Transcript: Christ Formed In You Part 2

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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. Genesis chapter two. Genesis chapter two and verse seven. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground. And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul.

This scripture gives us a capture into the creation of man. How that when God first created man, he formed him out of the dust of the ground. And then breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. And as soon as the breath of life which became the spirit of man came into contact with man's body, the soul was produced. Please don't be distracted. This is the experience. The soul is the combination of man's body and man's spirit. What you call the soul is a combination of man's body and man's spirit because the bible says that when the breath of life was introduced into the body, man became a living soul. Man became a living soul. So man intrinsically is body, soul, and spirit.

The breath of life that was introduced into the body became the spirit of man. However, this breath of life that became the spirit of man is not the holy spirit. Please stay with me. I'm gonna be teaching. There is a difference between the holy spirit and man's spirit. So man has the spirit, and then God has the spirit. The book of Romans chapter eight and verse 16 captures it well. The Bible says the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit. So there is the spirit, Speaking of the holy spirit, and there is our spirit. That is man's spirit.

That tells you that man's spirit was built with the capacity to host God. Because where God resides, where the Holy Spirit resides is in your spirit. So I'm telling you the Holy Spirit is not your spirit. Man has a spirit. The breath of life that was introduced into man became the spirit of man, and the idea was that when man became a living soul, God would now tabernacle the spirit of man. It is through your body that man comes in contact with the material world. Man is able to relate with the material realm through the body and its senses. So the body is labeled as that part which gives man a consciousness of the physical realm. The spirit is that part that makes you aware of the realm of the spirit. You didn't hear what I said?

The spirit of a man is that part that makes him aware of the realm of the spirit. However, when the holy spirit tabernacles the spirit of a man, the spirit of a man now has a superior function than just the awareness of the realm of the spirit. What is the function? It enables man to commune with God. It is by that spirit we are able to apprehend God. It is by that spirit we are able to worship God. The Bible says God is spirit. John chapter four and verse 24. God is spirit, and those that worship him must worship him in spirit. So the path of a man that enables him commune with God, acknowledge God, apprehend God is his spirit as tabernacle by the holy spirit.

The soul is the part of you that makes you conscious of yourself. The soul is the bridge between the spirit and the body. It is the meeting point of the spirit and the body. The spirit cannot act directly on the body. It needs a medium, and that medium is the soul. The soul therefore stands between the spirit and the body binding them together. Now how God designed it was for the spirit to subdue the body through the medium of the soul so that the body will obey God. That was God's design from the time of Adam. The work of the soul is to keep the body and the spirit in their proper order so that they will not lose their right relationship. And by that, I mean that the lowest which is the body will be subjected to the spirit.

And that the highest which is the spirit will govern the body through the soul. Let me explain this in a more clearer way. Can I have four men? Just come. Four men. Anyone, just come. Come here. Come here. Space yourself out a little bit, but not too far. The tallest should come to this place.

You're the tallest. Come here. Let's do it like that. Watch this. No. Come here. Watch this. This is man. Say I am man. No.

No. I mean, I am man. So imagine with me for a moment that I am man. The makeup of a man, how God made it, the first thing God did was to intro... Create the body from dust like a potter molding clay. Are you with me? And the moment God was done, God then breathed his life into the body. The life that God breathed into the body became the spirit of man. The introduction of the spirit of man into the body created the soul. Are you with me?

So when you read that scripture again, give me the KJV. The bible says, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became not a living spirit, not a living body, a living soul. Do you understand what I just said now? So as a man, your makeup is therefore spirit, soul, and body. So imagine this with me that this is the body. This is the soul. This is the spirit. Are you with me? It is through the body that man is able to interact with the physical environment. The body makes man conscious of his physical realm.

So if you will build a house, you will build it because you have a body. If you will buy something, you will buy because you have a body. If you will eat, you will eat because you have a body. If you will become hungry, you become hungry because you have a body. If you will reproduce, you will do so because you have a body. What makes man interact with the physical realm is the agency of his body. Do you understand what I'm teaching you? The spirit is what makes man aware of the spiritual realm. This is what spirits don't have that makes them disadvantaged. Spirits don't have a body.

And because spirits don't have a body, they are illegal in the physical realm. Spirits only have spirits. Are you with me? So a spirit can do whatever he wants to do in the spirit in the spiritual realm. But if a spirit spirit wants to do anything including God in the physical realm, he will need to consult an entity that has a body. Are you with me? Man is a unique creature because man has both spirit and body. With the spirit, man is able to interact with the spiritual realm. But you see, there is a realm that is superior to just the interaction of man with the spiritual realm. And that realm is where the holy spirit tabernacles the spirit of man.

The function of your spirit now... Oh, this is the function of your spirit now goes beyond just interaction with the spiritual realm. It now goes to communion with God. It means without the holy spirit tabernacle in the spirit of a man, man cannot commune with God. But does not mean man cannot be aware of respiratorium. You didn't get what I just said. Are you with me? What makes man comprehend apprehend God is because the spirit of God resides in man. What make man commune with God is because the spirit of God resides in man. Now in God's design, God designed this culture that hold his hands again.

So when they hold hands, this is... Just picture it as God's spirit tabernacle in man's spirit. Is that okay? And that is the perfect spirit. It's the mixture of the conjoined spirit. The Bible says we are one together with God. You see that now? When they separate themselves, you see that man's spirit outside of the realm of God's spirit. Is that okay? God's original design is for this part of man to be the superior and the highest governing part of man.

So that the entire body or the entire man is ruled and dominated by the spirit. By the spirit. That is God's intention. That is God's design. But you see, the spirit cannot just influence the body. The spirit needs a medium. The medium is the soul. So it is through the agency of the soul that the spirit influences the body. Are you with me? What do I mean by this?

So if God tells... If the spirit of God discerns that God would want to bless a young man. Are you with me? Because the spirit of this man has the holy ghost, he can discern what God wants to do. He whispers what God wants to do to the soul. Are you with me? The soul is the center of intellect, will, and emotion. That will is a very important part because it means that the soul will is your ability to choose and to decide what to do. So what the body does is dependent on the soul. So when the...

When God wants to bless this man, the soul must therefore agree with God to bless this man. Do understand what I'm saying? The soul must now choose by act of his will to say, you know what? Body, take off your five naira and give that man. Do you understand this design? That is God's design. So God created this one that the spirit had power over the body through the soul so that all the senses of the body and the appetites of the body were drawn to God and could even sense God. Because of this design, the spirit had power in God's original design before the fall of man. The spirit had power over the body because the soul was subject to the will of the spirit, thereby making the body subject to the will of the spirit. So even the appetite of the body, the passion of the body, the senses of the body always wants to do what the spirit wants.

Because of this singular alignment that existed, the body could sense God when God comes. Man could be hungry for God. What are the appetite that man have? Man can get hungry. Man could be hungry for God. Man could have reverence for God. Are you with me? God was the one that told man, be fruitful, multiply. In other words, sexual desire was put in man by God. It is one of the appetites of the body.

But even that was subject to the rule of the spirit so that God's design for sexual desire was within the context of marriage. And as long as this alignment was complete, the body could not act in defiance of what the spirit wants. Are you with me? So Adam could not take a goat and mate with the goat. Is that possible now? We'll get there very soon. It was not a possibility because man's spirit was totally dominating the body and the soul. So the body... The spirit cannot by itself control or act on the body. It would need a medium of the soul.

Any emotion that is godly, that the soul feels, it is because he was able to get it from the spirit. That was how man lived his life. So man was not subject to happenings. Man was not happy because there was an event that made man happy. Did you get my point? You will not see Adam today sad, and you say, why are you sad? He say, I lost one of my goats. I lost one of my cows. My business did not do well. Or I lost...

Oh, you know what? I just lost my son, and I'm so depressed, and I'm so sad. This was not a possibility before the fall. You know why? Because this govern over this. The Bible says, and Mary said, my soul magnifies the Lord. Post there. What part of speech is magnifies? What is it? Is it a present tense verb or a past tense verb?

It continues even. Is that not so? My soul magnifies the Lord. That describes something that is presently continuously happening. Is that not so? Now why? Check this. Next verse. And my spirit has rejoiced. What part of speech is that?

Past tense. That's also a verb, but it's past tense verb. In other words, the reason why my soul magnifies the Lord is because my spirit has rejoiced. You see that. So the soul entered into the emotions of the spirit. He caught the emotion of the spirit, and the spirit was rejoicing. The soul entered into a state of magnification. And the moment that happened, the body gives expression. Have you seen how God designed it? When I tell you, glory to God, let us scream and shout.

Somebody is sending... Why are we screaming? He doesn't know why we are screaming. You know why? Because the person has not accessed joy from here. No. I'm not getting what I'm saying. That guy is waiting for their life to enter before he screams. That is not God's design. God did not design the body to dominate the man.

Are you with me? The soul is the sight of personality. The will, the intellect, the emotion of the man are in the soul. The spirit communicates with the spiritual world and the body with natural world. The soul stands between and exercises its power to discern and to decide whether the spiritual or the natural realm would reign. And it's also possible for the soul itself to take total control of the body. What you would have is an ideational world. That's where a completely logical man exists. A man that interprets life solely by this intellect, solely by the laws of science and philosophy. The soul has been exalted above the spirit.

So if it does not make sense to his intellect, the man cannot believe or take action in that regards. Again, that was not God's design. So what led to this anomaly? The fall of man. In Genesis two and verse 17, the Bible says, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. Please stay with me. You shall surely do what now? Everybody. One two three, go.

I hope you know that Adam and Adam and Eve, nevertheless, continued to live for hundreds of years even after eating this forbidden fruit. This tells us that the death that God foretold was not physical. Adam's death began in his spirit. So what really is death? According to the scientific definition, death is the cessation of communication with the environment. Death of the spirit, therefore, is the cessation of communication with God. Death of the body is the cutting off of communication between the spirit and the body. So when we say that the spirit is dead, it does not imply that there is no more spirit. We simply mean that the spirit has lost its sensitivity and its ability to communicate and to acknowledge God in his being. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. And thus is dead to God. The spirit is incapacitated, unable to commune with God. So when man died, this is what happened. That death was what gradually moved from the from the spirit now to the soul, to the body. Before this happened, man did not know how to die physically. Let me say it again. Man did not know how to die physically because what has reigned over man up until this point was the spirit. And because of that, the spirit could not see the possibility of death in the body. So the moment the spirit of God was separated from man and man died...

In other words, man's spirit was no longer connected to God. Man no longer had the knowledge of the experience of realities that exist in God because it was the connection of the spirit of God with the spirit of man that brought man the knowledge of the realities that exist in God. So the moment this happened, man could no longer discern these realities that exist in God. Man became falling. Are you with me? Only dependent therefore on what his eyes can see, what his ears can hear. And over time, that death moved from the spirit and then affected his body. Sin destroyed the ability of the spirit to perceive God. Stay with me. I'm going somewhere.

Sin rendered man spiritually dead. That man may be religious. That man may be moral. That man may be learned. That man may be capable. That man may be strong. That man may be wise even, but he's dead to God. That man may even talk about God. That man may even preach about God. That man may even reason about God.

That man may even, you know, argue about God, but he's still dead to God. He's no no... He's no longer able to sense or discern the voice of God. I had a very funny experience that was shared with me by a man of God. A young boy came to tell him that the school just brought a new CRK teacher, and the CRK teacher is a Muslim. And guess what? The students actually preferred this Muslim teacher to the former Christian guy because this man had a deep understanding of scriptures and was able to communicate this truth to the young people in a way that entertained them and made them feel connected to scriptures. Yet the guy that was teaching was one of the sons of the bond women. Is that not interesting? No matter how much that man is able to preach about God or able to explain the story, the scriptures to God, he is still dead to God.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Now that man's spirit was dead, what was now left was the dead spirit, the soul, and the body. The moment sin was introduced, the soul now became enslaved to the body, even enslaved to itself. So what governed man was no longer the spirit of God, it was now the body and the soul. What determined the direction by which man will go now became the body and the soul. This phenomena and the appetite that arises as a result of this phenomena is what now forms what is called the flesh, otherwise called the Adamic nature. So what we call the Adamic nature, hold yourselves, is when sin came. Sin now started taking advantage the moment sin was introduced. Sin became a nature that took advantage of the desires of the body and the senses of the body and the inclinations of the soul to now begin to make what God originally designed as a means of fellowship with him. Sin used these things to now begin to make man rebel against God.

Do you understand what I just said now? So what the what the fall did was to give man a new name. The name man now beared was flesh, otherwise called the Adamic nature. It is a state where the soul has been enslaved to the body and its passions. It makes man automatically rebellious to God, and it makes everything the body does, that man does anti God. What the fall did was to enslave or let me say, to ensure that the appetite of the human body, your entire system is now rebellious to God through the fall. Everything that will advance you in God, your system snaps at it. Hunger, thirst, sex, the desire to sleep, the desire to talk, desire to drink. Every appetite was corrupted by the fall to take you farther away from God. Are you with me?

Sin started using the appetite of the of the body, the inclinations of the soul to take you farther away from God. Farther away from God by making you rebellious to God. The appetite that were created to pursue God now became the very thing that sin was now using to bring you farther away from God. Note that this appetite was not created to be a stumbling block, but the fall has now made it a barrier so that when you want to advance in God, those appetite now become what begins to fight you. What was put there by God to advance his purposes? Stay with me. Let me give you an example. How many of you have gone a day without eating? You're not fasting. You just woke up and you had so much busy...

You were so busy that you forgot to eat. Has that happened to you before? And then somewhere in the evening, you realize I have no eating. Is that a common experience? Yes, sir. And then you wanna get something to eat. You wanna cook for yourself because now you're feeling hungry around six, 7PM. It means that the ability to not eat is not a problem. But the moment you decide, I want to fast. Listen.

That thing is meant to draw you to God. The flesh says no. You're not getting what I'm saying? Because because of the fall, what was meant to draw you close to God now acts in rebellion to God. And it will only act the moment you decide, I want to stand for God. It means it means outside of that context, you'll be fine. You will go days without food. People will go on diet. That lady will start eating vegetables because she wants to lose belly fat. But the moment she decide, somebody that has been going on diet decides, I want to fast.

By 10AM in the morning, The guy will realize that there is something wrong with me. I can't I can't seem to be able to walk. I can't even read. My my eyes are blurry. I can't... My vision... Now the guy is wondering, what is happening exactly? I can't I can't seem to understand what is going on. 11AM is as though he's dead. He lies down on his bed, and he's he's he's gasping for hair.

He can't... You know why? Because the flesh has now been designed to take man further away from God. So as long as it does not advance the purposes of God, the flesh will have no problem advancing it. Let me give you another example. Let me give you another example. How many of you have watched a seasonal movie for five hours before? How many of you have stayed on Instagram and you're just watching? How many of you have have read a novel, And you sat down for eight hours reading. I did not know...

And you... It was interesting. You did not know when you pass home, what will happen? What will happen? What will happen? The moment you picked good morning holy spirit. Now the same you is able to read a novel for eight hours, and it's interesting you. Your mother says, come and watch places. You distract me. What will happen?

And you see the attention in... But the moment you pick good morning holy spirit and you read the first chapter, how Benhay was describing how that he went to Kesrin Kuman's meeting. You you can't explain where the slip will come from. It is showing you the flesh is worrying against your movement towards God. I was excited right from yesterday, even from day before yesterday when the holy spirit started showing me these things. One of the ways you know you are still canal is that you don't have the endurance for sound doctrine. The guy can go to a football station and watch one hour, thirty minutes of a full match shouting in excitement. Then they have one one extra time, and it stays thirty minutes extra. And thirty minutes service is still not thirty minutes because they'll be... They'll go for break.

Communities will talk on ESPN. So at the end of this, spend like two hours thirty minutes there. Another guy comes to church. And the moment it is just the things of God, open your Bible, the guy is that... He starts to not. The moment you realize that any time the word of God is about to be shared, your flesh starts to respond. Something in you becomes uncomfortable. You want to pick your phone. You want to press something. You want to chat.

You want to play game because you are just sitting down listening to the word becomes an uncomfortable experience for you. It is the flesh. Becomes an an uncomfortable experience for you. If we are doing exciting things, you'll be involved. Let somebody come and leave praise here. You'll be the first person to run away from the back and come to the front and start giving us moves. And they say, glory to God. Now sit down. Open your Bibles, and your head will start muddying like single pendulum. Listen.

Listen. It's a problem. You will never grow. It's a serious problem. Are you with me? It's a serious problem. How many of you wake up by 8AM, 7AM, 6AM on Monday morning and you are going to class? And whilst you are going, you are angry going, but you are going. Your body is still gravitating towards the class, yet your soul is saying, why am I even going to this time? When I was in university, I went to one lecture that most of you would experience.

It sits over 5,000 people. I struggled to get there early to have a front seat because of the experiences I have had with people that they shared with me. And I thought I was able to get a front seat. I thought so. I knew it was not front enough when the visitor came in, and it was only lips moving I was seeing. I was in the front, but I could not hear what the man was saying. Now imagine the person that was at the back, and the hall was full. Guess what? Nobody left. Nobody left.

You come to church and don't hear what the microphone, what the speaker is saying. You just shake your head small, shake your head small at the back and say, time. Take time. Take time. Take time. And then you find the window and go out. It's the flesh. You notice that as long as it does not affect your spiritual life, the flesh has no problem with it. As long as it does not advance the purposes of God or move you or draw you closer to God, the flesh has no problem with it. But the moment a man says, holy spirit, the way these people have been, I don't even understand, but I don't wanna get hungry again.

Maybe you read the bible about self control and the place of patience and gentleness, and you say I wanna walk in the spirit. Patience and gentleness. Help my heart, Lord Jesus. I don't wanna be proud. That day, you will leave your house, and the first person you meet will annoy you. Whilst you are remembering what your confession was thirty minutes ago, you have shouted and screamed and and almost holding the guy's neck. And when you come back to your senses, you remember, ah. I said I'm not going to. Now the funny thing is that yesterday, you had a similar experience, but you were still able to throw it away. You know why?

Because you have not yet made a commitment to God. So today, you now told God that I want to do this for you. The flesh is anti God. The flesh hates God. The flesh wants to gain superiority over your body. The flesh wants to master you. It wants to ensure that you never make progress in the direction of God. Are you with me? Yes. Do you know that man was created in the presence of God?

Do you know do you know that the Garden of Eden was an expression of God's presence? I'm taking too long on this. The Garden of Eden was an expression of God's presence. What God did was to take a portion of his atmosphere and to place it on earth. Do you know this? What I just said now, if it is strange, raise up your hands. I would never explain or not. It is strange. Okay. For everything that God created, God said it into existence.

And God said, let there be light. And God said, and God said, and God said, and God said. Is that not so? Yes, sir. But when it came to the Garden of Eden, in Genesis two and verse eight, the Bible says, and God planted a garden. God did what? Planted a garden. What does it mean to plant? To plant means something already exist. It means the seed of what you are planting already existed.

So the Garden of Eden was not was not said into existence. It was planted. Are you with me? If it was planted, where was it harvested from? To today, archaeologists are trying to find the tree of life, but they cannot find it. You know why? Because in the book of John... Revelation, sorry. John the beloved now goes back to heaven and now sees the tree of life in heaven. In other words, God has taken what he planted back from where you have put it from.

Are you with me? So what happened was that God picked a portion of heaven and planted it on earth and now made man dear. So man was created to function in the presence of God. If you watch how God created things, God created the habitat before the entity. God made the water before the fish, the firmament before the birds, the ground before the vegetation. Are you with me? God made the garden of Eden before the man. It shows you that the habitat of man is not just the earth. The habitat of man is the presence of God. Do you understand what I'm saying?

So every time you come to his presence and your flesh wants you to run away is an anomaly. It is the flesh because that was where you were made. Every night, the bible says God will come and talk to Adam in the cool of the day. God will walk and stroll through the garden, and Adam and God will have a blissful experience walking through the garden. That is to be the experience of man. But every time you sit down to pray, something makes you think as though time is going. Do you know you can be jisting with your friends and not know how long how long has gone? But when it's time to gist with God, you think three hours have gone and check the time I realized it was only five minutes. And that now depresses you and put you in a state where you feel, if I thought this was three hours and it turned out to be five minutes, how will one hour now look like? That means before I spent one hour, the experience would have been as though I've spent a hundred years.

It's the flesh. In John three and verse six, Jesus makes a statement. Jesus says, that which is born of flesh is flesh. This statement Jesus makes answers a lot of questions and gives clarity to a lot of issues immediately. That which is born of flesh is flesh. What is born of flesh? Man. Therefore, any man who is unregenerated, any man who has not accepted the life of God or who has not been born again is flesh. Everything that a man naturally inherits from his parent belongs to the flesh. No distinction is made as to whether the man is good or is moral or is clever or is able or is kind or is unholy or is wicked or is evil or is foolish.

Man is flesh. Whether a man is born in a rich home or in a poor home, man is flesh. Remember what I mean by flesh. Dominated and controlled by the lust of his appetites, both soulish and body. How does a man become flesh? That which is born of the flesh is flesh. It means a man does not gradually learn the flesh. You don't get what Jesus said. A man does not become flesh by learning to be bad gradually or by giving himself hope to licentiousness or by auto greed, and then gradually is now overcome by evil or by the evil passions of his body. No.

Jesus emphatically declares that as soon as a man is born, he is flesh. Who taught you how to steal? The first time you stole meat, who provided an education? Who taught you the concept of revenge? That if somebody eats you, you should eat your own back. Who taught you? Who taught you how to bite as a baby? Now when somebody carries you, you don't want to carry you. You you attack. Who taught you?

Who taught you how to be envious? That when a gift is given to your sister and not given to you, you become offended. Who taught you wicked? Are you with me now? Because that which is born of flesh is flesh. It is powerful. It's a general problem with all humanity. When Jesus said that which is born of flesh is flesh, it means there is no exception. There is no distinction. PhD holder, flesh.

Illiterate, flesh. President, flesh. Are you with me? No amount of education, no amount of improvement, no amount of cultivation, no amount of morality or even religion can turn man from being flesh. That which is born of flesh is flesh. It means by birth, every human being is subject to the Adamic nature. Your appetites, your senses, they are naturally rebellious to God. Naturally. You were born that way. In iniquity, did my mother conceive me?

Have you seen that scripture before? Yes, sir. Yes. Your spirit is dead. Cannot communicate with God. You are ruled by the desires of the body and the soul. This state is what the Bible describes as the natural man. The unregenerated man whose spirit is dead. Sin has ruled over his body. Sin is slave to sin.

Sin has taken advantage of the expressions of the body and the soul. To make the man rebellious to God. Do you remember in Genesis six when God decided to wipe off the earth? Wipe off humanity from the earth because they had started interfacing with fallen angels and opening themselves up to forbidden knowledge. Genesis three. Genesis six and verse three. The Bible says, and the Lord said, my spirit shall not strive with man forever for he is indeed flesh. In other words, God recognized the impossibility of the flesh to be changed. God recognized the impossibility of the flesh to be improved. God recognized the impossibility of the flesh to be bettered.

But believers unfortunately are smarter than God. So we try to continually refine and to reform the flesh. We want to reform terrorists and do therapy for rapists. You know what? We want to reform the flesh. We wanna upgrade the flesh. We think that by sitting a man down and saying, so why did you do what you did? How did you feel in the moment? But do you know that you made your sister hungry? But do you know it's not good to be like that?

Now go and apologize to your sister. Now tell them you will not... Tell her you not do that again. Now hug your sister and clap for yourself. Wait for tomorrow. Have you seen people who will come and tell you, I will not do it again. I will I will not do it again. How many people have tried to leave masturbation and they said, God, if I do it again, kill me. Humanity will be two people. You...

Will be two left. We'll just be two left. If God answers that prayer, nobody will be here. God, knock my head. And in that moment, you have truly decided within yourself to say, I'm not going to return to this thing, but the flesh is older than you. Paul says we have no confidence in the flesh. Do you realize that the part of you that is saying I will not do it again is also subject to the flesh? Is this guy? You're not hearing what I'm saying. It's the will.

So you think strong will is how you will stop smoking. You think strong will? No. I will not speak. The guy has been talking to speak. I will not speak. And you live there, and you are hungry, you say, I will not speak. And when you do not speak, you say, I'm getting better. I'm getting better. It will amaze you the day you will lack a slap on your mother.

Why is the hand eater? You say, ah. The flesh is old. It's old. It's ancient. Even God said I will no longer strive with human. They are flesh. That flesh has no upgrade. It has no... It cannot change.

In verse five, look at what the Bible says. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great. The intent of the thought of his heart was evil continually. God said there's no there's no... We can't help this state. There's no help to it. There's no reformation. There's no refinement that can happen. In saving the world, therefore, God did not try to change man's flesh. God did not try to improve it.

What he did was to introduce a new life into man. God's solution for the flesh problem was to kill the flesh and to introduce a new life that now regulates the affairs of man. That is what is called salvation. The flesh must die. God said the only solution is to kill it. You cannot be allowed to exist. And in so doing, the moment man now accepts Jesus as his Lord and savior, the moment man now confesses Christ as Lord. Now follows Romans chapter 10 verse nine and ten. And according to what the Bible says, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you'll be saved. The moment this happens and a man confesses with his mouth and believes in his heart, the moment it happens immediately, this experience might look as though it's nothing.

It might look so simple. You might not even go out under the power. You might not stand and say, I believe that you died for me on the cross of Calvary. But the moment that equation is complete, what happens is that the holy spirit now shakes this guy back. Now the holy spirit does not come alone. He now introduces the life of God, the nature of God. The... Are you with me? The life of God, the nature of God, the desires of God, the purpose of God, the will of God. He comes with the full package.

That... I wanted to come here with a chain, but I could not find one. It would have been sweet if I had a chain. You would have seen what happened in salvation. The ability of man or that's the enslavement of man to sin was instantly done away with because sin was destroyed. Sin was killed. I've been crucified with Christ. My flesh crucified with Christ. My sins crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, not high, but Christ that lives in me.

Are you with me? The problem of sin was instantly done away with. And so the man who was natural before now becomes a believer. No longer natural. He's now regenerated. He now has the life of God inside of him. Do you know that regeneration is the minimum of spiritual life? It is the basis upon which building up takes place. Because the moment a man is regenerated, he must now begin to grow. But there's no growth without regeneration.

You cannot speak of spiritual life or expect to grow spiritually if you are not born again because you have no life. Just as you cannot construct a castle in the air. Where do you... How do you begin to teach a man that has no life spiritual growth or worship to God or how to love God? Are you with me? Listen. With with all due respect to every party's concerned, I strongly believe that the things that we have devised strategies for to reform in humanity, it is the power of God that can solve it. What you guys say? Power. It's the power of God that can solve it.

I respect medical sciences. I respect psychology. I respect all these people who try to bring new ways to try and reform humanity. The fallen man cannot be reformed. The fallen man can only be saved. Are you getting blessed? However, this is the interesting part of it. Stay with me. Stay me. Stay with me.

Are you with me? The moment a believer becomes regenerated, the problem of sin is instantly solved. However, God gives a different solution for flesh. What was enslaving you that makes you have no choice but to fulfill the desire of the body and the lust of the body and the passion and the appetites, the inclinations of the soul was sin. The moment sin was done away with, another solution is now offered to the problem of the flesh. Are you with me? And we see this in Paul's letter to the Galatian church. He delineates the relationship between the flesh and the believer. In verse 24 of chapter five, Galatians, The Bible says, those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and with its desires. When you read this bible verse, you immediately think that the problem of the flesh is done away with.

Is that not so? Because they've been crucified with its passion and with its desire. But when you now read according to context from verse 16, there are people who have camped in this scripture. They've stayed there, and they've said, once you are a believer, you've got no flesh problem again. It's not true. Once you're a believer, you've got no sin problem again. The book of John says a believer does not sin. It is because the sin problem has been done away with. But in verse 16, reading contextually, can we read together everybody? One two three.

Go. I say then, walk in the spirit and you not fulfill the lust of the flesh. It means the flesh is still there. He's speaking to a believer. Are you with me? So the Bible shows us that the flesh is still very much present and it still has a lust. It still has a passion. However, the power of the flesh over the believer through sin has been crucified. So because of this, this is no longer enslaved to this. The soul is no longer enslaved to the body.

The soul, the soul no longer has... You can't say you can't say I do not have a choice. You didn't get my point. Salvation has caught has caught away the bond that exists between this and this. So that is his... Now walk in the spirit. It means now you have a choice. This equation now has reverted back to how it was in Christ before the fall. But before he is, remember the flesh have already taken you away far from God. Are you with me?

Watch this. Bring... Come here. Taking you away far from God. But the moment you give your life to Christ, what happens is that your spirit now becomes connected to God. You become righteous. You have right standing with God. You can stand before God regardless of your sin, regardless of your of your physical environment, regardless of what you have done before or how you have lived before. Salvation gives you right standing before God. It makes you righteous.

It's a nature. Get my teaching pillar of dominion. Hear this. But this guy, despite the fact that the severeness happened between both of them, is still far from God. The holy spirit can now begin to speak to your human spirit. Are you with me? Yes. And be telling this guy what God is saying. So before this guy... Hold yourselves.

If this guy feels like having sex, all he needs to do is go to a man's house and go to a girl's house. And the will... This is so remember. The will will accompany it. The body performs the sin, but what brought him there is will. Are you with me? And when he's done on the bed, he feels nothing wrong. He stand up. He wears his shorts. He said, yeah, wear your clothes, and then both of them leaves again.

This guy can change it for anybody. This guy can sit down amongst sinners who are smoking. And maybe because of his upbringing, he wasn't taught to smoke. So whilst his friends are smokers, he can even be there and not even join them, but he likes the company. Are you with me? But the moment he becomes saved, the moment he becomes saved, the separation happens. Now the soul can now begin to hear again what the spirit of God is saying. Before, he was not feeling anything. Now the girlfriend called me and say, bang. Give me a name.

Denga. Sorry. If that's your name. Where are you? I need you tonight. And he said, really? Really, I'm coming. I'm coming. And as he's dressing, he can feel the spirit of God rising on his inside in displeasure. The state of the spirit, remember, my soul magnified of the spirit now begins to...

I need this. Now as it's going, he's now feeling sad. He can't explain what he did. Say, He's feeling as though he has already offended God. He's feeling bad all of a sudden. He has not even gotten there. He's still dressing up. He's... Are you with me? He's feeling...

What is going on? He can't explain. The reason why he cannot explain is because nobody has taught him. That's the point of this... I'll get there. Discipleship. He can't he can't... He does not understand how to discern God on his inside. He got saved and went somewhere, and nobody ever sat him down to begin to teach him the implication of the life of God on his inside and how to discern how God is moving on his inside. So now he's confused.

Why am I feeling like this? Suddenly, his heart as though there are heavy heart palpitations, as though something is hitting on his chest. And he's wondering, need to go to the hospital. I'm feeling... And suddenly, there's a physical pain in his chest. And he's wondering, I need to see a doctor... What? Rebecca is calling. Now what has happened is that he has not chosen to walk in the spirit. And because he has not chosen to walk in the spirit, what happens as a consequence is that it will fulfill the desire, the lust of the flesh.

When it gets there, that feeling will continue. If he wants to do that, actually, it will continue. When is it done, it will continue. Are you with me? As long as now, this guy is regenerated. This guy has the holy spirit. The holy spirit is now whispering back to his soul the thoughts of God, the desire of God. This guy now wants to do the will of God. He now has the empowerment and the grace to do it. Before he was enslaved, he can't do the will of God.

But because the power of sin has been broken, he now has the power, the empowerment, the grace to do what God will have him do. Remember, the bible, it is God that worketh in you to will and to do. So God is working in him to will. That's his soul. God is working in him to do, but he can reject what God is doing. Are you with me? So the remedy for not fulfilling the lust of the flesh was given, work in the spirit. You see, this process of choosing not to fulfill the lust of the flesh, that process is what the bible calls death. Have you heard it before? The denial of self.

Matthew six and verse 24. The Bible says it was Jesus that was speaking. No one... Matthew six sixteen and verse 24. Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone desires to come after me, let him do what? Deny himself. Deny himself. So you wanna come to church. Hear me. You wanna come to church this morning, and the moment you stand up because you are saved, you have the desire to now serve God.

God is willing in you. You can now sense the desire of God. You wanna register for DPA. But there's a friend of yours who is telling you, guy, guy, you will trust, trust, trust, trust, trust, trust, trust. Let's go and enjoy small now. Every time you must go to church, you will go next week. If anyone was come after me... Now as a friend is telling me, he might now feel as though I don't even wanna go again. Let him deny himself. So it means the fact that yourself wants it does not mean you give it.

Let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. So at every point, this guy will now say, no, I'm gonna follow God. What happens when he says, gonna uphold his hands? What happens when he says, okay, don't hold his hands? What happens when he says, I'm gonna follow God? What's following? It is that for every time he takes that division, he draws closer. It can still be a struggle. It will still be hard. As though you have done something very hard.

Something very painful. So God can tell him that 100,000 you have been saving, go and give it to the church. See? I have what I wanna use this money for. I wanna buy a brand new phone. I'm saving for a house. I'm saving for an apartment. This 1,000,000, how am I gonna do this and that? Let him deny himself. Are you with me?

He takes the thing and says holy spirit, I do this because I love you, and he gives it. What happens again is that he moves. By the time he gets here, he realized that the things he used to find difficult to do when he was here now come so easily to him. Do you understand what I'm saying? Now you can give as though money is nothing. Now somebody gets him angry and he's smiling and he's saying Jesus loves you. When he was there, he was saved though, but don't try him because he's still learning to deny himself. Are you with me? So Christ has delivered us completely from the power of sin through the cross. So whereas the liberation from sin is an accomplished fact, the denial of self is a daily experience.

You will do it every day. First Corinthians 15 verse 31. I told you the teaching, so stay with me. It was Paul that was speaking, and he says, I affirm by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. And what is the boasting? I die daily. It is a daily experience. You know why it is called death? Because it is a painful process. That is the meaning of Romans 12 and verse one, two, and three.

The Bible says, present therefore your bodies a living sacrifice, not a dead sacrifice. Being a sacrifice alone is a painful experience. How much more wonder is living? You didn't get what I just said. Before you offer sacrifice, you kill it and then burn it. But whilst you are burning your life, you are cautious. You are not dead. God is telling you, God is... You are the one that was wrong. You were wrong.

And the holy spirit comes and says, go and apologize. A living sacrifice. You are going there. You can feel the fire burning flesh away. You can... The moment you approach, the moment the the more the fire is burning. The painful feeling makes it living. That's why you're living. It means you can feel it. You can feel it dying.

You can feel it burning off. That pride you have, that every pride you have, that men cannot apologize to anybody. I can't say sorry to anybody. You will not go and sew cloth and give tailor cloth that you are wearing for wedding on Saturday. You give the tailor two weeks before. The tailor said, don't worry. Wedding next day will be ready. You call the tailor. Tailor said, don't worry. Thor said, it will be ready.

You call... It's fryer then it will be ready. You now go to the tailor shop. You realize that the guy is just cutting the clothes when you get there. You now say, ah, but why are you just cutting the clothes? You told me it should be ready by Wednesday. I gave you this clothes two weeks ago. The dealer now turn at you and say, ah, are you mad? Please oh. Please oh.

Don't talk me anyhow. I say, on top my money. I paid you for something. Ah, hey. You know how they lose? How they tighten the knot of a machine? The knot will be breaking. Have you seen piston engine removing smoke? The first knot will remove. Second one.

Before you know, will not know that that guy is a believer. They just anointed him as prayer coordinator. If he will forget that they anointed him as anything, he will turn and say, ah. You know what happens now? As he's leaving the place, because the flesh has won, the spirit will now be grieved. He will know he has done wrong. Come on, someone delegate this. Verse 17 says, the flesh lusts against the spirit. The word lust there is strife. The flesh strives against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh.

Galatians chapter five. And the spirit against the flesh, And these are contrary to one another so that you do not do the things that you wish. Can you see this in the Bible? It means the flesh demands full sovereignty over your life. The flesh wants to have control. So does the spirit. The desire of the flesh is to have you forever attached to itself while the spirit also wants to have you completely subject to the holy spirit. For every point, the flesh and the spirit differs. The nature of the flesh is that of the first Adam. It is everything we got from the first Adam.

The nature of the spirit is the divine nature. It is everything we got from God. The motive of the flesh is earthly. The motive of the spirit is eternal. Every time we manifest the divine nature, people wonder in amazement. So imagine, somebody's in that shop with you, and while that guy shout at you, and then, ah, don't don't don't don't don't don't shout at me oh. Because of what? How much do you even pay? Why is your idea? Everybody will be saying, because they know the guy is at fault.

The guy is foolish. How you take client's money and still be shouting on client? And they're expecting your reaction. And while the guy is talking, you are smiling. So no problem. So when will the clothes be ready? Can you finish it today? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. These are canal believers.

Manu. That's why this class is holding. Because the intention of the spirit is to cut that nature out of you. If you give it to what I'm saying, you won't recognize yourself. This is what they call transformation. That the things that get you hungry now makes you peaceful. God will never give anybody kingdom responsibilities if they have not yet mastered this. Let me give an example. If you will be great, for instance, if if there's greatness in your destiny, and by that I mean, if people will know globally, if you will have cross cultural relevance and influence, there are certain things that must die inside of you. One of them is the is the desire to please men.

You are moved by everything some people say about you. As you are walking, somebody is thinking... Somebody just looks at you and say, girl. And say, hey, what is she thinking now? Is my glute wrong? Is my dish wrong? Is it my shoe? Is it my head? Is it my dad? What now happens when you are great?

And you now see an article about you. Man of God steals money from members. It means you will die. God won't give him what else as an inheritance because you are still a canal believer. You are still a... Get what it means to be canal. To be canal means to accept God, but still be controlled by the flesh, but still be given to the lust of the flesh. So every time a believer will say, I deny the self. Until my only gains is you, spirit keep brooding over me till I look just like you. Until my only gaze is you, spirit keep brooding Listen.

The flesh focuses all things upon self, whereas the spirit centers all upon Christ. The flesh wishes to lead you to sin, but spiritual life longs to lead you to righteousness. These two will always contradict each other, and we are always in constant conflict. Listen. If you don't realize the fullness of the salvation of Christ as a believer, you will struggle. And as a believer, you're not getting saved or getting serious in your work with God. When you begin to experience this conflict, you are dumbfounded. Some people who have not been taught well will now start thinking that spiritual growth is unattainable. Others will begin to doubt whether they are saved or not. This thing is why several people come out for what I call 10 times.

Because the first time they came out, they realized that the things that they thought they would leave for the fact that they've come out, they still struggle with it. And the guy said, don't think I am saved. I don't think I am saved. It is because it has not been properly taught. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It is because of what now? He has not been properly taught. Formally... Listen.

You don't know that the reason you even have the conflict in you is because you are saved. The reason you know it is wrong, as a... Formerly when the flesh was in authority without interference because the spirit was dead, you could sin terribly without having any sense of remorse. Now when you become saved, new life is sprung up in you. And with that life comes the divine nature, divine desires, divine light, divine thoughts. As this new life begins to penetrate you, it immediately begins to expose the defilement and the corruption of the flesh. You begin to have new desires. It makes you naturally dissatisfied to remain in that falling state. You're not even going to have a longing to follow the will of God. Immediately this process begins, the flesh will respond.

It will start contending with the spiritual life. That battle will give you the impression that you have two different personalities on your inside. Each one having his own idea. Each one having his own desires. Each one having his own passion. Each one seeks victory over your life. Each one seeks to reign and have dominion over you. When the spiritual life gain ascendancy... Let me show you Romans seven and then we end. Romans seven and verse 15.

For what I am doing, this is Paul speaking, I do not understand. I want you to tell me how many believers can relate with the experience of Paul. Paul says, what I'm doing, I don't understand. For to... For what I will to do, that I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do. Next verse. If then I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now it is no longer I who do it but sin. Verse 18, for I know that in me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells.

Can you see this? For the will is present with me, but how to perform what is good, I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do. But the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in my flesh. I find then a law that evil is present with my flesh, the one who do... Who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man, and you see that Paul is saved. Can you see? I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.

Watch this. But I see another law in my flesh, worrying against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity of the law of sin which is in my flesh. Oh, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death. Verse 25, Paul then says, I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. In other words, there's a solution. This is not an... This is not a a a a endless journey for the believer. A journey for believe... A thing that has no end. You just struggle and struggle and struggle and struggle and say, you now come to a point where you now believe everybody is struggling.

Have you heard people like that? All those men of God you are seeing, all of us, you are doing the same thing. Have you not heard people speak like that? And you are talking from your experience. Some of us. Tell your neighbor you need to grow. Do you know that Paul realizes this struggle? So in Romans eight verse one, this is Romans seven. It continues like that. Then in Romans eight verse one, he now begins by saying, for there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not work according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

Because Paul realizes that that struggle to work according to the spirit can sometimes be a one that looks very impossible for the believer, but that the believer recognizes that it is by the grace of God made available that he works according to the spirit. And whilst he's growing, he must realize that there's no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. It means the believer must be taught not to condemn himself even whilst he grows. You didn't hear what I just said. The believer must be taught to con... Not to condemn or to allow for condemnation even whilst it grows. You must understand that the solution to certain problems is growth. What did I say? Is growth. The pollution, in fact, to the problem of the flesh is growth, is maturity.

As you begin to yield and walk in the spirit and and and submit yourself to growth, you will see changes, remarkable changes. So Paul says in Galatians five sixteen, walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh. Walk in the spirit. Walk in the spirit. This is what it means to be a spiritual man. How do you graduate from someone who is now a canal believer to someone who is now a spiritual man? A spiritual man is a man that has had... You see, many people when they hear spiritual man, they think being spiritual means you are open to the realm of the spirit. I've shown you that it is possible to be dissociated from the holy spirit and still be open to the realm of the spirit. That's where sorcerers dwell.

That's where divinators dwell. They have no connection nor access to God, but because there is still a spirit in man that permits man. Don't you dream? Before you knew, were you not dreaming? What do you think your dream is? You think there's only believers that dream? Have you forgotten that lady that Paul met who was crying after Paul and was telling Paul, these are the ones who have brought great salvation? Was she wrong? Was she spiritual? Are you seeing that now?

To be spiritual does not mean you can't see visions. Does not mean you can't you can't tell people their names and numbers. The first thing that spirituality means is that you have had an encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ, and you are born again. That's the first thing it means to be spiritual. It means you have had an encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ. You have accepted him as Lord and savior, and you are born again. The second thing that it means to be spiritual is you have had an encounter with the holy spirit and his ministry. Remember, the moment you accept Jesus as your Lord and savior, then the holy spirit tabernacles your spirit. That's the second thing it needs to be spiritual. It means you have had an encounter with the holy spirit and the ministry of the holy spirit in the believer.

You cannot be spiritual if you don't know the holy spirit. Number three, to be spiritual means to willingly submit. Hear me. To willingly submit to the leadership of the holy spirit. What did I say? To willingly submit to the leadership of the holy spirit because the bible says, work in the spirit. It means the spirit of God will now start leading you. Up until this moment, you have led yourself. You have planned for your life by yourself. You have fulfilled the desire of the flesh and the senses.

In other words, you have planned how your life will go. You've told yourself, alright. When I finish school like this, Canada Street. I now work in Canada for, like, seven years extending money to Nigeria. I open an account in Nigeria. I will send, like, 100,000,000. When I feel like 100,000,000, I'll build a house. I'll build a house in my village. And you have it all crafted out, all planned out. But the moment you come to Christ, this is why many people are afraid of the leadership of the spirit.

Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hold yourselves again. Remember, you were this far away from God. Are you with me? But the moment the spirit of God tabernacles your insight, he now wants to lead you. He wants to guide you. He wants to now show you the path that was ordained for you. Up until this moment, you have done it through life by your brain, by your common sense, by how you think you should go.

Are you with me? The reason why the leading of the spirit of God looks rough is because you have gone a far distance by your brain, and you have planned even ten years into the future by the same brain. Now when the spirit of God comes, it does not have respect for your brain. It only has respect for what is written about you. So now the spirit of God will now be leading you in the direction of what is written, and it will most times contradict what you have planned. That's why it looks rough. It will most time contradict what you have planned. And you will think you know what you are doing with your plan. You will think you planned it well. And God will say no.

No. I have the scrolls of your destiny in my hand. You are too small to turn the wheel of your life. You can't even hold it. Give me control over your life, and watch what I would do with it. And many people are at this point where they find it difficult to submit to the leading of the spirit. So the spirit tells them, come that way. Come this way. The way you are going is rough. Follow me.

But they say, no. I've planned this thing already. I've already planned this. I don't want to marry a pastor. I don't want my life to be this. I don't wanna be that. I don't wanna have a church. Listen to me. It pays to submit to the leadership of the spirit. When the holy spirit begins to reorder your life according to what is written, you may be thinking that this is tough and this is hard, but the end will surprise you.

To submit to the spirit means to submit your will, to submit your plans, to submit your ways. He says my ways are higher than your ways. Even if it is seemingly inconvenient, you must trust the fact that he is the holy spirit. He has your best interest at heart. It may not make sense, but somewhere along the journey, you will see the wisdom of his leadership. God can look at you and tell you, join this ministry. And it may not make sense at the moment because even before you left to me, you have planned your life. Now you entered and then you just feel the holy spirit leading leading you in that direction. Listen to me. Inasmuch as it might not make sense, hear me.

It is not immediately you will know why he led you that way. What did I say? It is at the end of the day, you will now see the value and of the wisdom of the spirit. You will now compare it with those that treaded the same path you wanted to tread, and you will now thank God you didn't follow them. Because when you measure where your life is now and where their life is, it will be painful. Are you with me? Yes. I saw one of my mates when I was in university. I saw one of my mates, and when I saw how his life was, my goodness. I had to give him money.

Listen, when God leads you, just because it does not rain for one hundred and twenty years does not mean rain will not come. Be patient. When the rain comes, you will see the value of that wisdom. Everybody that mocked you for building a hack whilst the sun was shining will regret not building with you. It might take one hundred and twenty years, but eventually, you will see the value of the wisdom of God. Tell me, if God says spend a hundred and twenty years of your life building a hack, don't you have any other thing doing? Are people not making money? Are people not buying houses? Are people not buying cars? And you're just building a hack.

Rain is falling ten year, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, fifty years, sixty years. A time comes, you look weary. But you have trusted in the wisdom of God to know more than you know. There are many believers who are afraid. And the... This is the reason why they are afraid. They say, I've arranged my life my own way. I've planned everything from graduation to The US. And when you are praying, what you are saying is, God, you better make America work. And every time you pray that prayer, something rises on your inside.

And that thing now makes you see that this might not be God's will, so you never pray again because you're suspecting that God might not have you go. Somebody educated you wrong. You don't know more than God. God has the advantage of alpha omega. It's not today I will show you. I will show you what alpha omega means. The one that is alpha omega is the one you trust your life with. It is common sense to do so. Is it not? Let me show you why it is common sense to do so.

God is not alpha and omega. The Greek word is alpha omega. He is the beginning, the end. There's no hand there. When you put hand there, what it suggests is what it starts, it will finish. Alpha, the beginning and the end. That's not what God is. When you read it, you find that the hand there is in italics. It means it was added there by translators if you read a good bible or in bracket. Are you with me?

Yes, It is actually read alpha, omega. What it means is that God does not begin something and end it. Before he began it, he has ended it. In other words, God begins a project in time only after he has seen the end in eternity. He didn't prophesy now. So the bible says before I formed you, I knew you. I ordained you a prophet. Listen. The Bible says from the foundation of the world, the lamp was slain. Yet six thousand years into time, the lamp did not even appear.

Alpha omega. Alpha omega. So if you're... If he knows the end of your life and now began your life, it's not wise to follow him. It's not it's not common sense. Proverbs three verse five. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Look at this. And lean not on your own understanding. Lean not on your own understanding.

Can you pray one moment and say direct my path, oh, God? Direct my path. Lead me in Jesus. Show me the way I should go. Show me the way I should go. The steering of your destiny is too complicated for you to hold it. You are too small. Your hands are too weak to direct your life. Allow God to lead you. Trust in his leadership.

God can guide. Listen. There are some of you, God is saying stop using guesswork to to control your life. Stop using guesswork for your life. Your life is too short to be on... Unassured of what you want to do. Let me just try this. Let me just try that. Now your life becomes trial and error. Oh, this one does not work.

Okay. I bounce out of it. I go and meet this one. Oh, it doesn't work. I bounce out of it. I go and meet that one. When will you arrive at destiny? When will you arrive When will you arrive at at destiny? Destiny? But if God holds your hands.

If God holds your hands, there are opportunities and open doors that are praises in disguise. You will never see them because they appear like opportunities. They appear like opportunities. There's someone here. You have run your life your own way. You came to church because God is telling you this is the stubbornness that got your grandfather where he was. Because God gave him a chance, but he rejected it. For some of us, God came to our parents and said, can I help you? You don't know the way. Don't be wise in your own eyes, but they rejected God.

Listen to me. The holy spirit is a master at navigating destinies. He knows the mountains. He knows the valleys. He knows... Listen. You can be looking at a hole and not know it is a hole. How many of you drive in this place? Not so many people. But I will use the example regardless.

When you start driving, you will remember. When you are driving, there are times when you sit down on the road and you are driving, and the road just looks normal. And then you get to a point where there's a pothole, and you immediately enter into it, and you are amazed how you do not see it. Because somehow, it just blended with the road. You might not understand what I'm saying. It just blended with the road and until the car is. You now say, my God. But I was not sleeping. How come I did not see that? But imagine you had the advantage of height.

The reason why you could not sit because you were linear. It says my ways are higher than yours. I'm not moving like this. I see like this. It means I see above your realm. I see beyond your realm. I've seen eighty years into your future. I know this path you are heading. I know in the next thirty years, you will weep. You will cry.

I know. And the holy ghost comes in your heart and says, no. Let me lead you in the way you should go. Spirit lead me where my trust is without others. Let me walk upon the wall wherever you would in the presence of my savior so I will call upon Listen. Listen. Did you hear... Listen. Did you hear what he said? My soul will rest in your embrace.

Everywhere in scripture, you see God exercising, making... God is proclaiming his desire to be involved in your life. Go and read it. You... Many of you have said it over and over again, but you have not thought about it. Psalms 23, the Lord is my shepherd. Do you know what it means for the Lord to be your shepherd? Have you seen the sheep directed by a shepherd? The Bible says my sheep hear my voice, and I... And they hear me.

I hear them. They hear me. The Lord is my shepherd. The reason why I will not want is because he's my shepherd. I shall not want means I will not lack a thing. It means I will prosper. I will have surplus supply and abundance of resources solely because the Lord is my shepherd. Does the Bible not say, it teaches me the way to go. The bible says, I am the Lord that teacheth thee to profit. All of these things are in scripture.

I'm the Lord that teacheth thee to profit. It means if you follow my leading for your life, you will find out that where you will end will be a thousand times better than what you have planned for yourself. It will be a thousand times better than what you have planned for yourself. I know you think you are smart. You think you are intelligent. How can you run when you don't know the way of the spirit? How can you fly? I give the way Listen. Listen. It means it is a waste to walk when you don't know the direction of the wind.

Let me tell you what it means. Let me tell you what it means. You don't understand it. How can you... Hey. Hear me? Listen. Have you seen when a wind is blowing? And it's moving the waves in the ocean. Do you realize that the waves in the ocean moves in the direction of the wind?

What the bible is saying... What the song is saying is this, come young man. Just... No. Don't worry. Let's come. If the wind is blowing this way and it's blowing this way, it is easier to walk this way. So how can you walk when you don't know the way of the wind? Listen. Many people are walking in opposite onto the wind, but they are struggling.

The wind is moving them this way, but they are struggling. Their life is resisting them. They are knocking on doors. They are not opening. Knocking on doors. They are not opening. The guy is struggling, doing ministry, doing everything, but doors are not opening. There's no favor in his life. For how can you walk when you don't know the way of the wind? Listen.

It means before you start walking, the first thing to do is know the way of the wind. Where is the spirit moving? How is it moving? How is it going? I don't know. Start walking anyhow. Listen. How can you run way of the spirit. Some people now graduate from working and they start running. How dare you run-in the wrong direction?

Don't you realize that speed does not matter when you are going the wrong way? If you want to go to Ife and you start heading to Lagos, does it matter how fast you got there? Does it matter how fast you got there? That's why speed does not benefit everybody. You can move with speed and realize you get to where you are going and it's the wrong place. Imagine spending ten years, twenty years, thirty years, and now you find out you say, hi. Goodness. Goodness. Listen. It is canality that makes you think what you know what is best.

I had a student of a man. How can you fly when you don't know the way after? Listen. Listen. How can you fly when you don't know the way of doing? That is promotions, liftings. You desire liftings. You desire promotions, and you don't know the direction that God is going. You can be lifted and your head will be cut off. Listen, there are people who have gotten promotions that ended them, that killed them.

I heard the story of a young man who came for prayers. He was looking for promotion. And when God had mercy on him, the prophet met his prophet, and the prophet laid hands on him. Pow. The guy went out straight under the power, was vibrating. He got to work the following week. He was demoted. Your response is sadness. Your response is tears. Your response is, why?

But I sowed the seed, but I did this, but I did that. Why? Because you are still kana. Your emotion is as as as things are happening to you. But the man of the spirit, the soul is directly connected to his spirit. So when his spirit is rejoicing, his soul magnifies. Whether or not events are happening, the young man started rejoicing and started singing. It was when he got to the office and started working that they realized that the pay of that seeming demotion was three times higher than the promotion they were looking for. It was three times higher than the promotion he was looking for, not in terms of salary, but in terms of services that come to him as a law of India. He He met the pastor and said testimony with the pastor.

He said, It was not a demotional. It was a real promotion. The pastor said, God, now please promote. He said, no. Let God not strengthen his... What he's doing. Let God not strengthen what he's doing. He's already sweet. How can you fly when you don't know the way of the wind? Listen.

I asked a young man once. He said, sir. Sir, I'm experiencing delay. And I asked him a question, how do you know it is delay? By what indices did you measure that it is delay? By what indices did you measure there was delay? Listen. This that you see will one day reach the nations of the world. I tell you. I tell you.

This that you see, give it time. Give it time. You'll be amazed at what God can do with a man that submits to That says I cancel all my plans. I cancel all my ambition. I canceled all my goals to follow you. Everybody might call him foolish. Everybody might call him stupid, but give him time. Give him time. Listen. When I got to university, I was pressing into God.

I was praying for six hours. Every day I was praying. On Saturday, my servants and people will gather and continue praying for six hours. And because I'd seen my future, I knew where God was taking me to. I invested a lot of time in prayers. But, you know, I'd not yet studied on balance and all these things very well then. And so my results came out in the first year, and it was not so good. And some people who loved me called me and said, listen. It is a prayer you are praying that is making your result bad. It is a prayer you are praying.

Do know if know the will of God for you to be praying right now? Your mother sent you to school to go and pass. Even God knows that what you should be doing right now in school is passing. So go and stop that prayer meeting. Go and stop what you are doing. If we had stopped, you will not be here. So I stopped. We will not be here. I left that place. I went to my sister's prayer meeting.

I went to pray more. I prayed the hardest that day that day. I prayed the hardest that God, these people who have said this, they will eventually see that you sent me. Listen. When we started this, somebody came and meet me. He was a man of God and told me, listen, apostle. Why would you be doing a meeting for six hours? When we started on, our meetings were six hours. Six hours of stretching in prayers. I wasn't doing church as usual.

The person came and said, people will not come. Yet the meeting grew. When the division happened and we had to start all over again, we grew from three people. The meeting was four hours. And we did... They came again and said, you have to apply wisdom and be smart about it. If you want people to stay, cut it to, like, two hours. At least do prayers, do fellowship, but don't don't... Many people will come. And the one who owns the calling came and said, I've not told you to start a traditional church.

I've told you to raise men. I will bring the men you will raise. And like like fools, we defy the pattern. What we were doing was not how church grows. You will not see it in any book that this is how church grows. Yet I read a lot of book on church growth. I read a lot of things. But there's one that leads men. Yes. It might take long, but his wisdom is staying with him.

Are you praying and say lead me? I submit myself to be led by you. I submit myself to be led by you. Come on, pray. Come on, pray. One more minute to pray. One more minute to pray. One more minute to me. Take the stage and take the crowd. Just give me you.

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