Transcript: The simplicities In Christ
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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. I'm grateful. I'm grateful. If it's your first time in this house, welcome to the Disciples Christian Network.
One thing is certain you will be so blessed. Can you tell your neighbor you'll be so blessed? You see, when we say things like this and you don't talk to your neighbor to tell your neighbor, what we say you should tell your neighbor, it is pride. Yes. You're not so mature in the presence of God. You can't be older than God no matter how old you are. You are not the ancient of this. So when they say turn to your neighbor and say something, it's not even... It's it's not embarrassing. Some of you, it's it is it is an attempt to even break you out of your shell.
Yes. I told my workers, I said, have you noticed that every handyman that is slothful has a shell? Every handyman that is slow has a shell. Believers are not to be slow, and so shells don't belong to us. The bible says, do not be slothful, but fervent in the spirit. And so all these things of, you know, I'm just shy. I don't like... They're stressing me when they say turn to someone and say something. I I I would rather just keep quiet. I don't know now.
Don't do this to me. Oh, you are bringing me out of my comfort. I will not be on me. I'm just turning. Well, well, if you don't want to be great, go somewhere else. But if you have found yourselves there, all eyes will be on you because you are gonna be great. Listen. Listen. The bible says a city set on the hill cannot be hidden. Listen.
So if you are a city set on the hill, it means no power can hide you. Do you know that the bible says a city set on the hill cannot be hidden? The bible says no one lights a candle and put it under a bushel. It means it means it means if you are a city, as long as you are a city, as long as you are a city, even if you try to be hidden. It's not up to you. You can say, well, I don't like that. But when you call, everybody just likes you. It's a reflection of your greatness. It's because of where you are going. If you get to know me personally, you would know that I'm not someone who likes to be on the stage.
I'm not someone who likes to hold a microphone and stand before people. I used to be a very shy person. I would rather just be somewhere at the back, let nobody know that I'm even involved in what is going on. Let's just offer prayers. Let's just give. When God came and said that's not how it would be, you drop all your reservations, you drop everything that... You you drop all of that for the service of the kingdom. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yes. So when we ask you to do these things, no, it is part of the training in the house of God.
When we tell you walk up to three people after meeting and tell them and tell them so and so. Perhaps the previous, you don't even have the boldness to walk up to a stranger. But because of an instruction, you must have courage and you say, hello. God will... God is blessing you this week. And you say, my God, I just did it. It is part of the transformation that is happening. Glory to God. Because if you will prosper, you will prosper with men through men. Yes.
Yes. So don't take for granted everything that we do, it is spiritual. As long as you're in the house of God, every single thing we do is spiritual. Every single thing we do is spiritual. Whether we are dancing, what make... What is the difference between those of us dancing in the house of God and those dancing in the club? Do you understand what I just said? Everything that we do is spiritual in context. The bible says the words that I speak to you are life giving spirit. Do you realize that it's the same word people use to communicate?
But when we speak, the words we speak are life giving spirit. Paul says, when I came to you, I didn't come with oratory. I didn't come with first Corinthians two and verse four. My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom. I didn't come with oratory. I didn't come with beauty... Beautiful words. Now look at this. It says, but in demonstration of spirit and of power. What interests me here is my speech and my preaching.
If he had said my preaching, he would have understood. He's a man of God. So it makes sense for a man of God's preaching to be with demonstration of power. But the man says my speech, it must... It means even the normal conversation I have with people is in the demonstrations of power. It means I'm talking to someone and ex... And explaining mathematics to them and they are crying. This was the revelation that Paul had, that even my normal conversation is shared with power. It means as believer, there is... As believers, there is something different about everything that we do, and you must have this understanding.
You must have this revelation. We can shake hands, oh, thank you, Jesus. The things in Christ are very simple. And so because they are very simple, many people tend to miss it. A lot of people expect that how to get results in this kingdom will be very complicated, complex things. But the bible talks about the simplicity that is in Christ. It is designed in such a way so that only those who are humble enough to practice these simple things will ever get it. The proud hearted will say, oh, no. Come on. It it can't be...
Come on now. Can this be it? So we tell people to dance, and you see a proud man just looking and saying, when you are done, let's hear the word. Simplicity that is in Christ. The things that get results in this kingdom are always very simple, and they were made so that the proud will never access it. The bible says, I thank you, Jesus. I thank you, my father, for you have revealed these things unto babes. If it is revealed unto babes, it means it is not so complex. Babes can understand it. It will be lost to the mature people.
People who think that they are mature, and their maturity is not even in God. It's in themselves. The more mature you are in this kingdom, the more down you go, the more of a child you become. Have you read your Bible? It says it says it says when you were young, you refused direction. You went everywhere you wanted to go by reason of your own volition. But as you grew older, as you grew older, then you would need someone to hold you by the hands. It means maturity in the kingdom is is is is is shown your dependence on another. Are you with me? The more mature a person is in this kingdom, the more of a child he becomes.
The more God lift you, the the the the lower your knees go to the floor. We don't become mature in results, and then we come and then we stand like this. The bible says the elders, they are one of the highest ranking celestial beings. When they come to worship, the first thing they do is cast their golden crowns before him. That's the first thing that they do. They cast their golden crowns before him. Because when God gives us crowns and we come to worship, a king cannot worship a king. It means we must recognize that we have come to the presence of the king of kings. So the first thing we do is drop our own crown. We acknowledge only one crown king.
I can't come with my accomplishments and say, you know, I'm a doctor, you know, I'm a I'm a lecturer, you know, I I can't... All this worship, all this thing, I can't... No. The one we've come to is beyond that. So when it demands the simplifies, a a a a man who goes to a native doctor and he travels five hours to the village to go and visit an ASMO. Some would even go twelve hours, eighteen hours, enter all kinds of bush, and the man will wear his suit. In all his education, he will meet a man wearing a wrapper. The guy can the guy can pay a PhD holder. And the man wearing wrapper will tell him, if you are entering into my shrine, walk with your back. And with his PhD, he won't ask them why.
He just turned like that with his thigh, and he starts moving, a full grown man. And they tell him now drink this water. He does not ask them what's the composition. Is it pure? Is it safe? He takes the thing and gushes it in because he's looking for results. And then we come to God and we say, shout hallelujah. Somebody says, you know, these things wash. Don't don't stress me. They are simple, but they are powerful.
What did I say? God intentionally designed it like that. Simple, but powerful. How do you explain that God comes to... In chronicles 20 and verse 20, God comes to the prophet and tells them, I know you are going to go and face an impossible battle. You know what you would do? Put the priest in front. Let those who have been training for war all their lives. This is what they've been training for. This is what they've practiced for.
This is why they've been on the battlefield. Let them be at the back. Now as you march to where your enemies are, just start singing. Just start dancing. Just start praising God. Let the trumpeters start blowing the trumpet and go with the cymbal. Start clashing the cymbals. And in that simplicity, somebody thinks it must be complex. It must be difficult. It must be something that will cost me so much.
And so when it's so simple, the proud hearted misses it. The bible says, sing, go barren. It's so simple. Sing, go barren. Sing, go barren. You know what the barren woman does? She goes to a mountain, hold on to a rock, waits for 12PM when the sun is hot shining, and goes to the mountain when the mountain is very hot. And she lies down on the mountain because she believes that if it burns me, God will see my sacrifice. You are worshiping Baal. Baal is your God.
It's because it is... They they just believe that the more hard it becomes. The reason why some people fast is because they believe if I suffer myself, God will look at me. If I had more pain to this equation, God will look at me. That's not the reason why we fast. We fast from a place of understanding, from a place of restfulness. Are you with me? Yes. When Elijah came, he said, God... He just called on God and the fire came.
He started even by thanking God for for he had even provided the fire. No no shenanigan. He didn't beat his head on any rock. The simplifies that are in Christ. And this was Paul's concern that people become deceived. Are you with me? That people become deceived. Do you know that as they brought the hack of covenant back to Israel, everybody was dancing? David was dressed in his royal regalia, and it got to a point the man the man tore the clothe... Pull pull out the clothe he was wearing.
I don't know what comes upon a man, a king for that matter, that makes him pull off the clothe he was wearing because he wants to dance. Maybe he was hot. Maybe he said, ah, there are some style I want to do, but this cloth is is is inconveniencing me. I've ever been like that. You wanna you wanna do some stuff, but the high heat you are wearing is not. And you cannot hold the thing and learn from David. David pulled the thing off and he started dancing. All of Israel was in dancing. But there stood a proud hearted woman like some of you are and said, look at that king mocking himself. How will a king be dancing like that?
Dancing like a child in the presence of your subjects. Is it not logical? It's logical. You are a king. You shouldn't be sin ridiculing yourself except for the simplities that are in Christ. Do you know what David told her? He said, I danced before the God of heaven. The one who saw your father but told me instead. In case you have forgotten that you used to be a daughter of a king, now you are... Your father is gone.
Who knows? Maybe that was what she saw in her father. Glory to God. The bible says because of that simple act, Micah became barren all her life. Never conceived a child. Do you know that the moment they finished dancing, the bible says David turned and blessed all of Israel. The blessing that should open our womb was in the mouth of David that day. The principal was single barren. That was the principal. What you need to have done is just come out...
Your your husband have off his clothes. Tie off... Pull the diaper on and come and join him in the dancing. This too, she said, my god. I'm a queen. The simplifies that are in Christ. The simplifies that are in Christ. Can you make a joyful noise unto God and somebody just say, oh. While everybody is screaming their lungs out, they say, is God deaf? God was not deaf when Jerry Cook was standing.
Wasn't deaf. God wasn't deaf. The simplifications that are in Christ. The power of testimonies. That God does something to me, and I maintain the wisdom to come back and say, I give God all the glory for this which he has done. The... Does that alone. The woman of God who was talking was explaining how that the bible says, Jesus brought the five loaves and two fishes and didn't start any complicated ritual. He just lifted it up to heaven and thanked God. And in thanking God, immediately there was multiplication.
Remember, it's our year of multiplication. Let me show you something about multiplication. This is not my teaching today. But I just feel a steering to go in this direction for them. It was five minutes. Jeremiah 30 and verse 19. Look at what the bible says. I want us to read this together, everyone. One, two, three, go. Shall proceed what?
Messy. Shall proceed what? Messy. The simplifies that are in Christ. And the voice of those who make merry. What will now happen? I will not marry. It's okay. It's okay. Don't don't be too fast.
I will multiply them. That as you are praying in your house, you receive a song, and God first start singing this song to me and dance. And you say, no. And then you go against the searing of the spirit. Whereas God is saying no, no, no. The next thing you should do right now is just start dancing. There's no need to pray. Just dance. And you miss out on this intelligence. I remember a lady a lady...
You see, the ladings of the spirit sometimes can... Will not make sense. And like I've said, it is designed in such a way that the proud will miss it. If you are proud, you will miss God. These six things does the Lord hath. Yey, seven, an abomination unto him. You will think the first thing he will mention is a fornicator or an adulterer. The first thing God says is a proud look. He didn't say a proud man, a proud look, a proud countenance, a proud visage. Is this in your bible?
These things things does the Lord hate. The bible says God hates a proud look. Where have you ever been taught that the way a man looks matters to God? The way a man looks, a proud look. You're hearing the word of God and you just you just... You you can tell. There are people who have missed deliverances because of this. Imagine Paul and Silas in the prison in a dungeon somewhere. The first thing that you... That will come to your mind is let's call three days fasting and prayer.
That's the first thing that will come to the random believer's mind. But even in the dungeon, these people started singing, started dancing, started singing, started dancing. Bible says, in thanksgiving, there is multiplication. You now understand why it was thanks Jesus gave to multiply bread. Because in thanksgiving, there is multiplication. In thanksgiving, there's multiplication. In thanksgiving, many people wait until the miracle is complete before they give thanks. Do you remember the 10 lepers? 10 of them met with Jesus, and Jesus told them go and show yourself to the priest. And as they went, as they went, the bible says healings began.
Do you know what it means to be a leper, first of all? It means part of your bodies have been eaten off, fingers, toes. Are you with me? Those guys are so so... Sometimes the state is so unpleasing, they have to be sent out. And leprosy is a very communicable disease. They were isolated. The instruction Jesus told them was go and show yourself to the priest. The bible says, and so it was that as they went, they were cleansed. As they went, they were cleansed.
Just for their body, and they realized that the holes were filling up. Their toes were healing. The instruction was go and show yourselves to the priest. Look at the next verse. The bible says, and one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned with a loud voice, glorified God. The simplicity is in Christ. Next verse. And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. Look at Jehoshaphat's response.
Next verse. So Jesus answered and said, were there not 10 cleansed, but where are the nine? Now question. Question. Jesus is a very interesting person, and the speakings of Jesus are as deep as he is. Did Jesus tell them to come back? But look at the question he's asking. That means he expected them to come back. He never told all the instruction was go and show yourself to the priest. And there he stood expecting that as they as they are healed, they will come back.
Only one got the wisdom to say, my God, I'm healed. And only one came back. You see, the amount of... When I read scriptures that I find inside of these scriptures, I become very scared that out of 10, one. In the parable of Rasoah, out of four, one. In Ezekiel, I searched I searched for a man amongst 3,000,000 people. I found none. These statistics are scary. So at the church of 1,000, how many people? Do you understand what I'm saying?
How many people have sense? When Jesus said... When when Paul was praying and he says that and he says that... I I I... In Ephesians chapter one verse 17, give me that scripture. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowledge of him. Do you know that the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him in Emmanuel's simplified version is that you might have sense? What is telling... What is... He said, I'm praying to God that you will have sense.
I'm praying to God that you will have sense. I'm praying to God. I... And imagine that he's praying this prayer for a whole church. Believer have not prayed it enough. God, give me sense. Let me have knowledge. Let me have wisdom. Let me have understanding. Glory to God.
Amen. Out of 10, only one accents. Go back there. Look at the next verse. Where they're not were they're not any found who will return to give glory to God except this foreigner. It means that the nine of them were even Jews. The remaining nine were Jews. They were the people who Jesus was sent to originally. And it was the Samaritan who came back, who had knowledge, who had revelation. Another strange thing I found in scripture is another strange statistics.
That looks as though the people who impress Jesus the most were foreigners. Have you not found it? The centurion. The centurion was not a Jew. He was a Roman soldier, and he came to Jesus, and Jesus said, I've not found this great faith amongst them that I'm sent to. He's an outsider that I found this great faith with. Could that be the reason why we gather churches like this and we hold conferences and people who travel down get blessed more than those who remain. Because we have we have become familiar with the basic truth of of God's word. And so when foreigners come and they see the things was taken for granted, they are... They they are turned in between.
My god. There are times people come and they cannot, like, understand why people are trivializing what they are hearing. I was speaking to someone from Chicago some time ago some some time ago, and the person started telling me that she's already... She's a nurse. This was some years back. She was already planning her trip. She has taken a leave the following year. She's taken a leave from Chicago the following year and started planning her trip as to how she will come down to Nigeria so that she will not miss Manifest Conference. You know, when she was telling me this, we were in a classroom. So I didn't know how to tell her that.
What is beautiful message you are hearing? I'm coming from a classroom. So I just kept quiet. I said, when you come, you will see. Glory to God. And every time she would call me, she would say, I can't wait. I can't believe this is what people are enjoying in Nigeria. I can't believe this sentence. I can't believe that and that. And you find those who are there, trigger lies the grace, trivialize the message.
They sit down and you see the pride on their face. And someone else can pay the price, can... Is willing to pay the price. Go back to the scripture. It says, except this foreigner. Watch this. Next verse. And he said to him, go give me KJV. KJV. This is very important.
And he said unto him, arise, go thy way, thy faith made thee whole. So the question is this, if it was at this point that he became whole, what happened to him before? Do you understand what I just said? If Jesus is telling him now that go, your faith has made you whole, then what happened to him when he was healed? It means to be healed is different from to be whole. Being a leper, do you know what that would have cost him? That means he would not have been able to start any business whatsoever. He's conditioned to be a beggar. He can't start a reasonable business. Nobody will buy from him.
Nobody will... There's nobody he will sell to. It means financially, it's... He he has nothing. Being a leper, relationship wise, he has nothing Because even those who are dear to him, brothers and sisters who forsake him, nobody associates with leprosy. It means in relationship, he has nothing. Being a leper, that is the most family wise. Nobody would marry him because nobody wants to be associated with a leper. Maritally, he has nothing. He has no children.
God knows how many years this was. We have we have no idea how long the leprosy has been, how old he is now, how many years he has wasted in his life. The question is, if he was healed in his body alone, does the healing account for the losses? Does the healing account for the losses? How does he now start rebidding his life, reorganizing his life from the beginning? Where does it begin from? And so Jesus says, because you have come to give thanks, you will not only be healed, you will be whole. But everything Someone is waiting for wholeness before they testify. Someone says, I've been healed, but I'm still hungry. When I get food, maybe I will.
I mean, I'm gotten a job, it's not what I'm expecting. I I know it can be more than that. And then it just keep quiet in the simplicity, the simplities. There are many people who have missed deliverances for this reason. You'll be amazed. You'll be amazed. And the way the realm of the spirit is is that when you miss these things, you barely know you have missed it. There's no announcement whatsoever. Everything is still normal. May you not miss destinies.
I admonish not to be proud. I admonish you not to be proud. Tell your neighbor, don't be proud. Can you lie down and worship before God? In... With tears in your face unashamed, not caring who is looking at you. Do you know it amazes me when I see people doing big girl in God's presence? Big girl or fine girl because everybody you meet tell you you are fine. And so you come before the presence of God and you don't want to sing too much so that you don't disfigure your face. So that the media team does not take your photo when you're...
They don't catch you unfresh. So you just sit down. You just sit down very carefully. You will compose yourself. Let me not sweat too much. Let my makeup not rub off. Let my makeup not rub off. And there is staring at your spirit. Jump up. Just jump up.
Jump up. He said, how now? Samuel told Saul, when you see the signs when you see the signs, do as occasion serves. That was the instruction that the prophet gave to Saul. That's a very wise instruction coming from a prophet. Because as a prophet, he understands the ways of God and the things of the spirit. And he knows that occasion serves differently at different times. A lady I was watching a pastor Chris Oyaki Lomez video. I love that man of God so much. Honor him with all my heart.
I was watching one of his videos, and the man of God was just teaching. And then people started shouting in a region, and his attention was diverted to that region. So what happened over there? And a lady ran out crying with tears holding a mass of tissue in her hands. And they said, what is that? She came with a tumor on her neck, and the thing fell. And when she was sharing the test... She heard the mouth of tissue in her hand. When she was sharing the testimony, she said, as you were teaching, something told me to scream. That's how occasion serves.
Do as occasion serves. Do you know if she had kept quiet, that miracle had passed her by? Do you know that she would not have known that that was the reason? These things unannounce themselves. That's why we are spiritual men. It it can look it can it can look so foolish sometimes. How do you explain what part... Walk walk past Jericho seven times? Do you... Can you imagine what the armies of Jericho as they stood upon their walls were thinking when they saw the Israelites marching past their walls?
And they're just chanting to God. And they stood in front of the walls, and the armies were just looking at them. What next? That was what happened. Can you imagine the important high? And the next minute, what is going on? They are down crumbling. The simplicity is in Christ. It might... The bible says, God uses the foolishness, the foolish things of this world to confound the wise.
There are times somebody will offend you. God will say, go and apologize. Hey. It pains you. The simplicity is in Christ. One of my young ladies was telling about a client she works with. The client... When she told me the story, I knew that this was a very unfortunate client. These are the kinds of people you you never pray to meet. As she told me about it, I was already supporting that point and telling her that, oh, come on now.
How how can a human being act that way? That is foolishness. Well, how did you... How do you even get your clients? Don't you have a vetting process to eradicate nonsense? And as I was saying this lady, you know, ladies like when people affirm them. When a lady brings a gist to you, she's not looking for logical reasoning. She just want you to say, wow. You mean he did that? And because I felt what she was saying was, you know, reasonable to my senses, I started I started supporting her as well, and the holy ghost came and said, tell her to go and apologize.
Even me said what? You can't be serious. Now it now it now remains how somebody have called foolish. How do I now how do I now retrace my steps to be able to now deliver the counsel of God a way that I don't embarrass myself, but God gives wisdom. I said, you know, in the school of the spirit. This and that. I'm not hungry. Oh, the following day, the woman connected her to another person who gave her a $500 contract. The following day. When she told, I said, my goodness.
Imagine if out of pride, I had kept it to myself. The simplificities that are in Christ. The simplificities. David and his men wanted to go and recapture their stolen goods because some men had plundered them. And David and his men, every... Those men were mighty men. If they had pursued those people, they would have taken them and slaughtered them. Because David and his guys were not around when they came. So in return, they were shared the bad news. And David asked God, can I go?
God told him you can go. And he waited under the Mulberry tree. He was waiting under the Mulberry tree. God told him when you hear a sound moving in the Mulberry tree. And the question is, do you even know what created the sound? What is the sound? Is it just wind that we are expecting? They were just there. The men were asking themselves, sorry, please. Sir, the longer we wait, farther they go.
They will escape. No. David said we are waiting. We are waiting for something. What... Do you even know what we are waiting for? It's shy of sound. How does it sound like? I don't know. But it's a sound.
And the bible says all of a sudden, the... A sound in the mulberry trees. A sound in the mulberry trees. And David and his men stood up and says, time to go. The simplicities that are in Christ. When you read scriptures and you factor these things in, you start wondering, my God. Men could have easily missed these instructions. Moses, stretch your rod. What connection does a rod have... Will have with a with a sea?
If you tell me all of Israel, let us cry unto God in heaven and say, oh God, part this sea. That would make so much sense. Stretch your rod. And Moff is leaving over 3,000,000 people stood in front of them stretching his rod. And I've in mind all of them, what what does he think is that? But that was the instruction. Stretch your rod. You can't be that foolish but that powerful. Consider all the miracles in scripture, you will find the same the same pattern of seeming foolish principles. Alas, master, for the axe was borrowed.
Get me a stick. What what sort of magnetic pull happens between a stick and a metal and steel? And they got a stick. You see, some sometimes when these prophets were acting, those who follow them, who don't understand the reason why they are doing what they are doing, have you have you put yourself in their shoes to say, master, a stick. Get me a stick. Threw the stick into the waters, and the they axe floated. Oh my God. What kind of a supernatural prophetic pool is that? A stick. The sons of Elisha started eating.
They sent one careless... One very careless apprentice to go and fetch food for them, not knowing whether or not he knows what is good and what is not. The guy brought poison and cooked it. As they were eating, they started feeling pain in all of them. They said, sir, there is death in this pot. Death in the pot. He said, yes, sir. The man is gonna take powder, pour it inside. Now eat. These things don't make sense.
Listen. There is death in the pot. Bring me some flour. Pour it inside the dirt. Mix it together. Now serve that people may eat. But sir, it was one way eating and... The simplicities. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms.
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