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Don't be left in the dark. 
Get proper understanding of life

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through the Word of God. 
My people perish for lack of 

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knowledge. 
The Word of God is an 

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illumination which gives 
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Remember, place as Reverend was 
far and illuminates your mind 

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with the Word of God with all 
simplicity and clarity. 

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Let me read for us quickly. 
You can have your seat. 

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You're welcome to God's 
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God bless you. 
Let me read quickly for you a 

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few verses that represents the 
commencement of the ministry of 

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Jesus and educators on the 
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Matthew 419 And he said unto 
them, Follow me, and I will make

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you feces of may, or the line 
that praise, follow me. 

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Matthew is my thing. 
And in certain script came and 

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said unto him, Master, I will 
follow thee, wheresoever thou 

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goest. 
May we be ready to follow, and 

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may we be fully prepared to pay 
the price of following Him in 

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the name of Jesus. 
Matthew 822 But Jesus said unto 

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him, Follow me. 
Now this phrase, follow me is 

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becoming more and more 
consistent in the commencement 

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of the ministry of Jesus, which 
introduces an educators to his 

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mission. 
He said, But Jesus said unto 

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him, Follow me, and let the dead
bury their dead, that nothing 

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can stand, no matter how 
important it may appear to us, 

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between US and the followership 
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Matthew 99 And Jesus passed from
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He saw a man named Matthew 
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custom. 
And he said unto him, Follow me.

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And he aroused and followed him,
So follow me again. 

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Matthew 6024 Then said Jesus 
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will come after me, let him deny
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and do what? 
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Matthew 1921. 
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representation of the 
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Jesus that introduces us to His 
mission and what our 

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relationship with Him should be.
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1921, If thou will be perfect, 
go and sell that thou us, and 

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give to the poor, and thou shall
our treasure in evil, and come 

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and follow me. 
If you read other gospels, it's 

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the same praise the name of the 
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explore from this Sunday and for
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Walking in the Spirit. 
Walking in the Spirit. 

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But to start with, we are going 
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Foundation, Christian faith 
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So to walk in the Spirit as a 
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that's the foundation we are 
going to examine today from 

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those texts of the Scriptures. 
We are afraid. 

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It's so clear that Christianity 
is a followership feats. 

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Christianity is a followership 
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It is about following Christ. 
If you don't understand that, if

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you don't embrace that, if that 
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Christian, then you have missed 
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So Christianity is a 
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A to say of the Christian faith 
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So Christianity is an active 
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One came and said I want to 
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foremost I want to bury my dead.
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dead. 
If you want to follow me, push 

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every other thing aside and make
following me your singular 

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vocation. 
A rich man came and said, what 

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do I do to make it to eternal 
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Those are the backgrounds of 
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to us. 
I just said to him, yes, you are

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a wealthy man, go sell all that 
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a destruction by virtue of your 
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material things. 
Go sell them, give the proceed 

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up from it to the poor and come 
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cross. 
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field. 
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about Christianity is that it's 
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foremost a demanding feat. 
It's an active faith. 

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It's not a passive player. 
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he called the disciples to 
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jolly with him. 
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called the disciples to journey 
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To advance with him. 
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anybody who will keep his 
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him, not to journey or party 
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That is why I said earlier that 
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faith is not a passive player. 
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if at all there is going to be a
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happen afterward, but not from 
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everyone or every would be 
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follow me, follow me. 
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program. 
Salvation is not a one step 

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program. 
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to Christ, then you have 
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make eternal life. 
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don't, that there was not a day 
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Christ. 
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How have you been living your 
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a one step program and you drop 
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life. 
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would be disciple was very 
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Follow me for the fact that 
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It's a progression. 
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Tell somebody there is room for 
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That's what there is room for 
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Those they are just one level. 
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Hallelujah. 
So you don't come to Christ with

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your couch. 
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your server. 
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your comfortable chair, OK, 
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No, so you don't come to Christ 
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You come with your canvas 
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on a journey. 
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come with your canvas that will 
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You call with your Sanders, not 
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not coming to sleep. 
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You are coming to embark on a 
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So following Jesus is the 
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be subjected to the creativity 
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Hello. 
Following Jesus is the standard.

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It is the standard that cannot 
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of men. 
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reinvented by human ideology. 
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two. 
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compass about with so great a 
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aside every weight. 
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light, you don't load yourself 
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you lay aside every weight and 
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beset us, and let us run with 
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before us. 
So we are called unto a journey,

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not unto a journeyman. 
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inventor that invented the faith
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human ideology, the author and 
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It's not. 
You see, the race is different 

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from the ministry. 
Hello, it is the ministry, the 

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ministry site of Christ. 
OK that we can say we are you 

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stop, we take it off from there.
But the race, OK, He started it,

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He completed it. 
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He did what? 
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So you are not contributing any 
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Am I talking to somebody? 
There is nothing about the faith

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that can be reinvented. 
It's a standard. 

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So Our Calling is on to 
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contribution. 
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author and finisher of our 
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set before him endured the 
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sat down at the hand at the 
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So what essentially does this 
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It means when you meet Christ, 
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So you don't meet Christ and 

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walk in your own way. 
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working in the Spirit, and we 
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foundation of what the Christian
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So you don't come to Christ to 
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style or your own method of 
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So you don't meet Christ and 
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You don't meet Christ and walk 
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For everyone that He makes. 
What He demanded from them is to

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follow Him. 
So the direction must be the 

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same. 
There must not be distraction so

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you don't look elsewhere and 
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I'm bringing, I said. 
Since they are doing it that way

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in the other way, then let us 
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No, so you don't meet cries and 
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You are not permitted to watch 
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What Christ followership demand 
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intimacy there can't be bonding.
We are the sheep of this 

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pasture. 
We are not free range animals. 

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You know free range animals. 
They can grace on any feet. 

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Are you with me? 
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goats. 
We are the sheep of his pasture,

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His pasture. 
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So He demand of us intimacy, and
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bonding and the body will result
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The reason your lifestyle is far
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Christ is because you are 
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You are not close to Him. 
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Him and to become like Him we 
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Becoming like Him is a product 
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The reason you are not becoming 
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been with him. 
You have met him, but you have 

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not stayed with him. 
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pathway with him. 
You meet Him to stay. 

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You meet Him to abide. 
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I can't hear that brother. 
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in verse four and five of Gospel
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hear him abide in me, and I in 
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Bond with me. 
As the branch cannot be a fruit 

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of itself, except you abide in 
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you abide in me. 
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Ye are the branches, ye that 
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The same bring forth more fruit,
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If a man abide not in me, he is 
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widow. 
And men gather them and cast 

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them into the fire, and they are
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Seven. 
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abide in you, you shall ask what
you shall ask what you will, and

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it shall be done unto you. 
So when you meet him, you meet 

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him to walk with him. 
Every of your movement is 

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within. 
Every of your movement is in 

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him, with him. 
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So that's why I said the 
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followership. 
Faith here to say of 

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Christianity is to follow Christ
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So when you meet Him, you should
prepare your mind that you are 

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setting out on a journey with 
Him. 

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So you meet Him to work with 
Him. 

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Every of your moment is with 
Him. 

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That is intimacy. 
Every of your movement is in Him

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and with Him. 
Act 1728 For in Him we leave. 

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So in which world are you 
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The world of movies or the world
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Am I asking this an intelligent 
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Is somebody reflecting on that 
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In which world are you living 
the world of fashion? 

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The world of movies? 
The world of slangs? 

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The world of cultism? 
The world of things invoke novel

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things or the world of keeping 
step with Jesus, That's Our 

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Calling, is the followership 
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Keeping step with Jesus, not 
following him afar off. 

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You are not to be pee pee into 
the things of Christ. 

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You are supposed to be with him 
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So for in him we leave, we move.
That's why I said every of our 

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movement is within. 
Every of our movement is in him 

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and within you are the sheep of 
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You are not a free range animal.
You can't be everywhere. 

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Not every function is meant for 
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Hello. 
I hear short people say they go 

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to nightclub when I will not 
there to drink and wine. 

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We are there to pick. 
What a misunderstanding of 

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identity are you looking for 
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How would you become a victim of
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Jacob experience when you don't 
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OK is to ensure that every of 
your movement is with him. 

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Every of your movement is in him
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In other words, when he's 
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you are moving him, and when he 
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with him. 
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wilderness understood that 
perfectly as they comply with 

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the movement of the pillar of 
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that gives them the signal. 
We have to settle, OK, and we 

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have to advance. 
I pray that God will grant you 

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grace to keep steps with Jesus 
in the name of Jesus, for in Him

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we leave. 
That is our word. 

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That's what's our word and move 
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Acts 1720. 
And when we are in Him, what do 

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we do? 
We are in Him to learn at His 

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feet because when we learn at 
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steps, of course we are going to
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on His feet. 
But before you start to walk on 

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His feet, you must first learn 
at His feet. 

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The reason many of us are 
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is because we don't prioritize 
learning at His feet before we 

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jump to walking on His feet. 
Are you with me? 

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Say, Lord, give me the patience 
to learn correctly at your feet 

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so that I can perform acceptable
ministry on your feet. 

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So Christianity again on the 
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that it's a followership faith. 
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Christianity is not an activity 
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driven faith. 
That's where the issue of 

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training him to learn as you 
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Other faith is about activities,
it's about what you do, it's 

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about obligations. 
Hello. 

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The Christian faith is not first
about obligation, is first about

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devotion. 
It's a faith of devotion, not 

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just about rules and 
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So it's not an activity driven 
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faith. 
That is why some people will 

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come on the last day and they 
will narrate the activities, the

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various dimensions of assignment
they have done in his name. 

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And then it will tell them, go 
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iniquity, because all that they 
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compliance, which is standard. 
John 832 Ye shall know the truth

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and the truth shall make you 
free. 

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So it's a knowledge driven faith
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activity that you bring to the 
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We compel God to suspend His 
demand for knowledge no any 

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amount of genuine activity, 
religious activities you put up 

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when I impress him so much that 
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suspend his demand for knowledge
is demand for understanding 

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faith. 
Comment by hearing hearing by 

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the word of God and not by 
performing rituals. 

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So it's a knowledge driven 
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That is why the scripture is 
very emphatic about prioritizing

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obedience above sacrifice. 
Let me cite the example of Mary 

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and Mata to protect the fact 
that no matter how genuine 

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religious activities may be, 
matter how profound religious 

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activity may be, such will never
compel God to suspend His demand

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for knowledge. 
Let's jump read that story of 

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Mary and Mata, the sisters of 
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We jump to verse 40 and verse 
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Those 3 verses will summarize 
the story for those who knew the

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story before. 
Now it came to pass as the wind 

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that he enter into a certain 
village and a certain woman 

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named Mata received him into our
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The same way you receive Jesus 
into your life, and the next 

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thing we find you doing is 
jumping up and down without you 

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first and foremost, learning at 
his feet without you first and 

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foremost subjecting yourself to 
be discipled, to be thoroughly 

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baked, to be taught to receive 
Jesus into his house. 

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Make Jesus sit down then jump 
into the kitchen to make food 

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for Jesus, but matter was Kumba 
about much saving and came to 

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him and said Lord, dost thou not
care that my sister had left me 

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to serve alone be therefore that
she helped me. 

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So this matter that we're 
talking about as a sister or had

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a sister and the name is what 
Mary Mary when and sat with 

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Jesus and Jesus was teaching her
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how are we going to have a guest
and the next thing is for you to

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sit down with the guest and you 
are talking with the girl 

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instead of joining me in the 
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our guest. 
Verse 41 And Jesus answered and 

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said unto her, Matter matter, 
thou are careful, and trouble 

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about many things. 
We read from Hebrew. 

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Putting aside those wits that 
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travel with Him. 
Thou are trouble about many 

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things said, But your sister 
Mary has to say that which is 

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good, and nobody can take it 
from us. 

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So if you look at this story 
from a strictly human 

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perspective, Matter was 
domestically correct, but she 

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was divinely wrong. 
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hospitality, she was correct, 
but when you applied the rule of

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spirituality, she was down to 
wrong. 

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So from hospitality perspective 
matter was correct, but from 

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sociality perspective, Jesus 
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You know, when Jesus was here, 
every of his mission were meant 

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to set the standard of the 
faith, how the faith should be 

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practiced afterward. 
So even his visit to the home of

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Mata and Mary must be filled and
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and not just a mere social 
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In that case, what could be 
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hospitality in human estimation 
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Why? 
What could be judged as an 

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excellent approach to 
hospitality was brought into the

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same space with the teaching and
learning of the Word of God. 

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But Jesus will not want to 
accommodate that because the 

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Christian faith is a faith that 
practices learning above action 

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or demand learning before 
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So we are called therefore, to 
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both working for him. 
We are called to prioritize 

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working with him, following Him,
advancing with Him, being with 

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Him, abiding in him, are both 
working for him. 

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Of course, the work that we do 
for him, we be valued based on 

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the consistency of our work 
within. 

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The acceptability of the work 
that we do for him we valued on 

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the basis of the consistency of 
our working within, based on the

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consistency of our unbroken 
fellowship within. 

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The topic we are considering is 
working in the Spirit. 

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So the Christian faith is a walk
is not a fork. 

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Tell somebody the Christian 
faith is a work is not a fork. 

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Am I talking to somebody? 
It's a progression. 

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It's not just a confession. 
With the heart we believe unto 

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salvation, with the mouth we 
confess hello. 

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So it's a progression. 
It's not something that stop at 

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merely confessing that Jesus is 
Lord. 

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So you believe with your heart, 
you confess with your mouth. 

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But it does not end there. 
All of those are the 

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commencement stage of the 
journey of faith, The 

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commencement of the journey of 
faith that you cannot undertake 

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independent of the Holy Spirit. 
So it's not a journey in the 

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flesh. 
It's not a journey you can 

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undertake independent of the 
partnership of the Holy Spirit. 

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In him we live. 
Romans 8. 

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Let's not establish the place of
the Holy Spirit in this journey 

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#1 the Christian faith is a 
followership. 

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Faith is a faith that demands 
followership. 

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Followers worship of your hero, 
of your godmother, of your 

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godfather, fellowship of your 
idol. 

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No followership of Jesus looking
onto Jesus the Author and the 

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finisher of our faith. 
Not looking onto your General 

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Vashir unto Jesus the author and
the finisher of our faith #2 it 

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is a knowledge based faith. 
It's what a knowledge faith base

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a progression, not just a 
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And the third leg to this matter
is that this journey cannot be 

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on that took without the 
partnership of the Holy Spirit. 

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Verse 30. 
Romans 8. 

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For if you live after the flesh,
you shall die, but if you 

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through the Spirit do modify the
this of the body, you shall 

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live. 
For as many as are led by the 

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Spirit of God, they are the sons
of God. 

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There's no confirmation OK to 
your claim to salvation when you

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are not being led by the Spirit 
of God, because it only implies 

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that you stop at the convention 
stage. 

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You didn't embrace the 
progression stage after 

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confession. 
There must be a followership of 

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Him. 
You advance with Him, you take 

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steps with Him, you walk in His 
step. 

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You don't invent your own way. 
You don't meet him and pathway 

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with Him. 
You don't meet him and still 

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continue to walk in your own 
way. 

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You walk in the way with Him. 
So essentially Christianity is a

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working with God through the 
help of the Holy Spirit. 

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It is this work with God that 
will eventually lead to working 

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with Him. 
May I tell you or let you know 

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or draw your attention to it? 
In case you don't know that it 

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is much easier to work for God 
when you are not working with 

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Him. 
The flesh can work for Him, but 

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He cannot work with Him unless 
it is modified. 

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That's what I'm 
saying. 

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That's why you must prioritize 
working with him. 

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Are both merely working for him,
singing in the choir? 

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When you are not born again, you
have not started the journey of 

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followership, preaching on the 
pulpit, OK? 

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When you have not modified the 
deeds of the flesh, we're told 

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in Romans 8, Modify the flesh 
and you will not fulfill the 

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desires of the flesh. 
Father, we'll thank you for this

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much. 
We can travel on this road 

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today. 
We ask, O Lord, that will help 

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us to be genuine followers of 
the way. 

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You help us to abide in You. 
You help us to make progress 

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with you. 
You help us to keep walking in 

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Your step, not inventing our own
ways, not pleasing ourself. 

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In the name of Jesus. 
You have called us to journey 

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with You, not to journey with 
the world. 

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But here we are, many of all. 
Instead of joining with you, we 

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are full of journeymen in the 
world. 

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I ask, O Lord, that grace will 
be given to us to carry our 

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cross and to follow you 
accordingly in the name of 

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Jesus. 
Thank you Lord, for answer 

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prayer. 
In Jesus mighty name we have 

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prayed. 
Hallelujah. 

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Hallelujah. 
We believe you'll be blessed by 

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the ministry of this message. 
You will do well to be the doer 

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of all you've heard. 
For further inquiry and 

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spiritual help, contact this 
number is 08035685882 or worship

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with us at Oasis of Wisdom Bible
Church or Justin's University of

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Ellorin Teaching Hospital. 
OK OC Ellorin, God bless you.