Transcript: The Glory Revealed Part 1 (Day 1) with Apostle Emmanuel Boluwatife

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It is that time when men and women gather together. A time when people are empowered to take charge and rule in life. Men are enlightened. They awaken to the consciousness of their kingdom identity, and the grace to step out in destiny is released. This is the manifest conference where men gather, I am powered, and they never recover. My intention in this day one is to build understanding. That's the intention. To build understanding. I think that as you begin to gain understanding, a large chunk of what God will be doing in this meeting would already start happening. Isaiah chapter 60, the bible says, Arise, shine for your light is come and the glory of the Lord is revealed upon you.

In amplified version, it says, Arise from spiritual depression to a new life. Arise from spiritual depression to a new life. In other words, this is an instruction. It says, arise. And it's opening up what it means to arise. It says, perhaps there's someone here suffering spiritual depression. Arise to a new life. He then goes on to say, shine. And in shine is radiant with the glory and the billions of the Lord. So arise means that whatsoever condition a man might be, whatsoever situation a man might currently be, arise.

Whether it be spiritual depression, whether it be hopelessness, whether it be poverty, whether it be barrenness, whether it be famine, whatever the condition might be, it says arise. It says stop staying where you are. Stop saying where life has put you. Stop staying where situation has put you. Stop staying where circumstances has put you. Arise. Say no to that current conditions. Your life can change beyond where you are right now. Don't accept your current reality as the norm. It says arise from spiritual depression, from whatever the situation might be to a new life, to a new reality, to a new experience.

It is a shine. Be radiant with the glory and the brilliance of the Lord. Now how does these two things happen? How does a man arise? How does a man shine? It is for your light has come. In other words, how you arise is not because you are tired of sitting down. No man rises just because he's tired of the situation. Things don't just change because you are tired. Things don't just change because you even want them to change.

Do you understand what I'm saying? It explains to you how that arising happens. It first tells you arise. It then tells you how you will arise. It says, for your light has come. It means in this meeting, if this will become your reality, in this meeting, if this will become your experience, if someone will leap up from that place where you currently are right now to where God has designed them to be, what must happen is that your light must come. So if there is anything you must insist in this meeting, it is that my light must come. What does the bible say? In Psalm one one nine, the bible says the entrance of your word, it gives light. So it is as we teach these words, our understanding comes that light comes.

It means the light that makes you arise comes as we teach, comes as the word of God is being taught. Are you with me? The moment light pierces into your spirit, what happens is that you rise. So gain understanding. Insist on understanding. Insist on what now? Understanding. And as the word of body starts, what happens? Light. As light pierces into your spirit, what happens?

Men begin to rise. When we come to the miracle service, we'll really just be selling off what has started happening today already based on understanding. Do you understand what I'm saying? So it's gonna be a teaching where I'm teaching at one, at two, and then we reach the peak on Friday. So please be very diligent to listen because your life is about to change. I celebrate everyone of you for coming. I celebrate those who are still on their way here. Can you celebrate yourselves? If you are a man or woman of God in this place, I might not recognize you, but we celebrate you and we honor you. I can also see my parents are here, my father and my mother, and we celebrate them as well.

And and and rejoice that they are here. Always supporting, always praying, always bordering. Let's let's let's let's celebrate them one more time. Thank you very much. God bless you. In the name of Jesus. You see, there are certain words that we use so frequently in church that if we are not careful, familiarity can make us lose the weight of those words and lose the weight of what those words actually mean if we are not careful. And one of such words is what we are discussing in this conference, the glory. I have to say that, the man of God that was leading the charge before I came on, pastor Enola, was quite aligned in the spirit. You would think that we have prepared the same sermon.

So let's... Yeah. You would think it peeped into my note or something. Glory to God. It was all well and good. You gain more understanding. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So we use the words carelessly. We say glory.

We say glory. We say the glory of God is in this meeting. And what do we mean when we say the glory of God is in this meeting? We say, oh Lord, show us your glory. I mean, we sing songs about glory. We shout about glory. We describe certain encounters as glorious. Is that not so? Yes, sir. And because many of us have encountered that word mostly in the atmosphere of meetings, we can unconsciously reduce glory to a feeling, to an atmosphere as we call it.

Right? So when there's an... When there's intensity, perhaps we are playing right now and the keyboard is on and the drum is on and then they are clashing the cymbals and everywhere is intense, we say the glory of God is here. Is that not so? We can we can read the atmosphere. We can read the room and we can read the intensity in the place. And then we can describe that experience as the glory of God being here. And some of us have even had tangible experiences. But what exactly is the truth? Otherwise, we would reduce the experience to unusual things that happen in a meeting.

Manifestations that we experience in a meeting. People falling under the power of God. Is that not so? And as beautiful as all these things are. Times. Oh, I hope you're doing this meeting. You see, all we've been with this prayer right now can accompany the manifestation of God's glory. Right? But if you follow the subject of God's glory throughout scripture, you will discover that the bible is dealing with something that is much bigger than that. When you begin to study the glory of God in scriptures, you then realize that the glory of God is actually tied to the purpose of God for creation.

The glory of God is tied to the reason that man exists. The glory of God is tied to what was lost in the fall. The glory of God is tied to what God began recovering through redemption. Are you with me? Yes, sir. The glory of God is tied to where the entire story of creation is going eventually. It's a deep subject we have to consider, especially in this time, especially in this season that we are in. Because we've entered into a season in the body of Christ. In case you're a man of God here, let me announce to you. It is in the office of the apostles to discern the time.

The bible says the men of Issachar understood times and seasons to know what Israel ought to do. One of the burdens of the apostolic office is discerning the times. There's a shift in the doings of God in the body of Christ. Yes, sir. There's a shift in the movement of the spirit in the body of Christ. And I think that this conversation is important at such a time as this. I think so. So Isaiah chapter 40 verse five says, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. And all flesh shall see it together for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. He's speaking about something that has been inside the intention of God from the beginning of time, even before the beginning of time.

But I want to show you what the scripture means when it talks about the glory of God. Because if our definition of glory is wrong, we will carry the wrong idea into everything that we are about to study. In Exodus 33 verse 18, the Bible says, Moses was making a very direct request to God. He told God please. Show me your glory. And the response God give is very instructive because in verse 19, God now tells Moses, I will make all my goodness pass before you. Watch this. This was God's response to the cry of Moses, to the request of Moses to see the glory of God. He says, I will make all my goodness pass before you. And I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you.

Then in Exodus chapter 34 from verse five to verse seven, when God fulfills that promise, he then descends and begins to proclaim his name. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving the iniquity and the transgression and sin. Now that's a very instructive scripture because Moses asked to see the glory of God, and God's response was to make his goodness pass before him and to proclaim his name and his character. So when scripture speaks about the glory of God, it has to do with the weight and the excellence and the beauty and the reality of who God is. Because that was the response that God gave to Moses. That he would proclaim his name. He made his goodness pass before him and then he proclaimed his name. So what Moses experienced was a dimension of the goodness of God and then a proclamation of the name. Or the names of God really. Are you with me?

Yes sir. Are you understanding up until this point? Yes. So the glory of God is manifested in the weight and the beauty of who God is. So when the goodness of God is revealed, you are seeing the glory of God. When the holiness of God is revealed, you are seeing the glory of God. When the wisdom of God, the mercy of God, the righteousness of God is revealed, you are seeing the glory of God. I don't have time to show you this today, but I intend to... Before the conference ends, maybe during the worship experience, I will teach you on God. That's the intention.

Maybe for just thirty minutes. Because I want you to understand why we worship God. So you need to understand God. In the understanding of God, there is a deity of God and the divinity of God. Those are two different things. We'll talk about that later. But for the purpose of what I want to teach today, the deity of God are attributes that belong only to God. The divinity of God are attributes that belong only to God, but he shares with men. Do you understand what I'm saying? The deity of God is what makes him uncalled contestably God.

So he's omniscient. That's the deity of God. He's omnipotent. That's what... It's what makes him God. It's the reason why only him can be God. So God is not a name we give someone. God is not an identity. Or should I say a name to describe an identity. God is actually a name that we give a being based on certain characteristics that that being possesses.

But if any being does not possess that characteristic, it cannot be God. Do you understand what I'm saying? For instance, God is self sufficient. Do you know what that means? Everything on earth needs something to survive. The only thing that doesn't need anything is God. He's self sufficient and all human beings. Block your nose for five minutes. Block your mouth for five minutes and see what happens to you. You slump and you die because you need oxygen to survive.

Yes, sir. You understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Your car needs fuel to run. Everything that was created depends on another thing to function and to exist. God is the only thing that can exist in himself and of himself. Today is not the study of God. Let's let's keep that. So there are attributes that makes him deity, that that contributes it to his deity. Are you with me now?

And for this reason, only him can be God. So if we check what you call God, and we don't see these attributes there, by reason of the definition of God, that thing is not God. When you call to the borders of his divinity, you then see attributes he possesses. But but he can share this attribute with men. For instance, God is love. That is his attribute, but he can share it. That's why the bible said the holy spirit has shared the love of God abroad in our hearts so we can love like God. So listen, the attributes of God that points to his divinity are the attributes that if you see it in men, it is borrowed. If you see it in men, it is there because they draw it from God. For instance, the righteousness of God.

God is righteous. It is in his nature, but men too can be righteous. God is holy. It is in his nature, but men too can be holy. Do you understand what I'm saying? So the bible says be holy as your father in heaven is holy. But there are things you cannot be as your father in heaven is. No matter how passionate you are. You cannot be all knowing. You cannot be all powerful.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. So because of the deity of God, you cannot know God exhaustively. But you can know him personally and you can know him truly. So when Moses has to see the glory of God, what happened is that God told Moses that, ah, you are limited right now. Give me verse 18 again. He said show me your glory. And then in verse 19, I will make my goodness and all of these things, then move it, show me your face. And God says, now, if you see my face, you will die. But this is what I will do for you.

I will make my goodness a dimension of his divinity. I will make it pass by you. Not a dimension of his deity. It's very important. A dimension of his divinity, I will make it pass by you. Mike, it was very specific. My goodness. Then for the other dimensions you might not experience, let me tell you what I will do. I will proclaim them in names. You you might based on the dispensation you are in and the testament that you are under, you might not be able to experience some of my dimensions.

What I will do is I will proclaim them in name. Stay with me. Please stay with me. Stay with me. All this, all this. Yes sir. All this. You're coming back there. Yes, sir. So the glory of God, I said, is the manifested weight and the beauty of God.

Now when the goodness of God is revealed, you are seeing glory. That when the holiness of God is revealed, you are seeing glory. That when something of the dimension of God is revealed, you are seeing glory. The wisdom of God, the mercy of God, the righteousness of God, the faithfulness of God. Are you with me? Glory is God making the excellence of his nature perceptible. So light, fire, physical manifestations, all of these things can accompany glory, but that's not what the glory is. So if I see someone fall out under the power now, I would say, hey, the glory of God is here. But what is really here? Because if we say the glory of God is here, what we are saying is a dimension of God has been revealed.

So if I could not capture what dimension was revealed, all I could see was a manifestation. I did not experience glory. Do you understand what I'm saying? If God's power is received... Is revealed, it will come with evidences, obviously. Do you understand what I'm saying? If God's goodness is revealed, now why is it important that they saw God's goodness for instance? Do you understand the context of that scripture? The context of that scripture was when Israel had fallen away. Because they are just...

Moses had gone up the the the mountain to go and collect the the 10 commandments. Is that much so? And upon coming back, he saw that Israelite had had had created a golden calf for themselves, and they were worshiping the golden calf, and God was... Moses was hungry and called them a sticks next people, people who don't want to change, who don't want to transform. And then God decided that look at these people's indifference. You know what? I'm done with these people. And then Moses started talking to God and saying, God, what do you not want people to say? Do you want people to say that you brought them out of Egypt, or you couldn't take them to where you promised you would take them to? God said, okay.

No problem. This is what will happen. I will take them there, but I will not follow you. Is it the promised land you want to go? I will put an angel. The angel will go before you. Moses now said, ah ah, we are not going anywhere. If your presence does not go with us. Go and get my teaching the wonders of his glory. I taught this there.

I thought this there. I thought something here that is very important. We're not going anywhere if your presence does not go with us. Some Christians would not have rejected a transaction. That's an exchange that many of you are willing to make. That God will not go with you as long as you have the money. Even if God is not there, I don't mind. I will get to the promised land though, but God will not go with me. Shida will still get there. No problem.

Moses said no. That's an exchange I'm not willing to have. I will rather not get there than to get down and realize you didn't follow me there. Do you understand what I'm saying here? And then Moses started praying and interceding and talking to God. It was in the midst of that prayer that Moses now says, God, you have to show us your glory. Moses now said, you know what? God now said, you know what? No problem I have heard. Even though these people have done what they have done, I will not take their iniquity against them.

And the reason I will not take it is because I am good. That's the reason why his goodness came. The... Oh my god. Do you understand what I'm saying? So the dimension of his goodness was never free in that order. Because there was something God was trying to communicate and to teach them. Are you with me? That regardless of your of your unfaithfulness, I'm still good. So I will make my goodness pass.

And when my goodness passes, then you can forget everything. I would follow you. I would go to... I would go with you and all of that. Added to that, there are two dimensions that I will now begin to tell you about. You might not experience them, Moses, but I will tell you about them. They are stored in my names. Are you still with me? So when Isaiah says, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, he's speaking about God making himself known. Something about who God is will be revealed.

That men will not always remain forever with distorted ideas about God. But the health will not remain ignorant of his nature forever. God intends that who he truly is should become known. So when the Bible says the glory of God shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it. It's a prophecy. Do you remember for those of you who are... Oh my god. You need to get my ditches. It will bless you. For those of you who are in church, I taught you the difference between the will of God, the purpose of God, and the counsel of God.

So when you hear the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this. What does this sound like? This is a council. That means it will stand. You can either partner with it or not, but it will stand. With or without you, it will stand. Get my teaching to know the difference. Working in purpose, I believe. Listen. All flesh shall see it together.

All flesh. All flesh. That we might live in a a generation right now with distorted ideas about who God is. We can live in a generation right now that can even mock God openly. There's no problem. But Isaiah says, don't worry. For a time is coming. That the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. And all flesh, all flesh, all flesh, no one will have an excuse. All flesh.

The head will not remain ignorant forever. All flesh. Now we need to go all the way back to the creation story to understand how God first intended that his glory should be revealed within the earth. Because you see, this prophecy that Isaiah is giving also is your... Also was the original intention of God when he made the earth. It's not a new thing God was decided. I told you this about council. Forever, oh Lord, your word is settled. So God is not making up these things as he's going. These things are eternal.

It is called the eternal word of God. Are you with me? So this has always been the intention in the heart of the father. So when earth was created, the idea in the mind of God was still that my glory should be revealed. That all flesh should see it. That was the mandate in the heart of God when he was creating the earth. And we need to go and study it so that we see what was God's strategy for modeling his glory. What was God's strategy for all flesh to see who he was and to understand his person and his nature? Was it that God will come from heaven and appear in a cloud and now say, this is my power and then go back? Was it that...

What was his strategy? Was it fire and thunder and lightning? What was his strategy? What was his strategy? When you are here when you are here when you are here when you are here when you are here When you are here. When you are here. When you are here. Listen. And to understand that, because it's a long standing intention. So what is God's original idea about how the glory of God should be revealed?

We need to go back to Genesis chapter one verse 26. The Bible says, let us make man in our image. Stop there for a second. Let us make man how. What is the how up there? The... A lot of people have thought that the... He was talking to celestial beings and talking to... No. No.

No. No. No. The how are you still God? When the bible says let God said in the original Hebrew, the word god is plural. The word god there is not singular. The word Elohim is singular. The word Elohi is plural. The word god used here is Elohi. So when he says then God said is then said, plural.

Let us make man in hour. So the horse and the hour are God. So the idea of trinity first came to be right from Genesis. It was not a new testament concept. It has already existed from the beginning. Are you still with me? Sir. So father, son, and spirit were conversant. Father, son, and spirit said to themselves, let us make man in our image. After our likeness, let them have dominion.

Do you know that an image exists to make something known? An image exists to give representation to something. So glory as we have established it has to do it. The weight, the excellence, and the reality of who God is. Is that not so? Becoming known, becoming expressed. So when God created man in his image, he's creating a creature through whom something about himself can be represented within creation. The image is not the glory itself, but the image was designed to become a means through which the glory of the one whose image he is carrying could now be expressed. So if the image accurately represents God, then through that image, God's wisdom can be seen. If the image accurately represents God, through that image, God's order can be seen.

God's authority can be seen. God's creativity can be seen. So when we say that God intended for the earth to be filled with his glory, part of what that involved was filling the earth with men and women who carry this image accurately. So when the bible says that God intends for his glory to fill the earth, his original strategy was I will make images. Stay with me. God creates man in his image and immediately gives that man an assignment within creation. Let them have dominion. So you see image and dominion together in the same context. So man was created to represent God within the world that God had made. And his dominion was supposed to be exercised as an extension of God's righteous government.

The authority given to man was never supposed to become independent power. Because a man was an image before he was a ruler. The idea is let us make man in our image. Let them have dominion. It was image first, dominion after. So man was expected to rule as one who was reflecting another. Because that is what an image does. An image reflects another. Yes, sir. So if Adam had any wisdom, the wisdom of Adam was meant to reflect the wisdom of God.

If Adam had any power, the power of Adam was meant to reflect the power of God. Because that's what an image does. Do you understand what I'm saying? If Adam could love, the love of Adam was meant to reflect the love of God. That's what an image does. If Adam could rule, if Adam could lead, if Adam could walk, everything Adam did was meant to reflect something about God. Why? That is what an image does. So what was the strategy? What was the strategy?

Something about my character and nature must be spread across the head. How do we do it? Okay. Let's create images. God is spirit, but he creates a physical world and places within that world a creature that bears... That that bears his own image. Because the invincible God intended to make himself known within the visible order through representatives who carried his image, who carried his likeness. And when God used that language of image to describe what he was creating, it helps us to understand the seriousness of man's vocation. In the ancient world, the image of a king would be placed within a territory as a representation of the king's authority. And as a representation of his claim over that territory.

The image was not the king himself, of course, because it's a statue. So the ancient world's kings were obsessed with creating statues of themselves. Because the presence of that statue announced whose dominion that territory belong to. So that even though the king was not there, if the king has conquered the territory, he then erects a mighty statue. As a as a signal of authority to everybody within that territory and those who would even try to come and conquer that territory, that there is someone reign over this kingdom. Stay with me. So when you read your bible, you would find that the king of old were obsessed with statues. Nebuchadne never said, create a statue for me. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

In fact, in some cases, the king would even tell people to worship the statue. Because the kings believed that they were gods. Pharaoh, for instance, was seen as a god. Pharaoh was not just a king. That's the reason why when they die, they don't bury them normally. And you would see those that they enslaved bowing down to them. Sometimes they will make their statues as high. If you go to Egypt, you will still see the statue of Pharaoh like this. Man, borrow that idea. The only difference is that who they borrowed it from did not build statues.

I'm not getting your answer. In fact, how they create statues is how he also created that man. He started first at the statue. The only difference is that they didn't have something. They couldn't breathe into it. But God, that's why he say only him. Based on that character and that attribute, only him can be God. His wife Pharaoh cannot be God. Only him can be God. When he was done creating, he looked at it very well.

He says, yes. Alright. Alright. The Bible said and God breathed. And the moment God breathed, the Bible says statue came alive. God said, wait, wait, wait. I need to check something. Is this guy really in our own image? The Bible now says, God brought the Hanimas. To see what Adam would name them.

Listen, God did not say Adam named The Bible says, God broke the animus, paraded them in front of Adam to see. Let's read it together. Wonderful week everybody. Uh-huh. And did what? Because the Bible does not say he brought them to Harden to call them. Is to see. Almost as though he's an examiner marking his student. Let me see what you call them. Let me see if you will call them what I have called them.

And as Adam was naming, God was saying yes. Yes. Yes. Oh my God. This is my image. This is my image. It could function like God. It could think like God. It could reason like God. It was a work.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Looked at man. And God said, ah. I love what I've created. What I've created is good. But it is not good. That man should be alone. Why? Why? Is understand that the context of this conversation is image.

Image. Image. It means man by himself could not sufficiently capture. What God was trying to show the world. There were dimensions of of of God that man could not capture by himself. So God looked at the man and said it is not good that this man should be alone. I will make for him and help me. So God said, man sleep and God caused a deep sleep to follow man. And God took from the rib of man. That is the mission of marriage.

That when two will become one, that one less is not to show us a dimension of God. That when I see the man, hear me? Does it not amaze you? That the bible, they got caught a deep sleep to fall on Adam. But when Adam woke up from his deep sleep, the first thing Adam said is this is the bone of my bone. So if he was sleeping, how did we know? Let us make man in our image. It means even the knowledge of Adam reflected the image of who he was representing. That means that means Adam was not limited to knowledge. He can perceive with his eyes.

He can perceive with his ears. After all, he was a spirit being. Oh my god. Stay with me. Stay with me. It means, when you see a Godly marriage, a Godly marriage, you should see the glory of God there. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because that was your original intention. That was the original idea. That was what existed before the foundation of the world.

Then I help, then I help you to understand the command of God. In Genesis chapter one verse 28. When the Bible says to be fruitful, God was telling man that they are created to be fruitful, to multiply, to fill the earth, to subdue it. So as humanity multiplied, the image was meant to multiply. That was the idea. As man filled the earth, the knowledge and the expression of God was meant to fuel and occupy the earth through man. So God was creating a world that would carry the evidence of himself through the men and the women who reflected him faithfully. It is why he told them be fruitful and multiply. In other words, let this image that you are carrying multiply. Let this image you are carrying multiply.

It should not die in yourself. Multiply. So God's idea of procreation and reproduction was a feature in the dominion mandate. That this image will represent. Let it multiply. Let it multiply. So when the Bible says that the glory of God will fill the earth, the knowledge of the glory of God will fill the earth, the idea, the original intention was that the image that created to represent that glory would multiply. Psalm eight explains the dignity attached to that calling. David was asking, what is man that you are mindful of him And the son of man that you visited him. In the end of you have crowned him with glory and honor.

You have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet. You have crowned him with glory and honor. That the crown that God placed upon man is described as what? Glory and honor. And immediately, the Bible describes the the crown that was placed upon man as glory and honor. Afterwards, scripture then speaks about dominion. So man was created. Man was crowned before he was commissioned. There was something that God placed upon humanity and made humanity suitable for the responsibility that God had entrusted to it.

And scripture describes that thing as glory and honor. So the glory attached to man in Psalms eight does not mean that man now became divine. Or that man now possessed glory independently of God. It means that man or should I say, God dignified man with a place within creation that reflected God's own intention and God's own government. So what the fall did to man? One of the tragic things about the fall is that the image of God became corrupted. Imagine that you give a picture of yourself to a very skilled artisan to paint you. And the artisan paints you realistically so that you can't even tell the difference between the picture and yourself. Have you seen those kind of pictures before? There are people who are so gifted like that.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. And you can see that picture and tell immediately this is this person. Yes, sir. Now imagine with me that that same picture now becomes smeared with black oil. And you cannot see anything on that picture again. You now go and present the picture to the person you were painting to say, see, I painted you. Now the guy looks at that picture and he cannot see himself there. Because something has happened to the image. Is that not so?

The image now lacks the ability to represent the one for whom it was created. So when God said, be fruitful and multiply. The multiplication and the fruitfulness was meant to be after the order of God. So that as man was multiplying, man was begotten children in the image of God. But when man fell, his image became corrupted. And because his image now became corrupted, everything that came out of man was corrupted. So when you read Genesis chapter five verse one, the bible now says, this is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him... What's that? In the likeness of God.

Go back. In the day that God created man, he made him how? In the likeness of God. Next verse. Watch this. He created them male and female and blessed them and called them what? In the day that they were created. Please note, in the day that they were created. In the day that they were created. They were still in the image of God.

But something happened after that day. They fell. Sin entered and corrupted the image. And what happened when they began reproducing? Next verse. Verse three. One, three, go. Uh-huh. In God's Adam who was made in God's likeness. Now begins begotten children in his own falling likeness.

Do not understand why the psalm is saying iniquity did my mother conceive me. Because what the tragic thing about this story is that man had lost the ability to represent God. So everything that came from man could no longer represent God. So you now see that the problem that this creates for God is that your original strategy of God for which his glory would fill the earth or for which men would interact with his glory has now been short circuited. Stay with me. Yes, sir. That's what sin did. You will now understand now with this knowledge you have had, when you now read Romans three verse 23, why the bible now gathers this this problem into one sentence. It says all, how many All. Have sinned.

And what did it do? They have fallen short of the glory of God. All... The repercussion, the consequence of all sinning is that they fell from glory. They fell from beauty. They could no longer carry the image of the one they were created to represent. Do you understand what I'm saying? Man has fallen short of something. There's an intention that he can no longer reach. An image he can no longer represent accurately.

A weight he can no longer carry as he was created to carry it. So the tragedy of sin cannot therefore be measured only by the bad things that men do. No. The deeper tragedy of sin is what man has become incapable of representing, incapable of expressing. So a human being may be intelligent. He may be wealthy. He may be celebrated. He may be influential. He may be educated. He may be powerful even.

Yet he has fallen short of glory. Because heaven's original measurement of man was never how impressive man could become in comparison with other men. The measurement was the degree to which man could fully bear the image and the government of God within creation. And sin damaged that capacity. So sin now distorted the way man loves. Because what that means is, if man has lost his ability to represent God, then what it would mean now is every nature that man was meant to share with God with respect to God's divinity, man can no longer share. That means the way man loves has been distorted. Dysfunctioning of man on the earth has been distorted. How man desires has been distorted. How man thinks has been distorted.

How man worships has been distorted. How man relates. How man handles responsibility. How man exercises power. All of these things have been distorted. So creation that was designed to represent God can now misrepresent him. When you read Genesis chapter three, you would actually see the collapse happening almost immediately. Before sin, in Genesis 25, the bible says that both of them were naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed. It means as long as man carry the image of God, there was no shame because shame is not in the character of God. Are you with me?

There was openness. There was innocence. There was no consciousness of hiding. There was no shame. Man could not feel shame. He didn't have the capacity. After sin came, the first thing was that they became conscious of their nakedness. So God came, and now they were hiding. And when God asked them, how are you? Where are you rather?

The response was, I was afraid because I was naked. Yet the Bible once said about that same man that both of them were naked and they were not ashamed. So it tells you that shame is a consequence of the fall. Condemnation is a... These are attributes that are not in God that you now find in man. Fear. So a man afraid cannot represent God accurately. A man ashamed cannot represent God accurately. Are you not seeing what I'm saying? God says God says, I need you now to go and speak to that lady.

What what God is basically saying is, is my image there? I need that lady to see my glory. Because his glory is not the fire. It's not the smoke. The lady might not see fire, might not see smoke, but they can see an image. Oh. Now when they look at that image, that image is pointing them to God. That when they go and meet that lady and they tell that lady that I don't know your name, but is as is as though something is troubling you. Are are you okay? Do you know someone who died recently and the lady breaks down in tears and says, my mother just died?

When the girl asks, how do you know? He said, I was alone and the holy prince spoke to me about you. There is something of God that is being revealed at that moment to that lady. That is the glory of God. Do you understand what I'm saying? So when man fell, the ability of man to represent this was now distorted. So man could now say, Kai, go and speak. I'm afraid. Oh. That thing that thing is a distraction.

It's a... It's an anomaly. There's a wisdom of leadership. That God can give to a man. Because the idea is that when that man leads and sits in the position of power, something about the wisdom of God. So when he's functioning in his office, you are seeing him exercise wisdom, but it's only an image that is pointing to the wisdom of God. So now, for every solution it brings, that is the glory of God. Look at this. Look at this. The man that God created to now stand before him is now hiding from him.

The man that God created to carry his image has not developed a distorted image of God. And the moment he developed that image, he developed a distorted image of himself as well. He begins looking at himself through shame. That means it was in the day that man could no longer represent God as the image of God that man loved his own self image. So that thing that we tell people, have a positive self image. Have a good self image. You can only have a good self image to the degree to which you carry the image of God. That is where your image is drawn from. Do you understand what I'm saying? It means...

Let let let let's let's... Ah. So it's not motivation. No matter how much you motivate someone, ah, think positive. Think positive. See yourself. No. No. No. No.

No. No. If the person cannot accurately carry the image of God, he cannot carry a good image of himself. So he will always be insecure. Always be afraid. Sit down. Sit down. Have your seat. Amen. So sin doesn't only change what man does.

Sin changes how man sees. It changes how he sees God. It changes how he sees himself. It changes how he sees other people. It changes how he sees the world around him. Adam begins to perceive the God whose presence should have been his delight as someone from whom he must hide. When God asked him what happened, he said the woman that you gave to be with me. She gave me off the tree and I hurt. The man who should have been the cover, who should have gathered, who should have taken responsibility, now shifts responsibility. The woman too, when they came to her, also shifted responsibility to the servant.

Why? Because sin has fractured the ability of man to stand in truth. Because of sin, man now has to begin protecting himself at the expense of the truth, at the expense of responsibility, and eventually even at the expense of other people. You can trace so many of the problems we we see in the world today back to this distortion. Why do men lie? Why do you lie? You lie because you are trying to preserve an image of yourself before men. And that image of yourself they are trying to preserve now becomes important, more important than the truth. You refuse correction. Why?

Because the fallen heart of man interprets correction as an attack upon his identity because he can no longer trace that identity to God. You blame everyone around you for the hardcombs of your life and the reason was because accepting responsibility feels too painful to your ego. So you'd rather just put the blame on people. Look at marriages today. Marriages today have become battlefields because two people who were supposed to represent the goodness and the faithfulness and the sacrificial nature of God now begins relating with themselves through selfishness, through fear, through control, through wounded pride, through domination. So parents can damage their children because the authority that God gave to them to reveal the authority and the security and the discipline of God has now become anger, has now become manipulation, has now become neglect, has now become abuse. So children can grow up knowing the language of fatherhood, but carrying a completely distorted picture of what authority means because the first authority that they encountered did not represent God to them accurately. So when the boy now sees a father or anybody who plays the role of a father figure to him, something in his heart rejects fatherhood. So even the fatherhood of God, he can no longer accept. He doesn't even know what it means for God to be father because the first picture, the first representation, the first image of this dimension that that he saw, that he witnessed damaged the reflection of fatherhood.

So now he's carrying scars everywhere and he's calling God names because someone who was meant to represent God to him misrepresented God. The same thing enters leadership. Man was created for dominion. It is true. But when you remove image from dominion, what you have left is oppression. Authority without the character of God becomes dangerous. Do now understand why the bible says in Proverbs 29 verse two that when the righteous are in authority, what happens? The people rejoice. But when a wicked man rules, what happens? You now understand why.

I hope you know that the righteous is not righteous of himself because righteousness is a nature of God. So if he is righteous, he's righteous because he draws from God. Is... That that righteousness he has is an image. Do you understand what I'm saying? So it means when a man carrying this image is in authority, then he will rule like the one whose image he's carrying. And the effect of that rulership is that the people will rejoice. Do you understand what I'm saying? What is inside the man that possesses power will eventually enter into the experience of the people that live underneath that power. If a righteous man has authority, his righteousness should begin entering into the systems that he supervises.

If a selfish man has authority, his selfishness will enter into those same systems. If a greedy man has authority. If a greedy man controls resources, eventually, that is greed, will now become your own bad road. That is greed will now become your own poorly equipped hospital. That is greed will now become your own abandoned school project, your own unpaid salary, your own unemployment, not your own in Jesus name. That because a greedy man is in dominion, it introduces suffering to someone unnecessarily. This is one way to understand the tragedy of the corruption in Nigeria. I mean, Nigeria is a nation with resources. We have oil. We have gas.

We have land. We have we have we have solid minerals. We have an enormous population of young people filled with intelligent, industrious people. I mean, you see Nigerians leaving this country and they begin to excel in medicine, excel in technology, excel in academics, in business, in finances, entertainment. Almost every field imaginable that you see Nigerians dominate, you see them dominating the place because they are filled with intelligent people. Are you with me? So you cannot explain every Nigerian problem by saying that Nigerians are lazy or Nigerians lack intelligence or that or that Nigerians lack anything with which they can develop itself. No. No. No.

No. No. Question is this, what happens to what we have? All the resources we have. What happens to heat when it enters into the hands of people who have authority over it? That's the question. Because imagine for me... Imagine with me now that money was released to construct a road and a man sees that money. And the first thing that comes to his mind is this is an opportunity for me to enrich myself. What will happen?

He will inflate the contract. After he has gotten the contract and he has inflated the price, he would take 90% of the funds for himself and store it in an account somewhere, probably open a shell company in another country, divert the funds of the shell company. Now go and get... Now go and reduce the quality of materials that is meant to use, substandard materials after he has collected a percentage for himself and still now commissions something that begins to deteriorate shortly after it has been commissioned. Now on paper, a road project has been done. They will come and they will stand in front of it holding play cards and cutting ribbons. Is that not so? Yes sir. Politically, it will come out and that is an achievement. But somewhere inside that project, greed has entered into the concrete.

Greed has entered into the asphalt. Eventually, it is ordinary people that will now start paying for the corruption of someone that they will never meet. Because when the road now deteriorates and becomes bad and large potholes fuse everywhere, cars become damaged. Businesses now start losing hours in traffic. Accidents now start happening almost often. Is that not so? Yes sir. Transportation becomes very expensive. Food now becomes very expensive to transport. Productivity now starts to fall.

So what begins as something that is hidden inside the hack of a leader eventually now becomes suffering in the lives of people. You give a minister or a chairman money to build a community hospital and it takes that money that was meant for your hospital. And perhaps, he thinks that the only thing that has happened is that he has moved figures from one account to another account. But corruption has consequences in flesh and blood. Because the missing money now becomes missing medicine. The missing money now becomes missing infrastructure. Missing equipment that was meant to be installed, that was never installed. A missing health center that was never completed. Now doctors are in that hospital with no resources, no infrastructure, and the things that they need to keep the hospital balance as a functional hospital are not there. And because of that, a woman will now arrive in that hospital one day in a life threatening condition that he does not have to die for.

But the moment she was rushed, she needs a fibrillator but there's no fibrillator. The one that was there is 1990 they bought it. They gave them money for another one. It has entered somebody's pocket. Let's conduct a surgeon on this woman. There's no light. The surgeons are there but the hospital has no light. Oh, you are moving to the hospital that has light. Whilst they are moving, the person dies. Does that person have to die?

So you will see that corruption is beyond just illegal gain of finances. It's what happens when the image becomes distorted. So a lot of people are suffering because someone who does not have that image has gotten power. And when you have dominion without image, what do you have? Oppression. I hope you know that when man fell, he didn't just lose his creativity. He didn't lose his creativity. When man fell, he didn't lose intelligence. He didn't lose his ability to organize to build, to think, to discover, to produce. He didn't lose any of those things.

What became corrupted was the direction of all those abilities. Man still had all of those things. But those things could no longer now serve the purpose of God. That's why when you now move to Genesis 11 from verse three to verse four, the bible says that they said to themselves, come, let us make bricks and bake thoroughly. The bible says they had bricks for stone. They had asphalt for mortar. And they said, come, let us build for ourselves a city and Toa whose top is in the heavens. Let us make a name for ourselves. Lest we be scattered abroad over the faith of the whole earth. Look at look at the level of ability in that passage.

Think about it. Because these were not foolish people. They were thinking people. They were innovating. If you read that... If you read this, what you will see is innovation. Are you with me? Yes, sir. They were solving problems. They understood that if the material they needed was not available in the exact form they required, they could manufacture what they needed.

They knew this. They knew how to make bricks. They knew how to bake the bricks. They knew how to use as fat as mortar. How to organize themselves around a collective vision. They knew all of these things. They were able to coordinate enough labor to attempt this big project. So there is intelligence in this passage. There's creativity there. There's innovation there.

Are you with me? There's organization there. There's engineering there. There's architecture there. There's ambition there. Man didn't lose any of those things. The problem wasn't their ability. The problem was the center around which their ability was now being organized. They said, come, let us make a name for ourselves. That became the problem.

This is where you now begin to see how far men have now moved from Genesis one. Listen, this is just between Genesis one and Genesis 11. Look at how far man has moved. How much more two thousand years later? Are you with me? Because man is meant to reflect God's character, represent God's authority, exercise dominion under God's government. But by the time you arrive at Genesis 11, humanity is no longer asking how the earth can reveal God. Mm-mm. What they are now saying is, let us make a name for ourselves. The ability is still there.

The intelligence is still there, but the reference point has now shifted. No longer God. It's now for ourselves. He has made himself the center of everything God gave to him. In Genesis one twenty eight, God said be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it. Because God wanted men to spread, to fill the earth, and to carry his image into all creation. Is that not so? But you come to Genesis 11, and these people say, come, let us build a steeple ourselves and a tower, lest we be scattered. Yet God said, multiply, scatter, fill the earth.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. They were succeeding, but they were succeeding in the wrong direction. They were making progress, but their progress was moving them away from the purpose for which they were created. One of the strongest desires in the act of the average Nigerian right now is to make it. You hear it everywhere. I wanna make money. I wanna become successful. And there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with wanting to prosper.

Nothing wrong with wanting to build something for yourself. Something significant. Nothing wrong in wanting to become successful. The question is what your success is becoming centered upon. What is your success representing? What's your prosperity representing? That's the problem. So this obsession of making it, you have to be careful because the difficulty of... In this nation can make ambition become desperate if your heart is not scattered. When you grow up in a place where things can become unnecessarily difficult, where brilliant people struggle for opportunities, where people work hard and then they still feel stuck, where family sacrificed so much just to survive.

A young person can spend years in school and still be unsure of what his life would look like after graduation even if he had a first class. When you grow up in that kind of an environment, something can begin to form inside you. You can begin to say, you know what? Whatever it takes, I must escape this kind of life. You might not say with your mouth, but now it becomes the motivation that powers your life and your division. So all of your life, including your career, your business, your desire to relocate, your pursuit of money, all of your life now becomes about escape. Escaping a type of life. No longer about representing God. No longer about being an image or being a representation of God or an expression of God, but about escaping a type of life. Please stay with me.

So a lot of people are building, but what they are building is Babel. Building something around themselves. Let us make a name for ourselves. They're not they're not called to make a name for yourself. An image does not make a name for himself. If you paint someone, you don't name the painting separate from the person whose school you have painted. If you paint me, you can't name the painting Ade, and it's me you painted. You don't understand what I'm saying? What is this concept of let us make a name for ourselves? When does the painting name himself separate from what God has named him?

It's a problem. And when you read their story, you find out that this this their vision here wasn't only driven by ambition because they said, let us build lest we be scattered. So there was ambition but there was also fear. This their project wasn't being driven by vision alone. It was also being driven by insecurity, by fear. They wanted something big enough to give them a sense of permanence and security outside the intention of God. And the same thing is happening to several people today. A man can become so obsessed with money because he's terrified of ever being poor again. So he says, come, let me build lest I be poor. You are building Babel.

What you are building is Babel. It's exactly what they said Because that is not the intention of God for why you should build. This is not for today. Let me not enter these waters today. A woman can become so obsessed with recognition because she has spent five years or ten years or thirty years. Let me tell you something. Success in and of itself is not the evidence that a man is fulfilling purpose. What did I say? A man can become very successful at something God never intended for his life. In fact, a man can even become successful at something that God intended but he has no idea what the intention is.

So he is successful but he's only the he's only the beneficiary of the of the success. God cannot use the success for anything because he has no idea what God wants to use that success for. So he makes money and his only idea of making money is to feed himself for his own comfort, for his own benefit. You can see a society make tremendous progress in technology, yet they still deteriorate morally. Because the people have drifted from the glory of God. So we have more information right now, but we have less truth. We can become very sophisticated in the things we know how to build. Yet we become very confused about what those things are supposed to serve. That's the reason why the average Nigerian thinks that the purpose of a nation is to become more technologically advanced. So we compare Nigeria to China and Japan.

It's because you have not read your bible. You will find that in the grand scheme of things, that is not the priority of the believer. Somebody comes and says, hey, but these nations are not praying, but look at the infrastructure. Who told you that it is prayer that builds infrastructure? The bible says that Cain left the presence of God and went to build a city. The first man that built a city in scripture, infrastructure was a murderer. Yet he built a city. He was the first person to settle the estate. It was out of the presence of God. This was gathered for themselves and they had the intelligence and the engineering wisdom to build a tower reaching the heavens.

And God did not stay in heaven laughing at them. God not said, he who sits in heaven laughs. Look. God said, if I leave these ones alone, nothing they have imagined to do shall be impossible to them. That means if God didn't do anything about it, those people would have built. Yet God was not there. Go and read the bible and you will find that what we have been called to represent is superior to these things. It does not eliminate us from these things. It's not one or the other. Mm-mm.

But if we miss the priority, then the other ones we have built, houses and towers become useless. Absolutely useless. Because those things will fade away one day. A time has come when the great trumpet will sound. It wouldn't matter the engines you built, the AI you built, the iPhones you built, the cars you built, all of that would not matter. What would matter is, is this nation a righteous nation? That is what will matter. Because the bible says righteousness exalts a nation. It does not say engine exalts a nation. You know, you see a man of God talking like this, you see, these men are anti progress.

They are the poem of Nigeria. The man of God has been called to preach the gospel. It's the poem of Nigeria. You are an unserious person. You'd not hold your president in the neck and say you are the poet of Nigeria. It's a man of God who preach gospel. There is a poem of Nigeria on... We don't know what we are doing. We don't know what we are doing. You tell me this, say, why are you not building industries?

Why are you not building... If our template is Jesus, how many industries did Jesus build? Do you know that what many people expect of men of God today, the people in Jesus' time also expected it of Jesus. They thought that the idea of Jesus being the savior would mean that he would be a revolutionalist. He will carry placard on the streets and say, free the Jews. That was what they thought Jesus would do. That was why when he finished teaching them for forty days, the question they asked him is, will you at this time deliver? Because that's when you say you are the savior, savior, savior. We have been shouting for savior since. Are you the savior?

If you are not the savior, let us know. Because what they had in mind is a political figure. An activist, an economic giant, But he only came with the gospel of the kingdom. Repent. Repent. That's what he came with. The sick is healed. When John the when John the Baptist sent his disciples to him and said, go and ask him, are you the one? Or should we expect another? Jesus did not say, Check the GDP of this nation.

He said, no. Go and tell him the sick is healed. The oppressed are delivered. The blind asked. Do understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Not to mean that this is not important, but to say that the original intention of God was that a man is image, then dominion. If you focus on dominion without image, what you will have is problem. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's the reason why in these same territories where the advancements are happening, they also have the greatest records of moral degradation.

A mother kills her children. Yes, we admire nations that can't tell the difference between a male and a female. Our greatest problem is not that man lacks intelligence. Falling man can be extraordinarily intelligent. Our deepest problem is that intelligence no longer consistently serves the purpose of revealing God. That's the problem. That's how you can build better technologies and still use those technologies to destroy people. We can create better communication tools and still spread more lies with them. You can create more wealth and still remain enslaved to greed. Do you understand what I'm saying?

So when I'm teaching you to become great, I need you to understand what I mean because I want you to build. I want you to become excellent. I want you to become wealthy. I want you to create companies. Are you with me? Yes, sir. To solve problems. I want you to become influential, to enter into government, media, finance, technology, business, medicine, law, every form of influence that God has called you into. I don't believe that there is anything spiritual about remaining small, about remaining incompetent, about being unproductive. But whilst you're becoming everything that God has put inside you to become, you must never forget the question that comes before the toa.

Whose image is your life revealing? That's the question. The question is not are you succeeding? It's first whose image because that is not what makes us succeeding matter. Do you understand what I'm saying? So in as much as we want you to build, what is more important is whose image is your life revealing? Time will fail me to talk about the distorted dominion of man. I don't have time for that today. That even that image that was distorted also distorted dominion in an aspect because what man was meant to dominate, now dominates man. Believers are slaves of addiction, slaves of addiction, slaves of sin, slaves of pornography, addicts to several things that God has delivered them from.

Don't have time for this. Don't have time for this. And all of this is because image has been distorted. You now see fear. Fear has entered the equation because image has been distorted. Things you will not see in God has entered the equation because image has been distorted. A lot of people marry today because of fear. People remain in destructive environment because of fear. People compromise because of fear. People refuse to start what God has put in their heart heart to start because of fear.

Yet, when you check the mind of the creator, you don't find fear there. In fact, the Bible says the righteous. That that righteous man that is templating God. That righteous man who cannot be righteous in himself. Who only draws righteousness because God is righteous. That righteous man. The Bible is when you find him. When you find a man who is as righteous as God is righteous. Who has received imputed righteousness and leaves out the fruit of that righteousness, there is a quality you will find in him. If he is truly templating God, what will you find?

He will be as bold as a lion. You know why? Because the one he's templating is called the lion of the tribe of Jupiter. It means... Listen. It means it is impossible, therefore, to find an image that is righteous, that is timid. Something has been distorted. That is that is what we hope to repair in this conference. Rise up all your feet. It is day one.

We close here. Do you understand this building? Tomorrow, we'll dive in deeper. And then on Friday, you would have reached... Would have been excited. Would have been very excited. It would have reached somewhere here. By now, we'll get to where we are going. We want to repair something. That's that's the reason for it.

I want to repair something. The fall of man has distorted the image. That image have also corrupted man's relationship with work. Look at what Genesis three verse 17 says. Look at what it says. This was after man fell off after the image was distorted. Read it. You know what? Let's do it in Henoti. Let's do it in Henoti.

One, two, three, go. I hope you know that this is the experience of a distorted image. That because the image of this is distorted, the ground is cursed. What what what relationship does man have with the ground? That's where he plants to eat. Is that not so? What man eats comes from the ground. That means that whatever a man puts his hand in that brings him revenue for survival and maintenance is cost. And the reflection of that cost is that man will struggle to scratch a living from it. That means he will walk nine to five only to scratch a living.

What... Oh my god. Monkey, they walk. Baboon, they chop. It... The the the... You see him sweating profusely. Yet what comes from him is only... He said, we need to repair this thing. It's it's it's a distorted image.

It's a distorted image. Look at the next verse. Look at the next verse. It will grow tons and thistles for you. Give me MSG. One, three, go. Next verse, get your food the hard way. Did you did you see that? From what? You have not seen it yet.

I'm not going to say it. I hope you saw it. It's a cause. It's a cause that will never be my life. Listen, work is not the causal because work existed before the fall of man. When God made man, God gave man work before he fell To tend and to tear. So man working and working hard is not a cause. In fact, it's a blessing. Do you understand what I'm saying? The cause is when the...

Where man is working doesn't now bring no matter the amount of effort he puts. No matter how much he struggles, nothing sustainable comes from it. Is a cause. Don't miss this conference. It's a distorted image. Do you know that because of that distortion, we have created a norm out of distortion? Oh god. That that distortion has now become normal to us. That we have we have now we have now created how a normal life should progress based on a distorted pattern. You are not getting this, Namsi.

Based on a distorted pattern. So when you see a guy in... Who is 23 years old and he's just been done with school and you see him or a lady even or a guy, any one of them. And you see the guy and you see him confused, asking what do you want to do? He said, don't really know. I'm just... I don't check-in. And then he goes to serve. And as he goes to serve, he gets... He's getting 70 k.

And when he's done serving, he leaves the place, and then he's looking for a job. And then six months, one year, he's still finding a job. And while he's finding a job, he's in his father's house. His mother is feeding him. They're giving him food every day. And I think, he's opening the house to cut to cut grass, and he wake up in the morning. Listen. And then around twenty seven, twenty, he he gets a job. Listen. He gets a job, and then he goes from his father's house to the job that he's doing, and then they are paying him.

Maybe 70 k, maybe 100 k, maybe even $1.50 k, and they're happy for him to tell, and then maybe the government job or something or anywhere, and then you see him, and then he continues like that. And he he keeps on working. He keeps on working. They promote him in the job. Now he's collecting $2.50 k. Ah, he say, ah, thank God, oh. Now he's at... Now he's 30 years old. He's saying, I think I should marry you. I think I should marry you.

I think I should marry you. Let me marry. Okay. I'm looking for someone to marry. And then for two years, again, he's he's he's he's he's just playing. Two girls come, three girls come, he break their heart, break his heart. He said, I'm not finding any person. Then I'm 35, you know. Now that thing is normal. When you see somebody's life progressing like that, many people will not think something is wrong with him.

Many people... It it it looks normal. I mean, you see a guy who's 29, he's still he's still hustling, he's still struggling, he's still 30, the guy is still... You don't think anything is okay, anything is wrong. He's just... He's okay. But when you see a boy or a girl at 19, and he tells you, I gave my first 2,000,000. Immediately, something in you will spark. You'll start... That one now, you'll you'll be suspecting.

You'll be saying because that means we are more suspicious of the blessing. We are more suspicious of the image. A lady at 23 says, I wanna get married. He said, where are you rushing to? Where are you rushing to? A guy is building his business and he's moving steadily. He said, come... Because distortion has become unknown. So when a man is moving out of distortion and he's aligning with the image that he represents and his life begins to move with speed, you begin to look at him and say, calm down now. Because your definition of calm down is distortion.

If a guy is doing ministry, and after ten years, he's gathering a 100 people or two or or 50 or 70 people, you look at him and say, you are making progress. Well done. More grease to your elbow. If after three years, the guy garners 5,000 members, you will say, why? Why? Why is it that? What looks like the image is more suspicious. You're not getting this thing I'm saying. Why? When Isaac when Isaac told his sons to go and get him the venison, it was Jacob that brought the venison first.

Is that not so? Even though they were a lot of meandering. But when Isaac saw that Jacob had brought the venison pretending to be Esau, Jacob, Isaac asked him a question. The question is what a lot of us ask ourselves when we see people moving with speed. The question is, how come you have found it so quickly? See, he said, how is it that you have found it so quickly? The years are already building great businesses. What has taken orders twenty years, fifteen years? You are doing it in five years, in six years. How is it that you have found it so quickly?

Listen. Listen. Listen. But when someone is moving slow, even the person does not know he has a problem. Because distortion has become an environmental norm. Survival norm. And all nations live in distortion. So when you see the world that prosper, we suspect them. We suspect them. Something needs to be repaired.

Because some of you have accepted that distortion. You are living in distortion. This is not how you were made. It's not the kind of language we live in. Hear me? Hear me? Wait. Yeah. Yeah. Don't worry.

Tomorrow, we'll climb. Tomorrow, climb. Tomorrow, we climb. We believe you are mightily blessed. If you have any testimony from today's message, you can send us a message across our social media platforms. You can also listen to more Apostle Emmanuel Boularte fest messages on Telegram. The messages are available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and AudioMac as Disciples Christian Network. Stay blessed.