Transcript: Let God Be True - The Absoluteness Of The Word of God with Apostle Emmanuel Boluwatife

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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network. Be a man encounter God, His presence and His power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. Let's look at scriptures. Romans chapter three. Romans chapter three from verse one. We're going to read down to verse four. It says, what advantage then has the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision? You see the question there?

Much in every way, chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? Certainly not. Indeed, let God be true. But every man a liar. As it is written, that you may be justified in your words and may overcome when you are judged. I'm going to be teaching a sermon entitled let God be true. I feel the absoluteness of the word of God. Let God be true.

I've been the absoluteness of the word of God. It's very interesting verses of scripture we have just read. And to understand what Paul is saying in this few verses we have read, we might need to understand the context of the conversation. Because the conversation began from chapter one into chapter two. And even when you study the verse one that we read, you'll see that it looks like a conversation that is continuing. Is that not so? Now the bible, of course, was not written in chapters and verses originally. In the original manuscript, it was chapters and verses were added by translators to better aid the understanding of the reader. Are you with me? Yes sir.

And so to understand this, you would need to go to the previous chapters to study the previous chapters to understand precisely what Paul is saying in chapter three. Because chapter three begins with questions that Paul is asking. And he's answering the questions even though he's asking the question. So what is the origin? Why is he asking these questions? Are you with me? So Paul has shown that being a Jew, that is in chapter one, chapter two, you'd see Paul showing emphatically that being a Jew and being circumcised did not excuse anybody from the judgment of Yes, sir. Now that conversation is important because the Jews had a covenant history with God. But Paul was saying that the privilege of access that the Jews had with God could not take the place of faith and obedience. So Paul is basically saying that being a Jew did not automatically make a personal right with God.

That the fact that you were born a Jew is not an all access pass. Right? It's not an all access pass. So if the fact that you were born a Jew is not an all access pass, yet the Jews are the covenant access to God, then the question becomes, what then becomes the advantage of being a Jew? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, So if the fact that you are born a Jew is not an all access pass, it naturally raises a question. If being Jewish does not automatically make a person right with God, was there any advantage at all in being a Jew? So do you understand this? So Paul used chapter two to establish that don't you think that just because you're a Jew, then you are sons of God. Just because you're a Jew, you'll see the experiences of all that God has promised you.

Or just because you are a Jew, you have an automatic access to God. And after having, you know, built all of this, Paul then come to chapter three to then ask that now you might be thinking that there is no advantage at all to being a Jew. So if I've said this about being a Jew, what then becomes the advantage of being Jew? Now understanding was writing to a type of people. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Are you still with me? Yes, sir. Yes. So that's the first question that Paul asked.

He says, what advantage then as the Jew or what is the profit of circumcision? Are you telling us then that being circumcised, all of this thing was all a waste? What advantage then for is it? And Paul answers it. He says in the next verse, if there's much in every way, and then it shares a chief advantage. It means that there is advantage in being Jew. It then shares the chief advantage of being Jew. It says to them were committed the oracles of God. That means they had the privilege. The word oracles in that scripture refers to the utterances and the revealed words of God.

So Paul was saying, God had entrusted Israel with his revelation. God had entrusted Israel with his covenant, with his promises, with his laws. Right? Even with the prophetic scriptures because God sent them the prophets. Other nations were working according to their own understanding, building cities according to their own laws, doing whatever it is they wanted to do. But Israel had received the privilege of hearing what God had spoken. Israel was a covenant people because they had access to understand the mind of God and what God wanted to do. God sent prophets to them. God sent his word to them. So God committed to them his oracles.

God entrusted them even with the seed. Do understand what I'm saying? So Paul is saying, don't you think for a moment that all I'm saying is to nullify the Jewish people and their access, the covenant God had with them. No. God committed his oracles to them. God committed his word to them. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But you see, despite the fact that God committed his word to them, committed his horacles to them, Israel's response to that revelation, to that commitment of God wasn't always fit. In fact, many of the people who received the word of God in ancient Israel did not believe it.

They didn't obey it. They didn't live faithfully before God. I mean, you have an example of a generation of people who God brought out of Egypt and emphatically told them that it's bringing them to the promised land. A place flowing with milk and honey. Do you remember that scripture? Yes, sir. He gave them his promise. They received his word. He sent Mephiles to them. Now you know the story that despite they received his word, despite they received the promise, despite they will receive his commitment to them, That generation still could not enter into the reality of what was promised.

All of them died in the wilderness. That generation did not believe it. They died in the wilderness, never entering into what God had promised. So seeing this that Israel had the oracles of God, but could not entirely profit from it, could not entirely live out the experience of these oracles that they have received. Seeing that, Paul is now asking another question again. That would you say that the unbelief of these people who received but did not believe, would you now say that their unbelief will now make the faithfulness of God without effect? In other words, do you understand these questions? They received the oracles of God, but they didn't believe it. And in they are not believing it, they didn't experience what the oracles promised them. Many of them never came into the experience tangibly of what God had promised.

So in so doing, would you now say that their own belief will make the faithfulness of God without effect? Do you understand that question? In other words, if the people to whom God spoke failed to believe him, and because they did not believe him, the words he spoke to them did not come to pass in their life. Paul is now asking you, does their unbelief make the word of God unreliable? Do you understand the question? Does their failure mean that God has also failed? Does their unfaithfulness cancel the faithfulness of God? That's the conversation Paul is having. You might not understand the depth of it. Okay, look at it this way.

I call these groups of people here and I tell them, I say, you know what? Out of everybody in this church this morning, right? You, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, have found favor with me. And because you found favor with me, this is what I'm going to do to you. And I list out five things I'm going to do. Now you understand that? That automatically makes them different from every other person that came to church this morning. Yes, sir. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

So God would come to Israel out of the entire world and tell Israel, you are my covenant people. I'm building a holy nation out of you. You are the royal priesthood, a holy nation. Do you understand what is happening here? Yes, sir. God is making a superior commitment to Israel. That is what is happening here. And he's not committing himself to them. He's giving them promises. Several of them I don't want to look at.

But the first of them was their deliverance from captivity because they were in Egypt. So imagine I tell these people that, this is what I'm gonna do for you. And I give them everything I'm gonna do for them, and then you hear it as well. Now, if for some reason, probably because they didn't believe what I told them to do, or I gave them instructions that they must obey to receive what I had promised them, and then they didn't obey those instructions, then what I had promised them could not happen in their lives. Would you now say that because what I have promised them could not happen in their lives, it invalidates my word or my promise? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. That's the question Paul is asking. I hope you understand this. Yes, sir.

That's the question Paul is asking. So Paul now answers again. Paul does not leave you to answer. He says, certainly not. In other words, the unbelief of men cannot reach into the nature of God and make him unfaithful. People may reject what God says. People may misunderstand what God says. People may disobey what God says. People might even fail to enter into the experience of what God says. Are you with me?

But none of those responses can turn the truth into falsehood. God remains true even when the people who received his word do not enter into the experience of the word they received. God still remains true. It means we must judge the failure of this man by the word of God. We cannot judge the word of God by the failure of men. Do you understand what I just said? So Paul said, suddenly not. He then goes on to say, let God be true. Every man, including the man's experiences, including the man's circumstances, including the man's theology, every man be a liar. Let God be true.

He's establishing an order of authority that whenever the testimony of a man stands against the faithfulness of God, God must remain true. Whenever the experience of a man stands against the faithfulness of God, God must remain true. Tell your neighbor, let God be true. Who must remain true? God. God. Whenever human unbelief, whenever failure, whenever your experience appears to question what God has spoken, the problem cannot be solved by making God unfaithful. God is not unfaithful. God cannot be unfaithful. God cannot be the one to question.

Are you with me? God must be justified by his words. He cannot be justified by the experiences of men. His verdict must stand always. Every contrary human testimony must fail. It must fall. Let God be true. Let God be true. Let God be true. That means let God be absolute.

Let God be what? Absolute. Absolute. Because there's a difference between believing that the word of God is true in a factual sense and understanding that the word of God is absolute. So the Bible is not saying believe that God's word is true in the factual sense of it. It's saying God's word is absolute. God's word is what? Absolute. A lot of us already believe that the Bible is true. In the same way that we believe that history is true.

So we believe, for instance, that Jesus walked on water. We don't doubt it. We believe that Moses divided the Red Sea. We believe that David killed Goliath. Is that much so? Yes, sir. We believe that Lazarus was raised from the dead. We accept that these things actually happened. That is not the issue. We believe that the word of God is accurate, but we don't yet treat the word of God as final.

The question is not, do you know the word of God is accurate? The question is, do you know it is final? Do you know it is absolute? Please understand what I'm about to teach you here. This affects every single one of us. Man of God, listen to me. Pastor, listen to me. Business person, student, father, mother, parent, listen to me. If you love people, you would give this message to them as a gift. Carry it to someone you know who is in the hospital bedridden.

They will stand up if they understand what I'm teaching. It doesn't matter what the infirmity is in your body. If you understand what... May you understand? The bible says the entrance of his word gives light. I pray that you receive light, sir. Amen. So we know. We don't dispute it. But once anything speaks contrary to the word of God, it might be a sickness in your body.

It might be it might be the state of your finances currently. It might be what a doctor has said. It might be what a family member has said. It might even be a dream that you had. It might be what a prophet told you. It might be a situation that you are in at the moment. The moment any of these things begin to speak contrary to the word of God, you then find out that the word of God now becomes one out of many opinions. The word of God no longer becomes absolute. It becomes something you know is true, but you also know that your sickness is true. You cannot have two absolutes.

Something is either absolute or it is not. This handkerchief is either in my hand or it is not. If I asked you, is this handkerchief in my hand? Would you say that is relative? You know, when people that study psychology, know, are interesting people, very interesting people. Glory to God. I was doing a particular GS when I was in university those days, and it was psychology. And I would sit down in class and see the delusion of man. Well, as they tell us all kind of things, how do you really know that you are standing? Oh, God.

Glory to God. And you are taught to question everything. And what that thing is subtly doing is canceling the idea of absoluteness, that something cannot be absolutely true, that there can be a truth and other truths as well. And you see, when you approach the word of God like that, you will not see results in your life. Please stay with me. You wouldn't see results in your life. I wouldn't know how much this cuts deep into you as a person. You wouldn't know. When the bible says, let God be true, he's saying, let his word be absolute. Absolute means that his word is not waiting for another authority to confirm it.

It is not true because your experience agrees with it. It is not true because your pastor preached it well. It is not true because you received the testimony after it was declared. It is true. Either these things are there or not. In other words, whether you receive the testimony or not, the word is still absolute. Do you understand what I'm saying? It is not true because your body responded. It's not true because your money increased. It's not true because doors opened.

It's not true because the attack stopped. The word is true because God is truth. The word is truth because God spoke it, and God is truth. Absolute means that when every other voice are spoken, the word of God remains final authority. Say it with me. It is the final reality before which every other reality must bow and by which every other reality must be interpreted. The word of God. The word of God. The word of God. It is the length and the vista through which you see every other thing, through which you interpret every other thing, not the other way around.

You do not take your experience and middle them by the word of God to see the viability of the word of God. No. You judge your experience by the word. You don't judge the word by your experience. You don't say because this has not happened in my life, it must mean that this might not be the case. Uh-uh. You are dodging the word by your experience. You take your experience into the word of God and see what must happen to your life. That is what it means to be absolute, and it means that if you know that the word of God is absolute, it would not matter what your experience says. It would not matter what you feel in your body.

It would not matter what you see with your eyes even. It would not matter what is around you. What the only thing that would matter is what God has said. Say with me what God has said. What God has said. We're not saying that you should live in denial. No. Because someone can be going through maybe an unpleasant circumstances for instance, and the experience might be genuinely painful. It might be a medical report that you have received, that you've gotten, and you can feel the pain and the sickness in your body. There might be no money in your account for instance.

You can be facing all kinds of opposition. Even spiritually, you can be facing opposition. Are you with me? Yes, sir. The giant in the land can be real. What we are saying is that the existence of a fact does not automatically give that fact authority to decide the conclusion of a matter when God has spoken over that matter. It does not matter what other facts exist. Please believe what I'm saying. Yes, sir. Faith does not deny that something is happening to you.

Faith denies what is happening, the right to become greater evidence than what God has said. That's what faith does. It's why many believers fail. We think that faith requires us to pretend. We think that faith requires us to assume that the problem does not exist or the problem is not real. We think that faith is living in denial. So because you are still in pain or because you still feel pain, you conclude that you don't have faith. Because you are still afraid, for instance, you begin to lie about your emotions so that it doesn't look as though you are not in faith. Are you with me? Because your account is empty, you are afraid to look at your bank account because you don't want to see that it is empty.

You choose to live with the delusion that something is there, and you cannot face the fact that nothing is there. So we live in denial, and we call that denial faith. It's foolishness. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That is not the faith of scripture. Biblical faith can look directly at a fact and still refuse to enthrone that fact. Do you understand what I've just said? Yes, sir. Biblical faith is not denial.

It is that I refuse to enthrone this over my life. It is that this is not my reality. This is not who I am. Is this clear to you, brothers and sisters? Yeah. You can look at something and say, I'm seeing this presently, but it's not true. This is what is happening to me at the moment, but this circumstance doesn't possess final authority over my life. Let God be true. Every other thing be a lie. The absoluteness of the word begins with the nature of the one that spoke it.

Human words can fail for several reasons. A person can lie and promise you something, and it's just a lie. Somebody can even make a sincere promise to you, and then they later discover that they lack the ability to perform it. Someone can have incomplete information, and they've told you something before. They now went to go and gather all the facts and realize that what they have told you is not everything that is true. Someone can change his mind because circumstances have changed. When they promised you something, there was a particular circumstance that they were expecting when they made that promise. When it was time to fulfill or redeem the promise, circumstances had changed. They were no longer where they used to work. Promotion they were expecting that made them say, we will do this for you did not come.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. In fact, somebody can promise something and the person dies before they fulfill it. But none of these limitations exist in God. None of them. God cannot lie. God cannot discover new information. God cannot tell you something and then discover tomorrow that what he told you was not complete. God cannot make a promise and then realize that he underestimated the difficulty involved in the fulfillment of that promise. That, ah, I didn't know it will be this big old.

That's not God. Do you understand what I'm saying? God cannot be prevented by a greater power because no greater power exist above him. Do you understand what I'm saying? So numbers 23 and verse 19, the Bible says, God is not a man that he should lie nor a son of man that he should repent. It ends this, as he said, and will he not do? Or as he spoken, and will he not make it good? The reliability of the word of God rests upon the difference between God and man. God is not a man. Men speak beyond their power.

Men promise what they cannot produce. Men change because circumstances have changed. But when God speaks, he has already considered everything that could arise against what he said, yet he said it. Because having considered everything, it turned out nothing can stand against it. It means nothing can surprise God after he has spoken. God is not a man. Men don't have all knowledge. Men are not all knowing. So the fact that a man is not all knowing already presents a limitation. It means somebody can be working in the same office as you, and the person is your boss.

And the person tells you that, guy, you've been faithful in this office for a long time now. You know what? I have a good relationship with the CEO or the MD for instance. Maybe the person is your line manager, and he's telling you, I have a good relationship with the MD. That promotion you've been trying to, I think I can talk to him for you. Is that not so? For he does not know that the MD he has a good relationship with is already in talks with management for him to resign. So the day he's coming to talk about your case. He finds out he has resigned yesterday. That is because he did not have all information.

He made a promise based on what he knew, based on the extent of the information available to him. That is the difference between God and man. So when the all knowing, all seeing, all wise God now tells a man, I'm doing this with you. You better believe he has checked everything. Yes, sir. He has studied all the variables. He has put all the conditions before himself, and he has decided that there is nothing on the face of the earth that can stand against what I've decided to do. Yes, sir. God is not a man. He's not limited by what limits men.

Are you with me? No devil can stop a strategy that God has already given to you. And no devil can develop a strategy that God did not foresee. No witch from your family can alter what God has told you if it is God who told you. Are you with me? No witch from your family can make heaven say, ah, we didn't consider that one. We didn't factor that in. What just happened? He said, witch fire and attack against him. He said, ah.

Heaven is not surprised by the schemes of men. Heaven is not surprised by the schemes of the enemy. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Heaven is not. Heaven is not. When God told Abraham that he would become father of many nations, God was not unaware of Abraham's current age. God knew that Sarah was barren. The bible speaks of the deadness of Sarah's womb. In other words, the womb of that woman was dead.

Oh, God. God knew. God knew that their bodies were growing older. God knew that years were passing. Years were passing. Yet those conditions were not information that God discovered half time making the promise. He spoke with complete knowledge of everything that would seem to contradict him, yet he spoke it anyway. He didn't speak to Abraham at 70. And then the guy said, ah, I wish I had said when you were 20. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. I wish I had said this earlier. That would not happen now. Now he said that is even hold. God doesn't think like that. God is not limited by what limits men. The difficulty of the circumstance does not remove the certainty of the word. Hebrews six seventeen to verse 18. The bible says, force God determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise, the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath. Verse 18 says, that by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation.

The Bible says, it is impossible for God to lie. The Bible does not just say, God chooses not to lie as though falsehood is available to God, oh, but he avoids it. It says, it is impossible that lying is contrary to the nature of God. That if God could lie, are you with me? Yes, sir. He would cease to be the God of the Bible. Yes, sir. His truthfulness is not one behavior amongst many. His truthfulness is who he is. That is why the bible is absolute.

Because the word carries the integrity of the speaker. So when you doubt what God has said, the issue is not that you are uncertain about his sentence. You are actually doubting the speaker. You are doubting the one that spoke. You are doubting the God of heaven. You are questioning whether the one who spoke perfected the character and the power to make his word good. So faith is confidence in God himself. Faith is not confidence in your own confidence. It's not confidence now strongly you can confess. It is confident that God cannot lie.

God cannot fail. God cannot be overpowered. God cannot be defeated. God is all knowing. God is all powerful. Are you with me? Yes. Based on this, whatever he says becomes absolute. Becomes absolute. So Psalms one one nine and verse 89 down to verse 91.

It nine says, forever, oh Lord, your word is what? Where it fitted? In heaven. Oh my. I want us to read it together everybody. One, three. Go. Forever, oh lord, your voice to Read it loud and clear again. Forever, oh lord, your voice says to the the devil. Are you seeing these things again and again?

First, it says, let God be true. And then it goes on to say that God is not a man that he should lie. Then it goes on to say it is impossible for God to lie. It then brings another emphatic statement to reinforce this thought pattern. It says, forever, oh lord. In other words, forever means from eternity past to eternity present to eternity future. Your word is settled in heaven. The word settled comes from the word Natsab. It's an Hebrew word. It's the word Natsab.

Are you with me? It carries the picture of something stationed, something standing firmly, something that is fixed in a place like a pillar is erected into the floor and is standing unshakable that cannot be moved, that cannot be shaken. Rigidly part planted in the ground. It means the word of God is not something that God is still considering. The word of God is not something that God is still trying to establish. The bible says the word is settled. That means the word is already standing. The word is already erected. It is settled. It is in past tense.

That means before the psalmist even wrote it, it was settled. Oh, God. Do you understand what I'm saying? Before you were born, it was settled. If it was settled before you were born, do you think that after you were born and you discover that you are in some kind of a problem, the world becomes unsettled? Do you think that the problem that you are in was not considered in the settledness? It was settled before your problems came. Yes, sir. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

The world was settled before sickness appeared in your body. The world was settled before the economy failed, before your business collapsed. It was settled before anyone in your family started practicing witchcraft. The world was settled. It was settled before the delay began. Your circumstance is recent. The world is eternal. It was settled. The problem may be new to you, but the world is settled. God is not watching events to decide whether he needs to revise his position on what has been settled.

The world is settled. Civilizations will come and go. The world is settled. Are you with me? Medical discoveries will come and go. The word is settled. That means that the word of God has been established beyond the reach of every changing circumstance. Your responsibility is not to settle the world. The world is already settled. Your responsibility is to settle your heart upon what God has settled.

Look at the next verse. The next verse says, your faithfulness endures to all generations. Do you see that? Your word is settled. Then there's your faithfulness endures to how many? All. How many? All. How many? All.

The first few? The first 1,000? How many? Why? It is because his word is settled. It's unchanging even when generations come. As one generation dies, another one comes. That word is still settled. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

It says you established the earth and what you have established abides. Verse 91 says, they continue this day according to your ordinances for all are your servants. My God. The heavens, the earth, and the continuing order of creation remain under the command of the God that established them. Creation does not exist independently of his word. It continues because his ordinances continue to govern it. The psalmist then says, for all, everything that was created occupies the position of a servant under the authority of God. Everything that was created. Everything that was created occupies the position of a servant under the authority of God. That means that a circumstance can speak, but it cannot sit above the word that governs creation because even the circumstance was created.

Anything that unfolds in time, anything that unfolds in what has been created, situations, circumstances, all are your servants. Are you with me? Yes, sir. All are your servant. So a sickness therefore cannot be the judge. The economy cannot be the judge. Our nation is being ruled by an administration or by the government cannot be the judge. Your family history cannot be the judge. A principality cannot be the judge. These things are all created realities.

And if they are created reality, it means that they are the servant of his word. They are servants, you see. So the moment you allow a circumstance to give you the final verdict over your life, what has happened is that you have promoted what is meant to be a servant to a judge. He says all are your servants. Are you still with me? Yes, sir. A servant can report what is happening to you. While a servant cannot decide what you should do about what is happening. It can't pass judgment, but it can report. That's the same way your body can report a pain you are feeling.

Your account can report lack. Your environment can report opposition. A doctor can report what you have discovered in your body. But none of them have been given the authority to revise what is settled in heaven. They are servants. They can only bring reports. The question is whose report will you believe? They are nothing but reports. When the servant of Elisha came to Elisha and told Elisha, you remember that story? Yes, sir.

That the king and his army have encamped against us. The servant was given a report. He told the prophet, let us run away. We are no match for these people. That was a report. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But the prophet stood there and said, my goodness, What you have brought is only a report. A report does not determine my next step of action because you are only reporting based on what you are seeing. Yes, sir.

There's a place I'm standing that gives me the privilege to see what has been settled in heaven. It is settled in heaven that I'm not dying today. The servant could not understand, but he brought a report. That means bringing report is not strained. Servants bring report. All are your servants. Glory to God. But the report is not the dictate that is settled. It is his word that is settled. Forever, oh Lord, your word is settled in heaven.

Doesn't matter what report I get. It doesn't matter what circumstances bring reports to me. It doesn't matter what is in my body, what sickness is in my body, what body infirmities in my bone. That is not what is settled. Doesn't matter what the doctor has told me. That means a woman can be lying down on the sick bed, and she's been told this condition that you have been given, you have about three months before you die. There's no cure whatsoever. That's only a report. Yes, sir. That's only a report.

Now that report doesn't have to be a lie. I mean, they've conducted all kind of tests and they've reported based on what they are seeing. So they are not lying to her. Are you with me? They are telling her based on what your body is telling us. This is the condition. The condition is that you are destined to die. In about three months or so, your system will fail. There will be heart failure. There will be this failure.

There will be that failure, and you are dead. And you are dead. The question is standing there. Would you consider the word of God as truth amongst many other truths? Would you stand there and say, okay, thank you very much. But you know, the bible also says that by his stripes I was healed. No. You are speaking as though by his stripes you were healed is also a truth. And as though the report you have been given is also a truth. As though these are several options that have been given to you and you are now within...

You are in the point of configuration to say, okay, which one would I now choose now? I know this one is true, that one is true, this one is true. You have not understood the absoluteness of the word of God. You have not understood what Paul meant when he says, let God be true and every man a liar. That everything that brings a testimony that is separate to what God has said, let it be a lie. It doesn't matter how many facts surround it. Let it be a lie. Don't worry. You'll understand it very soon. Stay with me.

Let it be a lie. Let it be a lie. Thank you, precious holy spirit. The world is settled in heaven. It means every case that ever arises in your life as a judgment that has already been passed over it. Every case, every circumstance you ever find yourself in, have a judgment that has already been passed over it. It was not the day the circumstance came that God was drafting a say about it. It wasn't the day that you discovered you are in trouble that God never say, oh, who do about this one's trouble? His word is settled even before you were born. There's already been a verdict about everything that unfolds on the earth.

Are you with me? Sir. The problem is that a lot of us reverse this order. The world is settled in heaven, but you allow every new circumstance to reopen the case in your mind. Despite the case has been solved. Despite the case has been closed. So on Sunday, you come to church and you believe based on what the preacher has thought that you are still with Christ in heavenly places. You believe you are a new creation in Christ Jesus. You believe you are far above principalities and powers. Is that not so?

I will get there very soon. We'll get there very soon. You confess it in church on Sunday, but on Monday, someone tells you that it is happening in your family. It is operating in your family. And that's the reason why all these problems you see happening around your life is happening. Look at now. This one is there. That one is there. And they begin to mention all kinds of cases. And it says because a serpent is tormenting you.

Are you with me? And then now in your mind, sit down and now reopen the case that is settled. As though there is no judgment on serpent already. You now stand there. You're now thinking that, ah, God, I knew it. No. That something must be wrong. Look at what is happening in the family. What you are doing is that the word is not absolute. Oh, God.

You might know, you might believe somewhere that, see, the Bible is true. But the moment you entertain another conversation that is separate from what God has settled. What you are saying is in my life, this is not settled. Oh my. Oh my. Oh my. Oh my. The moment you now open that case, listen. Let me tell you what happened. You know, when there is a supreme court, the appeal court, all kind of courts in Nigeria.

Is that not so? Yes, sir. And I've forgotten how all of these things work, but you don't understand what I'm trying to say. Usually, when a judgment is given in the lowest court, right, you can take that judgment to a more superior court to go and appeal. Is that not so? Or to contend with what the other judge has given. Are you with me? If you're lucky, if you have a good lawyer, if you have a good case or a strong case, you can reopen that case and then your lawyers come again and then they pass a verdict. And the verdict might say, oh, we agree with what this first court has said. You are guilty as charged.

Is that not so? Yes. And then you don't agree. So you go to the third order again and say, you know what? I'm taking this thing to the supreme court. Is that not so? To contend with this thing. I don't agree with this judgment. Let me tell you something. It does not work like that spiritually.

Because the supreme court is the court of heaven. And that is where his word is settled. Yes, sir. The moment you bring the case out of his court, you have gone into a court that fit and reigns. And you have said, see, in the supreme court of heaven, God said by his stripes, I was healed. God said, I'm seated in Christ, far above principalities and powers. Now somebody has told you, there's one higher ranking principality that is still dealing with your family, and you are a part of that family. And because you're a part of that family, that is why you are experiencing what you're experiencing. The bad luck around you is because somebody laid a cause on you from your father's father's generation. And you accept that thing as true.

And you start fighting a curse that was laid on you from your father's generation as though that curse was not part of the celestial. It is finished. As though when he hanged on the cross and the bible says curse is any man that hangs on a tree. Your curse will not part of it. So what you have done is that you have taken your curse away from the supreme court. And you have said, you know what? God, you have dealt with every other thing but not my whole. Now I take my case away from this court, and I'm bringing it before men. Now you are fighting a battle that God said he has won. And you are praying to God who has delivered judgment already.

And you are fighting so seriously over a case that is settled. And you see, it's a losing battle. The moment you take the warfare away from the court of heaven, you have lost. You will fight that battle for many years and you will not win because you are fighting on a plane you are not born in. Oh, God. Is somebody getting blessed? Yes, sir. That's why I don't subscribe to some kind of belief system. It goes against what has been settled. I can't say that this is settled and still be expecting this to happen in my life.

That means that I don't deny that my life might not be the full picture of everything God has promised. But I do not take my life and then begin to touch the word of God with the experiences in my life and begin to say, ah, this is not there. It must mean that God has not promised me this, or it must mean that this is not true over my life. It must mean that this is not the case for me. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Let God be true. Yes, sir. Let God be absolute. In other words, my life is progressively matching onto what God has promised me.

It says, the path of the righteous is as a shining light. It shines ever brighter onto the perfect day. So there is a perfect day. There's a day that the brightness will rise in perfection. But the path of the righteous is such that though, as you journey to that day, your life will experience a consistent brightness. It means everything does not come at once. It shines ever brighter. It means there's a level of brightness you would have today. Doesn't mean all the brightness has arrived. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. But I do not because there are still places I'm contending for brightness in. Now begin to find what is not there. Oh, God. And begin to attribute the absence of brightness in these areas to a cause in my family that God has taken away. You're not seeing it yet. I want you to see this thing I'm teaching you. I really want you to sit. I really want you to sit. I really want you to sit.

This is very simple. I'm trying to be simple. I hope I'm simple. You don't behave as though the cross is effective against every other problem except your own. As though every principality has been dealt with by the cross except the one from your village. I was listening to someone, and he was saying... He said, Bobo, he was praying for people. And he said, you will now pray. What is in English? Misfortune.

Thank you. Misfortune. So so the guy was praying in Yoruba. He said, And he was praying. He said, He He says that that means that every kind of misfortune in my life, the one that passed the backyard, the one that passed the front, the one that passed everywhere, people were not praying. He was not trying to explain what he meant. He says, listen, you don't know And you can go to your office and your colleague brings Abode to you. And he implants Abode in your body. And you will not know. You better pray now because you can be carrying Abode that you have received from any place.

You can go to the market, jump somebody, and they put Abode in your body. In Yoruba, the more he was saying it, the more people were becoming hungry and saying, my God, abode in my body. I said, so are you not seeing your finances? Can't you see? Can't you see? The moment you collect money like this, everything will just go. Our body is there. Our body is one causing such things. And then he started mentioning problems people face and letting those problems to our body. And I looked, I said, my God.

My God. The problem is people pray like that for many years and nothing happens. And they keep on fighting such battles. Some people even die on mountains and nothing happens. And when we teach these things, you know, they they would look at us and say, oh, you don't know life. What life do I know apart from what is settled? So how can... If if I'm the new creation, how did this habode enter me? Where did it pass? What is the like?

Moses said, let me see your face. I wanna see your glory. And God said, if you see my glory, you'll die. So God turned his back. And the back Moses saw was the representation of the glory of God. Is that not so? Yes, sir. In that dimension. And that was Moses. That was Moses.

It means if you came from the back, what you would see is the back of God. That that was that was Moses. I'm much more the new creation. So you are telling me now that when I entered Christ, my back was exposed. My back was exposed? No. No. No. Listen. I'm not saying that the believer's life is perfect by default.

I'm saying I don't attribute every single thing to what is being settled already. What I do instead is enforce the victory of Christ in my life. I don't go fighting battles that have been won. I don't go fighting demons that I've lost. I enforce the victory of Christ upon my life. I, that's what I do. So if you see me praying, I'm busy enforcing. The latter part of the believer's life is declaring and enforcing what must be. Because you have agreed in the absoluteness. Hear me.

Hear me. Hear me. I read the story of bishop David Oedipo. The wife was pregnant. Thank you, Lord Jesus. The wife was pregnant, and he went home and met his pregnant wife bleeding. Usually, when you see a pregnant woman bleeding after some time, what does that tell you? That there's some kind of miscarriage and the wife was crying that, ah, see the baby has come out. He said, which baby come out? Woman, and get me my food.

There was no battle to fight because there was no battle to fight. That is literally a point where you have seen this absoluteness. It means there is no other truth but this truth. Let God be true. I believe so strongly. There is never any kind of sickness or disease that can weigh me down. I sincerely believe this. I believe this. Oh my god. I sincerely believe this.

I believe that there is no man, born of a woman that can kill me. I believe if I'm ever in any kind of unfortunate circumstance, there will always be a way out for me because I just cannot die. I just cannot die. I believe a thousand will fall at my side, 10,000 at my right side. They will not come near me. I believe this. So when I see people dying on my left and on my right, I don't expect to die. I'm not thinking what if it comes near me. It says it will not come near me. I believe this.

Only with your eyes will you behold and see. I believe this. I believe this. I have a young boy struggling with glaucoma using very big glasses. Oh, somebody is receiving healing. Using very big glasses, I would know kind of eye drops. I couldn't live without the eye drops. To live without the eye drop was a, oh my god. I'm asking for trouble. If I go out before I come back, my eyes were red completely, itching in every area.

Doctor told my parent that it's it's just gonna go worse and worse. And this was since I was a child. It means I had managed this condition from growing as a child to entering university as a student and living through it, developing a coping mechanism around it. And you know the funny thing, my dad is on glasses. My mom is on glasses. Almost everybody. My mom's mother had eye issues. Almost everybody had one eye defect or the other. And then they say it's genetic. And then they give you a kind of natural explanation to explain why it must happen.

They say, you know, it's it's by nature. By nature, you should have some experiences like this. And when you do, you just have to, you know... It's one of those things. One of what? Is it one of the absolutes? Because if you're saying it's one of those things, those things have to be absolutes. It means that we are counting the absolutes for me to accept that this thing is one of those things that should happen in my life. Oh, I discovered a truth. The day I discovered that truth, I crushed the glasses with my hands.

That was the last time. I went to the hospital because my mom wanted me to... Not because I wanted to go and prove it. I had nothing to prove. I wasn't going to the hospital to go and prove. I already knew what the absolute was. Yes, sir. My mom wanted us to go for a test. Went went there. There was not a trace of the thing.

I wasn't prayed for by any man of God. Wasn't prayed for by any woman of God. Nothing. It was just in my room. A truth just came, and I knew. No. I can't. Come on now. I reject this thing. I reject this thing.

It's not my portion. It means whatever you have not rejected will remain there until you insist that the absolute is the only thing you must see until you insist. Are you with me? Yes, sir. The circumstance arrived late. The problem arrived late. The sickness arrived late. It arrived late because the judgment had already been passed. Guess what? So even if I was born into a poor family, even that birth arrived late.

Because the bible says that even through the cross was made poor, that I might be made rich. It means over my finances, a verdict has been passed. His word is settled. There is only an absolute in that matter. I do not look at myself as a poor man. I don't carry myself like a poor man. I don't talk like a poor man. Listen. This has nothing to do with what's around me. It doesn't mean it is every time I have money.

I'm saying that I can stare at the fact in the face and say, God be true. Let God be true. Let everything be a liar. I heard a man of God say something to me some time ago. He touched me and broke me to my bones. The man said, he believes strongly that by his stripes, he is healed. He said, do you know, apostle, that even on my dying bed, what you will hear me say is by his stripes I was healed. Do you know what that means? Can you think about that for a minute? It means I so much believe in the absoluteness of that statement.

That nothing I am feeling in my body at the moment. Can make me question it twice. But even in the hospital, what you will still hear me saying is by stripes I was healed. By stripes I was healed. By stripes I was healed. By his stripes, I was healed. Brothers and sisters, this is how I know I cannot fail. This is how I know I can only do big things. It's not because the devil does not try. He tries.

Ah, he tries. Somebody asked bishop Oedibo. He said, the way you keep on rising and flying and all of that, does the devil not fight you? He said, I'm sure he does. I just don't know when he does. He said, but I know as a matter of theory that you cannot be doing something like this and the devil will not fight you. In other words, the devil has to be fighting. He has to be making every attempt to fight. But my living is not like someone who the devil is fighting. And you look at him and you say, you can say that now.

See how rich he is? And you'd be foolish. You'll be foolish. Are you still with me brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. Isaiah 40 and verse eight. The bible says, the grass is wither, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands. Do you see forever there? Yes, sir. Everything around you is subject to change.

Everything. Feelings will change. Bodies will change. Governments will change. Popular opinions will rise and disappear. But the word of our God stands forever. That's important because if your faith rests on anything that can change, it means your faith will rise and fall. The world is changing. If you believe that by your stripes, are healed only when your body feels well, it means your body has become your authority. If you believe only when money is available that you are rich, it means your account has become your authority.

If you believe only when people agree with you, then public opinion has become your authority. You as a believer must put your confidence in something that cannot change. And let me say this here. The word of God is absolute, but your interpretation of the word of God is not automatically absolute. Scripture cannot be broken, but scripture can be twisted. A believer can quote a verse and then draw a false conclusion from it. Satan quoted Psalm 91 to Jesus in the wilderness. Do you remember? Yes, sir. The words he quoted were scriptures, but the application was rebellion.

In Matthew four from verse six to verse seven. And he said to him, if you are the son of God, throw yourself down for it is written. Then he quote that Psalms 91. He shall give his angels charge over you, and in your hands, they will bear you up, lest you touch your foot against the stone. And Jesus said to him, in response, it is written. It is written. So Jesus did not deny Psalm 91. But he reviews the interpretation of Psalm 91 that contradicted the entire council of God. It teaches us that honoring the absolute of scripture requires more than collecting verses. We must learn to understand scripture by scripture and learn to understand what is the eternal counsel of God.

Because somebody can come quoting scripture and twisting what is written so that you can believe what is not. And you would now say that because God said the word is true, then anything that comes from the word, even if it is misinterpreted or twisted, it's also true. Are you with me brothers and sisters? You can't take my gosh and supply all your need and then use that to defend laziness or they refuse that to work Because the same bible commands diligence. The same bible said, if anyone does not walk, let him not eat. Are you with me? So you cannot say, oh, the bible says, ask and it shall be given. It means anything that I ask will be given unto me. And then you refuse to deal with your own selfish motives. Because the same bible says, according to his will, whatsoever we ask according to his will.

You can't take, I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me and then turn it into a promise to mean that you can succeed at anything that you randomly decide to do, including take nobody of his wife. Because you can do all things. How many things? All things. As though there is no context to the whole things. Do you understand what I'm saying? The word is absolute, but God is bound only to what he said, not to what you wish he said. So your faith matures by discovering the extent and the content of the word of God, understanding the full scope of the word of God. So before you say that your own experience contradicts the word, you have to first establish what does the word actually promise. The statement that was made, was it a promise?

Was it a command? Was it a warning? Was it a prophecy? Was it an historical report? A principle requiring wisdom? Who is being addressed in that scripture? What conditions were stated in that scripture? Out of it, agree with the rest of scripture and the whole counsel of God. What has Christ fulfilled? What response does the scripture expect from me believing in his promise?

Because there are times when a believer says, the word is not working. The word is not working. When the word never promised that the thing is expecting to work should work. Do you do you understand what I'm saying? John sixteen thirty three. So the promise is not that the believer will never see trouble. The promise is that the trouble will not be the end of you. It is for Christ that's overcome the world. So if you define victory as the absence of any kind of opposition, you will accuse God whenever you see opposition. Because what you are expecting, the word does not say.

Do you understand this? The believer that is passing through a kind of trial for instance is not outside the will of God. Because James also says that the testing of your faith produces patience. But listen, there are moments, genuine moments in which your experience actually looks different from what God has promised. Not because you are expecting what God not promised, but that you know this is within the scope of the full counsel of God. Right? This agrees with the promise of God in scripture, yet your experience does not look like it. So in those cases, what should the believer do? Romans three gives us the answer. Let God be true.

It is a decision that you must make that this is the voice that must become final over my life. That your past may come and accuse you, And your mind may continue to replay what you have done in your past. But the word of God says, there is therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. You don't now start defending the sin. No. You confess it. You repent. You receive the cleansing that God has already provided. You must now refuse to carry a judgment that God has removed from your life. You can no longer start condemning yourself because a verdict has been passed on condemnation.

There is therefore now no condemnation. So the believer must now be enforcing what is the absolute. I've been forgiven. I've been justified. I'm no longer the person that my past says I am. I'm no longer what I did. I'm a new creation in Christ Jesus. I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Let God be true. It doesn't matter how much your mind wants to play this trick on you.

Let God be true. Let God be true. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. Someone can come and tell you, oh, there's an ancestral power. There's a witch. There's a family serpent or a family authority over your life. But the word of God tells you that you have been delivered from the authority of darkness. You have been raised and seated with Christ in heavenly places, far above principalities and powers. Don't allow fear to reopen a case that the cross has already settled.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. So you begin to declare, enforcing what God has said, that I'm no longer under the authority of my bloodline. I'm no longer under the authority of my bloodline. No. I am now in Christ. I've been redeemed. I've been transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. The devil has no power over me. The devil get your hands out of my life, out of my family.

You no longer have jurisdiction here. Are you with me? You are enforcing what has been declared. The word says by his stripes, you've been healed, but you find sickness in your body. You find pain in your body. You find a weakness in your body. You find a medical report that has been given to you describing what is happening to your body. It might even be a condition you were born with. You've been told there is nothing you can do about it. Let God be true.

Speak the word of God over that body. Find scriptures that enforces the will of God over your life and speak it again and again. Every time you speak it, do what you could not do. Do you know you can result to medical care while still enforcing the absolute? That means a man is not rejecting medication because he believes this. But that even whilst you're taking medication, you still believe that by his stripes you were healed. A point come within becomes so strong inside of your consciousness, inside of your consciousness. It becomes so strong within your consciousness that you can no longer deny that fact anymore. You know that I am healed. You know more than you know your need that I am healed.

You can do what you could not do before easily. This is how to experience deliverance by yourself. Do you know that 60% of the time, majority of the healings that come by the anointing eventually is lost? Are you aware? Majority of the healings that is not backed up by an understanding of what the word of God says inside the mind of the person that is healed. Because the guy can feel that symptom once again. And the moment he feel that symptom, nobody told him what to do. Nobody told him that the symptom is not the absolute. Nobody told him that he he does not welcome fear into his mind because he's now feeling one kind again in his body. That he reinforces the absolute and said, no, I'm healed of this condition already.

This is not who I am. Does the bible not say whoever the son of God has set free is free indeed. It's not free for a while. It means if I've been made free from this thing, this thing cannot come back again. That is the absolute. That is the absolute. And it begins to press on the absolute. It begins to declare the absolute. Hebrews four, and there's two. You then see an explanation that Paul is giving there.

He's explaining the reason for Romans three that we read. It says, for indeed the gospel was preached to us as well to them. But the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith. So Hebrews four two explains that Israel heard the word, but the word did not profit that generation because it was not mixed with faith in those that heard it. So the problem was not that the promise that they heard was false. God had truly given them the land. The problem was that the people did not respond to the promise in the way required to enter into the experience of the promise. So there's a difference between what God has said, what Christ has accomplished, what belongs to the believer in Christ, what the believer understands, and what the believer consistently works in. So failure at the level of understanding or response does not reach backward and it comes to what God has said. That distinction is very important because many believers just assume that if something belongs to them in Christ, they must experience that thing automatically.

Israel received the promise. They clearly did. But even after they received the promise, they still had to cross Jordan. They still had to follow divine instructions. They still had to confront enemies. They still had to possess the land. They still had to fight wars, drive in occupants of the land out of their own possession despite the promise had been given to them. So the promise that was given to them did not remove their own participation. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

The promise only defined the grounds upon which they would not participate. So when you see Israel fighting, they are not fighting to persuade God to give them Canaan. They are fighting because God had given them Canaan, and their responsibility in possessing that land was to fight. Stay with me. Yes, That's why you find believers who have been made free in Christ, but they still think like slaves because their mind has not been renewed. You have all this authority in Christ Jesus, and you still live in fear because you don't understand your position in Christ. Fear still rules you. Fear still governs you. You have access to the father, and you still pray like a slave. You have been delivered from condemnation, and you still punish yourself for sins that God has forgiven.

So you see, your experience does not even validate the word of God. It only reveals the area in which the truth of Christ has not yet governed your understanding. Because that it is yours does not mean you understand it. And your experience can be showing you what you have not yet understood. Where you are right now can be a reflection of the gaps in your understanding. You know, do counseling and I meet people every time. And when I meet people every time they talk to me, it is easy to tell gaps in the understanding of men. Gaps in the understanding of men. Thank you, Lord Jesus. A dead lady approached me some time ago and was sharing with me how that she's having visions in her dreams and visions physically even when she's not sleeping.

She sees the same visions, and she sees a dead relative, you know, trying to speak to her. And she believes so strongly that that dead relative is trying to communicate a message to her. So she's been looking for clarity in how she would understand what message the dead relative is trying to share with her. Are you with me? Sir. That's a believer, but there's gaps in understanding. There's gaps in understanding. And if something does not happen at that point, when she was talking to me, that lady would introduce demons, introduce familiar spirits that will now start tormenting her life, tormenting her in her dreams, oppressing her in her dreams, that at the end of the day, her faith becomes no different from the dead relative. Are you with me? And it wouldn't be because God has not said that you will not die but live.

It will be because there's now a gap in your own understanding as to allow seductions of a spirit mean that God is trying to speak to you. That's gaps in understanding. And sometimes, one of the greatest way we can help people is to bridge these gaps. Is to bridge these gaps. Is to let people know the authority in Christ Jesus. The authority in Christ Jesus. I was speaking to a lady, and while I was speaking to her, you know, asking her questions, she was... She kept on lying to me and lying to me and lying to me, and this was her life in front of me, laid bare. I was watching it in a vision, And I was asking her questions based on what I was seeing in my spirit. And she kept on just lying and saying, this is not...

And she was so bold and confident in the lie. And I was looking at her. I'm not as confrontational as I used to be. So I'm a lot more gentle. So I wouldn't confront people and say, this is what I'm seeing. You did this and you did that. No. No. I just leave them alone. Allow them to express themselves.

You look more foolish when you're lying and the person in your lines knows you're lying. Ask young leader who playing chess. Is that what we're doing here? And the more I thought about it, the more I just saw someone with gaps in understanding. Severe, serious gaps in understanding. That if you leave that lady alone, everything in and around her life will be contrary to what God has said. These are the kinds of believers that you look at their life and there is nothing to desire about it. Character wise, evidence wise, power wise, result wise, fruitfulness wise, nothing to desire about it. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

Let me go back to what I was saying. So Romans four gives us Abraham as the mature picture of what to do when your experience and your promise appears to disagree. What to do when you find out that the experiences around your life differs from the promise you have received. Are you with me? Yes, sir. The Bible says that Abraham did not pretend that his body was young. Are you with me? He didn't pretend. In fact, the bible says he considered the condition of his body and the deadness of Sarah's womb. And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead.

Give me NLT. One, two, three, go. Did you say that? Yeah. You know, if you read it in NKJV, you will think that the bible was saying he did not consider his own body. So NKJV says, not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body. So you think that the faith action there was that he did not consider his own body, already did. Are you with me? But that's a misrepresentation because the original rendition, are you with me? Yes, sir.

Actually says not being weak in faith even though was the statement there, at about 100 years of age, he figured that his body was as good as dead. And so was Sarah's womb. It means he knew. He knew the fact. He wasn't living in denial. He wasn't pretending that I'm still a young person. Do you understand what I'm saying? This is a typical experience or a typical example of when a man's experience differs from the promise. Because God is telling a man who knows that his body was as good as dead, that I will give you a son. God is telling a man who knows that Sarah's womb was as good as dead, that I will give you a son.

And the Bible says, Abraham's faith did not weaken. My God. My God. My God. Abraham's faith did not wake him. How? Go back to NKJV verse 20. Look at this. The bible says... I want you to read it together.

Want you to read it. Go. Pause. What was the promise of God? You will give birth to a child. But that previous father had already told us that he knew that his body was as good as dead, yet he did not waver when God told him you will have a child. So what was absolute? Do you realize that the deadness of his body was fact? But you will have a child was not part of the facts. It wasn't a case of, well, I I know my body is dead, but that is true.

But God has also told me that I'm going to say, that's also true, but let's just see what will happen. That's not it. It wasn't a matter of let's see what will happen. It's a matter of there's only one thing that can happen. There's only one thing that can happen. There's only one thing that can happen. I remember a story when I was growing up. I saw it play out like a dream. My mother went to church and the pastor said, I'm seeing God giving some of you cars. You know what?

As a proof of faith, when you go out of church today, go and buy a key holder and just dingle it and say this is my khaki. Of course, not... It's it's stupid now. So not everybody will do that kind of a thing. My mother left the church and bought a khaki. I came home and told everybody that he had bought a khaki or the Sunday. And I was asking what is this? He said it's my khaki. We're having dinner at around six or 7PM. When somebody brought the car and gave it to her?

A BMW in my front. Those things which our eyes have seen. The same deal, it was the same day. It wasn't a day after. Right. The same day. The same day. It looks very foolish on the outside when a man has taken the word of God as absolute. To everybody who is observing him outside, that man looks foolish. It is in the same way a man looks very intelligent when he's working in unbelief.

Because unbelief resembles logic. Unbelief resembles intelligence. Are you with him brothers and sisters? Yes. But the bible said this man did not waver in faith. The bible said this man was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God. Ah. If he was not strengthened in faith, what he should have been doing was living in sorrow, was living in sadness. There should be no glory being given to God. The proof that he was strengthened in faith was that he was giving glory to God.

That means it's still in the deadness of his body with no child to show for it. He was giving glory to God as though he had a child. To show you how much he believed in the absoluteness of the God that has spoken. Thy patterned his life after it. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Verse 21, showed us the operating system. I want us to read it loud and clear. My God. That means faith does not mean that you have not seen what the problem is.

Faith means after you have seen what the problem is, you have seen that God is bigger than the problem. Unbelief magnifies the circumstance until the word of God starts looking unreasonable to you. Faith magnifies the character of God, the ability of God until obedience becomes reasonable despite the circumstance. This is the same thing that also separated Joshua and Caleb, I hope you know, from the other spies that went. All 12 of them saw the same giants. All 12 of them saw fortified cities. All 12 of them saw the same military trend. That the enemy nations had. God did not give Joshua and Caleb a private tour of the city where he removed difficulty from what they saw. They all saw the same thing.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. The same thing. The disagreement was not about what existed in Canaan. They all agreed. There were... There are giants there. The people are big. They all agreed. The disagreement was about which reality had the right to decide the future of Israel.

Is it what we are seeing with our eyes or is it what God has said? Because many of the times, you can see something with your eyes. There are darts in the land. It is true, but it is not absolute. There is no money to start this project. It is true, but it's not absolute. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. So 10 of them said, we are not able based on what they were seeing physically, and that looked logical. Joshua and Caleb says we are well able, and it wasn't motivation.

They understood that the presence of God had changed the calculation. Are you still with me, brothers and sisters? A lot of us give birth to first theologies. Whenever we expect something that God has spoken to come to pass and we don't find it finding expression in our lives at the speed at which we expect it to come to pass, we then develop theologies around our disappointments. Somebody had an experience they cannot explain. And instead of allowing scriptures to judge that his interpretation, what happens is that he now uses his own experience to rewrite what God has said and begins to teach people as doctrine. So because somebody prayed and did not see answer to prayers, they develop a theology. 10 reasons why God does not answer your prayer. Somebody becomes sick and many people have prayed for them to be healed and they've not been healed, then they write their own theology. Or a man of God who has tried to pray for the sick severally and the sick has not been healed, then write his own theology.

And says, let me tell you why the sick does not get healed when you pray for them. Are you with me? Yes, sir. And because the explanation sounds spiritual, sounds religious, you are tempted to accept it without asking any kind of question. The friends of Job did the same thing. When you have read the book of Job, they had an explanation for everything that Job was suffering. The theology was simple. Righteous people prosper. Wicked people suffer. Job, you are suffering.

Therefore, you must be wicked. Very simple theology. Are you with me? And they spoke confidently. In fact, they used several chapters. Majority of the chapters of the book of Job was to defend this one theology. Righteous people prosper. Wicked people suffer. So if you find yourself suffering, Job, go and repent. And you know somebody can come to you like that and say, ah, this thing that you are doing, have you had God for forgiveness?

You say for what? Something must be wrong. See how life is just dealing with you. Are you sure... Are you are you paying tight? If you don't pay tight, your life will be tight. Because look at this. This must be the devourer. The devourer. Eating your circumstances, eating your finances, eating...

You're not paying tight. And you're buying into a rhetoric that is just not true. It's just not true. The devourer is never a problem that a believer should deal with. Because when he was dealing with them in hell, the devourer too was part of those he collected power from. The devourer therefore is not a believer's problem. The devourer is a cause of the law. He has dealt with the cause of the law. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

So there is no theology that should convince a believer that if you don't pay tithe, your life will be tight. There's no theology that should convince a believer that if you're not tithing, your life will be hard. If you're not tithing, you're exposing yourself to the devourer. That is not a New Testament theology. These things, all these doctrines are results of experiences people have had that they have theologized already. Are you with me? Does that mean that believers should not pay tithes? Of course not. Because there are blessings also attached to tithing. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. There are blessings attached to tithing. So when a man tithes, there is a blessing that is available to the man that tights. That is not available to him otherwise. If you fight this to mean that, well, that means that you should not tithe at all. You have gone into another extreme entirely. That's another extreme entirely. Because the bible doesn't make that clear. Are you with me? Yeah.

But to threaten believers as to mean that when you don't tithe, this happens to you. It is not true. It is not true. And when things happen to people, what they begin to check is their shortcomings. Because they've received the theology that is just not true. Glory to God. Maturity sometimes is admitting that, see, I don't understand what is happening in my life. I don't understand why all of these things are happening, why this is happening, why that is happening, but I will not use scripture to justify it. What I would do is insist on the absolute. Insist that this is what should happen and stay on it until I start seeing it.

Because listen, let me tell you what happens when you theologize sufferings. Like Joseph being the pit and you will begin to explain why you are in the pit. Instead of declaring in the pit that the sun and the moon is bowing to you. You'll be more concerned as to what power got you there. Do you understand what I'm saying? So your confessions and your prayer and your battle will be, ah, it must be the powers of my father's house. It must be the power I dealt with my mother. That is how my mother also died in the pit. That's how this also died. Whereas, there's already a vision God has given to you that you can stand on that promise and say this must happen.

If this has not happened, I cannot die. So this is not where I'm going to die. And in the pit, you are making shout of joy. You are rejoicing. You're not tensed whilst you are there. Whilst you are import... Watch this. Do you know the Bible says that Joseph was a blessed man. He was a prosperous man. He was a successful man.

For God was with him. Despite he was successful, blessed, and prosperous, he was in the pit. He was sold as as a slave. He ended up in the prison. Yet, all through his life, God said he was blessed. God said he was prosperous. Does that journey look like the journey of somebody blessed? Somebody prosperous? If it was in an African theology, if Joseph was going to an African church today, someone would have told him that Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

Whereas, it's the path to glory. It's the path to glory. It's the path to greatness. I pray I'm not fighting what I'm teaching you. I pray I'm receiving it. You'll experience more victories in your life. I'm not praying. I'm telling you a repercussion of you receiving what I'm saying. And experience more victories in your life. Look at what the bible says in Colossians chapter two from verse 13 to verse 15.

And you being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made alive together with him. Having forgiven... Is that a past tense or a present tense? Having forgiven you all trespasses. He has made alive. The word made, is it past tense or present tense? Past So he has made you alive together with him. Past tense. To have been made alive with God is past tense. It has happened already.

I've been forgiven of all my trespasses. It's past tense. It has happened already. Next verse, verse 14. It then says, having wiped out the handwriting of requirement that was against me, that was contrary to me, did he say he's wiping it out? What does it say? It is past tense. In the same day I was made alive, I was forgiven. In the same day I was forgiven, every handwriting of requirement that was written against me, written contrary to me was wiped out completely in the same day. In the same day.

In the same day. Wiped out. So if I had a dream and in my dream, I see a guy come to me with horns, and he looks at me like this and says, you are mine. You are mine. Ask your father. And then I wake up. You know those short thriller dreams? And then I wake up. Hey. And then I'm sweating when I wake up.

What is this? What is this? I ask my father. Ask my father. Who will I ask my father? Apostle, there's problem. What is the problem? I just saw something now. He told me I am I am... Yeah.

It's mine. Don't even know what he told me again. Seven days fasting and prayer. What did you say on this fasting and prayer for? To come out of the cold of darkness. That every power laying possession on me. But he says, when I was made alive. This happened first in eternity. Then more than two thousand years ago, it found expression on earth. Then it became my own experience with the day I gave my life to Jesus.

So in that day, I received his life. In that day, I was forgiven. In that day, whatever covenant my father had with that horn guy was wiped off in my own life. In that day. So if I know this and I wake up from that kind of a dream, do I become tensed? Yes, sir. Do I become agitated? Yes, sir. When I understand there is something settled in heaven. Yes, sir.

What is settled in heaven is that any handwriting of requirements. Requirement means it is legally expected or demanded of you. That's why the bible calls it handwriting of requirements. Things that we expect you to do based on the covenant your father has had, your forefathers have had. They told them every first born, that's a requirement. Do you understand what I'm saying? Every last born, every second born, every woman in the family must go through this. Every boy in the family must have cases of pregnancy, of wedlock, must have cases of this, out of this. Oh, I saw this in my father. I saw that in my brother.

I saw that in my uncle. Now that's a requirement. Are you with me? The Bible says, having wiped out the handwriting of requirement that was against us, which was contrary to us. So my own experience is that the handwriting have been wiped out. There's a realm from whence I stand from such a dream, and I begin to laugh at this ignorant demon. I begin to laugh wondering who sent you. Who sent you? Are you not aware that there's no requirement expected of me? There's no charge a demon can bring against me anymore because every requirement have been wiped out.

The Bible says he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. If it is nailed to the cross, you cannot resurrect it. Nobody can bring it back. It is dead and dead forever. There is a confidence with which I speak knowing that no demon can do anything about this truth. Say it with me. No demon can do anything. No demon can do anything. About this truth. About this truth.

Higher. Higher. Doesn't mean that they are no longer demons. They are still demons. They are still your enemies, but they've been disarmed and defeated. Ephesians one twenty two verse 21. The Bible says, which he walked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in heavenly places. Far above all principalities and power, might and dominion, every name that is named. So when a pastor starts saying something like, there are high ranking demons that before you cast them out, you need to know what their name is. Otherwise, you would not be able to cast them out because they are high ranking.

It says, where Christ is sitting is far above every name that is named because even scripture did not go and ask every name what they are named. He generalizes everything that is named and says as long as you have a name. As long as you have a name, Christ sits far above, far above principalities and powers, far above might and dominion, far above, far above every name that is named. It means if the condition has a name, Christ sits far above it. This is absolute truth. If the condition has a name Someone had a sickle cell or someone is told you are sickle cell. And because you are sickle cell, you have to treat this, you have to have crisis. And they say, well, it's normal to have crisis. It's not normal for me to have crisis. That you need to believe in this absolute.

Oh, God. Please hold this absolute truth. It's not normal for me to have crisis. Listen to me. Listen to me. If it does happen that you find yourself in a crisis, whilst you are in the crisis, far above principalities, far above powers, far above might, far above dominion, far above every name that is named, I'm seated far above sickle cell anemia. Yes. I'm seated far above this condition, far above this condition. You come out of that place, you tell yourself never again. I'm seated far above this condition.

You name the condition, and you see yourself above it because Christ is above it. Christ is above it. This is the absolute. Let God be true. Let every man be a liar. Let every testimony that is not of God be a liar. Let God God be true. Let every battle be a liar. Let every circumstances be a liar. Let every sickness be a liar.

Let God be true. Let God be true. Let God be true. My identity is not tied to my ancestry. I'm not a child of a family where witches operate. Mm-mm. I'm a new creation in Christ Jesus. That is the absolute. Let God be true. I've been delivered on the authority of darkness.

That is the absolute. I no longer have ties to my father's house. I no longer have ties to my mother's house. I no longer have ties to my lineage. I no longer have ties to my ancestry. If nobody rose in my family, I am rising for sure because I'm a new creation. Let God be true. I've been redeemed from the course of the law. So even when I'm going through a difficult season, let God be true. Listen to me.

It is either your union with Christ is governing your reality or your ancestry is governing your reality. Both of them cannot be. You cannot keep both explanations and expect a fruitful life. Both of them cannot be. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. Listen. This does not mean that oppositions don't exist. The Bible teaches that we wrestle against principalities and powers. But the same bible says we are seated.

Ephesians two and Ephesians six, they don't contradict each other. Our position is seated. Our responsibility is to stand. We don't wrestle to make Christ victorious. We stand and we wrestle because Christ is victorious. We refuse to surrender our thoughts and our conducts and our confidence and our obedience to a defeated enemy. I refuse it. I refuse it. Do you know? Listen.

Listen. Let me have three young men. Come. Come. Imagine with me that this is a criminal. Right? Imagine with me that these are law enforcement officials. Are you people strong? Let's make you the criminal. It's not in the looks, so you might be strong.

Let let let the criminal not go and follow. My my policeman. Alright. So you are you are the policeman. You are the law enforcement officials. Face the people. And this is the criminal. So you brought the criminal to court. So bring him to court. How would you...

Is a criminal remembered? No. No. I'm the court. So start from there. Start from there. Then bring him to court. He's coming to receive judgment now. So bring him. How do you bring the criminal to court?

Bring him. So now they've brought the criminal to court. I look at the criminal, and I tell the criminal, after everything that has been brought against you, we have found out that you are guilty, and we have sentenced you to life imprisonment. Young men carry him to prison. Now as they carry you, don't allow them. Do you understand what I'm saying? Resist them carrying you, but you must carry him. Don't punch them. At the end of the day, they will carry you. But I want to act a drama here.

Listen. So let them carry you. Let's go. You don't want to go? Is that how best you will show me you're not going? Don't grill. They are carrying you already. Listen. Listen. This guy is a fake criminal.

Glory to God. So if we use somebody that was stronger than both of them and they are struggling because the guy is resisting. Now the judge has passed judgment already. Is that not so? But the guy is saying, no. I'm not going. I'm not going. I am not going. And the law enforcement officials are trying their best to carry, and they cannot carry. Does his resistance mean that the sentence has not been passed?

No, sir. So the fact that he's resisting the arrest, does it mean that that sentence does not stand? So if you find that somebody who has been sentenced is resisting the arrest resisting the arrest, what do we do? We enforce the judgment. Is that not true? So if there are more policemen, what do they do? You shouldn't come around. Bundle him down. Pin him down. Is that not so?

Because the guy is resisting the sentence. He has been sentenced, but he does not want to agree. So we overpower him to enforce that he agrees. You understand what I'm saying? That's exactly what happened to the devil. He was brought before the court and he was sentenced. And he was told you have been stripped of power and authority, but he does not want to agree. Because he will still come to your life and come and do as though he still has power. What we do is enforce it. Do you understand what I'm saying?

The fact that the devil is resisting does not mean the sentence does not stand. The sentence is still there. Do you understand what I'm saying? The fact is still there. The fact is that there is no power this guy has, or he doesn't want to go. What do you do? You enforce. That's why we pray. That's why we press. Do you understand what I'm saying?

What we are doing in reality is enforcing enforcing the absolute because the guy has been defeated, but he will not agree. He will still come and make trouble around you. Still come and act as though it still has one power. Clear as one authority. Whenever you have been sentenced already. You won't act weak as a believer and say, ah, ah, no. You know that. Listen. I was there when you were sentenced. I was there in Christ because I died in him, and then I rose in him.

I attended your funeral. You are now coming here to come and do... What are you doing exactly? Get out you devil because you know you have authority over every circumstances. It is settled. What did I say? This one is true. It does not matter how much he backs. It does not matter how much resistance you see around you. You don't let fear arise in your heart.

You wake up with confidence. Even if you must pray, you are enforcing authority. What is settled? I saw a video of a crusade ground, and I saw that the crusade could not hold because a wind came and scattered everywhere. Reminded me of when we were traveling. Many years ago, I had a particular conference somewhere, and I was traveling. Rains started falling before I left my house, so I had to enter into the rain to go and minister. I go to the bus park, and I stayed at the bus. I was told that there is no bus going to that region that day. I said, why?

They said the bus people specifically going to that region have an occasion so they will not come to park. Yet there are buses everywhere going every other place apart from that region. So what is this nonsense? So I stayed there for like two hours before I eventually found the bus that was going. I entered into the bus. The bus started going, waited again for another two hours or so for that bus to be filled. At this time, it was around 7PM in the evening before we picked up. Joining was about four hours or so. So I started traveling there. Then we got to a part of the road after having moved for, an hour.

We all hear, and the vehicle just stopped. Smoke coming out. Everybody came out. We're there standing for about thirty five minutes or so. The guy was struggling, doing all kind of things with the vehicle. And then eventually, he was able to make it start, started the car, pushed it, did everything. It started. We all entered again. Moved about twenty minutes, broke down again. He did the same thing.

Moved about twenty minutes, broke down again. Then we stood by that place, then he called someone someone. We waited for that one to come. It would have been about maybe forty five minutes of waiting. Everybody was just standing. When that one came, came with another boss. This one was final and said, oh, we are sorry. We are this, we are that. He begged us. He apologized.

He even told us that he would have to collect his own money, but we have to hide more money for the new one that has come. So we all protested, but then what do you want to do? We had the money. Nobody wanted to stay by the road. We had the money, and we climbed the new bus. The new bus started traveling, and then thirty minutes after, broke down again. Same thing. Smoke started coming out. Immediately, I knew. Oh my god.

I knew instant. It didn't cross my mind because buses that don't have any kind of maintenance, it can break down. Anything can happen. I'm not a suspicious person. So a car will not break down and I will just think it's a witch. You understand what trying to say? But when I saw it happen again, immediately I knew this is no longer normal. I became hungry in my spirit. I walked into the bush because we are backed by a bush. I walked into the bush, and I was praying in tongues.

As I was praying in tongues, I was not seeing a demon. I was not seeing devils. I was seeing the meeting I was going through and what God was doing there. The moment I knew what it meant, it meant God was telling me, I'm not delaying you. I said, oh, okay. Okay. I understand. I went back to the car. I grabbed the car. I said in the name of Jesus, come alive.

I went to the boat. In the name of Jesus, come alive. I didn't care people thought I was foolish. Who is this one again? All these people. It is not my business. Devil, get your hands off this vehicle. This is not some mysticism. Devil, get your hands off this vehicle. The guy was there.

He said, but I I think go and start the car. He started the car. The car came on. We went on the stop to where we were going. I said, my goodness. It means this delay was my fault all along. My God. That this guy that has been sentenced was just resisting arrest and was coming to disturb me. And they've sentenced him. Shouldn't be disturbing me, he can resist.

So what do we do? We enforce authority. There are some stories I don't like to share. There are some stories I don't like to share. I traveled for a conference. One of my guys was with me. I had an assignment to deliver on my laptop. I was working on the laptop, somebody had slept on the laptop, and the screen broke. I was meant to deliver the assignment the following day. Father Dabi is not here.

He's the one. And I'd opened the laptop. He saw the screen had broken. I said, my goodness. We can't explain who slept on it, but something had happened. The screen had become all messed up. But I wouldn't tell the person I'm meant to submit. This is a contract I've just received. An open door is in my front, work that I have to do after the conference ends. And then I go and tell them the reason I cannot do it is because my laptop screen broke.

They didn't teach me like that. And I traveled to Abelkota. This was a fireplace. I don't know anybody there. This was living in the in the night. Where do I start looking for? I said, my God. This is right in front of an open door, and somebody comes to sleep on this thing. I laid my hands on the thing. I said, walk right now.

In his presence, laptop came on. In his presence. Again, I'm not a prescriptions person. I just know when devils are involved. And they are the easiest to deal with. Just know when devils are involved. The laptop that was obviously spot, screen broken, came alive instantly. I have seen this work in my life where I would see the devil resisting a progress, resisting a movement, resisting what I'm doing. And I would say never. When we began this ministry, I told you about the vision I saw.

Whilst I was praying somewhere in chapel as a student, I saw a closed hand over the heavens. And I saw buildings rising and rising and rising. And then when they get to this hand, they just stop. I saw industries, churches, building resembling industries, building resembling churches, everybody was rising. Is that not so? And then when they get to this hand, they just stop. And the holy spirit told me, look at every organization in this city. Which one of them crosses this level? And I knew what that level was, by the way. And I was looking at them.

Churches, industries, everybody would rather live here and go to Lagos and go to Abuja, even churches. When they want to break out, they can start here. But when they want to break out, they leave this place and travel elsewhere. Go and start elsewhere. Go and start this one elsewhere because they also know. When I saw it, I said not me. Not me. Not me. People start things for many years in this city, and before they start seeing trinkets of results, years would have passed. Somebody would start a ministry in twenty years, and you would see a ministry of twenty years looking as though they started it yesterday.

I said, not me. Not me. Not me. And I knew the devil would resist it. Our responsibility is not to fight the devil in his tough. No. Our responsibility is to enforce the absolute. Is to enforce the absolute. What precisely, as God said on this matter, what is settled? And then we enforce it.

And then we insist that if this is settled, this is what must be. So when you see your life moving in a direction and you can tell, this is not what is settled. What do you do? You enforce what is settled. You look at your body and you see signs and symptoms in your body. It is clear. This is not what is settled. This is not what is settled. During the COVID period, I thought about three folks, this thing, who had been diagnosed of COVID. You reject that nonsense because it's not your portion.

Yes, sir. I remember one of them. I had gone to visit her and she was doing self isolation saying I should not come I should not come near her. Close the door. Said, no. No. No. You open that door. You open that door. Whatever it is you're kind is not my portion.

By the time I was speaking to her, the same person that was defeated in her mind that was thinking, Kai, what will I do now? Started jumping, excited, left the room. Started hugging everybody. Yes, sir. You don't hug everybody if don't know you are a Hindu. Going to go and eat left that room alone and said, my goodness. How come I allow the devil defeat me like that? Yes. Yes. Is that how somebody can receive what I'm saying right now and the sickness drops from your body?

You just know instantly. Ah, no. No. No. No. I've accepted nonsense for too long. What is this? You mean this is settled? Do you know how many believers live? Come again, brothers and sisters.

You imagine with me that this guy... Come here. Face them. This guy. Oh, thank you precious holy spirit. Thank you precious holy spirit. Brings a dispute, and it was a land dispute, and they bring it to the court of law, and both of them are fighting. Is that not so? And they said the land is mine. No.

The land is mine. The land is mine. No. The land is mine, and both of them are fighting. And whilst maybe because... Maybe for any reason, perhaps this one doesn't even have as much financial power. Whilst they are still fighting, this one was doing business on the land, farming on the land, doing everything on the land. And then they passed the judgment and the judge says the land from today is now his. Do you realize that it doesn't matter what this guy does on the land? It is settled that the land is his.

But the fact that it was passed in court does not mean that there are no forces or resistances that this guy might attempt to say. It doesn't change the fact that it is settled that the land is his. There is a more superior power that has already attributed the land they are fighting over to this individual. The question becomes, does this individual know the full extent of the law? Enough to say, young man, I don't care what it is you have built in that place. This land and everything on it is mine. Believers behave like that. Matters that have been settled, but you continue to live as though you are not aware. And we allow it. We allow it again and again.

A lady came to me some time ago and told me, the mother went to go and meet the prophet and told the prophet that a daughter wants to marry a young man. The prophet asked for the name of the young man. The prophet prayed and then told the mother that they must not marry because if they marry, there is a cause on the young man's family of barrenness. This barrenness affects the first children or the first sons or so that their wives never give birth until they marry a second wife. So if you allow your daughter to proceed, your daughter will be the first wife. That man will marry a second wife. And the prophet was speaking prophetically based on what he was saying. The mother called the young lady and started asking questions. And based on the questions, they found out that what the prophet said was true. The mother of the guy happened to be the second wife.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. The mother of the guy they want to marry happens to be the second wife of his father because the first wife is barren. In fact, the first wife is no longer living with them in the family because he's been pursued. So the prophet went ahead to say, what happens to the wives that don't give birth to that? Chase them away. And this will be the fate of your daughter. And out of love and concern, you expect... What would you expect the mother to do? Resisted the marriage, said no.

No. Especially after getting evidence. It was true for the father. It was true for the father's brother. Two of them. Two of the father's brothers. There are three of them. So first born and last born. The father is the second born. It was true for all of them.

In fact, the first born has five wives. The father has two. The last born has four. So there is no go area there. And it was not as though they did caught with the prophet. He saw by the spirit. The lady came to me and said... They said I will be barren. I won't give birth. You won't give birth?

He said, yes. Why? The person I want to marry, there's a cause in their family. A cause in their family? Yes. It's a generational cause. Affects every generation. Glory to God for them. But you are also marrying into another family. In that family, there are no generational causes, just generational blessings.

In that family, you've been made a new creation. In that family, old things are passed away. In that family, every handwriting or ordinance of requirement written against you have been wiped off clean. In that family, are assisted for both principalities and powers. In that family, barren women sing for greater will be the children of the barren woman. I said, no. This is not the reason why you would not marry. Go and tell your mother that the prophet might have seen right, but that is not what the word of God says. She went back to the mother. The mother would not accept.

Came... Said go ahead for the wedding. They did the wedding and the mother was not in the wedding. Lest it doesn't look as though I was party to your misfortune. Mother wanted to prove a point knowing that I had not been there would become what she would use three years or five years from that time to say, she may have told you. When they got wedded, they came to me, both of them. I placed my hand on the lady's belly. I told her the life of God cannot be barren. I told the lady when God made the first man, God said be fruitful. God never said be barren.

The mandate of God was be fruitful. So go and be fruitful. Lady went out straight under the power. The guy was trying to help the lady. Went out bigger under the power. Lady stood up from under the power and was ushering the guy. Started manifest more kind of things. Left that place in a year they gave birth to twins. Listen. Listen.

Listen. The mother who expected to say she be, I told you, came for the naming ceremony. I said money. Money. So I would now allow somebody's to determine my destiny. Oh my God. Some of us some of us are drastic with this thing. Are drastic with this thing. And if God has not said it, it is not my portion. One of my young ladies abroad reached out to me and told me that this lecturer said I will fail.

I said, don't mind him. Just go and read. And the course came out and she failed, truly. And that was meant to be the final exam she was writing then. And she failed. I said, what? What do you want? What is... Nobody can pass my course nonsense. Passed everybody but failed her.

I said, never. But I know the girl was diligent. Never. She had a right of the exam. The same person came to her again and said, said you will not leave this place. She came back and told me the same thing. The man said I will not leave this place. I said, how? He would have known he would have picked another victim. He would have picked someone else.

He might still be alive. It's unfortunate he had to pick someone that knows me. So unfortunate. I told the lady, go and write the exam. His stress is that you will not leave that place. Let's see who lives first. I'm not in the ministry of killing people. But when people insist that they are mounting before the rubber bells, then there is only one judgment for the mountain before Zerubbabel. Is that they must be flattened. So I don't kill people.

No. But when you come and you say, I'm a mountain before Zerubbabel. The word was who are you, o mountain? So it's a human being. It isn't what are you. It says who. So when a man decides that, ah, ah, you will not go. I like such battles. I will not go? Someone told my wife that kind of...

Oh my goodness. When you know what has been settled, sometimes you will be intoxicated in it. You will live as though you are drunk, as though you are high on something. People will offend you. You will start crying for them. You say, ah. Don't you know what is written? Touch not my anointed. Do my prophet know how. The Bible does not say there will be no weapon formed against you.

If this day will not prosper, it doesn't say they will not form. No weapon fashioned against you. If they are prospering, something is wrong. Something seriously is wrong. It doesn't agree what is settled. The lecturer was coming to invigilate an exam by himself. Very right. He was climbing the stairs where the girl was writing, slumped and entered the cardiac arrest. They rushed him to the hospital, and he was there for about, I think, three weeks or so in coma until they get defended and finished. It's in the realm where the believer has access to this kind of power that is afraid of nonsense.

Afraid of nonsense because you cannot dare to hold on to what is set up. See, there's only one course my life can go. Only one course my life can go. There are no two ways about it. I know the direction my life is headed. There is no witch that can stop it. You stand in my way and you are flattened. There's no two way about it. People have dead me on that path. People have dead me on that path.

And they have died for it. I remember in thousand and nineteen, someone went to a mountain to pray. I already shared these stories. I already do, but I want you to see something. Went to a mountain to pray. Upon getting to the mountain to pray, he got to a place and he saw a tree and he saw people gathered praying there. It was a big tree and all these things in the mountain that has significance. So they would say an angel came there before, something like that. So it was a picture. So many people would put bottles of water there to pray, put their prayer request there, put different things, oil, bell.

So he saw a particular bottle. Are you with me? On the mountain oh, he saw a particular bottle. There was now a picture in the bottle. Somebody's picture inside water, folded carefully and put inside bottled water. Are you with me on the mountain? They wrote paper on it. As this picture is in the water, so let him not rise. He was in Yoruba. In Yoruba, he was on mountain.

On the mountain of God. Let people pray. So it doesn't say that no weapon will be fashioned. It's that it cannot prosper. I have no idea how many places my pictures are. I know that the devil does not like me. I have no idea how many people have attempted and made all kind of attempt and are still making attempt. Firing all kind of arrows. And they will continue to fire till they die and nothing will happen to me. Yes, Absolutely nothing.

In the month of December, stroke January, I traveled to Lagos and I was stranded. When I got there, the family I was meant to stay with, I didn't know they had traveled because I was given wrong information. But they had a neighbor, so I went to go and knock their neighbor's door. It was the husband that came out, gruntled, looking as though I had stressed him, looking so horrible and terrible. Just looked at me flrowning. Who are you? I just explained. I I actually came to stay with a family friend, but I didn't know they are not around. Blah blah blah. He took his phone, confirmed, called those people.

Still hungry, doing everything, I and was looking, I just wanna sleep. I don't wanna sleep outside. If I can have a bed or something or a chair. And the guy was so hungry, he called, confirmed that I truly knew those people, called the neighbors. Oh, they said they are very sorry. They knew me. They should just let me stay there for one day. He then said, Hunter, drop your bag there. Drop your bag there. And then I dropped my bag.

He said, you can sleep on the chair. And then gruntly again went inside. And then I slept off. I woke up in the middle of the night. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I saw physically, it wasn't a vision, it wasn't a spiritual dream, it was physically I saw in my front at the center table, a old woman with a motor and a pistol. I was hearing was why I woke up. So I woke up and then I checked and I'd seen a mortal old woman physically pounding. And then I looked into it. I looked. I saw there was blood there, guts, like skull, like like a baby was being...

And then he put papers, everything inside, just been pounded like boom. Boom. And the woman looked at me and said, mind your business. And I looked. I closed my eyes. I... What what is this? A thing vanished. No. I'm on my business.

I slept back. I slept. When I woke up in the morning, the husband had gone to work. It was the wife that was left in the house. Oh, very charming woman. Came out of the room, said, oh, my husband told me I'm so sorry I was asleep, so I didn't want to wake up was why I could not meet you. And then I'm so sorry. Hope he took care of you. We have food. Come.

Let me show you around. We have food in this place. Cooked for you. There's chicken. I said, hey. The woman came, showed me that there's drink in this place. The fridge has everything. I don't know what you would need. I don't know if you like this kind of... I just put everything here.

Anything you like. I'm already going to the office, but when you are going out, this is the key. Just lock the key in this place. Then help us put it here. I said, do you know me? He said, no. No. Don't worry about it. Just help us put it here. And then when you're going, you can...

I say, I helped the food intentionally, drank everything they said I should drink. And then I sat down back on that chair. I said, it's now my business. Is my business. Listen. It is now very much my business. I walked around that house praying the holy ghost, declaring and enforcing. I didn't see anything again. You were... I didn't see any vision.

I was just praying the holy ghost, declaring and enforcing. And then I sensed a note of victory instantly inside of me. The moment I sensed that note of victory inside of me, I said glory to God. I was dancing and celebrating and rejoicing. And then I left. It was sometimes in January. It was in December. It was sometimes in January, some months after that they were able to get access to me and they had called me. They reached somebody to reach me. It was the neighbor I was meant to stay with.

Then reached out that person to reach me, and the both of them wanted to speak. They called me and they told me that first question they asked was who I was. Am I a pastor? Am I... I said I'm just somebody who loves Jesus. And then the wife said, when I left the place, they came back to the house like usual. And when they got to the house, they went to sleep like as usual. Upon going to sleep... Listen. Upon going to sleep, the wife has a dream.

In that dream, she sees me, the stranger that he had just taken care of and, you know, sees me in the dream. And then I'm coming with a baby according to her and handing her a baby and handing her some certificates, handing her some things. Gave everything to her. And then she was crying, saying all kind of things in the dream I cannot remember. And then she woke up, was praying, and then the husband woke up in the morning as well. And then she was so burdened. Then the husband told her that I just had a strange dream. He said, well, he said, what dream did you have? He said, I saw that young man that came here in my dream. The one I felt what?

I saw him too. Both of them slept. Both of them saw me in their dream in the same night. What was the dream the husband had? Same same thing. And then I saw him bringing some certificates to him. We made out of congratulations on it, and I handed it over to him. Both of them just prayed and that was it. Forgot the entire thing until three months or two months worth it. They reached me in February.

That was two months. January ending to February. After, the wife realized that she was pregnant. Apparently, they had been married for I think, at that time it was five years without a child. They've been told that the husband cannot have children because of a particular medical condition I think. So the only way they would have to join artificial mental, the husband cannot have children. Except for the fact that now about two months after she was pregnant. Whilst they were thanking God for the pregnancy and doing all of that, the husband comes to his place of work and he was told that where he has been working even before he married. They checked his records and they realized that he was meant to have been promoted three years earlier. But then they realized that there was someone at his place of work then who just did not like him.

So whenever his letter of promotion came, he hid it somewhere. The young man was traveling. I think it was... I don't know if he was traveling, had an accident or something, but he couldn't come to work. So they transferred somebody else to go and man that particular center for three weeks. Also, upon getting there, he just opened that one's drawer and saw about four letter of promotions. Pucked in into the drawer. Years apart, year one, year two, year three, year four, everything tucked in, that the guy never received. It would come, the guy would bury it. It would come, the guy would bury it.

When that one saw it, he called, no, did you offend? And who prayed for you? He said, what? Look at this. He brought out everything. And in one day, gave him all the four. With compensation... No. That's not a testimony. They gave him the four level promotions he should have received and then calculated precisely the salary he should have collected if he was working in that office four years and gave him everything in compound apologizing to him.

They left that place where they were and moved to the Highland. When they called me and they were telling me I was dumbfounded. Listen, I couldn't even tell them, I saw this. No. Yet those people are sleeping there every day. And a woman come and is pounding things and is pounding things. Listen, if you do not get hungry as a believer, the weapons will be formed and they will prosper. Can you look around your life for a moment and say, what is in my life right now that does not look like what is settled in heaven? I want you to try and see if there is anything like that. Thank you for listening to this message.

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