Transcript: The Power To Change Your Generation — Living a Life of Impact Part 2

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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. The bible says the glory of the latter temple shall be greater than the former, says the lord of hosts. And in this place, I will give peace, says the lord of hosts. Today will be a teaching. Next week, we will also be a teaching. Where we receive instructions. The Bible says that the word of God is profitable for doctrine, for instruction, for reproof. But the man of God may be thoroughly furnished. And so there will be doctrine, true, but there will also be instructions.

And there will also be reproofs. Alright? I've told you that when you come here, the posture you should take every time you come is that of a student. Do you remember that? Yes, sir. That of a student. Not just a church service. It's a training ground. You don't go to a army camp and register to be a part of the army expecting to be pampered. If you go there, there is a posture that you take.

Is that not so? Yes. And God will bless you even as you do that. Amen. The glory of the latter temple shall be greater than the former, says the lord of hosts. And in this place, I will give peace, says the lord of hosts. And in this discourse, I was sharing with you how that it is easy if you are not mindful enough to contemplate on this to just easily breeze through this and say amen. But that if you are a deep thinker, you would have to reason for a minute. Now what does the bible mean when it says the glory of the latter temple? The glory of the latter temple shall be greater than the glory of the former.

We therefore have to examine what the former expressed in manifestation of glory to understand how heaven or what heaven expect of the latter house. So that when you understand what the latter temple did, you will now know what heaven expects of you. Because the bible says the glory of the latter temple. We are the latter temple. We are that generation who the bible is speaking about here. And the bible says the glory we will express is greater than that which was seen in the former house. Sorry. So we need to study what was seen in the former house. What did the former house express? And we saw this last week.

Is that not so? If you're not there, go and get that teaching. At one. It will it will bless you so much. I don't wanna spend so much time on that. And after we observe all of this, it became clear that there is a great expectation of heaven upon our lives. Every single one of you listening to me, heaven expects so much of your lives, so much. It is obvious in in this scripture that you must not die and live an ordinary life. It is obvious in this scripture that you must live a a... An imprint of your existence on earth.

It is obvious in this scripture that your story is being written. And I showed you how that the bible speaks of the men and women of faith that constitutes the temple. How that they are not complete. Their story is not complete without ours. And so there is someone here who is listening to me, who you are a continuation of the ministry and the mandate that was upon Joseph. You are the... You will pierce into the marketplace, pierce into structures of influence, press into governance. This was what Joseph exemplified. We saw in scripture that there there were men... Do you know that the first mention of how God anointed a man or the spirit of God upon a man was not for miracles, was not for healing, was not for signs and wonders.

In scripture, the first mention of the spirit of God coming upon a man. The Bible says it was Aholiab and Bisaleel, And the bible says that the spirit of God came upon them for creativity, for craftsmanship, for architecture, to know how to build the temple. And these people built a magnificent structure without having formal education. Nobody taught them architectural engineering. Nobody taught them civil engineering, yet they built something that was... Look at that architectural marvel. It was a building that could be moved. They could they could they could they could transport the building wherever they went. It was following them. Yet it was a mighty structure in itself with items on the inside, and the items on this side don't fall down as as they are moving.

What kind of an architectural wisdom is that? The bible says it took the spirit of God to rest upon men, and it gave them what you now learn in school. Yes, sir. They had to draw a blueprint. They had to know how the temple would be built. They had to measure units and do all of those things, and it was by the spirit of God. This was the latter house. And so if I call myself a civil engineer and I believe that this is what God would have me do, Do you understand that there is something there is something that God expects of your life? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

That it must not be said when we go to heaven that those who came in the latter temple did more than we did because they did not have as much as we do. We've been given so much to do so little. These people never had the holy spirit on them... Inside of them. Sorry. They only had the holy ghost upon, not the indwelling presence of the holy spirit. You are the one that that has that. So every time you pray and you say, oh, the mantle of Deborah and all of that, Deborah is looking at you and saying, I don't have what you have. I never did. There is an expectation.

You see, every time you read God's generals, it should be with the mentality of this is what these people did. And then you see where you should begin from, and you see what is expected of your life as a believer. It is therefore abnormal for any believer under the sound of my voice to not have a desire to be great, to not have a desire to be relevant. If you did not come here or if you have not known this kind of message since you've been born, that is why you came here. So that by listening to me, something is quickened like a spark inside of your heart. You know I cannot die a normal death. I've not read your bible. There were men that walked like gods on earth. God told Moses, I will make you a god to Pharaoh. In other words, Moses was like a god on the earth.

He stood before a king, and he was not afraid of what a king could do. And this was the former temple. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. That if Joseph could come up with a business strategy and a business principle that could save an entire nation, not just an entire nation, all the nations of the earth started buying... The wisdom for the preservation of the earth was in a man. How about Solomon? He was wealthy, and he had wisdom. And the bible calls all of them the former temple. What then...

And the bible now says the glory of the latter. You see, sometimes you read the bible. The bible speaks of a prophet who every time in his house, he would hear what the enemies are planning in their in their camp, and he will come and deliver that message to the king. That was a prophet in the former temple. A prophet stood before people and said, if God be God, let us know. If Baal be God, let us know. Let every man call upon his own God, and the God that answer it by fire is God. And everybody put sacrifices on the altar, and the children of Baal were calling upon their their God. These people were crying, crying, crying, and doing all kind of things, and Elijah was taunting them as they were doing it. Elijah said, maybe your God is sleeping.

Cut yourself. Shout more. What level of confidence is that? What level of confidence is that? And this was the former temple. When he was praying for Elijah to call down fire, he said, listen. I'm not just gonna call down fire. Pour water on this place so that you will not think we have put a combustive or a combustive substance there. So that you won't think it popped through. Pour water there.

They poured water, littered everywhere, ensured that in the natural realm, it was not possible. After that was done, then the man stood, and heaven listened to him. How how does heaven respond to men like that? Moses was Moses Moses was talking to God, and God told Moses, I will destroy these people. I will destroy all of them. Moses say, ah, do you want people to say that you brought your people out of Egypt and you could not preserve them? How will you destroy them? Repent, oh lord, of this your iniquity. And the bible does not say God corrected him and say, why will you speak like that? The bible says, and God repented.

This was the former temple. So that you have the idea of what the bible talks about when it says the glory of the latter. What exactly does God expect of our lives? So if I say I'm a businessman, what does heaven expect of my life? If I say I'm a king in the marketplace, what does heaven expect of my life? Did you see how David built the temple? Did you see how much resources went into the the building of the temple contributed by David? It means we must be more prosperous. You'll understand this thing a lot as I go on digging. You will get the picture.

I will show you from scripture that how God moved fifty years ago that led to the conversion of a nation is not the same way God will move now if nations are to be converted. I'll show you. I'll show you. Because the challenges that existed fifty years ago are not the same thing that exists now. Stay with me. Every believer here has a glorious destiny. Every believer under the sound of my voice. There are no such things as unwanted pregnancies. It only exists within the realm of men. As long as that child is born, it's not unwanted.

It only exists within the realm of men. As long as a child is born, there is a mandate upon that child for greatness. There's a seed of greatness that have been planted upon that heart. Yes, sir. And the assignment of the man of God, the assignment of the church is to fan out this seed. Paul says, if I'm planting a pool of his watering, then God brings the increase. Is that not so? Yes. I testify. Your goodness real.

Goodness is real. I testify. Your goodness is real. Listen. In every generation, there is always a grace that God gives that comes to that generation in form of revelation and knowledge. And if that generation cannot connect to the revelation of that age, to the wisdom of that age given by God, then it means that they will live a normal life. They will live a predictable life. They will die as average men and women. There is a supply of wisdom, a supply of knowledge, a supply of truth, a supply of illumination light that God gives every generation. And those that become irrelevant in that generation are those who by reason of hunger, thirst, and understanding the principles that makes for revelation availability are able to press into their...

Into receiving this truth. The bible said that the secret things belong unto God, or the things that are that are revealed belong unto us and our children. Those that become relevant in generation are those who are able to press into this truth. Upon the revelation of the truth and the wisdom and the knowledge that is kept for generation, upon the revealing of that thing to you, then you would rise to the peak in that generation and a generation will seek for In the book of Daniel chapter 12 and verse four, just follow me because I'm gonna rebuild The Bible says, but you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase. Until the time of the end. Are we in that time of the end now? Yes, sir. He says, so what you have shut up is until. It means what you have shut up will soon be opened.

What you have shut up will soon be exposed, will soon be revealed at that time of the end. And many will begin to run to and fro seeking for knowledge. And to them who are running to and fro, knowledge will increase. The Bible says many will run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. In other words, in the last days, there will be a people that will run to and fro in search of knowledge. And unto those people, knowledge shall be increased. That is what the Bible is saying here. But what knowledge exactly? That's with an amplified version. Amplified says, but you, oh, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end.

Then many shall run to and fro and search anxiously through the book. You see that? And knowledge of God's purposes as revealed by his prophets shall be increased and become great. Knowledge of the purposes of God. You didn't say that. Knowledge of the purposes of God. In other words, not every generation or should I say that have come has understood to perfection the... What God is trying to do on earth. Because the bible says it is conceived. It was revealed unto Daniel, and Daniel was told to shut it up.

And it will only be exposed to people upon their hunger in seeking for these things desperately. And unto them that begin to seek, The bible says God will begin to reveal a portion and a dimension of truth meant for that generation. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Stay with me. The purpose of God here is per generation. What God is doing in every generation. Because as you would see very soon, God is not always doing the same thing at time. God is not always doing the same thing in every generation. God is not always moving in the same way in every generation.

There is always an emphasis in every generation that builds up to a final emphasis. Are you with me? Yes, Stay with me. It means there are certain secrets about the purposes of God that has been concealed for many generations. And every generation that comes has a responsibility of seeking and pursuing, running after to ensure that what is meant for that generation is revealed to them. There must be individuals in that generation who will seek and access this body of truth that God has released. And usually, it is these people that then become relevant in that generation across all sectors of influence. It means you can be a man of God, but not have a message for a generation. Stay with me. Amos chapter eight and verse 11, we see another mystery.

The bible says, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, not a test for water, but of what now? Hearing the words of God. There will be a famine of the word of God. And the bible says in latter days, the days are coming when there will be a famine. People will be hungry. People will be thirsty. And what they are hungry for is not food. What they are thirsty for is not water. What they are hungry and thirsty for is the word of God. But watch this.

But the next verse says, watch this. They shall wander from sea to sea, from north to east. They shall run to and fro. Do you remember Daniel? But see the difference here. Seeking the word of God, but these ones will not find it. These ones will not find it. Look at the next verse. It says, in that day, fair virgins and strong young men shall faint from thirst. I will show you what this means very soon.

Amos speaks of a time when many people will begin to run to and fro, run from sea to sea, from north to east because they are looking for the word of God, and they would not find it because there will be a famine in the land. So there will be a thirst in the heart of people that if not quenched, the bible says the young men will faint from thirst. If that knowledge is not... That hunger is not quenched, that dust is not quenched, people will faint from dust. This will become the lot of a generation. The bible says in Daniel, that in the same time, when a generation is seeking for truth and cannot find it because there is a famine, in that same time, there is also a group also within that generation who shall be seeking for truth to and fro. But the difference with them is that knowledge shall be increased onto them as they seek. So in the generation, many will be hungry, many will be thirsty. They will seek for truth and they will not find. In that same generation, there will be those who have mastered the wisdom of seeking.

And as this one seek for truth, to them, knowledge shall be increased. Stay with me. In the same generation. This is true, especially of this generation. Because what I'm teaching you is the power to change your generation. This is true, especially of this generation. We live in a generation where people are confused. They are hungry, but their hunger is not of water. Their hunger is not of food. It is a hunger for meaning.

It's a hunger for identity. It's a hunger for purpose. It's a hunger for the word of God. Yet, they are not satisfied with what is available. They wander through philosophies. They wander through ideologies. They wander through empty doctrines, yet there is no satisfaction. This famine is reflected in the frustrations in the minds of many. A lot of people are looking for the real message, but they cannot find it. It looks as though what they sat down hearing has become stale, and there is a hunger for something fresh.

None necessarily new, but fresh. Are you with me? The bible says knowledge shall be increased. There is a generation battling with unanswered questions in their hearts. Some of them are on the verge of becoming atheists. Some are already atheist. But even their atheism is an expression of that anger because of the famine. A famine of truth is what has led many people to become atheist today. A famine of truth. There is a surge in depression, a surge in anxiety, a surge amongst young people, a surge in rebellion.

Even the outright rejection of God is a reflection of this hunger. That people stand and they become angry with the message that says. They become angry with believers who propagate an absolute truth concept. Become angry and they say there's no God. Even that is an expression of hunger. Stay with me. A lot of people right now, especially in the West, so much confusion. People are unable to define their identities. Don't even know something as simple as who is a man and who is a woman. If you cannot explain who a man is and who a woman is, how do you know who you are in Christ?

How do you even proceed into the deeper conversations of your identity in the spirit? How do you even proceed into the deeper conversations of what God has created you to solve or the problem you've been made to solve on earth, and how you fit into the assignment God has made you for when the basic conversations are are... People that cannot even answer it. And you see, if men of God cannot provide answers and if they... When we're growing up, we used to have so much questions in our hearts. Questions about certain things we're being taught, certain doctrines we had issues with, simple questions but caused a lot of problems. Things like, should we put a ring horn or should we not? Should we wear trousers or should we not? These were simple questions but caused so much warfare in the body of Christ at a dispensation. These are not the same questions we ask now.

Doesn't mean that there are no questions anymore. Because you see as civilizations increase, the questions only become more complex. And men of God must have the wisdom to provide the answers because the bible says in the time when people are thirsty and have questions in their heart, in that time, knowledge is increasing. And if they are available for some men, some men become answers to the questions other men are asking. It is those that find it that become relevant in the generation. Stay with me. Stay with me. There is a generation of believers with questions in their hearts. Does God really prosper men? Can men succeed by God?

Can men increase by God? Is tithing something we should do as believers? Does it carry any spiritual significance, any spiritual relevance? This condemnation and guilt that I feel, is there a solution to it? Is there an answer to it? What exactly is this grace message? Why is there so much warfare in this grace message? What is God's thought on homosexuality? There are the time when you could come to a crusade ground and then you preach the gospel and your gospel is repent or else you would go to hell. And people out of fear will run out and get saved because they are afraid of going to hell.

Now you preach the same gospel, there is a generation that will ask you, if God is so loving, why don't you send men to hell? Why is this a motivation for salvation hellfire? How can a loving God direct men to hell? And you will stand there as a pastor and tell them, hey, Lee, just believe. Stay with me. Many young men and women are fainting under the weight of spiritual dehydration, losing hope because the wealth that they draw from are dry. Many of them leaving the church, turning their back from faith and it was handed over to them by their parents. Gone are the days when you can just tell people don't ask questions. Don't you have faith? Just believe.

The bible already prophesies that there will be a time where that will not suffice. People will be thirsty, and that task must be filled. If not, there will be fainting in the heart of men. That fainting is what has now become rebellion. Do you know that there is now a a open rebellion in this generation such as never been seen before? People are no longer afraid to declare their hatred for God and everything God. A lot of people are anti God, anti Christianity, antichrist, and they are not ashamed to mention it. Every... Right now, that level of boldness and and being audacious was not available before. It is fainting in the heart of men.

And many men of God have come up with this delusion that the solution to this quagmire is to entertain the youths. Entertainment can only work for a time. It can only work for a short while. A time will come where the young man realized that you are just deceiving. A time will come where the young man realized that there's a test in his heart. The bible says he has placed eternity in the heart of men. And that your entertainment is incapable of filling that test. You can attract the youths with and games and all of these things, but the time will come when the youth will realize that there's a deep hunger in me that is not being fed. And he will look for truth everywhere he can. This hunger is what has put several people in trouble because they realize that the wealth that they draw from now lacks water.

In replacement for water, they've now had entertainment. They've had games. They've had their funds. They've had all kind of things. And the guy is still thirsty. In his thirst, he goes on social media. He's exposed to lies, exposed to... And the devil now uses that anger to to to to sell a perversion to him. Many of them have entered into new age theories. Many of them have entered into all kind of things, and it was a sincere search for truth.

These are people who will search and might not find. Some of them have even encountered demons. I met a young man recently who came to me, loving brother, and was sharing with me how that thoughts just come to his mind that tells him that God is evil and the devil is good. And he began to mention all the allegations he has against God. And it's easy as a man of God to hear all of those things and say what an unserious believer. You'll be amazed that there are lots of people like that. Lots of people like that. Are you with me? There are questions being asked in the hearts of men. There is a famine of truth in the land, and people are searching for truth.

The rebellion of a generation to the old model of faith is actually a reflection of the fainting that has arisen and the test that is not quenched. And so someone now right now, a young man right now is on YouTube, and all he's using his time to do is look for the fault and the errors in men of God and what they are preaching. A man of God is sharing a testimony, and he's he's looking for all every way and manner to disprove what he's saying. A lame man is healed. He can say, why is the crutches? Why is it new? If it is true that he has been like that for three years. You see, fake miracles. Should the crutches not behold? They just bought the crutches and give someone.

This thing is stage managed, and it's on YouTube like that. Do you really think he just got there? That's a fainting heart. And he has got a large following around him, around himself, of people whose hearts are fainting just like him. And he goes on to say, listen. These pastors are lying to you. Why should you work for money and you carry your hard hand money and go and give a man of God? Can't you see the folly in this? See, all these church are just nonsense. Don't go to church.

You can serve God at home. All of these things are expressions of hunger and thirst, but there is no water to quench it. That's what gives birth to this rebellion. This rebellion is an expression of a heart that is fainting. Do you understand this conversation? You'll find several of them around you. In classes, in places of work, there are believers who don't see any value for church except on New Year's Eve. And then they all come to church because they wonder what exactly is the value for church. Some of these people didn't just... They were not born like that.

Some of them were following their parents to church every Sunday. Like that for eighteen years, like that for twenty years. A time came because they had several questions the church could not answer. Then they thought, what is the use of this? What exactly is the purpose of all that I am doing? What exactly is the purpose of all that I am doing? You dwells in the midst of the cherubim, shine forth. He dwells in the midst of the cheruby, shine for. He dwells in the midst of the cheruby, shine for. Shine for.

Shine like a warrior. Shine for. Shine for. Shine like warrior. Shine for. Shine In that same time, when people are hungry, in that same time when people are thirsty, there is another group that is seeking God. And to them, there is an increase in revelation, in illumination that they might reveal God to this starving generation. In other words, everybody listen to me. We came as a response to a famine. The reason why you are alive is to quench the hunger and the thirst of a people.

That is the soul... That is your primary assignment living on earth. Whenever we make that statement, I hold my generation an encounter with God. This is exactly what we are saying because there is a generation that is hungry, looking for God everywhere. And you see, it has been designed by God that it would only be revealed by men. That it will reveal a dimension of himself onto a man, and that man carries that dimension that has been revealed unto him and to the two generation. That is how a generation will come to know God. It is true what men has done it into. Every name you call God today was because of somebody's encounter or experience with God. The reason why you call God Jehovah diary was because Abraham knew God.

He pressed into God so much when God asked for his only son. He did not hold back his hand. He was almost at the verge of sacrificing his son because he had faith that God was able to bring him back alive, and God revealed himself as God provider. It was on that mountain he called God my provider. Today, you now know that God is a provider because of the man's work with God. This is how God reveals himself to a generation. He draws you to himself, opens up himself to you, and then you become the water that quenches the test of men. And then they will now say, You understand it now? Because that man turned it into God so much, He became the source of water that dries and quenches the test of men. Listen.

Not even what you had to a generation. Jesus Christ. So when we talk about making impact, this is the first perspective I want you to view it from, that I'm sent as as as an answer to the questions in the heart of men. I'm... I I don't only provide answer. I am the answer. It means there is something about your life that answers the questions in the heart of men. Can God prosper men? The answer is not yes. The answer is you.

Those are two different things. Yes, sir. Can men succeed, my God? We can continue to hug you and hug you and hug you until you show up. And and you show and you show the extent of your wealth and dexterity in excellence, your academics, in your business, in your ministry, and you say, I came from a background where I had no advantage. My mother was selling pepper. My father was a plumber. How else do you think I came about all this if God does not prosper me? That silences every argument. There is no need for me to argue with you.

I have the result to back my claims. By the time God blesses you so much that you have the financial capacity to pick up students Sir. On the streets who are wasting their lives away, and you provide for them a life that even those who have parents cannot have. My fault. Yes, sir. And you send them to the best schools, and somebody comes out and says, I went to the best school today because I met a man. My God. Even when such a man is talking about God, you have become an expression of God to him that nobody can tell him that God does not exist. There is so much arguments, so much debate here and there, so much debate here and so much talk here and there. People are not looking for talk.

Even if it is if it is the truth, the truth must be able to defend itself. Yes. Yes. The bible says you can do nothing against the truth but for the truth. Should men tithe? The answer is not yes. The answer is you. When you tell people that I have built this business on the core foundation of the covenant, I sow my seeds, I pay my tithe, I'm diligent, and I'm excellent, then hug you with your bank account. Listen. That's why you are alive.

That's why you are alive. We are a rest... We are a response to a famine. This is the reason why this year end came. We came as a response to a famine. Listen. You might... You see, it is possible that many don't know it yet, but it will soon be clear. It will soon be obvious that there is a world that God has dug that will quench the test of nations. Yes.

Men and women regardless of age, gender, and race will come and sit down, and they will suddenly realize that there is... This is the answer to all I've been looking for. I've been going to and fro, almost fainting with thirst, and somebody gives me a message. Oh my goodness. And I listen to that message, pictures of greatness, and all of a sudden, all of a sudden, there's... It resonates on my inside as though this is what I've been looking for. Are you with me? Yes, father. Yes. Yes, father.

Say I'm an hunter. Say I came as a response to a famine. I am I am alive. To quench the hunger and the thirst of a people. What does this mean? It means your primary responsibility is to be an erouter of the gospel. Your primary call is to the gospel. This is the primary reason why God brought you here. It is so that you can be equipped to share the gospel with others, to shine as a light in the darkness, and to serve as an agent of reconciliation between God and humanity, to serve as the bridge. The bible says it shall be called restorers of the bridge.

That there there there looks to be a bridge between men and God. Men are starting to lose God, lose passion, lose hunger, and you come as a restorer of the bridge. You come as a repair of the bridge. The bible calls them restorers of paths to dwelling. Are you with me brothers and sisters? That's what you have. Your primary call is to the gospel, to be a light in the darkness, to serve as an agent of reconciliation between God and men. God has not called you to live an ordinary life. Your life is supposed to change the lives of others. Sir.

People are supposed to drink from the well that God has dug in you. Your life is designed to be a conduit through which the grace and the love and the truth of God flows to those around you. As you are coming to church, you are being fed. You are not supposed to be obese. You are supposed to distribute what you are receiving to your generation. It's not so you can be a container of this truth and just and just house it alone. You are supposed to share the message to generation in darkness because there is darkness everywhere. Your role is not to hold the truth that you have received. Your role is to distribute it. You are meant to be a distributor, not a container.

A channel, not a container. That is why the bible says that you anoint my head with oil, but my cup runs over. The reason why it runs over is because it cannot be enough for you alone. Yes. If your cup is full, that means it's just for you alone. If it runs over, then what is running over is for others. So the idea is not own that you are full, it is that you are full enough to bless others that you run over. That is the mandate of God. It means you are never to... Listen to me.

Listen to me. Believe what I'm telling you. Every teaching, every revelation, every encounter with God is a seed that is meant to bear fruit in your lives. People are therefore meant to come and receive of that fruit. Look around this building. Which item in this building is existing for itself? Is this television existing for itself? Why is it there? To serve you. Yes, sir.

Is that chair you're fitting on existing for itself? Why is it there? To serve you. That camera existing for itself? Why is it there? To serve you. How about the phones? How about the building? How about the speakers? How about the microphone?

That is how God created it. How about you? Why then do you think that you exist for yourself? You have been created to serve others. Your life therefore cannot be for yourself. You cannot be selfish in your thoughts. You cannot be selfish in your thinking. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Second Corinthians chapter five and verse 18. The bible says, now all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

This is what every believer has given how many people? Us, the ministry of reconciliation. You have the ministry of reconciliation. Your assignment is to reconcile God to men and to reconcile men to God. To be an answer to the questions in the heart of men by becoming an eroder of the knowledge that is increasing and a eroder of the truth that men are seeking for. In verse 20, the bible then says, now then we are ambassadors of Christ. So what is the basis of our ambassadorship? The basis is that we are... We have a ministry of reconciliation. We have received a ministry of reconciliation.

And because of that, we have become ambassadors of Christ as though God were pleading through us. Can you see this? As though God were pleading. Can you give me the amplified version for this? Paul is speaking of of themselves. It says, we, Paul, have become ambassadors. God making his appeal as it were through us. So God is appealing to a generation. And how are they doing so? Through you.

Through you. God is appealing to a generation, to a people, and he's doing so with your lives. He's doing so with the gospel that you preach. It is wickedness and selfishness therefore to hold the gospel from people. As an ambassador, your life is meant to be the message in and of itself. A testimony of the redemptive power of God. Your story of transformation, no matter how small it may seem to you, carries power to bring hope, to bring salvation to somebody's life. No matter how small. No matter how small it may seem to you that God has transformed me. This is my story.

This is how I was before. This is how I am now. That alone can save somebody. That alone can answer the question in the heart of someone. That alone. And yet believers heard these things, and we don't understand that we have been sent as answers to a people. How dare you think you can live for yourself? And I will leave for you, For you home, you home my life. I will leave for you. For you hold you hold my life.

I will leave for you. Will will live for you. So I will live for you. For you hold you hold my life. I'll live home for you. For you hold you Think of the Samaritan woman in the book of John chapter four verse 28. The bible says she encountered Jesus at the well. And after a single conversation with her, she became an evangelist to our entire village. The bible says she said to everybody, come, see a man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?

Come, see a man. How many of you have told people come and see? Based off what God has done in your life, you have walked up to people because of the transformation that you have received, and you have said come and see. Come and see the weight of this transformation. Do you know that Jesus has not tell her all things she has ever done? Jesus only told her how many husbands she has had. But look at how much value she placed on it. That was a conversation. True word of knowledge. She said, but she went to people and told people, listen, I met a man who told me everything I have ever done.

You need to meet him too. Have you met him? Look at the response. Look at the response. Look at the next verse. The Bible says, then they went out to the city and came to him. Is your life... Does your life carry this much impact? Do you know that everybody who met Jesus that day met him because of this woman? Has your life left that much of an imprint in life of somebody else?

Has your life left that much of an imprint in the life of somebody else? These are conversations we must have. After all, we are talking about the power to change your generation. Many people think that impact... When we talk about impact, we're talking about how much cars you own, how much houses you have, and how much money is in your account, and all of that. But if God has blessed you and you have not brought someone to Christ, you have not pushed the gospel to someone, you can't go on the street to witness, you don't even have to go on the street to witness. How about your colleagues? How about your friends? How about people you'll meet every single day? How about people in the public transport?

You have a testimony and a message for everybody. This is the first way that your life carries imprint in the lives of others. Are you with me? Your primary call is to the gospel, to preach the gospel, to seek and to save the lost, to bring light to those in darkness, clarity to those who are confused. That is your primary assignment on earth because you are none of them that the truth is hidden from. As you seek for God, he increases knowledge for you. He increases knowledge to you. That is why God has brought you here. That's why God has brought you here. In the book of some...

Songs of Solomon chapter one and verse four, Bible says, draw me and we will run after you. Draw me. And if I am drawn, the impact of that drawing will be so much. The magnetic force of your pool will be so much that I won't be the only one to respond. The magnetic force will be so strong that if it is me that you draw, by reason of your drawing me, everyone around me becomes a victim of that drawing. Have you seen such magnetic force before? Where you are attempting to draw a nail and then every metallic substance around that nail also get attracted to the force of the magnet. This is what this guy is saying. He says, if you draw me, the pulling force of your drawing becomes so strong that I cannot be the only one that responds. We will run after you.

It means at every point in your life as a believer, when I look, I should be able to see how many people are running because you are running. I should be able to see how many people are pursuing God because you are pursuing God. How many people follow you to church because you come to church? Because you come to church. Do you have men and women around you who you can wake up one day and say, you know what? I just sense in my spirit that there's about to be a calamity in the city of Abuja. I have it in my spirit. I just saw it in a vision, maybe a plane about to crash or something. Brothers and sisters, you can point that... You can point to three, five brothers who you are running together, who responded to that drawing because you were drawn.

And you can say, let's pray against this. Let's intercede because of this. Many of you go to territories and then you... Till till you spend one year in NYSE, and there's no record of a soul that came to Christ because of you. There's no record of a soul that found purpose. Even souls who are already in Christ who are confused, there's no record of clarity that was gotten, purpose that was discovered because of you. Because of you. Publish the word. That is awesome. Do so with all your heart.

But more than publishing the word, become the word. So that we... You don't have to recommend messages for people before you answer them. There's an answer your life can give. There's an answer yourself can give. Someone is dealing with intense condemnation. That is you... The moment you see that person, that is a hungry heart, a heart that is thirsty. Let the message ring in your head that you are the one to quench that thirst. You seek the person down, and from your spirit, you begin to pour out great grace upon him.

From your spirit, out of the abundance of what God has deposited in you through the messages, through the teachings, you can sit a believer down and disciple a believer. Yes, sir. And by the time they become great, not only will your reward be in heaven, there's also reward on earth. There will be people that will become eternally grateful to you, that they would know that without your influence in my life, I have no idea where I would have been. You are the one that did this. Many of you said the same thing concerning disciples Christian network, concerning apostle Limon or Boluwatife. And you will think that your life hangs there. No. There should be men who can say the same for you. The beautiful thing now is if there are even many.

When we sing songs like, there will be many running after you. We will be many chasing after you. We will be many, many, many, many. We will be many running after you. You know, as we are singing that song, the picture that comes in a lot of people's heart is a crowd of people, and we're just pursuing God, and we're just doing all of that. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. Most people, that's the picture they have. When we sing that song... And most people are sincere when they see that picture, especially if you know what you're singing and and and they just scandal about it.

When you close your eyes, you just see lots of believers and everybody just pursuing God hungry and everybody. And it's beautiful. But that's not the place from when the sun comes. When men like Lawrence Oil say it will be many, that's not what they are saying. What they are saying is that there will be many that will respond to this poor. You won't get to what I'm saying. What they are saying is if you have set me on fire, it will be many that will burn because I burnt. It's not about how many believers. It's it's really about you. It's a...

It's that there will be many that when I arrive at my altar, when I arrive in heaven, and every man is to stand and souls they want is meant to stand behind them. That when they are bunk, they stand with the 71,000,000 people. All of them lined up behind them. Then you will also stand there and you will look and only a bed you will find. Even goat will not see. No no no impact, nothing. If you... Where are those and he will turn, there's nobody. Nobody. We go to heaven and they say, if your life has blessed somebody, identify who brought you here and we'll be searching.

Everybody will be searching. So many will find apostle Emmanuel and then and then and then when is your turn? All that there will be is that you will lie on the back of someone, but nobody's lying at your own back. Do you really think that when we get to heaven, we will have the same reward, placement, and platform as we are born again? You really think that God will happen. You live out a useless life on earth, but because you accepted Jesus Christ, you went to heaven, you think, oh, we would last on the same plane. You are a joker. Even amongst the angels, there are rankings. Even amongst the angels, the bible says that there are clowns in heaven. There are clowns in heaven.

How beautiful is the the feet of them that preach the gospel? How beautiful is that is their feet? That when a man becomes a billionaire and he's pushing every resources into the kingdom, Everyone will be saying, Kai, this would not have been pushing this amount of resources to further the purposes of the kingdom, and souls are now becoming saved if you did not save him. It was the invitation you extended to him at 200 level university that made him find purpose, that gave purpose to his life, that is now solving problems many in the lives of others today. Do you get the idea now? Be many. Many. Many. Many. Many.

Many. Many. It has nothing to do with being a preacher. It has nothing to do with being a pastor. You know, there are pastors who will not even have crowns in heaven. There are pastors who will go to heaven and you would find that your member has more crowns than you. Why do you think the bible meant when he said the first shall be the last? The last, the first. That you will go to heaven and you'll be shocked at many things you would see. Plenty people you don't expect to find there, you will find them there.

That's the first shock. People you have judged in your own canality, in your self righteousness because of the kind of life they lived. And at some point in their life, they accept that Jesus is unknown to you. And you will find the day you'll be shocked. You are here. Say, I'm here. You even be sure that they live a life of impact even more than you, the self righteous one. Then the shock would be... The second shock would be that those we think will have the most allotment of reward and crowns will get to heaven and find them somewhere at the back. I will wonder what you own a big ministry, but it's not about owning a big ministry.

It's about the light and the level of impact that that ministry can make in the life of others. And there are people who are medical doctors who will make more impact than the person that owns the ministry. Yes, sir. Because they have insisted that their life will touch somebody's life. They have insisted that everybody that comes to this office, there must be something that leads me to them. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? There must be something that leads me to them. It is not something that you would expect to hear in a meeting like this. After all, we came to talk about changing your generation. But this is the primary way in the heart of God.

This is the fourth expectation in the heart of God. Everyone that lived in the Old Testament lived to preserve the gospel. Go and listen to my message, the the the the revelation of Jesus. All their life was to preserve the seed. Joseph was in Egypt to preserve the seed. Esther was in Babylon to preserve the seed. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, either they were preserving the seed or they were prophesying the seed. Now the seed has manifested as Christ, as salvation. They have received what was only a promise to them. These people live their life preserving it.

They live their life prophesying it. Do you know that some of them had to useless them themselves for the sake of the seed? Just so that they can... Just so that we who become receivers of this thing that they prophesied, some of them had to go through the worst of experiences so that the prophecy can be properly captured because even their life was a prophecy. Even their lives. A prophet had to marry a prostitute. One had to be prophesying naked. These were things they had to go through in service of the seed, and we have received so great the salvation. And we feel as though it is inconvenience to preach the gospel to someone, to publish the word to someone, to invite someone to church. We feel it is inconvenience.

Yet people have sacrificed worse. You have sacrificed less. You have sacrificed less. There's even social media right now that makes for the propagation of the gospel easy. There were times when people were willing to walk long distances. Some die on that road. Many missionaries who traveled from America, Europe to Nigeria, some of them died on the road. I read the story of John G Lake, how that he went with 20 of his men into villages, into cities. And by the time they get to where they are going to, they are left with two, left with three. Some dying out of physical hunger, exhaustion, and they still continue for the sake of that gospel.

What did they know about that gospel that made them insist that their life is worth is worth spending on it? Why would per Elton renounce his citizenship in his country much like Abraham? Get thee out of your father's house, out of your kindred. He was a legitimate citizen of Nigeria. In those days, dual citizenship was not a possibility. To become a citizen of another country, you have to renounce your citizenship in your own country. That was what per health indeed. And he brought his wife, and he brought his children, and they came and stayed in Nigeria. And the assignment was this this nation must hear the gospel. Why will Riyadh Bunge all these people live their life for this thing?

And the ones to whom they labored for will receive it and will consider it a burden to share to others in a time when it is even most easy to do so. In a time when it is even most easy to do so. What gospel of convenience did we receive? What gospel of convenience did we receive? That's the reason why many of you have not functioned in the fullness of your calling. That's the reason why many of you have not seen dimensions of power manifesting through your life as you would have seen because the bible says these signs will follow. It won't sit with you. It means you will never feel the signs manifesting in your life if you don't go. It is designed to follow you as you move. To follow means you are moving.

It will follow you. These signs will follow them that believe. It won't stay with them. It won't live with them. It won't sit with them. It will follow them. It means you will attempt to do something and you will see the sign. And as you go and preach the gospel, you'll see the sign. As you minister to others, you will see the sign. Suddenly, will find out that you can pray for the sick as well.

You lay heart someone who is sick, and immediately they become healed. And you say, my goodness. I'm not a pastor, but see what is happening in my life. One of my daughters told me that I just feel this in anointing so strong in my life, but I'm not called to the ministry. Who told you you must be called to the ministry to heal the sick? Where did we get a delusion from? Who told you you must even be called to the ministry to organize a crusade? We live in a time where the generation we are coming into, this generation, billionaires, we have passion for souls. And they will fund and finance them and even organize crusades in their own capacity. Go there as believers, preach the gospel.

Call... Do other call and people will be saved. It is called the ministry of reconciliation. It is a ministry every believer has. Paul told Timothy, do the work of an evangelist. It's a charge to every believer. A charge to every believer. One of the richest men in Nigeria, billionaires. Every time you would see him on the street, you will see him on the street. Let me not mention his name.

Some of you might know him. You might have even heard the story. You would see him on the street preaching the gospel. Billionaire. On Monday, he's he's at work. Not a pastor. Even the most richest woman in Nigeria... I think, is it Africa or Nigeria? If not Africa, you would also see her on the street preaching the gospel. A believer who has not even achieved anything yet cannot share the message and the testimony of your salvation with others.

Do you know that even how God delivered you from masturbation is a powerful testimony that can save 1,000 people? Yes. How God deliver this from last generation? Because you feel as though I don't have any testimony. How about that? How about that? How about you who used to fail before and forget things? And you came under the atmosphere where the word of God will stop you, and you understand the rewards of eternal life. And all of a sudden, you knew that I'm not a dull student. I have the intelligence of the spirit.

You apply this thing to your academics, and all of a sudden, you started seeing results. Little by little, line up online until you become excellent in what you are doing. Is that not a testimony? The idea is that as God has blessed us, we are able to deploy the resources that God has given to us to reach out to souls and bring them into the kingdom and bring them into the kingdom. Inviting someone to church should not be too much of a responsibility to you. It means if you are a successful person, you can use your success to reach souls. If you are a prosperous person, you can use your prosperity to reach souls. If you are an an... A brilliant student, you can use your brilliance to reach souls. This is what people in the world do.

They use what is available to them to influence people in that in darkness. In darkness. And they copied it from the sons of light. But we sons of light are afraid to deploy what we have been given. Less people see. Less people see. Less people see. With no concern again for what God says. With no concern again for what God says. If I own a school, will my school only be a platform for educating people?

Is that all that happens there? That somebody would work six years in my school. How many years do people spend spend in schools? It's more than six years old. Primary and secondary school. About eighteen years, sixteen years in my school, and they never heard about Jesus. All they learned was mathematics, English, and basic science, and they graduate. How come? How come? This was the formative years of a boy's life, And I was afraid to preach the gospel to him because I'm afraid of what somebody else will say.

That was how Saul lost his kingdom. The fear of what men will say. The fear of what men will say. People had tracts that they were willing to distribute to others. And you come to come and buy something from me, and I give you a tract. And I... So this was how fathers and mothers preached the gospel. They carried a tract everywhere they went, in buses, in cabs, in bikes, on the street, tracts everywhere, tracts everywhere, and there were testimonies that came from it. Testimony that came from it. Were they pastors?

These were people going about their business, reaching a generation. When we talk about impacting your generation and changing your generation, a lot of people think that what we're talking about is being popular. Having 1,000,000 followers on Instagram, you can have that and still not touch a generation and still not change a generation. If you do not understand that your first calling, your primary calling is to the gospel. Your primary calling is to the gospel. The question therefore is, how do I use what is available to me to allow this gospel? How do I use what is available to me to allow this gospel? Even if I say I can't preach to somebody, I don't even know what to say, or you can invite them to church. And they can come and get saved in church, and they can meet Jesus in church. Have you read your bible?

Peter became the rock upon which the church was built. Peter became such an important figure in the ministry of Christ and in the propagation of the gospel of Christ. Peter became the apostle to the Jews, and upon him was the church built. But do you know that if Peter had not been preached to by his brother, that would have never happened. It was Andrew that met Jesus first. It was Andrew who came to Peter and told Peter, come and see. That's what some of you just have to do. Come and see. Come and see. Because you have no idea the destiny of the man you are saying, come and see too.

You have no idea how important they are, and God has so routed that they will meet you. That's the reason why God put them your... In your circumference. There are many people that God has put around you based on... You see, and for some people, the last chance that they have because they have so messed up their life. The god says that the last hope, there's a DC and night in our hostel. Let them... Let... Just put that in the same room or in the same class or in the same faculty. There are times when you only...

A man of God was sharing with me how that he got a he got a offer to work in the company and was to be paid 900,000 naira per month. Then a company that he had applied to three months earlier reached out to him and said they had gotten the job, and the pay was $150,000 naira. You don't have to think about that. You don't even open that message. You don't even reply the message. Just leave it and go for the other one. Is that not so? But God knew. So God came to him in the dream of the night. God ensured there was no impression so that you will not doubt whether it was God or your thoughts.

God came to him in the dream of the night and told him he saw the email in his dream and told him to him, that's the one you will take. And he woke up. He was so clear. There... Is... There's no... You don't need any book on interpretation of dreams. There's not... It was clear. Painfully speaking, he had to drop the offer for the 900,000 naira job and go and take a job in obedience.

He spent one year there, and the boss frustrated him. Made his life almost useless. You can imagine the regret. You see see the insult. Do you know that if not for God? And he was there. On his birthday, the people in the office celebrated him. He said it was my PA that gave you the offer letter. I never wanted you, and I did not want to sack you. So my my intention was to frustrate you to leave, thinking that you will spend one month and leave.

But I've seen that you never retaliated. You even behaved better than those that we give preferential treatment to. And every time people meet you, they call you pastor, pastor. It must be because you are a Christian. Tell me about it. He shared the gospel with the boss. The boss became saved. He went home. The holy spirit told him to leave the job. That was why you came.

That was why you came. The impact that God would demand on that life, you might you might never know. Do you know the reason why? Imagine imagine that someone is a Moses, and he's just wasting away. Can you imagine that that that over 4,000,000 people are distinct and tied to him? But oh, the Lord, he has gone to marry somewhere. He has he has gotten a wife. He has gotten a job. He's just enjoying his life, And and he's been there for forty years. And there are several men and women like that who will never see a burning bush, but will see you.

Because in those days, God was not living in men. So he had to rely on other works of his creation to reveal himself. God now lives in men. So men will no longer see burning bushes, but men will see you. Yes, Yes, sir. So if God were to save a Moses now, he would not show him a burning bush. He will bring him in connection to you. It might be that you are doing the same job, working in the same office, doing the same business, colleagues in business, and you know this guy smokes, drinks his life away, carries different women. You would have a burden for him, and all your friendship is looking for an access point. That we make eternal imprint in the lives of people.

To give somebody money is not to save them. Especially, they are not saved. The first ministry you have to unbelievers is to share the gospel with them. The bible says Jesus got to a place and he saw a great multitude who were just confused and lost. And there was such burden. The bible says Jesus had compassion for them. And then he made a statement. He said they were like sheep without shepherd. It means anywhere people are like sheep without shepherd, that's where your ministry is. Doesn't have anything to do with being a pastor of a church.

That's everything to do with being a person who insist that my life will carry an answer. It's not to come and shout in church as opposed to you speaking and saying you had a letter out. Yes. And then you now get the opportunity to speak to someone as a letter out, and you can do nothing about it. What glory then become become greater? What glory then becomes greater? Are you blessed? Your life is enhancer enough to someone who is lost. Your story of impact is already been written. Someone can find hope in your testimony.

Someone can find life in your testimony. Listen to me, believers. Stop keeping yourself hidden. It is selfish when we do this. Stop keeping to yourself. There's no such thing as I am shy when the gospel is concerned. If you cannot even preach on the street, follow somebody who can. As the person is preaching, he'll be saying, yes, sir. Behind. You are you are still doing ministry.

But plug yourself in the story of impact. Plug yourself in it. Plug yourself in it. When we go out for evangelism, this is the intention we have in mind. But as we have been saved, we must save others too. We are saved to save. As we've been sought, the same way somebody brought this message to you that brought you comfort. That's the same way you must bring it to others. What comes out of this pulpit is life to many. It is water to the test of many.

It will cost you nothing to erode the gospel. To carry your friend's phone and say this thing you are... Let me put you on this channel. Listen to this message. I think it will bless you. It's not about the church. It's about the impact you make in your life. It's about what now? The impact you make in your life. When that Samaritan woman went to the street and said, come and see, was it about a church?

No. If you have been blessed, your response should be come and see. That should always be your response. If you have been transformed, your response should be come and see. Do you know that there was no literal testimony that that Samaritan woman had, yet she had the audacity to come and tell people to come and see? It was not as though God gave her money. It was not as though God gave her the foot of the womb. All that happened was that she was saved. That's all. And then she had a reason to tell her that's come and see.

And yet God has given you testimonies. God has given you miracles. Some of you have been healed by this gospel. Some of you have received by this gospel. Some of you have been blessed by this gospel. By this gospel. I hear the voice of my lover. Are you with me? It is selfish when we keep to ourselves. It has nothing to do with being a pastor or even your church.

It has everything to do with insisting that my life will be an... Will become impactful to others. And I will live a life of impact, and I will live the imprint of in... Eternity in the hearts of men, and people will come to know Jesus through me. People will find purpose because of me. It doesn't have anything to do with being a pastor. Please get this thing into your head. It doesn't have anything getting into your spirit. It has nothing to do with being a pastor. Impact is not first measured by how popular you are, how rich you are, how well you pass your exams, or even who you can give money to.

That's not the primary means by which impact is measured. Impact is measured by how many life is changed because you shared or showed them the gospel. This is kingdom impact. This is the first thing that matters with the heart of God. There are people who are seeking God in their hearts. They might not be able to communicate it, but their heart is yearning for God. There are even those who go on prayer mountains for days, months seeking God. And what he's saying, I've revealed myself to you so that you can shed my light to this world. You hold your generation an encounter with God. You hold your generation an encounter with God.

A life of impact begins by people coming into the saving knowledge of the gospel through your life. This is how a life of impact begins, through your life, Through your life. And so every time you invite someone to church, when we tell you, bring three people to church, it's not... Don't... It's not because of a church. It's an opportunity to be a blessing to someone. It's an opportunity to live a life of impact. When you are concerned about your friend who you brought and you tell him, I didn't see you in church, and he says, you know, I was just so tired. I didn't want to come to church that you are burdened in your heart. You say, you are just so tired.

That's the reason why you don't want to come. You say, let's meet. Where are you? And then you go and see him. You leave the comfort of your house. Meet him at the general place, public place, and you begin to share with him why you should take God seriously. Jesus. Impact. Impact. The brevity of time.

The Bible says, you seek the Lord your God while he may be found. Why is it important to seek him now? It is good for a man to bear the yoke when he's young. And as you are talking to him, there is a heart of repentance. He might not even show it. He might not even communicate it. He might only tell you thank you. He might even... After that joke. But as he goes, you have given him so much to think about.

A seed has been planted, working impact in his heart. You are coming to church next Sunday. You invite him again. You bring him again. And then he follows you. As you are growing, he's growing. As you are maturing, he's maturing. This is kingdom impact. Then one becomes two. Two becomes five.

Five becomes 10. Until we look at church and we find a 100 people who are in church because of you. A 100 people who are in church because of you. Do you think you can ever lack? The reason why many people lack is because they've not given themselves to the gospel. There is reward in the gospel, and it's not only in heaven. It is true. You don't look for it. You concern yourself with impact. You concern yourself with changing life, but by default, reward will find you.

By default. The only reason why we teach giving, it is because number one, it is doctrinal. It is biblical. It is one of the principles that makes for greatness in wisdom. It is an heart of worship. If I must teach prayer, I must teach giving because it's an heart of worship. Is that not so? I don't teach giving so you can come and give to me because whether I teach it or not, men will give me. It doesn't have to be you. But that there will be no reward.

It's impossible. The bible says that you shall sow whatever, not wherever you reap, but whatever you sow, you will reap. The reward might not come where you have sowed, but it will definitely come. He told them when I sent you, lackest thou anything. Lackest thou anything. It is impossible to be sent by God and to take that ministry and that work as your ministry, as your destiny, and lack or being want or not have solutions. The bible says once, I was young. Now I'm getting old. I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed beg for bread, But there are many believers who beg for bread because they have not understood this simple mystery. And there are rewards that come to a man who takes the sharing of of the gospel serious.

I've seen people who got jobs because they shared the gospel, not because they prayed. Because they shared the gospel, and it came as a reward. Came as a reward. It is a ministry. It's not something that you are stared to do. It's a ministry. You want... You know you you know what Abraham told the angel? He say... He said he said if there are 50 righteous men, would you destroy the righteous with the wicked?

God says no. So if there are 50 righteous men, would you still destroy that place? God said if I can find 50 righteous men, I won't destroy Sodom. Because Abraham knew that if Lot is there, at least 50 men should be born in. My God. My God. If Lot is there, at least 50 men should be born in. Not even at least, at most. At most, 50 men. But just in case, let's negotiate for 40.

Just in case, 30, 20, until you reach 10. In other words, at least at at least 10 people. Abraham stopped. The God got there and did not find up to 10. The reason why Sodom was destroyed... Do you know that if 10 people had been found, Sodom would have been preserved? It means that the destruction of Sodom was responsibility of Lot. And all that was needed was 10 men. And Lot could not find 10 people that his life has touched. Lot could not find 10 people in a in a city.

In a city. 10. That is life as bliss. That's the reason why many people's anointings have become stale. It has become... It has been unused for long. Unused for long. There are some of you that needs to that needs to go to your your secondary school because you have the privilege to do so. You have the access to do so. They honor you to do so.

And you go there and you say, sir, I just... Why we don't we have a fellowship here? And head mistress will tell you, I've been thinking about it, but we don't have anybody to start. Sir, can I volunteer? I volunteer that once a week, even if it's one hour, I will come. A life of impact. Does that have to do with church? It doesn't have to do with church. Or you have committed yourself to say, somebody must find Jesus because of me. Somebody must find purpose because of me.

And you go back there and gather young people, and you are praying with them, and you are getting them saved, and they are speaking in tongues. And you see children of 14 years old, 13 years old, praying in tongues. Ah, the heart of God is joyful. We are redeeming a generation back to God. Listen. Listen. All it takes is to have a heart that wants to leave an impact on this realm. That's all it takes. This is a song that I sing, a melody in my soul. Here is a song to my Lord.

I worship you. This is a song that I sing, a melody in my soul. It is a song to my Lord that I will worship you. Listen. Except for the fact that love is not an emotion. We think that love of God is the same way we love men. And the way you have tingling feelings in your heart, that's when you say I love Jesus. Nah. The bible says if you love me, obey my commandment. Love to his spirit is obedience.

The love language of God is obedience. A man cannot say he loves God and not obey him. I'm not obeying. And this is what the this is what the father wants. This is what the father beats for. It means if you say you truly love him, then it will be expressed in how your heart beats for what the father's heart beats for. Are you with me? Let me continue. So let's go back to Daniel. In Daniel, the bible says that in the last days, knowledge shall be increased, and of course, that knowledge is found by a certain group of people.

Let me go deeper into this thing and make you understand it more. Is that okay? Yeah. Then we close. When Paul was writing to the Corinthian church, he recognized his place, and then he says in first Corinthians three verse 10, he says, according to the grace of God, which was given to me as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation and another built. I've laid the foundation and what now? Another built. So if he says another built, who is that another? We are the ones. Are you with me?

We are the ones. We are the ones. But do you think that it is everybody who have received Jesus who has built on that foundation that Paul laid? Many people have attempted to build on it, and Paul knows, Paul has seen to the future. But because what I've laid is a foundation, and all that must by necessity build on that foundation. Paul did not call what he built the house. He called it a foundation. Nobody lives in a foundation. It means that... Please listen to me.

It means that if you camp around just Paul, you will be ineffective in Christianity. Because Paul says, what we have done is we have laid a foundation. Another must build on it. But in building, there may be people who will come in the name of coming to build, and they will veer off scriptures and veer off the character of scriptures just because they are trying to build. They will bring doctrines that are not in line with the basic principles and the basic foundations that were laid. So Paul now says, but let each one take heed how he builds. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Remember, where are we coming from?

We are coming from a place where God says that the one thing that God will continue to do across generations is that knowledge will increase. And it will happen in every generation till the return of Christ. That means if Paul calls what he has built the foundation, camping around that alone might make you ineffective. There are men that will begin to build on that foundation because as dispensations come, knowledge will increase. Do understand what I am saying? So he says, take heed how you build. There are guidelines that govern building, which is the foundation as it has been established by Paul and the apostles and all of scriptures and the character of scriptures and the character of God as seen in scriptures. To build outside of this in the name of revelation is to be grossly misled, and there are people doing this. Yes, sir. So Paul knew that his work needs to go to the next level.

He knew he wasn't going to be the last that caused it to rise. And so he says, dig a foundation. Another comes to build. It means that we have not been called to dig deeper than Paul, but we have been called to build higher than Paul. Every generation is supposed to be better than the previous. Are you with me? It is one thing that you must understand. Every generation is meant to be a better version of the of the previous because knowledge is destined to increase. The bible says wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom shall be the stability of your times and the strength of your salvation.

It is true for the times hundred years ago. It is still true now. When we go and be with God, it will still be true for our children. Nonetheless, wisdom will still be the stability of their times. Are you with me brothers and sisters? That is why the bible says the part of the just is of a shining light. It shines ever brighter onto the perfect day. The longer the just leave, the better they shine. It means the the the more that these penetrations is like wine. The more you leave wine, the better it becomes.

Do you understand? It means the more we live, the better we become. The path of the righteous, it means that by by reason of God's ordination, we are supposed to be better than those who came before. This is why the bible says the glory of the latter temple will be greater than the glory of the former. Do you understand this now? It is one thing for you to understand the gospel. It is another thing for you to connect to the wisdom and the body of truth that is for your generation. It is one thing to understand the doctrines. It's another thing to catch the revelation for your generation. It is one thing to know the mysteries demystified, but it's another thing to catch the revelation of your age as God has defined it.

What am I saying? I'm saying that for God to move in our generation, is going to have to do more than he did in Paul's day. Because the challenges of our times are not the challenges of Paul's time. In Paul's time, there was no Internet. In post time, there was no Netflix. In post time, there was no TikTok. In post time, there was no social media. There was no widespread message of the... Of human philosophies and open rebellion adopted too by government policies. People were not audacious to boldly declare their profanity even on social media, even to the extent where government policies now support profanity.

It wasn't so in impulse time. In pulse time, science had not advanced to where we have it right now. In Paul's time, there was no identity crisis that makes a man think he's a woman, and the woman think he's a man. In America, a judge sentenced a prisoner to five years or ten years or so in prison, and then the prisoner said that he identified as a woman. And because the law of that state must respect what you identify as or choose to identify as, he was sent to a woman's prison. That's that's the level of decadence. Things started happening in that prison that made it all real that he's not a woman, but he identified as one. That was not in existence important. There were no hormone blockers. There was no surgery to amputate or remove your pubic region just so you want to stamp your identity that is not yours.

So if a man... If a woman who has become a man and has chopped off on my married land and has taken in hormone blockers and taken hormone enhancers to amplify a masculine feature and nullify the feminine one comes to our church and receive Christ, What does the power of God do to that one? You're not getting what I'm saying. What what must the power? Someone has chopped... A man has chopped off his reproductive organ because he wants to be a woman. And at age 35, he finds Jesus. Does he continue to live as a woman? But he has chopped off his organs. What does the power of God do?

I'm not getting the answer. The the problem that Paul faced were not the same as ours. And so how God will move then is quite different from how God must move now. Because if we say Jesus is alive, do you know that... Do you know what the father used to teach the ministry of the holy spirit? They say they say... And they were... It was legitimate that when I'm gonna pray by 2AM, the holy ghost comes and wake me up, it taps me and wakes me up. My alarm can do that. You see, you know, I just have inspiration from the holy spirit whenever I'm...

You know, whenever I'm... I don't I don't have things to say or things to write. I just begin to pray in tongues, and all of a sudden, like a river that flows, I begin to have ideas that keep it in and do that. You know when I was studying the bible, I had to use 25 competencies to achieve it and summarize everything and put them as one. What then becomes the ministry of the holy spirit? So if I'm teaching you holy spirit now, what do I teach him as? If a software on your phone... Do you understand what I'm saying? The bible says knowledge must increase. Paul says I lay a foundation.

Don't you think that all you have seen is all there is? That's why Jesus says greater works shall you. It doesn't... You see, the reason is because the reason is because the works he did in his time are the solutions that the challenges in his time presents him to do. But there are more problems and more challenges and more difficulties in this time today. There are even problems that pastors cannot solve. Then how did we get here in the first instance? Where people now feel justified to believe in nonsense. It is because foreign people arose in... Who were professionals.

Some were doctors. Some were psychologists. And they began to use science to prove how that a man can wake up one day and choose what he wants to do. It wasn't pastors who primarily propagated that. It was scientists. It was philosophers. It was psychologists. Are you with me? It's not pastors that will dispute it. The holy ghost must move in the heart of scientists to conduct researches that cannot be disproved, to prove what is in scripture.

That is the message of the generation we are in. Are you lost? That's why I said it is one thing for you to understand the gospel. It is another thing to know the light that God has revealed for your generation. Because for every generation, there is a body of truth that God supplies. That becomes the answer to the many confusions across the sectors. And it is the men that can find it that becomes relevant across the sectors. Do you understand what I am saying? Stay with me. Stay with me.

We are still building. We are still trying to introduce this thing. Stay with me. So you can be a very good teacher, but lack substance for a generation. You can be a very wonderful worshipper, but without the substance for a generation. You can be a very good prophet, but you might not be functional or relevant to your generation. And you could have been relevant many years ago if you came many years ago. The spirit is the same, but the move is different. That's why he says as we behold his glory as in the mirror, we are changed from glory to glory. That change is important.

Every generation is a manifestation of heights of glory that the previous generation never experienced. That's why technology is being is being deployed in church right now. Most churches that refuse to adapt to this as a part of the move of God will fade away. Natural death. There are tech guys in the church that will build applications to monitor stuff and things to accommodate the large numbers in the church. There are tech guys in the church who must build solutions that becomes the answer to worldwide problems. This is the revival message we must begin to preach. If I gather people and I'm telling them spend ten hours praying every day, they will spend ten hours praying but be useless in the generation. I promise you. I said this with all authority.

Should not... Am I saying that people should not pray? Of course, we must pray. Of course, I teach prayers. Get my message, the priesthood of the believer. Get my message prayer infrastructure. You probably don't pray as much as I do. Listen to me. It is not advocacy for people to become prayerless. I'm telling you that it might not be in the destiny of a believer to invest that long in prayers.

All he might need to do by God is to be consistent in his consecration. To be consistent in his consecration. That one hour of prayer every day. That one hour he gives to the world every day. Do you know that some people might not even be able to secure one hour, but they pray on the move because their work demands it? 11PM is back. 12AM, he might be called to the hospital. He's there till 7AM. He comes home to rest for 3PM, and then he comes to the church. And he hears a message that makes him feel as though because he cannot dedicate three hours to prayers every day, he's a sinner.

And now he's wondering where is the opportunity that is available for me to even do that peradventure I even wanna do it. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you? Peradventure I even wanna do it. This is not only for people that preach on pulpit. This knowledge for your generation can be onto a scientist. It can be onto an engineer. It can be given to an interior decorator. It can be given to an artisan. It can be given to a mechanic. It can be given to a civil engineer.

It can be given to a final designer. It can be given to a psychologist. It can be given to an artist, an entertainer. Right now, there are guys who are doing what you would think is impossible with old model cars, And they would give it kinds of... These are these are engineers. And if we make it feel as though there is no place for their ministry in the body of Christ or in the move of God, then we will lose skillful people to the kingdom of darkness. Are you with me brothers and sisters? That if you're a fashion designer, there is also a wisdom for your age that God has given. And it's not enough to just be skillful in clothing. You must you must have that wisdom that God will give you specific to your generation.

And when you come out with your products and your branding, everything that you do will be different. All of a sudden, people begin to wonder how this... Come on now. They can't they can't seem to trace something about you. There's is a designer, who is a picture of this thing I'm saying. She has gotten something for a generation. Yes. It's not that they got you. No. She is now to generation.

It's not... It's beyond just being a business person. Such a person can now influence how a generation thinks, what a generation believes because God gave you wisdom. Whatever it is your field is, this is for you. Don't you think for a moment that it's only for pastors and only for preachers? There is such wisdom that God can give you for a generation that you you defy a subject that people thought could not work. You know, some of you, when you go to school, they tell you do marketable subjects because there are courses that are not lucrative. But the truth is, when you have the holy spirit, there is no subject that is not lucrative. God just needs to show you how to present it to your generation. There's a wisdom for that as long as it is God's purpose and it is within God's purpose and calling for your life.

That is all God needs to show you. If you're an engineer, listen to me. There are answers that God will give you that will solve age long engineering problems. Structural deficits, things people have not been able to account for, but we have been making do of. And then the wisdom comes. It might even be the wisdom to package yourself and sell your product to generation and speak a language that a a generation is speaking. Are you with brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. Yes. Yes.

There's a guy that roast meat, and he's a millionaire in dollars. Yet where it comes from, there are several people that roast meat there. I don't wanna mention his name as well. Don't know how to roast meat. They... That's what he does. He roast meat. But there's a wisdom. There's a wisdom he has snapped onto. Now when you come to his restaurant, you will buy the same meat that people are roasting on the street.

Yes, sir. And he sells one for $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, meat that you were eating, go. And the restaurant is always full. People lining up waiting to eat meat. And then you tell someone, don't don't don't go that area because God has not shown you something there. A man can sell Gary and be a millionaire. When I was in school, there was a young man that was selling something. Some people might know him. Yeah. I was selling something in my hostel.

Sold it for two years. Three years after he bought a car. Selling something that people hate. Wisdom to generation. The guy who was told was studying the science. The science goes somewhere. I can't remember. Now the guy owns a restaurant. The guy owns a restaurant. Your eyes just needs to open to see.

And the moment God opens your eyes, you become highly sought after. Highly sought after. Highly what now? Sought after. People will see the works you do, and they will have... I'm I'm I'm I'm getting there. Don't worry. That's why I'm taking it slow. Next week, I will show you the practicality of this and how it happens in practical ways. I'm only showing you now what is possible.

It's an introduction still. What is possible? What does it mean to be a voice in your generation? Are you even brothers and sisters? Let's round up The book of Acts of Apostles chapter 13 and verse 36. The Bible says, for David, after he had served in his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption. Do you still remember where we are coming from? That some people will run to and fro seeking for knowledge, and to those people, knowledge will increase. And I told you that there is a body of knowledge and revelation and wisdom that God gives to every generation and is available for seekers. Is that much so?

And those people that reveal those things or that receive those things becomes the one that becomes impactful and relevant in that generation. I will not define that knowledge that increases as the knowledge of the purposes of God. David was a man who was very relevant in his time, and the bible says he served God in his own generation. But you have to open up this so you understand what it means by serve God. And to do that, we must do it in amplified version. Amplified version says, for David, after he had served God's will and purposes, it means there was something in the purposes of God that was revealed to David for a generation. Yes, sir. Okay. Yes, sir. Do you understand what I'm saying?

So the bible says, David, after he had served God's will and purpose in his own generation, after he had served God's will and purpose in his own generation. So it's not enough to serve the purposes of God. You must serve it in your generation. This shows us that the move of God and the program of God is generational. The move of God and the program of God is dispensational. God is not doing the same thing I've said before every time. God has emphasis per season. He has emphasis per generation. He has emphasis by dispensation. And there are many factors that govern being anointed.

There's anointing that comes upon you by reason of your salvation. Right? But there's also anointing that comes upon you by reason of your call or your assignment. Yeah? The fact is the anointing that comes upon you by reason of your discerning what God is doing in your generation. The moment you discern it, there's an anointing that comes upon you for that purpose. The anointing is now for a generation. Not just to... So if it... If it's a man of God for instance, the anointing will not just be to service your membership.

It will be to service a generation. The anointing will come with influence that makes the body of Christ listens to you and makes a generation even listen to you. You with me? Yes. And as believers, it is important that we become a voice in our generation. Very important. It is important to make an impact in our generation. They came to ask John the Baptist. He said, who are you? Are you the prophet?

Are you this? Are you that? He said, no. But he replied to them, I'm the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye the will of the Lord. The voice of one. It is possible for you to become the voice as long as the purposes of God in your generation is concerned. You can become a voice. The bible says many are called, but few are chosen. There are few people that are chosen and not just chosen by reason of God's predetermined council.

They are chosen by reason of their degree of compliance to the term that makes for an excelling life or for excelling in your generation. It's not just grace as we call it. It's not just an election of grace as we call it. It is strong one side, but that's not all there is to it. Because it can be in your prophetic blueprint to be a great man with grace over nations and territories. Yet you may spend your life not even taking one local government for Jesus before you die. It... In other words, making impact in your generation is not just an election of grace. It's not just a predeterminate council. There is work to be done.

There is work you must do. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? I've I've taught you once that your life begins from the end. Whenever prophecy goes forth, prophecy shows you the picture of your future as it is in your hand. That's what prophecy does. So prophecy never comes to you in a way you can relate with or at your level. Because the assignment of... Do you remember when God was saying that my thoughts are higher than your thoughts? My ways are higher than your ways. As the heaven is higher than the earth, so are my thoughts higher than your thoughts and my ways higher than your ways.

If you read in context, you will find out that what God was talking about was actually prophecy. Because after God says my thoughts are higher than your thoughts, my ways are higher than your ways, the next thing that follows is so shall my word that comes out of my mouth. In other words, the context is prophecy. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? It means what ever God says, whatever so shall my word that goes forth from my mouth, it shall not return to me void. But before this, what come before is my thoughts higher than your thoughts. My ways higher than your ways. It means whenever the word of God comes, it is higher than your thoughts. It is higher than your ways because it is coming from a place where it is complete. It is coming from a place where it is done.

Your mind cannot always perform where it's coming from because your mind has not been there. Your body has not been there. Yes, sir. But God is at your end. So when God is speaking to you, he's speaking to you from your end. You are just starting your life. God is speaking to you from your end. You don't understand. They just gave birth to you. And at age eight, God is already showing you visions.

And you are wondering what is my own about all of this. Because the one speaking to you is speaking from your end. He's speaking from a realm where it's complete. That's why you should never ask or wonder how prophetic words will find expression. It is Because if you can know how it will, then it's not prophetic. At most is an advice. At most is prediction. You're already on the way to making 6 figures by the end of the month. You now meet man, I tell you, you will make 6 figures by the end of the month. That's not prophecy.

I just told you what will happen in the future. Do you understand my point? If it is prophecy and the mind and the will of God over your life is coming from your hand, is coming from your future. It's coming from a perfected realm. So one... The the the first the first symptom of a prophetic word to you from God is that your mind cannot grasp it. Yes, sir. Yes, Yes, Yes, sir. Sir. Yes, sir.

It is And God now tell him, so go to your church now and go and start children's ministry. He's not a 15 year old boy. You know, 15 year old in churches, they put them in teen church. So you cannot even have the boldness to have to have minister and say you want to speak to the elders. You are too young to speak to the elders. Yeah. God comes to a 15 year old boy and tells him I've put my word in your mouth. You will speak to kings and nations. Kings, nations, that is who I've sent you to. Because the God that was speaking was speaking from the end of things.

And so there is this urgency that prophecy comes with. But you are in the realm of time. And in the realm of time, what has been spoken from eternity must build up into perfection. It has happened in eternity, but it has not happened in time, but it will happen in time. Yes. Yes. Yes. Are you with me? So in time, you must now begin to take steps to ensure that that which has happened in eternity also happens in time. So the Bible says, there is time for everything.

This tells you, and the bible says there is time for every purpose under heaven. So everything that God has allotted you to do, he has put in time. He has allotted in time. And the bible says there is time for every purpose under heaven. That tells you that if the purposes of God over your life will find expression, it is to the extent to which you use time. Time is therefore a currency that is used to buy prophecy. So that if God has told you that you have a destiny to the nations, it's not just an election of grace that puts you there. You now begin to invest your time like someone who have a destiny to nations. In so doing, what you are doing is you are buying that thing that has been declared. So what happens usually is that we prophesize success but spend time buying failure.

That's the confusion. That's the dilemma. And the reason for this is that we think it is just an election of grace. We see people that have influence and we say, ah, see how the God does help this person. Ah, this person is lucky. Ah, we see a man of God who has influence over a people. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people, and we just say, ah, God has truly helped him. If not for God, if not for God, and you are right. But the same amount of help you have received, you have received. The difference between the two of you is how you spend time.

And there is nobody that will say there is no time because that word begins with there is time. It means that there is an abundance of currency needed to buy your future. God God called us. Says, there is time. That's how it begins. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? There is now... So as I begin to labor every day, the the the labor is an investment of my time. Somebody can ask you, sir, what is now the use of faith in this equation? Faith gives you an assurance that what you are working towards is not a mirage.

What you are working towards is something, is something that has happened already. So as you are laboring, if any thought comes to your mind that makes you feel you are wasting time, there is a knowledge you can have that makes you realize that how can I waste time on what is done? I'm not getting what I'm saying. How can I waste time on what is done? If I have the assurance in my spirit that I'm a prosperous business person, and I begin to labor in that regards, I begin to read books in that regards, I commit myself to church in that regards, I I probably start a business, attend business conferences, and I'm reading a book, and somebody tells me, what are you doing? Or the devil just puts thoughts in your mind. All this thing you are doing, all this effort you are wasting, all this... No. No. No.

No. No. No. There's no such thing as effort wasted. There's only effort invested. There's nothing as time wasted. There's only time invested as long as it is towards your purpose. The meaning of wastage when it comes to time is any time in... That is invested in anything other than your purpose. Are you with me?

It tells you that if you will become a voice in a generation, in as much as it is your eternal destiny, there are things you must begin to do with your time. There are principles you must begin to live. Are you with me brothers and sisters? This is what I want to show you next week. Rise up on your feet. I want us to pray. The prayer is very simple. Father, open my eyes. Let me see your purposes for my life in my generation. And the wisdom for bringing it into expression.

Open my eyes to see. Don't let me just waste time. Let me see. Let me see what your wisdom is and what you're saying.