Transcript: The Glory Revealed Part 3 (MC Day 3) with Apostle Emmanuel Boluwatife

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Miracles, the intervention of the supernatural God in the affairs of men. They are signs of God's mercy and his sovereignty. If you have desired to see the hand of God turn things around for you, then this message is your answer. Join apostle Emmanuel Bolo Atifa as he shows us the path to having God's intervention in our lives. This is miracle service from manifest conference twenty twenty six. So we build and hopefully the time that we have, we can build to a reasonable place. But seven says, but if the ministry of debt, I hope you have been following my teaching. If you've been here on the first day of this conference, then today will be a massive blessing to you. If it is your first time also coming, today will be a massive blessing for you. But one thing is certain, regardless of what side of the spectrum you are on, you will be blessed.

Do you believe what I'm saying? But if the ministry of death written and engraved on stones was glorious. So that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his continents. Which glory was passing away? Now, from verse seven here, Paul is taking us back to Exodus 34. That was where Moses went up the mountain to receive instructions from God. And he was in the presence of God, and he spent some time there. When he was done, he came down. And scripture says in verse 29, now it was so. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai.

That Moses did not know that the skin of his face shown while you talked with him. Did you see that? Moses did not know. And when he came down from the mountain, the skin of his face started to shine. Whatever was happening to his face at that time was not of his own making. He was not trying to produce a shining face. He was not trying to prove that he had encountered God. He was not looking into a mirror every few minutes to see whether his face was shining. He was simply with God. And the consequence of that encounter became visible in that his face started to shine and even himself did not know that his face was shining.

Before we continue, you already see something powerful here. That when a man stays long enough with God, there must be an imprint in his life. Moses entered into the presence of God and something of that encounter became visible in his continents. It reflected something of the glory of the one that he had been with. And the Bible says, it was Paul that was speaking. That this was a glory that was passing. So if a glory that was passing had so much effect on a man. As to transfigure him and as to make his face start shining physically. How much more Jesus? How much more Jesus?

You can see from the shining face of Moses that there are encounters with God that a man has that does not leave a man the way he met him. Are you with me? If you continue reading Exodus 34, after his face started shining like that, and he came down the mountain. Past 30 now says something very interesting. Past 30 says, so when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone and they were afraid to come near him. That's a very strange response when you think about it. Because Moses has come from God carrying something glorious. Yet instead of everybody rushing towards him, the Bible says they were drawing back. They were creating distance. I mean, the glory is beautiful, is it not?

Yes, sir. The glory is meant to be beautiful. But the problem with it is that to people who are not accustomed to that measure of glory, that beauty can become intimidating. At this point, something about Moses has moved beyond the level at which they last knew him. And now they are having to respond to a version of Moses that they have never encountered before. You see, sometimes when the evidence of God's work begins to become visible around your life in the same way that it was visible in the life of Moses. People who have not come into that measure can become intimidated by what they see. And sometimes their response can be distant. Sometimes their response is unnecessary criticism. Sometimes their response is mockery.

Sometimes there is bitterness. Sometimes people can begin to interpret your growth as arrogance when what has actually happened is that you have changed. You are thinking differently. Your standards have changed. Your appetite has changed. Your discipline has changed. The kind of conversations that you enjoy having has changed. The thing that you tolerate has changed. And subtly, very, very subtly, the people who were comfortable with the old version of you are now struggling to relate with this new version. And when they cannot relate with the new version, they draw back.

You don't understand what I'm sharing with you. I'm telling you that there are people who are comfortable with you as long as you remain at the level that you were when they first met you. They are comfortable with you when your dreams are small enough to make their own feel normal. So if something happened to you in the presence of God, and all of a sudden you interacted with the greatness of God, that's what struck you. That's the dimension of God that you saw, the greatness of God. And God just showed you how great he was, how great he is. God just shows you and then you leave that place, something has happened to your mind. You can no longer think small. Now you have to think great. It's as though when you saw the magnitude of the excellence and the greatness of God, something cracked in your spirit.

Something cracked in your soul. All your business plans that you have drawn around Ibadan, suddenly you go back there and you are thinking Africa, you are thinking global, you are thinking the world. The people that knew you when you were still a mediocre person, they would now see how you are talking now, and they will say, my goodness. What is happening? Your face is shining. Something is happening. And sometimes their response can be the drawback because they can't seem to understand what is changing now. There are people that are comfortable when your level of discipline is low enough not to confront their own indiscipline. So as long as you live carelessly like them, as long as you are a severe procrastinator like them, as long as you are still comfortable writing down plans you want to accomplish and seeing none of it get accomplished, they are comfortable with you. Or you can interact with something of God.

That negligence becomes, it becomes abhorrent to you, it becomes something that oh my. Oh my. Paul says, Paul says, even though I was the least of all apostles. I labored more abundantly than they all. He now says, it was not high oh, it was the grace. That means there is something that Paul saw in God that translated to labor. The ability to labor the dimension of labor that his own destiny required. Then there is something he saw in God that when he came out of that encounter, what he translated to is cry, I must pray. Cry, I must study. Cry, I must...

It was that same Paul that says, woe unto me if I preach not the gospel. How how can the king be burning in a man like that? But even in prison, he was writing a pistols. He says, I labor more abundantly. It's not me. Oh, I saw something. Someone will see something in this meeting. Listen, there are people people that are comfortable with you. As long as your spiritual honor is not enough to challenge their their own complacency. They are okay with you.

As long as your level of favor for God is still on the same circumference as theirs. They can wake up in the morning and decide one day, oh, I'm not going to church. And say, ah, you in court. If I'm not going, I'm not going. As long as that's where you are, you can be friends. Or in the day something happens to you, Unlike someone digging a well, like, oh, you know when they are digging a well and they are packing sand from a well. When God is gonna dig under in you. When Saul left his father's house, Saul was a guy that was comfortable. He was an approval addict addict. The guy wanted so desperately to plead his father.

Otherwise, why would you leave home for three days looking for a donkey? How important is that donkey? Is it more precious than your life? What kind of donkey do you find for three days? You don't even go back home to rest and say that they will come back. It's as though he's desperate to prove a point that I can be useful too. I can also be valuable. And as he was struggling like that, struggling, looking for the donkey, looking for the donkey, looking in the same way that many of you came to Lagos, came to Ibadan looking for the donkey. Some it was NYSE that brought them. Some are even desperate to prove a point to their parent that I'm not a failure.

I studied Yoruba education in school. And because of what I studied, you look at me and call me a failure. And since that day, henceforth, they've been like Saul looking to prove a point to people that me too. See, something good can come out of my life too, but my life cannot end like this now. And they they they've been looking for a donkey. They've been looking for a donkey. For someone, that donkey is a good job, a contract, a good business, an elevation. Someone has said, I'm I'm not going back home until I find it. And they've been toiling all night, toiling and toiling, and they can't find anything. Ah, thank God for someone like that servant.

Thank God for the person that invited you. That servant servant said, said, we can't keep on looking, going helter skelter like this. There's a prophet somewhere. Let's go and meet him. If he can tell of where the donkey is, some of you came here and your highest expectation from this meeting is where can I find my donkey? That's what brought you. Where is my missing donkey? Prophet, can you tell me? I only came here looking for money. Can you pray for me?

That they countered and expected. I want visa. Can you show me where it is? Speak a word about my life. What you came here for like Saul is a donkey. But when Saul met with Samuel, Samuel looked at Saul representing the dimension of God. Me? The young man who left home looking for a donkey went back home again. It means if you knew Samuel when he was that desperate young man looking for a donkey, you won't like the version of him that is returning. Because it's not the same young man looking for a donkey that is coming back.

This one You won't let the soldiers coming back. Hear me? Hear me? The moment Saul had that encounter with God through the prophet, he started experiencing strange things that have never happened to him before. The guy was going back home. And as he was going, three men were passing by. One was holding bread. Another one was holding oil. Another one was holding a carton. And the Bible says, all the three men had something they wanted to go and do what they were holding.

In other words, they didn't leave their house that morning thinking about Saul. They don't even know him before. Whatever happened to him when Samuel met him, as he was going, he was almost as though everybody around him could... As though something upon was drawing them, as when he was putting them. Passing, he meets a coming of prophets. He joins them. The moment he joins them, something comes upon him again. Right there, Saul starts prophesying. Someone that has Tonight is that night tonight is that night The moment Saul got prophesied, the people that used to know him before, that's how they came. They started Sit down.

Some people are... They are comfortable with you as long as your results are ordinary enough. They are okay. But on the day that you meet God, And the results start to change exponentially. That in three months, you give your first 10,000,000. You buy your first land. Of glory on your life, they will say you are proud. Did you not hear what the woman of God was saying when she was giving a charge in this place? Isaiah chapter 60 says, arise and shine for your light has come. But wait.

What's the first thing that comes? That's exactly why we have been expounding on the world for the past two days. So that light can come. Because the bible says the entrance of your world gives light. In the beginning was the word. The word was with God. The word was God. It was in the beginning with God. In him was light. The light was the life of men.

The Bible that says, the light shines in darkness. The light that is the what? The light that is the what? Shines in darkness. And darkness does not comprehend it. It means when light enters you, the next thing that happens is that the glory of the Lord shall be redeemed. That shall be redeemed. The glory of the Lord is risen upon you. That's the next thing that happen when light comes. When light comes, then glory rises upon your life.

What happens when glory rises upon your life? Verse three, now begins to show you the things that will start happening. It says Gentiles shall come. Give me the New Living Translation. The New Living Translation says, all nations will come to see. Nations will come and see. That's how I know nations will come and see. That's how I know. That's how I know. That's how I know.

There are people that travel down from all kinds of places to this meeting. Very soon. We would need overflows, not just because people are plenty, but because too many people came who don't speak English. So we need an overflow for French speaking countries. And many of them like that. Because Gentiles shall come. It's just kings will come to see your radiance. The next verse says, the next verse says, look and see everyone is coming home. Your sons are coming from distant lands. Your little daughters will be carried on.

Look at the next verse. The next verse says, your eyes will shine. Your heart will chill with joy. For merchants, businessmen from around the world will come to you. They will bring you the wealth of many lands. Listen. Listen. All of this. Why? Because the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.

These are the levels of brightness people will see. Sit down, let's teach. Let's teach. Let's teach. If you're a man of God in this place, may the glory of the Lord rise upon your ministry. Do you know that when we began ministry and I was seen, God was speaking to me about the nations coming. And we knew it would be great. We knew the nations will come. We've not even began to see the fullness of what we saw. This is...

We've not even started. We're still sweeping the gate. But I remember in those years, I would go to God in prayers. Especially when I look at the strategy that people are using to build ministries. And I realized I don't have any of those advantages. People were using relationship, connection, not that anything is wrong with those things by the way, don't don't get me wrong. People were hustling to meet with men of God so that they can get endorsements from them. And the strategy of ministerial growth becomes snapping picture with the mainstream minister. Let everybody see that I know this person. Then when they see that I know this person becomes credibility and they will come to me.

There were many things we saw growing. Inviting a popular musical artist to a church that is just starting. And I told God, I don't have all of these things. I don't even know anybody. And as God will have it, he didn't build it in my nature to lobby to see men. So I don't know how to chase, to have meetings with people. And as God trained me, even when I do meet with them, I don't know how to ask for pictures. But I know how to sow seeds and ask for graces. So even when I met with them, eventually I wasn't looking for pictures. And as I was praying and praying, I saw in scriptures.

I saw it in scriptures. That's God revealing something of himself to me. I saw it in scriptures. The Bible says in the book of first Samuel, that the Lord appeared again to Samuel in Shiloh by his word. It means that you can seek God in his word. He can appear to you by his word. That was what happened. I was reading scriptures and the holy spirit told me, I was reading the story of Noah. And the Holy Spirit told me, Pose, Emmanuel, Pose, read that again. And I read it again.

And I saw that Noah opened the ark. And the Bible says all the anima started coming two by two. And the Lord asked me a question, who have vandalized to them? Emmanuel, who spoke to the Hanimas? Who told the Hanimas enter? What wisdom the lion have that made them arrange themselves in tools? Who spoke to the serpent that made the serpent? Who spoke who spoke to the butterfly? Who spoke to the creeping things on the ground? Who spoke to the birds of the hare?

Who spoke to the ravenous beasts? That they arranged themselves in orderly manner and they entered into the hag. How much more human beings? How much more men that I have sent you to? Oh my goodness. I was reading my bible. I tell you my eyes were burning. My heart was burning. I couldn't explain what was happening to me. I knew.

I knew. Those I'm sent to will find me. I knew. I knew. By the spirit. I pray that that is what has happened to your life in this conference. Moses eventually speaks to Aaron and those guys. And after he finishes speaking to them in verse 33, the Bible says now had to put a veil on his face. Then verse 34, says that whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil off. And when he comes out, he puts the veil back on.

So Moses is unveiled before God. But veiled before the people. That picture is showing us a people who would not yet stand in the same relationship to glory that Moses has been granted as mediator. Moses could enter before God. But the people had to stand outside when he enters. Moses received the word so that the people can receive it through Moses. The entire confidential arrangement that God had with these people followed this pattern of mediation and distance. There was a holy place if you read your Bible, and then there was the most holy place. And between those two places, there was a veil. I mean, were God's people, but access was ordered through boundaries, through mediators, through restrictions, through shadows.

The glory was present but it was concealed. And you'll see this very clearly when the tabernacle was built. God is dwelling amongst his people, but everybody cannot simply walk into the most holy place just because they want to encounter God. No, you will die. Even the priest had to be careful because there was a veil. There are restrictions. God is present, but access to that presence was heavily regulated. Are you still with me? So when Paul is talking about the veil of Moses back in two Corinthians chapter three. He is using Moses to explain the nature and the limitation of that covenant that they were under.

And verse seven calls it the ministry of death written and engraved on stones. Verse nine calls it the ministry of condemnation. And we have to understand what Paul is saying because he's not teaching that the law was evil. It's not teaching that the covenant that Moses had was evil. Because you might wonder why is he calling it the ministry of death, the ministry of condemnation when it had so much glory. In fact, Romans chapter seven verse 12, the Bible says the law was holy. The commandment was holy, it was just, it was good. That's what the Bible says. The law came from God. So the problem was never that there was something corrupt in what God had commanded.

The problem was not with the law in and of itself. The problem was what happened when a a a holy commandment that came from God met a man whose inward condition had already been corrupted by sin. That is what the problem is. Romans chapter three verse 20 says, by the law is the knowledge of sin. So the law could show man what righteousness looks like. He could tell him what God required. For instance, the law could tell man, you shall not murder. The law could tell man, you shall not commit adultery. The law could tell man, you shall not covet. The law could reveal the standard of God to man.

And by revealing the standard of God, it was now also exposing the distance between the standard and the condition of the man who was hearing the law. Because remember, the image had been distorted. Are you still following this conversation? So Paul now called it a ministry of condemnation because when the commandment stands before that sinful man, that man whose image has been distorted, the image of God his carrying has been distorted, the commandment now exposes that distortion. It now reveals what it should be to him. And whilst he's revealing what it should be to him, he's at the same time showing him what he is not. Do you understand? Think think about it. Think about a mirror. If your face is dirty and you stand in front of a very clean mirror, that mirror is not responsible for the death on your face, is it?

That mirror did not make you dirty, did it? What the mirror did was to show you something that was already there. And do you know that the clearer the mirror is, the clearer the death becomes? That's exactly what the law was doing. The law revealed the holiness of God and by doing that, it now exposed the condition of man. The law was God's standard, but the problem was that God's standard was being given to a people who did not have what it takes to meet the standard because the image had been distorted. Do you understand the problem with the law? So when the law was given, thou shall not, this was the standard of God. But the person they were speaking to didn't have the image of God or the makeup in him to reach on to that standard. So every time he heard thou shall not, he wants to.

Do you understand the problem with the law? That's why Paul called it the ministry of condemnation because what is birthed was only condemnation. For every time he knew what he's not meant to do, the more he did it, The more he would condemn himself because... Do you understand what I'm saying? Because the image was not there. The image was not formed. You will now understand this thing needs to be repaired. That was also what Paul was talking about when Paul was complaining that what I don't want to do, that's what I find myself doing. And he was talking about the law of sin and death that was at work in man, working contrary to what God would have him do. And a lot of people are still in this quagmire.

A lot of people are still in this confusion even when they've become believers. And nobody is there to explain to them because there are several people listening to me under the sound of my voice who have found themselves in the same place Paul is saying what I don't want to do that's what I'm doing. How I don't want to live, that's how I'm living. The things I don't want to do, that's what I find myself doing. Are you with me? That was the problem with the law. Let me explain this way. Remember I used the mirror for you. So when you saw yourself in the mirror and you saw the death, that mirror has told you that your face is dirty. But can the mirror remove the death?

That was the problem with the law. It could tell you what was missing, but it didn't have the power in itself to fix the problem. So the only thing you knew is that you are bad because this is God's standard and you cannot meet it. Yet Paul still says that it was glorious. He says it came with glory. In fact, Moses face was shining so strongly when the people looked at him. There was glory in the giving of the law. There was glory in Sinai. There was glory in the covenant. There was glory in the priesthood and in tabernacle.

Are you with me? Because God was revealing himself through those things. So the issue that Paul is raising is not whether there was glory or not, there was glory. The issue is whether that glory was the final thing that God intended. So when you're continuing reading from verse eight to verse nine of second Corinthians that we are reading, it now says, how will the ministry of the spirit not be more glorious? Remember, he first said that... Give me verse seven again so that we don't forget our line of thought. Which glory was passing away? So that glory was passing away. And then in verse eight, continues to say, how will the ministry of the spirit not be more glorious?

Next verse. For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. I don't want us to go, Ah my God, there's so much in this scripture. Time would not permit me. But if you read it, you will see that Paul is comparing glory with glory. He's comparing glory with a greater glory. He's comparing something that genuinely came from God with something that now surpasses it. So that means the fact that something once carried glory does not automatically mean that it is the final expression of what God intended. Because the law carried glory, but it was passing away. It means it means the believer must be careful to understand what glory had passed away.

Because if you are not careful, you can continue to build a tent around a glory that has passed. The Bible makes it clear that it can come from God, yet it is passing. Are you with me? Let's continue. I don't want to spend time in this place. Verse 10 says, for even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect because of the glory that excels. Paul is speaking comparatively. He's not saying that the Lord did not have glory in this respect. He's speaking comparatively. He's saying with respect to the glory that was coming, the law was nothing.

That means it's like putting a candle in a dark room. That candle will be, it will lighten the dark room. Is that not so? But when the sun rises, the candle now suddenly becomes useless. That's what Paul is saying. He's saying the law was glorious. We are not disputing the fact that there was candle in the dark room, but all of a sudden the sun has risen. And because the sun has risen, do you understand what I'm saying? That means every believer that reads Moses and thinks that what Moses saw is greater than what you and I are experiencing is misled. You are in a passing glory.

Do you know what that means? It means all that happened in the old testament that you read, including the cloud of glory, the seed patting, all these things that happened, thunder was following them, lightning was following them. Paul calls it passing glory. Hope I'm not confusing you. He said even what was made glorious, add no glory in disrespect. Because of the glory that excels. What is the glory that excels? Jesus. I thought yesterday that Jesus Christ has become the glory of the Lord. The Bible that we see the turning of God's glory in his face.

Stay with me. Stay with me. Pastor Leone now says, so for if what is passing, what is passing away was glorious. If what is passing away was glorious. What remains is much more glorious. Can you see that again? Paul is reemphasizing this thing using the language of glory that is passing away. He is talking about that covenantal administration, the arrangement through which Israel had to relate with God through tablets, through briskhood, through sacrifices, through shadows, through boundaries, through mediators. It had a purpose in the plan of God, but it was never designed to become the final destination of God's people. And that matters because it is possible to take something that God intended to lead you forward and build a monument around it.

You can make a means a destination. You can become so attached to the shadow that when the substance comes, you struggle to move. I'm going to explain what I'm saying. Just just be with me. Do you remember the Pharisees and the Sadducees? Is it that thing that John said? In John one fourteen, he said, The Word became flesh. It dwelt among us and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. This thing, the Pharisees and Sadducees who had studied the mosaic laws, who had given their life. It is said in Biblical history that to be a Pharisee, you need to be able to recite the Pentateuch by mind.

That means the five books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. The average Pharisee could read it for you in his head. Do you see how diligent those guys were in the laws? They had studied everything about the old testament temple. They've studied how the glory comes. They've studied that temple had become a monument of God's glory to them. And they've studied everything around it, the sacrifices, the penance, everything they had to do, the rituals, everything they had to do. They've built an entire ministry around what was passing. So that when the glory was now revealed, They read the prophets too. They knew.

God had told them several times, I am coming. He told them, Isaiah prophesied it, Moses prophesied it, David prophesied it, Jeremiah prophesied it, all of them prophesied it. Yet when God came, it was the people that was serving God that rejected God. Because they built monument around a glory that was passing and they could not let that glory go. Yet God had left it. God said this was only a symbol, it was only a typology, it was a shadow. Do you know what a shadow is? You can see a shadow on the floor. Is that not so? That was largely what the old testament was.

It was a type, it was a shadow of what was coming. So everything that you see in the old testament including the customs, the laws, the rituals were all shadows. They were pointing to the real figure. A shadow means that there's a real figure. Do you understand what I'm saying? Now imagine, I don't know if you can see my shadow. Is there a shadow here? Imagine now that you have someone here who is standing, come. You have someone here who is standing and you can see a shadow and come you too. Instead of pursuing this person, you are more attracted to our shadow.

Start walking, chase the shadow, chase the shadow, romance the shadow, love on the shadow. You see, the person is passing oh, but they are more concerned with the shadow. They are more concerned with the glory the shadow brought. You see, the fact that the shadow is that much glorious should even make you anticipate the real thing. Do you understand what I'm saying? The fact that the shadow had so much glory, so much glory that manna could fall from heaven under a shadow. So much glory that a man could stretch a rod and the rod will part the Red Sea under a shadow that a man could put his rod on the floor and the rod become the serpent under a shadow. You now understand why they built monument. The bible says when the temple was built and the priest started singing, the glory of the lord so filled that temple that the priest could not minister. There was a physical cloud that gathered.

People saw it. I mean, imagine that was you. Do you need anybody to tell you that God exists? Or it was a shadow? And Paul is saying that it is possible for you to build a monument like the Pharisees did, like the Pharisees did. So that when Jesus came as God and as man and started telling them the realities of this new glory, It was difficult. At some point, He said, I and my Father are one and they picked up stones to stone Him. How dare you speak like that? Heresy! They were telling Jesus, this was who they were expecting.

He said I will break down this temple and build it up in three days. They picked up stones. Don't talk like that against Moses. Glory to God. But that was a passing glory. Stay with me. Please do. Please do. Please do. I'm going somewhere.

We will still we will soon get there. Hopefully, we'll get there. Verse 13, Paul now continues speaking. He says, even for this passing glory, this glory that was passing, he says unlike Moses who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the hand of what was passing away. He put a veil over his face. Even for a glory that was passing, he still veiled himself so that the children of Israel couldn't look at it. The word end in that scripture in the Greek is the word telos and it carries the idea of something that is moving towards a direction. So Paul is saying that there was something beyond Moses that the people were not seeing properly. That Moses veiled his face so that they could not see the glory, the end of the glory that was passing. That word end is the word telos.

It means the glory that was moving towards a direction. And because there was a veil over people's face, they couldn't see where that glory was leading. So they thought that the glory terminated on Moses. And that means that you can know that something is true but stop too early in your revelation. You can know the law and stop at the law. You can understand demons and stop at demons. You can understand sacrifices and priesthood and rituals and stop there. The problem is that it's not that what you know is wrong. It is that you have stopped at something whose meaning is completed in something greater, but you pitched your tent too early. Do you understand what I'm saying?

So Paul now says in verse 14 that their minds were blinded For unto this day, the sick... This is where it now becomes scary. For until this day, the same veil remains unlisted. Notice notice notice. Where was that veil in the old testament? Where was it? By the time you journey into the new testament and Paul is speaking, where is the veil? On the minds of those who are reading. Moses covered his face with a veil. In the consistent reading of the old testament, Paul says that same veil is transferred to everyone who read.

Not that the old testament is not glorious, don't get me wrong. I'm going somewhere this, I'm going somewhere with this, stay with me. Don't run ahead of me, stay with me, let's be together. So the veil has moved from the face of Moses to the heart of those who are still learning Moses. That is a serious statement I've made. Because it means that a man of God can be reading and not seeing. It means a believer can have scriptures open and still have something obstructing his understanding of what the scripture is ultimately saying. The problem of a veil is not that revelation is not available. Sometimes the revelation is right in front of you, but something about the way your heart is interpreting it is preventing you from seeing clearly. Because Paul says there is a veil.

A veil because somebody has now come. What does that mean? It means the veil is now in the mind of the reader. In the same way that the veil was on the face of Moses. What was the veil doing on the face of Moses? It was covering glory. Is that not so? A glory that was passing so that the people that were there could not see it. Now the veil is in the mind of the reader. What is the veil doing in the mind of the reader?

It is locking the reader inside the glory that has passed. The same thing that the veil was doing on the face of Moses is the same thing it's doing on the mind of the reader. It's locking glory, but that glory has just passed. I'm going somewhere. Stay with me. Are you getting understanding? I hope you are. And when the veil is there, it means your interpretation of everything will be blurred. It was not it's not because there is nothing in front of you, you just cannot see it. Something about how your heart is interpreting what is in front of you is perverted because there is a veil on your heart.

So the problem with the guy that I've become a believer now, what is obstructing him? Many of the times from entering into and being conformed into the image of Christ is that there is a veil on his heart. The context of this scripture is not those that the prince of this world has blinded their hearts. Those ones have no business reading Moses. The context is believers. Do you understand what I'm saying? That it is possible to be a believer but your heart is veiled. Why is it important that we start from here? Because verse 18 is where we are going. And how does verse 18 start?

We all with unveiled store. Store. So you know where we are going. Let's keep... Let's come back. Let's come back. Let's not rush and get there. Because a man whose face is veiled cannot behold anything. A man whose understanding is still covered cannot behold anything. It means we'll be talking about glory in this manner, but his mind cannot touch it.

His eyes cannot see it. It's as though they are talking about something that is far away because something is still covering his eyes. That thing covering his eyes is not evil. It's not evil. It's just passing glory. In fact, it is glory that has passed. Because now Jesus is revealed. So no matter how much we try to reveal Jesus to him, he is holding on to something that has passed. I'm going to show you what I mean. Stay with me.

That means you can be very religious and still be very veiled. You can have knowledge and still be very veiled. You can be very prayerful and still be very veiled. You can be fasting to stupor every day and still be very veiled. You can have scriptures memorized and still be very veiled. The issue is not whether you are hearing the truth. The issue is what you are being made to see through the truth that you are hearing. And if you cannot see anything because you are veiled, you have a problem. That's the reason why the kind of teaching that a believer exposes himself to matters because what veils people is the kind of teaching that they hear. The Bible says in the reading of Moses till today, there are still people that are veiled.

You see, when I was coming here, I was praying in tongues. I was praying and just praying. Because I know that what I'm going to teach, it will trouble some of you. It will not trouble you because what I'm saying is a lie. Because you can see that it's not a lie. Because spirit bears witness. The only problem is that you have been veiled for too long. So my prayer, my prayer, while I was at home, was holy spirit please tear off the veils. Do you know that's the reason why some people cannot receive their healing? That's the reason why some people cannot be healed.

You don't know. Let me show you. The Bible says that there was a pool in Scripture called the Pool Of Bethesda. Have you read that story before? Do you know that that pool existed before the revelation of Jesus? And the idea behind the pool was that God deposited a measure of His glory there. So that once in a while, it might be once in a year, once in a month, once, an angel will come and just tear the waters. And when the angel tears the water, what is the protocol of being healed? First person is the first person. It means if there are 5,000 sick people there and you were not the first, it does not matter...

Do you know the man Jesus came for was crippled in his legs? He had been there for thirty eight years waiting for his turn. But the problem is he's crippled. So even if he wants to jump, he can't even run. It means it means someone who is blind even has more chance than him because how much does runs in direction? If he does hears, he doesn't even know where he's running, but he can hinder mistakenly. But this guy is crippled. So even if he desires to be healed, he can't help himself. So when Jesus met him, what did he say? He said I have no man to help me.

Why? Why? Why? Why? They have been so used to the passing glory that the only way they thought they could be healed was by that water. Listen, when you start from verse one of John five, verse one of John five. Verse one says, after this, there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Verse two says, now there is in Jerusalem by the ship gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches. Next verse, verse three. Verse three says, in this lay a great multi tilt.

How many people? You know, a great multitude were there. The Bible has people blind, people lame, people paralyzed. A great multitude waiting for the moving of the water because... And do you know anybody who jumps in will be healed? Because that there is glory there. You understand what I'm saying? Yes. It's not as though nothing is there. And Jesus comes.

He just throws in on this. Seeing a great multitude of people, comes and he walks in. And as he walks in, he sees this guy lying down there and he walks up to him and he says, Ah, guy, do you want to be made well? And he thought that Jesus was referencing the pool. To show you what this veil can do. Resurrection and the life is there in front of you. Glory is there in front of you. Grace and truth was standing there in front of you. And he's asking you, bro, you wanna be well? Look at this guy's response.

He says, sir, I have no money. It's not as though I don't want to be well. It's that when I was... I don't have that will help me and put me inside that place. He was interpreting Jesus from a veil. You know what I would have expected Jesus to have done? I would have expected Jesus to have gone to that pool and said, Gigguk, I shot this pool. I am the one. Face me. You know, Jesus just heals the man.

When Jesus heals the man, what do you expect the next lean man to do? You would expect the next lame man to say, Do you know none of them? Not one. The Bible says Jesus healed that guy and went away. What is not the faith of the multitude that were there? They will remain waiting for the moving of the water. And once in a while, the water will move because there's glory there. It's just, oh my God. Someone will say, hey. The veil is Can you see why that bell must tear?

Because listen, these are two representations of covenant in this sick gathering. And some people still chose by their will to camp around the passing glory. That they saw the glory of God revealed in front of them and none of them pursued it. That somebody here will appear like the blind man of Batimos. And when he hears, Jesus is passing by. From afar, he will start to shout, son of David. Yep. Yep. I can't continue with it. A veil lies on their heart.

Next verse. I want you to see this. That's why I told you that you must be careful what teaching you listen to. Because any teaching that makes you more conscious of what you have left and of what God has delivered you from is putting a veil over your face. I can't complain to my teaching, but let me just say this. Any teaching that makes you more conscious, that you know more about causes in your family and patterns in your family And generations who have died and what they did with your placenta, then you know about Christ. What you are doing is putting a veil over your eyes. Because what the Bible says is nevertheless, when one comes to the Lord, that veil is taken away. So the first thing, hear me, the first thing somebody must do in this place is to turn to the Lord. Is to ignore your biases.

Ignore your biases. Ignore what you have known before. Ignore the power that are following you. Ignore... Listen. Ignore what power you have been trying to break. What problem you have been dealing with? What crisis you have been struggling with? Long standing problems. Long standing crisis.

He said, ignore those ones. Turn to the Lord. Turn. Turn to the Lord. Stop romanticizing your problems and your situation and your challenges and the sickness. I've totally heard there is. Oh, I don't have money. I don't have money. And so what? I don't have a job.

I don't have a job. And so what? I'm blind in my body. There's cancer in my body. There's ulcer in my body. And so what? Glenn Batimos. Who will cry with a loud voice in this meeting? And say I'm here Jesus. Can somebody lift up their voice?

Can somebody There is a way as men of God, if we are not careful, we can make it about ourselves. It's not about me. I'm not the one doing the miracles. If your life will change in this meeting, it won't be me. I don't know how to change That woman with the issue of blood was in a meeting just like this. Jesus was passing by. The bible says she said in her heart, if only I can touch the hem of his garment. That woman went through a crowd. She went through a multitude. She didn't care about her life.

Listen, If all that happens here is that they built here in somebody's heart, if all that happens here, I'm satisfied. If I am pointing the direction We believe you have been blessed. If you have any testimonies from today's message, you can reach out to us via our social media platforms. You can also listen to more of apostle Emmanuel's messages on Telegram. The messages are also available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and AudioMac as Disciples Christian Network. Stay blessed.