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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. Eternal life part two, living like Christ. Living like Christ. We did part one, and we spoke about the secret to extraordinary results. Eternal life. Today, we do part two, living like Christ.

And I showed you in second Peter one verse three, in the TPT, that everything we could ever need for life and complete devotion to God has already been deposited in us. You remember? Everything you would ever need for life, everything you would ever need for life, everything you would ever need for life has already been deposited in you. Everything you could ever need as... Glory to God. I shared with you how that we have no excuse as believers. Everything you could ever need for life and devotion to God has already been deposited in you. Now what we have been given as believers that empowers us to have outstanding results on earth, I showed you, is what is called Zoe. It's what is called eternal life, the Zoe life, the God life. Not the God kind of life, but the God life.

God's very own life. John thirty sixteen, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life. And in first John chapter five verse 11, the bible says, and this is the testimony that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his son. Verse 12 says, he who has the son has life. He who does not have the son does not have life. The thing then says, these things I have written to you. Now watch this. It's telling them their reality. It says, he who has a son already has life. And he who does not have the son does not have life.

It means the axe... Access to life is by the son. It's through the son. And the moment a man accepts Jesus as lord and savior, the moment a man becomes born again, that man is supplied with eternal life. Eternal life is death profited in that man. Is this true? Yes, sir. So he uses verse 11 and verse 12 to state this, that if anybody, if any man is born again, if any man ask the son, that man has life. But in verse 13, it then shows us something that is quite quite quite scary. It says these things I have written to you who believe in the name of the son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

And so in verse 12, he was telling them that if any man has the son of God, he has life. In verse 13, he now tells them that these things I write to you that you may know. In other words, the very fact that you have it does not mean you will function in it. You must know that you have it. Eternal life does not become operational in your life just because you now have it. It means that if a man is ignorant of the fact or ignorant of what he has, if he does not know that he has life, then the operations of life will not be at work in him despite he has life. Declare that I have eternal life. I have eternal life. I have the life of God. I have the life God.

I am not ordinary. I am ordinary. I'm not ordinary. I have the life of God. I've taught you before that the way to make your faith effectual is by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. Every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. The very life of God. Everything that makes God who he is. This life carries the power to transform a person, enabling them to live and operate on a higher godlike level. And to truly understand eternal life, you need to explore the qualities that define God such as his wisdom, his power, his nature.

Remember we said it's a godlike. It makes a man have godlike experiences. It is God's very own life introduced into a man. And so when a man has that life, that man begins to walk in experiences that are almost godlike in nature. Are you with me? It means to understand what is expected of you, you must now study and explore the qualities that define God. When you explore the qualities that define God, you would now find out what is expected of you as a man who has life. Because these same qualities should define you. Until this aspect of God are recognized and allowed to work in you, then the Zoe life cannot fully be seen or expressed even through you. In second Peter chapter one and verse three, the bible says, as according as his divine power has given to us all things that pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who has called us by glory and virtue.

So he has given to us all things that pertains onto life and godliness, And all things that he has given to us is inside his life. Are you with me? Yes. In verse four, he says, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises. That through these promises, you may partake or you may be partakers of the divine nature. In in other words, the extent to which you manifest God's nature is dependent on how much of this great and precious promises become real in your life. Everything that defines God is wisdom, is power, is intelligence, the ability of God to align everything according to his will. All of these things should be seen in your life. The power of God seen in your life. The wisdom of God seen in your life.

The intelligence of God seen in your life. The nature of God seen in your life. If God is love, the believer should have the capacity for love. You see, if God is righteous, then the believer is righteous. If God is patient with us, then the believer is patient. Because what you have been given is the very life of God. Everything that makes God, God. This is part two. It will be a three part series that we'll finish on Sunday. Today, we talk about living like God.

Is that what I said? Living like Christ or like God, anyone really. Then the part three would be functioning like God. It's two different things. I wish I could talk about the functioning first today, but it's not do justice to it because the living comes first. The living comes first. Zoe, you see, is not just a Christian confession. You can claim to have it in theory, yet the experience of it is not in your life. That's why today, I want to explore through scripture how to make that life functional inside of you to enable you to live like Christ, to enable you to live like God. Because it is God's life that you have.

It means if you have God life, God's life, you should live like him. And if time permits, we will be able to also investigate through scriptures. The reason why many believers, though positioned by the bible to live victoriously, struggle to manifest the life of God. Eternal life gives every believer in Christ the ability to live and function like God. When you put your faith in Jesus, in his death, in his burial, in his resurrection, you'll receive many things. But one of the things you receive is the life of God. And from that moment, this divine life enables you. It empowers you to reflect God's nature. No one can truly live. No one can truly function like God without possessing this eternal life.

The very own nature of God is what Jesus gave to you when he died. The ability to live like him, to function like him. What a privilege. What a privilege. Father. What an honor it is to share in his image. That's where I'm going. To share in his image that the image that he has, the very life that powers him, you have been given the privilege of having the same life. How can you have the same life but live differently? How can you have the same life but function differently?

How can you have the same life but have different experiences? It means if I claim to have a life of God, then the possibilities of God is what is captured in my life. Anything otherwise, anything separate is not allowed. I cannot allow for any other result that is separate from what God can experience in my life. My result is of the God kind. My result is of the God kind because I live like God. You see, when you understand this, know why you cannot fall sick. No. I didn't say you should not. I said, why you cannot fall sick?

Because there's a realm where it is should not. There's a realm where it cannot. This is the understanding that John has when he was writing to a people, and he tells them that whoever has the life of God, whoever is a son of God cannot sin. He doesn't say should not. You should not mean there's a possibility that it happens. But he says whoever had it cannot... Can we read together? One, two, three. Go. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Pause. It says it says the believer cannot sin. This is the same John that told us these things are right to you that you may know that you have life. The realm from when he's talking is the realm where life now powers you, but it's not the experience of every believer. Wherever it should be. You should... If you understand this, you will reject like a hungry man any possibility that is not God like. Like a hungry man, how can I feel? Oh, Jesus.

How? Just how? How is it possible that I would speak and what I have said will not come to pass? How is it possible? How is it possible, you see, to live like God, to function like God, to live like God, to function like God. Genesis one twenty six, the bible says, then God said, let us make man in our image. The word image, that's the word selem, and it speaks of spiritual quality. In other words, let's make man with the same spiritual quality according to our own likeness. Likeness talks about functionality. In other words, with the same spiritual quality and able to perform the same thing, functionality.

Image, likeness. Image, likeness. Image, likeness. That is how man was made. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, over the over the cattle, over all of the earth. It is these two things that gives man dominion. What enables man to have dominion is because man is in the image. Man is in the likeness. You see? And what gives man image and likeness is life.

Adam did not benefit of this reality because he did not partake of the tree of life. So the Bible says the first Adam was a living soul, but the second Adam is a life giving spirit. And we came after the order of the second Adam. If any man has received life, if any man has received Jesus as Lord and savior, then that man is after the order of the second Adam. It means that that man is a life giver. Breathe it. It means not only do you have life, you can give it. When coronavirus came, everybody was practicing social distancing. You know why? Because they said that you can communicate the disease to people just by being meters away from them.

So everybody was being careful. You don't wanna shake someone you sanitize your hands. You don't want someone to cough or sneeze because they can pass death into you. To someone, someone has death. That virus is death. It's not... And then you are scared of moving close to them because it can pass that death to you. And the bible says that the second handarm is a life giving spirit. What is more powerful? Death or life?

So how can I, who have life, be scared of someone who has death? Who should pass what to who? Who should pass what to who? The problem is that many believers have not understood this. And if you have not understood this, it will not be. That's why in verse eleven and twelve, like I showed you, John was telling them what they already have. But he says, listen, that you have it is not enough. These things are right to you. In other words, if I had not written it to you, you will still have had it. When a man accepts Jesus as as Lord and savior, do you agree with me that he has the holy spirit?

Yes, sir. But I can now write to the man and tell him that when you receive Jesus, you will receive the holy spirit. Now he's knowing. It's not at the point that he's knowing that the holy spirit is king. When he received Jesus, the holy spirit was there, but he can live like though... As though the holy spirit is not there if he does not know. So the bible says they know not. They walk on in darkness. The foundation of the head, the house of course. Because they know not eternal life.

It is from that realm that a that a believer now begins to have dominion. Dominion will be difficult for a man who does not know he has life. And who who cannot who cannot bring out the functionalities and the realities of that life from his inside. Dominion will be will be very difficult for you. Doesn't matter what else you have. Dominion will be very difficult for you. Because dominion is inched on image and likeness to live like him, to function like him. Dominion is a consequence of this... Of these two. It means if I function like God functions, the result is dominion.

That's it. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Living like Christ, functioning like Christ. What makes a believer unstoppable is that they can demonstrate extraordinary abilities that are impossible for those who don't have the life of God. That's what makes a believer unstoppable. When you look at the realities, this God life will produce in your life. It becomes clear that no human effort can make it happen. No human effort can make it happen, especially when you begin to study what God expect that life to produce. It becomes clear that you cannot achieve that by man's effort.

For instance, rejoice. Again, say rejoice. The Bible says in all things, give thanks. You know what that means? That means the day you lose your job, the day you lose your mother or lose your father or lose a loved one close to you. And as you are going back home, you see your property outside. And they say, oh, the house... The landlord came and packed everything outside. And whilst you are there, another bad news again, the logical thing to do at that point is to break down. Break down and sink into depression because you wonder why is life like this.

But the Bible says rejoice. Do you know it's somehow heartless for you to call a man of God and you tell the man of God, man of God, I just lost someone close to me, and the person tells you rejoice. You wonder what am I joyful for? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. But does the bible not say? Why do the people rage? Why do they imagine a vain thing against the Lord and his anointed? They come together and they are planning. They come together and they are making plans.

Betraying the Lord, betraying his anointed, and planning how to rebel against God and his anointed. And upon seeing that, God looks at them, and the Bible says he that sits in heaven laughs. The response of God to those who are plaguing an attack against him is laughter. That's divine life. So if that life is in you, your response in the same circumstance should be laughter. In the same circumstance. In the same circumstance. The life of the believer, therefore, is not normal. The believer does not respond to life the way you're expecting or you expect normal men to respond to life. A believer cannot say I'm only human.

The life of God elevates you. It puts you on a god class. You can't say you're only human. You are not only human. I'm not only human. Listen. I believe these things. I'm not I'm not sharing with you theory. These things are a a fragment of my convictions. I believe these things.

My life and my finances is not subject to economy. Regardless of what the economy of this nation states, I will rise. I know this... Oh, God. It's not positive confession. My results are of the God class. This is why the bible says, when people say there's a casting down, when you begin to understand all the promises in scripture with respect to the God life, it will now make sense to you that when people say that they're casting down, god cannot go down. It is the god life in you. When people say there's a casting down, you will say there's a lifting up. When you study Deuteronomy and you're gonna read the blessings in chapter 28, the bible says that you shall be the head and not the tail.

Above only and not beneath. Is that not so? You know that to be a promise. You know that to be a blessing. Jesus came and now said, either cometh from above. That's Jesus speaking. Whereas before he spoke it, a blessing was prophesied that you will be the head and not the tail. Above only and not beneath. In other words, what that blessing was revealing was God nature. That if I come from above, I can only be above all things.

Jesus Christ. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It means when you study every promise with respect to the God life, it begins to make sense. It makes sense why a little one must become a thousand. It makes sense. It makes sense why there is no speech or language where my voice not be heard. It makes sense. Though thy beginning may be small, thy little hand will greatly increase. It makes sense.

It makes sense why cannot hand small. It makes it makes sense Because I've got the life of God on my inside, that life only multiplies. That life only increases. That life only spreads. Indeed, shall all the families of the earth be blessed. That is the life of God. See. So how can you rejoice without the life, especially when situations say otherwise? How can you? The bible says, husbands, love your wife.

Loving your wife is one thing. But when the standard is set as high as Christ's love for the church, No human being can love like that on their own. This shows that we can't achieve this kind of result by our own strength. It forces us to rely on a wisdom and on a power that is greater than ourselves. Do you know what Christ did for the church that he loved? He gave his life for him. You can't even love yourself like that. How much more your wife? But the bible says the standard is as Christ. That thing can be demanded of us because he knows he has given us his own life.

So the tempting that powered me, that made me do what I did for the church can make you do the same thing for your wife. You see that now? Yes, sir. Wives, submit. This can feel impossible for anyone who does not have the life of God. Peace in all situations. Giving thanks in all things. These things don't make sense to someone who doesn't have the life of God. Oh, thank you Jesus. I'm going for an important meeting.

And whilst I'm going, my tire burst on the road. And I know that this is a 10,000,000 naira contract at stake. And I park on the road, and I'm not saying, oh, shit. Oh, shit. Who this? Ah, this. And I get down and say, oh, thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Okay. What do we do now?

Thank you, Lord Jesus. Do I leave the car here? Do I go? Oh, thank you, Lord Jesus. Holy spirit, help me. How does a man respond like that inside of pressure? It takes the life of God. The life of God. The life of God is what empowers men to behave out of the ordinary, to love out of the ordinary, to be patient out of the ordinary. You see, Stephen was being stoned to death, and this was a man who has received the life of God.

Look at what he said. He said, father, forgive them. The same thing that Jesus said. Do you see the life of God? To live like him, to be like him. How can people be stoning you to death and not causing them? Do you know how? Not that I am. Can't you go and ask people the miracles that I did? And you think I'm doing and get away with it?

Ah, never. As you are stoning me a thousand stone on your children or your four children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren. Father, punish them. It is given to man to act like that. Because when you give a man authority, what he's thinking about is how you can use that authority to override every other person and become greater and make his teammates or his team or his people bow to him. But how can a man be great? And then God tells him, as great as you are, you are only great in this kingdom if you serve. It's not given to men to serve when they are great. But Jesus showed you the example when he bent down and he washed the feet of his disciples. It shows a man can be influential.

A man can be great and yet still have the heart of his servant. These things are powered by the life of God. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes. There is a spiritual empowerment, a divine energy that enables us to live out these commands in scriptures. Understanding this is the key to thriving in God's kingdom. Achieving results that go beyond what is normal. Achieving results that go beyond what is natural to men. We'll pray very soon. For many believers, the bible can feel like a very complicated manual or complicated rule book filled with impossible demands because they don't realize there is a divine energy, the holy spirit that empowers us to live out these commands in scripture.

The spirit of God provides an inner strength that enables believers to live out these instructions. Understanding this is the key to excelling in God's kingdom and experiencing results beyond human ability. Sit down. So I said the Zoe light gives the ability to live like God and to function like God. What does it mean to live like God? It means to show the character of God even though we are still human, to exemplify the character of God, the nature of God even though we are still human. This is difficult as a human being, if not impossible, without the life of God because human nature has many flaws. Falling human is naturally selfish. Falling human is naturally evil. The bible says the earth is evil above all things.

Who can know it? Falling human is evil. Falling human is selfish. By nature, you are selfish. By nature, every man struggles to put another man above himself. But to live like Christ means despite our human nature, we can rise above these limitations and display godlike qualities and display godlike character. If you do not live like this, then you'd have not brought validation to the fact that you are a possessor of the life of God. Living like Christ is the proof that you have possessed divine life. Living like Christ. Galatians chapter two verse 20, Paul speaking says I've been crucified with Christ.

Nevertheless, yet I live. He says, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. So it is it is it is normal as a man to be hungry. Is that not so? It is normal as a man to be envious. It is normal as a man to be wicked. It is normal as a man to be selfish, but this is where the excellency of life, eternal life now comes. That when life overwhelms you, when you begin to understand the nature of the life of God on your inside, where you should manifest these kinds of behavior, you find out that an immunity was put in you and the flesh no longer has a hold on you. So when they look at you and blackmail you in the office for instance, even though you have the power to fight back, even though you can show them what you are made of, you can tell them who you are, and you can speak back.

But you will not do that because an ability has been put in you that constrains you, that restrains you. The nature of life that somebody can literally be cheating you. And the holy spirit will tell you don't don't say anything. Just keep quiet. Let him go. The nature of life. You'll be so blessed. Amen. Listen. If you begin your Christian experience searching for power, you will be a very lopsided Christian.

The protocol of growth, and I mean growth that represents God, is first of all, to seek to become like Christ. When he called them, the bible says he called them to be with him, to be with him, then he can now send them out. Power only came at the point where they were going. The first dimension of power given to man is power to become, not power against. Power against his dominion is what establishes dominion for you. Power to become is what translates an ordinary person into the image of Christ. Are you with me? That they should be with him that he might send them out. Look at the tenses that was used. That they should.

Should is compulsory. Might is probability. Might is probable. In other words, that they should be with him is compulsory. That cannot be denied. That he might is conditional. It means you're being sent out is to the extent to which you're being with him has prospered. If you're being with him has not prospered, there's no sending out. You can send yourself. He didn't send you.

And there are many believers who have sent themselves. That is why they fail. That is why they are miserable because they have been with him hasn't prospered. And God is in a rush. Let me say it again. God is in a rush to ensure that his mandate and his counsel is established on earth, but God is not in a rush with you. The king's business requires haste. It's true. But it's not hasty with you. He can ensure that he takes his time with you so that what comes out of your life becomes a worthy fruit that can feed nations.

God is not so much in a rush that he doesn't care what kind of fruit comes out of you just to ensure that you bear fruit. The end does not justify the means. It doesn't. And so God will take his time to ensure that the character and the nature of Christ is formed inside of you. Else, you will have power and you will use that power to destroy those you should raise. That's why when you read the old testament, you can't really see the picture of living like Christ, but you can see the picture of functioning like Christ. It is possible for a man to function but not live. That is a very long sighted believer. Elijah called on fire on those guys. When the disciples wanted to do the same, Jesus told them, don't you know of what spirit you are of?

In other words, if you know what spirit you belong to, you wouldn't even think that. Doesn't mean you cannot do it. Remember, Jesus said, I can pray my father to send angels, millions of angels right now so we can do it. But living like Christ now informs what we do. That we can't doesn't mean that we should. So somebody can offend me. I can curse him, and that curse will come to pass because a curse, curseless, will not stand. So if you offend me, there's a curse to stand. There's a reason for that curse to start if you offend me. And by reason of the anointing upon my life, I can speak a word and shut doors over you.

There are people there are people who have who have backstabbed men of God, and you would see men of God come on the pulpit is against the nature of God. It's against it. That's an immature man. You could tell that by reason of what you are seeing, something... This man did not allow God to finish cooking him in the school of the spirit before he came out of servant ministry. Because somebody left you accusing them, people left Jesus. People left Jesus. People left Paul. When they left Jesus, Jesus turned to his disciples and said, will you also go? You would never say Jesus raising his voice to curse anybody even though he could.

As you are walking away, you are walking away from destiny. Oh, you too. You have forgotten I was the one that healed you of... You have been paralyzed. People that were healed by him walked away. People that he casted out devils from stoned him, persecuted him, and Jesus left them. Jesus left them to live like him, to function like him. Power is a mistake in the hands of a man that does not have character, that does not have the food of the spirit. Power is misused. You will use God given power to destroy life you are you are meant to build.

We have not been called to destroy lives. We have been called to build lives. There are people who have left, people who have invested on, people who were literally nothing when they met me. And by reason of the teachings and the grace of God, God helped them so much. Yet you have not been given the privilege. No. Never. No. Never. You see, in Christ, there is no such thing like I am like that or this is how we hire in our own family.

No. That's a betrayal of the life you have received. You know, this this... I'm just like that. You have to understand me. It... You you can't have the life of God and tell me that's how you are. You can't come out of your family of angry people, prideful people, arrogant people, lustful people, and you say, listen. I... I've seen this thing again and again.

I've tried it. I can't stop it. I've accepted my faith. That is how I am. That's not how anybody is, especially when you have received Christ. Life has been given to you to come out of the of the frailty of the human nature and to rise to divinity. When you come to Christ, the capacity to rise beyond this limitation is is given to you. It's within you. Whether or not you allow it to find expression is a different thing altogether. Your salvation experience first changes your spirit.

Remember, it is first your death spirit that comes alive when you accept Jesus as Lord and savior. So because it is a spirit affair, it has not yet sunk into your your soul. The body is just an instrument of execution. Whatever happens within the solical realm is what the body executes. The body does not execute what is in the spirit. The body executes what is in the soul. The responsibility of the soul therefore is to translate the realities in the spirit into the soul because the body is only a slave. Whatever is dominant in the soul, the body executes. It means the life of God in your spirit must begin to seep into your soul. If not, you will find out that your body is living out experiences that are contradictory to the life of God in your spirit.

Because your programming has not been changed. Your operating system has not been changed. If a man beats his wife, the hand is innocent. There is an operating system in his soul that empowered the hand, that controlled the hand. The hand is only a slave. If you tie the hands or you tie him down, you have not done anything about the operating system. You haven't done anything about the software that is there. You see, That's the mistake that children... Parents make when they are raising children because you think the way you would correct someone is only by abusing them. You have done nothing about your breathing system.

There is something that powers that action in the body. The assignment of transformation is to ensure that the reality of the spirit seeps into your soul. The more this happens, the more you are able to live and experience the life of God in your spirit. You see, that's the fallacy of using the strength of flesh. If you understand what I'm teaching you this morning, you will walk out of certain things without even praying about it Because you will find out that what held you bound is not your spirit. It's not even in the spirit. What held you bound is your understanding. And the moment light comes, you will walk out like a free man. To manifest the character of Christ means to rise above sin and flesh. Stay with me.

To manifest the character of Christ means to rise above above sin and flesh. To manifest the character of Christ also means to manifest the fruit of the spirit. Number one, to rise above sin and the flesh. Number two, to manifest the fruit of the spirit. You are only manifesting the character of Christ to the degree to which you rise above sin and the flesh and manifest the fruit of the spirit. If these two things are not at work in your life, you are not manifesting the life of God. Doesn't matter what else is there. Are you with me? No No matter how disciplined he is, he's able to, by his own effort, rise above sin, rise above flesh. You will only choose the one you can fight while leaving the other ones to overwhelm you.

So what most people call righteousness in the body of Christ is a selection of the same that they can easily overcome while forgetting the other ones that were mentioned. That is even the origin of self righteousness. You would use that as self righteous people, glorying in the... Their own human effort to rise above certain things that they consider to be very detrimental to their spiritual health. Whereas, there are a million of other things that they might be doing wrong. So it's called selective righteousness or the relativity of sin. This one that I'm doing so I can drink alcohol. There's no problem, but I can't sleep with women. So when I see people who sleep with women, I tell them, look at you. Look at your life.

Do you know how long I've been and I've been celibate? But brother, you are as angry as anything. You are as prideful as anything, and all of that is, you know, is lesser. Fornication is the main deal. So as long as the one I select to be ultimate, I'm higher than it. I don't care about others. That is not the life of God. That's glory in the flesh. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

For instance, a guy sees a girl passing by, and all kinds of thoughts are flying around in his mind. From pillar to post, he's just thinking. He's just thinking, oh, look at this buffing girl. Look at this beautiful girl. And then all kind of things he wants to do to that girl comes to his mind. And then all of a sudden, just go. God forbid. God forbid. God forbid. Listen.

Whether you say God forbid or not, your mind doesn't care. It has captured what it will capture, and it will torment you even while you are pretending to be free. Just because you did not have a chance to execute it does not mean that you are free. The Pharisees came to Jesus, and Jesus told them, he says that the law of Moses teaches you that if a man is caught fornicating or caught in the very heart of adultery, that man should be stoned to death. But I tell you, if a man looks at a woman lustfully, in other words, the very heart of picturing a woman inside of your mind, it's already seen. So as long as that is there, you are not even free. The difference is that the opportunity has not presented itself for you to act out what you would have done. Otherwise, you would have done it. And so because of that, you assumed to be okay. You assumed to be alright.

Are you seeing that now? You're not free. Just because you have not done it, whereas you are still struggling with it in your mind, doesn't mean that you are free. That's what is called the law of liberty, the perfect law of liberty, that you are free and you are free indeed. The bible says who the son of God has set free is free indeed. You go and check. The rate of pornography and masturbation has gotten to an extreme all time high right now, including pastors, including spiritual brother and sisters, fellowship presidents. Because what most of us is do... Are doing is endurance. We are we are not free.

We are only enduring. And when you when you endure, you can say at least it's pornography. Pornography doesn't lead to pregnancy. So rather than I go and do the one that disgraces me, I can pretend as though I'm... I don't have a problem, but rather I can close the door, watch what I want to watch, come out and hold the microphone, and lead prayer. And we just pretend as though we are okay. Whereas there are people who are battling with things that are destroying their lives, eating their destiny, eating their future away. Eating their future away, wondering if there is any solution to this. I tell you, there are presidents, pastors, apostles, prophets who are battling with severe lustful desires, severe. Every woman they see they want to plunge on, and yet they...

Because they hold a microphone, they feel as though I don't have a problem. Jesus says, the prince of this world came to me. The prince of the... Of this world... This world now came to me. He has to... When he comes, what do you think he came for? If the bible says the king of this world came to me and founded nothing, what was he looking for? He was looking for something of himself, which is in you. That becomes a connection point.

This is not actually about being good or bad. No. It is about being free or not. For who the son of man are set free is free indeed. You are not immune to the law of sin and death by age. You are not immune to the law of sin and death by education or by calling or by ordination. No. It is a life of God at work in you that immunes you. That becomes a immunity immunity. When you see most of these elderly people in their sixties and seventies, when they were growing up, the world was not like this.

The world wasn't this corrupt. The world wasn't this civilized. It wasn't this enticing. There was no Facebook. There was no TikTok. So there was no nudity, no skills of fraud, no Yahoo. The possibility of Yahoo was not even there. The privileges that come with Yahoo wasn't even there for them to know. So there was a level of ignorance that helped our parents to walk in righteousness even if it was by flesh. It wasn't that they were strong.

They were not just certain or aware that some things exist. It's not strength necessarily. It... The... Them... This wasn't just as much. You go on social media. You can try to avoid watching a bad movie on television and say, oh, I don't wanna watch race. I don't wanna watch MTV. Too many naked people dancing.

And then you go on your phone, you are looking for a man of God's video on on on YouTube or on Instagram or whatever, and there, right there, without you searching for it, he finds you. In the name of fitness, you find someone put a camera just by her backside. Say, I'm teaching you how to be fit. Oh, glory to God. Welcome to a generation where the moment you go online right now, it is over. The opportunities for defilement are bountiful. You'll be amazed. You can have a teenager or even a child out of eight years old knowing things that some of our parents did not know until they were married. A child of eight years old because knowledge has increased. If you'd not learn the law of liberty that the life of God has provided, it is only a matter of time.

Your life will be full of all kinds of disappointments and regrets. You will shock yourself. You will wonder I can do this. I never believed I can do this. A man of God will pin a girl down. By the time he's done ripping, I wonder what did I just do. Because there's a law called the law of sin and death. It's a law. The law of sin and death. There is another law called the law of the spirit of life.

You see that? It's a law that the life in you sublies. The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. If you'd not learn that law, you'd be disappointed. Why do you think many young boys right now are joining a cult? Because they've seen someone tell them, listen. I did this thing. I joined the cult. And in two months, look at my van.

Look at my car. Look at my this. Look at my that. And the guy starts to think, what is there in slaughtering the chicken? At least, they're not telling him to go and slaughter a human being. Is it just a chicken? It's a chicken. Oh. And you were able to get a a car, a Lexus? He said, yeah.

Wow. Where do we slaughter it? And after completing all his options, he goes to pitch his tent near Sodom. Lot never began in Sodom. It is always near Sodom. And you now see this guy who now have the audacity after, like, five years to take his girlfriend or whatever it is they call themselves, slaughter in the name of money. Slaughter in the name of money. I heard that testimony the young girl is sharing. How that the cabman in Ibadan was telling how and herself and himself and the and the and the passenger was arguing about dropping load or something. Oh, there's money there in the load.

There's dollars there in the load. You see, poor men are the ones that fall victim of these things. Telling. And the trick is so is so old. It doesn't change. I've like 20 people. This same thing doesn't change. This same thing. Some is that the bag is inside the booth. By the time the foolish guy becomes...

Somebody somebody one fell victim. The guy or the lady was enticed by money and wanted dollars. And they took the lady, Christian sister, born again sister to a so called Papalau, Drove her all the way. She she was going to UWL, drove her into Fellele, drove her into inside, and he met a very good actor. And he's... The scene he was acting was babalawu. Very good one. When her eyes cleared, the phone was gone. Her money was gone. Her purse was gone.

Everything she had was gone, and there was no dollars. Everything she had is is poor people that poor people that have greed that these things get. But even that is a work of the flesh. It's a manifestation of the flesh. And the devil came. The devil will always come. That's the prince of this world coming to see if there is anything that belongs to him in you. And there are times when he's not sure, so he will flash many products. You see, he will flash many products. He will flash money to see if there is greed on your inside.

He will flash fame to see there is greed on your inside. Look at how he was flashing different things to Jesus. He says turn this stone to bread to see if Jesus will have the the desire to prove himself. If you are the son of God, in other words, prove yourself. Prove yourself. Show yourself. That same thing is what you hear several people. Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am? Is the devil flashing a product?

The devil said, if you are the son of God, turn the stone to bread. And Jesus said, no. No. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word. What he was doing is, is there a desire for for vanity in your soul? Is there a desire for relevance in your soul? To prove yourself before the world. That you don't care who is giving you the mandate as long as it will put you in the face of the world. You don't mind. So because you wanna prove yourself.

And because of that, several ministerials, several men of God, several pastors have lost their calling. Have lost their calling. They no longer care what church invites them as long as the platform is there. Whether the man is on a court, whether the man is a yahoo, doesn't matter. Just give me the platform. Because the man is no longer after ministry. There is now something else that becomes the motif. Satan has found his product there and says we can we can lure you through that product to the slaughterhouse where destinies are destroyed, where mandates are killed, where gifts are stolen. You'll be amazed how many people that have glorious destinies have been robbed because the devil came and found a product inside of you. Some is pride.

He tested you and you failed woefully. You were in the department and they put somebody that is way lesser than you as your HOD. The person, why did you come late? Go and stand outside. Say, Ah. The devil has come, oh, and he's checking. He's checking. Is my product there? And the moment you see, why why would they be talking? You don't even know.

You know I'm a brilliant person. I got a first class. I got a this. I got a that. The devil says, oh. And you'll be amazed that he can buy that alone. Paid your journey that should have taken five months, and it becomes a ten year experience. Become a ten year experience. You are pegged at a spot because arrogance, pride is in you. And if the devil sees that all of this hasn't gotten you, then he will flash a guy, nice guy.

Flash a girl to see there is lust in your heart. And the moment you see this product, he says, oh, what an avenue to wreck a glorious destiny. That's the reason why many young boys are doing all kind of things right now. You see a young man burning with lust. He's packaging himself under the guise of spirituality, but he's dying on the inside. And God forbid that he meets bad friends. Because if he does, the friend will now tell him, listen. Listen. I like this girl. He's telling the friends now.

I like this girl. And you see, I can't imagine what I've been thinking if I catch that girl. And the friend is saying, so why haven't you done anything? I... You know, I'm a Christian now. Uh-uh. Guy, forget that. I'm a Christian too. Don't think that with all all these all these celebrities, we dropped down on many years ago. You know you know who we help?

You only live once. Enjoy this life. Have fun. That's the kind of friend many people have. Destiny destroyers. You see when? Glory to God. Even God knows that we are human beings. That's still enduring. I left the enduring thing many years ago.

You better do what you want to do. Listen. I submit to you that more marriages will break because of unfaithfulness amongst couples, and it really has nothing to do with being good or bad. It's a reality that overwhelms them. And if you are not taught how to manifest the life of God, you will fail. Other people try to use endurance processes. They use endurance. They they are trying to tame the flesh. They're having problem or they know... But they're trying to tame the flesh.

Taming the flesh is like holding on to a white animal. One day, your hands will be tired. That is how taming the flesh is. You are either free or you are not free. Somebody comes to bring a bribe to you, and they put the money there. And your secretary was in the office, and you know this person respect you. So because she's there, you want to package yourself and say, no. No. No. I don't take bribe.

Whereas your your mind is thinking hard, Jesus Christ. Look at it, Jason. Look at what this money would do in my life. Look at what this will do in my life. But you're saying, oh, God, listen. We don't do that here. We don't we don't do that. That... The fact that you are forming that doesn't mean you are free. Doesn't mean that you are free.

God has not called us to try to manage the flesh. God hasn't called us to try to suppress the flesh. So you stay there and you're thinking that that the... You know, this immoral thought is there, We are trying to contain it. You are holding yourself. How do you live effectively like that? Let me tell you. If you don't understand the... This law of liberty, if you don't understand this life of God on your inside, everyone will think that you are lying. And you will also think that everybody is lying when they say, oh, I've not hit my wife or me and my wife have not fought for the last forty years.

You will think that they are lying because what you will hear people say is not possible because they have subscribed to the law of sin and death. In that realm, it's not possible. But we live by another life. And if any man has not captured the reality of that life, you will look at men who have and you will call them liars Because you are struggling with something and you have camped around your experiences and your failure. You even started a YouTube show telling people, see, there's no hope for anybody here. We live in a world that makes it seem as though the more men you'll be, the more men you'll make out with, the more mature you are. And we make fun out of it. Things that are meant to be sacred. There's no shame anymore. You go on social media.

What is your body count? What is your this? What is your that? And you are watching. You're excited. You are feeding the flesh on your inside. And the devil is saying, Thank you very much. Go ahead. The bible says that whatever you tease, you sow. If you sow to the flesh, you shall of the flesh reap corruption.

Don't generalize your experiences. Not everything... Not everyone is going through what you are going through. That it is hard for you doesn't mean it's hard for all. You have not just come to the reality of a life. Let me show you how God designed for people to rise above sin and the flesh and how God designed for people to manifest the fruit of the spirit, and then we pray. Because I believe so strongly that seated there listening to me is a man of God, a mighty woman of God who is held bound by the flesh. A believer who has a great destiny ahead of him, a great future ahead of him, prophecies written concerning his life, but that the devil has been able to yoke his life like a goat that is tied down. A believer that needs to demonstrate the reality of the life of God on your inside. But you have been held bound and you think there is no way anymore because you have tried several means and you haven't just broken out.

Believers held bound by addiction, by pornography, by masturbation, by lust, by pride, by anger, and all kind of things. Are you getting blessed? Yes, sir. Glory. Glory to the father. Glory to the son. Glory to the spirit. I sing glory. What makes the demonstrating of the life of God within you spectacular is that it is being demonstrated through a vessel that is hidden. That's the beauty of it.

Because you have reasonable all men, and you are manifesting what is only in the order of God. What is only in the God class, Rising above sin, rising above the flesh, and displaying, manifesting the character of the spirit, the fruit of the spirit. So what are the system that God has put in place to make men rise even by the oppression of the life of God on their inside? Listen, if you understand what I'm about to share with you right now, you will have victory over the flesh, victory over sin forever and ever to the degree to which you understand it. Some of you as I'm talking light is coming ready and you are breaking out of afflictions, breaking out of addictions, breaking out of whatever it is that held you down. Number one, to live like Christ. The first law according to scripture is that you must believe that the power to overcome the dominion of sin and the flesh is within you in Christ. These things are right to you that you may know. You have to believe that the power to overcome the flesh, the power to overcome the dominion of sin is already inside of you, is already within you. You need to believe this.

You must believe it. Listen. You don't have to see it manifest first. You must believe that the power to overcome sin and the flesh is within you now when you receive that God life. Whether you allow it or whether you have allowed it find expression or not is a different altogether. With your mind roaming around, with your tendencies roaming around, you must believe that the power to overcome that dominion, that influence of sin and the flesh is already in you. Whether or not you are manifesting it, believe it. Believe it. There is no liberty for the one who does not believe. By the time you are contending to believe it, your mind is trying to negate what you are trying to believe.

Your mind can come and tell you, you're only lying to yourself. You don't live into that. Your job is to believe that I have eternal life. And somewhere within my spirit is the capacity of an overcomer. Whether you have allowed that life find expression or not, it is within you. Believe it. Believe it. I'm telling you that it is possible to know that what I'm dealing with right now, the frailty of my human flesh is maybe even hunger. Do you know that? The fact that you are angry, extremely angry, voraciously angry, And probably you would erupt like a volcano, but you didn't erupt.

You go, you excuse yourself, but the hunger is still burning within you. It doesn't mean you are free. You are not free. You are not free. You are enduring. You are suppressing. You are taming. And one day one day, the wild beast will break free. It might be your boss. You will not slap.

Because you have tamed all along. You have tamed all along. There are several people who don't like to hear that they are proud because they are proud. Or they tame it. They suppress the pride, enforce humility, and they believe just because I honor, I I do this. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Sorry, sir. Yes, sir.

You know, tell this person, you are proud, oh. You see, and he's offended. Despite all the yes, sirs I do, you still can tell me that I'm proud. And he does not know that the offense in itself is pride. But a man can say, okay. This is my problem. This is what I'm going through. Anger wants to kill me, wants to destroy me. Anger will cost me a good home. Anger will cost me a glorious destiny.

This lust is my problem. Holy Spirit, help me. Help me. Help me. Even as I go out today, help me because I know that I have life. I know that I have life. I believe that I have life. And then you go out. The moment you step out of your house, there comes the woman that grinds pepper just be... Just just beside your house, and she pours the pepper water on your clothes as you're rushing for an exam.

And before you know, before you say, Jack, you have turned. You are... You just prayed right now that God should help you. You have turned and you have lambasted, given our life left, right, and center, arranged our life and destiny with your words. Even in that even in that, you you will still believe that you have life. That's what I'm saying. That you will still believe that the capacity to overcome this thing is within me. Yes. Even in that. It's not outside.

It's not an impartation. The capacity to overcome this thing is within me. Even in that. That you make covenant with your eyes, you will not behold a woman and, you know, think iniquity. But you find yourself thinking all kind of things even after you have done that. In that, you still believe that the capacity to overcome this is within me. The only problem is that I'm not giving you... I'm not giving it expression yet. Doesn't mean it's not there. You must believe it is there because if you are defeated in your believing, you are defeated.

So whilst you are still trying to ensure that it finds expression, you have to believe that I have victory already. Listen. The bible says, let God be true and every man be a liar. Do you know what that means? That means your experience is a lie. Only God is true. So the fact that I'm still experiencing this doesn't mean it is the truth. The truth is that I've been given life. The truth is that I have overcome sin and death. The truth is that this sin shall no longer have dominion over me.

That is the truth because I have the life of God. My life can show otherwise. It is a lie. Let God be true. Let every man be a liar. Alongside his experiences. He's still a liar. God be true. That means I hold God at his word, and I believe what he has said. Are you with me brothers and sisters?

Yes. There's no liberty for the one who does not believe. This is where the gospel of God is powerful. That you can look at a girl who has spent all her adult life sleeping around with men, giving her body away very cheaply, and you see the addiction that comes with it. The neural pathways that have been created based on that action is not something that you can just use counseling to stop. It is a pathway that has been created already. The woman cannot stay with one man anymore. He doesn't know how to. She gets married and she's still jumping from one man to another. But the day that that woman can believe that within this my frail body, full of bad experiences is the overcomer.

Within this my frail body is the life of God. Within this my frail body, I have the capacity to overcome. That is the first step to victory. That's the power of the gospel. I believe I have the life of God. I might have struggles here and there. True. But what is even more true is the life of God within me. Remember, the Bible says that whoever has this life of God cannot sin. I'm telling you the process that builds onto this.

Do you believe what I'm teaching you? Number two is in Romans chapter six verse 11. The Bible says, likewise, you also reckon. That's number two. Reckon yourselves. Reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin. The first is that you believe it. You believe it beyond all odds, beyond the physical circumstances. The second is that you reckon yourselves to be dead indeed. Reckon yourself to be dead indeed.

The word record there is the word logizomai, and it means to consider as so, to factor in the possibility, and to insist that it remains so. So when the bible says reckon, it means consider it so. Take it into account. Reckon yourselves dead to sin. Regardless of whatever experience you may be having, reckon yourselves dead to sin. Recon yourselves alive in Christ. How do you recon yourself? You carry that consciousness that whilst all that drama is happening, your body and your flesh is certainly not cooperating with you, but you reckon. To reckon means to observe all things that convinces you that this reality is so. The same way you look at a man and tell him that you are a woman, and he doesn't...

He just thinks something is wrong with you because he has reckoned himself a man. He doesn't start crying because of what you have said because he has reckoned himself a man. To reckon means to keep it in your memory so that you don't lose sight of that reality. Reckon yourselves. Consider yourselves dead to sin. Give me the New Living Translation. The new living translation says, so you should also consider yourself. You see that word consider there? Consider yourselves dead to sin. So you see, it is one thing to be dead to sin is another thing to consider yourself dead to sin.

So he gives an instruction. You consider yourself dead to sin. Give me the MSG. For now on... From now on, think of it this way. So this is how you think of it. You see, sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you. God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did.

He says, think of it this way. In other words, there are many ways you can think about it. You can think of it like you are just the worst person on earth. You can think of it like you are unworthy. You can think of it like, oh, God is angry with me. You can think of it many ways. But he says, let me show you how to think of it. Think of it this way, that whatever language sin is speaking is nothing to you. It tells you that sin truly speaks a language, but whatever language sin is speaking means nothing to you. God is the one that speaks your mother tongue.

And you hang on on every word that God has said. It means if God has said that you are dead, you are dead. Remember, let God be true and every man be a liar. So how do you reckon yourself? How do you reckon yourself? How do you consider yourself? How do you think of it this way? Number three, Hebrews ten twenty three, the bible says, let us hold fast the profession of our faith. That is how you reckon. It is by holding fast the profession of your faith.

That's number three, the profession of your faith, your declaration, your confession. That you hold fast the confession of your faith. Your confessions influences your thinking. I hope you know. The bible says faith comes by hearing. Your memory bank is also built by hearing. Psychologist will teach you that repetition, not truthfulness, is what creates persuasion. Let me say it again. Repetition, not truthfulness, is what creates persuasion. In other words, you don't believe a thing because it is true.

You believe a thing because you have heard it said again and again and again. In other words, if you repeat a lie, you will believe it, and you'll be persuaded it is true. Repetition is what creates persuasion. It means if this is the truth, you must consistently repeat it to yourself to the point where you believe it. Because you can speak a lie. The reason why you have low self esteem right now is because you spent fourteen years in secondary school with a teacher who always told you you are stupid. The repetition made you believe it. You are dog. You are this. You are that.

There... It it was in the repetition. And so when you want the truth of God's word to form your persuasion, you have to believe it. You have to say... And how do you do that? You say it again, again, again, again, again, again. Every morning, declare it. You wake up at night, declare it. Put it where you would sit and say it to yourself. Say it to yourself.

Put it on your phone. Say it to yourself. Let it stick in your heart so much so it becomes your spinal response. The Bible says, hold fast to it. Hold fast to it. The profession of your faith. So you declare and you declare that in the name of Jesus Christ, I have a glorious life. I'm joined with Christ. I'm one spirit with Christ. My impulses are governed by the word of God.

Sin is dead to me. Sin will no longer have dominion over me. For whoever is born of God cannot sin. I have the life of God in me. I overcome the word. I overcome the flesh. I overcome sin. You become declaring to yourself. You keep on declaring to yourself. This is how you reckon.

Who the son of man has set free is free indeed. The following morning, you'll sustain the same thing. Then you then you fall probably on the second week, and you do what you say you will not do again. You wake up. Who the son of man has set free? His friend did. Who the son of man has set free? His friend did. Who the son of man has set free is free indeed. I am free indeed.

I am dead to sin. Pray the holy spirit, have mercy on me. Give me help. Give me strength. But this I know that all the son of man has set free is free indeed. Sin will no longer have dominion over me. I've been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, yet I live. But the life I live, I live in Christ. Christ now lives in me.

Christ lives in me. I have the life of Christ. What comes out of me is Christ for the prince of this world comes to me, and he finds nothing in me. I don't have any product of the devil in me. What comes out of me is life. Only life. Only life. I'm no longer slave to sin. I'm a son of God. You keep on declaring these things.

There's therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. I should declare to our reckoning. I should declare your reckoning. You see this now. Yes. Yes. Yes. If you make this a culture, something begins to happen to you because you are agreeing with the spirit. And when you begin to agree with the spirit, you are activating the grace component within your frail human body that causes you to walk in the reality of what you are agreeing with. And you get to a point where a miracle happens to you without knowing.

So you're in the same situation that would have tempted you before to respond, but you pass without considering it twice. And it's not because you are afraid of scandal. Running away because you are afraid of scandal is not freedom. It is image management. You are just managing your reputation. Doesn't mean that you are free. I'm talking about true freedom. That you can watch a guy or watch a girl who is pretty or beautiful and pass by and you are not moved to respond. Not because of the fear of hellfire, not because you don't want to lose your ministry or or your reputation, but that you have come to a point where you have risen above that limitation. It can no longer have power over you again.

That action is no longer consistent with the works of righteousness. You can get to a point where you look at a pretty lady and you appreciate us, God's creation, and it ends there. And you can go home and sleep in peace. At that point, you are free. You can look at a man and no matter what he has, no matter what he's got, you do not respond to the advances because you know the intentions are are not pure. You appreciate God for him and whatever God has given to him. Genuinely so, you still go home and sleep. Freedom has happened to you. You're not going home thinking about the opportunity you missed. No.

What if, what if, that means you're anointed free. If I had said yes now, I can have a iPhone, that means you're anointed free. What would the iPhone have cost you? Your dignity? That means you're no yet free. Genuine freedom in in the practice of what I'm saying. You enter into a state of genuine freedom where you will rise above the limitations of the flesh almost as though they never existed. Almost as though they never existed. Almost as though they were never there. You're the king of kings and lords.

The one who will deliver me. Surrender my burdens before, the one who has set me free. You're the king of kings and lords. You are the king kings and Listen. It's a possibility. It's a reality. It's a reality. Not everybody is struggling what you are struggling with. Believe what I'm saying. There's a way out.

This is the way out. This is how to bring the life of God out of you, to superimpose on your circumstances, to superimpose on your situation. You now look at your brother and you say, oh, how are you doing? And then you're looking beautiful and your mind is not going haywire. You say thank you and that is it. Someone can offend you. Someone can do what would have made you skyrocket and hunger before. But now the Holy Spirit, the life of God that lives in you, another life now manifests. You look at the person and say, God bless you. God bless you.

And you're smiling. Sometimes they will look at you and say, are you a fool? People just look at you and get away with anything that they say. But you don't know that even your life is pushing the gospel. One day, one day will come back to you and say, we wanted to offend you but you could not be offended. What was the secret? I knew Jesus. I knew Jesus. And it becomes a method you are preaching. Number four Number four is in Romans chapter six in KJV verse 12.

The Bible says, let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey it in the lust thereof. The team says, neither yield ye your members. That's number four. Do not yield your members. Instead... Or let me say, yield your members as instrument of righteousness. Let's make it number four. Yield your members as instrument of righteousness. The bible says, neither yield your members as instrument of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield your members unto God as those that are alive from the dead, that your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. You see, this yielding your members is the part that extremist grace teachers omit.

So they stop at reckoning. They stop at you are dead. They stop at believe. They stop at all of those things. Whereas the bible continues to say, yield your members. When your body becomes a participatory instrument, you will eventually disappoint your confession. So the idea is not to confess whilst you allow your body to keep participating. There is grace that has been given to you. The word yield there is an act of your will. That means you can choose by your God given power to choose.

So you use your God given ability to choose to begin to make choices, to choose to begin to make decisions that reflect Christ like living. For instance, walking by 11PM in the night with that guy for any reason whatsoever, no matter how justifiable the reason might be, is foolish. You can choose not to do it. You see, you are yielding your members as instrument of righteousness. It is foolish. It will put you in trouble and you know. Going to that guy's house or going to that girl's house or inviting a girl over for any reason, no matter how justifiable, even if it to do bible study, is foolish. The excuse may be bible study, but that will not be the fruit that come out of it. The fruit of the spirit is not what will come out of it. It's the fruit of the womb that will come out of it.

Both of them are fruits. Choose what fruit you want. An act of your will. Calling that girl or that guy every night and speaking late into the night will cause you problems. Allowing early lady to come to your room anyhow, any guy just comes and touches you indecently will cause you problems. It will cause you problem. You know what this individual wants. He's a nonsense guy. He had a track record of womanizing, and you are there engaging him. How are you?

I'm fine. No. Have you eaten? Have you... It will cause you problem. Yield your members. So you're not going to say, oh, I'm dead to sin. Oh, I'm dead to sin. In the name of Jesus. Hello.

How are you doing? Hi. Have you... Oh, have you eaten? I'm not eating. No. Ask what are you wearing now? It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way.

It doesn't work that way. You don't go feeding your eyes for instance with nonsense, and you come declare that you are dead to sin. You are counterproductive. You are countering whatever it is you're declaring by your... Your body is participating against your deliverance. And it is by... It's an act of your choice. It's an act of your will. You see, it's an act of your will. You would normally respond aggressively when someone speaks to you, but now you are learning the peace that the holy spirit gives.

Don't respond angrily. Don't react rather. Someone does something, might even be a spouse, a partner, or something, and you would normally respond volatile... Being volatile. But you are calm, you are patient. It's a choice to yield your members. Your mouth would normally abuse and insult and demean. But you remember that life and death is in the power of the tongue, and so you withhold your tongue intentionally. Doesn't mean that you cannot speak, but that you understand that you can yield your members. It's a choice.

You can yield your members. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. So it is within your power having obtained grace from God to make up your mind that I, as an act of my will, will not do this. Listen, it's a choice. The grace is supplied when the choice is made. The grace is not supplied for the choice to be made. The grace is supplied when the choice is made. So you may not have the power to honor your choice. The power to honor your choice comes from God.

But the decision to choose comes from you. The prodigal son, the bible says when he came to himself, it was not the holy spirit that told him consider this. As an act of his own will, he didn't have the power to restore himself, but he had the power to choose to go back home. The power to restore came after the choice to go back home was made. Are you seeing what I'm saying? He said, I will arise. I will go to my father. And when I go to my father, I will say to him, father, I have sinned against you and I've sinned against heaven. I'm not worthy to be called your son and all these things. He made the choice and the empowerment for restoration then came.

As soon as he took that step, the father met him. Didn't even have to say all the things he wanted to say. The father met him and he was restored on the spot. A party was thrown. No matter what kind of message we preach, it does not save people. When we make an altar call, the job of the holy spirit is to convict you of your sin, convict you of righteousness, convict you of judgment. You can then participate with that conviction and say, have seen the need for Jesus in my life. You then stand up as an act of your will. When you stand up, the saving grace is now administered to you when you choose. So it is not the method that saves you, it's your choice that saves you.

You choose and then the saving grace is administered. So the bible says yield your members. It is so powerful. You can choose everything that is godly in your life. It's so powerful. You can say I choose to be a responsible man. I choose to be a responsible woman. I choose to live a responsible life. I choose greatness. I choose success.

I choose a life of excellence. I choose to be prayerful. It's an act of your will. You don't wait for the spirit of prayer to come and you now make the choice knowing that... No. No. No. No. No. No.

No. You choose to pray and then the spirit of prayer honors your choice. You choose to read, then the spirit of revelation honors your choice. I choose spiritual fervency from today. I choose to allow this god life to find expression. I choose to hand irresponsibility in my life. Are not the only one that was molested. Stop giving excuses. You are not the only one that was born for my disadvantaged family. Stop giving excuses.

Choose life. I set before you death and life. This is a man of God. You don't know what I've been through. Many people have been through worse, And they have not given that an excuse to be foolish. Choose life. Choose life. Rise up from your folly. Stop giving yourself away cheaply. Some of you don't know you will be great.

That is why you give yourself away cheaply. If you know you will be great, you will honor yourself because you will protect yourself. Because something will just tell you that all these foolish men, by the time I become great, foolish now. Let them not come and say that, ah, that that that governor that governor, we knew how we touched this, touched that. Oh, is is she the one that is the governor's wife? I have a picture on my phone. See see her body. Who owns that business? Yeah. It is it is sister so and so.

It is not her. She's the one. Just punch. I have an... Can I? Can you come and interview me? I know this person. Don't worry. I have receipt. Can you call?

Can you... I have receipts. I can verify. I know this person. And then standing at the edge of breakthrough would now be the track record of the mistakes you have made. Lining up and say you... This door will not enter. This door you will not enter. Go and check when people are contesting for high positions. They go and verify as far back as primary school.

Is your primary school certificate real? They go and check. Is your is your wife certificate real? They go and check. They investigate their lives. The choices they made. Why is it that when people are contesting for president... Especially in America, that's where... Even in Nigeria, that's where those that they've slept with Renata coming out. You say, she slept with me.

He molested me. When they are contesting for presidency, it shows you that it is at the head of breakthrough that adversaries arise. A great and an effectual door has been opened unto me, but there are many adversaries. Don't hide your folly to part with the adversaries. Don't let mistakes and foolish decisions hard hard to eat. Now you are a godly woman, and you have found a godly man and one foolish guy Heard a man of God say he went for a wedding ceremony. He got to the wedding ceremony, was off hitting the wedding ceremony, and he got to the time of the vows. And he asked the groom, are you ready to love your... To make this woman your lovefully wedded wife to live, you know, to marry only her, do it only her, sickness and health. And the guy said, I do.

And all the groomsmen burst into laughter. All of them burst into laughter, serious laughter. And the lady was just smiling. Make a choice. I choose to be responsible. I choose greatness. I choose life. I choose to be obedient. I choose to be obedient. I choose to be obedient.

It's not difficult. I choose to be obedient. Make a choice. I choose to change. I choose to live a changed life. I'm not a rebel. I wanna live like one. I choose to be honorable. You see, Zacchaeus made a choice, and Jesus honored his choice. Blytheimos made a choice, and Jesus honored his choice.

The woman with the issue of blood made a choice. Jesus honored her choice. The people that broke the wall... The roof rather made a choice. Jesus honored their choice. It wasn't Jesus that told them go and break the roof. They made a choice. It wasn't Jesus that told the woman by the well, come on come on touch my my garment. She made a choice. Wherever any choice was made that leads to life, Jesus honored it.

The grace doesn't come to help you make a choice. You make the choice. You have the power of will, but you cannot help yourself. So the moment you decide, then God supplies grace even to act, even to do. Are you blessed? Sure. Let's end it here, and then we pray. The fifth one is that you engage in spiritual activities that strengthen your spirit, build up your spiritual capacity, and your love for God. Engage in spiritual activities that strengthens and builds up your spiritual capacity and your love for God. Activities like prayer, activity like the study of the world, worship, kingdom service in the house of God, all of these things are enhancers.

They support your rising above sin and the flesh. Luke 18 verse one, the Bible says men ought always to pray and not to faint. The more you spend time in prayers, the more the flesh dies. Every time you spend time doing spiritual things, the flesh gives way. The flesh gives way. The flesh gives way. Engage in spiritual activities. Serve in the house of God. Commit time to prayer. Commit time to worship.

Commit time to study. Something happens to you when you pray. The quickening of the spirit happens. When you do these kind of things, it helps you to culture your life. To culture even in you a life of righteousness. When you invite people... Listen. Whenever we invite people to serve in church, we are also helping them to create a safety net. It doesn't mean that you are perfect. It means you can be helped.

A brother can be downcast. Perhaps he has gone through something or struggling in an area of his life, and then he comes to a departmental meeting in church, and they just pray and worship him, probably they're on a retreat. He doesn't have the capacity or the strength to organize that retreat by himself. But because he's compelled to participate in the ritual of the department, he finds his deliverance there. There is security in the assembly of the brethren. If you know that I'm prone to this activity, then have an ass... You know, it it becomes a safety net when you plug yourself into the assembly of the believers. You can be in... You can be with us, but be away from us. Because you choose to isolate yourself even though you come to church, so nobody knows your name.

Nobody can help you. Nobody can see you fall and help you up. When you do these kind of things, it helps you. It helps you. There are spiritual activities that are enhancers for living a righteous life. A life of prayer, a life of the study of the word. The bible says in Colossians three and verse 16, let the word of God dwell in you richly in all wisdom. And when the word of God now dwells with you richly in all wisdom, you will now find yourself teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, in hymns, in spiritual songs. It is because the word of God has now dwelt in you richly. Pray.

For when you pray, the flesh dies. Pray. In ex... Experientially that is. The fruit of the spirit comes as a result of the energizing of the holy spirit. As you commit yourself to this, the holy spirit starts walking fruits inside of you. You start seeing the flesh dying and fruits manifesting. Fruits growing according to the energy that the spirit supplies. Rise up on your feet. Are you blessed?

Living like Christ. It is a possibility to live out and experience the life of Christ within you, to manifest experientially the life of Christ within you. It's a reality. It's a reality. It's a reality. There are many times people look at me and they say, oh, this person did this. This person did that. Why didn't you respond in this manner? And they say if it were me, if it were me, not everybody is you. Truly, there are people that the life of Christ is literally in operation in them.

There is no amount of money you can give to them that can that can sell them off. They have risen above canal things. They have risen above material things. People have cheated me. I've lost money. Not small money. Hundreds of thousands of naira. And the holy spirit tells me, let it go. Don't pursue it. And I tell people, I I will not I will not chase it.

Somebody was meant to do something for me just last week, and I paid the person in 6 figures. In 6 figures, I paid the person, and the person kept on giving all kind of excuses, was showing terrible incompetence. I got somebody else, and the following day, what I ordered from the person... The other person I got was ready. What the other person was showing incompetence for was... I caught somebody else. It was ready the following day. And I called the person who recommended that first person to me, and I said, listen. I'm gonna tell this lady, but know that nobody can prosper like this. Why is she stressing me?

I called somebody off, and this thing is already ready. Oh, sorry. This and that and that and that. The money will be refunded. I already know that to bring up the matter of refunding money will now cause problem. Then there will not be unnecessary fight, unnecessary issue, unnecessary this. I just said, let's carry the money and go. I don't even need it. Some people, that is something that they can never even think about doing. How much is whatever amount of money that will cost me my peace?

We'll now be exchanging words on phone because of how much. Some people drop on bike, and they start arguing with the bike man over 200 naira. They can almost slap the bike man over 200 naira. You lost 500 naira. I I am not talking to anybody in your room again for the past one for the past one week because all of them are suspicious. One of them stole it. Whereas you bought spaghetti and you did not know. And you forgot about it, but you were so sure you put the money here. You have spent and you have not... And yet you are so convinced somebody took it.

And you keep offence. You are not talking to anybody just because of that. You'll be amazed how how easily how easily situations can manipulate our emotions. How easily it is for situations to manipulate your emotions. Do you know that you'll be great? Do you know that you'll become a captain of industry? Is that how reckless you will build your emotions? You can fire anybody anyhow, no matter how valuable they are to your company just because you are anointed. Can transfer aggressions just because you're on your period. It's mood swings.

I'm on my period. There are people that they start announcing to everybody, see, I'm my period. Oh, see, I'm period. Oh, I'm on my period. As though that is normal, you have a problem. It's not normal. It's not normal. A man that has no rule over in spirit is worse than a city without walls. This is the reason why the life of God must overwhelm your body, must come out of your spirit. You see, if you take a job and you promise to deliver, deliver.

If you cannot deliver, find people that can deliver. If they cannot deliver, don't take the job. A good name is better than money. Life teaches you this. Life teaches you this. There are people who have taken contracts, they can... They they don't have the capacity than they know, but the money was available. Now they wreck their reputation, wreck their ministry, wreck everything. Every future opportunity is now closed. The life of God teaches you this.

Are you ready to pray? In one minute, raise your voice and speak and say, I choose life. Now begin to pray and say, I choose life. Come on, pray. Listen. Listen. The bible says in the book of Hebrews, let us hold fast the profession of our faith. I want us to begin to profess what you believe. In one minute, declare that sin will not have dominion over me. The life of God is on my inside.

I live like a God on this life. Declare what you believe. Declare what you believe. Come on. Raise raise up a voice and pray. Raise your voice and pray. Raise your voice and pray. Raise your voice and pray. Speak words. Speak words.

Come on pray. Come on pray. This life. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. May I speak words over you? Let's... Let me just start by praying a prayer of deliverance for everyone or anyone under the sound of my voice who might be struggling with addictions, might be struggling with any kind of addiction, any kind of limitation, the works of the flesh of any sort that has stood as an obstructive force assisted by demons or even an act of your will, and it looks as though you have not been able to let go. I stretch my hands, and I declare. The Bible says, who the son of God has set free is free indeed. Let your amen be the loudest you can find.

Right now, whatever chain has held anybody down, whatever limitation anybody is in, whatever oppression anybody is in, whatever addiction is holding anyone down, whatever the devil is using to tie down your destiny, whatever work of the flesh. Right now, I lift my hands, and I declare by the spirit. I declare by the word of God that they are broken now. In the name of Jesus. They are broken now. They are broken now. They are broken now. Declare over your lives, everybody under the sound of my voice. Lord told me that the coming month is the month of breakthrough. Lord told me that the coming month is the month where people will be breaking forth into realms, into experiences, into sudden liftings, sudden glories.

I declare by the power of God that you are experiencing sudden liftings. Sudden glory. In the name of Jesus. Receive an enlargement of your heart. Receive an enlargement of your heart. God is giving you speed. You are breaking forth on all sides. In the name of Jesus. Your hands are no longer tied. Your legs are no longer tied.

Now you walk in freedom. In the name of Jesus. Now you live a life of victory. In the name of Jesus. I see for someone that in your workplace, there's about to be a lifting of some sort. And there are voices that are... Whoever whoever is in charge of that lifting or promotion wants to promote you, but there are voices that are whispering and saying no. No. No. Not like that.

Not like that. Even suggesting that they sack you, suggesting that you lose your job, suggesting that you lose what you are doing. But right now, every negative voice that is altering their voices on your behalf, Right now by the power of God, I silence them. In the name of Jesus. Be silenced now. In the name of Jesus. Be silenced now. In the name of Jesus. Let your head be lifted. Let your head be lifted.

In the name of Jesus. The power to prosper. Receive it now. The power to prosper. Receive it now. Receive favor. Receive speed. Receive liftings. Receive help. From above.

Help from God. Help from men. In the name of Jesus. Hey. Hey. Hey. God is making a space for you. God is creating space for you. God is creating space for you. God is creating space for you.

I hear in my spirit. God is God is telling me that I'm I'm giving you your own. I don't I I don't know what this is. But I'm hearing God tell me I'm giving you your own. I'm giving you your own. I'm giving you your own. In the name of Jesus. I don't know what it is, but I'm hearing it again. I'm giving you your own. God is giving you authority.

Authority. There is fire on your lips. There's utterance in your words. Fire on your lips. Ultras in your words. In the name of Jesus. Whoever is sick in your body be healed right now. Whatever form of sickness you came here will be healed right now. Blood conditions are healed right now. In the name of Jesus.

I see number three, and God is telling me that there is someone here that within the next three weeks, a life changing testimony is coming your way. I hear I hear I hear a name like Lola, and God is telling me that he's wiping away reproach and shame. In the name of Jesus. I don't know if there's anybody here like that, but I'm seeing something like destiny. I don't know if it's your name or somebody, your relative or something. I'm hearing in that destiny, like destiny. And God is telling me... I'm I'm seeing someone like that destiny. And God is telling me that there is a glory that God has placed upon like a crown like a crown. But I'm seeing that crown being removed and being replaced for cloth.

For sack... For like for like for like for like sack or or or or cloth or something. And what is telling me that I replaced I replaced honor, I replaced lifting, replaced glory is coming back even now. In the name of Jesus. Coming back even now. In the name of Jesus. There's a young man and a young woman that I'm seeing. I'm seeing like a mark on your forehead, and I'm and I'm asking what is this? And God is telling me it's a mark for failure. That it doesn't matter what you write, you will fail.

It doesn't matter how much you read, you will fail. It's a mark for failure. And that mark interprets everything that you do and prevents it from that perspective to everybody that marks you, to everybody that accesses you. But right now, I declare, every mark of failure is removed right now. Generational patterns that connect to your family, generational patterns that connect to your ancestry, limitations from your father's house, limitations from your mother's house, I declare right now that you come out of them in the name of Jesus. Come out from amongst them. Come out from amongst them. In the name of Jesus. Whatever people in your family has not done, you begin to do right now. Heights that they have not gotten, you begin to reach right now.

In the name of Jesus. God is prospering you. God is prospering you. God is prospering you. I'm seeing I'm seeing I'm seeing baskets, and God is telling me that the basket is opened. It means it is a time for abundance. It's a time for increase. It's a time for harvest. Money is coming to you. There's someone I'm seeing.

You are... You saw yourself in a dream, and you were you were flying. You saw yourself in a dream, and you were just flying. You were flying. You saw it in a dream. You were flying. And God is telling me that he's elevating you above your peers. Above your contemporaries. Above your peers. In the name of Jesus.

Now go and get that job. Go and sign that contract. Go and get that scholarship. Go and get that grant. Go receive that promotion. In the name of Jesus. Receive that increase. In the name of Jesus. Lord prosper. In the name of Jesus.

Thank you Lord because you have answered. Give God thanks wherever you are. Give God praise wherever you are. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. I am my spirit for three individuals. Lord said is Same power, same presence. Listen. Listen.

Listen. Listen. Same power, same presence, same utterance, and same results. In the name of Jesus. Lord is opening the eyes of someone. Now you're seeing opportunities that are hiding in plain sight. You're seeing opportunities hiding in plain sight. Eating riches in secret places. Your heart is open to see it. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Oh, God is coming upon a lady. I see an angel pouring a perfume on her. A perfume is what I see pouring, meme poured from the head to the toe. That's the perfume. That's what I see on the board. A fragrance of favor is what is coming upon that lady. For the smell of my son is like the smell of a guilt that the Lord has blessed. The smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed. There's someone who is doing business that this oil is also coming upon. The smell of my son like the Lord has blessed.

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