Transcript: The Glory Revealed Part 2 (MC Day 2) 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.... Will be happening. I tell you, so much will be happening. Please bring tongues under your breath and be very sensitive. Be very sensitive. So yesterday, under your breath, under your breath so you can hear me.

We started the conversation and we attempted to define the subject of the glory of God just so we are on the same terms on what we are talking about when we speak of glory. So that we don't continue talking about the subject or what we have in mind are different things. So that I'm talking about glory, but somebody is thinking one thing, another person is thinking another thing, and then we cannot agree and mirror at the point. And so we are tempted to define the glory, what the glory of God is. And now that the glory of God is a reflection of the essence, the beauty, the magnificence, and the excellence of God. And it is that... And we also said it is the intention of God that the knowledge of his glory covers the earth as the waters covers the sea. And we said that that has always been the intention of God. Isaiah chapter 14 verse five says, that the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it. And we said that that is not something that Isaiah just said because God just decided on this day that his glory will be revealed.

No. It has always been the intention of God for his glory to be revealed and for all flesh to see it. And we saw the strategy of God in making his glory revealed and all flesh seen it in Genesis when he made man. The strategy of God for how all flesh will see his glory is that he made man in his image. So in Genesis chapter one and verse 26, the Bible says then God said, let us make man in our image According to our likeness, let them have dominion. Over the fish of the sea. Over the birds of the hare. Over all the earth, over the cattle, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Glory to God. Glory God.

Thank you, Jesus. The folks who control the light, are they here? These lights are moving and when I'm teaching, they should stay in one place. It's very distracting as they are moving everywhere. Glory to God. He made man in his image. And it was that image that was God's strategy of reflecting his glory everywhere that man went. And we said that the responsibility and the assignment of of an image is to reflect another. Do you remember this? So mad when you look at man in the same way you can look at an image, and if that image is properly drawn, what do you see?

You can... You are able to tell who is on that image. That is the idea when God said, let us make man in our image. That when you look at man, you'll see something of God inside of man. That everything that man does points to God because man is a reflection of God. Now you look at man's wisdom, man's love, man's leadership, everything he does, and you can see God. And remember how we define glory when the nature, the character, the essence, the beauty, the excellence of God is revealed. So if the assignment is to reveal the essence and the beauty and the glory of God, are you with me? Yes, sir. The idea becomes, let us make man who...

Now we make them in our image and we now throw them, begin to reveal and show the world. This reflection. But the fall of man led to the deterioration of the image. When man fell, the image was corrupted. That means that something has happened to the internal council of God with respect to his glory being revealed in all the earth because the agency that should reveal the glory has now been corrupted. And we looked at the distortion, what the distortion of the image caused. Almost every problem you see on the earth today is caused by the distortion of the image. We also said that dominion is in the equation of man assignment, but that there is image before dominion. So every conversation we have about dominion that does not feature the image and the character of God in the life of the person that we are talking to about dominion, we are only doing the person more evil than we are doing them good. Every aspect of dominion.

So if I'm teaching somebody, for instance, financial power, and I'm gathering believers and I'm talking to them about prosperity, the question we should ask them is, are the people I'm talking to first in the image? Because it is image before any kind of dominion. If the image is not there, dominion will turn to oppression. Remember we said this? Yes. So when Psalms eight says, God crown man with glory and honor and place things under his feet. Then you look at the world and then you see the man dominated by sin, dominated by fear, dominated by shame, by corruption, by sickness, by decay, by death. You begin to understand the size of the fall. That even what man was given dominion over now started dominating man. And a lot of people are still under this distortion.

There is still this distortion. Look, this distortion happened for many years. So it has taken quite a lot of years for this distortion to be formed in society. So listen to me. The distortion that started first inside man entered into creation, entered entered into cities, entered into environment, entered into nations so that the distortion is not only happening inside men again. Entire communities have have been distorted. Entire nations have been distorted. And it is the will of God that is glory be seen in all the earth, in every mountain of influence, in every structure of influence. That everywhere there is man, everywhere policies have been decided, everywhere people are gathering, it is the will of God that his glory be revealed there. That something of God be revealed there.

That all flesh should see it. All flesh should see it. Romans chapter three verse 23 now says, and for all I've seen and I've fallen short of this glory. A man was created to reveal God, yet the man that was created to reveal God now misrepresents God. The man was created for dominion, yet the man that was created for dominion can now be dominated. He was created to bring order. Yet there is disorder in his own soul because now there is fear, there is shame, there is everything inside the soul of man that will prevent him from dominion. The reason why many people will not dominate is because their soul is distorted. I don't have time to talk about this. Their soul has become distorted.

Man was created to fill the earth as the image of God. Yet that man can fill the earth with systems, with culture, with ideas that contradict the one whose image is meant to bear because there's been a distortion. And that's the reason why the world can now look at those of us who came to represent God and then live with a wrong impression of God. I said yesterday that a father can make his children think that God is harsh because he himself is harsh. Why? Because the father is meant to be an image of God to his children. A pastor can make people think that God is manipulative because he manipulates people, rather he's claiming divine authority. Every time that the image behaves contrary to the one that it claims to represent, the image has become corrupted every time. So if the one that we claim to represent is not timid and there's timidity in your life, the image is corrupted. Listen, because the idea is that we become a representation of God.

That one... That has always been the original mandate. That has always been the original idea. Let us make man in our image. Let that man become our strategy. That's why God told man, be fruitful, multiply. It simply means as you multiply, let there be several images around the earth so that every corner of the earth is an image there representing God accurately. In how he leads, in how he prays, in how he fellowship, even if he's a businessman in the economy, building businesses, employing people, if he's an employee working on that someone, true is diligence, true is hard work, is seriousness. Are you still with me? True is intentionality.

You can see something of God in that man. When you see a man who is lazy for instance, that's a distortion. When you see a man who is lazy, that's a distortion. When you see a man, a husband, pitting his wife, a husband, pitting his wife, dominating the family, his idea of leadership is domination. Let me speak and let everywhere shake. Let me command everybody, and when it comes, the children cannot even stay in the parlor anymore. That is the idea of leadership. Anytime you look at a believer and you see characteristics and attributes you cannot find in God, the image is distorted. Are you with me? And it goes even into the outcomes of the believer's life.

Not just the character. It goes into the results the believer should bear because listen, your result only makes sense to the degree to which you are an image. The idea behind your life is as God lifts you, as you dominate. That's why image before dominion. So when a man is a perfect image of God, that means that his life is already revealing God. That means that when that man prospers, when that man makes money, if he builds a business, if he builds a ministry and he dominates his world and people know him, the one as he's getting popularity, as he's getting influence, his life can only be pointing to one person. Because he has first been an... You understand what I'm saying? So it makes now... It makes sense for that man to prosper because as he prospers, people is prosperity can serve the purpose of God.

It makes sense for that man to be great. That's why God can come to Abraham and tell Abraham, I will bless you. I will make your name great. That's God speaking to a man. And God is not afraid that, hey, if I make your name great, oh, now I'll go to my name. I thought God would say, it's my name that should be great. But God is coming to a man and God is telling a man, I will bless you. I will make your name great. When you study the life of Abraham, you will realize why God can stake his integrity on Abraham. Why God can commit himself to Abraham in that manner.

We'll say in your seed are the families of the earth be blessed. Why? How come God could commit himself to a man in that manner? And you will see the commitment Abraham has to God. God knew that when this one becomes great, all glory will come to me. God knows that how he receives glory is that something beautiful arises from your own life. And if you are a perfect image as you are rising, glory will come to him. That's why Jesus said, glorify now thy son, that thy son may glorify you. So the picture of glory is how glory comes to God is that glory comes to sons. But as you occupy your spaces of influence, as you begin to conquer, as you begin to have result that defy the norm, something is bringing glory to God.

But now we have insulted the grace of God. In fact, the idea is that when a believer says, by the grace of God, I will do this thing. By the grace of God, I have done this thing. The idea should be that it is because of the outcome that we see in the life of that believer and we saw supernatural outcomes and we ask him, how come you are doing this? And he says, oh, it's by grace. That's an image. That is how Paul used grace. But you know how we use grace now? We use grace to justify laziness. We employ a believer and we give the believer work to do and say, ah, Shola, we'll be able to finish this thing by God's grace.

And you already know what it means by that. So that you can't do it. Well, I I said by God's grace, you know. That's a distortion. The believer's identity should not bring mockery to God. The idea is we will make men in our image, scatter them around the world so that when we see believers in the sphere of influence, there should be something different about their life. Something is pointing men to God every time. If it's not their wisdom, it should be their lifestyle. If it's not their lifestyle, it should be the power of God. Do you understand what I'm saying?

But at every point in time, I should see something of God in the believer's life. So if you're a student, for instance, it makes sense that you should excel. That's the reason why you have to excel. It's not first about getting in first class, it's that you are an image. It means your life is writing a story. Men are leaving their house every day arguing different arguments about God. Is God real? Is God not real? Your life can show something. That's the idea.

That's how that's how God defends himself. How God defends himself. There will be evidences when you become an image, where there will be evidences that God will litter around your life. But as men begin to see those things, it will point them to the dimension of God you have seen. I know a young man, a man of God who was telling a story. When they give admission into philosophy, it was in 200 level, in four... In a 100 level you filled about six courses or so. In 200 level, filled about eight courses. In 300 level, he was given advice to withdraw. And they sent him out of the university.

The man told me he went to the mountain to pray because he couldn't understand why he was preaching the gospel and then he was having five carryovers, seven carryovers, nine carryovers until he was given advice to withdraw. He said, Apostle, as I waited on God, reading my Bible and studying, I saw the glory of God appear in my room and the dimension of God, he painted the picture he saw to me. I don't want to paint that picture to you. That you will not think that that is how God appears every time he meets men. I'm expecting that same image now appear to you. That's not the teaching. But he saw God appear to him. Is that not so? And he could describe what he saw. But at the end of it, God told him when he asked, who are you?

He said, God told him, I am Jehovah Academia. Listen. Listen. Listen. He stood up on that encounter and said, ah, if God is intelligent, there is nothing I cannot know. See, the man went from philosophy into science class. Listen to me. Listen to me. Went from philosophy in... He's a medical doctor now.

He graduated the best the best graduating student of his class. And when you ask him that I met Jehovah Academia. Now you might tell him that it was not... It's only another one I met him. I met him. Check my results from someone who was a typical failure, someone who failed everything and anything to someone whose result is now common now. Oh my God. Oh my God. He was... What...

He he told me, he said, man of God, when he was a student... He told a story. When he was a student, there was a particular course he did not know he was writing. So they woke him up and they told him you're writing that exam. He appeared there the day of the... It was a test fall before an exam. He appeared there the day of the test, and he had just two days before the exam. So he wrote the test and had two days to read before the exam, a course that was treaded. But he didn't know he was taking the course because it was a borrowed course. But he saw his name in the list of people writing, and they called him.

So when they called him, it was it was an 100 level, he said. So when they called him that he was writing he was writing this test this this exam this test and this exam with people, all his friends, I used to call him started laughing and mocking him. The results came out and he beat all of them hands down. The ones who were calling him Preyo would now come and meet him and say, something is wrong. He said, I know what is wrong. You don't know God. The only thing wrong is that you don't know God. The name of God should not be a mockery. People should not look at believers and we bring insult to the name of God because we are meant to be representatives. Madame Gandhi said, I like your Jesus, but I don't like your Christians.

It is because we have been... We have become poor representatives. Our colleagues in our place of work should see something different about our lives. If we are doing business together, there should be something. This business giant, I wouldn't mention his name now, was conducting... Is a consultant, and banks call him, industries call him to come and give consultation, all these things for them. And they called him in a particular bank. The bank was about to fold up. So when they called him, he appeared before the bank and he joined their board meeting. They showed him all their problems that they've been having for the past ten years.

They've been dragging it, dragging it, but now they can no longer find a solution, so they wanna just close-up the bank. It would be a massive loss to everybody. People will lose their money, but there's nothing they can do anymore. We've gotten to the last junction point, and they say, you know what? Somebody said, let's let's call this man, and he got there. Some of you might some of you might know what I'm talking about. As he got there, he sat down. He's not even a man of God. Just a believer in the marketplace. As he got there, the man said he took all the problems they are facing, everything they explained to him.

He went to his house. He studied everything, read everything, and he's a consultant. So he knew what he's he's he's he's a doctor actually. He's a lawyer as well, but he's a master of his field. So he went there and he studied everything that we were going through and truly there was no way out. The solution was to close out. So he was going to tell them the following morning that we're gonna close out this thing. Went to sleep. Was sleeping. Started praying.

He started praying. The Holy Spirit prompted him to go and study his Bible. He stood up to read his Bible. As he was reading the Bible, the Bible has a map. That map has the missionary journey of Paul, all the places Paul visited. He said as he was looking at the map, drawing the places that Paul visited, what he was seeing was a graph. And the graph was showing him precisely how the company will come out of that bankruptcy. He ran from where he was and started writing down like a madman. He got to the board meeting the following morning, presented what he had found to them. Everybody was marveled to stoop up.

They looked at him and they said, no. Something is something is wrong here. We've had professionals sat down with this team and they didn't see it. What did you do? Said, well, I just studied. I read and I... And this is what I came up with and all of that. But okay. Thank you very much. And then they paid him his money.

When they were leaving, one of the board chair committee chairman called him. The board chairman rather called him to his to his side and held his hand and asked him, which proclamity do you belong to? You say, I know I'm a Christian. I haven't done that thing. He Is that we know people that are Christians now, and there are plenty. Tell me, don't don't don't... Even me, I'm a Christian. Let's tell ourselves the truth. Which... Tell me.

Tell me which which one do you belong to? Because me too, belong to one, but it has... Oh, you die your whole one is more powerful. To which one? Now this man did not heal the sick. He didn't cast out demons. That's why I said we have to redefine what we call glory. What they saw in that bathroom that day was glory. What that man was doing was pointing men to Jesus. It was wisdom in the marketplace, but the wisdom could only compromise us.

That was what the kings of Egypt saw in Daniel. My God. Daniel was relevant across four dispensations. It has nothing to do with being a man of God. My God. My God. So what happens when a teacher carries glory and he goes into the classroom to go and teach and there's glory on his life. What happens? What happens when a lecturer carries glory? What happens when a doctor carries glory?

You can see now that this thing has nothing to do with making men fall under the power. No. It it does not it. That is happening here because that's the one I carry. So it must happen. So the sick must be healed. Your breast must be delivered. You come here tomorrow and you would see mighty things happening in this place. But in the dimension of God, your life must reveal to your own life. There is something of God that men must see.

That's why you are alive. You can't be an empty shed, walking over now, and you say I'm a Christian. You can't The intention of God is that men might see him. And when they look at your life, your life becomes The idea is when they look at your life. I can't teach my teaching, but I will just continue. Listen, let me speak by the spirit. Listen, Listen, God saw... Sit down, sit down, down. When God saw that the first intention that he had been terminated and that Adam had fallen and the image has become distorted. And because of the distortion, man had now welcomed every single thing that is not in God.

The flesh awoke in man. I showed you yesterday how that man was thinking on the same frequency as God. Do you remember what I showed you? That God brought the honeymask to man to see what he would name them, to see what he would name them, almost like an examiner marking his creation. That how how much of an image are you? And God was thoroughly impressed. That guy was really an image. But remember he had a soul. He had a wheel. It wasn't the robot.

Do still with me? Are you still with me? On one faithful occasion, that man entertained the conversation with the serpent. To God, long story short, the man fell. Lord told that man that in the day you eat of this fruit, you will die. Instantly, the moment the man fell, repercussions began immediately. For the first time, man and God were not thinking the same way for the first time. All the while, you know when you are speaking to someone and after speaking to them, it's as though they can tell what's in your mind. That that you are talking to the person and the person completes what you're about to say before you even finish saying it. Thank you.

Before you even finish saying it. That was how man and God was... Were appointing. The guy was a perfect image. How many of you... I don't know how many of you have ever had your portraits drawn before. And the person that drew it did a perfect job. That you looked at the thing and you were seeing yourself and you were smiling. That's a lifeless image. Stay with me.

What brought smile to God was the degree to which that image could represent him. The first anomaly was that the moment man fell, God came like he would normally come. Let us fellowship in intimacy and look at what the image said. Image was hiding. God went to their usual meeting point and Adam was not there. Remember, you remember what Psalm eight said, you crowned him with glory and honor. So Adam had a crown. There was a crown on him. There was a throne that he sat down. It was on that throne that himself and God would come and fellowship.

But when he fell, everything fell. So God went to the provision of authority as a place man and he couldn't find man there. It was a strange occupant that was there. That's why God asked Adam, where are you? It's not because God did not know where he was. Remember, God is all knowing. So the all knowing God could not come into the garden and now lose his knowledge of where he was. He was telling man that there is a place I've put you. How come I've come to where we should fellowship, but you're not there? Adam, where are you?

So you read the bible and some things appear in scripture, you wonder why. Because there was a transaction that happened when man fell. That glory, that honor, man exchanged it. Everything Lucifer had always wanted, Lucifer had got it the day man fell. Everything man had was everything Lucifer wanted. You know, a lot of men of God believe that Lucifer wanted to be God. He wanted to fight God. He never had that intention. Go and read your Bible. What he said is, will arise, exalt my throne.

I will be like God. So how did God make man? In his likeness. So what Lucifer wanted was everything man had. And it was a mockery. You know why it was a mockery? Because have you seen the description of how Lucifer was made? If beauty was a person, Lucifer was beauty. Don't mind all those things you find in your story books where they will draw one guy with horn and with this one. That's not how that guy was.

That guy was beauty personified. The bible says he was made with hornic stones, jasper stones, burial stones. The bible says his makeup was beautiful. There were strings, instruments, timbrels, and symbols in his body. When Lucifer walked, there was music playing. The guy was a walking worship material. I don't have time to tell you about Lucifer today. So if that kind of a man and and the name Lucifer means custodian of light, that means even his name is powerful. His name reflected his office, that he had access to mysteries in heaven. But there were things that this guy had that started...

I don't know what entered him that started making him feel I can now... I can be to... I can be like God now. And the moment that thing came to his heart, God spotted it. Unfair. I don't want to show you what... Worry that happened. Mentality of many people, how you were taught is that God and Lucifer had a fight in heaven. That was not what happened. Lucifer is too small for God to stand up and fight.

I hear a lot of atheists saying God and Lucifer are fighting. Men are the pawns. What ignorance? God, the creator of heaven and earth. Nah. Nah. Are you with me? Let's leave all of that. When the guy fell, God now came down to where he fell because revelation says, war unto the inhabitant of the earth. Lucifer has fallen.

I'm not going to follow that. God now came down. His fear brought about a judgment upon the earth then. And when God came down to come and recreate the earth, God found darkness everywhere. God found void. God found emptiness. God made everything beautiful. You know the creation the creation story really? Or you call the creation story? In the beginning, God created the heavens on the earth.

Earth was that human void. Darkness was everywhere. There light. All of that. And when God was done, Lucifer was there. He was on the earth. Himself man told of the angels in heaven that fell with him. He was there. He was watching. Wasn't the only one.

The morning stars too were there. I don't have time to show you this. Stay with me. Didn't say anything. He was just looking. And then when God will now boil everything, but now that they're forming dust, crafting dust, and putting it together like like like like he was molding his statue. As if I was looking. What will happen now? What's he doing? All the following years were dead, they didn't know what he's doing, I don't know what he's doing.

You know what he's doing. And this is this. All of a sudden, God breathed his life into that dust. And out of dust, skeleton started forming. Out of dust, arteries and veins, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, muscles, cells, organs, they're forming out of dust. But Godama's tissue was closing up. Skin was covering up. What is this magic? What is sorcery? What is that?

And then he now saw God again. Now made that man in his image and in his likeness, the highest insult because this was everything Lucifer desired. And God told that man, now represent me on earth. Represent me on earth. Be my fierce representative. But everywhere you enter, let men see my glory. As if I was looking and said, want that thing. I want it. I want it. And because he was a fallen angel, he knows the laws of God more than these newly created beings.

So he understood what laws he can manipulate. What did he bank on? He listened very well to what God told him. In the day you eat of this fruit, you will die. He said, that's all I need. I don't need to go and fight this one. I will lose because it's the image of God. But I can make him fight his maker. So he comes to man and says, Does God really see? The mistake man made was to enter into a conference call with Lucifer.

Man should not have picked that call. Man should have said get out. But man started talking, you know, God, God, not really saying. He said, we can eat of this one or we cannot we can we can eat of everything or this one, we cannot eat of it. And Lucifer said, don't mind him. He knows. By the day you eat of this fruit, all will happen is that you will now be like God. That's that's funny. Like God? You mean even man did not even know what he was?

You now understand why some eight said they know not. Neither do they understand. They walk on in darkness. The foundations of the earth are out of course. For I have said, ye are Gods and you are children of the most high God. They did not know. They believed the guy over God to show you that he did not even know God. They believed the guy over God and they fell. At the moment they fell, that disruption happened. Suddenly their eyes opened, they looked at themselves and they saw that they were naked.

Shame that was never... They didn't even know how shame felt like. All of a sudden, a strange feeling crept up his soul. He said, what is this? Why am I naked? Someone that could be open and not ashamed. Wonder that song says, with you Lord, I can be open and have no shame. The moment they saw they were naked, they went to go and cut figs. As they cut figs, they covered themselves. God now came and said, Adam, where are you?

God could not find Adam. When Adam came, he came holding leaves to cover himself. God said, Ah, what is that? Died because I was naked and covered myself. God said, I had Adam. This is not what I would have done. And for the first time, man wasn't thinking like God. God collected the leaves from him. God slaughtered a cattle. God was the first person that offered the sacrifice.

He killed... Glory to God. He killed a cattle for man. Slaughtered a cattle, a sheep for man. He was the first person in that action that prophesied Jesus is coming. What God was showing man is that in the same way that blood has been shed and the skin of this animal has covered you, a time is coming when this will happen. I will send is my son and his God will be shed. And as God cut scotter the sheep, God used the skin of the sheep to cover man. On that day henceforth, the degradation began. Man couldn't think like God.

He could still think. The only problem is he couldn't think like God. He couldn't represent God again. The image was gone. There was now fear. There was no self esteem. All these things that hold people down. And when they are meant to rise, all these as good as people give is a distortion of the image. It's a distortion of the image. Mind, do you know one of the greatest problem was how man now think?

Because as God's image, man could only think God sized things. It means smallness of mind is a distortion of the image. That means if I'm starting a business and I'm thinking about my business in a way, my mind is small. I've met many men of God who are fierce in scriptures but the image is still distorted. You can sell. They are believers but the image is still distorted. There can be a believer and the image is still distorted. I will show you. Stay with me. Stand Stand with Stand See, the problem Nigeria has and a lot of nations in the world have is that we have Christians in our numbers, but not many have an image restored.

In fact, we have a lot more in seats of dominion. There are governors that are believers, senators that are believers. They are the ones stealing the most. We don't have a shortage of believers, and that's the reason why you go on the Internet, people are mocking us. Especially you pray every day. Why is your prayer? Shut up. I want you in this conversation. Do you understand what I'm saying? And the reason is because if not realized that there was an intention in the mind of God when God made man, that the strategy that God will use to reveal his glory was man.

And when man failed, God now used several other strategies in the old testament. You see, for instance, God started prophesying that I will be with you once again. I will come to your midst once again. And in typifying this, he used examples of the temple. He told the Israelites to build a tabernacle. Is that much so? And when they finished building the the tabernacle, the Bible says the glory of God filled that tabernacle. So that was when you saw fire and all of these things came. All these beautiful things came. Glory manifested.

Tabernacle was filled. And those guys those guys were so... They were so confident. They thought that they were the next best thing after sliced bread. And the reason is because no other nation was seeing the glory of God in that manner. And they did not know that that is not even the original intention of God. They didn't know that that was only a passing glory. That was a feeding glory. That's not what God intended. That is a makeshift arrangement.

That will do that one because there's no other option. Oh God. You understand what I'm saying? And that temple carried glory. Everywhere they went, you see fire, you see cloud, you see lightning. And because of those things, believers now attribute glory to fire, light, to lightning, to cloud because that was what was manifesting when the temple was built. Are you with me? But when Adam was in Eden, there's no record that said there was fire and cloud and lightning. Stay with me. I'm going somewhere.

Solomon built his own temple. The priest gathers to minister. The same thing happens. Fire, lightning, cloud, everything. Same manifestation because God was saying, I'm going to once again dwell amongst you. I have to show you this. I'm going to what now? And the prophets were prophesying it. Everywhere you see scriptures, you see the prophets prophesying the same thing. The same thing.

So in Isaiah 40 verse five is not where it begins. Actually, verse one to verse two is where it begins. Are you still with me? Verse one to verse two is where it begins. It says comfort. Yes. Comfort my people says God. Says your God. Next verse. Speak comfort Jerusalem and cry out to her that our warfare is ended.

Our iniquities pardoned. Now this is Jerusalem, but God is speaking prophetically of a people. Are you with me? God is comforting Jerusalem. I wanna go into the history of this. One time. When we come there, you find verse three the same thing, the voice of the one crying in the wilderness. Let's read it. Verse two. Let's go contextually.

Speak comfort, Jerusalem, and cry out to her that our warfare is ended, our iniquity is pardoned, for she has received from the Lord's hand the Lord's hands double for all her sins. Do you remember this scripture in the New Testament? Verse three, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. So this is speaking about preparation. That listen, listen, I know you have had to live with distortion for long. I know you've had to live with the consequences of the fall for long. I know you've had to live with makeshift arrangements for long. But don't worry. Comfort everyone who have had to lost some, do something. But there's a voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the will of the Lord.

So this is God telling Isaiah, tell my people not to cry anymore. Tell my people that I'm gonna do something about the problem. Preparation has begun. God is coming. He says, prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the desert a highway for our God. So God is coming and he's coming by himself. Look at the next verse. It says, every valley shall be exalted. So men thought that the glory had been lost. But don't worry.

Preparation is being made. Every valley shall be exalted. Every mountain and hill shall be brought low. The crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places smooth. All of this is a language of preparation. What this is basically saying is there is nothing that will stand in the way of the coming of God. Are you with me? The crooked places will be made straight. Why? Because God is coming.

It says prepare the will of the Lord. So part of the preparation is the valley being exalted, is the crooked pillar being made straight. Are you with me? Because God is coming and his glory... So verse five now says, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. So how will the glory of God be revealed? It will no longer be tossed with images and statues. God is saying, no. We've tried that before and the project was a failure. What will do to restore my glory now is that I will come by myself.

Are you with me? The glory of the Lord shall be revealed. When you study Isaiah 35, it carried the same idea too. The same idea. It speaks of the wilderness blossoming, the weak hands being strengthened, feeble knees being made firm, the fearful heart being told be strong do not fear. Behold, your God will come. Your God will come. It was a prophecy Isaiah was telling. Then he speaks of blind eyes being opened. Yes.

Our deaf being opened. Them legs walking. This... All this scripture, follow my thought pattern here. Are you with me? You see, Moses prophesying the same thing in Numbers 14 verse 21. In fact, it is God speaking. God was speaking to Moses, for truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. This is God speaking. Habakkuk two and verse 14, the Bible says the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

This is God speaking. As long as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. So God is saying, you can look at the earth right now and you can see false images, distorted systems, broken representations, broken homes as a result of broken representations, Broken systems as a result of broken representations. Are you with me? But God still says that even as you look at all of that, understand that there is coming in knowledge of his glory that will fill the earth. And I like the way Abako puts it. Abako says, the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, not God will make himself glorious or God will become glorified. He says the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. Because there is already glory, but there's no knowledge. The health is filled with many ideas about God.

Religion has ideas about God. Culture has ideas about God. Pain can give a man ideas about God. Many people that you call atheists today are only atheists because of the pain they experienced. They are disappointed in God or a man of God. A man of God because rightly so, a man of God is meant to be a representative of God. Maybe they were hurt. Maybe they have an expectation and it was not met. Maybe they were wrongly treated. They believe for something it did not happen and then they developed hot and become heavies.

Most of them, not all of them, but most of them are like that. And they formed wrong conceptions about God and God is saying no. Don't worry. This will not continue forever. Are you with me? This will not continue forever. There is coming a revelation that will not depend on man's distorted imagination of him. Zechariah chapter two from verse 10 to verse 11, look at what it says, sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion, for behold, I am coming. This is God speaking. And I will dwell in your midst.

This is God speaking. Verse 11 says, many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day. So this will not be for the Jews alone. It wouldn't be for Israel alone. Many nations will partake of it. It is simply Isaiah said, all flesh shall see it. I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. I am coming. Exodus 25 verse eight.

And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. So the first way it came was through a tabernacle sanctuary and that sanctuary was posting a passing glory. I already said that. Are you with me? Stay with me. So God begins to announce, I am coming. I will dwell amongst you. And how will he come? John chapter one, I want you to see this from verse one to verse five. Then we'll do verse 14.

In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God. Next verse. He was in the beginning with God. Next verse. All things were made through Him and without Him nothing was made that was made. Next verse. In him was life and the life was the light of men. Next verse. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it. Who is the Bible talking about here?

Who is the Bible talking about here? Say it loud and glare. Verse 14. Verse 14. I want us to read this together. One, two, three, go. I want you to pay attention to the language that John is using here. The word translated dwelt there carries the idea of tabernacling, pitching his tent among us. So John is taking a word that would immediately remind a Jewish reader of the tabernacle of old because that was the same language that was used for tabernacle. Is that much so?

Of the place where God used to dwell among his people and is now applying that that same language to Jesus. And under Moses, they built a tabernacle and the glory of God filled that tabernacle. Are you with me? Under Solomon, they built a temple and the glory of God filled that temple. John now says, the word became flesh and tabernacled among us so that it did not need an earthly building to tabernacle. The word tabernacle. The word became flesh. Are you with me? Tabernacled among us and immediately he says, we beheld his glory. That means that the dwelling place of glory has shifted from the temple, from tabernacle, now to Jesus because the same thing that happened when the temple was erected is that they beheld the glory.

It's the same thing happening now when the world became flesh. They looked at him and they beheld his glory. Are you with me? So the dwelling place of glory has now moved from buildings into a person. And I want you to remember something we established earlier when we're talking about Moses yesterday in Exodus 33 verse 18. When Moses prayed, please show me your glory. You remember that? And God now responded to Moses saying, I will make my goodness pass before you and I will proclaim the name of the Lord to you. Then when God now fulfilled that request in Exodus 35, and I showed you this, that Moses was limited because of the dispensation he was under. So he could not see all there was to God.

So what God did was he made his goodness pass before him and therefore the dimensions he could not see. What did he do? He proclaimed it in his name. Are you with me? What did he proclaim in Exodus 35? The Lord passed before him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Moses asked for glory. God answered by saying, I'm going to show you my goodness and for dimensions you cannot see, I will proclaim them in a name. Then God now proclaimed his name to Moses and God says, merciful and gracious. Go back to John one fourteen and watch this.

Go back to Exodus, sorry, 34 verse five. Verse six, merciful and gracious, long suffering, abounding in goodness and truth. Now go back to John one fourteen. So in John one fourteen, John is now saying, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And now we beheld his glory, the glorious of the begotten of the father, full of grace and truth. So Moses had who he was. John said we saw it. In other words, what was to Moses a name became to John flesh. Do you understand what I'm saying? What was to Moses a name that God had to use to introduce himself, John is now saying that same thing that was a name that was proclaimed now became flesh, dwelt amongst us and we beheld his glory.

Are you still with me? John chapter one verse 18 now continues that no one has seen God at any time. The only begotten son who is in the bosom of the father, he has declared him. The word translated declared is from the Greek word It carries the idea of explaining, to make known, to interpret, to narrate something so that it can be understood. It is from that word that we get the idea of exegesis. So when God says Jesus has declared the father, he's saying that Jesus has explained God. Stay with me. Jesus is the eccentricities of the father. The invincible God has interpreted himself in the Son. Are you still with me?

That means if you want to know what God is like, you cannot begin with your experience. If you cannot begin with your pain, you can't begin with what you went through. Are you with me? You can't even begin with what somebody else told you about God. Don't even begin with the behavior of people who claim to represent him. No. You look at Jesus because Jesus is God's own explanation of himself. That means if your experience tells you something about God that contradicts what you see in Christ, so experience what is wrong. If religion has painted an image of God to you that does not look like Jesus, religion, what is wrong? If human beings have represented God in a way that contradicts his nature revealed in Christ, then the problem is with the representation, not with God.

Are you with me? That's why God says, you know what? Enough distortion. I'm coming myself. And when the word became flesh, the word now became the fullness of the deity. It was God revealed in a man. It was a 100% God, a 100% man. It became the... Oh my God. Jesus now says in John chapter 14 verse seven, he says, if you have known me, if you have known me, if you have known me, you would have known my father also.

If you had known me, you would have known my father also. And from now on, you'll know him and have seen him. Why? Because you have seen me. Do you understand what I'm saying? What level of conversation? It was Philip that asked Jesus, show us the father. Philip was the one that asked, show us the father and it is sufficient for us. So Jesus was now replying to Philip question that, you want to see the father. You don't know anything.

If you have known me, you have known the father. You know, a lot of... I saw a video where somebody was trying to disprove the fact that Jesus is God. It was a Muslim that was trying to disprove the fact that Jesus is God. And then he went to a Muslim... He went to believers and was asking them, Jesus himself said that no man knoweth the time of the coming, of the return of the son except the father. So he is now saying that Jesus is saying that even himself does not know except the father. Do you understand that? That means that Jesus is not all knowing. He didn't know everything.

It would mean that Jesus is not God because Jesus is showing ignorance or the misunderstanding. Are you with me? Because in this context, Judah was speaking about the day of his return. In Matthew, he speaks about that same day and described it like a wedding. In the Jewish culture, it is the father that has the responsibility of declaring when the wedding will hold. It's not because the groom does not know or the groom does not have the responsibility of declaring. So Jesus was not saying or speaking in that he does not know. He's saying it's not his responsibility to declare because he was speaking to people who were Jews. So this one understood precisely what he was saying. When he says it is my father and I'm the son.

Because there are three there are there are there are three persons but yet one God. So Jesus said, if you have known me, you have known the father also. He who has seen me has seen the father also. Think about that. Thank you, Lord Jesus. In Hebrews chapter one verse three, the Bible says that the sun is the brightness of his glory. The sun. The sun. It starts from verse two by the way. Let's start from verse two.

Verse two says, are the little last days spoken to us by his son. See that? Let's go to verse three. So it's speaking about the son who being the brightness of his glory. So the first expression of that glory was man. That's why he made man in his image. Man failed. Man failed miserably. When man failed, God said, you know what? We will not handle all that responsibility again to man.

What I will do is I will come by myself. And he came as son. Do understand what I'm saying? That son now became the brightness of his glory and the express image of his present. So what man was meant to exemplify, Jesus came and now exemplified it so that if you saw Jesus in the same way if you saw Adam, you should have singled. What Adam could not do and failed him, Jesus now came as the last Adam and exemplified perfectly, became the express image of his person. Are you with me? The express image. The brightness of his glory, the radiance of his glory, shining of his glory. Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God.

Hebrews call him the exact representation of God's being. So when God wanted to make himself known, finally and decisively, he sent his son. Colossians chapter one verse 15 says, Jesus is the image of the invincible God. You see it again there. He is the image of the invincible God, the firstborn over all creation. Humanity was meant to make the invincible God visible within creation. When the image became distorted, God now came by himself. Now Paul looks at Jesus and Paul calls Jesus the image of the invincible God. Are you still with me? The eternal word of God now became flesh.

God now entered into human history that allows men to be able to see him, to hear him, to touch him, to encounter the revelation of his nature in the human life. That is why in John chapter two, after the Jews asked him for a sign, Jesus says destroy this temple and in three days, I will rip it up. And they thought he was talking about the physical building. But John now explains in verse 21 that he was speaking about the temple of his body. They thought he was talking about a physical building because in their own time, that was where God was dwelling. Now Jesus points to his person and calls his person the temple. So that in the same way you now saw the temple of old, every manifestation of glory you saw in the temple of old now exist in Jesus, That and more. That means the temple of old can no longer be your reference for glory. Are you with me? Jesus now has to be your reference for glory.

Second Corinthians four verse six puts it this way. It is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Paul says the knowledge of the glory of God is in the face of Jesus Christ. That means if you want to know what the glory of God looks like, look at Christ. If you wanna know what God's nature looks like, look at Christ. And this now corrects what many of us now used to typify glory. When your understanding of glory is when something dramatic happens, people fall under the power to say that there is glory. There's a cloud. There is glory. Are you with me?

If somebody sees fire, then there is glory. Again, those manifestations can be genuine. Are you with me? Just like it was in tabernacle. They are evidences. Are you with me? They are evidences. But when somebody coming and saying, where is the cloud of glory? Like it was in the days of old. Your reference is wrong because you are referencing a tabernacle that no longer exists.

The cloud of glory is now in Jesus. If Jesus is not sufficient for you, you have missed out. John is saying, when you look at Jesus sitting down beside a well, speaking to a broken Samaritan woman who have had many husbands and you see that conversation happening, you are looking at glory. You can look at Jesus touching a man that society has called unclean and he heals that man of his uncleanness. You are looking at glory. You can look at Jesus starting in front of a woman who is caught in the very heart of adultery And Jesus is refusing both to condemn her and to endorse her sin. When you see that, you are looking at glory. You can look at Jesus standing before a crowd who had not eaten in three days. And he's saying we can't leave these people like this, and there's compassion in his heart. When you see that, you are looking at glory.

I'm hoping to correct something in your mind. You can look at Jesus standing at the level of his tomb and he's weeping because of their own belief. You are looking at glory. When he stands in front of the waging storm and he commands the wheel to be still and creation responds to the authority of his maker, you are looking at glory. When he speaks to demons and he stands in front of legions and he looks at them and they start begging and saying, don't send us out of this place. Send us into the pigs. And he looks at them and says, go. And immediately, 12,000 legions take out instantly. That is glory. You know, that has always been my reference for casting out devils.

My reference for casting out devils has never been what I see a man of God do. I didn't say Jesus do drama, I don't like drama. It was one word he said. He said, go. The legion is a minimum of 12,000. 12,000 demons said, yes, sir. And checked out instantly. There was no drama. When I'm casting out devil and the devil is now and he's doing wonder... No.

You are... Warn yourself. Warn yourself. Born yourself. His glory I brought, but I didn't bring anointing. Somebody nagles at me and say, Apostle, why did you say that? Just forget. Don't... It's not too deep, please. It's not too deep.

So when Christ speaks with authority, the authority of God is being demonstrated. When Christ answers with wisdom, the wisdom of God is being displayed. Do you understand what I'm saying? So in John chapter two verse 11, the Bible says about the wedding at Canaan. This beginning of signs Jesus did in Canaan of Galilee and manifested his glory and his disciples believed in him. Don't call it a sign. And then he says through that sign, Jesus manifested his glory. That the miracle that happened on that day was not just an empty display of power, it was revelation. It told you something about the one performing it. The sign was pointing back to God.

Are you with me? So when Jesus heals the sick, the healing is revealing something about him. When he reveals the dead, the resurrection power is revealing something about him. When he multiplies bread, the provision is revealing something about him. Do you understand what I'm saying? Every miracle that you see is not carelessly being done. It is revealing something because it's the perfect expression of God. Because as Jesus was approaching the cross in John chapter 12 and verse 23, the Bible says the hour has come that the son of man could be what? Then immediately after this, Jesus now begins speaking about a grain of wheat falling to the ground and dying. He said that unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone.

But if it dies, it produces much grain. Jesus is moving towards death and he calls that moment of his death an hour of glorification. Then in John chapter 13 verse 31, this was when Judas was about to betray him. Jesus says, now the son of man is glorified and God is glorified in him. Think about that. Betrayal has just begun. In fact, he was not even about to betray him. He had already betrayed him. And just as stood as betrayed him, Jesus said, the son of man is glorified. This was his death approaching.

The cross is approaching. Shame, suffering, death, everything was approaching. And Jesus speaks of glory. That means if your definition of glory is only brightness and power and spectacular manifestations, then the cross will confuse you. But when you understand glory as a revelation of who God is, the cross begins to become one of the highest revelations of glory in scripture you would ever find. Because at the cross, you see the holiness of God because it shows his lack of condolence for sin. At the cross, you see the justice of God because at the cross, sin is judged. To see the mercy of God because judgment falls upon the one who was standing in our place, not the one who has sinned. That's the mercy of God. At the cross, see the love of God.

Because the Bible says, for God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. And he sent that son to come and die for our sins. And as he was on his way to the cross, what he was saying is the time has come for the son to be glorified. That means that journey was an expression of who God is. You would look at the story of the cross and all you will be seeing is God. Dimensions of God revealed across that story. You see the wisdom of God there. Because the Bible says if the prince of this world had known, they would not have crucified him. So the devil was matching him to the cross thinking that he was winning victory. Whereas in God's own wisdom, that was a strategy for Satan's defeat.

That that thing that Lucifer stole from man, it was by the avenue of the cross. This is wisdom. Think about it. Think about it. Lucifer thought this guy that oppressed us, this guy that did this much damage, this guy that everyone we have tormented for long, he was just shaking everywhere. Now we have finally gotten. Crucible thought, in fact, the devil the devil came by himself to come and do the same thing he did he did for Adam. He said, let's make an exchange. I can see that it's as though you are the one that that that that I recognize you. There was one on...

I recognize you. Come and bow to me. And if you can bow to me, see all this glory you want. All the kingdom of this world, I will offer them to you. You don't have to. And Jesus said, what do you what do you think you are joking with? That's why we didn't send the man. That's why I came by myself. He didn't know. He didn't know.

Jesus said to him, It is written. Everywhere Adam felt that, Jesus was replying, It is written. It is written. It is written. When Lucifer saw that we could not, we don't have this one. He said, don't worry. We know how to handle you. He now went and went to go and plan everything. Enter the people whose daughters he healed and enter those ones who will now push them to go and kill him. So much so they brought a Bokoala member and they brought Jesus and they said choose one that we will release.

This one, he has raped their daughters, stolen from them, killed some of them. They said, it's the Assassin we want. Give us the Assassin. Give us the Assassin. And Jesus stood there and said, all I ever did was love you. And as they were beating him and flogging him, what Jesus said was the glory of God was being revealed. That that that the fullness of the manifestation of who God was, He got to the cross and they hung him. They came and he was mocking and saying, is this the king of the Jews? I can imagine them speaking on him, saying, shame on you And all the hearts of hell were waiting in hell to receive it. When they are done with you and they conquered your body, will now receive your spirit and continue to deal with you here.

Think you think you are wise. He didn't know that that was glory. He didn't know that in his wisdom, his father, his son, and his spirit. He didn't know that even though son has become the world made flesh, father and spirit were still there. That guy didn't have that wisdom. He didn't know that the father cannot be in all iniquity but the spirit can. He didn't know. That was why in Genesis, when the bible says darkness filled the entire earth, it was the spirit that was hovering in darkness. He didn't know that the spirit has the capacity to hover in darkness, to enter darkness. He didn't know.

He didn't know. He thought he was being smart. So at the cross, you see the glory of God revealed. You see the wisdom of God revealed. That your enemies can be planning something, and they think they've gotten you. You now see what the Bible says? Why did the heathings rage? And the people imagine a venting against the Lord and his anointed. Why do they plot a venting? He says the king of the earth set themselves.

The rulers take counsel against together against the Lord and his anointed. Saying, next verse, let us break their bones in pieces and cast away their cords from us. And verse verse verse four says, he who sits in heaven shall laugh. Hear me. This guy thought he was wise. Unbelievable. I hope you know that the Bible said the soul that sins, it shall die. Jesus was carrying the sin of the whole world. I thought, I forgot what it's part of. Go and get the vision of last year's manifest conference.

There's something I missed, but it is there. He was carrying the sin of the whole world because there is something that happened that made him carry sin because he was not sin. He knew no sin, but there was something that happened that made him now become sin. There was an exchange that took place. That was the mystery of the last supper. When he gave his disciples the first steak, this is my body broken. What was happening was an exchange. He was taking on humanity and he was giving them himself. Are you with me? That is why it was after the last supper that Jesus carried sin that even himself became distorted.

That's why to now start seeing emotions. Hebrews, for instance, says he was sorrowful. Sorrow, Jesus expressed image. At that point, he had carried sin. Look at this. And he took with him Peter two sons of Zebedee and he began to be sorrowful. One thing had happened. At another point he was afraid. These were distortions. Give me Hebrews where the Bible says he cried with a loud voice.

It sweat. It came as thick as blood. I think it's Hebrews. Give me that scripture. Hebrews five. Yes. Hebrews five. Give me the KJV. Okay. I'm ready to get everybody.

Ask Jesus. When Jesus hung on the cross, it was sin that was hanging. When Jesus looked at the father and said, My father, my father, why have you forsaken me? That was a picture of humanity. What has happened to humanity up until that point? That for the first time in history, the Father turned His back on the Son. The Bible that he gave up his spirit and the moment he gave up his spirit, he landed in hell because that is where every soul that sins goes to. He did not sin, he was sin. To all the anger of humanity was on him. So he went to hell representing humanity and humanity's sin, judgment, everything.

I can imagine all the demons in hell thinking that they have gotten it. I can imagine Lucifer parading and saying,. All of them came with their scales and lashes. And all of a sudden, like a sound of a rushing mighty wind, They heard power from afar. As they were tormenting him, they said, is that? The bible says if the same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead, that means Jesus did not raise himself. God is spirit. Now says, it's my time. It's my time. Called the spirit enter into the depth of hell.

And in hell, the spirit and the sun entered once again. The moment that When he took back the keys of Hades, It disowned principalities and powers. The Bible says, he made a public show of them. That means he made a public spectacle. Give me energy. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe. He's... Did he leave one behind? He stripped all the... That's the reason why I don't like that teaching where they tell you that there are there are some high ranking demons that if you have not gotten to a point, you cannot cast...

Are they not part of this ones? Were they on holiday when he was stripping these ones? Oh my god. The bible says he stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham... Do you know why he called it sham authority? Because they stole it. It is sham. Listen. Imagine them naked through the streets. He was parading them up and down.

He held Lucifer like this. You know why? So that every spirit will know that I have become glorious. I have defeated. The victory is mine. And when he took it on the third day, when the assignment was done, he woke up. He woke up on the third day. And when he woke up, they wrapped him. They wrapped his body and his head with lining. The moment he woke up, he took the lining that they used to wrap his head and he and he folded it clean and dropped it.

The one that used to wrap his body, he left it there. Is it because he did not know how to wrap? The Bible says when they got to the tomb, they found that the napkin that was used to wrap his head had been folded cleanly and dropped. But the one that was wrapping his body was just left there. Why? He was telling them even as he rose that the work of the head is done. The body is still being perfected. The body still has an assignment. Body still has a responsibility. In as much as the head is complete, the head is done, the head is finished, there is still an assignment for the body.

So the folding in the Jewish culture, the folding of the napkin means you are done eating. Napkins are folded when the work is done. So what Jesus was saying is, I have completed my own work. My work is finished. The body was left there to show you that your own work has just begun. That's the... You see? Because now that's what we have to look at tomorrow now. Because because Jesus, even though he's still alive, has gone to be with the father. But Colossians now calls us, say we've been predestined.

We'll be conformed because that's how the repairing now happens. That Jesus, who is now the express image, has now become the pattern man for us. So that as we now begin to look at him, as we begin to look at him, our own image too is not being repaired. That's why second Corinthians three verse 18 now says, what we all with unveiled face beholding us in a mirror, the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image. Let's talk about that one tomorrow. Let's let's let's talk about that one tomorrow. Because that one that one is how we must enter power. You will remember in Psalm one one zero. Psalm one one zero verse one says, the Lord said to my Lord. So there are two Lords you are seeing.

God the Father, God the Son. Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. Till till means that you will not always be sitting down here. Till until is a statement that shows that there is something you will still do. So if I say wait here till, that means you will not only be waiting there. Are you with me? So sit at my right hand means the job is done for now. So sit down. That means you will still go back. That's what you call the second coming of Christ.

That is still coming again. Come on. Sit. Sit. You have done the... Sit down for now. Sit down. Sit down. There is still now something that must happen before you go back. What will I do?

Your enemies must become your footstool. I thought he has already disowned principalities and powers. Who are these enemies? Talk about this tomorrow. Another thing we must talk about is now when you look at verse Verse two now says, the Lord shall send the rod of your strength. What is the rod of your strength? The rod and thy staff. They comfort me. I will send you hallows paracletos, another comforter. I will be the rod of your strength because in the time that you were weak, it became your strength.

If this same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead. Are you with me? He said I will send him out of Zion that have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God. So it's not Zion as in a physical place. Are you with me? It will come with a mandate. What is the mandate? Ruler in the midst of your enemies. Remember in verse one, it says, I will make your enemies your footstool. In verse two, it now shows you a strategy.

It say, I will send the Holy Ghost. When I send the Holy Ghost, it will come with an assignment. What is the assignment of the Holy Ghost? Rule down. Now how would the Holy Ghost rule? Will it come to the midst of your enemies? Announce that I am here. I am here. No. Verse three now shows us how.

Verse three says, Your people shall be willing in the day of your power. You see that word willing is what we have to unpack because how you become willing is that you are willing to behold. It is in your willingness to behold that you are transformed transformed into the same image. The image that has power, the image that has authority, the image that... Do you understand what I'm saying? So it is now when the transformation into the same image has been complete that your own life can now become a representation of glory. Let us close. Are you blessed in this meeting? Tomorrow will be terrible. I told you that on day one and on day two, we'll teach you.

Tomorrow we need to build. What will happen as we begin to build is that the one we are beholding will now start making us into himself. So as we are... As he's making us into himself, you will now realize that sickness does not resemble him. So what will now happen is that sickness will now begin to fall down. Oh my god. I am oh Samuel. Let's let's let's share the grace. Listen. Invite everybody you know tomorrow.

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