WEBVTT 00:00:01.759 --> 00:00:05.580 Welcome to NECF. We're thrilled you're here. 00:00:06.419 --> 00:00:09.339 Make sure to stay with us till the end, where 00:00:09.339 --> 00:00:12.179 we'll share some great resources to deepen your 00:00:12.179 --> 00:00:16.179 faith. Now, let's dive into this week's sermon. 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:25.859 Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost. As you're seated, can 00:00:25.859 --> 00:00:32.509 you just pray in tongues for two minutes? Don't 00:00:32.509 --> 00:00:34.109 look at your friend. Don't look at anybody. Just 00:00:34.109 --> 00:00:35.909 close your eyes. Can we all close our eyes? I'm 00:00:35.909 --> 00:00:38.490 praying the Holy Ghost. Can we all close our 00:00:38.490 --> 00:00:45.009 eyes? Everybody close your eyes. Don't be distracted. 00:00:45.130 --> 00:01:34.560 Close your eyes. Thank you. Thank you for watching. 00:01:50.089 --> 00:01:54.109 One more minute. Let's pray. Please ensure your 00:01:54.109 --> 00:01:56.150 eyes are closed. Don't be distracted. Pray in 00:01:56.150 --> 00:02:23.189 the Holy Ghost. One more minute. Holy Ghost. 00:02:24.189 --> 00:02:30.349 Holy Ghost. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name. 00:02:31.050 --> 00:02:37.270 Hallelujah. 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 1 Corinthians 00:02:37.270 --> 00:02:45.879 chapter 12. Everybody. Can everybody say, I have 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:50.960 the Holy Ghost? I have the Holy Ghost. Can you 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:54.699 say, I have the Spirit of the Living God? And 00:02:54.699 --> 00:02:58.539 He lives in the inside of me. He is my helper. 00:02:59.300 --> 00:03:04.599 He is my teacher. He is my leader. He dwells 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:08.860 in the inside of me. Hallelujah. Praise God. 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.900 1 Corinthians chapter 12, everybody. We're just 00:03:11.900 --> 00:03:14.020 going to introduce what we have and then we see 00:03:14.020 --> 00:03:15.979 how the Holy Spirit strengthened us to be able 00:03:15.979 --> 00:03:19.240 to take it in the coming days that are ahead 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:23.000 of us. He said, now concerning spiritual gifts, 00:03:23.259 --> 00:03:26.479 if you have been in this assembly for a while, 00:03:26.620 --> 00:03:29.740 you will understand that we've talked about this 00:03:29.740 --> 00:03:33.560 so much. Amen? And we say in the original context, 00:03:33.780 --> 00:03:36.860 we don't have... Spiritual gifts as it were. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:38.340 When you're reading, if you have the Old King 00:03:38.340 --> 00:03:40.639 James Version, you realize that the gifts there 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:47.479 are in Italic. Amen? And we say that it was introduced 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:51.060 by translators, right? For the sake of giving 00:03:51.060 --> 00:03:54.879 it a context. Amen? Because of what is contained 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:58.560 within that particular chapter. Praise God. Hallelujah. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.620 So we say now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, 00:04:01.900 --> 00:04:05.509 I will not have you what? I will not have you 00:04:05.509 --> 00:04:09.669 what? Ignorant. Praise God. I will not have you 00:04:09.669 --> 00:04:12.789 ignorant. Why will Paul return them back to this 00:04:12.789 --> 00:04:16.790 place? Let's go to chapter 1. So it's not like 00:04:16.790 --> 00:04:18.250 they are ignorant. They don't know what he's 00:04:18.250 --> 00:04:21.750 talking about. Praise God. He's addressing a 00:04:21.750 --> 00:04:24.750 local church that are aware of spiritual gifts. 00:04:24.850 --> 00:04:28.189 Praise God. Yes, they are aware of it. You can 00:04:28.189 --> 00:04:30.709 have something and don't know how to use it. 00:04:30.790 --> 00:04:33.189 Praise God. You can have something and don't 00:04:33.189 --> 00:04:35.959 know how to what? And use it. We call that abuse. 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:40.379 Praise God. Every time you don't know how to 00:04:40.379 --> 00:04:43.000 use a thing, you don't understand the value. 00:04:43.459 --> 00:04:45.500 Every time you don't know how to use a thing, 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:47.800 what happens is that you're going to abuse it. 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:52.220 Every time you don't know how to use a thing, 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:53.819 what is going to happen is that you're going 00:04:53.819 --> 00:04:57.959 to use it to cause chaos. Hallelujah. Praise 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.660 God. And then we go to chapter 1 now. So that 00:05:00.660 --> 00:05:03.660 you see, why will he tell them, I will not have 00:05:03.660 --> 00:05:06.540 you ignorant? That kind of a statement will be 00:05:06.540 --> 00:05:10.319 a statement given to people that are conversant 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.259 about something. Because if I come to you and 00:05:13.259 --> 00:05:15.680 say, I will not have you ignorant, I know that 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.339 you know something. But the challenge is that 00:05:18.339 --> 00:05:22.639 you are not living by those things. Amen? Praise 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.180 God. Then we go to chapter 1 now. Let's hear 00:05:25.180 --> 00:05:28.449 why he will tell them that. 1 Corinthians chapter 00:05:28.449 --> 00:05:33.509 1. Let's start reading from verse 1 so that we'll 00:05:33.509 --> 00:05:36.949 have a big context to it, right? Paul called 00:05:36.949 --> 00:05:39.189 to be an apostle of Jesus Christ. Please take 00:05:39.189 --> 00:05:41.170 away these verses. Everybody's going to read 00:05:41.170 --> 00:05:49.589 their Bible. Thank you. I love you. So if you 00:05:49.589 --> 00:05:51.269 don't come to church with Bible, just be looking 00:05:51.269 --> 00:05:56.240 at the ceiling. It just means that... You either 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.860 didn't know that here was a church or you think 00:05:58.860 --> 00:06:04.259 it was some form of club or something. Or probably 00:06:04.259 --> 00:06:09.699 you were not taught about what church is. So 00:06:09.699 --> 00:06:14.040 take it away. You say I've reduced your work 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:15.600 so that you too can also read the Bible. You 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.300 know, right? Our media team, you know, right? 00:06:18.980 --> 00:06:21.019 Yes, I just brought help now to you. Praise God. 00:06:22.370 --> 00:06:24.449 Verse 1, everybody, look at your Bible, everybody. 00:06:24.589 --> 00:06:26.029 We're going to be opening scriptures and then 00:06:26.029 --> 00:06:29.490 open your Bible, everybody. Paul called to be 00:06:29.490 --> 00:06:31.449 an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of 00:06:31.449 --> 00:06:34.750 God and sustenance, our brother, unto the church 00:06:34.750 --> 00:06:38.449 of God, which is at Corinth, to them that are 00:06:38.449 --> 00:06:41.430 sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be the saints 00:06:41.430 --> 00:06:43.670 with all that are in every place called upon 00:06:43.670 --> 00:06:46.589 the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, both theirs 00:06:46.589 --> 00:06:50.430 and ours. Three, grace be unto you and peace 00:06:50.430 --> 00:06:53.480 from our God. From God our Father and from the 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:57.379 Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always on your 00:06:57.379 --> 00:07:02.220 behalf. Hallelujah. I thank my God what? Always 00:07:02.220 --> 00:07:05.459 on your what? When you hear such a remark or 00:07:05.459 --> 00:07:06.800 such a prayer, what's the next thing that will 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.279 follow? Beautiful things, right? Yes, when I 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:13.759 say, oh, Bro Collins, I thank my God always on 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:15.600 your behalf. The next thing that you shall say 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:17.920 is, you'll be hearing good remarks. Is it not? 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.300 Right? If I'm going to... Correct him. And I 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:27.620 defy him. I'll tell him, Collins, I am not happy 00:07:27.620 --> 00:07:30.560 or I'm unhappy. I'll introduce it from the beginning. 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.439 Hallelujah. And then he said something. Verse 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:36.920 4. For the grace of God which is given you by 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.899 what? Jesus Christ. First salvation. Amen. Yeah, 00:07:40.899 --> 00:07:43.399 so he thanked God for their saved. Praise God. 00:07:43.660 --> 00:07:48.439 5. That in everything you are what? Enriched 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:51.660 by him. In how many utterance? In all utterance 00:07:51.660 --> 00:07:55.180 and in all knowledge. So the believer in Christ 00:07:55.180 --> 00:07:58.920 Jesus is the man that is enriched in all what? 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:03.259 Alterance and in all what? Knowledge. Praise 00:08:03.259 --> 00:08:07.680 God. Amen. See six now. Even as the testimony 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:12.839 of Christ was what? Was confirmed way in you. 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:18.860 Amazing testimonies. Seven. So that ye come behind 00:08:18.860 --> 00:08:24.420 in what? Yea, come behind in what? Waiting for 00:08:24.420 --> 00:08:28.639 the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yea, come 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:33.159 behind in no gift. That this church are not actually 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:37.639 empty of spiritual gifts. Praise God. But we 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.480 see now in chapter 12, he would tell them that 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:45.340 I will not. He said now concerning what? Spiritual 00:08:45.340 --> 00:08:47.519 gifts. It's just like I'm just talking to you. 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:50.220 And then as I'm talking to you about your academics, 00:08:50.460 --> 00:08:53.299 I'm talking to you about your life after Cyprus, 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:55.539 I'm talking to you about what you should do, 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:58.039 then it's almost like I just remembered something 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.279 that has not been discussed. Amen? And then I 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:06.259 go, now concerning your prayer life, I will not 00:09:06.259 --> 00:09:09.639 have you ignorant about how to carry out your 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.700 prayer life. And so let me tell you how to properly 00:09:13.700 --> 00:09:16.279 carry out your what? Your prayer life. That's 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.179 the same context here. Praise God. It has gotten 00:09:20.179 --> 00:09:23.360 into my ear that when you go to pray, you just 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.360 sing songs and sing songs and then share some 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:29.379 comedy and some form of laughter here and there. 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:33.159 And then you call it, you know, prayer lock out 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:35.639 or prayer locks in and then everybody goes home. 00:09:36.700 --> 00:09:38.519 It just shows that you don't understand what 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.820 prayer is. Praise God. Hallelujah. So he wants 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:45.279 to bring an order to them here. Verse 2 now, 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.080 everybody. 1 Corinthians 12, 2. Ye know that 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.039 ye were what? Gentiles carried away unto these 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:55.600 dumb idols, even as ye were what? Were led, right? 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:00.539 He said, wherefore, I give you to what? I give 00:10:00.539 --> 00:10:05.279 you to what? To understand. I will not have you 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:12.980 ignorant, and I give you to understand. That 00:10:12.980 --> 00:10:17.379 no man speaking by the Spirit of God, Call it 00:10:17.379 --> 00:10:22.600 Jesus what? Accursed. And no man can say Jesus 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:29.559 is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. 00:10:29.820 --> 00:10:32.960 So our first encounter with the Spirit of God 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:35.879 came as a result of the gospel that we've heard. 00:10:36.419 --> 00:10:39.919 Hallelujah. Praise God. We heard the truth of 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:42.419 the gospel which the Holy Ghost brought to our 00:10:42.419 --> 00:10:45.220 hearts and we believe it with our heart. And 00:10:45.220 --> 00:10:47.779 we confess the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe 00:10:47.779 --> 00:10:50.740 that God raised him from what? From the dead. 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:55.139 And we became saved. So your first encounter 00:10:55.139 --> 00:10:58.899 with the Holy Ghost was at salvation. Hallelujah. 00:10:59.259 --> 00:11:02.980 Was at what? Salvation. Praise God. The title 00:11:02.980 --> 00:11:06.139 of our... Because somebody will say, this man 00:11:06.139 --> 00:11:08.100 is just moving. He didn't tell us what we are 00:11:08.100 --> 00:11:12.980 talking about. Right? Holy Ghost meetings. Holy 00:11:12.980 --> 00:11:17.889 Ghost. Meeting. You don't write meetings or meeting. 00:11:18.690 --> 00:11:22.610 Holy Ghost Gathering. Holy Ghost what? Meetings. 00:11:24.710 --> 00:11:28.269 I can't see you writing the title. You're trying 00:11:28.269 --> 00:11:30.009 to think about the topic? Don't worry. Don't 00:11:30.009 --> 00:11:32.370 think about it. Just write it. Write it. Let 00:11:32.370 --> 00:11:34.429 me see you write. Holy Ghost Meetings. That's 00:11:34.429 --> 00:11:38.029 the title. When I teach, I want to see everybody 00:11:38.029 --> 00:11:40.389 writing. If you're using your phone, go to your 00:11:40.389 --> 00:11:45.210 notepad and be writing. You understand in a bit 00:11:45.210 --> 00:11:50.350 why you have to. If you are using your phone, 00:11:50.389 --> 00:11:54.950 do what? I make you, by the authority of the 00:11:54.950 --> 00:11:58.750 lead pastor, their sister lead pastor, and all 00:11:58.750 --> 00:12:02.789 the associate pastors, today I ordain you as 00:12:02.789 --> 00:12:06.870 a security officer of your neighbor. If your 00:12:06.870 --> 00:12:09.070 neighbor is beside you and he is not writing, 00:12:09.250 --> 00:12:13.399 or the neighbor is just pressing phone, and playing 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.440 games or scrolling WhatsApp, ask the person, 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.720 are you still a non -believer? Ask the person 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.200 that question if you see that person. Amen? You 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.659 know what he said in verse 2? He said, verse 00:12:26.659 --> 00:12:30.399 2, he said, ye know that ye were what? Gentiles 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.500 carried away unto this what? Dumb idols. So ask 00:12:33.500 --> 00:12:35.220 the person, are you still a Gentile carried away 00:12:35.220 --> 00:12:39.399 by these dumb idols? Yes, I give you that authority 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.500 to be a security officer now on this morning. 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.539 Praise God. You will understand in a bit why 00:12:44.539 --> 00:12:47.679 it's important for us. Praise God. So what's 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:53.840 the topic? What's the topic? Holy Ghost. Holy 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.360 Ghost. Can you say I love Holy Ghost meetings? 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:01.080 Say I love Holy Ghost meetings. Say I will attend 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:05.000 Holy Ghost meetings. Hallelujah. Praise God. 00:13:05.220 --> 00:13:07.559 So I said that our first encounter was at where? 00:13:08.980 --> 00:13:12.450 Where was our first encounter? Our salvation. 00:13:12.450 --> 00:13:14.289 Where did we first encounter the Holy Ghost? 00:13:15.330 --> 00:13:17.610 Praise God. So that means that you are already 00:13:17.610 --> 00:13:20.750 qualified for a Holy Ghost meeting. Praise God. 00:13:21.330 --> 00:13:24.590 The number one criteria for you being part of 00:13:24.590 --> 00:13:26.950 a Holy Ghost meeting is that you have encountered 00:13:26.950 --> 00:13:30.750 the what? The Holy Ghost. Praise God. Hallelujah. 00:13:31.470 --> 00:13:34.570 Yes, so we encountered the Holy Ghost first when 00:13:34.570 --> 00:13:37.570 we first heard the gospel. Amen. The truth about 00:13:37.570 --> 00:13:44.730 Christ. So the first information we had, that 00:13:44.730 --> 00:13:47.269 was the same information about Christ that made 00:13:47.269 --> 00:13:53.190 us say, Jesus is Lord. Verse 3 says, no one, 00:13:53.230 --> 00:13:59.169 no one or no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but 00:13:59.169 --> 00:14:06.370 by what? By the Holy Ghost. So what you had made 00:14:06.370 --> 00:14:09.230 you receive the Spirit of God and you became 00:14:09.230 --> 00:14:14.789 spiritual. Can you say what I had, what I received 00:14:14.789 --> 00:14:20.129 as salvation, the Spirit of God made me spiritual. 00:14:20.730 --> 00:14:24.710 Say, I am spiritual. I am spiritual because the 00:14:24.710 --> 00:14:28.190 Spirit of God dwells in me. Yes, that's your 00:14:28.190 --> 00:14:31.649 reality. Hallelujah. That's your new nature. 00:14:31.789 --> 00:14:35.629 So what you heard, what you received, the Spirit 00:14:35.629 --> 00:14:40.080 of God has made you what? Spiritual. 1 Corinthians 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:47.659 chapter 2. 1 Corinthians chapter 2. What did 00:14:47.659 --> 00:14:52.379 you hear? 1 Corinthians chapter 2. Verse 2 to 00:14:52.379 --> 00:14:55.399 5. What did you hear? See what Paul will tell 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:57.799 the Corinthian church. And at the same time, 00:14:57.820 --> 00:15:00.639 it's a letter for us. Amen? He said, for I determined 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:04.220 not to know anything among you. Save Jesus Christ 00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:08.019 and Him crucified. That's the message. Jesus 00:15:08.019 --> 00:15:12.159 Christ and him what? Crucified. Three. And I 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.580 was with you in weakness and in fear and in much 00:15:15.580 --> 00:15:19.299 trembling. And my speech and my preaching, which 00:15:19.299 --> 00:15:22.960 is Jesus and him crucified, was not with enticing 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.820 words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of 00:15:26.820 --> 00:15:30.500 what? Of the spirit and of what? And of power. 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.440 No wonder in Romans chapter 1. Let's go to Romans 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:40.730 chapter 1. What did we hear? We heard the gospel. 00:15:41.049 --> 00:15:44.809 And that same gospel is the power of God, is 00:15:44.809 --> 00:15:47.690 the wisdom of God. Romans chapter 1 verse 16. 00:15:47.909 --> 00:15:50.350 It says, For I am not ashamed of the gospel of 00:15:50.350 --> 00:15:53.970 Christ, for it is the power of God unto what? 00:15:54.590 --> 00:15:58.769 Salvation to everyone that what? Believed. Hallelujah. 00:16:00.070 --> 00:16:03.889 Praise God. To everyone that what? Believes. 00:16:04.629 --> 00:16:07.340 Automatically you are part of this power. Praise 00:16:07.340 --> 00:16:09.840 God. Automatically you are part of the Spirit 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:12.840 of God. Because now the Spirit of God dwells 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:16.279 in you. So we are in 1 Corinthians chapter 2. 00:16:18.539 --> 00:16:22.919 Then verse 10 to 12. 1 Corinthians chapter 2, 00:16:22.980 --> 00:16:25.100 10 to 12. He said, But God hath revealed them 00:16:25.100 --> 00:16:27.799 unto us by His Spirit. For the Spirit of God 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.259 started all things, yea, the deep things of God. 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.639 11. For one man knoweth the things of God, and 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:35.919 things of a man, save the Spirit of man which 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:40.340 is in him. Even so, the things of God knoweth 00:16:40.340 --> 00:16:45.299 what? Know man, but the Spirit of who? The Spirit 00:16:45.299 --> 00:16:47.879 of God. Everybody, please go check your Bible 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:50.000 now as we are reading it. See verse 12. Can we 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:54.820 read everybody? 12. Everybody, want to go? Now. 00:16:54.820 --> 00:16:59.679 Is it tomorrow? When? Now. This is the current 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:03.179 reality now. Praise God. updated version update 00:17:03.179 --> 00:17:08.700 news now now we have received not what let's 00:17:08.700 --> 00:17:13.539 read all together but the spirit which is that 00:17:13.539 --> 00:17:17.880 we might what know the things that are what freely 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:22.140 given to us of what of god hallelujah praise 00:17:22.140 --> 00:17:26.200 god 13 which things also we speak not in words 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:29.390 which Man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy 00:17:29.390 --> 00:17:33.170 Ghost teaches, comparing what? Only a spiritual 00:17:33.170 --> 00:17:36.109 man can compare spiritual things with spiritual. 00:17:36.369 --> 00:17:39.849 Hallelujah. Praise God. So the day you received 00:17:39.849 --> 00:17:43.150 the Spirit of God as salvation, you became, what 00:17:43.150 --> 00:17:46.230 did you become? Spiritual. Hallelujah. Praise 00:17:46.230 --> 00:17:52.430 God. Hallelujah. So the word spiritual, the word 00:17:52.430 --> 00:18:01.259 spiritual means, The word spiritual means the 00:18:01.259 --> 00:18:05.359 Spirit of God by the Spirit of God in the Spirit 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:12.940 of God with the Spirit of God. The word spiritual 00:18:12.940 --> 00:18:20.380 means the Spirit of God by the Spirit of God 00:18:20.380 --> 00:18:24.359 in the Spirit of God with the Spirit of God. 00:18:29.289 --> 00:18:31.789 What spirit are we talking about here? We are 00:18:31.789 --> 00:18:33.990 talking about the spirit of the living God. Hallelujah. 00:18:35.150 --> 00:18:38.150 We are talking about what? The spirit of what? 00:18:38.470 --> 00:18:41.829 The living God. Peter will teach in Acts chapter 00:18:41.829 --> 00:18:44.670 2. He said for now what do you see? That event 00:18:44.670 --> 00:18:47.630 you see that everybody is speaking in tongues 00:18:47.630 --> 00:18:50.730 and different kinds of utterances is because 00:18:50.730 --> 00:18:53.269 that which has been prophesied by prophet Isaiah 00:18:53.269 --> 00:18:56.970 and Joel has been fulfilled now. Amen. that the 00:18:56.970 --> 00:19:01.230 Spirit will be shed. And today, glory to God 00:19:01.230 --> 00:19:04.849 before your eyes, Christ has now what? Shed off 00:19:04.849 --> 00:19:12.230 the Spirit. Praise God. Hallelujah. 1 Corinthians 00:19:12.230 --> 00:19:19.630 3 .16 1 Corinthians 3 .16 So we said the word 00:19:19.630 --> 00:19:23.690 spiritual means what? Echo it, let me hear. Yes. 00:19:24.869 --> 00:19:30.049 Yes. In the spirit of God, yes. With the spirit 00:19:30.049 --> 00:19:33.410 of God. Hallelujah. So and I said, what spirit 00:19:33.410 --> 00:19:36.430 are we dealing with here? We are dealing with 00:19:36.430 --> 00:19:42.190 the spirit of God. Hallelujah. If you are saved 00:19:42.190 --> 00:19:47.809 here, you don't have a demonic spirit. You have 00:19:47.809 --> 00:19:51.170 what? The spirit of God dwelling in your what? 00:19:51.829 --> 00:19:55.799 Inside. Somebody will say, but sir, I tried my 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:59.420 best to stop smoking. I think I have a demon 00:19:59.420 --> 00:20:04.579 spirit in me. But I know I am saved. You don't 00:20:04.579 --> 00:20:08.019 have a demon spirit in you. You have the spirit 00:20:08.019 --> 00:20:12.200 of God, where? In you. However, you are oppressed 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:17.960 by a demon spirit. So you cannot have two spirits 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:21.930 inside you. You cannot have a good spirit. A 00:20:21.930 --> 00:20:25.809 holy spirit and an unholy spirit in what? Inside 00:20:25.809 --> 00:20:29.509 you. You cannot. Even in the demonic realm, they 00:20:29.509 --> 00:20:32.630 know this. That a higher spirit and a lesser 00:20:32.630 --> 00:20:35.950 spirit don't stay in the same place. They understand 00:20:35.950 --> 00:20:43.710 it. Jesus will tell them, if I cast out this 00:20:43.710 --> 00:20:46.069 devil that you are saying, by the spirit of what? 00:20:46.970 --> 00:20:50.569 Beelzebub. Then the kingdom of Satan is divided. 00:20:54.059 --> 00:20:56.059 So you see, when you go to see a native doctor, 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:00.099 the native doctor is only permitted to interact 00:21:00.099 --> 00:21:04.579 with one level demonic realm. So when you go 00:21:04.579 --> 00:21:06.799 with demons, what the native doctor will do to 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:09.299 cast out one, he's going to invoke a higher one, 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:12.380 beg the one, say, please, remove him, leave him 00:21:12.380 --> 00:21:14.359 now, please. That higher one will say, okay, 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:19.240 kill a virgin. So they will now slaughter. We 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:21.859 just hear a lady has been kidnapped and then 00:21:21.859 --> 00:21:30.640 story has ended. But you have the Holy Ghost 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.359 inside you that is higher than every other spirit. 00:21:36.299 --> 00:21:40.000 What you need is your yielding to the Spirit 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.220 of God. That thing you call challenge is not 00:21:43.220 --> 00:21:45.859 a challenge to the Spirit of God. That thing 00:21:45.859 --> 00:21:48.839 you call challenge is because you are still holding 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:51.799 on to it. If only you can yield to the Spirit 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:54.299 of God. I tell you this by the Spirit of God 00:21:54.299 --> 00:21:57.809 for free. You see, he said now. You have not 00:21:57.809 --> 00:22:00.710 received the spirit of what? Of the world. What 00:22:00.710 --> 00:22:04.210 have you received? Did he say tomorrow? Did he 00:22:04.210 --> 00:22:06.329 say next two weeks? What have you received now? 00:22:06.670 --> 00:22:10.670 The spirit of God. You have not received the 00:22:10.670 --> 00:22:14.230 spirit of lust. You have not received the spirit 00:22:14.230 --> 00:22:16.869 of pride. You have not received the spirit of 00:22:16.869 --> 00:22:19.690 addiction. You have not received the spirit of 00:22:19.690 --> 00:22:23.349 fear, as he says in Romans chapter 8. You have 00:22:23.349 --> 00:22:25.490 not received the spirit of bondage. But when 00:22:25.490 --> 00:22:27.309 we have received the spirit of sonship, that 00:22:27.309 --> 00:22:30.769 we may cry, Abba, Father. That is the spirit 00:22:30.769 --> 00:22:33.670 of what we have received. You are spiritual. 00:22:38.230 --> 00:22:46.089 That is the mindset you must have. Holy Ghost 00:22:46.089 --> 00:22:52.869 meetings are for spiritual men. Hallelujah. Holy 00:22:52.869 --> 00:22:56.759 Ghost meetings are for what? Yes, for people 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:03.160 who know that I am spiritual. Let me tell you 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:05.920 good news. As you are sitting here, you are not 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:08.680 empty. You are either having the Holy Ghost, 00:23:08.819 --> 00:23:11.160 you are saved. Or if you are here this morning 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:13.380 and you are hearing me and you are not saved, 00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:16.859 let me tell you, you have a demon spirit. And 00:23:16.859 --> 00:23:19.140 that spirit is the spirit of Satan and it's at 00:23:19.140 --> 00:23:26.690 work in your heart now. And that spirit this 00:23:26.690 --> 00:23:30.670 morning. If only you can believe. With your heart 00:23:30.670 --> 00:23:33.809 that Jesus. That God has raised Jesus from the 00:23:33.809 --> 00:23:36.690 dead. And you can confess with your mouth. The 00:23:36.690 --> 00:23:39.710 Lord Jesus. Then there will be an exchange this 00:23:39.710 --> 00:23:43.890 morning. Hallelujah. Praise God. So you are what? 00:23:44.029 --> 00:23:49.029 You are spiritual. Hallelujah. 1 Corinthians 00:23:49.029 --> 00:23:54.029 chapter 3. Verse 16. See what the scripture says. 00:24:04.269 --> 00:24:10.569 Can we read it all together? Know ye what? That 00:24:10.569 --> 00:24:18.529 you are and dwell outside you. And the Spirit 00:24:18.529 --> 00:24:21.910 of God does what? And the Spirit of God dwells 00:24:21.910 --> 00:24:26.809 where? In where? So that this place now, if I 00:24:26.809 --> 00:24:29.250 will ask you a common question now. When we say 00:24:29.250 --> 00:24:31.430 the Spirit of God dwells in you, what does the 00:24:31.430 --> 00:24:37.640 English mean? Huh? Come on. This is a classroom. 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.359 Let's talk. When I say the Spirit of God dwells 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:44.559 in you, what do I mean? Am I negotiating it with 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:48.559 you? Am I trying to argue it with you? What am 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:52.880 I saying to you? Yes, I'm giving you an emphatic 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:58.160 reality. Praise God. Hallelujah. He said you 00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:02.410 are the what? The temple of the living God. How 00:25:02.410 --> 00:25:04.730 did you become the temple of the living God? 00:25:04.950 --> 00:25:08.910 At salvation, the Spirit of God did what? Dwelled 00:25:08.910 --> 00:25:13.450 in you. You did not become the temple before 00:25:13.450 --> 00:25:16.670 the Spirit dwelled in you. The Spirit of God 00:25:16.670 --> 00:25:20.309 dwelled in you and you became the what? The temple. 00:25:20.390 --> 00:25:24.069 Let me repeat myself again. You were not the 00:25:24.069 --> 00:25:27.009 temple. And then the Spirit of God dwell in you. 00:25:27.170 --> 00:25:29.569 But rather what? The Spirit of God did what? 00:25:29.849 --> 00:25:36.230 Dwell in you and you became what? A temple. That's 00:25:36.230 --> 00:25:41.569 it. Praise God. Hallelujah. He said, so how do 00:25:41.569 --> 00:25:46.470 I know? Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8. Verse 00:25:46.470 --> 00:25:50.609 9. He said, but ye are not in the flesh. But 00:25:50.609 --> 00:25:54.009 you are in the Spirit. Hallelujah. Say, ye are 00:25:54.009 --> 00:25:57.190 not in the flesh, but ye are in the spirit. If 00:25:57.190 --> 00:26:01.950 so, be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now, 00:26:01.950 --> 00:26:04.029 if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he 00:26:04.029 --> 00:26:07.069 is what? He is none of his. See verse 10, everybody. 00:26:07.529 --> 00:26:12.369 And if Christ be in what? In you. The body is 00:26:12.369 --> 00:26:14.730 dead because of sin, but the spirit is what? 00:26:15.410 --> 00:26:19.670 Is alive because of what? Righteousness. See, 00:26:19.690 --> 00:26:22.579 I have been called to righteousness. I've been 00:26:22.579 --> 00:26:26.059 called to a life of righteousness. Oh, I didn't 00:26:26.059 --> 00:26:30.079 work for it. Say it, I didn't work for it. I 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:36.759 didn't labor for it. God gave me as a gift. Yes, 00:26:36.859 --> 00:26:44.440 that's what the scripture says. Praise God. The 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:46.259 same thing we see in John chapter 3, verse 3 00:26:46.259 --> 00:26:50.039 to 5, everybody. You see, all this that we are 00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:52.619 establishing this morning, He's going to lay 00:26:52.619 --> 00:26:56.700 a foundation for where we're going. Amen? John 00:26:56.700 --> 00:27:00.859 chapter 3, verse 3 to 5. We'll read 3 and then 00:27:00.859 --> 00:27:04.500 jump to 5. Jesus answered and said unto him, 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:06.980 John chapter 3, verse 3, and we jump to verse 00:27:06.980 --> 00:27:10.559 5. Jesus answered, verse 3, and said unto him, 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:14.920 Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:18.839 be born again, he cannot, what? See the kingdom 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:44.170 of God. Verse 5. Hallelujah. Say, except a man 00:27:44.170 --> 00:27:47.109 be born of water, which is the Spirit, he cannot 00:27:47.109 --> 00:27:50.920 what? He cannot enter into what? The kingdom 00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:54.779 of God. Hallelujah. Praise God. Say we are spiritual. 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:59.819 Say we are spiritual. Say we are spiritual. You 00:27:59.819 --> 00:28:02.680 know, sometimes you can just be accustomed to 00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:05.359 one meeting. You know how just funny it is that 00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:07.420 some people just, some believers will just choose 00:28:07.420 --> 00:28:09.940 one meeting to attend in the church. You are 00:28:09.940 --> 00:28:13.440 part of NECF and the only meeting you love is 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:17.690 just Sunday service. Let me give us an assignment 00:28:17.690 --> 00:28:21.990 now. Just turn to your neighbor. Do you have 00:28:21.990 --> 00:28:25.150 a neighbor? Ask the person a reality question. 00:28:25.269 --> 00:28:27.150 How many services do you attend even in this 00:28:27.150 --> 00:28:35.089 church? Please get an answer. After that answer, 00:28:35.190 --> 00:28:44.990 ask the person which of the services. What answer 00:28:44.990 --> 00:28:48.589 did you get? How many services? Two services? 00:28:49.210 --> 00:28:53.549 How many? All services. How many did you get? 00:28:53.809 --> 00:28:57.130 What answer did you get from him? Oh, it's new. 00:28:57.210 --> 00:29:00.869 Okay, I love you, brother. What answer did he 00:29:00.869 --> 00:29:03.309 give you? Two services. That's which one and 00:29:03.309 --> 00:29:07.450 which one? Sunday and sale. Midweek service, 00:29:07.589 --> 00:29:11.750 you don't come. I love you. The fact that it's 00:29:11.750 --> 00:29:14.789 happening on Zoom is a service. Which answer 00:29:14.789 --> 00:29:18.990 did she give you? Three. Only three. Which one 00:29:18.990 --> 00:29:25.650 and which one? Sunday, cell and... So that's 00:29:25.650 --> 00:29:30.690 all. She does not attend prayer cruise. She does 00:29:30.690 --> 00:29:34.089 not attend catatismus. All of those things they 00:29:34.089 --> 00:29:37.750 don't attend. I know somebody that wants to run 00:29:37.750 --> 00:29:42.150 home, don't want to attend catatismus. Praise 00:29:42.150 --> 00:29:45.420 God. You know, you can be accustomed to only 00:29:45.420 --> 00:29:49.160 one service. You say, you know, me, eh? Pro college, 00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:51.500 you don't understand. The way I love Sunday service. 00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:57.099 You know, that, that, that morning song. Most 00:29:57.099 --> 00:30:00.779 especially when, when, when, when Sister Shoko 00:30:00.779 --> 00:30:04.619 Bleke leads the song. You know, I love that her 00:30:04.619 --> 00:30:12.200 voice. Like an ambulance. That service is always 00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:16.339 sweet. They have prayer meetings. No, no, no. 00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:21.920 Prayer meetings are not for us. Not for us. I 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:25.539 didn't see you in cell meetings. No, no. Cell 00:30:25.539 --> 00:30:28.099 meetings, I don't like. They always pick on me. 00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:35.859 They always what? Pick on me. Blessed are thou 00:30:35.859 --> 00:30:38.859 when you are picked. For the call of God has 00:30:38.859 --> 00:30:46.440 been certified upon your life. You know, I was 00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:48.640 with someone some days ago and then we're talking. 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:56.180 The person said, he said, so why me? I just feel 00:30:56.180 --> 00:31:00.200 I don't want to attend cell meetings and the 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:05.380 rest. Because when I go, everybody see me as 00:31:05.380 --> 00:31:09.480 though I'm unserious. I asked the person, so 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:12.039 what have you done to prove them that you're 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:13.940 not unserious? He said, nothing. He shows you're 00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:21.220 unserious. If you miss cell meetings, it means 00:31:21.220 --> 00:31:25.259 you are unserious. You miss midweek service, 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:28.799 it means you are. You miss Friday meetings, it 00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:31.640 means you are. You miss Sunday meetings, it means 00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:35.079 you are. You miss Catholicism, it means you are. 00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:38.279 We arrange prayer crews for this local church 00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:42.200 and you make up your mind. Brother, I will not 00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:46.480 have you ignorant. You have returned onto dumb 00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:52.750 idols. Saturday, we're going to have prayers. 00:31:53.250 --> 00:31:55.730 We say, so -so -so day, we're going to pray from 00:31:55.730 --> 00:32:00.150 9 to 5 or to 7. We will be there just praying 00:32:00.150 --> 00:32:03.470 and not comedy. And that is the day you will 00:32:03.470 --> 00:32:07.589 make up your mind not to attend. Can't you see 00:32:07.589 --> 00:32:09.089 that you're working with the participation of 00:32:09.089 --> 00:32:13.829 spirits? Spirits must be helping you to make 00:32:13.829 --> 00:32:21.460 such a decision. I'm telling you. Yes. At least 00:32:21.460 --> 00:32:25.859 be like Peter. Be like James. Follow us to the 00:32:25.859 --> 00:32:29.140 place and sleep. After one hour, we're going 00:32:29.140 --> 00:32:31.880 to tap you. Brother, so can you not tarry with 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:35.880 us for an hour? We'll continue. At least be within 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:42.480 the atmosphere. Hallelujah. Praise God. Tell 00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:44.279 your neighbor, don't be accustomed to one meeting. 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:50.119 Don't be accustomed to one meeting. Attend all 00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:53.660 meetings. Let me give you a heavy assignment 00:32:53.660 --> 00:32:56.240 now. Can you take note of the name of the person 00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.759 now? I'm saying this now. We're going to do this 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:00.799 now by the Spirit of God. Take note of the name 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:05.880 of the person now. And ensure. Please write the 00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:09.119 name of the person. Write the name of the person. 00:33:10.140 --> 00:33:12.119 Write the name of the person. We're going to 00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:15.420 take it further now. Please pass us. We're going 00:33:15.420 --> 00:33:21.210 to do this now. Amen. Amen? Take the phone number 00:33:21.210 --> 00:33:27.009 of the person now. The number, and if you lie, 00:33:27.210 --> 00:33:31.849 what happened in Acts is going to repeat itself 00:33:31.849 --> 00:33:41.170 here. I'm just joking. I'm just joking. I'm serious. 00:33:41.289 --> 00:33:43.950 Take the number of the person. I'm serious. The 00:33:43.950 --> 00:33:49.180 number the person uses for WhatsApp. I can't 00:33:49.180 --> 00:34:00.200 see you taking it. You see, I've given time because 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:02.180 I know what I'm receiving in my heart. That's 00:34:02.180 --> 00:34:07.400 why I'm doing this now. In case you don't know, 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.679 Holy Ghost meeting has started. Whatever you 00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:12.000 see me doing here, I'm not doing it because it's 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:17.079 planned. Yes. Have you done that? Have you done 00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:21.940 that? Have you transferred the number? Is it 00:34:21.940 --> 00:34:28.579 saved? Then the last instruction. Look at the 00:34:28.579 --> 00:34:32.960 person and say, look at my eyes. I'm serious. 00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:36.840 Say, look at my eyes. I will chase you for the 00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.659 rest of this year. You must attend all services. 00:34:42.420 --> 00:34:51.860 Yes. Yes, you must attend all services. Yes, 00:34:51.860 --> 00:34:54.980 you must. You see, Holy Ghost meetings are not 00:34:54.980 --> 00:34:57.539 for babies. However, babies can be around the 00:34:57.539 --> 00:35:00.699 environment and see what is out there. See, Pastor 00:35:00.699 --> 00:35:06.579 Victor does. You see? Uh -huh. You hear? Uh -huh. 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:09.579 That's how they'll be there, they'll be wondering. 00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:13.139 Huh? Why are they falling? Why are they so prophesying? 00:35:13.420 --> 00:35:20.719 Why are they saying this? Church meetings grows 00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:25.619 the believer. Do you know what I said? Attending 00:35:25.619 --> 00:35:28.480 church meetings does what? Grows the believer. 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:33.179 Check your growth in the things of God. It's 00:35:33.179 --> 00:35:36.320 directly proportional to how you commit yourself 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:44.420 to church meetings. You cannot choose one meeting 00:35:44.420 --> 00:35:50.400 and expect growth. It's just like saying, I want 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:53.019 to take only carbohydrates. What will happen 00:35:53.019 --> 00:35:57.780 to you? Eh? What is the symptoms of kwashako? 00:35:59.099 --> 00:36:04.119 Eh? Eh? Nurses and medical doctors, pharmacists. 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:11.719 Perturbed belly, feet, thin arms. You've forgotten 00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:21.949 what? And big head. You don't attend church meetings, 00:36:22.289 --> 00:36:26.670 you're going to have a big empty head. Full of 00:36:26.670 --> 00:36:32.309 pride and arrogance. They are judging me. They 00:36:32.309 --> 00:36:34.329 are testing me. I don't like the pastor. I don't 00:36:34.329 --> 00:36:36.210 like... Can't you see what is inside your head, 00:36:36.269 --> 00:36:43.429 Isenbe? But when you attend local church meetings, 00:36:43.590 --> 00:36:46.309 all of it, in a little time, we're going to see 00:36:46.309 --> 00:36:49.150 growth. Hallelujah. From one level to another. 00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:52.099 to another, to another, to another, to another, 00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:54.880 to another, till you now mature and measure up 00:36:54.880 --> 00:37:05.559 to the full stature of Christ. Praise God. So 00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:10.599 Christianity, Christianity is built around church 00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:14.460 meetings. The life of a believer is built around 00:37:14.460 --> 00:37:19.179 what? Church meetings. This gathering is the 00:37:19.179 --> 00:37:24.260 church. Hallelujah. Praise God. So if you're 00:37:24.260 --> 00:37:25.940 a Christian and you don't know what we do in 00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:31.639 gatherings, it will show in how you're growing. 00:37:32.659 --> 00:37:34.980 It will show in how you're struggling to pray. 00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:39.699 Let me tell you, prayerlessness is a symptom 00:37:39.699 --> 00:37:43.840 of your spirit showing that you are sick. Every 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:46.159 time you don't love to pray, it shows that you 00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:50.730 are what? You are sick. Every time you don't 00:37:50.730 --> 00:37:53.110 love to read the Bible, it shows that you are 00:37:53.110 --> 00:37:57.090 what? You are sick. And you need an immediate 00:37:57.090 --> 00:38:01.590 attention. For some of us here, I'm going to 00:38:01.590 --> 00:38:05.329 say this now. If you are in the category, the 00:38:05.329 --> 00:38:08.250 Spirit of God wants you now to revisit your life 00:38:08.250 --> 00:38:11.690 again. For some of us, you just got sick yesterday. 00:38:12.269 --> 00:38:15.219 For some of us, you've been sick. throughout 00:38:15.219 --> 00:38:17.179 the last three months because that was the last 00:38:17.179 --> 00:38:19.739 time you prayed. For some of us, you've been 00:38:19.739 --> 00:38:22.179 sick almost the last six months. You need to 00:38:22.179 --> 00:38:36.739 be in ICU. Yes. So if you are writing, write 00:38:36.739 --> 00:38:41.280 this. One of the ways to check if you are growing 00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:44.639 or not is through your participation in... in 00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:50.280 gatherings of believers. Your commitment. One 00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.639 of the ways to check if you're growing or not 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.079 is through your what? Participation in the gathering 00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:58.079 of what? Of believers. It's just so amazing how 00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.500 you run away from gathering of believers. God's 00:39:00.500 --> 00:39:07.500 provision, God's will for you. Let me tell you, 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:11.079 as simple as late coming is, every meeting I 00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:12.860 come late, it disturbs me. Ask my wife, she'll 00:39:12.860 --> 00:39:19.579 tell you. I always want to be on time. I always 00:39:19.579 --> 00:39:22.380 want to be there where? On time. It disturbs 00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:33.619 me. Don't be used to just behaving anyhow. If 00:39:33.619 --> 00:39:36.099 you did that in Africa, or you did that in Nigeria, 00:39:36.380 --> 00:39:38.460 or you did that in Cameroon, or you did that 00:39:38.460 --> 00:39:44.280 in Congo, or you did that in Casablanca, good 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.599 news for you. after hearing all the things you're 00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:49.639 going to be hearing as being part of this local 00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:52.059 church, you will never repeat those kind of lifestyle 00:39:52.059 --> 00:40:00.980 or behaviors. You know, Christian meetings, please, 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:03.000 if you are writing this, write this. You say, 00:40:03.019 --> 00:40:07.900 Christian meetings or gatherings is the will 00:40:07.900 --> 00:40:13.360 of God for me. Say, Christian meeting or meetings 00:40:14.570 --> 00:40:17.349 It's the will of God for what? For me. We're 00:40:17.349 --> 00:40:22.110 going to look at it. Church meetings, local church 00:40:22.110 --> 00:40:25.269 meetings, they are what? They are will of God 00:40:25.269 --> 00:40:33.309 for me. It's God's provision for my growth. Exodus 00:40:33.309 --> 00:40:41.610 chapter 19 now. Exodus chapter 19. Exodus chapter 00:40:41.610 --> 00:40:51.389 19. So that you won't say the meeting started 00:40:51.389 --> 00:41:00.090 when Jesus was around. No. It has been God's 00:41:00.090 --> 00:41:02.590 will for his people to always gather. Hallelujah. 00:41:03.670 --> 00:41:07.590 It has been God's will for what? For his people 00:41:07.590 --> 00:41:20.630 to always what? Yes. Exodus 19 verse 17. And 00:41:20.630 --> 00:41:23.289 Moses brought forth the people out of the camp 00:41:23.289 --> 00:41:28.570 to meet with what? To meet with what? With God. 00:41:28.690 --> 00:41:33.170 And they stood at what? The nether part of what? 00:41:33.510 --> 00:41:37.670 Of the mountain. And Mount Sinai was all together 00:41:37.670 --> 00:41:41.010 on a smoke because the Lord did what? Descended 00:41:41.010 --> 00:41:44.989 upon it in what? In fire. He brought all the 00:41:44.989 --> 00:41:48.869 people together to meet with who? To meet with 00:41:48.869 --> 00:41:52.090 God. Hallelujah. Can you see a gathering there? 00:41:52.590 --> 00:41:57.710 Can you see a gathering there? 23, Exodus 23. 00:41:59.090 --> 00:42:16.579 Exodus 23, verse 3 to 7. ass going astray thou 00:42:16.579 --> 00:42:18.820 shalt surely bring it back to him again if thou 00:42:18.820 --> 00:42:21.719 see the ass da da da da da da da thou shalt not 00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:25.559 rest to rest the judgment of thy poor in his 00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:28.900 cause keep thee far from a false matter and innocent 00:42:28.900 --> 00:42:32.500 and righteous slay thou not for i will not justify 00:42:32.500 --> 00:42:36.400 the what the wicked and thou shalt take no gift 00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:41.679 for the gift blinded the wise and this and this 00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:47.090 um I'm coming. Let me go back from where they 00:42:47.090 --> 00:42:59.230 began to gather. Okay, actually that gathering 00:42:59.230 --> 00:43:14.739 began from chapter 20. Go to chapter 20. God 00:43:14.739 --> 00:43:17.679 started speaking from chapter 20. And God spoke 00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:20.260 all these words to them saying, I am the Lord 00:43:20.260 --> 00:43:23.059 thy God which has brought thee out of what? Out 00:43:23.059 --> 00:43:25.940 of the land of Egypt, out of the house of what? 00:43:26.699 --> 00:43:29.639 Bondage. That communication extended into chapter 00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:36.059 21, into chapter 22, into chapter what? 23. And 00:43:36.059 --> 00:43:39.340 even 24. All through you're going to see the 00:43:39.340 --> 00:43:42.519 children of Israelite gathering and meeting God 00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:46.400 and God speaking to them. Hallelujah. Leviticus 00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:51.539 23 verse 3. Leviticus 23 verse 3. Gathering. 00:43:53.579 --> 00:44:02.059 Leviticus 23. 23 verse 3. Six days shall thou... 00:44:02.800 --> 00:44:06.539 Shall work be done. But the seventh day is the 00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:12.940 Sabbath of what? Rest. And what? Holy gathering. 00:44:13.059 --> 00:44:14.940 If you are using the version that says that. 00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:19.639 Ye shall do no work therein. It is the Sabbath 00:44:19.639 --> 00:44:23.300 of the Lord in all your what? Your dwellings. 00:44:23.380 --> 00:44:26.800 Hallelujah. That there is a day set aside for 00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:30.940 what? For holy meetings. Hallelujah. For holy 00:44:30.940 --> 00:44:34.880 gatherings. We see it has been God's plan for 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:38.360 his people to always what? Gather. Deuteronomy 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:45.739 chapter 4. Deuteronomy chapter 4. If you're here 00:44:45.739 --> 00:44:50.019 and you're God's man, then God's will for you 00:44:50.019 --> 00:44:53.119 is to always be among believers. Deuteronomy 00:44:53.119 --> 00:45:03.860 chapter 4 verse 10. When the Lord said unto me, 00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:08.940 do what? Do what? Oh, check your Bible. Don't 00:45:08.940 --> 00:45:13.460 be looking at me. When the Lord said unto me, 00:45:13.500 --> 00:45:18.780 do what? Gather me the what? The people together 00:45:18.780 --> 00:45:23.179 and I will do what? And I will make them to do 00:45:23.179 --> 00:45:27.199 what? To hear my word. Where do we hear God's 00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:32.639 word? In gatherings. Hallelujah. Where do we 00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:36.320 know the plan of God? Where? In the local church. 00:45:36.579 --> 00:45:39.900 Where do we know the mind of God? Where? In the 00:45:39.900 --> 00:45:43.079 local church. He said, I will make them hear 00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:46.539 my words that they may do what? Please be reading 00:45:46.539 --> 00:45:49.980 with me. That they may do what? That they may 00:45:49.980 --> 00:45:55.219 learn to fear me all the days that they shall 00:45:55.219 --> 00:45:58.139 live upon the earth and that they may also what? 00:45:59.059 --> 00:46:05.900 Hallelujah. You know, when you go beside Tito, 00:46:06.019 --> 00:46:09.500 and then during prayers, they say pray. And you 00:46:09.500 --> 00:46:12.599 start praying. I don't know where he learned 00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:14.500 that. You know, Tito is somewhere around there. 00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:16.139 You know what Tito will do? Tito will fold his 00:46:16.139 --> 00:46:23.219 hand behind. When he does, he will look at you. 00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:27.260 Are you still doing it? Yes, okay. You continue 00:46:27.260 --> 00:46:31.099 doing it. You know, we are at the training center. 00:46:31.839 --> 00:46:34.820 For whatever reason, I looked at Tito and I saw 00:46:34.820 --> 00:46:39.840 that that young man is a prophet. I just tapped 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:41.719 his start. I said, do you know Tito is a prophet? 00:46:41.800 --> 00:46:44.980 He's going to grow to be a prophet. And he told 00:46:44.980 --> 00:46:49.179 me that somebody said it also. He confirmed it. 00:46:50.739 --> 00:46:52.380 And you know, since from that day, the way I 00:46:52.380 --> 00:46:55.699 look at that boy has changed. Every day, I pay 00:46:55.699 --> 00:46:57.780 attention. They say, hold your neighbors and 00:46:57.780 --> 00:46:59.739 pray. I say, come, come, let's hold hands. And 00:46:59.739 --> 00:47:02.159 I held him. We are praying. He looked at my leg. 00:47:02.179 --> 00:47:03.739 I'm shaking my leg. He started shaking his leg 00:47:03.739 --> 00:47:12.539 too. Pastor Victor shared about Exploit. Exploit 00:47:12.539 --> 00:47:14.719 had a song or something that was happening on 00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:17.119 YouTube or somewhere. And she was correcting 00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:21.380 the lyrics of those songs. How beautiful it will 00:47:21.380 --> 00:47:29.780 be when she is 20. They will teach their children. 00:47:30.829 --> 00:47:33.789 What you teach to your generations, you don't 00:47:33.789 --> 00:47:36.670 get it on Facebook. You don't get it on TikTok. 00:47:36.889 --> 00:47:43.969 You get it from the local church. Let me tell 00:47:43.969 --> 00:47:46.170 you, you can pass wealth to them and they will 00:47:46.170 --> 00:47:49.170 end up in hell. You can pass any kind of thing 00:47:49.170 --> 00:47:51.909 to them, they will end up what? In hell. But 00:47:51.909 --> 00:47:54.710 you can't pass eternal life to them. Their lives 00:47:54.710 --> 00:48:02.820 will never remain the same. God wins. So if you're 00:48:02.820 --> 00:48:05.139 here and you're a parent, start paying attention 00:48:05.139 --> 00:48:09.079 to what your children are feeding. Don't say 00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:11.599 it's a child, it's Cocomelon. Cocomelon, giddy, 00:48:11.619 --> 00:48:13.360 giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy. He's crying, 00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:18.599 pass Cocomelon for him, he'll keep quiet. Who 00:48:18.599 --> 00:48:21.340 told you that at that stage, they cannot learn 00:48:21.340 --> 00:48:24.699 Jesus? If they can learn Cocomelon, they can 00:48:24.699 --> 00:48:33.429 learn Jesus. Go to Nigeria and see the kind of 00:48:33.429 --> 00:48:35.070 things that people are doing now to children. 00:48:35.809 --> 00:48:38.449 Because people, everyday believers are realizing 00:48:38.449 --> 00:48:41.550 that their children are more possessed with lots 00:48:41.550 --> 00:48:45.969 of useless information online. So everybody is 00:48:45.969 --> 00:48:53.250 on guard now. Hallelujah. Let's read this verse 00:48:53.250 --> 00:48:55.929 and then we're going to stop here. We're just 00:48:55.929 --> 00:48:58.349 going to build on this. Amen. You see, we moved 00:48:58.349 --> 00:49:01.360 from where? From salvation. from that we are 00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:04.239 spiritual and we are going to what? To gatherings. 00:49:04.420 --> 00:49:06.739 Why gatherings are important now for believers. 00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:10.199 Amen? And now we are, now we've returned back 00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:12.960 to Old Testament, as it were, to now see where 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:16.360 gatherings, that God's plan has been for his 00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:19.840 people to always what? To always gather. Because 00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:22.469 that is where his mind is communicated. That 00:49:22.469 --> 00:49:25.269 is where his plans, his intentions, whatever 00:49:25.269 --> 00:49:29.090 he is doing on the earth, right, is being revealed 00:49:29.090 --> 00:49:36.750 to his people. Yes. Say Deuteronomy again, chapter 00:49:36.750 --> 00:49:42.789 6. Deuteronomy chapter 6, verse 6 to 7. You say 00:49:42.789 --> 00:49:47.210 he is a child. Don't worry. Don't train him in 00:49:47.210 --> 00:49:48.730 the way of the Lord. You will understand very 00:49:48.730 --> 00:49:52.659 soon that he is not a child. Deuteronomy chapter 00:49:52.659 --> 00:49:57.280 6, verse 6 to 7. And these words which I commanded 00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:00.280 this day shall be in thy heart, and thou shalt 00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:03.960 teach them what? Diligently unto thy children, 00:50:04.139 --> 00:50:08.659 and shalt talk to them when thou what? When thou 00:50:08.659 --> 00:50:13.079 what? When thou seated, when thou gather, even 00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:17.889 together in what? In thy house. And when thou 00:50:17.889 --> 00:50:21.190 walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, 00:50:21.349 --> 00:50:27.050 and when thou walkest, rise then up. It's a right 00:50:27.050 --> 00:50:29.250 thing for families to always gather and pray. 00:50:29.690 --> 00:50:35.349 Let me tell you this. It's sickness to a family 00:50:35.349 --> 00:50:38.570 when the father and the mother cannot pray with 00:50:38.570 --> 00:50:46.460 the children. It's a huge abnormality. I can 00:50:46.460 --> 00:50:50.460 tell you, most of our growth, most of our growth, 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:54.119 I mean ourselves, most of what we saw that made 00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:57.099 us who we are today, as God has used those platforms, 00:50:57.380 --> 00:51:00.820 is because our parents, when we grew up, we see 00:51:00.820 --> 00:51:03.280 them always meeting. But you know, at a certain 00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:06.699 time, Satan struck with misunderstanding and 00:51:06.699 --> 00:51:11.699 those prayers stopped. Boy, we saw red fire in 00:51:11.699 --> 00:51:17.679 our family. Let me tell you, you can have a unity 00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:20.840 of account. You can have a unity of money. You 00:51:20.840 --> 00:51:23.179 can have a unity of business. If you don't have 00:51:23.179 --> 00:51:25.860 a unity of faith in your home, you are dead gone. 00:51:26.860 --> 00:51:29.619 Hallelujah. So God desires that even in your 00:51:29.619 --> 00:51:32.300 family, that there are gatherings. Hallelujah. 00:51:32.500 --> 00:51:35.719 Say, my wife, don't say this boy is a child. 00:51:36.860 --> 00:51:39.340 Tomorrow, we're going to take a fast and pray. 00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:42.940 Hold your wife, hold your husband, gather your 00:51:42.940 --> 00:51:47.280 children. Just spare us some time and pray. Lay 00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:50.659 hands on them. Prophesy. Declare God's word upon 00:51:50.659 --> 00:51:54.340 their lives. Gatherings has been the plan of 00:51:54.340 --> 00:52:04.559 God for his people. When we come, the next time 00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:06.019 we meet, we're going to continue from there. 00:52:06.059 --> 00:52:08.880 Hallelujah. We're going to continue building. 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:11.239 We are still in Old Testament now. Still looking 00:52:11.239 --> 00:52:13.869 at gatherings. Amen. When we come, We're going 00:52:13.869 --> 00:52:16.969 to span out through and then into New Testament. 00:52:17.309 --> 00:52:19.809 And then we will now jump into kinds of meetings. 00:52:19.929 --> 00:52:22.429 Amen. So that we will know Holy Ghost meeting. 00:52:22.510 --> 00:52:24.690 What really is a Holy Ghost meeting? And why 00:52:24.690 --> 00:52:27.650 do we need a Holy Ghost meeting? Hallelujah. 00:52:28.329 --> 00:52:30.610 What are the benefits of such a meeting to us? 00:52:30.829 --> 00:52:33.929 When we gather, what really is happening to us? 00:52:35.190 --> 00:52:37.849 Praise God. Can we just stand up on our feet? 00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:51.179 So you see, you are spiritual. Your participation 00:52:51.179 --> 00:52:55.579 in gatherings, in local church meetings, just 00:52:55.579 --> 00:53:01.400 indicates how healthy or sick you are. For example, 00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:04.159 let me give an example now. For example, when 00:53:04.159 --> 00:53:06.980 we say, can we pray in the Holy Ghost? Don't 00:53:06.980 --> 00:53:09.139 be looking at the ceiling and be scratching your 00:53:09.139 --> 00:53:11.500 head. That is when you realize your body is itching. 00:53:11.539 --> 00:53:13.639 No, no, no, no, no, no. When we say, let's pray, 00:53:13.699 --> 00:53:16.750 let's do what? Let's pray. That is how healthy 00:53:16.750 --> 00:53:20.210 you should be. Can we just pray in the Holy Ghost 00:53:20.210 --> 00:53:23.710 and give thanks? Can we just pray in the Holy 00:53:23.710 --> 00:53:27.449 Ghost and give thanks? The Spirit of God is here. 00:53:27.690 --> 00:53:30.989 He dwells in us. The will of God, the mind of 00:53:30.989 --> 00:53:36.849 God is made manifest in meetings. It's obvious 00:53:36.849 --> 00:53:41.099 what He's doing in our hearts. He told us what 00:53:41.099 --> 00:53:46.699 he's doing in our lives and with our lives. He's 00:53:46.699 --> 00:53:52.840 communicating his intents to us. We're thankful 00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:56.480 you joined us today. Don't forget to subscribe 00:53:56.480 --> 00:53:59.480 so you're always connected to our latest sermons. 00:54:00.099 --> 00:54:03.480 You can also explore more about NECF on our website 00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:07.260 or follow us online. We look forward to having 00:54:07.260 --> 00:54:09.719 you with us next time. God bless.