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Welcome to Global Harvest Calgaries Podcast, where faith becomes real and purpose comes alive. We pray that today's message helps you recognize the hand of God in your everyday life and discover the unique purpose he has placed inside you. Our heart is that you don't just hear a sermon, but truly experience his presence, his guidance, and his love in a personal way. Whether you're in a season of searching, rebuilding, or stepping into something new, you're not here by accident. God is closer than you think, and your purpose is greater than you imagine. Enjoy the message.

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Thank you.

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We give you the very best that we have to offer as a ministry. And I want to really thank them, praise God. I really want to thank all the pastors for being here. I don't want to go back to them again.

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But I really I really celebrate you all. I don't have trust all for time, you know. So I had to get Apostle Wally back into the city earlier than he wanted to come this this this um this week, and I'm so honored by your presence.

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And I know that Pastor Damon is a very busy man in this city, very busy. Well, thank you for honoring me with your presence all the time. I mean, this is what Pastor Notion. The church, the legal church we have right now, how much you care on me uh in those early days. Let me just retrace you. I'm talking about everybody I hear right now. Thank you so much. Oh, let me do the reading of 34 34.

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Then Peter opened his mouth and said, In truth, I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation, whoever fears him and walks righteous love is accepted by him. The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ, he is Lord of all. That word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went up doing good and healing all who are oppressed by the devil. We are witnesses of all things which he did, both in the life of the Jews and God raised up on the Sunday and showed him all the time. And he commanded us to reach testify that it is impossible by God to be in charge of the leading and the dead, to him or the prophets through his name. Whoever believes in him will receive remission of sins. The Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. Those of the live are came with people because of the gift of the Holy Spirit, the Gentiles of the earth and speak return and magnify God. Hallelujah. This evening, Father, just encourage our hearts today that we may walk in the reality of that which is ours. Your word declares that now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of Him. So let that which is already ours be more real to us. That we may walk in the reality of it and live lives that are more pleasant to you. In Jesus' precious name, as somebody says, Amen. We are supernatural people. We are supernatural people, we are not ordinary people. Even as unto babe. Whereas there are enemies and strife among you, not yet carnal, and walk as a mere men. And we don't walk as men, that says uh King James Version. But you see, some they will translate to say, Amen. Hallelujah. You guys are still behaving like ordinary people. Meaning that what was trying to write is, I'm puzzled you guys are behaving like human beings behave.

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How should we behave?

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You are not ordinary human beings, you are not supposed to be behavior like ordinary human beings. That was simply what we're praying, and that's why I'm starting out from this text. You know, for the first time the gospel of Jesus Christ was going directly to the times, our come to Christ through today's. Because in the Old Testament, there were Jews of the apostolites. Whenever you see that expression in the New Testament, it is restored to people to not Jewish religion, they became persuaded to be sarcastic and to offer the offerings of the Old Covenant. And so even though they are not by blood Jews, they became Jews by faith. So they are called Jewish proselytes. Some of such people got saved on the day of Pentecost and received the Holy Spirit also. And then you see you know, Philip taken the gospel to the Samaritans, and among them already were many prophetites, and their understanding when they first received the gospel there, was for them to practice it the way the Jews practiced it, and it was a mixture for the Jews because there were rules, regulations given that were meant for the Jews to our side. They practice Christianity a little bit different from you. Because perpetually by the Jews from the land of Egypt. This was the first time. God will wake up Peter in a dream, in a trance, and tell him there is a man, he has sent some ascends of people to you, and you are to go with them. He is not a Jew, the man is a gentile, and by Jewish tradition, the Gentiles were polluted people, they are not God sanctified people. You do not have anything to do with them, by the way. Anytime you see the word gentile, it means a non-Jew. So if you are not born a Jew and you don't have Jewish blood in your veins here, the Jews see you as a Gentile. So I don't know whether you're a Canadian or uh Ghanaian or whatever you may be, you are a Gentile according to the flesh, uh at least to praise God. But for the first time now, God showed this issue to Peter before our text, where he saw any creatures that in the Old Testament was animals. These animals were not needed to be used for sacrifices and worship before God, neither one is to be eaten, you know, under the Old Testament. And he saw that, you know, and he eat on my law Moses. Oh any of this, I'm not gonna eat any of this. You are not called, you don't call up clean if I am calling clean. And God, through that vision, was showing you how that in Christ Jesus, glory be to God by the blood of the everlasting covenant. The Jews are not the only sanctified people anymore, but even the Gentiles have also been brought into the covenant of promise, they are no longer strangers, you know, an aliens from the covenant of Israel anymore. In fact, they don't cry, he says Galatians 3:29, I've become Abraham's feed and have according to the promise. Hallelujah. And he began to preach the gospel to them. And as he preached the gospel to them, he explained to them, look here, that there was this message that made the rounds of the children of Israel, and it's so important to start from there, and then before he ended up talking about the cross and the resurrection, he said there was this message that made the rounds, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, message that made the rounds, was a message of peace, it was a message of shalom, total life prosperity, complete absence of fear and anxiety. It was a message about a total life blessing, it touched every area of life, it was a message of well-being and welfare. When I say the word shalom, it represents all of that, and you now opened it for that, explained that message of peace for that by saying how God anointed now. Notice it was a message that lived around, it went everywhere. Okay, it went everywhere in Judea. How God anointed Jesus of it with the Holy Spirit and with power, healing all who are oppressed of the devil, who went about doing good, healing all who are oppressed of the devil because God was with him. He was anointed, he was a message of the anointed, and his anointed that met the round. It was a message of the Messiah Christ, the anointed Christ, that met around. But there's something that the anointing process does to you, it just does not leave you the same, it just changes your outlook. Glory be to God. It's like you paint a surface. We look around this building right now, and it's painted white. This room was not white, because these blocks, which were like the cement blocks, uh uh uh cement is not colored white, cement is cement, it's not white. And at times the buildings are built with red bricks, they are not white. For it to become white, it was rubbed against the surface, and then it became white when there is our rubbing of the spirit of God against us, we change in outlook, the natural gives way to the supernatural, the weakness gives way to strength, hatred gives way to love, fear gives way to faith, blessing, and the curses give way to blessing. It's a transformation that takes place in our lives, and that's why when the soul was gonna come into the company of some someone who prophesied when Saul was gonna come into the company of some prophets, he told him, he said, like, when you come into the accompanying, the spirit of the Lord will come upon you, uh and you will be turned into another man. In other words, the anointing does not come on the present and leaves him the same. So he was talking about how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth. This there were many Jesuses in the days of Jesus, in the days of Christ. The word Jesus is Yeshua in the Hebrew, uh, the same name translated Joshua, like we have in the old testament. There were many Yeshua all over the place. What made the difference about this one was that he was anointed, he was Yeshua and the Messiah, Jesus the Christ, the Christos, glory be to God. Otherwise, ordinarily he was Jesus of Nazareth, just like what that was of Yeshua of Bethlehem, and the Yeshua of Kapanam, and the Yeshua of uh of uh of God. Sorry, I like that Yeshua of Calgary. Praise God. What really separated him was the anointing, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth. The moment he was anointed, the anointing separated him, transformed him into another man. It is true he was on God, and he was God and man at the same time, but you must understand here, don't let it confuse you. When he was coming into the world, he laid aside his glory. Uh, I don't want to be distracted by that, but when you read Hebrews chapter 2, you will read in verse 5 let this man be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it's not robbery to be equal with God, or like a modern physician puts it, did not think God was something he didn't have to grasp because he was God, hallelujah! But he made himself of no reputation. Uh that word made himself of no reputation, you see, in the in the in the old kingdoms of Russia, is more has greater meaning than that. Literally, he laid aside his glory, his glory as God. So when you read John chapter 17, you see him praying, glorify me with the glory which I had with thee from the beginning of the world. Yeah, because he's and he's God in the beginning was the world, and the word was the word was God from the very beginning. So, meaning he took that glory, that majesty, laid it aside. If he did not lay it aside, the womb of many would not have been able to contain him. Talk about God trying to get into the womb of a human being, will explode. Oh my goodness, Moses had no idea what he was talking about. But he said, Show me your glory. I want to see you exactly the way you are. Really, you have no idea what you are talking about. You see my face, you die. So, because I want to keep you alive, I'm gonna pass by you. And then when I have gone past, I would have moved my hand a little bit so that you just say a little of my back parts, but now it will shake you, but it won't kill you. But you cannot see me. You see me, you die, you don't understand my majesty, you don't know who I am in the fullness of who I am. Oh, glory be to God. Oh, so he was saying, you know, you don't understand who I really are. So, anyway, he let me fight that glory, and we said, Give me back the glory. And what happened was on the third day, when he was right down there in the lower parts of the earth, the father released the glory. When the glory was released into the very belly of the earth, it shook the ridges of the damned, and here Jesus rose from there, collected the keys of hell and earth, it shook the grave where he laid, rolled away the tomb, transformed his sick and dead body, and made it a glorified body, and he rose triumphant from the dead, and that glory ascended him up to the heaven, displaying all the laws of the of the earth and the natural and the universe, and everything was subdued by the power of the glory, and he ascended to heaven and presented his blood to the father. My goodness, hallelujah. I said, Hallelujah. So that glory was laid aside, anyway. So it was after he was 30 years of age that God now released the anointing with which he would minister to him as a prophet of the old testament, yeah, because the old testament was what was in force at the time, and that's why his ministry was focused on the Jews, and the Bible says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with what the Holy Spirit and with power. Now, somebody's wondering what's the difference between the Holy Spirit and then the power. Is the Holy Spirit power? No, he's not power, he's a pastor, and he's a third person of the Trinity. Glory be to God, and being anointed with him is being anointed with his personality, and the different separation of power because of the tangibility of the substance of that power that God would eventually want every child of his to be acquainted with. Glory be to God. So the Lord Jesus became anointed with the Holy Spirit and power, and by the anointing with the Holy Spirit and power, he went about doing good, healing all who are oppressed to the devil, and he was operating supernaturally on the face of the earth. By that anointing, he raised the dead, the fetched for the hungry. He was able to give sight to the blind, he gave his garment to the deaf by that anointed, and then he now started raising his disciples, and at the time he shared an anointing with twelve of them, and then at the time he shared an anointing with another seventy, and he showed a pattern of what will happen to his church eventually, and then when he now ascended to heaven before he went to heaven, he explained in John chapter 14, verse 15. When he was talking about going to heaven, they were sad, and he said, If you love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray to Father, and he will give you another comforter that he may abide with you for how long? Since the day of Pentecost, the address of the Holy Spirit has changed from heaven to planet earth, and it has not changed since the day of Pentecost. The church of the living God is the address of the Holy Spirit, He has not left us. Thank you, oh my God, for giving us your son. And leaving your spirit till your work is done, and the work is not yet done. So the spirit is still here, he has not gone anywhere. Now, I believe the reason why that Peter was emphasizing about the what happened to the Lord Jesus, his anointing, and the result of his anointing was so that the church will understand who the church is because it is in him that we find ourselves, and it is in him we find our identity. Now, I I used to read the story of the woman with the issue of blood, and I love the story very much of Mark chapter 5 from verse 25. The Bible says that there's a woman who had an issue of blood for a year and has suffered many for many physicians and had spent all that she heard and was nothing better, but rather grew worse when uh when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind and touched his garment. For she said, If I did not the hem of his garment, I shall be made whole. What did she hear? She heard what Peter said. I went all over Judia. Now that's pretty peace through Jesus Christ. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. That was what she heard. She heard about the anointed Jesus, who is anointed with the Holy Spirit and power. He had this tangible circumstance of power that was bringing healing to the sick, bringing deliverance to the bound, and was changing people's lives. He heard upon the power. So he has healing power. That power is a healing power. So when he touches, it is transmitted. Oh wow! So the important thing is the touch, the contact. So now to get his attention would be very difficult because of this crowd. So what I'm gonna do is that I'm gonna struggle because he has the power only. If he touches anybody, the person can feel the power is transferred to the person's body and drives away the sickness and the disease. And if there's a demon there, it drives it away. So what I'm gonna do is that I'm gonna struggle to touch him. And she began to make her effort, and she said, The fact is there's no point touching me. Because if anything touches him, whatever touches him is going to have that power. So I don't need to touch with, I just need to touch something that is touching Jesus, or touch somebody that is touching Jesus, and if I'm able to make that contact, then that power is going to flow into my body and my issue of blood with trial, and the woman made the effort, I made the effort, I made the effort, and she made the touch. And by that touch of faith, she was healed. Amazing, isn't it? I said, amazing, isn't it? In Luke chapter 6, verse 17. The Bible tells us how in the evening they brought to him all the people who are sick and those who are possessed with devils, and how he healed every one of them, and the people besought him that they might touch the hem of his garment, and as many as touched him were made whole, as many as touched him, were made whole. Glory to God. People had faith in the power of God that Jesus was anointed with. The only time he had problem with people having faith in that power was when he went to his own home village. The report is in the book of Luke, chapter four. He went to his own village after some time of ministry, successful ministry in Kapan, where his ministry was headquartered, as it were. He now went to his own home village, and they had known him there for a long time. He just disappeared from the village for a while, probably like six months, and then he showed up. And when he showed up, he asked them for scripture to read. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Read it from Isaiah 61. A portion that was about the Messiah. And when he finished reading, every synagogue in those days, according to church history, had a seat that they reserved for the Messiah. That when the Messiah comes, he will sit there and teach all of them. When he finished reading the scripture, he says all the seats. What audacity! What audacity! He said, This scripture fulfilled your ears. I am the Messiah. The Bible said they were fed at it. Whatever happened, they come and do it here. Here they were with their unbelief, they had choked their power of Jesus could not operate because of what their unbelief and doubt had done. And they were now challenging to perform. And six top, the Bible says that the surprise because of the unbelief. Anyway, the body that they believe is a teacher. You know, he was just ready to surprise them. In fact, in the Luke account, they got so angry, they decided they would kill him. So they took him and took him to the edge of a cliff. All they needed is one more push, and the guy will have been dead. And the Bible says he turned himself about. He allowed them to get into the cliff. When they got there, I guess he looked down very well. I said, Very good. And then they were like, We are now going to push. Now look left and right. I said, Excuse me, please. Excuse me. And they were all parting ways for him. The same Monday, and they all the whole mob brought to the cliff to push over the cliff, turned around, so they said, Excuse me. And everybody started parting ways for him, and he disappeared and disappeared from them. After he was gone, they don't came to the presentation. Supernaturally, he had escaped. Somebody said, Praise the Lord. Our God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Who went about doing good healing? Also were present to them. The same Jesus before he went to heaven, now said an eyes on it, and you my disciples shall receive power. After that, the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses of today in Jerusalem, in good yeah, is Amelia and also the uttermost part of the earth. Now, this is the challenge God has with this church. The church is not Holy Spirit conscious, and the church is not power conscious. He was in Ephesians chapter 3.

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He had been in jail for a few years.

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However, he was in jail and they were expecting him to get out. They had heard what happened in Philippi before he came to them. He was jailed there himself and Silas. They just prayed that they just prayed at some places unto God. There was an earthquake and they were set free. Now this guy was in jail, and they were praying, they were holding all the prayer chains for him, and the guy was not coming out on time. Ah, you are getting discouraged. So he said, That's for this reason. He said that I'm writing to you so that you don't faint. Therefore, I ask that you do not look out at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. Just like the disciples of Jesus in the Howard and the Lord Jesus was arrested, and he did not disappear supernaturally like he did in Nazareth. They ran away. And he will do what he said from the whole family in heaven and earth is there. Can you say that the family is regular? Just one family of God, and it's not talking about all human things. Interpreted the gospel of universal inclusion in everybody, heaven and earth is one family. That's not true. The children of God is talking about some family members are in heaven, like some of the grandparents, and some of your parents are in heaven. My daddy joined them, the ones in heaven in the 2024. Glory be to God. We'll see our loved ones again. I feel we'll see our loved ones again. Hallelujah. Still one family. Some members of the family are here. The United States, that's just the same way it is. We have family members in Lagos, Nigeria, and you are here in Calgary, Albata. Family members are up there with the Father in the third heaven. Glory to God. And we are now here below the whole family in heaven and not his name, name with only one name, the name of Jesus. Glory to God. That they will grant you. I'm praying for you that he will grant you according to the registers of his glory to be what strengthened with might by his spirit in your inner man. The church needs to be strengthened with might. Hallelujah. Because when the church is strengthened with might, it's going to lead to the next verse that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. Don't become confused here. It's true that Christ may dwell in your heart. So the surface of it is that Christ may live in your heart. Really studying it in original Greek, what it means is that Christ may be at home in your heart by faith. Um, it's one thing for you to welcome me into your house, and it's another thing for me to be at home. If you say, Brother Victor, we'd like for you to stay with us during your stay in Calgary, and I arrive at your house, we'll show you to your room, and then I go there, and then you say, So, this is the kitchen, but we don't, of course, we don't expect you there. You look at me and say, of course, we don't expect you there. The registrator, the refrigerator is there, but please, if you did anything, tell us don't just go there, okay. Um this is the living room here, and then the living room over there, that's not for you. Uh, you please stay over here. Um, and then uh we are we we prepare for you to eat twice a day. Yeah, so if you say the children about the please go to an extra, it's the rule of our house. Um, you know, and you take around like that, giving me rules like that. How at home am I gonna feel? I'm gonna pick up my phone and tell my wife. I certainly did not ask the Lord before I decided to stay in this house. I will not be at home. So it's one thing for Christ to be in us, and another one for him to be at home. If you are at home, then you are yourself. Remember the first time I came among one-again Christian folks. I followed an uncle of mine to a meeting. I sat down there very quietly. The brother kept looking at me and said, I woke up. I wish I could be like this brother. He kept talking and shouting and screaming and jumping at everybody. He said, I wish you don't be like this brother. He said, and he said, I was like, if you don't know me, if you don't know me, only you know me. Now I had gotten born again. Now I was one of them, now I was at home. Now this daughter of ours who used to be the part of the family. Nobody could talk as much as she does. Now I have a granddaughter through her who talks a great deal. She will complain. Shut up your mouth. You have no right to complain anything. You showed us a lot already when you were a child. We used to beg her, enough, enough. She will say that it's just one more story, one more story. She used to like telling stories. But she will come back from school and bring this result. And Jeremiah is a very quiet girl. That was when she was in the junior class. By the time she finished school, they will be like very good results. She can even perform better. She will learn to be quiet in class. Now she is at home. I said, May Christ be at home in your heart. When the anointed one is at home, you will be able to sit like Paul said in Philippians 13. I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me, because he will strengthen you from within to perform supernaturally. I hear somebody say, Praise the Lord. Christ is in many of us, but not at home. And because he is not at home, no testimony, because he is not at home through the Holy Spirit, it's not a manifestation, and so we live ordinary lives like mere men, carnal in behavior, fight our wives like devils. You don't settle your breath, accusation, accusation, the accuser of the brethren. There are some people like that on a daily basis, their wives will get a dose of at least five accusations. I see Christ at home in your heart. Now, when Christ is at home in your heart through faith, the result is is going to be you you will have a revelation of the love of God, yeah, because he will illuminate your understanding. Can we go back to that officials chapter three? The Holy Spirit let me there, let me just uh stay there and teach you from there. Praise God, because I'm full of a whole lot to say, amen. And I don't want to keep us here for two hours, like we do in Africa. This is why in my in my first pastorate time. You remember those days when I used to teach you guys for two hours to do service, two and a half hours. Teach it, glory to God. This generation can't endure it. YouTube 50-minute programs are programmed them to escape from anything that is longer than 30 minutes. That can't be done in your hostile faith. This is revelation. Now, somebody notice the word rooted, say rooted, say grounded. All right, let's read on now, come back to rooted and grounded. We are rooted and grounded in love, we'll be able to comprehend with all the things what is a week and left and depth and high, and to know the love of Christ as we've cited already. To know the love of Christ because it's knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of it. It's simply talking about the right there. It's the translators have broken them into verses for our understanding. But what you are saying is simply is this when you your heart is strengthened by faith, so we say by faith, that faith is faith in the love of God. First John chapter 4, verse 16 says, and we have known and believed in the love that God has to us or has for us. Have you known that love? Do you believe that love when you read first uh John uh chapter four eight? Uh can you can you go there? He says, He who does not love does not know God, but God is love or snatch. Okay, let's start from verse 7. Praise God. Let's go beloved. Let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Okay, he who does not love does not know God, for God is love. Verse 9. In this, the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him of them. In this is love, not that we love God or that he loved us and sent his son to be the prophetation for our sin. So when the revelation of love comes to a person, it does not start with you loving God. No, we love him because we are we doing this one. This is what we do. I know you have a problem with that first because you know the difference between your character and God's character, but in spirit, we are one, it's a oneness between us and Christ. Glory be to God. Now we look at us saying, Glory to God. There is no love at all, but perfect love does what? Fears has not been perfect to love. What is it talking about here? You're talking about there's no fear in you loving somebody. No, there is no fear in the presentation of God's love for you. When children know they are loved by their parents, they don't tremble before their parents, they run to their parents. Now, when I was growing up, there was this common thing when fathers arrive home, they all hold their cars in Africa.

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You know, at least in Nigeria, let me say Africa generally, I don't know what happened in Lapia and then Ghana and other places. But in Nigeria, we have the father.

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Then they quickly do a check on themselves. Am I too dirty? They quickly do wash their feet. After the self-assessment, then they start coming up one after the other, creeping out of their hidings. There was a difference in my house. Whenever our dad will arrive, we welcomed him with joy. We were not scared of our dad. We always ran to him to welcome him home. We knew a father's love when we were growing up. Praise God. He wasn't a perfect father, but it was sure a loving, caring father. And that's why I miss him. Praise God. I miss him. Cried for several months before you get over his death. Praise God. As long as you hear you are crying, yes, I did. Praise God. I'm an emotional person of half tears in my head in my glance. Glory to God. God said to me, healed. But I said, listen, he was a lovely father. But I don't hear that voice anymore. I listen, glory to God. So we run to him. There is no fear in love. Any environment or atmosphere where love is, you don't find fear there. So when we go back to Ephesians chapter 3, and it says that you've been rooted and grounded in love, it's a revelation of the love of God. When we are exercising faith in God, you will discover we are rooted. Someone say rooted. When plants are rooted in the soil, they draw nourishment from the soil. And when you check the chemistry of the plant, you will discover it is the same as the chemistry of the soil. Yeah, outward expression will be different of the mineral resources in the soil and the mineral resources you find in the tree and in the plant. The plant gets its nourishment from the soil. And notice this: you are rooted in love. Someone say, I'm rooted in the love of God. So I'm drawing nourishment from what? The love of God. So when I bear fruit as a tree or as a plant, what kind of fruit am I building? The love of God is love fruit. So when you see people who have a revelation of the love of God, you find a walk in love to have love to be God. When the Bible says, don't hold another, just ask. You catch that revelation of how you are loved, you give what you have received. As you are receiving it, you give it, you express it as you receive it. And I understand one of the things I understand about the love of God is how I am forgiven. And I face situations and circumstances where my love is tested. Seriously, tested. And it is further in leadership as a concept from the word of God that I'm teaching right now. And in that love, you'll find that that love is unconditional. So now people who are hurting me, who are doing evil against me, and I have to keep loving them. Glory to God. There should be something we should do to these guys. Praise God. It is necessary. It is very important. But heavenly Father forgives us. You know, all our sins are forgiven in Christ. Praise God. They are forgiven in Christ Jesus. The Bible says the woman we have forgiveness. Through his blood, the forgiveness of sin is one seven. He didn't say we're gonna have it says we have it all the time. 247. We have it, just as much as we have life, we have eternal life, we we have the blood, we have we have reconciliation, we have forgiveness. It's amazing. That's what the Bible says, as he is, so are we? He says the love of God is offended in this that we have boldness on the day of judgment. Is it because the negative reconciles in Christ Jesus? You said that's why I don't understand that kind of Christianity that is trying to make everyone. I don't understand it. I made it in Christ, and I'm not struggling to. I mean, I'm sorry, thank you for for for understanding and accepting this with me. I don't wake up every day and say, Heavenly Father, I'm I'm doing my best to make it. I don't understand that concept. What I understand is salvation itself is a rescue from eternal judgment. How can I be in Christ and be hell fire at the same time? I don't somebody can understand my theological theological challenges with those positions, and they're very popular in the body of Christ, and they've already sanctified. You will make everyone in Jesus' name. Amen. One of the most popular prayers in Nigeria you will make heaven in Jesus' name. I am seated in the heavenly places in Christ at the right hand of the Father. I'm seated there already. In Christ, I made it. Look, let me just address you. Make it into Christ, settles everything. Let me leave it alone since I don't have time to really teach doctrine here. Hallelujah. I said, Hallelujah. Look at the person, make it into Christ. In Christ, you are safe, you are secure. He is the ark of safety, he is the home of refuge, he is the place of our consolation. Once we make it into him, the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous runs into it, and he is safe. That's why he's a spill for me. He is my glory, and the lifted up of my head. I am in the place where the enemy cannot touch me. Hallelujah. Anyway, let me finish up this sermon. Praise God. Somebody say rooted. So because I'm rooted in the love of God and bearing the fruit of love, then I'm grounded. Someone say, grounded. The word grounded there is a language of foundation. When you lay the foundation for a building, won't be that person that does not lay the blocks according to the foundation. When the foundation is laid, and then you now start placing things out of line with the foundation, the building is gonna come crashing down because the weight is on the foundation. Usually the foundation is designed in a way that it carries the weight of the building, but it is not really carrying it. It's carrying it, but it is not really carrying it. It is also designed in a way that the foundation itself throws the weight to the soil. Are you following me, somebody? That's why when I carry anything, there is also somebody carrying me. Jesus, he is the cornerstone, he is the one carrying us. Any apostle that is foundational to anything, he better be laid on Jesus, the real foundation himself. Somebody say, Praise the Lord. Someone say grounded. So when I'm grounded in the love of God, it means everything I build, I build good love. Just like God, the motivation for everything is a love. Motivation. It was love that was the motive of everything. God did not do anything for his own personal benefits, and when you understand that kind of love, then you don't make life difficult for your children. Hallelujah. You give them the best. You you you you I just discipline, though. Praise God, because you don't understand it, they think love is just paper. You discipline whoever loves his child will chase them the child because you don't want that child to turn out wrong. You give everything you can for so the child can turn out well. One of the areas where I've that I've come to have myself is what I'm still willing to do for my children, even after they have become adult children. It's very funny. I thought once they graduates, my ministry was done in their lives. But when a daughter was gonna have a grand grandchild, I was in the delivery room where my first grandbaby was born. I was right there, supporting my daughter in the delivery, right there, right there. Somebody asked me, How did it feel? The same way it felt when my wife was delivering babies. That was how it felt. The love for those kids is the same thing, the way you love your wife, you love your spouse, the way you love those children, and it's the same way you love those girl kids, it's the same, and you are still willing to make sacrifices. I was I was laughing at myself earlier in the day because I said sacrifice I was trying to make for one of my children. What's my business is adults, working, early good salary. What's your business? Can I help myself? Just can I help myself? It's love. You lay your life down, you sacrifice. So at the end of the day, when you whatever you're doing, you're going to do it for yourself, even though you might get a material benefit, immediate moderate, an emotional benefit. Gratifying. My first daughter graduated from university. It's amazing. The oneness, isn't it? Someone say rooted, say grounded. So the motive of love now becomes the motivation with which we do everything we do, but it is the same because we realize everything the Father does is out of love for us. And that's why you now broke it down. That's you know, broke it down into a revelation in four areas. Verse 18, hallelujah. That we may be able to comprehend what all the say, what is the wisdom? Somebody say with the wisdom talks about the inclusive nature of the love of God, it includes the white and black, it includes the red and brown, all the races are included, male and female are included, Jews and Gentiles are included. This love goes around everybody. Hallelujah. Your sins be so grievous, yet his love is so gracious. He said, Come home, backslider, come home. I love you with unconditional love. Hallelujah. It includes you. Come on, someone said this includes me. Said the love of God includes me. I am loved by the Almighty God. That's why He's talking about the width of that love, then he's talking about the length of that love, and the God is talking about how long that loss of love is going to last. How long will it be? Love you with an everlasting love, with my loving kindness, I drawn in you. Somebody say everlasting love. It's going to last throughout eternity. When I was entering into a manic covenant with my wife, I said, Until death doors.

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And after the season, there will be a moving on. Serving the Lord. Hallelujah. Or maybe even different. Especially men.

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God have mercy on men. Men of God at times within 12 months, they've done it. Women can't get it. Women always say to me that how? Why? Maybe they never love them. It's just a difference in our constitution. The reason why the women can't replace the other husband because they are still grieving him. It's the reason why the men to replace them quickly. They cannot handle the grief. What the women don't know is that they have more emotional strength than the men, they have more emotional strength. So they can keep giving a loan for a lot of the men can't handle it alone. They need for core. Don't worry, every married person here with a long life. Will the Lord satisfy you both? I show you salvation in the name of Jesus. Honestly, it's just some one is strong, the other is weak. So the strong can grieve alone for a long time. That weak needs somebody else to come and help you. And then it talks about the height of that love. The height of that love talks about the incomparable nature of it. One time God said, Can a mother forget her suckling child? The answer of the Jews was that no, no mother can forget her suckling child. I cannot forget you. I'm a grateful youth of my heart. I love more than a mother loves that baby. Love of God is incomparable.

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Now, when I know that I am loved, what happens to me is I'm able to rest on the with confidence.

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I go before God with faith and confidence. Look, under normal circumstances, when I find myself in a challenge, in a trouble, I know the mind of God for me. God wants me out of trouble. Are you following me somebody? God wants me what out of trouble. God's to what you are positive thoughts, it's not to watch your spouse's positive, to what your business is positive, to what your children is positive. Hallelujah. And that's why God wants you and I to exercise more faith in him, especially faith in the finished work of Christ. Let us see the love of God manifest in what Christ did on Carl's cross, and let us talk about it. No matter what the doctors tell you about your health, let your confidence be in the love of God. God wants me well. Not only does He want me well, if I in Christ I am well, and what I need to do is to hold on to the finished work of Christ, and manifestation is just a matter of time. Because this day and age there are sicknesses and diseases that are becoming more and more impurity with medical science with all the advancement of science, there are challenges we have with our children at times, and medical sciences they can help. There's nothing they can do about it. Listen, God wants your children well, He loves you, and He loves those kids, and He loves them with a passion, and God wants to give you a testimony. That is where I round up in from verse 20. Let's go to verse 20, and let me round up from there. Now it says, I'm talking about the love of God now. Unto Him. Who is able to do Exceeding Lord Abundantly? Above how many? Above how many? That we do what? How do we ask? How do we ask? We ask in prayer, isn't it? Simple, simple. What is what the scripture is saying is know to him, to God, who is able to do extremely abundantly above all your prayer points. I don't know what you are praying about, whether it is to be for God to heal a headache or to heal a cancer, or you're asking him to deliver you from a little trouble with your boss or a little trouble with principalities and powers. It does not matter what it is. What are you afraid of? What are you praying about? Is it an immigration problem? Is it a problem with your finances? Whatever it may be, somebody say, Whatever. And for him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above it, exceedingly abundantly above your prayer point. Don't question his ability, his ability cannot be questioned. Many times we don't question his ability, we question his willingness. For some reason, you know he can do it. I'm not just sure if he's willing to do it for me. Why don't you believe he's willing to do it for you? If you know how much you are loved, then you will know how willing he is to do it for you. He is more willing to do it for you than you are willing to receive it from him. Let's be confident in his love. Let's be confident in his love. Let us stop defining our faith by our experiences or other people's experiences. Let's learn to trust the word of God. He can do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask in prayer, but not only can he do it, he wants to do it. In fact, if you can find it done in the finished work of Christ, then he has done it. All you need is to receive it by faith for your manifestation. Hallelujah. But he also said, Oh think, because prayer and thoughts work the same way in the realm of the spirit, and the word think here literally means imagine, picturize, visualize. You can as well say dream. What are you dreaming? What are you envisioning? What are you desiring? He is able to do exceedingly importantly and above it. It's nothing. How do I know if he should do it for me? Are you questioning whether God wants you to have the house of your own or not? Okay, if you have a child, wouldn't you want your child to have a house? I also understand Jesus was asking the guys in his face there. He said, Hey, who among you is a father? He said, I shall be given unto you. Who among you who is a father? Will the father ask? Will his children ask for bread? And he said, He will give them snake. Okay, what if they ask for egg, you give them stone? He said, No, no, no, we are not wicked people. He said, Okay, how about if the child asks for okay, if you ask for fish, you give snake bread? Give scorpion, uh, and you give stone. All of them should their heads as a we are not wicked people. Uh is that if you this you this by decisions are this you are either as evil as you are, you love your children so much that you will not give them those things. With your heavenly father, give good things to them, but that's how much more. So, you guys have no idea who the heavenly father is. You you you are comparing him with yourself, you even think you love better than he is, and it's amazing how many Christians think so. You some think you even love your children more than the heavenly father loves you or loves them. Come on, let's ask it for the supernatural. Now, this is the way I'm going with the whole thing now to him that is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh that worketh where according to the power that works in us, well, most Christians, when we pray, imagine God is seated on his stone in heaven, and we are we just want him to release a little blessing to us from heaven. Well, as he says, he answers all the prayers and fulfills all the dreams and visions according to the power that works inside. The one who lives on the inside of you was the same one who was in Christ's giver. He is not in you in a tiny measure, he is in you in his fullness. The Holy Spirit was running inside of you, the answer is looking for you. So you carry the answer and then you run from pillar to post. I see people who have bondages, ancestral palettes from their families, generally oppression, they are running from pillar to post, and yet the answer is inside them. I'm not saying don't look for help if you need help, but some effort being put towards getting help are excessive. They are demonstrations of unbelief, complete unbelief. Where I can't help myself, I'll certainly go to a minister of the gospel who can help me. I'll look for somebody who can partner with me. Are you following me, somebody? But what I'm trying to say is, I am carrying the answer, the answer that I'm looking for is looking for me. That's why I'm here to challenge you as a date around that. Let us begin to trust that look from the day of Pentecost, the same Holy Spirit and power with which Christ was anointed has come to the church because now he is the head of the church and we are his body. We have the same Holy Spirit He has, we have the same power that he has. Are you following me, somebody? With that same anointing, we can help the world, and with that same anointing, we can help ourselves. Our needs can be met. We must come to that place where we realize that when I get scripture from God's word concerning my finances, and I'm standing on them for God to meet my needs, the power of God is emitted out of my spirit man to create a magnetic field around me that attracts the material equivalent of my dream. Yes, it will attract it. It's just a matter of time. God had to challenge me sometime ago. Victor, you are limiting me. You are limiting me in your finances. Years ago, he had told me to believe him for a particular figure one year. So I I wrote a check, I put it on my butt. Someone did it that yeah, give me that figure. After that, I never did that again. After what 10 years, God now came to me to assess. Nobody has given you more than that figure. 10 million naira. I've got it several, and there was nothing, not anything more than I said. Why have you not increased the figure? And truly speaking, I now doubled it that year. Now double that yeah, I got that double. The following year, I got the year started. You are your financial goal for this year. Someone stop limiting me. Stretch your face again. Then I wrote a big figure. I think God was just tired of it. Abundantly above what I wrote.

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He did it. And from then I said, Oh, let's not doubt in God.

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So when they asked our church, immediately just get out of our property. We wanted to have the renewed for ten years. We did it for five years, we did it for another five years. Very good one. Get down. So we said instead of getting out, we wrote them to say, sell to us, compromise. And they came back and said one point four billion.

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Praise God.

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Good figure. Amen. We looked into the account, 70 million was inside the accounts. I was paid one point one billion. I thought of one point four billion. Well, I almost don't pay that. Praise God. What's good to challenge us? I have to go before God as a brother. I'm leaving for one billion. Stop limiting me. We've woken up. Praise God. Don't wait till you get into a tight corner before you start the God. Hallelujah. There is nothing our God cannot do. He can provide anything you need, we can solve any problem, he can cure any disease. All we need to do is arrested his love for us and in the finish work of Christ and believe into God, and He will definitely do it. I can keep preaching up preaching today. So that I will stop preaching. Neither can his love be doubted.

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