1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:05,880 Who is this? A Wisdom Bible church? 2 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:10,560 The Church of a distant Christian narration Walking in 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:17,560 the Spirit Last week we dwelt so well on what's Walking in the 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,560 Spirit is not. I will write it quickly. 5 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:27,720 Those seven items that I drew our attention to that may be 6 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,080 considered as walking in the spirit through misconception, 7 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:38,520 but which are not. Number one, I mentioned that 8 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,960 walking in the spirit is not being boxed into the bottom of 9 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,400 vision and revelation before you can live your normal life. 10 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,920 So it doesn't mean that until you see visions and revelation 11 00:00:52,920 --> 00:01:01,120 before you can live your normal Christian life #2 we said it is 12 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:06,200 not suspending your intellect or disobeying your instincts, 13 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:11,840 waiting for audible voice of the Holy Spirit before you act with 14 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,880 discretion. It entails embracing Kingdom 15 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:20,320 lifestyle of Christ. That is what it simply means. 16 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:26,400 It doesn't mean that you must suspend your intellect or 17 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,520 disobey your instincts waiting for audible voice of the Holy 18 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:34,160 Spirit before you act with discretion. 19 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:41,880 And #3I emphasized very clearly that it is not an extra 20 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,240 spiritual requirement for a special class of believers. 21 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,880 You don't sit on the Pew of thinking that only those who 22 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,440 stand on the puppy to preach are supposed to be working in the 23 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,520 Spirit. Any other person OK who comes to 24 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,160 church can live their their kind of life. 25 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:09,960 No, walking in the spirit is not restricted to only the people on 26 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,880 the pulpit. It is not reserved for special 27 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,680 class of brethren. Oh, I don't belong to the prayer 28 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,440 warrior group so I don't cast out demon so I can live my 29 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:26,000 careless life. No, working in the spirit is not 30 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,320 an extras virtual requirement for a special class of 31 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,080 believers. It is the standard normal 32 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,520 Christian life. The standard normal Christian 33 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,760 life. And #4 you don't achieve it by 34 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:48,680 disconnecting from realities, so it doesn't mean you go and 35 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,760 embrace all realistics, which are fantasies such as cutting 36 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,520 off from friends and families. OK, because you want to live a 37 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,840 sanctimonious life and so you suspend your social life 38 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:08,400 completely. No, you have to be godly even in 39 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,440 your interaction with all the people, but that because you 40 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,920 want to work in the Spirit, you will not suspend social 41 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:21,840 interaction. It's not so #4 is like it. 42 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:28,320 It is not denying the social reality of your personality. 43 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:33,280 We all have our individual temperament, OK? 44 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,280 By the help of the Holy Spirit, the negative side of your 45 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,720 temperament, the Holy Spirit will draw your attention to it. 46 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,960 The only Spirit will help you to overcome those weaknesses, OK. 47 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:50,880 But for instance, if you are an extrovert OK and you know an 48 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:56,720 estrophat will be outspoken. What matter is that where you 49 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,640 walk in the spirit you will speak words that gives grace to 50 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,640 people seasoned with salt doesn't mean that the only will 51 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:10,800 not change you from somebody who expresses himself or herself to 52 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,600 somebody who will now be reserved. 53 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,000 God has a purpose. Why as why are you the way you 54 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,760 why are you praise the name of the Lord? 55 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:25,160 And so don't begin to look less spiritual, OK, because you 56 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:31,000 cannot just sit calm the way some quiet people will sit calm. 57 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,520 Quietness may not mean godliness. 58 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,080 Somebody can be so quiet and all manners of deadly things can be 59 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,320 going on in the heart of that person against a friend. 60 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,240 I might talk to somebody but he kept quiet if all manners of 61 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,800 evil imaginations. OK Oh he kept quiet and it's 62 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:53,080 more sinful to have all if we imagination in your heart. 63 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,480 OK, that somebody who is offended and immediately 64 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:03,440 expresses it and it ends there. Am I talking to somebody number 65 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:08,120 what number six is still like it. 66 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,000 It is not suppressing your emotion such as laughter and 67 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,000 grief. I cited an example of our Lord 68 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,640 Jesus Christ when his friend Lazarus died. 69 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,400 The scripture was very clear about it that Jesus wept. 70 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,520 But I do have our attention to it that the scripture didn't say 71 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,880 Jesus willed, he wept. OK, you don't do it in such a 72 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:35,920 way like somebody who is staging who is staging a drama. 73 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,240 Maybe there's a trophy for the person that we OK that that 74 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:48,200 cried the loudest cry or display the the biggest drama I could 75 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,760 die without. I went there when my own door 76 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:58,080 your own door in all manners of unsanctified words. 77 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,720 Just because you want to desire with somebody that is giving you 78 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,080 should not be. But certainly since you carry 79 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,840 blood in your own thing too. When something bad happened to 80 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:15,200 somebody, you saw empathy where it's where sympathy you saw it. 81 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:18,880 You feel for the other person, praise the name of the Lord. 82 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:23,960 So try to now both face it that people who are spiritual, OK, 83 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,640 you can't cry. No, even the writers do cry. 84 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:33,920 Praise the name of the Lord and #7 is that it is not putting up 85 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:41,160 a Pharisee attitude of external piety devoid of inner purity. 86 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,920 No, you have your fallacy attitude that claims to be 87 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,920 better than others, whereas you have your own look in your eyes 88 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,760 and you are trying to complain about the speck in your 89 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:00,240 brother's eye. So those were the issues we 90 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:05,280 looked at last week and for this week we want to examine 91 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,320 practical steps. So I'm going to be giving you 92 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:16,720 practical tit beats, hints or informations that will help you 93 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:22,880 to become very practical in working in the Spirit. 94 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,200 Number one, Or to start with, what are the basic understanding 95 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:36,880 that we need about this issue of working in the spirit #1 is that 96 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,600 not just any man can walk in the Spirit. 97 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,520 This is different from what I said last week, that it is the 98 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:53,360 standard normal Christian life. I'm not contradicting myself. 99 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,120 I just want you to understand me properly. 100 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:03,120 So not just any man can walk in the Spirit. 101 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:11,720 Romans 8 verse 7 says because the Cana mind is empty against 102 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:17,880 God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed 103 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:23,920 can be adverse age. So then they that are in the 104 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:31,800 flesh cannot please God. So not just any man can walk in 105 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:38,760 the Spirit. So not just any church goer can 106 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,320 claim he's already working in the Spirit. 107 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,480 Why? Because there are conditions 108 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,280 president to walking in the spirit. 109 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:58,520 So if you don't satisfy those precedent conditions, OK, you 110 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,480 you may be faking it. OK, right inside you, you know 111 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,960 that it is not really am I talking to somebody? 112 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,840 So that conditions President to walking in the Spirit. 113 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:22,480 So walking in the Spirit is an impossible task for the flesh #2 114 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:29,080 and that will begin to lead us to the reason why not just 115 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:33,600 anybody can walk in the spirit. You agree with me perfectly that 116 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,360 every child speak the language of his or immediate 117 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,000 environments. Hello. 118 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:55,480 If you if you're born an IBO boy into a Yoruba society, the 119 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,520 parents are not speaking Yoruba are not speaking IBO. 120 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,480 There are no IBO people around speaking IBO. 121 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,520 OK. The community where the child is 122 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:11,960 born to, they are predominantly speaking Yoruba naturally. 123 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:13,640 What do you think will happen to the child? 124 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,800 The child will speak Yoruba. So every child speak the 125 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,000 language of his or immediate environment. 126 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:30,560 In the same way, we are living in a world of wilderness and 127 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:36,120 sinners. So the first tendency for every 128 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:41,960 man is to also be a Sinner. Are you with me? 129 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:47,920 Apart from the fact that there is the inherited scene, the 130 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,680 Adamic nature in every man is there. 131 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:57,440 But to compound the matter, if you now live in a godless 132 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:06,040 society, OK, you just discover that you will just tag along. 133 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:11,080 You will Emily, for every child speaks the language of its 134 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,240 immediate environment. So what is known as the sinful 135 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:21,800 nature, which in other words is called carnality, which impede 136 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,840 our capacity to work in the spirit. 137 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:33,240 OK is both in it and environmental ice plane is in it 138 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:40,480 because every man born of a woman is a Sinner for all I've 139 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,120 seen and I've come sort of the glory of God. 140 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:49,280 So there is the same nature in every man that we inherited from 141 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:54,120 Father Adam and it's been passed from generation to generation. 142 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,640 So there's the that innate sin in every man. 143 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:03,920 Then couple with the fact that the society is full of 144 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:09,240 ungodliness. So the sinful nature that 145 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:14,960 everybody carries that endow us from walking in the Spirit is 146 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,960 both in it. It's also environmental. 147 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:24,560 Hence it is natural for the flesh to disobey the Spirit. 148 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,200 So if you walk in the Spirit, certainly there are certain 149 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,920 things you must do intentionally, there are certain 150 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:40,240 things you must do volitionally, there are certain decisions you 151 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,880 must make. And when those precedent 152 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,680 conditions are yet to be satisfied, working in the spirit 153 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,840 will be very difficult. Am I talking to somebody? 154 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,720 Galatians chapter 5. Let's look at 2 verses there, 16 155 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:01,240 and 17. This I say then walk in the 156 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:06,600 Spirit. So now this instruction is an 157 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,640 instruction served, that you must take this step. 158 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:17,720 Walk in the Spirit. I yet shall not fulfill the loss 159 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:22,280 of the flesh, for the flesh losted against the Spirit. 160 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,440 You see, our being is in a constant battle. 161 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,640 Our being is what's in the constant battle. 162 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,480 Whether you realize it or you don't realize it, that there are 163 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:46,040 two different things. The flesh, OK, is lost in 164 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:54,960 against the spirit is the reason the scripture says sometimes the 165 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,200 spirit is willing but the body is weak. 166 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,880 There's a prompting in your spirit to pray OK, but there's 167 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,240 also another whisper that is to go and sleep. 168 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:19,920 So our being is always in a constant battle between the 169 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:26,160 flesh and the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. 170 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:34,360 And these are contrary the one to the other, the flesh and the 171 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,720 spirit. OK, They they are two parallel 172 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:46,120 lines that never meet. One is competing to suppress the 173 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,240 other. Am I talking to somebody so that 174 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:56,480 you cannot do the things that you would so several? 175 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,800 You make up your mind that this is what I want to do, but at the 176 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,440 end of the day you are not able to do it. 177 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:06,760 Why? Because the spirit and the 178 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:10,040 flesh, they are in constant battle. 179 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:20,480 Can we move on #3 Because of this constant battle, you will 180 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,640 discover that disobedience is in the nature of the flesh. 181 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,360 Disobedience is inherent in the flesh. 182 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:40,200 Is the reason they will put an inscription on a freshly painted 183 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:46,720 wall. OK, wet paints do not touch. 184 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,160 You will not discover that by the reason of that instruction, 185 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:56,920 do not touch. You will have passed OK if that 186 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,800 description was not there, but now that description do not 187 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,840 touch, is there, the temptation to touch will not be. 188 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,560 So I will now go there and touch. 189 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:12,920 Has it happened to you before? That is the weakness of the law. 190 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,760 Hello. The law can only serve 191 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:21,080 instruction. It cannot give the power to you 192 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:29,680 to be. The law will tell you the crime 193 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,800 and when you are where you go against the law. 194 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,560 OK, it will label you as a criminal, but the law can never 195 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:44,200 justify you another. Does he give you the power or 196 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:51,560 the ability to obey instruction? So in the nature of every man, 197 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,200 or in the nature of every man, is the capacity to disobey, the 198 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,520 willingness to disobey, because we are in the flesh. 199 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:08,359 Romans 8. Let's take 2 verses there too. 200 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,440 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the 201 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,599 flesh, but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the 202 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,640 spirit. For to be carnally minded is 203 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:24,319 dead, but to be spiritually minded is life and words and 204 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:29,400 peace, but that which will give us life and peace is the one we 205 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:38,360 find difficult to submit to. So the flesh has its native 206 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,040 attitude. And what is the native attitude 207 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:43,760 of the flesh? Canality. 208 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:50,240 That's what I suppose to say. The native attitude, the natural 209 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:55,280 attitude of the flesh is carnality. 210 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:02,960 To disobey, to do the wrong things, to hit the forbidden 211 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:13,200 things, hello, to put on the unacceptable attitude, to be 212 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:18,400 rebellious, all these are the attitude of the flesh. 213 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,920 And this is so because any tree will grow wide. 214 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:28,920 I mean, we grow wide branches that must be constantly prone by 215 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:33,840 the husband man. If you plant any tree, OK, as 216 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:38,880 long as photosynthesis is taking place, sunlight is available 217 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:45,600 where dew is is available, and that is space. 218 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:52,400 You see that the tree will be developing on on all sides. 219 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,000 So it's also in the nature of man to be white. 220 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,960 It's in the nature of man to live a life that is not checked, 221 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,760 a life that is not under control. 222 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,400 A life that whatever I want to do, I would do. 223 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:10,880 Whatever I want to have, I will have. 224 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:12,440 Whatever I want to eat, I should eat. 225 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,440 Whatever I want to go, I should go. 226 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:22,280 No control. So as far as the flesh is 227 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,280 concerned, it cannot submit to God on his own. 228 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,400 The flesh can never decide one day and say, let me go and 229 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,120 submit to God. It cannot do it. 230 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:39,040 So what is the solution? The solution is not trying 231 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:47,720 harder in the flesh. We are trying harder in the 232 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,400 flesh. You just discovered that it's 233 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,840 mere religion that will not help you. 234 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:56,040 The solution is relying on the Holy Spirit. 235 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:08,200 Relying on the Holy Spirit. Thank God for moral upbringing. 236 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:13,280 The best that the moral upbringing can do, or the best 237 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,920 that moral upbringing can do, is to suppress the flesh. 238 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:25,240 It cannot tame the flesh. Moral upbringing cannot subdue 239 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:30,080 the flesh. By moral upbringing you will now 240 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:34,720 discover that what is bad that you should not do. 241 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,800 You avoid doing it in the public, but you end up doing it 242 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:42,680 in the secrets. Am I talking to somebody? 243 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:52,200 Oh, marital fidelity? Yes, you have one wife, but many 244 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:56,480 secrets are chick that we are hiding somewhere. 245 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,320 So it is the moral standard of your society that is making you 246 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:08,800 not to multiply wives, Are you understanding what I'm saying? 247 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,840 Ditto for some alcoholic individual, including people 248 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,480 preaching on the pulpit. So they will not go to be a 249 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,360 parlour to go and drink, OK, I went. 250 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,640 When you enter their living room or their kitchen, you will not 251 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,760 find the alcoholic drink there. But there is a small 252 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,760 refrigerator inside their bedroom. 253 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,200 So they do their own drinking inside their bedroom. 254 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,320 So morale bringer has helped them not to be doing it 255 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:46,240 publicly, OK, but it cannot help them OK to avoid it completely. 256 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:52,400 Am I talking to somebody? So the flesh can submit to God 257 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,360 on its own. So the solution to tame the 258 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:59,840 flesh is not in try harder in the flesh. 259 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:01,680 It is relying on the Holy Spirit. 260 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,320 Moral training can only suppress the flesh, it cannot subdue it. 261 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,720 So moral training, I'm not saying it's not necessary, it's 262 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,480 not important, I'm not saying it's not helpful. 263 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,800 But we must also identify the weakness of moral bringing. 264 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:23,600 Moral training is a palliative that is only supportive to the 265 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:29,320 Holy Spirit. To me, I call that a palliative 266 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,320 that is supportive to the Holy Spirit. 267 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:37,480 But for you to rely completely or moral or bringing to subdue 268 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,080 the flesh, it doesn't have that capacity. 269 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,320 Say I need the Holy Spirit, I can't hear you. 270 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:55,680 Well, Galatians 5, let's take 2 verses from that passage too. 271 00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:02,560 And then our Christs have crucified the flesh with the 272 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:07,280 affections and lost. You know I said not just any man 273 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,800 can walk in the Spirit. That was our starting point, 274 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,160 that was our entry point. Not just any man can walk in the 275 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,480 Spirit because there are conditions president to it. 276 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:23,360 They are prerequisites. So I am beginning to see now 277 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,360 what are the prerequisites, he said. 278 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,800 And they that are Christ have crucified the flesh. 279 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:35,680 So you must belong to Christ before you can crucify the flesh 280 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:40,480 with the affections and laws. That was why after Apostle Paul 281 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,200 met the Lord Jesus Christ, he said all those things that he 282 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,800 counted as game, all those things he counted as player, all 283 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,400 those things that were his pride, He now regarded them as 284 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,160 dunks. They no longer matter to him. 285 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:00,200 Praise the name of the Lord. If we live in the Spirit, let us 286 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:09,080 also work in the spirits. Now to drive this issue deeper 287 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:18,160 for clearer understanding, let me draw a few analogies for us 1 288 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:25,520 parents that are in the house. Was there any time you 289 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,080 intentionally sit down? Your child? 290 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:34,960 That my child, this is how to lie and cover hope where you do 291 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,480 the wrong things, as are my parents. 292 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,360 Such periods don't belong here. Am I talking to somebody? 293 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,320 Well, if you want to ask yourself, even before your child 294 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:53,640 starts to go to school to be influenced by friends, they 295 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,280 already lie and doing things and comfortable. 296 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:03,160 So who taught them the sinful nature? 297 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:09,440 Am I talking to somebody? Because the sinful nature is 298 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:15,400 inherent in every man. So a parent need not make any 299 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,520 deliberate effort to teach a child all the wrong things. 300 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,440 In fact, they will do some wrong things. 301 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,960 And you begin to wonder and, you know, begin you you become 302 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,320 worried and concerned. People let you, Cockney. 303 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:31,560 But let it be really well. Or what? 304 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:32,840 I let it back. Cosillo. 305 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:33,840 Yeah. Cosillo. 306 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,520 Baba. Cosillo. 307 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,640 So apparently not make any deliberate effort to teach a 308 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:52,000 child all the wrong things. So without intentionally 309 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,160 training the child, a child on his or her own can learn. 310 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,720 Not only learn, can also invent all the wrong things. 311 00:26:05,250 --> 00:26:09,210 Because the worst of us come from inside of us, not for the 312 00:26:09,210 --> 00:26:14,840 things around us. The worst part of a man is 313 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,280 inside that man is not in on his look. 314 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,280 That's why a man can look completely gentle and is the 315 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:27,920 worst criminal running guns. Where is the charitable man 316 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,360 around Is the best uncle around that Some people will even want 317 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:35,960 to say, I want my child to be mentored by this uncle. 318 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,440 But when the news now comes out, I will now discover that is a 319 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,720 hard drug dealer is running girl, if you say you know Jio, 320 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:57,790 are you connecting with me? So to instill good conduct in 321 00:26:57,790 --> 00:27:01,510 the child, the parent must be intentional about it. 322 00:27:04,230 --> 00:27:08,430 So the other one that is wrong OK is in their nature is also 323 00:27:08,430 --> 00:27:10,390 present in their environment. They will pick it up. 324 00:27:13,550 --> 00:27:18,960 But if one good outcome spiritually and morally from 325 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:24,200 your child, you must be intentional about instilling the 326 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:30,440 right values, the right values, communicating ethical standard 327 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,680 to them and demonstrating it to them. 328 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,520 You have to be intentional about it. 329 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,040 We are broadcasting more. The reason why working in the 330 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:48,680 spirit doesn't come natural. It doesn't come what's natural. 331 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,000 There are conditions president to it. 332 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,840 If those conditions are not satisfied, it becomes difficult 333 00:27:53,840 --> 00:28:01,760 to work in the spirit. Let's move from human Kingdom to 334 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,800 even animal Kingdom. Do you know that no animal chose 335 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:13,600 to be a pet? Go and check it all those animal 336 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,640 you now find in our homes and we keep them as pet. 337 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,880 They didn't choose to be a pet. Somebody brought them home at a 338 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:25,040 point at A at a very long time in history and released them. 339 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,080 In fact, in modern time there are some of them that they have 340 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:37,520 to carry out, some about technological activity on their 341 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:42,840 own moon and other tendencies OK to subdue them so that they can 342 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,720 become domesticated. Otherwise that wide nature is in 343 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:56,040 every man to range around. So no animal chose to be a pet. 344 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,320 It is by the deliberate effort of man that will not have 345 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:05,960 domestic animals. What does that suggest? 346 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,480 If you leave the natural man to himself, without the Holy 347 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,720 Spirit, every man is capable of doing the unthinkable. 348 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:24,090 Did you hear that? Some of you, you only need a 349 00:29:24,170 --> 00:29:31,490 push by an ungodly friend and you do things and people say, 350 00:29:31,490 --> 00:29:34,850 yeah, so you have the capacity to do this manner of evil. 351 00:29:37,970 --> 00:29:42,120 So if you leave the natural man to himself, he won't come to 352 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,440 church to hear the word of God, he won't attend Bible study, he 353 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,520 won't read his Bible. OK, Leave the natural man to 354 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,000 him. Say, without the Holy Spirit, 355 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,960 every man is capable of doing the unthinkable. 356 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:05,960 I'll give you the example of Moses, regarded as the meekest 357 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:12,880 man, but in the moment of anger he misbehaved and he provoked 358 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,000 God. Are you with me? 359 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:22,560 Has it not happened that a lady that you think is the best kind 360 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:29,560 of wife, that any man we pray for his for, for his son. 361 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:36,040 Are you with me? And then suddenly you hear that 362 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,840 the lady got provoked and stabbed the husband. 363 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,760 I begin to worry when they say I can't believe no sister. 364 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,720 So, so, so, so. No, no, no, no, no, no. 365 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:56,280 She's too quiet to do that. It happens because you leave 366 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,480 every man to himself. Without the help of the Holy 367 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,320 Spirit. Every man can do the 368 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,360 unthinkable. So we find mostly the meekest 369 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:11,040 man, just in a moment of anger he misbehave to the degree that 370 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:22,160 God said I can't take this. Someone who says 2 verses again 371 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,960 32 and 33. They angered him also at the 372 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,040 water of strife. If you read another person 373 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:35,600 called the water of Meribah, so that it went I'll with Moses for 374 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:40,160 their sakes, because they provoke his spirit. 375 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,160 So that is back on adversely with his lips. 376 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:54,280 OC so so because the tendency to be canna is in every man except 377 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,680 we are helped by the Holy Spirit. 378 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:05,160 I put an example to you something the strongest man we 379 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,680 are like his own weakness. He will not control his liberal 380 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:16,320 inordinate affection. Achieve in him what the entire 381 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,320 army of the Philistine could not achieve. 382 00:32:25,290 --> 00:32:29,410 Please take note of this, it will help you to watch. 383 00:32:31,690 --> 00:32:37,530 Appeal to the flesh is a general weapon the devil uses against 384 00:32:37,570 --> 00:32:40,810 all men. So when did they want to get you 385 00:32:40,810 --> 00:32:44,290 down? When the devil want to attack 386 00:32:44,290 --> 00:32:48,880 you spiritually, when the devil want to make you lose focus of 387 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,400 heaven, when the devil want to make you lose your grip of 388 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,760 Christ. I start to live the carnal life. 389 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:02,760 What it does is to appeal to your flesh, to Pompey your 390 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:09,560 flesh, to massage your flesh, and the moment you submit, you 391 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,840 are gone. May the Lord make you strong and 392 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:18,160 resist whenever the devil is appealing to your flesh in the 393 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,600 name of Jesus. Now, what are the practical 394 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,000 steps of victory over the works of the flesh? 395 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:34,680 Now down to spelling out the precedent conditions. 396 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:40,240 To walk in the spirit #1 you need salvation. 397 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,720 You need salvation and you achieve that by being born 398 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:52,200 again. And when you get born again it 399 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:56,320 position your spirit to obey the dictates of the Holy Spirit. 400 00:34:02,610 --> 00:34:09,290 Before you got born again. You are far away from listening 401 00:34:09,290 --> 00:34:11,409 and obeying the voice of the Holy Spirit. 402 00:34:12,290 --> 00:34:16,080 But the moment you got born again, one of the things that 403 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,400 takes place spiritually is a repositioning. 404 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,600 You have been far away from God. Now you are drunk closer to God. 405 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,639 You have been living outside the room of God. 406 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,360 Now you are brought into the bedroom of God. 407 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,639 That's what been born again does to you. 408 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:38,040 Are you with me? So you are reposition OK to have 409 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:42,840 access to the Holy Spirit. So what to contribute to your 410 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,400 salvation? It's your realization of your 411 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:51,159 sinful nature. So the attitude that everybody 412 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:54,000 is a Sinner and therefore I can constantly know they will not be 413 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:59,360 there. You accept that yes, I'm a 414 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,920 sinful person and I'm helpless over this sinful nature, but 415 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,440 there is one that can help me. Let me go and join myself to the 416 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:13,880 one that can help me. So your contribution to the 417 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:18,960 salvation of your soul is the acceptance of your sinful nature 418 00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:24,360 and willingness to assess the earth that Calvary has provided. 419 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,840 So therefore you have a desire to change. 420 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:40,880 So that desire to change is there, not the deceptive 421 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,240 attitude. I will confess my sin on Sunday. 422 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:49,120 OK, then I will start to say another set of sin from Monday 423 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:59,760 to Saturday, A desire for a permanent change, not making 424 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:05,080 mockery of the provision of forgiveness, because God cannot 425 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,520 be deceived whatsoever. A man saw it, the scripture said 426 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:15,600 that is what he will read. Can we move on now? 427 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:20,080 Having satisfied that condition of salvation of your soul, you 428 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,960 now need commitment to sanctification. 429 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:36,600 Salvation is positional. Sanctification is transitional. 430 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,440 I don't say transactional, I said transitional. 431 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,680 So what's your hand? Once the ticket of salvation is 432 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:52,080 handed over to you, how do you keep it? 433 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,840 As you are making progress, you must embrace sanctification 434 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,400 because you are not safe to stand in the same position. 435 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,320 You are safe after which you start to make spiritual 436 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,480 progress, but to stay on the track. 437 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:18,200 It is sanctification that will keep you on the track as you 438 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,720 journey home. So you need commitment to 439 00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:24,280 sanctification by expressing your willingness to always 440 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,760 cooperate with the Holy Spirit who will do the work. 441 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,800 You know, we said it's not by try harder that you overcome the 442 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,360 flesh. It's not by try harder that you 443 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,880 overcome carnality. The way you overcome carnality 444 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,560 is by relying on the Holy Spirit. 445 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,760 So this, the beginning of your sanctification, is your 446 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,480 willingness to cooperate with the Holy Spirit to work in you 447 00:37:50,800 --> 00:38:01,050 to and work on you. You see, as salvation, you did 448 00:38:01,050 --> 00:38:04,170 not contribute more than believing in your heart and 449 00:38:04,170 --> 00:38:06,410 confessing with your mouth to be saved. 450 00:38:06,490 --> 00:38:09,130 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be 451 00:38:09,130 --> 00:38:11,570 saved. That settles it. 452 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,600 So in your heart you believe unto righteousness, with your 453 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,840 mouth to confess unto salvation. That's Roman 1010 paraphrase. 454 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,480 But it doesn't end there. You are on a journey. 455 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,760 You will make it. You are a Pickering. 456 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,480 You will not fall by the wayside in the name of Jesus. 457 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,440 Now for this, let me bring another analogy that will help 458 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:40,880 you to appreciate the concept better. 459 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,720 You see our salvation. What happened to you can be 460 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:52,640 likened to starting a car that has been well serviced. 461 00:38:55,240 --> 00:39:00,880 No, when a car has been well serviced, the battery is good, 462 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:06,120 there is fuel inside. Everything about the car is is 463 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,480 number 1. You know that you did not 464 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:13,120 manufacture the car, somebody has put the fuel inside it then 465 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:17,240 be an automatic car as soon as you start it, it is ready to 466 00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:25,120 move once you engage the gear. But you know that if you start a 467 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:31,360 car and it's the engine is running and you don't engage the 468 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,720 gear, will it move? Answer me. 469 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:41,680 So salvation is like you are, you have started a car that is 470 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:48,600 sound, that can move but it will not move if you don't engage the 471 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:54,400 gear. So being an automatic car, as 472 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,360 soon as you start it is ready to move once you engage the car 473 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,680 that made the gear. Now after you engage the gear, 474 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:08,360 it will move, will it not? But not in an accelerated mood. 475 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:16,320 Once we engage the gear, if it's an arithmetic wire, it will move 476 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:22,240 on its own accord, but the movement will not be in an 477 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:28,360 accelerated mood except you press Is it the turtle or what 478 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,920 do you call it now? So you will need to press the 479 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,720 turtle for the movement to be accelerated. 480 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:40,600 So starting the car is is salvation, pressing the tortue 481 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:52,630 is sanctification. Not only that, the movement of 482 00:40:52,630 --> 00:41:00,110 the car must be tailored is the reason every car has with 483 00:41:00,110 --> 00:41:06,390 steering. You start the car, you engage 484 00:41:06,870 --> 00:41:08,430 the gear. OK. 485 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:14,560 It will move on its own accord in the direction it is facing. 486 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,600 Are you with me? And if it's reverse, you put it 487 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:25,360 still in that direction, it will it will be moving when you press 488 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,400 the torto. Pressing the torto does not 489 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:33,000 change the direction, but it may not be heading in the right 490 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,880 direction. It may be heading towards danger 491 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:43,280 is the reason there is what this the this channel. 492 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,200 So the whist channel is the reason the car is not just going 493 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:53,800 in any direction but in the specific or directed direction. 494 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:59,200 So in the same manner, without the Holy Spirit, a born again 495 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,680 child of God will misbehave. So you can be born again and you 496 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:08,640 see misbehave if you don't allow the Holy Spirit to pilot the 497 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:19,140 affairs of your life. That brings us to Romans 814. 498 00:42:19,980 --> 00:42:26,940 As many as are laid by the Spirit of God, they are the sons 499 00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:36,020 of God. So your salvation, therefore, is 500 00:42:36,060 --> 00:42:39,260 preserved or sustained by sanctification. 501 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,880 Your salvation is preserved by sanctification and 502 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:54,240 sanctification, like I said, is submitted to the Holy Spirit to 503 00:42:54,240 --> 00:43:03,040 help you live the Kingdom life. So where you sustain in 504 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:12,120 sanctification? You, it will help you to easily 505 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:19,320 cooperate with the Holy Spirit. Hello, a sanctified mind, OK? 506 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,480 It's the only kind of mind that can cooperate with the Holy 507 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:30,080 Spirit. So sustained sanctification is 508 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:34,240 not achievable outside obedience to the Word of God and the 509 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:38,360 assistance of the Holy Spirit. So it was to say your 510 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,520 sanctification. Then there must be obedience to 511 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:47,320 the Word of God. And then you must also rely on 512 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,600 the assistance of the Holy Spirit. 513 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:55,000 So to work in the Spirit, you must accept salvation. 514 00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,080 That is a free offer. You must receive the Holy 515 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:05,000 Spirit. But let me make it clear, a very 516 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,240 strong clarification here. If you understand what we are 517 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:14,000 teaching, you will know that you don't receive the Holy Spirit 518 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,280 just to speak in tongue, and it ends there. 519 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:32,880 Speaking in tongue is only the commonest evidence of the 520 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:37,160 baptism of the Holy Spirit. It is not the only evidence. 521 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,440 In fact, it's not the most reliable evidence. 522 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:49,120 Are you with me? It is what the commonest. 523 00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,880 Even when you study Acts of the Apostle where we have records of 524 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,840 baptism of the Holy Spirit, it's only in few places that the 525 00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,520 Bible say they receive the Holy Spirit are not mentioned at the 526 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:01,720 speaking. They speak in tongue. 527 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,360 So it is the commonest evidence, but it's not the only evidence. 528 00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,440 In fact, personally, I don't take it as the most reliable. 529 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:17,160 The most reliable evidence is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. 530 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:24,440 So if instantaneous when we minister the Holy Spirit to you, 531 00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:29,600 OK, and you speak in tongues, we will be glad that you have 532 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:37,760 exercised the situational or the immediate evidence as a 533 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,440 disciple. We will now begin to watch out. 534 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,560 Are you listening to me? Is this still real or fake? 535 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,600 So what we prove to us is this real is where you begin to 536 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,080 manifest the fruit of the Spirit. 537 00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:55,400 But if it is just the speaking in tongue, OK, you can still use 538 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,840 that same tongue to cause conveniently. 539 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,840 You can still use that same tongue to lie conveniently. 540 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,120 That's not checking your spirit. I refuse to accept your speaking 541 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:13,120 in tongue as a correct one. So let's stop. 542 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:19,280 Let's stop deceiving ourselves. The commonest evidence, 543 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:26,400 instantaneous evidence. It gladdens our hearts OK, But 544 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:34,480 we will watch what follows the way you the day you plant a seed 545 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:38,240 is not that same day, OK? You will have first the fruits. 546 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:48,680 So the most level evidence is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. 547 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,080 But let me still make this second clarification. 548 00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:57,440 Speaking in tongue is a necessity for spiritual warfare. 549 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:04,280 I told you that in our being OK, we are constantly in spiritual 550 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:08,000 warfare. The flesh is warning against the 551 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,720 Spirit. The Spirit is warning against 552 00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:14,040 the flesh, one of the spiritual instrument. 553 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,840 You used to fight the battles by speaking in tongues. 554 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,560 Because sometimes you just have been prompted to speak in 555 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,520 tongues and you start to speak in tongues and before you know 556 00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,760 what is happening, you have escaped a danger. 557 00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,000 Sometimes as a prompting you to speak in tongues. 558 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,280 And as you are speaking in tongue, before you know what's 559 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,040 happening, few days after, you'll be exposed to a 560 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:42,800 temptation you will not know that you have, you will not know 561 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,720 why you escape because you do not prepare for it. 562 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,720 But the tongue you spoke last week, the tongue you spoke in 563 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:51,920 the morning when you were praying, as prepare you to pray 564 00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,320 against the unseen. Are you with me? 565 00:48:02,690 --> 00:48:08,090 So it's a necessity because we are constantly in spiritual 566 00:48:08,290 --> 00:48:14,610 warfare and most of the warfare we are, they are unknown to us. 567 00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,600 So it's a necessity for spiritual warfare. 568 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,080 Every believer is in constant warfare. 569 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,720 But don't let our baptism of the Holy Spirit, our engagement of 570 00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:32,760 the Holy Spirit, start ahead with only speaking in tongue. 571 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:37,520 Let that Holy Spirit we have received walk on us, walk in US, 572 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:42,280 and make us a change person bearing the fruits of the 573 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:50,120 Spirit. So to walk in the Spirit as we 574 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:54,760 draw the curtain on this topic this morning, you must commit to 575 00:48:54,760 --> 00:49:02,640 progressive sanctification, Commit towards progressive 576 00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:15,240 sanctification, commit to aggressive prayer, including 577 00:49:15,240 --> 00:49:26,400 praying in tanks. Three, get addicted to reading 578 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:36,280 the Word of God and obeying it. So in a timely scale or not 579 00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:43,400 sure, working in the Spirit require your cooperation and you 580 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,120 must equally take deliberate steps. 581 00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:53,680 Walk in the Spirit is an instruction is not a promise. 582 00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:00,400 What in the Spirit is a precept is not a prophecy. 583 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:06,560 What in the Spirit are you will not fulfill the desires of the 584 00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:10,440 flesh. So it's a demand on you to be 585 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:16,760 deliberate, to be intentional about your relationship with 586 00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:21,040 your Maker. Philidor chapter 2 2 verses 587 00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:31,400 again to seal or sum it up. Philippines chapter 2 verse 12 588 00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:36,120 and 13. Wherefore my beloved, as you 589 00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:42,320 have always obey, I pray that I will be able to say this about 590 00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:46,040 you. I pray that the only people we 591 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:50,920 able to say this about me that as I have always obeyed. 592 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:56,760 What is your testimony? If you ask your pastor, OK, can 593 00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:04,160 you say you have always obeyed when they pick on your parents? 594 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:13,040 OK, to ask about you, to give an attestation about you, Will I be 595 00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,240 able to say as you have always obeyed? 596 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:24,640 One of the parameter by which walking in the street is mayor 597 00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:30,320 is through the parameter of obedience, Obedience to the word 598 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:34,000 of God, obedience to authority, obedience to instruction. 599 00:51:39,370 --> 00:51:43,210 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my 600 00:51:43,210 --> 00:51:50,200 presence only you know this is a level beyond Mora. 601 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:55,720 Mora that only care about public image, whereas the private life 602 00:51:55,720 --> 00:51:58,000 is. Rodney, I cited examples to you 603 00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:03,440 of how Mora can be so weak in making the man to tame the 604 00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:07,760 flesh. Mora we make him to not drink in 605 00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,480 the public but will be drinking in his bedroom. 606 00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:16,080 Mora we make him not to multiply wife, but if we keep multiple 607 00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:21,040 side things in every city you always go to for vacation. 608 00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,280 But keep it away from public knowledge. 609 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:34,440 Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. 610 00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:42,000 Work out your own salvation so you have a path. 611 00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,080 So what's going to say here? Work. 612 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,440 Actual salvation. It doesn't mean you will get 613 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:52,160 salvation by work. But like I said, at that point, 614 00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,760 when you get the salvation, you are moving on. 615 00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,040 You must be committed to sanctification. 616 00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,800 So that work OK is sanctification. 617 00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:17,360 With fear I watch, trembling. What they say, what they say I 618 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:29,430 know movement once the password about born in about Boko, for it 619 00:53:29,430 --> 00:53:41,190 is God which worketh in you both to win and to do of his good 620 00:53:41,510 --> 00:53:44,430 player. So I have not preached religion, 621 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:50,560 I have no preservation by work, but I have prayed to you how you 622 00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:55,480 can cooperate with the Holy Spirit to bring out the best 623 00:53:56,040 --> 00:54:01,320 that God wants you to be, to bring you to that level whereby 624 00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,240 you are you can become like Christ. 625 00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:09,800 To bring you to that level whereby obeying the Word of God 626 00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:14,000 will no longer be a struggle, whereby you will not just be 627 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,720 suppressing the same nature, but by the Holy Spirit you will 628 00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:21,760 subdue the flesh and walk in the Spirit. 629 00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:27,280 God bless you and grant you great grace to walk in the 630 00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:31,960 Spirit in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. 631 00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:36,160 We believe you'll be blessed by the ministry of this message. 632 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:39,680 You will do well to be the doer of all you've heard. 633 00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:43,920 For further inquiry and spiritual help, contact this 634 00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:53,280 number is 08035685882 or worship with us at Oasis of Wisdom Bible 635 00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:58,240 Church, adjacent University of Ellorin Teaching Hospital, O KLC 636 00:54:58,240 --> 00:54:59,640 Ellorin, God bless you.