Transcript: The Distinctive Life — Known and Read By All Men

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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. Second Corinthians chapter three and verse one. We read to verse three. Please pay attention, listen, Let your spirit, soul, and body be here. I really believe that this meeting will change the times for many people. I really believe so.

It's gonna be a meeting of impartations. It's gonna be a meeting of activations. And at any point that the holy spirit wills, he will come and he will begin to do what he knows to do best. My plea for you is to be hungry. This is one of those meetings where your hunger is stirred up. Your hunger is stirred up. I tell you, all through yesterday night, my spirit was on fire. I couldn't wait to just come here and deliver what the holy spirit has put in my spirit as a burden as a burden. I'm gonna try to be simple. I'm gonna try as much as possible to be simple.

And I pray that God will give you understanding in the name of Jesus. In second Corinthians chapter three from verse one to verse three, the bible begins to speak and it was Paul that was speaking. He says, do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? He then says, you are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men. Clearly, you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but by the spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stones, but on tablets of flesh that is of the heart. Please pay attention to this, of the heart. In verse one, Paul was examining his ministry as an apostle. The total sum of his work with God, and he starts to make an audit of his life in what should announce him, what should introduce him, what should give him visibility so that those who do not know him can come to know of him. Then he turns to the people that he has preached and ministered to all the while and he says, I don't need an introduction from you or to you to announce me.

You are my epistles. You are known and read by all men. So the world is coming into progressive knowledge of you. The world is discovering you. But not only have they known you, they have also read you. They have studied you because you carry the distinctive mark that separates you from other men. The word study there in the Greek actually means to study in terms of distinction, to study because something is distinct, to study because something is different, or to read about a man because of the distinctive mark upon that man, or to study a thing because of the distinctive mark upon that thing. That is a context in the Greek of the word read. Sorry, read that is there. It's like you it's like you read of a great man.

There are many men. Are you with me? But you would most likely not read of a beggar in Modija. Do you agree with me? You would go and read of an autobiography because of the distinction of that life. That is what the red here captures. He's saying that your life now carries a distinctive mark that makes men to not only know you but to study about your life. Do you understand this? Paul says, if we are looking for anything to commend us, to announce us, it is not a video. It is not a letter.

It is not a banner. It is not cars that are parked outside or the houses that we own. He says, there is a place where people look at our work in Christ, And they look at you, and they desire to know you and study you because there is something different about your life. Something has been built inside of you over the span of time that you have sat under my ministry. You have become something that is tasteful to the world, and so they long to know you. They long to study about you. They long to read about you. Paul says, if I desire anything should announce me, then let the testimony of your transformed lives announce me. Do you see this? He's saying he's saying he's saying, I do not need letters of commendation from you.

If anything would announce me, let it not be because others recommended me. Let it be because the testimony of your transformed life. Do you get what Paul is saying here? He says you are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men. That is the only source of announcement I need. Let people see the life of those who have sat under my ministry, who have lent Christ through me. Paul says, let that become what announces me. Let it not be the houses that I've built or the numbers of people that sit under my ministry or the amount of banners we put up or the amount of advertisement we put up on social media. Paul says no. Not all of that.

Not even commendation from other men. But that... You see, when I look at modern day Christianity, I see that there is a disparity between the experience that we see here captured by Paul and what we now see amongst many modern day believers. This was this was Paul telling believers that how men will come to know me as an apostle is not in the billboards. It's not in the banners that we meet. It is that they will see your life, and they will marvel at the transformation and the results that you command. This tells you that the result that Paul is speaking about here isn't something that is available to all men. It is not result like the availability of food, money, or you get a good job, or you buy a good car. Because men can get those things without learning Christ. So the result that men will see is a dimension of result that is only available to you because you have been taught Christ.

This is the distinctive mark that makes people know you, that makes people study you because you have something that is not available to all men. If all men are studying you, it is because you have something that is not available to all men. Are you with me? The title of my teaching today is the distinctive life. I've been known and read by all men. Known and read by all men. But there's a level of result that a man can have that believers who have learned Christ can have, that makes the world come and study. The brain of the believer who have received Christ is deserving of being studied. It was John Gillick who was helping people in South Africa who had Ebola virus many years ago in the first onslaught of the attack, and he wasn't wearing gloves or any protective garment. And doctors marveled at the fact that he is not dead because they kept on warning him.

But this man just reckless in faith, ignored all the warnings and was carrying dead bodies helping doctors. And when they asked him, young man, how are you not dead? Even those wearing protective custody, the virus still found a way and pierced into their bodies. But it looks as though you are not dead. What is powering you? That level of result is not available to all men. And as such, because of that result, people in the same field as him have come to know him. And not only to know him, but to now study. Do you understand what I'm saying? It is in history that he was taken to a laboratory, and the viral was put in his hands.

And they observed the virus under a microscope, and they watched as the virus collided with his hands, and it dried up. And when he was asked, he he said, it is a life of God in me. If this same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead dwells in your mortal body, that spirit is capable of quickening your mortal body. I'm telling you that what men will see in you that will make them know you enough to consider you of someone worthy to be studied is not result that is available to all men. Are you with me? And I'm telling you that there is a level of result that is only available to them who have learned Christ. Who have received Christ and have learned Christ. They have been taught Christ. They've not received it on tablet of stones, but they've received on tablets of flesh, which is their heart. And the transformation is so obvious that the result that they command show what they have received.

You see, there is a realm where a man can be where you are simply existing. You get admission into university, you graduate with a good result, you get a good job, you get a good office, you get married, you have children. There's a realm where you become dissatisfied with just existing, and you want to contend for something greater than yourself. Where you rise to a point where, like Paul says, your life becomes an epistle that is known by all men, studied and read by all men. Something about your life is different. You are not like the nominal believer. Listen. Do you know that there is an expected way that your life should progress or proceed if you are born in Nigeria? If you get a first car at age 19, it's not expected. Yeah.

Let me get what I just said. That's not normal. But if you are opening your first house by age 55, it's expected. Especially in Africa, Nigeria to be specific. When you see... Haven't you realized that even the policy and the system fights people doing great things at a young age? If you drive a good car at a young age, you realize that every bus stop you get to, a policeman will stop you. And the first thing they will ask you is, what do you do? How can somebody of your heel afford such luxury? Because driving a Toyota is luxury.

I'm telling you that there is expected results. Expected result does not amaze men. Expected result does not impress men. If your life proceeds the way the system has designed for your life to proceed, there is nothing spectacular or distinctive about it. Nothing. But there is a realm where a man begins to learn Christ and his results defy the norm. And I'm gonna show you this realm. My aim in this teaching is to challenge us out of a life of nothing, out of a life of slavery, out of a life of mediocrity, out of a life of average into an abundant life. And I will attempt to do this by showing you the three planes of existence in the believer's work of faith so that we go on this journey and you realize what your end should be according to the mind of God, and you don't settle for less. Now when I say what your end should be, I'm not saying what the end of your life should be.

In other words, when you are about to die or when you are 70 or when you are 80. Usually, when I say the end of your life, that is what people picture. That is not what I'm saying. Jesus said, for this end was I born. In other words, the end was already in view even whilst he was born. For this end was I born. It means you can have an understanding of your end and enter into it early. It was David who said satisfy us early. So I'm not saying your end as in when you are 70 and you say I've run the full race. No.

I'm saying this is what God has ordained for you. This is what God has apportioned for you. That is your end in this context. Is this simple enough to understand? According to the mind of God, what has God ordained for the believer? This prophetic planes of existence is seen in the life of the children of Israel in their journey from Egypt to the promised land. And Paul says your life should become epistles known and read by all men. There has to be a mark of distinction on your life that shows you have learned Christ. This mark of distinction separates you from your peers, separates you from your roots, from everyone so much so. All will come to know you.

All will come to read about your life. All will come to study about your life. Channels television will do an interview. BBC will come and interview you. They want to understand this mystery of a man, this mystery of a woman. What has given you this global influence at a young age? Have you dared to do great things? Have you challenged the norm? If a ministry grows to 500 in 20, it's expected. But even seven years, a ministry goes to 10,000 is not expected.

People will suspect you. They will first come to know you. Are you with me? It means there is a way you can be known by men without introducing yourself to men. Results are self introducing mechanisms. When a man have unusual accomplishments, God sized results, When a man steps into the abundant life that God has proposed for him, then everyone will begin to know him. They will come into a progressive knowledge of that man, and then they will begin to study him. Some might even suspect his results. Some might say he has gone to visit some things. He's gone to visit some people.

This is not normal. Are you with me? How can they be doing things like this? How can they be doing things like this? I remember I remember I was teaching some years ago, and we're in the classroom. And I was telling some of the people that were with me then that you are giving in six digits. You are giving in seven digits. And a man came and told his son... He said, how can your pastor be telling young people that they will give him six digits? Does he want them to go and steal?

In other words, it's not expected that a young man will bring a 100,000, 200,000, 500,000 and say I wanna sow it to God as a seed. How will he even get it in the first instance? Guess what? Those people I was speaking to are now sowing way more than that. And now getting contracts at a young age, and God has not even started with them because they are still in the cave. Any testimony you hear here, I still give the... Give testimonies. So as we celebrate God, do not think that this is the palace. It is not. Oh, no.

Many of you will look at the people close to you. And by the time you start seeing them on national newspaper, by the time you start seeing them on international newspaper representing the country in different capacity, winning awards, People will marvel a wonder, and they would say, how come? Guess what? You know that it's also expected that you get to a place like this and your life not start coming down? You get to the peak of your results. You're making a lot of money. Probably your business is doing well, and all of a sudden, there's a decline. It's expected. When you tell people, they say it's it's it's it's the season of life. But does the bible not say that the path of the righteous is at a shining light?

It shines ever brighter onto the perfect day. That one is not expected. People are waiting for the day you will come down and you will shock them because that day will never come. That mark of distinction in your life is what makes men know you, is what make men read about you. Are you with me? Yes. It means as a man of God, the end of your teaching Christ should be that the quality of life of those who listen to you becomes so distinctive as to be known and studied by all men. That is why you are here. And the first thing to do in this journey is to show believers how God has designed them to live. That is what I call the end of things.

Your leg got position in Christ Jesus so that you can then begin to experientially compare where you are with where God has designed you to be. And then when you realize the disparity and the differences between what is your experience and where you are in Christ, you can then know how to contend. Our experience in Christ in time differ. There is the legal position which is the plane where the believer is sitting in the spiritual, but there is the experiential position which is where the believer is sitting experientially in time. And the gap between where the believer is in Christ and where the believer is experientially in time can be so wide that when you begin to read scriptures, you say, is this the person that God died for? Do you understand my challenge to you? That when you study what Christ has done and where you are by reason of what Christ has done, what has been made available, what has been... The provision that have been made available to you by reason of what Christ has done. And when you study experientially now, your experience in time with respect to living out in experience what Christ has done, you will find that there's a large gap. A large gap between the promises and the experience.

A large gap between the prophecies and the experience. And many people growing up in Christian families cannot reconcile their parents' love for Jesus and the promised in scripture because they see how passionate these people are, but they see how beggarly their life as believers were, and they can't seem to reconcile both of them. This picture is seen in the prophetic place of existence of believers, and there are three of them captured in the life of the children of Israel even as they journey from Egypt into the promised land. God told Abraham, if you remember that story, that his descendants will be taken captive for four hundred years after which they will be delivered. And this prophecy was fulfilled in the life of the children of Israel. They went to Egypt by invitation from Joseph, and they lived as citizens of Egypt. They were given an entire district to be called theirs, but a new administration arose. A new pharaoh came that did not know Joseph nor the children of Israel, the bible says. And the moment this administration came, they were threatened by the increase and the fruitfulness of the people of Israel so much so they they made them slaves out of the feeling of intimidation. They were intimidated by their fruitfulness, intimidated by their abundance, intimidated by their growth, and they became threatened by it, and the man decided to make them slaves.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. And that is how their journey into slavery began. Do you know that their slavery lasted over four hundred and forty years? This was about four generations of slaves. This means there were about four generations of people that all the heaven knew was slavery. It means there are people that were born as slaves and died as slaves, became fathers as slaves, grandfathers as slaves, great grandfathers as slaves, and were buried as slaves because it was four hundred years. Do you understand what I'm saying? There were people that all they ever knew was slavery. Can you imagine the mental degradation of these people?

What will now become their mindsets? How would they now be thinking seeing that the only life they've ever known is slavery? You know, it's different if you enjoyed the wealth and the abundance during the time of Joseph before this new king came, and you saw wealth and abundance, and all of a sudden, you became slaves. They took away all your wealth, took away all your abundance, and made you into slaves. It's different because you can have a recollection of how it was when you were not slaves. It means from that generation, the children that were born never knew what freedom meant. It means their thinking pattern, their ideologies, the way they reason, the way they see life, everything was as slaves. And as slaves, the only thing that mattered to them was basic human survival. Living through the day, having enough to eat, having a place to sleep, getting married, going to work, ensuring your wife can eat, ensuring your children can eat, maybe send them to a good school. Just basic survival, bread, water, butter.

Let me show you something. Exodus chapter one verse seven. The bible says, but the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty, and the land was fulfilled with them. The land of Egypt was filled with them. They were fruitful. They increased abundantly. They multiplied. The land was filled with them. Verse eight. Now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph.

And he said to his people, look, the children of Israel are more mightier are more and mightier than we. In other words, they were more in number. They were more numerous, and they were mightier than them. Can you say this? Come, let us deal shrewdly with them. Lest they multiply. And it happens in the event of war that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land. Can you see something here? The children of Israel were more than the Egyptians. The children of Israel were mightier than the Egyptians.

They were plentier than the Egyptians. They were richer than the Egyptians, but somehow they had subjected themselves to be dominated by the Egyptians. The question is, if you if you are mightier than them, if you are more in number than them, how come you became their slaves? Who should make who slave? You had the advantage of number. You had the advantage of strength. You had the advantage of wealth. You had the advantage of riches. The bible says they were... They they increased.

They became abundant in in material resources. It means they had wealth. They had money. They had gold. They were flourishing, and they had numbers. Oh, God. But somehow, despite all the advantages that was available to them, they were still held captive by the Egyptians. They were still subdued. Even though they had power to do something, they couldn't. You know why?

Because they were primarily slaves in thinking. You know why? Because they were only given to basic human instinct, survival. What they will hit, how they will get through the day, that was the only thing that they cared about. Remember, what got them to Egypt in the first instance was food. Can you see this? Food was what got them to Egypt. They had no idea or no sense of purpose. They had no idea or no... It was food.

Basic human instinct. That was all they cared about. And the Egyptians could use this their basic human instinct as a snare. So even though God prospered them because of the blessing on Abraham, their minds did not prosper. They are so basic for existence They came about survival, and this was what the Egyptians used in making slaves out of them. So much so when they... When Moses came and said, let my people go, Pharaoh said it's because I've given you straw. What did he do? He withdrew straw from them and said, now the time you have to once serve God, go ahead and find straw. It was all about food.

Do you know immediately, there were people who compromised on leaving Egypt to find it straw? Because Pharaoh knew if if you can deny people of basic human survival, you can keep them slaves forever. This is a prophetic picture of Nigeria. The same way the people of Israel were enjoying abundance, that's the same way Nigeria began. So when your fathers tell you stories... My own father has told me stories. He said when he was in university and he was acting final exam, banks and industries came to the exam or to come and employ them. He said you were employed the moment you were done with school. A dollar was a naira. He said in the University of Ibadan, in his own time, there was new tickets for every student.

And every ticket, every student had access to free food. In the university of... This looks strange to many people. That's exactly how if those that were alive in the time of Joseph are now telling their grandchildren how they used to live, it will look strange because all the phones are now known is slavery. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? It's a prophetic picture. Some people some people now came and took power the same way a pharaoh came and took power. And now realize that the only thing that these people who are prospering is after is basic human survival. And we can make a snare out of what they so crave after. These people then dominated.

These people then made a slave out of every Nigerian. But guess what? Believers are not weak. We have what it takes to cause a radical transformation in this nation. We have what it takes to take power, to rise into places of influence, to rise into places of wealth according as God has ordained. But many of us only care about basic human instinct as long as there is food, water, and butter. The believer does not have a picture of greatness, does not have a picture of territorial influence. And because the people who took power know this, they can take advantage of your basic human instinct to keep you as slaves. So they will give you crumbs. And as long as you have that mindset, all your hustling and bustling will be for crumbs.

Stay with me. Do you know that even when the Israelites entered into their next phase of the journey and they got deliverance from Egypt, they entered into the wilderness. The wilderness is the second plane of existence. I'll get there very soon. The first plane of existence is Egypt. In Egypt, all a believer is thinking about is survival. What to eat, what clothes to wear, what car to drive, what food my children will eat, what food my wife will eat, how to pay the house rent, how to sort the bills, how to make ends meet. That is where the believer is in Egypt. It's all about basic human survival. It's only about survival.

Living through the day. That is the reason why a believer starts business is to survive because I must eat something. That's the reason why the believer gets a job is to eat. That's the belief... Reason why the believer comes to church is to eat. All the prayer request of the believer revolves around what he would eat. The bills he has to settle. Basically speaking, survival. Are you with me? Even when they got to the wilderness and they were delivered, watch this, Egypt still never left them.

You would think because they've left Egypt, that's a mighty deliverance, but not so. Watch this. In Numbers 11 verse four, the bible says there was a mixed multitude of people that left Egypt. Some of them were really looking forward to what God has for them, but majority of them had a crave for survival, had a crave to the mentality and the orientation of Egypt. So the bible says now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense what? Intense Craving. Basic human instinct, desire, intense craving. They began to weep, and they said, who would give us meat to eat? These people were no longer in Egypt. They were now in the wilderness.

They've been delivered by God. You will think they will be thanking God and thanking God and say, ah, see what you've done for me. But they were crying desperately. They were crying desperately, and the basis of their crying is who will give us food to eat. This is the reason why believers are fasting and praying. This is the reason why believers are are coming to church. This is the... This is many believers prayer point. Who will give us meat to eat. Do you remember in the book of John that Jesus finished a crusade?

And after that crusade, he failed 5,000 people. Just the women alone, not counting the men and the children. It means there would have been over 15,000 people he fed if you counted the women and children. And after feeding them with five loaves and two fishes, Jesus left the place. And the Bible says he traveled to Capernaum, and he left very hell in the morning whilst the crowd was still sleeping. When they woke up, they didn't see him. And they asked around, where did Jesus go? They were told, oh, is mine in Capernaum? These people traveled by boat and by ship, a multitude to go and meet Jesus. You will think they must be very hungry.

You will think, ah. That's like traveling from Lagos to Abuja because of Jesus. Are you with me? And when Jesus saw them, Jesus said, you people did not come because you saw the signs. Came because you ate bread. In other words, what they were pursuing Jesus after was bread. Bread and fish. Bread and fish. Food court bread, and sardine. Do you know that it is possible to travel from Abuja and come for a meeting in Ibadan?

And what your prayer request is is bread bread and fish. You are not different from these people. It's it's all about survival. Who will give us meat to eat? Verse five. Look at what they now say. Verse five. They said, we remember the fish. So you see, the one looking for bread and fish, their ancestors remember fish. And some of you are still generations after them because this is exactly what you are still looking for.

We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt. The cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, the... Look at what life is about. It means it means they considered the food they ate in Egypt more worthy than the deliverance from captivity. So much so, they were willing to trade their deliverance for food. These people have been enslaved to a certain place where food has now become their testimony. Say, ah, we remember in Egypt, we had free food. Free food. They can no longer make progress because they are now easily distracted by the presence of money or the lack of money. These people were willing to give up the journey to the promised land so that they can go and eat food.

This is where a lot of believers are. These people are complaining. Do you know that they are not complaining not because there's no food for them to eat? They are not complaining not because they are hungry. Because if you go to verse six, the bible says, but now our whole being is dried up. There is nothing at all except manna. So they had manna. This way, people that... They were eating angels' food. God God himself was feeding them, but they said, no.

Our testimony is in Egypt. Do you know that where a believer is determines the testimonies they will share? It means there's a realm that you are in and your testimony is food. They had manna, they said, but we feel a need for variety. Cucumber, fish, onions, garlic, bread, variety of clothes, variety of houses, variety of cars. When all of your life becomes a hustle for what you will eat, what you will wear, what you will drink, you are in Egypt. And when a man is in Egypt, he's at a place where food is his testimony. That means if you improve his meal, he can abandon God. If an opportunity comes that promises him more money at the expense of God, it can leave God in a heartbeat to pursue money. That means that if you get a man saved who has been getting money through dishonest means or a lady saved who has been in prostitution.

If it not bring them out of Egypt mentally, their new experience of freedom that is now devoid of the enjoyment they used to have when they were in Egypt, when they were in sin, can become the reason they want to go back to sin. Let me explain what I'm saying. There are girls, for instance, that broke up with a guy because they knew that they were in an immoral relationship. They were convicted in their heart by the holy spirit. And the moment they broke it up, they arrived at the wilderness and now realized that the free gift the guy was giving them is not available in the wilderness. There's no iPhone in the wilderness. I want you to understand this. Listen, we had free cucumber. We had free garlic. We had free onions.

But now we are now in the wilderness. We now have to work for what we will eat. What is this? Now you are telling me at the end of the month, it's now June. The girl is checking her phone because 100 k allowance will enter. She now remembered, ah, we have broken up. Oh, there's no allowance this month. Guess what? This girl has parents who love her, who send her 20,000 naira every month. So it's not as though she's poor or she's broke, but survivor.

The pleasures of Egypt, the basic instinct of Egypt, we now make a man say, I remember. There are people who went back to Egypt because of this. It means our first struggle as a man of God is to bring people out of the mentality of a consumer where the only thing you think about is survival. And guess what? There are many men of God who are on the pulpit, and they've reinforced this mentality. They've reinforced this belief using the altar because all our programs are to reinforce Egypt, are to strengthen the conviction and the mentality of Egypt in the minds of men. That is why a lot of believers are not desirable to behold. There's no mark of distinction because there's no mark of distinction in Egypt. Egypt is not where men become distinctive. In Egypt, a man is a slave.

If people are not taught this, we will continue to have infants in the church. These are not the kinds of people that men will know about, that men will read about. Do you know that Egypt is primarily a state of the art? Egypt reflects the extent of your transformation, or should I say the extent of the transformation of your mind. It's a state of the heart. That is why when Paul was speaking, he says that our... You are our epistles written in Christ Jesus, not on tablet of stones, but on tablets of flesh, which is your heart. Where the transformation happens from Egypt to the promised land is primarily your heart. Acts seven thirty seven. The bible says, this is what Moses who said to the children of Israel, the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren, him you shall hear.

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angels spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give us. 39. All my fathers would not obey but rejected. And in their where? They turned back to Egypt. So where is Egypt? Living witnesses, living epistles, not written on tablets or stones, written in your hearts. That was what Paul said. Because a man can be saved, but turn back to Egypt in his heart. Physically, they were in the wilderness, but spiritually, they were in Egypt.

It's possible to be married in a good home, live in a good mansion, work a good job, and still be at Egypt in heart. In Egypt, the testimony is survival. I just got my visa. I'm going to Europe. I will earn in pounds. I will go and hustle. This hustling Nigeria. Father, my visa to Europe. Father, my visa to Europe. Why are you going to Europe?

So when he comes to church, what is his prayer request? Let him stamp my visa. Let him stamp my visa. Let them stamp my visa. What is the motivation? Not get out of your father's house onto a land that will show you it is mangas also. Not God spoke to me and told me that he has a place and a purpose and assignment for me in this place. No. It's mangas also. In Egypt, the testimony is survivor.

The reason why he wants to get a good job is survivor. The reason why he wants to even start ministry is survivor. Do what... Will it amaze you that there are many men of God in ministry for survivor? Yes. Many men of God who are doing church for survival. And when a man... When a believer's heart is also after things that are in Egypt. Oh, you have seen your pastor now, Abi. Because you will get each other.

You'll be it... You'll be able to relate to what he's teaching. Because every Sunday, the message will be how to receive cars and houses and how God can bless you. And there's nothing wrong with this except for the fact that it only strengthens materiality and the crave for survival in the hearts of people, not towards the purposes of God. Thank you, Lord Jesus. The moment a man leaves Egypt, the place that he gets to next is the wilderness. And the wilderness is another place that we celebrate. There are testimonies in Egypt too. I hope you know. What is the testimony in Egypt?

We had free food. We had free food. The fish that we eat, the meat that we eat, the cacombas that we eat. When a man gets into the wilderness, wilderness is another place we celebrate and so many believers who have successfully transitioned from Egypt are now in the wilderness. You see, the children of Israel, when they left Egypt, Egypt was still much... Was still very much present in them. The fact that they left Egypt does not mean that Egypt left them. And this was the assignment of the wilderness. The wilderness was to remove Egypt out of the children of Israel. And by that, I mean, every mindset, every thinking pattern, every ideology that they may have gotten from Egypt.

How many of you will have a multimillion dollar company and go to your village, bring a a a village boy from the village and put him as a manager? So how do you expect God to take people who all they've known is slavery and bring them into abundance? Do you understand what I'm saying here? Do you know that if somebody has never tasted money before, if all he has, if all he has ever experienced is poverty, I will give him $1,000,000. He will... That that million dollars will kill him. God knew that these people are not fit to enter into the promised land Because of the many years they've spent in Egypt, many of them are now so narrow minded. Their minds cannot even think of honing their own business because they've been slaves for so long. Some of them are battling with low self esteem and a terrible self image. Some of them have convinced themselves to believe that they would die as slaves and they can never be great.

So now they are in the wilderness, but they have these beliefs in their mind. This fear in their mind. Some of them who were raped by the Egyptians now think that God hates them. And even if God would do anything, it's not me that God will use. There are those who think my tribe is the least in the tribe of Israel and I'm the last born amongst my family. And because of that, they have disqualified themselves amongst those that God will use. There are all kinds of mentalities, all kinds of thoughts. I can get a good job, but I cannot leave people. Some of them have been terribly immense in the spirit of fear that their mind has become so crippled that if any nation appears before them as they are traveling and just point things toward them, they will say we surrender. Because all they've known is slavery and oppression.

How many of you have seen a dog that was groomed in oppression? And everything you beat the dog, slap the dog, beat the dog, beat the dog, after some time, the confidence of that dog will just become nothing. When the dog sees the owner, he will just crawl to a corner and start being heal, heal, heal. When you see a confident one that love has been showered upon it, he will come and jump at you. Are you with me? That's how many believers can be. When they've so much lost confidence that they don't feel as though they have the stature to face any challenges. This was how the people of Israel were when they were leaving Egypt. God knows. Let me show you scripture.

Exodus thirteen seventeen amplified. The Bible says, when pharaoh let the people go, God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was nearer. For God said, lest the people change their purpose when they see war and return to Egypt. In other words, give me NLT. Look at this. The bible says when Pharaoh finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory. Even though that was the shortest route to the promised land, God said, if these people are faced with a battle, they might change their minds and return to Egypt. So where was the warfare? It was in their mind. Fear can cripple them.

Fear can cripple them. And God was bringing them to a place where they will surely fight battles. So God had to do something to their mind. God had to do something to their understanding, to change their thinking so that by the time they are getting to their promised land and they have to fight, it's not the cripple them, the weak them, the slave them, the fearful them, the low self esteemed them that left Egypt that is now standing before the Canaanites. Are you with me? Yes, sir. This was the assignment of the wilderness. And because they've not yet entered into the promised land, the place of abundance, There were several miraculous interventions that God had to bring their way whilst they were growing to become people that God was fitting to take the wilderness, to to take the promised land. So the wilderness, you see, is a place of miraculous interventions. What did I call it?

You know why? Because God knows that you are not yet at your place of destiny. In your place of destiny, destiny, in the promised land, many of the miracles in the wilderness will not happen. For instance, why does water need to come out of a rock? Where where you are going to is a land flowing with milk and honey, many brooks of rivers. That was the promise that God made to Moses. But these people were in the wilderness, and because they were there, there was no water. So God had to bring a miraculous intervention. If they were where God had ordained them, that miracle would not have been needed. Do you understand what I'm saying?

A place flowing with milk and honey. So why was manna needed? Because they were in the wilderness. They had no head entered into their place of ordination. So in the wilderness, there is power. There is miracles. There is signs. There is wonders. A pillar of fire by night. A pillar of cloud by day.

All kinds... The most dangerous miracles you read in the Old Testament are in the wilderness. Yet that was not God's ultimate for the Israelites. What am I telling you? I'm telling you that believers who have now come in the wilderness are those who are now who are who are who are now in a place where miracles become their lifestyle. Miracles, signs, and wonders. The God of power is all that they know. Whereas, this is not the purpose of the wilderness, but that because of the miracles in the wilderness, a believer can now camp there and say, ah ah, is that manna is sweet? Let's just camp here. Water can come out of the rock.

Omol, this place is sweet. The Red Sea can part. My God. And they come to a place where every day they always have a miracle to share. Do you know that majority of the testimony of provisions that we share are wilderness testimonies? Because when a man steps into the promised land, it's no longer provision. It's not abundance. There would not be a need to say, I I I was so... Oh, I almost died. But God, God, it is a proof you are in the wilderness.

I know you might not like... You see, I came to challenge you. I came to challenge you. That's my head. You might not like what I'm teaching, but my assignment is not to teach you what you like. Is to teach you what will make you into men that all men will come to know and to read about. And you will not become that by camping your tent in the wilderness. There are many people who... Even their business is now camped in the wilderness because every week, there's a testimony of, I made I made more sales in my business today than I've made in the past three months. Glory to God.

And next week again, they are expecting the same miracle. They're expecting the same miracle. They're expecting the... That is not the best that God can do. That is not the best God has for a man. The purpose of the wilderness is not the power in the wilderness. What did I say, brothers and sisters? No. No. It was in the wilderness that God now gave Moses the laws of God.

And the laws of God are a typology of the word of God. The assignment of Moses was to read these laws to the Israelites every morning. This was a ritual. Every morning, they would come and read the laws. So much so, it was... It became so strong a thing that when Moses was passing down the ordinance to Joshua, God told Joshua, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. You will meditate on it day and night. That was the assignment of the wilderness. It was to present to them the book of the law to transform their mind. That was why the laws came in the the wilderness.

So it is in the wilderness that that law self esteem is object. God. It is in the wilderness that that... So God is telling you, go and start a business. Launch out. Do great things. Open a YouTube channel. Put yourself out there. You are talented. I've put gift on your inside.

But the girl said, do I have anything to offer? Me, small girl like me. I don't I don't know if I can do anything. I don't know. Thank God. Me shout hallelujah. I just got a new job and they are paying me 30,000 naira. Glory to God. Hallelujah. When a ghost, put yourself out there.

Start something. It is in the wilderness that that transformation happens. You see, it can ignore the promptings to do great things because of the miracle of a new job. The limitations in the mind. The things that has held you bound. There are people that have no self confidence whatsoever to even... Now they they have a good product, but to market their product is is problem. To put yourself out there and to tell people, even your friends, I am doing this. There are some of you, God has put an NGO in your mind. And only put the things start out something.

Long time with force. And say, I I will start. I know there's some primary school beside my house. On my bed, I'll just go there and share Indomie with people and and go, that's not what I've put in your mind. That's not what I've put in your mind. But because the transformation that is meant to happen has not happened, The guy will go there. And when he goes there, what will happen? Miracles, power. My God, there is power in the wooden nessal. The guy will come to church.

He will say, we went out and we we we gave we gave indomis to primary school, and we were crying. The power of God was so strong, and and we celebrate Jesus for you. And God says there is something greater in your mind. There is something greater I've put on your inside that I I I want you to break out of this self limiting thoughts. Somebody is thinking, I'm just a student. I don't even know how to manage these things. I don't even... The guy is saved, but has camped a tent in the wilderness. And God is saying, listen to me. You will learn from no man.

You will learn to nations. God is telling you that you become a kingdom financier. Nations are your... Are on your inside. The expressions have put on your inside. A lot of people will hear it. Go for this epic competition. Let people know what I've put on your inside. Say, ah, I I don't see who is writing it. It's not master student.

It's not... How will I now put myself in the epic competition that people, It's not my type that is there. And God is saying, who is your type? What is your type? If Christ died for you, what is your type? And tell them, I sell the best kimchi in Nigeria. I'm gonna offer you 10 for free. See how it goes, and I'm sure you will come back and meet me and ask for more. And the guy still down there say, ah,. Oh, supermarket.

It's not those big, mini me that goes to supermarket. How will somebody like me, I'll now go and meet them. I've even seen some that they obeyed. I heard a particular story of a young lady who came to me and said, God told her to go to banks and tell bankers that she's in the laundry business. And when she got to the bank, she saw the bank like this and saw the bankers and say, I don't even know what happened to my heart. That was what God was saying. When they see war, return back to Egypt. It means the wilderness has not succeeded in their hearts. Don't you get what I'm saying? And it is possible to ignore the transformation that should happen and now camp on the miracles and keep on thanking God that there is power in the wilderness.

That means that the fact that your ministry is the ministry of signs and wonders, there's no way you have left the wilderness. Listen. A lot of people are not after the preaching ministry. Are only after the power of God. And pastors have added to this delusion, and that all we do in churches now is to prophesy cars, prophesy jobs, pray over water, pray over oil, pray over clothes, breakthrough services. My staff must locate me. This is what church has now become, and we do very little of teaching. So we are works centered. And by works, yeah, I mean the works of God. Whereas, the purpose of God in the wilderness is to reveal his ways to you.

I'm not saying that we should not share or talk about these things. I'm saying these things these things are important though. The bible says my God shall supply all my needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Our needs are supplied, but I'm provoking you to a place of restlessness, a place of contention for more, a place where you say, I'm not gonna settle for a life of survival. I'm not gonna settle for a life of just enough. I'm gonna realize that there is there is more to this in God. To come to a place where you now spend your life in pursuit of more. In pursuit of more. And even whilst you are in the wilderness, the picture you have is not the power. It's the promised land.

There's a place of abundance. A place of abundance. The bible called it the wealthy place. Man of God, hear me. The miracles, the signs, the wonders, this is not the end of ministry. All of this happened in the wilderness. Now we have moved beyond the plate of survival to a place where we are seeing God moving powerful in our lives. Cancer are being healed in our meetings. Food is on the table. There is breakthrough, and we camp around that to think that that is the height of ministry.

This can be the wilderness. A man can have a congregation of 1,000, 10,000, and still be in the wilderness himself and his congregation. Psalm one zero three verse seven, the bible says, he made known his ways to Moses and his deeds, his acts to the children of Israel. His acts. Was that the assignment of the wilderness? No. It was not. The assignment is not so they would just see the acts. The assignment is so they will come to understand the ways. What did God tell Joshua?

This book of the Lord, the ways of God shall not depart from your mouth. You will meditate there in day and night that you might have to do all that is written in them, that you might make your way prosperous, that you might have good success. That is the assignment. That is what the wilderness hopes to do. Fear cracks in your mind. There is nothing you are afraid of anymore. Anymore. Some of you right now, if you get an order to make 1,000 copies of what you produce, fear will make you think you cannot do it. You say, what if I make mistakes? What if I...

I don't... What what if... Ah. No. No. Lest they see war and turn back to Egypt. It means before you get there, something must happen to your mind. The children of Israel spent forty years for something that was originally meant to take forty days because the process of mental transformation that was supposed to happen did not happen. And there are people who have spent thirty years doing something that should take them three months if they had the right mindset. There are people that have built businesses, and their businesses are not prospering.

And they are saying, I'm waiting for God's timing. God's timing was yesterday, but your own preparation, your lack of preparedness makes you mistake. Delay for dealings. And you say, this must be a dealing. Oh, no. It's a delay, a self inflicted delay. Do you know that even the wilderness is a reflection of the state of your heart? I told you Egypt, and I showed you a scripture for it. Let me show you the wilderness. Hebrews seven.

Hebrews three seven. Hebrews three seven. We read to verse 10. The Bible says, therefore, as the holy spirit says, today, if you will hear his voice. Verse eight, do not add in your hearts as in the rebellion in the day of trial where in the wilderness where your fathers tested me, tried me, and saw what? My works for forty years. Verse 10. Therefore, I was angry with that generation and said, they always go astray. Where? In their heart, and they have not known my ways.

It means the reason why they go astray is because they have not known my ways. The previous verse says, yet they have seen my works. So what does Paul says? That you become living epistles in Christ Jesus. Not written on tablet of stones, but on tablets of flesh, which is the heart. That is where the migration happens because a man can be saved. A man can be delivered, but in his heart, he's still in Egypt. And so all his cravings are for survival. The reason why he's doing that job is to survive. This guy can never give.

If he gives, he will he will struggle and also to give. You know why? Because the moment something is about to leave him, then the question of how will you survive will come. He wants to give. Now he's thinking, oh, like, hey. How will I empty my servants? How will I obey the holy spirit? How will I give this much? How will I give this much? Ah, no.

And there are people that ration it. You know why? Because his desire is all about survival. It's all about what he will do, eat, dress, wear. And this man can have enough. He can even have a car. But he's not satisfied with the car because even though there was manna, they still wanted fish. They can say, how will I be driving a Toyota when there can be a Benz? And you say, young man, the kingdom needs finances. Why not give?

He says, guy. The problem in the wilderness is not the works of God. Oh, you will see several works of God. You will see. Do you know that it was not even the righteousness of the people of Israel that made God show himself mighty to them? Even in their stubbornness, God was still faithful. God still led them. God still protected them. God still brought manna and food. Even when they were ungrateful, God still supplied for them.

It means you can be in foolishness, and God will still supplying for you. It is the revelation of the faithfulness of God. God is that faithful. God is that faithful. But that is not all that God has promised. There is a superior realm. There's a superior realm. In Exodus three eight, when God came to Moses, God told Moses, I've come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them to the place of the Canaanite. It means the promised land is a place of territorial influence. That's the third plane that a believer can exist.

A place a plane of territorial influence. Where God was taking these people to was a place of abundance. But beyond that, God was gonna give them territorial influence. This was the end of their life. And by end, I'm not saying I'm not saying when you become old, I'm saying this was what God has proposed for them. This was the picture of the promised land. This is the prophetic picture of your life as a believer. The end of your life is territorial influence. This is the legal position of a believer. I said earlier that the gap between where we are in Christ and where we are experientially can be so much.

Remember, the scripture that that says, whosoever the son of God has set free is free indeed. Remember that scripture? And then the scripture that says, where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. We need to ask at your level and at your walk with God, to what extent have you experienced freedom? In what areas have you experienced freedom? Are you truly free indeed? There's someone who is free from sin and has received the life of Christ, but he's not yet free from poverty. Is that man free indeed? Not because Christ has not died for his poverty, but because he has not entered into the experience of that life. There's someone who is free enough to get married, but is not free enough to have children.

There's someone who is free enough to buy a land, but he's not free enough to start building on that land. So the land has been there for thirty five years, but they are still living in rented apartment. He was free enough to buy a land, but did not experience enough freedom to build on it. There's someone who is free enough to get a high paying job or any job, really, but he's not free enough to experience increase in the same. There's someone who is free enough to buy a house. There's another who is free enough to buy a district. There's someone who is free enough to take a city. There's another who is free enough to take in to take a nation. There's another who is free enough to take a generation. The level of liberty has entered in Christ is sufficient enough to take a generation.

The bible said that David served God in his own generation. That the extent of his relevance surpassed his village, his state, his city, his country. Everyone in that generation will reap of the reward that come from his life. There is that level of freedom in Christ. And a man can be deluded into thinking he's free. Whereas, the problem is that he has been so bound in slavery they now have a deluded understanding of what freedom is. Somebody does not believe what I just said. John eight, popular scripture and verse 32. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. What's there?

What do you think the response of a man who has heard Jesus say this should be? Father, show us the truth. Reveal the truth to us. But the problem is that many of you have not continued with NAFTA. When you continue with NAFTA, that was not the response that these people gave. The bible says they answered him. We are Abraham's descendants and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say you will be made free? Yet they were under the Roman captive rule. These people were being colonized by the Romans, and yet they had a deluded thinking of what freedom is.

That's how you can tell somebody that God can heal you. You say, don't need healing. Say, I'm okay. God can prosper you. Say, we don't need all of that. Say, I'm okay. Because they've they've been so bound in slavery and in the wilderness for so long even the understanding of the plains of freedom is deluded. When a believer is in Egypt, his basic instinct is survival for bread, for butter. But as God says, I've given you territorial influence. Territorial influence, but the guy just wants to eat.

He wants to make money to feed himself, to pay his bills, to get through the day. He wants to also. We're about to pray. Now there's a heavy challenge here. There's a heavy challenge here. Do you know the challenge now? The challenge is how do I do I now come to a people who majority of them are in Egypt, and all they care about is basic survival instinct. And then I come to them, and I'm teaching them, God has said that you are taking the same mountain of influence. God has said you are rising into provisions of power. The guy the guy said, I just want to eat tonight.

First first, let me see bread and Gary tonight. Let me balance. This is not the conversation I was expecting to hear in church today. So when Moses is reading the laws of God to these people, These people are saying, oh, God, give us food. We remember the feast we had in Egypt. When Moses is telling them, there's a land flowing with milk and honey, And God has told us that he has gone ahead of us to chase out the inhabitants of that land so that we can possess the land. Whilst Moses is saying this, they are not hearing anymore. What they are hearing is the works of God. Food to eat. Do you realize that?

I'm not going ahead of myself. The aim is to bring you to a place where you now realize, I'm not working a job because I want fruit. You are there to fulfill purpose. When you wake up to go to work as a doctor, as an engineer, as a marketer, an auditor, a nurse, a carpenter even, a teacher, a secretary, a cleaner, you're not going because you want food, but because you have grown a place of survival to a place of purpose knowing that heaven has sent you on a mandate bigger than eating food and eating bread. Do you realize that if you pursue the promise, there's food in the promise? It's a land flowing with milk and honey. Many people leave the land and pursue the milk and the honey. So they will spend all their life pursuing milk and honey. And so all they will ever have is miracles, suffering, miracles, suffering, miracles, suffering, and never settling down in a place of abundance, in a place of rest. You see a client today, you thank God.

Next three months, you are dry. Proverting service like like a lot. The lot now fall on you. On Monday, clients will come. Got the $500 deal. Buy everything you have been craving, everything that they come into your mind, everything you you think you wanna do, you say, I wanna get the house. I wanna get this. I wanna get... Then another dry season. Two months two months later, hey.

Somebody favored me. Somebody favored me. Glory to God. Somebody favored me. And you wonder, is that the best of life that a believer has? There are people that if they lose their job today, they are gone. If they lose their phones today, they say their life is meaningless. There are people that if they if they steal their purse, they will cry until Jesus comes because their entire life is based on survival. My ATM is there. Ah, my phone, my stocks, my investment.

What is stocks and investment? I once heard apostle Siobhan share a story of how that many years ago, some people gained access to his account and scammed him, and they removed every amount of money in his account. And when he heard about... He went to the bank and he said he should take up the matter, go to the police station, do all of that. And the man said, no. No. No. No. Let it go. The day is coming.

What... There will be... There... It will be so much that you cannot even steal anything. Let it go. Do you know that? Do you know that? The man that they steal from that cries, the man that is poor. You know that? You can be a slave from a rich man.

You don't even know you are slave from him. You are the one that God will punish because you are living through his honest means. The guy is too abundant is when they conduct a audit. They now find out that, ah, you have been living a dishonest life natural inside prison. Whereas you were doing it for thirty years. One was living in abundance. You were in the... You were in Egypt. You were in Egypt. Do you know that a new generation of Joshua and Caleb are to come?

When God realized that the generation that left Egypt were refusing to give themselves to transformation, this generation were wiped off. And God waited for a generation that never saw Egypt so that their understanding can be fashioned anew. It tells me that you can see so much of Egypt that you'd not believe in the promise. You can see so much of Egypt that coming out of Egypt becomes the only testimony you ever share. This was the experience of all the guys that came out of Egypt. The generation of them that came out of Egypt never entered the promise. They all died in the wilderness. God had to use people that were now born in the wilderness that never experienced Egypt whose mind can now be fashioned anew, who can now believe God when God says, you can do this. I've gone ahead of you. I've gone to possess land for you.

They could believe. Those were the generations that entered the promise. Everyone whose heart was hard never entered. Do you know what? When Moses was telling them what God had promised, their heart could not conceive. They cared more about the works than the ways. They did not have the patience to be taught, to be discipled, to be mentored. There are people doing the discipleship academy who are on serious whatsoever because they have no interest sincerely. No patience to be taught. What happens is that they remain in the wilderness for so long, and it's a pitiable experience.

There are people that if they have to be taught in church, and he will say, father, this is my turn going on his knees because that is what church has become. Receive your miracle fast fast. Take this water of fire. And because of this, many believers cannot be scammed. You see, you were scammed by a prophet, it's because you are fake yourself. Don't first blame the prophet. Blame the foolish person that went there. Because you did not know the word of God. I did not know the God of your salvation. It was your lust that took you there.

Your lust. The bible says beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. And many people say, we are a fake prophet, and we never talk about fake members because he's not wolf in shepherd's clothing. He's wolf in sheep's clothing. The bible never refers to the prophet or the pastor as a sheep. The bible refers to the members as a sheep. It means when you see wolves, they disguise themselves as members. And they have no interest in transformation. They have no interest in the renewal of the heart. They are wolves.

Thank you, Jesus. When you study the temptation of Jesus, let me end here. The temptation of Jesus. You remember that temptation? Yes, sir. You will see Egypt, wilderness, and promise in the temptation of Jesus. Because the temptation of Jesus is the pattern of how the devil attempts to tempt believers even till now. It is not just about the items of temptation in themselves. It was about the ideology that was sponsoring his ministry. It was about the state of his of his heart.

It was about where his mind was. Are you in Egypt? Are you in the wilderness? Are you in the era of the promise? Are you with me? And so the first temptation was to see Jesus at a place where he was hungry. The bible says he was in the wilderness for forty days, and the devil never came on the first day. The devil came on the fortieth day of dry fasting, a time where he was physically weak and hungry, where the next basic survival instinct was food, and he turned in, turned this stone to bread. It was a test of Egypt. Is your ideology still in Egypt?

Can you deny God for bread? Can you deny God for bread? That was temptation. It was to check what mentality is powering your convictions, is powering your pursuit of God. Your pursuit of power, what is powering it? There are many believers who have turned the stone to bread. There are many men of God who have turned the stones to bread. The bible says that we as believers are being raised up as lively stones into a spiritual house. So believers are referred to as living stones. So as a man of God, your responsibility is to raise people up as living stones, but you have turned them to bread.

So you pray on the people you should feed. You pray on the people you should mentor. You use them as stepping stones to greatness. Manipulate people for money, and the emphasis of your teaching becomes give and give and give and give and give, and the people never mature into the fullness of life of Christ in them. Turn these stones to bread. That was the first plane of temptation. And there are many people that the devil will come to you like that and say, turn this stone to bread. And it will come to you where where you where you are at the weakest point. You can get a job that will contend with your love your love for God. And you...

And the job will come at the place where there's no money on ground. And somebody tells you, well, yeah, just... It's... You're not doing anything. Just come and serve in a clubhouse. Just come and serve in a clubhouse. Don't... You're not doing anything. Just... They're not even...

Just come and be serving, and they will be paying you 150,000 naira per month. And people even give you tea. If you can dress well and, you know, package yourself well, you will drop money from these stones to bread. What can what can you do because of bread? Can you lose God in your heart because of bread? Can you compromise on your commitment to God because of bread? There are people there are people that because they won't have good results, they compromise on their work with God. Turn this stone to bread. Because they wanna get a good job, they compromise on their commitment to God. Turn the stone to bread.

All your life is hustling. You will not prosper. You will not. There is a defined way to enter into prosperity for the believer. I'll teach you this in nine. The second plane of temptation was the wilderness. The moment the devil... The moment Jesus replied and told man cannot live by bread alone. Man cannot fall or give yield to the basic instinct of survival. There is a realm that is superior.

Man shall commit himself to the word, the proceeding word of God. That is what man would define his life by, not just his basic instinct. Are you with me? The moment the devil saw, he said, okay. It looks as though Egypt has failed. He now took him to a holy temple and took him to the highest pinnacle of the temple and said, let's let's do a test of power. The next test is the miraculous intervention that happens in the wilderness. He said jump down because the bible not say he will dispatch his angels to catch you, lest you cast your foot against a stone? Can you test the power of God right now? And even then, the wilderness failed.

Jesus replied, thou shall not test the Lord your God. Jesus replied, the purpose of the wilderness is not works, it's transformation. It's not to show you that there's power. It is transformation. The devil now saw and say, ah, the wilderness has failed. Let's proceed. How about territorial influence? That is the last phase. A believer can get to a place where you are no longer bothered by the wilderness. You are now after real and genuine territorial influence.

When the devil sees that he cannot get you with Egypt or with the wilderness, he will come to you even with what you want. And he will say, bow to me. I will give you the kingdoms of this world. Is it influence you want? Come on. It's in my hands. It's in my power. But you know what revelation said? The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign forever. So if it was his own, what do you want to give him?

You know that everything the devil promises the believer is already yours. Already is. Everything is is in Christ already, and the devil is still making such foolish promises to believe at it today. He said, bow to me. Let me have your allegiance. This shows you this was the last thing the devil was willing to part with. Okay. Okay. You have miracles, no problem. Bread, no problem.

The first thing that is suggested to Jesus was not territories because he knows many people are not at the level of territories. So when he comes to come and meet you, he won't force for just territories. He'll force for just bread because he know with bread, he can even get you. You're not getting what I'm saying. If with bread, he can get you. It can make you become an atheist with bread. So your own does not even reach kingdoms of this world. From fish, you are gone. He just sent a boy that was giving you fish and butter every day. The soul of the believer is lost.

That was all he took. It's not even kingdoms. It's fee. It's a boy. It's a girl. That was all it took. I will love you to the very hand. I will love you. I will love you to the very hand. I will love you.

Not me when you love to the very end. I will love you. My soul will praise your name till the very end I will love you Listen. Do you know the end of your life as a believer, or have you settled for less? What God has obtained for you is a distinctive What God wants to give you is territorial influence. It's not it's not a life of... It's not a life where you where you are called to manage with scraps. No. No. What God wants to give you is influence over the power that rule over nations.

What God wants to do is to bring you into the corridors of power. God wants to make you mighty. Your hands becoming hands of steel, settling you over nations, settling you over nations to rule and to govern the affairs of nations. Have you seen this? Have you seen this? And because the assignment of the wilderness, which was transformation, did not prosper in their mind, when they went to spy the land, what report did they come back with? They're like grasshoppers. That transformation was meant to have happened in the wilderness. God told them you have brought the evil report. Do you know why they brought an evil report?

Do you know why they brought an evil report? The reason why they brought an evil report was because when God was giving them manna from heaven, it was in the book of Psalms that we now understood that what manna was was not even ordinary food. Manna was angel's food. Yes. The bible says, I fed you with angel's food. So what God was doing was, God knew that a time will come when they will meet with the children of fallen angels, nephilims, giants, tsunamines. These people were people that had superhuman strength, superhuman intelligence. They will be mightier than you. They will be stronger than you. So to prepare them, God now gave them angels food.

They will feed you with what angels eat so that your strength will be abnormal. You might not increase in height, but you have increased in strength. It tells you that you can sit in front of somebody and you look at everybody that is applying for the same job with you. And they are like nephilims, suzamines. They are carrying degrees that will take you thirty years to get. Yet you are pitching for the same contract. And I'm now wondering how do I get it? And God is saying I've fed you with angels food. I put something in your belly that gave an advantage over these people. Guess what?

Guess what? Guess what? When God was Listen. Listen. When you are... Listen to me. What is happening to you as you come is that you are receiving the food of giants. It's the food of champions. What is happening to you is what will make you stand in the doors of destiny, the gates of destiny, and they will ask you, who are you? Do you know that that was what Moses told God?

Is it when I stand before pharaoh, and pharaoh asked me who sent you? What will I tell him? What will I tell him? There are some of you, your mind is so conscripted. You cannot even see greatness. You can't picture it. Your mind cannot even imagine yourself great. I was speaking to someone, and and and the guy told me, I just feel like a public speaker. I just feel like a public speaker. He said, I was...

Said, wow. That's amazing. So what do you see? What do you see? He said, I'll be doing literary and debating. I said, I didn't say where will you start. I said, what do you see? What do you see? The guy said, I don't really know. That is what you know that when when Caleb and Joshua came back, you know what they said?

I am well in heaven. They had not gone for war. They had not gone to battle robe. They only brought back report back to Moses. And they said, let us go now for we are well able. It means it means it means the language of slaves are the same. Slaves say, we are like grasshoppers. We are we are... I'm not even smart. I used to forget things easily.

I don't used to remember things. Whenever I read, I forget. The way the way... I'm not so intelligent. I've been trying to learn this thing for a long time, but it's not coming from me. Sir, I I I bought a course. I can't even study it. I don't think this is for me. I don't think Listen. Listen.

Listen. There are deliverances happening that I'm speaking because people are being delivered from Egypt. I'm telling you, there are impartations and activations happening as I'm speaking because people are being pushed into the promise. Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Do you know how you speak as a believer? You know how you speak as a believer? Imagine you went to public speaking and God has told you you're a public speaker. Your language becomes there is no tongue nor language where my voice is not heard.

Listen, you shut your eyes and you see yourself speaking, speaking in conferences, speaking in awards, speaking in seminars. Hear me? Hear me. In that your business, you see yourself delivering to China. Sending your goods to Europe. Sending your goods to Asia. Hear me. Hear me. You see yourself rising to the peak of your career. The promised land is your aim.

Don't settle for less. It means until I rise to the peak, I'm not okay. That's all I see. That's what I see. Hear me? Hear me? Listen. Listen. When when 12 spies goes to spam, goes to go and spy a land, and 10 out of 12 say we are like grasshoppers. We can't do it.

We can't do it. And two of them say we are well able. Do you know what those 10 will call those two? They will say they are proud. They will say they are proud. They are arrogant. They will say, are you the only one? People not all see the same thing. It means if you're speaking as not many people say you are proud, you have not started speaking. Hear me?

I put a post on Facebook. I said, I put a picture of this year, and I said, the largest garden of young people in Nigeria, in the world. And somebody messaged me. The person said the person said, this is not what God say we should do. I said, you are the one that know what God say you should do. Are the one that no work or say you should do. You people say, see, everybody fails here. Say, me, I noticed. I'm not part of you. Listen.

You say, why are you insulting us? I'm not insulting you. You said everybody fails, and I'm not part of you. Listen. How you speak about your brand? How you speak about yourselves? How you speak about your... Listen. Listen. Listen.

You are a teacher. You teach in a secondary school. You go and meet your students. You say, I cannot teach you and you will fail. I can't put you and you'll be done. Listen. You meet a client. You you tell them, see, what I have to offer you is the best Nigeria. There is none like it. I don't offer inferior products.

If I work for you, you will refer me. You know, screen as though they trying to help you. As though I'm begging for bread. I'm begging for bread. Please help me. Please help me. You hear me? The bible says in Psalms two verse eight, nations has been given to me as an inheritance. This is the promise. This is the promise.

This is where God has put you. This is your hand. Can you say with me, nations? Has been given to me. As an inheritance. Listen. The Bible says, the hand of the earth as your possession. Listen. Listen. Some people are going to Europe to go and labor, to go and hustle.

I'm going there to rule over it. Hear me? Hear me? Don't think I will not go there. The gospel is reaching there. Yes. This mandate will get to the hands of the earth. When we get there, we will not go there and beg. We will go there like kings. Help them.

Hear me. Hear me. While some people are are are are passing by here to enter Europe, to enter America. Begging for visa, begging. They will invite us with presidential invoice. When they see our relevance. Listen, the king of this earth will look for you. That is how you speak. Give me that scripture that says, God enlarge the heart of Solomon. Listen.

Listen. Listen, I read my bible, and I found in the book of Isaiah, the bible says the Lord has made you an eternal excellence. Listen, not a first semester excellence. Not the second semester excellence. An eternal excellence. Listen, Bible says, God has made me the joy to many generations. Hey, are you seeing how I pray? This is how I pray. I close my eyes, I say, I'm a joy to many generations and eternal excellence. Things are coming out of me.

Things are coming out of me. For you be raised the dead. I raised the dead. Listen. Listen. Can we read this together, everybody? And God gave Solo more with everybody. One, two, three. Go. Listen.

Did you see largeness of heart? Largeness of heart. There's no vision your mind cannot contain. Listen. Listen. Listen. Some of you will leave this meeting, and you'll be thinking of tackling a branch in Lagos. Yeah. Yeah. Some of you will...

You will go back home, and suddenly your mind will open. And you'll be thinking, wait. Why have I been limiting myself to only a single stream of income? When, listen, your eyes will be seeing many opportunities. As though, as though they open the wardrobe. Listen. Listen. Hear me. I was reading the bible, and I saw there. While Peter yet speakers, the holy ghost fell upon them.

Listen, when I saw it, I insisted that my words will carry power. I will not speak and people will only smile and laugh. As I'm speaking, the holy ghost can fall upon men. Listen. Listen. Before this became my reality, I was seeing it in prayers. I was picturing it. I was envisioning it. And I'm speaking power everywhere. Listen.

There are people that listen to us from many countries of the world right now. I saw it oh. This is not even the height of it. We are still in the cave. Listen. In the cave does not mean that your business will be in at Bowen and say I'm still in the cave. You can be making international deliveries and still be in the cave. David was winning battles, and he was still in the cave. The bible says Gentiles shall come to your light, kings to the brightness of your rising. These are the promised land mentalities.

See, listen to me. Even if you have not started anything, don't see small. Don't see small. If you are into entertainment, see yourself winning Grammys, Oscars. Those things might not matter. Are you with me? But we will get to the peak of the peak. And when we get there, we will lift the banner of Jesus high, and we say to God be the glory. You can become the best student in your department. Let me say it again.

You can become the best student in your faculty. Listen. Listen. You know you know you know there are survivor's cause. It's cause that you just afloat. Let my people go. A survivor's cause is Egypt. You can enter into a period of consistent abundance where every single course you write, you become the best student. Are you with me? The bible says, Daniel became Daniel became 10 times better than his peers, and he was...

Listen. And in all matter of wisdom and understanding. You know what it means? It means there are no question as I know physics. I don't know chemistry. It is all matter of wisdom and understanding. All matter. Change your confessions. Are you ready to pray? Listen.

We are gonna pray with the promises of the promised land. Shift your thinking. Shift your mentality. Insist that my small mind must break. Are you ready to pray? Lift your voice and pray in the holy ghost. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at official Disciples CN. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network.

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