WEBVTT 00:00:02.164 --> 00:00:02.865 Praise the Lord. 00:00:02.865 --> 00:00:06.953 God is good and all the time. 00:00:06.953 --> 00:00:10.057 That is his nature. 00:00:10.057 --> 00:00:14.484 You may have your face and let's appreciate the con. 00:00:14.484 --> 00:00:15.226 Honest. 00:00:15.226 --> 00:00:20.452 Yes, he said. 00:00:20.452 --> 00:00:31.024 I'm coming from Cameroon, the land of great footballers, indomitable lions, and I know that some of them are watching online. 00:00:31.144 --> 00:00:32.149 Karibuni Sanna. 00:00:32.149 --> 00:00:33.192 We say Karibu. 00:00:33.192 --> 00:00:40.334 In Kiswa, eli says is to say welcome, welcome to this service, and we thank God for the men. 00:00:40.334 --> 00:00:55.277 To see men on a Friday like this, i think we need to give God all the praise and all the honor, because it is good to see men upstairs and men downstairs. 00:00:55.277 --> 00:01:01.338 It takes the hand of God to see men like this And we thank God for that. 00:01:01.338 --> 00:01:04.346 Let me also appreciate those who are online. 00:01:04.346 --> 00:01:05.740 Karibuni Sanna. 00:01:05.947 --> 00:01:41.147 Once again, let me also appreciate the leadership of this church, of this congregation, pastor Ambrose, who started us off on Wednesday at a very high note, reclaiming your man told through obedience, obedience released by desire, obedience released by, triggered through association, empowered by the word, focused by faith and demonstrated by action. 00:01:41.147 --> 00:01:59.703 And we thank God that we are at such a place that we are moving forward in this subject of enabling our mantles as we advance the kingdom of God. 00:01:59.703 --> 00:02:17.893 We thank God for Bishop Kiyama, who came yesterday and spoke about establishing your mantle through worship and sharing, about a personal relationship, sacrifice, concentration, prayer, the word and consistency. 00:02:17.893 --> 00:02:26.390 And to give glory to God, that God speaks today and speaks through his servant, by the power of his spirit, administering to men. 00:02:26.390 --> 00:02:31.126 Even this evening, we give glory and honor to the Lord. 00:02:31.126 --> 00:02:36.543 Today I was given the assignment in getting the mantle through authority. 00:02:36.543 --> 00:02:47.442 Let me say that I was squeezed between great men, so I'm almost feeling like a sandwich that has been sandwiched between great men And I was really wondering. 00:02:47.442 --> 00:03:07.510 You know the senior pastor, pastor Ambrose, bishop Kiyama, pastor Simon on the other end, and I'm looking at myself and saying, okay, you know getting squeezed by these great men, and I say that good things are rubbing off from these great men even as they continue sharing the gospel. 00:03:07.510 --> 00:03:22.158 I appreciate our senior pastor, pastor Ambrose, bishop Kiyama, for giving us such a wonderful message this week And getting the mantle through authority. 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:35.463 We'll be looking at a number of scriptures from the Old and the New Testament And let me begin myself from the scripture that is very familiar with us Matthew 28, from verse 18 to 20. 00:03:35.463 --> 00:03:38.229 I'll be starting off from verse 16. 00:03:38.229 --> 00:03:44.987 Media, if you can give us Matthew 28, from verse 16 to verse 20. 00:03:44.987 --> 00:03:54.531 The Bible says then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 00:03:54.531 --> 00:03:59.040 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him. 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:05.573 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted. 00:04:05.573 --> 00:04:11.680 Remember, these are the twelve, let me say the eleven because Judas is not there. 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:21.466 They went with Jesus to the mountain, as he had said, but some of them out of the eleven were doubting. 00:04:21.466 --> 00:04:29.579 Can you imagine, even after Jesus dying on the cross, being raised again, there would still be doubt somewhere in the mid-east of these twelve. 00:04:29.579 --> 00:04:37.202 Then verse 18, which is the great commission, verse up to verse 20 says can we read this together? 00:04:37.202 --> 00:04:38.865 Can we read this together? 00:04:38.865 --> 00:05:14.334 Then came to them and said and on earth, therefore, yes, but praising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you, and surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. 00:05:14.334 --> 00:05:27.584 It is amazing that at the very tail end of the ministry of Jesus Christ, he is giving the church that great commission. 00:05:27.584 --> 00:05:35.925 But the Ambrose started us off by giving us the definition of a mantle. 00:05:35.925 --> 00:05:49.862 He said this the invisible impartation of God which releases us for divine assignment and enables the kingdom of God to be advanced. 00:05:51.824 --> 00:05:54.668 Our assignments come from God. 00:05:54.668 --> 00:06:00.557 Our assignments come from God. 00:06:00.557 --> 00:06:04.064 You are not here by accident. 00:06:04.064 --> 00:06:16.507 You are here by divine design and you have an assignment that God has given you to accomplish. 00:06:16.507 --> 00:06:25.947 Therefore, you are not here just to fill in the numbers of the people in this globe 8. 00:06:25.947 --> 00:06:27.050 Something billion. 00:06:27.050 --> 00:06:30.882 You have a divine assignment. 00:06:30.882 --> 00:06:36.891 Let me also add and say you have a divine timeline. 00:06:36.891 --> 00:06:43.329 You have an assignment and you also have a timeline. 00:06:43.329 --> 00:06:55.834 God has appointed us to impact our world with His glory, the place where God has assigned you to be. 00:06:55.834 --> 00:07:05.716 He has assigned you that through Him, you may bring glory around the space you occupy. 00:07:05.716 --> 00:07:11.670 You have a design or assigned appointment. 00:07:11.670 --> 00:07:21.377 Let me say also you are unique in that there is no one else like you in the whole of this world Out of the 8 billion people. 00:07:21.377 --> 00:07:27.430 You are so unique and that your assignment is as unique as you are. 00:07:27.430 --> 00:07:36.336 You are appointed to impact the world in this year of the empowered world changers. 00:07:36.336 --> 00:07:44.632 You have an assignment to impact your world with the glory of God. 00:07:44.632 --> 00:08:02.613 God has a big agenda for you In the places you occupy, starting from your home, your business, in the office, in the place of your employment, in your neighborhood. 00:08:02.613 --> 00:08:12.502 The position you are holding as a kingdom agent is so unique with you that God has given the great commission. 00:08:12.502 --> 00:08:21.699 The great commission is a command to be obeyed, not a good idea. 00:08:21.699 --> 00:08:35.355 It is a command that Jesus gave to the church, that Jesus gave it to you, that Jesus has given it to me that this command would be obeyed. 00:08:36.778 --> 00:08:41.432 Talking about mantles, elijah had a prophetic mantle. 00:08:41.432 --> 00:08:48.981 He had this authority that was transcending beyond the geopolitics of his region. 00:08:48.981 --> 00:08:53.203 Elijah would speak not only to the nation of Israel. 00:08:53.203 --> 00:08:57.945 He had a prophetic mantle that would speak even to the neighboring nations. 00:08:57.945 --> 00:09:20.900 Elijah would speak about kings in the region and because of his mantle, he was able to minister to the geopolitics of the region, rising into the political space, above the political space, speaking to kings, speaking to leaders and people of authority. 00:09:20.900 --> 00:09:27.749 Elijah had a mantle that would speak into the climatic seasons of his time. 00:09:27.749 --> 00:09:41.160 That God would give him access to the floodgates of heaven, that he will be able to stop the rains from coming for three and a half years. 00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:51.674 God will trust Elijah and hand him The keys that you would say rain would come or rain would not come. 00:09:51.674 --> 00:09:59.633 That is the God we serve, that you can use ordinary men and give them authority. 00:09:59.633 --> 00:10:11.851 That transcends the nations, that transcends the geopolitics of regions, that speaks into the environment, that speaks into the elements. 00:10:13.325 --> 00:10:16.956 A mantle speaks beyond the understanding of the human being. 00:10:16.956 --> 00:10:22.017 How can you just heat the water with your cloak and the water spout aside? 00:10:22.017 --> 00:10:30.219 That is the power of God at work in a man who has surrendered himself completely and totally to God. 00:10:30.219 --> 00:10:37.017 Even the elements will obey a man with such a mantle. 00:10:37.017 --> 00:10:47.131 Elijah had such a mantle that he would speak to the elements and call fire from heaven, and not even once and not even twice. 00:10:47.131 --> 00:10:55.116 The mantle that would speak, that the heavens would connect with and do that which the prophet says. 00:10:55.116 --> 00:11:05.798 The mantle of a man surrendered to serve God that would make a difference in his generation. 00:11:07.644 --> 00:11:21.517 Elijah had a mantle that would be able to put death aside, raising the son of a widow who was dead, raising them back to life. 00:11:21.517 --> 00:11:27.596 When a man is fully and totally surrendered to God, what can heaven do for them? 00:11:27.596 --> 00:11:30.653 This is Elijah. 00:11:30.653 --> 00:11:38.732 As if that is not enough, elijah was a man called by God, ordinary man like you and me. 00:11:38.732 --> 00:11:48.908 But even death, even death had no capacity or ability to contain him, hallelujah. 00:11:48.908 --> 00:11:55.256 You are normally bothered by small fires, and if there is a fire there, there's a fire here. 00:11:55.256 --> 00:11:58.013 We are very quick to call the fire brigade. 00:11:58.013 --> 00:12:13.538 Hallelujah, this one was taken by chariots of fire and never consumed by the fires, as they were carrying him to heaven. 00:12:13.538 --> 00:12:22.057 Even the elements would obey an ordinary man like Elijah. 00:12:22.057 --> 00:12:47.178 Then how much more I say how much more would the Lord use you, use us as men, now that Christ has died on the cross, given his life for the redemption of each and every one of you. 00:12:47.178 --> 00:12:53.534 Additionally, he gives us the great commission. 00:12:53.534 --> 00:13:00.774 Did Jesus give this commission for nothing? 00:13:00.774 --> 00:13:08.616 Did Jesus give this commission that we would live in big houses? 00:13:08.616 --> 00:13:14.736 Did Jesus give this commission that we would drive because? 00:13:14.736 --> 00:13:21.275 Did Jesus give this commission that you would live in this life with a huge salary? 00:13:21.275 --> 00:13:23.866 Hallelujah. 00:13:23.866 --> 00:13:30.634 Is that all that Jesus would die for? 00:13:30.634 --> 00:13:37.731 Is that the level of our faith? 00:13:37.731 --> 00:13:45.061 that it will be about what I need and what I desire. 00:13:45.725 --> 00:13:51.096 Chris Magoo, the director of the men's department, shared from Matthew 6.33. 00:13:51.096 --> 00:13:53.166 Sit fast. 00:13:53.166 --> 00:14:05.340 The kingdom of God and all his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. 00:14:05.340 --> 00:14:15.475 We are the generation that has turned that around And we have decided that let us start seeking these other things first. 00:14:15.475 --> 00:14:27.359 Then, when things are not going to work, then we can go back to God and start raising these prayers about the needs that we have. 00:14:27.359 --> 00:14:42.597 Jesus is saying do not worry about what you eat or what you drink or what you will wear, because the heathens, those who don't know Jesus, are praying for the same things. 00:14:42.597 --> 00:14:49.177 Does it mean that our level of prayer is the prayer that is just about the year and now? 00:14:49.177 --> 00:14:54.514 The things that we need now are not about the kingdom of God. 00:14:54.514 --> 00:15:01.517 I know when we talk about men, most of the time it will be about finances. 00:15:01.517 --> 00:15:08.778 I'm telling you finances, finances, finances and projects and businesses. 00:15:08.778 --> 00:15:14.355 When will the trajectory of our prayers start shifting? 00:15:14.355 --> 00:15:30.827 That we may start praying kingdoms, prayer that touch the heart of God, and God starts to minister to the needs that we have, and then we shall see the difference it makes, when our prayer has taken us shifting, and we shall be able to experience. 00:15:31.149 --> 00:15:33.333 What is this thing about mantles? 00:15:33.333 --> 00:15:49.751 If God used men like Elijah, elisha, david, these were ordinary men like you and I, joseph, who made a difference in their generation. 00:15:49.751 --> 00:16:01.432 By the authority of God, they were able to touch nations, giving them a blueprint, an economic blueprint for food security. 00:16:01.432 --> 00:16:05.589 That is what Joseph did in Egypt And we continue to read about it. 00:16:05.589 --> 00:16:12.232 Daniel, Shadrach, meshak and Abednego in the Babylonian kingdom making a difference in their space. 00:16:12.232 --> 00:16:23.936 Foreigners taken as captive in a foreign land that they will be thrown into the fiery furnace and the fire would not consume them Even the elements obey. 00:16:23.936 --> 00:16:28.917 That is authority beyond the understanding of man. 00:16:28.917 --> 00:16:30.489 Let's give a hand clap to Jesus. 00:16:30.489 --> 00:17:14.314 If God can use ordinary men in the Old Testament days, now that Jesus has died and given his life for your redemption, the ultimate sacrifice that would redeem you, i pray that we shall see men arise in this season that speak of a God that they know, that will make a difference in their time, in their seasons, that they will arise to be firebrands that speak about this God fearlessly and courageously, starting with Parkland's Baptist Church. 00:17:14.314 --> 00:17:24.858 It will only take one man and I believe that man is in Parkland's Baptist Church. 00:17:24.858 --> 00:17:27.248 Could you be the candidate? 00:17:27.248 --> 00:17:42.490 could you be the candidate that God would pick and say this is the one that I have chosen, that I would fill them with my spirit that will make a difference in their neighborhood. 00:17:42.490 --> 00:17:51.569 That will make a difference in the city that they'll make a difference in the city, in the nation of Kenya, in Africa and in the nations of the world. 00:17:53.231 --> 00:17:57.799 The Great Commission is the commission to all of us. 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:11.571 In Matthew 28, 16 to 20, christ gave the disciples not some authority, not some authority. 00:18:11.571 --> 00:18:14.744 He says all authority. 00:18:14.744 --> 00:18:19.457 Please, media, take us back to Matthew 28, 18 to 20. 00:18:19.457 --> 00:18:24.592 Verse 18, let's read together. 00:18:24.592 --> 00:18:37.013 Then Jesus came to them and said all authority, not some authority, all authority. 00:18:37.013 --> 00:18:39.617 Jesus has died. 00:18:39.617 --> 00:18:42.080 Jesus has been raised again. 00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:50.488 He is seated at the right hand of the Father, the place of authority and power, And I think that is not enough. 00:18:50.488 --> 00:19:07.825 Interceding for you and interceding for me, he says all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 00:19:07.825 --> 00:19:18.619 All authority in heaven and in the earth has been given to Jesus. 00:19:18.619 --> 00:19:50.349 Therefore, because of that authority, he tells you go, because you have authority, go and make disciples, make them followers of Jesus Christ in all the groups of people, in all the nations of the world, in people, in every space, every corner, every highway, every highway and every street. 00:19:50.349 --> 00:19:58.040 Jesus gave the church this commission. 00:19:59.644 --> 00:20:12.305 Now, three things Authority that comes through the word, Authority that comes through the word of God. 00:20:12.305 --> 00:20:18.737 The word of God is the final authority. 00:20:18.737 --> 00:20:35.571 The word of God is the final authority And if anything is inconsistent to this word, if anything is inconsistent with this word, it has no effect. 00:20:35.571 --> 00:20:43.448 The word of God will stand in this life and even in the life, even in the life to come. 00:20:43.448 --> 00:20:56.061 The promises of God are written in His word for you and for me. 00:20:56.061 --> 00:21:04.265 No one can come to God unless they have known this word. 00:21:04.265 --> 00:21:10.853 And this word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. 00:21:11.987 --> 00:21:14.512 Media, please give us John chapter one. 00:21:14.512 --> 00:21:17.799 John chapter one from verse one. 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:21.404 The authority that comes through the word In the beginning. 00:21:21.404 --> 00:21:27.712 In the beginning was the word. 00:21:27.712 --> 00:21:32.679 Before all things was the word. 00:21:32.679 --> 00:21:45.749 The word was the word was with God And the word was God, he was. 00:21:47.431 --> 00:21:51.135 Notice the change, the shift in the verse. 00:21:51.135 --> 00:21:54.921 The word becomes a person. 00:21:54.921 --> 00:21:58.770 He was with God in the beginning. 00:21:58.770 --> 00:22:03.921 Through Him, all things were made. 00:22:03.921 --> 00:22:08.188 Without Him, nothing was made. 00:22:08.188 --> 00:22:19.684 That has been made In Him was life and the life was the light of all mankind. 00:22:19.684 --> 00:22:27.371 The light shines In the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. 00:22:27.371 --> 00:22:30.365 Let us go to verse 14. 00:22:30.365 --> 00:22:35.150 Let us go to verse 14, give us verse 14, media please. 00:22:35.150 --> 00:22:48.289 Verse 14, the word became flesh and met his dwelling among us. 00:22:48.289 --> 00:23:04.516 We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 00:23:04.516 --> 00:23:11.173 Jesus, the living Word, has authority. 00:23:12.421 --> 00:23:16.999 In Hebrews 4, 12, 13 talks about the Word, which is alive. 00:23:16.999 --> 00:23:23.134 This Word is alive and active. 00:23:23.134 --> 00:23:30.547 These are not just stories written to be consumed by you and by me. 00:23:30.547 --> 00:23:33.788 This Word is the breath of God. 00:23:33.788 --> 00:23:37.348 This Word is a fire that consumes. 00:23:37.348 --> 00:23:39.566 This Word is a rock. 00:23:39.566 --> 00:23:44.411 This Word is like a hammer that breaks rocks to pieces. 00:23:44.411 --> 00:23:50.547 This Word has dominion over every principality and power of darkness. 00:23:50.547 --> 00:23:53.769 This Word will remain. 00:23:53.769 --> 00:24:01.796 There is no authority that is beyond the Word of God. 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:09.469 I remember the story of this lady who was living a careless life. 00:24:09.469 --> 00:24:19.086 Then she came to the Lord and received Jesus Christ as her personal savior. 00:24:19.086 --> 00:24:28.048 In the process of this life, she got into a relationship with this young man and both of them were living for God. 00:24:28.048 --> 00:24:37.285 They served God, they did ministry and they lived their lives in a manner that would glorify God. 00:24:37.285 --> 00:24:49.644 Then, in the course of life, they decided that, since they were relating so well with each other within the confines of the Word of God, that they would get married. 00:24:49.644 --> 00:25:03.006 And you know, in this day and age of HIV, you must go for some of these things, for testing, so that you can be given the access to continue relating the way you'd wish to from a family standpoint. 00:25:03.006 --> 00:25:03.843 You know these things. 00:25:04.740 --> 00:25:10.727 Now the two decides to go to an HIV test center And the first one to go was the gentleman. 00:25:10.727 --> 00:25:22.333 The gentleman went in the VCT center and he was told you are okay, you are HIV negative, fine, you can walk away. 00:25:22.333 --> 00:25:29.542 So he went and waited at the reception, told the fiance you know for me, i'm okay, i don't know for you. 00:25:29.542 --> 00:25:30.787 Go do your test. 00:25:30.787 --> 00:25:40.294 The lady went and did her test And after doing her test she was told she was HIV positive. 00:25:40.294 --> 00:25:58.891 Now she went back to her fiance at the reception and told him it is very sad now that I've been diagnosed with HIV And I don't know how this will be, because I believe that God has a plan for our lives. 00:26:00.763 --> 00:26:08.989 Then she remembers there is a scripture, second Corinthians, 5, 17. 00:26:08.989 --> 00:26:16.997 If anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation. 00:26:16.997 --> 00:26:22.372 The old has gone and behold, the new has come. 00:26:22.372 --> 00:26:25.104 She just woke up. 00:26:25.104 --> 00:26:34.565 This word springed into her life and she said that is the life I used to live, but from this standpoint. 00:26:34.565 --> 00:26:49.627 The time I received Jesus Christ as my personal savior, i became a new creation in Christ And she told her fiance I'm going back for the test On the basis of that scripture. 00:26:49.627 --> 00:26:55.686 She went back to the person who did the test and they were asking her what is wrong with you? 00:26:55.686 --> 00:26:57.265 Why are you coming back? 00:26:57.265 --> 00:27:01.369 We have already told you you are HIV positive. 00:27:01.369 --> 00:27:04.888 She said no, i found something else. 00:27:04.888 --> 00:27:20.068 There is a scripture in the Bible that tells me that was my past life, but now that I have received Christ as my personal savior, i am a new creation in Christ. 00:27:20.068 --> 00:27:21.261 Do the tests. 00:27:21.261 --> 00:27:31.318 They did the test And after doing the test, she was diagnosed HIV free. 00:27:31.318 --> 00:27:34.647 No HIV in her system. 00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:36.964 This word is alive. 00:27:36.964 --> 00:27:44.148 This word can minister to your condition, to your situation, regardless of what it be. 00:27:44.148 --> 00:27:46.904 John 15, 7,. 00:27:46.904 --> 00:28:03.374 The Bible says if you remain in me and my word remains in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. 00:28:03.374 --> 00:28:16.948 This is to my father's glory that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples If you remain in Christ. 00:28:16.948 --> 00:28:26.628 If you remain in Christ, not out of Christ, but in Christ. 00:28:26.628 --> 00:28:33.664 We are more than conquerors in Christ, not out of Christ. 00:28:33.664 --> 00:28:35.951 It is in Christ. 00:28:35.951 --> 00:28:55.559 If you remain in me and I remain in you and my word finds a place in you, you have the authority to ask. 00:28:55.559 --> 00:29:05.692 Maybe we need to start asking ourselves some questions Are you in Christ? 00:29:05.692 --> 00:29:08.420 have you remained in his word? 00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:10.835 Are you obedient? 00:29:10.835 --> 00:29:22.288 are you obedient to this word that you will have the right to ask and the Lord would respond to your request? 00:29:22.288 --> 00:29:30.284 That is the condition that we have been given to remain in Christ. 00:29:30.284 --> 00:29:39.530 It is in Christ, not out of Christ, that we have this authority now to speak into our situations. 00:29:39.530 --> 00:29:59.075 As long as we are in Christ and we obey his word, then whatever we shall ask because it is in accordance to his will, which is in his word it shall come to pass. 00:29:59.075 --> 00:30:04.750 Remain in God and remain in his word. 00:30:04.750 --> 00:30:14.571 You will have authority over every situation and condition that you will face in this world. 00:30:14.571 --> 00:30:18.810 There is authority in the word of God. 00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:23.969 You are a priest called by God. 00:30:23.969 --> 00:30:30.048 In your home, man, you are the priests. 00:30:30.048 --> 00:30:36.287 You have an assignment, you have an obligation. 00:30:36.287 --> 00:30:42.593 God will hold you accountable to your wife. 00:30:42.593 --> 00:30:47.570 God will hold you accountable to your children. 00:30:47.570 --> 00:30:52.230 Actually, when you got married, your wife took your name. 00:30:52.230 --> 00:30:57.971 So you have, your wife has your identity. 00:30:57.971 --> 00:31:00.164 She is called Mrs U. 00:31:00.164 --> 00:31:04.087 Your children carry your identity. 00:31:04.087 --> 00:31:06.506 They have your name. 00:31:06.506 --> 00:31:09.788 You have authority over them. 00:31:09.788 --> 00:31:12.708 You are the priest of the home. 00:31:12.708 --> 00:31:16.048 You have a voice over your family. 00:31:16.048 --> 00:31:29.567 Now, how much time are you spending with your children or with your family in the word of God? 00:31:29.567 --> 00:31:39.692 How much time, priest, how much time are you spending? 00:31:39.692 --> 00:31:46.913 God will hold us, as men, accountable. 00:31:46.913 --> 00:31:51.589 We cannot spend 90 minutes watching football. 00:31:51.589 --> 00:32:20.019 We cannot spend hours and hours discussing politics and not have time to read the Bible to our children, to have a devotional life, spending quality time in the presence of God, reading the scriptures to our family members as priests. 00:32:22.250 --> 00:32:23.219 It begins with a man. 00:32:23.219 --> 00:32:29.756 Take your mantle, you are responsible. 00:32:29.756 --> 00:32:32.936 It begins in the home. 00:32:32.936 --> 00:32:36.034 Your authority as the head. 00:32:36.034 --> 00:32:38.319 You have eyes to see. 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:41.510 You must see what God sees for your family. 00:32:41.510 --> 00:32:45.413 You are the head. 00:32:45.615 --> 00:32:48.279 Paul says in Ephesians The wife is the body. 00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:49.915 You are the body. 00:32:49.915 --> 00:32:56.989 The head must see for the family. 00:32:56.989 --> 00:33:03.545 The head must see God that they may be able to see for their family. 00:33:03.545 --> 00:33:12.279 If you do not know God, if you've not seen God, if you've not experienced God, if you don't know him, how will your children know this God? 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:15.109 And Joshua said. 00:33:15.109 --> 00:33:19.355 As for me and my house. 00:33:19.355 --> 00:33:22.300 We shall serve the Lord. 00:33:22.300 --> 00:33:25.105 Man, you are the head. 00:33:25.105 --> 00:33:29.971 Are you listening to God when he speaks? 00:33:29.971 --> 00:33:32.476 Do you hear him? 00:33:32.476 --> 00:33:37.242 Do you have ears that hear God? 00:33:37.983 --> 00:33:50.070 In Revelation 3, when the Spirit is speaking to the churches, he says let those who have ears hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 00:33:50.070 --> 00:34:01.672 Man, you have the breath of life in you that whatever you say to your children matters. 00:34:01.672 --> 00:34:20.918 You shall be an encouragement to your children, spending time with them, encouraging them, speaking to them words of blessings, telling them that they will make it being the source of encouragement and not discouragement to your children. 00:34:20.918 --> 00:34:23.605 It begins with you. 00:34:23.605 --> 00:34:28.652 It begins with us, in our homes. 00:34:28.652 --> 00:34:34.880 And secondly, authority in the name of Jesus. 00:34:36.161 --> 00:34:41.012 There is authority in the name of Jesus. 00:34:41.012 --> 00:34:55.458 The name of Jesus has authority that transcends all dimensions of this life the physical, the spiritual, the emotional, the psychological Mention. 00:34:55.458 --> 00:35:04.260 It, the blood of Jesus, is able to permeate every atmosphere, to penetrate every condition. 00:35:04.260 --> 00:35:10.277 The name of Jesus is the name that is above all names. 00:35:10.277 --> 00:35:15.311 The Bible says Philippians, chapter 2, verse 9 to 11, media, if you can give us. 00:35:15.311 --> 00:35:19.797 Philippians, chapter 2, verse 9 to 11. 00:35:19.797 --> 00:35:33.443 Therefore, because of his sacrifice on the cross, therefore, because his shed his blood for your redemption and my redemption. 00:35:33.443 --> 00:35:57.059 Therefore, it says God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow. 00:35:57.059 --> 00:35:59.981 Where Again? 00:35:59.981 --> 00:36:17.965 in heaven, on the earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge other versions, say, confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. 00:36:17.965 --> 00:36:30.748 If that is not authority, tell me what authority is That at the name of Jesus, every knee bows? 00:36:30.748 --> 00:36:39.262 It is already happening in heaven and even on the earth. 00:36:39.262 --> 00:36:41.646 There is no authority like that. 00:36:41.646 --> 00:36:47.820 The name of Jesus is above every name. 00:36:47.820 --> 00:36:53.791 You know everything in this world, every condition in this world has a name. 00:36:53.791 --> 00:36:56.556 Every sickness has a name. 00:36:56.556 --> 00:37:13.637 They've given it a name, a title diabetes, cancer, hepatitis, anxiety, worry, depression, oppression, uncertainty. 00:37:13.637 --> 00:37:24.393 Call it what you want, but remember there is a name that is above every condition and situation you are going through. 00:37:24.393 --> 00:37:34.532 I present you the name of Jesus, the son of the living God. 00:37:34.532 --> 00:37:40.186 In the name of Jesus, acts 3, 4, to 10,. 00:37:40.967 --> 00:37:59.947 Peter and John coming from the temple, going to the temple to worship, and they see this lame man at the gate, called beautiful, and they are telling him silver and gold we do not have One day. 00:37:59.947 --> 00:38:12.827 Peter and John were going up to the temple ordinary day, ordinary men going to the temple, like it was their practice At the time of prayer. 00:38:12.827 --> 00:38:21.190 They are just going to pray, like we are here in this forum and like you have always been praying, and they are in the afternoon. 00:38:21.190 --> 00:38:34.059 Now a man who was lame from from birth was being carried to the temple gate called beautiful. 00:38:34.059 --> 00:38:39.811 The temple gate is called beautiful but the situation is not beautiful. 00:38:39.811 --> 00:38:47.271 He was put there every day to beg from those going into the temple calls. 00:38:47.271 --> 00:38:54.938 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 00:38:54.938 --> 00:39:08.010 You see the story about money And I'm sure if we would line up all the men and ask them what is your prayer request, i'm telling you 90% it will be money issues. 00:39:08.300 --> 00:39:10.106 And let me tell you, money is not the issue. 00:39:10.106 --> 00:39:14.920 We better start understanding that we need to align ourselves to God, why? 00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:20.213 The silver is his, the gold is his and he already knows your needs. 00:39:20.213 --> 00:39:22.188 Money is never the issue. 00:39:22.188 --> 00:39:26.342 Money is not the means to an end, it is only a means. 00:39:26.342 --> 00:39:28.208 They call it a mode of exchange. 00:39:28.208 --> 00:39:31.260 You know, when you are hungry you cannot eat money. 00:39:31.260 --> 00:39:32.885 You need money to buy food. 00:39:32.885 --> 00:39:35.047 Money is never everything. 00:39:35.047 --> 00:39:45.594 It is a means in which you can get things, but unfortunately sometimes we find ourselves like we worship money. 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:51.150 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 00:39:51.150 --> 00:39:56.731 Peter looked straight at him, as did John. 00:39:56.731 --> 00:40:06.869 Then Peter said look at us, look at us. 00:40:06.869 --> 00:40:13.891 So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them. 00:40:13.891 --> 00:40:31.550 Then Peter said silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. 00:40:31.550 --> 00:40:36.007 You know, you cannot give what you don't have. 00:40:36.007 --> 00:40:43.028 You will always give that which you have. 00:40:43.028 --> 00:40:57.996 And he said, in the name of Jesus, christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 00:40:57.996 --> 00:41:22.655 Taking him by the hand, he helped him up and you are not sure And instantly, immediately there, and then their man's feet and uncles became strong. 00:41:22.655 --> 00:41:26.260 This is beyond money. 00:41:26.260 --> 00:41:36.300 Remember this man was born with this condition, so there was no way he was going to find healing because he was born that way. 00:41:37.081 --> 00:41:39.708 But there is the name of Jesus. 00:41:39.708 --> 00:41:57.853 I don't know the situation you are going through, but there is authority in the name of Jesus that is able to minister to your situation. 00:41:57.853 --> 00:42:07.393 I think sometimes we water down this name and we become so familiar with it to the point of unbelief. 00:42:07.393 --> 00:42:18.454 We don't seem to believe, sometimes, that the name of Jesus has power to minister to our situations. 00:42:18.454 --> 00:42:32.695 This word needs to connect with you, and to connect with you from the place of having faith in what this word is saying. 00:42:32.695 --> 00:42:42.875 Everything Jesus did was triggered by faith in the person who received this word. 00:42:42.875 --> 00:42:55.554 This word must connect with faith because faith comes by hearing and by hearing the word of God. 00:42:55.554 --> 00:43:04.152 We must connect this word by faith and we shall see things happen. 00:43:06.221 --> 00:43:16.434 The name of Jesus has the power to minister to your every situation, to your every condition. 00:43:16.434 --> 00:43:25.300 You need to stand in the authority of that word and believe by faith, because faith is the substance. 00:43:25.300 --> 00:43:31.300 It is the substance of the things we hope for, the evidence of the things we do not see. 00:43:31.300 --> 00:43:34.028 Because we have chosen to believe. 00:43:34.028 --> 00:43:40.833 I choose to believe in what the Lord says because what He says is true. 00:43:40.833 --> 00:43:44.889 John 17, 17,. 00:43:44.889 --> 00:43:53.628 Please, the writer of the book of John says sanctify them by the truth. 00:43:53.628 --> 00:43:57.731 Your word is truth. 00:43:57.731 --> 00:44:00.905 This word is truth. 00:44:00.905 --> 00:44:01.780 John 14, 16,. 00:44:01.780 --> 00:44:09.733 Jesus says I am the way, i am the truth and I am the life. 00:44:09.733 --> 00:44:14.086 This word is truth. 00:44:14.086 --> 00:44:41.416 You believe, and may the Lord bring your prayers to the place of finding answers so that you may connect with this authority in this name of Jesus that will bring significant shift and change in your situation. 00:44:41.416 --> 00:45:07.266 Hallelujah, the name of Jesus is the authority that will stand when everything around you starts falling apart, when everything around you is squeezing you, when everything around you seems to be caving in as a man, when everything around you seems to be not holding Jesus. 00:45:07.266 --> 00:45:15.474 Christ is able to hold your hand through every situation and every circumstance you face. 00:45:15.474 --> 00:45:33.547 He is the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God, all powerful, all knowing, feeling every space and time, and, before anything happens, he already knows. 00:45:33.547 --> 00:45:40.635 The name of Jesus is revered in heaven. 00:45:40.635 --> 00:45:44.108 It is revered on the earth. 00:45:44.108 --> 00:45:48.630 It is revered in the kingdom of darkness. 00:45:48.630 --> 00:45:54.492 There is authority in the name of Jesus. 00:45:54.492 --> 00:45:56.264 Hallelujah. 00:45:56.264 --> 00:46:06.914 The name of Jesus is the name that transcends again every situation, every condition. 00:46:08.362 --> 00:46:12.512 We must surrender our dependence on things. 00:46:12.512 --> 00:46:26.280 We must surrender our dependence on material things that we have put so much trust in and depend on God. 00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:41.280 You know the problem we are in a physical world and sometimes we are getting attached to physical things And we are forgetting God, because we have made physical things smarter, more than God. 00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:54.076 We have taken money, like our second God property and all these physical things and relegated the name of Jesus to a second place. 00:46:54.076 --> 00:47:01.773 We have elevated idols without knowing, things made by the hands of men. 00:47:01.773 --> 00:47:10.994 Let me tell you every idol must come down and Jesus must be exalted. 00:47:10.994 --> 00:47:17.018 Every idol that has taken the place of Christ must come down. 00:47:17.018 --> 00:47:21.199 It is not because of money, it is not because of property. 00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:30.280 All those things will perish, but there is a name that will stand this life and in the life to come. 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:46.992 It is interesting that when we are conducting funeral services, it is never mentioned about money, it is never mentioned about property, it is never mentioned about the things we work so hard for. 00:47:46.992 --> 00:47:56.014 You work so hard for these things, but what matters the most is this name. 00:47:57.181 --> 00:48:06.855 What or where have you placed the son of the living God? 00:48:06.855 --> 00:48:12.300 Is he above everything in your life? 00:48:12.300 --> 00:48:28.300 Somebody said if you cannot die for your faith in him, like the disciples did, if it doesn't cost you, you are everything, and I believe this has come separately. 00:48:28.300 --> 00:48:37.974 If it doesn't cost you everything, there is something that is not right in the place of your faith with him. 00:48:37.974 --> 00:48:52.431 Do you love him so much that you would be willing to lose that which you treasure the most If God would ask you to give him what you treasure the most. 00:48:52.431 --> 00:48:58.788 Would you be willing to give to him, or would it be a struggle? 00:48:59.500 --> 00:49:09.130 I remember when Bishop Kiyama was speaking yesterday and talking about the things that we have and asking how have we surrendered them to God? 00:49:09.130 --> 00:49:20.373 And sometimes it can be a situation where you are struggling with the things you love the most And you know, when it comes to God, it is those things that take his place. 00:49:20.373 --> 00:49:29.193 Are the things he is asking for from you When he is telling Abraham, give me your son, the one you love, as a band offering sacrifice? 00:49:29.193 --> 00:49:36.280 He gives his son without flinching and God makes him the father of all nations. 00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:39.608 If it were you, would you have been willing to do that? 00:49:39.608 --> 00:49:44.150 When God is asking, he is not asking because he wants. 00:49:44.150 --> 00:49:51.193 He is asking because he wants to test your love for him, your obedience, your integrity, how committed you are. 00:49:51.193 --> 00:49:53.989 Are you ready to give everything to him? 00:49:53.989 --> 00:49:56.489 We normally sing all to Jesus. 00:49:56.489 --> 00:49:58.396 I surrender, all to him. 00:49:58.396 --> 00:49:59.300 I freely give. 00:49:59.300 --> 00:50:00.342 Is it true? 00:50:00.342 --> 00:50:05.010 Have you surrendered all Or have you surrendered partially? 00:50:07.126 --> 00:50:14.371 The name of Jesus has authority And, finally, authority in the blood of Jesus. 00:50:14.371 --> 00:50:36.592 Authority in the blood of Jesus When Jesus went to the cross and gave his life and shed his blood. 00:50:36.592 --> 00:50:45.409 That was the blood of the father being shed on the cross for you. 00:50:45.409 --> 00:51:04.103 He who had no sin, was made sin for you was made sin for me, that we may become the righteousness of God, the ultimate sacrifice for your redemption. 00:51:04.103 --> 00:51:13.101 There is no level of fallenness beyond which the blood of Jesus cannot get to you. 00:51:13.101 --> 00:51:18.590 There is no sin that God cannot be able to forgive. 00:51:18.590 --> 00:51:26.958 Through the power and authority of the blood of Jesus, the power of a sin and its effect is defeated. 00:51:26.958 --> 00:51:31.268 The devil and his schemes has no authority over you. 00:51:31.268 --> 00:51:44.251 Jesus paid the ultimate price, giving you victory over every sin, and sin has no mastery over you. 00:51:44.251 --> 00:51:46.838 Sin shall not master you. 00:51:46.838 --> 00:51:50.166 You shall not be mastered by addiction. 00:51:50.166 --> 00:51:53.353 You shall not be mastered by pornography. 00:51:53.353 --> 00:51:56.963 You shall not be mastered by sexual sin. 00:51:56.963 --> 00:51:59.951 You shall not be mastered by compromise. 00:51:59.951 --> 00:52:03.016 You shall not be mastered by double standards. 00:52:03.016 --> 00:52:20.063 Jesus shed his blood for you that you would live in victory over sin, over Satan and over every scheming of the enemy. 00:52:20.063 --> 00:52:25.697 Media givers Colossians, chapter 2, verse 13 to 15. 00:52:25.697 --> 00:52:31.846 Colossians, chapter 2, from verse 13 to 15. 00:52:32.385 --> 00:52:49.884 Jesus made a public spectacle of the enemy tranting over him through the course, when you were dead in your sins and in the unsurconcision of your flesh, god made you alive with Christ. 00:52:49.884 --> 00:52:51.445 He forgave us. 00:52:51.445 --> 00:52:56.317 How many sins, all our sins. 00:52:56.317 --> 00:53:26.909 Having cancelled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us, he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross, and having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, tranting over them by the cross. 00:53:26.909 --> 00:53:39.056 Jesus has given you authority, through his death on the cross, to trample over every skimming and work of the enemy. 00:53:39.056 --> 00:54:12.036 Having overcome the powers and dominions and principalities and authorities, and having paid the debt that was on you, that was on me, because of the sin that we carry and carried over time, jesus made a public spectacle of the enemy giving us victory through his blood. 00:54:12.036 --> 00:54:23.590 Jesus has given you power and authority to overcome every power of darkness. 00:54:23.590 --> 00:54:29.284 In 1 Peter, 1, 18 and 19, the Bible talks about redemption. 00:54:29.284 --> 00:54:44.911 We were not redeemed by perishable things, not redeemed by silver or gold, but by the precious blood of Christ 1 Peter, 18, 19,. 00:54:44.911 --> 00:54:56.692 But by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, the blood of Jesus has authority. 00:54:57.773 --> 00:55:17.306 As we finish this evening, i want to remind us, as I remind myself, that the blood of Jesus has given us authority over sin that has so easily entangled you. 00:55:17.306 --> 00:55:27.786 Are you struggling in your life with sin that has so entangled you, so entangled you that you cannot break loose? 00:55:27.786 --> 00:55:30.869 Is it an addiction? 00:55:30.869 --> 00:55:35.398 Is it compromise? 00:55:35.398 --> 00:55:39.751 Is it not finding yourself in the place of truth? 00:55:39.751 --> 00:55:43.838 Is it addiction to substance abuse? 00:55:43.838 --> 00:55:45.739 Is it alcohol? 00:55:45.739 --> 00:55:54.590