Transcript: The Rich and The Poor Meet Together

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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network, where men encounter God, His presence and His power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. Thank you. Proverbs 22. We're gonna study from verse one. We're gonna read down to verse 13. Please read with me. We'll not read all the verses. I'll just pick verses I wanna read. Read verse one in the King James version, verse one and two in the King James version.

Verse three, passion translation. Then from verse six downwards, we'll go back to the New King James version because of what I want us to see. Are you ready? One, two, three, go. And loving favor rather than silver and gold. Verse two is where the title of today's teaching has gotten from. Can we read it together? Pause. Write that down. That's the title of my teaching.

The rich and the poor meet together. The rich and the poor meet together. It then continues to say, the Lord is the maker of them all. Please pay attention to what you're gonna be learning today. It will transform your life in ways you cannot imagine. The rich and the poor meet together. The Lord is the maker of them all. Verse three in the passion translation says, a prudent person with insight foresees danger coming and prepares himself for it, but the senseless rush blindly forward and suffer the consequences. From verse six now, we go to the New King James version. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he's hold, he will not depart from it.

Verse seven, the rich rules over the poor and the borrower is servant to the lender. He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow and the rod of his anger will fail. He who has a generous high will be blessed for he gives of his bread to the poor. He who loves purity of heart and has grace on his lips, the king will be his friend. The lazy man says, there is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets. May God bless the reading of his word. Amen. I'm excited because of what I want to share with you. Because I believe so strongly that it will be a cause of great transformation in your lives.

Amen. Amen. Just stay with me. Ensure you give me your attention. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes. We'll try to uncover what the bible is saying when the bible says the rich and the poor meet together. And the Lord is the maker of them all. Very interesting scripture. That the rich man was made by God and the poor man was also made by God.

They came from the same maker. They carry the same humanity. They have the same kind of brain. They have the same twenty four hours in a day. Is that not so? And the same capacity to learn, the same capacity to grow, the same capacity to think, the same capacity to change, to create. God did not make one person with a rich brain and make another person with a poor brain. That's why the bible says, Lord God made them all. God did not put greatness inside one and put poverty inside the other. Are you with me?

The Lord is the maker of them all, but the Lord did not make them so. The bible does not say the Lord made one rich and the Lord made the other poor. It says the Lord made them whole. God made the people, not their conditions. The rich and the poor met together. The bible does not say the Lord God made them so. The reason why this is important is because how the bible introduces them is through their conditions. That's why it's important you note the next line. It's their condition the bible uses to differentiate them. The bible does not say everybody meets together.

It says the rich and the poor. Those are two separate conditions. Is that not so? So if the bible is beginning with conditions, you would think that the next line would also be a continuation of the condition. Are you with me? As to mean the rich and the poor meets together, the Lord orchestrated their condition because it's beginning with their condition. It is a man meet together. Do you get me now? It's a condition he's talking about. But in the second line, he leaves the condition and now focuses on the men.

That listen, God did not make the condition. God made the men. Please stay with me. Yes, Stay with me. Their maker is the same, but their conditions are not. Their words are not. They don't think the same way. They don't have the same access to information. They don't have the same exposure. They don't have the same habits.

They don't speak the same language when it comes to money, when it comes to business, when it comes to opportunities, when it comes to investment, when it comes to ownership, when it comes to possibilities. They may live in the same city. They may drive on the same road. They may enter the same places. They might even sit in the same church. But they are living in two different worlds. The bible says, the Lord made them whole. In Genesis one from verse 26 to verse 27, the bible says, then the Lord said, let us make man. You see that? In our image, according to our likeness, let them have dominion.

The next verse says, so God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he in male and female, he created them. So both the rich and the poor are made in his image. You see that? God made them all. Both were created in his image with the ability to think, to imagine, to learn, to create, to organize, to cultivate, to dominate, to subdue, to produce, to be fruitful, to replenish both the rich and the poor. The Lord God made them all. John three sixteen, for God so loved who? Poor. The rich.

Who? The poor. You see again, at the cross, the rich and the poor meeting together. And the bible is saying Christ died for both of them. God so loved the world. Not God so loved people according to their bank accounts. God so loved the world. Everybody, the rich and the poor have this in common. Are you with me? That Christ redeemed them both.

That the holy spirit empowers them both. They have this in common. It is the meeting point of the rich and the poor. This meeting point is the point of sameness. What do I call it? The point of what now? Sameness. You'll understand this better when you read it in New King James version. Give me the New King James version. The New King James version says, the rich and the poor have this in common.

So the meat together there is not as though there's a confluence point where they gathered. It is that they have this in common. Stay with me. They have this in common. And it's very important to understand what they have in common. You should understand the language of the this. That this is very important. You know why it is important? It means the only thing that the rich and the poor have in common is this. Stay with me.

The only thing that the rich and the poor have in common is this. What is the this? The Lord God made them whole. That's it. It means apart from this, you can't find any other thing that the rich and the poor have in common. It means the reality of the rich man and the reality of the poor man are worlds apart. Oh, God. Please stay with me. The experience of the rich man and the experiences of the poor man are worlds apart. The mentality of the rich man and the mentality of the poor man are worlds apart.

Their thinking pattern, their mindset, their ideology, their behavior, the way they reason, the way they see life, their worldview, everything is different. But they are one thing in common. God made them whole. God loves them whole. God died for them whole. God gave them all his spirit. God gave them all wisdom in his spirit. Redemption in himself. Please stay with me. My God, you'll be so blessed.

Amen. In every other thing, the rich and the poor are walls apart. Primarily, that when you take the mentality of a rich man and you open it, you dissect it, you'll be shocked at the distance and the gap in your understanding of the rich compared to the poor. The information gap between the poor and the rich is unfairly wide. What did I say? The information gap between the poor and the rich is unfairly wide. The thought process, the discipline, the habits is not just different. It is wide. It is almost light years apart. Ah, God.

I got privilege to pay for a particular course. That course was in multiple 6 digits. It was a training online. If you're paying for a training in multiple 6 figures, you're sure you're not expecting the masses there. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It was a one day training. The training lasted for less than one hour thirty minutes. Wow. Yet I paid multiple 6 figures to be a part of the training.

As we were taught, I could only imagine how much people don't know. I felt... I don't know if it was pity or compassion that there are people who don't know this. The bible is saying when you bring the rich and the poor, the only thing that they have in common is that God made them whole. God loves them whole. So everywhere you read scripture and you see, I am wonderfully and fearfully made is to the rich is to the poor. They have this in common. Yes, sir. Let me say this. Let me say this.

Don't see the condition in which you were born and call it the will of God for your life. Don't see what has happened in your family and and call it or think that it's your destiny. Don't look at your present and then conclude that this is how God wants my life to be. If your interpretation of every outcome in your life is that this is the act of God, you will theologize a condition that you can come out of by wisdom. And there is no greater pain than than theologizing captivity. Stay with me. You will turn poverty into a doctrine. You will see the sovereignty of God, and you will use that sovereignty of God to defend your refusal to learn, your refusal to apply yourself. You will call lack of preparation contentment. You will call fear humility.

You will call smallness in your mind simplicity. You say I'm just a simple person. To excuse for smallness in the mind. And you will think that your refusal to take responsibility is faith. You will keep praying for God to change a condition that God have already given you the mind, given you the time, given you the relationships, given you the opportunities, and the wisdom to confront. But there is nothing with respect to God that the rich has, that the poor does not have. This they have in common. Oh, God. Lord God made them whole. So when a poor man says, God is my advantage, he's also the advantage of the rich.

Do you understand what I'm Think about what I've just said very well. Think about it very well. The Lord God made them whole. Think about it very well. If you think about it, it means God is not responsible for any man's condition because the rich has one thing in common with the poor. God made them poor. And when he made them, he didn't make one rich. He didn't make one poor. The condition is not what he made. The man is what he made.

That means that you have to separate the person God made from the mentality that your environment gave you. God made you. It's true. But the environment that you grew up in, your upbringing, your current level of exposure, what you witnessed growing up taught you everything that you presently believe. It means whether you were consciously paying attention to the education does not matter. The fact that you were living it out suggested to you instantly that you were becoming something. Please stay with me. Yes, sir. Please stay with me. Yes, sir.

So verse one says, a good name is to be chosen rather than great riches. Love and favor rather than silver and gold. And then it goes on to say the rich and the poor. So the context here is the rich and the poor. Are you with me? Everything we've read in this scripture, all in one chapter by Solomon then begins to give the differences between the rich and the poor. Everything that we read, it shows you what they have in common. It now begins to tell you their differences, that every other thing about them is different. Number one, a rich man, he says, prefers a good name to riches. He says if you give a poor man money and you tell him, rob your integrity for money.

A poor man will say, what is integrity to me? And pick money over integrity. Stay with me. That the rich and the poor live together, and the only thing they have in common is God. You check their mindsets and you check their mentalities and you find that they are worlds apart. Because you would think that everything that matters to the rich man is money. The proverb begins by telling you that there are things of greater worth to the wealthy man. The wealthy man is not only thinking money in terms of paper and how to get this money. No. There is a way that they are thinking that makes money like a slave.

Follow them. Like a slave. Like a slave. Emphasis on like a slave. Do their bidding. And I'm saying that God made you. Is that not so? But in making you, there are several other things that now began to participate in what you eventually become that makes for your condition that is not God. I said your environment, your upbringing, your level of exposure, the current level of exposure you have. It taught you many things that you now presently believe.

God made you, but God was not the one that introduced you to money. Your family introduced you money. Are you with me? God made you, but your upbringing taught you what to expect from life. Stay with me. God made you, but the things you saw as a child helped to determine what you now consider is possible. God made you, but God not teach you to be afraid of success, to be afraid of wealth. God not teach you to feel guilty for wanting a better life. God will not teach you to believe that good things belong to other people, but not you. Those things entered into your mind and into your subconscious through your experiences, through the conversations you had, through hardship, through disappointment, through the world in which you were raised.

You received several other mentalities that now begin to condition your condition. Stay with me. Yes, sir. It is one of the unfairness of life. What did I call it? Preach this to your neighbor. Tell him it's one of the unfairness of life. It's one of the unfairness of life. Life is designed that way. Let me tell you what I mean.

I was talking to two people yesterday, and I told them this. I said, imagine that you have a plane. You are in a plane going somewhere. You sit down enjoying the flight. The plane takes off, and you're enjoying your flight. It's a peaceful flight. There's no turbulence whatsoever. Just moving freely and and and enjoying everything. You can sleep if you want to sleep. You can rest if you wanna rest.

Wake up and go into the toilet, come back, eat, do whatever it is you wanna do. Is that not so? Yes, sir. Throughout all that flight, you are not conscious that there's a brother called gravity. Are you? Is that what you're thinking about? But what happens when the plane loses one of its engines? All of a sudden, gravity tells you, I'm here. And the plane that was flying starts to plummet. Is that not so?

Yes. The question is, is it at the point the engine got damaged that gravity started hacking? No. Gravity had always been there. The plane only had sufficient momentum. Are you with me? Yes, sir. To outrun the resistance that naturally resist it. That is how life is. There is resistance by default.

It is the unfairness of life. Do you understand what I'm saying? It does not, however, mean some people cannot fly because there are still planes that soar. There are still planes that move. It means when you see a diligent pilot, they check everything. Is the engine okay? They want to ensure that as we move, we are perfect enough to go against resistance and to get where they're going safely. Is that not so? Not everybody is that diligent. There are people that are careless.

They don't care the collision of the plane. They just want to go to where they're going. They now get up and realize there's gravity there. Then they start and they start to fall. My God, please stay with me. Yes, sir. It doesn't mean that those who are flying don't have resistance. Oh, God. Oh, God. If you don't learn what I'm about to teach you, you will realize that all your life will be a fruitless battle against resistance.

And, you know, because we are believers, we've been gaslighted by religion. So believers are hopeful. We are very hopeful people. All will be well. All will be well. All will be well. What you don't know is that there's nobody that has hope more than the conductor in the garage. The guy is 34 years old. He started doing conductor since he was 18. Yet when you go and meet him today, he say, oh, guy, he go better.

He go better. Tomorrow, better. You go and meet him tomorrow. Tomorrow go better. One day. One day. Ten years later, go and meet him. He's still there, and you probably die there. Yet he believes. One day he go better.

It's even terrible for those who have been blindfolded by religion. Who believe that once there is God in the equation, oh, I should have an effortless journey through life. Guess what? The rich and the poor have this in common. God. So perhaps it's time we tell ourselves the truth that perhaps God is not your problem. Perhaps there are conversations we should have that we're not having yet. The unfairness of life. Many of you grew up watching your parents struggle to survive. Your father leaves home very early in the morning to work, returns late at night, but there is nothing to show for it even though he left to work to fend for the family.

Your mother borrows food from a neighbor selling provisions and promises to pay at the end of the month, and this happens every month. Just so that the family can eat. When school resumes, the whole house becomes very tense because school fees have to be paid. It's at that point, I now see the father becoming excessively angry with everybody in the house. And the reason is because that angry man, there's just no money. He's unnecessarily tensed and aggravated because there's no money. He can't shout at anybody. He can't scream at anybody. There's no money. Sometimes the child is sent home because two fees have not been paid.

You see a child hawking food from school, helping the mother in the shop. Just so he can make ends meet. Fleets school, goes to the mother's shop, stays in the mother's shop till 11PM in the night, goes back home packing with the mother. If they don't do it, nobody will eat. He wears a cloth that was passed down from the whole generation to an older brother, to an older brother, to him because nobody buys anything new. Nobody buys anything new. The guy has learned not to ask for much because he already knows what the answer will be. When a visitor comes home and gives him and his siblings money, the mother will go and collect the money to buy what the family needs. Oh, and in all of this, you better not get sick because if you get sick, it's your fault. There's no money for hospital, so the best course of action is self care.

It's why some people are so good with drugs and medication. If anything is wrong with you, you will know someone who can tell you almost as though they study farmers in school what drug to use. Go and check very well. There was no access to hospital, so they have to learn it by themselves. Because if you fell sick, where do you get the money for card? Where do you get the money for consultation? Everybody in the family is an expert pharmacist. The mother did not go to school, you can call her at any point in time. Lora,. They had to learn it.

So we can misdiagnose. It's okay, but we cannot afford this. You grow up, and in your growing up, all the conversation around you is all about rent. We've not paid rent. Fees have not been paid. School fees have not been paid. There is still this debt there. This family member, maybe this family member can help us. Maybe that one can help us. And you watched as different people were coming to pray in the family.

Your mother probably was even a zealous woman. Love the Lord. Goes different mountain and different women of God and men of God to pray. Come back with all kinds of items of prayer. Holy water, holy oil, holy bell, and they ring it every morning. God, let the finances of this family change. Let the lot of this family change. Oluwa, send us helpers, and they are doing all of this morning and night, and you grew up watching as nothing changed. Listen to me. If this describes your life, understand something.

Before you ever got to a classroom in k g one or in nursery school, your environment had already started educating you about money. You were already getting your education. Whether you went to school or you did not, something was already educating you. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Your environment was already teaching you something about life, about relationships, about people, about wealth, about what is safe, about success, about failure, about even what you as a person should expect from life. Even about your own future. Let's now assume that the boy can even go to school. Look at the school itself. You say the science student, he has never seen a test tube before.

What does the classroom look like? What amenities are available? What kind of teachers are there? He has never entered into a laboratory before. He's been taught an experiment in physics, and he has to imagine it in his head because there is nothing. Has he ever seen computer in the school? Do you realize that as he goes through these experiences, his mind is being educated? There is an education that is going on even though nobody is sitting in now saying, this is this, that is that. There's an education that is going on that is higher and superior to any kind of mouthful education you could have given him. And when the boy comes to school and he's beaten and he's embarrassed in front of his classmates because his parent have not paid his school fees.

He's being educated as well. He's learning that poverty does not only deny you things. Poverty can also humiliate you publicly. It's learning that your inability to pay can make people speak to you as though you are less important than those who have paid. As though you are less important than those whose parents have money. And then he begins to associate money with dignity because he has seen what the lack of money can do to a person's dignity. It was because of lack of money that his parents were struggling with that made them bring him to the front of the assembly. Call his name and say, those who have not paid school fees. Shamed him in the public over something that was not his fault, then they flogged him again. Then he cried on to his parent, and you think his mind was not getting educated.

You think something was not telling him something. Are you with me? So at that point, he's concluding that because he has no money, he has no dignity. He's concluding what is what is worth. He's concluding what is worth. He's concluding what is value. He's concluding that those who stayed because their parents can pay are better than me. When he is told that he cannot go for an excursion with his classmates because his parents cannot pay for the excursion because they have no money, he's being educated. His classmates will return, and they're going to tell him stories about where they went, what they saw, and their minds have been enlarged. Is that not so?

Yes, sir. What they saw different from the world they left behind. The classmate came and told him, we saw her own plane. We saw her room playing. The excursion fee was 15,000. Father and mother could not pay. Those small children have not only gotten to excursion, their mind have become larger. They've seen something outside the neighborhood of their growth, whereas his own world remains small, remains the same. And after this begins to happen, and it happens repeatedly again and again, at some point, he will stop asking his parents. He may even pretend the next time you're talking about his question that he's not interested because it is easier to act as though you don't want something than to admit you cannot afford it.

And he's being educated. That child is now learning to kill his desires before poverty embarrasses him. What's the point of desiring to go? What's the point of telling my classmate I'm planning with them as well I will join them? Two weeks and one week, I will now ask my mother and ask my father, where is the money? And then they will tell me all kind of stories. What's the point? So by himself, he begins to lower his expectations from life. Oh god. Please stay with me.

And he's learning all of this. A framework is building in the heart of a child. Don't expect much from life. Life will disappoint you. Be comfortable with nothing. Be comfortable with smallness. At that point, it defines contentment from his experience. And when he goes home, he doesn't even need to fight or to struggle much. His spirit reinforce what he's already learning from life to him by telling him, see, let's just be content. And the boy is wondering, you don't have to tell me.

I'm already content. I've developed a coping strategy already that is beyond what a thousand words can give me. That the best way to avoid disappointment is to think less of life. When he gets back home and he sees father and his mother fighting, there's no money in the house, so they are fighting. He's being educated. I've been watching the drama unfold, and education is happening in his mind. He heard his mother shouting at the father, calling the father irresponsible because truly the father might be irresponsible. He hears the father shouting back, I'm doing my best. I'm doing my best. Am I not trying for this family?

When he comes back, it's his plates that have broken, shattered on the floor. He has to go and sweep broken plates, doors being slammed left and right because two adults are fighting. Insults being exchanged. And sometimes sometimes even physical violence, he would see the father slap the mother, and the mother too will fight and defend himself. And I don't think he can do. As he's watching, he's learning something. Life is teaching him a lesson. Please stay with me. I'm going somewhere. He begins to learn from a small age that marriage is a battlefield.

It begins to learn from a small age. Women cannot be trusted. Men cannot be trusted. Women are troublesome. From a small age. He learns that when there is pressure, shouting is how adults communicate. And then he will now grow up and promise himself that he will never become like his father. But fighting is the only way that he has ever seen disagreement handled. So he end up his own marriage and repeat the same thing because he was educated by what he saw. I have seen the failure of those who tell themselves, I will not become this, and they mercilessly become it.

You know why? You know why? Because life has no respect for what they said. It's called gravity. It is resistance. It only respects your preparation. It only respects that the engines were working before you picked up. It does not respect your confession when you stood in front of the plane saying, plane, you will get me where I'm going. The question is, can you fly? Do you know the laws of thermodynamics?

That's what matters there. And if the answer is no, you might stand and say whatever it is you want, and gravity will tell you, I'm still here. Brother, I'm still here. Down you go. It doesn't matter how many time the plane becomes grounded and you try to pick it up again. It will always go down. Always go down. It doesn't matter how many times you shout God, God, God, because the rich and the poor meet together. The Lord is the maker of them all. I've seen young children in the night.

They go to sleep and they hear the sound of gunshots. Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow. Poverty would not let them live in good areas with security. Every night he goes to sleep is traumatized. The environment is not safe. Thieves can come at any time.

Maybe they didn't even come to his house before. The solution might be, let us get a house in an area that is properly secured. Is that not so? But no. What can we afford? We can afford 100 naira sticker in church. The Lord protect his own. Let God arise. Let his enemy be scattered and to put it in front of our door. And we stand down and say the blood of Jesus.

We plead the blood of Jesus. And he sees his father and his mother do this every day. Here that night, they came and knocked. Who is that? We are the ones. Somebody will be hungry. I sense chains breaking oh. See, when light comes, your life has changed. The light shines in darkness. The darkness comprehends it not.

This is what the devil is afraid of. It's not prayer that shines in darkness. I wish it were but it's not. The light shines in darkness. The entrance of your word gives light. It gives understanding to the symbol. Because when a man receives light, darkness must flee. So the devil will try his best to keep a man in darkness. He will prefer that you can pray but be in darkness. You can fast but be in darkness.

That you love God but be in darkness. And you will do this thing called religion for 80 and see no tangible change in your life. Yet you will see people who are not as passionate as you are, who are not as zealous as you are, who are not even as committed to church and to church activities as you are, getting lifted right and center. And it look as though God is unfair. Because our theology of God is even wrong to begin with. The rich and the poor meet together. Somebody getting blessed? Yes, sir. Sir. So he goes to sleep and he's afraid.

He's been educated. That fear makes him suspicious of everything. Suspicious of strangers to hide what he has from everybody, to never feel safe wherever he might find himself. That fear can even follow him. Eventually, when he leave that neighborhood, the fear will still follow him. He might even enter into a safe place and begin to behave as though somebody is about to attack him. His body has left the environment, but the environment has not left his body. It has left residues of education. He goes back home to a drunk father when he's growing up, and a drunk mother when he's growing up, he's been irrigated. Leave his room at 9PM in the night and sees the father drinking beer.

The following day is a weekend the father will call like three friends together. There's no one in the house, but one way or the other, they all have money to buy a star. And he sees them outside the house. We were wearing no clothes and with very big bellies, drinking stars, and discussing, complaining, all kind of things. And the guy is wondering, seeing what he's seeing, there's an education being passed. He's being educated. And he learns from that education that when life becomes painful, instead of confronting the problem, escape the problem. How do you escape? Get a bottle of beer. He learns that the way adults deal with disappointment is by drinking, by becoming violent, by disappearing, by becoming unavailable.

He's learning it at the child. He learns that the people who are supposed to protect you can be the same people That you need protection from. And he will grow up carrying anger that he cannot explain. Carrying shame he cannot explain. Struggling to trust people. Using another form of escape when life becomes difficult for him. Things that he learned, he can't even explain where he learned it. Now the guy is in a relationship. When there is a kind of argument, he just off his phone for three days. He has learned escape.

That whenever it is you see a pressure, escape. Something taught him that. Nobody sat him down to say, this is the law of life. When you see pressure, escape. But now it is life. Everything that looks difficult, he runs. He can't confront the problem. He saw a model growing up that taught him something. Are you still with me? Yes, sir.

He entered his father's room to go and pick up a cassette to watch. He looks at the series, and he says Jumanq there. His classmates have been talking about Jumanq growing up. Is that not so? And then he finally wants to watch it when his parents are not at home, and then he's slaughtering Jumanq. And what he sees is naked women, man and woman kissing each other, having sex. This is a six year old boy wondering what is happening. What am I seeing? Nobody has sat him down to explain love, to explain intimacy, to explain respect, to explain commitment, how a man should treat a woman, how a man should relate with a woman. But pornographers...

Pornography become his first teacher. It teaches him how to see a person's body without seeing the person. It teaches him that intimacy is about appetite, not covenant, not responsibility, not honor, not love. That by the time somebody finally speaks to him about relationships, another teacher has already been teaching him for many years. And his parents may believe they didn't teach him anything about sex, But their silence did not leave him uneducated. It only allowed another teacher to take over. When he watches his father begging a wealthy relative for money and later, that relative helps in the way that he can help. The father then comes back home, tells the wife and the family. This person helped also And then sees the father insulting the same relative that just helped him because they didn't give him enough money. He's been educated.

He learns that successful people are wicked. He learns that if someone has more than you, the person must have cheated. The person must have stolen. The person must have oppressed somebody. The person must refuse to share. They must be hurting. All those rich people, they are wicked. When a person drives an expensive car through the neighborhood and is passing, young man that worked for his money, everybody in that neighborhood begins to calculate how much the cost of that car is and how many people the price of that car can fit. And while he's growing up, what he's hearing is That's what he's hearing. What he's hearing?

Analyzing the wealth of rich men and poking down on them. They buy newspaper and they are insulting Dangote. There is no positivity, no growth, no productivity, and you're just growing in an environment. Are you with me? Sir. The year that a man of God bought a private jet or built an expensive house or traveled for a holiday or does anything really, they become offended. And the child is listening to those conversations and he's being educated. Now he has grown up and he has learned to see every rich man as an enemy. Instead of seeing them as someone to learn from, someone to learn discipline, Instead of seeing them as relationships can build, opportunities he can study. He learns to believe that the rich or the poor an explanation for how they spend their money.

He learns that anybody that lives outside the suffering that he knows and that he has grown up with must be proud, must be wasteful, must be selfish, must be dishonest. And if somebody in that neighborhood begins to succeed, and then how he dresses changes, you know, where he lives changes, how he speaks changes, then people start saying he has forgotten where he came from. He's proud. He has become proud. If he introduces a higher standard, they say he's trying to impress people. If he refueled to continuing the habits that kept everybody poor, then they will call him proud. The child learns that growth can make your own people turn against you. So it against to reduce himself to remain accepted by everybody. He's also taught how to respond to people that are different from him. Instead of becoming curious to know what makes them different, he becomes offended.

Instead of asking, what does this person know that I don't know? The question that comes to his mind is, who does he think he is? He was thought. That thought did not jump there. You were thought. Something thought you. Instead of allowing somebody that says success to show you what is possible, you will now begin to use suspicion to bring the person down to a level of what you understand. You will say, Because anything outside of his normal experience looks wrong to him. Because his normal experience has now become the definition of what is normal. That means if somebody charges more for his service, he thinks the person is greedy, Enter the barbing salon and he sees the kind of aesthetics and the kind of beauty of the salon and then he wants to barb his hair.

And then he asks, how much did you barb hair here? And they say, oh, one haircut is 20 k. Hello, baby. And then he leaves the place. Hungry, offended, thieves, they are stealing because he cannot comprehend how somebody can charge that much for value. And he does not know he has been educated. Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me. Come and lend me money.

Come and lend me money. And the reason you can come to somebody to come and lend him money because maybe he sees the person... The way the person dresses, the way the person looks. If he does well, this person has a car. Can... Person can help me? And he says, I've not paid my school fees. I've not done this. And he is approaching the person expecting that because he's wealthy, he will just dip his arm in his pocket. After all, this thing I'm asking for is small money to you now.

That's the way he has been taught. He doesn't know better. She doesn't know better. So when the person says, ah, I don't have much right now, he becomes offended in his heart as though every rich man that he sees has a covenant to God to help him. And when they don't help him like this, there's a problem. Glory to God. Begins to judge another world with rules of the world in which he was raised. Have you not seen people that you see maybe a colleague of yours or something calling his father and then doing, I love you, daddy. And you are thinking, what is happening is that you are using the rules that govern your whole realm to begin to judge somebody living in a different realm to yours. Because if it's outside of your scope, it must be fake.

It means your scope has defined what is normal. That's the meaning oh. It means I don't think that that life can be mine. You don't know the impact of this thing, my God. I've been so educated by my upbringing. That if it is not in my realm, it's a lie. It is fake. It's why people gather and they begin to talk down on men of God. Yes. By the time he grows up, finish.

He has learned. Money is difficult to get. And easy to lose. He has learnt that life is mainly about surviving one emergency after the next. He has learnt that when money comes like this, you must use that money to immediately solve the problem that is shouting the loudest at you. He has learned. You cannot plan too far in the future because your today has not been settled. So what are you thinking about next year, five years, ten years for? You go and ask him, what do you say ten years from now? And the guy is wondering, ten years.

And indeed, Johnaleh. The question looks strange to his years. Where do you see yourself ten years from now? Are you saying that all your life now is sorted? All your bills now are paid? But you can be asking that kind of question. He does not know what it means to plan ahead. So when you tell him give, give is as though you are scratching in with torn and thistles. Give. Give.

Do you know how hard it is to get money? Do you know how difficult money comes to a person's hand? And you are seeing king Kofi and Bey, what he saw his father and his mother labored for. And it still was not enough. Tell him if you want to prosper, give he. Warn yourself. So he sees a pastor who is telling him give. He doesn't know when hatred is forming in his heart against the pastor. It does not matter what else the pastor preaches. Salvation, holy spirit, stupid pastors, foolish pastors.

You can't blame him. He's in his scope. And guess what? He's not the only one in that scope. It's why poverty sustained itself. When money entered his hand, buy what you need now. Buy what you need now because he does not trust that the money will still be there tomorrow. He has learned that rich people are simply lucky people who somehow escaped the life that he knows. He has learned to resent people that do well, whereas he's secretly wishing they can live like them. But when he sees them, he resents their progress, resents their success.

That's why he can't celebrate with somebody genuinely. Somebody come to check testimony. Oh, I just got a deal. And something in him cannot just be happy. He's trying to be. But you can tell the whole thing is at all is forcing it. Because all his life, he saw his father bitter and bitter with his cousins. Because they were more well-to-do than him. And when they gave him his father opportunities to come and work here, the father became angry and said, me, I should come and work here. So all the money you have, that's what you can tell me.

That's what he saw. He has been educated to think that when a rich man offers you help, that's not the best they can do. God. He has learned that conflict is normal. To fight is normal. Fear is normal. Disorder is normal. Poverty is normal. Embarrassment is normal. Surviving is an achievement.

Where it came from? Because his only encouragement is that my life is better than my neighbor's home. That's the encouragement. The encouragement is that at least we are surviving. The encouragement is that as bad of his own circumstances, there were still some boys that come to his door every month to come and beg. And he he looked at them and say, Kai, at least my own is not like this. He has been trained by a survivor as to think that survivor is an accomplishment. So his language now has changed. People like us cannot live like that. People like us cannot afford that.

People like us cannot amount to much. People like us should be grateful for anything that we get. People like us don't expect much from life. Nobody sat him down at any point to teach him. Let me teach you how poor men think. Nobody prepared any kind of timetable and called the subject poverty studies. Yet he has learned it by living, just by living. He has learned it. He's 19 year old now. From when he was 10, he started living like a poor man, thinking like a poor man.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. He has learned it from what happens to him every day. The environment that he lived in was his first school. So when the bible says, the rich and the poor has this in common. The Lord made them whole. He now started telling you differences between the rich and the poor. When he now got over six, what did it say? He said train up a child in the way he should go. Because when he hold that thing that he saw, he will not depart from it.

And we use these scriptures to talk about taking children to church. But training is bigger than what you tell a child. You are also treating a child by the kind of life you expose him to. The kind of life he watches repeatedly. If he watches his parent fight every time that money becomes scarce in the house, he's been trained. If these people borrow money to celebrate, whenever there is celebration coming, the mother will go and borrow from everybody just to do party. They are poor, but when they throw party, they will kick cow. And when it's time for those events, the mother can go and negotiate with the cow person and pay 10 k out of 70 k. He will see ridiculous negotiation skills. And he's learning.

And they cut half cow. Give it to them. Calls the person supplying drinks. They bring drinks. They bring everything. And for one day, he learns that, uh-uh, don't have to be successful to be successful. Can appear like it, and you can borrow money to appear like it. What is... So you hear the guy say, ah, supposed to help me. I'm owing Pompey.

I'm owing whole pay. I'm owing many pay. And by the time you ask him, what did you collect money for Panpay for? You would think it's a business investment. Hero, because somebody taught him that it does not matter. You can borrow to look good. You can borrow to save yourself appearance. And he lent it. He says the rich and the poor have this in common. And it is God.

Every other thing is different. And what else is different? How they train their child? What else is different? How they train their child? On the other side of that divide, you now have another child who is growing up in a compound where his father has five cars. People come to his father's house, and he hears his father discussing investment on the telephone. He grows up hearing millions and billions on a daily basis. He's hearing conversations about companies, properties, shares, tax lawyers, bankers, directors, expansion, ownership, properties, buying land. That's the kind of things he hears.

I used to know a girl, very interesting young lady. When she was 17 years old or so, she met me, either 16 or 17, thereabout. She met me. At the time she met me, she was telling me, apostle, you know, I need to know what I should do with my 4,000,000 naira. I said, come again, your what? I said, my 4,000,000 naira. I think I need prayers. Prayers for what? And then the girl told me, oh, you know my father told us how to save and invest money since we're in GFS one. So actually, mine began from nursery one.

So every pocket money they gave me, I'll put it in my savings. And even if it's savings, you know, your money has to multiply. So I will put it in my mother's business, and she would invest it for me, and then she'd give me my interest and my capital back. And this was a sixteen year old. Coming to a pastor to pray for her. I've never seen 1,000,000 at that age. This was many years ago. This was about ten years ago. This is about ten years ago. What am I saying?

1,000,000? I've never seen a 100,000. The highest I had gotten paid at the comedian was 50,000. Guess what I did with it? I bought a big phone. Who taught me investment? Who taught me savings? I bought a big phone. It was a testimony. I go to class.

I hold in a big phone. Somebody from mostly one. Now she meets me in a levels the money I've become 4,000,000. Capital and interest. And she's telling me, pray for me. I need wisdom for my next investment. I told you that there is a world of difference. Are you with me? Yes, sir. A world of difference.

From a young age, you know what it means to travel and see different countries. He sees his parents meeting people who are making business decisions. When something breaks in the house, somebody is called to come and fix it. That child is only receiving an education. He's also receiving what? It was not entered into a classroom, but the education has begun already. He breaks plates. He runs to mommy. Mommy, mommy, the breath is broken. Mommy said, oh my god.

Did you hurt your finger? And then takes the finger that she... That is bleeding. And the child is crying, and she... And the mommy is trying to take care of her finger, trying to take care of everything that is there. And say, mommy, be playing. Don't worry. We'll get another one, baby. And then they come. They help her.

They do this. And you don't think that an education happening. Listen to me. Listen to me. And there is a world of differences. His environment is pitching in that money is not something you spend anyhow. Money can be organized. Money can be invested. Money can be multiplied. Money can be used to build.

The other guy doesn't know Jack about money. He's learning from a young age that large figures are not strange. Imagine a 16 year old speaking of 4,000,000 like you were 4 naira. That large figures are not strange to the years. He's learning from a young age that businesses can be bought. Because when the father takes her out, what she's asking the father is, daddy, what are we doing here? Oh, want... We came to negotiate. We wanna buy up this business. It will inform the kind of questions you'll be asking.

Daddy, what does buy mean? What about business? And his child is sitting down and is teaching him buy and business and why we buy businesses. The other one is asking for the Yes what? God is not their problem. Yes, sir. I'm saying that your environment can transit knowledge to you before any formal education begins. Your environment can teach you confidence. It can determine the kind of language that you use. It can teach you what belongs to you and what you believe belongs to other people.

It can teach you what looks normal, what looks excessive, what looks impossible, what you should never attempt in life. And that education can become so deep that you don't even know you've been educated wrongly because you've now believed that the wrong education is how life is. But that's not how life is. It's only how life has been where you came from. Stay with me. I'm going somewhere. I was listening to a man speak about his childhood. And he said, his growth was like the case of the rich dad, poor dad. He had two people in his life who were father figures to him. The father and the mother were so poor, so poor, so poor when he was describing how poor they were.

He says the environment they grew up in. He used to sell fruit and hook fruits for his mother. Hook fruit for his mother to go to school. It's the proceed from the fruit that they count to say, And they discovered that for the larger part of his years, couldn't go to school. So what they could afford was private lesson, daily lesson. Not those places where you go and they gather you in somebody's house. And then after going to sell fruit, he will now come back with his own change and to pay for the daily lesson. While his mates are in school, He said among the fruits that they were selling, they couldn't sell apple because apple was too expensive. And the street was such that if they sold apple, nobody can buy it because nobody can afford it. In the entire street.

Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. Even the first time he heard Hapu was when he was 16 years old or so. And then he heard the thing. He said, hey. Stay with me. Said, there was a friend that his father had who became like a father figure to him as well. And then the friend was well-to-do and extremely prosperous. So the friend invited him. I haven't heard that he passed away to his house to come and meet his children and just to come together.

He's taking his children out. Let him come. So he came from his own place after selling fruit, walks on clothes, went to the second father figure's house. Is that not so? Yes, sir. Somewhere in the battle here. And upon getting there, he entered the compound and saw a gigantic house. I was wondering which room is their home. Until he was told that the entire house is theirs. He said he stood.

He said, I think it's four cars that he saw packed. He said he didn't know that somebody can even have one car. Talk more. Packed. He said everything was looking strange to him. He sat down in his room. The chair was so big. He he was looking for, how how do I sit down in a place like this? He had to squint to sit down somewhere tiny despite nobody was monitoring him. Yet it felt like a privilege to have been there.

The man then came out and said, yeah. Let's go. Enter into one of the cars, took his children to go and buy phones, And they entered into a mobile phone store many years ago. There was a time iPhones, all these things, Android becoming popular. Is that not so? And then when they got there, the man stood and told the children, take anything you want. Laptops, phones, everything was there. And when the children got there, they ran happily across the store, disturbing everybody's peace and packing things. He stood wondering, am I part of them? And the man said, go.

Go. Go. And he was walking, looking at everything and saying, what what? Anything. Anything. He went to the smallest thing he could see and came there, took it. The man asked him, is that what you want? He said, sincerely speaking, it was not as though he wanted more but was afraid to take it. He said that was not it. He was even privileged.

So it means there was no space in his mind to even think. Do you understand what I'm saying? There was no space in his mind to even think that more could be mine. So it wasn't the case of, I want mold, but I'm afraid. What would they say? It was that there was no space in the mind at all. That was just what life was to him. He had been so conditioned that even when opportunity were thrown in his front. He couldn't perceive life differently. He was helpless in front of an open door.

Stay with me. Stay with me. The person I'm speaking about now is now a multimillionaire. It's not even a billionaire. What does it tell me? It tells me that the plane does not have to stay grounded. It tells me that it doesn't matter which side of the divide that you are. You are not entirely disadvantaged. It tells me that there is a bridge that can happen. There is something a man can now begin to know.

It tells me that a man can tell himself that even though I started from here, I will not hand in this place. It tells me that a man can decide that I hold to my destiny. I hold to my own children. I hold to my own family. But when the bible says, train up a child in the way it should go. I might not have had that privilege, but my children will have it. A man can tell himself. I will write something about my life. I will write something about my future. I will write something about my destiny.

Amen. This is not how my story will end. It won't end like this. Listen to me. It won't end like this not just because you come to church, not just because you pray, not just because you have an apostle over you. Do you understand what I'm saying? There must be something tangible and powerful happening within your mind on a daily basis that is bridging the gap between the poor and the rich. That is gradually transitioning you from that condition you currently have and moving you to where you should be. You know, it's why I pity people. Oh, I look at them, and I see disadvantages stacked up against them, and they take their life as though it's a joke.

Oh, I pity them. I pity people that there is already disadvantages stacked up against them the way you see them living. You know how your father lived. You know how your mother lived. Big girl. Hound Bubbies girl, you are joining people. You have no idea where they come from and what kind of life they had. Instead of you to carry books and read, to say, instead of you to tell yourself that, see, see, see, God of Nazareth. Do you know that this thing is so terrible that even the mentality of parents whose condition the bible defines as poor, Not male. Condition the Bible defines as poor.

You will see how affected their mentality is. That even when any of their children begin to rise. Because of their mentality, they will strip down his rising. And they will be the one to kill the child's rising. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. With demands upon demands upon demands. They will put responsibility on the child that is not his to bear. Because what exists in their mind is poverty. The only death finish on they have of money is spent.

So they will call the child and say, baba, think just busy. So I'm a quit So You might think it's controversial, but I came to deliver somebody oh. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Let me tell you what happens. Give me a cup. Give me water. And this is you. This is you coming from that family I've just described.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. No. God now helped you. You came to this year. God now started helping you. You now realize that, uh-uh, soul is being refreshed. You're just sharing testimonies that God has helped me. Uh-uh. I I called my first job.

I got my chemical, and then foolish you. We now go to the people whose mentality about poverty has not changed And say, mommy, you won't believe what happened. Daddy, you won't believe what happened. You're not saying, hey, what happened? Sister, give me a go there. And then they begin to say, mommy, hospital. But what happens? Just to what happens? What happens? If as everybody is clamoring on you and saying jaw, jaw, hey, jaw.

You just do as though you cannot see anybody. What happens is that this begins to happen. This begins to happen. Watch. It begins to happen. Begins to happen. It begins to happen. It begins to happen. Finally, everybody clamoring will eventually get enough to drink. The woman and the man who grew in poverty cannot train a child like this.

The moment they see an incline of open door, they make demand that chokes the child and kills any potential of anything good rising. Do you understand what I'm saying? Is And because of because of gaslighting and emotional manipulation, we tell ourselves, do you know that to be rich, is legacy, not money. To the rich. Is a prosperous man expecting to receive from his child. Tell me. Tell me. Can't you see this poverty in the mind that makes somebody thinks that and tears I labored on you. They beg you to burn me. Don't gaslight me.

It's your responsibility. Under God. But you know we live in Africa. You are a parent, listen to me. Let your mind be corrected. The rich and the poor meet together. That's why both of them cannot talk and reason. It's not possible. Do you know I was teaching in Abadina? And I gathered young people together.

And I told them, you are giving him millions and they were shouting, amen, receiving it and power was coming upon them. And somebody brought their parents and the parent came to me and said, How do I begin to explain to this person? Tell me mommy. How do I begin to teach this person? A dear lady came to me and she was telling me something. Every time she beats me, it's always about her family, my mother, my father. Sometimes she would be crying, you would see pain and tears and all these things. And she said, they said to me, you know, meant so much to her, I could tell. And she said I'm sowing this seed on behalf of my father and she shared again another terrible story. I started asking her questions.

And from the questions I knew, that what she was trusting God that will not happen. Will happen again. And again. And again. And again and God is not the problem. I could see mentalities and mindset in the people that she's so passionate about. Do you understand what I'm saying? I could see her passion. But the people that she's passionate that their flight will pick up have dead engines. And she's so zealous about them when she comes to me.

And I'm looking, I'm saying, my goodness. Can't you see that even if God helps this flight to take off, it can't go very far. It will still drop. It will still drop. It will still drop. I wish I could tell people that listen to me brothers and sisters, it might be your destiny to die for the world, but you wouldn't die as a baby. It is wisdom to know when you are not meant to die. The bible said an angel came and told Joseph, take this child whose destiny is to die. Take him away from where they are killing children. After all, destiny is to die.

But we check destiny and we found out that's not how he must die He must die on the cross Because the bible said cursed is him that hangs on a tree. So he must hang. And you cannot kneel a baby to the cross. It's not his time to die. Take that child away. Do you know what happened? As they were taking the child away and running, Jesus, your savior, your savior, they took him away. The child did not say, no, I'm the savior of the world. They are killing children. Do you know that nothing happened?

The children died. Yes. No. Thousands of children died because they were looking for Jesus, and it's not because he was the savior. Forfeit his assignment to say, just kill me. Leave them alone. What will not happen to you and me? See, I'm telling you that there is a time that you ignore the pain of people because you have not yet developed substantial stature. What I'm teaching might be controversial, I know. I know.

I came prepared not to care. So as I was praying my prayer was give me grace not to send The boy makes 1,000,000 naira and hey, what he blow. Poverty has discipled you. What a pity. What a pity. Poverty has discipled you. Enters into a clique of people who are doing well. It means somebody is praying, their prayer is working. For you to even find people who are doing well, it means your circle has changed. And they introduce you to a money making venture.

And they tell you, start doing this business, and you start doing the business. And the moment you start, you make your first million, 10,000,000 even. Then $1,020,000,000. The first thing he wants to do is buy Lexus. Lexus. Ever since I've been poor, I've been seeing this car. Now it's my time. And as he's going to buy the car, he plays the song, I will never be the same. I've touched your grace. Amen.

My time has come. And he does not know. He does not know. Nothing about this time has come. Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. Leave that side of the story and come back with me. When a man realizes that this is the side of the divide that I come from. Hear me.

Your life must not end in that Ambadra, Ambadra. In church, we are receiving prophecies. I tell you, you can live like this for many years and nothing tangible changes about your life. I'm telling you that a time comes when you must make a decision that I will bridge the gap. I will. I will not remain ignorant forever. And now is the time. Listen to me carefully. I saw the kind of family I came from, and I decided I will not reproduce certain things in my family. I decided.

I decided as a teenager, my wife will not suffer. My children will not suffer. As a teenager. I decided. That decision threw me into books. I read like a madman because I knew that the distance is a distance of knowledge. I read biographies. I gave myself to the word of God. I gave myself to books. I listened to messages.

I was devouring them like an hungry lion. Where can I find the principles that make men? Where can I find it? Where can I find it? I'm I'm not part of those who are stubborn. Let me tell you something. I already told you that there's an unfairness to life. That unfairness to life means that there is resistance against you already. Let me show you something. Let me use sisters.

Five sisters, come. Just one, two, three, four, five. Just come. The five of you should just come. Fast, please. Fast, please. Is that up to five? Alright. Hope you are not shy, people. You will not be shy in Jesus' name.

Now this is what I want you to do. I want you to attempt to move this way, and I want the four of you to ensure she doesn't move. Do you understand what I'm saying? Let's do that. Let's see how that goes. Try your best. Is that how you move, sister? I said move. See. See.

See what you are saying now. That's how life is. This is life. Let me tell you what your stubbornness does. Let me tell you what your stubbornness does. This thing this way now. Now push her. You're walking. Push her forward. Listen.

The resistance is walking this way. Are you with me? It's ensuring that it does not come this way. Are you with me? A stubborn person says, I need to the resistance. It is not it's not enough that she turns. Plus the resistance. Plus her own will. Everybody joins hand and assist her to go backward so that it does not matter how she arrives here. For every moment they talk to her and she refuses to hear, what she's doing is delaying transformation.

That delayed transformation is not keeping her on one spot. In life, nobody remains the same. The problem is that you think that you are remaining one spot. That if I pause here, I can come back next year. I'll start from here again. These were things I knew at the at the at the young child. So prayer, you will find me there. Study, you will find me there. Reading, you will find me there. They will not tell me, come to church and I will be stubborn.

Me, choice. Nobody in my family is like that. I insist I will be the first. I won't be the first. But they are teaching me truth. They are still now forcing me to hear the truth. God has blessed me that I found truth. God has blessed me. Do you know why? God has blessed me.

Because the truth I have found, the one who grew up in a rich man's home found it by default. I did not. So when God brings me to a place like this, and this truth are being made bare before my eyes, And I'm seeing the law of honor. Let me show you some things. God. The proverbs are red. The proverbs are red. Let's do verse seven. Can you say the rich rules over the poor? The borrower is what?

God. Words are part. Words apart. A rich man knows. A rich man knows. That the borrower is servant to the lender. A rich man knows. Next verse. My spirit is so full. I don't even know.

Then verse eight says, he who sows iniquity will reap sorrow. And the rod of his hunger will fail. I don't have time for this one. Ah, if you sit down with these things and open them, you will see massive gaps between the rich and the poor. Next verse, but I have somewhere I'm going. He said, he who has a generous high will be blessed. In other words, if he is a giver, he will be blessed. The rich and the poor have this in common. What does the rich have? And the poor man does not.

A generous high. And what is called a generous high. There's a way a rich man sees. It's why you will see billionaires and millionaires giving majority of their income to philanthropy. If you've studied, it's not the reality of the poor. A poor man cannot even think of giving 1 naira to church. Talk more for the poor. It is for he gives of his bread to the poor. Next verse. Next verse.

One, two, three, go. He's teaching you the secret of the rich man to access. But there is a kind of man that the king befriends. And the rich man knows. The rich man knows how to position himself as the kind of man that the king befriends. That he who loves purity of heart. Integrity of heart. That the king can trust you with numbers. And you would not because you have seen so much poverty. Now they are trusting you with wealth.

You would now want to revenge on poverty by taking money that is not your own. I was told that in some departments, they were giving money to certain people, and they spent the money that the department was putting in their hands. Are you with me? Yes, sir. For personal needs, to solve their personal needs. That's how a poor man thinks. That's how a poor man thinks. Because that already explains what their mentality will also be in the marketplace. But if you keep anything in their hands, it's not safe in their hands. That would mean that there is no integrity in their heart.

Are you with me? And the bible says the king is not friend to whoever has no integrity. These are lessons that a wealthy man teaches his sons for free. These are lessons I need to see in scriptures. And when I see them in scriptures, I don't start debating with those who show me them. Are you with me? I submit my heart to it at once. At once, the king will be his friend, he says. So I know the secret to access. He says, and as grace on his lips, that it is a way I must speak.

There's a way I must talk. I can't talk anyhow. You wouldn't find me on social media talking anyhow. You wouldn't find me on people's comment sections talking anyhow. Neither would you find the wealthy. Neither would you find the rich doing the same. Grace on his lips. That's why when I say generation that banter people online, somebody post a video and you go there and say, you go there and say, It's what you've seen around you. You wake up in the morning, The next voice you're hearing is is a norm for you. So you go on social media and you see people going about their daily lives, and you have nothing to offer but insult.

It's a poverty thinking generation. And guess what? Guess what? You will think like those things don't matter. Until you meet people who before they invite you to their circles, they will do all the refresh they can get on you. They want to know how do you speak. Can we trust this one? What is the quality of his character? And they go and study your social media. Study and everywhere your name appears.

And they will see my goodness. Look at this one. He doesn't know how to talk. Look at this one. See how he's speaking. Look at it. You can't trust him with this. People disqualify themselves for living they least imagine. That's not where I'm going. Next verse.

Next verse. Watch this. What is this? They may get a member again the difference between the rich and the poor. He says the reason why a lazy man will not go out. Is because he says there's a lion outside. If I go out to work, rain is falling. There's a lion outside. In other words, the lazy man who will never prosper can see a thousand reasons why it should not work. He can give you 10,000 reasons.

It's because I don't have a laptop. It's because I don't have this available to me. It's because this is not there. It's because that is not there. The rich man gives no excuse. Give no excuse whatsoever. If a lion is there, let's go and face a lion. Let's go and face a lion. Does the bible not say the righteous is as bold as a lion? But no.

The lazy man will have reasons upon reasons stacked against each other for why he will never do what he's supposed to do. The same man that I spoke about who was given the opportunity, you know, to meet the man that had four cars in his house, also spoke about how when he now started getting hungry and say, my life cannot end like this. And he started learning his skills, starting a business, and, you know, pursuing wealth. Moving slowly but reading voraciously, committed to God and serious with God. Said, as he was pushing, somebody now invited him and said, I like what you're doing. I like how you are pushing yourself. I like how you are, you know, doing all these things with your life and destiny. You know what you do? Write the proposal for me. I want you to work with me.

And then the man accepted, thought it was a breakthrough for him, opened up for him. They went to go and download the template online for the proposal and just copied everything in the template there. I went to go and give the woman. When she got to the woman, the woman called the conference room and said, alright. Present present what you have brought to us. What is the proposal like? So he he called all the... Everything, all the services they will deliver. When it was done, it got to the part of the invoice and the price. It was in 8 figures.

Right? It was in 8 figures. Multiple 8 figures. He said he was in the conference room. He was looking at the figure, and he said how much is it? And his mouth could not call it. He said he kept on pointing. He found out he couldn't pronounce. It means if he had not used a template, he would never have written that down. Never have written that down.

There are figures like that that your mind as of now would not be able to pronounce because your environment allowed you not to touch them or even see them. It's okay if I have not touched them, but it's no okay if I have not seen them. There are opportunities that you would destroy because the opportunities are larger than your confidence. So even when a door opens, your confidence is still too weak because it is still defined by the wrong education you had in your upbringing. So you can still be whimpering, and you are whimpering in front of an opportunity because you have not allowed this word you are hearing do something to you. Because if it has, it will be washing away every education that you might have received. Contrary. To what God word says about you. It will be washing it away. That when it's time to make deals, it doesn't matter where you are coming from.

You don't behave like where you are coming from. You have been so taught that the only thing you can see is where you are going. It has informed how you look, how you behave, how you talk. They don't see you and say, ah. No. They look at you and you are speaking Queen's English. You are speaking as though you've been all around the world. Only you and God will know. That flight was not even taken. But something has happened to your mind.

As you submitted it to the word of God, it was transforming something. It was changing something. It was washing something. It was bridging the gap. So that that man can no longer be called the poor. The name tag you give him is no longer the poor. When you now find that scripture and says the rich and the poor, it's no longer among that poor. Because he now has more things in common with the rich. He now thinks like them. He now reasons like them.

He doesn't react. He pays attention. It is the poor that reacts. Do you know it's easy to sell to the poor? Very easy because all they are after is money. So all you need to do is package something that promises them some amount of money and begin to sell and find people who are desperate enough. There's no wealthy man who will fall for What did I say? There's no wealthy man. How this generation know no? For those who know, there's no wealthy man who would fall for any kind of Ponzi scheme.

You know why? Because the wealthy man is the one behind the Ponzi scheme. Is the one thinking, how do I get from these ones? So when wealthy man sees an investment opportunity promising, put your money, just drop 1,000,000, just drop 2,000,000, and we'll give you 30% in return. Every month, you drop your money. You're gonna say, hey. They now put testimonials there. This one came. Look at the miracle. That one came.

Look at the miracle. That guy is suffering. That guy is laboring. That guy, he just got 1,000,000 naira by favor, and he said, hey. This promise looks too true. And he goes to put 1,000,000 naira that he does not know how tomorrow's own will come inside a promise of a future he has not even touched before. The wealthy doesn't think like that. The wealthy pays attention. Because in every case, the wealthy is not the buyer. The wealthy is the seller.

That's why your first deliverance from poverty is not money. Your first deliverance is that your sin changes. And the way you have always thought small, it just changes. Your first deliverance might be entering the house as forecast and seeing it is possible. I went to the airport some time ago. I was taking a flight some time ago. I was taking a flight. I think I was going to Abuja also. So I was to use the Ibadan Airport here. So I went there.

And when I got there, I mean, place is quite small and there were lots of people there. And by lots, mean lots. You just... Your plate was just stacked. And I just looked at myself and said, it is... They will come and sit down with all these people. And I thought to myself, so if a pillow net comes in now, you mean they will sit down here? That can't be. So I sent the person that followed me, go and ask if there's a VIP lounge or something. And they said, yes.

Really? How much is it? And I heard the most ridiculous price ever. I think it was $3.05 or 5,000, I think. And I peed, and I entered, and I sat down, and somebody came. Say, would you like coffee? I said, ah ah. I said, no. It is heated that is your preference. I said, you mean I could have anyone?

I said, much is it? Oh, no. You've already paid. The ones that followed me, there were two of them with me. They are not flying with me. They only followed me there because they wanted to see me off and then return my car. And so both of them hindered. Then they asked them too, do you want something? Do you want something? Both of them were ordering for things.

Give me this. Give me that. They were giving it to them. And then I looked and said, wait. I'm the one that paid, oh, give me coffee too. Bring some... And listen. They brought biscuits. They brought bread. Over five...

And people were outside. And we're the only ones there. When it was time to board, I was the first person. Somebody came carried my bag for me, carried my everything for me. People were queuing to board the plane. I passed by them like a king. I said, I said, what? You mean it didn't come to anybody's mind. Didn't come to nobody's mind. On their names forth, every airport I go to, where's the VIP lounge?

And you would select three people, two people. If you're saying in Abuja, you'd select 300 people, cramped up where normal people stay. I say I'm not normal people. Don't walk like one. I don't appear like one. If you see me on my traveling back, you would see the same security people shouting at others. Hey. Pass here. Well done, sir. Good afternoon, sir.

That's how they speak to me. I know there is the anointing, but there's also the carriage. There is the visage of a colossus. There's a mentality. Every airport I go to, I collect somebody's number there. The one who comes to help me, I peep him maybe 10,000, 5,000 naira. I say, ah, oh God, give me your number. I don't know when I will be here next time. And when I'm coming, I need to be able to call somebody. Are you still there?

Make my life easy some more. Is how the wealthy think. You tell a poor man that they say ah ah oh Because the people of this world, the Bible says are wiser than the believers. The Bible says the wealthy man knows how to use canal mammon to gain friends. The distance is clear. I don't make unnecessary enemies for myself. I know a policeman somewhere. I know the value of relationship, a soldier somewhere. Is the mentality of the wealthy. My mother was speaking to me and she was telling me, oh, the neighbor that has this big house works in this construction cup.

I say, hey, neighbor. Yeah. He works in this. I said, my goodness. So do you know where he works? I don't really know. It's one construction we have to know. We need to know. I'm... When he was coming back, he brought us this gift.

He even like us enough to bring us gift. We must know. It's how the wealthy think. I have no idea when I will need to put somebody there. And I know I know someone who works somewhere. I will package my own gift and give myself. Because the wealthy know. The wealthy know. I'm closing now. I can't finish today.

The Kingdom World Summit will go deeper into this subject. Today I really just came to steer something in us. Really just came to stir something. Somebody sits down and hears me and say no, my life shouldn't remain here. Is why the Bible says, though your beginning may be small. It says your little hand should. Mm-mm. Don't rush it. It says your little end should greatly increase. Your little end what?

Do you know that should is a different word from must? Can you tell me what is the difference between should and must? Oh, it's okay. Thank you. Hold on. One person who is sure on certain. Tell me what's the difference, young lady, between should and must. Should emphasizes possibility and must is certainty. Should is a possibility. Yeah.

Must is a certainty. Thank you. Clap for her. In other words, your later hand should is a possibility. It means let me tell you what is possible. It is your later hand must greatly increase. It means your beginning might be small and hence, small. Amen. Shoot means even if your beginning is small, there is still a realm. You mustn't die there.

Yes, sir. You shouldn't end there. The water can overflow. The anointing can come upon the head, and your cup overflows. And when your cup overflows, you have enough for yourself and for others. Shoot greatly increase. But shoot is a determinant word. It means it's determined on several circumstances, on several conditions. Are you with me? A man can decide that even if my beginning is small, my later end will greatly increase.

As greatly increased. Otherwise, otherwise, it is your decision that will transit, should into must. Is your decision. Is you that will hold your life by the old and say see, I don't have time to waste. Young people majorly, there's a way they feel as though they have time. And they don't know that time is part of your resistance. It's part of what is pushing against you. It's part of gravity. The reason you don't know is because you have not lost it. So you'll think it on your side whilst you waste time.

Don't waste time. Don't be stubborn. There are things the holy ghost keeps on pressing on your inside. With respect to transformation, don't be a fool. The only guarantee that you will not remain where you are is a transformed mind. Is the renewal of the mind. That you break out of the scope of religion. That you come out of the gaslighting of religion. What did I say? That fruitless hope that makes you think that because all things will be better and God is on my side, I can be irresponsible for as long as I want and rid myself of critical thinking, rid myself of profitable actions, of being responsible, and all things will still be well.

That's vain religion. It is vain religion. It is the problem of Africa. It's why we are where we are. And listen to me if you're an African. Most... All of you have. Most of you for now. Listen to me. Listen to me.

There is a problem in Africa. A huge problem of religion. Religion is one of the most powerful enablers of poverty in Africa. Say it with me. He keeps people poor and theologizes smallness in the most wicked ways. I'm not talking about just Christian religion. I'm talking about religion in general, including Christian religion. Especially where Christianity is practiced as a religion. Then it becomes a problem. What did I say?

It becomes a problem. Becomes a problem. You are not different from somebody serving babalau. Because your whole ideology of success, that there is a God in heaven that you write your request to. And he just answers you. And the reason is because we've been told that things can change overnight. And because things can change overnight, doesn't mean things change over for everybody. That is a miracle. We don't live by miracles. We live by principles.

What did I say? If you have been swallowed by religion, you will live your entire life depending on miracles. You will refuse to read. Go and fail. Come and sow seed to revert the score. Because overnight, God can do something. Irresponsibility and will attach every form of responsibility and critical thinking to God. As though when you read the bible, all you see is God throwing wealth from heaven to people. A man of God was speaking and he was sharing a story of a particular video he had watched where Israel was fighting with Iran and Iran had thrown a missile to Israel. And Israel's defense systems, their iron dome intercepted the bomb and stopped it mid air and it fell down on Israeli ground.

Just fell down. Boom. And a Nigerian man who was in Israel carried his phone and did video. And said, the God of Abraham. The God of Abraham. His covenant over Israel, the Bible is still standing. Look at Iran throw bomb. The God of Abraham stop bomb. We substitute intelligence and systems development. And we hand over every responsibility to God.

So the Nigerian man is saying God of Abraham. The Israeli man is saying military intelligence. It is true that the God of Abraham, but he gave a military intelligence that we used to build something. Verse three in TPD. The difference between the rich and the poor Miles apart. What of it say? The believer thinks does not have faith He said if I prepare for danger, it must mean I don't have faith. So the way I will prove I have faith is that I will see danger coming and say God has got me. God has got me. Nothing's going to happen to me.

Nothing's going to happen to me. And the rich that can build defenses around himself is also inside his own defense saying God has got me. The bible says it is wisdom. The word prudent, there's the word wisdom. A wise man foresees danger based on insight. It means the danger he foresees is based on what he knows about life. It is based on insight. It is that I know this about life, that all things might not always go my way, that there is resistance. And he plans for resistance. How the wealthy think that I built systems around my life to ensure I do not fall.

But you see a poor man has nothing like that. Everything is a shock to him. Even his own failure is a shock. It's why the bible says a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of hands to sleep. So shall your poverty arrive. Like a thief in the night. It's a shock to him. The guy is shocked When poverty stands on his door like an armed bandit. He's shocked. Let me tell you something.

You hold it to your destiny. You hold it to what? Your To not give any excuses. To not blame your past. Now you know better. Now you know there are answers in Jesus. Now you know that I can study this Bible and my life will change like day and night. Now you know that men walked with God who came from nothing like yourself. You are not the first example. Your case is not unique.

We are men that have come before you. I was also like that. I need to show you how my school was. I was also like that. But we refuse that these things will not define us. And we searched scripture and found life there. And we gave ourselves to it and refused to be stubborn. Hear me sister. Don't be stubborn with destiny. Hear me, brother.

When these instructions come, they kick as though it's your life. Don't treat your life as a joke. Life is unfair. Life is unfair. Don't play games. Be like a serious pilot. Building solid engines for his plane. Every moment you wake up, this is what comes to your head. So that when I take flight, I will not fall. I will not fail.

I will not falter. My flight will arrive at his destination. Because the time I have now, whilst my flight is still on the ground, I'm putting something inside. I'm building something inside. When the flight of marriage takes off, don't fall in the middle. When the flight of career takes off, when the flight of ministry takes off, pay attention to what you are learning. Do not be stubborn. Tell your neighbor again don't be stubborn. Don't be stubborn. Are you blessed in this meeting?

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