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Praise God forevermore. I'm going to try to break down very briefly the timeline of what happened before you came here. Uh when I mean here, I mean the timeline of what happened before you came on earth. So you're you're aware. Praise the Lord. I always say that just because you don't know, it doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Amen. So with keeping your peace, I want you to minimize the movements. Uh, we always say that if you needed to use the loot, the best time to do that is during praise and worship. Because when the message is being preached, it's important for you to use wisdom and just try your best to pay attention. Amen. But the ushers are there to help, especially those with children. The ushers are there to assist you, amen. So I don't like using the word Easter. Okay. I'm not really fond of that word. Because that word has a different root word, and that root word is very celebratory of a completely different religion. Amen. But I'll let you do your own homework on that. I like to say happy resurrection. You understand that? Happy resurrection. So say it to your neighbor, happy resurrection. No, you gotta say it like you mean it, brother. You know, if you mean it, you look at them, you say happy resurrection. You high five of them, some will start dancing. You understand? You understand? Because you know exactly what happened. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Happy resurrection. So some of you would have messaged me happy Easter, and I didn't respond. Amen. Please don't take it offensively. So you still have time to change it to happy resurrection if you texted me. Amen. So I want to start with, I'm gonna push it back. Can you guys see this? Or is it a bit skewed? I'll push it back a bit.

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Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 3:15

Is this better? Yeah, brilliant. Alright. So um I'm gonna start with before time. So just write before time. Yeah. I've been told I don't have long because of the program. So before time. Before time we had what the Bible describes as multiple heavens. Okay? And God situated himself from the knowledge of what we have we know in the third heaven. Okay. So you can write equals God. Amen. And then you have the second heaven. And in the second heaven, that's where you have his senior angelic beings. Alright? They are not the most senior, but they're senior. And on the on the Thursdays, on our spirit of prayer service, I'll get into the names, because they're all described in the Bible. You find them in multiple different uh books. Amen. So you have the second heaven and just put senior angels there. And then you have the first. And now in the first heaven, that's where you have the dome of earth. Okay, what we would call earth. The dome of earth. So that is the air that governs earth. There are powers that rest there and stay there. Amen. So if you follow my prayer, every time I come on the pulpit, I say I arrest those spirits that govern the airspace. Yeah, because I've been privy to these uh spirits before. Sometimes God allows you to go through things for you to understand how spiritual things work. And I gave you an example of a time where I was preaching. You're preaching, and one person coughs over there, another one coughs over there, and there's a cough there. To you, you're thinking, oh, this is normal. You know, people are coughing and stuff. But I know that those spirits in the air, they don't like the things of God, they don't like order, so they provoke you. And the coughing is not to disturb you from listening to me, it's to disturb me from ministering to you. Because the power is flowing from me. Praise God forevermore. So they have uh strange ways of uh of of of manifesting. That's just one of the many ways they manifest, amen. So you have the first heaven now. If you read the book of Daniel, you find that in the first heaven is mentioned the Prince of Persia, the king of Persia. Those were not physical human beings, those were demonic spirits. Amen. That are in charge of countries. So you put territorial, so here, first heaven you put territorial spirits, territorial spirits.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

Amen.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Now, interestingly, Satan, as we know him as Lucifer in the Bible, where do you think he lived? Some people say second heaven. Anyone else? Yeah, third heaven. Someone said Brixton, sir. This guy lived in Brixton, Amen. Well, Brixton is not in the Bible. Amen. Alright, let me show you. Let's look at the scripture, we'll tell you where he was. Let's look at Isaiah chapter 14, verse 12.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

Thank you, sir. Isaiah chapter 14 from verse 12 says, How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations. Verse 13. For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north. Verse 14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high. Verse 15. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the pit. Verse 16.

SPEAKER_02 9:45

Alright, so so let's let's pay attention. Alright, it says, How art thou fallen from heaven? So he was in a place called heaven. So I'm just gonna write heaven here. Yeah, let's try and figure out what the Bible was saying. It says, Oh Lucifer, son of the morning, you've been cut down to the ground, which you did weaken the nations. Okay, for thou hast said in thine heart, okay. So Satan or Lucifer being an angel, he has a heart. Okay, he can meditate just like you, he can devise plans just like you. Okay, so it says, I will ascend into the heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. So we know that God is in the north. Because he said, I will put my throne there. Now, what's interesting is he had the throne. He said, I will take my throne, and he had a throne that God allowed him to have. I will take my throne and put it above God's one. And I will sit on the mount of the congregation. So, what congregation is he talking about? He said the Bible tells us in Revelation that God has a congregation before him, okay, of different beings that minister to him. Praise God forevermore. You're gonna learn something today. Satan was in a particular heaven, yeah, and above his heaven was clouds. You have to study the word like that, yeah. So he was in heaven, and then I'll just put an arrow because I can't be as expressive as you. I'll put clouds, yeah. There were some clouds above his heaven, and the Bible says, He said, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high. So we know that God is above the clouds, that's what he's seated. Okay, and how does Satan know that? Because he visited them many times, he was one of the angelic beings that can go before the Lord and speak with him, so he knew exactly where God was situated. Praise God, and you'll understand why this is uh important a little bit later. He says, I will stand above the clouds, I will be like the most high, and then the prophet Isaiah says, Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. So we know that Satan's destiny is the pit, right? The pit. The pit. You know, on Thursday we spoke about hell, right? So the pit is hell, that's where he's destined to be. And I told you that the pit is everything God is not.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Amen.

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Now I'm gonna answer a question because I know we have some baby Christians here who say if God is really real, why is there evil in the world? Amen. Have you ever asked yourself that question before? Alright. I've given this analogy before, but I will try again. If I appoint Zoe, disciple Zoe, to take care of children, and I say, Zoe, you're in charge of the children. Amen. And uh she decides to take a break. It's her break time, so she decides that she's gonna go and take a break. And in that break, by the way, that's her right. Yeah, and in that break time, the kids are chaotic. Is that her fault? I want to hear you. Is that her fault? She's well within her rights to go on a break. But what I wanted to show you was the absence of Zoe causes chaos, and the presence of Zoe causes order. Are you listening? So the absence of God, so God can come here, and this place is beautiful because he's here. The moment God says, Okay, okay, I'm gonna leave now, this entire place turns into hell. That's that's what hell is. Hell is one is the only place in the Bible that God's presence is not there. So, wherever the presence of God is not, it looks like hell. So, those people that have not received Jesus as their Lord and Savior, what do you think their lives look like? There's disorganization, there's anger, there's greed, there's gossip, there's lust, there's frustration, all of these things. It lives there with them. Amen. Are you bored? Alright. And consider thee, saying, Is this man that made the earth to tremble? Did that did shake kingdoms? Now, what I want to show you in that scripture and that verse is the Bible describes him as a man. Can someone else read it? Maybe it's my Bible, but lesson read.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Thank you, sir. Isaiah chapter 14 from verse 16 says, Those who see you will gaze at you and consider you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms?

SPEAKER_02 16:48

So there will be a day where we will all see him. Amen. Now, and this is Christians, believers, we will all see him, and when we see him, don't think you're gonna see a huge beast with horns. This guy is a handsome guy. Are you shocked? Satan is a he's a beautiful man, I'm telling you, and you may be sitting there saying, Well, sir, that's a bit of a pause. Let me just tell you, I'm married, I got three kids, I'm good. Okay, I'm telling you, whether you're a man that thinks, you know, whatever you think of yourself, you will see him and say, I ain't gonna lie. That brother's he's good looking. You know, you know why? Because the because God created him that way, he is or was the most beautiful being God has ever made. That's what the Bible says about him. He was so beautiful, but that's what corrupted him. So, side note, be careful what you ask for. Because the beauty you're asking for maybe may end up killing you. Praise God. Are you bored yet? It says some of you will narrowly look upon the and consider saying, so if we're saying, is this the man? It means that he looks nothing like the damage he's caused. The amount of damage Satan has caused, you think that this guy must be a big, huge, intimidating guy. You will see a slim, tiny, short, handsome, conniving being. And you say, That can't be Satan. Imagine God says to you, let me show you Satan, and he takes you to a child, a kid. He says, This is this is this is the guy. I'm telling you, the things of the spirit are very bizarre. You you look around him and think the the demons that he controls are huge and evil, but this is a small guy. So just write there, arrow, you can copy my diagram here, just write arrow, he's a man. He's a man. Now I'm I'm fully aware that other um scriptures describe him as a serpent, and other scriptures also describe him as a beast. Amen. But we'll get to that. Let me give you another scripture, Ezekiel or Ezekiel, for the Americans, Ezekiel. Uh chapter twenty-eight twenty-eight, verse twelve.

SPEAKER_00 20:33

Thank you, sir. Ezekiel chapter twenty-eight from verse twelve says, Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God, you were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. Verse thirteen. You were in Eden, the garden of God, every precious stone was your covering, the Sardius, Topaz, and Diamond, Beryl, Onyx, and Jasper.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

Now, by the way, he's describing Satan. So start again and listen to the description of this being that everyone is so afraid of. Listen to that, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Thank you, sir. Ezekiel chapter 28 from verse 12 says, Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God, you were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. Verse 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God, every precious stone was your covering. The Sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created. Verse 14. You were the anointed cherub who covers. I established you. You were on the holy mountain of God. You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. Verse 15. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you.

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Praise God. Is that verse 15? Alright. I'll start because I want to break it down for you. Son of man, take up lamentations upon the king of Tyrus and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God, thou tirus, and say unto him, sorry, thou sealest up the sum full of wisdom. So I want you to write, Satan is full of wisdom. Write it now. He has wisdom. Okay, the Bible's not shy of telling you what God did for him. And perfect in beauty. Are you listening to that? Say Satan was perfect in beauty. Yeah. Write that down as well. That's another thing about him. I'll put P I Perfect in beauty. Where did we stop? 12. Thou hast been in Eden, the garden Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering. The sardists, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, uh, the carbuncle, and gold. The workmanship of thy tablets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Now, I said he lived in heaven, right? Some of you said third heaven, second heaven. He he wasn't in any of those places. He was in a place called Eden. And the Bible calls that place Eden, the garden of God. What does that remind you of? Now, some of you are thinking that oh, he appeared in the garden through the snake. No, no, read on, read on. It says here, thou hast been in the garden of God, every precious stone was thy covering. So at the time that he was there, he was covered in all the precious stones you can think of. He never appeared as a serpent. So he lived there. Is this too much for you? Is this an advanced class? He lived in Eden, the garden of God, and that place was called heaven. It was another heaven. Where he was in charge. How do I know he was in charge? Because he had a throne. Satan had a throne, and this throne was below the clouds. So where was he living? He was living on earth that was called heaven, and that heaven was called Eden. That is the beginning, brother. And the Bible says when he messed up, we read it in Isaiah. When he messed up, he was thrown down into the pit. So he was kicked out of Eden.

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Praise God forevermore.

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Thank you, Lord Jesus. When I show you what Jesus did for you, please tell me about the time. Alright? When I show you what he did for us, you will leave here a changed man in the name of the Lord Jesus. Say it with me. I'll be changed. When I discover what he has actually done for me, praise God forevermore. Sit down. It says, Alright, I'm at verse 14. But just the last two lines of verse 13. It says, The emerald, it's naming all of these precious stones, and it says gold. He was made of gold. What a beautiful being. The workmanship of thy tablets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day of thou was created. It means that he had instruments created in him so that he can give glory to God. From Eden, he can praise God and worship him. And his sounds were the most beautiful. That's why now, if you look at the music industry, all the music that comes out, you just can't get away from it. They get their inspirations from a place. So the people that say, Oh, you know, uh secular music is better than gospel music, it isn't. It's an illusion. And whatever you're hearing on the other side came from God anyway. The Bible said God created him that way. Satan rules the music industry. When you hear about drill, you hear about RB, hip-hop, and all these different uh genres, and you hear some music, there's some music that even listen, as even as a believer, you can say this is timeless. You know what I'm talking about. How you acting all holy? You know, there's some artists you mentioned you say, Hey, that guy. I was a Christian, but for a day I'll go and visit that guy. Hi, and it's this probably two or three names per generation. Alright, you talk to our parents, they'll give you their own names. Names we've never heard before. You talk to us, we'll give you our own names. Talk to the Gen Zs, they'll give you their own names. And if you look deep into this thing, the inspiration of the sound comes from demons. And yes, they know how to make very good music. Praise God. And you have on our side people who do not take the gospel of Jesus Christ seriously, so the inspiration cannot be in the same quality. If the people of God would give themselves to God, the kind of music that will come from you, I mean, people will, you know, it won't it won't just sound good. People will be healed and delivered. They're listening to your music, and depression is gone. Praise God. It doesn't sound like you like that. You you want you want the music that will shake your leg in the club. You say, Pastor, stop talking about deliverance. We want to shake a leg. Shake that leg in church. Amen. Now tell your neighbor, shake that leg in church, brother. Yeah, in the church. Get churchy with it. Now it says, verse 14, it says, Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth, and I have set thee so. You hear that? You are an anointed cherub, and I've made you that. That's what God is saying. Alright? And a cherub is the highest form of angelic being in God's creation. It's called cherub. So it says, I've said thee so thou wast upon the holy mountain of God. Thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. So, what that means is Satan, God let him into the inner court. God allowed him to know all the knowledge of how everything was created, everything. God brought him close. That guy sounded like God's best friend. I mean, he was like God's right hand. Now, watch what happened to him. Look what look at this, verse 15. Thou was perfect in thy ways. From the day that thou wast created until iniquity was found in thee. Now, let me explain something very quickly. Alright, Satan was made perfectly, he was perfect in all his ways. That very beauty and perfection, alright, it calls for him to say, I want more of this. What you gotta understand is as God created him, God gave them also the liberty and the freedom to choose. Because true worship is not forced, it's a choice, and God understands that. Look, if you're a married man or woman, you know that you can ask for an intimate time with your wife or your husband, but if they are not in it, it's not the same, it doesn't feel the same. Do you understand what I'm saying? You can't come together with someone who doesn't want to be there, and God understands that concept. So God says, I'm making you to worship me, but I'm giving you the freedom to choose whether you will worship me because God is gentle, He's so kind, He doesn't force people. So God says, You got the freedom, but I want you to do this, Amen. Satan was doing it, he was perfect in his ways, he was worshiping God, and then he looked around and said, You know, uh I got a throne too, and I've seen all God's creation. I'm the most beautiful, beautiful one, amen. This thing is very prophetic. When I when I show you, I'm gonna show you one more, one or two more things. As he's walking around heaven, parading himself with all these things that was he was made of, other angels are marveling at him. So wow, this guy is really good, he's a good-looking guy, beautiful. But God had made him that way to the glory of God, so he can take that beauty and worship God. Listen, your beauty and your handsomeness is not for you to sleep around. Hey, now don't hate me, brother. Don't get on to me now, it's not for you to sleep around. Your beauty and your handsomeness is to give glory to God. Go and use your face, put it on Instagram with a nice prophetic message. Yeah, and you're using the beauty that God has given you to win more souls. You're not using it to you know confuse women into being with you, and and I mean, listen to the word I use, confused. You're confusing them into being in a relationship with you. Some of you, some of the guys, let me deal with the guys for a second. Some of you guys, you know you're good looking. Alright, you you stay in the mirror for too long. Alright. You're always looking at yourself and videos and TikTok and Instagram. You've invested so much in your looks, amen. All that investment is for you to bait women into into entering your bosom. It's a terrible thing. But let me teach you something. You're not the first to do that. Satan did it before you listen, listen, before he was ejected, go go to go to Jude chapter 1, verse 6. Yeah, very quickly. Before he was ejected, now Jude chapter 1, verse 6 says, He lost his estate. Hmm, you missed it. When God appointed him as king of Eden, or gave him that throne there, God gave him real estate. Because that's what God does. When he appoints a king, he gives him real estate. So read Jude 1.6. What does it say?

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Thank you, sir. Jude chapter 1 from verse 6 says, And the angels who did not keep their proper domain but left their own abode, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

What version is that? KJV? Read the KJV. NKJV is uh is a good Bible. It's a good one. It says domain, domain is good. Let's let's let's let's read.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

Thank you, sir. Jude.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

KJV doesn't let me down. Read that one.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

Thank you, sir. Jude chapter 1 from verse 6 says, and the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation.

SPEAKER_02 36:49

I I love it, I love it. It says they kept not their first estate. They were given a second one, which is the pits of hell. The first estate. So, listen, he wasn't there alone in Eden. There were other angels there to serve him. And some of you, you're you're, I mean, the the guys, you're so you're so handsome, and you're using it to corrupt women, all right, and in the process, you're corrupting yourself, and some women, you use your beauty to take advantage of weak men. You know you are beautiful, you know you have what most of the men in this generation are crying for, looking for, and you use that exact thing to get money from them. Yeah, you tell them you're gonna flang me out. The question, listen, the question I have for you is fly you out to do what? To do what fly you out to do what? You're a servant of government. Tell your neighbor. Tell the neighbor you're a servant of government now. Praise God forevermore. I know many weak men who've been taken advantage of. They see a shiny object. Alright, I'm gonna use certain words because we have children around. You they see they see a shiny object. Your head is gone, you're not even thinking straight. You know, I had a friend that I would have to slap him for him to come back to his senses. I would talk to him and say, What you've spent 10,000 pounds on this lady for what? He says, You know, it's an investment. This is how he used to talk to me. He said, I'm in, I'm investing. And I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, Come it, come in. Slap. I said, Wake up. This is a very good friend of mine. I would have to slap him. You know, it was gentle, it was a gentle slap, but it's to you know, a system reset. Yeah, you have to sit, you have to reset his brain. So, what are you doing? Listen, the only you see that type of investment is only for your wife. That type of investment is only for your wife. If it happens that you divorce your wife and you look back and you spent one million on her, you've done a good job, and you should be proud. God bless you. You invested where God asked you to invest, you've done very well because she's your wife. Praise God forevermore. Don't fall into the trap that Satan fell into. Alright. Don't fall into it because I'm gonna let me just continue. I'll just continue because of time, because of time. I'll just, I'll just I'll just really quick quickly continue. It says, You was an anointed cherub, and I have set thee so that was upon the holy mountain of God, that was walked up and down in the midst of the stones of the fire. You was perfect in your ways until iniquity was found in you. By the multitudes of thy merchandise, you have filled the midst of thee with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore, I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God, and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Bless and read 16 again from you, please.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

Thank you, sir. Ezekiel chapter 28, from verse 16, says, By the abundance of your trading, you became filled with violence within.

SPEAKER_02 41:26

By the abundance of your trading. Your what?

SPEAKER_00 41:30

Trading.

SPEAKER_02 41:31

Trading. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:32

Thank you, sir. You became filled with violence within, and you sinned. Therefore, I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, oh covering cherub, from the mist of the fiery stones.

SPEAKER_02 41:49

Praise God forevermore. He became filled with violence. Have you ever let me talk to the men for a second? Have you ever met a woman who she she she thought she was so nice, no one could tell her anything? Raise your hand if you've met this type of woman before. Now, when you had met her, was she beautiful? Talk to me now. Why are you acting holy now? When you met her, was she beautiful? Now, the moment you realize that this this woman doesn't listen, she's toxic. Was she beautiful in your eyes? Was she beautiful in your eyes? The secret to humility is recognizing what God has given you, but not considering it. That's the key. If you're a beautiful woman and you're with a uh a guy that you don't consider that nice, don't consider your looks, brother. You don't like that message, do you? I've counseled couples, right? And this is not for today, but I'll open a bracket. I've counseled couples where the man entered the relationship as if he's the prize, and you can see it in the way he's treating her and the way he talks to her. In his brain, he's the prize because he's he's got he's the A side, he's got the money, he's got the good looks, so he talks to her anyhow. Now, if you ask me, is he good looking? Yes, does he have the money? Yes, but his problem is that he's considering all of that. You want to honor your wife or your husband, you don't consider that you are better than them at anything. You recognize, you see, when you recognize your strengths, you can use that to help others. But when you consider your strength, you use it to put others down. If I if I if I consider that I'm anointed, I'll be walking in it like this. Some listen, sometimes I'm walking with some of my disciples, and I'm walking and they're pushing people out the way. I tell them, What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? I pull their hand away. I said, Stop doing that. If if if I'm going to the loot and someone is in there, you leave there, I will stand in the queue like everyone else. What are we talking about? Someone using the loot, you run in there to hurry. Pastor wants to use it, you're hurrying them out. What are you doing? What are you doing? That's listen, listen. That's what happens when you consider what God has given you. If you consider that you're a good writer, you consider that you're handsome, you consider that you can speak well, you consider that you have money, you'll be dealing with people as if they're they're they're nothing. I hope I'm teaching you something. Because of time, I I need to continue to rush through. Praise the Lord Jesus. Are you are you learning? Alright. Now let me take you to Genesis 1.26. Okay, now consider all the things that I've said about Satan. This is the part you can consider. Consider this. Amen. Let's go to Genesis 1. I want to show you something. I want to show you. Now we're going into what Jesus did for us. Watch this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:02

Thank you, sir. Genesis chapter 1 from verse 26 says, Then God said, Let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

Alright, and okay, okay. So let's make man in our image. Alright, and give them dominion over everything. Right? Okay, now I told you that Satan lived in Eden, right? Okay. Now, where did God place Adam? Did he place him in Eden? Alright. Now, Satan was created to worship God with all his beauty and his being. He disappointed God by virtue of free will. God gave him freedom. Because God wanted genuine worship. Do you understand that? It's like you tell your wife, listen, I'm never gonna force you to do anything, but these are my instructions, and you need to follow them. And I want you to do it with a happy heart. That's what would make me happy. But I'm never gonna force you because you want it to be genuine, right? Now Satan rebelled and he was kicked out of out of Eden. Eden was left empty. So God decided, I'm going to make a creation, all right, that is not like Satan, but is like me. He said, I will create a I will create a people, a creation, a species that is in my likeness, built like me. This is aesthetically, physically, they look like me. They have hands, they have eyes. You look like God. God has a mind, He has hands, He has eyes. God gets hungry. The Bible says, the Bible says, When I am hungry, do are you there? Or do you know? That's what he says. Praise God forevermore. So He created us in His image. Now if you jump to Genesis chapter 2, all right, let's go to Genesis chapter 2. Chapter 3, sorry. Verse 1.

SPEAKER_00 48:57

Thank you, sir. Genesis chapter 3 from verse 1 says, Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree in the garden?

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Praise the Lord. Now, as Satan was kicked out of Eden, God placed his own creation in there. Amen. As he placed us in there, he now this is what you write here. Write man, and then you write, you put a circle like a like a diagram, you put you know, just like this, and you put immortal. Alright. So the ability to die didn't exist in the garden. Amen. I want you to also write time bound. And I want you to put an X next to that, time bound. The reason I'm asking you to do that is because time existed at you know in Eden because there was night and day, alright, but we were not bound to time. What does it mean to be bound to time? We know that as the day goes on, you're getting older, which means you're coming closer to the end of your life. Is that correct? Is that fair to say? Yeah, in there time would go on, but we were not bound to time. Time existed, but we were immortal. Praise God. So put Eden here as well, because that's where we lived. So effectively, we were the new tenants to this real estate. As new tenants, God gave us rules. He said, Don't go in that room there. I don't want you to go there. Don't go over there. Are you still locked in? Now in Genesis 3, the serpent appears and says to Eve, Yeah, are you did God tell you not to eat from that from that tree over there? Now I'm explaining all of this to you because I don't want you to make the mistake even Adam made in the very beginning. The error they made is not understanding who they were. So they were tricked into chasing that. If you are tricked into chasing what you already have, you're a Finnish man. I remember counseling a guy and he said to me, He said, Sir, my wife has everything. Everything she's beautiful, she has all the things that you know that I see when I watch porn. But I'm still going there. Amen. And he said, I I've been driven to going to indulging with other women, but when I get back home and I look at her, I'm like, she's perfect, she has everything. And I asked myself, why am I going there? Amen. And uh I felt really sorry for him. Because it reminded me of this. Eve didn't know she was already what Satan was tempting her to be. You're already beautiful, but you're chasing beauty. You're already wise. But you're chasing extra terrestrial wisdom. What have you considered that what you are chasing you already have it? And that was the that was the trick of the enemy. He said to Eve, have you been taught did he tell you to as if he didn't hear it. He said, Did you did he tell you not to eat from there? Okay, read on. Let's see what happened very quickly because of time.

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Thank you, sir. Genesis chapter 3 from verse 2 says, And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden. Verse 3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die. Verse 4. Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. Verse 5, for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Did you hear that?

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He said, When you eat from it, you will be like God. Eve was already like God. Eve was already like God. Because the Bible says, Let's make them in our image. Both man and woman. Some of you don't know this, but did you know that God is both man and woman? You didn't know that, did you? It's in the Bible. You think, ah, what a what a what a disgusting. How can you be both man and woman? Listen, there are some angels you will see, you will collapse when you see them. They look so scary. And many of them are described in the Bible. They look strange. These are strange beings. How the Bible describes an angel that is with that is a circle with many eyes around it. If you see a being that appears to you as a circle with many eyes, you collapse now. But in in God's wisdom, he says that's beautiful. And by the way, the angel I'm talking about is one of the highest ranking angels in the presence of God. Praise God forevermore. It's sad because Satan entered Eden after being kicked out, but he couldn't enter Eden with his body anymore. It was illegal because he was kicked out. Amen. Now there was a sanction on the boy. Amen. In the UK, it's called an asbo. Some of you don't know what an asbo is, do you? Thank God you don't know what that is. An asbo is when you've been banned from an area, or you can't go into that area, or you cannot be with certain people in that area. Amen. Yeah, it's an asbo. There was an asbo on Satan. God said, I don't want you in this estate again. So you know what he did? He came back through a serpent. He came back not as a serpent, through a serpent. He possessed a being that had access to that estate. Which I find interesting. When God was teaching me about how Satan attacks men of God, he said, This is how he does it. He can't enter your life, so he will use your wife, he can't enter your life, so he will use your children, he can't enter your life, so he will use the church people closest to you to attack you. Because he can't get close. So he looks around, and as I grew up married, I understood. I said, Yes, it's true. If he wants to get to me, he will attack my wife first, then he will attack the children, and if I'm still standing strong, he uses the church people, and he done it, he done it with Adam. Do you think the goal was Eve? Let me shock you. When Eve ate the apple, did God appear? God was eat God, saw it. He said, Yes, it's well. He said, It's as well, leave her. Lever when she brought it to Adam, God was watching. He said, Now I'm interested. Once Adam ate it, God said, I have to go down there now. Yeah, and he appeared in the garden. He said, Adam, where are you? Did he call Eve? He wasn't interested. He said, Adam, where are you? Adam, I want to talk to you. You're the guy in charge. What happened? That's why I want to raise men of God in this place. Men who understand who they are. And you can lead your home properly. You know that Satan will attack everything around you just to get to you. You're the life giver, brother. Yeah, tell the boys, you're the life giver, brother. The target is on your back. Maybe I should preach to the women. The men, you're not really. Look at all the men sitting there. I was expecting men of God on this side. Tell each other the target is on your back, brother. Yeah. Tell each other it's on your back, brother. And tell them you're a man of God, you. Yeah. You're a man of God. Look, look at this. It says, verse 6. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was to be desired. She took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her. So she ate it first. God said nothing. She gave it to her husband, and he did eat. Verse 7, and the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. Verse 8, Jesus appears in the picture. Look at this, and the Bible says, And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. How can a voice walk? It says, They heard the voice of God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And when you look at John chapter 1, it says, In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. And it tells us that that word was Jesus. So Jesus appeared in the Garden of Eden and said, Adam, I need to see you right now. You breached the contract, brother. You breached the contract. A terrible thing. They're telling me to finish. Look, look, he's telling me to finish. I have to end it here because of him. Am I permitted to continue for two more minutes? Just two more minutes. Where was I? Nelly threw me off. They breached the contract. Alright? There was a breach. Now, I quickly want to show you this. This is where I will adjourn. Amen. We may continue another time. Now, when this happened, they said they heard a voice of God walking in the garden. Verse 9 says, The Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? Who did he call? Did he call Eve? Who did he call? The man in charge. He said, Where are you? Alright. And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden. So it's not his voice, voice. He's talking about your footsteps. Okay, because he said the voice was walking. So he said, I heard your footsteps in the garden. And he says, and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. Now if you read, let me just read it. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. It says, it says, and he said, Who told you that you were naked? You know, listen. Adam, Adam was walking around naked this whole time. Alright? And he felt nothing. Something changed. Jesus looked at him and said, He said, Why? Where are you? This is where we usually meet. He said, I heard you coming and I ran away to hide myself. Because I'm naked. Jesus said, Naked, where'd you get that word from? How'd you know you're naked? Adam, I'm gonna speed through this. Look, he said, Look, listen to what Adam says. He said, Um, where did we stop? Because I was naked. Verse 10. And he said, Who told you you were naked? And then Jesus, has you have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you to not eat from? Verse 12. And the man said, The woman, you see what he did there. He said it was it was my girl. She did that. He said, He said, The woman. Oh, thank you, Lord Jesus. The woman you gave me. Did you hear that? He said, The woman that you gave me. She gave it to me and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me and I did eat. What a terrible day it was. Do you know? Think put yourself in God's position. He made a being first, gave him a throne, put him in the Garden of Eden, anointed him to serve him, and the guy betrays him. He makes a second being and says, These ones will be loyal. And Satan comes again and whispers in their ear and they betray him again. Now, as Satan was sent to the pits of hell, God had to do the same thing to us. He had to do the same thing to us because he's just, he's not a fraud. So if he did it to Satan, he has to do it to us. So you know what he did for the sake of the scripture. I'm just gonna run through it. He said, You, your wife, first he cursed the ground. Alright? He said, You guys will suffer a long time. Things were given to them, they didn't have to work for things, they were kings and queens. It was given to them. But after that, God said, I'm not giving you anything anymore, you're gonna have to work for it now. Then he said, The woman will have to suffer through childbearing. That's why women go through contractions and all of this stuff and pain during childbearing because of what Eve did. After that, he said, Get out of my presence. In the book of Corinthians, it says that love was hurt. Oh my goodness, he felt so betrayed, he was in pain, he was hurt, he was offended. He said, I did this for you, and you hurt me again. So he said, You and your wife leave the leave leave this estate now. And the Bible says they left, and God appointed cherubims. You know those high angels to stand at the gate and not allow anyone in. Do you know why they were there? They weren't there before, Satan got in, he got in. As he kicked them out, he placed angels there to watch over the garden. And God said, I'm not allowing anyone in again. I'm not gonna do that again. Now, in the course of time, this is where I'm gonna wrap up. Alright, I might do a part two. In the course of time, God looks and says, I made so many creations, and humanity are the ones I love the most. Look at yourself, just look at yourself. Do you have gold in your skin or sapphire in your skin? Sometimes we even break out on our skin. But God said He loves us the most. In that pursuit, He said, You know what? These guys can go to hell and be separated from me forever. But I don't want that. So you see how you were destined to hell? He said, Someone has to pay that price. So you know what he decided? He said, Alright, I am gonna become them. I'm gonna make myself become one of them. I'll be born of a woman, I will come out of that woman, I'll grow just like them, I'll feel weakness, I'll feel tired, I'll feel anger, I'll feel hunger, I'll feel everything they feel. I'll be tempted by women just like them. Can I shock you? Jesus was the opposite of Satan in every way. The Bible says that Jesus was not good to look upon. So Satan was made with beauty, Jesus was a meady-looking person. I'm telling you, it says in the Bible, he wasn't handsome. Don't think that if you see Jesus, you'll be like, Wow, he's so handsome. No, brother, you look, you will react like that when you see Satan. You think, ah, this guy is good looking. You see Jesus, hey, yo, hey, is that really him? You read your Bible, he was made like that on purpose, he was made like that on purpose. He had to be everything opposite to Satan. So that it doesn't distort the mission. He came. Women didn't look at him and think, Oh wow, we attracted. No, he was attractive by the glory of God, it was through the things that God was doing with him that beautified him. He looked so beautiful over time. So Jesus came and Jesus said, I will take on the punishment of humanity on me. And the Bible says that all the things he went through in life, he was tempted just like us. Jesus was broke. Did you know that? The Bible says he became poor so that you may become rich. Jesus was broke, Jesus hungered. The Bible says the Son of Man didn't have a place to lie his head. He was homeless. He went through all the things that you were supposed to go through because of what your ancestors did, what Adam did, what Eve did. And then finally, they killed him. They stripped him naked, they spat on him, they stabbed him, they did all kinds of things, they finished him, and then they killed him, and eventually he ended up in the very place you were supposed to end up. So that's why when he was on the cross, he said, It is finished. Peter said, No chance. Did he not say that? He said, Go get that knife for me. They gave him the knife. The Bible says he chopped off someone's ear, chopped off the soldier's ear. He said, No one's touching him, you have to get through me. You know what Jesus did? Jesus said, Peter, relax. You don't have to do that, brother. I'm not here for that. Jesus said, Peter didn't know that there was a mission in the mission. When I discovered what Jesus was doing, I said, Peter, you were gonna be the reason why I end up in hell. You, this guy. So Jesus he picked up the ear. What a wonderful, wonderful God. He picked up the ear, and the Bible says he did a miracle. He put the ear back on the God that was to take him and arrest him. He put it back and he said to Peter, If I want, I can command the host of heaven to come down and deal with everyone here. So but I don't want to do that. That's not what I'm here for. So they arrested him, they took him, and they crucified him. For you and I. Do you understand what he did? Now you have a green card into heaven. One time I was in prayer, and the Lord said to me, I can open the door, but you're gonna have to walk in. So effectively, Jesus opened the door for you, but you have to choose to walk in by your lifestyle. To some people, this message is boring. It's like, what are you talking about? I feel sorry for you. If you're part of that crowd I just described, I feel very sorry for you. When I study this, I cried. I cried. So to round up, Jesus died. The Bible says he went to hell, he was subdued in hell. And my favorite part is in 1 John chapter 4, which is where I will end now. 1 John chapter 4. And apologies for going over time. Apologies for going over time.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:09

Thank you, sir. First John chapter 4 from verse 17 says, Love has been perfected among us in this, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world.

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This is where I end my message. It says, Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment. So, my brothers and sisters, as judgment day is approaching, you don't have to be afraid anymore. You don't have to look and say, Ah, will I go to hell? You're not going to hell. Say it, I'm not going to hell. I'm gonna be up there with him. Yeah, you're not going to hell. You're gonna be up there with him. You're not going to hell because Jesus went to hell on your behalf. Can I tell you the only thing that can take you to hell? It's not even sin. Because sin is missing the mark. What would take you to hell is your decision not to walk through the door he has opened. When he died and resurrected, he opened the door for you to be a new species. The Bible says, as he is right now, so are we. So the resurrected version of him is what you are now. That is, sickness is not meant to rest in your body. We are super beings. I was young when I discovered this. I was 18 and I had a knee football injury. And I told my leg, you better be you know recovered by the next day. And it listened. Amen. You're a new species. You don't get sick anymore because that comes from demons. The devil. You don't get depressed anymore because that comes from where? Demons, the devil. So as a new species, you are just like Christ. I don't remember the last time Christ was depressed. So the way to honor him is to live the way he asked you to live. Don't allow these things into your life. That's why I don't celebrate the death of Christ, I celebrate the resurrection of Christ. The resurrection of Christ. It made me who I am today. I don't have to go to hell no more. I can now talk to the Father directly. I can pray in my room, and the Spirit of God is there with me. It was the resurrection of Christ that made that happen. He can give us dreams that will tell us about the future and the past. The resurrection of Christ. Lift your hands right now and say thank you for resurrecting. Say thank you for resurrecting.

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