WEBVTT 00:00:01.181 --> 00:00:14.092 We want to read our scripture, and then I'll tell you the scriptures for the year, but I want us to read this particular one Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1 to 6. 00:00:14.092 --> 00:00:19.349 Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1 to 6. 00:00:19.349 --> 00:00:31.652 The Bible says this After these things, I looked, I looked, I looked. 00:00:31.652 --> 00:00:38.481 Tell your neighbor you'll be looking this year, amen. 00:00:38.481 --> 00:00:46.051 After these things, I looked and behold a door standing open in heaven. 00:00:46.051 --> 00:01:06.861 The first voice which I heard was like a trumpet, speaking with me, saying Come up here and I will show you things which must take place after this Immediately. 00:01:06.861 --> 00:01:09.108 Tell your neighbor immediately. 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:33.990 I was in the spirit and behold a throne set in heaven and one sat on the throne and he who sat there was like a jasper and a saddier stone in appearance and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. 00:01:33.990 --> 00:01:55.072 Around the throne were 24 thrones and on the thrones I saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white robes and they had crowns of gold on their heads, and from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings and voices. 00:01:55.072 --> 00:02:03.469 Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. 00:02:03.469 --> 00:02:21.009 Before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal, and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes, in front and in back. 00:02:21.009 --> 00:02:26.368 This is God's word, and God's people say amen. 00:02:28.939 --> 00:02:42.129 As we introduce this theme, we have already declared that this is the year of the lords uplifted open door. 00:02:42.129 --> 00:02:53.060 Now for clarity, it is not the uplifted open doors, it is not in plural, it is in what Singular. 00:02:53.060 --> 00:03:06.468 So don't keep saying doors, thank you Jesus, because it is a door, and that is important because sometimes we decide in our heads what to say. 00:03:06.468 --> 00:03:13.765 So it is not doors, it is door, it's an open door. 00:03:13.765 --> 00:03:16.164 That door is very key. 00:03:16.164 --> 00:03:39.290 The scriptures that we read are from the book of Revelation, and you will find the book of Revelation is very interesting because it's a book that assures us that, no matter what you're going through, god has your back. 00:03:39.290 --> 00:03:41.782 Let me say that again. 00:03:41.782 --> 00:03:56.626 This book of Revelation is simply to tell you that, no matter what you're facing, no matter how dark it is, no matter how difficult it is, god has your back. 00:03:56.626 --> 00:04:14.550 The reason I'm saying this is because God had to reveal himself to John Even though John was in an island called Patmos and the Christian church was facing serious persecution. 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.749 That particular time, many of the apostles had already been killed. 00:04:19.749 --> 00:04:24.809 The apostle Paul had been killed, apostle Peter had been killed. 00:04:24.809 --> 00:04:27.283 It was a difficult time. 00:04:27.283 --> 00:04:34.928 The only apostle who was still remaining standing was John, the apostle that Jesus loved. 00:04:34.928 --> 00:04:41.750 John may have felt alone and felt like maybe this is not going to work. 00:04:41.750 --> 00:04:51.709 It reminded John of John the Baptist who, even though Jesus had come, he found himself in prison, about to get his head cut off. 00:04:51.709 --> 00:04:59.706 He had to send some of his disciples and say go talk to Jesus and find out if he's the Messiah we are waiting for. 00:04:59.706 --> 00:05:13.963 Then Jesus sent word and said tell John the Baptist the blind are seeing, the deaf are hearing, the dumb are speaking, the crippled are walking. 00:05:13.963 --> 00:05:27.391 Just go tell him that it was to help John the Baptist, who was just about to experience his head being cut off, that indeed, his cousin, jesus, was the Messiah. 00:05:27.391 --> 00:05:40.791 In other words, he was telling John the Baptist I have your back, Hallelujah, I have your back, not only you as a person, but you as a family. 00:05:40.791 --> 00:05:42.783 God has your back. 00:05:42.783 --> 00:05:47.062 Hallelujah For us, even as a nation. 00:05:47.062 --> 00:05:52.411 God has our back For you in business. 00:05:52.411 --> 00:05:53.552 God has your back. 00:05:53.552 --> 00:05:56.822 Somebody better receive that. 00:05:56.822 --> 00:06:06.930 Yes, parents, god has your back, even though your child passed so seriously with 400 plus. 00:06:06.930 --> 00:06:11.389 But they were called to a school you have never had before. 00:06:11.389 --> 00:06:16.750 Hello, and you're wondering how you're going to go there during open days. 00:06:16.750 --> 00:06:18.523 Thank you, jesus. 00:06:18.523 --> 00:06:21.692 And you want a school right here in this city? 00:06:21.692 --> 00:06:28.007 Let me tell you this God has your back, he knows what to do when you don't know what to do. 00:06:29.379 --> 00:06:37.300 The book of Revelation is not a book of dragons and serpents, you know. 00:06:37.300 --> 00:06:39.088 That's why you get scared to read this book. 00:06:39.088 --> 00:06:43.850 It's a book when, if I open it, I won't sleep. 00:06:43.850 --> 00:06:46.041 Let me tell you this it's a good book. 00:06:46.041 --> 00:06:47.906 Let me show you why it is a good book. 00:06:47.906 --> 00:06:50.603 Revelation, chapter one. 00:06:50.603 --> 00:06:56.642 Let me read it, verse one and two and three, just so that you know it's a good book, so that you can read it. 00:06:56.642 --> 00:07:05.151 It's a very nice book, but it's a book of pictures and figures and scales and revelations. 00:07:06.100 --> 00:07:11.839 But it says this in Revelation, chapter one, verse one the revelation of Now. 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:17.343 It's not about revelations, it's about revelation. 00:07:17.343 --> 00:07:36.949 It's not about those, it's about a door, the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants things which must shortly take place. 00:07:36.949 --> 00:07:48.533 And he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant, john, who bore witness to the Word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. 00:07:48.533 --> 00:08:01.132 Then verse 3 says this blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it. 00:08:01.733 --> 00:08:14.336 For the time is near and God unveils to John in Patmos a revelation of Jesus that blew his mind. 00:08:14.336 --> 00:08:25.750 It was even bigger than the revelation he saw on the mountain when Jesus took Peter, james and John to the mountain and he was transfigured. 00:08:25.750 --> 00:08:32.030 This one was just beyond imagination. 00:08:32.030 --> 00:08:52.341 And after John had seen the revelation from beginning to end, and then he saw how the world will end, and so the new Jerusalem, even though the current Jerusalem had been raised by the Romans to the ground. 00:08:52.341 --> 00:09:02.566 When God showed him how the game ended thank you Jesus he knew he could face anything, hallelujah. 00:09:02.566 --> 00:09:27.370 So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor Jesus is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, and for anything, whether it is a horror movie or whatever adventure, you can only enjoy it if you watch the end first. 00:09:27.370 --> 00:09:35.107 Hello, even a game when Arsenal is playing Liverpool. 00:09:35.107 --> 00:09:36.051 Thank you, jesus. 00:09:36.051 --> 00:09:42.291 Now Manchester United is playing Chelsea. 00:09:42.291 --> 00:09:59.354 If you didn't watch that game and you want to watch it and somebody gives it to you, first, forward it to the end and then start watching it. 00:09:59.354 --> 00:10:07.552 That way, no pressure, you know how the game ended. 00:10:09.065 --> 00:10:26.109 Let me tell you this Whatever the devil is doing on this planet, whatever wars and rumors of war are happening, we know how it ends, hello, and it ends with Jesus. 00:10:26.109 --> 00:10:31.831 It started with Jesus in Genesis. 00:10:31.831 --> 00:10:34.831 In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth. 00:10:34.831 --> 00:10:42.254 The apocaticati of the Bible, john says, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God. 00:10:42.254 --> 00:10:42.745 And then who? 00:10:42.745 --> 00:10:42.907 Come? 00:10:42.907 --> 00:10:43.207 We show? 00:10:43.207 --> 00:10:55.538 It says the spirit, and the bride say come to the wedding feast of Jesus. 00:10:55.538 --> 00:10:58.830 Tell your neighbor, the ending is good. 00:10:58.830 --> 00:11:12.500 So let me tell you this In 2024, god is saying the ending is good, come on somebody. 00:11:13.687 --> 00:11:18.908 The ending is good, and the ending is a person. 00:11:18.908 --> 00:11:22.556 His name is Jesus Christ, son of the living God. 00:11:22.556 --> 00:11:37.952 And so, as we introduce this subject and you know, I have so many things in my spirit that I want to release to you and every time I say, I ask myself should I tell them this today or should I wait tomorrow? 00:11:37.952 --> 00:11:43.813 You know the rapture is going to happen in 2024. 00:11:43.813 --> 00:11:46.768 I said why are you asking? 00:11:46.768 --> 00:11:49.792 I'm asking so that we can plan. 00:11:49.792 --> 00:12:09.438 We have been planning the year, so we just needed to plan and see in terms of business, should we be released, all our resources or should we plan again, as if Jesus is coming after 1000 years? 00:12:09.438 --> 00:12:16.307 So, whichever way you are set, hallelujah. 00:12:16.307 --> 00:12:27.238 So don't drop things and go into the caves and say Jesus is coming, so to in the name of Jesus comes. 00:12:27.238 --> 00:12:29.371 That is not the right thing. 00:12:29.371 --> 00:12:33.594 The Bible says occupy until I come. 00:12:35.524 --> 00:12:56.777 This month or this year 2024, by the way, even as we talk about the door in the Hebrew alphabet because I'm trying to release something and then I'll give you my message today, and I really pray that you're going to be able to, because I've really written quite a bit of the issue of the door and the revelation for this year in this book. 00:12:56.777 --> 00:13:09.928 Then in the planner, I have given verses for every day, 365 verses, which I would like you to read every week. 00:13:09.928 --> 00:13:17.251 They have there are seven verses, so that you read, tick you have read, write something in your notebook about what you have read. 00:13:17.251 --> 00:13:21.553 In other words, write, read and run with a vision. 00:13:21.553 --> 00:13:27.054 I'm saying write, read and run with the vision. 00:13:27.054 --> 00:13:36.356 This one, the vision is written, this one, you now write yours and read it and run with it in Jesus name. 00:13:36.356 --> 00:13:40.250 So at the end of the year you'll have a whole book that you authored. 00:13:40.250 --> 00:13:46.312 So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor I am an upcoming author. 00:13:46.312 --> 00:13:50.193 So start practicing it. 00:13:50.193 --> 00:13:55.528 We use this book and start practicing, but in the Hebrew alphabet. 00:13:55.668 --> 00:13:58.797 For some of you who want to understand, why are we talking about open door? 00:13:58.797 --> 00:14:03.296 Why are we not talking about, you know, many churches of different visions. 00:14:03.296 --> 00:14:05.371 If you go to sitam, it has this vision. 00:14:05.371 --> 00:14:09.515 If you go to deliverance church, they have this vision and it is okay. 00:14:09.515 --> 00:14:22.676 Parke has this vision because the person, the visions, may be different, but the person giving the vision is the same, the Lord Jesus Christ, and for particular congregations and churches. 00:14:22.676 --> 00:14:31.734 If you read Revelation 2 and 3, it says write this to the church in Ephesus, to the church in Smyrna, to the church in Philadelphia. 00:14:31.734 --> 00:14:33.690 So there's visions for these churches. 00:14:34.565 --> 00:14:36.613 That's why each one of us is special to God. 00:14:36.613 --> 00:14:43.169 He gives you what is custom made for you, hello. 00:14:43.169 --> 00:14:52.575 So God may emphasize something for me that he doesn't emphasize for you, and God may highlight something for me which you will not highlight for you. 00:14:52.575 --> 00:15:12.160 God will highlight something for you that he may not highlight for me, because he knows at a particular time you need this kind of revelation, you need this because of what you're going through, you need this thing, you need that thing, and that is why Jesus is seen in different ways, even as John himself wrote in the Gospel, he kept writing and saying. 00:15:12.481 --> 00:15:19.535 One time Jesus said I am the bread of life, because at that time guys were hungry and they were fed with bread. 00:15:19.535 --> 00:15:26.394 To the woman who came at the well and needed water, jesus says I am the living water. 00:15:26.394 --> 00:15:28.427 Hello. 00:15:28.427 --> 00:15:40.416 To Mary and Martha, who had lost us and were wondering what to do, jesus revealed himself to her saying I am the resurrection and the life. 00:15:40.416 --> 00:15:47.259 He could not have told Mary and Martha I am the bread of life Because she did not need bread. 00:15:47.259 --> 00:15:49.351 She needed to understand about the resurrection. 00:15:49.351 --> 00:15:52.028 So Jesus knows your every need. 00:15:52.028 --> 00:15:54.634 So he will reveal himself in particular ways. 00:15:56.164 --> 00:16:01.514 When Abraham was about to kill Isaac, you know, and God stopped him. 00:16:01.514 --> 00:16:04.506 And then God says hey, don't do that. 00:16:04.506 --> 00:16:06.552 I have provided a lamb. 00:16:06.552 --> 00:16:14.376 And for Abraham, that day, god revealed himself as Jehovah Jairah, the Lord who provides. 00:16:14.376 --> 00:16:25.669 So in this season, god is saying I am the door because God knows many of you are about to enter into a new season. 00:16:25.669 --> 00:16:33.937 Hello, you're about to enter new season with new possibilities. 00:16:33.937 --> 00:16:39.475 So look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor new season, new possibilities. 00:16:39.475 --> 00:16:41.706 So he's the door. 00:16:41.726 --> 00:16:50.568 Now, in the alphabet, the alphabet of the Hebrew language, we have A, b, c, d and I've told you this before. 00:16:50.568 --> 00:16:54.972 So we used to be told in Nazarese school A for what? 00:16:54.972 --> 00:17:06.891 For apple, B for boy, d for now. 00:17:06.891 --> 00:17:09.273 In Hebrew it's the same thing. 00:17:09.273 --> 00:17:20.871 But they don't say A, b, c, d, they say Aleph, beth, gimel, delet, and keep going Same thing A, b, c, d, aleph for ox. 00:17:20.871 --> 00:17:24.778 That is in Hebrew strength. 00:17:24.778 --> 00:17:29.134 In other words, god is saying I am the alpha, I am your strength. 00:17:29.134 --> 00:17:31.147 Thank you, jesus. 00:17:32.244 --> 00:17:36.194 When he begins, he does not begin weekly, he begins with strength. 00:17:36.194 --> 00:17:43.429 That is why in this month of January we are starting with strength, that God is your strength, he's your alpha. 00:17:43.429 --> 00:17:52.990 Then Beth, which is B, beth stands for house, that's why we get the word like Bethel, the house of God. 00:17:52.990 --> 00:17:55.588 Then we have Gimel. 00:17:55.588 --> 00:17:59.800 They don't say it C, but they said Gimel, which stands for camel. 00:17:59.800 --> 00:18:03.251 In other words, transport and journeys. 00:18:03.251 --> 00:18:05.097 And that's what we did last year. 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:09.392 World changes going places in Jesus name. 00:18:09.392 --> 00:18:12.971 Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor you're still a world changer. 00:18:12.971 --> 00:18:19.298 But so you have these world changes who started in God's strength? 00:18:19.298 --> 00:18:23.656 They were covered in God's house, they were given the strength of a camel to go places. 00:18:23.656 --> 00:18:30.452 But now he says the let means door, the let means door. 00:18:30.452 --> 00:18:42.998 And so God is saying I have brought you this far because I'm not just taking you through another door, I'm taking you through an uplifted door, a door on another level. 00:18:43.719 --> 00:18:44.359 Look at your neighbor. 00:18:44.500 --> 00:18:48.565 Tell your neighbor you're being upgraded in Jesus name. 00:18:49.794 --> 00:18:52.910 Look at your neighbor one more time and tell them you look like you need an upgrade. 00:18:56.500 --> 00:19:02.718 Hello, you know, it's like being upgraded from Amulika Muizi. 00:19:02.718 --> 00:19:05.782 Hello To a what? 00:19:05.782 --> 00:19:08.185 To a smartphone. 00:19:08.185 --> 00:19:10.910 You have upgraded and you have to learn new things. 00:19:10.910 --> 00:19:16.382 You cannot deal with a smartphone with a mindset of Amulika Muizi. 00:19:19.776 --> 00:19:29.679 In fact, there was a funny incident this afternoon this lady who wanted to show me a message in her Amulika Muizi so I'm trying to read it. 00:19:29.679 --> 00:19:36.661 And then I started scrolling on the Amulika Muizi Kumbay. 00:19:36.661 --> 00:19:39.910 When I was pressing those buttons it was going to now other messages. 00:19:39.910 --> 00:19:44.557 She says I'm Bruce Banner, you're forgotten to use Amulika Muizi. 00:19:44.557 --> 00:19:50.829 I said completely, because my mind is, has not been there for a long time. 00:19:50.829 --> 00:19:54.076 Look at your neighbor one more time. 00:19:54.076 --> 00:19:58.864 Tell them you need an upgrade in Jesus name. 00:20:00.313 --> 00:20:03.401 And so let me tell you, this year you will not think like yesterday. 00:20:03.401 --> 00:20:10.160 The Bible says forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:12.604 I am doing a new thing. 00:20:12.604 --> 00:20:16.576 Don't pray the same kind of prayers you prayed yesterday. 00:20:16.576 --> 00:20:20.483 Don't pray those small to limited prayers. 00:20:20.483 --> 00:20:24.715 God has opened a door before you that no man can shut. 00:20:24.715 --> 00:20:29.263 God is not asking you to open it, he has opened it. 00:20:29.263 --> 00:20:33.537 God is asking you to go through it in Jesus name. 00:20:33.537 --> 00:20:42.153 That is why he is saying in Revelation come up here, come up, come up. 00:20:42.153 --> 00:20:44.255 And so you need to look up. 00:20:44.255 --> 00:20:48.520 Stop looking at your feet, look up. 00:20:48.520 --> 00:20:51.124 Something special is about to happen. 00:20:51.124 --> 00:20:54.693 So the let means do. 00:20:54.693 --> 00:20:57.801 It's uplifted, it's above. 00:20:58.663 --> 00:21:00.910 Let me show you this verse which happened to Abraham. 00:21:00.910 --> 00:21:08.723 Abraham was going through a very difficult time with his nephew, lot, and they came to a place where they could not just agree about something. 00:21:08.723 --> 00:21:12.696 So they decided to each one go his own way. 00:21:12.696 --> 00:21:18.814 And he said to Lot you choose the best place you can see and go. 00:21:18.814 --> 00:21:22.563 And Lot chose a place and he went and he thought it was the best place. 00:21:22.563 --> 00:21:26.316 Now listen to this story after what happened. 00:21:26.316 --> 00:21:29.059 Genesis 13, verse 14. 00:21:29.580 --> 00:21:33.333 The Bible says this Tell your neighbor. 00:21:33.333 --> 00:21:38.521 Ambrose is still introducing the subject, so this is what he is saying. 00:21:38.521 --> 00:21:42.910 And the Lord said to Abraham after Lot had separated from him. 00:21:42.910 --> 00:21:44.352 And what did he say? 00:21:44.352 --> 00:21:53.481 Lift up your eyes when should you lift them Now? 00:21:53.481 --> 00:22:01.355 And look from the place where you are, northward, southward, eastward and westward. 00:22:01.355 --> 00:22:03.578 And then he said verse 15. 00:22:03.578 --> 00:22:11.715 For all the land which you see, I give to you and your descendants forever. 00:22:11.715 --> 00:22:22.661 And then he says and I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. 00:22:22.661 --> 00:22:26.695 Next verse Arise. 00:22:26.695 --> 00:22:33.910 Stop sitting down, arise, walk in the land through its length, its width, for I give it to you. 00:22:33.910 --> 00:22:36.173 God has given you this year. 00:22:36.173 --> 00:22:39.136 I'm saying God has given you this year. 00:22:40.558 --> 00:22:48.394 Next verse the Bible says this Then Abraham did what Abraham did, what he did, what he moved. 00:22:48.394 --> 00:22:50.616 Come up here. 00:22:50.616 --> 00:22:52.099 He moved. 00:22:52.099 --> 00:22:55.304 Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor it's time to move. 00:22:55.304 --> 00:22:58.854 You know there is an advert. 00:22:58.854 --> 00:23:01.017 Kitambo, that used to say utahama lini. 00:23:01.017 --> 00:23:06.525 You remember that they were trying to advertise when are you going to hama? 00:23:06.525 --> 00:23:10.715 And I want to tell you this it's not a matter of when are you going to hama. 00:23:10.715 --> 00:23:12.278 God has already hamishad you. 00:23:12.278 --> 00:23:14.142 He has said come up here. 00:23:14.142 --> 00:23:20.577 Amen, yes, I'm giving, I'm prophesying to you. 00:23:20.577 --> 00:23:22.681 You may not realize it. 00:23:22.681 --> 00:23:23.923 God has hamishad you. 00:23:23.923 --> 00:23:27.452 You are not where you were last year. 00:23:27.452 --> 00:23:31.178 I'm saying in the spirit you're not there anymore. 00:23:31.178 --> 00:23:33.580 God has moved you. 00:23:33.580 --> 00:23:35.542 This particular time. 00:23:35.542 --> 00:23:40.996 Abraham moved himself, but in our season and time, god is moving us. 00:23:40.996 --> 00:23:43.881 I don't know if you are not hearing this. 00:23:43.881 --> 00:23:52.579 I hope you are catching this, and that is why I have titled the message today A vision of divine invitation. 00:23:52.579 --> 00:24:00.575 A vision of divine invitation, a vision of divine invitation. 00:24:00.575 --> 00:24:04.459 And I want to say three things about that invitation. 00:24:04.459 --> 00:24:09.365 Number one, it's an open door vision. 00:24:09.365 --> 00:24:14.157 Number two, it is an uplifted vision. 00:24:14.157 --> 00:24:17.844 And number three, it is an accelerated vision. 00:24:17.844 --> 00:24:20.890 Number one, it is an open door vision. 00:24:20.890 --> 00:24:24.056 Number two, it is an uplifted vision. 00:24:24.056 --> 00:24:28.584 And number three, it is an an accelerated vision. 00:24:28.584 --> 00:24:30.768 Why am I saying this? 00:24:30.768 --> 00:24:31.910 Let me start with an open door vision. 00:24:31.910 --> 00:24:39.910 I've already spoken a little bit about that open door and the door is a passer, so let me read John now. 00:24:39.910 --> 00:24:45.058 John is the passage we are going to use through the year John, chapter one. 00:24:45.058 --> 00:24:47.942 John chapter 10, verse one to 24. 00:24:47.942 --> 00:24:57.458 So the passage for the year is John, chapter 10, verse one to 24. 00:24:57.458 --> 00:25:01.362 If you can remember that, because this is the year 24. 00:25:01.362 --> 00:25:05.006 So John, chapter one, verse one to 24. 00:25:05.006 --> 00:25:12.104 In that book the Bible says this let's go to John very quickly and then I'll come to the open door. 00:25:12.104 --> 00:25:14.890 John says this Jesus is speaking. 00:25:14.890 --> 00:25:18.717 And it is John, chapter 10, around verse seven. 00:25:18.717 --> 00:25:20.941 Let me read verse seven, john 10.7. 00:25:20.941 --> 00:25:32.278 Jesus said Then, jesus said to them again, most assuredly I say to you, I am what, I'm the door of the ship. 00:25:32.278 --> 00:25:36.885 Now let's pick it up, go back so that you understand why he said that. 00:25:36.885 --> 00:25:40.273 Let's start at least with verse one to just help one or two of us. 00:25:40.273 --> 00:25:54.872 The Bible says most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the ship, fold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 00:25:54.872 --> 00:26:02.919 But he who enters by the door is the ship, is the shepherd of the ship. 00:26:02.919 --> 00:26:12.946 To him the door keeper opens and the ship hear his voice and he calls his own ship by name and leads them out. 00:26:12.946 --> 00:26:21.518 And when he brings out his own ship, he goes before them and the ship follow him, for they know his voice. 00:26:21.518 --> 00:26:29.465 Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. 00:26:29.465 --> 00:26:35.115 Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which spoke to them. 00:26:35.115 --> 00:26:43.063 Then Jesus said to them again, most assuredly I say to you, I am the door of the ship. 00:26:43.063 --> 00:26:47.847 All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers. 00:26:47.847 --> 00:26:49.910 But the ship did not hear them. 00:26:49.910 --> 00:26:54.474 And then he repeats I am the door. 00:26:54.474 --> 00:26:55.997 Now you need to understand. 00:26:55.997 --> 00:27:00.362 Sometimes when you're reading the Bible, it's not just English that you're reading. 00:27:00.362 --> 00:27:09.638 That statement I am is a very loaded statement. 00:27:09.638 --> 00:27:21.082 So every time Jesus said I am, it went back to Exodus, when Moses asked God, whom, shall I say, sent me? 00:27:21.082 --> 00:27:28.180 And God said I am, who I am has sent you. 00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:35.695 So Jesus was not just finishing an English statement and saying I am the door. 00:27:35.695 --> 00:27:43.625 He said I am the door is the most high God. 00:27:43.625 --> 00:27:55.144 And I want you to know if God is the most high God, where would he rather you be most high? 00:27:55.144 --> 00:27:59.134 Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor I'm going places. 00:27:59.134 --> 00:28:03.000 Tell your neighbor where my father is, I'm going there. 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:10.698 So if God is the most high, where is your position, up high? 00:28:10.698 --> 00:28:20.214 That's why God is saying come up here, where the D is, thank you, jesus, come up here. 00:28:20.214 --> 00:28:21.115 Come up here. 00:28:21.115 --> 00:28:24.079 And Jesus is saying I am that door. 00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:33.115 No wonder, in John 14, verse 6, jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life. 00:28:33.115 --> 00:28:36.298 No man comes to the Father but by me. 00:28:36.298 --> 00:28:47.236 By saying that door, jesus was simply saying this I am your access, I am your access. 00:28:47.236 --> 00:28:59.226 And I want to say to JJ this is not just any access, it is uninterrupted access. 00:28:59.226 --> 00:29:02.292 Look at your neighbor. 00:29:02.292 --> 00:29:04.817 Until your neighbor, it is uninterrupted. 00:29:04.817 --> 00:29:09.673 Do you know some places you can go? 00:29:09.673 --> 00:29:15.502 On that particular day they did not stop you at the gate, you just went, hello. 00:29:15.502 --> 00:29:20.896 And then another day you go, they tell you Bannaibu, give us your ID. 00:29:20.896 --> 00:29:23.540 They say where are you going? 00:29:23.540 --> 00:29:31.415 You have an invitation, and so your invitation, that access becomes interrupted. 00:29:31.415 --> 00:29:48.940 But when Jesus is the door, when he is your open door, when he is your uplifted open door, access is uninterrupted. 00:29:48.940 --> 00:29:55.372 You can come to God anytime, anywhere, when you need him. 00:29:55.372 --> 00:29:56.093 You will be there. 00:29:56.093 --> 00:30:01.640 Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor If you want to stay at the gate, me. 00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:13.559 I am going through, hallelujah, I am going through in Jesus name, uninterrupted. 00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:21.257 There is a very interesting statement that Jesus said and I want to read it, because sometimes I read that statement and sometimes it doesn't make sense. 00:30:21.257 --> 00:30:22.839 But let me read it for you. 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:25.324 John, chapter 3, verse 12 and 13. 00:30:25.324 --> 00:30:26.771 Jesus was talking to Nicodemus. 00:30:26.771 --> 00:30:31.921 Tell your neighbor Nicodemus, these days we don't just call him Nicodemus, we call him Nico. 00:30:31.921 --> 00:30:40.910 Okay, we can call him Nick, but he was a Pharisee and he was really finding it very hard to understand what Jesus was saying. 00:30:40.910 --> 00:30:49.752 And let me tell you this the reason why Nicodemus was really having it rough, he was trying to understand Jesus from this level Instead of from that level. 00:30:49.752 --> 00:30:57.664 So when Jesus said you must be born again, he said do I have to go back into my mother's womb and be born again? 00:30:57.664 --> 00:30:58.671 And Jesus said ah, ah. 00:30:58.671 --> 00:31:02.178 What I meant is you need to be born from above. 00:31:02.178 --> 00:31:05.743 Then Jesus made a very interesting statement. 00:31:05.743 --> 00:31:08.414 Let me read it from verse 12 and 13. 00:31:08.414 --> 00:31:24.403 This is just for somebody will pick it up Other, when it's days, when we come, he says if I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe it? 00:31:24.403 --> 00:31:28.191 Believe If I tell you what Heavenly things. 00:31:28.191 --> 00:31:29.432 Now look at this, verse 13. 00:31:29.432 --> 00:31:30.713 Now let's read it slowly. 00:31:30.713 --> 00:31:46.251 It says this Heaven, that is the Son of man who is in heaven. 00:31:46.251 --> 00:31:47.713 Do you understand that English? 00:31:47.713 --> 00:31:52.646 So let me read it again. 00:31:52.646 --> 00:31:53.910 Maybe it passed somebody here. 00:31:53.910 --> 00:31:59.712 Verse 13, let me read it again no one has ascended to heaven. 00:31:59.712 --> 00:32:03.182 Then he says but he who came down from heaven? 00:32:03.182 --> 00:32:04.526 Now, who came down from heaven? 00:32:04.526 --> 00:32:06.289 Jesus? 00:32:06.289 --> 00:32:07.622 So he's talking to Nicodemus. 00:32:07.622 --> 00:32:09.209 He came down from heaven. 00:32:09.209 --> 00:32:15.125 But then he says he asked the statement the Son of man who is in heaven. 00:32:15.125 --> 00:32:19.392 So while they are talking, he is here and there. 00:32:19.392 --> 00:32:26.192 Let me tell you this God is about to take you there. 00:32:26.192 --> 00:32:38.717 Tell your neighbor, I may be here, but I want to tell you this through that door, I am there, hallelujah. 00:32:38.717 --> 00:32:42.906 You may be poor now, but through that door, I'm wealthy. 00:32:42.906 --> 00:32:45.011 That passed somebody. 00:32:45.011 --> 00:32:55.083 You may not have bus fare to go home, but let me tell you this through that door, you have your own car to go home. 00:32:55.083 --> 00:33:04.006 2024 is going to surprise you seriously. 00:33:04.006 --> 00:33:12.044 Remember what I said earlier if you want to enjoy the game, watch it fast when. 00:33:12.044 --> 00:33:14.627 How the game ended. 00:33:14.627 --> 00:33:24.644 Now, for example, if I was watching Liverpool and Arsenal and then I watched and I found that Liverpool lost at the end. 00:33:24.644 --> 00:33:29.632 Will I spend 90 minutes watching the movie, the game? 00:33:29.632 --> 00:33:30.032 Will I? 00:33:30.032 --> 00:33:31.701 We lost? 00:33:31.701 --> 00:33:40.688 Why watch and go through the pain, hallelujah. 00:33:40.688 --> 00:33:51.530 But because we don't walk alone, I want to tell you this Jesus is with you all the way. 00:33:51.530 --> 00:33:57.542 I'm saying he's with you all the way and you're not going to lose it. 00:33:57.542 --> 00:33:58.204 You're a winner. 00:33:58.204 --> 00:34:01.452 In Jesus' name, you're more than a conqueror. 00:34:01.452 --> 00:34:04.307 You may be here, but in Christ you're there. 00:34:04.307 --> 00:34:18.028 You may not know where your school physics is now, but God is going to take you to a place where your school physics has already been paid. 00:34:18.028 --> 00:34:21.175 Look at your neighbor. 00:34:21.175 --> 00:34:25.268 Until your neighbor, my bills are paid, hallelujah. 00:34:25.268 --> 00:34:31.168 Like this thing that some boys asked these days taxes. 00:34:31.168 --> 00:34:33.855 Thank you, jesus. 00:34:33.855 --> 00:34:44.708 One time Peter comes and tells Jesus by the way, we need to pay tax, that it's not government tax, it was the temple tax. 00:34:44.708 --> 00:34:47.481 So every time they went to the temple, a tax was. 00:34:47.481 --> 00:34:52.501 You have to pay something so that that money helps run the affairs of the temple. 00:34:52.501 --> 00:34:56.454 So he comes and says Jesus, we need to pay tax. 00:34:56.454 --> 00:34:57.639 We don't have tax. 00:34:57.639 --> 00:34:59.083 Jesus did not even think twice. 00:34:59.083 --> 00:35:02.291 He says by the way, go, remember, this is a fisherman. 00:35:02.291 --> 00:35:05.425 So he says go and get fish. 00:35:05.425 --> 00:35:11.481 And just one go fish the first fish you get, open its mouth. 00:35:11.481 --> 00:35:17.070 You're going to get money enough to pay tax for you and myself. 00:35:17.070 --> 00:35:23.405 So Peter goes. 00:35:23.405 --> 00:35:24.650 He's a fisherman. 00:35:24.650 --> 00:35:25.793 He didn't tell Peter. 00:35:25.793 --> 00:35:27.177 Go work in the Shamba. 00:35:27.177 --> 00:35:44.130 Let me tell you this God is going to use your current career to open doors for you that no man can shut, right where you are. 00:35:44.130 --> 00:35:47.840 God is about to shift situations in your life. 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:53.378 I'm talking to somebody Isipasambra is called as a pastor. 00:35:53.378 --> 00:35:54.121 He's a preacher man. 00:35:54.121 --> 00:36:03.650 I cannot tomorrow, because of financial issues, start selling tomatoes in Westlands Hello. 00:36:03.650 --> 00:36:07.498 But where I am, I need to buy tomatoes. 00:36:07.498 --> 00:36:10.487 So God has placed somebody who sells tomatoes in the marketplace. 00:36:10.487 --> 00:36:14.143 So that has still to happen, is it? 00:36:14.143 --> 00:36:23.731 God knows you, he knows where you are, whether you are into computers, whether you are into technicalities, whether you are a teacher. 00:36:23.731 --> 00:36:28.853 God knows how to open doors right where you are. 00:36:28.853 --> 00:36:34.947 Like I told you earlier, he's watching your back in Jesus name. 00:36:34.947 --> 00:36:39.501 Oh God, if I could just change careers, I think I would get more money. 00:36:39.501 --> 00:36:40.164 Forget it. 00:36:40.164 --> 00:36:43.251 You try changing careers. 00:36:43.251 --> 00:36:50.465 See what will happen, because now you're trusting in careers more than you're trusting in the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 00:36:50.465 --> 00:36:54.735 So Peter goes first fish. 00:36:54.735 --> 00:36:58.527 Jesus did not tell him the third, fourth fish. 00:36:58.527 --> 00:37:09.045 Let me tell you this Some of you, your miracle will come at the first, the beginning, and for some of you it is going to start this month of January, because this is the first month. 00:37:09.045 --> 00:37:12.532 This is your first fish. 00:37:12.532 --> 00:37:16.367 Tell your neighbor, hallelujah, this month. 00:37:16.367 --> 00:37:17.291 And some of you are going. 00:37:17.291 --> 00:37:19.686 You're saying that the way things are, it's not going to happen. 00:37:19.686 --> 00:37:21.960 Fine, for you it is not going to happen. 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:28.981 But for those of you who believe it, because I have said it, it will happen. 00:37:28.981 --> 00:37:32.016 For you You're going to have a testimony. 00:37:32.016 --> 00:37:34.483 Just look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor I am a testimony. 00:37:34.483 --> 00:37:43.952 Tell them, watch this space, hallelujah, you are a testimony, you're going to testify this month. 00:37:43.952 --> 00:37:48.204 It is the first fish you pull out, then open its mouth. 00:37:48.204 --> 00:37:53.360 There is enough money to pay his tax and Jesus' tax. 00:37:53.360 --> 00:38:04.324 So, and then Jesus said by the way, citizens or children of the King don't need to pay taxes, because then the kingdom is theirs. 00:38:04.324 --> 00:38:13.454 Hello, the kingdom is yours. 00:38:13.454 --> 00:38:23.541 Don't go tell the president that and say but the kingdom is ours, we are not paying tax. 00:38:23.541 --> 00:38:41.327 But let me tell you this, the point I'm trying to get is this God is going to surprise you in this month and because you have come today, by the way, for all of you who have come today, I have a gift. 00:38:41.327 --> 00:38:43.775 Just give me that card. 00:38:43.775 --> 00:38:45.780 It has not been given to anybody else. 00:38:45.780 --> 00:39:02.340 You are the first ones who are getting this card, so this has just been printed and came today, and it is just for those who came today. 00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:18.871 Now, if you're watching online, whatever you are, I'm not promising you anything, but because this is a physical one, it is going to be given to these physical people. 00:39:18.871 --> 00:39:20.456 But it's a gift. 00:39:20.456 --> 00:39:24.532 I've written 12 statements here that are going to be powerful for you. 00:39:24.532 --> 00:39:29.704 So get the book, but this is yours because you came. 00:39:29.704 --> 00:39:37.983 It is written new, open door that uplifts 12 statements. 00:39:37.983 --> 00:39:42.873 You are being uplifted to a new door of divine wealth. 00:39:42.873 --> 00:39:45.880 Take that. 00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:49.987 You are being uplifted to a new door of spiritual walk. 00:39:49.987 --> 00:39:54.260 I will not finish the rest. 00:39:54.260 --> 00:39:57.947 It's for you after this. 00:39:57.947 --> 00:40:10.331 So I want to finish my message, though I'm still introducing it Because I'm loaded. 00:40:10.331 --> 00:40:14.961 Tell your neighbor Ambrose is loaded, amen. 00:40:14.961 --> 00:40:26.623 I'm trying to give you as little as I can because we may not have time to do all these things, but what I'm trying to tell you is that there is an open door and that door is Jesus Christ. 00:40:26.623 --> 00:40:35.521 One time I told somebody if this is a wall, it's a wall, it's a concrete wall. 00:40:35.521 --> 00:40:47.507 If Jesus is the door, and then Jesus came and stood in front of that wall, what suddenly happens to the wall? 00:40:47.507 --> 00:40:56.601 The wall doesn't move, but Jesus is in front of the wall. 00:40:56.601 --> 00:40:57.784 So what just happened? 00:40:57.784 --> 00:41:05.664 A door has been created, he's the door. 00:41:05.664 --> 00:41:14.422 So when he stands on any wall, a door forms, no matter what difficulty you're going through. 00:41:14.422 --> 00:41:16.505 Just let Jesus stand next to it. 00:41:16.505 --> 00:41:24.378 A door opens. 00:41:24.378 --> 00:41:27.262 A door opens. 00:41:27.262 --> 00:41:29.887