Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: God is good and all the time.
Speaker 1: That is his nature.
Speaker 1: You may have your face and let's appreciate the con.
Speaker 1: Honest.
Speaker 1: Yes, he said.
Speaker 1: I'm coming from Cameroon, the land of great footballers, indomitable lions, and I know that some of them are watching online.
Speaker 1: Karibuni Sanna.
Speaker 1: We say Karibu.
Speaker 1: In Kiswa, eli says is to say welcome, welcome to this service, and we thank God for the men.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: It takes the hand of God to see men like this And we thank God for that.
Speaker 1: Let me also appreciate those who are online.
Speaker 1: Karibuni Sanna.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And to give glory to God, that God speaks today and speaks through his servant, by the power of his spirit, administering to men.
Speaker 1: Even this evening, we give glory and honor to the Lord.
Speaker 1: Today I was given the assignment in getting the mantle through authority.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I appreciate our senior pastor, pastor Ambrose, bishop Kiyama, for giving us such a wonderful message this week And getting the mantle through authority.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I'll be starting off from verse 16.
Speaker 1: Media, if you can give us Matthew 28, from verse 16 to verse 20.
Speaker 1: The Bible says then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.
Speaker 1: When they saw Him, they worshiped Him.
Speaker 1: When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted.
Speaker 1: Remember, these are the twelve, let me say the eleven because Judas is not there.
Speaker 1: They went with Jesus to the mountain, as he had said, but some of them out of the eleven were doubting.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Then verse 18, which is the great commission, verse up to verse 20 says can we read this together?
Speaker 1: Can we read this together?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: It is amazing that at the very tail end of the ministry of Jesus Christ, he is giving the church that great commission.
Speaker 1: But the Ambrose started us off by giving us the definition of a mantle.
Speaker 1: He said this the invisible impartation of God which releases us for divine assignment and enables the kingdom of God to be advanced.
Speaker 1: Our assignments come from God.
Speaker 1: You are not here by accident.
Speaker 1: You are here by divine design and you have an assignment that God has given you to accomplish.
Speaker 1: Therefore, you are not here just to fill in the numbers of the people in this globe 8.
Speaker 1: Something billion.
Speaker 1: You have a divine assignment.
Speaker 1: Let me also add and say you have a divine timeline.
Speaker 1: You have an assignment and you also have a timeline.
Speaker 1: God has appointed us to impact our world with His glory, the place where God has assigned you to be.
Speaker 1: He has assigned you that through Him, you may bring glory around the space you occupy.
Speaker 1: You have a design or assigned appointment.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: You are so unique and that your assignment is as unique as you are.
Speaker 1: You are appointed to impact the world in this year of the empowered world changers.
Speaker 1: You have an assignment to impact your world with the glory of God.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: The position you are holding as a kingdom agent is so unique with you that God has given the great commission.
Speaker 1: The great commission is a command to be obeyed, not a good idea.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Talking about mantles, elijah had a prophetic mantle.
Speaker 1: He had this authority that was transcending beyond the geopolitics of his region.
Speaker 1: Elijah would speak not only to the nation of Israel.
Speaker 1: He had a prophetic mantle that would speak even to the neighboring nations.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Elijah had a mantle that would speak into the climatic seasons of his time.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: God will trust Elijah and hand him The keys that you would say rain would come or rain would not come.
Speaker 1: That is the God we serve, that you can use ordinary men and give them authority.
Speaker 1: That transcends the nations, that transcends the geopolitics of regions, that speaks into the environment, that speaks into the elements.
Speaker 1: A mantle speaks beyond the understanding of the human being.
Speaker 1: How can you just heat the water with your cloak and the water spout aside?
Speaker 1: That is the power of God at work in a man who has surrendered himself completely and totally to God.
Speaker 1: Even the elements will obey a man with such a mantle.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: The mantle that would speak, that the heavens would connect with and do that which the prophet says.
Speaker 1: The mantle of a man surrendered to serve God that would make a difference in his generation.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: When a man is fully and totally surrendered to God, what can heaven do for them?
Speaker 1: This is Elijah.
Speaker 1: As if that is not enough, elijah was a man called by God, ordinary man like you and me.
Speaker 1: But even death, even death had no capacity or ability to contain him, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: You are normally bothered by small fires, and if there is a fire there, there's a fire here.
Speaker 1: We are very quick to call the fire brigade.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, this one was taken by chariots of fire and never consumed by the fires, as they were carrying him to heaven.
Speaker 1: Even the elements would obey an ordinary man like Elijah.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Additionally, he gives us the great commission.
Speaker 1: Did Jesus give this commission for nothing?
Speaker 1: Did Jesus give this commission that we would live in big houses?
Speaker 1: Did Jesus give this commission that we would drive because?
Speaker 1: Did Jesus give this commission that you would live in this life with a huge salary?
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Is that all that Jesus would die for?
Speaker 1: Is that the level of our faith?
Speaker 1: that it will be about what I need and what I desire.
Speaker 1: Chris Magoo, the director of the men's department, shared from Matthew 6.33.
Speaker 1: Sit fast.
Speaker 1: The kingdom of God and all his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.
Speaker 1: We are the generation that has turned that around And we have decided that let us start seeking these other things first.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Does it mean that our level of prayer is the prayer that is just about the year and now?
Speaker 1: The things that we need now are not about the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: I know when we talk about men, most of the time it will be about finances.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you finances, finances, finances and projects and businesses.
Speaker 1: When will the trajectory of our prayers start shifting?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: What is this thing about mantles?
Speaker 1: If God used men like Elijah, elisha, david, these were ordinary men like you and I, joseph, who made a difference in their generation.
Speaker 1: By the authority of God, they were able to touch nations, giving them a blueprint, an economic blueprint for food security.
Speaker 1: That is what Joseph did in Egypt And we continue to read about it.
Speaker 1: Daniel, Shadrach, meshak and Abednego in the Babylonian kingdom making a difference in their space.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: That is authority beyond the understanding of man.
Speaker 1: Let's give a hand clap to Jesus.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: It will only take one man and I believe that man is in Parkland's Baptist Church.
Speaker 1: Could you be the candidate?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: The Great Commission is the commission to all of us.
Speaker 1: In Matthew 28, 16 to 20, christ gave the disciples not some authority, not some authority.
Speaker 1: He says all authority.
Speaker 1: Please, media, take us back to Matthew 28, 18 to 20.
Speaker 1: Verse 18, let's read together.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus came to them and said all authority, not some authority, all authority.
Speaker 1: Jesus has died.
Speaker 1: Jesus has been raised again.
Speaker 1: He is seated at the right hand of the Father, the place of authority and power, And I think that is not enough.
Speaker 1: Interceding for you and interceding for me, he says all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Speaker 1: All authority in heaven and in the earth has been given to Jesus.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Jesus gave the church this commission.
Speaker 1: Now, three things Authority that comes through the word, Authority that comes through the word of God.
Speaker 1: The word of God is the final authority.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: The word of God will stand in this life and even in the life, even in the life to come.
Speaker 1: The promises of God are written in His word for you and for me.
Speaker 1: No one can come to God unless they have known this word.
Speaker 1: And this word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.
Speaker 1: Media, please give us John chapter one.
Speaker 1: John chapter one from verse one.
Speaker 1: The authority that comes through the word In the beginning.
Speaker 1: In the beginning was the word.
Speaker 1: Before all things was the word.
Speaker 1: The word was the word was with God And the word was God, he was.
Speaker 1: Notice the change, the shift in the verse.
Speaker 1: The word becomes a person.
Speaker 1: He was with God in the beginning.
Speaker 1: Through Him, all things were made.
Speaker 1: Without Him, nothing was made.
Speaker 1: That has been made In Him was life and the life was the light of all mankind.
Speaker 1: The light shines In the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.
Speaker 1: Let us go to verse 14.
Speaker 1: Let us go to verse 14, give us verse 14, media please.
Speaker 1: Verse 14, the word became flesh and met his dwelling among us.
Speaker 1: We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Speaker 1: Jesus, the living Word, has authority.
Speaker 1: In Hebrews 4, 12, 13 talks about the Word, which is alive.
Speaker 1: This Word is alive and active.
Speaker 1: These are not just stories written to be consumed by you and by me.
Speaker 1: This Word is the breath of God.
Speaker 1: This Word is a fire that consumes.
Speaker 1: This Word is a rock.
Speaker 1: This Word is like a hammer that breaks rocks to pieces.
Speaker 1: This Word has dominion over every principality and power of darkness.
Speaker 1: This Word will remain.
Speaker 1: There is no authority that is beyond the Word of God.
Speaker 1: I remember the story of this lady who was living a careless life.
Speaker 1: Then she came to the Lord and received Jesus Christ as her personal savior.
Speaker 1: In the process of this life, she got into a relationship with this young man and both of them were living for God.
Speaker 1: They served God, they did ministry and they lived their lives in a manner that would glorify God.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: You know these things.
Speaker 1: Now the two decides to go to an HIV test center And the first one to go was the gentleman.
Speaker 1: The gentleman went in the VCT center and he was told you are okay, you are HIV negative, fine, you can walk away.
Speaker 1: So he went and waited at the reception, told the fiance you know for me, i'm okay, i don't know for you.
Speaker 1: Go do your test.
Speaker 1: The lady went and did her test And after doing her test she was told she was HIV positive.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Then she remembers there is a scripture, second Corinthians, 5, 17.
Speaker 1: If anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation.
Speaker 1: The old has gone and behold, the new has come.
Speaker 1: She just woke up.
Speaker 1: This word springed into her life and she said that is the life I used to live, but from this standpoint.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: She went back to the person who did the test and they were asking her what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Why are you coming back?
Speaker 1: We have already told you you are HIV positive.
Speaker 1: She said no, i found something else.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Do the tests.
Speaker 1: They did the test And after doing the test, she was diagnosed HIV free.
Speaker 1: No HIV in her system.
Speaker 1: This word is alive.
Speaker 1: This word can minister to your condition, to your situation, regardless of what it be.
Speaker 1: John 15, 7,.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: This is to my father's glory that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples If you remain in Christ.
Speaker 1: If you remain in Christ, not out of Christ, but in Christ.
Speaker 1: We are more than conquerors in Christ, not out of Christ.
Speaker 1: It is in Christ.
Speaker 1: If you remain in me and I remain in you and my word finds a place in you, you have the authority to ask.
Speaker 1: Maybe we need to start asking ourselves some questions Are you in Christ?
Speaker 1: have you remained in his word?
Speaker 1: Are you obedient?
Speaker 1: are you obedient to this word that you will have the right to ask and the Lord would respond to your request?
Speaker 1: That is the condition that we have been given to remain in Christ.
Speaker 1: It is in Christ, not out of Christ, that we have this authority now to speak into our situations.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Remain in God and remain in his word.
Speaker 1: You will have authority over every situation and condition that you will face in this world.
Speaker 1: There is authority in the word of God.
Speaker 1: You are a priest called by God.
Speaker 1: In your home, man, you are the priests.
Speaker 1: You have an assignment, you have an obligation.
Speaker 1: God will hold you accountable to your wife.
Speaker 1: God will hold you accountable to your children.
Speaker 1: Actually, when you got married, your wife took your name.
Speaker 1: So you have, your wife has your identity.
Speaker 1: She is called Mrs U.
Speaker 1: Your children carry your identity.
Speaker 1: They have your name.
Speaker 1: You have authority over them.
Speaker 1: You are the priest of the home.
Speaker 1: You have a voice over your family.
Speaker 1: Now, how much time are you spending with your children or with your family in the word of God?
Speaker 1: How much time, priest, how much time are you spending?
Speaker 1: God will hold us, as men, accountable.
Speaker 1: We cannot spend 90 minutes watching football.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: It begins with a man.
Speaker 1: Take your mantle, you are responsible.
Speaker 1: It begins in the home.
Speaker 1: Your authority as the head.
Speaker 1: You have eyes to see.
Speaker 1: You must see what God sees for your family.
Speaker 1: You are the head.
Speaker 1: Paul says in Ephesians The wife is the body.
Speaker 1: You are the body.
Speaker 1: The head must see for the family.
Speaker 1: The head must see God that they may be able to see for their family.
Speaker 1: 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?
Speaker 1: And Joshua said.
Speaker 1: As for me and my house.
Speaker 1: We shall serve the Lord.
Speaker 1: Man, you are the head.
Speaker 1: Are you listening to God when he speaks?
Speaker 1: Do you hear him?
Speaker 1: Do you have ears that hear God?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Man, you have the breath of life in you that whatever you say to your children matters.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: It begins with you.
Speaker 1: It begins with us, in our homes.
Speaker 1: And secondly, authority in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: There is authority in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: The name of Jesus has authority that transcends all dimensions of this life the physical, the spiritual, the emotional, the psychological Mention.
Speaker 1: It, the blood of Jesus, is able to permeate every atmosphere, to penetrate every condition.
Speaker 1: The name of Jesus is the name that is above all names.
Speaker 1: The Bible says Philippians, chapter 2, verse 9 to 11, media, if you can give us.
Speaker 1: Philippians, chapter 2, verse 9 to 11.
Speaker 1: Therefore, because of his sacrifice on the cross, therefore, because his shed his blood for your redemption and my redemption.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Where Again?
Speaker 1: in heaven, on the earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge other versions, say, confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Speaker 1: If that is not authority, tell me what authority is That at the name of Jesus, every knee bows?
Speaker 1: It is already happening in heaven and even on the earth.
Speaker 1: There is no authority like that.
Speaker 1: The name of Jesus is above every name.
Speaker 1: You know everything in this world, every condition in this world has a name.
Speaker 1: Every sickness has a name.
Speaker 1: They've given it a name, a title diabetes, cancer, hepatitis, anxiety, worry, depression, oppression, uncertainty.
Speaker 1: Call it what you want, but remember there is a name that is above every condition and situation you are going through.
Speaker 1: I present you the name of Jesus, the son of the living God.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, acts 3, 4, to 10,.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Now a man who was lame from from birth was being carried to the temple gate called beautiful.
Speaker 1: The temple gate is called beautiful but the situation is not beautiful.
Speaker 1: He was put there every day to beg from those going into the temple calls.
Speaker 1: When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, money is not the issue.
Speaker 1: We better start understanding that we need to align ourselves to God, why?
Speaker 1: The silver is his, the gold is his and he already knows your needs.
Speaker 1: Money is never the issue.
Speaker 1: Money is not the means to an end, it is only a means.
Speaker 1: They call it a mode of exchange.
Speaker 1: You know, when you are hungry you cannot eat money.
Speaker 1: You need money to buy food.
Speaker 1: Money is never everything.
Speaker 1: It is a means in which you can get things, but unfortunately sometimes we find ourselves like we worship money.
Speaker 1: When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.
Speaker 1: Peter looked straight at him, as did John.
Speaker 1: Then Peter said look at us, look at us.
Speaker 1: So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.
Speaker 1: Then Peter said silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you.
Speaker 1: You know, you cannot give what you don't have.
Speaker 1: You will always give that which you have.
Speaker 1: And he said, in the name of Jesus, christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: This is beyond money.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: But there is the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes we water down this name and we become so familiar with it to the point of unbelief.
Speaker 1: We don't seem to believe, sometimes, that the name of Jesus has power to minister to our situations.
Speaker 1: This word needs to connect with you, and to connect with you from the place of having faith in what this word is saying.
Speaker 1: Everything Jesus did was triggered by faith in the person who received this word.
Speaker 1: This word must connect with faith because faith comes by hearing and by hearing the word of God.
Speaker 1: We must connect this word by faith and we shall see things happen.
Speaker 1: The name of Jesus has the power to minister to your every situation, to your every condition.
Speaker 1: You need to stand in the authority of that word and believe by faith, because faith is the substance.
Speaker 1: It is the substance of the things we hope for, the evidence of the things we do not see.
Speaker 1: Because we have chosen to believe.
Speaker 1: I choose to believe in what the Lord says because what He says is true.
Speaker 1: John 17, 17,.
Speaker 1: Please, the writer of the book of John says sanctify them by the truth.
Speaker 1: Your word is truth.
Speaker 1: This word is truth.
Speaker 1: John 14, 16,.
Speaker 1: Jesus says I am the way, i am the truth and I am the life.
Speaker 1: This word is truth.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Christ is able to hold your hand through every situation and every circumstance you face.
Speaker 1: He is the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God, all powerful, all knowing, feeling every space and time, and, before anything happens, he already knows.
Speaker 1: The name of Jesus is revered in heaven.
Speaker 1: It is revered on the earth.
Speaker 1: It is revered in the kingdom of darkness.
Speaker 1: There is authority in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: The name of Jesus is the name that transcends again every situation, every condition.
Speaker 1: We must surrender our dependence on things.
Speaker 1: We must surrender our dependence on material things that we have put so much trust in and depend on God.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: We have taken money, like our second God property and all these physical things and relegated the name of Jesus to a second place.
Speaker 1: We have elevated idols without knowing, things made by the hands of men.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you every idol must come down and Jesus must be exalted.
Speaker 1: Every idol that has taken the place of Christ must come down.
Speaker 1: It is not because of money, it is not because of property.
Speaker 1: All those things will perish, but there is a name that will stand this life and in the life to come.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: You work so hard for these things, but what matters the most is this name.
Speaker 1: What or where have you placed the son of the living God?
Speaker 1: Is he above everything in your life?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't cost you everything, there is something that is not right in the place of your faith with him.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Would you be willing to give to him, or would it be a struggle?
Speaker 1: 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?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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?
Speaker 1: He gives his son without flinching and God makes him the father of all nations.
Speaker 1: If it were you, would you have been willing to do that?
Speaker 1: When God is asking, he is not asking because he wants.
Speaker 1: He is asking because he wants to test your love for him, your obedience, your integrity, how committed you are.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to give everything to him?
Speaker 1: We normally sing all to Jesus.
Speaker 1: I surrender, all to him.
Speaker 1: I freely give.
Speaker 1: Is it true?
Speaker 1: Have you surrendered all Or have you surrendered partially?
Speaker 1: The name of Jesus has authority And, finally, authority in the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Authority in the blood of Jesus When Jesus went to the cross and gave his life and shed his blood.
Speaker 1: That was the blood of the father being shed on the cross for you.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: There is no level of fallenness beyond which the blood of Jesus cannot get to you.
Speaker 1: There is no sin that God cannot be able to forgive.
Speaker 1: Through the power and authority of the blood of Jesus, the power of a sin and its effect is defeated.
Speaker 1: The devil and his schemes has no authority over you.
Speaker 1: Jesus paid the ultimate price, giving you victory over every sin, and sin has no mastery over you.
Speaker 1: Sin shall not master you.
Speaker 1: You shall not be mastered by addiction.
Speaker 1: You shall not be mastered by pornography.
Speaker 1: You shall not be mastered by sexual sin.
Speaker 1: You shall not be mastered by compromise.
Speaker 1: You shall not be mastered by double standards.
Speaker 1: Jesus shed his blood for you that you would live in victory over sin, over Satan and over every scheming of the enemy.
Speaker 1: Media givers Colossians, chapter 2, verse 13 to 15.
Speaker 1: Colossians, chapter 2, from verse 13 to 15.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: He forgave us.
Speaker 1: How many sins, all our sins.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Jesus has given you authority, through his death on the cross, to trample over every skimming and work of the enemy.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Jesus has given you power and authority to overcome every power of darkness.
Speaker 1: In 1 Peter, 1, 18 and 19, the Bible talks about redemption.
Speaker 1: We were not redeemed by perishable things, not redeemed by silver or gold, but by the precious blood of Christ 1 Peter, 18, 19,.
Speaker 1: But by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, the blood of Jesus has authority.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Are you struggling in your life with sin that has so entangled you, so entangled you that you cannot break loose?
Speaker 1: Is it an addiction?
Speaker 1: Is it compromise?
Speaker 1: Is it not finding yourself in the place of truth?
Speaker 1: Is it addiction to substance abuse?
Speaker 1: Is it alcohol?
Speaker 1: What is it Jesus is saying come to me, i shed my blood for you.
Speaker 1: It is not too difficult for me to redeem you from the things that you have struggled with.
Speaker 1: Jesus is telling you come to me.
Speaker 1: Today is the day of your salvation, today is the day of your redemption.
Speaker 1: He is calling you back like the prodigal son, because he has a place for you as his child.
Speaker 1: There is no excuse for living a defeated life.
Speaker 1: When Jesus has given his life, when Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father making petition for you and for me, elevating you to the place of victory, there is no reason to live a defeated life.
Speaker 1: Jesus did not die for nothing.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Jesus did not die for nothing.
Speaker 1: You, you, you are so worthy to him that you would give his life that you may receive life eternal, that you may receive victory over situations that you go through that you may receive victory over every oppression and depression and anxiety and worry.
Speaker 1: Jesus has made your body the temple of the Holy Spirit, where the Holy Spirit dwells, and he has given you power and authority.
Speaker 1: There is no excuse for living a defeated life.
Speaker 1: Jesus did not die for nothing.
Speaker 1: Let's pray In that mood of prayer.
Speaker 1: You know that you have not given your life to Jesus and you're in this congregation.
Speaker 1: You have not surrendered your life to Jesus.
Speaker 1: You cannot live a victorious life without Jesus in your life.
Speaker 1: He died for you to set you free from every situation, but you could be going through today.
Speaker 1: But he requires of you to give your life And to surrender it to Him.
Speaker 1: You are here tonight, or even online.
Speaker 1: You can raise up your hand.
Speaker 1: You can raise up your hand and say today, this evening, i choose to go home, not the same way I give my life to Jesus.
Speaker 1: Are you here tonight?
Speaker 1: You are here tonight and you know you've been struggling.
Speaker 1: We've talked about authority, authority in the Word of God, authority in the name of Jesus, authority in the blood of Jesus, and you know you've not spent quality time reading the Word of God and spending time with your family, and you are in this congregation, or even online.
Speaker 1: You can rededicate your life to Jesus And say, from this time moving forward, i've made a personal choice.
Speaker 1: I've made a personal choice, a personal commitment.
Speaker 1: Do not let this season pass you as a man.
Speaker 1: Make a deliberate choice, be intentional, be deliberate about it.
Speaker 1: May this be your decision today that you will spend quality time reading the Word of God with your family.
Speaker 1: You are here tonight And that is what the spirit of God is speaking to you about.
Speaker 1: You can raise up your hand, we pray together.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you.
Speaker 1: We thank you that you are true.
Speaker 1: You are true to your Word And Lord, heaven and earth will pass away, but your Word will remain.
Speaker 1: And to give you praise, we give you honor because you are faithful.
Speaker 1: You are watching to see that your Word is performed.
Speaker 1: And, father, we thank you that all authority and all power comes from you.
Speaker 1: And in the places we occupy, starting from our homes, in our businesses, in the things we do, our God, we pray that those who will be altar, where you are exalted, where you are magnified, where you are lifted, and, father, we pray that through this life we live here that many will testify That because we have turned things around and surrendered to you becoming the light and the salt in the spaces we occupy, holy Spirit, that when Jesus Christ is lifted up, he shall do the drawing to Himself within the family, setting that men, women, children will feel and experience the difference.
Speaker 1: Because men have turned around and made their homes a place where God is exalted.
Speaker 1: Father, we pray in our business undertakings, in the places where we do the things we do, that, lord, we turn those places around to be places where you are worshipped And in everything that we do that, lord, you are glorified And we take authority over every skimming and every plan of the enemy.
Speaker 1: And we say the authority of Christ over every space we occupy in the marketplace.
Speaker 1: Father, we say be glorified, oh God.
Speaker 1: We pray again that in this nation men will arise, oh God, and take their right through place to be men of honor and men of integrity, men who fear you, men who stand for you, men who make a difference in this nation, in this continent.
Speaker 1: That, father, we pray, that we shall see, in this season and beyond, a shifting, because you are working in the lives of men.
Speaker 1: Our Father, we thank you.
Speaker 1: Our Father, we worship you, our Father, we bless you Because we are prayed this, even believing and trusting In the name of full authority, the name of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of the living God, and we all say it amen, amen And amen, and God richly bless each one of you.
Speaker 1: Shalom, shalom.