WEBVTT 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:06.639 Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.640 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.939 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:13.939 --> 00:00:17.879 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:26.280 right in. Amen. Yes, so we're welcome once again. 00:00:26.980 --> 00:00:29.820 And those of the people following us online. 00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:45.060 You're welcome. Amen. I am anointed. I will preach 00:00:45.060 --> 00:01:01.359 Jesus everywhere I go. I am his, his man. I will 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:08.959 follow him until the end of time. I am anointed. 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:24.099 I am anointed. I will preach Jesus everywhere 00:01:24.099 --> 00:01:41.150 I go. I am his. Yes. He is mine. I will follow 00:01:41.150 --> 00:01:50.670 him until the end of time. Mark 16. Mark chapter 00:01:50.670 --> 00:02:04.799 16. Thank you, Lord. Mark 16. Let me read from 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:13.180 verse 15. He says, and he said to them, go into 00:02:13.180 --> 00:02:21.060 the world, into all the world and preach the 00:02:21.060 --> 00:02:29.879 gospel to every creature. 16. He who is, who 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:37.349 believe and is baptized, will be saved, but he 00:02:37.349 --> 00:02:45.330 who does not believe will be condemned. And these 00:02:45.330 --> 00:02:51.550 signs will follow those who believe. In my name, 00:02:51.650 --> 00:02:57.110 they will cast out demons. They will speak with 00:02:57.110 --> 00:03:04.099 new tongues. And if they drink any deadly, It 00:03:04.099 --> 00:03:10.319 will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:17.460 on the sick and they will recover. So we started 00:03:17.460 --> 00:03:24.879 yesterday trying to see the ministry of laying 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:36.400 of hands. The ministry of laying of hands. And 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:41.599 two things we mentioned or we looked at yesterday. 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:47.080 We noted that this ministry is not something 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:51.759 that is done from afar. You can teach from afar. 00:03:54.439 --> 00:04:02.439 But we saw that impartation, impartation. done 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:09.180 through the laying of hands, has to be, or we 00:04:09.180 --> 00:04:11.960 need a face -to -face meeting. And that tells 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:18.800 us the necessity of face -to -face meeting. Of 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.699 course, there are other things, probably I might 00:04:21.699 --> 00:04:26.399 touch them along the line, which is key. For 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:34.360 example, you cannot be pastored online. You cannot 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:37.819 be pastored online because the work of a pastor 00:04:37.819 --> 00:04:42.959 is not just to teach, but to have oversight. 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.600 And oversight is not something that online space 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:55.500 will permit. Yes, you need to be taught, but 00:04:55.500 --> 00:05:01.579 you need to be put to practice those things which 00:05:01.579 --> 00:05:06.240 you have learned. Are we together? Probably let 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:11.060 me read this verse. Yesterday, our lead pastor 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:17.620 read that text. You understand? 2 Timothy. Look 00:05:17.620 --> 00:05:21.019 at what Paul said. This is what it means to pastor. 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:28.740 Because pastoring is done by example. Paul will 00:05:28.740 --> 00:05:32.839 say, follow me as I follow Christ. Which means 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:36.779 that you have to be present physically to watch. 00:05:38.459 --> 00:05:47.339 To watch. To watch. Look at it. I will read from 00:05:47.339 --> 00:05:55.879 verse 10. He said, but you have done what? Carefully. 00:05:58.459 --> 00:06:03.829 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 10. But you have carefully 00:06:03.829 --> 00:06:10.509 followed my what? My doctrine. My what? My manner 00:06:10.509 --> 00:06:13.649 of life. This is not something you can see from 00:06:13.649 --> 00:06:18.050 very far. You have followed my manner of life. 00:06:18.110 --> 00:06:21.350 You have to be where the person is to be able 00:06:21.350 --> 00:06:28.230 to see his manner of life. My purpose, my fate, 00:06:28.370 --> 00:06:35.009 my long suffering. My long suffering, my faith. 00:06:35.329 --> 00:06:38.389 When Paul was commending Timothy, he said, when 00:06:38.389 --> 00:06:45.589 I saw the sincere faith in the son, he said, 00:06:45.629 --> 00:06:50.850 you see, he said that faith was in your grandmother. 00:06:52.170 --> 00:06:55.829 Are we together? Are we together? He said that 00:06:55.829 --> 00:07:01.990 faith was in your grandmother, Lois. And your 00:07:01.990 --> 00:07:08.129 mother Eunice. Amen. And now I see in you. Of 00:07:08.129 --> 00:07:11.629 course. You know that. That could not have been 00:07:11.629 --> 00:07:15.990 possible. If Timothy was somewhere else. So he 00:07:15.990 --> 00:07:20.910 said. You have. Carefully followed my purpose. 00:07:21.050 --> 00:07:25.069 My faith. My long suffering. My love. My perseverance. 00:07:25.470 --> 00:07:28.310 How could you have seen the perseverance? How 00:07:28.310 --> 00:07:30.529 could Timothy have seen the perseverance of Paul? 00:07:31.019 --> 00:07:34.319 Without him being present where the man is suffering, 00:07:34.500 --> 00:07:39.480 where the man is toiling, and he could see how 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:45.199 he persevered in the face of danger. It's a persecution. 00:07:48.459 --> 00:07:52.420 Affliction, which happened to me at Antioch, 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:57.300 at Iconium, at Lystra. We're going to see some 00:07:57.300 --> 00:08:02.149 of them today. He mentioned the places. That 00:08:02.149 --> 00:08:10.930 means Timothy was there. What persecution I endure. 00:08:13.110 --> 00:08:17.730 And out of them all, the Lord deliver me. Yes. 00:08:18.089 --> 00:08:22.009 And all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus 00:08:22.009 --> 00:08:28.350 will suffer persecution. This part, some people 00:08:28.350 --> 00:08:33.990 don't want it. It's verse 12. Once you hear suffering. 00:08:34.649 --> 00:08:42.710 No. Verse 13. But evil men and impostors who 00:08:42.710 --> 00:08:47.470 grow worse and worse. Deceived and being deceived. 00:08:48.669 --> 00:08:56.309 But you must continue. Must stay. Must continue. 00:08:57.149 --> 00:09:02.309 In the things which you have learned. And assured 00:09:02.309 --> 00:09:07.889 of. Knowing from whom. You have learned them. 00:09:08.090 --> 00:09:12.029 So learning is not just only by teaching. But 00:09:12.029 --> 00:09:15.409 by also following the examples of the leader. 00:09:16.470 --> 00:09:19.950 By following the manner of life of the leader. 00:09:25.830 --> 00:09:32.230 Yes. By following the manner of life of the believer. 00:09:33.490 --> 00:09:44.149 Hebrews chapter 13. Verse 7. Remember those who 00:09:44.149 --> 00:09:52.289 rule over you. That word rule there is those 00:09:52.289 --> 00:10:00.549 who lead. Who have spoken to you the word of 00:10:00.549 --> 00:10:09.710 God? Who have spoken the word of God to you? 00:10:09.789 --> 00:10:12.129 Of course, you know those he's referring to. 00:10:12.850 --> 00:10:16.649 He said, whose faith do what? Oh, talk to me. 00:10:16.850 --> 00:10:23.429 Whose faith do what? Follow. Considering the 00:10:23.429 --> 00:10:31.509 outcome of their conduct. So learning or discipleship 00:10:31.509 --> 00:10:34.529 is not just only about teaching. Fundamentally, 00:10:34.529 --> 00:10:39.509 yes, it's teaching. But it's also following the 00:10:39.509 --> 00:10:45.129 faith, the manner of life, the conduct of the 00:10:45.129 --> 00:10:52.549 one leading. So you cannot pastor a man, you 00:10:52.549 --> 00:10:56.000 understand, online. Sorry, sir. That's why it's 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.340 contradictory when you say an online church. 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.639 That name is not, it's contradictory. It's not 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:08.220 possible. When you say online followers, I agree 00:11:08.220 --> 00:11:10.820 with you. When you say followers, I agree. Because 00:11:10.820 --> 00:11:14.399 followers are people with that commitment. Today 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:16.019 they will follow you, tomorrow they won't follow 00:11:16.019 --> 00:11:18.840 you. But when you're talking about disciples, 00:11:19.139 --> 00:11:23.799 are people with a commitment. With a commitment 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:29.740 to sacrifice and following. Understand? Remember 00:11:29.740 --> 00:11:33.059 yesterday we said that God's method and system 00:11:33.059 --> 00:11:38.799 is man. You can't do anything about it. Understand? 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.879 That's why if you have problem relationally, 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:50.159 you have really a big problem. So if you ever 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:53.669 want to grow, If you ever want to become something 00:11:53.669 --> 00:11:57.269 in the hand of God, you must be a follower. A 00:11:57.269 --> 00:12:01.049 follower of men. You know, these days, you say, 00:12:01.169 --> 00:12:04.750 no, me, I follow God. Me, I'm not a follower 00:12:04.750 --> 00:12:10.230 of anybody. You are joking. They are not anti 00:12:10.230 --> 00:12:13.490 each other. You know, I saw some movement these 00:12:13.490 --> 00:12:16.549 days online. Probably some of you have seen it. 00:12:17.009 --> 00:12:21.240 They say we left church, but not God. What a 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:30.620 confusion. The meaning of Lord. Are we together? 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:36.059 The meaning of Lord, when you say my Lord, what 00:12:36.059 --> 00:12:41.200 you are saying is that. If you understand the 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.159 Council of Salvation, you will even talk about 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.059 that one. Because a Lord is someone who conquers 00:12:46.059 --> 00:12:49.779 a territory and he stays there. So how can you 00:12:49.779 --> 00:12:52.820 dare say you left where he is and you say you 00:12:52.820 --> 00:12:56.899 didn't leave him? Because he dwells in us. We 00:12:56.899 --> 00:13:00.100 are the temple of God. We are the temple of the 00:13:00.100 --> 00:13:05.720 Holy Spirit. God is not outside the church. He's 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.039 inside. He's staying there. So how can you say 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:15.860 I left the church but not God? How? You are in 00:13:15.860 --> 00:13:20.620 the will of God. when you have decided to stay. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:25.440 You know, one brother who has not been with us 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:30.840 for some time, somehow he got misdirected and 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.700 was away for a long time. So I don't know what 00:13:33.700 --> 00:13:36.360 hit him. He was having a lot of difficulties. 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.179 So somehow, his way was navigated and he came 00:13:40.179 --> 00:13:43.360 back again. So he says, I want to see you. I 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:45.059 said, what is the problem? He says, I really 00:13:45.059 --> 00:13:48.590 want to see you. I have a problem. I don't know. 00:13:48.990 --> 00:13:51.649 I feel I don't have direction. I really don't 00:13:51.649 --> 00:13:53.649 have direction. I say for you coming here, you 00:13:53.649 --> 00:13:55.889 have direction. Because if you have never had 00:13:55.889 --> 00:13:58.409 direction, you will not have return back. Just 00:13:58.409 --> 00:14:00.789 coming back to the church, you have direction. 00:14:02.590 --> 00:14:07.370 I say for you to stay and hear and grow. Don't 00:14:07.370 --> 00:14:09.090 say I don't have direction. You have direction. 00:14:09.289 --> 00:14:11.950 For you having the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is 00:14:11.950 --> 00:14:13.669 direction. Remember that lesson times ago we 00:14:13.669 --> 00:14:16.850 taught in the sand. That once you say salvation, 00:14:17.630 --> 00:14:20.309 Salvation is a change of direction. Did you understand 00:14:20.309 --> 00:14:22.429 what I'm trying to say? Because when the Holy 00:14:22.429 --> 00:14:28.250 Spirit actually endures a man at salvation, that 00:14:28.250 --> 00:14:33.309 is a change of direction already. So you have 00:14:33.309 --> 00:14:38.049 direction. Amen. I have direction. Glory to Jesus. 00:14:38.649 --> 00:14:44.289 So we now saw in Mark chapter 16, and we noted 00:14:44.289 --> 00:14:47.269 a second thing yesterday. And we said, these 00:14:47.269 --> 00:14:52.870 signs shall follow them that believe. And we 00:14:52.870 --> 00:14:59.429 saw that the signs are supernatural. So, and 00:14:59.429 --> 00:15:03.210 those signs, we now saw that the laying of hands 00:15:03.210 --> 00:15:09.070 is a supernatural sign. In other words, it is 00:15:09.070 --> 00:15:14.129 a supernatural activity or a supernatural ministry. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:24.220 So it says, those who believe. He said, in my 00:15:24.220 --> 00:15:28.740 name. He's not saying in the mention of the name. 00:15:30.100 --> 00:15:33.539 He's talking about those who believe. Those in 00:15:33.539 --> 00:15:37.860 the name. That's what he was saying. Those in 00:15:37.860 --> 00:15:43.980 the name. This is what they will do. Those in 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:47.960 the name. In other words, those who believe, 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:54.019 these are the signs that will follow them. We 00:15:54.019 --> 00:16:02.379 noted that Jesus, the name J -E -S -U -S, of 00:16:02.379 --> 00:16:10.179 course, is English. And we said Jesus, the name 00:16:10.179 --> 00:16:15.620 of Jesus is not a tag. And we noted because, 00:16:16.009 --> 00:16:18.649 We're trying to explain in the name. It's not 00:16:18.649 --> 00:16:22.289 a tag. In fact, we have a footballer called Jesus, 00:16:22.409 --> 00:16:27.389 right? Yes. And part of it told us that Jesus 00:16:27.389 --> 00:16:32.230 Christ, Christ is not his surname. Are we together? 00:16:32.850 --> 00:16:37.370 Amen. That Christ means the Messiah, the anointed 00:16:37.370 --> 00:16:41.690 one. Huh? Are we together? He's talking about 00:16:41.690 --> 00:16:49.840 his office. So, Because the word Jesus is just 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:55.480 English because English is about 1 ,600 approximately 00:16:55.480 --> 00:17:01.860 years. Understand? These Germanic tribes, they 00:17:01.860 --> 00:17:04.680 were the ones who migrated and started the issue 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:09.160 of speaking English. And when Jesus was around, 00:17:09.220 --> 00:17:14.599 there was no English. It's not in the words, 00:17:14.660 --> 00:17:18.640 in the tag. And we said, for us to have better 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:26.099 understanding, the name of Jesus is his accomplishment. 00:17:26.660 --> 00:17:31.319 Because most times when we note that, that word 00:17:31.319 --> 00:17:40.279 name is onoma. Onoma. O -N -O -M -A in Greek. 00:17:41.450 --> 00:17:48.190 O -N -O -M -E. Onoma. It describes a person's 00:17:48.190 --> 00:17:56.029 reputation, character, authority, office, deeds, 00:17:56.269 --> 00:18:01.890 accomplishments. Describes a person's reputation, 00:18:02.369 --> 00:18:09.130 character, authority, office, deeds, or accomplishments. 00:18:11.660 --> 00:18:16.599 What the person is known for. What the person 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:22.619 is known for. So the name of a person, you know, 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.880 like my president now, he was a governor of Lagos 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.799 state, president of Nigeria. He was a governor 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:34.759 of Lagos state. His name was Master Governor. 00:18:35.980 --> 00:18:39.299 I mean, his tag, Bola Ame Tinubu, did not change. 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:44.369 Did you get what I'm trying to say? but his name 00:18:44.369 --> 00:18:49.109 changed. By the time he became a president, what 00:18:49.109 --> 00:18:51.769 you are trying to say, his office changed. What 00:18:51.769 --> 00:18:54.410 you will say also that his name as Lord has changed. 00:18:55.009 --> 00:18:57.250 Because the authority that comes with a governor 00:18:57.250 --> 00:18:58.990 is not the same with the one that comes with 00:18:58.990 --> 00:19:00.950 what? Being a president. You know what I'm saying? 00:19:02.890 --> 00:19:07.029 So, his office is his authority because the authority 00:19:07.029 --> 00:19:08.930 of a president is not the same with that of a 00:19:08.930 --> 00:19:15.460 governor. Are we together? So that's the same 00:19:15.460 --> 00:19:23.960 thing. So when you hear Paul was said, and God 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:28.380 has given him a name. Don't think he's saying, 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:33.160 is it Jesus or something else? No, he's saying 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:37.119 that there is something he did. And the Bible 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:38.940 tells us in Philippians, if you start reading 00:19:38.940 --> 00:19:42.039 from chapter 5. He said he did not consider himself. 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:44.480 Ephesians chapter 2 verse 5. If you start reading. 00:19:44.660 --> 00:19:47.740 6, 7, 8. He did not consider himself to be equal 00:19:47.740 --> 00:19:51.759 with God. You understand? He said he died. The 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:55.640 death of who? Of a criminal. On the cross. And 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:58.960 then the word said therefore. Yeah? Are we together? 00:19:59.220 --> 00:20:03.299 He said therefore. God has exalted. Do you understand 00:20:03.299 --> 00:20:05.359 what I'm trying to say? So that means there was 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:09.000 an office he was occupying before. But by the 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.440 reason of what he did, there was also an alleviation. 00:20:12.500 --> 00:20:15.700 Are we together? So the office he occupied after 00:20:15.700 --> 00:20:18.579 resurrection is not the same with the one before. 00:20:19.420 --> 00:20:22.980 Because the one before, he is limited. The one 00:20:22.980 --> 00:20:26.640 before will not give life. Are we together? But 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:33.279 when he resurrected, that name gives life. So 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:37.549 that is the authority of Christ. So when he's 00:20:37.549 --> 00:20:39.690 talking about in the name, he's talking about 00:20:39.690 --> 00:20:44.329 the authority in Christ. In the authority of 00:20:44.329 --> 00:20:49.170 Christ. Where you are. So those who believe are 00:20:49.170 --> 00:20:53.130 in the authority of Christ. Are in the office 00:20:53.130 --> 00:20:58.730 now. And these signs they will do. These are 00:20:58.730 --> 00:21:06.529 the signs they will do. In fact. We have many 00:21:06.529 --> 00:21:09.029 texts. Colossians chapter 4. Look at, you will 00:21:09.029 --> 00:21:12.450 see another Jesus inside. So we have plenty. 00:21:13.210 --> 00:21:20.710 So that when certain things happen, you should 00:21:20.710 --> 00:21:28.150 know your authority. Look at 4. Colossians 4, 00:21:28.190 --> 00:21:32.890 11. He said, and what? Oh, talk to me. And what? 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:39.460 And Jesus, who is called who? Justus. These are 00:21:39.460 --> 00:21:43.460 my fellow workers for the kingdom of God who 00:21:43.460 --> 00:21:46.779 are of the circumcision. They have proved to 00:21:46.779 --> 00:21:52.220 be a comfort to me. So that means Paul was with 00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:54.960 people. In fact, one of them was called Jesus. 00:21:57.500 --> 00:22:02.140 So you should know what it means to be in the 00:22:02.140 --> 00:22:05.569 name. So Christ's name. It's his reputation and 00:22:05.569 --> 00:22:10.049 accomplishment. That is what he has done. And 00:22:10.049 --> 00:22:12.829 what he did is that he died and resurrected. 00:22:14.049 --> 00:22:16.509 So with this understanding, you will appreciate 00:22:16.509 --> 00:22:22.970 when we said that we have forgiveness and life 00:22:22.970 --> 00:22:29.809 in his name. Are we together? Luke 24. Luke 24. 00:22:34.059 --> 00:22:52.039 Luke 24, 47. 46 says, then he said to them, thus 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:55.740 it is written and thus it was necessary for Christ 00:22:55.740 --> 00:22:59.619 to suffer and to do what? And to rise from the 00:22:59.619 --> 00:23:04.720 dead the third day. And that repentance, which 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:10.299 is remission of sins, that is an. Yeah? Should 00:23:10.299 --> 00:23:14.519 be what? Should be preached in his word. In his 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:18.579 name to all nations beginning at Jerusalem. That 00:23:18.579 --> 00:23:24.799 is, to be preached in his authority. To be preached 00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:30.559 in his word. Resurrection. The focus of the repentance 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.119 and remission of sins, you understand, is based 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:40.220 on his name. John 20. Yesterday I talked about 00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:47.619 this text. John 20, 31. John 20, 31. So his resurrection 00:23:47.619 --> 00:23:54.900 gave us life. His name gave us life. John 20, 00:23:54.920 --> 00:24:02.849 31. But these were written. Let me start from 00:24:02.849 --> 00:24:07.750 verse 30. And truly Jesus did many other signs 00:24:07.750 --> 00:24:11.829 in the presence of his disciples, which are not 00:24:11.829 --> 00:24:15.029 written in this book. But these are written that 00:24:15.029 --> 00:24:18.150 you may believe. Pastor Fred told us yesterday 00:24:18.150 --> 00:24:22.470 that the miracles of Jesus are to show what he 00:24:22.470 --> 00:24:27.410 will do. So John says these. Are written that 00:24:27.410 --> 00:24:31.430 you may believe. That Jesus is a Christ. The 00:24:31.430 --> 00:24:38.309 son of God. And that believing. You may have 00:24:38.309 --> 00:24:44.809 what? You may have what? Life where? He say in 00:24:44.809 --> 00:24:50.829 his name. In his name. If you like keep shouting. 00:24:51.190 --> 00:24:54.289 So in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:58.519 That one cannot give life. If you like, shout 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:03.359 it. Don't you see those comedy guys? I mean, 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:05.660 online. A little tune, Jesus. You know, in our 00:25:05.660 --> 00:25:08.900 culture, anything, Jesus. Whether the one that 00:25:08.900 --> 00:25:10.759 is following him or the one that is not following 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:12.579 him, they have shouted his name several times. 00:25:13.579 --> 00:25:17.640 Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes. Did you 00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:20.440 understand that? So, if it's just by tact, then 00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:23.500 everybody will be born again by now. Those who 00:25:23.500 --> 00:25:28.759 have shouted. You know, some people thought by 00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:33.759 shouting. Some demons came and called, Jesus, 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:38.099 Jesus, Jesus. And the demon was on top. It's 00:25:38.099 --> 00:25:41.640 not a tag. We read the story of the sons of Sceva. 00:25:42.099 --> 00:25:46.019 They were not born again. He said they are exorcists. 00:25:46.059 --> 00:25:48.900 You know exorcists? Those who try to cast out 00:25:48.900 --> 00:25:53.039 demons by another higher demon. That's why when 00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:54.779 they saw what Jesus was doing, they called him 00:25:54.779 --> 00:25:57.799 this, the Prince of Beelzebub. You know Prince? 00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:00.420 That he's a ruler. Because they are already, 00:26:00.539 --> 00:26:03.279 they are aware that in those days, that's how 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:05.619 they do. If they want to cast a lower demon, 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:07.880 they bring a higher demon. So they saw Jesus 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:09.819 and said, this one must be a higher demon. Since 00:26:09.819 --> 00:26:11.559 he's casting this, do you understand what I'm 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:16.019 saying? In the name of Jesus whom Paul preached. 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:20.799 They don't know the name. The thing is by what? 00:26:21.500 --> 00:26:26.099 Mentioning. Sons of Siva. Act 19. In the name 00:26:26.099 --> 00:26:28.700 of Jesus. And the demons said, you see, don't 00:26:28.700 --> 00:26:30.680 think that demons don't know. They know who is 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:34.460 inside. They say, Paul, we know. Jesus, we know. 00:26:34.579 --> 00:26:47.299 Hey, who are you? It's not. Hallelujah. Acts 00:26:47.299 --> 00:26:58.940 chapter 4. Acts chapter 4. Look at verse 8. Then 00:26:58.940 --> 00:27:02.000 Peter filled with the Holy Spirit said to them, 00:27:02.019 --> 00:27:05.819 rulers of the people and elders of Israel. If 00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:09.660 we this day are judged for the good deeds done 00:27:09.660 --> 00:27:13.500 to the helpless man, by what means he has been 00:27:13.500 --> 00:27:18.359 made well. Let it be known to you all and to 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:22.359 all the people of Israel that by the name of 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:27.140 Jesus of Nazareth, whom you crucify. Whom God 00:27:27.140 --> 00:27:30.779 raised from the dead, by him this man stand here 00:27:30.779 --> 00:27:38.099 before you all. It's by the name. This is a stone 00:27:38.099 --> 00:27:43.440 which was rejected by you builders, which has 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.519 become the chief cornerstone. No, it's their 00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:53.640 salvation in any order. For there is no other 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:58.619 name under heaven. Given among men. By which 00:27:58.619 --> 00:28:03.720 we must be what? The name of Jesus is his resurrection. 00:28:03.859 --> 00:28:09.799 That is where salvation is. There is no any other 00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:13.519 accomplishment on earth. Through which a man 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:21.940 will be saved. Look at chapter 10. Look at chapter 00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:34.299 10. Chapter 10, verse 39. And we were witnesses 00:28:34.299 --> 00:28:38.480 of all these things which he did both in the 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:40.720 land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:44.380 killed by hanging on a tree. Him God raised up 00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:47.819 on the third day and showed him openly, not to 00:28:47.819 --> 00:28:53.819 all the people, but to witnesses chosen before. 00:28:54.430 --> 00:28:57.549 By God, even to us who ate and drank with him 00:28:57.549 --> 00:29:03.789 after he arose from the dead. And he commanded 00:29:03.789 --> 00:29:08.250 us to preach to the people and to testify that 00:29:08.250 --> 00:29:12.349 it is he who was ordained by God to be judge 00:29:12.349 --> 00:29:15.829 of the living and the dead. To him, all the prophet 00:29:15.829 --> 00:29:19.589 witnessed that through his word, through his 00:29:19.589 --> 00:29:24.240 name, whoever believed in him. Will what receive 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:28.160 remission of sins? Forgiveness of sin came through 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:31.180 his name. Remission of sin through his name. 00:29:33.420 --> 00:29:41.619 Remission of sin. Of course, I read, I noted 00:29:41.619 --> 00:29:57.539 1 John yesterday. 1 John 5. 5 verse 13. He said, 00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:01.900 These things have I written to you who believe 00:30:01.900 --> 00:30:06.980 in the name of the Son of God, that you may know 00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:12.460 that you have what? Eternal life. You know, if 00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:15.380 you look at other texts, I mean, other translations, 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:20.240 that other part was not there. Those of you who 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:24.019 have been with us, we've done interpretation. 00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:26.359 You understand what I mean by that. And that 00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:29.859 you may continue to believe in the name of the 00:30:29.859 --> 00:30:31.759 Son of God. That one is not in the original. 00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:37.160 That you may continue to believe. No. And that 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:39.279 you may continue. That's in King James. When 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:43.039 you check other new modern translation, that 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:47.279 part. Is that you, those who believe in the name 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:49.480 of that, you might know that you have already. 00:30:50.220 --> 00:30:52.259 So it was written so that they will continue 00:30:52.259 --> 00:30:55.099 to believe in the name. It was written that they 00:30:55.099 --> 00:30:58.519 will know that they have what? They have eternal 00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:06.559 life. So. When you hear they said, there are 00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:11.519 some texts. Scripture talks about Acts 2 verse 00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:16.150 21. Talks about. Those who call on the name of 00:31:16.150 --> 00:31:21.809 the Lord. Call on the name of the Lord. And it 00:31:21.809 --> 00:31:25.349 shall come to pass that whosoever call on the 00:31:25.349 --> 00:31:29.490 name of the Lord shall be what? Shall be saved. 00:31:30.289 --> 00:31:33.990 Call on the name of the Lord is not shouting 00:31:33.990 --> 00:31:36.250 the name of Jesus. That's not what this place 00:31:36.250 --> 00:31:42.690 is talking about. Remember, Jesus told the Pharisees 00:31:42.690 --> 00:31:44.880 and the scribes, he said, He was discussing, 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:47.859 I think in Matthew 7, he said, it is not the 00:31:47.859 --> 00:31:50.220 person who called me Lord, Lord, that do what? 00:31:50.460 --> 00:31:53.440 Did you remember? So that means it's not about 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:56.619 what? It's not about mentioning. Are we together? 00:31:57.019 --> 00:32:03.059 Yes. He is talking about that call means actually 00:32:03.059 --> 00:32:06.619 believing. It means believing. Those who put 00:32:06.619 --> 00:32:12.099 faith in the name. Those who put faith in the 00:32:12.099 --> 00:32:15.450 name. That he was raised from the dead. And that 00:32:15.450 --> 00:32:20.450 was what actually Romans 10 was talking about. 00:32:20.569 --> 00:32:23.250 So when he talks about confess, he's not just 00:32:23.250 --> 00:32:26.250 talking about mentioning. Are we together? Are 00:32:26.250 --> 00:32:29.029 we together? He's not just referring to mentioning. 00:32:29.430 --> 00:32:34.569 No. He's talking about believing. Romans 10, 00:32:34.710 --> 00:32:41.309 verse 6. Romans 10. Look up from verse 6. It 00:32:41.309 --> 00:32:43.390 says, but the righteousness of faith speaks in 00:32:43.390 --> 00:32:46.289 this way. Do not say in your heart who will ascend 00:32:46.289 --> 00:32:48.849 into heaven, that is to bring Christ down from 00:32:48.849 --> 00:32:53.230 above, or who will descend into the abyss, that 00:32:53.230 --> 00:32:57.130 is to bring Christ up from the dead. Verse 8. 00:32:57.269 --> 00:33:01.130 But what does it say? The word is now in your 00:33:01.130 --> 00:33:03.990 mouth and in your heart. That is a word of faith 00:33:03.990 --> 00:33:09.059 which we preach. The word of faith, which we 00:33:09.059 --> 00:33:14.799 preach, that if you confess with your mouth the 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:18.960 Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God 00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:22.259 has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:24.839 That word is not two things. You know what I'm 00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:27.039 saying? First, you say, in the name of Jesus. 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:28.599 You know, sometimes when we come for altar call, 00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:30.799 you say, say in the name of Jesus. In the name 00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:33.220 of Jesus. If you don't say that, no, no, no. 00:33:33.259 --> 00:33:34.759 That's not what he's talking about. You understand? 00:33:35.309 --> 00:33:37.369 Remember, that hand there is just showing us 00:33:37.369 --> 00:33:40.769 a further explanation. So confessing the Lordship 00:33:40.769 --> 00:33:44.250 of Christ is that you have believed in your heart 00:33:44.250 --> 00:33:47.009 that God has raised him from where? From the 00:33:47.009 --> 00:33:50.710 dead. Because remember I told you, Lordship, 00:33:50.769 --> 00:33:54.130 the word Lord, is a concept, you understand, 00:33:54.289 --> 00:33:58.170 that was picked from the tradition of those days, 00:33:58.269 --> 00:34:02.250 where someone can conquer in a place, you understand? 00:34:02.650 --> 00:34:04.509 You know, those days full of wars. You understand? 00:34:04.589 --> 00:34:06.730 This kind of war. This king will go on and conquer 00:34:06.730 --> 00:34:08.590 this territory. And this king will conquer this 00:34:08.590 --> 00:34:10.269 territory. Some of us are historians. We know 00:34:10.269 --> 00:34:13.190 about it. Right? So you discover that. That's 00:34:13.190 --> 00:34:17.170 from that concept. So once you say Lord, that's 00:34:17.170 --> 00:34:20.869 what you are talking about. So a king will now 00:34:20.869 --> 00:34:25.989 move, conquer a place. But once he conquers his 00:34:25.989 --> 00:34:29.510 place, he stays there. Do you understand what 00:34:29.510 --> 00:34:31.230 I'm trying to say? He doesn't conquer and leave. 00:34:31.329 --> 00:34:35.820 No. He stays there and protect the territory. 00:34:37.260 --> 00:34:40.139 That's the concept of salvation. So when you 00:34:40.139 --> 00:34:44.000 received him, he comes into your life. It's in 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.440 that picture that he has conquered that territory. 00:34:47.219 --> 00:34:53.079 But he does not go away. He stays there and protects 00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:56.199 the territory that he has conquered. That's why 00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:59.260 neither your salvation or you staying in the 00:34:59.260 --> 00:35:01.610 salvation. Is ever your effort. Did you understand 00:35:01.610 --> 00:35:04.349 what I'm trying to say? Because it is him that 00:35:04.349 --> 00:35:08.610 stays to keep you. Now unto him who is able to 00:35:08.610 --> 00:35:12.789 do what? To keep you from falling. And present 00:35:12.789 --> 00:35:16.389 you faultless before his presence with exceeding 00:35:16.389 --> 00:35:20.690 joy. Jude 24. Unto him who is able to keep you. 00:35:21.309 --> 00:35:26.610 From what? From falling. And to present you faultless. 00:35:27.030 --> 00:35:31.809 This is not by conduct. This is his work and 00:35:31.809 --> 00:35:38.530 it's called salvation. That by the time you receive 00:35:38.530 --> 00:35:43.829 the new body, you are still faultless. You are 00:35:43.829 --> 00:35:46.469 still faultless. Yesterday, Pastor Roy spoke 00:35:46.469 --> 00:35:51.130 a particular text. He said you are holy. You 00:35:51.130 --> 00:35:55.010 know that Colossians and Ephesians? Holy, blameless. 00:35:55.309 --> 00:36:02.489 He said without fault. Listen. A believer, see, 00:36:02.650 --> 00:36:07.030 a believer, the one that has confessed Christ 00:36:07.030 --> 00:36:10.170 is faultless. Did you hear what I'm saying? Meaning 00:36:10.170 --> 00:36:15.829 you cannot go false. This is not a work of, it's 00:36:15.829 --> 00:36:18.170 not about conduct. It's what Christ has made 00:36:18.170 --> 00:36:22.849 us. You cannot be unrighteous. Did you understand 00:36:22.849 --> 00:36:25.409 what I'm saying? He made him who know no sin 00:36:25.409 --> 00:36:27.510 to become sin that you might become the world. 00:36:27.929 --> 00:36:32.070 The righteousness. See, you cannot become unrighteous. 00:36:35.510 --> 00:36:41.389 Because the one who saves lives in you. The Holy 00:36:41.389 --> 00:36:43.510 Spirit can't stay in a place that is unrighteous. 00:36:44.389 --> 00:36:48.789 So by his coming, he makes you righteous. He 00:36:48.789 --> 00:36:51.889 makes you faultless. And he keeps you faultless. 00:36:52.389 --> 00:36:58.909 Are we together? Hallelujah. Amen. So, Now you 00:36:58.909 --> 00:37:03.190 know that no one is born again or become the 00:37:03.190 --> 00:37:06.130 son of God by just shouting the name of Jesus. 00:37:06.210 --> 00:37:17.590 No, he's talking about the issue of believing 00:37:17.590 --> 00:37:24.750 in the name. Amen. So is it wrong to say in the 00:37:24.750 --> 00:37:27.809 name of Jesus? We're ending prayers because already 00:37:27.809 --> 00:37:30.329 we're used to it. Some people will say, in the 00:37:30.329 --> 00:37:33.989 mighty name, I'm precious and glorious and intelligent. 00:37:34.630 --> 00:37:40.010 Is he intelligent? In the name of Jesus. Some 00:37:40.010 --> 00:37:42.309 people think that God is like a man. You have 00:37:42.309 --> 00:37:46.269 to praise him. And say all kinds of names so 00:37:46.269 --> 00:37:48.769 that he will feel happy to not give you money 00:37:48.769 --> 00:37:53.989 or give you things. Then we used to have a formula. 00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:56.519 You say, first, when you come before the Lord, 00:37:56.619 --> 00:37:59.500 I don't know where you have gone. Anyway, when 00:37:59.500 --> 00:38:02.059 you come before the Lord, then you will sing 00:38:02.059 --> 00:38:04.460 and dance first. Because you cannot just come 00:38:04.460 --> 00:38:06.920 like that. You know what I'm saying? You just 00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:09.840 sing and praise first. When you sing and praise, 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:12.360 then you give thanks. After you give thanks, 00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.519 you know what I'm saying? I've never seen expert 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:18.820 give that to me. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes 00:38:18.820 --> 00:38:21.679 they enter, they don't greet. Daddy! You know 00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:25.440 what I'm saying? Because, They don't need to 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:27.880 say, they will come to my door and say, Daddy, 00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:29.659 you are wonderful. You are this, you are that. 00:38:30.340 --> 00:38:32.219 Because they will shower praise for me. Then 00:38:32.219 --> 00:38:35.820 I'll say, hey, my baby, how are you? They already 00:38:35.820 --> 00:38:39.519 know, they are sure of their acceptance of their 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:45.260 father. They just come in. Daddy, sometimes I'm 00:38:45.260 --> 00:38:49.539 in the middle of work. Like yesterday, I was 00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:51.579 trying to go through this. Explorer just came. 00:38:51.869 --> 00:38:53.690 She didn't even care. She grabbed me by the neck. 00:38:53.829 --> 00:38:59.309 She was saying, Daddy, what is that? Now, the 00:38:59.309 --> 00:39:02.429 point I'm trying to say is that, you know, there 00:39:02.429 --> 00:39:05.449 is a way we picture our father that needs to 00:39:05.449 --> 00:39:07.849 be adjusted. Listen, this is very important when 00:39:07.849 --> 00:39:10.010 we begin to talk about so much about the laying 00:39:10.010 --> 00:39:14.869 of hands. Are we together? To know that that 00:39:14.869 --> 00:39:18.949 is what God has desired you and I to operate 00:39:18.949 --> 00:39:21.860 in the ministry. That he wants to use our hand 00:39:21.860 --> 00:39:25.800 as his hand. Are we together? He wants to use 00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:30.019 our what? Our hands as his hands. Because if 00:39:30.019 --> 00:39:34.099 you know that he doesn't go and come, he indwells 00:39:34.099 --> 00:39:37.719 you forever. You understand? And he's walking 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:40.420 through you. Are we together? You will not be 00:39:40.420 --> 00:39:45.559 afraid. You understand? To know that Jesus Christ 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:50.070 is doing and wants to do things. Through you. 00:39:52.489 --> 00:39:59.449 Amen. Hallelujah. So. There's nothing wrong. 00:40:00.530 --> 00:40:04.230 To say in the name of Jesus. If your understanding 00:40:04.230 --> 00:40:07.250 is correct. If you are saying it as an affirmation. 00:40:07.389 --> 00:40:12.230 Of your reality. Not as a magic code. For God 00:40:12.230 --> 00:40:15.010 to answer your prayer. Did you understand what 00:40:15.010 --> 00:40:17.869 I'm saying? There's nothing wrong. To say in 00:40:17.869 --> 00:40:20.150 the name of Jesus. Or to shout the name of Jesus. 00:40:20.570 --> 00:40:23.289 In the son. If your understanding is correct. 00:40:24.530 --> 00:40:27.989 That you are saying. Or you are affirming your 00:40:27.989 --> 00:40:34.289 reality in Christ. But not as a magic code. That 00:40:34.289 --> 00:40:36.269 you have to just say in the name. So that he 00:40:36.269 --> 00:40:41.969 will answer you. In the son. No. No. You don't 00:40:41.969 --> 00:40:44.949 need to say. You just need to pray. Father thank 00:40:44.949 --> 00:40:55.239 you. In the son. Amen. That's it. So laying of 00:40:55.239 --> 00:41:01.619 hands. Let's return back to Romans. Sorry, Mark 00:41:01.619 --> 00:41:24.869 16. Mark 16. If you look at verse 17, you could 00:41:24.869 --> 00:41:28.590 see that look at verse 17 and 18. So laying of 00:41:28.590 --> 00:41:33.630 hands can be done by those who do what? Oh, talk 00:41:33.630 --> 00:41:38.570 to me. By those who do what? Who believe. Those 00:41:38.570 --> 00:41:45.489 in the name. All believers. All believers can 00:41:45.489 --> 00:41:52.880 lay hands. Is for those in the name. All who 00:41:52.880 --> 00:42:07.400 believe. All who believe. Do I have someone that 00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:19.750 believe here? Amen. Look for 40. Look for. Verse 00:42:19.750 --> 00:42:30.849 40. Let's see some text. To see how God. Uses 00:42:30.849 --> 00:42:34.889 us. The body. Or uses the body. To do wonders. 00:42:35.090 --> 00:42:46.929 Look for 40. When the sun was setting. All those 00:42:46.929 --> 00:42:53.570 who had any. that were sick with various diseases 00:42:53.570 --> 00:43:02.829 brought them to him and he laid his what? Are 00:43:02.829 --> 00:43:07.889 we together? He laid his hands on every one of 00:43:07.889 --> 00:43:12.190 them and do what? And healed them. Jesus laid 00:43:12.190 --> 00:43:14.909 his hands on every one of them and healed them. 00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:19.000 So those various diseases were healed by laying 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:21.119 of hands. Please, I want you to be careful now. 00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:25.500 Just, I'm trying to follow you. I want to show 00:43:25.500 --> 00:43:29.800 you patterns in the psalm. All those various 00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:35.500 diseases, we don't care their name. They were 00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:40.619 healed, gone, by the laying of hands. By the 00:43:40.619 --> 00:44:02.179 laying of hands. Look at Mark 6. Mark 6. Then 00:44:02.179 --> 00:44:05.739 he went out there and came to his own country 00:44:05.739 --> 00:44:08.099 and his disciples followed him. And when the 00:44:08.099 --> 00:44:10.639 Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue 00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:13.000 and many hearing him were astonished saying, 00:44:13.179 --> 00:44:17.400 where did this man get these things? And what 00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:23.099 wisdom is this which is given to him, that such 00:44:23.099 --> 00:44:26.239 mighty works are performed by his hand? Is this 00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:30.199 not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:37.099 of James, Jesus, Judas, and Simon? And are not 00:44:37.099 --> 00:44:42.260 his sisters here with us? I don't know why they 00:44:42.260 --> 00:44:45.739 didn't mention the names of these sisters. Anyway, 00:44:45.820 --> 00:44:48.000 you know, in those days, it's a particular system. 00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:52.119 Amen? Most times, it's only the men. Yesterday, 00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:55.559 I think, Pastor made mention of it. In those 00:44:55.559 --> 00:44:58.719 days, they only named the men. They forget about 00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:06.159 the children and the women. It's only men. I 00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:09.840 guess that's what is happening here. But no more 00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:15.800 in Christ. Hallelujah. There is neither male 00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:23.619 nor female. Jesus is wonderful. Amen. Verse 3. 00:45:24.500 --> 00:45:29.340 So that's what we saw. So they were offended 00:45:29.340 --> 00:45:35.639 at him. They were offended at him. But Jesus 00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:38.880 said to them, a prophet is not without honor 00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:41.980 except in his own country among his own relatives. 00:45:43.820 --> 00:45:50.039 And in his own house. Now, he could do no mighty 00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:54.880 works here. Except that he laid his hands on 00:45:54.880 --> 00:46:03.219 what? On few sick people. And healed them. Did 00:46:03.219 --> 00:46:06.300 you see what I'm seeing? So even in the middle 00:46:06.300 --> 00:46:11.840 of dishonor and unbelief. Of offense. Laying 00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:16.670 of hands to walk. We're going to study this passage 00:46:16.670 --> 00:46:21.929 later. At least those who came were healed. Those 00:46:21.929 --> 00:46:25.369 who honor him. Even the midst of unbelief and 00:46:25.369 --> 00:46:31.050 dishonor. In that atmosphere, lean of hands walked. 00:46:34.989 --> 00:46:54.599 Go to Mark chapter 5. Look at verse 21. Now when 00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:58.159 Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other 00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:01.099 side, a great multitude gathered to him and he 00:47:01.099 --> 00:47:05.139 was by sea. And behold, one of the rulers of 00:47:05.139 --> 00:47:09.340 the synagogue came, Jairus, by name. And when 00:47:09.340 --> 00:47:12.260 he saw him, he fell at his feet and begged him 00:47:12.260 --> 00:47:15.519 earnestly saying, my little daughter lies at 00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:18.309 the point of death. Come. and lay your hands 00:47:18.309 --> 00:47:25.369 on her and she may be healed and she will live. 00:47:26.030 --> 00:47:30.090 So Jesus went with him and a great multitude 00:47:30.090 --> 00:47:35.550 followed him and thronged him. Look at verse 00:47:35.550 --> 00:47:44.469 35. While he was still speaking, some came from 00:47:44.469 --> 00:47:47.159 the rulers of the synagogue house. who said, 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:50.000 your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:54.400 anymore? As soon as Jesus heard the word that 00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:56.679 was spoken, he said to the ruler of the synagogue, 00:47:56.940 --> 00:48:00.179 do not be afraid. Only do what? Believe. And 00:48:00.179 --> 00:48:05.579 he permitted no one to follow him except Peter, 00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:09.139 James, and John, the brother of James. Then he 00:48:09.139 --> 00:48:11.800 came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue 00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:15.860 and saw a tumult. And those who wept, and wailed 00:48:15.860 --> 00:48:20.780 loudly. When he came in, he said to them, why 00:48:20.780 --> 00:48:23.679 make this commotion and weep? The child is not 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:27.760 dead, but sleeping. And they ridiculed him. When 00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:34.059 he had put them outside, he took the father and 00:48:34.059 --> 00:48:36.940 the mother of the child and those who were with 00:48:36.940 --> 00:48:40.360 him and entered where the child was lying. Then 00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:43.639 he took the child by what? Oh, are we together? 00:48:44.139 --> 00:48:46.860 Did you see what Jesus did? He took the child. 00:48:47.099 --> 00:48:53.559 By what? By hand and said. Talitakumi. Which 00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:57.239 means. Or which translates. Third little girl. 00:48:57.460 --> 00:49:03.139 I say to you. Arise. Immediately the girl arose 00:49:03.139 --> 00:49:08.380 and walked. For she was 12 years of age. And 00:49:08.380 --> 00:49:11.800 they were overcome by great amazement. But he 00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:16.650 commanded. them strictly that no one should know 00:49:16.650 --> 00:49:20.329 it and said that something should be given to 00:49:20.329 --> 00:49:23.469 her to eat. Immediately Jesus entered. What did 00:49:23.469 --> 00:49:28.769 he do? Entered the house of Jairus. He took her 00:49:28.769 --> 00:49:33.730 by the hand. I want you to know that Acts chapter 00:49:33.730 --> 00:49:38.610 3, he took her by the hand. It's not a mistake. 00:49:38.789 --> 00:49:40.730 He didn't just do it. Before he even said anything, 00:49:40.909 --> 00:49:48.980 he took her by the hand. Acts chapter 3. I'll 00:49:48.980 --> 00:49:57.900 just read 6. Verse 6. Then Peter said, silver 00:49:57.900 --> 00:50:02.039 and gold I do not have, but what I have I give 00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:07.880 you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, 00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:11.619 rise up and walk. And Peter do what? And he took 00:50:11.619 --> 00:50:15.659 him by what? by the right hand and lifted him 00:50:15.659 --> 00:50:19.400 up. And immediately his feet and ankle bones 00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:23.480 received strength. Jesus took her by the hand. 00:50:23.739 --> 00:50:26.679 Peter took him by the right hand in the sand. 00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:36.320 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Why do we always touch? 00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:52.579 Did you see that? Look at Mark 7. Go back to 00:50:52.579 --> 00:51:06.239 Mark. Mark chapter 7. Mark 7 verse 32. Then they 00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:14.800 brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment 00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:17.699 in his speech and they begged him to put his 00:51:17.699 --> 00:51:21.900 hand on him. These people have been following 00:51:21.900 --> 00:51:24.360 him. They noticed something about the Christ. 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.159 So this time around, they begged him. They said, 00:51:28.179 --> 00:51:31.900 just put your hand on him. We understood. You 00:51:31.900 --> 00:51:35.179 see, these people are ardent observers. Remember 00:51:35.179 --> 00:51:38.239 the centurion. He has seen Jesus. He knows the 00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:41.119 power of Jesus. That's why he could say, I have 00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:44.420 understood it. Just speak a word from here. I 00:51:44.420 --> 00:51:47.340 know something is going to happen. So they observe. 00:51:48.110 --> 00:51:51.869 You see, they begged him to put his hand on him. 00:51:52.010 --> 00:51:55.070 And he took him aside from the multitude and 00:51:55.070 --> 00:52:00.269 put his finger, where? In his ears. And he spat 00:52:00.269 --> 00:52:04.090 and touched his tongue. Then he looked up to 00:52:04.090 --> 00:52:12.070 heaven and sighed and said to him, Efata means 00:52:12.070 --> 00:52:17.110 to be open. Immediately, his ears were opened. 00:52:17.530 --> 00:52:21.550 and the impediment of his tongue was loose, and 00:52:21.550 --> 00:52:26.730 he spoke plainly. Again, Jesus touched his ears 00:52:26.730 --> 00:52:30.630 with his finger. Are we together? He touched 00:52:30.630 --> 00:52:37.710 his ears. Jesus touched his ears. Listen, why 00:52:37.710 --> 00:52:42.130 will there be always a touch? Because our bodies 00:52:42.130 --> 00:52:45.570 transmit the power of God. Remember I told you 00:52:45.570 --> 00:52:49.900 that laying of hands, is supernatural in the 00:52:49.900 --> 00:52:53.800 Son. Our body transmits. If you go with this 00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:59.900 mentality, you begin to see you expressing. You 00:52:59.900 --> 00:53:04.860 begin to see you walking in the miraculous with 00:53:04.860 --> 00:53:07.780 this consciousness that my body transmits the 00:53:07.780 --> 00:53:12.519 power of God. It's not just only some believers. 00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:15.519 Every believer, as long as the Holy Spirit dwells 00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:28.909 in you. Luke chapter 6. Luke chapter 6. The effectiveness 00:53:28.909 --> 00:53:34.369 of believers on how they manifest this kingdom 00:53:34.369 --> 00:53:39.170 is to the degree of their consciousness of who 00:53:39.170 --> 00:53:42.670 they are in Christ. And the degree of their consciousness 00:53:42.670 --> 00:53:47.250 of who they are in Christ is actually a function 00:53:47.250 --> 00:53:50.030 of the knowledge. They have about the Christ 00:53:50.030 --> 00:54:10.690 and the identity in him. So Luke 6, 17. Judas, 00:54:10.869 --> 00:54:15.349 the son of Joseph, and Judas Iscariot, who... 00:54:17.130 --> 00:54:22.289 Also became a traitor. Verse 17. Okay, I was 00:54:22.289 --> 00:54:25.869 reading 16. Verse 17. I want us to read together. 00:54:27.170 --> 00:54:31.349 Are we together? Okay, verse 17. And he came 00:54:31.349 --> 00:54:35.030 with them and stood on a level place with a crowd 00:54:35.030 --> 00:54:38.090 of his disciples and a great multitude of people 00:54:38.090 --> 00:54:42.170 from all Judea and Jerusalem and from this... 00:54:42.889 --> 00:54:47.829 Of Ter and Sidon who came to hear him and be 00:54:47.829 --> 00:54:50.690 healed of their what? Diseases. Verse 18 together. 00:54:51.630 --> 00:54:55.690 As well as those who were tormentors with this. 00:54:56.510 --> 00:55:02.030 Yes. He healed. Verse 19. And the whole multitude 00:55:02.030 --> 00:55:08.269 sought to what? For what? Out from him to do 00:55:08.269 --> 00:55:15.239 what? Power went out. They sought to touch him. 00:55:16.340 --> 00:55:24.019 For power, for power went out from him to hell. 00:55:30.260 --> 00:55:34.460 So you can now connect what we read earlier when 00:55:34.460 --> 00:55:40.139 the man begged him to touch. You can also now 00:55:40.139 --> 00:55:43.750 connect This is a story that went out. And the 00:55:43.750 --> 00:55:45.889 woman with an issue of blood, she said, if only 00:55:45.889 --> 00:55:52.050 I can touch his word. That's what they heard. 00:55:52.130 --> 00:55:57.650 They have been observant. Our body transmits 00:55:57.650 --> 00:56:08.349 the power of God. Be conscious of this. Be conscious 00:56:08.349 --> 00:56:23.380 of this truth. Acts chapter 4. Acts chapter 4 00:56:23.380 --> 00:56:35.139 verse 29. Now the Lord looked on their threat 00:56:35.139 --> 00:56:41.579 and grant your servants that with all boldness 00:56:41.579 --> 00:56:50.849 they may speak your word. By stretching Your 00:56:50.849 --> 00:56:56.230 hand to heal. And the signs and wonders may be 00:56:56.230 --> 00:57:03.690 done through the name of your holy servant. Through 00:57:03.690 --> 00:57:08.789 the name of your holy servant. The question is 00:57:08.789 --> 00:57:12.289 that how will God stretch his hand? Have you 00:57:12.289 --> 00:57:18.929 seen his hand before? Are we together? Jump to 00:57:18.929 --> 00:57:26.289 chapter 5. Verse 12. And through the hands of 00:57:26.289 --> 00:57:31.070 the apostles, many signs and wonders were done 00:57:31.070 --> 00:57:36.230 among the people. And they were all with one 00:57:36.230 --> 00:57:43.590 accord in Solomon's porch. Yet none of the rest 00:57:43.590 --> 00:57:47.650 dared join them. But the people esteemed them 00:57:47.650 --> 00:57:54.159 highly. The people. esteem them highly, and believers 00:57:54.159 --> 00:58:00.179 were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes 00:58:00.179 --> 00:58:04.719 of both men and women, so that they brought the 00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:11.099 sick out into the streets and laid them on beds 00:58:11.099 --> 00:58:17.400 and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter 00:58:18.280 --> 00:58:24.059 Passing might fall on some of them. Might fall 00:58:24.059 --> 00:58:33.980 on some of them. Are we together? Did you see 00:58:33.980 --> 00:58:40.280 that? God stretching his hand is through you. 00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:46.079 Is through you. When they pray that. the Lord 00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:49.900 will stretch up his hands and heal and the signs 00:58:49.900 --> 00:58:53.860 and wonders will be done through his name. The 00:58:53.860 --> 00:58:58.380 apostles knew what they were saying. In chapter 00:58:58.380 --> 00:59:02.460 five, we now saw that wonders were done through 00:59:02.460 --> 00:59:05.500 their hands. So what they are saying or they 00:59:05.500 --> 00:59:08.619 are praying is that Lord, that signs and wonders 00:59:08.619 --> 00:59:13.119 be performed through your name, by our hands 00:59:13.119 --> 00:59:19.389 and through our hands. To our hands. And I want 00:59:19.389 --> 00:59:22.409 you to say this in the sun. Say this after me. 00:59:22.610 --> 00:59:27.969 My torch is the torch of God. Oh, I say it loudly 00:59:27.969 --> 00:59:33.809 now. My torch is the torch of God. That is the 00:59:33.809 --> 00:59:37.349 consciousness I want you to begin to walk in. 00:59:38.769 --> 00:59:48.719 That my body is his body. You know, I like that 00:59:48.719 --> 00:59:52.199 song we used to sing. Only that the way we arrange 00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:56.360 the words is not good. Yes, sir. We know that 00:59:56.360 --> 01:00:00.179 our body is a sanctuary. Do you understand what 01:00:00.179 --> 01:00:09.679 I'm saying? My body is your sanctuary. My body 01:00:09.679 --> 01:00:15.139 is your sanctuary. I love this line. But the 01:00:15.139 --> 01:00:18.199 other lines have a problem. It's not. How can 01:00:18.199 --> 01:00:22.519 your body be sanctuary and say, purify me like 01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:25.519 gold? How did you become sanctuary without being 01:00:25.519 --> 01:00:33.420 purified? It's not possible. So that I may be 01:00:33.420 --> 01:00:37.920 bold to save my body. You started by saying my 01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:39.679 body is a giant, so that I will be bold again. 01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:46.659 Is that? No. No. You have been purified. Oh, 01:00:46.659 --> 01:00:51.000 I am be purified. Yes, I am purified. And my 01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:54.800 body is his sanctuary. My hands is his hands. 01:00:55.059 --> 01:00:59.039 Are we together? My eyes is his eyes. My touch 01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:02.159 is his touch. Are we together? My touch is his 01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:05.500 touch. You know, there's a song we used to sing 01:01:05.500 --> 01:01:17.400 again. What's that song? My hands are blessed. 01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:23.820 My hands are blessed. With the blessings of God. 01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:29.739 With the blessings of God. My hands are blessed. 01:01:30.500 --> 01:01:36.179 My hands are blessed. With the blessings of the 01:01:36.179 --> 01:01:46.530 Lord. Anyone I touch, anyone I touch, anyone 01:01:46.530 --> 01:01:59.269 I bless, my hands are blessed with the blessings 01:01:59.269 --> 01:02:03.889 of the Lord. With the blessings of the Lord. 01:02:05.530 --> 01:02:09.050 Hallelujah. Unfortunately, you know, those days, 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:16.659 They used to sing it during offering. So, you 01:02:16.659 --> 01:02:18.659 know, when you call blessed in those days, when 01:02:18.659 --> 01:02:24.420 things are hard, your mind goes to money. So, 01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:28.719 the Lord is, you know, people will now say, go 01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:32.639 punish poverty. Yes, go punish poverty. But the 01:02:32.639 --> 01:02:36.079 issue is that go punish ignorance. Because the 01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:37.719 problem is not that you don't have anything. 01:02:37.780 --> 01:02:39.659 The problem is that you don't have knowledge. 01:02:42.250 --> 01:02:50.469 Are we together? So, now next you begin to know 01:02:50.469 --> 01:02:52.929 and have this consciousness that my hands are 01:02:52.929 --> 01:02:55.889 blessed. I'm a blessed person. Why are you blessed? 01:02:56.090 --> 01:02:58.829 Because I've been forgiven. Because I've been 01:02:58.829 --> 01:03:01.909 purified. Are we together? Yes, I'm blessed. 01:03:02.730 --> 01:03:09.590 Blessed is the man in the sun who sins. Are we 01:03:09.590 --> 01:03:14.960 together? God does not impute his iniquity. That's 01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:20.280 the man that is blessed. And that's why my hands 01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:31.340 are blessed. I'm a blessing. That's our focus. 01:03:32.980 --> 01:03:35.280 You know, I first got this understanding when 01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:37.400 I was about to go to, in our country, what we 01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:40.820 call National Youth Service. Many young people, 01:03:41.159 --> 01:03:43.219 When you graduate below 30, you go to serve the 01:03:43.219 --> 01:03:47.159 nation. Understand? Just post you anywhere to 01:03:47.159 --> 01:03:52.980 serve. You know, one of my uncles called me. 01:03:53.099 --> 01:03:56.159 He was working in one of the embassies. Let me 01:03:56.159 --> 01:03:58.639 not mention. One of the powerful embassies in 01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:01.360 Abuja. He called me and said, where do you want 01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:03.960 to serve? Just tell me where you want to serve. 01:04:04.699 --> 01:04:08.159 I said, no, they have already done it already. 01:04:08.829 --> 01:04:10.570 He didn't understand what I was trying to say, 01:04:10.610 --> 01:04:13.750 but I'm saying that I don't arrange for that. 01:04:13.809 --> 01:04:17.550 God has done it. And our mindset is not that 01:04:17.550 --> 01:04:19.349 I'm going, you know, there's a way we consider 01:04:19.349 --> 01:04:22.469 better place. Do you know what I'm saying? I 01:04:22.469 --> 01:04:27.809 met one of my friends in Akwa Ibo state. He served 01:04:27.809 --> 01:04:31.389 the Lord in the camp for three weeks. He served 01:04:31.389 --> 01:04:32.809 the Lord and he said, you know, those people 01:04:32.809 --> 01:04:34.889 who have the personal relationship with God. 01:04:36.190 --> 01:04:38.909 They said, I have made a covenant with God. I 01:04:38.909 --> 01:04:41.929 don't know how he made a covenant with God. Away 01:04:41.929 --> 01:04:47.610 from the covenant we all have. So that if he 01:04:47.610 --> 01:04:50.849 served the Lord, oh God, if he served the Lord, 01:04:50.869 --> 01:04:54.710 that God would take him to a better place. And 01:04:54.710 --> 01:04:57.969 after he danced, he was up and doing, I saw the 01:04:57.969 --> 01:05:00.369 man zealous. I didn't know what was he saying. 01:05:02.670 --> 01:05:05.710 Until after we finished and all of us gone, they 01:05:05.710 --> 01:05:10.869 posted into one remote village. Most of the coppers 01:05:10.869 --> 01:05:13.130 or co -members that they were sent there, they 01:05:13.130 --> 01:05:17.889 refused to go. He was angry with God. So when 01:05:17.889 --> 01:05:22.630 we came for a state conference in the Nigerian 01:05:22.630 --> 01:05:27.949 Coppers, Christian Coppers Fellowship, I saw 01:05:27.949 --> 01:05:32.900 him dejected in the sun. In his face, you could 01:05:32.900 --> 01:05:37.099 see his contents as falling. I said, bro, how 01:05:37.099 --> 01:05:40.500 have you been? It's been long. I said, what is 01:05:40.500 --> 01:05:45.579 the problem? He started sharing it. I said, but 01:05:45.579 --> 01:05:49.239 what is your divination of best? You know, there's 01:05:49.239 --> 01:05:54.900 a way we define good. But when I was going, I 01:05:54.900 --> 01:05:58.199 got understanding those who serve in this kingdom 01:05:58.199 --> 01:06:01.769 are those who are the greatest. You understand? 01:06:02.150 --> 01:06:05.369 So I went to the place of service. You understand? 01:06:05.789 --> 01:06:07.769 Even though I have a good certificate, I knew 01:06:07.769 --> 01:06:10.230 that they are likely not going to take me to. 01:06:10.409 --> 01:06:13.550 But my problem is not where. My problem is a 01:06:13.550 --> 01:06:17.030 service. I was in my mind that even if they asked 01:06:17.030 --> 01:06:19.150 me, what do you mean? First and foremost, what 01:06:19.150 --> 01:06:22.309 did they say? They say national service. What 01:06:22.309 --> 01:06:26.329 am I going to do? To serve. A servant does not 01:06:26.329 --> 01:06:29.500 ask what to do. He only say, I am here. Whatever 01:06:29.500 --> 01:06:31.900 they gave to him, he would what? He would do. 01:06:32.739 --> 01:06:35.119 I said, even if they say, this is your work, 01:06:35.179 --> 01:06:37.099 every morning you start sweeping the streets. 01:06:37.460 --> 01:06:40.000 That's my service to the community. Of course, 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:42.960 I would do it gladly. That was my mentality when 01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:45.840 I went. Eventually, some of us that are first 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:47.840 class students, normally they just post to directly, 01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:52.800 automatically to universities. So immediately 01:06:52.800 --> 01:06:55.460 after I come, they posted me to the University 01:06:55.460 --> 01:07:02.429 of UU. So, and I went there. I said, I am a servant. 01:07:03.670 --> 01:07:06.130 My boss, who was my head of department, started 01:07:06.130 --> 01:07:07.969 shouting because the coppers there have messed 01:07:07.969 --> 01:07:10.630 up. I will not receive you. I will not receive 01:07:10.630 --> 01:07:12.929 you. All of you are nonsense people. No, no, 01:07:12.949 --> 01:07:15.369 no, no. I will not receive anybody again. Co 01:07:15.369 --> 01:07:17.769 -members, they only like money. They don't want 01:07:17.769 --> 01:07:20.829 to work. I didn't do anything, but he was shouting 01:07:20.829 --> 01:07:27.469 at me. Well, I was confused. But after all the 01:07:27.469 --> 01:07:30.469 things, I just stayed quiet. I said, what is 01:07:30.469 --> 01:07:34.010 the problem? After he finished, he said, well, 01:07:34.989 --> 01:07:40.170 he calmed down. He said, well, I don't want to 01:07:40.170 --> 01:07:42.130 judge you like others, but you must promise me. 01:07:43.710 --> 01:07:45.570 You must promise me that you're not going to 01:07:45.570 --> 01:07:52.789 be like others. So he said, I should go. Gave 01:07:52.789 --> 01:07:55.090 me two weeks and go and rest. I should come back. 01:07:56.079 --> 01:07:59.360 He now signed it and returned. Because I knew 01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:02.900 I was a servant. That was why when I came, even 01:08:02.900 --> 01:08:05.239 the staff, they did not understand I was a co 01:08:05.239 --> 01:08:09.079 -member. Because I come as early as possible. 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:12.719 You understand? Always I will come and wait by 01:08:12.719 --> 01:08:14.519 the door before the secretary will come and open 01:08:14.519 --> 01:08:19.460 the door of the department. Throughout. So some 01:08:19.460 --> 01:08:20.979 of them never knew. They thought I was just this 01:08:20.979 --> 01:08:25.079 new lecturer they just employed. One day, one 01:08:25.079 --> 01:08:29.020 of the professors saw me with my crest and said, 01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:36.399 are you a co -member? Because the way I conducted 01:08:36.399 --> 01:08:42.800 myself is one who serves. They banned people 01:08:42.800 --> 01:08:46.159 from entering into the HOD office because co 01:08:46.159 --> 01:08:51.640 -members have been stealing resources. When you 01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:54.229 have a girlfriend, you know, They will go inside 01:08:54.229 --> 01:08:58.189 and change the resort. So they ban all of them 01:08:58.189 --> 01:09:03.390 from entering. But we went there through the 01:09:03.390 --> 01:09:06.390 grace of God with a transformed mind. We changed 01:09:06.390 --> 01:09:18.430 the place. Before one month, two months, the 01:09:18.430 --> 01:09:23.819 HOD office has become my office. HOD will leave. 01:09:24.340 --> 01:09:28.000 Are we together? He will leave. Everybody will 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:29.399 leave in the department. They will go to somewhere 01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:31.060 else. I'll be the only one in the department. 01:09:33.119 --> 01:09:36.239 HOD gave me a seat close to his office there. 01:09:39.220 --> 01:09:42.819 There is nothing I did not know in that department. 01:09:43.159 --> 01:09:48.020 No result, no secret that I don't know. Trust. 01:09:48.760 --> 01:09:51.829 There is a difference. The other lady, before 01:09:51.829 --> 01:09:54.630 when she was going, she told me, I don't understand 01:09:54.630 --> 01:09:57.189 these people. Every now and then, when you are 01:09:57.189 --> 01:09:58.789 graduating, I say, come on, they will give you 01:09:58.789 --> 01:10:03.210 food flags. Are they going to ask, are they expecting 01:10:03.210 --> 01:10:06.449 us to go and eat? He said, how did you know? 01:10:06.510 --> 01:10:08.829 He said, the one that left told me that his food 01:10:08.829 --> 01:10:11.689 flags they gave her. That even that one, she 01:10:11.689 --> 01:10:14.069 told her that the one, the last one, it was food 01:10:14.069 --> 01:10:18.090 flags. I said, well, thank God I was not expecting 01:10:18.090 --> 01:10:26.020 anything. I wasn't expecting anything. But when 01:10:26.020 --> 01:10:32.119 I was leaving, I told my boss. It was on Friday 01:10:32.119 --> 01:10:34.659 after our passing out. I told him, I said, I'll 01:10:34.659 --> 01:10:37.279 be going on Monday. He said, no, no. Lie, lie. 01:10:38.979 --> 01:10:42.359 Where are you going? He said, we want to give 01:10:42.359 --> 01:10:44.260 you work here so that you start your MSC here. 01:10:46.319 --> 01:10:48.720 You understand? No, you are not going anywhere. 01:10:50.820 --> 01:10:53.100 He said, you have to first and foremost postpone 01:10:53.100 --> 01:10:56.039 your journey. I said, sir, I need to. It's been 01:10:56.039 --> 01:10:58.779 long. I have to go and see my people. He said, 01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:00.239 okay, first and foremost, before we talk any 01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:06.079 other thing, postpone your journey. First ever. 01:11:06.720 --> 01:11:08.659 And what did I do? Because I consider myself 01:11:08.659 --> 01:11:11.060 a servant. That's the mentality I want us to 01:11:11.060 --> 01:11:16.479 carry. You understand? And what is it? That Friday 01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:20.039 when I was going. I've already been thinking, 01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:22.500 what do I add again to this department? I was 01:11:22.500 --> 01:11:26.000 busy looking. What else can I add before I go? 01:11:26.800 --> 01:11:29.359 What else can I add before I go? And I remember 01:11:29.359 --> 01:11:33.260 they just recently, because normally they do 01:11:33.260 --> 01:11:36.199 always what they call accreditation again after 01:11:36.199 --> 01:11:40.699 some level of time in each courses. I mean, each 01:11:40.699 --> 01:11:43.600 course in the university. At that time, accreditation 01:11:43.600 --> 01:11:47.699 was just coming. So they repented the whole department. 01:11:48.699 --> 01:11:51.159 And then I discovered that, ah, that wall, I've 01:11:51.159 --> 01:11:55.539 not been seeing a wall clock. And I discovered 01:11:55.539 --> 01:11:57.340 that that wall clock has spoiled. I said, ah, 01:11:57.500 --> 01:12:00.840 I think this one is around my level. In the south. 01:12:01.460 --> 01:12:04.079 Yes. The Bible says, when you are given, give 01:12:04.079 --> 01:12:06.560 the one that is within your power. Do you understand 01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:09.699 what I'm saying? So I went and I got, interestingly, 01:12:09.899 --> 01:12:12.859 I see the market. When I was entering one supermarket 01:12:12.859 --> 01:12:16.159 and I saw the color that matches the department. 01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:21.289 I see they did. One good big one like that. I 01:12:21.289 --> 01:12:23.569 asked. At that time, the coin was around 3 ,000. 01:12:24.010 --> 01:12:28.329 I removed from my alawi. We used to call it. 01:12:28.630 --> 01:12:32.350 I paid for it. Some of the things they gave to 01:12:32.350 --> 01:12:36.670 me in the family house where I stayed with coppers 01:12:36.670 --> 01:12:39.550 in the sun. Why would I go to Kaduna with it? 01:12:39.710 --> 01:12:42.069 I packed all of them. I take it to the secretaries. 01:12:42.489 --> 01:12:45.449 And I gave that one to the court. No court member 01:12:45.449 --> 01:12:47.829 has ever done this with me. Everybody is looking 01:12:47.829 --> 01:12:53.409 what he will get. I mean, it was a shocker. He 01:12:53.409 --> 01:12:56.550 said, no, no, no, no, no, no. They organized. 01:12:58.229 --> 01:13:01.750 To my surprise, when I came on that Monday, all 01:13:01.750 --> 01:13:04.109 the professors, there has never been any gathering 01:13:04.109 --> 01:13:08.130 that gathered everybody like that. All the professors, 01:13:08.329 --> 01:13:11.090 the dean, everybody were there. They went and 01:13:11.090 --> 01:13:16.520 got food. It was a party in the... All of them 01:13:16.520 --> 01:13:18.180 will give me, they have been giving me money 01:13:18.180 --> 01:13:20.180 in the sand. This one say for your fly, this 01:13:20.180 --> 01:13:26.100 one for your... I didn't follow fly, dude. Now, 01:13:26.159 --> 01:13:28.479 what am I trying to say? There was a difference. 01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:35.159 At least they never gave me food flags. What 01:13:35.159 --> 01:13:38.560 am I trying to say? That mentality of service. 01:13:41.340 --> 01:13:44.899 Your hands is an extension to cause joy in a 01:13:44.899 --> 01:13:49.810 city. To cause joy in territories. That after 01:13:49.810 --> 01:13:54.590 you have left. People begin to enjoy your legacies. 01:13:59.130 --> 01:14:01.409 The other prophet said. We will write your name 01:14:01.409 --> 01:14:04.029 on this clock. And put it on top. So that every 01:14:04.029 --> 01:14:09.090 co -member that comes here will face. That is 01:14:09.090 --> 01:14:16.430 what it is. This means. that you carry God's 01:14:16.430 --> 01:14:21.989 power. God's power is at work in you. Our body 01:14:21.989 --> 01:14:27.390 transmits the power of God. The shadow of Peter, 01:14:27.569 --> 01:14:32.390 did you see that? The shadow of Peter fell on 01:14:32.390 --> 01:14:40.109 people. It's from your body. It can touch anything 01:14:40.109 --> 01:14:43.489 that emanates from your body, carries it. Look 01:14:43.489 --> 01:14:48.680 at that 19. His aprons. Did you see that? Acts 01:14:48.680 --> 01:14:52.779 19 verse 11. Now God walk unusual miracle by 01:14:52.779 --> 01:15:01.600 the hand of Paul. By the hand of Paul. So that 01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:06.439 even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from 01:15:06.439 --> 01:15:10.399 his wear. Oh, talk to me from his wear. Oh, let's 01:15:10.399 --> 01:15:12.819 read together. Read that verse 12. One, two, 01:15:12.859 --> 01:15:17.119 three, go. So that even handkerchief or aprons 01:15:17.119 --> 01:15:21.760 were brought from his body to the sick and the 01:15:21.760 --> 01:15:26.220 diseases left them and the evil spirit went out 01:15:26.220 --> 01:15:34.100 of them. Our body emanates the power of God. 01:15:34.199 --> 01:15:42.159 It's a transmitter. It's a transmitter. It's 01:15:42.159 --> 01:15:57.409 a transmitter. It's a transmitter. That is it. 01:15:57.970 --> 01:16:01.810 And I want us to carry this as in this, because 01:16:01.810 --> 01:16:04.909 by the time we start laying of our hands, that 01:16:04.909 --> 01:16:07.770 is the mindset. Not just only that you know you 01:16:07.770 --> 01:16:10.930 have it, but that when hands are laid upon you, 01:16:11.010 --> 01:16:13.949 that is the consciousness you carry too. That 01:16:13.949 --> 01:16:17.609 the power of God is transmitted. Are we together? 01:16:18.470 --> 01:16:23.189 Is transmitted. That the power of God, that this 01:16:23.189 --> 01:16:28.170 hands of mine, that my touch is a touch of God. 01:16:30.729 --> 01:16:35.409 And with it, I bless the world. With it, I bless 01:16:35.409 --> 01:16:39.510 the world. That this body, my body is a transmitter 01:16:39.510 --> 01:16:44.130 of the power of God. That this body is an instrument, 01:16:44.250 --> 01:16:47.649 it's a vessel for the demonstration of God's 01:16:47.649 --> 01:16:49.750 power. It's not an instrument of immorality. 01:16:54.220 --> 01:16:57.840 As we used to say, this is my life. This is my 01:16:57.840 --> 01:17:03.739 song. And this is my reality. And this is my 01:17:03.739 --> 01:17:25.500 reality. Acts chapter 14. Look at verse 3. Therefore, 01:17:25.619 --> 01:17:28.399 they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly 01:17:28.399 --> 01:17:33.140 in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word 01:17:33.140 --> 01:17:38.199 of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be 01:17:38.199 --> 01:17:44.699 done by their hands. You remember back 1620 and 01:17:44.699 --> 01:17:47.319 the Lord walking with them, confirming their 01:17:47.319 --> 01:17:49.960 word with what? Signs. Did you understand what 01:17:49.960 --> 01:17:54.069 I'm saying? Here again, they stayed. He said, 01:17:54.109 --> 01:17:57.890 bearing witness to the word of his grace, granting 01:17:57.890 --> 01:18:04.689 signs and wonders to be done by their hands. 01:18:07.270 --> 01:18:21.430 Go to 28, Acts 28. Acts 28. Look at verse 8. 01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:29.159 There were many lambs in the upper room where 01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:36.359 they were gathered together. And in the window 01:18:36.359 --> 01:18:41.600 sat a certain young man named Eutychus. Oh, where 01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:45.180 am I reading? Okay, let's leave Eutychus for 01:18:45.180 --> 01:18:53.600 now. But he fell. Thank God we are not. We don't 01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:58.840 have windows that somebody will fall. Amen. Look 01:18:58.840 --> 01:19:03.720 at verse 8, Acts 28. And it happened that the 01:19:03.720 --> 01:19:09.539 father of Publius lay sick of a fever and dysentery. 01:19:11.260 --> 01:19:16.659 And Paul went into him and prayed and laid his 01:19:16.659 --> 01:19:22.659 hand on him and healed him. laid his hands on 01:19:22.659 --> 01:19:27.539 him and healed him. Did you observe something? 01:19:28.640 --> 01:19:31.539 That the laying of his hands is a primary method 01:19:31.539 --> 01:19:44.779 of administering healings. Laying of hands. You 01:19:44.779 --> 01:19:48.220 don't need to feel anything. As we said, that 01:19:48.220 --> 01:19:53.220 it is a spiritual sign. Are we together? It's 01:19:53.220 --> 01:19:56.220 not under the control of emotions. It's not feelings. 01:19:56.600 --> 01:20:00.479 So you don't need to feel anything. But you just 01:20:00.479 --> 01:20:09.439 have to know. And I know Jesus is healing through 01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:18.140 my hands. And I know blind eyes are open to my 01:20:18.140 --> 01:20:27.180 hands. And I know death is adhering to my hands. 01:20:27.479 --> 01:20:33.899 For the Holy Ghost is walking through my hands. 01:20:34.140 --> 01:20:38.100 You don't need to feel anything. But it's the 01:20:38.100 --> 01:20:47.359 knowing. I know. I know. I know that he is healing 01:20:47.359 --> 01:20:51.399 through my hands. I know it. You don't need to 01:20:51.399 --> 01:20:54.619 know. You don't need to feel anything. Just lay 01:20:54.619 --> 01:20:59.119 your hands. It's a pattern. Just like you pray. 01:20:59.380 --> 01:21:03.100 Don't be mizing with your hands. Don't be stingy 01:21:03.100 --> 01:21:06.079 if there's anything with your hands. It's like 01:21:06.079 --> 01:21:08.960 prayer. It should be a part of life for you. 01:21:09.479 --> 01:21:12.319 Are we together? It should be a different setting. 01:21:12.500 --> 01:21:16.350 You say, ah. yesterday I was tired. Listen, where 01:21:16.350 --> 01:21:19.189 is the place? Do you understand what I'm saying? 01:21:19.409 --> 01:21:21.930 It should be the next thing that comes to you. 01:21:22.090 --> 01:21:23.489 You know, this is the way I used to. There's 01:21:23.489 --> 01:21:25.310 nothing wrong with drugs. Do you understand what 01:21:25.310 --> 01:21:27.909 I'm trying to say? But that, the issue is that 01:21:27.909 --> 01:21:29.710 always the first thing that comes to our mind 01:21:29.710 --> 01:21:32.850 is drugs. You see, there's nothing wrong with 01:21:32.850 --> 01:21:34.949 it, but be careful before it will paralyze your 01:21:34.949 --> 01:21:36.829 feet. You know, those days we used to sing one 01:21:36.829 --> 01:21:39.689 song. Panadol is good, boy, it can paralyze your 01:21:39.689 --> 01:21:43.279 feet. You understand? What he's trying to say 01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:45.840 is that because there's this over -dependence 01:21:45.840 --> 01:21:54.260 where man is already... So, that is a point. 01:21:57.180 --> 01:22:00.100 When the woman with an issue of blood touched 01:22:00.100 --> 01:22:03.960 Jesus and got healed, Jesus did not realize. 01:22:04.359 --> 01:22:08.100 I mean, he didn't realize it physically. He knew 01:22:08.100 --> 01:22:10.000 it by the word of knowledge. That's what the 01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:14.319 Bible says. We also did that. How do you think 01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:16.279 he will know it when people... Have you been 01:22:16.279 --> 01:22:19.039 in a crowd? Okay, if you have collected Boss 01:22:19.039 --> 01:22:25.899 3 before in Nigeria. Oh, that's true. Here, let's 01:22:25.899 --> 01:22:30.020 come back here. Have you been near his boss? 01:22:30.979 --> 01:22:38.399 How do you know who is touching you? Did you 01:22:38.399 --> 01:22:40.460 understand what I'm saying? So people, we are 01:22:40.460 --> 01:22:43.890 there. Crowding, pressing, you understand? He 01:22:43.890 --> 01:22:47.949 was going. And then this woman came and touched 01:22:47.949 --> 01:22:51.529 him. We will see what's the difference between 01:22:51.529 --> 01:22:55.029 those people who were and this woman who came 01:22:55.029 --> 01:23:00.130 from nowhere. He knew it by word of knowledge. 01:23:02.170 --> 01:23:05.970 That was why the disciples were surprised at 01:23:05.970 --> 01:23:09.609 the question. He was surprised. He said, who 01:23:09.609 --> 01:23:13.939 touched me? Ha. These people are cloudy. Everybody 01:23:13.939 --> 01:23:24.239 will say, who touched you? Mark chapter 5. Go 01:23:24.239 --> 01:23:42.119 back to Mark chapter 5. Look at verse 31. But 01:23:42.119 --> 01:23:44.859 his disciples said to him, you see the multitude 01:23:44.859 --> 01:23:51.880 thronging you and you say, who taught you? And 01:23:51.880 --> 01:23:56.920 he looked around to see her who had done this. 01:24:01.140 --> 01:24:05.079 Look at Vastati. Did you see Vastati? He said, 01:24:05.119 --> 01:24:08.939 Jesus immediately doing what? Did he say feeling 01:24:08.939 --> 01:24:13.810 that somebody taught him? He said, knowing in 01:24:13.810 --> 01:24:19.829 himself that power had gone out of him, turn 01:24:19.829 --> 01:24:23.170 around in the crowd and say, who touched me? 01:24:26.510 --> 01:24:32.609 Who touched my clothes? Who touched my clothes? 01:24:36.510 --> 01:24:39.909 You have to be conscious of spiritual things. 01:24:44.810 --> 01:24:48.989 So sometimes even those who transmits the power 01:24:48.989 --> 01:24:58.649 of God may be feeling sick. Your pains does not 01:24:58.649 --> 01:25:05.310 stop the flow of the power of God. The fact that 01:25:05.310 --> 01:25:07.789 you are feeling pain or sick does not mean you 01:25:07.789 --> 01:25:11.729 cannot administer healing. Did you get what I'm 01:25:11.729 --> 01:25:19.399 trying to say? No. The power of God through you 01:25:19.399 --> 01:25:29.819 is not dependent on how you are feeling. Are 01:25:29.819 --> 01:25:45.850 we together? Yes. So, stop. Thinking that until 01:25:45.850 --> 01:25:48.050 everything is all right, that's when you will 01:25:48.050 --> 01:25:50.609 minister. Sometimes when you come here and see 01:25:50.609 --> 01:25:52.949 us jumping and shouting, you think that we don't 01:25:52.949 --> 01:26:00.829 have anything bothering our life. No. But ministry 01:26:00.829 --> 01:26:06.550 is not dependent on feelings. It's not dependent 01:26:06.550 --> 01:26:14.760 on our convenience. Paul says, a necessity is 01:26:14.760 --> 01:26:19.720 placed upon me in the sun. War unto me if I do 01:26:19.720 --> 01:26:25.920 not preach the gospel. And if you are the type 01:26:25.920 --> 01:26:28.340 that attracts sympathy, you won't do ministry 01:26:28.340 --> 01:26:32.659 effectively. You always want people to have everything 01:26:32.659 --> 01:26:34.859 and then you use even the pulpit for your own 01:26:34.859 --> 01:26:41.760 problems. See, you know, God is helping me. But 01:26:41.760 --> 01:26:45.359 I'm trusting God. Yesterday was terrible. I say, 01:26:45.380 --> 01:26:47.899 Lord, where are you? I'm trusting God for this 01:26:47.899 --> 01:26:50.420 and that and that. I mean, you fool all the people 01:26:50.420 --> 01:27:00.680 with all complaints and this and that. No. The 01:27:00.680 --> 01:27:03.819 pattern is Christ. The pattern is the apostles. 01:27:05.060 --> 01:27:10.880 We follow and we see them. They are always Eager 01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:15.119 to speak the word of God. Eager to lay hands. 01:27:15.600 --> 01:27:20.680 Eager to preach. Eager to preach. You understand? 01:27:21.539 --> 01:27:24.000 Everything of their life. It's not that they 01:27:24.000 --> 01:27:30.880 are not career people. It's not that they are 01:27:30.880 --> 01:27:34.460 not career. That's why Paul takes time to acknowledge 01:27:34.460 --> 01:27:41.430 them. You understand? Zenos, the lawyer. Luke 01:27:41.430 --> 01:27:43.710 the physician. Do you understand what I'm trying 01:27:43.710 --> 01:27:48.489 to say? Yes. So they had career. But you see, 01:27:48.590 --> 01:27:53.810 career was not what was driving their life. If 01:27:53.810 --> 01:27:56.350 they moved to Iconium, it's not because they 01:27:56.350 --> 01:28:00.750 wanted greener pasture for a business. No. What 01:28:00.750 --> 01:28:05.930 was guiding and moving their life was the calling 01:28:05.930 --> 01:28:09.699 of God. If they arrive at town, They preach, 01:28:09.859 --> 01:28:13.479 then they go back to business. Paul will go and 01:28:13.479 --> 01:28:16.420 start doing his tent making. Are we together? 01:28:16.960 --> 01:28:18.840 In fact, he will even join with other believers 01:28:18.840 --> 01:28:22.579 like Quillan and Christa. Yeah? Act 18. To join 01:28:22.579 --> 01:28:24.920 and just say they come. Then they will do. And 01:28:24.920 --> 01:28:28.619 it's not that they will do it, like when you 01:28:28.619 --> 01:28:30.279 saw Claude, you see what I'm doing like this. 01:28:31.020 --> 01:28:34.260 You understand? Sometimes in the church, we massage 01:28:34.260 --> 01:28:40.229 mediocrity. You understand? Because we have been 01:28:40.229 --> 01:28:49.210 taught wrongly. But you need to change. Paul 01:28:49.210 --> 01:28:56.130 said, these hands provided for my needs and the 01:28:56.130 --> 01:29:00.510 needs of those who are with me. That place used 01:29:00.510 --> 01:29:04.789 to strike me hard. I mean, I don't have a choice. 01:29:04.909 --> 01:29:07.409 I mean, I don't have a reason why I will not 01:29:07.409 --> 01:29:11.979 be. sound in the things of God. You understand? 01:29:13.000 --> 01:29:17.659 And I don't have a reason to say, you know, I 01:29:17.659 --> 01:29:20.680 need to feed my family. And he said, those who 01:29:20.680 --> 01:29:22.319 are with me. Do you know how many people were 01:29:22.319 --> 01:29:29.319 walking with him? Even when they took him to 01:29:29.319 --> 01:29:32.960 Rome at the end of his life, the Bible says, 01:29:33.119 --> 01:29:36.020 the house he was staying, it was a rented house. 01:29:36.560 --> 01:29:40.159 Who was renting it? You think the emperor is 01:29:40.159 --> 01:29:51.640 the one that was paying for his rent? No. He 01:29:51.640 --> 01:29:56.979 said, we work day and night. He said, anyone 01:29:56.979 --> 01:29:59.460 that will not work according to the tradition 01:29:59.460 --> 01:30:02.539 that we have laid for you. He said, mark that 01:30:02.539 --> 01:30:08.739 person. Are we together? He said, Mark who? Mark 01:30:08.739 --> 01:30:12.819 that person. He that should not what? Walk, should 01:30:12.819 --> 01:30:22.560 not what? Eat. Should not eat. So, don't hide 01:30:22.560 --> 01:30:25.819 under God, God, God, and then you do nothing. 01:30:28.439 --> 01:30:32.939 It is like idleness. It's not the will of God 01:30:32.939 --> 01:30:40.380 to be idle. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now, go back 01:30:40.380 --> 01:30:45.539 to Acts chapter 9. We read something yesterday 01:30:45.539 --> 01:30:58.920 in that place. Acts chapter 9. See verse 17. 01:31:06.800 --> 01:31:10.380 And Ananias went his way and entered the house. 01:31:10.779 --> 01:31:17.039 And laying his hands on him, he said, Brother 01:31:17.039 --> 01:31:21.800 Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the 01:31:21.800 --> 01:31:26.300 road as you came, has sent me that you may receive 01:31:26.300 --> 01:31:31.239 your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. 01:31:31.479 --> 01:31:36.739 And immediately, they are filled. from his eyes 01:31:36.739 --> 01:31:42.180 something like skill. And he received his sight 01:31:42.180 --> 01:31:49.159 at once. And he arose and was baptized. And then 01:31:49.159 --> 01:31:54.779 when you continue to read on visions. Now, the 01:31:54.779 --> 01:31:58.760 point I'm trying to make in this place is how 01:31:58.760 --> 01:32:01.899 hands were laid, not just only that he received 01:32:01.899 --> 01:32:05.829 his healing, but what happened? He was filled 01:32:05.829 --> 01:32:09.890 with the Holy Spirit. Now, we have seen in many 01:32:09.890 --> 01:32:12.050 instances where hands are laid healing, healings, 01:32:12.050 --> 01:32:14.489 healings, healings in the Son. Another thing 01:32:14.489 --> 01:32:18.750 you will see is that hands can be laid for the 01:32:18.750 --> 01:32:21.869 baptism of the Holy Spirit. Are we together? 01:32:22.210 --> 01:32:28.250 He was filled with the Holy Spirit. Soul of Tarsus. 01:32:33.770 --> 01:32:38.069 He received, he was filled with the Holy Spirit. 01:32:39.350 --> 01:32:45.210 Look at Acts 17, 8, sorry. Go to Acts 8. Just 01:32:45.210 --> 01:33:02.500 go behind one chapter. Verse 9. But there was 01:33:02.500 --> 01:33:05.300 a certain man called Simon who previously practiced 01:33:05.300 --> 01:33:09.460 sorcery. But let me go behind a little bit so 01:33:09.460 --> 01:33:20.119 that you see. There was trouble, of course. Verse 01:33:20.119 --> 01:33:23.380 4 says, therefore those who were scattered went 01:33:23.380 --> 01:33:25.319 everywhere preaching the word. Did you see that? 01:33:25.359 --> 01:33:28.319 Even when there was confusion and there was tribulation, 01:33:28.359 --> 01:33:31.520 there was persecution. Once they scatter, what 01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:34.920 is in their mind? The gospel. Wherever they go, 01:33:35.199 --> 01:33:39.960 in the sun, like we sing, I will preach Jesus 01:33:39.960 --> 01:33:43.239 everywhere I go. So you don't have a choice. 01:33:43.380 --> 01:33:45.619 Whether you came here by mistake or you came 01:33:45.619 --> 01:33:49.619 here because of your making, I will preach Jesus 01:33:49.619 --> 01:33:58.760 everywhere I go. I am his, he is mine. I will 01:33:58.760 --> 01:34:03.189 follow him. Until the end of time. Whatever the 01:34:03.189 --> 01:34:05.229 circumstance that took them to whatever place, 01:34:05.550 --> 01:34:08.170 there is something that is constant. The preaching 01:34:08.170 --> 01:34:13.310 of God's word. Then Philip went down to the city 01:34:13.310 --> 01:34:16.350 of Samaria and preached Christ to them. Verse 01:34:16.350 --> 01:34:19.130 6. And the multitude with one accord heeded the 01:34:19.130 --> 01:34:21.989 things spoken by Philip hearing and seeing the 01:34:21.989 --> 01:34:25.630 miracles which he did. From clean spirit crying 01:34:25.630 --> 01:34:31.380 with a loud voice came out. Of many who were 01:34:31.380 --> 01:34:36.079 possessed. And many who were paralyzed. And lame 01:34:36.079 --> 01:34:40.659 were healed. Was it. And there was great joy. 01:34:41.380 --> 01:34:45.399 In that city. I pray for you. That you bring 01:34:45.399 --> 01:34:48.859 great joy to cities. You bring great joy to territories. 01:34:49.239 --> 01:34:52.579 You bring great joy to homes and families. In 01:34:52.579 --> 01:34:59.800 the name of Jesus. Yes. But there. was a certain 01:34:59.800 --> 01:35:02.159 man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery 01:35:02.159 --> 01:35:06.100 in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, 01:35:06.140 --> 01:35:09.960 claiming that he was someone great to whom they 01:35:09.960 --> 01:35:13.359 all gave heed. And it leads to the greatest saying, 01:35:13.579 --> 01:35:19.159 this man is a great power of God. In the absence 01:35:19.159 --> 01:35:23.880 of ignorance, you understand, fake become real. 01:35:25.739 --> 01:35:29.390 Stop complaining with what is going on. Hey, 01:35:29.409 --> 01:35:31.289 this pastor is doing this, this pastor is doing 01:35:31.289 --> 01:35:35.229 this. Arise, brother. You know what I'm saying? 01:35:36.750 --> 01:35:39.770 Paul would tell Timothy, 1 Timothy 1, I mean 01:35:39.770 --> 01:35:44.750 1 Timothy 4, 16. He said, take heed to yourself 01:35:44.750 --> 01:35:49.210 and to the doctrine. He said, continue in them. 01:35:49.310 --> 01:35:52.489 For in doing so, you will serve both to yourself 01:35:52.489 --> 01:36:00.710 and to those who do what? Who hear you. When 01:36:00.710 --> 01:36:03.470 Prophet Samuel was lamenting about Saul, go to 01:36:03.470 --> 01:36:07.289 him, awake. Don't worry. Leave this one. Arise 01:36:07.289 --> 01:36:09.949 and go and anoint another one. You know what 01:36:09.949 --> 01:36:12.869 I'm saying? It's a high time to stop lamenting. 01:36:13.489 --> 01:36:16.470 God is saying, arise. There are many more people 01:36:16.470 --> 01:36:19.689 to anoint. Are we together? There are more many 01:36:19.689 --> 01:36:28.130 people to raise. Hallelujah. So that's what he 01:36:28.130 --> 01:36:32.630 says. Verse 11. And they hated him because he 01:36:32.630 --> 01:36:34.989 has astonished them with sorceries for a long 01:36:34.989 --> 01:36:38.869 time. That's it. So many people have been deceived 01:36:38.869 --> 01:36:43.149 for a long time. But no more. Because God is 01:36:43.149 --> 01:36:46.729 raising you. Your family has been in darkness 01:36:46.729 --> 01:36:50.369 for a long time. But no more because a light 01:36:50.369 --> 01:36:58.310 has entered in the sun. But when they believe 01:36:58.310 --> 01:37:02.859 Philip, As he preached. So don't normally dwell 01:37:02.859 --> 01:37:07.079 in the, what do you call it? The inconveniences 01:37:07.079 --> 01:37:11.500 and the seemingly those things that look as if 01:37:11.500 --> 01:37:14.279 there is trouble. You know what I'm saying? It 01:37:14.279 --> 01:37:16.760 looks there was trouble in Jerusalem and scattered 01:37:16.760 --> 01:37:19.699 the brethren. But that trouble was actually the 01:37:19.699 --> 01:37:23.140 joy of a city. Did you understand what I'm trying 01:37:23.140 --> 01:37:27.930 to say? Yes. It's the joy of a city. Because 01:37:27.930 --> 01:37:32.569 Philip now moved. Immediately he go. Those people 01:37:32.569 --> 01:37:35.010 who have been subjected, deceived for a long 01:37:35.010 --> 01:37:39.449 time, they think that a man who is practicing 01:37:39.449 --> 01:37:46.550 sorcery was one of a great God. Now, his wrapper 01:37:46.550 --> 01:37:50.310 has been opened in the market. People now understood 01:37:50.310 --> 01:37:54.829 who he was because the real thing has come. But 01:37:54.829 --> 01:37:57.819 when, verse 12, When they believed Philip, as 01:37:57.819 --> 01:37:59.979 he preached the things concerning the kingdom 01:37:59.979 --> 01:38:05.159 of God. And the name of Jesus. Did you see that? 01:38:05.539 --> 01:38:07.880 So the things concerning the kingdom of God is 01:38:07.880 --> 01:38:11.180 called what? It's not two things. It's not that 01:38:11.180 --> 01:38:12.800 he preached the name of Jesus here and there. 01:38:12.899 --> 01:38:17.579 You know what I'm saying? Yes. Concerning the 01:38:17.579 --> 01:38:19.699 things. The things. He preached the things concerning 01:38:19.699 --> 01:38:23.239 the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. 01:38:23.380 --> 01:38:26.359 The name of Jesus Christ are the things. concerning 01:38:26.359 --> 01:38:29.140 the kingdom of God. And what are those things? 01:38:29.300 --> 01:38:32.640 His death, resurrection, his indwelling. Are 01:38:32.640 --> 01:38:35.340 we together? That is a thing and that is his 01:38:35.340 --> 01:38:40.060 name. So both men and women were baptized. Then 01:38:40.060 --> 01:38:44.479 Simon himself also believed. And when he was 01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:48.439 baptized, he continued with Philip and was amazed, 01:38:48.539 --> 01:38:50.819 seeing the miracles and the signs which were 01:38:50.819 --> 01:38:52.680 done. Now listen, you'll be seeing sometimes 01:38:52.680 --> 01:38:54.859 I'm reading. and they were baptized, and they 01:38:54.859 --> 01:38:56.720 were baptized. Let me mention something, maybe 01:38:56.720 --> 01:39:00.039 to just clear some things here. You know, when 01:39:00.039 --> 01:39:02.479 the church was starting, listen very carefully, 01:39:02.600 --> 01:39:05.760 because it's very important. I read also, after 01:39:05.760 --> 01:39:08.399 Paul, they lay hands on him, they say he was 01:39:08.399 --> 01:39:10.680 baptized, right? That was he was baptized in 01:39:10.680 --> 01:39:14.159 water. Because in the early church, there are 01:39:14.159 --> 01:39:17.000 many things they have not yet come into the light. 01:39:17.859 --> 01:39:19.859 So they were still practicing some things. Let 01:39:19.859 --> 01:39:21.859 me give you a very good example so that you understand. 01:39:23.500 --> 01:39:25.479 For example, even though they were believers, 01:39:25.699 --> 01:39:30.180 they were still practicing the law, which means 01:39:30.180 --> 01:39:33.420 that they were still in their own renewed mind. 01:39:34.300 --> 01:39:41.840 A Jew cannot enter the house of a Gentile. Do 01:39:41.840 --> 01:39:44.300 you get what I'm trying to say? They are in Christ, 01:39:44.420 --> 01:39:48.479 but they are still in that thing. He takes the 01:39:48.479 --> 01:39:51.300 intervention of the Holy Ghost. He came to Peter 01:39:51.300 --> 01:39:54.659 and said, Peter, Peter, Peter. Because God has 01:39:54.659 --> 01:39:56.579 already broken the barrier and these men are 01:39:56.579 --> 01:39:59.520 still resisting it. That's the condition of the 01:39:59.520 --> 01:40:02.579 early church. That's why the book of Acts is 01:40:02.579 --> 01:40:05.340 not the book of doctrine. You understand? We 01:40:05.340 --> 01:40:08.979 see how they progressively come into the revelation 01:40:08.979 --> 01:40:13.399 of God, into the revelation of Christ. A ladder 01:40:13.399 --> 01:40:16.060 came, he was sleeping. Already God has appeared 01:40:16.060 --> 01:40:18.739 to Cornelius. Go. Because he was to be a breaker. 01:40:19.159 --> 01:40:23.409 You understand? He said, go and call this man. 01:40:24.770 --> 01:40:28.329 He saw a ladder in the sand. All kinds of this. 01:40:28.489 --> 01:40:31.970 He said, I wake and eat. He said, no, Lord. I've 01:40:31.970 --> 01:40:36.229 never eaten an unclean. You see his mind? He 01:40:36.229 --> 01:40:38.189 said, how dare you call that which I have created 01:40:38.189 --> 01:40:44.109 unclean? Did you get the point? God had to show 01:40:44.109 --> 01:40:47.949 him. You know, he has no choice than to follow. 01:40:48.109 --> 01:40:51.579 He went to the house of Cornelius. That's why 01:40:51.579 --> 01:40:55.359 that, that thing that happened, God had to do 01:40:55.359 --> 01:40:57.939 it that way to break something. You understand? 01:40:58.300 --> 01:41:01.939 While Peter spoke, he was still speaking. Vroom! 01:41:02.260 --> 01:41:04.880 He didn't do anything. It's to teach him to know 01:41:04.880 --> 01:41:07.100 that, no, it's not by what you are thinking. 01:41:07.199 --> 01:41:10.500 No. The Holy Ghost fell on them and they started 01:41:10.500 --> 01:41:13.260 speaking in tongues and prophesying. Those people 01:41:13.260 --> 01:41:14.520 who were at them, they said, those who have the 01:41:14.520 --> 01:41:16.960 circumcision, meaning the Jews. You understand? 01:41:18.500 --> 01:41:23.970 They were marvelous. Eh? When the Jerusalem brethren 01:41:23.970 --> 01:41:26.689 heard it, immediately Peter came and said, come 01:41:26.689 --> 01:41:29.729 here. They were late. He must say, what did you 01:41:29.729 --> 01:41:34.930 just do? Peter said, sorry, sorry. Let me explain. 01:41:35.289 --> 01:41:37.470 Let me explain. Is that what you are thinking? 01:41:38.430 --> 01:41:42.050 Peter started narrating the story and equated 01:41:42.050 --> 01:41:45.930 with what happened to them at the day of Pentecost. 01:41:46.699 --> 01:41:49.119 He said, just like what happened to us at the 01:41:49.119 --> 01:41:53.520 beginning. He was referring to Acts chapter 2. 01:41:56.579 --> 01:42:01.260 He said, I saw that God showed no favoritism. 01:42:04.380 --> 01:42:06.340 So there were things that they were struggling 01:42:06.340 --> 01:42:09.260 in that early church. Remember Galatians chapter 01:42:09.260 --> 01:42:11.760 2, verse 20, where Paul made the statement, you 01:42:11.760 --> 01:42:13.680 know, most of them know only Galatians 2, 20. 01:42:13.800 --> 01:42:18.199 I have been crucified with Christ. Are we together? 01:42:20.560 --> 01:42:22.779 And then we begin to quote that scripture, no 01:42:22.779 --> 01:42:25.840 longer I, but Christ that lives in me and the 01:42:25.840 --> 01:42:28.460 life I live now in the flesh, I live by the, 01:42:28.500 --> 01:42:35.140 you know what I'm saying? By the faith. We quote 01:42:35.140 --> 01:42:37.479 that scripture, but the origin of that scripture 01:42:37.479 --> 01:42:42.420 is a confusion that Peter wanted to cause. Because 01:42:42.420 --> 01:42:46.489 they disdain the Gentiles. Gentiles are seen 01:42:46.489 --> 01:42:50.310 as unclean. You can imagine, even though they 01:42:50.310 --> 01:42:53.310 were brethren, they were eating. Once the Jews 01:42:53.310 --> 01:42:58.409 came, Peter just do like this. And just, the 01:42:58.409 --> 01:43:01.130 Bible say, and he separate himself. He don't 01:43:01.130 --> 01:43:06.210 separate. He set himself apart. Paul saw that 01:43:06.210 --> 01:43:08.770 he was angry. You know why? Because what Peter 01:43:08.770 --> 01:43:13.050 did was already drawing a lot of people. He said, 01:43:13.069 --> 01:43:20.600 what? He said, did you, you understand, received 01:43:20.600 --> 01:43:24.739 what you received by your making or by believing? 01:43:30.180 --> 01:43:34.579 Are we together? So they struggle with a lot 01:43:34.579 --> 01:43:38.760 of things because we saw their progression into 01:43:38.760 --> 01:43:42.819 the revelation of God. Remember the closing of 01:43:42.819 --> 01:43:46.460 the gospel. Show to us who they were. They even 01:43:46.460 --> 01:43:48.899 never believed the Christ. They were dejected. 01:43:49.819 --> 01:43:52.899 They thought he was one. Who has come to save 01:43:52.899 --> 01:43:56.140 Israel. From the Romans. He said we thought. 01:43:56.319 --> 01:43:59.399 He come to restore Israel. That was a confusion. 01:44:02.340 --> 01:44:05.659 Brothers Tomo. Tomo didn't even believe. Even 01:44:05.659 --> 01:44:07.539 when they told him. He said no. I have to see 01:44:07.539 --> 01:44:13.789 him. So. Jesus Christ dealt with a lot of things. 01:44:13.989 --> 01:44:16.989 And he opened their eyes that they might understand 01:44:16.989 --> 01:44:21.689 the scriptures. And when their eyes opened, he 01:44:21.689 --> 01:44:24.210 saw him. He said, go to Jerusalem and tarry there 01:44:24.210 --> 01:44:30.329 until you endure with power. So we saw that entry 01:44:30.329 --> 01:44:33.270 and we saw them grow in understanding. So that's 01:44:33.270 --> 01:44:37.109 the same thing with the issue of baptism. In 01:44:37.109 --> 01:44:39.350 some instances, once believers believe, they 01:44:39.350 --> 01:44:41.170 will baptize them. Did you understand what I'm 01:44:41.170 --> 01:44:43.180 saying? They will baptize what? They will baptize 01:44:43.180 --> 01:44:46.319 them. The same thing. So he said, they have understood 01:44:46.319 --> 01:44:48.859 that. Philip happened with the Ethiopian, you 01:44:48.859 --> 01:44:51.140 know. He said, see water. You know what I'm saying? 01:44:51.260 --> 01:44:53.060 And then they came down. After he preached to 01:44:53.060 --> 01:44:55.180 him, he said, he believe he do believe inside 01:44:55.180 --> 01:45:00.020 water. And then he moved. Glory to Jesus. But 01:45:00.020 --> 01:45:03.319 after those moments, by the time you move, you 01:45:03.319 --> 01:45:08.119 move away from act 11 and begin to move up. Huh? 01:45:08.520 --> 01:45:15.100 You begin to see a new. men of revelation. Are 01:45:15.100 --> 01:45:17.640 we together? Did you see that? Even when they 01:45:17.640 --> 01:45:19.560 were about to choose the person who replaced 01:45:19.560 --> 01:45:22.739 Judas, how did they do it? Oh, talk to me now. 01:45:23.220 --> 01:45:26.779 How did they do it? The one they knew before 01:45:26.779 --> 01:45:37.500 by casting lot. Oh, that should be you. Do you 01:45:37.500 --> 01:45:44.029 understand what I'm saying? But after then, after 01:45:44.029 --> 01:45:47.829 the Holy Ghost came and they begin to walk in 01:45:47.829 --> 01:45:50.770 the reality, how do they choose those who will 01:45:50.770 --> 01:45:56.170 be leadership? No longer by do, by lots. It's 01:45:56.170 --> 01:46:01.529 by appointing. Did you understand what I'm saying? 01:46:01.789 --> 01:46:06.850 That is how they agree you in revelation. Also, 01:46:07.010 --> 01:46:10.460 they used to baptize. Deep people in water. But 01:46:10.460 --> 01:46:13.960 now as they grew, they understood that what John 01:46:13.960 --> 01:46:17.659 was doing was a demonstration of what the Christ 01:46:17.659 --> 01:46:21.000 will do. You know what I'm saying? They saw that 01:46:21.000 --> 01:46:24.960 it has been fulfilled. We will not be practicing 01:46:24.960 --> 01:46:27.420 what they have been fulfilled. You know what 01:46:27.420 --> 01:46:30.399 I'm saying? So they gradually, and that's why 01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:32.060 when you read the epistle, you will never see 01:46:32.060 --> 01:46:34.319 those things. You know what I'm saying? Because 01:46:34.319 --> 01:46:41.010 by then, you are grounded. In the world. Are 01:46:41.010 --> 01:46:44.649 we together? Are we together? Amen. So that's 01:46:44.649 --> 01:46:48.569 what we're saying. Hallelujah. So when you see 01:46:48.569 --> 01:46:57.210 that text where we are reading. Verse 14. Of 01:46:57.210 --> 01:47:00.569 Acts chapter 8. Now when the apostle who were 01:47:00.569 --> 01:47:03.270 at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received 01:47:03.270 --> 01:47:08.270 the word of God. He sent Peter and John. To them 01:47:08.270 --> 01:47:15.369 who, when they had come down, prayed for them 01:47:15.369 --> 01:47:20.409 that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For 01:47:20.409 --> 01:47:25.109 as yet he had fallen upon none of them. They 01:47:25.109 --> 01:47:29.569 had only been baptized in the name of Jesus. 01:47:30.890 --> 01:47:34.390 Then, now you could see the difference between 01:47:34.390 --> 01:47:38.829 this baptism. Baptizing in the name is different 01:47:38.829 --> 01:47:41.010 from after they believed they were baptized. 01:47:41.390 --> 01:47:43.670 Did you understand what I'm saying? Are we together? 01:47:44.170 --> 01:47:49.470 Yes. Then they laid their hands on them and they 01:47:49.470 --> 01:47:52.029 received the Holy Ghost. Pastor Iman and Pastor 01:47:52.029 --> 01:47:54.869 Kostin will be discussing most of this demonstration 01:47:54.869 --> 01:47:57.970 in the spirit. You understand? About the baptism, 01:47:58.109 --> 01:48:00.289 about the offerings, the giftings. You understand? 01:48:01.609 --> 01:48:05.069 So I won't dwell in those things. But just know 01:48:05.069 --> 01:48:07.899 that This is a demonstration of the Spirit when 01:48:07.899 --> 01:48:10.600 hands were laid. And what we call, you know, 01:48:10.600 --> 01:48:13.739 this here he said the Spirit felt or the feeling 01:48:13.739 --> 01:48:16.680 of the Spirit. I think those of us who have been 01:48:16.680 --> 01:48:20.479 in the church, we have in some ways touched those 01:48:20.479 --> 01:48:23.380 issues. What does that mean to be filled with 01:48:23.380 --> 01:48:25.699 the Spirit? I think there's one text Pastor Carson 01:48:25.699 --> 01:48:29.880 read for us when he was taking, I think, was 01:48:29.880 --> 01:48:33.319 it last week or what? Or was it today when he 01:48:33.319 --> 01:48:36.329 was leading? our prayer, you understand, about 01:48:36.329 --> 01:48:39.670 Ephesians chapter 5, you understand? Remember? 01:48:40.189 --> 01:48:42.310 Ephesians chapter 5, verse 18. He said, do not 01:48:42.310 --> 01:48:44.949 be drunk with wine, right? But be filled with 01:48:44.949 --> 01:48:48.189 what? The Holy Spirit. That church in Ephesians, 01:48:48.329 --> 01:48:49.930 I hope you know that they have been filled with 01:48:49.930 --> 01:48:52.550 the Holy Spirit before. Huh? Because that church 01:48:52.550 --> 01:48:57.750 was Acts 19. Huh? Paul had laid the hand on them. 01:48:57.850 --> 01:48:59.369 They are filled with the Holy Spirit. They spoke 01:48:59.369 --> 01:49:01.069 in tongues. You understand? They prophesied. 01:49:01.430 --> 01:49:03.439 And then he wrote to them again and said, Be 01:49:03.439 --> 01:49:12.819 filled with the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. So when 01:49:12.819 --> 01:49:15.199 Peter and John arrived in Samaria, they laid 01:49:15.199 --> 01:49:17.760 hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. 01:49:19.899 --> 01:49:22.779 Now look at what Simon did. Simon said, give 01:49:22.779 --> 01:49:28.520 me this power. Verse 19. Also, that anyone whom 01:49:28.520 --> 01:49:31.939 I lay hands may receive. Not the word, this power. 01:49:35.239 --> 01:49:37.159 Do you understand what I'm saying? Look at verse 01:49:37.159 --> 01:49:40.119 20. But Peter said to him, your money perish 01:49:40.119 --> 01:49:43.720 with you because you thought the gift of God 01:49:43.720 --> 01:49:47.720 will be purchased with money. Remember, note 01:49:47.720 --> 01:49:50.579 that word, the gift of God, what Peter said. 01:49:51.060 --> 01:49:55.960 You thought the gift of God. Listen, when you 01:49:55.960 --> 01:50:00.359 say, give me the power, Peter did not say, that 01:50:00.359 --> 01:50:06.380 was wrong. See. Simon Peter was not talking about, 01:50:06.500 --> 01:50:10.180 sorry, Simon, not the Peter. You know, we have 01:50:10.180 --> 01:50:13.479 Simon there. You know, not Simon Peter. There 01:50:13.479 --> 01:50:16.359 was Simon Peter there and there is Simon. Or 01:50:16.359 --> 01:50:21.680 Simon. Amen? The Simon, the sorcerer. He was 01:50:21.680 --> 01:50:23.439 not talking, when he said, give me that power, 01:50:23.520 --> 01:50:26.680 he was not referring to the Holy Spirit. When 01:50:26.680 --> 01:50:29.939 he said, give me that power in 19. He was referring 01:50:29.939 --> 01:50:31.640 to the laying of hands because that's what he 01:50:31.640 --> 01:50:35.079 saw. When hands, when they came, they laid their 01:50:35.079 --> 01:50:38.220 hands. He not saw. He was filled with the Holy 01:50:38.220 --> 01:50:42.539 Spirit. There were things that happened. He saw 01:50:42.539 --> 01:50:45.720 it. He said, give me this power. That's why he 01:50:45.720 --> 01:50:48.140 said, so that when I lay my hands. Did you see 01:50:48.140 --> 01:50:52.739 that? And Peter said, Peter, when Peter was talking 01:50:52.739 --> 01:50:57.680 about, he said, that, no, no, no, no, no. You 01:50:57.680 --> 01:51:03.289 can't. Let me see. Verse. Verse 20, he said, 01:51:03.310 --> 01:51:05.850 your money perish with you because you thought 01:51:05.850 --> 01:51:10.729 the gift of God could be purchased with money. 01:51:12.050 --> 01:51:15.310 He said, the gift of God could be purchased with 01:51:15.310 --> 01:51:21.869 money. What did Peter call it? Peter called it 01:51:21.869 --> 01:51:26.189 the gift of God. The laying of hands, Peter called 01:51:26.189 --> 01:51:29.369 it what? The gift of God. Say, I have the gift 01:51:29.369 --> 01:51:33.960 of God. I have the gift of God to demonstrate 01:51:33.960 --> 01:51:43.199 the power of God to this generation. Peter called 01:51:43.199 --> 01:51:47.600 laying of hands the gift of God. By calling the 01:51:47.600 --> 01:51:50.680 gift of God, Peter just means also that laying 01:51:50.680 --> 01:51:53.399 of hands is supernatural. That's what we've been 01:51:53.399 --> 01:51:57.119 saying. Laying of hands is supernatural. By just 01:51:57.119 --> 01:52:00.100 saying the gift of God. He said, how dare you 01:52:00.100 --> 01:52:08.220 talk about the gift of God with money? But that 01:52:08.220 --> 01:52:11.180 gift of God has been given to me because I am 01:52:11.180 --> 01:52:17.960 in Christ. Because I am in Christ. Now in closing 01:52:17.960 --> 01:52:22.699 for this session, I want you to observe something. 01:52:23.699 --> 01:52:26.500 Maybe throughout that you've been reading. Did 01:52:26.500 --> 01:52:29.760 you observe? That not just only from where we 01:52:29.760 --> 01:52:33.760 are coming, that when hands were laid, people 01:52:33.760 --> 01:52:38.319 were healed. But again, we can administer the 01:52:38.319 --> 01:52:41.239 baptism of the Holy Ghost by laying of hands. 01:52:43.579 --> 01:52:50.819 So things happen when hands are laid. Things 01:52:50.819 --> 01:52:53.359 happen when hands are laid. That was what Simon 01:52:53.359 --> 01:52:56.979 saw. Even a man of sorcery was confused. He saw 01:52:56.979 --> 01:53:02.619 his power, his joke. His power was joke. He said, 01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:05.199 give me this power. So that when I lay my hands 01:53:05.199 --> 01:53:08.460 to, I'll see those things. But the man was confused. 01:53:09.279 --> 01:53:11.279 He's used to when you do his sorcery, maybe they 01:53:11.279 --> 01:53:14.619 are bringing change to him. Now he saw those 01:53:14.619 --> 01:53:17.899 men, he said, ah, maybe you can make money. And 01:53:17.899 --> 01:53:21.050 that's it, this generation. Native doctors have 01:53:21.050 --> 01:53:22.409 stopped living in the bush. They have returned 01:53:22.409 --> 01:53:24.869 to the city. They are wearing coats. Is it coat 01:53:24.869 --> 01:53:28.850 or suit? Or whatever. Do you understand what 01:53:28.850 --> 01:53:34.430 I'm saying? Now, did you notice that? All the 01:53:34.430 --> 01:53:37.630 instances where the Holy Ghost fell on people, 01:53:37.789 --> 01:53:41.250 men were involved, except in Acts chapter 2, 01:53:41.329 --> 01:53:47.970 in the day of Pentecost. After the day of Pentecost, 01:53:48.149 --> 01:53:52.439 did you realize? All those times the Holy Ghost 01:53:52.439 --> 01:53:57.239 fell on people, men were involved. In Samaria, 01:53:57.340 --> 01:54:03.939 men were involved. In Saul of Tarsus, Acts chapter 01:54:03.939 --> 01:54:09.000 9, a man was involved. In Acts chapter 10, in 01:54:09.000 --> 01:54:13.720 the house of Cornelius, men were involved. In 01:54:13.720 --> 01:54:21.890 Acts chapter 19, in Ephesus. Brother, men are 01:54:21.890 --> 01:54:28.869 the systems and the method of God. You are a 01:54:28.869 --> 01:54:31.689 method of God. Do you understand what I'm saying? 01:54:32.149 --> 01:54:35.010 God can do without us, but he has never done 01:54:35.010 --> 01:54:42.510 without us. This is what he chose. These are 01:54:42.510 --> 01:54:45.829 some of the things that marveled the psalmist. 01:54:46.329 --> 01:54:48.550 He said, what is man that thou art mindful of? 01:54:49.869 --> 01:54:53.729 Uh -uh. You made him a little lower than Elohim, 01:54:53.789 --> 01:54:56.649 angels. For you have crowned him with glory and 01:54:56.649 --> 01:55:00.510 honor and put all the works of your hands. Do 01:55:00.510 --> 01:55:03.890 you understand what I'm saying? Why? You are 01:55:03.890 --> 01:55:12.850 mindful of him. You matter. I'm rounding up this 01:55:12.850 --> 01:55:16.369 part to tell you that don't look down on yourself. 01:55:18.220 --> 01:55:24.439 The Holy Ghost in you, you matter. You are a 01:55:24.439 --> 01:55:30.579 system. You are a method. God wants to do with 01:55:30.579 --> 01:55:34.960 you. The great things he wants to do, he wants 01:55:34.960 --> 01:55:38.439 to go with you. What a glory to partner with. 01:55:38.739 --> 01:55:40.140 Some of us are in the academia. You know what 01:55:40.140 --> 01:55:42.140 it means when you are a coming -of -scientist 01:55:42.140 --> 01:55:47.680 and you wrote a paper and your augur? You know, 01:55:47.680 --> 01:55:51.340 Oga? You understand? You have a prof who is notable. 01:55:52.340 --> 01:55:55.840 His name is on that paper. Before you know, it's 01:55:55.840 --> 01:56:01.859 an honor to collaborate with the heavyweights. 01:56:03.500 --> 01:56:06.699 You understand what I'm saying? But our collaboration 01:56:06.699 --> 01:56:09.880 is not just only that he's somewhere, we're somewhere. 01:56:10.060 --> 01:56:15.420 No. We're in him. He's in us. Are we together? 01:56:17.640 --> 01:56:23.260 I want you to move to know that your hands are 01:56:23.260 --> 01:56:28.720 not just for picking things up, for eating. It's 01:56:28.720 --> 01:56:33.420 a system. It's a transmitter of the power of 01:56:33.420 --> 01:56:37.859 God. I'm going to do it here. So when hands are 01:56:37.859 --> 01:56:40.420 laid upon you, you know what is coming upon you. 01:56:40.800 --> 01:56:45.279 It's not just somebody is touching you. No. It's 01:56:45.279 --> 01:56:50.539 a gift to the body. You know, we have to, we 01:56:50.539 --> 01:56:54.880 will teach some of those things with time. We 01:56:54.880 --> 01:56:58.399 worship God by knowledge. So when God talks about 01:56:58.399 --> 01:57:02.119 raise your hands in worship, ask men all around 01:57:02.119 --> 01:57:04.180 to raise their hands. Don't think you are just 01:57:04.180 --> 01:57:07.760 doing like this. You know what I'm saying? Listen, 01:57:10.000 --> 01:57:15.319 know that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost. 01:57:15.960 --> 01:57:19.100 And your body, He's a transmitter of God's power. 01:57:19.960 --> 01:57:22.699 Are we together? Can you just appreciate God 01:57:22.699 --> 01:57:27.699 and thank him and say, Lord, thank you. Just 01:57:27.699 --> 01:57:29.539 for one or two minutes, I want you just to pray. 01:57:32.380 --> 01:57:35.520 We appreciate you being here today. We hope you 01:57:35.520 --> 01:57:37.640 carry this word with you throughout your week. 01:57:38.340 --> 01:57:40.420 Don't forget to check the show notes for additional 01:57:40.420 --> 01:57:43.399 insights. Stay connected with us through our 01:57:43.399 --> 01:57:47.250 website or follow us on social media. If you 01:57:47.250 --> 01:57:49.510 were encouraged, share this message with someone 01:57:49.510 --> 01:57:53.069 you care about. Until next time, stay blessed.