Transcript: Great Grace — Understanding the Gospel

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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. Paul wrote the book of Romans as a letter addressing believers in Rome. You see, these believers were mostly Gentiles. Gentiles mean that they were not Jews. They were not Israelites. They were Gentiles. They were outside of the covenant that God had with Abraham. And these Gentiles are people who just received the gospel, who had just been born again and were new in their commitment to following God. But there was an issue.

The issue was that they were being troubled by the Jewish believers who were trying to mix the old testament law with Christianity. So in the early days of the church, many born again Jews believed that Christianity was simply an extension of Judaism. Judaism was the religion that was birthed off the laws of Moses. And the old testament covenant. They had a set of laws and a set of ritualistic customs that they had to keep to to be holy and accepted by God. They had directory regulations, what food to eat, what food not to eat. In those days, there were food that you eat, that you are you are a sinner, you are considered unclean. And there are regulations concerning these things. They had regulations even as to how they act, even what is clean. Their hands must be washed, legs must be washed, and all of that.

They had the right of circumcision. As a Jew, you had to be circumcised. If you are not circumcised, you are not accepted by God. The laws that regulated their living, the laws that regulated their lifestyle, Whom to marry? Whom not to marry? When you are married, what to do with your spouse? What to do with a master child? Even laws that regulated a woman on her period. Such that a woman on her period cannot go into the synagogue. Lest she strike dead because she's considered unclean.

A leprosy man cannot go to the synagogue. Less because he's also considered unclean. There were sicknesses that makes people consider you unclean. That was the case of the woman with the issue of blood. That was why it was a risk to her life when she approached Jesus. Because if people knew what her condition was, they can stone her to death. There were laws and customs that surrounded people caught in the heart of adultery. There were love and custom that surrounded. If you read Leviticus, all you will see are laws and customs. Laws and custom is all you see.

And these things have become their tradition. Let me tell you how traditions are formed. In the book of Judges chapter 15, from verse 15, the Bible says, he found a flesh jaw bone of a donkey. This is speaking of Samson. He reached out his hand and took that jawbone and killed a thousand men with it. He killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an heart. Of a donkey. Then Samson said, with the jawbone of a donkey, hips upon hips. With the jawbone of a donkey, I have slain a thousand men. You see, the jawbone of a donkey worked for the situation at hand at that moment.

He used that jawbone and he slew 1,000 men. It worked. What Samson would have done was to brand that jawbone as the new discovered secret for killing 1,000 men. He would have told everybody, let me tell you the secret to slaying a thousand men. What I used was the jawbone of a junkie. He would have branded it and then traded it to the next generation and to everybody that will listen as what worked in that moment. So if you face a donkey, if you face 1,000 Felicis next time, use these things because it was something that worked. It will be branded and then traded. That is where the word tradition is gotten from. Tradition means making a custom that worked one time and passing it on to the next generation.

But let me tell you what Samson did. Verse 17. The Bible says, and so it was when he had finished speaking. What did he do? He threw the jaw bone from his hand. In other words, the fact that he walked one time does not mean that is how God will continue to walk. It is wisdom to know when what has worked before seems to be functional. But when we keep these things, we brand it, we model it, we pat it on, we trade it as the working principle. What what one time would become what we work every time. That is called a tradition.

There are customs that have been traded from one generation onto the next generation. They have become customary. Things we do every day because some people did it and they got results. That is a tradition. And if you're not careful even as believers, we'll realize that there are many things we have inherited that are not doctrinal, but they've become traditions. Do you understand what I'm saying? They've become traditions. For instance, should I mention instances? Let me not be direct, but I would say this. A man of God can, by reason of his work with God, have an experience.

And he tells people that this was how I accessed this mystery in Christ. And everybody upon hearing it believes that if you want to access the same thing, this is precisely what you must do. In as much as that thing does not have its foundation in scripture, it was a personalized healing to the man. Then the first person does it, and maybe it works. The second person does it. Maybe it works. By the time that thing becomes passed down, it becomes a tradition. And so you don't... Before you know it, everybody is doing the same thing. And if you are not careful, a time will come when we will no longer be able to separate between the tradition and what we believe as doctrine.

Everything will collide as one so that we will now believe that this must be doctrine. I wish I would give you examples, but God give you understanding. May God give you understanding. At the early phases of it, it can be obvious that this is not in scriptures. This is what our man of God does not like, and he has said it. The first generation, we we know that this is not in scripture. But as generations pass, there will be a very thin gap between this is not in scriptures and this is what our man of God likes. No. They won't be able to tell the difference again. It's just be what we do as believers.

That's the tradition. And there are many of those traditions in many churches, many denominations that if you sit down believers of those nominations and ask them why do you do this? They will have no scriptural reference as to backing what they do. But they believe if you a Christian and you are not doing it, you are a sinner. That was the era of the Jews. There were laws and there were guidelines for living in the old testament. And those laws had their own purpose. I will show you this very soon. They made those laws, they brought the laws outside of the context of its purpose, made a tradition out of the laws, and was still made a religion out of it. Founded what is called Judaism.

It wasn't founded by God. The law had a purpose, but the religion was crafted out of the law. Are you with me? The problem was that in the New Testament now, when Jesus came, as the Jews whose previous religion was Judaism, who had been used to following a set of customs, a set of laws for all their daily living. As a matter of fact, they've been told that without these customs, without these laws, God is not happy with you. The way you access God is by following these customs. If a man doesn't do this, if a man doesn't do that, then that man cannot gain reception with God. That was what they were taught. And so when Christianity came and Jesus came, they imported these customs and this tradition into Christianity because they thought that Christianity was advanced Judaism. The difference is now that a savior has come.

So when they were getting saved, they considered these laws and these customs to still be the foundation of their new faith in Christ. They were trying to mix the old covenant with the new covenant. And in John chapter one verse 17, Jesus says something very powerful. Jesus said for the law was given through Moses. But grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. My goodness. The law was given through a servant. Grace and truth came through the son. The Lord talks about what man ought to be. Grace reveals what God is.

Look at the disparity. In the first miracle of Moses, he turned water into blood resulting in death because all the fishes of the rivers died. Every aquatic being died. In the first miracle of the sun, it turned water into wine resulting in life and celebration. The bible says a letter kills, but the spirit giveth life. Under the law, God demands righteousness from sinfully bankrupt man. But under grace, God provides righteousness as a gift. Under the law, you are demanded to be righteous. You are to follow a set of customs and a set of laws to be righteous. You are to meet up to a standard that in reality you could never meet.

Under grace, God provides what you are trying to attain as a gift. That becomes hard for the guy who has been practicing Judaism all his life, that he has had to follow a set of laws to attain righteousness. Now you tell him that all these things you are doing is not what makes for righteousness. This thing you are trying to attain has been given to us as a gift. That was why the Jews were angry with the Gentiles. That this thing, what we labored for, what we slaved for, what we are you are telling us that some people can just come and say, accept you, and they don't have to be circumcised. Do you know how painful circumcision was? And I I I joined Judaism when I was forty five days to circumcised me. Now you are telling me that somebody who is... Because who is knowing Christ wouldn't pass through that ordeal.

Never. It was a difficult truth to accept, and there were no laws to attain righteousness. There were no works to attain righteousness. In fact, what made the Pharisees respected and honored was that they knew the law and they glorified themselves in practicing the law. So how do you expect these people that their honor came from their self righteousness? Their honor came from the father. They know the law. They know everything a man ought to do. So they they asked Jesus, why are you getting the sick on the Sabbath day? Why are you doing that and that and that?

They brought lot. Every challenge of the Pharisees to Jesus was as the Lord demands. When they asked him a question of divorce, it was as following the law. Moses said, that a man can divorce his wife. But eventually he caught her in fornication, in adultery. Jesus said in the beginning, it was not so. They came again. We caught this woman in adultery. What is your sentence? All they were trying to do is, do you uphold the law?

Are you with me? Because these people pride themselves in their ability to live by a set of customs to attain righteousness. So they were... They're like the the holiest people that the Jews could find. The Jews honored them for this reason. When you see a scribe, ah, a scribe does not commit adultery. A Pharisee does not give. A Pharisee does not lie. If in their minds, this were the picture of perfection. I pray you get what I'm saying.

I really pray you get it. That's why Paul has to boldly proclaim that circumcision and all other adherences to Jewish custom and law were not requirements for salvation. And this was a battle. They challenged this doctrine, and all that struggle was captured in the book of Acts. I believe there was a reason why the struggle was captured in Acts. I believe it is because the Bible knows and God knows that when accurate preacher of truth arise, they will struggle like Paul struggled. So to receive some some form of encouragement, God had to show them that even when Paul brought this method of grace, he was awful challenged. Are you with me? Yes, sir. He was awful challenged.

The truth is this, anyone that preaches grace as simple as the bible preaches it, if there is any believer who has pride himself in legalism, that is self righteous salvation, following a set of customs and laws to attain salvation. And you find someone who is preaching, and all you have to do is to believe that Jesus came, died, was buried. Ah, no. Something will be wrong. You find a believer who believes that if I don't wear a scarf, I'm going to hell. If you a believer doesn't wear a kind of cloth, dress in a kind of way. There are even people that come to church and they try to analyze other people's dressings. And they see a young man in church party wearing cap. And they look from afar and they say, that one now. This is enough.

That one. And you think that this is not a problem until the tradition you have accepted starts manifesting unconsciously in condemning others like yourself. Am I said unconsciously? You're doing it subconsciously. You see a believer's dressing and you conclude that just by this one's dressing, God cannot accept him. So how much more you see a pastor on tattoo? Or is... Or you passed away dreadlocks. There's a problem because your mind cannot accept it. Especially if you grew up in a tradition that believe that cutting your hair to the lowest possible portion as a man is what makes God accept you.

Listen. Now you are no longer in that background. You are in a sound teaching church. You are in a church that believes truth, but you'll still see something fighting you. And you will say, me, I can never listen to any preacher on red log. You you just sit coming out. A proof that you don't even know the gospel. You'll be amazed how many believers don't know the gospel. And yet they are believers. Truly speaking, they are.

But they are barren of that which they have received, and so the devil cheats them. Let me put a disclaimer out there. This is gonna be a series. Listen. It's gonna be a series because you must understand what I'm gonna be teaching. So it's not just to bring us to a pit of excitement. It's to bring us to a pit of understanding. And when you understand, you will truly be excited. I'm telling you. You will truly be excited when you understand.

But beyond the excitement, we have understanding. If you come for just one, you'll be standing on one leg. It's a series. You must stand on all the legs completely. Yes. So that you don't misquote and misunderstand what I'm saying. Yes. Number one. Number two, this is not an attack against anybody. So as I'm teaching, listen to understand.

Don't listen to trust tone like other believers. Don't listen in your mind. You're saying, This church, I knew it. That's not what is happening here. If that is what is happening, you have a heart by the stony place. It's called a reflective heart. A heart that bounces when truth is put on it. That's what happen with stone. When you plant seed on stone, it bounces. So when the word of God enters your heart, it bounces.

It doesn't enter. You see it as apparent to somebody else but you. People can have all their different beliefs. What matters is what you know. Is that okay? Yes, ma'am. Yes. It's gonna be a bible study. It means we will go through scriptures to see what does scripture say. What does the bible say?

Paul rebukes legalism when he was speaking to the Galatian church. Legalism basically is believing that adherence to these laws and these customs of the old testament is what makes for salvation. That is legalism. Believing that following a set of laws is what makes you righteous. It's what makes your worship acceptable to God. You see, the danger is that you only believe that. The bible says as you have received Christ, so walk in him. It means whatever understanding of how you received Christ is is how you will eventually walk in him. So if you believe that you received Christ by works, you will unconsciously walk in him by works. You will consciously believe that you have a set of rules and regulations to follow to walk in him.

It it will not only stop at how you were saved. It will continue to how you form a relationship with God. That is why it is a it is an... Is a lack of understanding of what grace is and the gospel. What the gospel is that make people run away from God whenever they fail. Whenever they feel as though they've not met up to a standard. What causes condemnation? I will define condemnation for you very soon. What causes low self esteem? What causes fear?

What causes all of these things? It's because believers do not understand the gospel. What causes a weak heart? What causes guilty conscience? A weak conscience, the bible calls it, is because the gospel in its fullness is not understood. Why should you expect to be favored every day? I spoke to a believer once. And I told the believer that the power of God is yours to command. You can't demonstrate power. And I was speaking to the believer.

We can cast out devils. We can heal the sick. We can raise the dead. And the believer told me that I don't feel as though I've prayed enough. I've not gotten there yet. And I told him, where where do you want to get to? Do you know where you are already? The problem is you are trying to get where you are. It's already a problem. Some believer says some believer says, man of god, I just don't feel connected.

That's the problem. You're trying to connect what is connected. It's a problem, but there's no other pause to put. Asked the man of God, where where do you wanna get to? And that's the problem with this understanding because you will never get there. In your mind, you'd always feel as though there is still something. There is still something. There is still something. The man of God told me, he said he said he said, are you saying that mutual can go and minister and be doing what he now mentioned the man of God who moves in terrible manifestation of power like what I was describing to him he can do? Are you telling me that I can do what this man can do?

I asked him, am I not doing it? And I said, about you, you have gained stature. Tell me how I gained it. Tell me how I gained it. All the attempt to try and convince this person was futile, And it's because of what we have listened to. Many people believe that there is a amount of fastings and prayers they must pray to be accepted by God. There are places they cannot get to. There are realms in God, depths in God. If you have not done so and so and so and so. And they spend all their life pursuing these things.

You see, what I'm gonna teach you will be shaking some of his mind. Actually, if I leave you are of this set, it will be doing a lot of rattling to your belief. Just open your heart and receive. Please do. Please do. Because that believer could not even heal a sick person. Whereas those of all that had this superior understanding could do so much. Could do so much. Have you studied the life of the apostles? Do you know when they accepted Jesus as as lord and savior?

Let's even start from when they had not even been saved. Do you know what they did as unbelievers? Who only had Jesus as a covering? They went and they healed the sick. They cast out devils. By the authority that Jesus gave to them. Then they became saved. Now when you study the the timeline between when they were saved. And the first miracle that Peter did after salvation. It would have been a minimum of about sixty days.

Because after they were saved, they waited some days, Jesus came back and was with them for forty days. After that forty days, he told them to be in the upper room. They were there for about ten days or so. So let's say about seventy days. That's about two months. Plus, after they were saved, before one of them healed a crippled man. Two months. Two months. So if somebody now comes and says, if you have not done so and so for ten years, did these people have ten years? Some of them are, Jesus spent three and a half years doing ministry.

It means the maximum they've even known Jesus was three and a half years. Then the maximum they were saved was months. And then we come and we tell believers, if you have not done this for so many years and... Oh, yeah. Go into the scripture and find it there. And then you see the disciples, the Old Testament guys spent forty years in the wilderness. So you must spend that amount of time in the wilderness. I don't doubt that there is a wilderness experience. There is for every believer. But Jesus spent forty days there.

Jesus also went there. But his own duration was forty days. Now I don't know who you plan to be like. Do you know that wherever your understanding is is where God relates with you? Yes, sir. I'm telling you. God is that... That's why you call him merciful God. He's not merciful. Wherever you are, it just it just relates with you there.

Because when Jesus came by the Pool Of Bethesda, and he told that man, take up your bed and walk. The Bible says there were many important folk, many sick people, many that were lame, many that were blind. And he came to one man and told the man, take up your bed and walk. And whilst he was doing that, there were still many who were waiting to jump into the river. And Jesus never told them, come. I'm here. And the bible never records that the river was not steered. In other words, after that day, there was still a steering. Somebody was still healed. And they will still need to...

People will still need to line up and wait again for the next steering. Whereas, the one that is the steering was present there and did not force any of them to come to him. And did not close down the pool of Bethesda because he was there. My point is, wherever you are is where it relates to you. If you are the first to drop in, he will relate with you there. If you believe you have to wait for years until the pool is steered, he will come to you there. Where you are is where he lives with you. A father of faith says if the spirit of God does not move me, I will move him. If if if a legalistic believer hears that, it will cause problem. Because you would wonder, how will you say A father of one of these...

The white general of faith was in a meeting with Bensley Dahosa, and the man of God was trying to stir up the atmosphere as we'd call it. And people had been there for many hours, a lot of hours, and we just called to come and close the meeting by praying for the sick. When he came, was trying to stir the waters as we call it, singing a song, collecting the keyboardist, telling the keyboardist something like that. This will be set right. Whilst he was doing all of that, rain wanted to fall. The person who invited him to the crusade came and said, rain is about to fall. What is going on? He said, the atmosphere must be set. He said, can we take the microphone? We must close the meeting now.

He took the microphone, said, if you are sick, be healed. Blind eyes open. Deaf ears hear. Lame legs walk. And immediately, As he was saying it, blind eyes were opening. Lame legs were walking. Where you are is where it correlates with you. If the man of God has finished certain atmosphere, lame legs will walk. Blind eyes will open. Deaf ears will hear.

If I believe that, I don't have to feel anything because there's someone already on my inside who does not leave nor forsake me. I can just speak. I was eating indomie some years ago, and a girl was brought to me. The moment she was brought to me, it demon started manifesting. Her eyes turned white. I saw this life and direct. Our eyes turned white. Our voice changed to that of the man. It was a it was intense demonic expressions. I didn't stop eating my Indomie.

Some folks here were there. This was many years ago. I was still eating my Indomie where I was directing the devil like a traffic warden. We had to go with my leg. Get out of you. Get out you devil. Get Get you. Of says, apostle, how would you do that kind of a thing? That height or that principality. I I did not first go and lock yourself and fast.

You would... You will be amazed how deep this thing has gone. There are people that believe that they cannot get certain contracts because certain consecrations have not been done. There's someone who believe that the reason why I didn't make sale yesterday is because I failed in my consecration yesterday. Stay with me. There's someone who is always trying, constantly trying to come out of addictions, come out of sin, come out of all kinds of captivities that have held them bound. And they believe that how they would do it is by making constant resolve every day to get out. And they find out that the more they make these resolves, the more they go back into what they said they will not do again. Is the gospel not powerful? So wherever Paul met with legalism, Paul fought it.

In in Galatians chapter one verse eight, the... Look at Paul speaking. He says, even if we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you other than what we have preached to you, let him be accused. Anyone that preaches any other thing other than what we have preached, And he emphasized it again to show the seriousness in verse nine in verse nine. He says, as we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accused. There are believers who feel as though they are sick because... And they cannot... They can point why certain things are wrong with them because of some failures in consecration. Stay with me. You have to attend all this series so that you stand on two legs.

Because there are things in this kingdom that are gifts. What's a gift? A gift is anything that is freely given. You have to understand the gift. The gift puts you in a place to rightly and accurately receive the reward. Because there are also things in this kingdom that are rewards. Rewards suggest that it is given to you based on something that you have done. So there is no doubt there are things that are rewards. So stay with me. It was the same thing that was happening in the Galatian church.

In fact, we want to abuse people now. We will tell people, we say, Paul said, oh, foolish Galatians. Why are you acting foolish? We have to go and find out why Paul called the Galatian church foolish. So that was thought, you think that that scripture is an excuse to insult someone. There was a reason. And this reason was the same thing we are talking about here. Go there. In verse three, chapter three verse one, The bible says, oh, holy Galatians, who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified. Next verse, watch this.

This only I want to learn from you. Did you receive the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Next verse. Are you so foolish Having begun in the spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Did you get that? Yes, sir. NLT. Let's do it in NLT. Verse two, in NLT. It says, let me ask you this one question.

Did you receive the holy spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not. You received the spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ, not because you were obeying laws. Next verse, it says, how foolish can you be then after starting your Christian lives in the spirit? Why are you not trying to become perfect by your whole human effort? And he called them foolish. In other words, the definition of any man who thinks that perfection, salvation, acceptance is by his own human effort is foolish according to Paul. You see, the problem with this thinking is that it makes you self righteous. It makes you feel as though once you live your life following a set of rules, a set of laws, a set of customs, then you are righteous. But you must understand that salvation is all about God's faithfulness, not yours.

And understanding this is key to maintaining a close intimate relationship with God. There are many people today who will have trouble relating with God intimately because of this understanding. There are many believers who don't even know how to relate with God. We pray, but we don't even know how to be intimate with God, how to relate with him as sons. And if you don't understand your place as sons, even your ability to bring others into salvation will be impaired because it's only a son that can bring people into his father's house. If a servant brings people into his... Into the master's house and the master ask him, say, are those? Say, they are my friend. That day, both your friends and you are leaving the house. But many of you, your friends can follow you home.

And your parents ask you, who are those? Say, are my friends. And just because they are there, they are covered. It takes the consciousness of a son, a son that is accepted by his father, not one that is doing something to be accepted. That was the error of the second prodigal son because there were two of them. One of them was lost in the world. The other was lost in the church. Both of them were lost. The parable of two lost sons, I would call it. The second son is even worse because he's doing everything to secure his father's love.

When he found out that... Why why was he hungry? Because a celebration was thrown. A party was thrown for a son that he thought did not deserve love because he was thinking what has he done. That was why when the father came, he said, I've been saving you. In other words, it is all about what I've done. What I've done. What I've done. This one, do you know what he did? He ridiculed you.

He proclaimed you were dead. Because for you to demand for your inheritance, it means you assume I am dead. Inheritance should be given after the person who wrote the will is dead. Is that not so? Sir. So you assumed I was dead. You rebelled against me. You took what I gave to you as your inheritance, wasted it until you wasted it and became poor, then came back. The question is, if you had already spent all your inheritance finished, what are you still coming back for? What is there waiting for you?

Like I thought, if even my father's servants are better than the way I'm living currently, and he went back there. The day he came back, the father threw a party, kill a fat cow. The guy who has been serving, that no party has been thrown for him since he has been serving, said how will... What did he do to deserve it? For the legalistic believer, it's always about what did he do. What did he do? That's why after a very powerful meeting, my guys will come and ask me, apostle, how did you prepare? Because it's about what did you do. How many hours in prayers? How many hours in fasting?

How many days in dry? How did you prepare for this meeting? And my question is, do you know what has been made available to you? Because that was the question the father asked the second son. Did you ever ask for this and I didn't give you? Did you know that all whilst you were serving, thinking that you were trying to win my acceptance, if you if you wanted to throw a party for no reason, is it yours to throw? The guy had no understanding. He really thought that all he was doing was to secure his father's acceptance. I can imagine him coming to the father every day saying that we've we've gone to the market. We've raised this.

We raised two tons of feed today, and we fed all the animals. We had some animals who gave birth. We have already collected the babies already, and we are feeding them already. And we're able to make certain cattles, and he's giving report of what they did that day. And the father is listening to him and saying, Thank you very much. Thank you, my son. And he's saying, tomorrow, I'm coming again. My father must be impressed. My father must be impressed. And he comes again.

He says, your daddy, we have done this. You, my son. Then maybe next tomorrow, he wakes up late. He was not able to feed the cattles. And when he gets there, he gets there very late. He say, I can't go before daddy today. I forgot what I'm meant to do. Realize daddy is now waiting and saying, where is my son? Actually, every day he comes to me. Even though you have never come to me, you just ask me how I'm doing or just fellowship or to share in me.

Every time he come, it's all about giving report of what he has done. Well, at least that is the excuse to see him. So let me just see. If that is what it takes for me to have a relationship with him, no problem. Then today, doesn't show up. Why doesn't he show up? The guy is feeling, must be angry with me. I woke up late. I was not able to feed the cows. I was not able to...

My report will be missing. I won't be able to give my report to him. Because in his mind, what brings him acceptance is every time he appears before daddy. The father said, if you wanted a party thrown for you, at any point you have asked, it could have been done. In other words, this other believer is like someone who comes to God and he tells God, I knew when was saved. I've been doing this thing. They've not born her. Now the guy is saved. I knew we were there. We were we were the part of these counselors.

Now he starts a ministry. And in just one year, 200 members. They are doing two years anniversary, 1,000 members. I've been in this business for a long time. I've served you. I've done that. And then God is saying, my God. My God. Was that why you were doing all you were doing? To gain my acceptance?

Don't you understand that your walk with God begins from acceptance? Let me show you some things. You see, in in Matthew chapter five verse one, the bible says that Jesus climbed a mountain. I typify that mountain as heaven. Stay with me. He climbed a mountain. So let's say that that mountain is an apology of heaven. And on that mountain, it is hand to speak. It is hand to preach. And in verse 44, it says, love your enemies.

Ah. That is like the king in heaven declaring a standard from heaven. And what are his standards? Love your enemies. Even your neighbor, have not loved. Even your roommate, you have not loved. Your your own blood brother, your own blood brother, your sister, you have issues with loving. But the king stands on the mountain, and he says, love your enemies. What is it? What becomes your faith?

The king, if you want to approach me, these are my standards. Love your enemies. And he's saying this from the mountain. What is the hope of those that are not on that mountain? When you would think, well, I can still find a way to love my enemies. I can try. I can try. Then it stands again. If your right high offends you, block it out. If your right hand cause people to sin, cut stuff.

Yeah. Say, I'm in trouble. The question is, have you seen any church practice this? Do you know that Jesus does not say I'm joking? Jesus does not say, I'm playing. I'm playing. I I just I just I didn't want you. He was telling you his standards, his pristine standards. Guess what? The scribes and the Pharisees were also listening.

If a thot was amputating hands and legs and eyes, the question was, what was Jesus doing when he was saying these things? Jesus was bringing the law back to the pristine standard because the Pharisees had brought it down to a place where it was humanly possible to keep, and they gloried in it. For instance, the Pharisees thought that all was seen to God was if you commit adultery. If it's that one, cannot do it. Ah, come on. You can hold yourself. You have committed adultery with her. The foreigner remember, ah, yesterday. I didn't do anything, but in my mind, I thought this gay guy. And because I didn't do anything, thought I was holy.

But here is the king on the mountain. On the mountain. You see, Jesus is an expert in using God's law to bring man to end of himself. Yes. So that he will see his need for his savior. Yes, sir. God is not saying, go and block up your high or go and block up the high of your friend. No. The Pharisees were boasting in law keeping. Hence, Jesus demonstrated to them what it truly takes to be justified by the law.

You want to boast in law keeping? Let me show you my standard in the law and see how well you can reach it. If somebody slaps you on the left side, turn your right cheek also. Then give them your tunic as appeasement, and bless them and let them go. Bless those that cause you. Bless those that spitefully use you. Love them, the bible says, those that spitefully use you. They were hearing all these things. You see, that mountain is a typology of heaven. The good news is that Jesus did not stop there.

He preached on that sermon on the mount, and then the bible says in Matthew chapter eight that he came down. It's coming down. It's the it's the biology of the earth. In other words, I've declared my standard in heaven. I understand that none of you can meet it. I will teach you why the law was given. The law was not given so that men could actually follow it. It was given to reveal sin to men. I will show... It's in scripture.

I will show you this. It's a bible study. You get there. It's a series. It was given to show men that they need a savior. That if you were to by yourself fulfill the demands of the law, you will find that how impossible and how futile it is to do. That is the reason why a man continues to fail every time he thinks that there's there's a set of laws he must live his life by. He will find himself always feeling, always feeling, always feeling. As long as the things that in his strength, these are the things I must do. Then that same strength, he will fail.

Because the bible says by strength shall no man prevail. Stay with me. Spiritually speaking and prophetically speaking, if the king has still on that mountain, it means there would have been no redemption for us. Are you getting this? If Jesus stayed high off in heaven and decreed God's holy standard from there, there would have been no hope for humanity, no redemption for humanity. But he chose to come down from heaven to the foot of the mountain. And at the foot of the mountain, the moment he was done, at the foot of the mountain, who did he meet there? A man laddened with leprosy. A reflection, reflection, a a typology of fallen humanity. That was the definition of an unclean man.

Not a man. Moment he came down from the mountain, at the foot of the mountain, his first experience is with a man bound with leprosy, a typology of humanity who he came down to save. A picture of you and I before we're washed clean by this precious blood. Imagine that unclean sinner standing before the king of heaven by the foot of the mountain, unclean, bound with leprosy, and the king is hearing the king declare his holy standards. He knows right there that he's done for because there's just no way possible for him to meet up to that standards. Given that he's unclean, given that he's bound, given that he's held captive under sin, given that he's held captive even to the devil and his demons, how... Where where does it begin from? Then the king doesn't just declare the words on the mountain and come. It comes down to where he was. I didn't...

The idea is not for you to look up at heaven and give you a set of laws that you would follow until you get there. The idea is that I would come down and bring you there. And look at the prey of that man. Do you know that in those days, people with leprosy were considered unclean? And not just that. The Bible says in Leviticus 13 verse 45. Let me show you. The Bible says, now the leper on whom the saw is, his clothes shall be torn and his head bare, and he shall cover his... Even his mustache is not to be seen. There's no fine boy for the sinner.

He say he will cover everything, and he will now begin to shout, unclean. Unclean. Unclean. Oh, and the idea was anybody that hears unclean pick grace. Because if you touch him, if you see... If you have contact with him, you too become unclean. That was the custom. That was the law. Such was the fate of the woman with the issue of blood too. So people would know to run the other way, lest they become defiled by the disease.

It means those that were unclean were not welcomed in public places. If you do not do that, you can be stoned to death. The policeman, in fact, was death. Guess what else is punished by death? The wages of sin is death. It's to show you the lot of the unclean man is death. In Matthew eight verse two, the bible says, the leprosy man stood before Jesus just as he came down before the mountain. And the leper said to him, Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean. The man did not doubt that he could. He doubted that he would.

He doubted the willingness, not the ability. In other words, I know you can, but look at my state. I don't know if I meet your standards. It's not about your ability. I know that you are able, but I've not meet up to the standard of the man that can approach you. I'm defined as an unclean man. Will... Are you willing to save someone like me? That is what he say. If you are willing, my God my God, and without hesitation, Jesus reached out, touched the afflicted man, and told him, I am willing.

Be cleansed. In other words, not I am able. I am willing. The question was his willingness. Are you willing to save an unclean man like me? I am willing. Are you willing to come to an unclean man like me? I am willing. Are you willing to heal an unclean man like me? I am willing.

I am willing. And immediately, the Bible says the leprosy was cleansed from him. Now watch this. Under the law, those with leprosy, the unclean, make the clean unclean. But under grace, Jesus makes the unclean clean. It may have been longer. It may have been long ago, but you are still my own. It may have been long ago. It may have been long ago, but I'm still calling you. It may have So Paul says, if anybody preaches a different gospel...

Ah, I can imagine the pain in the heart of Paul when he was saying this. That the that the Jews were telling Gentiles that to be saved, you had to be circumcised. That means they had to take your manhood and cut off the foreskin regardless of your age. Because that was the custom. To be saved, you have to you have to fulfill a requirement of loss even after you are saved to remain accepted by God. Paul says, if any man preaches this kind of... This is a separate gospel other than this, let them be cursed. Let them be cursed. If Paul says a separate gospel, it means you have to sit down to understand what that gospel is. What is the gospel?

When you know the gospel, you can identify a separate gospel. But painfully speaking, many people have accepted a separate gospel. Many doesn't even know the gospel. In Romans one sixteen, the bible says, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes. My God. For everyone who believes. The power of God onto salvation. For everyone who believes for the Jew first and also for the Greek. The gospel is the power of God. It doesn't have the power of God.

It doesn't contain the power of God. It is the power of God. It is God's vehicle of transformation. It produces the life of God in people. If people are gonna change, it is because they were exposed to the gospel. If people were experienced transformation, it is because they were exposed to the gospel. If people will be delivered, it is because they were exposed to the gospel. The gospel is the power of God. No other thing says, delivers, and transforms if not the gospel. It's good news.

Romans one verse 16 that we read, the NLT in defining the gospel, the bible says, I'm not ashamed of this good news about Christ. In other words, the word gospel is the word good news. I'm not ashamed of this good news about Christ. The word good news is gotten from the word. That's the Greek word gospel. And doesn't just mean good news. It actually means nearly too good to be true. That's the meaning. Nearly too good to be true or too good to be true. News.

In the days of the apostles, even the days before the apostles, in those days, there were not so many things you could consider as good news or too good to be true news. And that's why the best word to describe what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary is too good to be true. In other words, if what we preach to people doesn't sound too good to be true, it is not the gospel. So if I come and I tell people, you are going to hell if you don't repent, is that too good to be true? If we call the gospel good news, it limits what we can preach as a gospel. I come to people and I tell them, you are a sinner. These statements are true. There is heaven. There is hell. There is God.

There are demons. And people will go to hell if they don't repent or receive salvation. But even though all of that is true, that is not the gospel. Many people have mistakenly thought that preaching on hell, scaring people out It's the gospel. And we believe that if you can provoke fear in the hearts of people, it will lead them... You see, there are many people right now that if I give a altar call now, they will come out. It's the twenty fifth time they will be calling out for altar call. If I give another one on Sunday, they will be there. Manifest comfort is coming. If I give the altar call, you will see the member of the prayer department coming up like this.

Say, guy, how far? The people that come out, I wonder, ah. Because the guy is not sure. He's wondering that, let's just be safe. If a believer does not have assurance of salvation, it means what you believe is not the gospel. Not the words. Assurance of salvation. Where you know without doubt that the trumpet sounds right now. Oh oh, I'm dancing in heaven. What provokes assurance of our vision is not the fear of hell.

This is what we preach as a gospel. People will now start crying. Everybody's afraid because they are reminded of how worthless they are. The guy is there and he's ashamed of himself, feeling depressed, feeling... He's angry, he's feeling... He's crying. He's... I'm so useless. And then I'll say, come and give a life to Christ. That is good.

But after he leaves that place, he will still be useless. Because whatever you reminded him of that made him feel as though he was useless doesn't mean that when he leave... When he left that place that day, he will stop doing it. So all he needs to do is encounter another preacher that will remind him again how useless he is. So you have not been praying for ten days, and you want to secure destiny. Do you know what apostle did? Do you know what the fathers did? Do you know how they locked themselves for thirty days, forty days? Asking for power. Twenty one days fasting and prayer.

Do you know that I read this and this, and they fasted for five years, fasted for seven years, did this for eight years? You are there. You are just doing that. You are just doing this. And you think something great can come out of you, and you seem... It's not... You don't need to be a preacher to speak like that. If you speak like that to anybody, they will feel bad. It's it's it's not the... It doesn't it doesn't require the holy ghost.

We didn't pray as... Why didn't you pray as... Do they even like your life? You don't do that. Is it is it we have lost something. We have lost power. We have lost power. This generation is a joke. I'm not a joke with you. There's a way I don't speak.

I will never talk down on what God is doing now. We would never do that. We don't have to we don't have to talk down on the possibilities of God now. There are many things we are seeing now that that generation, respectfully speaking, did not see. Yes. This is true. How will your reference for miracles be somebody that died seventy years ago? But your reference must be dead. So that so that so that you can defend your claim of there's no power again. Because you know that if we start mentioning names of people who are still alive, you have no point.

How about post commando Obolo Adifeng? Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. So when you stand in front of you and you tell them, young people have lost God. Who are you talking to? Where did you look at? Where did you look? Have you come here?

My my my my women, the first time we had a crusade, my women went to a a a territory to go and pray. The president of the fellowships that were living close to where they were praying came out thinking it was men that was praying. When they saw them, they were shocked. Yeah. It's one day. Yes. We appreciate what God is doing. We don't say that we have reached the height of it. We don't claim to have seen it all. Oh, no.

We honor what God has done with those that came before us. You understand that these battles that we have received came from a source. It's not source from us. We are only continuous on continuities of grace. Yes. And so we honor the graces, but more at the expense of what God is doing with us. Apostle Babylon did powerful things in righteousness. These fathers of faith did powerful things in righteousness. But there were many black men who never stood in front of white men. And shut down stadiums.

Wonders are still what you do. Dry bones are still being raised. God, we believe in. Yes. We can see it. Wonders are still what you do. It is true. They are still what you do. Not wonders you did before. Wonders are still what you do.

Come and do what you do. Listen. Scaring people into oblivion is not the gospel. Romans chapter two and verse four, the Bible says, or do you despise the riches of his goodness? Do you despise the riches of his goodness? The riches of his forbearance, the riches of his long suffering. Not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance. It is the goodness of God that leads to repentance, not the fear of hell. It is the goodness of God that leads to repentance. In Proverbs chapter 16 and verse six, I believe I'm correct.

The bible says... Watch this. Can you read together? One two three. Go. Give me. Atonement is what? Provided for. We'll go back here. But give me KJV.

I want you to see this provided for. One, three, go. And truth. Iniquity what? War. Do you know what purge this? Blotted out. Flushed out. Go back to NKJV. One, two, three, go.

Is evil flushed? It means if I instill the fear of God in you, you can depart from evil. But what flushes out iniquity is mercy and truth. Are you with me? Yes, sir. What purges iniquity is mercy and truth? When we tell someone that their sin has separated them from God, that is true. When we tell someone that their sin will take them to hell, that is also true. But that's not good news. Christ coming to take all those sins away.

That is good news. Salvation is a gift. You can never be holy enough to earn it. In Romans chapter six verse 23, the bible says for the wages of sin is death. You know what we do? We camp around that first statement, and we tell people what the wages of sin is death, and we never complete it. Because if we know we complete it, people will enter liberation. And the aim is not liberation. The aim is to instill fear so that we can have it recorded in our meetings, people cried. The idea is not meant...

Is not to make a sinner feel worse about his sin. The idea is to make men repent, to show people the way of life and salvation. The Bible says, but the gift of God, the gift of God, the gift of God is eternal life that is in Christ Jesus. That is the gift of God. It's a gift. It's beautiful to know that it's a gift. It's not a reward. It's not life in Christ Jesus is a gift. Do you know what that means? It means everything that our life provides comes with a gift.

And you have to study to know what eternal life provides. And the moment you study this, you will be amazed. You'll be amazed at what is already available to the believer. Just is word And of the says, for by the grace, for by grace, you have been saved. By grace, you have been saved. Through faith, the Bible says, it is not of ourselves. It is a gift of God. Look at how the Bible describes it. It is not of ourselves. It is a gift of God.

By grace, we are saved. By grace, we are saved. In acts four and verse 33, the Bible says I'm with great power. This is where my title came from. Gave the apostles witness with great power. Gave the apostles witness and great grace was upon them all. The description of the grace was great grace. The bible says with great power, gave them weakness, great grace. In other words, the supplier of the power was the grace. It means we cannot begin to talk about power without first understanding grace.

You see, if if we it all belongs to you. It all belongs to you. It all belongs Great grace. And the grace we have received is not by works. The only way the forgiveness of sins can be obtained is by grace. It wasn't through your holiness or through your good works. God doesn't just take the good people and save them. He justifies the ungodly. If it were by our works, some of us are... I can't even stand here.

If it were by our works. If it were by the things that we have done. If it were by our righteousness. Do you know what that is? The Bible says accepts your righteousness, be higher, be more than the righteousness of the Pharisees. It means there are two types of righteousness. I have a teaching like that. Two types of righteousness. There is the righteousness of the Pharisees, and there is your righteousness. The righteousness of the Pharisees is self glorifies in works, glorifies in effort, and that can never gain you acceptance before God.

Your righteousness is the one that was imputed in you by God, the one that is a gift, the one that did not come by your works. The forgiveness of sins is ours by grace. So what religion teaches is that right standing with God comes as a result of your own goodness, comes as a result of your own works. But that is not what the Bible teaches. If you dress this way, if you don't dress this way, if you pay your tithes, if you wear this kind of cloth, tie this kind of stuff. Don't use this kind of jewelry. Don't make this kind of hair. God will accept you. But that is not the gospel. That is putting the salvation That's putting salvation as a burden that the believer will bear.

But no one can bear that burden. No one can attain to that standard. Because we can, by religion, cut the standard to where it is humanly possible to fulfill. But human beings are not the mark. God himself is the mark. God himself is the one that set the standard. The Bible says that we have all sinned, and we have come short of the standard of God, the glory of God. In other words, the standard is God. The glory is of God. That is what believer that comes short of.

So the reference point is glory, not a pastor. I've noticed that the people that preach these things don't entirely deny Jesus. Jesus is the savior. They agree. They also believe that Jesus is savior, but they just add to it. Jesus is savior. It is true, but it it is also based on your own goodness, based on your own holiness, based on your own performance. It is Jesus plus you doing all these things. There is a area where Jesus and you begins to walk because the bible calls you co laborers together with God, but it is not with respect to your acceptance or your salvation. You can do nothing about it.

And the bible is very clear to define that it is by grace and not by works. It means if you are trying to be justified by any other thing other than the faith in Christ, then you are not believing the true gospel. I've observed that grace is the only thing that sets Christianity, true and genuine Christianity, apart from every other religion in the world. Other religion may acknowledge and worship one true God or even a... Their own version of the one true God. There are even some that agree that Jesus existed and that his teachings are admirable. They said Judah was a good man. He was a prophet. They all have their own versions, but they fear not God. Religion refuses to acknowledge Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation.

Every false religion, including religious Christianity, puts the burden of salvation on the individual. In other words, salvation is based upon your performance, and your consequent acceptance by God after salvation is also based on your performance. Like the revelation, if you live holy enough, do enough good things, observe all the rules and regulations, then you might be saved. Then you have right standing with God. But the problem is, Romans make it crystal clear that none of us can live up to that standard. We can't save ourselves. On judgement day, each and every one of us will stand before God and answer the question. What makes you worthy to enter into heaven? What makes you worthy to enter into my presence? And everybody will have their own version of what they would say.

I was holy. I gave to the poor. I didn't do these things. I didn't do all that thing. I went to my own religion's version of the holy city. I was at Jerusalem. I observed his practices. I prayed and fasted everyday. And Joseph would look at them and say depart from me. You workers of iniquity.

For I know you not. Are there not people that would even come to him and tell him, we casted out devils. We healed the sick. We raised the dead. And yet his testimony after doing all this exploit will depart from me. Because it means that you were doing these things, thinking that in them you will secure access to my presence. He said on the last day, many will stand before. In other words, they thought that all that they were doing was to secure access to his presence. They thought it was in the casting of devils, raising the dead, prayers, and fasting. But the true believers, those who are truly saved, their testimony would be, what what what makes you worthy is Jesus.

The grace that was released on the cross by whose hands I am saved. By whose hands I am saved. Not of my own power, not of my own might, not of my own self righteousness, but that which was imputed in in me by reason of the substitutionary sacrifice on the cross. I believe in Jesus as my lord and savior. Do you believe this? I believe it. This is where your Christian life begins from. This understanding is what gives you confidence. What gives you boldness? Salvation is everything that Jesus purchased for us through his death, burial, and resurrection.

Everything that he purchased. Not just the forgiveness of sins. There are people that accept that there is salvation when we receive Christ and believe and confess and all of these things, but they believe that salvation comes around just the forgiveness of sins. And they preach that things like prosperity is not included in salvation. That's not true. Everything that Jesus received for us by reason of his death, burial, and resurrection is salvation. So I've heard you've got the word sozo, the Greek word sozo. And that word sozo is an all inclusive word that summarizes everything that Christ provided for us. In James chapter five, for instance, from verse 14, the Bible says, if any afflicted amongst you, is any sick amongst you, let him call upon the health of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with the oil in the name of the Lord. Next verse, the Bible says, and the prayer of faith will...

The word save, there's the word sozo. It means healing is inside salvation. The prayer of faith will sozo save the sick. And guess what? Not just healing. The Bible says, and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. So the forgiveness of sins is also inside Sozo. Are you with me? Yes, sir. In Luke chapter one verse 17, Luke one seventeen, the bible says, and as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been since the world began, that we should be...

The word saved, there is the word sozo, not from sin, from our enemies. Deliverance is inside salvation. Matthew forty thirty says the same thing. When Peter was drowning, he was afraid, and he began sinking and he cried out, Lord, save me, Sozo. It is also inside salvation. Everything that is available for the believer based on the substitutionary sacrifice, the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus is what salvation is. That means that the gospel, the grace of God is the power of God unto healing, unto deliverance, unto prosperity, and on unto everything that comes to us because we are saved, because we are born again. That means that a believer can expect to prosper because he is saved. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? A believer can expect to excel in life because I am saved.

The very fact that I'm born again is enough reason to excel. It's not reason to expect that I cannot be small. The bible says that your honor is exalted as the horn of the unicorn. Your honor is exalted as the horn of the unicorn. By reason of the life I have received in Christ, I am destined for great things. Yes, sir. Which is why I always show you this scripture in Isaiah. The bible says that he will not know rest. He will not know peace until your salvation burns like the rising of the dawn. Your righteousness blazes your salvation.

This is the reason why you have to blaze, why you have to rise. Because everything has been purchased for you. It was given to you free of charge. Yes. So as I'm doing ministry, I have expectations based on what I have received on the cross. I cannot be small. It means I cannot be small isn't just a statement you make based on the works you are doing. It's not just a statement you made because you are doing the right things. It's a statement you make understanding who you are, what was purchased for you, and what was given to you. By the time you realize this, you tell yourself, I cannot be small.

During the thanksgiving of bishop Oedipus, seventieth year anniversary, birthday anniversary, he came and said, I declared before everybody that I can never be poor. By the time I said this, we were inside one room. They looked at me and did like this. The man said, am I poor now? In other words, when he was saying I can never be poor, he wasn't saying so because of what he has at hand. Understand that you are not a poor man trying to be rich. Listen. Listen. You are a rich man that the devil is trying to make poor. You are not a failure trying to excel.

You are an excellent student. The devil is trying to make fail. You are not an... A sinner trying to be righteous. You are a righteous man that the devil is trying to convince is unholy. Do you understand what the believer is? This is what has been secured for you. This is what has been given to you. This is what has been provided for you because you are a believer. Do you need to be healed?

The power of healing is in the gospel. You wanna prosper financially? The power of prosperity is in the gospel. You want to be delivered from demonic influence or from your enemies or from anything really? The power for deliverance is in the gospel. So what Satan does, let me tell you he does, is that he he now tries to make you earn these things from God. So Satan says, now you know that it's available to you. But you have to earn it from God. It tries to make yourself your own savior, to put your faith in what you are doing instead of your faith in what Christ has done as the only means of receiving from God. So instead of coming right out and telling people that God does not prosper, God does not heal, God does not deliver.

Satan knows that he can't really say that. People won't believe that. So what he does is to deceive them into thinking that they must do something in order to handle healing, in order to handle prosperity, in order to handle deliverance. That is why the guy feel as though this is happening to me because I've not done this enough. He's making you believe that you have not end it. Do you know how powerful the believer is? Just because he's a believer. Just because he's a believer. Go and open the Bible wide like this. And just read it.

Without biases. The Bible says these signs will follow them that believe. Thus for the fact that they believe. In my name, they will cast out devils. How will you be saying you cannot sleep? How will you be saying that they are coming to press you? They are doing, they are messing you up. They are doing this. They are doing that. How can a believer say those things?

It means there is a gap in your understanding. There is something you don't know yet. Sit down with the world and read. Believe these things. Listen to a good word. Pick up a good word and listen to it. Listen to it. Get yourself charged up in faith. Charged up in faith. So that you know I can do all things.

Through Christ who strengthens me, I can do all things. The Bible does not say I will do. It doesn't say I will be able to do. It says, I can do all things. In other words, the believer must know that this is my reality. That your body is not yet experiencing it does not make it any different. It is still true. It is still true. No one can call me a failure. I can't fail.

I'm not a failure. So as I'm working, as I'm studying, as I'm doing the works of righteousness... You see, as I'm doing the works of righteousness, I'm not doing it to harm something. The bible says, walk out your salvation. It doesn't say walk for your salvation. In other words, you are working out what is already in you. What... Believe what I've told you upside down. Now they work for it. They try to attain it.

But I know the Bible says, the Bible says it is inside you. Now bring it out of you. So there are works that we do to show people what is inside of us. So as a prosperous man that I am, I begin a business. I do not begin a business to prosper. As an excellent student that I am, I read my books. Do you understand I'm trying to say? I'm bringing out some thing that is on my inside. This is how I'm gonna teach you the place of sin and how the believer overcomes sin and impurity. Impurity.

You'll get there as well. Just stay with me. But this is this is a starting mentality. There is holiness on my inside. I'm not a sinner trying to be holy. So the believer, we are all sinners. Does not apply to the believer. Sir. Because the nature of sin has been condemned. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. The problem largely is because there is gaps in understanding. The mind has not been renewed. The devil will take advantage of this gaps in understanding to plague you with many things that should not be in your life. So when you find out there are things that should be in your life are not there, realize what is inside of you. The Bible says in the book of Philippon chapter one and verse six, the bible says that the sharing, the communication of your faith becomes effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you. The bible does not say that the communication of your faith becomes effectual by praying and fasting. Don't we pray and fast? The bible says, if you do all these things without acknowledging what is in you, They have wasted time. How you make the faith you have received effectual?

How you make it powerful? How you make it bear fruit, bear result is to know what is in you. Do you know the life of God you have received? Do you know that you know the God who is on your inside? By the time it cracks in your mind and you know, you will never accept nonsense again. Lord. Hear me? So you see a you see a lady, for instance, who is dealing and struggling with low self esteem, and you are telling the lady, go and lay this guy's number. Don't speak to this guy. Don't this and that.

And lady will say, yes. I won't do it. What you are doing is basically giving her instead of loss. The more you give her those loss, the more she will feel. Because two weeks time, you say, I'm missing the guy. I'm missing the guy. I'm missing the guy. She's back there. What if I can successfully open your mind and just show you who you are? The next time the guy calls you, you will be irritated.

That will be the response. You'll be wondering what am I doing talking with this person. Not until the believer gets there. Whatever he tries to do to circumvent that issue is will be full time. So when you know that I'm righteous, that means I have the nature of God on my inside. There are things that I cannot meddle with. It's like you're telling someone who is by the dumpster and likes eating things in the dumpster and has been eating from the dumpster for ten years. Can you tell me the kind of person that that does that? A. You tell me what the issue would be the madman?

His legs? His hands? His head? What? His mind. So if you can... If you tell him, Matt, don't go there and eat again. What are the the following day? Why? Because you...

He's still mad. The the mind is still depraved. You still have not shown... He still has not seen... So you tell him, don't go there. Why are you eating there? You chain him. You do all kind of things. He will break that chain and go there. Yes, sir.

The more you tell him, don't, he will find himself going back there. But if a miracle of some sorts happen and you are able to make him see, the first question they ask themselves is, what am I doing here? He will never go back there tomorrow because so... You have opened his eyes. Suddenly, he says, I'm a righteous man, my god. I'm accepted of god. I'm the beloved of god. I don't beg for the love of a man. I've heard some fornicacies. See, you see, so many issues spring out of these things that you will you will not know that the source is a absence of your understanding the gospel.

You you won't be able to trace it. Said, you really believe that? He said, I don't believe it, though. So leave now. Why are you still there? He will not come and cry to me. It's like it's like missing the dumpster after you leave. Say, I I don't want the the dump to feel bad. Why you know, why are still eating there? You know, they are there are rodents in that place are formed are formed bond with.

So whenever I come there, they all gather and you know, we just fellowship. I I I don't want them to feel bad. That's how you sound. The Bible says, what business does light have with darkness? It means light must work more than light. It it it says it's a realization. It's revelation. The moment you get that revelation, it say it will strike you like a dream of world. There are things you are struggling with. You will stop immediately.

Life will flow out of you effortlessly. You will call people and tell them no more friendship. You will call people and tell them, uh-uh. There are nonsense I've taken from the devil. How would I not be the devil? Come and come and oppress me, and you'll sleep. Not being afraid. There are people that cannot pray. They say, sir, there are no people who looking at me. Let them look.

Because the moment Do you know what it means to be a believer? Do you know that what I'm teaching you is not even the power of prayer? It's the power of a believer. Someone someone who is saved, who has received the life of God in him. Someone who has received grace. The Bible says, with great power. Yes, sir. With great power. My god. My god.

With great power. With great power. Gave the apostles weakness. Great grace was upon them. Have I been saved by grace? So great grace is upon me. What can I do? Great power. Great power flows from my inside. The Bible says, you shall receive power.

After the holy ghost has come upon you, you shall receive. It means the power I received is a gift. You shall receive power. I can go to a sick person and tell them be healed. And sincerely speaking, I expect they are healed. Pastor Paul Nenche. Yes, sir. Sir. Said last two weeks ago, he said in his church, he said people come and tell me, there are people that come to our crusade and they are not healed. And they say, why were they they not healed?

But he said, how about the several others that came there and were healed? How about the several crutches, blind eyes that were opened? Is it if anybody came and were healed? I don't feel any shame for that because it's not in my name I prayed. This was two weeks ago. It's on his Instagram. He said he said he said he said if I am not expecting to take the glory, why should I take the sheep? When I came to you, I think the name of Jesus be healed. Is it my name I put? I don't have anything to defend.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. This is the life we have received. It's on your inside. A realization, the revelation of that life, when it cracks open, it's like light breaking out. There's a way you will not talk again. Yes. Not because somebody told you don't talk like that. Every time you attempt to follow laws to attain righteousness, you fail. Can you see this?

Yes. But when it breaks out of you, when the revelation cracks open, and you see yourself in the light of the gospel, in the light of the grace you have received, the next time you are going to go and negotiate for a contract. I told someone. The person asked me. He said, Emmanuel, do you understand this and that and that? I said, of course, there is nothing I can understand. You know what? I have never heard what he said before. I've never heard him. I said there's nothing I can't understand.

The person I was speaking to, you know, many years ago. The person was a class ahead of me. He said, ah, that's very good. Ex... You explain to me tomorrow. The moment they told me, I went to go and read it expecting to understand. Because I am not a dull person trying to be smart. These are the things you have received. It came by grace. The definition of grace is every good and perfect thing that comes from God.

Power is grace. Wisdom is grace. I choose to acknowledge the gift I have received. Exemplifying the gift, acting out the gift, working out the gift, now makes me worthy of the rewards. So watch this. Watch this. Watch this. Watch this. Why will I pray? It is because I understand that I've been accepted by my father.

And as such, I desire a communion with the one who have accepted me. I have to hear his voice. I have to hear him speak to me. I have to hear him. There must be that sense of communion, and I do so by faith because the bible says that without faith, no man can please God. So I go to God in the night, and I say good morning. You know that when I wake up every morning, the first thing that escapes my breath is good morning holy spirit, and that's because we have it. Good morning, precious holy spirit. Whether I feel as though I'm deserving, whether I feel as though my works have approved me or not, my status is unchanged. So I don't really be God based on my works.

I relate with God based on my status. My status will eventually show my works. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. So I am not like the second son who goes to God to go and make reports of the things he's supposed to do per day. Whether I'm able to do those things or not, I will still go to God. Because he's not just a boss that employed me, he's also my father. He accepted me as his own. So when I tell him that I was... If that guy now goes to his father and tells the father that, ah, daddy, I was not able to feed the cows today because I think I overslept.

I was so tired. I was so stressed out yesterday. I just overslept And because I wasn't able to feed them, we're not able to sort them out very well. We... I found out that one of them gave birth and mistakenly just stepped on the babies. We lost two babies today. The father will say, oh, that's sad, but no problem. Why did you not why did you not... Were you... Was it because you were tired?

Say, yes. I I was quite tired. Oh, then immediately, problem with how you planned your day yesterday. What did you do yesterday? You should not have done that. Delegate this responsibility. Tell the servants to handle this so you can have more time to yourself, and you won't be as stressed out. You see, what is happening is communication beyond responsibility. That is intimacy. That is that is intimacy.

What many people do that we call prayer, We think we are fitting for it. Amen. Because we have become accountable with God. So that we are submitting a form of a form of accountability report. I've prayed for one hour today. And if I'm not able to do it, the people that... For... Maybe you have an exam for instance by by by by 8AM, and you woke up by 6AM, and you woke up because you're... There were some things you wanted to study, and you couldn't do your prayers in the morning. You went straight to what you wanted to study.

By 06:30, you were looking through all that paper, and you were telling yourself, I will read before. I will pray before I go. I will pray before I go. Now you lose track of time, and it was already five minutes to go. And now you say, you can no longer pray. You ran to the bedroom with speed, brush your teeth. Mama, as you climb on the bike, you start feeling bad. That's a evil conscience. It's not God. Why you cannot pray today?

Ah, no. No. No. No. No. It's a it's a weak conscience. Because he's my father. He's not an accurate time keeper. After I'm done with the exam, I will come to him again. And he said, I'm not able to pray.

Oh father, I thank you for how the exam went. It was so easy for me. I will not be expecting that I will now fail or get it wrong because I did not pray. What do you think God is? Who gave you the picture of God you have? On those canvas, is that picture painted? You see someone, and you just feel as though because the person because the person maybe has maybe is more advantaged than you in terms of the kind of upbringing the person has. So the person was brought up wealthy or rich or, you know, well-to-do and even the dressing, the way the person speaks, everything just communicates composure. And you know that you might not have that advantage. There are people that just standing beside people like that makes them have a kind of low self esteem.

Because just relax with this person is better than me. Do you know whose father you are? The reason is because you don't know. I'm telling you the truth. The moment you know, you'll understand that nobody's higher than you. Even if I meet a president of a nation, my head will be held up high. I won't feel as though I've I've met with... I... It's not a human being. God will now help him.

He's not an unbeliever. Who needs whom? Because of what people have attained, eternal thing... Sorry, temporal things that will soon perish. I will now feel as though they are higher than me. I have a higher status. I'm a child of God. Believe these things I'm telling you. Understand it. Once you do, how you carry yourself changes.

How you place yourself changes. Your self image changes. Everything changes. And guess what? You did nothing for it. It was conferred upon you by grace. Ah, so loving. Father, Listen. So what the devil does is that he convinces you that you have to hand all of these things. You have to hand it.

So judging by the list of things that the believer thinks he has to do, the believer then doesn't think as though he has hand the right for God to heal him, for God to deliver him, for God to love him, for God to prosper him. Instead of living with God and receiving from God based on his grace, based on his goodness, based on his mercy, they try to hand God's gift through some form of effort. Satan will then use that effort knowing that you cannot reach it to disqualify you. That is what is called condemnation. Religion teaches us that if you want to relate with God, you have to come to God based on how sorry you are. I'm sorry, Lord. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And you have to just be sorry. And he comes to you and he says, you you are talking to God and I'm not sorry.

Said, well, how do you... How will you know I'm sorry? Yeah. Look. I just... Can I look now? See, there are nothing but worms in his sight. No good. They're all sinners. Pencils in the hand of the creator.

The to the throne of grace that you may obtain mercy. You see, those things don't look alike. We were talking about mercy. Let's... If you wanna if you wanna receive mercy, you offended me. And you're coming to me and come and say, you see, even me, sir, people want to come and apologize. I don't realize what it means to have a spiritual father. You will see how how... And then for three days, they say, what what happened? They are both just angry with me.

They are just angry with me. And when when they eventually come, they say, sir, You know, because many of you, because many of you grew up in African homes, it has affected how you relate with God. And so when you break a cock, you already know what will come after. And that means that from that day henceforth, you will not use a mug again. You will use plastic cup. So somehow in your mind, you just think that because I have mismanaged this thing God has given to me, this thing will now cease. Amen. Let me make you understand that statement. Let me make you understand that statement. Oh, Allah.

Oh, Allah. You are lavished. Let me tell you why it is called lavished. Come down. Come down. Come down. Have you ever... The Bible says what sort of a thing is it? Have you ever heard that a man dies for his neighbor? Pause.

A man dies for his friend. Have you ever heard that a man is willing willing to by choice, die for his friend? Is that a thing that people do? Yeah. Wait. Even if someone will now do it, watch, let's assume that you now find the best man, and he will now do it. Do you think he will do it? Let's say let's say a man has two friends. This guy is his best friend. Treats him right every time.

Does bias. You know, just just listen very well. This one, he has a head that he used to speak about him in the back, backbites, gossips, does everything against him. If he has to die for someone, who will die? So how will the Bible now say, while we were yet sinners? Wait. Wait. Wait. Come down. It means it means it didn't wait for you to be good.

But somehow, you think you have to be good. To now continue to relate with him. When even when you did not even know him, even when you were dead in sin. The Bible says while we were yet sinners, it means there was nothing deserving of the death. That is what it means to lavish love. It means you you have you have invested it on those that did not deserve it. Have your seat. Have your seat. I'm still teaching. Stay with me.

I came to teach so they listen to me. Listen. Listen. You see, this thing puts perspective to worship. Let's understand that. It gives perspective to worship. Now when you say your love has overwhelmed me, what love are you seeing? Whilst we were yet sinners, that love. Listen. Understand this.

It did not wait for you to be perfect. He didn't say, he didn't say do all of these things. When you have done it, now rest salvation. I will now come and die for you. In the worst of humanity state, he came and died. The devil now made you believe that the person that did not wait for you to be good, to die for you, would wait for you to be perfect, to relate with you. Does it make sense? Come boldly, he says. Come boldly. Come boldly.

This is the beauty of what we have received. Listen to me. Listen to me. Hey. This thing is this thing is brutal. I've not even started. Hear me. Hear me. When we understand what grace is, there is a question that Paul will always ask that people that are outside hearing it, who don't understand what we are teaching, we hack the same thing. Because Paul knew that if I teach this thing the way it is, there must be a question that will arise in your heart.

It means if that question has not arisen, I've not taught grace. What is the question? Can we continue to say? That grace may abound. Because it will look as though that what you are saying. Paul asked that question multiple times. He said, what are we saying therefore? Can we con... He says, no. God forbid.

Because the ones who we are speaking to understand that this is the reason why we will not see. Do you know that the bible says he that is born of God does not sin? We have to confess scriptures like this to understand it. Because now somebody will ask, but sir, I still struggle with this. I still struggle with that. The nature of sin is no longer inside of you. But there is a reason why that struggling is there. That is what you ultimately deal with. Are you with me? I will get there.

Get there. Is this serious? I don't wanna go ahead of myself. God is angry with me. I have to improve on all these things before I can approach God. Wrong. That is deception. On the surface, it looks as though they are really turning from self. But in reality, it's actually making that person's relationship with God dependent on themselves. How much they've done for the Lord, how holy they are, how much they've denied themselves, and how good they are.

And it's a self centered, self dependent way of approaching God. It can lead to pride even as a believer. But when you understand that all we have received, you are revealed by grace. Never again will you envy someone because they had a testimony. It means that you... The reason why you are envying the person that y'all does not come is because you were expecting that due to something you have done, you are deserving of that thing. See, I have been here longer. I have not opposed to longer. This person is a first timer. I'm even a worker.

And the person is sharing the testimony of this and that and that and that. It leads to pride. And the only way that a man can turn from self reliance is by putting all our faith, dependence, all our hope in God's goodness, in God's mercy, in God's grace. It's the gospel that has power in it. We don't relate with God based on fear. No. But based on love, based on acceptance, based on acceptance, because we know that we are the ones he acts... He had accepted. I'm accepted by God. I'm beloved of God.

And I did nothing for it. It is by grace. Yes. Is the meaning of grace. If I did nothing for it, then not anything I can do can preserve it. You know what believers do? We try to keep ourselves from falling, but the bible says he's the one that is able to keep us from falling. God is able to keep you. What you think is in your own strength and your own power, and so you keep on falling. I'm I'm tempted to say some dangerous things, but I will not.

And I will not. So people will ask the question. If you don't now make people afraid of God, if you don't make people fear, how will they now repent? If you don't know if you don't know if you don't don't know if people know how angry God is with them or with their state, How will they not repent? In Romans one verse 18 and verse 19, the Bible says, for the wrath of God is revealed in heaven against all ungodliness. Did you say revealed? That's past tense. The wrath of God is revealed. Past tense in heaven, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. The wrath of God is revealed.

Verse 19 says, because what may be known of God is manifest where? Amen. For God has shown it to. Amen. Do you see that? It means God's wrath has already been revealed intuitively inside of every person. Each individual has within them an intuitive knowledge of God's wrath against all ungodliness, against all unrighteous of men. In their hearts, people already feel undeserving of God's love and mercy. That's why when you tell a sinner to pray, he will look at you and say, is it someone like me that God will be here? Who told him?

It means he knows that he's undeserving. He knows that there's a rough expressed towards his state. Towards him. Towards the fact that he has told him to live in that way. He knows. Even the atheist knows. The unbeliever knows. Every man knows. That is the reason why nobody will have an excuse. Even the people in the remotest of remotest of places that had no access to evangelism know there is a God.

Because the wrath of God has been revealed unto all men against all unrighteousness. Verse 20 says so that nobody will have an excuse. For since the creation of the world is invincible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even the and godhead so that they are without excuse. Everybody knows. So he's not coming to come and tell people that they are the worst of sinners that will make them repent. It's showing them what is made available. So when I speak to a prostitute, I will not tell the prostitute, look at the way you're wasting your life. Slaughtering your destiny on the altar of Leviathan, making an exchange of destinies. Do you know what you have done? Sex is a mystery.

The curses in the guy's family is already yours. Now how many people have you had sex with? Combine all the causes together. Look at your life. You think he doesn't know? She knows. It is the guilt and the condemnation that separates them from God. Because some of them believe this is the only way I have to survive. It's not as though if I stop doing this, there's money coming for me anywhere. I don't...

I... They they... They've convinced themselves to believe they don't have a choice. And as such, even though it goes against their conscience, they are willing to all slaughter themselves every day. What we bring is the gospel of truth. What we bring is too good to be true. You have slept with a thousand men. The bible says your sins and your iniquities, I will remember no more. Your sins and your iniquities, I will remember no more. On on Sunday, I was teaching you the beautiful life.

Remember that? I was gonna show you the three places in scriptures in the New Testament. The only three places in the New Testament where the bible uses the word beautiful. There's three of them. The second one was was the one I showed you on Sunday, which is the beautiful gate. The first one is in Matthew where Jesus said, Matthew chapter 23, 27. Jesus said, woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear... That's the first place the word beautiful appears in the New Testament. You appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. You appear beautiful outwards.

So the problem was with how you appeared inside. There's no problem with how you appeared outwardly. But the problem was with how you appeared on the inside. Now compare the outward appearance in verse 27 to in verse 28. The Bible says, even so, you also have outwardly appear righteous. So the word beautiful is placed side by side with righteous. It means that these people appear righteous, and so they appeared beautiful. How much more those who are righteous? It means what makes you beautiful is the fact that you are righteous. The understanding of the righteousness of God you have received.

My God. That is why the Bible says put on the garment of righteousness. The garment of righteousness. In Isaiah 52 verse one, the Bible speaks of your beautiful garment. This is righteousness. That is why traditional Christianity cannot produce greatness. The thing that produce greatness is righteousness consciousness. And many people have been schooled in condemnation. They've been told that they are not righteous enough. They have to keep trying to hand God's approval.

So rather than fulfilling destiny, they are trying to please God or to hand his approval. What they have already given to them. What they have already given to them. You have been declared righteous. It's by grace. You have right standing with God. You have a right to call God the monarch of Zion, the God of heaven your father. God has entered into a covenant that makes your life beautiful. He has called you his own. Do you know that there is a way society uses condemnation to cripple people?

Because society will put pressure on you and tell you how you should look like. It is your conscience of righteousness that can make you follow what God has said and do in your life. Society will continue how you should dress, how you should look, how you should appear. They will say, is that woman a a woman of God? She's a woman of God, and she's dying her hair. See, if you don't know you are righteous, God has accepted you and has placed his blessing upon your life. If you don't mind, you'll be looking for how to adjust to people's expectations. How how to how to how to cut your coat according to your size. You don't know... You have no idea what my size is.

Society. Listen. Listen. When we began ministry, we came out and I said, you the next thing they should be talking about now? Is that the next thing they should be talking about now? Just just how many years into ministry? Ministry? When should I talk about it? You listen to people to your own peril. And and and this thing will subconsciously get on your inside.

It will subconsciously permeate your space if you don't know you are righteous. The sieve and the block is righteousness. Is is is what? Society will not give you permission to succeed. You stand up and start doing great things, they will tell you, why are you in a hurry? Why are you over ambitious? When you want you want to marry, you say, ah, even your eldest daughter is not married. Why do you want to marry? You want to find a business? They say, but you are still in school.

Why do you want to find a business? You want to you want to join politics? Say at what age? Nobody will allow you to be great at the young age. You must carry that certificate of greatness. Sign it. Stamp it. Stop stop looking for validations on outside to do great things. The only validation you need is that you are righteous. When I got admission when I was a teenager, I can't remember the age.

A teenager. As a teenager, maybe 16 or 15. I can't even remember. I came to UI then. And the moment I got there, what I what I what I started saying from the gate. Even before I got admission, funny enough. Because I've been coming here before I got admission. I've been coming here since twenty fourteen, thirteen to come and break. The moment I stepped foot as a teenager, I started saying, wherever the soles of my feet step upon, wherever the soles of my army, I was a teenager. Wherever the soles of my feet step upon.

When I thought that you I wasn't gonna work out and I was in... I was going to University of nineteen in those state to go and apply for their screening over there. The moment I got there, while I was in the bus, wherever the sole of my feet stepped upon, I got down. Wherever the sole of my feet stepped upon, I stood outside. I was praying in tongues. I was a teenager. I never thought I needed anybody's approval to take that place. If you left me alone, I will do a crusade get back right there. Right there. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. People say, young man of God, and I just assume you don't know what you are doing. People make conclusions about you. Just seeing your face, now young you are leading people. You must know that you are righteous. You must know that God has accepted you. God has validated you. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Righteousness helps you do that, and this thing came by grace.

That's the beautiful thing about it. Knowing this, it gives perspective to how we relate to God. Do you know that your understanding of righteousness doesn't just give you right standing with God? It also gives you right standing before the devil. It makes you stand well knowing that the devil is under your feet. Righteousness does that to you. It also gives you right standing before systems. You don't see any system as too big for you to take. I'm taking the holy sector. I'm taking the tech world.

I'm taking the energy sector. I'm speaking to people who are large I'm speaking to people who are large in this fair. I'm slaying the giants there. I'm rising to the top of my field. I'm becoming the next local government chairman. From there, I'm becoming a senator. Minister of education, commissioner of whatever. I'm taking these offices. This is how I see myself. Righteousness, consciousness.

It helps you know that it is yours because there's nothing too big that your father has not given to you. Are you with me? Yes. The bible says the wicked flee when no man pursue it, but the righteous is as bold as a lion. The righteous. This is who you are as a believer. I'm as bold as a lion. This is life I have received. There's nothing I cannot do. What is the of a lion?

30 and verse 30 proverbs. A lion, which is the strongest amongst beasts, turneth not away for any. I don't back down of opportunities. If I've started it, it will only prosper. It will only grow. The bible says it does not turn away from any. So it means that even if I have a carryover, one of the proof I'm a lion is that I will not turn away. You think that this is enough to make me feel bad and not write this exam again? I face it like this. We...

The the testimony is that we conquered it. We conquered it, and we came out victorious. Working in supernatural, praying for the sick, doing great things, doing exploits, they require courage. And what gives courage is righteousness. The bible says the righteous is the one that is bold. It means if a if a believer does not have a consciousness of his righteousness, boldness will be missing in his life. How you will know is that it will be it will be cowardly. He will write down many plans he cannot start because of fear. Fear will limit him. Fear will hold him bound.

He will think what if it fails, what if it is, what if it does, what what if not what does not come. The bible says all men seek for thee. Yes. All men seek for thee. I'm righteous. Because I'm righteous, whatever I do prospers. Whatever I do prospers. This is the image of myself I have. The world is coming to drink from my will. They say why?

Because I'm righteous. You say I will not rest. I will not know peace until your righteousness blazes like the sun. Until your righteousness blazes like the sun. Because of your righteousness, no longer shall men call you forsake. No longer shall a land be called desolate. Hey, God. That means it is your identity, not just what happens to you. Being sought out is not an experience you have. It is who you have.

They're not getting around to you. It means it means it means I don't have a business. I'm not make... I'm not selling something. Hoping that people will seek it out. And they sought out one selling something. So people have no choice but to seek it out. I'm making multiple sales. I'm backing many clients. I'm signing many contracts.

This is how I believe because I'm righteous. If I hold a meeting, the crowd is coming. Yes. Yes. Because the vision is to the world. I've gotten to a place in my understanding where I believe that people must come and hear me speak. Rise up on your feet. When you know this thing, it it it intoxicates you. I tell you. Is it exciting?

Is it not exciting? Listen. Carry yourself well. Get get get rid of a poor self image. Stop stop talking to people and it's like everybody you are talking to is higher than you. Righteousness places us on simply. In the blood, we are all equal. In the blood. The blood does not know who is older, who is younger. No.

God relates to each and every one of us from the perspective of the blood. From the perspective of what now? The blood. Carry yourself that way. If I'm willing to exchange this for this, which do I consider more valuable? I have this. I don't have this. Somebody has this, hold this. And I'm willing to exchange this. Say, take.

Give me this. Which do I consider more valuable? Because I'm willing to let this go to get this. Do you understand that? If I have 10 naira and I see a bottle of water and I'm thirsty, and I say take this 10 naira, Give me water. Which do I consider more valuable? Because I'm willing to let this go to get this. So if the bible says for God loves... So God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. The question was, what what was he giving his son for?

What was he giving his son for? So what are you worth? How do you begin to define your worth? Anytime you look at yourself less than this is an insult on the cross. It's an insult on the price that was paid. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Yes. Yes. I just thank God for what you have received. There Hear are things that the bible says are already yours.

The bible says goodness and mercy. It means I understand the goodness of God. It follows me. Only good things happen to me. The mercy of God is mine. And do you know the meaning of hand? One of the things that grace makes available is mercy. Mercy. I will teach you on mercy very soon. I will show you that mercy is what qualifies the unqualified.

They say, they say, they say, if you don't have the certificate, you can't walk in that place. You don't know mercy. You don't know mercy. A man that God has had mercy on. That's why those those those old prophets understood the power of mercy. They named their mountains because they know that the problems people are coming with. By all natural standard, nothing should happen. Do you know why it is called the covenant of David? Why the bible call the covenant of David the covenant of mercy? Not today.

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