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We're going to continue today on the teaching Manifesting the Kingdom of God. Manifesting
the Kingdom of God. I just want to thank God for this opportunity to bring the Word to
us. I also want to thank the pastorates for the opportunity. I just want to advise you
that whatever would distract you, whatever would make you want to go outside, they can
wait. Praise the Lord, they can wait. Just like Pastor Victor was leading us in prayers
and he said, and often time people that lead us in prayer will say, stop looking at me,
just pray, stop looking at me. What they're trying to say to you is that there is no benefit
looking at you. There is no profit. Your profit is by praying. Your profit is by paying attention
to what is going on. Your profit is by not being distracted in the service. Whoever wants
to call you can call you in the next two hours. Praise the Lord. The profit is that you have
come from your house. You have taken the time to prepare to dress very well. This is not
your usual, for some of you, this is not your usual dress in every day of the week. When
you come to the house of the Lord, you don't want that dressing to waste. You don't want
that energy to waste. You don't want that you took your time to make a lot of things.
You don't want it to waste. So how you can profit is by paying attention, by doing exactly
what brought you here. You came here to hear the word of the Lord. You came here to be
blessed. You came here to pray. You came here to receive from God. So just set your heart
like that. Once you're done, you can handle whatever theme that is waiting for you. Luke
chapter 17. Luke chapter 17 verse 11. Now it happened as he went to Jerusalem that he
passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. Then as he entered a certain village, there
he met, he met him ten men who were, who were leopards, who stood afar off. And they lifted
up their voice and said, Jesus, master, have mercy on us. So when he saw them, he said
to them, go show yourself to the priest. And it was when that they had went, they were
cleansed. Verse 15. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, he turned with
a loud voice, glorifying God and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks.
And he was a Samaritan. So Jesus answered and said, were there not ten cleansed, but
where are the, where are the nine, any found who returned to give glory to God, except
this foreigner. And he said to him, arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.
Verse 20. Now when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come, he answered
and said, the kingdom of God does not come with observation, nor would they say, see
there or see, see here or see there for indeed the kingdom of God is within you. Praise
the Lord. The kingdom of God is within you. So the Pharisees have seen something, they
have seen a sign, saw what had happened, that people were healed of their leprosy. They
saw a sign, something that they have never seen before, something that it was told them
that when the kingdom of God will come, this would be the realities that would follow.
They have seen a sign. And so they're trying to find out, could it be that the kingdom
of God has come? Right? They're trying to, what is really going on here? Praise the Lord.
So they asked, when would the kingdom of heaven come? And he's saying to them that the kingdom
of God does not come by observation. The kingdom of God does not come because you have seen
that. The kingdom of God does not come because you have seen a miracle. The kingdom of God
has, does not come because you have seen something that you have the knowledge of that this would
be the thing that will accompany the kingdom. Praise the Lord. It does not come by observation.
So they have seen something and we will note throughout the scriptures that the Pharisees
were always asking him for a sign. They were always asking Jesus for a sign because they
want to know, is he truly the Messiah? Does he have the characteristics of what we have
been, what we have studied or what we have been taught? Praise the Lord. We see Matthew
chapter 16, Matthew chapter 16, from verse one to four. Then the Pharisees and the Pharisees
came testing him, asked that he would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said,
when it is evening, you said it will be fair weather for the sky is red. And in the morning,
it will be fall weather today for the sky is red and is threatening. Hypocrites, you
know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot design the sign of the times. We
can adore trust generation, seek, seek after a sign and no sign shall be given to you except
the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them and they perfect. Praise the Lord. So
there were always people who were seeking for sign. We also look at that in Mark chapter
eight, verse 11 to 12, Mark eight. Then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with
him, seeking from him a sign from heaven testing him. And he sighed deeply in his spirit and
said, why does this generation seek a sign? And suddenly I say to you, no sign shall be
given to this generation. Luke chapter 28. Now when Harold saw Jesus, he was exceedingly
glad for he had desired for a long time to see him because he has had many things about
him and he hoped that he will see some miracle done by him. Praise the Lord. John chapter
six, John chapter six, 29 to 30. Then Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work
of God that you should believe in him. You should believe in him whom he sent. Therefore
they said to him, what sign will you perform that we will see it and believe you? What
work will you do? John chapter four, verse 48. Then Jesus said to him, unless you people
see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe. Praise the Lord. So we see that the
Pharisees have always, they're very curious. They always want to see signs. They want to
see wonders. They want to see something and believe. Praise the Lord. They want to see
something. And now they have seen a glimpse of something that lepers were healed, people
that were regarded as outcasts. They cannot live in a society where no more people live.
And then they asked them, when will the kingdom come? Praise the Lord. When will the kingdom
come? So the Pharisees have expectations. They have things in their mind concerning
the kingdom. They have seen something. Finally a sign was shown to them. Finally they have
seen something in many other scriptures. We see him doing a lot of things as well. So
now they now ask, when will the kingdom come? Praise the Lord. For they were expecting
the kingdom. As we have been taught, they were not looking to go to a kingdom. They
were expecting the kingdom to come to them. Praise the Lord. And they have seen some things
that is telling them that it's possible that the kingdom has come to them. Praise the Lord.
When will the kingdom come? They were expecting the kingdom. They were not looking forward
to a kingdom. It was a kingdom that was coming to them. Praise the Lord. It was a kingdom
that was coming to them. So throughout the teachings we have been saying or we have been
trying to understand or teach us what the kingdom is, or the kingdom of heaven. And
then we said from our studies and as we know that the word kingdom there is the word, Basilia,
which means dominion or royal power or rule. Praise the Lord. Or kingship. Right? But we
also, we also, the word there is not to be confused for kingdom. Like the kingdom that
you know, like the Benin kingdom, it should not be confused for those type of kingdoms.
Like England, it should not be confused for those type of kingdoms. But rather the rights
or authority to rule. Praise the Lord. So he's not talking about a domain. He's not
talking about a place. He's not talking about, so what he says the kingdom of heaven, he's
not talking about a place. He was talking about dominion. He's talking about a royal
power. The right to rule. Praise the Lord. So we also see this Basilia used in Matthew
chapter 6. Matthew chapter 5 verse 10. It's the same word that we see here. Blessed are
those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Right? This is exactly the same word that was used there. Verse 20 of Matthew chapter
5. For I say to you that unless your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and
the Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. He's talking about
the same thing. Matthew chapter 6 verse 9 to 10. In this manner therefore pray, our
Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. The word heaven there, so the word kingdom there
is the word Basilia. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven is
the same word Basilia. Matthew chapter 9 verse 35. Then Jesus went about all the cities and
the villages teaching in their synagogue, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every
sickness and every disease among the people. The word kingdom there is the same word as
Basilia which means royal power, which means dominion, which means rule. Matthew chapter
12 verse 28. Matthew chapter 12 verse 28. If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God,
surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. Praise the Lord. So it's the same word as
Basilia. If he cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of heaven has come
upon you. So the kingdom of heaven has possibilities, praise the Lord, that he say if I cast out
demons by the Spirit of God, the kingdom of God has come upon you. Matthew chapter 13
verse 31 to 32. Another parable, he put forth to them saying the kingdom of heaven is like
a mustard seed which a man too can sow on his field, which indeed at last of all the
seed is leavened of all the seeds, but when it's grown is a great grass among the house
and it becomes a tree so that the birds of the air can come and nest in its branches.
So the same word here that he used for kingdom is the same word as Basilia. Matthew chapter
33. Another parable he spoke to them, the kingdom of heaven is like a leaven when a
woman takes and hides it in three measures of milk it is all leavened. Verse 44. Again
the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field which a man find and hides and
for joy over is he goes and sell all that he has and buys the field. Verse 45 to 46.
Again the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls. Verse 46. And when
he found one pearl of great price went and sold all he had and bought it. Praise the
Lord. So the word their place kingdom is the same word that was used in Luke chapter 17
and then Matthew chapter 16 verse 9. Do you not understand or remember? I think this is
the starting mug so the manifestation of the kingdom is, when we say
the manifestation of the kingdom we are talking about royal power of God. We're
talking about the royal power of God, we are talking about the manifestation of the
royal power of God, we are talking about the manifestation of the dominion of God. We're
talking about the manifestation of the rule of God. This is what we are saying the manifestation
of the rule of God and then he tells them that it does not come by observation. The manifestation
of the rule or the dominion of God does not come by observation. Praise the Lord. He's telling to
say to them that it is not something that is physically seen. It is not something that you
physically discern. Praise the Lord. It's also something that you physically discern. It's also
something that you will say, look, there it is. Look, but it's something else. It's not something
that is humanly understood. Praise the Lord. The Pharisees cannot understand it. It's not something
that they can understand. That is why if you read 2 Corinthians chapter 4 from verse 3 to 6,
for our gospel, but even if our gospel is veiled, is veiled to those who are perishing,
whose mind the God of this age has blinded, who do not believe the least of the light of the gospel,
of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God and should shine on them. For we do not preach
ourself, but Christ the Lord and ourself, your bold servant for Christ. 6. For it is God who
commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord. If the gospel is veiled,
if it's not understood, it is not understood by those who are perishing. It is not physically
discerned. It is not intellectually discerned. Praise the Lord. They cannot understand it. So
that's why He's saying to them that it is not by observation. It is not by what you are able to
observe. It is not by your studies of what you have known or how you could understand matter or
physics. Praise the Lord. It is not observed like that. So how does the kingdom come? How does the
kingdom come? So like we said, the kingdom of God is not about what is about what will come, not what
where you'll be going, right? It's not about what, it's not about where you'll be going, but what
will come. And then He said to them that the kingdom of God is within you. Praise the Lord.
The kingdom of God is within you. Our Emperor Victor was preaching. He made us to understand
that He's not talking about within as within the Pharisee. Praise the Lord. He's not talking about
in the inside of your heart. It's the fact that Christ is with them, physically there. Praise the
Lord. Christ is with them. So because that is, it means that the kingdom of God within you means that
Jesus is there with them. He was their expectation. He was the expectation. Whatever they were
expecting, Jesus was that expectation. That's why He said the kingdom of God is within you. He was
the expectation. It was what was to come. Praise the Lord. He was present with them, but not in
the heart of the Pharisees. John chapter 4, John chapter 4 verse 21. And Jesus said to her,
woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain or in Jerusalem
worship the father. For the father is seeking such to worship him. The God is spirit and those who
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. How does the kingdom come? How does the
kingdom come? So He's making clear to her that it's not your usual way. It's not the normal way
again that you know of, that you seek God by going to Jerusalem, that you seek God by going
to a mountain, that you seek God or God is as they know, just with the Jews. Praise the Lord. He's
saying to her that the hour is coming and He said, now it is. Now is, right? So what He's also saying
to her is that the kingdom has come because He's there with her. Praise the Lord. He said, when the
true worshipers, when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth, for the
father seeks such to worship him. He said, God is spirit and those who worship him must worship him
in spirit and in truth, must worship him in spirit and in truth. It is spiritually disowned.
Praise the Lord. It is spiritually disowned. It is a spiritual worship. We saw in the,
in these cell meetings that the word heaven as well is synonymous to the word spirit. Praise the
Lord. So God seeks such to worship him. He said, now is because the kingdom has come. 1 Corinthians.
How does the kingdom come? 1 Corinthians, chapter 20, 1 Corinthians 1 verse 20 to 25.
So where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disposer of this age? Has God,
has not God made foolishness the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God,
the world through wisdom did not know God. It pleased God through the foolishness of the message
preached to save those who believed. For Jews require sign and Greeks seek for wisdom.
But we preach Christ crucified to the Jews, the stumbling block and to the Greek foolishness. But
to those who are called both Jews and Greek, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Praise the Lord. So he's saying today in verse 20 to 21 that the kingdom of God does not come
as men expect. It's not in the excellency of their expectation. It doesn't come like that.
Right? The kingdom does not come in the excellency of the expectation of men. It's not the way they
want it to be. It doesn't come like that. Praise the Lord. Can we put our scripture up here?
Verse 20 to 21. He said to them that where is the wise and where is the scribe, where is the
disposer of this age? Has God not made the foolishness of the, sorry, has God not made
foolishness the wisdom of this world? Verse 21. For since in the wisdom of God, the world through
wisdom did not know God. It pleased God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message
preached to those who believe. Praise the Lord. So the kingdom does not come by the
wisdom of men. Praise the Lord. He does not come in the excellency of the expectation.
Maybe men suppose that the kingdom of God will come in a grand style, the way a king should come,
the way a kingdom should be dominated by the wars they have fought, by the things that they have
understood. It doesn't come in the expectations of men. It doesn't come in a way that the natural
man will understand. It comes in a way that men will regard foolishness. Praise the Lord. He comes
in a way that men will regard foolishness. In verse 22, he tells us that the Jews seek the sign,
and we have seen it through the scriptures. They have been asking him, show us a sign.
They want to believe by sight. They want to believe by a performance. They want to believe
by something. The Greek seek for wisdom, but it doesn't come like that. That's why they ask him,
when would the kingdom come? Because they have seen a sign. They have seen something.
The ten lepers were clings. So they ask him, when would the kingdom of God come? Because they saw
a sign. And the Greek, they seek wisdom, but God has made that foolishness. Right?
In verse 23 of that 1 Corinthians, that's Corinthians 1 verse 23.
But we preach Christ crucified to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greek foolishness.
Praise the Lord. So the preaching of the gospel is stumbling block to the Jews and to the Greek
foolishness. Praise the Lord. But that is how the kingdom comes. But that is how the kingdom
comes. That is how the kingdom comes to men. That is how the kingdom comes to the heart of men.
The sick sign and the sick wisdom. But that's not how it comes. It's how we preach Christ
crucified. And to them that is a stumbling block. What are you saying? I'm seeking for something
tangible. I'm seeking for something that I can hold on to. I'm seeking for something that's,
oh, this is a sign. I'm seeking for a wisdom. Make it make sense to me. Let it be beyond my
imagination. But then the preaching of the gospel become a stumbling block to them. Praise the Lord.
Because the sick sign and the sick wisdom. Verse 24 of that 1 Corinthians. But those who are called
both Jews and Greek, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Praise the Lord. So Christ is
the kingdom of God. Praise the Lord. Christ is the kingdom of God. Christ is the kingdom
of God. Christ is the kingdom of God. It is God's wisdom to make it that way. Praise the
Lord. It is God's wisdom to make this that way. So the kingdom of God is spiritually the Son. The
kingdom of God is spiritually the Son. So the kingdom of God is within you means that the coming
of Jesus was the coming of the kingdom of God. Praise the Lord. The coming of Jesus was the coming
of the kingdom. The coming of Jesus was a was a coming of the kingdom because he was there with
them. He said for it is within you. So the kingdom of God or the royal power of God is the coming of
the Christ. The dominion of God is the coming of the Christ. John chapter 6. How will the kingdom
come? John chapter 6 from verse 30 to 40. John chapter 6 from verse 30 to 40.
Still seeking for your sight they said. Therefore they said to him, what sign will you perform that
we may see it and believe? What work will you do? Our fathers ate meat, ate the manna in the desert
as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them,
most assuredly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven but my father gave you
the true bread from heaven. Praise the Lord. So they did not understand what actually
happened or what the coming of Christ meant. Praise the Lord. So the bread from heaven,
if it is truly the bread from heaven that Moses gave them, it means that they were going to be
sustained forever. There was no going to be hunger. Praise the Lord. Because it is spiritual.
It is something that should not, they should never hunger again. There should not be any need for
taste again. But he is not trying to correct them. He is trying to correct their doctrines and the
things they have believed. He said for Moses, he said Moses did not give you the bread from heaven
but my father gave you the true bread from heaven. He was speaking of himself. Praise the Lord.
For the bread of heaven, firstly, for the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives
life to the world. How does the kingdom come? The kingdom of God comes because Christ has come.
He said he came down from heaven and gave life to the world. Then they said to him, Lord give us
this bread always. And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never
hunger. Praise the Lord. Did we see? He is trying to correct the thing they have belief. So if they
have truly ate the bread of life, they will never hunger. Right? They will not be separated from God.
Praise the Lord. There will not be a disconnection from God. But then he tells them that I am the
bread of life and he who comes to me shall not hunger and he who believes in me shall never
thirst. But then I said to you, but I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
Praise the Lord. They were still seeking for a sign. Praise the Lord. He said he that has
has brought life to you is with you and yet you do not believe. Praise the Lord.
And this would make me begin to think about
the many people who have grown up in church and maybe they will find out that they are not safe
later on in life. What do we think was what was happening to them? That the message has always
been there. It has always been taught. Right? They have always been amiss where it is preached.
Like every day, like all of us are sitting here right now, like every Sunday, like every Wednesday,
like every Friday, the word keeps coming. You go online, you will find the word. But then there is
no salvation. There is nothing that has happened to you. Praise the Lord. Is it that you are seeking
for a sign? Or to them that believe later on was it that they were seeking for a sign? Maybe
somebody has not laid hands and you see a creeper walk, so I have not yet believed. You have never
experienced that. You have never been in the surrounding where such things happen. So you are
still, you are not sure about these things. Praise the Lord. Because to you it has not made sense
yet. To you, you have not seen the power yet. Praise the Lord. Remember, he says, the kingdom
of God does not come by observation. Praise the Lord. It does not come by observation. It does not
come by observation. Verse 36. But I say to you that you have seen me and you do not believe,
and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me. And the one who comes to me
I will by no means hast away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will
of he who sends me. And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all he had given me that
I should lose nothing, but should be raised up, raised it up at the last day. And this is the will
of he who sent me, that everyone should see the Son and believe in him, that he may have everlasting
life, I will be raised up with him at the last day. Praise the Lord. So Jesus is the kingdom of heaven.
Praise the Lord. He said this is the will of he who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and
believes in him may have everlasting life and will be raised up at the last day. Praise the Lord.
So this is how the kingdom comes. This is how the kingdom comes. And the most popular place
that we know of is Nicodemus in John chapter 3. John chapter 3. John chapter 3, from verse 3 to 8.
And Jesus replied, very truly I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.
How can a man be born again when they are old Nicodemus acts? Surely they cannot enter the second time
into their mother's womb to be born. And Jesus answered, very truly I say to you, no one can see,
no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born again. They are born of water and the Spirit.
Flesh gives birth to flesh. I'm reading a different translation. I have two. Okay.
Jesus answered and said, verse 3, and said to him, most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he's old?
Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? And Jesus answered, most assuredly
I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
That which is flesh is flesh. And that which is born of flesh is flesh. And that which is born of
Spirit is Spirit. Do not marvel that I say to you, you must be born again. The wind blows where it
wishes. And you hear the sound of it but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is
anyone who is born of the Spirit. Praise the Lord. He's saying to them that it cannot be
physically discerned, right? It cannot be by understanding. It cannot be by that which you
understand. And Basavito really made a very good point when he was preaching. And he said that
the man asked Jesus, he said, he said, Rabbi, he said to him, this man came to Jesus by night and
said, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God. No one can see, no one can do this sign
that you do unless God is with him. Praise the Lord. So he wanted to put Jesus in a box. He said
to him, you are a teacher, right? But then Jesus said to him that most assuredly I say to you,
unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Praise the Lord. So he's trying to,
he said, Basavito said, he's trying to push his attention to see that he is the kingdom of God.
He's not a teacher come from God. Praise the Lord. He's not a prophet. Do you know what that means?
A teacher comes from God. Isaiah is a teacher come from God. Jeremiah is a teacher come from God.
Praise the Lord. You're a teacher come from God. But Jesus is not a teacher come from God.
Praise the Lord. So the man is trying to, he's trying to bring him down to the level of
where he's not even what to be. And he told him that unless you are born again, you cannot see the
kingdom of God. Praise the Lord. So he's not a teacher come from God. Verse three. So you cannot
see the rule or the dominion of God, except you are born again. You cannot see the royal power of
God. You cannot see the dominion of God unless you are born again. So he means that the man that does
not have a preview or does not have a view of the reality of God, you cannot see the kingdom of God.
You cannot you don't have a view of the realities of God. You don't have a view of the the realities
of the spirit. It doesn't make sense to you. It can never make sense to you. In verse five he tells
him that of God. Praise the Lord. He cannot enter the kingdom of God. He cannot have the experience.
He can never have the experience. He can never experience the dominion of God.
He can never experience the power of God. He can never experience the rule of God.
Praise the Lord. He means that that man is in darkness, he's in bondage,
will continue to be in bondage. Praise the Lord. It means that that man does not
have an experience of the realities of God.
Unless, he said, except you are born a king,
you cannot enter the kingdom of God. Verse 6, the Lord said,
that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.
Praise the Lord. The kingdom can only come by the Spirit. It is spiritual.
Praise the Lord. It is not physically designed. It's not something that
it can only come by the Spirit. It is the Spirit that does it. Praise the Lord.
So he's trying to say to him that we come to the kingdom of God
when we have accepted that which Christ has done.
We saw it when you have believed. So this is the will of God
that those who see him may believe in him and they will have everlasting life.
Praise the Lord. That is how a man comes to the kingdom
when we have accepted the gospel. Praise the Lord.
I was saying, I will go back and see the analogy I said earlier
that for those who have sat in church for a long time,
right, and the message have come every Sunday and Sunday and Sunday and
Sunday, are you waiting for a sign? Are you
waiting for a sign? Are you waiting for a sign? Have you
accepted the gospel? Have you accepted the gospel?
Or are you preaching the gospel, you who have accepted? Have you accepted the
gospel? So God has called us into the kingdom
to bring men, to bring men to the kingdom. Praise the Lord. To bring men to the
kingdom. So the manifestation of the kingdom of
God, we can say is the manifestation of the
dominion of God. We can say it's the manifestation
of the royal power of God. We can say it's a manifestation
of the rule of God, which is Christ. Praise the Lord. Do we understand it?
The manifestation of the kingdom of God is a manifestation of the royal power of
God. It is the manifestation of the dominion
of God. It is a manifestation of the rule of God which is Christ. Praise the Lord.
The manifestation, he says, is within you. Praise the Lord. So there is a manifestation.
There is a manifestation to those who have believed God. There is a manifestation to
our faith. There is a manifestation to the belief that we have in Christ. There is a
manifestation.
One of those manifestations is that the believer speaks. Praise the Lord. We speak. We speak.
They are our operations. Praise the Lord. They are our operations. And because you are
spiritual, because you were born again, because you are in Christ, you can walk in this manifestation.
You can walk in these operations.
John 4. Again to this Hamaritan woman. John 4 from verse 23 to 24. He said,
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers would worship the Father
in spirit and in truth. For God seeks such to worship him. For God is spirit, and those
who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. You are spiritual. Praise the
Lord. And part of the studies we are doing in the Salmi team, one of the manifestations,
one of the realities of heaven, or spiritual reality, is Christ and the believer. You are
spiritual. Praise the Lord. Spiritual beings are not sustained by physical things. Right?
That's why Christ would say, that man shall not live by bread alone. He is not saying
that bread is not good. You need bread. Praise the Lord. Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. The man that can live by bread
alone is a man that is not spiritual. The man that is not in Christ. Not the man that
is not spiritual, because it means a lot of things. Right? So specifically, the man that
is not in Christ. The man that is not in Christ. So the man that is not in Christ can live
by bread alone. Praise the Lord. He can be sustained by bread alone. You cannot be sustained
by bread alone. He said, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. So
to study the word of God, for example, right? To read the word of God or to pray or to speak
the word of God is not something that is strange to you. Right? It shouldn't be strange to
you because that's how your sustenance is. There are people, a lot of people here, that
if I ask who are eating breakfast, they will raise their hands. Right? They know that they
will have, they will not be able to speak to people properly if they don't eat. Praise
the Lord. They understand that. Right? So as a spiritual being, you also understand
that you cannot perform properly if you are not eating. You cannot perform properly. You
cannot speak to people properly if you are not studying the word. You cannot operate
in the way you should operate. They can be, you will not see any manifestation if you
don't eat the things you're supposed to eat. Praise the Lord because you're spiritual.
And he said that those, he seek those to worship him. He said they must worship him in spirit
and in truth. Galatians chapter four, Galatians chapter four verse four to seven. But when
the fullness of time had come, God sent his son, born of a woman, born under the law to
redeem those who are under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because
you are sons, God has sent his spirit, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into
your heart, crying, Abba, father. Therefore you are no longer slaves, but a son. And if
you have a son, then you are an heir of God through Christ. Praise the Lord. He said,
for he has sent his son, the spirit of his son into our hearts. They were able to cry
Abba, father. Praise the Lord. They were able to speak. They were able to call upon the
name of the Lord. Praise the Lord. They were able to call the name of the Lord. You are
an heir. You're spiritual. There are manifestations. There are operations. Praise the Lord. There
are operations. There are manifestations. And for you to be sustained, for you to try,
for you to max in the possibilities of God, you need to understand that you need to feed
yourself with things that will sustain you. Praise the Lord. You need to feed your things
with the things that will sustain you. I think I've said it before. The work of the devil
is not to, he doesn't want you to, he knows you can't live. Right? But he wants to make
you ineffective. Right? He wants to make you have a mixture of many things. Right? You
are in church. You are a child of God. You put that in your bio and your profile. But
then he wants you to have a mix of many things. Praise the Lord. Because he knows that in
that there is no manifestation. He knows in that there's going to be rising and falling.
Today I'm up. I'm firing. Tomorrow I'm walking backward. Praise the Lord. Today I'm up and
I'm going. Tomorrow I'm tied down to an addiction. Today I'm walking and I'm going and I'm tied
down to this. I'm tied down to that. He knows that if he allows you to remain, to continue
to receive the word, to continue to pray, to continue to practice the things of the
spirit, that he will not be able to stop you. So he will introduce many things. Just many
things. He knows some vibes here and there. Praise the Lord. So that you are not able
to be effective. They say lay hands on your brother and pray for them. You're supposed
to hear, clear and sound. But there's so many things on your mind. You lay hands, you are
praying, you are praying. You cannot hear. Praise the Lord. Because your mind is, let
me use the word, combated with many things. Praise the Lord. There's so many things that
have happened. You start seeing yourself, ah, will God even hear this prayer? Will I
even be able to receive? Because there's a lot of things that he has introduced you to.
Praise the Lord. Or they say pray for the sick. You say, ah, me pray for the sick. Where?
No, let's wait for pastor to confess. Praise the Lord. The air manifestation. The air manifestation.
He says you're spiritual. You're an air of God. Praise the Lord. You carry the spirit
of God. And lastly I will just tell you to cherish the word. Cherish the word. Especially
the word that is coming from here. From this house of God. Many of us are very confused
for a very long time. Very, very long time. You don't need that confusion. Praise the
Lord. Especially in regards to the word. What is this? What is that? You don't understand
the love of God. You know, you struggle to understand the love of God. You struggle to
understand salvation. You struggle to understand many things. But the word is coming from
here so that confusions will cease. So you need to cherish the word. That's what I said
from the beginning. There is nothing as important as to distract you from what has brought you
to the house of the Lord. Because if anything distracts you, those things are gone. You're
waiting for next, hopefully next Sunday. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. This is by our head
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