Transcript: Concerning Spirituals - The Spirit and the Word

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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network. Be a man encounter God, his presence and his power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. Life in the spirit and the world. I want you to do something else as well as word doesn't rest it in my spirit. To do this this Sunday, Tuesday, we do what I intended to do today. So Tuesday, we look at concerning spirituals, failing the spirit realm. Concerning spirituals, we're done with that, the discernment of spirits. The aim of this teaching is to hand into your hands weapons of war, weapons of victory. That is the aim of this teaching to bring of revelation and a point of maturity in the things of God And in spiritual things.

The entire book of Corinthians is a very deep spiritual book. There are lots of spiritual matters that Paul had to address, lots of clarity on spiritual things that Paul had to do because the Corinthians were a very spiritual people. They were actively engaged in all forms of spirituality. Rooted in idolatry, rooted in occult practices. So these people knew necromancy, these people knew divination, these people knew sorcery and all kinds of things. So it was necessary for Paul to teach them spiritual things. So I was saying that these people knew necromancy, they knew divination, they knew sorcery, they knew all kinds of things, so it was necessary for Paul to teach them spiritual things now that they are now in Christ because they were not new to these things. In fact, archaeologists discovered findings that confirmed that the Corinthians practiced magic and divination. Because when they were making the excavations, they found in Corinth, in ancient Corinth, they found the fictions, do you know what the fictions are? They are tablets made from lead where curses are inscripted on with the aim of invoking spirits, it is also used in the African culture.

With the aim of invoking spirits, invoking demons because you want to send those demons to an enemy. These depictions were found in ancient Corinth. So when they came to Christ, so this shows you how deep they were in idolatry, how deep they were in spiritual things, how deep they were in necromancy, speaking to spirit, in communicating to to with demons. You are not new to all of these things. So when they came to Christ, it was important for Paul to first wash them off this inheritance by teaching them. So that when you now read the book, right, you'll find Paul addressing these things again and again and again. The entire conversation begins from first Corinthians chapter two. With Paul teaching them, when I came to you, I didn't come with human wisdom. I came with the demonstration of power and the manifestations of the spirit. Then Paul started talking to them about the wisdom of God spoken in a mystery.

He introduced them to the holy spirit who reveals the hidden wisdom of God to us, who searches the mind of God. Right? Paul then says that when we tell you these things, especially the new living translation, he says when we tell you these things, we speak words given to us by the spirit using spiritual words to explain spiritual truths. So in verse 14, right? Of the new living translation. Chapter two. Paul says, people who are not spiritual cannot receive this truth from God's spirit. So can you see that the conversation on spirituals did not begin in chapter 12. You know it's in chapter 12 that Paul says concerning spirituals. But the conversation on spirituals did not begin in chapter 12.

It had begun right from chapter two, in fact from chapter one even. And it goes on in chapter two, to then tells them, people who are not spiritual cannot receive this truth from God's spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they cannot understand it. For only those who are spiritual can understand what the spirit means. Can you give me the new kingdom's version and see this? But the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God. Can you remember the definition of pneumaticus? Even though the word used here is not pneumaticus, it is from the root word pneumaticus. Are you with me? The natural man cannot receive the things of the spirit.

The things of the spirit of God. The things of the spirit of God. The natural man cannot receive it. The word natural there is the word psychicus in the Greek, it means to be led by the flesh. Or to be led sorry, by the soul. By the mind, by your intellect, by your emotion. To be led only by logic. Because they are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. So note, he says the natural man cannot know the things of the spirit of God.

He doesn't say the natural man cannot know the things of the spirit. Because he can. What he cannot know are the things of the spirit of God. You know, man is spirit, soul and body. Whether you are safe or you are not saved, you are still spirit, soul and body. That's why it is not, it's not, it's not those who are saved, who dream. You know that when you dream, you are in the realm of the spirit. As a matter of fact, what you see yourself doing in your dream is a reflection of your spirit man. So if you can be pressed down in your dream, it shows that your spirit man is weak. When you are unconscious, your and your spirit man takes over from you.

You see yourself in the spirit realm how you really are. So there are some of us that even in the dream, demons cannot oppress us. You see that? Even in a dream, because when you sleep, your spirit man becomes conscious. So when you say cutlass, it shows that your spirit man can be pursued by cutlass. There's not so, there's not so much revelation you have put in your spirit. That makes you strong in things divine. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? That makes you strong in things divine. So man by default is a wealth of the spiritual realm.

By default, because you are spirit, soul and body. However, without the spirit of God, man cannot be aware of the things of the spirit of God. Are you with me? So Paul was introducing these people to the things of the spirit of God. He was introducing them to the spirit of God, the only spirit. Can you see Paul teaching these people? In first Corinthians chapter 12 and verse two, you see Paul referencing how that before they came to Christ, they gave themselves to be led by these dumb hiders. So Paul is writing to them to bring them into an understanding because when they came to Christ, there was a lot of syncretism. Trying to import their idolatrous practices into the new faith that they have received. A lot of that was happening when they came to Christ.

In fact, the Corinthians were known for two things. The first thing they were known for was prosecution, immorality, and promiscuity. The second thing they were known for was idolatry. And they were so strong in promiscuity and immorality and fornication and all these things that they built a temple For this cause. Are you with me? Yes sir. Called the Temple Of Aphrodite. Aphrodite is known to be the goddess of love, of beauty, of sexual pleasure. So what they do in this temple as rituals is fornication. They go to the temple.

Fornicate. This was the way of the Corinth. Do you understand what I'm saying? They were so so that you would understand why Paul had to be addressing some things. Otherwise, you would not understand when you are reading some scriptures. They were so deep in it that there was an ancient verb that was used to describe promiscuous people. It's called Corinthiasomae. It means to behave like a Corinthian. And it's an insult. It means to be given to lust and immorality.

You go and do your research. It was a very serious state, and these people did not say anything wrong in it because it was a culture. It was a way of life of the people. Given to hide us, given to promiscuity, given to immorality, given to all kinds of sexual pleasures. So much so when they became Christians. They were importing some of these practices into Christianity and Paul had to write to them. In first Corinthians chapter eight and verse one, Paul had to start addressing matters of food sacrificed to idols. Should you eat it? Should you not eat it? Can you see that?

And uses chapter eight, chapter nine, chapter 10 to address food sacrificed to hide us. Because this was their way of life. So he had to correct some of these things. Are you with me? And he continued that conversation later in chapter 10. And in verse 14 of chapter 10, he tells them, flee from the worship of idols. Give me an NLT. Are you ready together? One, three, go. You understand he's talking to believers?

Who were trying to still import some of their old beliefs. The era of mixture you see. The era of mixture. You see how to tell them, flee from the worship of hidos. And that's not all. In verse 19, he starts teaching them about food sacrificed to hide us. How that food sacrificed to hide us are sacrificed to demons. Are you with me? This food that sacrificed to demons. Give me the new living translation, please.

Are you with me? Can we do it together? One, three. Go. Next verse. Can you see that? He was talking to believers. Not even reached for chapter 12. In fact, these people were so deep in immorality that from chapter five, he had to start addressing and and they were so deep in it and so comfortable in it that they were boasting about abomination. Chapter five and verse one.

It says, I have heard it said that you're not even sleeping with women, you are sleeping with your father's wife. You are you are sleeping with your stepmother. That's what that what that is what was common amongst believers in Corinth. I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on amongst you. Something that even pagans don't do. I'm told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother. Even in sin with his father's wife. You see that? And you would think that they would, when they hear this, that this, look, Paul was not there. Paul was writing from prison.

Is that not so? And Paul had to correct this thing that he heard from prison. And you want and you wonder, those who caught the man in the act, what did they do? Verse two, verse two, Paul says, and you are puffed up. Give me the NLT so that you would understand this. I'm using the NLT for simple understanding. One, two, three, go. Pause, what's there to be proud about? Somebody is sleeping with his father's wife. And you are, you are acting as though you have a, you have conquered the territory.

He says you are proud of yourselves. But you should be mourning in sorrow. You should be in shame. You should remove this man from your fellowship. These people are grown in tolerance of sin. Because of the error of syncretism. The error of trying to amalgamate tradition and culture with Christianity. And in verse six, Paul had to rebuke them because they started boasting about it. Can you read it one, three, go. Boss.

They started boasting about it. And you will not understand why this must be corrected if you don't know their history. That they were coming from a place where they had an entire temple. Dedicated to Aphrodite. And they would go there to worship that idol, that demon, and the worship was immorality. The worship was who could sleep with the most women. Publicly, not not publicly. You you call the temple and you see public display of iniquity. Right from the temple gate, outside the temple, because of how it was done. And now, they become believers and they are importing these things into spirituality.

They've given themselves so much to hide us. That these were things that Paul had to start correcting and addressing. One after the other. One after the other. I don't want them to read to the 11. Let's move to chapter 12. By the time you get to verse 12, chapter 12, sorry. In verse one, Paul now starts telling them, but listen, I'm saying all these things because I don't want you to be ignorant of spiritual things. The new, the King James version now. I don't want you to be ignorant of spiritual things.

Glory to God. I don't want you to be ignorant of spiritual things. The word spiritual gift I told you there is the word pneumaticus. Spirituals. From the word pneuma. Spirit, pneumaticus, things concerning the spirit. Things regarding the realm of the spirit. It refers to realities, it refers to operations, it refers to manifestations, it refers to beings, it refers to activities that originate from and operate from the spiritual dimension. It is the opposite of psychic us. Or psychic us.

Psychicos in the Greek is the word fleshly, is the word canal. What the Bible talks about the canal man. Psych, in other words, is is governed by his body, is governed by his flesh. His canal. Psychicus speaks of the natural man. Governed by psych. Governed by his mind, governed by logic. Humaticus speaks of things of the spirit. Are you with me now? So when Paul says concerning spirituals, he's saying, I'm about to teach you about the spiritual dimension.

How it operates? How it intersects with the natural world? How to discern it? How to engage it? How to avoid being deceived by it. So, this isn't just about speaking in tongues or prophesying. This is about understanding that there is an invincible realm that governs the visible realm. This is about recognizing that you what you see with your physical eyes is not the full picture. That behind every event, behind every decision, behind every victory, behind every defeat, there is a spiritual reality at work. It was the same people that Paul continue writing to.

In second Corinthians chapter four and verse 18, this same people, and look at what it tells them. It says, while we do not look at the things which are seen. But at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Paul is teaching the Corinthians to look beyond the natural. The things you can see, the circumstances, the problems, the obstacles, the people, all of these things Paul says are temporary. As long as you can see it, it is temporary. They are not the root. They are the fruit. Because the root is in the unseen realm.

In the spiritual dimensions where where angels war, where, where, where demons scheme, where prayers are offered, where decrees are issued, where destinies are shaped, where destinies are formed, where utterances are crafted. Where the realm of the physical is manipulated like a puppet. So Paul says, don't give too much attention. Don't give too much credence to the things which are seen. They are temporal. It doesn't matter what circumstance, what situation a man can be going through. Don't give too much credence to it. They are temporal. Instead we look at the things which are not seen. Are you with me?

The question therefore begins, how do we look at the things which are not seen? Because if they are not seen, how do you look at it? He says look at the things which are not seen. So how does the believer begin to look at the things which are not seen? That's why in the first Corinthians, he introduces them to the spirit of God. He says you cannot know these things. Without the spirit of God. So in Corinthians 12, he continues the introduction of the spirit of God. Are you with me? So it is foolish for a believer to be so unaware of the realm of the spirit as to think that your entire life begins and end in the natural.

Ephesians, it was Paul who was writing to the Ephesian church. In Ephesians chapter six and verse 12. I don't have time to show you the history of the Ephesian church. In verse 12, he says, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness, against spiritual host of wickedness in heavenly places. Your battle is spiritual. The struggles that you face, either in your marriage, in your finances, in your health, in your mind, These struggles are not random. They're not just bad luck. They're not just merely results of poor choices. There is a spiritual dimension to everything. Are you with me?

And if you are ignorant of that dimension, you will fight the wrong battles. You will waste your strength on shadows. You will lose ground to an enemy you cannot see. When Adam lost dominion, when Adam lost authority and God was looking for Adam in the garden. The question that God asked Adam was, where are you? Adam said I hid before you for I was naked. And the question God forwarded to Adam was who told you? In other words, you must have engaged with something other than what I have said. You have dabbled into matters beyond your understanding. And you have listened to voices.

Beyond the physical. That have convinced you of a lie and you have believed it. And in so believing it, you have lost what is yours. And there are many believers like that. Engaging with spiritual things in ignorance. So when Paul says concerning spirituals, he's saying there's a realm you must understand. There are spiritual realities you must discern. There are spiritual laws you must learn. There are spiritual beings, both good and evil that you must be aware of. There are spiritual weapons you must wield.

And I do not want you to be ignorant of any of these things concerning spirituals. A man of God posted on his Twitter, somebody was showing me. For X, right? And I think it was pastor Nathaniel pastor. After one of these hallelujah challenge that he does. And then he posted on his Twitter. Laughter is a weapon in the spirit. And and that was an offshoot I think. I don't follow it but I think it's an offshoot of what had happened in the hallelujah. Maybe there was, I'm guessing probably there was a breakout of joy.

And people were laughing on the holy ghost. So he came out to split upon people and say you know what? Laughter is a weapon. In the realm of the spirit. So laugh at the devil. You disarm the devil when you not really disarm really, but you make him incapable of work. When you laugh. Oh come and say believers. Oh, come and see believers. Because you know believers were giving all kind of laughter, responses, and then they were the cynical believers, the Corinthian believer.

I wouldn't even say they were the Corinthian believers. These were more Jewish than Corinthian. They came and they started saying, can you see these fools? Is that the solution to Nigeria's problem right now? Look at these idiots, they are laughing. Nigeria is facing serious issues, you are there laughing. Let your children not see you. What a disgrace. What a all kinds of responses using the man of God. Some people saying that this is how they manipulate believers.

This is how they... You're meant to be thinking about solutions. You're there laughing. And you hear a man of God teach you that you should be you should be laughing. Are you not crazy? Are you not this? Are you not that? And there are believers like that. It would amaze you. It amaze you.

Absolutely ignorant of spiritual things. Absolutely ignorant of spiritual things, of spiritual laws. God was speaking to Job and God told Job, knowest thou the ordinances of heaven. Can you command the dominion thereof? Do you know the ordinances of heaven? You think the ordinances of heaven are in the laws of physics? And Newton Newton's laws of motion? Do you know the ordinances of heaven? Can you sustain? Can you command the dominion thereof?

That there are ordinances a man can know. That brings him into a realm of dominion in the heavens. That was what God, that was what Jesus told Peter. I've given you the keys of the kingdom. The keys of the kingdom. And with these keys, he then says, whatever you bound in heaven will be bound on earth. Give me that scripture. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you lose on earth will be loosed in heaven. I've given you the keys of this kingdom. Truths, principles, revelations of how things operate in this kingdom.

And based on the keys you have received, begin to bind. Based on the keys you have received, begin to lose. It means a man cannot bind or lose if he has not been handed over keys. Attempting to bind, attempting to lose without principles, without revelation, without understanding the ways of the spirit, and the ways of God would lead to frustration. And what happens usually is that many believers are curious of spiritual things, but we lack spiritual accuracy. And there's a difference between spiritual curiosity. And spiritual accuracy. Because it is possible to be curious about the spiritual. It is possible to be curious. And your curiosity can lead you into searching for things.

Searching for answers. Especially realities, experiences are the concerns of the spiritual. Many people want to see visions and so they begin to search. They want to see angels. They begin to search. They want to see power. They want to walk in the miraculous. They begin to search. And it is possible for you to encounter many things in this your search. Based on curiosity.

That is not accurate. Spiritual spiritual curiosity is the hunger to know about the spiritual realm. It is that fascination with the realm of the spirit. That deep desire that many believers have to tap into power, to experience the supernatural, to access mysteries. You see, to see things, to have visions, to dream dreams. You know there are believers who think it's a problem if they don't dream. Yeah. I've had people come to meet me. Man of God, I used to dream before. But now I don't dream.

Can you pray for me that I might start dreaming? That is to a large extent being curious about spiritual things. Is that much so? And you can go about it like that, searching for mysteries even. Wanting to know deep things. So he starts talking about fallen angels. What are their names? He starts talking about what happened before the creation of the world. He starts talking about different all all kinds of unfounded truths. And you would you would find.

You would see. You would have experiences. Just no breadth and accuracy. And that is where the danger is. Because most people who are curious about spiritual things and are not guided by truth often end up in error, often end up in deception. This thing has led so many people into bondage. So many people into bondage. There are many people who have found themselves in spiritual practices, having all kind of demonic encounters and counterfeit experiences that feel real but are deadly. And it is on their quest to find these things. Because they are curious.

A believer was speaking to us some time ago. And every time we begin to pray, those days, many years ago, and we gather in chapel to pray, and we hold our hands and we are praying in tongues with all fervency, this guy would not pray. This guy would just be looking to the heavens. And would say nothing. And it became a concern to me. I thought I was the only one observing it until I brought it up with my brethren and they said, I've been concerned about the same thing. So we decided to ask the brother. And you know people who are in error are so convinced they are right. Either the error of experiences or the error of truth. You know there are different things.

Error of experiences and encounters that you have had. That you have had in error. Because what you saw was demonic. Because the Bible says that even the devil can appear as an angel of light. And there are those who have been swayed into the era of truth. Because the Bible says, that there are seducing spirits. That teach people doctrine. That a man can be so can can can so crave after mysteries. That he begin to find nonsense. Open to him by demons.

In his quest to know. In his quest for knowledge. Especially when you start believing that the Bible is no longer the accurate standard. You know what the devil does to you? The devil makes you start studying artifacts and manuals that makes you believe first of all that the bible is a book of many errors. And it begins to capitalize on the humanity of the translators. And it begins to show you the era of canonization. How that there were many books that were missing out of the coming of scripture because of the discrimination of those who put the books together. And the and and the devil begins to show you knowledge that is only half true. And so it it brings it to a point where you conclude that scripture does not have the final authority.

That there are there are there are non canonized books that are more accurate than scripture. So you begin to delve into a realm. That is not managed by the holy spirit. Is this strange to you what I'm saying? There are people like that. And there are those that their hero is breath and it's still curiosity. This thing, this unholy dissatisfaction. And there are people that their own will lead them into actual experiences, actual encounters. With demons that look like angels. Familiar spirits that resemble the holy spirit.

And they will be so convinced. And they will begin to listen to prophets and listen to teachers who would even further lead them out of the way. New age practitioners carrying a collar, holding a bible. Teaching people that, you know, there's a higher realm to prayer where you begin to see things. At that point, you won't even open your mouth to pray again. You'll just be meditating. And through meditating, you can realize that you will practice astral projection where your spirit will leave your body. And you can channel your spirit anywhere you want to go. Just close your eyes and then begin to And you see a believer saying, clear your mind. Clear your mind.

Clear your mind. Just clear your mind. Let's go. Let's go. Can you feel yourself floating? And truly speaking, if you do it long enough, you will have experiences. Truly speaking. Awakening the latent mind, open the third eyes. And you would see big believers studying manuscripts, opening the third eyes. Awakening the latent man of the soul.

Stepping beyond your natural consciousness. And you are opening up yourself to revelations that are not bounded by the holy spirit. Because there is a confine of truth given to every believer. Are you with me? So when I see people that want power, they want answers, right? They want breakthrough. They want all of these things. They want knowledge. They want to see mysteries. They want to know deep things, and they are curious and they begin to find, but they don't seek truth.

They don't seek accuracy. They don't test the spirit. They don't measure their experiences by the word of God. They don't ask, is this from the holy spirit or is this from another source? They follow their curiosity into darkness. Many of them have found themselves like that. Based on that curiosity in the hands of fallen prophets. False prophets, charlatans. You are too curious. You have itchy ears.

What you are after is what looked deep and not what is scripture. What you are after is what sounds deep, not what is scripture. And the Bible talks about the simplities in Christ. We've not even understood that. You can't even apply that. You can't even live by faith. But you want to know gates and stairs. You can't even live by faith. You don't even know faith practically. But you feel as though there is a realm you have entered into that makes you feel as though you are more mature than you are.

You wrestle with the lust of the flesh, but you're after the things that are deep. How does that work? How do you skip classes and attempt to jump to deep waters when you don't even know how to do backstroke? Imagine a man like me. And you poke me in the ocean, you say go and dive. There are things you have not discovered inside deep waters. And I jump into it. I can't even float. On shallow waters. But I would know how to manage myself in deep waters.

Are you not lost already? You are lost even before you started. You are lost even before you began. And that brother are so convinced in sorry, he doesn't need to say anything in prayers again. He just needs to meditate, free himself, empty himself. Whoever told him, and he was so convinced. And when we told him, you know what he said? He said we have not grown. He said we have not matured. He said when you come into this thing, how do you come into a thing that is not scriptural?

And believe. When I begin to understand the basis of a man's foundational truth and it begins to port out of scriptures, I know he's in danger already. Yes. Are you with me brothers and sisters? It is dangerous to be in a state where your spiritual awareness is high. But your spiritual accuracy is low. Is a dangerous place to be. Where you are aware of spiritual things, either by your curiosity or because you are a gifted person. You know there are believers who are gifted, even unbelievers. Who are gifted.

From a young age, say age five, they can have dreams predicting the future. And they'll come and tell their friend I had a dream. Somebody came to you and then gave you this and gave you that. And it would happen exactly as they have said it. Because they are gifted. It is dangerous to have that level of spiritual awareness and you don't submit it to truth. Extremely dangerous. And you know, Africa is a deeply spiritual continent. From the villages to the cities, to the shrines, to the mosque, to the church. There is constant engagement with the spiritual.

But much of that engagement is rooted in ignorance. Much of that engagement is rooted in ignorance really. Opening door to error, opening door to demons, opening door to oppression. Many of you were opening up to these things from a young age, from movies that you watched, stories you were told. And let me be very clear with you. The spiritual realm is very real. Angels are real. Demons are real. Spiritual power is real. Curses are real.

Covenants are real. Ancestral spirits. Or rather demonic forces masquerading as ancestral spirits are real. The problem is that many of us grew up in an environment where the spiritual realm is acknowledged, but the holy spirit is not acknowledged as a source. The word of God is not the benchmark of truth. It's not a standard of truth. So from a young age, a lot of us were taught to be afraid of spirits. We're taught to fear spirits. We're taught to consult spirits. We're taught to manipulate spirits.

From a young age. Many people are aware that there is a realm beyond the natural. But they are aware of this without being aware of truth. So their awareness is in herald and deception. One of my daughters messaged me, you know what he said? We're having a meeting. And she said, after the manifest conference, she was walking, she traveled back to her territory, and she was just walking, and then as she was walking, she just heard birds making noise. In the direction she was walking, and the moment she heard it, she turned back and said running away. And you ask why? Because those birds, what are they?

How do you know? You see, there is an awareness of the spiritual but not bounded in truth. That's the problem. Not bounded in truth. And a lot of you don't know the effect that the movies you watched had on you. You thought it was just movies you were watching. And you didn't know these things were programming your mind. They were making you aware of a spiritual realm. But these movies were not written by spiritual people. And by that I mean scripture people who were living by scriptures, who had defined the boundaries of truth by scriptures.

They were written by those people who were also curious like you. I wanted to make money. So they just wrote down some nonsense that the script produced into a movie, miscommunicated what the what the power of God is. Miscommunicated what demons are? How much overemphasized, overestimated demons and their and witches and put them out of proportion. So that when you were watching this movie as a believer, you were more afraid of witches than you were in honor of the power of God. Because you saw that a witch can slap somebody. You saw that masquerades can appear in somebody's sleep and wiping somebody's cord, and the person will not see who is wiping it. And you didn't know, you thought it was only entertainment. But they were doing something to your mind.

They were making you aware of the spirit realm. But not bounded by truth. So, there are people right now who are even afraid of the holy spirit. Afraid of any kind of spiritual encounters. That if somebody goes out under the power right now, the person who has shivering. Becoming conscious, becoming scared. Because there was an awareness of spiritual things that was not bounded by truth. When you are curious and you enter into all kinds of things without being bounded by truth. It's a dangerous thing. It's a dangerous thing.

Are you with me? Yes sir. And the devil knows. The devil knows that many of you have itchy ears. He knows what you want to hear, so he brings them your way. He knows. It's very easy for a man of God to consult demons and then demons bestowed him with some kind of ability that makes him seem to the spiritual realm. And then he knows that the believer who is just curious. And does not bother to test all spirits like scripture says we should do. And how do you test spirit?

With the word. Because that's what the Bible says, no one speaking by the holy spirit calleth Jesus accursed. So there are people who have gone to wash their eyes. Prophets who have gone to do different kind of manipulations. And they begin to see all kind of things, call all kind of details about people. Don't get me wrong, there are prophets who are genuine as well. Don't get me wrong at all. And we would not because of the false deemphasize the genuine, devalue the genuine, dishonor the genuine. No. But you'll be amazed that what most people scream about is false.

Because they have no discernment of spirit. No awareness of truth. You see somebody's operation and you can tell just by your knowledge of scripture that this person is not from God. Just by your knowledge of scripture. Because the Bible says that there are diverse operations but the same God. So you can come and tell us that ehm, well, I'm a prophet, my own operation is different. How God works with me is different. We know, but it's the same God. It means the character of that God doesn't change. Even though the operations may change.

The same God. I'll get there one of these days. Will teach you. Whoever's gift, same spirit. Diverse administrations, the same Lord. Diverse operations, the same God. That was Paul introducing the Corinthian to the trinity. The spirit, the Lord who is Jesus and God. Telling them that your introduction into spiritual things should be as guarded by divinity. And we'll get there.

We'll talk about gifts. We'll talk about administration of gifts, and we'll talk about the operations of gifts. The same spirit, the same Lord, the same God. Are you with me? Yeah. It means if I know that spirit, if I know that Lord, if I know that God, I will know whether you are from him or not. Are you with me? Yes sir. Many people go to diviners. Go to witch doctors, go to herbalists.

Go to traditional priest looking for answers, looking for power, looking for deliverance. And this practitioners do demonstrate some kind of power. They do reveal secrets. They do perform miracles. And a lot of people have been deceived by this as to mean if it's supernatural, then it must be divine. And you will be wrong. Some people even believe that we all worship the same God. That as long as they are praying, they are praying to God. Doesn't matter if it's in the mosque. Doesn't matter if it's in the shrine.

Doesn't matter if it's in the church. And per adventure, I come to church and pray the prayer points and go through all the motions, and I find that after I'm looking for another, then the next day I can be in a shrine. The next day I can be in a river bathing. See, it's all the same God. It is syncretism. It's an error. It's all the same God. It's not all the same God. Are you with me? Yes sir.

All the same God. Otherwise, Paul would have looked at that divinator. That girl who was giving all kinds of prophetic words and word of knowledge. Saying look at these people who have come to deliver you. And Paul would have said it's the same God. After all, you are not discrediting my ministry. You are promoting my ministry, advancing my ministry. Are you with me? Yes sir. Get there very soon.

Many believers who still go and practice occultism. Look at this. Deuteronomy 18 from verse 10. The Bible says, there shall not be found amongst you, anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through fire. Or who practices witchcraft. Or a soothsayer. Or one who interprets omens. You know what omens are? Ah, I don't have time. I don't have time.

Or a sorcerer. Next verse. Or one who conjures spells or a medium or a spiritist or one who calls up the dead. Next verse. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations, the Lord your God drives them out before you. These practices are an abomination. They are not neutral. They are not cultural. They are not harmless.

Yeah, I'm They are demonic. When you consult a diviner, you are consulting a demon. When you go to a witch doctor, you are opening yourself to demonic covenants. When you participate in ancestral worship, you are honoring, you are, you are not honoring the dead. You are communing with demons. Who are impersonating the dead. You know I've heard people like that who come and tell me that ehm, once in a year, my parents go to the graves of our family members who have passed on because they believe that they lead us. That's necromancy. That's necromancy. That's witchcraft.

That's sorcery. And this, guess what? They are believers. Are believers. Are you with me? Yes, sir. First Corinthians 10 and verse 20, the Bible says, rather that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. Listen to me, the spirit behind African traditional religion and the culture that you see are not ancestors. Our ancestors.

We are just praying to our ancestors. No, no, no, they are just singing to the ancestors. They are just venerating the ancestors. No, these are demons. Demons. And when people out of ignorance, out of fear, out of desperation, out of spiritual curiosity, engage with these spirits, they enter into covenant with darkness even though they are believers. Power says, what fellowship does light have with darkness? How do you begin to fellowship with demons? These things open the doors to demons. They give a legal ground.

And what begins as curiosity spiritually ends up as bondage spiritually. There are believers who believe that those who are dead can intervene in their affairs. The spirit of their ancestors. So they pour libations. They offer sacrifices. They seek guidance from ancestors. Believers. Believers. It is forbidden by God. Are you with me?

Yes sir. Isaiah chapter eight verse 19. The Bible says, and when they say to you, seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mortar, should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? The dead cannot help you. And you see, whenever a believer comes out to say that this thing I'm teaching, it was this person who died, who appeared to me, and showed me those who are in hell. He first went to hell. He now came back. He now showed me, you are false. And there was a time when this doctrine was raining.

When people brought revelations from hell, and they said they saw pastors in hell. They saw all kinds of people in hell. They saw people wearing all kinds of air attachments in hell, and they said this attachment became serpent. And the serpent were biting people, and people who had practiced all kind of things and their private organs became serpent. I put it to you with all humility. You are false. Jesus himself taught. This scripture says, do we begin to seek the dead on behalf of the living? How is it that a dead man is the one that brings you a revelation? Does the Bible say dead spirit in fact is the mind of God?

Yeah, it's not the God of death, it's the God of living. Those who are alive in Christ. Judah himself was the one who was sharing that truth with us. Lazarus and the rich man. How that Lazarus went to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man went to Hades. Is that not so? The place of torment. And what happened when they were there? The rich man saw Lazarus afar off.

And saw him at Abraham's bosom and was begging father Abraham for Lazarus to send him just one pinch of water. That was how more the suffering was, how bad it was. And when Abraham told him how impossible it was, the next thing he said was, I didn't know that this place was real. I mean, look at this suffering, this torment is too much. Can you please send Lazarus? I I know you can't send me. I'm too... But Lazarus at least he is in paradise. He is at least he is in Abraham's bosom. Can you please send him to go and warn my brothers so that they can change their ways and not come here?

Look at the response that was given. Abraham said, they have what? Next verse. In other words, if the person says I died. And I saw demons on people's head. There's a kind of mascara that if you use it, you will be blind spiritually. There's a portion of hell that people with that kind of mascara go to. In fact, there's a demon I saw, it's called Mary Adem. He's the one cages people that use Medicaid. You see, Listen.

I know you are bringing all kinds of messages from the dead. Look at what you guys are saying. If we can just hear, look at itchy ears, itchy ears. That this person came from the dead. And he tells us, repent, they will repent. But look at what Abraham says, look at, go on. But he said to him, if they do not hear those who are alive, neither will they be persuaded. No one rest from the dead. It's a spiritual principle, it's a spiritual law. You don't take doctrine about spiritual matters from what is not scripture.

You know, a man of God was telling a story. Trying to explain spiritual things to people. And then where he picked the doctrine from was from someone whose spirit left him. Are you with me? Entered into somebody else. And the person was living as that person. And he was trying to teach people that if you are not careful, somebody of this spirit can enter you. What is this? And you have to see people shouting. You have to see people screaming.

And doing all kind of things in church. And you want to live church. And the man of God was giving symptoms that you will find in your life that shows you that another person's spirit is living in you. And you think that it is one person sitting down there who will not see that in his life. Who doesn't go through problems in life? All I need to do is describe one problem. There will be one person that will be going through it. And I tell you that the reason why you are going through this is because of that. And then you... Hey, this is me.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. If a spirit claiming to be your ancestor appears to you, it's a demon. It's a familiar spirit masquerading as the dead to deceive you, to bind you. And there are believers who go to diviners, who claim who go to seers, who claim to reveal the future, who claim to uncover hidden things, to diagnose spiritual problems, to uncover spiritual bloodlines, and go into family lineages. To see where the root of your problem is. The root of Nepolem is Adam. And Christ came and solved it once and for all. The root of Nepolem is what? Christ came and solved that problem once and for all.

That's why when Paul met that lady in Act of Apostles chapter 16 from verse 16 to verse 18, the girl had a spirit of divination. She could tell fortune, she could reveal secrets, but the source was demonic. And Paul cast it out. The source was demonic. What she was saying was true. So that's why you must not have itchy ears. You shouldn't have itchy ears. Just because somebody can tell you, I know there are believers like that. Somebody just stops on the road. And say hey, you, you, you.

That has happened to me before. Going to a restaurant with my fiance. While we were there, got down from the vehicle and with so much violence. And he came and he says, you, you, you, stop the two of us. And I was wondering, do you know me from somewhere? And I saw the aggression that he came with, and he was sent in Yoruba. He said let that run and see me. Orom is here. Let that run is here. In other words, your God has sent me to you.

Your creator has sent me to you. You know what you would do? Hey, please, stick sir. He's now bold and now audacious, join. Now being violent, join. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Your mother is this, your father, and then he says a few accurate things. And you will think that because it's accurate means that that's how many believers have been swayed away. Instead of looking like Paul as they are talking and say, how you devil?

Guy is living the method and he goes straight hard. When it comes back up, bid now. Jesus sends me to you. Repent and be saved. Repent and be saved. Glory to God. Glory. As if there are believers who still wear charms for protection. For favor, for breakthrough, you will be shocked. Put tight things around their wrists.

Some of them tight around their waist. Carry powders, carry portions, carry sand. Bury objects at the corner of their property. Because a a prophet told them you have to bury it there if you want to experience increase. Believers. Big things, special concoctions. All of that is witchcraft. It's important we grow. You don't need a charm. You don't need a talisman.

You don't need a protective object. Because you have the blood of Jesus. You have the name of Jesus. You have the holy spirit. That's your protection. That's your protection. Somebody was speaking to me and the person said, so lovingly. Said to me, he said, you you know be careful as you're planning, People can bring gifts to you before you open any of those gifts. There are some things we have to do on it because, you know, they can program some things there. And I just thought to myself, if you wanna program something at me, I can go and buy a gift to do it.

You are a very generous wicked man, and I like you. That's a very good way to program something. You give me the gift. And it's why it is something that I need anyways. Then program it inside. I love that programming. Glory to God. When we speak like this, you know what happens, somebody stands, say ah. It's no, it's not your fault. Because I have not seen things, they've not shown you.

That's why. They've not shown you. You know that there was a pastor that was preaching somewhere in Abakaliki, and he was talking and he was... As he was talking, he just slumped and died. They've not... This guy has not seen anything. Where are you? Who is talking? Come and show me. You really think you're talking like that because you've not seen anything.

Don't imagine how many demons we cast out on daily basis. You have the holy spirit on your inside. You don't need a champ. You don't need talisman? Listen to me. Once you are a believer, you cannot mix Christianity with your tradition. It is syncretism. You cannot mix these things. You cannot amalgamate tradition, amalgamate culture. With the life you have in Christ.

You cannot combine different school of thought, different ideologies, and different practices alongside the Christian faith. It is wrong to do so. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and drink from the cup of demons. First Corinthians ten twenty one. That's what Paul told the Corinthians. You can't drink from the cup of the Lord and drink from the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the Lord's table and the table of demons. Mixture. Mixture.

Don't be unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship those righteous things have with lawlessness. And what communication does light have with darkness? And what are called as Christ with bailial? You see that? There's no agreement between the temple of God and idols and demons. There's no communion between light and darkness. You must choose. And if you claim Christ, you must renounce every covenant, every practice, every belief system that does not come from Christ. Doesn't matter I will give it to you. One of my guys came and told me that she went back home.

And when she got back home, the father told her now that you're done with school. Need to introduce you to what makes us prosper. And then brought an herbalist to the house. Caught a chicken in the house. Knelt down in the pallor and brought blood on her head. Devote religious man. Now show the now show the decision. Now that you are free, I need to show you what made us. You know, because you were children, we could not tell you. Now you are mature, are a And the best...

None none none disguised. Real life harvest. What fellowship does light have with darkness? What fellowship does light have with darkness? What fellowship does light have with darkness? Are you with me? The spiritual realm is real. Is real. But access to that realm. Understanding of that realm.

Authority in that realm. Only comes through the holy spirit. And the word. The holy spirit is the interpreter. He's the revealer, he's the guide. Without him you are blind, without him you are vulnerable, without him you will be deceived. First Corinthians two fourteen says the natural man does not know the things of the spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. The man without the holy spirit cannot understand spiritual things. Does not matter how intelligent he is, does not matter how spiritually curious he is, does not matter how many experiences he has had.

He cannot accurately know spiritual truth. Because it is spiritually designed. And the funny thing is that a lot of us who are curious about these things, if you actually get launched into this realm without spiritual truth guarding your heart, you will be lost in that realm. That realm will so give you PTSD, you would never want to find it again. Even in the things of God. Your experiences you would have that would defy the logic. If you do not yet know truth. I was in my room from years back. In my room. Many years ago, I was a face my face, you're getting and I was reading scriptures.

Not in the realm of the spirit, A woman appeared to me, stood at the edge of the wall, was dressed in red attire. It was a red garment like an euro tied around her chest downwards. And she appeared to me holding some kind of thing in her hand. You know, and she was angry and fuming and and boiling in anger, not spiritually, physically, in my room. And I was looking at this lady. And she was looking at me. And we kept on looking at each other. And when she was tired of the stirring competition, she took her leave. Vanished right in front of me. I just heast and continued within my scripture.

Did not start delivering service because of that. If you had so much power, you could do it right there. That that was many years ago. I think I was even probably just maybe just a teenager. Many years ago. And the knowledge of truth I had made me so solidly confident that the devil's got nothing on me. So solidly confident. As I grow in understanding and revelation, now I wish I could transport myself back there. My approach would have been different. Because if you had appeared in my room, would not have been able to leave.

With the level of revolution that I have, you are chained there. Either you give a life to Christ or I hand over to the police, but you but you will not. You will explain what you are doing in my room. The fact that you could pot and then pot out back. I've grown oh, ah. Then I wish I knew. Receive Jesus or I will hand you over to the police. You will explain what you are doing in my room. You are a thief. And by the time you try all your calisthenics and you cannot vanish.

You will know that the he that is in me is truly greater. It's not a theological debate. It is true. That there is power in us as believers. Power in us as believers. Power in us as believers. The authority we have received. The authority we have received. We cannot have the wealth of this thing we have received. And you become swayed by every spirit.

Become swayed by every experiences. In first John chapter four, from verse one to verse three, the Bible says beloved, do not believe every spirit. But test the spirits whether they are of God. Because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard was coming and is now already in the world. My emphasis really is test the spirit. Don't want to go into every you know the scripture is so sweet, you feel like explaining everything.

Test every spirit. Test how many spirit? Every spirit. It says do not believe every spirit. Did somebody just take you somewhere? And you are quick to believe everything that he said. Without testing every spirit. Whether they be of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. Not every spiritual experience is from God. Not every vision is from God.

Not every prophecy is from God. Not every miracle is from God. The enemy can walk signs and wonders. Second Thessalonians chapter two and verse nine. Can we read it? One, three, go. He can appear as an angel of light. He can speak religious language. He can quote scripture even. The holy spirit is the discerner of all things.

He's the one who teaches you to test the spirit. He's the one who reveals the source. He's the one who exposes the counterfeit. And without him, you will be deceived. John 16 and verse 13, however, when the spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth. The holy spirit is the spirit of truth. It does not lead you into error. It will guide you into all truth. It does not lead you into bondage. It does not lead you into demons.

It leads you into all truth. And that truth is centered on Jesus Christ. That truth is Jesus Christ. I'm the way. The truth. And the life. Jesus is the truth. And the holy spirit's job is to reveal Jesus to you. To glorify Jesus in you, to make you like Jesus. And any spiritual experience that does not point you to Jesus, that does not glorify Jesus, that does not align with the word of God, reject it.

It is not from the holy spirit. You know, I was talking to a believer some time ago, and the believer said, who are you to judge? You were talking about something. And I told him, I said, this thing you're holding so dead too, it's not real. It's not real. It's false. And the believer said, who are you to judge? As to mean that the bible said we should not judge, but it's not true. It's a misunderstanding of scripture. What did I call it now?

So we've been able to establish that you cannot understand the spiritual without the holy spirit. We've been able to expose the danger of spiritual ignorance and the reception that comes with curiosity, without accuracy. Now, the question is, how do you enforce victory in the physical realm. How do you wage war? How do you stand against the powers of darkness? Who manipulate the spiritual realm? To cheat you who live in the physical. How do you stand on what Christ has done? And decide that you program your realities only to see what God said we should see. How does a man say I'm not joke in experience?

Things will not happen to me without my permission. I will not be a victim of conversations I was not a part of. That they are conversing about me in his fear. And their conversation comes to a conclusion. And the conclusion is that they will destroy my life. And my life gets destroyed. And I didn't have a say in the matter. How does a believer master the realm of the spirit to your advantage. It is true the operation of these two inseparable realities. The spirit and the word.

The spirit and the word. You cannot operate effectively in the spiritual realm. We don't live the word. The spirit and the bride says come. You cannot operate effectively in the spiritual realm with only the word. And no spirit. What will happen is that you will have truth but no power. You will have doctrine but no demonstration. You will be orthodox but dead. You cannot operate effectively in the spiritual realm with only the spirit as well.

And no word. You will have experiences. But you will lack discernment. You will have zeal. You'll be passionate. The fire of God will be burned on your inside. But you will lack direction. You'll be passionate but you'll be deceived. You need both of them. The word and the holy spirit.

Together, inseparable, operating in perfect harmony. In second Corinthians chapter three and verse six, the Bible says, who has also made us sufficient ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. The letter kills. When you divorce the word from the spirit, it produces death. It produces legalism. It produces religion, self righteousness. It produces pride. It makes you a Pharisee. Full of knowledge but void of life.

Full of scripture but empty of power. The Pharisees knew the scriptures. They memorized the law. They studied the prophets. They could quote Moses backward and forward. But they crucified Jesus. They didn't receive Jesus. Why? Because they had the word without the spirit. They had knowledge without revelation.

They had information without transformation. John chapter five. From verse nine to verse 40, Jesus speaking says, you search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and this are they which testify of me. But you are not willing to come to me that you may have life. They searched the scriptures, but they missed the one the scripture was pointing to. They had the word. They rejected the spirit. So they remain blind, they remain proud, they remain spiritually dead. Even though they knew scriptures. And on the other hand of it, on the other extreme of it, there are those who know the spirit and reject scriptures and reject the word of God.

And that produces error. It produces emotionalism. Subjectivity, deception. It makes you vulnerable to every wind of doctrine. It makes you vulnerable to every false vision. It makes you vulnerable to every lying spirit that claims to speak for God. Because you don't even know the word of God. There are believers who chase experiences. They want the power. They want the miracles.

They want the signs. They want the wonders. They want the prophetic, the supernatural, The spectacular. But they don't know the word of God. They don't want the word of God. Jews Greeks. Some seek after sign. Some seek after wisdom. They don't meditate on the word of God. They don't read the word of God.

They don't test what they hear with scriptures. And so they are toast to and fro, they are carried about by every corning, craftiness of men. First John chapter four verse one, the Bible says, do not believe every spirit. Test the spirit whether they are of God. How do you test the spirit? You test the spirit by the word. The word of God is your standard. The word of God is your measuring rod. The word of God is your anchor. If what you're hearing or seeing or experiencing does not align with scripture, you reject it.

No matter how spiritual it sounds. No matter how anointed it feels. If it contradicts the word of God, it is not from God. Isaiah chapter eight and verse 20. The Bible says, to the law and to the testimony. To the law and to the testimony. If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. If they do not speak according to this word. The word is light. The word is truth.

And the spirit of God never contradicts the word of God. Because the spirit inspired the word of God. The holy spirit and the holy scriptures are in perfect harmony, in perfect agreement. They do not contradict. They are not enemies. They are partners. They are allies in the work of revealing Jesus. In transforming believers, in advancing the kingdom. The holy spirit will never contradict scriptures. Never.

John chapter six verse 63. The bible says, it is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. The words of Jesus are spirit and they are life. When you read scriptures, when you read the words of Jesus, they are not just historical records you are reading. They are living words and they become alive in you when the holy spirit illuminates them in you. When you read scriptures without the holy spirit, you read only an historical account. No difference in what you're reading. It becomes a lifeless manuscript.

But when you take the holy ghost into what you do, when you take the holy ghost into what you do, your study of scripture becomes a weapon in your hand. Your understanding of scripture becomes a weapon in your hand. It becomes a weapon of enforcing victory. In Ephesians chapter six verse 17. The Bible says, and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the which is the word of God. The sword of the spirit is what is the word of God. Your opinion is not the word of God. And your opinion is not the soul of the spirit. Your feelings is not the sword of the spirit. Your experiences is not the sword of the spirit.

The word of God is the sword of the spirit. That means that your offensive weapon in spiritual warfare is the word of God. Isn't that what a sword is for? There is a shield. A shield is a defensive weapon. Is that not so? But a sword is an offensive weapon. It means your offensive weapon. Your weapon for spiritual attack. In the realm of the spirit.

How you charge against demonic spirits, how you charge against circumstances that are being programmed by other worldly spirits. Is the word of God. Are you with me? But watch this. The Bible calls it and the sword of the spirit. Which is the word of God. What is the word of God? It is not just the sword of scripture. It is not the sword of theology. It is the sword of the spirit.

Meaning, the holy spirit is the one that wields it through you. So when you remove the holy spirit from the word, what you have is nothing. Because it is meant to be the sword of the spirit. He's the one that wields it inside of you. Is one that breathes life into it. Is the one that illuminates what you know. Are you with me? When Jesus was tempted by the devil, he didn't debate with the devil. He didn't start a theological debate with the devil. He did not try to reason with Satan.

The sword of the spirit. The devil came to him three times with an attack. And three times, Jesus said, it is written. He wasn't sharing his opinion about the matter. He didn't engage in his question about the matter. He said, it is written. He spoke the word and the word as empowered by the spirit, silenced the devil. As empowered by the spirit. Hebrews chapter four verse 12, the Bible says the word of God is living and powerful. Living and powerful.

The word of God is not dead. It is living and powerful. It's not outdated. It needs no upgrade whatsoever. It is alive. It is powerful. The Greek word powerful is the word energies. Where the word energy is gotten from. It means the word of God is active. It is energized.

It is effective. It accomplishes whatever God send it to do. The believer must know this. Are you with me? Yes sir. So when you speak the word of God in faith, when you speak the word of God under the anointing of the spirit, You are releasing spiritual power. You are engaging in warfare. That is the sword of the spirit. The holy ghost is matching all in warfare inside of you. Remember, in Psalm one one zero verse three, that the Bible says, I will send verse two.

The rod of thy strength out of Zion. And I've taught you that the rod of thy strength is the holy spirit. And also, the context of this conversation is the coronation. So in verse one, the Bible says, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. So this was after Jesus Christ finished the work of redemption. And he was coronated. And he sat down at the right hand of the father. Is that not so? According to Ephesians, David is now seeing into the spirit and seeing a conversation that happened in eternity. The father said to the son, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies.

What? Your footstool. Until. Until means you will not always be sitting down here. A time will come when you will stand. And you will go back. That is the second coming of Christ. That is the rapture. But before that happens, sit here until I make your enemies your footstool. So how do I make your enemies your footstool?

You have disarmed your enemies, is that not so? You have collected power from them. You have made a public show of them. So verse two, how do I make your enemies your footstool? He said the Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion. The rod of your strength is the holy spirit. Your rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Another comforter. Are you with me? Yes sir.

What is the mandate of the holy spirit in the believer? Read it loud. Rule in the midst of whose enemies? My enemies. It's not your enemies. Read verse one again. Till I make whose enemies? In other words, every human being, power, spirit, demon against the advancement of the will of God on earth. Against the advancement of the kingdom of God and the expansion of his kingdom on earth. Against the expansion of his kingdom in your life.

Against the furtherance of the will of God in your life. Those are his enemies. Any power, any spirit, any human being that says, if this is what God has said, we will stand before that world and enjoy it does not come to pass. Those are his enemies. Thy kingdom come. You said no. The kingdom will not come. Not in this office. Not in your life. Those are his enemies.

It can be a human being. It can be a spirit. It can be powers. It can be principalities. Are you with me? Those are his enemies. And it means the day a believer says, my life will be for the glory of God. Those enemies will start becoming your enemies. The day you say I must prosper in this business because I must have money to further advance the kingdom of God. How will God want to do something I won't be able to give millions towards it?

This business I'm doing has to prosper. I must not be small in this thing. Hey, now you are tying kingdom advance into your business. You have attracted his enemies. That's why thy kingdom come with a statement of war. Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth is a statement of war. That's the reason why the parable of the wheat and the tares, when the wheat were sown, the enemy came while men slept to sow tares exactly where the wheat was sown. Who are the wheat? Sons of the kingdom. Who are the thirst?

Sons of the wicked one. Are you seeing this? It means whenever God sows you, where you should manifest destiny, there will be thirst that will resist destiny with you. So the holy ghost comes and he says, your mandate will be rule down. So what did the holy ghost inside you? As in the day you receive the life of Jesus, the day you became saved. The holy ghost rushed into you like a mighty wind. It came like a gentle dove for some. For some, it came, it doesn't matter how it came. It came like fire for some.

It came like rain for some. But what is the same is that every the day that you receive Jesus, the holy ghost rested on your spirit. Enlivened your spirit. And he came with a mandate. He didn't come confused. He didn't come trying to find out what we will now do with your life. He was sent on an assignment. The assignment is rule. Rule in the midst of your enemies. The assignment is not be subjugated.

The assignment is not be defeated. So when a believer is living under a curse, the holy ghost is not used to that atmosphere because what he was sent it is ruled down. It means if this thing was speaking against your life before I entered. You in partnership with me, we now have a mandate. There are things that must no longer speak against you. Because the assignment is ruled out. Rule down. How can powers of your father's house still be speaking against you? Still have so much authority, still have so much hold over your life. How can all things that were sacrificed to hide us even though they may be real?

But how can they affect the believer? Don't you know that mandate? The mandate is rule down. What is the mandate? Rule down. So does this look like as though the holy spirit came inside of it to come and hide? See, that place is hard oh, that place is hard oh. What did the holy ghost now come? Do you know that the easiest thing for the holy spirit to have done to rule in the midst of his enemies was to have just come as the holy spirit. The same way he came in hell.

You didn't understand what I've said. You don't know your scriptures. The same way he came in hell when Jesus was in hell. And he unleashed terror. Came in the fullness of his force. That's exactly how he should have arrived. In Nigeria. And appear in the heavens. And go to Aso Rock. And fortunately, there's a wind blowing.

And the president is shaking on his chair. And his spirit appears to him. And say why judgest thou unjustly? That would have been sweet. But in verse three he says, your people your people shall be willing. Is that not so? Give me KJV. Your people shall be willing in the day of thy power. It means the day the holy ghost came in you. How does the bible describe that day?

Is the day of his power a season that is coming? Where the power of God will be displayed? Is that what you understand the scripture has? That there is a season that is coming. And when that season comes, it would not be called the day of power. The holy ghost knows that. No. Acts chapter one verse eight. What does the Bible say? And you shall receive power.

After that the holy ghost does come upon you. So when is the day of power? The day the holy ghost came upon you. When did you receive power? The day the holy ghost came upon you. When is the day of his power? The day that he came upon you. And what is the mandate he brought when he came? Come and be oppressed by altars and demons and principalities. Your life will not be moving forward.

You'll be trying to make progress, and one strong man will be holding your head like this. They're not trying to push through. You're trying to push through. The the believer is the one pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing. The believer is the one pushing. This is how we build my church and the gates of Hades will not be able to prevail. Not the gates of the church. The gates of Hades. It means the gates of Hades is the one defending our onslaught. We are the ones marching to the gates of Hades.

We are the ones putting pressure. We are the ones mounting forces. We are the ones going into territories saying, this one is God. This one is ours. This one is ours. It means the plan of God is for you to move into sectors with his power. For you to move into sectors of influence, into mountains of influence. That God looks at one of you and says, you. You. You.

You. You. We are sending you into politics because there is too much lack of justice. There is too much corruption. The day of my power must come, and I must rule. The bible says that it shall come to pass in the last days That the whole world will be filled with knowledge of the glory of God. As the world has covered the sea. The strategy that God uses for this is that he possesses you. That's what God does. He enters into a man.

Wears that man like a jacket. And the moment he wears you. He then enters into academia. So that by the time you enter there, The Bible says when Jesus Christ was going one day, demons saw him from afar. These demons were inside a man. And they began to shout loud and clear. Even before he approached them, before he casted them out, before he said anything, they just saw him from afar. And they started shouting loud and clear. Give me that scripture. I wanted you to see what they are shouting.

Whenever they saw him, fell down before him and cried out, you are the son of God. The unclean spirit, what did they cry out? My son of God. Did they cry out you are God? What was their cry? What are you? Because the Bible says he became the first born. But you are now the one crying out for unclean spirits. Say, hey, you are an unclean spirit. You are the one hearing the sounds of birds in the air and running away.

But the Bible says when this one saw him, they cried out. And even after he left, they still attested again in the front of the sons of Kiva. He says, Jesus, I know. Paul, I know. You go and test them. They will tell you Emmanuel I know. That means they used to give themselves advice. They when they are doing their meetings in their covens, we don't doubt that these meetings hold. But guess what the believer is doing? The believer is aware that meetings hold in covens.

And he's now told that, you know, meetings are holding around 12AM to 3AM. That's where witches gather. If you want your prayer to be powerful, you must wake up by that time and pray. That's not why I wake up by twelve to pray oh. It's not because witches are gathering oh. Even if I was sleeping when they were gathering. They still cannot mention my name oh. You know what they tell themselves? Say that one, that one. When you are passing by, don't pass yourselves.

Say ah, would that be shortcut now? Say ah. If you pass that shortcut, you will cut short your journey oh. No. Don't pass that shortcut. You say why? What is going on? He say ah, Rachel is there. What is that? Is that now why you are afraid?

Imagine a believer like that goes into every sector of influence, goes into every mountain of influence. Imagine a believer like that goes to go and get a job. Imagine a believer like that in business. How can you be scared of prospering? When the mandate of the spirit you have received is to rule. It means there is only one mandate your life can ever have. You are either ruling or ruling. You know what the Bible says? The Bible says the rich rules over the poor. It means, if the enemies who are confronting the advance of the gospel are rich.

What must you be? Because whatever you must be must make them poor. But he says, his mandate is to rule. The rich rules. There's no lashing for the poor. That's why he says I'm the God that teaches you to profit. Because I have a mandate to rule. And you being subservient, we can't rule in poverty. There there is a limit that can do with your life if you don't have influence. That's why he says that you are a light.

A a city set on the hill that cannot be hidden. Your mandate is not to be hidden. Whatever God has placed in your hand must... It must advance. That business must reach the world. That ministry must reach the world. That is how we look. Otherwise, they have no voice. Otherwise, they have no influence. Otherwise, they have no power.

Rule down. Hey. Hey. Go and read God's generals. The reason why account are written about those men is because they ruled. The reason why the story of high above allah is known till today is because he ruled. These men entered into territories and territories shook even before they got there. They ruled. Who gave us this doctrine that has made the believer so afraid, so afraid to dominate, so afraid to prosper, so afraid to advance, so afraid to move, to progress, so beating with fear. What gospel did you receive?

You know, should ask you like Paul, ask those people, did you receive the holy spirit since you were saved? How come your life is so powerless? How come your life has no power? How is it possible that things are not going well for a long time? Were you not taught that you should only be a victim for a short while? That short while is because you are an ignorant. The day revelation comes, you should no longer be the one under attack. You should now be the one attacking. Are you getting this thing I'm saying? Yes, sir.

I was talking to somebody. You know what the person said? The person said, we're having a conversation a time ago, many years ago, like two years ago or so. And the person came to mind and was telling me, he said, I would have even done this thing now. It's not for the power of my father's house. I've been trying to deal with them for three years now. I laughed. Say, why are laughing? Are you one of those believers who don't believe these things? I said, ah, far be it from me that I don't believe these things.

I so believe them, I know I'm the power of my father's house. It is what I say that is law. It is what I say that is true. Believer is confused for many years. Things are not working. I'm just on the spot for more than three years now. I'm not even making progress. I'm not advancing. When will you realize that that story is not one you should be telling? When will you realize I can't be under attack?

That means, if I'm ever going through any unfavorable condition, the mentality I have is that I'm on the path of the blessing. Because you can't die. You leave all these people and come and attack me. Nobody advised you. That's a dangerous route you are passing. Nobody gave you wisdom. If it was a human being, I am even more afraid for you. You want to lose your life very heavily. When people act in some manners towards me, I begin to pity them. I begin to pray for mercy Instantly on their behalf.

Because we function from a realm where we know more than we know. That there is no handwriting of ordinance. No handwriting of requirements. You can't come and stand outside there and look at this eye and say, you, you, these people, see, you are making progress Abi. See, this is where you will die. Over my dead body, will you rise? Amen. Amen. That's that's the only thing that can happen. You you think you have caused me, you have caused yourself.

You have only said I will rise when you are dead. That's the meaning of what you said. You say, I'm even making program. I'm going abroad over my dead body. Ah. You have only caused yourself. How come believers are so afraid and so and so defeated? And so fearful in their heart. If you know this thing, you realize that even if there is no unfavorable condition. I'm the one on the offensive.

I'm not the one on the defensive. Otherwise, you will be in the pit. And you will be praying for deliverance. Perhaps you don't know that the pit is taking you to Potiphar's house. You get Potiphar's house, you will think you are in bondage. Praying for deliverance. From Potiphar's house, you arrive at the prison, that's even worse. Praying for more deliverance. But if you have this mentality of a blessed man, you will realize I am not under a course. Things only work for me.

That's the perspective from where I see it. That's the assignment the holy spirit came to do in your life. It didn't come to sit down in your life quiet. That's why if the only revelation you have of the holy spirit is dove. There's problem. Because he's not gentle every time. When he came in the upper room, it was disturbance, it was tremor, there was a rushing mighty wind, there was fire, there was 12 tongues of fire. He came to announce himself. The holy ghost inside of me announces himself. He announces himself dangerously.

And you are believers under the sound of my voice. Who are getting awakened to a consciousness? Awaken to a consciousness of power. Suddenly, look at everybody in your family. And you say my life is not like this. And I'm not just speaking from emotion. You're not just speaking, you say, but I came from Igora. For thirty five years. And you say God has called into ministry. How will you now do it?

Are you when he came, when I received this thing, the Bible calls that day power. The description given to that day is power. Do you know that we have so limited power now that we don't even give that day power. We give years power. We give timelines power. We say, oh Lord, 1930. Because that is the last record of the day of his power. When you are in your father's house. When you are alive and breathing. When you are alive and breathing.

You mean you are alive and breathing? Is not an option oh, it's not an option. It's not a thing for men of God. The work of the holy ghost on your inside is power. I'm a creator of power. I was formed in power. I was built in power. I was forged in power. The gathering to honor their idols and offer sacrifices. And appease the spirits.

Because the Gods were hungry. So the chief priest and his emissaries were in the center of the village. They were in the village square. The community had gathered. The king had gathered. The emissaries of the king too had gathered. All the chiefs were there. All the nobles were there. All of them had come with their offerings to appease the gods. Because the God has struck them with an infirmity.

But they came to appease the Gods and the in fact priests, the chief priests, all of them were reciting incantation. Citing the incantation. Hungry all along. And all of a sudden, the chief priest who were handling the occasion and attacking incantations. Suddenly pick race. Had not not even arrived the at the community. He was just entering for the gods that speak grace. You cannot go to your village because you are afraid of the gods. John the Baptist was in the prison. And he heard Jesus was all out there becoming popular.

And he sent his disciples to Jesus. And he asked Jesus a very important question. A question that the world is asking you. A question that there is somebody here, your family is asking you this question. Those you are sent to, they are asking you this question. What is the question? Are you the one? Or should we expect another? They told us a deliverance coming. Are you the one?

Moses, are you the one? Gideon, is it possible you are the one? Samson, is it possible you are the one? Deborah, can you be the one? Or should we expect another? And let me show you how Jesus showed them that I am the... You don't answer that question with words. Chain of sickness in the house. And every time the sickness comes, the pain comes. A chain of death and affliction in the house.

A generation is lacking bread. I see power jumping out of people. The Hallelujah. Power Hallelujah. Has prosperity. There is power to prosper. There's power power to to prophesy. Prophesy. Power is prophecy. Power is utterance.

Listen. Listen. Listen. Don't worry. It will happen as I'm speaking. Just don't worry. Just listen to me. Power is jumping out of people. Our god anointed Jesus. With the holy ghost and with power.

He went about doing good. On your resume, inside of you. Like a rivers jumping out. Like a Hear me? Hear me? If the mandate of the holy spirit is to rule and the bible says, the word of God is the sword of that spirit. That means, what he uses to launch that onslaught. What he uses to rule. Is the word of God in your mouth. The word of God in your mouth.

Of what he uses to do. That's why first Thessalonians chapter one verse five says, for our gospel Amen. Amen. In the Jesus. Of Jesus. The victory has already been won. Grave is defeated. Death is defeated. Satan is defeated. He has the sound principalities and powers.

He has made a public spectacle of them. We have taken the keys of death and aideism. He has stripped the enemy of his authority and given that authority to you. The enemy is defeated. But he's not yet destroyed. Is disarmed. But he still roams about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. The enemy has no legal authority over you. But he will operate illegally if you allow him to. He will oppress you if you don't resist him.

He will steal from you if you don't stand against him. That's why you must enforce the victory that Jesus has won in the spirit. To program your realities in the physical. And how do you do this? The word and the spirit. Are you with me? The word and the spirit. Mark 11 verse 23. Bible says, For assuredly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea. And does not doubt in his heart.

But believe that those things that he says will be done. He will have whatsoever he says. He doesn't say whoever wishes. Doesn't say whoever thinks. Doesn't say whoever prays silently in his heart. He says whoever speaks, you must speak the word. You must open your mouth. You must declare the word. Mountains don't move by osmosis. Mountains move when you speak.

Demons don't flee because you are quiet. Demons flee when you speak. Are you getting this thing I'm saying? Proverbs 18 verse 21 says death and life are in the power of the tongue. There's authority in your words. Your words create. Your words destroy. Your words bind. It means if there are towers of darkness in your generation, if there are towers of darkness in your family, in your life that you are noticing, your words can pull them down. Are you with me?

Romans four and verse 17. Bible says, God who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist. As though they did. The Bible says we therefore having the same spirit of faith. We believe and so we speak. How do we speak? We call those things that do not exist as though they did. As though they did. You have the same authority. You can speak to sickness and command it to live.

You can speak to lack and declare abundance. You can speak to fear and declare peace. You can speak to demonic oppression and command it to break. When you are sick, don't say I'm sick. You declare by his stripes I was healed. Don't pity the condition. Declare by his stripes I was healed. When you are broken, don't say I'm full. You say my God supplies all my needs according to his riches and glory. When you're afraid, you don't say, oh, I'm so afraid right now.

You say God has not given me a spirit of faith. But of power, you declare, you speak because you're speaking. The Bible says the word of God is the sword of the spirit. The spirit now holds that word that you are declaring. Hold that word that you are speaking and begins to go to battle on your behalf. Can somebody rise up now and begin to speak? Hear me? Bible says, I've given you the keys of the kingdom. Whatever you bind on earth, they will bind in heaven. In other words, what enforces authority on earth is what is bound in heaven.

So when you see patterns in your life on earth, what do you do? You bind them. And what does heaven do when you bind them? So does heaven bind them for you? Whatever you lose on earth, you know what lose me? And most of the time, we just confuse the two. When we are casting out devils, we say I bind you. I lose you. How can you bind the devil and lose the devil at the same time? You have you have put him in the prison and you have released him from the prison.

To lose means to release. It means when you bind a possibility, you release the possibility you want to see in your life. Have what you're losing. Say there is fear in your life, what do you do? There's poverty in your life, what do you do? If there's an affliction in your life, what do you do? There's delay in your life. What do you do? There's darkness in your life. What do you do?

Bring the holy ghost right I In Jesus. Let there be silence. Let there be silent. I just hear in my spirit that we should do this. At the count of three, shout Jesus loud and clear. There are chains that will break. What you have founded, you will see the result of that binding. The power of God is going to jump out. Do this two times. You shout Jesus loud and clear at the count of three and then we bindings begin to happen.

Are you ready now? At the count of three, shout Jesus loud and glare. One. Two. Three. Let it be broken now. Let it be broken. Be broken. Be broken. Let there be bindings now.

We command that there are bindings now. Bindings now. Bindings now. Now, it's coming stronger. It's coming stronger. It's coming stronger. It's coming coming stronger. It's coming stronger. Now, bindings. Now we lose.

At the count of three, shout Jesus again. Now we lose. Now we release. There is speed about to be introduced now. We are about to release favor. We are about to release speed. Breakthroughs and breakouts. At the conduct, they shout Jesus. One. Two.

Now we are losing. We are losing. We release favor. We release speed. We release power. Be loose. What has been withdrawn from your house? From your family. What is yours that has been stolen? What is yours that has been taken away?

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