Transcript: You Shall Know the Truth
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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. Romans chapter eight. That's the spirit of the prophet. The spirit of the prophet is here. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Thank you, Jesus. You, Jesus. Romans chapter eight and verse 35. We read verse 35 and verse 37. The Bible says, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword. The bible begins to list a number of possibilities that can tamper with the believer's confidence and he mentions persecutions. He mentions famine, poverty, hunger. He mentions distress. That these things can tamper with a believer's love.
He can tamper with a believer's confidence. In verse 37, the bible then says yet in all these things that have been mentioned, It lists all the possible obstacles that can stand before a believer on your journey to manifesting the life and the power of Christ. But then he says, in all these things, we are more than conquerors. In all these things. So no doubt there are possibilities that can attempt to separate the believer from the confidence he has in the law of Christ. But that in all these things... So the first thing that we see is that the believer can walk in dominion in spite of prevailing circumstances. Paul does not ignore the factors that can tamper with your faith. He's honest enough to admit and to articulate them that famine, hunger, persecution, distress can tamper with the believer's confidence. He admits it.
He articulates it for you carefully. But he says, yet, in spite of all these things, we are more than conquerors. In other words, the obstacles are not the reason why the believer should live a a defeated life. He acknowledges the presence of prevailing obstacles, but he said in spite of it, there is a possibility to exact dominion and to rise even above and beyond every prevalent circumstances. He says we are more than conquerors. We are more than conquerors. How amazing it is to know that there are events that might attempt to weary the believer. The believer might be or might hear rather that there is recession in the land. There is economic meltdown, that people are in distress, that there are persecutions happening everywhere. All kinds of calamity befalling the nation that the believer being a citizen of that nation can be a part of.
But the bible said in spite of all these things, the believer is more than a conqueror. You are more than conquerors. Doesn't even say you are a conqueror. Doesn't even say you have conquered it. It says you are more. We are more than conquerors. We have won victory over every prosecution. We have won victory over every famine, over every poverty, over every lack, over every distress. In other words, the believer's life is a triumphant life. The believer's life is a triumphant life.
It's a victorious life, and I want you to believe this thing. I will continue to emphasize and to tell you that the fact that you are a believer signs you up for greatness, signs you up for a victorious life, signs you up for a life of impact. You should not expect any less of your life as a believer. You should believe that great things can come out of you. You should believe that you are destined, that you are made for greatness. You should believe that you are more than congress. The bible says that thanks be to god who causes us to triumph over all things. It causes us to triumph. The believer is a triumphant victor. We triumph in every situation.
In John chapter 15 verse eight, the bible declares, by this, my father is glorified that you bear much fruit. The bible declares that the believer's life is a fruitful life. And it is Jesus that is speaking that there are results that your life must bear. And one reason why your life must bear result is because God is glorified when you are victorious. God is glorified when you bear results. God is glorified when you bear much fruit and so you will be my disciples. How men will know that you are my disciples? One of the indices that will show men that you are my disciples is through the result that come from your life. Unnatural results, extraordinary accomplishment, god sized accomplishment. I have a teaching like that.
God sized accomplishment. When the believer does big things, when great things come out of you, god is glorified because, listen, your desire for wealth, your desire for influence, your desire for relevance, your desire for impact in ministry, and transgenerational relevance is not canal. Difference between canality and spirituality in your pursuit for these things is the motive behind it. If the motive is to glorify the flesh, is... If the motive is to bring yourself a sense of significance to accrue wealth so that people can perceive that you are a man of significance so that people can look at you too and think that, oh, something is going on with you. If it is a selfish reason that sponsors your pursuit for relevance in this kingdom, then you are canal. However, if Jesus will be glorified, if by reason of the influence that you have, by reason of the wealth that you have, glory will come to God. There are churches that will be built. The kingdom of God will be advanced. The purposes of God will find expression.
Because of the influence you have, then your pursuit for relevance cannot be canal. Your pursuit for greatness is not canal. Your pursuit for wealth is not canal. The motive defines canality or spirituality. What I... If the reason why I want to be wealthy is so that through my life, God's kingdom can find expression. There is no humility in poverty, and there's no good in poverty. People say that money and wealth corrupts, but I put it to you that poverty corrupt more than money. Yes. It is a poor man that has a reason to steal.
It's a poor man that has a reason to lie. Directly or indirectly, a poor man will find himself in all these vices. Have you noticed that everything a poor man does is not good? If a poor man eats too much, people will say he's a glutton. If a poor man does not eat people there is always something to complain about when it is done by a poor man. People perceive that a man does not have the ability to bear the wisdom or the solution that anything needs because he's poor. The bible says the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his word is not heard. And the church of God must not be despised. Our word must be heard. And if the bible declares that the wisdom of the poor man is despised, it tells you that if our word will not be despised, if our wisdom will not be despised, then we must not be poor.
We must be relevant on all fronts if we want to have the years of kings. If we want to have the attention of kings, we must be relevant on all fronts. The bible says kings will come out of you. Nobles will come out of you. And God's intention is that everybody under the sound of my voice have a seat in the corridors of power Where policies are being decided. Where key and important decisions that affect the masses are being made. That the kingdom have as a representative, that God has a voice. Do you realize that if God wants to speak, he cannot speak from the heavens and the earth will hear like the song says? How he speaks from the heavens and the earth ears is through men that are aligned to the heavens. We are God's vocal box on earth.
Whatever God wants to say, he will say through men. And you have to understand that there is a level of influence that is required for the voice of God to permit the space that is needed for. That it is needed. There are spaces where the voice of a preacher cannot pierce into. A preacher many a time is confined to the four walls of the church. However, the people that he leads are scattered across the marketplace. If these people become embodiment of the kingdom such that they become... They rise into prominence and greatness and occupy positions of power, then what has happened is that the kingdom of god has been distributed across the spheres. So if god wants to speak in politics, god has representative in politics that can declare his council over there. So if your pursuit for relevance, therefore, is to advance God's kingdom, you have to understand that there is no camality in that pursuit.
Thank you, Jesus. So when we say that Disciples Christian Network is the largest gathering of young people in Nigeria, it is not for self aggrandizement. It is not for selfish reasons. It's not to lift up a man of God. No. It is because we have seen the importance of spread, the importance of impact, the importance of multiplication and influence to the advancement of the kingdom of God. Which is why the believer must be told. Which is why I tell you every time that the salvation experience makes for greatness. The salvation experience makes for victorious living. You were taken away from the clutch of sin, from the clutch of death, from captivity, from the oppression of demons and the devil, from poverty, and everything that sin brought, and you were brought into a victorious life.
The bible says the thief cometh not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy, but I've come that you might have life and have that life more abundantly. More abundantly. The life that you have been given is an abundant life. And the believer must know this. The believer must think this way. The believer must understand this, that I am destined for greatness. I'm destined for big things. I am more than conqueror. It does not matter what might... What life might throw at me.
I am more than conqueror. The believer must have a victorious mindset, a conqueror's mindset, a victor's mindset, a mindset that puts him above situation, a mindset that makes him know that I'm larger than life. Listen. When you find yourself becoming dissatisfied with where you are, it does not mean be hungry with your life. What many people do is that they misinterpret that to mean that they are not doing enough and they feel bad about it. Some even end time to condemnation. Where they feel as though, why am I here? Why am I still here? Is it because I'm not doing enough? Why am I here?
What is this? Is my life not moving forward? Why is my life not doing this? No. That feeling of the satisfaction that you have is not to push you into condemnation, is to inspire you to greatness. Is to push you to move forward, not to make you feel as though your life is not moving forward. That where we are right now as a ministry, reaching the amount of people that we are reaching, I'm not satisfied with it, but I'll not sit down, condemn myself thinking I'm not doing well enough. It's just a push to realize there's more in God. If there is more, all I have a label to use if there is more. Listen.
Because we know we are aware. But there is more in God. So we pursue for more. We reach for more. We are never comfortable or satisfied at any level of victory. Can you say I'm more than conqueror? I'm more than conqueror. Do you believe this? It says we are more than conquerors, but it doesn't stop there. It then says through Christ.
That means the believer's dominion is derived from his relationship with Christ. Outside of your partnership with Christ, there's no possibility of being more than a conqueror or walking in dominion through Christ. It says through him who loved us. The reason why we are more than conquerors is is because we are... We have a partnership with Christ. We are in Christ. We have accepted his life, and we are in him. So through him that loved us, the bible says we are more. So your partnership with Christ gives you access to a life of victory. You're receiving the life of Christ gives you access to a victorious life, to a fruitful life.
When you are in Christ, the possibilities of rising above limitations, rising above problems, rising above obstacles exist in Christ. In all these things, we are more than conquerors through Christ. The moment you are saved, you are now a child of God. But the bible tells us that the believer can be an infant in the spirit, a babe in the spirit, one who can only be fed with milk. And Paul expressed his frustration that he visited certain cities, and he expressed his frustration. And when he got there, he expected to see a level of maturity from the believers in those cities. But upon getting there, they were still babes who need only be fed with milk. They were still manifesting features of children. A believer can remain a child, unfortunately. Growth in the spirit is not automatic.
It must be engaged intentionally. And in Galatians chapter four verse one, you realize the bible says, now I say that the heir, as long as it's a child, does not differ from the servant, though he be lord of all. You can be in a church for ten years, and you are growing biologically, yet remain a child spiritually. And there are indices that show that a believer is still a child. In first Corinthians 13 verse 11, the bible says when I was a child, I spoke as a child. In other words, there are ways that a child would speak, that a believer would speak. You can tell that this is a child speaking. You can tell that this is a child speaking. And when a child is speaking, the realm of the spirit will not take that child seriously. You know why?
Because even when a child is speaking and he speaks like a child to you, you don't take that child seriously. In fact, what you would say is just laugh and say it's just a child. He may be a believer saved yet still a child, and it will it will be demonstrated in how he speaks, how he thinks. He says, I thought as a child. There is a way children think. I understood as a child. It means if you have become mature as a believer, it would tell in how you speak. It would tell in how you understand. It would tell in how you think. It will tell him how you reason as a believer.
When you are faced with difficult circumstances and you are unable to see a way out of that circumstances, your thinking is that of defeat and frustration. That is a thinking of a child. When you're speaking, is that of defeat and frustration? That is the speaking of a child. When you're speaking aligns with your current reality, that is the speaking of the child. When God came in Genesis chapter one, God never came to say what he was seeing. God never said, why is there darkness everywhere? Look at the darkness everywhere. Why is this here the way it is? The first thing God said is let there be light.
God never considered the problem. God never considered the problem or even discussed the problem or even ruminated much about the problem. He went straight to calling those things that being not as though they were. That was why when Abraham exemplified faith, he also considered not the deadness of Sarah's womb. It was not saying, but your womb is dead, but your womb is dead. Those are speakings of a child. When I was a child, I spoke as a child. I understood as a child. My perspective of life was governed by sensuality. All that eyes can see, all that ears can hear, all that mouth can...
All that the body can feel. If I cannot see it, I don't believe it. If it's not obvious to my physical eyes, I don't believe it. So people can be sharing experiences that they had in visions and encounters, and a child will be there saying, leave those Christians alone. The one is too much. Is that how that Christianity thing is? Every time you say you seeing visions, you are seeing visions. God is not that mystical. It is true. But of it, maybe we cannot see visions.
When children speak, it is always one of the child. Doesn't matter how long he has been on social media. It disputes the value system of the kingdom as unreal. When people exemplify honor, I watched as a man of God in Lagos invited a pastor. Bishop David Oyedepo. And when bishop David Oyedepo mounted the pulpit, the man of God frustrated to receive man, to welcome him, and he was on social media and the comment section, you will see people saying, what is this human worship? This is a man in his seventies. This is an elder. Even forget the fact that he's a man of God. He's an elder.
He's old not to be your grandfather. And you would see people saying... And when you check, you'll find that the people who are against this honor are believers. I spoke as a child. Do you understand what I'm saying? I spoke as a child. Spiritual things don't make sense to children. Do you remember that the bible says a natural man does not receive the things of the spirit, does not understand the things of the spirit because they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. The natural man, that's the unbeliever. Is that not so?
The bible says of the child that the child in Galatians four one. The heir, as long as he's a child, differed not from the unbeliever. So the realities of the unbeliever are also his realities. The same way the unbeliever cannot understand spiritual things, and it looks like foolishness to him, that's the same way the child too cannot process spiritual things. Also looks like foolishness to it. When the child steps into a place like this and the presence of God is everywhere, people are going out under the power. God is changing people, changing their lives, transformations happening. People are sharing testimonies. The child will look at it and undermine it even in his thought. When people are praising God and they are ridiculing themselves before God, literally, like David did, without a single care in this world of their dignity, the child would wonder, don't you have shame?
He might not express it. That's why papa thought like a child. He would just look at them with disdain when believers have been a baby before their father with disdain. Nothing spiritual makes sense to the child. Some of them can be 50 years old, 70 years old, and they are still children. A parent reached out to his son and told the son, why do you come to that ministry? And the son said, I'm being fed God's word. I'm growing spiritually. There's transformation in my life. Don't you see it?
Then we noticed. But why are you now going there? Can't you go to this one and that one and that one because they are more popular? That's why I speak like a child. You see? That's the speakings of a child. That's someone who's probably in his sixties. Yet, the one that came from his womb, they got more mature in the spirit than him. That is allowed in the realm of the spirit. It's allowed.
Do you know that how the perspective you use to discern your situation also shows whether you are a child or you are mature? Let me give you an example of what I'm saying. Whenever I see my plans, say, those days when I plan things and they don't go as I expected them to go or say I prepared for an exam and it wasn't that I expected or I'm applying for a contract or for a job and it wasn't that I expected or I'm facing some level of challenges in the ministry or, you know, different attacks here and there. When I see these things, it excites me. Regardless of what the attack may be, I'm never distressed. I'm never sad. I'm never in sorrow. There is no news I can hear today that can put me in a state of depression. No news whatsoever from whoever. And believe me, I've thought about the worst circumstances ever.
And I've not found a single news that somebody can bring to me that will put me in a state where I'm incapable of moving forward, where I'm just thinking how did I get here? How is my life like this? What am I even doing like this? Oh, god. Why? Why? Why? That can never be me, oh, can never be me. You know why? Because my understanding is no longer as of a child.
There is now maturity in my pass... Perspective. My perception. What that means is how I see these circumstances is now with the realm of the spirit. It's now with understanding the highs of the spirit, the highs of faith. So whereas somebody else is in that same situation and the person is feeling down, feeling depressed, feeling sad, feeling sorrowful. Hey. I've not done this. Hey. My heart is scared.
Oh, I'm going through this. I'm thinking, is this how valuable I am for the devil to be firing this attack at only me? You don't understand what I'm saying. I already know that I am more than conquerors. I already know that I'm victorious. I already know that I triumph, you see. But then I'm thinking, for the devil to be this much invested in ensuring that my plans do not find expression, Is that how valuable I am? Because the bible says he goes to and fro looking for whom. In other words, not everybody is worth his attention. That in Revelations 12, the moment that child was about to be born, a dragon was waiting to devour the child.
Some people go through things and they say, what did I even do? What did I do? Only... Why did I cover all kind of family? My father is struggling. My mother is doing the father is that. That child, what did he do? In revelation 12, a newborn baby, yet the child wants... The devil wants to swallow him. In in in other words, the attacks of the devil is not as a result of what you did.
It's as a result of what you will do. The devil never fires or attacks at the point of action. Mm-mm. The guy the guy is too wise and smart for that. He sees what you're about to do. Was that was that not how he came for Jesus? When Jesus was going to that man of Gadarene, the bible says he was on the boat and he was sleeping and suddenly waves. The the devil wanted to tumble the boat, the ships, but everybody there dies. That was not a normal occurrence. That was not a normal disturbance in the ocean.
Because when the bible says, Jesus woke up and he rebuked the wind. How do you rebuke something that is inanimate if it were so? Rebuke is used for human personalities. Can you rebook a chair for falling down? Do you understand what I'm saying? You put a cup and the cup falls down. And he said, come on, you cup. Is that normal? So how does Jesus now stand over and rebuke the wind? That's a demon.
That's a spirit. The spirit wants to capsize the boat. Why? Because the spirit has seen that if we allow this man get to Gadarene, the madman we have put under chains and oppression for many years, his victory is coming as the attack at the middle of the ocean. The devil does not attack you because of what you have done. It does attack you because of what you will do. And he could not stop he could not stop Jesus. Jesus rebuked the wind and continued and healed that mad man on Kadare. So my own perception when the wind is blowing is not to cry because the wind is blowing, is to sleep like Jesus. Realizing that, ah, that means that what I'm about to do in Gadareem was very important too.
That's that's how I think. I understood as a child. Are you seeing the difference here? I understood as a child. When a child understands, he understands based on what is happening in time. That's the only thing his mind is seeing. He can't see more than that. He can't see more than that. They suck me in my place of work. That's all he sees.
I traveled to Lagos for that interview, and I didn't get a job, and he's down for three days. That's all he sees. The bible says we look not at the things that are seen, for the things that are seen are temporal. Are you seeing how a child understands? In other words, when a child understands, he understands only by the things that are seen. Who promised me and failed? What worked? What did not work? So if I promise a child that I would get you sweet or candy, the child will continue to disturb you until you get him with candy. Do you know that?
Where's my candy? Where's my candy? Because the child cannot believe until he sees. The child does not understand the concept of faith. He has to he has to see it, and then he would believe it. That's the understanding of a But as you begin to mature, you realize that because you have spoken, you now understand the concept of somebody's word being a currency. So the person can say, don't worry. I will get you this. And you can hold on to what the person has said. It takes maturity.
So as you mature in the spirit, you can hold on to what God has sent and not disturb yourself over it. And have peace over that situation knowing that I am victorious. And people would see you, you would walk through fire as though the fire is not there. As though the fire is not there, you walk through the storm as though the storm is not there. Why? Because the understanding is no longer of a child. The problem I see that is different, separate from what is seen from what is seen. And people that are children will look at you, and they always have questions when they see you hacked. For instance, when somebody shouts at you on the road and you don't reply. If you're with the child, they will ask, mom, why don't you say anything?
Why don't you say anything? Because they cannot understand by reason why your action is different from what they expect your action to have been. That's the same way children will always question your division spiritually. It won't make sense to them. It won't make sense to them. I spoke at the child. I spoke at the child. It is children that talk defeat. Mature believers do not. Mature believers speak faith.
Speak life. Declare victory at every circumstance they find themselves. Declare victory at every situation they find themselves. They don't speak the they don't speak the situation. They speak God's word over the situation. Oh, are you with me? An heir as long as he's a child, different not from a slave. That means the limitation of one who is outside Christ will likely be your limitation In spite of the fact that you are genuinely saved. Why? Because the life we receive in Christ and the blessings that come with that life is released through knowledge.
You can have a high end phone. Somebody gives you a high end phone. That phone can do a lot of things. That phone can send emails, snap pictures, can go on social media, can browse Internet, limitless possibilities to that phone. Yet because of ignorance, all you will be able to use that phone for is probably make phone calls. Because of ignorance, there are people like that. You give them a very powerful phone or a powerful device, and all they do with it is make phone calls. Many of you have experienced that thing where... Like, found someone, for instance, who wanted to send a contact on his phone to someone who requested for it, and the person went... Had to write the phone number down on paper.
Then go to his phone and then type it one by one. Then go to the person he wants to send it to. Type... Write the phone number down on paper. Then go to text message, type the phone number manually, type the second phone number that it wants to send, and I saw... I said, my god. Ignorance is powerful. That process took, like, like, forty five minutes. Whereas, superior knowledge will just tell you copy. Paste.
What's the difference there? Knowledge. That phone has limitless possibilities, but ignorance has reduced you to be at the same level as someone who doesn't have a phone so that the limitations of the person that does not have a phone also become your limitation. All because you are ignorant as to how the device functions. Despite that device is capable of limitless possibilities. That's the same way it is when a believer is ignorant. His realities are no different from an unbeliever. No different from an unbeliever. So the bible says the heir is the heir. It means the inheritances are ease in Christ.
They are ease in Christ. They should become his experience in Christ. He's more than conqueror, remember. He's triumphant, remember. He has the victory. The bible says, all things are under his feet. The bible says, he's far both principalities and power because he's sitting with Christ in heavenly places. And yet, these things will be far from his experience because he's a child. His reality will not differ from that of a servant. If a servant can loot a job, he can loot a job.
If a servant can fall sick, he can fall sick. If a servant can, you know, run into loss in his business, the same thing can happen. So many people think that just because they are in Christ, then the riches of scriptures, the riches of the god life will find expression in their life in spite of what you know or don't know. No. That's not true. That's why Paul laboriously visited the churches again and again, and the assignment was to mature them. In Galatians four nineteen, he says, my little children, for whom I travail, it was a traveling experience until Christ be formed in you. For Paul, it was a traveling experience to mature believers. He gave his life to it. That's why Paul says, woe unto me if I preach not the gospel.
Because he saw the value of this thing in maturing believers. That even though we are saved, even though we are more than conquerors, if we remain as infants, our possibilities will not be will not be different from those who are not saved. How does that growth happen? How does that maturity happen? In first Timothy chapter two and verse four, the bible says, how do we come into the experience of these inheritances in Christ? How do we come into the experience of this inheritance in Christ? The bible says, who desires that all men be saved? And to come to the knowledge of the truth. God desires that all men be saved. Then in addition to that in nature, salvation experience to come onto the knowledge of the truth.
The moment you experience salvation, your journey does not stop there. It is only the beginning of the journey. Most believers get saved, then they stop there. But that is just the beginning of a journey that leads to victory, to dominion, and to grace. All the promises in scriptures are not just yours because you are saved. This is a painful thing to say, but it is true. So the bible says that the desire of God isn't just that we become saved in as much as that is first in the order of priorities, but that second to salvation, all men come on to the knowledge of the truth. All men come on to the knowledge of the truth. So it is possible to be saved and not come to the knowledge of the truth. It is possible to be saved and end your journey in salvation.
And for forty years, that becomes your experience. It doesn't matter how long you have been saved. Your journey will be that of pain and penury. If all you ever experience is salvation even though you will go to heaven at the end of the day. But your experience in life will be a useless one. You will be in poverty. You will be sick. You will have all kind of things, but will never come to pass. Because you have camped around salvation. This was the mistake of many people who received the life of God in the olden days, became saved, but never gave themselves to intentional maturing process.
Intentional discipleship process to secure knowledge, epignosis, experiential knowledge. When you come... When you become one with the truth, it goes beyond mental awareness. It is a state of becoming one with the truth. A lot of people truly speaking, their salvation experience is genuine. They pray. They expend so much energy in prayers. They love God genuinely. They come to church. They are in all kinds of departments in church.
And you can see their loyalty, their faithfulness, their commitment to church service. They never miss any program whatsoever, but their life is not a reflection of the promises of God. In fact, many children have seen this experience in their parents' life, and they have rejected salvation. Because they've said that if this if this can be how God rewarded my mother for the commitment and the love, then what is there? What is there for me? What is the use? If this person can invest our time like this in loving God, in serving God, and this is how the life turns out to be. This is how the life ends up. We struggle to eat every day. We are in debt.
No money to take care of the children. School feces from loan to loan to loan to loan, owing different people. What kind of a life is that? If I can find an alternative, what is stopping me from going for it? If somebody tells me that forget this God thing, there is a shorter way I can show you. What is stopping me from going for it? Do you understand this? What is stopping me from going for it? And so many believers, painfully speaking, many believers are also repeating the errors of their parents. Being saved but not giving themselves to maturity, and so the experiences that should be theirs, especially experiences that come from the pulpit.
Because, you see, as a preacher, we can prophesy things into your life and tell you what should be, tell you what your life should be. All of these things will give you mental images of what your life should be as a believer. But because you are not maturing, you will not be able to enter into them. It puts you in a state of cognitive dissonance because your knowledge of what should be is different from your experience of that same thing. And it will... And you might you might be hopeful for many years. You might say, maybe it's not my turn yet. Maybe it's not my turn yet. Let me be patient. Let me calm down.
Except for the fact that you have spent ten years at the same level. And there's no financial shift, a time will come you will ask yourself questions. Why is my life like this? Who lied to me? Who told me a lie? That's why many believers are hungry in the church. Because the pastors have promised them so many things that their life should be because because they became saved. And then they came into the experience of the road shock that was waiting for them because now they are saved, and that thing they promised them is not the experience. Do you understand this? Listen.
This thing I'm doing to you is not only maturing you, is putting you in a place like medical doctors where you will look at believers around you and you would see how they speak and be able to precisely judge what the problem is and tell with, like, with surgical accuracy why they are where they are. And they can come to you saying, I need prayer. Just pray for me. And you can tell, your problem is not prayer. You are deficient in knowledge. So even though I pray for you and there is a breakthrough that happens, your lack of knowledge will not allow you to sustain that experience. It's putting you in a place where you are able to help others so you will know that what this person need is accurate discipleship, not just prayer. Accurate discipleship. Else, you will offer them promises, but they will never come into the experience of that promise. And it will put them in a state of frustration because for many years, they will be hoping hoping but never entering.
The bible says hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. In John chapter eight verse 32, The bible says and you shall know the truth, popular scripture, and the truth shall make you free. It will give you an experience of liberty. It will give you the experience of the liberties that are in Christ. You shall know the truth, not you shall hear the truth. You shall know the truth, not you shall hear the truth. The victory that is captured in truth is not released upon hearing it. It is released when you know it. The journey starts by hearing, but must proceed onto knowing.
If you camp around just the hearing and assume that just because you have heard, you will experience freedom. You will be shocked. How many people have heard certain things that should have changed their lives, but when they enter into certain experiences where the things that they heard should be applied and deployed, they forget it and respond in the flesh. That's because they heard the truth, but they don't know the truth. And a lot of people deceive themselves to think because I'm in a place where truth is being shared, it is equivalent to knowing. It is possible to come every Sunday to a place where truth is being shared, and the knowing is not your experience in as much as you hear. The journey starts from hearing, but it does not end in hearing. It must take root in your heart. The bible says your word have I hidden in my heart. Not your word have I heard in my ears.
Have I hidden in my heart? That's where the knowing happens. That is where the understanding happens. And we have many believers of that. The moment they get into situations that warranted them to apply what they've been taught. They shock themselves that their reactions will be the the flesh... The most fleshly thing they've ever done. After they now come and report to you, you now ask them, but you have been taught this. But you have been taught this. But you know this.
And the person will look at you and say, I I don't even know why I did that. It's because you did not know it. And what brings you to a place of maturity is not how many things you have heard. It's how many things you know. That's what brings you to a place of maturity. As a matter of fact, one sign that tells you are growing gradually is your responses to occurrences. Your responses to situation. Not big and mad situations, but the small ones. The very small ones around you. Your roommates.
Your colleagues, your place of work, your boss, your employee, how you react even to stress. To work that is given to you. More work is harder to your schedule. How you react even to that? How you respond even to that? You begin to know that something is changing in my life. Something is changing in my life. I can see. I'm beginning to mature. The youth before will be grumbling and be complaining and be saying, ah, what man must do for money?
What man must do for money? Other times, they labor again. The things we do for money. But now your mentality is shifting. Now you can realize that you're not doing anything for money. You are offering value. You assume that you are meeting need. You are solving a problem. That mentality shift will now start affecting how you understand. You see, that understanding will affect your action so you will wake up with excitement.
That alone is transformation. These are things we never pay attention to. But when they begin to change, it's a proof that God is doing something mighty in your heart. When you understand the value of education, how you approach your education will change. Your understanding of school and what school offers will change. School is calm. School is calm. That is how a child speaks. I've taught you this. When you now understand that my first class had some commercial value.
My first class advances the kingdom of God through my life. People will ask me how did you do it, and I can point them to God. My excellence, when your mentality shifts and you know it, your approach to it will change. When your approach changes, you'll now begin to see opportunities you will never have seen. Do you know there's a way you would think that will make you look for opportunities? There's a way you would think that will make opportunities steer right in front of you and you do nothing about it. They've been sending some opportunities to a platform where some of my sons are in. And I asked... I saw about three that somebody should have applied for, and it doesn't get in my mind. And I just thought, she really...
Maybe she saw it. May you apply for it? She saw it. She applied for it. I laughed. So I I I met the person some days ago. Thought you have applied for this thing and that one and that one. And he said, I'm planning to apply. I said, my god. Two of them have already expired.
And why didn't you apply? He said, I saw it. Oh, I don't even know it. I don't even know. I don't even know. Don't even that's a child. Opportunities will stay right in your face. But the impact is for action will not be there because a child is lazy primarily. Number one, a child does not understand. He had this...
A child does... That's why every time you give a child a walk, he cries. Number two, that young person does not understand that this opportunity can be mine. And tell me when he saw... When she saw the value attached to it, $25,000, all expense paid 3. Yeah. Just like that. As a child. A child. A weak heart.
A heart that does not see greatness as easy yet. Yet they are prophesying greatness every day. Has heard it but has not known it. So he says you will know the truth. You will know the truth. Now if the bible had said that the truth will make you free and ends there, then there's no problem. Every believer around the world has won a lottery. It would mean that your experience will simply be defined by what is true. You didn't get that? So nobody will ever be sick.
Nobody will ever be poor. Nobody will lack. Nobody will ever be oppressed because Christ dying for this thing is true. So if the bible had said, you will be free because of the truth or the truth will make you free, and it ends there without any class, then we have won a lottery. Our experiences will be defined by what is the truth, and the truth is Christ has died for my sickness. It... By his stripes, we were healed. He was made poor so that we will be rich. He's sitting far above principalities and powers. These things are truth.
Is that not so? So by the mere fact that they are truth, then it would define automatically my experience. But the bible does not say the truth makes you free. It says the truth, you know. So it is truth, but the fact that it is truth does not make you the experience. This is a very strange... If you think about this thing way, you will see the strangeness in it because it should not be so. It is only in the kingdom that this is true. Let me tell you why it should not be so. Israel is falling outside.
Is that truth? Is that fact? Sir. Is somebody... Rain is falling off. Is that true? Yes, sir. So by the mere fact that that is true, if you go hard, what should happen to you? But the bible is saying whether you'll be wet or not is depending on the fact that do you know that rain is falling? You see you see the weirdness in it?
Think about it. The bible is saying, whether you'll be wet or in this kingdom is not because rain is falling. It is because you know that rain is falling. Then that experience now become your reality. You will now enter into the wetness of the experience. That does not happen in life. As long as something is true, it's true, it's true. The law of gravity is true. Whether you acknowledge it or not, if you jump, you will die. But in this kingdom, you must know it.
Did Christ die for your sins? Is that not truth? But if a... If an unbeliever does not believe it, will it be true for him? Even the experience of salvation comes through the knowledge of the truth. And that is how every other thing in this kingdom comes. Just the mere fact that it is available and it is truth does not make it your experience. So the bible says, you will know the truth. The truth that you know will bring into the experience of freedom. Doesn't they set you free?
Make you free. It brings you into the experience of the liberties in Christ. I've taught you before that in the court of law, the judge does not judge based on what happened. If that was how they judge, maybe there will be a level of fairness. Who knows? Or maybe not, really. You can't really say. But every case is prosecuted in a legal... In a fair and just system, not corrupt system. Every case is prosecuted.
I saw a case from time ago. I think it was a movie or so I watched. Based on true story, a lady came to report that a guy raped him. The guy was an influential figure in The UK, politician, based on true life story. Raped him, reported, went to court, dragged the case, was in court. And this guy had a very good lawyer, an extremely good lawyer. When they called the lady, the kind of questions that the lawyer was asking made that story unbelievable. Even though it was true, the jury system sat down there and say, why are you lying here? And it was telling her that what she was saying is true, but she stood in front of a very good lawyer who knew the constitution and could very well use the constitution against her. The lawyer defending her was just looking like Dundee.
Did not know the constitution. Now look at it. Whether that event happened or not is not with the basis for the judgment. The basis of the judgment would be how much of the constitution does your attorney know that he can use to defend your right. So this criminal can therefore go scot free because the criminal is represented by an attorney that knows the constitution. At the same way, the devil will oppress you and go cost free because you know nothing. And when the devil oppresses you and he stand before the court of law and he said, why would you do that to a believer? The devil would say, is it not in the bible that they will visit the sins of the father on the on the son onto the fourth generation? It's not even up to four. It's the second generation.
And it is his father that that raped somebody. And the blood of the person that he raped was a virgin. Cried... He's crying revenge against his generation. We have a reason to afflict him with poverty, with this, with that. The mother was working for someone and stole the person's money when she was 18 years old. The person cost her that your children and your children's children will gather and somebody will scatter. It's not in your word that a cause... Causeless will not stand. This one has a cause, and the devil is is putting the constitution.
Now is it truth that if any man be in Christ is a new creature? The question would not be whether it is truth or not. The question would be whether he knows or he doesn't know. Why should my business prosper? Why should I be victorious? Why should I expect favor every day? Why should I sit down? I'm expecting clients to be spamming me with emails. Why should I expect open doors? Why should I not be afraid that what if it does not work?
Why should I expect that nothing that comes out of me can stop working? If it came from me, it must work. You're not getting what I'm saying. Why? Because a preacher came and told you. Because we prophesied it, because you read it in a bulletin, you'll be amazed. You'll be amazed. Why can't I fail as a believer? Why should I expect that when I'm in an exam or writing an exam, the holy ghost can bring to my remembrance the things I have forgotten? Listen, if if it is true, you know.
You won't only shout yes, sir. When you forget, you will become. Why will you be calm? Because you are expecting to remember. Why? Because you know. If you did not know, but you have heard, you will be amazed how anxious you'll become. You'll be amazed how scared you'll become. You... The moment you see the question, you...
Everything will look upside down. Even the ones you know will be scattered because number one question was not the one you're expecting. People have been disoriented like that because the first interview question they asked, they did not know it. And they started saying nonsense upon nonsense upon nonsense. You shall know the truth. That truth is what matures you as a believer, that delivers your inheritances into your hands, that makes your promises your reality, that makes your promises your experience. Else, you will wonder why you know many things that should be your experience, but you are alien to the truth. If you don't know the truth, the devil will get the way with many things in your life. He will wreck your life. He will mess with you, and he will get the way with it because you're ignorant.
Note, it says you shall know the truth. That means it does not matter who else knows it. As long as you don't know it, there's problem. It means the devil might know the truth. In fact, knows it. The devil know they should prosper. The devil know they should not be sick. The devil know they should not be waking up with headache every morning. The devil know that your stomach should not be paining you every single day. The devil know that you should not have cancer.
You should not have high blood pressure. You should not have astigmatism. You should not have glaucoma. You should not have all all any form of high defect whatsoever. Any form of blood condition whatsoever. Any form of sickle cell anemia. Any form of you mention it. The devil knows it should not be you. He knows that fibroid is not your experience. He knows.
He knows it has been taken away on the cross. But it still plagues many believers because who knows it doesn't matter. What matters is do you know it? Does not say the devil will know the truth. Doesn't say spirit will know the truth. Says you shall know the truth. The truth that you have come to the experience of, not just the truth you have heard, is what makes free. There are some of you, your first response to to unfavorable circumstances is fear, worry, and anxiety. I was with someone recently, and the person just remembered that they forgot something in the venue. And I I witnessed it in my front as the person became disoriented.
Hey. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. And I'm wondering because you forgot something. Is that how easy it is to lose your peace? What? I watched it in my... It happened right there in my front. If I forgot...
Isn't just to find out who is there, who can bring it for me, or should I go back there? What what will it cost? The most ridiculous things will put a man who does not know the truth in a state of anxiety. The most ridiculous things. The bible says he will keep him in perfect peace whose heart is set on him? Whose heart is set on him? Let nothing ever steal your peace. Let nothing ever steal your joy. Every single moment express joy regardless of situations or circumstances. You have been taught this, but do you know it?
Did you only hear it, or do you know it? If you do, then you will have an experiential result that only joy can bring. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. That becomes the experience every single day. When you are a believer that is void of knowledge, your life will be filled with potentialities that will never find experience. The experience that comes with the god life will not be captured in your life. And so a believer must commit himself to the knowledge of the truth. Not just the hearing, but the submission of your mind in humility for your mindset to be transformed.
Because the bible says, you will know the truth. The truth that you know will make you free. So if freedom is attached to truth, then captivity and oppression is attached to lies. So what what brought you in a situation that is not the experience of freedom is a lie you have known and believed. And because this is the case, you already have some level of loyalty to that information that brought about that lie or that captivity rather. Are you with me? In other words, knowing the truth isn't as easy as hearing it because that lie must first be displaced. That's why many people find it difficult to believe and to know the truth because they have more loyalty to the lie they have believed. I met someone once who was so convinced that his problem was witches. And would tell me that he's he's receiving attacks upon attacks upon attacks.
And his witches, he's having dreams, he's having visions, his witches that are his problem, Sandra. Saw them and they are attacking him. And when he woke up, he prayed for twelve hours. He prayed for... On top of a witch. There are kingdom bodies to pray for you, not pray for kingdom. It's a it's a witch. They are wasting prayer. What's not your prayer? I wish you die for twelve hours.
I've been saying this thing for over ten years. If it were not true, I'll not be alive. Are you with me? And I told the guy... I brought the guy scriptures, and I showed him, this cannot be your problem. Your problem is you don't know the truth. The life of God on your inside, by reason of your status, and your legal position in Christ, You should not even be saying this. Do you realize where you are in Christ? These people are beneath you. They shouldn't be the reason why you are attacked.
And I showed him scriptures, and he was nodding his head as though he was hearing what I was saying. And the nodding of the head deceived me to thinking that he was hearing what I was saying, and I was speaking more passionately. Until you would meet a friend and tell the friend that... I said, Kai. I That person heard but has believed that lie more than is willing to accept the truth. So knowing the truth is not as easy as hearing it. There is a level of submission and humility that it takes to know the truth. A level of submission and humility. A proud man cannot know the truth. An arrogant man cannot know the truth.
You will first need to let go of that arrogance and be humble. Come to a place where you realize that my mindset, my mentality is wrong. Don't let life show you. You see, there are two things that can happen. The bible says, humble yourself before the mighty hand of God. That's the first one. Then the one thing is that God can humble you. I prefer the first one. Where you just come and humble yourself. But God can...
God humbled Nebuchadnezzar. That one, God humbled him. By the time he finished, he said there's no one as great as God. He was humbled. Humble yourself is realizing this before you become an animal. You will know the truth. The truth you know will make you free. It takes a level of submission, humility at heart to sit down and be taught God's word and believe it. There are some people that their mind will always fight whatever they are hearing. You are proud.
You are proud. Diagnosis is many a times pride. What makes you hold on to wrong and false mindset despite the truth is staring right at you is many a times pride. Because it takes humility to actually submit that you are wrong. It's not difficult to admit you're wrong, especially if you have believed in life for a long time, especially. Are you getting blessed? So this is how believers grow into maturity. This is how believers grow into maturity. Consistent knowledge of the truth. And there are three things that heaven releases to facilitate your knowing the truth.
Number one is the holy spirit. In John chapter 16 verse 13, the bible says, however, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth. The holy spirit. The spirit of truth. In obedience to Christ is changing everything in obedience to Christ Sisan, look at it. Swallow your pride Tonight, come to the school of the spirit. That is what it takes to come. Swallow your pride. Do you see that? Swallow your pride.
Swallow your pride. That a proudful man cannot benefit from any... The three things I'm about to say now that facilitates your knowing the truth, a proudful man cannot benefit from any of them. So he gives an advice. Just swallow your pride. Throw your pride away. Can you pray one moment and say help me? Help me to submit my understanding. Help me to submit myself. Come on.
Pray. Pray. Pray. Amen. Number two. Number one is the holy spirit. Number two is I don't have time to stretch on it. Number two is the word of God. The word of God. Bringing everything in obedience to Christ.
Number two is the word of God. Acts chapter 20 verse 32. The bible says, so now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified. Do you remember Galatians four and verse one? The heir, as long as it's a child. What is the heir? The owner of the inheritance. As long as the child, different not from the servant, though he be lord of all. The Bible then says in Acts 20 verse 32, that the word of God is the releaser of the inheritance. That the inheritance that belongs to the heir.
In other words, the reason why the heir does not have access to that inheritance is because the heir does not know the word of God. Because the word of God is what releases inheritance to you. He has not known the truth. That's why in verse two, KJV or Galatians four. Is it four? Yeah. Can we reduce it to everybody? Pause. Under what? Two doors.
People that can teach him the word of God. So that he matures and his inheritance can therefore be delivered unto him. So if you go back to Acts twenty thirty two, the first thing the word of God does to you before he gives inheritance is to build you up. The bible says, look at the order. I commend you to the word of grace that is able to number one, build you. Before it gives an inheritance, there must be a building up that happens, a maturing that happens. And then as that maturing happens, you'll find that you begin to enter into your inheritances in Christ. The things that are yours that you have only heard of in promises now becomes your experience in Christ. This is how the promises become your experience. This is how the promises become your experience.
I pray you believe what I'm teaching you. That is able to build you up and give you an inheritance amongst those who are sanctified. Those who are sanctified are those who are saved. It means not all those who are sanctified are built up. Not all those who are sanctified have received their inheritance. But amongst them that are saved, your experience can be different. When you commend yourself and you are commended to the word of God, what happens is that you are built up and you receive an inheritance. You are built up and you... Ah, pride is dangerous. Pride makes you think you know more than the spirit.
Swallow your pride. Tonight, come to the school of the spirit. Pride makes you think you know more than the spirit. Pride makes you think you know more than the word of God. And number three, that facilitates transformation and your knowledge of the truth is a teaching priest. Pride makes you think you know more than your teacher. Pride makes you think you know more than your teacher. What foolishness. There are people that feel as though the holy spirit can direct them in an area but cannot direct them in another area. It's pride.
They feel as though in some areas, they need to depend on the holy spirit. In other areas, what the holy spirit is saying has no sense in it. So I'd rather go by my own common sense as against the instructions of the spirit. They do the same thing for the word of God. The moment they found a a a portion of scriptures that does not agree with their theology, they clothe it and imagine does not exist as though it's not there. They do the same thing for teachers. So they believe that my teacher can instruct me in an area, but when it comes to this other area, I prefer to instruct myself. It is pride. It is pride. My prayer is that may God not humble you.
Do you know when I see somebody walking in pride, either reflected in the disobedience to instruction or because it cannot be corrected or anything, I just give them time. Not because I laid a curse on them. No. I will never do that. But because the bible says, God himself resists the proud. So if God is true to his word, it's only a matter of time. The proud man will meet his head. Can take ten years, Can take fifteen years. And he would think he has gone away scot free. He would think that he's wiser than the holy spirit because he went his own way and he's prospering that way.
So he feels that I knew it. You will think it's worth it than the word of God. You will think it's worth it than his teachers. Same time. The bible says the blessings of God make it rich and hardeth no sorrow. And if it came from God, then over time you will realize that there's no sorrow you experience. There's no sorrow you experience. Number three, the teacher. In Ephesians chapter four verse 11, the bible says, and he himself gave some to the apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, and some teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Jeremiah three and verse 15, the Bible says, and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
The believer becomes matured through this tripartite combination of the ministry of the holy spirit, the word of God, and the teaching priest. Prayer then becomes a platform to engage this tripartite forces. Without the word of God, without the holy spirit, and the ministry of the teacher, prayer does not carry power on its own. The power that is in prayers is because of the word of God. Without the word of God, prayer becomes like a ritual, like any other ritualistic, idealistic practice. What gives power to prayer is its compliancy with the word of God. That means for your prayer life to be effective, you must be sound in scriptures. Sound in the word. You must know the truth. The basis of your prayer then becomes on ground of the truth that you know.
Up on your feet. Hear me? Hear me? On ground of the truth that you know. So that when we now begin to pray, we are not we are not dispensing energy and wasting time in prayers. We make our prayers effectual when we're praying compliancy with the word of God. When we pray in a in a in alignment with the truth that we have known, then our prayers are powerful. So when a believer knows the truth and it begins to declare, even the time you spend praying in tongues is powerful. The time you spend speaking words is powerful. Are you with me?
In one minute, I want us to pray. We're done. Are those already? I want us to pray. Listen. And you'll pray in tongues in one minute. Pray in tongues in one minute. Just let your spirit be there. Let your soul be there. Let every part of you be there.
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