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Just like a soldier, going to battle, Garrett himself with every armor needed for battle and for winning. So believers must guard themselves with the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he teaches God's Word to equip you for a victorious life on earth. This is Believer's Equip. I'm going to be continuing the series Go Into the World. So we've started considering the subject of going to the world, and we said emphatically that before you can understand that mandate, a good place to start would be to see the world that we've been sent into because God would open your eyes to understand and to see the condition of those that you've been sent to before you get a mandate to go to them. And we used Moses as an example of this after God had stated emphatically that he had seen the oppression and the cry of the people of Israel, he then told Moses to also behold, to also see the same cry. And we are starting with an attempt to make us understand the state of the world. The state of the world that God is sending us into. Is that not so?

And we said a lot said a lot already. We were analyzing the scripture in Ephesians chapter two from verse one down to verse three. It says, and you, he made alive, you who were dead in trespasses and sins in which he once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the hair, the spirit who now walks in the sons of disobedience among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and we're by nature children of wrath just as the others. So Paul was explaining the reality. He says he says this was our previous state before we came into Christ. And so this therefore captures the state of everyone currently who is not in Christ. Do you remember that? And we're trying to pick out some of the things that Paul was describing. He said the first layer that he reveals was dead and trespasses and sins, and then reveals the second layer, which is you walk in which you once walked according to the course of this world, and then it goes on to the third layer, which is according to the prince of the power of the hair, the spirit who now walks in the sons of disobedience. Scripture does not allow us to explain humanity's condition only in social or psychological terms.

The bible opens us to understand that there is a spiritual adversary who works to blind, who works to deceive, who works to tempt, who works to accuse, who works to oppress, who works to hold people in bondage. There is a spiritual adversary. It doesn't remove human responsibility in any way, but it helps us understand why sin operates with an intelligence that is greater than even the person that is practicing it. There are people who know that a pattern is destroying them, right? And they still feel unable to leave that pattern. They've made promises to themselves, they've changed environments, they've deleted contacts already, they've cried privately, they've received all kinds of warnings, they've suffered consequences, yet they they they return to the same chain over and over again. There are people who are driven by impulses that they cannot even explain. They are haunted by fear that they cannot reason away. There are people like that who are tormented by accusations that remain ever there, ever present. Even after the people that they offended or the people that offended them or the people that caused the trauma that they went through or the people that they bullied, even after they've all forgiven them, even after it has been made clear that I'm not hungry with you, nothing you've done do I hold against you, there is still that sense of guilt and accusation that remains.

In other words, it's not a function of oh, did this to this person. Even when the person that they did whatever they did to has obviously made it known that I forgive them, they still cannot let go of the accusation. Do you understand what I'm saying? And there are people who are trapped in cycles that seem to tighten whenever they attempt to escape the cycle. They try to break up of the cycle and the cycle seems to just get other and other and other. The gospel doesn't just address the behavior that is visible on the surface. The gospel announces that there is a stronger kingdom. There is a victorious kingdom. There is a transfer of authority from darkness into the kingdom of God's beloved son. That is made clear in scriptures.

So there is there is something that powers all of this that you see. It's not just someone's inability to live these things or someone's unwillingness to live these patterns or to live these cycles, some people actually want to live but they feel helpless too. Do you understand what I'm saying? And when you go on reading Ephesians, Paul also says that humanity fulfills the desires of the flesh and of the mind. That this lostness works from outside and inside. That there is the cause of this world around the person that the person works in. But there is also the activity of the evil one against the person. But there is also the disordered desires of the person himself. That's what Paul is taking us through here. So that you see that sin is not only something that the cause of this world introduces.

It's not only something that Satan does to a person. Sin is also something that humanity desires and practices in and of themselves. That the act has become disordered by reason of sin. That we desire good things in wrong ways. It is in our nature as fallen creation. That even when we desire good, we desire good in wrong. In wrong ways, in wrong methods, at wrong times, for wrong reasons. Or sometimes good, we desire good beyond the proper boundary of the good. For instance, the desire to be loved can become an addiction to approval. Yet all the person wants is a desire to be loved.

Stay with me, I'm going somewhere with this. The desire for security can become greed. The desire for justice for instance, which is another good thing, can become hatred. The desire for pleasure can make a man enslaved to pleasure. Many of us desire significance, but the desire for significance can become pride. The desire to protect oneself can become isolation. It's the reason why changing the environment of a person does not save the person because a person is not only influenced by his own environment, Paul makes us understand that there is also the desires, the innate desires of fallen humanity. You can remove someone from a destructive location without removing the destructive desire from their heart. The person would go to a different location and continue to desire nonsense. You can look at a child for instance and say, ah, it is the environment he grew up in that made him this way.

So let's bring him out of this environment and put him somewhere sane. And you put him somewhere sane, I have not addressed the desire of his own heart. Because Paul is explaining different layers. Is that not so? And he's saying beyond just the cause of this world, beyond just Satan, there is also the fallen desires of humanity. And this is what Paul expect that we see in the world because he says you were once there. You were once there. That's why it begins in verse one. You were dead in trespasses. This was your state.

So Paul is making us see and appreciate that when you find people in this state, And you would not be able to find them if you don't intentionally see them. I said it at the first part of this series, introducing this series, that many of the people you call friends, when you look at them through the perspective of God's high, what God is seeing is someone lost. That's how you open this up so that you understand how a person can be walking. And from understanding it, you know that Kai, no. This guy can be a good human being but he's going to hell. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? You can put someone in a better society. You can give him better opportunities. You can even educate him thoroughly. Yet if the art of that guy remains unchanged, he will carry darkness into this new environment you've put in.

Understand that humanity doesn't just need new circumstances, new environment. What humanity needs is a new heart and a new spirit. And that's what Jesus said he put inside us. When a man becomes saved, what happens is that a new heart is put in him. A new spirit is put in him. Then Paul now arrives in the same Ephesians at the legal and the eternal weight of this entire conversation and this condition he's describing. It is humanity is by nature under wrath. By nature under wrath. That the world is not just fallen, the world is not just wounded, the world is guilty. The word is guilty.

It says, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves, have come to the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath. Notice saying by where, where, it means this is no longer your own situation, but it was where you once were. Are you with me? It means everybody who are gonna experience what you have experienced is still there regardless the name they bear. Who were by nature children of wrath. It means people are not only victims of darkness, They are also participants in the rebellion against God. And the gospel must hold these two truths together. If we see people only as wicked, we will preach to them without compassion. And if we see people only as victims of a wicked world, so we see people as wounded, what we would offer is comfort. We might not offer them repentance because our mentality would be that this person is just a victim of a wicked world.

Paul is saying, Ero, you are not just a victim of a fallen world, you yourself are fallen. The world you live in is not just the problem, you too are the problem. So you are not just wounded. You are also by nature, by nature children of wrath. You are also participants in this rebellion. It means people have been sinned against and are sinning. Do you understand what I've just said? Deceived and disobedient. So you cannot blame the deceiver to say this person is innocent if they had not been deceived. But by nature, humanity was disobedient.

Humanity was rebellious. The Bible said in iniquity did my mother conceive me. Humanity is both wounded and guilty. In need of compassion, but also in need of forgiveness and repentance. You have to understand that the wrath of God the bible speaks about is holy. The wrath of God is a settled and righteous opposition to evil. The wrath of God is not that God is angry in the sense that you you know anger to be or a man getting angry to be. No. That's not how the wrath of God operates. The wrath of God is is only and is righteous opposition to evil.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Let me say this. A God who does not oppose evil. A God who does not oppose cruelty, oppression, abuse, corruption, murder, deceit, rebellion. That kind of God cannot be a righteous God. It can't it can't even be a loving God. You see? Because if it does not oppose evil, how can he love? If it does not oppose evil, it means that he's indifferent to evil. It means you cannot say that God loves you too much to allow this to happen to you because he's indifferent to what is happening to you.

Do you understand what I'm saying? So the very fact that God has wrath against evil shows you that he has ability to love you and protect you from evil. Do you understand what I'm saying? Now here is the frightening truth because it's beautiful now when I say it that God's wrath is against evil and he can protect you from evil because he has wrath against evil. Holy and righteous wrath against evil. Is that not so? But here is the frightening truth. The frightening truth is that the same holiness that assures us that God will judge every evil that is done against us is all for the same holiness that assures us that he must judge every evil found within us. It is still the same holiness. That's the reason why humanity needs more than good advice.

That's the reason why you can't see people deprived of the life of God and think that all we have to offer them is counsel and think that all we have to offer them is advice. That's the reason you must understand because you see, by nature, humanity is fallen. By nature, there is a nature inside of man that makes him constantly in opposition to God no matter how much character modification you do. So a man can have good character, but the fact that the nature is still not of God, is constantly opposed to God. It means that he's a child of wrath in that God is angry, not with the man, but with the father, the man's nature is evil. It is in God's nature to judge evil. Otherwise, they wouldn't be holy. Otherwise, they wouldn't be righteous. Are you with me? Yes.

That's why what humanity needs is an atonement, a substitute. Someone who can bear the judgment, who can remove the guilt, who can reconcile us back to God is what Jesus did. It's why when any man enters into Christ, that's when bad nature lives. That's when they become free of all that Paul is describing here. In divisions two verse 12, Paul goes on to say that at that time, you were without Christ. Look at this. At that time you were without Christ, being aliens, this is another description again. Being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in this world. Look at how he describes them. Aliens from the commonwealth of Zion.

Strangers from the covenants of promise. This is a pitiable condition to be in. I think we can pick up all of these things, right, and discuss them. But I think the worst of all of this is having no hope. It's one of the most devastating descriptions of life without Christ in the entirety of scripture. That without Christ, without covenant, there's no hope. Without hope in this world, without God in this world, a person can have temporary hopes and still not have that ultimate hope the bible is talking about. For instance, you can have someone who hopes to graduate. You can have someone who hopes to have children, who hopes to secure a good job, who hopes to relocate and to Jack Bauer, who hopes to build a business of some sort, who hopes to gain influence in this world that we live in, Who opts to buy a house, buy a car, live comfortably? All of these things are hopes.

That not so. A man can have that kind of hope. So when that was talked about having no hope, it's not speaking about this kind of temporary hopes that men can have. Are you with me? Those hopes are not wrong in themselves, but none of them can carry the weight of the human soul. What happens when the degree that a man hopes to get is eventually obtained? And the joy and the the fulfillment he thinks he will have upon getting the degree is still not there. What happens when he has gotten the degree but there is still emptiness within him? What happens when he thinks that getting married would become the solution to the trauma he experienced when he was young? And if he was...

What he just needs is someone to love him and someone to love her. And then he gets married or she gets married and the wound is still there. Then what? Are you with me? Then what? Then what? What happens when money can remove the inconveniences around a man? But it cannot remove guilt. It can't remove emptiness. You can't remove the constant feeling of unfulfillment.

What happens when the body weakens, when people leave, when plants fail and a man is on his dying bed? What happens? Okay. What happens when he gets everything he has ever hoped for materially? He gets the house. He gets the car. He has the children. He has a wife. The wife even loves him. And he lives comfortably.

He's wealthy. His name is in Forbes book of richest men. What happens when he is now on his dying bed at 75? What again will he hope for? What is his hope that time? When he's in the ICU and they're telling him all your systems are failing, he asked for the money. But what exactly is his hope at that time? When it is obvious that you're packing, you're about to go. Life is about to end. All of these things you've built for yourself is about to come to an end.

What becomes that man's hope? Do you understand what I'm saying? A hope that ends in the grave. It's it's not strong enough to save a person from hopelessness. Because far as I'm concerned, the person is still hopeless. What am I saying? That without Christ, even the person who has many plans has no final answer to sin, has no final answer to judgement, has no final answer to death, has no final answer to eternity. And we might argue whether heaven exist or hell exist, but one day we will all know. I see no point for argument because we will all know. I would rather be safe though.

Because the truth is, if you say that I'm deluded in that it doesn't exist and I've just believed in a fantasy And you tell me that believing in God is like believing in Spider Man, but it's like a fictional character. And you call God my sky daddy and you give him all kind of names and you say, you are a fool for believing that. Okay. I agree. But what does it take from me though? What does it take from me? You that you don't agree, let's ask ourselves a question. What if I am right? Oh, you don't agree? Fine.

No problem. But just what if? What if it's a fifty fifty chance? If it's a fifty fifty chance and there is no heaven and there's no air, and when we die, we just disappear into emptiness. I still lost nothing. Because it would mean that I would have disappeared with you into emptiness. But if I was right. If I was right, my own side of the divide is that you will go to hello. Guess what? It's not a matter of fifty fifty.

Because this thing we have received, we know more than we know ourselves that there is a God in heaven. And even the person that believe there's no God knows that there is a God. It's what the bible says. It's what the bible says. It's why we must look beyond appearances when talking to people, when trying to check if somebody is going to heaven or not, when trying to check if somebody needs Jesus in their lives or they don't. Because someone might not appear miserable in appearance. It's not everybody that is miserable that you can tell is miserable by the way they appear. There are people who are calm and collected but living miserable lives. Calm and collected We're living miserable lives. One of my young men was sharing with me how he met someone.

And this was about last month or so, was sharing with me how he met someone who you would say, fairly speaking, lives quite a decent life. I mean, you wouldn't look at him and think that he's miserable. He lives quite a decent life. Has a good car, lives in a good house, has a good job. But then he was conversing and the holy spirit kept on impressing it on his heart. Talk to this person. He's going to this and that and that and that. And he went to pray, neglected it, he went to pray, came to his heart again. So the following day, he went to the same workstation and met the guy yesterday. Then the guy was there.

He was hoping the guy would be there. The guy was there. Upon going there, started a conversation with the guy. How are you doing? And started getting to know him, just asking him questions to see and to check where he is with respect to what he knows spiritually. So that he doesn't just go ahead of himself and the guy says, no, it's not true. So we're just asking questions. But the guy wasn't hitting the point. So he just said it. He said, I'm sorry if it looks like I'm intruding but I was just praying and the holy spirit told me this and that and that and that and that.

I just wanna know if you can relate to what I'm saying. So the guy looked at him for a long time. He had to ask him, hello. Are you are you still with me? He said, yes. Just that I've never told anybody that. And then that began the beginning of about four hours conversation of the guy talking. He said at about three half of him telling him his life problem, the guy broke into tears. He was just listening. Broke into tears.

When he was done, he said, I can't offer you anything other than Jesus. Spoke to him, encouraged his heart, asked him, would you like to receive this Jesus I'm telling you about? The man said yes. He was in a workstation that his soul became saved. A soul that had a very nice car. Soul that dressed very nice. Soul you would think has no problem in this world. So what you would think has gotten it fixed in life. Everything a man is looking for, this guy already has. But that is not the definition of miserability.

Appearances cannot define. Appearances cannot define. So it's difficult to always tell. Are you with me? Except you see. Because there are people who have mastered the skill of looking alright. They know how to dress well. They know how to speak well. Speak confidently. They know how to laugh.

How to look good. How to post beautiful pictures on social media. How to look at you and say I'm fine. Without looking as though nothing is wrong with them. Without allowing anybody to see what is happening within them. They might even be going to church. I'm gonna show you something. There are three dimensions of lostness that Jesus speaks about. I'm gonna get there very soon. Let me not go ahead of myself.

Then you would see that it is possible to be lost and be in church. You see, we'll get there. All of them from the same chapter of scripture. We read it almost every time but we've never paid attention to the meaning of this as it relates to souls. The parable of the lost sheep. The parable of the lost coin. The parable of the lost son. All in the same chapter to reveal to you three dimensions of what it means for a person to be lost. Get there. Because you are talking to some people, you can see all the signs, you can see it.

But you ask the person, do you go to church? And the person tells you, yes, and you feel defeated. You don't know a person can be lost and be in church. You think it's only when they bear Ish Mica that they are lost. Thank you, precious holy spirit. You know what I found? A person can be in this church and be lost. It's true. It's true. Let me not go ahead of myself.

Say this to your neighbor, a hope that ends in the grave is not hope. A hope that ends in the grave is not hope. I've seen people that everybody calls strong. Yeah. That guy is very strong. I admire that lady. She's just so strong. Yet, that strength has just become a costume that they wear. Because they don't know where it is safe to be weak. They don't know where it is safe to be vulnerable.

So they've put on a costume and underneath that costume is scars upon scars upon scars. Not even scars, wounds because scars will suggest they've been healed. Wounds. And the thing is that they know that the costume is damaging them because usually when you put certain things upon wounds, they will tell you to leave it open so that it can heal. Is that not so? Because the more you cover and cover and cover, sometimes you risk it healing properly. Is that not so? But they don't care. They even make the costume stronger so people would not just know that something is wrong. Something is wrong.

Some have become addicted to noise. So they must always make noise or be on the atmospheres where they are making noise. That's why they like parties. Why they like any way it's happening. You know why? Because silence often forces them to meet with the emptiness they've been avoiding. Can't afford to be silent. Otherwise, it'll become obvious that something is lacking within. So there must be a coping strategy. And you look at that person always vibing and you think, Kai, what a happy soul.

And you think they don't need help. It's why sometimes when we go to heaven, some of us will meet people we should have preached to. You'll meet people you should have given even if it's one message, should have given them to them. Even if it's one message. A man of God called me many years ago. He was listening to my message. It was a workhouse meeting that I had come to do in their church. So he was listening to it. Then one of his guys who had traveled to a long distance came back to come and see him, sharing some problems with him. And he was listening to the message whilst the guy entered.

The guy entered, how are you doing? This and that and that. And the guy kept on looking at the speaker that he was listening to listen, would look at it as though he's uncomfortable with what was playing but he would ignore it. He would be itching his hair, would ignore it. And all of a sudden, the guy went down under the power, manifesting strong demonic manifestations, Putting out foam from his mouth. Foam all kind of things coming out of his mouth. All kind of things. They had to hold him down. The man called me and said, you won't believe what just happened. This person came, I was listening to this message, and it just went out.

Pow. Demons started manifesting. You don't know that demons not like to identify themselves. They don't like to make themselves visible. They flourish in concealment. What did I say? They flourish in us. Yes. You meet some people that they are hungry with their father who was never present for them. The anger has become a wound in their soul.

It It has become an identity they wear and a name that they give to every man. There's intense hatred for men that they mask under the guise of feminism. Some have been wounded by a mother who never affirmed them when they were young. Who always told them all kind of nonsense growing up, and they've grown up with such wounds. They've been betrayed by someone they trusted. Some are frightened by a future that they cannot even control. And some of them would even lie awake in their minds, and they will start replaying conversation. They'll start replaying feelings and and fears that they are carrying. Some of them cannot even sleep. Some of them cannot enjoy the present because they are constantly anticipating disaster.

Their minds are heavily oppressed, heavily demonized. I've seen people that move from one relationship to another relationship, one achievement to another achievement, one pleasure to another pleasure because every new experience that they have offers them a a brief moment of escape from a pain that is always there. It will return. It will return. So their route of escape is different ways of exploring. Are you with me? Hear me brothers and sisters. Jesus is the answer. Jesus. Jesus is the answer.

Say it loud and clear. Jesus. Jesus. Please believe this. Yes, Please do. Please do. Please do. I appreciate how far medical help can go. I'm not despising medical help and not despising those things. But Jesus is the answer.

I wouldn't say more than that. Is the answer to guilt because his blood cleanses from sin. Is the answer to condemnation. Because there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in him. Is the answer to shame because it doesn't just pardon us, it cloths us with his righteousness. It receives us as sons and daughters. Is the answer to bondage Because whoever the son makes free is free indeed. Don't matter how you wanna look at it, from what perspective you wanna come from, Jesus is the answer. He's the hand of darkness. Because he's the light of the world.

He's the answer to meaningless living because all things were created through him and for him. He's the answer to the fear of death because it is resurrection and the life. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes, He has destroyed the one who had the power of death. So those who lived in bondage only have to meet Jesus. Please believe this. It's the answer to loneliness, separation from God. Because in him, we've been brought near to God. We've been made members of his household. The bible says, he's not ashamed to call us brothers and sisters.

The tragedy is that the people that mostly need this answer are not naturally able to recognize him. And their problem is not only that, no one has told them. Right? The problem is that even when they hear, there's another power that is working to prevent them from seeing the glory of what they've heard. And it's in second Corinthians chapter four from verse three to verse four. The bible says, but even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. Next verse. Whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God should shine on them. Do you see that? Satan's primary strategy for this passage is blindness.

It doesn't have to convince everybody that God does not exist. He only has to keep the person blind. Keep the person blind from seeing this glory of Christ. It may permit the person to be religious as long as religion doesn't lead the person to Christ. In fact, it may permit some kind of spirituality as long as the person remains his own Lord. It may allow the person to admire Jesus as a moral teacher. It may allow the person to admire Jesus as some kind of prophet or an historical figure. Right? As long as the person never sees Jesus as the crucified. As long as the person never sees Jesus as the Lord, as the savior.

Before whom every knee must bow. He might allow it. Sometimes the veil is distraction. He allows the person to be distracted long enough that they never have the time to reconcile their souls to Christ. Sometimes he allows the person to keep on postponing Christ. I will take this thing serious tomorrow. I'll take it serious tomorrow. It's blindness. Someone doesn't have to hate Christ to be blind. He can just be postponing Christ.

And it explains why argument alone doesn't solve the problem. Argument alone cannot save a person. We would answer people's questions carefully. We would reason with them from scripture. You would remove any unnecessary stumbling block. But listen to me, the deepest need of a man is light. Argument does nothing. The bible does not say go into the world and argue. Argument does nothing to a person who is blind. What did I say?

Argument does nothing to a person who is blind does not need more information. A person who is blind needs light. They need line to shine in their heart. That's why conversion is a miracle. When a soul gets saved, it's a miracle that has happened. Conversion is an act of God. It means a blinded heart has been opened. It means light has shown. The bible says, lest the light of the gospel of Christ should shine on them. It means when a person accept Jesus, what has happened is that the light of the gospel of Christ are shone upon them.

It's a miracle. It's a miracle that must be celebrated. When somebody says, I got a soul saved. That's a miracle. It's like healing the sick. Open a blind eye. It's a miracle. It's an act of God. The same God who stood before the darkness in Genesis and said, let there be light. He's the one that shines light in a darkened heart.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. He's the one that reveals the glory of God in the face of Christ. That's why we cannot go for evangelism without joining it to prayer. It's why we pray for people. It's the reason we pray for people. This is what prayer does, because there is a veil on the heart of men. So it's not enough to be passionate about people. You must understand also that the people you are passionate about, there's a 90% chance, it's not a 100% chance that their heart is veiled. That their heart is veiled.

So we pray. So we pray. We pray. You have a friend, you put their names in prayer. And you say, Jesus, reveal yourself to this person. Reveal yourself to this person. And you begin to intercede from your heart. Otherwise, what you would get out of it is an argument. It doesn't mean you wouldn't preach. It doesn't mean you wouldn't teach.

It doesn't mean you wouldn't send messages to the person. It doesn't mean you wouldn't invite them to church. But you yourself haven't gotten the burden. Haven't seen what God is seeing. It will launch in you a desire to pray, to intercede for the lost. It is how you weaken the hold of Lucifer on their hearts. It's what makes it seem as though when we go and meet people, their hearts are opened unto us. When prayer precedes our going forth, prayer that stems from sin. Are you with me? Yes.

We speak to the person, but we also appeal to God for the person. We explain the gospel to the person, but we also ask the holy spirit to unveil his heart, To reveal himself and to reveal Christ. We can't insult people into this title. We can't shame them into the life of God. We can't manipulate them into the life of God. We can't manipulate them into faith. It's why some people have come up for altar call more than 30 times since they were young. Yet, you would still find that they are in darkness. You will still find that they suffer from everything we have said right now. Who a man who is in Christ should not suffer from.

And by the time you check very well, you will realize they're not even saved. Despite they've been held for 30 other calls. You know why? Because the equation for believing offers our vision will never change. It says with the heart, a man believes. With the mouth, he confesses. It means if a man comes out for other call and these two things did not happen, all he came out for was a prayer. The man just came to pray for him. He's not saved. And let me tell you how I know this.

Are you with me? A man of God was sharing how that he hosted a crusade and he called an evangelist to come and preach. And the evangelist shared on the love of Jesus. And he called people to come and give their life to Christ after sharing this and nobody came. Not a soul came out. He said, even children not raise their hand, you know, jokingly. Like, say they want to play and just raise. He said, nobody. The old people was just dead. He said he was hungry in his heart.

So he came out and took the microphone from the bridge up and started talking. He said, if you are not saved, do you know hell? You will go to hellfire. The punishment of God. God is hungry with the sinner. The wages of sin is death. And then they tell them how hell looked like. He said when he was done, he said, now if you want to give your life to Jesus. He said, everybody came out. Everybody.

The chair was handy. Everyone was out. He said, yes. Results. This is this is it. This is it. If somebody gave their life to Jesus that day, it would be that the holy spirit himself did one work in their life. Yes, sir. It's not... It will not be because they believed in something because nothing they've heard has given them something to believe in.

That's the problem. The problem is with the heart, you believe. It means there must be an object of belief. Yes. Do you understand what I'm saying? So if I tell you, come on, what are you believing? What do you believe? Ask the question. What do you believe? And because there is nothing you believe, is the reason why you will come out again.

And you will come out again. Because the first time, we're not even sure if you believe something. You just know you came out. Now they are calling it again, but you are not still sure. Lot of it happen tomorrow. Let me just be safe. This one, I don't really know because the believing has not happened. That's what is called the assurance of salvation. Ephesians one verse 13 says, you were sealed with the holy spirit of promise. Sealed.

A mark, a signet was put on you when you made that decision to accept Jesus. Say, apostle, you're saying that somebody is not saved even when they came and gave their lives to Jesus on the altar call because they did not believe. But they are speaking in tongues and so what? And so what? I've not watched Nollywood movie. They don't speak in tongues there. Mostly a pastor that is standing, It's not easy. The movement man can not What's that? What's that? The miracle is not that they spoke in tongues.

It's that the tongue was inspired. Because the thing can be copied. Thing can be copied. Remember we were getting some people saved many years ago and we told them, you ready to pray in tongues, pray in tongues. And this girl was not saying anything. Somebody went and said, just say it. Something is on your mind. Just say it. There's something on your mind. Just say it.

And the girl began, Shama. Shama. Shama. Shama. Shama. Shama. Shama. Shama. Shama. Shama.

Shama. I mean, you told her something is on her mind. And she told you what was on her mind. Are you with me brother and sisters? When Jesus looked at the world, he saw blindness. Matthew chapter nine thirty six, we saw the scripture. It says Jesus saw the multitude. He was moved with compassion for them because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd. Look at the order of that passage. Jesus saw.

Jesus was moved. Jesus spoke about the need for the harvest. Then Jesus commanded prayer for laborers. The commission grew out of compassion. The compassion grew out of sight. There was something that he saw. Many believers are waiting to feel a burden for souls. Whereas you are refusing to look. You're refusing to look closely at the people beside you. Look closely at the people you interact with on a daily basis.

You will not be moved to preach if you don't see people. It is when you see people, would see their guilt, you would see their shame, you would see their hunger, you would see their cries, you would see their tears. Otherwise, you will move every day as though nothing is wrong. As though everything is good in this world. As though there's no problem because you have no problem. Yet there are people like the butler in the prison. The same prison as you. But you will wake up and do as though they are not there. Because you are good, because you're okay. And the reason you're okay is because you have peace with God.

But there are plenty people who think God is angry with them, who don't have peace with God. Are you with me? You must see the person. You must listen long enough to hear the pain behind the joke they are cracking. There is a guy that I used to know, every time he mocks pastors. Oh, pastors. Pastors. One day I asked him, who offended you? And you would think it was a joke. Uncle started telling me.

One pastor like that. I said, Kai, it's painful that the experience of one person has made you so far from God. And it's possible because there is a prince. There's the part... There's the prince of the hair that blinds their hearts. It's possible. That misinterprets things. It's possible. You can't have compassion for your word you have not seen. Compassion is not produced by standing from one hedge and calling the word wicked.

It's formed when the conditions of people enter into your heart as well. The bible says we don't have an high priest who is not touched by the feelings of an infirmity. That when you see people, what they go through many times will touch you. The body we are talking about is not a supernatural pain that comes to your soul. Sometimes you can be touched by someone's ignorance and someone's folly. Sometimes... I remember those days. I will sit down the back of my class when I was a student. I will sit down the back of my class, right, and look at everybody. And they are joking and laughing.

All of them. And I would sit and I would look at them and say, Kai, look at these confused people. Look at these confused people. I pray that your eye is really open to see. I pray. Jesus saw that people were wheelied and scattered. He saw that they were harassed. He saw that they were distressed. He saw that they were exposed, that they were thrown down. A sheep without shepherd can still find grass for a period of time, But it can't reliably tell the difference between what is safe and what is not safe.

It doesn't know how to protect itself from from from predators. Doesn't know how to protect itself. Doesn't know how to treat its own wound. Doesn't know how to find its way home. Shepherdlessness means lack of wisdom, lack of direction. It means I can see people who lack direction and I'm moved. That these ones are like a sheep without shepherd. Who lack direction? You see, many of the things that you are sure about and that you know, you know because there is someone who is teaching you. You are under a teaching priest, And because you are on by a teaching priest, you know what is wrong and what is not.

Is so? There are informed decisions you can make about life. There are places you would not go to because somebody has touched you the will of Christ. Is that not so? Not everybody has that over their lives. So they are scattered like sheep without shepherd. Like sheep without shepherd. You can tell in the way they make decisions. You can tell. You just talking and then you look at them and this is a close group you are in.

And you just talking to the car, how long have they gone be? And say, ah, wait. I know they walk in your church. They say, I will walk out. Something should touch you. It's not normal. Something should touch you. Like sheep without shepherd. Don't let your heart be so seared. They are no longer moved again.

Something should touch you. Like sheep without shepherd. You are seeing the girl calling someone and saying, I love you. I love you too. Oh, thank you. Oh, and they cause that one. And the moment she's done, they say, oh, but you buy something for me. I'll buy the thing for you. Are you sure? Yeah.

I'm sure. She called the call. And the moment she called the call, please adjust. Next order of business. Hello, Michael. And then does the same routine again. And when she's done, her phone rings. I say, oh, this one. Hello, Paul. It should move you.

It should not excite you. Should we not tell ourselves the truth? You should look at that life and say, Kai, even if you are smiling, there should be pain behind your smile. I can't just tell this girl now, but I'm praying. As I'm praying, I'm thinking of the wisest way to approach. I devise strategies. As I'm praying, if I have a car and she's following me, I will play method that I know will torture. I will put it on loud volume. I'll be going. As the message is happening, I'll be saying, She will now say shouldn't say, what's that?

What's that? You didn't hear that. You didn't hear. Oh, let me rewind it for you. But something has to... There's got to be a pain in my soul. It's got to be. It's got to be. It's obvious that every... All these people are doing for one night.

It's obvious. And you still walk and you don't feel anything. But, Kai, this is not the best way to go about life. Can I take advantage of this guy's desire for knowledge? Can I put a message on his phone? Let me add him to a telegram channel. Guy, I want you to listen to this thing. Listen to it. Listen to it. And then you play prosperity lessons from Jesus.

The guy thinks he's about to hear the principles that makes for wealth. But you shouldn't see someone going to hell and it should be exciting you. You didn't see someone living a confused directionless life. There's nothing to excite you about it. Really, there is not. Don't be afraid that they will now tag you something. Do you know that it was one of the prayer that Moses prayed for the congregation of Israel in Numbers 27 from verse 16, that they should not be left without shepherd. Look at this. Let the Lord, the God of the spirit of all flesh, set a man over the congregation. Verse 17.

Who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in that the congregation of law may not be like sheep, which have no shepherd. So imagine where Judah was speaking from when he saw them and said, these ones are like sheep without shepherd. And the bible says Jesus had compassion on them. Yet Moses also had compassion on them. The compassion of Moses led him to pray. His prayer I found expression in Joshua. Is that not so? Yes, sir. But Jesus is the highest issuer. Joshua has all that need in the measure, but Joshua is greater than Joshua.

He's the one that leads humanity out of the dominion of darkness into the kingdom of God. Compassion. Compassion does not mean that we pretend that that sin or that state that they are in is harmless to their destiny. That's not what compassion is. Jesus is tender towards sinners, but he's uncompromising about repentance. Because true compassion wants people free. He doesn't want people comfortable. Doesn't want people comfortable. If you go and visit the doctor and the doctor refuses to tell you what is wrong... Somebody goes to meet the doctor and doctor refuses to tell the person what is wrong with them.

Because the doctor is compassionate and doesn't want them to be afraid, doesn't want them to fear, doesn't say anything, just says go. Is that compassion? Is that compassion? I don't wanna disturb the patient. That is not a compassionate doctor. Are you with me? A loving doctor tells the patient the truth because the condition is serious. It requires treatment and treatment is available. In the same way, we can't confuse kindness with silence. We can't be indifferent about what destroys people even if they don't know that it's destroying them.

The gospel is good news because it honestly tells people what they must be saved from. Are you with me? Yes, sir. John three verse 18. Look at what the bible says. John three verse 18, then he who believed in him is not condemned but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the holy begotten son of God. The person who does not believe is not standing on neutral ground. He is condemned already. Did you see that? Condemned already.

That guy might not feel condemned. That guy might even feel confident. He might feel admired. He might feel secure. He might feel free. But a legal condition does not depend on a man's feelings. If something is legal, whether you feel like it or not, the legality stands. A man can be sleeping peacefully in a building that is already marked for demolition because he does not know. He has not seen the notice. The question is this, does his peace remove the danger?

Does the father is at peace and he has no awareness of anything wrong? Does it remove the coming danger? No. His peace does not remove the danger. His peace only shows that it lacks understanding. In the same way, spiritual indifference is not evidence of safety. Sometimes, the man that is most endangered is the one that feels no danger at all. Many times. Many times. He's the one that feels nothing.

He's just moving, just cruising. Know what they call it? They call it cruise. He's cruising through life. It's cruising through life. That's where the doctrine of eternity has to come back to the church. Those days, they call it living with eternity in view. That there is judgmental and we will go to heaven. We will go to heaven. We cannot awaken believers to evangelism while speaking to them as though the only consequences of rejecting Christ is that you would live a meaningless life on earth.

No. You just miss a few blessings on earth. No. No. Jesus saves from sin. Jesus saves from wrath. Jesus saves from eternal condemnation, eternal damnation, eternal separation from God. We must speak this truth in love. Love does not erase warning. In fact, warning is one of the forms that love takes when danger is real.

Luke sixteen twenty seven thirty one. I want us to read this together. Popular story in scripture of Lazarus and the rich man. And this was when they were already in Aedes, right? And the rich man has seen his feet. Now that he's been tormented eternally, haven't rejected Christ. Is that not so? And then the poor man, Lazarus, was in Abraham's bosom. And the rich man was begging for just a drop of water. And this guy's soul was in torment in Hades.

Funny thing was, it was already in torment where he was. Yet, where he was is still not hell fire. Doctrinally speaking. But the torment was already unbearable. Hellfire is after judgment. So this place he was in is a waiting area. Yeah. This is how the bible describes the waiting area. May you not land there? You shouldn't land there.

The bigger prayer should be that those that you know and love should not land there. But look at what the rich man is saying. He says then he said, I beg you therefore, father, that you would send Lazarus, who is also dead by the way, to my father's house. This was someone who probably have joined arguments that whether this thing is real or is not real. This was someone who had a comfortable life whilst he was on earth. Who might have had people have preached to him and I told them, what are you talking about? You see, you would rather that people hate you for telling them the truth than that they love you and then go to hell. And realize in hell that you never love them. Because you were too afraid to offend them. You were too afraid to offend them.

But Christianity is an offending religion. We say... And the reason is because it's a kingdom. It's not a religion, it's a kingdom. Are you with me? But you cannot really be a frontier of that kingdom and not offend people. There are people who will offend. There's nothing you can do about that. Because the words of the king are not subject to modification. Next verse.

28 now. Watch this. For I have five brothers. I have five brothers right now in my house. They are not yet dead. I don't want them to come here. This was someone who was already in hell. I don't want them to come here. I might not be deserving of being sent back, but can you send Lazarus back that he may testify to them? Lest they also come to this place of torment.

Look at the next verse. It says, Abraham said to him, they have Moses. They have the prophets. Let them hear them. Look at the next verse. And he said, no father. No father Abraham. If you said they should listen to Moses and the prophets, they might not hear them because I also argued. They came to me so I'd not hear them. But if one goes to them from the dead, and the person tells them, see, I went there.

I saw it. It's true. They will repent. That was the mentality. But look at what Jesus said. Look at what Jesus said. Jesus said, father Abraham is still speaking here. He says, if they don't hear Moses, I'm the prophet, neither will they be persuaded. Don't wanna rise from the dead. Is why is why this doctrine of I died, I went to hell, I went to heaven, I brought the gospel is a lie.

Have I offended someone? I know you watched it as a video when you... You know many people who are in hell fire. You know how many pastors are in hell. This one, I saw him in hell. This one, they held him like this. This one, they held his hand like this. This is doctrine. Doctrine is that no one comes back from the dead, given an assignment from the dead to go and preach the gospel. There's no such ministry.

Mandates are not given from the dead. It's not from the grief that Jesus gives mandates to people. He rose and ascended. He that descended is the one who ascended. So he's not still in hell. So he's not appointing offices to people in hell. Do you all understand what I'm saying? He had ascended. He had ascended. He had You had ascended.

So if you came from hell and you came with a ministry you did not have before you died, you can be sure that it's the devil that gave you. It's why that message kept more people captive than it delivered more people. Sir. It's why. It's the reason why. If you put attachment, attachment is snake in hell. The snake in hell. What breath is condemnation? What if birth is captivity? What if birth is chain?

Abraham said, if they will not believe those of us who are alive, when we come and warn them, it wouldn't make any difference. Who will not believe will not believe? But you can see the passion of this guy for his brothers who are still alive. How come you are not passionate like that? He said nobody deserves to come here. See, life after death is real low. There is heaven and there is hell. The rich man's perspective changed when he was too late. Too late to change his condition. And whilst he arrived, he had lived in the physical world.

After death, now understood that his brothers needed something. Needed Jesus. They needed somebody to witness to them. The man who had ignored eternity all his life was now finally begging for evangelism. He couldn't return to preach anymore. He couldn't return to want to to to get people to repent anymore. So he was begging that let somebody go and speak. It's because that that man understood something, that there's a way the natural life can can create a dangerous illusion. People eat, people work, people celebrate, people travel, people conduct business, and they make plans without moving towards hell in reality. And because judgment is not immediate, they assume it means judgment is not coming.

Because God is patient, they interpret patience as approval. But scriptures say that it is appointed for humanity to die once. And after this comes judgment. Doesn't matter how long it takes. It will happen to happen. The day is coming when all of us will stand before the great white throne. We'll come to church like this and church is empty. I dropped this microphone for you and I'm gone. Would it not be amazing that somebody was still praying in tongues that day? With his eyes shut.

It will be a very funny day. Pretty most disastrous day on earth. To be a day that will record the most calamity. Because the pilot find the jet will disappear and the jet will crash. Scaring 16 passengers, maybe about eight of them will disappear. Maybe eight of them will remain. And they will all crash but nobody will die. Because the bible says even death will be imprisoned. And the reason nobody will die is because there will be... We call the bible the best selling book.

We wait until that day. Every bookstore will sell out. Finally, everybody wants to go and check what is there. What is there. Finally, everybody will take it seriously. And we will rejoice in heaven. And we will be singing with angels. And some of my songs will play. But I want to look and see people there. I want to look and see thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people who have had reason to pass through my life there.

I want you to always say the same. That's the beauty of this. I want you to also say the same. I want you to also say the same. Bow your heads and let us pray. The prayer is simple. Open my eyes, Lord, to see as you see. I've been too indifferent for so long. I've been in... Please be sincere.

I've been indifferent for so long. I've been indifferent for so long. I've been untouched for so long. I've been surrounded by people I should impact, people I should bless, people my life should speak a message to. And I've ignored them for so long. I don't want my heart to be seared. To get to that point where I can no longer feel anything. I can no longer sense anything. I no longer know what your burdens are. Can you do something to my heart?

Do something. Make me alive once again. Make me live once again. Let me know your burdens once again. Let me see once again. Let me understand once again. Let this be more than words. I've been saved. I can't deny people. That my life should bless.

Of this wonderful blessing. On that great white throne, when you stand to judge the world, I must see everyone that my life has come across there. Those that became saved because I came into their lives. Because I sent them a message. Because I gave to the gospel. Because I brought them to church. And I'll reap the nations for you so my life so my life I'll reap Nigeria for you Timothy, do the work of an evangelist. I'll reap the nations for you. I'll reap Nigerian for I'll rip the wall. I'll rip the wall.

Draw me. And we will run after you. There will be many we running because you have drawn me. You have drawn me. You have drawn me. I will not run alone. I will not run alone. Not run alone. I will not run alone. I will not run alone.

So my life. I'll replenish for for you. I rebel Africa for you. I rebel Asia for you. I rebel nations for you. Go into the world. And preach. Going to the world and preach. I will not keep you waiting. I'll bring a smile to your face, Jesus.

I'll be the reverend that you are happy. I will be the reason that you are smiling oh. A billion souls on my candle. Children will come. Children will come. Women will come. Men will come. They will run because you have drawn me. This light will shine. This light will not die on my inside.

It will shine. You have said I'm a light to the Gentiles. The light is shining. I go like a soldier. Like a soldier, I move. There's no more shame. There's no anxiety. I will not keep you waiting. I not you waiting. I will will not not keep keep you you waiting.

Waiting. I will not keep you waiting. Open my eyes that I might see you. You. The stones will seek you because I seek your face. The stones will seek you because I seek your face. I will not keep you wait. You. Plant Emmanuel. Plant Emmanuel.

Plant Disciples Christian Network. We will not be barren oh, we will not be barren. Our lives will bear fruit. It won't bear much fruit. You will look at one of us and you will see 5,000 souls, 10,000 souls. Fire will burn oh. Fire will burn oh. You have found a man in this place. Let my life radiant to glory. Redeem to glory.

Jesus. Jesus. In Jesus. Name we have prayed. Thank you. Mark 16 from verse 15. It says, go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Then it says in verse 17, and this signs will follow. Those who believe. In my name, they will cast out demons.

In my name, they will speak with new tongues. In my name, they will pick up serpents. And it will not hurt them. And if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick. And the sick will recover. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. In Jesus name we have prayed. Do something about what you have heard in this week.

Do something about it. Do something about it. Do something about it. Take a step about it. Send a message to someone. Pray for someone tonight. Intercede for someone tonight. Do it again tomorrow. Do it again next tomorrow. Act someone to the telegram channel.

Speak to somebody about Jesus. Take a step. Don't leave it there. Otherwise, it will just go like you never heard anything. Make it a a decision of yours. Make it a decision of yours. That somebody will hear this gospel through you. Somebody will hear this gospel through you. Make it a division of yours. Make it a division of yours.

Let us be natural soul winners. Let it come to us by default. Let let it become who we are. That every moment of our day, we are passionate about somebody coming to Jesus, somebody becoming serious with God. Somebody's life being on the path of destiny. Somebody working in the will of God for their lives. Make it a mission. Make it a vision. God will bless you as you do. Do something about it.

And there is anyone here that is loving you more than me. May it not be her door. That there is anyone here that is loving you more than me. Thank you for listening to this message. We trust you have been blessed. You can get more life transforming messages from apostle Emmanuel Boluwatifeh on our Telegram page at DCN Media channel. You can also stream the messages on Spotify, Ocho Mac, and Apple Podcast. Connect with us via our social media platforms on Instagram at dcn underscore nations, on Facebook at disciples christian network, on x at dcn central, and on TikTok at Disciples Christian Network. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel at Disciples Television. If you have a testimony from this message, you can mail us at disciplecngmail dot com.

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