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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. First Samuel chapter 22 and verse two. And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he deployed, and he became a captain over them. And they were with him about 400 men. He became a captain over them. In second Samuel, these people who are weak, these people who are in distress, these people who are discontent, these people who are in debt, are now revealed as mighty men.

You see, when believers are trained, they become strong and mighty, ready to be deployed into the service of God. When believers are not trained, they become weak. They become ineffective, and the purposes of God becomes under attack under their watch. What is happening to us in this place every Sunday, every Tuesday is that God is training us. And the way we are trained in this kingdom is by light. Capacity to see eye level spiritual information. I've told you over and over again that this is responsibility of the five fold office. Jeremiah says, he will give you shepherds after his own heart to feed you with knowledge and understanding. And so how believers are trained in this kingdom is by accurate spiritual information, precise spiritual information. When you are ignorant as a believer, you are powerless.

When you are ignorant as a believer, your dominion mandate cannot be expressed. And so most believers are powerless because they are not trained. In ignorance, there is no power. In ignorance, there is no dominion. The bible says arise, shine for your light has come. You only arise in this kingdom not because you are tired of sitting down. It is because your light has come. I showed you last week Sunday how that the bible says, though the darkness... Though the sorrows, the weeping may endure for a night. You see, the weeping may endure for a night.

But as long as there is darkness, weeping will endure. The coming of joy is because there is no longer darkness. There is now a light. And so when day comes, then joy follows the day. The experiences in this kingdom are to the degree and to the extent to which you have light. After the degree and to the extent to which you as a believer have liked. And so when we come on Sundays, when we come on Tuesdays to be equipped and to be trained, understand that what is happening is that there is training going on. You are being trained to become everything that God would have you become. You see, first Timothy chapter two. Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was weak gathered themselves together and he trained them and they became mighty.

That is God's system of making men mighty. They are trained, they are equipped, and they become mighty. In Mark chapter three and verse 14, the bible says, and he called his disciples together, and he ordained them. He appointed the chores. He ordained them. He ordained them. Right? That they should be with him. He ordained them that they should be with him that he might send them forth. So before believers are sent forth, you have to be with him.

You have to be trained. You have to be equipped by him, you see. That is what happens when we come to the church. We are trained. Do you know that in act of apostles when they saw Peter speaking, when they saw John speaking, they looked at their oratory. They looked at their utterance. They looked at the results that came out of their lives, and the bible says they knew that these were ordinary men. These were illiterates. But the advantage was that they knew that they had been with God. In other words, Mark three and verse 14 played out marvelously when people saw the results of their lives.

Truly, he ordained them. Truly, they were with him. And when they were with him, he trained them. He made them fishers of men. When the world saw it, they marveled in disbelief, and they knew truly that this is only the result of their being with Jesus. And so when God calls us, he doesn't just send us carelessly. Oh, no. The first assignment is training. He trains us. He equips us.

You see, he equips us with knowledge and with understanding. Thank you, Lord. First Timothy chapter two and verse one. The bible says, therefore, I exert first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men. Look at this. The first is supplications. The second is prayers. The third, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men. Look at this. Number two, for kings and all who are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

He's revealing the factors in the realm of the spirit that translates to peace within a territory. He's saying that he could experience peace within a territory. If you would experience quietness within a territory, if you would experience reverence and honesty within a territory, if you experience godliness within a territory, there is the way it will come. And how would it come? Verse one, supplications, prayers, intercessions. In other words, any territory where supplication is missing, any territory where intercession is missing, any territory where prayers is missing, then there will be no peace. Then there will be no quietness. Then there will be no honesty. Then there will be no godliness. Then there will be no reverence.

You see, but that's not even my emphasis today. Verse three then says, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our savior. Verse four, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Look at the two fold desire of God. Paul reveals two burning desires in the heart of God. He said the first and the greatest of God's desire is that all men be saved. Look at this. That all men come to the knowledge of Christ, the Lord and savior. That all men be saved. The moment men are saved, his next desire is that all men come onto the knowledge of the truth.

That all men be saved, and that all men who are saved come into the knowledge of the truth. God is so determined to see that believers come into the knowledge of the truth to the point that he invented a strategy within the body to ensure and to and to insist that believers come into the comprehension and the knowledge of the truth. It was a strategy that God himself invented to see that all those who have been saved also become people of knowledge. Remember, it says my people perish for lack of understanding, for lack of knowledge. And so to to guide against this, God himself create a system to ensure that people don't perish for lack of knowledge. And that system is revealed in Ephesians chapter four and verse 10. The bible says, in the descendant is also him who ascended far above all the heavens that he might feel all things. Look at this. Verse 11 says, and he himself... So this was something that he did himself.

He did not apportionate for someone to do. He didn't give it to Paul to do or to Peter to do. He himself gave some to the apostles, gave some to the prophets, gave some to the evangelists, gave some to the pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints. What is the responsibility of this fivefold office or the fourfold office as many people call them? Their responsibility is to equip the saints. The word equip there is another word for perfect or for mature, to mature the saints, to equip the sins, to train the sins, that the sins after being trained can do the work of ministry. And then for the defining of the body of Christ, this system God himself put in place that the fivefold office would train the saints, would equip the saints, would mature the saints to the end that the saints are responsible enough, trained enough, equipped enough to go about the responsibility of the kingdom. Verse 13 says, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That it is possible to come to the to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Look at verse 14.

All of this is what happens when believers are trained. When believers are trained, we come to the unity of the faith. When believers are trained, we come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. When believers are trained, they do the work of ministry. When believers are trained, they no longer become children. And so our believer, the system God has designed to ensure that you grow, to ensure that you no longer remain children is that you are subjected under this system of the fivefold or at least a member of the fivefold to train and to equip you. And as that training and equipping happens, you are no longer children. And what is the characteristic of children? They are post, to, and fro, carried about by every wind of doctrine. They are on unstable in all their ways.

And so to guard against instability, what God does is that he plants you in a church. And then as you are trained, as you are equipped, you become mature. And the moment you become mature, what happens is that you are no longer tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine. That is the first thing that will leave your life. You will gain conviction in the things you believe. Nobody will be able to, you know, bamboozle you with deep words and empty philosophies. You will know what you know and believe what you believe. Nobody comes tomorrow and tells you tithing is not of God, and you say, oh, I'm not even sure now. This looks to be accurate. And then you go on YouTube and hear something else, and you are confused, and then you go, yeah, another preacher say something.

You are confused. All of these things are attributes of children. They are the ones who are post to and fro. They believe every single thing. But as the child is matured, as the child is equipped, as the child is perfected, what happens is that it it it becomes matured in the spirit. Unable to be tossed, toe, and fro, carried about with every window of doctrine. Look at this. By the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. We'll get there very soon. The voice is louder now.

And so when you are planted in a church when you are planted in a church, what happens is that you are exposed to the ways of God. You are exposed to the knowledge of the truth. You see. And as you're exposed to these, as you're exposed to the accurate knowledge of God's word, you are equipped, you are matured, and you grow. So when you see a believer who is bouncing from church to church, jumping from place to place, and is not seated in a place he does not have a house of truth that is planted in, the bible says those who are planted in the house of the lord. It is a seed that is planted that receives a nutrient to grow. There are many believers who are not planted. They are like a seed that is planted in this soil today, then the following day, it is taken out of the soil, planted in another soil, taken out of the soil, planted in another soil. How does that seed grow? You see, so what god does is that he plants you in the place and as you are exposed to the teaching ministry of the word.

Transformation happens to three agencies. Number one is the the the the agency of the spirit. The holy spirit. The assignment of the holy spirit working in the heart of the believer who has been saved. The next thing the holy spirit does is to walk transformation in your heart. The second agency is through the agency of the word. The holy spirit in partnership with the word of God. Renewing your mind by the word of God. The third is through the assignment and the agency of the teaching priest. If any of this thing is missing, transformation would not happen.

And so a believer would be saved, and five years after the believer is saved, the believer will still have behaviors in him, characters in him that makes it look as though he's not the one that God died for. Because he has not been accurately mentored and accurately discipled. Are you with me? Discipleship is something that must never be ignored. I believe that this is also a teaching we must do as God helps us. Discipleship. The value of discipleship. The value of staying and being taught. Staying and being trained. Sitting down and being taught.

Are you with me? In acquiring spiritual knowledge, listen, you must understand that not every spiritual information is useful and profitable for your growth. Just because the information is spiritual does not mean it adds up to your growth. There are many spiritual information that are not within the curriculum of the believer's growth. It is not everything that we have been mandated to learn. The realm of the spirit, you must know is a vast realm with so many dimensions of knowledge. And some of this knowledge are profitable for your excelling. Some of this knowledge are detrimental for your growth. In the garden of hidden, there were two trees. One was the tree of life.

The other was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God instructed them not to touch that fruit. There is a dimension of knowledge that is not for the believer. It is called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and God told them of this tree, you have not been allowed to partake. There is a dimension of knowledge that is not for you. It is of the spirit, but not within the curriculum of the believer's growth. Are you with me? There are many believers right now who in a pursuit of knowledge have doubled into a lot of things that our... I've seen people who are mad, and what run them mad is knowledge. I've seen people who are out right now in mental hospitals, and what got them there is the pursuit of knowledge.

They got exposed to different things, had encounters with demons, saw things on YouTubes on YouTube, saw things on the Internet, read demonic books, and they they started having strange visions and strange encounters that led them to the hospital. At some point, some of them even believe they were Elijah. Some believe they were John the Baptist. Some believe they were they were they were the reincarnate of certain spirit of just men made perfect, and they so believed it, you couldn't convince them otherwise. They were exposed to something, but it was wrong. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Our generation is one that has great appetite for knowledge. And whilst that is commendable in one hand, many people have delved into all kinds of knowledge. There are many people who have become what is not like Christ, and it was knowledge that made them like that.

There are many people who have lost God and become atheist, and it was knowledge that made them that way. I was I was I was watching a documentary of a man, and he was speaking of how he went into atheism. And he he said he got to a point he felt the bible the bible wasn't sufficient enough a book to read and understand the world, the universe, and god at large. And so he started delving into extra biblical records and went into into dead sea scrolls, went into the apocrypha, went into all kinds of things, and he mentioned even things I've not heard before. But he began to read, and he was admonishing Christians. He found... He said he said he found out as he was studying these things that the bible was a lie, that the bible does not accurately capture truth. And that is what that is what pushed him into atheism, knowledge. And he was advising believers, telling believers that we have been so heavily deceived. And if we want to truly have knowledge and have enlightenment, then we've got to...

And he listed 12 kinds of books that were written before the bible was written according to him that believers must go and study and truly get knowledge and truly be enlightened. Look at this. This is knowledge. There are people who have read books and have encountered spirits along the way. And those spirits have given them spiritual information. And upon acting on those information, they found themselves being more antichrist. There are people who have been held bound in hospitals just because they started acquiring certain kinds of knowledge from spirits. Do you know that most of these pseudo Christian experiences and expressions that we have today, most of these pseudo Christian heroes that we have today came because people pursued knowledge that were opened to the realm of the spirit, and they consumed just everything that they found. A man of God came and said that he found out in study and in pursuing knowledge that God is a woman. You see, knowledge is food.

And what food does to your body is what knowledge does to your spirit, is what light does to your spirit. A man cannot live by bread alone, the bible says, but by every word. This tells you men don't live by food alone. Men also live by words. Men also live by revelation. Men also live by light. Are you with me? Do you know that food has different effect in your body? What is taken in can grow you. What is taken in can kill you.

Food wrongly ingested can damage the body. Food wrongly ingested can kill a man. Knowledge wrongly taken in can kill a man. I believe that the bible is the word of God. I believe that the pathologies of scriptures were also inspired by the holy spirit. In second Timothy chapter three and verse 16, the bible says, all scripture is given by the inspiration of God. All scripture. All scripture. Not some of them. All scripture is given by the inspiration of God.

There are... There's a school of thought, and there are people that believe that the bible is not the word of God. The bible only contains the word of God. Because... And the defense for that usually is because in the bible, it wasn't only God that spoke. Several people spoke in scriptures. A drunk man spoke in scripture. A donkey spoke in scripture. Demons spoke in scripture. And then because of all of these, they said the bible is not the word of God.

It only contains the word of God. This is not true. The... They might not be wrong in themselves, but that fact... That information is wrong. Are you with me? Yes, Because the bible says all scripture is given by the inspiration of God. That makes the bible the word of God. Are you with me? This is scripture.

All scripture is given. All scripture is given by the inspiration of God. If I write a letter to you, and in the letter, I'm describing the events that happened yesterday. And in that event, I told you how that a policeman stopped me, and I told you what the policeman said to me, and I told you how that a dog parked, and I told you how that I heard a bird flying, and the bird was communicating. And I told you how that I saw a vision even, and the devil appeared to me. And then I... All of this information is captured in the letter I sent to you. Does it mean that it was not my letter because a dog backed? Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? A dog backed.

A policeman spoke. A bird went out ahead of me. A demon appeared to me, but it is still my letter to you. In that letter, you can see how to know when a a dog is backing. Doesn't mean it was written by a dog. You can see how to know when a demon appears. Doesn't mean it was written by a demon. It is still my letter. All scripture, the bible says, is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction. You see, for instruction in righteousness.

He then goes on to say that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. And so when a believer is to be thoroughly furnished, when a believer is to be perfect, matured, trained, all scripture must be captured in your study, you see. But here is the balance to that. A careless and a lazy study of the bible will do you more harm than good. Because it is true that demon spoke. It is true that donkey spoke. It is true that all of that... All scripture does not in its entirety contain the thoughts of God. Are you with me? Because people lived lives that were captured in scripture.

Are you with me? Lord slept with his daughter. You don't say all scripture is given by the inspiration of God. Daughter, come. A lazy study of the bible will do you more harm than it will do good because the bible is very prophetic in nature and can be made to say anything you want it to say. It means if you go into the bible with an agenda, you will always find scriptures to back your viewpoint. You go into the bible with an agenda. You will have scriptures to back your demented and sometimes even your wrong viewpoint. There is a theological word for this. It is called.

There is the word. Exegesis means to draw out. Hysterias means to draw him. In other words, we take scriptures and draw out the mind of God from scriptures exactly how it is written. That is exegesis. I think that is mean to draw into scripture our own ideas and conceptions to make scriptures say what we want it to say. Both of them can be done. So I can begin to fornicate for instance, and I'll look at scripture and tell you that the scripture backs it up. I can marry my wife and then at some point say, you know what? I think I need a second wife.

And I'll come and look at you and say it is it is in scriptures. Because if you have an agenda, I can be a thief and even have a backup for that. And I'll come and tell you after all, Jacob stole somebody's birthright. What I'm doing is of God. If you're going to scripture with an agenda, you will always have a scripture to back up your wrong viewpoint. And so it will be information gotten from scripture, but wrong. Wrong because it does not capture the whole council of God. You see, there are people who have formed beliefs from this understanding. They have gotten knowledge that is not doctrinal, and they have believed it. Some of them might even appear spiritual, but it is not scriptural.

When you're studying bible, there are three layers to study bible, or there are three layers in the bible from whence bible can be studied. There is the historical layer. In its most basic form, the Bible is a book of history. It is perhaps one of the most accurate historical records you will ever find. So you don't have to be born again to read the Bible. You can read the Bible as an interesting job of historic events. And it will give you historic and archaeological enlightenment. There are people today who are not godly. There are people today who are not even believers, but they've had to make references to the bible and to biblical events in writing their PhD thesis. And it has nothing to do with spirituality.

So there is an there is an historic layer to scripture. There is also a doctrinal layer to scripture. That is number two. There's a doctrinal layer to scripture. This is really where edification happens in scripture. So there's an intelligence that the spirit of God grants onto a man And within the stories, within the parables, within the scenarios, you will be able to piece out light, established precepts in the spirit called doctrine. You would need the help of the holy spirit for this. Without the holy spirit, you cannot see doctrine in scripture. All you will see is twisted information that you can even twist for your own benefit. A Muslim man can pick up the bible, and it will reinforce his belief to be a Muslim.

I've met people like that who happen to know more scriptures than even believers do. And all the scriptures they know have reinforced their belief. Are you with me? The third layer is the prophetic layer. This one has to do with the unique expression of the spirit of God upon you that will enable you to see certain things that are not necessarily doctrines, but they have within them the character of the Christ and can become a template for your own victory. For instance, walking around Jericho seven times. That was a prophetic action. That is not a doctrine. So I cannot come and teach people to walk around buildings seven times. You see, that is not a doctrine.

It is a prophetic action. You can see light in that scripture that applies directly to you by the help of the holy spirit that reveals the character of Christ. You see? For something to become a doctrine, it must have three major backbones. Number one, it must be represented in the whole testament. Number two, it must be captured in the ministry of Jesus. Number three, it must be practiced or captured in the teachings and the actions of the apostles, the early apostles that is. If it does not pass through these three tests, it cannot be called a doctrine. It doesn't mean it is error, but it means it cannot be established precepts that you build believers upon. And so when people come and they say things like the teachings of Jesus are not to be considered because Jesus is old testament.

You already know that if you hear a preacher say that, you already have a basis to tune your ears away from anything that is about to be said because it is not scriptural. Are you with me? Yes. Somebody said the old testament is no longer for believers. You have no reason to read the old testament. If you wanna study the bible, just read from Romans down to revelations. All scripture is given by the inspiration of God. Are you with me? This is how to grow believers. This is how to mature believers.

This is how to train believers. This is how to equip believers. With the help of the holy spirit, this is how to equip believers. And right now, the absence of this knowledge, the absence of this equipping, the absence of this training have led to several errors that are found in the church, that are found in the body of Christ affecting even sincere believers who are just trying to pursue God, love God, and be serious with God. Some of them are victims of these errors unintentionally so, but so. And my intention in this this morning is to reveal to you three out of these heroes and to combat these three to ensure that we sieve ourselves of them. And we build a sieving system and a shield against the plans and the deceptive strategies of the devil. This message will also double as an apostolic warning and an apostolic charge exhortation to the body of Christ. My focus, however, is my people. Glory to God.

Yes. But I believe that the holy spirit will go and take these things and spread the wings to everyone who might need them. I have found three errors. And if not careful, even sincere believers can be victims of these things. As a result of the absence of training, as a result of the absence of equipping. A lot of things that believers now do that they call hunger when vetted as against what hunger is in scripture, you will find that there is something wrong with your understanding. There is something wrong with their model. A lot of things believers now do in a sincere pursuit of God. And that is why this must be studied, this must be understood, and then you must vet your life even by this to ensure that your building and your equipping is accurate. If you're a man of God, please pay attention to me.

Give me your ears. I really believe this will bless you. Man of God or not, give me your ears. I found three errors that if not addressed, then believers will not rise into the fullness of what has been ordained for them. Number one, first Timothy chapter four and verse one. The bible says, now the spirit expressly says that in the later times, some shall depart from the faith. Giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. Now the spirit says that in latter times, expressly says, look at this, some will depart from the faith. An absolute departure from the faith. In other words, they were previously in the faith.

You see, if the bible is not written in Greek and Hebrew, and we have to interpret in English. If if the job has been done already to interpret into English what was originally written in Greek and Hebrew, it takes a special demonic grace to misinterpret what has been written. Because if the bible says, the spirit expressly says that in later times, some would depart from the faith. It suggests that the some were originally in the faith. So to think therefore that a man cannot lose the faith is foolishness. Stay with me. Stay with me. The spirit expressly says that in later times, some would depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. Look at verse two. It says speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron.

The first error is the error of apostasy. A complete departure, a complete deviation, the error of apostasy, a complete deviation or departure from the precepts of God, from the patterns of God, from the ordinances of God, the known patterns of God, a deviation from the fruit, a deviation from the path, a deviation from the of God. The bible says forget not the ancient landmark. Do not remove them that the fathers have laid. And so a time will come, the bible is saying that people will begin to intentionally deviate from that path, intentionally deviate from the known patterns of God. Listen. There is a way God has designed. There are the ways of God. And when it comes to knowing God, you are not allowed to be creative in knowing God. The pattern to knowing God has already been given.

This is why scriptures were given. Are you with me? The pattern to knowing God has already been given. And when it comes to growing believers, the principles that makes for effective living are finite. In other words, you can actually exhaust that curriculum. Knowing this as a man of God can put pressure on you. Because every Sunday, you can be looking for something new to preach. That will lead you into error. We have not been called to preach new things. The assignment is to be fresh.

A deviation from the known patterns of God. A deviation from the ordinances of God. Teaching the doctrine of demons. Look at this. You don't have to be demonic to teach the doctrine of demons. You only have to be mentored along the lines of the doctrines of demons. You can be a very sincere victim of the kind of mentorship platform you were a part of. In other words, you can be a believer but ignorantly mentor along the wrong road pattern. This is why it matters who trains you. It matters whose voice you hear.

It matters who equips you. It matters who mentors you. A lot of people have built castles on wrong doctrines. A lot of people have built convictions on wrong doctrines. And in order to fully identify and to combat apostasy, you must understand that there are various forms that it comes in. And the traits that characterizes these forms must also be studied so that when a doctrine of apostasy is seen, it can be easily discerned by a believer. When an apostate teacher is seen, it can be easily discerned by a believer. When an apostate church is seed, it can be easily discerned by a believer. Help your life. Help your destiny.

This is not a time to slumber. There are two or three main forms of apostasy. Number one is a falling away from the key and the true doctrines of the bible into heretical teachings that claim to be real Christian doctrines. That is the first form of apostasy. A falling away from the key and the true doctrines of the bible into heretical teachings that claim to be the real Christian doctrine, whereas false. It's a deviation into wrong teachings, heresy, masquerading as truth. Number two, a complete renunciation of the Christian faith, which results in a full abandonment of Christ. These are the two forms of apostasy revealed in this scripture we just read. Many will depart from the faith. They will give heed to demonic doctrines.

So number one is giving heed to demonic doctrines. Number two, in my in my own arrangement is a falling away. So you have a denial or a departure from the key Christian doctrines which will in eventually lead to a falling away from the faith. I've noticed that the second always begins with the first. I've noticed that when people begin to deviate from the truth of God's word, from the truth of scriptures, from the truth of doctrines into doctrines of demons and heresies, what it leads to eventually is a total falling away of the Christian faith or from the Christian faith. Jude chapter one, Jude was the second brother of Christ, and he also warns us about this extremely dangerous thing. Verse three, the bible says, beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation. So Jude is saying, I'm writing to you concerning our common salvation. The faith that we all share. Are you with me?

The faith we all share. This is the subject of my writing. I found it necessary to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. My god. He's saying that the faith has been delivered to you, but I've seen that it is now necessary to contend for it. Why must we contend for it? I checked the Greek word translated to contend earnestly, and it's a compound verb. It is the word agonize, and the way it was used was continuous in nature. So it means continuous agonizing. Jude is saying that this contention, this struggle, this agonizing is continuous.

In other words, Jude says there will be a constant fight against false teaching, a constant fight to defend the faith you have you have been given, a constant fight to defend the faith you have been given. Why must believers defend their faith? It says contend earnestly for the faith that have been delivered. And Jude is saying, this call to defend the faith and to contend earnestly and to agonize in this fight is not given to men of God alone. It's for all believers. Every believer must contend for their faith. Every believer must defend their faith. Why? Why is this so? It then goes on to verse four.

It says for certain men... Look at this. For certain men have crept in unnoticed. Who long ago were marked out for this condemnation? Ungodly men who turned the grace of God into lewdness and deny only our Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Question. If they've denied our Lord Jesus Christ, what are they preaching for? Jude says they've denied Jesus, no doubt, but they've kept in unnoticed, and they've started going about preaching, sharing a doctrine that is not of God. But the first thing to note here is that Jude says certain men have crept in unnoticed. In other words, apostasy can be subtle.

Certain men have crept into the church. The word literally means to slip in sideways, to come in stealthily, to sneak in somewhere. Jude is saying that it is very much rare for you to see apostasy beginning in an overt manner or in an easily detectable manner. No. When apostasy is to come, it creeps into the fold. AW Toza was the one that said, so skilled is error in imitating truth that the two are constantly being mistaken for each other. It takes a sharp high these days to know which brother is Cain and which brother is Abel. That was the words of AW Tozer. In second Corinthians 11 verse 13, Paul also wrote to the Corinthian church. Look at what Paul tells them.

He says for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. They are false apostles, but they masquerade and transform themselves into apostles of Christ. This is how they creep in. Paul is showing us how they creep in. They wear a tie. They wear a suit. Then they start doing all kinds of all kinds of humanitarian services. They start feeding the poor and working miracles and doing all kinds of things and preaching the gospel that is not of God. They masquerade and transform themselves into false apostles, Paul says. But look at this.

They're not the first person in verse 14. Paul said, for even the devil. No wonder Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. So if Satan is able to do it, then they are also able to do it. And you would need discernment some time to tell this is not of God. This is not of God. Remember Simon. Simon, the sorcerer. When he came across the ministry of Philip in Act of Apostle chapter eight, the bible says that Philip prayed for him, and truly, he believed in the fill... In in the prayers of Philip, having seen the miracles, having seen the mighty signs and wonders.

And the bible says Simon, the sorcerer, started working with Philip, started moving with them, following them for ministry, going everywhere with them, doing ministry with them, helping them to carry chairs, helping them to carry tables. This is how they creep in. The moment apostle Peter came, and he saw Peter laying hands on people, and the holy ghost was coming upon them. Simon, the sophist, could no longer hide his tendencies. Simon came to Peter and said, can you give me this thing? And immediately, Peter saw into his heart. This was someone who got saved under Philip ministry. This person got saved under the ministry of Philip, and yet look at all the things that Peter discerned from his heart. Peter told him, your money perish with you because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money. Next verse.

Look at this. Look at this. You have neither part nor portion in this matter, but was not saved. For your heart is not right in the sight of God. Was not saved. The bible said that these signs that follow them that believe in my name will cast out demons. So if he believes, how come he has neither part nor portion in this matter? The question is in what matter? A matter of transferring the holy ghost, which we now all do because we have the holy ghost. Peter tells him you have neither part nor portion in this matter.

Your heart is not right with God. You have not been made righteous. Yet this guy came for Otakor. He crept into the fold. In other words, he was still a sorcerer. He still had he still had he still had a mandate. He still had an agenda. But he now realized that there's no point masquerading and preaching something different when Peter is in town. Let me go go join them. When they recognize me as one of them and I start my ministry, they will join me.

Then all my fans will come back. All my followers will come back. Everybody who once respected me will now know that, oh, I'm now of this Philip assembly. So when Philip leaves Samaria, I can still stand as the principality of Samaria. I can still stand as the principality. The idea was join them, creep into their midst, and use their credibility to build credibility for yourself. So snap picture with a a a a famous man of God, and let people see you with Benihin posting like this. And they look at you and say, if he's with Benihin, then it must mean that he's a genuine man of God. This has always been the strategy. It's not new.

Look at the next thing Peter says. Look at next thing Peter says in verse 22. Repent therefore of this your wickedness. Look at this. A wicked man was in Philip's food doing ministry with Philip, and Philip did not know. It tells you Philip walked in mighty miracles. Philip walked in mighty wonders. It tells you not every man of God has discernment. And it's not their... Don't...

Philip did not know. So don't say because this man of God... You mean this person is now sick and you are with him. No. No. No. Even Philip did not know. Are you with me? They're creeping and masquerade as agents of light. Listen.

Listen. And if we're not careful, the body of Christ will start accepting nonsense in the name of truth. And they will build large ministries, big ministries, gain media attention, and they would bring all kinds of things. But the moment that is accepted by the body, we are in trouble. We're in trouble. So if I see a worship minister who truly knows God and is getting attention, the strategy becomes to invite that minister into my church. Because once you see that I've invited this person, this person will give credibility to my being fake. So unsuspecting people will double into churches built on the of demons because this person came and ministered there, and we have no discernment to tell that this is not of God. Are you with me? Even if this discernment is not there, should we know know them by their fruits?

Because the bible says what they will bring, what they will say, what they will start teaching are the doctrines that are propagated from demons. Are you with me? The doctrines manufactured by demons. In other words, if a believer who knows truth, who is who is who is sound in doctrine, hear these people preaching, you would know this is not of God. This can't be of God. I've been accurately discipled. I've been accurately mentored. I've been trained. I can't be tossed to and fro anymore. This is not of God.

It has an appearance of truth, but it is not truth. Are you with me? Look at Jude chapter one, the the the the the scripture we read in before. Jude one and verse three. Let's now do this scripture in NLT. Let me show you something there. NLT. Look at this. Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all the time to his holy people.

So he's saying, defend the faith. Defend the faith. Brothers and sisters, we must defend our faith. We're in that time again where we must defend the faith because certain unscrupulous individuals are creeping into the fold, and they are now twisting what God did not say and saying God said it. Now there are people who are saying that God was never against gay marriage in the first instance. There are people who who are now even using scriptures to defend the fact that even Jesus even Jesus sponsored gay marriage. And I heard one like that say that that that when Cornelius came when Cornelius came to Jesus, Cornelius told Jesus that my my my servant in the house... That the word servant, they actually means my male friend. And even Jesus wanted to go to Cornelius' house to go and heal Cornelius. And this person was telling the people and they were shouting excitement, rejoicing in the holy ghost In whatever version of the holy ghost that they have.

Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. This is not sarcastic. This is not even a joke. This is serious. This is very serious. It is creeping like a cancer, and it is spreading like wildfire using social media to gain influence. Now we have turned it into jokes. Now we have turned it into comedy.

Now we have turned it into all kind of things. We don't know that the things we've turned into joke is how culture is formed. Culture is not formed by teaching. Culture is formed by all of these things you see that has become a joke to people. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Verse four. Watch this. Verse four. I say this because some ungodly people have warmed their way to your churches. You see?

They've warmed their way into your churches. Ungodly people, he calls them. Look at this. Saying that God's marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. This is where I'm going. Saying that the grace God has provided is irrevocable. So it doesn't matter what you do. It's your spirit that is saved. Do whatever you want with your body. They would even go as fast to say, if you fornicate today and fornicate tomorrow and steal and kill, but you are saved and you die like this, you will still go to heaven.

Why? Your spirit is what is saved. The bible says, these are ungodly people who have warmed their way to your churches saying that God's marvelous grace allows us to live immoralized. They didn't just come now. They came even when Jude was alive. Jude said Jude said, I've been planning to write about salvation. I have a current book I'm writing about salvation. But the moment I started hearing the news going on in church, I had to pause the book to address this. You said I have a sermon I'm preparing currently to teach you on salvation, but brothers and sisters, there's a more ordered matter. There are ungodly people in the church who are perverting the grace that we have preached.

They do it under The deception that revelation is progressive. And because revelation is progressive, there are some things his father did not see that we are now seeing. Ecclesiastes says, that which shall be as being will be. There's nothing new under the heavens. So when you come and you tell me, I've brought a new revelation that was shown to me by... I already have a reason to stop you there. Can you vet this by scriptures? Can you vet this by the fathers of faith and what they've spoken, what they've thought, what they've preached? Am I saying that everything they said is correct? No.

As we grow in God, we learn and we see that many of the things that they said were also out of their human traditions, and they also have an agenda that they pushed into scriptures that made them see things in scripture that scripture did not see. Are you with me? But they were the foundations of doctrine. Doctrinal matters that cannot be moved, that cannot be shaken, that cannot be changed. It cannot be updated. It is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God is holy. There will be no addition to that. God will always be holy. The spirit inside of you is holy.

It will always be holy. You cannot tell me that the holy spirit comes into you to make you live your immoral lives. What then is holy about that spirit? You see a preacher preaching holiness right now. They tell you that that man is preaching legalistic. He's been legalistic. The bible says, there's no more condemnation in Romans 12 and verse two to those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not according to... Verse one. Who walk not according to the flesh but according to the spirit. He now says that for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

It doesn't say for the spirit of Christ in Christ Jesus. It is for the law of the spirit. In other words, there is still a law. You have been saved by grace through faith. True. If we are no longer under the law, which law are we no longer under? The law of sin and death. It therefore means that we must now study the way of the law of the spirit because you might find out that that way is even more tedious than the law of the... Of sin and death. You might find that in that way in that way in that way, sin is heavier compared to what it was in the old testament.

Sin means direct disobedience to God in that way. In that way, you can wake up in the morning. A very funny incident happened to me some years ago, some years back. I was... I think this was around twenty fourteen or so. I was in the school, and they had a a, like, a woman that cleans, very matured elderly woman that cleans, And she comes as early as 6AM to clean the entire school. It was a very big school. She cleans the entire school. And I came by 7AM, and I met her cleaning. And usually, when I see her cleaning, I would pass the other way so as not to dirty where she has just cleaned because it's still wet.

But on this particular day, the floor was obviously still wet, and she had left it to dry, then she went to another place. And I saw it, but I was too lazy to go back to pass where I would normally pass. And as I wanted to put my leg there, I felt that it's turning my spirit. The spirit told me no. That one is not in the old testament. It's not even in the testament. It's the law of the spirit. It's the organic life that walks inside those spirits. The moment I felt that restriction, I snuggled it off and I walked on that place. I was in class.

It was as though I fornicated. My spirit was disturbed. There was heaviness in my spirit. I found a place. I said, my God, have mercy. Bless you, holy spirit. What did all that praying for? I stepped on water ground. It's the law of the spirit. Somebody says, we're no longer under the law.

That is why that scripture says that they are that they are teaching, that they are doctrine. Where it leads them to is now a place where the conscience is see it. Where the conscience is seared. There's no longer conviction of the spirit as to what is wrong. Go back there. First Timothy four and verse one. Verse two, the second part of it. It says speaking lies in hypocrisy. The lies that they started speaking in hypocrisy, what has it done? Having their own conscience seared.

It means when a man believes in life for a long time, what happens is that his conscience will be seared. That is why he believes that there's no need to ask for mercy again. There's no need to confess your sins again. There's no need to... His conscience has been seared. Are you with me? His conscience has been said. I believe that I believe that in the last days, there will be believers that will stand for truth, for purity, and for holiness. It's not a forgotten thing. It's not a thing of the past.

It's not a past thing. No. It is the way of God. It is the ordinance of God. This is not the only lie. There are several lies. There are people who came and they started saying, we did not leave we did not leave the church. We didn't leave God. We left the church. And they mean this to say, we are still Christians, but the church has now become lightly hypocritical, so we no longer serve in the church.

We no longer go to a church. We've realized we can serve God in the comfort of our own house. We don't need a church anymore because you are the church. What a lie. What a lie from the pit of hell. You see, the the the the the lies always come in the appearance of truth. Are you more intelligent than God? You are saying you are saying... Imagine my child my child. Right?

My child comes to come and tell me, daddy, I'm hungry with mommy and I've left mommy. But don't worry. I didn't leave you. It's mommy I left. The church is called the bride of Christ, my God. The church is called the bride of Christ. You are not the church. It's called the church for a reason. It's called the body of Christ. A single entity cannot be the body of Christ.

You can't remove the hive and say this is the body of Christ. No. It is everything coming together that makes a body. You don't separate your selfness. Listen and say, I am the church. You are not the church. You have you have been lied to. You are a part of the church. You are a part of the body. Every member supplying their own bit.

What you hire is a member of the body of Christ. To be dissociated... And there are many people right now, offense is what send them out. Somebody didn't greet me. There is good. I love your ways. Abba Abba father, your ways good. I love your ways. Hear me. Hear me.

Hear me. You see someone someone serving in a church. Someone serving in a church. And then because the pastor rebukes you or the head of department rebukes you or a pastor or a guy rebukes you or correct somebody, you say, can they speak to me like that? How can they speak... See me, I'm leaving this place. They didn't even know how to talk to people. You are untrained and indisciplined. The bible says, whom the father love, the father chastens. Open rebuke, the bible says, is better than secret love.

To leave a church or a household of faith because we are corrected is the height of folly. And if you have people that defend you along the way, you are all foolish together. The bible says a company of fools shall be destroyed. A company of fools shall be destroyed. My god. Father, your way is good. I love your way. Abba, Abba, father, you're always good, and I love your way. These are wrong teachings, wrong theologies. It looks like truth, but it is not truth.

You cannot claim to love God and not love the things God loves. If you love me, obey my commands. That is what he says. If you love me, obey my commands. What is his command? Forget not the assembly of the brethren. After you say I love God, I love God, I love God. And you live your life against what God has said. You live your life as against the instructions of God. Where is the love then?

Where is the love then? And you and you will see a band of people. My god. It is the herald of apostasy, a deviation from the truth. There are people right now who are going around saying there's no need for believers to fast anymore. There's no believers... There's no reason any... There's no reason for believers to even pray. Why are we shouting? Why are we spending twelve hours?

And yet people saying pay the price of destiny. Listen, brothers. Christ has paid all the price for you. True. Very true. Very true. The doctrine of demons. Demons will not bring a doctrine to tell you god is not god. That's why ambiguous. That's not how deception comes.

It will look like the truth. It will take a semblance of truth. It will almost make sense to your logical reasoning. You will look at it and say, it will make sense to be able to find reason in it. Except when you compare it with the heart of scripture, you will realize this is totally antichrist. Totally antichrist. It is true that the price has been paid. Some people even come and say that there's no works anymore because the Christ has been paid. Yet the bible says faith without works is dead. Yet the bible says we are saved by grace onto good works, onto good works.

The bible says there are still works that are good. There is dead works. There is good works. Dead works is trying to use your works as a basis of your grace or as a basis of the salvation. It is dead works. You did nothing to end that. However, there must be works that stems out of you because you are now saved. And the bible calls this good works. It is... I showed you on Tuesday how that the weapon...

The hammer of God put on the whole armor of God was made available by God himself. That you may be able to stand and withstand the fiery darts of the wicked one. Is that not the same bible who tells you that you have won the victory? You are still with Christ in heavenly places? Yet the bible says put on the whole armor of God. Put on the whole armor of God. Praying always. And somebody says, no money to pray. No money to pay the price. No money to...

No. No. No. There is still a price to be paid. Not the price for your salvation. Not the price for your victory. All of that has been paid already by Christ. So when we say Christ has paid the price, we must know and ask what Christ did God pay. Are you with me? Because if you will be great, there is still a price for greatness.

There's a price for diligence. Say it that way, man, Diligent in his work. He will stand before kings and not before me men. You cannot produce nonsense service to customers and say Christ has paid the price. There is excellence. The spirit of excellence don't come upon Daniel, and he was 10 times better than his colleagues. There is consistency. There is diligence. There's prayer even. Jesus who paid the price prayed.

He prayed earnestly to the father. You are not more son than Jesus is the son. The first begotten prayed all night, and yet somebody says, why do we do this? Why do we do that? And they try and look for scriptures. These things... See, these doctrine, when you look at when you look at how doctrine is coming, you can tell what they come and attack. When believers believe these things, you realize that a generation will gradually begin to lose power. Lose power, genuine spiritual power. It will come to a point where the things we read in bible will look like film trick.

You see a man say, God can heal the sick. God can raise the dead and you say what? No. No. No. No. Because power is now lost in a generation. When the holy spirit came in acts two four, the bible says in acts two... Acts one and verse eight, you shall receive power when the holy ghost comes upon you. In acts two four, when the holy ghost came upon them, what they received was tongues.

The power came, but it was potential energy. The tongues came to translate that which was potential to dynamic. Are you with me? And so they started speaking in tongues. Acts two and verse four. Every single one of them that was gathered in the upper room, the temp. Listen. There is a law in theology called the law of first mention. Are you with me? The law of first mention.

The first place we see the holy ghost coming upon people and them speaking in tongues, look at how the bible describes it. Acts one verse four. Can we read the first line alone? One, two, three, go. How many of them? How many of them? How many of them? How many of them? With the holy spirit and began to speak. How many?

How many? So when I come and say, it's not compulsory that all should speak in the spirit. After all, it's a gift of the spirit. But when that gift was first given, all spoke. If your theology is to be correct, then when it was first given, God would have said, 20 of you take this. It's a gift. 20 of you take this. It's a gift. Eight of you, take this one. Then five of you, take that one.

Two of you, take this one. That is how we... Where did these things come from? Where did they come from? What does the doctrine come to do? It denies a believer of power because in first Corinthians 14 and verse two, the bible says... What does it say? He does speak it not a known tongue, speak it not unto men but unto God for no one understands what he says, how big he speaks in mysteries. Look at verse four. Verse four says, but he who prophesies speaks edification.

He who speaks in a tongue edifies who? So if you edify yourself when you speak in tongues, to edify what edify there is the word. It means to charge as the battery is charged. Are you with me? If what we do when we speak in tongues to charge as a battery is charged, why will God make it only for few? Are you telling me God is saying only a few believers should be charged and the other should be dead? So Apple releases a phone and says, some will come with charger, some will not. The ones that come with charger, oh, you are so lucky. The ones that don't, just with... We...

The battery is full. Just use it and manage it very carefully. When it dies, it dies. Is that the kind of God we serve? Does the bible not say all good and perfect gifts come from above? From God the father of light. So if God is the one that gives, why not you be hoping to receive what god has given? Let me ask you a question. If you tell me that the gift of the spirit, especially the speaking in tongues, is not for all men, why is it not for all men? Is it because god is still giving it?

So when you are saved, God now said, you, I won't give you. No. All there is to the holy spirit has been given. It was given on the day of Pentecost. There is no special release of the holy ghost again. The holy ghost has been released. Are you with me? It means all we are doing right now is receiving. So when you read through the book of acts of apostles, you will never see anywhere where the apostles taught people or prayed. Holy ghost filled them up.

Even when they wanted to fill people up, it was, have you received the holy ghost since you were saved? Are you with me? That was the question that was asked. Because it's no longer about God giving, it's not about us receiving that which has been given. You see, this was what Kenneth Hagin thought. I'm not saying a strange thing. I read this in Kenneth Hagin's book. I saw it in scriptures. Are you with me? But when when when when when a new breed starts coming that believe that they know something else that the father does not know or that scriptures don't say, we are wrong.

It is herald. It is apostasy. It is to rob believers of power, of genuine spiritual power. What method did you hear that made you comfortable? That made you at ease in Zion, That made you feel as though all the prayers, all the fastings, everything we are doing. There's no need to do all of that again. You would watch your spiritual life go down. You'll become unstable or unstable in all your ways. I heard a preacher saying that, oh, the gods, don't have to read about. They don't pray like we do, but they have more power than us.

Who told you? Who told you? From where did we get these things? It was said of one of the generals. I can't remember who now. Every thirty minutes, he must be praying. Was it Smith? Yes. Every thirty minutes, he must be praying. So if he's having a conversation with you, after thirty minutes has passed, he start...

He must pray. And then we say, the fathers, they don't pray like we do. Who told you this? We have read of great people like Apostol Hayababolola. Should we not study their lives and wonder how did the power of God... How was the power of God so wrought in the life of these people? You will see the hallmark of prayer in their lives, and yet somebody wants to cheat out and remove prayer from the equation of dominion of the believer. What then is left? Very soon, we will build weak Christians who can even stand persecution. Who can even stand persecution?

Apostasy, the bible calls it. They slip in and they introduce wrong doctrines that are not of the Christ. And as we grow as believers, we must be mature, able to see between what is true and what is not. If somebody ever comes right now to tell you that God the father, the son, and the spirit is not one, regardless of the rank of the pastor, do you know what to do? Do you know how to respond? Even if it's me that says it. Do you know when to say, apostle, ah, ah, ah, ah, you have thought following Christ. I follow you as you follow Christ. Or do you have an undying loyalty to men and not God? So that when a man speaks something, even though the man speaks in herald, our allegiance now is now told the men and not to God who they submit to.

Follow me as I follow Christ. Are you with me? All scripture is given by the inspiration of God. Do you know that even genuine men of God can be wrong? Yes. These things are called seductive spirits. They can seduce. Your own responsibility is to be accurately discipled, accurately trained. This is why that that that unholy dissatisfaction that makes you jump from place to place and receive everything without even receiving what you are receiving is not of God. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Number two is the hero of imbalance. The hero of imbalance. Another dangerous hero that are found in the body. You see, this is the devil's strategy. When the devil realizes that the deviation from the truth has now become obvious, and people can now tell that this is obviously false. This is obviously false. People can now tell. What the devil does is to then pick a portion of truth and exaggerate it beyond measure. It is also error. So the first strategy, the devil deviates from the truth.

In the second, he picks truth and exaggerates truth beyond its context or the scope of its spiritual relevance. The moment you single out a particular body of knowledge and spread it beyond the scope of relevance, it begins to destroy people. It begins to destroy people, and it can be sincere, in fact. Even nutritionally speaking, there are... We were taught in biology that there are about five or six classes of food thereabouts, and they are they are all important. They complement themselves to create a healthy human being. But by the time you don't have the fullness of all in the food that you take, by the time you camp around a particular nutrient, say fat and oil for instance, and you ignore protein, you ignore carbohydrates, you are already getting into heroin. The fact that only fat and oil is what you are taking, you will start seeing... Even though you are eating, you are eating wrong. And the impact, the consequence of that food will soon be in your body.

You will go through your speech, and they will tell you your blood vessels are blocked. Fat and fat has blocked your... Has clogged the vessels and then the... Kind of things. If you camp around just protein, no matter how much you like the food, even if it's your favorite food, if you camp around that only dimension, you realize that you are stretching beyond the scope of the relevance of that nutrient. Are you with me? So people, let me go ahead of myself. So it is possible that... Let me let me say this. You don't have to be evil to be a victim of this hero.

Sometimes or most of the time even, this particular hero comes from sincerity. It is the side effect many a times of how God trains you and how you respond to that training. So if God has called me to say an apostolic ministry, because of the nature of my call, spiritual activities like fasting, like prayers, like encounters in the spirit, certain dimensions of spiritual realities become more real to me than other aspects like administration, like excellence, like finances. So I would tend to pay more attention to prayers. I would tend to pay more attention to the holy spirit. This happened to even me as I was growing. Most of the books in my library, most of them that I got when I was growing were books on the holy spirit, the prophetic encounters with God. Are you with me? Prayer, the thought dimension, the fourth dimension,. These were books that I loved.

Derek Prince, the law of the rules of engagement. And you find amazing books like this, and you are reading books on prayer, spiritual hunger, rubethilonia. When you find them, you will you will have them... You will have more proclivity to tend towards that dimension than someone reading books on leadership, finances, administration. So if you go to if you go to the library or to a bookshop with a friend of yours who God is working with on the area of administration and leadership and wealth, both of you will go there and the book that interests you will be a reflection of the training God is working on your insight. So whilst you are picking books on the prophetic, whilst you are picking book on prayer, on deliverance, on the history of Christ, the history of the church. Sorry. You see a book, big one, apostle Babylola, the man of fire. He said, my god. This is it.

You pick the book. God's generals, you pick the book, and your friend is turning towards John c Maxwell, turning towards all these all these guys, Miles Monroe. And you look at him and say, my goodness, unserious man, and you go. You see, the the the the weakness of the training is already showing. It is called a herald of imbalance. Chances are, as you begin to grow, the the the the the strength of the call of the apostolic ministry will be so strong and the result will be so obvious, you people cannot deny you a code. Your labor in the secret place will start showing evidently. You will speak a word, and people will respond to what you have said. Heart will burn as you are speaking. You are talking with all energy.

People are looking at you listening. Their heart is burned as you are speaking. Somebody is not the power. How are the person not the power? Nobody can sit down whilst they're talking. Everybody's heart is burning. There's a lame leg that is working. Somebody's bent arm is opening. You are worshiping god and soul is responding, jumping over the power. And people say, my god.

Truly, this man is god. And that calling, the result, the obviousness of the result will start bringing people all around you, and you will grow. Are you seeing that? You will grow. But eventually, as you begin to grow, then you will hear that somebody is clean, tight, and offering. And you will wonder why the power ministry is not able to cope against the person stealing power, tight and offering. And you will hear that some people are fighting some place, and they are... They have offense against each other. And we hear that, oh, brother Sooto started a cell whilst he was in the church, and the cell became a church. And the church is now functioning on its own, and, like, 50 people left the church.

And you're wondering, why is all of these things happening? Because you never paid attention to administration. You never paid attention to excellence, to leadership, to structure, to build human building, human development. Are you with me? And you felt as though what God has built in you is all there is. The other side of it... Listen. Because of your call, because of the grace, because of the anointing of God upon your life, people will come and give to you. People will come and sow to you. Whether you call for a seed or not, it is the reward of the Levite.

Are you with me? It is the reward of Levite. And by your anointing, by your grace, as the common soul, you look at them and say, go and prosper. And a grace comes upon that man. He leaves that place. And in his small container, somebody comes and packed out the entire thing. 10,000,000 naira sales in one day. Hey. How did you become? I sowed a seed, and you come the next day.

You say, listen. If you want to prosper, come and sow a seed to me and watch your life. Watch your life. Watch your life, and it is true because they will sow, and you will speak, and what you say will happen. Are you with me? Chances are you will then see a man saying, you must be hardworking. You must be diligent. You must be... I will tell them, listen. It's not about hardworking.

It's not about diligent. Don't sow your seeds. When you sow your seeds, you will see power at work in your life. And people look and say, yes, sir. Yes, sir. This is the reason why. If God has planted in your place, just stay there. Because I can promise you, as many people have... In this this man of god's church will prosper by what they hear. The danger will be when you change streams and go and hear something else.

You will be confused in the middle. You'll have no idea where to fall. It is the consequence of the danger of imbalance. Are you with me? God can work with you and grow you in the area of administration, leadership, excellence, faith, and you gotta trust God. You gotta labor. You gotta work for everything that you have. Grow people. There is structure. You grew your ministry with a structure.

You went on evangelism outreaches. You have to trust God. You have to have faith. You taught people faith. You believe that everybody must learn to believe God for miracles. Everybody must learn to believe God for everything that they have. So as your members grow, you teach them. You must believe God. You must do this. Don't expect that result people fly from heaven and come and enter your account.

No. That's not the will of the spirit. You must work. You must do this. You must do that. You see you see, when you fall toward that dimension, it is very much possible for you to overstretch this also... This context beyond the scope of its relevance. You now get... You now see people start saying, there's no question as miracle money. No first thing does not exist.

Any man of God who is... Who you see prophesying and praying for people and when he's appearing is a scam is not of God. Because in your walk with God, that dimension was not captured there. Listen. That it was not included in your training does not mean it is not included in your destiny. Hear me and hear me well. The reason why God was not included is to give you the time to focus on what he's doing with you. So that as he's doing that with you, there is somebody else that is doing something else with. And that at at conjunction, you would have to depend on the resources and the books and the messages from that person who God is doing what is not doing with you, him, to complement what he's doing in you. That individual will also need what God is doing in you.

This is the balance to this danger of imbalance. Are you with me? Else, we will have extensions, and everybody will believe that the ones that are right. They're the ones that are correct. Whereas, there are only expressions in God that have been stretched beyond the limit of his relevance. Are you with me? Yes. So when you see somebody come and say and say and say, all those men of God you are giving to, do not give to them. Just be hardworking. And the person is a pastor.

The person might not be might not be might not be false. Are you with me? But he's in herald. He's in the herald of imbalance. Somebody else come and says, listen. Even if you don't work, just be giving. Ensure that your giving is reaching this altar. There is nothing that touches this altar that will not be multiplied. It's also error. It is the herald of imbalance.

The herald of imbalance. So what is the accurate mind of God? And it concerns wealth. Listen. Listen. The bible says, and the lord your god had given thee the power to prosper. Deuteronomy eight, the power to prosper. Are you with me? So there is the power to prosper. In Proverbs eight, there is also the wisdom to prosper.

Are you with me? There's also the wisdom to prosper. The synergy between the two is the accurate mind of God. The wisdom and the power. So whilst I teach people and I teach them the principles that govern prosperity with respect to the wisdom to prosper, I must then be able to release power on what I have said. Else, people will people will listen. There there is... There will always be a consequence in both places. The the the limitation of the imbalance will be obvious in both parties. You will see people who are prayerful, but they are poor.

People who are rich, but they are not prayerful. The danger, the hero of imbalance. People who love God passionately, and they can pray from 10AM to 11PM. And by 11PM, you think that they are they are tired. No. They are only getting started. They are... They now start groaning. And then there's 0 naira, 0 copper in their account. And they say, you know what?

We love God more than gold. It is true. But very soon, that absence of gold will frustrate your loving God. Very true. And they will tell you, there's no need for prosperity. There's no need for all these things. If you want revival, focus on prayer. Focus on prayer. There's no move of God without the move of resources. When you ask a soul that is saved, what is the price that was paid?

Did you... Did you need to pay any money? He says no. He was free. Salvation is free. And he says, ah, thank God. I just received Jesus as my Lord and savior, and it came so free. I only heard somebody preach. Go and ask the preacher. What is the price for that soul?

He will tell you, 10,000,000 naira speakers. He will tell you, the crusade platform was 5,000,000 naira. He will tell you the lights alone was 6,000,000. It would tell you the chairs alone. Souls are very expensive. And so when you are burning for God and you don't pay attention to wisdom in getting prosperity, the the the the limitation will show in your life. Are you with me? Through a ventral frustration, if you build without being prayerful, without being... And then you learn financial prosperity, you learn the principles, you learn success, you learn excellence, and you build a company, a single attack will collapse it. Because you have not the stature and the stamina to stand as a priest over what you have built.

The the... Listen. Adam was meant to tend and to keep. It takes wisdom to tend. It takes power to keep. Are you with me? It is the hero of imbalance. Listen. The devil will always come towards the area of your weakness. Any area you are building yourself strong in, the devil will strike you in that area.

It will come towards the area where you have you have you have you have invested the least effort in. The least effort in. I once heard a preacher come, and he said something out out of sincerity. He said the gospel of grace is all you need. All you need. The gospel of grace is all you need. I see some preachers talking about marriage, talking about relationship. You don't need that. You don't need the gospel of grace. It is herald.

It looks sincere, but it is herald. Listen. Never let us get to a place where we undermine what people represent. You might not represent it. You also carry the emotion of God based on how God has trained you. Doesn't mean that what somebody else represent is wrong. Are you with me? Yes. Yes. I am extremely open to the body of Christ.

I will never fight anyone. I will never speak against any man of God on my platform. No. I will never do that. If you ever hear me mention a man of God's name, it is to speak well of them. If you ever hear me mention a man of God's name, I love the body of Christ. Yes. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Are you getting blessed?

So I must recognize I'm not the only one that God is using in the body of Christ. No matter how great you become, I'm still not the only one. Not everybody will ever listen to me. There's a need for different expressions in the body, various expressions in the body. Jeremiah is not an Isaiah. Isaiah is not Elijah. How God work with these people differ. Even how God spoke to them differ. One was called the weeping prophet. Jeremiah did not write so much about visions that he saw, but he would say, the word of the Lord came to me.

The word of the Lord came to me. The word of the Lord came to me. You will read Isaiah, and you will see I saw a vision. The train of the temple, the cherubims, the this, the that. They were all prophets, but the workings of God with them were different, but different, were different. Imagine Jeremiah coming to come and say, all those people that say they are seeing things, when God is speaking, it doesn't show, it speaks. It is herald, the herald of imbalance, the herald imbalance. Right now, there are people that believe that if you don't tie stuff in your hair as a woman, you don't know God. You're unserious. You see, if you are at that level, I think you're still a child.

I think, you know, you're not even in this discussion. It's not for you. You need to go back to Sunday school. This is for matured believers. The third error I found, and I stop here. The third error I found, and I stop here, is the hero of disunity. The hero of disunity. The herald of disunity. Disunity in the body of Christ, but not just in the body of Christ. Disunity even in the church.

Even in the church. You see, if we get this principle right, I believe strongly that the two up will not be a problem. The two, apostasy imbalance is largely a problem because there's no unity. There's no unity in the body of Christ, and there's no unity in the church. We don't have one voice. We don't have one mind. And this is as against the pattern that we see exemplified by the apostles. The bible says they gather together in one accord. Do you do you realize that the apostolic church in the New Testament was scattered? It wasn't just one central church in Jerusalem.

No. Philip went to Samaria, started talking in Samaria. Paul went to Athens, went to the Romans, went to Corinthians, went to Ephesians. Peter also had his own expressions. James had his own expression. All the apostles had their own expressions, but yet the bible still says one. They were one. They were one. Peter spoke in his book of the speakings of apostle Paul and wrote that how... And her...

And wrote how that the speakings of apostle Paul were hard teachings to understand, but never spoke against the speakings of apostle Paul. Never spoke against the ministry of apostle Paul. Never spoke against what apostle Paul represented. I concede, I agree that some of his writings are hard to understand, but he's of God still. Are you with me? He's of God still. The unit in the body. Psalms one three three and verse one. I love this scripture so much. The Bible says, behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

For brethren to dwell together in unity. I'm speaking to the Disciples Christian Network in extension the body of Christ. But first, the Disciples Christian Network. How beautiful and how pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in unity. Look at this. The next verse says, it is like it is like the precious ointment upon the head, watch this, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts of his garment. Next verse. The bible says, as the dew of a man and as the dew that descended upon the Mount Of Zion, for there, the Lord commanded the blessing. Listen. I did a teaching some years back of the commanded blessing.

I think it was for my workers alone. And I told them, I said, there is a location for the blessing. The bible says, dear, the lord has commanded the blessing. There is a place called dear. And in scripture, you'll find this dear, Severani. Dear. Dear. Dear. Are you with me? Dear, the Lord has commanded the blessing.

Where is dear? Where brethren dwell together in unity. The bible says, where two or three are gathered, dear, I am in the midst of them. When brethren dwell together in unity, dear, the lord has commanded the blessing. It means there's a location for the blessing, and the location for the blessing is in the unity of the saints. It means wherever the saints are seen and the saints are not unified, the commanded blessing does not find expression. Remember the story of Balaam and Balak? Balak called Balaam to come and curse the children of Israel. And when he called them... When he called him, you know the story, the donkey stopped him and all of that, and God then told Balaam.

And even as you are going there, ensure it is only the words that I give to you that you speak. And as he got there, attempting to cause the children of Israel, the bible says what came out of his mouth were blessings. What came out of his mouth were blessings. And he thought probably the reason why I'm blessing them instead of what I've been paid to come and do is because of the plane that I am in. Let me climb on top of the mountain. And he climbed on top of the mountain and attended to cause them, but still ended up blessing them. And he did this three times, but he was still blessing them. And when Balak requested for an explanation, he says, listen. I cannot curse whom God has blessed. But then this is what catches my interest.

Balaam then told Balak, I see a people gathered as one. I see a people gathered as one. I see Israel as one man. This tells you that what made the blessing irrevocable and what made Balaam not be able to cause the children of Israel was because they were a people gathered as one man. They were in unity. Are you with me? There, the Lord has commanded the blessing. There, the Lord has commanded the blessing. You see, a body cannot be in disunity and in disharmony with itself and yet be powerful. It's not possible.

When a body is not in unity, it ceases to become a body. It becomes a disjointed group of individuals. Jesus' plan for the church is a unified church in faith. Disunity brings brings the the the lack of power in the church. It reduces the potency of God's power in the church. Are you with me? Philippians two and verse three. I believe this scripture shows us one reason why people are largely in disunity. The bible says, do do nothing out of selfish ambition. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility, consider others better than yourselves.

This is the first reason of disunity in the church. It is because we consider ourselves better than others. And when we consider ourselves better than others, we feel as though others are inferior, and we are the ultimate expression of what God wants to say to the church. And so what another church wants to do is inferior. This disunity is so strong. Everybody is only about their own business. Do nothing out of selfish ambition, out of vain conceit. I've seen the power of selfishness in the in the church. I've seen the power of disunity in the church. We've had foot experience before.

We want to go and get the hall to use for a service, and the Christian chairman over the hall will tell us, no. You can't get the hall. You can't get the hall. And a Muslim man will come And I wonder where is unity in the body? A man of god friend of mine wanted to get a a venue to use for his program. The person in charge of the venue was a Christian, and the Christian told him that we are not giving this venue to churches because we don't want a situation whereby churches will become and be using our venue. It now taints the image we want to represent. It's only for wedding receptions. When we're in Abadina, all the people that stormed into our venue to come and destroy our equipment were Christians. When I sat down in front of the office of one of them to reclaim our equipment back from them even though destroyed, even though some of them were already broken, the person was beating his chest and was telling me, I'm a member of so and so church.

I'm a member of so and so church. So don't think that we are not... Don't know God. We also know God. But the parents came to report to you, and and all of them... Was none of them that was a Muslim. And yet you have the authority to go into the house of God, tear down what was erected there, and there's no fear of God whatsoever. There's no fear of God whatsoever. If our church wants to hold a crusade, if it is not a a a branch of our church that wants to hold a crusade, we have no business offering support to another church that wants to hold a crusade. How will we give you instrument?

How will we give you equipment? You will steal our members. Disunit in the body. Disunit in the body. Ah, my god. Do you realize that when the devil wants to make a people weak, what it does is to sow a seed of discord. The responsibility of a seed of discord is to weaken the bond. It's like hydrogen bond. As long as the bonds are fitted, nothing can come between them. But the moment the bond is broken, either by strife, either by hunger, either by bitterness, either by offense whatsoever, the devil has found an entry.

The moment the bond is weakened, the ability of that territory, that institution, that structure to hold the power of God is compromised. It's compromised. Do you realize that? Listen. Do you realize that the strongest link or the strongest time or the strongest moment in the life of Jesus was when the triunity was in unity. There was nothing the devil could do to destroy him or to kill him. Several times they attempted to kill Jesus. The bible will say Jesus will slip away from them. He would disappear from their midst. He would walk amongst them and go away.

I would wonder, the people that want to kill him, they can't just see him walking. They couldn't kill him. They tried self very to kill him, and they could not kill him because the father, the son, and the spirit are one. It was Jesus who said, I am my father. I'm one. Are you with me? But the moment sin entered the equation and the spirit left Jesus... Are you with me? And the and the song said, why have you forsaken me? It was in that moment that it was possible for this...

For for for death. There was no power over death at that moment. The strongest time God was God was in unity. In unity with the father, son, and spirit. Guess what? When the when the son went to hell, all the demons on on hell... In hell rather plunged over him and were thronging over him, beating him into stupor. Power again was released when the spirit left the heavens, descended into the depth of the hell, and possessed the spirit of the son. Again, inside hell, father, son, and spirit became one. The moment that oneness happened, death, give me the case.

Hades, give me the case. It was oneness that brought about the power. Are you with me? It was oneness that brought about the power. Look at this. In Genesis 11, the bible speaks of some people that wanted to build a mighty tower, and God himself attested that if nothing is done about the oneness of these people, nothing on earth... No force on earth can stop that building. When a people are one, there is nothing they want to do that they cannot do. Listen to me. Togetherness is not unity.

We can be together and not unified. The bible says the apostles gather together in one accord, not in one place. We can be in one place and not be in one accord. We can be in one place and not be of one mind, not be of one spirit, not be of one purpose, not be of one vision. We can be holding our arms together praying, and we have divided visions. Everybody has their own their own objective, what they want to accomplish. This one says, you know what? I'm only here to come and build my future life. I don't wanna see. I'm only here to come and develop myself.

I don't wanna see. And there's no there's no unity of purpose. There's no oneness. If the devil is able to break the cord of unity, then he has compromised our ability to host the power of God. He has compromised our ability to host the power of God even in the church. That is the reason for strife, for offence, for bitterness, for all these things. And you see, the bible says I saw something here. The bible says when brethren brought together in unity, it is like the one, two, three, come out. Hold yourselves. Hold your hands together.

Face the people. Look at this. Can you join them, please? Look at this. The bible says, when brethren brought together in unity, it is like the oil that flows from the head that goes down to the beard, even Aaron's beard, and the oil travels down to the skirt of his garment. And this illustration was used for when brethren brought together unity. But the emotion that flows flows from the edge and reaches the skirt when people are in unity. It flows from the head and reaches even the least individual in that congregation. The same power, the same anointing, the same authority that flows from the head reaches the skirt. When brethren go together in unity, there's no part of that body that is not covered by the anointing, that's not covered by the oil.

Every part is soaked with power because brethren go together in unity. You see, that body is like this. Everybody holding themselves together. And then probably you have the membership of the church. You have the workers in the church. You have different departments in the church, and everybody is in one purpose, one vision, one mind. What is the vision? What is the mission? What is the purpose? Nobody have a separate objective and is using one person for another person or for a selfish gain.

One purpose, one vision, one mind. You see, when we pray, it's like the oil that flows from the head of Aaron. It does not matter who comes to hold the microphone. The oil has flown there. Let let somebody that came yesterday come and hold the microphone. As long as the person is connected to this order, are you with me? The oil is flowing. The person can come and say, the bible says in the book of revelation, love for God so loved the world. Sorry. Genesis, I hear somebody screaming pow at the back.

And you wonder how come when brethren grow together in unity, the oil flows from the head and reaches the skirt of the garment. It's no longer about the oil of the individual that is holding the microphone. It's about the corporate oil that is flowing in that assembly. It doesn't matter. Even if it is tight and offering that's being said, illness can happen. Miracles can happen. All kinds can happen. This is the portrait of a powerful church. This is the portrait of a powerful church, a powerful worship team, a powerful offering department, a powerful follow-up department, a powerful a powerful church. Are you with me?

Look at this. Come up here, everybody. Come up here. Listen. Listen. Be seated, please. Listen. These people are holding themselves. I would have done an experiment here very fast. I don't have the time for it.

Time is fast spent. I would call someone the least of any... Anybody you think... You don't even think the power of god can flow through somebody like And you hold the hands, and I will join them on hold. I will give you the microphone and tell you pray in tongues. And you will watch what will happen here right now. So we do that. You realize that it's not about the voice of the person who is speaking. It is the power of oneness and unity. I'm showing you what it means for two to be one, for three to be one.

That is why the devil fights oneness in a marriage. That is why the devil finds... Fights oneness in a home. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So when this lady comes to minister, for instance, separate your hands from there, and she comes to minister, and she's without the flow of this grace, all she does would be by reason of our work with God. Are you with me? The labor would have to speak. The secret will have to speak. Are you with me?

This can sometimes be very difficult because you see, you might not have grown to that level you can bless a 100 people. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? But the idea behind oneness and unity is this, that when it comes like this and when she's coming to come and minister in the realm of the spirit, it's not only one person that is coming. It's a tunnel, a flow. The oil is flowing from the head, flowing down to the beard, flowing down to the skirt. So it does not matter who holds the microphone. It doesn't matter who says, please be still. It doesn't matter who says, team on go out. So it mean... It means they can meet an usher by the door.

And, ah, you you are looking weak. Are you okay? And usher says, oh, the the the the member says, oh, I'm I'm I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm just having malaria. Malaria, really? When did it start? Just yesterday, I'm having headache. I'm having high pain.

I'm having this pain. Oh, really? Hold my hands. Be healed in Jesus' name. And immediately, the lady is healed. And I wonder, ah. Hey. Hey. It is the power of unity and oneness. Hold yourself in threes, in four...

Not now. Just find yourselves and go to chapel. Do an experiment. Go and pray. The power of God will break out. It is not about what... Do you understand what I'm saying? If that flow is genuine and if you're a part of if you're a part of this channel, then what is at what air will suddenly break out wherever you go. You will stand before the storms, and you will say, peace be still. But not only you is standing, you are standing representing an ancient lineage, a lineage that goes long before you.

It is the power of unity. Listen. This was what the New Testament church had. In act of apostle chapter four, the bible says that they threatened Peter and John, and they came back to their company. These people knew the power of oneness. They knew the power of unity. Peter could have said, I'm an apostle. I will go the following day. He would die like James died. Was James not an apostle?

But when he was in the prison, nobody interceded. Nobody prayed. He lost his head. When Peter was in the prison, the church insisted no. When brethren got together in unity and they started praying for the apostle. They lifted up their voice in one accord, and they were praying for the apostle. They insisting, this one will not die, will not lose her, will not lose her. At all. And as they began to pray, the bible said an angel appeared. Listen.

In acts four, the bible says in acts four, hear me. In acts four, the moment Peter and John were treated, Peter went back to the to the apostles... To the company rather, and they lifted up their voice in one accord. That's the power in it. In one accord. They prayed. Father, stretch forth your hand to heal. Give them boldness. Stretch forth your hand to heal, and they are both saying amen. Amen.

The bible says as they prayed, there was earthquake everywhere. Everywhere was shaking as they prayed. They were filled with the holy ghost. In act of apostles chapter five, the bible says as Peter was walking, as Peter was walking, his shadow started healing the sick. It was not because Peter is so anointed. In Acts four, the people were in one accord. The oil from the head. You see, the oil from the head. You see. So when she comes to minister, what is what is happening is an extension of what is upon the head flowing down to the beard, flowing down to the ropes, flowing down to the skirt.

Are you with me? The woman who said, if only I can touch the hem of his garment was showing you the power of the unity between the father, the spirit, and the son, that even the hem of the garment carries the same power as the head. Are you with me? So you see, when the devil comes and is fighting unity, when the devil comes and is bringing gossip in between these two, and he's saying, you know what? This person said so about this person. Did you see how this woman rebuked and corrected everybody in the worship team? Did you see how pastor Esni was speaking to people yesterday? I mean, they already said sorry now. Why was why was she still speaking like that? Can't she just calm down?

Can't she tone down? Why was she talking like that? What is happening is the bond is being broken. Disunity is being sown. And when disunity is sown, the potency... Our potency to corporately host the power of God is weakened. Disunity is a plague in the church. It's a plague in the church. It's a plague even in the body of Christ. One man of God is being torn down on social media.

We are happy about it as long as he's not a pastor. We took our mouth and we say, we know. That's how they are. Disunity. This man is genuine. He might have made a mistake. He might have said something you should not have said. But what if your pastor said it? Would you speak like that? Do you see social media?

The people that speak against pastors the most are Christians, believers. Pastor Adebuye said this. Papa bishop Bishop Oedeko said this. Oh, why would he say this? Why would he say that? Why would he talk this? These men are false. These men are fake. And you see children who nobody has thought. And so the oil cannot flow from the earth and reach the state.

These are the strategies of the enemy. It's so discord. It's so disunity. This is powerful in marriage. In fact, in marriage, the bible says, if the two of them are separated and they offer prayers, their prayers will not be answered because they are not coming as one. It is possible to gather in one place. There's no way we have gathered in unity. Unity speaks of one accord. Sameness of thought, sameness of vision. And so we say we have a a vision to reach a thousand people.

And then even though you're not a worker, but you are one with us. You don't say that one is for workers. You are outside of the scope. If the devil wants to get you, he will. You are in the place, but not in one accord. Are you with me? They tell people, bring somebody church on Sunday. And then you say, well, that's for workers. It's not for me. All of this represents unity.

We don't go for corporate evangelism often, but I sense in my spirit, let us all gather together and and come for evangelism and you say, ah, man, I'm too busy for that too, but I'll come on Sunday. It is disunity. We are having twenty one days fasting and prayers in the church, and you say, no. No. No. No. I'm too busy. Can't I even fast for three... For for six hours. It is disunity.

You are eliminating yourself intentionally from what is being done. You are diverting. Oh, god. You can go have your seat. God bless you. Give no place to what? To the devil. I heard pastor Paul Nenche speaking, and he said a woman came sometime ago from years back. And he came and came and said, I want to report your wife to you. I want to report your wife to you.

He said, do you know that? Keep quiet. Do I know you? He said, no, sir. Get out. Foolish people on social media when they heard that story now said, what if what if what the person wanted to say is true? What if... Whether it's true or not, the man said years ago, the thought has grown in leaps and bounds since then. Keep quiet. It's not your business.

What that woman wants to do is sow a seed of discord. Is sow a seed of strife. What the man did was, I will not I will not give ear to the devil. The bible says give no place to death. You won't sow a seed in my heart that'll make me that'll make me start seeing somebody differently. And let me tell you something. If you are in this place, hear me, hearing me, and what you hear about something about someone, a negative gist to hear about someone is capable of changing your perception of the person without hearing from the person. You are a fool. That is the definition of foolishness. Somebody comes to my name and say, that person.

That person. That person. Do you know... A man of God was telling the story of how that of how that a lady brought the person he wants to marry to the family house, and everybody rejoice and we're happy with him. And later on, the friend... The best friend of the girl that brought the person he wants to marry to his... To our family house now messaged the man and said, do you know that the person you want to marry have a child? Is that the kind of person you want to marry? The man had described the child. He says, a boy.

He's a male. He's tall. He should be like like like two years old. Like two years old. He said, thank you. He's my child. People are wicked. And if you allow what people say, blind your heart and blind your your your your soul and change your perception and conviction about someone, then you're not so wise. Especially without having heard from the person. Are you not?

It is the hair of dishonesty. Rise up on your feet. My friend reached out to me, minister Dipo, and he told me about his his event and all that anybody who I have that wants to attend, he told me... He said, Kania, can can I help him to announce it? And whoever is interested, can we can we forward their names to him and all of that? And I told him, no problem. We'll do that for you. I'm not threatened by what he carries. I'm not threatened by his grace. I'm securing my grace.

I'm securing the anointing. I'm securing what God has given to me. I can speak good about another man of God without feeling threatened that the evil that commit to me will leave me alone. I can tell you this person is anointed. This person is graced. I'm not like, if I if I speak about him now, they said, no. People will not leave me alone. I'm gonna meet him. What is what is what is what is comedic things we see? I think another reason for disunity is insecurity.

We feel threatened. Threatened that people who God is using their rising will affect ours in some way. No. No. No. No. No. The world is filled with over 8,000,000,000 people. If 8,000,000,000 of us were to carry a a different expression or to carry a different dimension of God, all the 8,000,000,000 will still not be sufficient to host all of God. So what are we envious for?

God is giving somebody who can use me. Are you even brothers and sisters? Yes. I want you to pray and ask for grace. Grace not to be victim of any of these things. You are done. Ask for grace. If you realize that you have allowed discord in your heart, you have sold a seed of discord, you have cursed it about someone. If you realize that you have a lot of offense in your heart, bitterness in your heart. Place god is making In Jesus mighty name we pray.

Can we pray for the body of Christ? Can we say, Lord, strengthen your body. Strengthen your body. Strengthen your body. Let's intercede for the body. Let's intercede for men of God. Intercede for apostles, for pastors, for preachers, and say strengthen your vessels. Strengthen your vessels. The men and the women of God you are using across Nigeria. Who are representing your will, representing your council, strengthen them.

Strengthen them. Let them not fall. We are not of those that rejoice when people fall. No, we do not. Let them not fall. Let them not deviate from the path. Let them not deviate from the truth. Help them lord Jesus. Strengthen them. Strengthen them.

The fathers of faith. Hold them strong. Hold their hands strong. Let them not fall. In the name of Jesus. Father, build the bond of of your church. Build the bonds of your church. Let love reign once again. Let love reign once again in the name of Jesus. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Let us pray for the Disciples Christian Network and say we declare that a bond of love reigns in this church. The bond of love reigns in this church. Let us pray everybody. We declare the bond of love reigns in this church. The unity of purpose. Let our let our minds be aligned. Give us the grace to become one. Grace to become unified in purpose. Unified in vision. Unified in assignment.

In the name of Jesus. Come on pray. Come on, pray. In Jesus mighty name, we have prayed. Pray for apostle Emmanuel Godwatife and tell God that you will not fall. Tell God that you will continue to stand and stand for the truth. Tell God that this message is reaching the hands of the head. Come on, pray. Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Glory to God.

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