 207 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,680 glorifying this? 208 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:39,440 If I want to become a doctor or a teacher, if I want to become a businessman, why do 209 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,280 I want to become a businessman? 210 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:48,360 I hope from now on the answer will be because I seek to glorify God throughout my career. 211 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,360 It's not that I just become rich and wealthy. 212 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,360 I own houses. 213 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:54,360 I become famous. 214 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:55,360 I become another Sudan. 215 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:56,360 No, no, no, no. 216 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:57,360 That's not why you are mad. 217 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:58,360 You are mad. 218 00:16:58,360 --> 00:16:59,360 You are mad. 219 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:00,360 You are mad. 220 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,200 You are not here for yourself. 221 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,320 You are made by him and for him. 222 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:18,960 For him, Jesus said, this man has been blind for 40 years on purpose that on this day I 223 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,920 will use this situation to manifest the glory of God. 224 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,200 When God gives us a day, we all have a day. 225 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,360 I'm speaking figuratively. 226 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:43,880 Those 12 hours, those 12 hours are enough for you to fulfill all your assignments. 227 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,040 You don't have to live that long. 228 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,160 If God says, yeah, fine. 229 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:57,840 But even if it is 30 years like Jesus or 33 years, whatever day God has given us, you have 230 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:03,520 enough time to fulfill the purpose of God in your life. 231 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:11,960 You've been given enough time to do the works of God in your life. 232 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:16,960 Some of us have been called to work in hospitals. 233 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:22,960 When we're there, we manifest the glory of God through love and mercy. 234 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:28,360 Some of us have been called to serve as under school teachers. 235 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:29,360 That is our calling. 236 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:32,600 We've been sent to do the works of God in our day. 237 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,160 You have a day. 238 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:40,800 Those 12 hours, when there's light, there will come a time when you can't see. 239 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,080 You won't be able to do the works of God. 240 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,080 So don't waste time. 241 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,080 Amen? 242 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,840 Don't waste time. 243 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,120 Serve the Lord. 244 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:53,120 Serve the Lord. 245 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:56,000 You don't have all life, all time, all eternity. 246 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000 No, no, no. 247 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,080 You've been given a day. 248 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:03,200 All of us have a day, a fixed period of 12 hours. 249 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,400 I'm speaking symbolically. 250 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:14,280 Even Jesus, God in the flesh, had only 12 hours to do the works of God. 251 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:15,280 Don't waste time. 252 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:19,000 Get to work. 253 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,920 Wherever God has blessed you, manifest the glory of God. 254 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,480 Be a different person. 255 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,680 Work with integrity. 256 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,040 Work with honesty. 257 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:32,700 Work in holiness. 258 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:38,520 I know you are at the university, and there's a lot of sin there. 259 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,040 A lot of evil goes on there. 260 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:45,520 But choose to be different and manifest the glory of God. 261 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,720 Do the works of God, wherever you are. 262 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,800 You work in URA. 263 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,680 Only collect tax which is mandated. 264 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:55,680 Don't take bribes. 265 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:02,300 Manifest the glory of God in the tax body where you are employed. 266 00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:08,040 You have a day to do the works of God. 267 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:13,400 Praise the Lord. 268 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:19,960 If you have a pen, write this down. 269 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:31,160 God cannot be exceptionally revealed in your life if you only fight ordinary battles, ordinary 270 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:35,560 enemies, and you face ordinary circumstances. 271 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:40,040 Let me say this one more time. 272 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:50,320 God cannot be exceptionally revealed in your life if you only fight ordinary enemies, ordinary 273 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:55,440 battles, and you face ordinary circumstances. 274 00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:00,600 God needs the Pharaoh sometimes to manifest his glory. 275 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:08,220 God needs the Red Sea sometimes to show his glory. 276 00:21:08,220 --> 00:21:14,960 God needs the River Jordan overflowing at the backs. 277 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:22,240 You are forced to cross the river in a rain season. 278 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,560 God needs something formidable to bring out the riches of his glory. 279 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:28,880 He needs the Pharaoh. 280 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:34,880 That's why he made the Pharaoh to show the Egyptians that, I am God. 281 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,120 All those gods you have, they are fake. 282 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:40,440 I am God. 283 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:45,880 The Bible says God judged the gods of Egypt. 284 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:52,880 By the time Moses left Egypt, those gods were in Tartus. 285 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,600 Even Pharaoh, by the time Moses left, died. 286 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,280 He died in the Red Sea. 287 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:03,520 You know that Pharaoh was also a god to the Egyptians. 288 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,820 The Egyptians actually worshiped Pharaoh. 289 00:22:06,820 --> 00:22:16,240 But by the time Israel left Egypt, all those nations of Banang, these people have got a 290 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,120 different god. 291 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:21,520 By the time they came to Jericho, their knees were knocking. 292 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:31,200 They said, how did they cross the Red Sea on foot? 293 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:38,880 God needs sometimes exceptional enemies in your life to reveal his glory. 294 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,680 This man was blind from birth. 295 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:54,800 He's abandoned, his parents became tired of feeding him. 296 00:22:54,800 --> 00:23:01,760 They sent him away from home. 297 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:08,440 And when Jesus is coming, he does not make any effort. 298 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:14,600 Many times when people would hear that Christ is coming, they cry and say, oh son of David, 299 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,560 have mercy on me, son of David. 300 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,080 You know, they will reach out to him for healing. 301 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:30,800 This man just sat there, totally depressed. 302 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,040 He didn't even stop begging. 303 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:37,760 He was quiet. 304 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:47,440 The Forte asked, Forte V, maybe, a line from the day he came from his mother's womb. 305 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:53,520 Sabbath says, but God, who, who, who's sin? 306 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:54,520 This is terrible. 307 00:23:54,520 --> 00:24:00,160 He said, don't waste time with those questions. 308 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:13,840 This is so that I may have an opportunity to reveal the glory of God. 309 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:28,840 In the book of 1 Samuel, chapter 1 verse 6, the Bible speaks about Hannah. 310 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,440 Hannah was a barren. 311 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:39,800 Now you know, I think that if, if it was not for Penina, Hannah would have remained happy 312 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:45,760 and content without having a child. 313 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,880 He would not have been so worked up. 314 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:57,480 But Penina, because the husband loved Hannah. 315 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,600 So Conor loved his, his wife. 316 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:04,000 He loved, he loved, he loved Hannah with or without a child. 317 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:14,520 He loved her and should have been contented living in a home without a child. 318 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:21,280 God raised up an adversary. 319 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,480 God raised up an enemy. 320 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:33,760 It is said in verse 1, chapter 1 verse 6, and her adversary also provoked her so for 321 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:41,240 to make her fret because the Lord had shut up her womb. 322 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:52,720 I told you that sometimes God needs something exceptional to bring out his best again. 323 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,840 Sometimes there's something exceptional to bring out his best again. 324 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:07,160 He said that this adversary provoked her day after day, day after day. 325 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,840 She would have been happy just to be married. 326 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:24,760 But you know, if it was not for Penina, the prophet in our world would not have been born. 327 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:29,520 There was a prophet in our world. 328 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:30,760 Yeah. 329 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:38,780 And God needed someone like Penina to push. 330 00:26:38,780 --> 00:26:41,000 She made our life so miserable. 331 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,600 There was a prophet in our world. 332 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:51,920 That prophet to be born, they had to be an enemy. 333 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:59,400 Sometimes God raises up powerful enemies in your life to bring forth something great in 334 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:06,480 your life, to give birth something you never even expected. 335 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:12,600 Enemy would not have been born if it was not for Penina. 336 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:19,440 Penina was the tool, was the adversary that God used. 337 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:25,160 She would make her life so difficult and make almost trying to tell her, leave the whole 338 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:26,160 goal. 339 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,720 You have no place here. 340 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,640 You have no place. 341 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,440 You don't belong here. 342 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:41,280 So sometimes there is something in your life that needs adverse circumstance. 343 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:49,680 There is something that must come and sit in your life. 344 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:57,480 And as you cry out to God, God moves miraculously and something exceptional is born through 345 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:02,280 you. 346 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,600 Hallelujah. 347 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:12,680 A great prophet was born because there was a great adversary in the life of this woman, 348 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,160 Hannah. 349 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:27,680 Now I want to show you one more text in John chapter 11 verse 7, John 11. 350 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:35,640 It says, then after that say three disciples, let us go into, in fact, let's begin from 351 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:36,640 verse 1. 352 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,760 This is also a very interesting incident. 353 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:46,080 John chapter 11 from verse 1. 354 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:57,840 Now a certain man was sick named Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary, and her sister, 355 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:58,840 Martha. 356 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:06,760 It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, 357 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,280 whose brother Lazarus was sick. 358 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:16,440 Mary's sister sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom the love is sick. 359 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,320 When Jesus heard that, he said, this sickness is not unto death. 360 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:34,200 By the way, understand this, not all sickness will cause you a death, even if it is HIV. 361 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,720 People get healed from HIV. 362 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:45,840 Not all sickness, not all sickness in God's plan for your life can kill you. 363 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:51,000 While others died of COVID, you survived. 364 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:59,280 But hear this, there is a sickness that will take your life. 365 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:05,840 Bible says that Elisha had a sickness that led to his death. 366 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:14,120 After the man who raised the dead, a four miracles, there is a sickness that one day 367 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,040 you and I will take us home. 368 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:24,160 Even if you go to any hospital in the world, you may never get cured. 369 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:31,000 But not every disease, even if it's cancer, can take your life. 370 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,040 There is a particular one in God's time that may take you home. 371 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:42,880 So the Bible says this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the 372 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,360 Son of God might be glorified there by. 373 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:53,920 He was told that Lazarus is sick, very sick. 374 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,960 He did not bother to respond. 375 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:02,640 He could have healed Lazarus from a distance. 376 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,400 He didn't have to come back. 377 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,000 He could have spoken the word where he was and healed him. 378 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,520 He didn't. 379 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,360 He didn't. 380 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:20,960 He spent a few days ignoring the problem. 381 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,680 Then we read in verse 5. 382 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:29,840 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 383 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:35,360 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abhorred two days still in the same place 384 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,840 where he was. 385 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:43,560 And after that, said he to the disciples, Let us go into Judea. 386 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:50,680 The disciples said unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee and goeth thy 387 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,880 feet again. 388 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,120 Verse 9, I love this. 389 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:02,480 Jesus said, I have there not twelve hours in the day. 390 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,480 Remember the day? 391 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:04,480 Remember the day? 392 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,480 We all have a day. 393 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,960 I have there twelve hours in the day. 394 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:14,280 If any man walk in the day, if you walk in your day, you will not stumble because he 395 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,400 sees the light of this world. 396 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:24,160 Now Judea had become very hot for Jesus. 397 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,160 They tried several times to kill him. 398 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,760 I did not kill him. 399 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:36,560 Now his ten disciples, Let's go back to Judea because Lazarus is dead. 400 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,360 The disciples said, Don't go back there. 401 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:41,720 They tried to stone you. 402 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:42,720 They tried to kill you. 403 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:43,720 Don't go back there. 404 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:48,000 He says, No, no, no, I have twelve hours. 405 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,760 Hallelujah. 406 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,640 I have a day assigned to me. 407 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:59,440 If I walk in that day until I fulfill my assignment, no one can kill me. 408 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,840 Now I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he meant. 409 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:09,060 I must walk the walks of him that sent me in my day. 410 00:33:09,060 --> 00:33:10,840 I have twelve hours. 411 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:15,840 My time is running out. 412 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:20,760 I need to fulfill my course. 413 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:27,480 I'm here to tell you until you fulfill the assignment, you will not die. 414 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,440 You will not die. 415 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,840 Walk within your day. 416 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,340 Understand your assignment. 417 00:33:39,340 --> 00:33:43,040 Walk within your assignment. 418 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,960 Discover the will of God for your life. 419 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,160 Walk in it. 420 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:54,600 Even if you are walking in Sudan, now where there's a civil war, if you're there on God's 421 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,640 assignment, you will not die. 422 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,680 No, you will not die. 423 00:33:58,680 --> 00:33:59,680 No. 424 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,800 He says, No, I have my twelve hours. 425 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,760 He said, No, no, no, don't go there. 426 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,840 No, no, no, I have twelve hours. 427 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,400 I don't want to waste time. 428 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,920 I must walk the walks of him who sent me. 429 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:21,840 Now John 11 verse 40, Jesus said unto her, said, I know unto thee that if thou wouldst 430 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:27,940 believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God. 431 00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:37,480 This miracle was so powerful that the Bible says many Jews believed on the Lord. 432 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:46,480 When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, that miracle is one of the greatest miracles in 433 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,560 the entire Bible. 434 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:53,520 In my opinion, there's no miracle greater than that. 435 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:59,320 How do you raise someone from the dead who has been buried for four days? 436 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:05,880 If someone dies and within an hour you pray for them, yeah, it's a miracle. 437 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:11,120 But when you have been buried for four days and the flesh begins to fall off from the 438 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:21,160 bones and all that is there is just a mess, that miracle, apart from the miracle of Christ 439 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:27,360 rising from the dead, there is no miracle like that in the Bible. 440 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:32,360 Bible says when that happened, many Jews believed on him. 441 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:41,320 In fact, there was so many people who came to Christ that the Jews got concerned and 442 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:46,840 they said, we have to kill this man, the Pharisees, the leader, the religious leader said, the 443 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:54,200 whole world is following him and Caiaphas, the high priest Caiaphas said, don't you know 444 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:59,240 it's expected that one man die to save a nation. 445 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:04,640 From that day they began to plot seriously to kill Jesus because that miracle touched 446 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,360 the nation. 447 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:11,320 But many Jews believed on him. 448 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:20,720 In John chapter 12, it is said that Jews began to plan to kill both Jesus and Lazarus because 449 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:23,240 wherever Lazarus walked, it was a walking miracle. 450 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:28,800 This man was, it was three, four days in the grave, look at him, he's walking. 451 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,640 Everywhere he went, he was preaching the gospel. 452 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,640 He was manifesting the glory of God. 453 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,440 Hallelujah. 454 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:44,120 It's amazing. 455 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:53,000 The primary goal of God in this life is that he wants to receive maximum glory. 456 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000 Hallelujah. 457 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000 Maximum glory. 458 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,640 Oh, bless the Lord. 459 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,840 Let me read one more text and then we're going to pray. 460 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:13,760 First Corinthians chapter 10, verse 27, verse Corinthians 10, verse 27. 461 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:24,560 If a November belief be due to a feast and you be disposed to go, whatever is said before 462 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:29,760 you eat, asking no question for conscious sake. 463 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:37,000 And if any man say unto you, this is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake 464 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:44,720 that showed it, for conscious sake, for the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. 465 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:50,080 Conscious, I say, not their own, but of the other. 466 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,040 For why is my liberty judged over another man's conscious? 467 00:37:54,040 --> 00:38:02,480 Now listen, for if I by grace be a partaker, why am I even spoken of for that which I give 468 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:03,480 thanks? 469 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:12,680 Whether therefore you eat or you drink, whatsoever you do, do all for what? 470 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,520 To the glory of God. 471 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:24,160 Whatever you do, do all for the glory of God. 472 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:35,880 Paul begins that text by showing us that sometimes we choose not to eat or to eat based on how 473 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,200 we can glorify God. 474 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:47,680 Sometimes if you're invited to someone's home and the person says, yeah, you're welcome, 475 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,200 please enjoy the meal. 476 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:57,760 Even if the home is the home of a Muslim or whatever, pray for the food, sight, fight, 477 00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:58,760 eat. 478 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:08,800 But if the person says that chicken was first offered to God, or Mokassa, or Uruvalli, for 479 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,080 his sake, don't eat. 480 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:17,320 So sometimes we don't eat because we seek to glorify God. 481 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,120 Sometimes we eat because we glorify God. 482 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:28,560 Whatever you do, whether eating or not eating, drinking or not drinking, whatever you do, 483 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:36,200 do all for the glory of God. 484 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:48,280 Whatever decisions to take a job or not take a job, the bottom line is, is God glorified? 485 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:56,160 Someone may offer a job for you, a good job, but insists, I must have sex with you. 486 00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:03,320 Sometimes you turn your back to a good job because you seek to glorify God. 487 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:11,000 You may take a job which pays less, you earn less money. 488 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:17,360 It's below your qualification, but you're seeking to glorify God. 489 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,880 Everything we do, bottom line, is God glorified? 490 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,200 Am I glorifying God in this? 491 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:32,920 If you take your children to certain school, why do you take them to that school? 492 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,680 Are you just prioritizing the academic standards? 493 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:41,920 Don't you know some schools have an agenda? 494 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,520 There are schools that are promoting homosexuality. 495 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:52,320 Yes, some of these powerful international schools where you have many foreigners, Europeans, 496 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,680 some of them they have a curriculum that promotes homosexuality. 497 00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:04,680 Now you want to have a child in an international school where they speak very good English, 498 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:11,320 people because they are rich and you want to fit in also, but you're risking the future 499 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,040 of your child. 500 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:20,960 I'd rather you take your child to a lesser school because that child will have a chance 501 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:27,840 to keep the faith and by that you'll glorify God. 502 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:35,960 So in life, as we make decisions, the most important thing to consider is how is God 503 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:37,680 glorified? 504 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,880 Is God glorified in this? 505 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:48,120 If I choose to leave Uganda and work in Dubai, where are you going to Dubai? 506 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,960 Is the bottom line you're seeking to glorify God or you're just looking for money? 507 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:58,480 See, everything you will do should be for the glory of God, everything, everything, 508 00:41:58,480 --> 00:41:59,480 everything. 509 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:05,160 You want to get married, why you want to get married? 510 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:10,640 Just to be among the people who are married, they call themselves the honorables, honorable. 511 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,640 You want to also be honorable. 512 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,600 Is that all you want? 513 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:21,000 Or you plan to use your home to serve the Lord? 514 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,840 You want to use this chance of being a wife for a husband to glorify God. 515 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,200 If that is your motive, then you're on the right track. 516 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:29,480 Thank you for listening. 517 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:34,320 We hope that you've been strengthened with his might and fortified by the word of God. 518 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:39,440 Please make sure to like, follow and subscribe to our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube 519 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,440 pages at FullBospoMap. 520 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:49,120 Goodbye.