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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. The role of spiritual authority part two. Role of spiritual authority in destiny fulfillment Part two. You'll be so blessed today. Psalms 92 and verse 13. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord. Those who are planted emphasis on planted. Psalms 92 and verse 13 says, those who are planted in the house of the Lord.

Shall flourish in the courts of our God. Again, emphasis on planted. Emphasis on planted. We began this discuss last week Tuesday. And I believe as we continue this teaching that it is important to expose and to confront the forces that hinder believers from submitting to spiritual authority. These are not just character flaws. They are spiritual patterns that if left unchecked can destroy lives, can divide churches, and can short circuit destinies. In as much as I'm speaking to you as those that God has planted here, I'm also speaking to the body of Christ. I'm also speaking to everyone regardless of denomination, regardless of where you're from. This will bless.

This will be a blessing to even pastors. This This will be a blessing to even presidents, escorts, you name it, whatever capacity God has given you to lead. This speaks to everybody. Speaks to everybody. So my speaking is gonna be generic. My speaking is gonna be wide and broad, at the same time very specific. Glory to God. And there are two patterns that we must discern. I'm gonna start like that and proceed to show you more things from the scripture we started with in Hebrews 13. We were unable to unpack the fullness of that scripture.

We would see if we can go back there, but today I would want to start with this. The three patterns we must discern. That you will begin to notice in believers who refuse submission despite the fact that they are believers who are supposed to be planted, but they refuse submission. Amen. So I was saying there are three patterns that I'm going to start with. Number one, let me start with the hybrid believer. The hybrid believer. The hybrid believer is not just someone that likes to listen to different preachers or that enjoys listening to different preachers. There is nothing wrong with listening from various voices in the body of Christ or drinking from different wells. Nothing wrong in that.

The bible says Paul is yours, Apollos is yours. The problem with the hybrid believer is deeper than this. The hybrid believer is someone who often without realizing it builds their own version of Christianity. They mix teachings from different pastors, mix teachings from different movements, different doctrines. Not based on truth, not based on discernment, but based on personal preference. They pick what feels good, what sounds deep, or what aligns with how they already think. And they ignore anything that brings correction, they ignore anything that brings rebuke, that challenges their choices or demands submission. It's deeper. So instead of following a clear spiritual path on that God's appointed authority to them, they create a custom made faith. One that looks spiritual but lacks foundation.

And this type of believer is not rooted. This type of believer is not accountable. This type of believer ultimately is not growing the way that God intends. The instruction for the believer is that the believer should be planted. But this kind of believer by reason of his nature cannot even be planted. It's not growing the way God intends. And in this digital age where thousands of sermons, podcasts and prophetic messages are just a click away. These believers become their own pastor, becomes their own prophet and ultimately even becomes their own God. They absorb everything that looks like revelation without discernment. They collect doctrines from everywhere like souvenirs.

They blend spiritual ideologies into a custom made version of christianity that appeals to them. And this is not the barren spirit. This is not what the barren spirit looks like. The barren spirit tests within the boundaries of scripture every spirit. But that is not what the barren spirit looks like. This is instead a dangerous form of autonomy that leads to confusion. It is like Eve in the garden of Eden. They are lured by what looks good for food, desirable to make one wise and they are eating from the wrong trees. The tree of self rule, the tree of lack of submission, that is what they are eating from. The bible says in the book of Proverbs chapter 14 verse 12, there is a way that seems right to a man but its end is the way of death.

These people want Jesus but they don't want to bear His yoke whereas Jesus says my yoke is easy, my burden is light. So there is yoke that Jesus has for every believer to bear. In Christianity we will bear yoke, the only difference is that we would not bear our own yoke. So Jesus says cast your cares, in other words bring what is heavy to you and carry my own. Your own challenges is light, is that not so? Your own cares is light, I can bear that for you but I also have demands, I also have things, I have I have an agenda that I want to see fulfilled, that I want to see accomplished and I would wonder you should bear that even as I bear yours. But these people want Jesus to to bear their burden and they don't know there is an exchange that must happen. Are you with me? They want power but they don't want the process that leads to power. They want revelation but did not want rebuke.

That's the reason why they listen to all kinds of sources for revelation but would never submit to anybody because rebuke can come from that person. Are you with me? So they curate their own faith, rejecting correction, reshaping Christianity to fit their own standard into something more palatable. They are forming a Christianity that never disagrees with them. And one of the first fruits of this hybrid mindset is what I call theological confusion Because by drinking from 10 wells with different spiritual chemistries they produce a toxic drink of contradiction. The end result of that is instability. They are never stable. In Ephesians chapter four and verse 14, the bible says that that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine. With every wind of doctrine. These people are the ones that the bible describes in Ephesians four.

Who are tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine. Do you remember why they failed? God sent confusion amongst them. Is that not so? And they decided speaking different languages using different voices. And each voice was bringing a different blueprint. This is exactly how the hybrid believer lives his life. He's attempting to build a spiritual tower with conflicting instructions. So he's getting one block from grace, another block from legalism, another block from from holiness movement, another block from hyper liberal theology, another block from different places, free age, new age thinkers, free masons. He listens to atheist, listens to everybody as long as it sounds reasonable to his ears and he brings out sense in everything to form a version of Christianity that only him understands.

So the man of God is speaking this, would pick, he will sit down he is the chair of his own destiny. So he sits down in a meeting like this for instance and he's carefully carefully highlighting what he wants to pick from what the man of God is saying. So everything sounds like dust until he hears one that that agrees with his flesh. Then he picks that one. Then he goes online and he's hearing one podcaster speaking and the podcaster is speaking about life and speaking about business and speaking about leadership and speaking about the laws of the universe, mother earth, creation and he picks he picks that one too. He says, sense sense sense. Picks that one. Pick that one. I went to a restaurant one time ago and when I was at the restaurant, the waiter brought a menu actually on the table and upon bringing the menu, I saw different kinds of cocktails and mocktails. I didn't even know there was a difference.

I had to ask, is there one has alcohol, One does not. I said please, I'm only interested in the one that does not have alcohol. So that will be this one. He pointed me to the item in the menu. And I was looking at all the drinks. And I was seeing different names that I don't even know what they are. Someone is on the beach. Someone is a virgin. Different names. And I had to ask, what is this?

What is this made of? What is this made of? What is this made of? And the waiter could not tell me what it was made of, you have to go and confirm. Went said, come back again, said this one has this this this this this. Said okay, how about this? Sorry give me a minute. Goes to go and confirm. The hybrid believer is like that cocktail. You can't tell what is made of.

You can't say this is Pepsi. You don't understand what I'm saying. You can't say this is Coke. It's a it's a conflict of different things. The taste is undefined. His life is a mix of confusion. He has gotten different building blocks and different blueprints from different men of God. And it's like using different architectural design to build the same house. You're not getting this. You go and meet one architect...

Give one architect team one day one day one day. You want to build a house and then you collect different submissions and then you let's start building. At the end of the day, what do you have? A virgin on the beach. That's what you have. Serious confusion. Glory to God. Thank you Lord Jesus. And the same way God had to scatter those babble builders, that's the same way hybrid believers find themselves spiritually scattered. Constantly beginning but never finishing.

Always learning but never arriving at the knowledge of the truth. The bible describes some people like that, ever learning but never coming into the knowledge of the truth. This is the story of the hybrid believer. He knows plenty things. Plenty things. But is a vast to discipleship. They resist covenant relationships, resist submission, they avoid correction like a plague and they prefer preachers who only affirm them but never confront them. Why did they do that? It is because correction or submission brings about scrutiny. And scrutiny will always expose areas where change is required in your life.

And the man of God does not want change, he wants to remain as he is. Glory to God. In Proverbs 27 verse 17 the bible says iron sharpens iron. So one person sharpens the other but to be sharpened you have to stay close. Close enough for the blade to touch you. The every believer however prefers distance. They are like spiritual nomads. They are constantly consuming but never allowing themselves to be pruned, never allowing themselves to be corrected, never allowing themselves to be matured. They reject the sharpening process and settle for a dull comfortable spiritual life. So they are never amongst us even though they are amongst us.

So they cannot be sharpened. If iron will sharpen iron, iron has to be in contact with iron. If blade will sharpen pencil, blade has to be in contact with pencil. The every believer wants to stay from afar just observe what they are doing. Wants to come to church and sit down somewhere, listen to what they are doing, what they are saying like a scholar and the moment church is done is the first to pick up praise. Doesn't want to mix with anybody, doesn't want anybody that comes to hear and go, comes to hear and go, comes to hear and go and that's not the only truth where he is doing that. When he hears that a popular man of God is coming also, he is also there to hear and go. They hear and go everywhere. Glory to God. That is how Judas' are born.

Because Judas was close to Jesus in proximity but far from him in submission. Judas called Jesus master but never actually allowed Jesus to master him. And at the end he betrayed everyone and betrayed the very one that he refused to be discipled by. This is the character of disloyalty. The character of rebellions of rebellion rather and rebels within the church. Glory to God. Jesus spoke of seeds on shallow soil. Those that sprang up quickly but withered when the sun came out. This is also the testimony of the hybrid believer because they have no root. The hybrid believer is that shallow believer.

They are constantly upping from one revelation to another, one Peter to the next. They they never stay long enough to develop roots. There are no snippets from every man of God. No. There are no quotes. There are no they are soundbites. They are no... This man said this. That one said this. But there's no root anywhere.

Matthew twelve thirty one says they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while. Then when tribulation and persecution arises, they immediately fall away. So in a crisis, they will collapse. In trial, there will scatter. In tribulation, they will stumble. In the face of discipline, they will disappear because they have no root. They have not taken root. Only surface growth exist. And the bible says the storm will always come. The storm will always come to test what is beneath the surface.

The storm will always come. Those kinds of people have an appearance of something moving in their lives. They have an appearance of success, an appearance of of fruitfulness. Because the reason why they would continue is because they think they're getting results. You don't understand what I just said. So there will always be an appearance of success, an appearance of results. It is what the bible calls surface growth. That the moment you planted the seed, because it had no root, it sprouted first. So even what you call result was sprouting first because there was no root. And the storm will come to expose what is beneath the surface.

That's what the storm comes to do. It comes to expose what is beneath the surface. Two believers can be planted within the church. Both of them are instrumentalists. And one of them is submitted, planted. The other one is hybrid. And because he's hybrid, he believes that I only come here to come and play for this church and go. You know there are plenty of them like that. I once went to a church, myself and my pastor went there to minister. As we got there, was a very interesting worship and praise moment that he had.

Interesting things were happening before I came up. Very interesting things. When it was time for me to come up, my pastor mounted the keyboard. And I told my pastor, I said, I would need the drummer because I want to worship. So my pastor turned and could not find it. He couldn't find the drummer. So we had to ask them that where is the drummer? I didn't bring a drummer because I expected that they would have a drummer. So where is the drummer? While we're looking for the drummer, my pastor could not play because the keyboard...

The settings on it were different. So when there the keyboard is to help us come and align the settings, Where is the keyboard? We couldn't find any of them.. Where are these people? So they started looking for. It will amaze you how many believers are like this. It just finished. In other words, what I came to do, I've I've done it. The pastor's preaching is no longer my business. When it's time to collect offerings, we will drum again.

They'll be back. We'll sit down. The life of that brother might look as though he is having some level of results. You know why I said that? Because almost every weekend is in different places, and they are paying him. So he can he can quickly afford to buy an iPhone 16 faster than the one that you submitted. You're not getting what I'm saying. You don't understand what I'm saying. You don't understand. It...

It's called surface results. And when he's talking to the one, he says, you just call yourself. They're just changing your destiny down here. It caused being planted, changing your destiny. That's why it caused being planted, changing your destiny. The cause being submitted, changing your destiny. And because he does not want anybody to change his destiny, he wants to sprout very quickly. He doesn't care what platform, like, he steps upon as long as it will give him some form of announcement. So whether it's a demonic platform, a demonic altar, altar that has been submitted to Baal, doesn't care. He doesn't care what hands are laid on him.

He doesn't care who snaps a picture with him. All he wants is this thing. This thing should come very fast. And he's he's... This... Those kind of people, everybody is their papa. Everybody. There's no you... There's no distinct voice. You meet a man of God as long as you would get platform from them, as long as you would get words of advice, instructions from them, everybody's papa because they want to please everybody.

They want to be seen as everybody's sons. There's a gut. So they have no identity. You know sonship is a matter of identity because it's a father that gives you identity. That's why you obey your father's surname. It's a thing of identity. There are names that open doors. Ah, who's your father? He said, my my father's name is so and so. I mean, your name is so and so.

He said, is your father the one that did... That walked here? Say he's the one. What? What wanted to get this place? We sent people to come here, and they spoke to the people that were here and they started acting one kind. So I went to the ahead and I just told them my name. And the person said, ah, that name sounds familiar. So are you the real Adigun? I said, yes.

The father once walked here. That was over the phone. I said, yes. Ah, was it the chairman of hospital management board? Director of general management board? Yes. Director of chief... Chieftains affairs? Yes. Ah, come and see me on Monday.

So when they come and see me on Monday, say I must bring my father up. It's it's it's a bit fooly to go alone. Because you have to profit off relationships. I call my father and say, oh, papa, they have an assignment. It was a kingdom assignment. And my father was with me. The moment we entered into the director's office, permanent secretary, all of them, they started prostrating and kneeling down one by one. I said, Kai, this this is sweet. Sonship brings identity. That's my point.

Then there are names that can open doors to you because legacies have been built. That is also what spiritual sonship does. When Joshua was to take over from Moses, the instruction God gave to Moses was to lay hand on him so that the children of Israel will listen to him. Why must you lay hand? Do you understand what that is? Lay hand. Lay hand. When the children of Israel needed a new authority, God told Moses, lay hands on Joshua. That the children of Israel might listen to him. In other words, we found that hand laid on him, even if they made him leader, they would soon have listened.

So there had to be a transference. Start from verse 19. One, two, three, go. I want to show you what sonship is. It is called identity. The same way father pronounces your name and gives you an identity, that is how sonship gives you an identity in the realm of the spirit. Next verse, he then says, and you shall give Pause. So the fact that this guy is about to take up a responsibility, what you're about to do is to give some of your authority to him. Not even all. He might not have the capacity to bear all, but he can be a sum.

Take sum of your authority and give it to him. This was a measurable transaction. Watch this. That all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient. So they would not be obedient just because he was made leader. They will be obedient because you gave him authority. In other words, the reason why Israel listens to you is not because we said you are the president. The reason is because there's authority in your mouth, authority in your words, authority on you. And if Israel will listen also to Joshua, that same authority, he must be given that same identity That pleases him as one with authority. When Jesus sent his disciples on errand and he says, go and cast out devils.

He sent them two by twos. They came and they were rejoicing. You know what they said? They said demons, listen. Demons went out. As we casted the devils out, they they checked out in your name. That was identity. In other words, Jesus placed some of the authority on him on them so that when they went out, demons were not seeing them. You don't know what identity is. If I give you my ATM card and say go and withdraw a millionaire for me, does withdrawing a millionaire depend on how much you have in your account?

You're not getting this thing. That is identity. When you slot in my ATM card, the ATM does not see you. It doesn't matter who is doing the withdrawal. It doesn't matter how much you have in your account. It doesn't matter how much business you have done to procure wealth. It... All of those things don't matter. What matters is that I have given you my ATM card, and I've said go and withdraw for me. That is what spiritual identity is.

When you confide identity on someone, the realm of the spirit does not listen to that person based on his rank anymore. They listen to him based on the rank of who assigned him authority. Amen. So when I tell someone, I have a meeting there, go and represent me. The person is not going based on his spiritual rank or based on how much prayer and fasting he has prayed. Demons and principality will not yield to him because of the revelation he has. No. When he checked them, how did he check them because another has given him identity? So when you want to be son of everybody fathered by no one, the first thing that is missing is identity. It's identity.

You can't trace your spiritual DNA. You can't say this is where you're from. Glory to God. So in a crisis, they collapse. In a crisis, they collapse. May you not be an hybrid believer? I think the most dangerous effect of this hybrid posture is the rise of consumer Christianity. Where spiritual content is consumed like entertainment. And pastors are treated like content creators. And it's not entirely the fault of the people.

Because a lot of pastors have made themselves content creators. A lot of pastors are no longer preachers. They're now content creators. But when you leave the primary message of the gospel and start responding to trend, you are now a content creator. And I'm saying this because there are young ministers growing like myself who listen to some of these people and have made them their reference. And because of this superficial result, you see that now, this this superficial, this surface growth that has no root. A lot of young people will think that that is a way to do ministry. And they will pattern their life and themselves after that order. And they will be wrong. And there has to be a voice of correction to tell them that this is not the way ministry is done.

Our assignment is not to respond to trend. Our assignment is to preach the gospel. So you cannot see me on the pulpit, and every time my message is, did you see that video? So the hybrid believer chooses churches the way one chooses brands. What do they have to offer me now? What are the perks? Do I feel good whenever I'm there? Which man of God is popular right now? What church is popular right now? Who is trending?

What is trending? Who is saying what is trending? Who is the media picking? Who is raining right now? Who is in the air? What's raining? That's how the average believer chooses the church he wants to go to. The time comes when it no longer becomes discipleship. It becomes idolatry. Second Timothy chapter four verse three.

The Bible says, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. That's not the reason why a man will sit in church because he can no longer endure sound doctrine. But according to their own desires, in other words, it is my own lust that will make me choose who should preach to me because they have itching ears. Ears that want to hear everything. Ears that cannot stay one place and be fed. The bible says they will heap for themselves, teachers. Turn your bible. Turn your bible. Remember when I started this series, I told you that I want you to be founded on truth. I don't want to speak opinions.

I want to be said, we can trace from scripture. And that your understanding can be based on scripture. The Bible says, because they have itching ears. So it's not hunger that they have oh. Because you would think that these ones are truly hungry. Oh my brother, my brother, you are hungry. You are not hungry. Bible says you have itching ears. That's the reason why you have heaped for yourselves. Teachers.

Let me show you a scripture. Let me start from verse two of second Timothy four. Let me show you something. Alright. Verse two, it says preach the word. This was Paul's exaltation to his son, Timothy, preach the word. Be ready in season. KJV says, be instant in season. Always be ready. Always be ready.

Ready in season and out of season. Convince. Do what? In other words, use the word of God to convince. Use the word of God to rebuke. Use the word of God to exalt with all long suffering and teaching. Why? Over next verse. It says for the time will come when they will not end. Give me a note.

For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. That time that is coming in Paul's day is now. So the time is not coming. The time is now. The time is now when people no longer listen to sound doctrine and wholesome teaching. When they follow their own desires, consumer mentality, you see. When you only listen to those who agree with you, you've stopped following Christ and started following yourself. Using spiritual language to mask rebellion. This is what happened to Israel.

Under king Jeroboam. When god split the kingdom of Israel into two and Jeroboam and Rehoboam became kings. Do you remember that scripture? Jeroboam did not want people to return him to Jerusalem under Rehoboam's leadership. So what did he do? He built altars. Whereas God had instructed that the only place where the people of Israel would worship is in Jerusalem. A man out of insecurity said, no. We don't want people going to Jerusalem, so he built altars. He appointed his own priests and his own teachers, and he gave them what to preach.

He created a counterfeit religious system. It looked like worship, but it was rebellion. And this is what the hybrid believer unknowingly does, creating new altars, building around their own preferences. So if it was the king that made you a priest, would you ever give God's word and rebuke the king that made you a priest? Your preaching would be whatever the king wants to say. This hybrid believer appears to be wise, appears to be informed, appears to be open minded. But beneath the surface lies a dangerous fragmentation of spirit. Their spiritual life is a patchwork stitched together from multiple ideologies lacking the fabric of accountability, submission, and and and consistency. So this believer cannot grow deep. This believer cannot be pastored.

This believer cannot last in adversity. This believer wants to follow God but on his own terms. But God does not honor self made hunters. He blesses those who build according to his pattern. That was what he told Moses. You will build according to the pattern that I have shown you, not the one that you craft for yourself. The question we should ask ourselves, having listened is, are you truly submitted? Or have you become a spiritual editor? Cutting, pasting, remixing Christianity to fit your own standard. Because you must understand that the kingdom of God is not built on curated preferences.

Oh, no. It is built according to an ordained pattern. According to covenant alignment. So in Psalms 92 and verse 13, the Bible reemphasizes again, those who be planted. Those who will be planted in the house of our Lord. Not those who hop from one house to another. Not those who jump from one house to another. Those who will be planted. Who would allow the word of God to grow roots in them downward. Do you know that this hybrid Christianity that furnishes keeping up teachers based on your own desires is also the reason why people skip or jump touches because of some personal problem that they are going through.

Let me explain what I'm saying. So somebody might be having challenges in my place of work because what his own pastor is preaching is spiritual growth. So he decides in his heart that this does not align with what I need right now. Based on his own desires, you see. So how can you be preaching spiritual growth when they're about to sackle me? Is that what I need right now? So someone who is experiencing some kind of conflict in his marriage will look for the church that is currently preaching marital Sunday and decide that the challenges I am going through right now is not the reason why I should be in this church. Glory to god. And the jump ship based on their own challenges. Whereas, many a times what God is doing is bearing root downwards.

Bearing what now? Root downwards. But there is never patience to allow the word of God succeed in their lives. Allow the word of God prosper in their lives. There's never patience. Because the the guy is as a craze for deliverance. Maybe what brought him here was because somebody invited him for prophetic service. And he saw how the man of God was moving in the prophetic. And he was calling people hard by word of knowledge. And seeing different kinds of cases and doing all kind of things.

And he says, Kai, this is the kind of church I need right now. And for the next four Sundays, everybody is seated like this. And the guy say, where is the prophecy? Then the man of God almost as though he may even see the person that fell out under the East, continues his teaching. And when he's done, he said, let's share the grace. Say, Kai. Kai. Kai. Have plenty problems in my life. Maybe next Tuesday will be my day.

He go and pray twelve hours because he wants that day to be his day. And by definition of his day, you know what... You know how he defines his day? His day is a prophetic service. And he comes again in a meeting like this and apostle is just talking. Just teaching. And his his his his bum bum is itching him. Because he he... He's not used to the atmosphere where you just sit down and hear the word of God. The guy wants to oscillate.

He wants to stand. He wants... You know when a man of God is talking like, you want to you want to pick the truth from his mouth. It's as though it should be in his front. And now he's just sitting down. He's not used. He can't sit down. He said if the fire... I can't feel the fire. I can't The fire.

He does not know that real life challenges do not bow to oscillations. They bow to the depth that the man has attained in the word of God. So if you can oscillate does not mean that you have faith. You didn't wanna hear what I just said. The fact that you can oscillate does not mean that you're a man of faith. The fact that your tongues are thick doesn't mean you have learned the way of faith. Doesn't mean that you know what it means to stand on God's word and insist with patience like manifest. Because that one doesn't come based on oscillations. It comes based on revelation. It comes because you have been rooted in the word of God.

It come because there is a deep and solid understanding as to how God works and how he moves. But what he's used to is wind and fire. What is used to is wind and fire. And God would have to teach him that there are many times you can see the wind. And I'm not in the wind. You didn't hear what I just said now? That God will not appeal to your desire, to your... God the God is not God is not Ogulakai. You don't go to God expecting that this is how he will move. And if it does not move that way, you decide in your heart that God wasn't there.

God is not a spirit to invoke. He's a king spirit. He comes on his own terms based on his own accord. And if you have attributed certain things to how God comes, the devil will begin to reveal himself to you in that way. Because you have lost discernment. You are you are now you are now practicing idolatry. You are now you are now worshiping signs. No longer God. So God had to God, God ensured Elijah lent. The Bible says the wind came and God was not in the wind.

The Bible says fire came and God was not in the fire. It means there are many things that can bring fire, not God. Even though God too can bring fire. But God had to tell Elijah that the father it is fire does not mean it is me. The father it is wind doesn't mean it is me. You have to be able to discern God for God. How did God come? The Bible says in a in a whisper, a still small voice. In a whisper, the fire was there. The wind was there.

The earthquake. You mean that you mean that the ground can be shaken, and God is not the one shaking it. And you... Because of because of your lust, you would think that just because the ground is shaken, God is the one that is there. That is why people have been submitted to high doors. People have people have people have been swept away by callingly devised fables because they are lost. Open them to the realm of demons. So somebody brought you, and the man was was daring realms. And every time you go there, there are there are signs and wonders happening. Oh, the head shakes.

The fire falls. The man mentioned the name of your grandmother. What by what word for what? Told you what dream you had yesterday and what one you had yesterday. God can do that. Things and spirits can also do that. Because the Bible says, after the earthquake was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. So if you if you came to church because of the fire, you can see the fire. And God is only the one that showed you the fire. It's better that you worship God for God.

Not for signs. Not for the things that God can bring, not for the things around God, but for God. It is better you're able to discern God. One of my guys told me, he said, somebody invited his parents to a church, and his parents went there and started going there. These are deep matters. Deep matters. Because it's easy to gather a crowd now. All you need is fire. Plenty people are moved by fire. Plenty people are moved by earthquakes.

So there are there are lots of altars. That the fire that is emitted from that altar is what the bible calls strange fire. But the undiscerning believer who has not been taught by the word of God to discern. Because the person teaching him, he had... He assumed in his mind that that one does not have enough fire. Because everything they come to do every Sunday is just to teach. He cannot endure sound doctrine. Doesn't... You cannot endure. And there's fire here.

If you doubt it, bring your tenant. It's not me. I will call. It's one of the ushers. Will call. If if you call me to come, I hope you deal with your tenants, are you sis? Alright, I got. But the Lord showed me that how you make strong men how you make strong men is by introducing them to the word of God. If we come here and all we do is prophesy from morning to night, which we can. There was a time in my life when that was all I was doing.

Oh Jesus. That was all. That was all. That was all my life was defined by. If you go for meetings, the only thing they will give me is prophecy. If they give me one hour, it's to prophecy. They give me two hours to prophecy. And I don't disappoint. But God showed me. God showed me.

Then the principle of manifestation, there is a way that miracles are bettered. The bible says not be drunk with wine wearing an excess or being filled with the holy ghost. Wine is compared to the holy ghost that the same way the holy ghost possesses a man to cause demonstrations and manifestation is the same way wine intoxicates a man. So wine is a typology of the holy ghost in scriptures. Is that not so? The Bible says, that when Jesus Christ was at a wedding in Kena. The wine finished and the holy spirit opened my eyes. And there are times when manifestation finishes. There are times when demonstrations finishes. And in the bid to get more manifestation, we would look for the manifestations.

But the power is not in the manifestations. And that is not even how the manifestation comes. The instruction that Jesus gave was not get barrels and he declared wine to appear. It was get water. The Bible says, that in Ephesians five twenty six, that we are washed by the washing of the water. By the word. In other words, the word of God is compared to water. And Jesus demonstrated in that miracle. How manifestations come? How demonstrations come?

Is that water must precede wine? That a man is not safe if the first thing is introduced to his wine. Start with water. Begin to feed a man with the word of God. And very soon water will become wine. Begin to infuse the word of God in a man. Very soon, water becomes wine. A believer who has taught God's word will know God and know how to stand with God and know how to command more manifestations and more power than a man who the only thing he's exposed to is miracles, signs, and wonders. Such a man would even depend more on his pastor than standing on God because the only person who he has seen routing and working the miracles is his pastor. He has not been taught to do the same.

The second pattern. The first is a hybrid believer. The second are the diatrophies. What did I call them? That's the spirit that seeks to be first. First... Third John chapter one and verse nine. Read the verse 10. Paul... John is the one speaking and he says, I wrote to the church but diatrophies.

Can we read it together? One, three. Go. Who who does what? I wrote to the church, but there is a man amongst them that loves to be the first, that loves to be the one that is seen, that loves the stage, that loves the platform, that loves to be the one that is received, does not receive us. Diatrophes was not an unbeliever. He was a church leader. But he was intoxicated with preeminence. He desired to always be the first, always be in control, always be the center of attention. And when a man is a diatrophies, he rejects authority.

Paul says he doesn't receive us. When a man is a diatrophies, he rejects authority. Give me give me verse 10. Verse 10 says, therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does. Prating against us with malicious words. I'm not content with that. He himself does not receive the brethren and forbid those who wish to. Putting them out of the church. The first thing you notice with diatrophies is rejection of authority. A spirit that cannot submit to anybody because it sees all other authority as a threat.

Diatrophies rejected the authority of apostle John, a father in the faith because submission would mean acknowledging someone greater than you. But the diatrophies heart would always say, no one can tell me what to do. It is a self a self appointed, self governed, and ultimately self destructive heart. It is a heart of slander and accusation. That is one of the signs you've seen diatrophies, malicious talk, especially towards those who are in leadership because they cannot submit the slander, because they are insecure. What they do is then is that they attack. They call rejection control. They call correction, sorry, control. And when they have been disciplined spiritually, they call it abuse. Because it threatens it threatens their ego.

It threatens their ego to know that somebody can correct them. Somebody can discipline them. Somebody can make them feel as though they are they are not the first. They are not the one being seen. The spirit of diatrophies is a controlling nature because the bible says he received to re... To receive... He refused to receive others, actively drove people out of the church who did not align with him. This is what happens when someone with influence is not submitted to authority. They begin to manipulate the system to preserve their power. Are you with me?

I want to give you examples in stories, but the holy spirit is restricting me. These people had drunk on power. They love visibility. Even more than they love responsibility, they want position. Wants power but doesn't want accountability. Wants influence, wants the platform, doesn't want accountability. They are the kind of people that if you make them leaders, they would love it. But if you would correct them for wrongdoing, they cannot receive the correction because it threatens their hago. Glory to god. Amen.

Let me say this. When a man begins to build platforms without being under authority, he's laying foundations for rebellion. And the third pattern that makes people rebellious to to submission to spiritual authority is this... The Kora syndrome. The Kora syndrome. What did I call it? Korah syndrome. Yes. If you read numbers chapter 16, we see Korah rising up against Moses and Aaron, gathering 250 influential men within. And they said in number 16 verse three, you take too much upon yourselves.

For all the congregation is holy, every one of them. And the Lord is amongst them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord? This was what Korah was telling Moses. Now when you read this thing, this thing sounds noble, doesn't it? He said you you take... You are taking too much upon yourselves. There's nobody in this church who is not holy. Every single one of us can hear God. God is amongst us.

So why are you not exalting yourself above the assembly of the Lord? You would think it's a call for equality, but it was pride cloaked in religious language. Because Kola was not fighting for the people. He was only fighting for himself, fighting for position, wanting to take the position that Moses occupied. Are you with me? It was pride masquerading as boldness. Kora believed that he was just as anointed as Moses, but he did not come and confront Moses like that. He came as the voice of the people. Kora's mission was not to follow. He was to replace.

And what he was forgetting was that Moses did not appoint himself. God appointed him. And there is danger in forgetting who put someone in position. Because the moment you start comparing yourself with them, you begin to step outside of your lane and outside of your area of grace. You begin to envy another man's grace. Korah was not satisfied with his own divine assignment. He was a Levite. He was chosen to serve in the tabernacle. It's a sacred calling to be a Levite, but he despised his own calling and envied the authority and the position of Moses. So he wanted the spotlight.

And when a man begins to diminish or reduce his own calling in the house of God, that's a quarrel in the making. So somebody begins to serve, for example, in the offering department, but it feels as though the offering department is a small department for his grace. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Any believers today walk in the same spirit, jealous of those who have been lifted, bitter towards those who God is using, unwilling to celebrate the grace on others, reducing their own ministry, reducing their own calling, reducing their own office, reducing what God has given them to nothing. It... It's not just pride. It is also ingratitude because you minimize your own calling. You're still entitled to take another man's office. It is dangerous because whenever you despise your own assignment, you start coveting what what was never given to you.

And the end of it is always rebellion. You'll find that also in the church. It makes people averse to submission. Averse to listen. Averse to give you. Because they feel as though they have been underutilized where God has put them. They can do more than this. Thank you, Lord Jesus. In second Timothy, the bible says the lord knows them that are his. Nobody crowns himself in this kingdom.

Nobody. Nobody. Do not be in the do not be in the church and you are addicted to recognition. Don't be someone who cannot serve in silence. Don't be someone that craves titles, craves acknowledgment, craves applause. If they are not acknowledged, they withdraw. If they are not if they are not openly celebrated, then they rebel. Their motivation is never love of God. It is it is the love and the crave for attention. That's why the person joins the worship team because he wants to be seen, visibility.

And when you put there and when you are put there, they say, ah, you know what? You still need to... Something is to... You need to work on yourself. And there are times when the reason why they're not even given platform is not because you are not skillful. It is because the leader discerns something wrong with your heart. And for reasons not even known to him, decides to make you just serve in silence. To test your heart. And you begin to rebel because you cannot bear to serve in silence. It makes people rebel against authority.

When if you are not the one that is causing it, it's not of God. You know there are people that are fighting this this here now. Fighting what God is doing in the disciples Christian network. The reason why they are fighting it is not because it's not of God. It's because God is not doing it through them. So the assumption is it's not revival until it's done through you. It's not revival until you are the one that bettered it. So you would call it all kinds of names. You would fight it, And that spirit is a spirit of envy. It doesn't make you less of a believer.

It just makes you an arrogant believer. Who cannot receive? These are people, some of which should come and learn. Some of which should come and open themselves up to what is, I believe to a very large extent that we are the answer to many people's problems. Wow. But those people have allowed a a cloud of envy to blind themselves from what God is doing. To blind themselves from what God is doing. In first Samuel 15, the bible says rebellion is a sin of witchcraft. Rebellion is not just an attitude, it is witchcraft. It is a spiritual violation of God's divine order Because a man seeks to overthrow divine order.

Are you with me? So those who are who are who are who are supposed to serve in a ministry have pride in their heart. They refuse to serve because of pride. Somebody came here some time ago. We're not even here then. And the person will come on Sundays and listen. Even come on weekdays and listen. And the person was being encouraged by a worker to join the workforce. He said, why don't you join the workforce? You're gonna be so blessed, serve in the house of God.

You know what the person said? Person said, the way God trained me, I don't know how to serve in a small church. It's another one who said another one who said... I'm trying to remember what to say to you. I remember. Glory to God. And these people when they make false statement and they they they they they there is always this feeling that they are right. There's always a conviction in their mind that see, you are the one that doesn't understand me. I know what I'm saying. And that's why the bible says they have been deceived.

It is deception. It is what now? Deception. Deception. Apostle Grace was sharing a story. Of a man of God. That came to his church. And came to him with several problems. And God opened his eyes and he saw many things in the life of that man of God. And God said, if you would serve, if only you would serve, then the grace upon your life would rub off on him.

And it was it was about telling the man that this is what God said. The man looked at him. And the man said, so man of God, I came to help your ministry. Yeah. Because I believe that there is something we can do to help even what God is doing here. Grace This is someone who you are just about to tell that God's face should come and serve. What is in your mind is that I came to help you that your life needs to be helped. And do you know there are people who have elevated themselves above God like that? So because you were working with Mount Zion Film Institute before somebody invited to this year, You now see the drama department ministry. You now sit down, see, and in your small mind, you say, you didn't get that stage arrangement very well.

I think I can help them. Yeah. Conduct fire your help. That kind of a rebellious help is not needed. I am apostle Emmanuel. I'm the one that said it. Yes. I have no apology for you. That kind of a rebellious witchcraft oriented help, help that leads to rebellion, a gifted rebellion is not a blessing. A heart that cannot submit because you are skillful is not a blessing.

Because you think that you have mastered something, you think you are the one that will bow to you. Never. Even I am humbled by the position God has given to me, I will never place myself as saying that I'm I'm the one helping these people's lives. I've never. It's pride. It's arrogance. I don't care what level of skill you have. Go to Harvard. When you come here, we are serving god. These are the kind of people that you you will now have some small money.

Say, what can I do to help you? As though they are beggars. Can't you see the mindset here? Yes, sir. It's a demonic one. A demonic one. Somebody asked for my account number. He said, sir, I want to just give you some token. Amen. Wanna give me token.

Just to help assist what God is doing, then let's give you some token. To help assist what God is doing, give me some token. No matter where God places you and the level of skill that you have, when you are in the house of God you are there to serve. It is God you came to serve. You count it a privilege to use your giftedness to serve God. Yes. Because God desires skillful men but not prideful men. The Bible says God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. But when it was time to worship God, God said get me skillful musicians. Skillful musicians, people who can play the harp with such dexterity and skill.

That they would not limit the flow of the spirit because they could not play in some keys. Get me skillful musicians. But the same God says he resist the pride. In other words, he's he's a skillful musician must be a humble one. That's why the Bible says, I have found a man after my own heart. That when the king called for him in the palace, he never saw himself as the one helping the king. Even though when he placed the spirit of torment... The spirit that came to torment the king fled, he never saw it as as, say, we are the ones that are helping these people. You know, we came to help you. Let me go see what I can do to help.

That's an arrogant heart. When I started learning with high development many years ago and software development many years ago, to build my skills, I was building websites for churches free of charge. Not helping them, it was service to God. Free of charge. Started with some of my peers that had ministries, built their websites, of charge. And I never thought I was helping anybody. Never thought. I remember one of them wanted to announce the website in a particular program they were having. I had to build a full website then without artificial intelligence that can make life easy for you. In one day, in one...

Even one day, one night, locked myself in our whole church venue I was building overnight. By 5AM, I packed my laptop and went to his hotel by 5AM to go and present the website to him, and I saw the seat when I was done. I sowed a seed when I was done. I wasn't paid for it. So when God begins to lift us, there is a track record of service. A man of God wanted to come to Ibaran to organize a program. I took it upon myself that he would not think of anything other than his message that he will preach. He wouldn't think of how people will come. He wouldn't think of how the chairs will be arranged. He wouldn't think of how the sound will be organized.

He wouldn't think of apart from the message he will preach. And I told him, I gathered the people, paid for the sound, paid for everything. We thought... When I was introduced to his people, we told everybody to sow a seed. I charged everybody that was submitted to the man at that time. By the time I told them to bring the seed that they have sown towards the man's coming to Ibadan, at least it's your spiritual father. You should be able to give something. It was 1,000 naira that 10 people could gather. I'm not joking. I'm not joking.

1,000 naira that 10 people could gather. When the man came, I got the man and hotel from my money. Paid for the songs that were used from my money. Printed banners and flyers from my money. And I never thought I was helping anybody. Never. To me it was just service unto God. I didn't even think I was doing it for a man. It was just service unto God. I never thought I was helping somebody.

Do you know churches that we go to to go and train their workers? Because some of them can see that God has blessed this person with knowledge and administration. And structure. And leadership and all of these things. And they would call us to say, come and train our workers. I never think I'm helping them. It is service unto God. So no matter how skillful you are, you never feel as though you are coming here to come and help God. No. Humility is a posture of a son.

What did I say? Humility of a son. Humility is a posture of a son. If you notice any trace of diatrophies of Korah in your heart, don't defend it. Don't justify it. Repent. If you notice that you are a hybrid believer, repent. Repent. That's what you do. If you notice there is pride in your heart, repent.

Because this thing is widespread. It is widespread. It's like a plague right now in the church. Repent. Thank you Lord Jesus. Repent. Let your heart posture be one of service. Let your heart posture be one of submission to spiritual authority. Let that be your heart posture. The Bible says, those who are planted in the Lord's house.

Not those who are visitors. Those who are planted. To be planted means you have some level of commitment. Because if a tree is planted with the ground, you cannot easily approach the tree. It means the tree is committed to the ground. Do you understand my point? Because it has been planted. That is exactly what we are talking about. When we say being planted. Having some level of commitment, some level of dedication to division.

Don't see yourself as a fan. Nobody here is a fan. See yourself as men who have been planted. Men who can receive of this vision. Men who can be taught. Men who can be trained. Men who can become. Do you understand what I'm saying now? And the moment you see yourself as this, the posture that you take in your heart is one of honor. And you're militant.

That is how you receive. If submission is the structure that God uses to establish order, then honor is the posture that determines what flows into your life in that order. Honorance, honor and humility. Because you can be under authority and still not benefit from it. Because the posture of your heart matters. There are people who sit under great anointings such as this. Powerful men and women of God. And yet their lives remain unchanged. Because while their body is present, their heart is dishonorable. They are around the grace but not receiving from the grace.

Honor is not lip service. Honor is not performance. Honor is a heart posture. One that recognizes spiritual rank. One that esteems spiritual authority. And it creates room for transference of spirit. For impartation to flow. That is what honor is. And I've noticed that if you find any church, any genuine church, where the spirit of God flows without restriction, where there are such demonstrations of power, where the anointing of God is brethren in such magnitude, such heights and dimensions. It is because the the spirit of honor is resident in the people.

And it is the same way when you find a church that is lacking in grace, lacking in power, lacking in manifestation. Usually it is also because the spirit of honor is lacking in the people. Is lacking in the people. Both of them are true. And that's the reason why a man of God would minister in his own church and would not feel anointed. But the moment he's invited outside to come and preach, he would see such dimensions of power. I was not even witness in his own church. It is because his own people dishonoring. When there is dishonor, we limit the expression of the move of the spirit. When there is honor.

We limit how far God can move in and through a man when there is honor. But when honor reigns in the heart of the people. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. You would see more lives changed, more lives transformed, more destinies recovered. When there is honor in the heart of the people. When you honor the voice that God has sent over your life. You place yourself in a position to be blessed. Are you with me? In first Timothy chapter five and verse 17, the Bible says, let the elders who rule well.

Be counted worthy of double honor. Can we read the next line together? One, two, three, go. The Bible says that when I'm speaking of elders that should be counted worthy of double honor, I'm speaking of those that labor over you in word and in doctrine. It is not a suggestion, it's a command. The bible says those who labor over you spiritually, those who are feeding you, those who are watching over you, those who are praying for you, they are worthy of double honor. That means the way you honor your boss is not the way you honor your pastor. Because the Bible says honor all men. But when it comes to those who labor over you, the Bible explicitly mentions I call them double honor. I call them double honor.

Those who labor over you. Those who labor over you. Those who labor over you. In word and doctrine. It is not wisdom to accord to any other man of God. Because they are influential or popular. A kind of honor that you cannot give your pastor. It is lack of wisdom. No matter where I'm invited to minister, no matter where I'm invited to minister, I do not place myself in a position because of the signs that happen at the ministering. Where the men and the members of that church now begin to feel that I'm superior to their pastor.

I never do that. Never. It is lack of ministerial ethics. It's lack of wisdom as a minister of the gospel. Yes. Because you submit yourself even to the grace on that pulpit. Because a lot of people do this. A lot of people do this. And when you see wise ministers of God, I don't want... This is not a minister's training, so I will not go into that.

But let me tell you this. I have been to places where the honor was extremely high. And I saw the way and manner by which God moved. I had to ask myself, is this really because I'm anointed? Because when when there is honor, the way God will move through that anointing will surprise even the bearer of the anointing. Apostle Salman said, it does not go to anywhere where he's not honored. He said if I went there once, it was a mistake, I did not know. I will never go there again. The man said as a man of God, never go to any place where you are not honored. You know why?

Because the people will not receive from you. That was what the Bible says. The Bible says Jesus could not do. Many miracles in his hometown because of their own belief. What gave rise to the own belief? Is this not the son of the carpenter? In other words, they could not receive him as a prophet. Because all they saw him as was a son of the carpenter. And because of the dishonor and the familiarity in their heart. The the Bible does not say he will not.

The Bible says he could not do. Imagine that as a man of God. That was where Jesus's ministry was. Do you understand what I'm saying? Imagine that that was where Jesus was doing ministry. That means you will feel as though you are not anointed. You will feel as though there is no power in your life. You will feel as though there is nothing God is doing through you. Because you keep on prophesying, you keep on blessing people, you keep on making all kind of declarations, and you won't see them manifesting now you are seeing them in your life. But you go outside.

You go outside. And let people let people and minister to people who... A faith of honor for you and the grace that God has bestowed upon your life. You go outside and you would see power, you would see healings, you would see miracles, demonstrations. And you begin to wonder why don't I say this in my own church? It is because the people in your own church don't understand honor. They will only see through your life. The dimension of God's power that they call by their honor. Are you with me? Yes sir.

Yes. So if you're listening to me, understand this. That if God has placed a voice over you, you would only receive from that voice as much as you can honor. That is why the Bible says. If you receive a prophet in the name of a prophet, you will have a prophet's reward. A fool was talking one day. And he said to another person, he said, we're talking about a man of God. And he said, something that you should not say about a man of God. And the lady was talking to was trying to correct him that, you shouldn't speak that way, this is a man of God. And the lady said, well, he's a man of God but he's first a man.

Before he is of God. We know. So the Bible says, receive a prophet. In the name of a prophet. Not because we don't know there is a man. But does not say receive him as a man. He says receive him as a prophet. Is foolishness to say, he's not a man. He's a man. But the Bible says God has placed treasures in earthen vessels.

To you, it's not just a man. To you, is your prophet. Doesn't mean that the limitations that you would find in a man are not there. Was Elijah not an angry man of God? With all forms of temperament issues, but did Elijah follow? Yes. He did. I believe this is probably one of the reasons why many sons of the prophet could not follow him because all of them withdrew. All of them. They were wondering,.

You better be careful. They gave themselves sense like we'll call it and went to go and start their own ministry. And only Elisha was wise enough to ignore to say, even though this is a man, the treasure is inside the men. Say, he's forced a man. Will he be an angel before? The difference is that grace has separated him. Your focus therefore is not on his humanity, it is on the divinity. It is on the fact that God has chosen, God has separated, God has increased, God has empowered. Glory to God. Glory.

Yes. Honor. You only receive the grace that you honor. Familiarity is a killer of destiny. You can be so close to a man of God, you no longer see the grace he carries. You now see his personality, his flaws, his age, his mistakes. You no longer see the mantle upon his life. And if you're not careful, is what happens when you come to a church often. For those of you who come to ear often for instance and you come on Sundays, you come on Sundays, if you're not careful, you can slip into a state of familiarity because you see the man of God every time. And then the man of God is now invited to a place where they have been feasting on his messages alone for the past three years.

And all of them have been expecting when will this man come? When will this man come? And they just hear he's coming for a particular meeting. If you are privileged to be there, you will see that man of God moving dimensions you have never seen since your days of coming to that church. And it is because the people have allowed a kind of familiarity. Never allow yourself to get familiar to a grace. Where you start treating as casual what God has chosen as secret. Never allow yourself get to that point. Sunday is prophetic service. There will be all kinds of money, all kinds of of lives shifted, all kinds of destinies molded, all kinds.

God will be doing so much, so much. But never allow yourself get familiar to it. Never get to a point where the workings of God's power do not move you anymore. Never get yourself to a point where you lose the hall, where you lose the wonder. To up until today, I will always honor the move of God's power. Don't you think that this just started I will always honor the move of God's power. I will never take it for granted. Even something as simple as somebody goes out under the power, I would not take it for granted. You don't just look and say, oh, okay, that has happened. No.

Somebody's life has just changed. God is moving and he has and he has chosen to reveal himself as tangible. No, I honor. I honor the move of the spirit. In every dimension that he comes, I honor the move of the spirit. I honor the move of the spirit. Do you know that there is no time that I am privileged to teach on the holy spirit, teach on the presence of God, teach on the glory of God that there will be no unusual manifestation that even humbles me. It will always be a different meeting. If I ever am privileged by God to teach on this subject because these are these are things God has given to me as an asset. Your holy spirit, the presence of God.

He will always make himself manifest, always. And the reason is because I honor him genuinely. I honor the presence of God. That is the reason why I'd I'd not condone some things in the presence of God. I don't like that when the presence of God and the phone is ringing, I honor God too much. I honor his presence too much. I don't I don't know how people do it. That when the presence of God worshiping God and somebody picks a call and say, I don't I don't know how I don't know how somebody does that. Has honor died in your heart? Have you lost consciousness?

Is it because you are seeing a man in your front? Has Homo died in your heart? Doesn't matter what the phone call is about. Doesn't matter. When I'm done, would reply you and apologize. But I'm before the creator of the universe. I'm before the monarch of Zion. My heart posture must show it. I don't know how you would be in the presence of God and you would find it comfortable just with your friend. It is dishonor to God.

And when I find such things, I will rebuke you right here. Right here. Unless I don't see you. If I see you, if it's your fourth time in church, that's how you will know me. You over there. If you like, be hungry and go. It's your business. It's your business. But I have that level of honor for God. And I would want us to get to a point where we would have this same level of honor.

If we do, I tell you, a time will come. We will come for meetings like this and somebody will be suspended in the air. We will see terrible manifestations of glory and power. That's the problem with numbers. When you are dealing with too much people, they have different reasons why they are there. So you cannot really control these things. When we were just three, three serious intentional people that knew what we wanted. Come on now. Come on now. The bible says that when 120 priests started blowing the trumpet, they blew one sound.

The Bible says the glory of God came down and was so strong. That nobody could minister. Even the minister was slain in the power. Even the minister, the priest were slain. One heart. One heart of honor for God. One heart of honor for the anointed. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Then the way you would receive my goodness. Place emphasis on the words spoken over your life.

It is honor. Place emphasis on the instructions of the anointed. Please honor how you receive the words of the anointed. It is honor. It is honor. When you honor a man, it will be seen in how you receive his words. When an apostle comes and says bring three people to, it's an instruction. It is honor to do so. It is honor to give yourself to it. It is honor to commit yourself to it.

It is honor. Glory to God. When you honor a man, would sow into that grace. The Bible says honor the Lord your God with his with your substance. You cannot claim to honor and there is no substance that accompanies it. When you honor, you would give. If you honor God, you would give to God. If you honor a man, you would give to a man. If you honor your parents, you would give to your parent. It is true.

It is true. Glory to God. Amen. Yes. The best way to receive is with honor. The best way to receive is with honor. I never, by, by principle, I never go to a man of God empty handed. I must bring a seed of honor. This was what the servant told Saul when they were going to visit the prophet. So we must not go empty handed.

And they said, oh, I have something here we can give. It is a principle of honor. Which we do not appear before God empty handed. I will know I will give my offering. I have to sow a seed. The fact that I appear before God. I have to sow a seed. I'm coming to meet a man of God. I'm trusting God for your word. I'm...

Somebody came to meet me. Somebody came to meet me some time ago. I will say this and I'll finish some time ago. And the person told me what they were going through. They had a case with the the school... With the schools and board of disciplinary committee because he was caught in the exam hall with something that he had taken there unintentionally because he forgot it. He was caught. He forgot. He was... He didn't mean it.

He just forgot it, and he caught it. And he was telling me, he came, he traveled to come and see me. And he said that he've already had three meetings. And in the three meetings, was found guilty. The next meeting they're going to have was to be on a Wednesday. He came to meet me on a Sunday. Traveled over and said, they have found me guilty three times. I have tried to bleed, and it did not work. I just want you to speak a word. And I said, God will have mercy on you.

I said, amen. Amen. And he left. And I called him back. I said, come. Come. I'm telling you this because you are my son. It is stupidity for you to travel down and come and see me and not come with a seed. I will never tell anybody that. Never.

But I know that there is no anointing in what I've just said. And I know that his life was on the line. That was why I called him back. It was compassion. It was compassion. So he said, he said, sir, I'm sorry, sir. I'm sorry, sir. But the reason is because what I have on me is just 500 naira. I said, bring it. Have no need for your 500 naira.

But when you sow a seed, you are not sowing to meet the needs of the anointed. The anointed does not meet your needs. The anointed does not need you to meet his needs. That's how people see it. They say ah, I only have 15 naira. This money is too small for apostle. You are taking it wrong. It is big to you. That's all that matters. That's all that matters.

Sisa, I have 1,000 naira. It is big to you. That's all that matters. You don't give and you're considering the status of the man that you're giving to. No. You're considering where you are so that you can also be lifted. What matters is that this is all that I have. They gave it. I think I think it was... How much did it give?

I think was 2,000 naira or so. He said that was by... That was his transport back. I gave it. I said, now you are favored. He went back. Do you know he could not travel to school because he's now have transport fee? On Wednesday, when his case was being decided, he could not travel because he didn't have transport fee. And he had gone to everybody to ask them for money. He...

Nobody could give him 2,000 naira. Nobody. But I wondered what he was going through his mind at that period. I wonder. I wonder. When a case was being decided, he was not there. And he was acquitted. How it came to... He was not there. Before he was not even there should be enough reason why they say, this guy gone serious.

God just wanted to humble him. God wanted to make him see that it was not as though this... Anything was needed from you. But it's a principle. Get me venison. The man saying get me venison is not hungry. He has a wife that know how to make his venison. If he wanted to eat, it's not you he will call. It's his wife he will call. It's not you he will call.

Was not the... The venison that did not came was not the wife that cooked. Has a wife that knows how that thing is cooked. It was a blessed man. The reason is because something must leave you to provoke a sense of the anointing. It is that my soul may rise. My soul may rise. My soul may rise. My emotions may rise. And bless you.

And the moment venison came, they frustrated the smell of my son. Is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed. When he touched him, he said, ah, is this not Esau? How come you feel like Esau but sound like Jacob? It means Isaac knew that somebody is trying to play him while there was venison in his front. Something had already been provoked. The guy, his soul had already risen. His soul had risen. He had reached the place of ecstasy. What came from his mouth was blessings.

What came from his mouth was blessings. God is never in need of whatever he tells you to give. God is not a needful God. Are you with me? Yes. Yes. And no man of God who teaches giving from a genuine heart, teaches it because they need something. From a genuine heart. When a man of God teaches the same subject from a heart of hunger, unless you are your own wise, you would know. If you don't give your tithe, your life will be tight.

Amen. Amen. Something is wrong. This is either that one that are coming from greed or coming from a a a very a perverse place in the spirit. Eyes up on your feet. Can you bow your head in one moment and tell God to help your heart? Tell God to help your heart. This series was done intentionally. Intentionally, it was done to bring us to a place where what God wants to do with us in this season, he can now begin to do because our hearts have been aligned. Our hearts have been made right.

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