1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,320 Hi there, welcome to NECF. We're excited to share today's message with you. Don't go 2 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:16,400 anywhere, stay with us to the end for some valuable resources to enrich your faith. 3 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:18,480 Here's today's sermon. 4 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:27,120 So we have been discussing about manifesting the kingdom of God. So today, in a way of introduction, 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:34,720 right, we will just start a topic. This one I'm going to do it in a series as long as possible 6 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:42,400 till I exhaust it. Amen. But I appreciate the lead pastor who is not with us, right, he's in Nigeria 7 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:51,200 and then putting all the structures in place to close the gate. Hallelujah. May the Lord give 8 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:59,680 you understanding. You see pastor Victor didn't cough today. That's new. Amen. So his coughing 9 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:06,400 days are over. Praise God. You know he coughed during my time like never before. Once they say 10 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:13,280 pastor Custin, the cough will come. But his coughing days are over. Praise God. So this morning 11 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:20,640 we'll talk about blessed in the kingdom of God. Blessed in where? In the kingdom of God. You are 12 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,840 blessed actually. Praise God. You're not the one seeking for blessing. I see 10 people here 13 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:33,600 and the spirit of the Lord is saying if you can sow a seed of a thousand dollars, people that are 14 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:40,240 doing chabuk chabuk, you can still see thousand dollars in their pocket. Your blessing is tied 15 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:46,320 to this one thousand dollars. By the time you sow it, 10 people, 10 people, 10 people, the guy is 16 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:53,440 calculating 10,000 dollars cash out. People, your blessing. You see when he gets that kind of 17 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:59,840 congregation or assembly because they are full of moomoo's, you know, that are not taught the word, 18 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:06,320 somebody will get some emotional thing that he thinks his blessing is tied to the thousand dollars 19 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:11,280 and then he will be under pressure to borrow a thousand dollars. In fact the guy will not add it. 20 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:16,880 He said even if you don't have the thousand dollars, you know God is a god of second chance. 21 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,720 He will give you a space of one week. You can still redeem it in one week. 22 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:26,560 Some will even say if you don't have it now, you can't, you can't, you can't, is it not what is not 23 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:34,640 vow? Pledge. He said you can make a pledge and redeem it in one month. God will take record of it. 24 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:40,160 You see in this church, we will teach you the truth of the word so that you can be delivered 25 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:46,320 from unreasonable men. Hallelujah. You'll be delivered from false teachers. The scripture 26 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:51,920 calls them that they are after their... So blessed in the kingdom of God. Amen. So what does it mean 27 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:58,320 to be blessed? What does it mean to be what? To be blessed is a question which we're going to explore 28 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:05,360 throughout the study. What does it mean to be what? To be blessed. Praise God. Hallelujah. 29 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:10,480 Yeah, Matthew chapter 28 everybody. Let's go to Matthew chapter 28. Say I am the blessed of God. 30 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:22,000 I am the blessed of God. All that is in Christ is in me. My life, my conduct, my character, 31 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:32,240 my life, my conduct, my character reflects Jesus. Hallelujah. You see in the teaching of the doctrine 32 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:39,600 of Jesus, there are three things that are very important. One, you are taught Christ, right? 33 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:46,400 You are taught who Christ is, what he has done, his lifestyle on the earth, the significance of 34 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:53,680 why he came. Amen. Secondly, now you are taught how you identify with him. Praise God. How you 35 00:03:53,680 --> 00:04:00,880 identify with Christ, how and who you are in Christ Jesus, how eternal life is yours. Amen. 36 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:10,000 And then thirdly, now then you are taught your conduct as a believer, your lifestyle as what? 37 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,400 As a believer. So you're taught Christ, you're taught about your identity, how you identify with 38 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:20,160 Christ and then you're what? Your conduct. Praise God. That's what it means to manifest the kingdom. 39 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:26,640 Hallelujah. You can't manifest what you don't know. Praise God. Only when you are demon possessed, 40 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,280 that's when you manifest things you don't know. But you can be filled with the Holy Ghost and don't 41 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:35,040 manifest. You are manifesting the Holy Ghost. In fact, the Holy Ghost ensures that you don't 42 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:41,440 manifest him in ignorance because you do great damage, greater damage. So you have a good 43 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:48,000 environment, a good assembly, an atmosphere where you know who you are in Christ Jesus, 44 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:54,080 where Christ is taught who is Christ, right? And then now the pastors or the teachers there 45 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:59,680 don't allow you to just go like that. You are now taught the conduct of what? Of the believer. 46 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:08,080 How you now manifest the life. Praise God. Hallelujah. So Matthew 28 verse 18 to 20 now, 47 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:16,800 it says, and Jesus came and spake unto them saying, all power is what? Is given unto me in heaven and 48 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:25,200 in what? And in earth, go ye therefore and teach how many nations? How many nations? All nations, 49 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:31,840 baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 20 now, teaching 50 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:40,800 them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and know I am with you always even 51 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:48,240 on to the end of what? Of the world. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. So when we see verse 18, 52 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:57,760 everybody put your eyes on verse 18. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, all power is given 53 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:05,760 unto me in heaven and in what? Big question. How did Jesus know that all power has been given to him? 54 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:14,240 Amen. So Christ must be speaking from a source of information. Amen. So for him to speak that 55 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:23,520 statement is a reality that he already has come into. Amen. So he should have seen that information 56 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:30,160 somewhere. It must have been set somewhere that all power in heaven and in the earth will be given 57 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:35,840 to him. Praise God. The first time you got into school, you were told that if you become the best 58 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:39,840 graduating student, this is what will happen. You're going to get opportunity to shake with the 59 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:44,560 rector of the school. And then suddenly now you went through all this four years and studied and 60 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:52,320 studied and studied and your CGPA came out as 3.99. Just one of the nights you slept and then 61 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:58,160 you got a B in one course and then you know one of those things that happened and then you're on 62 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:05,040 3.99. On the graduation day now and then they call you. We invite the best graduating student. 63 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:14,480 Now we call on Mary Ayuba Ogundimu. You know Mary will just come, check her, check her, check her. 64 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:19,120 All her fans will just have camera. Tis tis tis tis tis tis tis tis. You know and she'll come and then 65 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:26,560 collect the gifts and she'll say finally all the gifts are the best graduating students 66 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:32,240 of the faculty of, I don't know your faculty, but in the department of psychology has been given 67 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:40,320 to me and I had the opportunity to shake the rector. In fact see a photo of it. She shows 68 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:45,280 a photo, we'll see it on our Instagram, we'll see it on TikTok, we'll see it on Facebook, we'll see 69 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,880 it everywhere. We'll join her and celebrate with her. So for her to come into that reality, right, 70 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,520 somebody will have encouraged her along the line. She must have had the information somewhere. 71 00:07:55,520 --> 00:08:02,880 So for Jesus to say all power is what is given to me, right, he must have seen it somewhere, amen. 72 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:09,600 So Christ wasn't speaking out of ignorance. He was speaking because he has also read the scriptures. 73 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:17,360 He has read the prophecies that have been spoken about him, amen. He has read them where? From where? 74 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:23,680 The scriptures. Hallelujah. You see this is the main reason why the believer ought to live his life 75 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:28,560 by the scriptures. You see the husband cannot just wake up and say, you know according to our 76 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:35,600 tradition a woman does not shake a man with the left hand. You know according to our tradition, 77 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:42,960 you know in my land the women must be taken care of like an egg. So even life breaks egg. Sorry. 78 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:50,480 You see in Christ, there is no my tradition. No, you don't see that in Christ. All you see in Christ 79 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:56,560 is Christ. Hallelujah. The man that comes into Christ and lives by the scripture, oh he will 80 00:08:56,560 --> 00:09:03,440 always have the testimony of the scripture validated around his life. So Christ himself 81 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:10,720 lived his life by what? By the scriptures. The believer ought to live his life by what? 82 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:17,920 The scriptures. So God's word must be the final authority over your life. So Jesus was speaking 83 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:24,240 and he was teaching them from the scriptures. Amen. How did Jesus know that all power, all 84 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,960 authority has been given to me in heaven and the earth? Right is somewhere. He was speaking from 85 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:34,880 the scriptures. And if you write Jesus speaking from the scriptures right somewhere, I ought to 86 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:42,240 live my life by the scriptures. That's why I believe her. The topic is blessed in the kingdom of where? 87 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:49,520 Of God. Hallelujah. So he wasn't quoting scriptures from Matthew. He wasn't quoting from 88 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:55,520 Ephesians because at that time there was nothing called Ephesians. He wasn't quoting from Galatians. 89 00:09:55,520 --> 00:10:03,920 Amen. Jesus was quoting from Genesis to Malachi. Praise God. He was quoting from where? From Genesis 90 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:13,200 to where? To Malachi. Amen. So sir, how did you know it's from Genesis to Malachi? Look chapter 24 91 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:18,960 everybody. Please pay attention because it's a teaching, it's a training. Amen. So everything 92 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:25,200 will be adding up as we continue moving. Praise God. So Jesus was teaching from where? Genesis to 93 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:30,880 where? To Malachi. He wasn't teaching from Old Testament. Neither was he teaching from New 94 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:39,280 Testament. Luke 24 verse 24 everybody. Or let's start from verse 25. Then he said unto them, 95 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:46,560 O fools, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken. I don't want to see 96 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:51,360 anybody sleeping on me. If you are sleeping on me, I'll ask you to stand up. Amen. Yeah. 97 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:58,000 O not Christ to have what? So what did the prophets, what was the things that the prophet was 98 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:04,560 speaking? O not Christ to have what? Suffer these things and to enter into his what? So the prophets 99 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:12,960 were saying that Christ will what? Will suffer and Christ will what? Enter into his glory. Is everybody 100 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:25,280 with me? Is everybody with me? Good. See 27 now. And beginning at Moses and what? All the prophets, 101 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:34,800 he expounded unto them in all the scriptures, the things concerning. So if Jesus say all power, 102 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:41,520 all authority in the heaven and on the earth has been given unto me, where did he see that from? 103 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:49,680 And when we say the scriptures, we mean what? Genesis to where? To Malachi. Amen. Perfect. 104 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:55,760 Now when we now go to verse 44 of that same chapter, and he said unto them, these are the 105 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:03,440 words which I speak unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be what? So now 106 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:10,800 the saints of Christ now, he's saying that now everything has been fulfilled and now all power 107 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:16,400 in heaven and on the earth has been what? Has been given to me. All things have been what? 108 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:23,360 Fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning 109 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:32,400 who? Concerning me. 45, then opened he their understanding that they might understand the what? 110 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:39,920 The scriptures. Hallelujah. So you see that Christ was teaching them from where? Genesis to Malachi 111 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:46,880 because he is the center of the message. Hallelujah. So when you read Genesis to Malachi, 112 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:53,280 who you should see there is Jesus. Sir, well you know now, you know there is somewhere, 113 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:59,920 I cannot remember how, but he said the wealth of the Gentiles shall come unto us. That's the only 114 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:05,440 thing they know, wealth of the Gentiles. He says, sir, you know, you know, some of these bad guys 115 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:11,600 are associated myself, all these G boys, sir, is to fulfill the scriptures. You know, sir, the 116 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:17,360 Americans came and brought slavery into our country. Now it is time to take it back from them. 117 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:24,320 Sir, even you know, last month I cast out, I gave a huge tithe to my church. They will say it all. 118 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,920 The scriptures is not teaching about prosperity. The scriptures is not a book to teach you how to 119 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:35,920 make money. Amen. Hallelujah. Yes, but I think somewhere Proverbs is saying so. 120 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:44,960 There is nothing in the scriptures. If you want to learn wealth creation, go to Harvard Business 121 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:51,840 School. If you can afford it, if you have a village like me, there you go to Kaduna Business School, 122 00:13:51,840 --> 00:14:00,160 right? They're going to teach you how to make money, to teach you entrepreneurship and the rest. 123 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:06,160 But you don't get into the Bible to learn how to make money. You will live your life poor. I tell you, 124 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:13,760 the Bible is not a book about relationships. Sir, what this thing you are saying, eh? Ah, 125 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:22,800 now wow, now wow, yeah. The scriptures is about Christ. He said from Genesis to Malachi, 126 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:30,800 from Moses and the prophets, all the things they were speaking concerning me. So when the believer 127 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:39,040 gets into the scriptures, what he ought to see is to see Christ. As the believer sees Christ, 128 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:44,560 he will see himself in where? In Christ. So when you are taught the scriptures, when you are trained 129 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:50,320 in the word of faith, what do you see? You don't see yourself as it were, just flying around. 130 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:57,760 As you see Christ in the word of faith, you see who? You see you. Amen. So Jesus was saying that 131 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:04,240 I am the center of the message. And that statement, Christ spoke that statement after resurrection. 132 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:13,200 Amen. So where did Christ get or got his power from? From resurrection. Hallelujah. So God gave 133 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:20,720 or willed that power to Christ at where? Resurrection. Praise God. Hallelujah. Amen. 134 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:28,320 So because if you check, look 24, when you start from verse one, all that is happening there 135 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:34,320 is about the resurrection of Jesus. Amen. And so he will expand the scriptures to them, 136 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:41,680 open their understanding that they may understand who he is at where? Resurrection. Amen. Praise 137 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:47,200 God. So there's nothing called New Testament. There's nothing called Old Testament. Pastor 138 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:52,640 Chidi, Pastor Victor has already taught us extensively on that. When you go on our website, 139 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,800 go to understanding the Bible, the series there, you're going to see the whole series. 140 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:04,880 The series there, you're going to see it, listen to it, right? Translators helped us. And they did, 141 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:11,200 you know, some yesterday I was trying to go through to read Bible that had no verses 142 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:16,400 and had no chapters. They're online. You see it. Just go and get a sample for yourself. And it's 143 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:23,200 beautiful. Do you know why, sir? Because when you are reading it, you don't read with your mind split 144 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:29,200 in split, no full stop. It's a full story. You read it like a novel, like a story, right? This is 145 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,440 how you're going to read it. You know, now we are reading Luke 24. Everybody go to Luke 24. 146 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:43,440 You know, Luke chapter 24 from verse one, now upon the first day of the week, very early in the 147 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:48,640 morning, they came onto the Sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared and certain 148 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:56,400 orders with them. You now see full stop. Your mind now also becomes stopped. You now go to verse two. 149 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:03,200 You now open your mind. And they found a stone rolled away from the scripture, from the Sepulchre. 150 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:11,200 And they entered in and found what? Not the body of what? Of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass. 151 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:17,040 You see, it's full stop, comma here, semicolon here, and the rest. But you see, when you open 152 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:24,320 the one that has no verses and has no chapters, it's a straight communication. It's just a flow. 153 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:29,040 You just keep flowing. You just keep flowing. So, at the end of it, when you reach the end 154 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:34,240 of a particular communication, you now will have a complete understanding of the context. 155 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:41,360 So, why we now have verses and chapters, they're taught in their mind. You see, Moses, when he 156 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:46,400 wrote Genesis, he never wrote Genesis to be an Old Testament book. When Paul wrote Ephesians, 157 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:51,360 the letter to the Ephesian church, he never said, okay, I Paul the apostle according to the Lord 158 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:56,960 Jesus Christ, this book shall be a New Testament book. I'm sending it to the Ephesian church. 159 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:03,280 Oh, my dearly beloved children in Ephesus, when thou seer this letter, classify it on the New 160 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:09,280 Testament in age to come that they might read it and understand easily. No. Amen. So, when you go 161 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:13,120 and listen to understanding the Bible, you know how they were piled and compiled together for us. 162 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:19,920 Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Even though I know Pastor Victor has some more that he was going to 163 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:27,440 do, right, but he said, let's pause first. Right. Amen. But the series that is going to take us later 164 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:34,240 will capture all these things. So, there's nothing called New Testament. Jesus will have said, 165 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:38,240 Jesus will have in that Luke chapter 24, he would have said something like this. 166 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:43,200 Then he said unto them, oh, fools, 25 now, as the law of how to believe all that the prophets have 167 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:48,960 spoken in the Old Testament. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his 168 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:55,200 glory and beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expanded unto them in all the Old Testament 169 00:18:55,200 --> 00:19:01,600 and some of the New Testament, the things concerning himself? No. Praise God. Because 170 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:07,920 there's nothing called Old Testament and there's nothing called New Testament. It's called the 171 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:16,960 scriptures. And the scriptures is concerning who? Concerning Christ. Praise God. Hallelujah. Amen. 172 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:22,160 So, how do you know? First Corinthians chapter 15, verse 3. And then let's see whether some other 173 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:30,080 people called it like that. First Corinthians chapter 15. No worry, we'll take it gradually. 174 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:36,000 It's a long series, so it's okay. First Corinthians chapter 15, everybody, from verse 3. See what Paul 175 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:42,960 was saying. For I deliver unto you first of all that which I also received. How that Christ died 176 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:49,680 for our sins according to Old Testament, according to New Testament, according to what? And when we 177 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:56,400 say scriptures, we mean what? Genesis 2. Because at this time there is nothing called Ephesians. 178 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:04,000 In fact, there is nothing called Matthew. Amen. According to where? So where did Paul know that 179 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:12,880 Christ died for our sins? Genesis 2, Malachi. Ah, since I've never seen it. You see that's why 180 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:17,360 it's because you don't attend cell meetings. You refuse to attend cell meetings. You make a choice 181 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:23,520 not to attend midweek service. You can never see it. Never. Verse 4. And that he was buried, 182 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:31,840 and that he rose again the third day according to the... So where did he see it from? Genesis 2, 183 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:39,040 Malachi. So are you saying that Genesis 2, Malachi actually spoke about Christ's burial, 184 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:48,640 his re- is rising, and even on the third day? Yes. According to where? The scriptures. Amen. And that 185 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:55,520 he was seen of Cephas, then of the what? Of the 12th. Hallelujah. Luke 24, which we have read. Amen. 186 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:01,680 So now, because we are talking about the scriptures Genesis to Malachi, right? Just in a way you could 187 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,280 just write it because we are reading the canonicals. So when you are reading the canonicals now, 188 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:13,840 you don't become mindless. Amen. So if I want to understand, for example, right? The book of Genesis, 189 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:20,800 the book I should read more is Exodus. Amen. I'm going to say something now. Or if I want to 190 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:27,520 understand the book of Revelation, the background books I should read is 1st John, 2nd John, and 191 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:34,640 what? 3rd John. If I want to understand all the letters of the apostles, apostle Paul, 192 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:40,960 each and every one of them, I go to the book of Acts. Amen. Some days ago we were talking with my 193 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:50,320 wife and I told them, and I was telling her, not them, you know? I bind your minds. You know, the 194 00:21:50,320 --> 00:22:07,440 heart of the church members with pure water. I told her, amen, that as we read the scriptures, 195 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,880 just pay attention. You're going to see lots of repetitions and lots of things will be adding up. 196 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,920 Amen. Now I say, damn, now all of them are turning to look at her. Whether she has a swollen face, 197 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:23,600 your mind needs to be purified. So now you need to go to the book of Acts because all their journey, 198 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:28,960 all their movements, all the churches they visited, you will see them where? In the book of, 199 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:34,240 so when you now see Paul visiting Ephesus and then you go and see his letter to the Ephesian church, 200 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:39,120 it will now make sense the problems he's addressing, the teaching he's bringing to them. 201 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:44,800 Because when you read the book of Acts now, you will now understand, ah, so from Acts, 202 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:50,080 these were some of the things actually that happened. Amen. When you now go to Colossians, 203 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:54,320 so that you don't read Colossians in isolation, and then you go to Acts, you now see, okay, 204 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:59,520 so that's why actually in the Corinthian church, they had these major issues with them. So I want 205 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:06,160 to understand the apostle Paul, his letters. I go to Acts. I want to understand Matthew, Mark, 206 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:12,800 Luke, and John. I go to Genesis to Malachi. Oh, so to understand Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 207 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:20,480 as you read Genesis to Malachi? Yes, sir. And I want to understand Exodus. To Malachi, I go to Genesis. 208 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:27,760 I want to understand Genesis, I go to Exodus. Because it's from Exodus that Genesis came from. 209 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:32,560 If there was no Exodus, there wouldn't be Genesis. Moses would not be sent, and Moses would not write 210 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:41,120 anything. Amen. So you see, now it will help you to read the scriptures all together. That all the 211 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:48,800 scriptures are about Christ. It's concerning who? Concerning Christ. So you see, you can go to 212 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:53,520 Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and then you read it in isolation. You now understand what I mean about 213 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:59,840 the life of Christ is from Genesis to Malachi. When you go to Acts, and you want to understand 214 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:05,520 the book of Acts, you need to read Matthew, Mark, Luke, John to understand what is happening in Acts. 215 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:11,280 Praise God. You see, these things I've said on to you will help you to read the entire Bible in 216 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:19,040 context. Amen. So why are they called all the scriptures? We have learned also, right? Amen. 217 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:25,520 We have learned that because they never came by the origin of man. Praise God. They never came by 218 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:36,720 what? The origin of man. They were never an idea of man. Praise God. Hallelujah. Secondly, men wrote, 219 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:44,000 prophets spoke as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost, by the Spirit of God. Praise God. And also, 220 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:49,760 the central message there is about Christ's death and His resurrection. 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 10 221 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:56,320 to 11. 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 10 to 11. I'll just read this scripture and then I'll stop here. 222 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:01,200 I said all that I said because of the things we will start building on. Amen. So because we are 223 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:07,760 going to be going to Genesis to Malachi, quote and unquote, all testament, to say most of the things I 224 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:17,680 will say. The blessedness of the believer didn't start in the Acts. Amen. The blessedness of the 225 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:24,080 believer is from Genesis to here. So which means when we study the book of Genesis to Malachi, 226 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:29,440 we will see you there. Hallelujah. Because when we see Christ there, we will see the believer there 227 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:34,560 too. Amen. Hallelujah. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and sat diligently, 228 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:39,200 who prophesied of the grace that should do what? Should come unto you. Verse 11. 229 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,640 Starting what or what manner of the time the Spirit of Christ which was in them be signified 230 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:50,000 when it is signified beforehand, the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should what? 231 00:25:50,720 --> 00:26:00,640 Should follow. The prophets spoke about it. Amen. 2 Peter 1, 20, 21. 2 Peter 1, 20, 21. 2 Peter 232 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:07,120 chapter 1, verse 20 to 21. Knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of what? 233 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:16,800 Any private what? Interpretation. Yes, 21. For the prophecy came not in old time. You see? In what? 234 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:24,880 Old time, not in Old Testament. In old what? Time. Okay, we'll see in the next time we meet. 235 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:31,680 By the will of man, but holy men of God speak as they were moved by what? By the Holy Ghost. 236 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:37,920 By the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Praise God. So the whole scripture. So what are we learning this morning? 237 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,840 We are learning one thing. That all scripture is concerning who? 238 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:49,360 Concerning Christ. If Christ had to speak, he will speak from where? The scriptures. If Paul had to 239 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:55,840 teach, he had to teach from where? The scripture. If James had to teach, he had to teach from where? 240 00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:01,280 The scriptures. If the apostles had to live their life, they were living their life from where? 241 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:07,600 The scripture. If the believer has to live his life, he has to live his life from where? 242 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:15,040 If you have to live your life, where should you live your life from? From the scriptures. Amen. 243 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:20,400 Can we just bless God everybody? Just bless God. Just bless God everybody. One prayer I say, 244 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,520 Holy Spirit, strengthen me to live my life by the scriptures. 245 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:31,200 Strengthen me to live my life by the scriptures. Strengthen me. I receive strength in my inner man. 246 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:37,600 I receive strength in my inner man. I receive strength in my inner man. I receive strength in 247 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:44,640 my inner man. Thank you for listening to today's sermon. Your journey matters to us. Let's keep 248 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:51,360 walking together. 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