1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:05,880 Who is this? A Wisdom Bible church? 2 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:08,440 The Church of a distant Christian narration. 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:14,360 We're turning a probing lens of study to the very important 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:19,320 subject of friendship, and we are taking lessons from 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:24,080 different models of friendship that were found in the 6 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:26,040 scripture. I want you to know and 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,880 understand very fundamentally that life generally, 8 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:37,040 fundamentally is not a journey to embark upon as a Lone Ranger. 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:45,280 Life is not a journey to embark upon as a Lone Ranger. 10 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,360 God force created Adam by himself. 11 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:54,600 He discovered that he must put somebody beside him, praise the 12 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,720 name of the Lord. So from inception it was clear 13 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:06,600 that life is not a journey to be embarked upon as a Lone Ranger. 14 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:13,080 Not one man, as I always see, can do anything of significance 15 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,280 alone. That is not that man. 16 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:20,360 No matter how super talented he may be, no matter how super 17 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:28,920 anointed a man can be, there is not that man that can by himself 18 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:36,280 in law, do anything of significance without requiring 19 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:43,240 the inputs of others. Let's take a bearing from 20 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:50,480 Ecclesiastes, the Book of the Preacher, chapter 4, and then 21 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:56,520 look at about 5:00 of four verses from that scripture. 22 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:04,240 Then I return and I saw vanity under the sun. 23 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:12,000 In other words, then I readdressed my mind to reality 24 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:19,280 before. Now the King Solomon has been 25 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:28,040 addressing his mind to vanity, so the things he taught had 26 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:34,880 substance and had future. He eventually discover that they 27 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:39,360 are nothing. I pray that you will not waste 28 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:44,280 your life, your effort, your energy, your resources and the 29 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:51,440 pursuit of vanity in the name of Jesus, he said. 30 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:58,160 Then I return, which means I readdress myself to reality as 31 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:05,560 against the pursuit of vanity. And every young persons OK 32 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:10,760 always go through that temptation to first start out in 33 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,320 life and spending energy on vanity. 34 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:22,320 In the Yoruba palace, it is said that I call you warmer day Akara 35 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,880 Lovinge. In other words, when a young man 36 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:32,480 starts in life and fortune smile on him with financial resources, 37 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,160 he end up buying things that are not necessary. 38 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,040 He end up buying things that don't have a place in this 39 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:45,440 future. Hello, I pray in the name of 40 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:50,120 Jesus, the temptation to waste your destiny, the temptation to 41 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,320 waste your resources, the temptation to waste your 42 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:57,160 capacity, you will not fall for it in the name of Jesus. 43 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:05,480 So he said, I return, I think I suppose here I'll call somebody 44 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,760 who is already heading in the in the direction of vanity to 45 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:15,360 return. Don't go too far before it is 46 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:21,480 too late to return. Don't do damage to your destiny 47 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,720 to the point that when you return you cannot recover. 48 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,960 It's the Holy Spirit talking to somebody this morning. 49 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:39,000 So the right out of this words of wisdom said, then I return 50 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:44,680 and I saw vanity on that the storm before that time, these 51 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,120 things he was calling vanity, he regarded them as beauty. 52 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:54,200 Hello. There are many vanity today that 53 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,560 young people are thinking have beauty and there's no beauty at 54 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:06,560 all in them. Then I return and I saw vanity 55 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,160 under the sun. And what was the vanity he was 56 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,920 referring to here? The vanity that he thought 57 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,960 because he had energy, he had potential, he had opportunity, 58 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,880 he can go all out and succeed, not requiring the wisdom of 59 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:29,480 elder or the help of colleagues. You know a man can be so 60 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,640 endowed, a man can be so favour, that you can look down on 61 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:38,320 anybody, because for now thing you are calling things and they 62 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:44,320 are answering for you. Then I return, and I saw vanity 63 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:49,640 under the sun. There is one alone, and there is 64 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:54,000 not a second. Yeah, he had neither child nor 65 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,400 brother, yet is there no end of all his labour, Neither is his 66 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:07,520 eyes satisfied with riches. You know, a young lady can start 67 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,040 out so well in life, in the path of career pursuits. 68 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,160 OK. And she'll be doing very well. 69 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,280 And then you start to speak to her that now at your head, OK, 70 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:19,320 you need to settle down and get married. 71 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,240 And we'll be telling you I don't need a man in my life. 72 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,400 I mean, she'll be telling you I don't need a man in my life. 73 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,160 It is not because there's any biblical conviction for that, 74 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:39,200 OK, all because if I got married, OK, what will a man do 75 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,520 in my life? Give me money? 76 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,040 I have it. Am I talking to somebody? 77 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:51,840 Said walking. Never satisfied with with 78 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:59,560 riches, but no child, no brother, no second, no, no, no. 79 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:06,640 Colleague later said, if for whom do I label and believe my 80 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,520 soul of good? This also is vanity. 81 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:19,080 Yeah, is a sore traffic then verse 9 Now say 2 are better 82 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:24,920 than one. One can never be better than 83 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:30,040 two. Two are better than one, for if 84 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:39,080 one chase 1002, we chase 10,000 because they have a good reward 85 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,880 for their labour. Yes, you are a resourceful 86 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:48,520 person, but that is still value that another person can add to 87 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:53,000 your resourcefulness if you learn to choose to keep the 88 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,600 right company, not the company of vanity. 89 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:08,040 For if before the one we lift up is fellow now is now addressing 90 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,360 the value, the benefits you derive from friendship. 91 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,400 Friendship is not just about you, Ma. 92 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,800 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 5555 is beyond that. 93 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,760 For if they fall, the one we lift off is fellow. 94 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:35,880 But woe to him that is alone when he fallen, for he has not 95 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:43,080 an order to help him. Or you see, the topography of 96 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:50,320 life is never a perfect play. The topography of life, the 97 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,640 topography of destiny is on to living. 98 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,840 So the possibility that you may stumble is there. 99 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:06,920 So when you stumble and fall and you cannot help yourself up, 100 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:12,080 there must be somebody in your life who will see you as his 101 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,720 responsibility. And that person may not 102 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:20,800 necessarily be your blood brother, your blood sister. 103 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:32,080 Am I talking to somebody? Again, if to lie together then 104 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,560 they have it. But how can one be warm alone? 105 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:42,600 That is not that one man that can do anything of significance 106 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:47,160 alone. You need a confident to do 107 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,720 something of significance in life. 108 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:59,000 You need what a confidence and if one prevail against him too 109 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,200 shall withstand him. And the reality of life is that 110 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:08,200 you cannot be a friend to everybody for no reason. 111 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,360 There will be people that are against you. 112 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,680 So why will you not lend the wisdom of friendship so that in 113 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:20,840 those days when some are against you, you have some that are with 114 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:25,320 you. AM I talking to somebody? 115 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,520 But some people are living their life like the spirit of Cain is 116 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,520 on them. Their hand is against everybody 117 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,120 and therefore everybody is against them. 118 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,400 We are not say people will not be against you, but it is wrong 119 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,200 that everybody will be against you. 120 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,600 And the man that we have a friend, the scripture say he 121 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:50,360 must show himself friendly. So there's a way you conduct 122 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:56,800 yourself that we make people that will drop people towards 123 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,520 you. Don't conduct yourself in a way 124 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:05,320 that repairs people. Make yourself a magnet of good 125 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,120 people. Am I talking to somebody? 126 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:15,240 And if one prevail against him? So it's a reality of life that 127 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,560 this man returned to, to address that essentially in life. 128 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,760 You can't escape it. In fact, our Lord Jesus Christ 129 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,040 himself said it. He said woe unto you if all men 130 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,960 speak well of you. Hello. 131 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:40,440 So in those days when men will choose to blackmail you, are you 132 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,360 with me? There must be people who will 133 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,600 speak about your integrity, who will fight for your integrity 134 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:52,760 and defend your cause. And if one prevail against him, 135 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,400 two shall withstand him. And a threefold cord is not 136 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,840 quickly broken. What is that threefold cord? 137 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:11,240 You, your friend, and God. Hello, you, your friend, and who 138 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:16,840 and God. So that's why I often see, which 139 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:23,720 I have also said repeatedly again today, that nobody, not 140 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:28,440 one man, can do anything of significance alone. 141 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:34,720 And if you find anybody attempting to succeed without 142 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:40,720 the input of others, that man, that woman is either ignorant or 143 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:48,600 arrogant, or the person is a victim of the two ignorant and 144 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:53,920 ignorance and arrogance combine. So when you find a man 145 00:12:54,320 --> 00:13:00,960 attempting to succeed alone without the input of orders, 146 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:06,760 that man is either ignorant or arrogant. 147 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:14,000 Because in life you will require different kinds of company to 148 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,480 make the journey playerable and productive. 149 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,040 So to make the journey of destiny playerable and 150 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,080 productive, you will require different kinds of company. 151 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,720 In the church setting you have like mind prayer partners. 152 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,480 Am I talking to somebody? You will have like mind study 153 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:42,720 partner in church setting if you are a student. 154 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:49,400 You will have like mind study partner that you do tutorial 155 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:55,480 together if you are a career person. 156 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:00,480 You have like mind professional colleagues that you are climbing 157 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:06,520 the ladder of progress together. You are challenging each other. 158 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:12,400 Am I talking to somebody not working against yourself? 159 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:19,080 So in life you will require different kinds of company to 160 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:25,360 make the journey of destiny pleasurable and productive. 161 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:32,680 Do you know that even when you engage in hard work and you are 162 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:37,360 sweating, if you have a friend with you chatting with you, it 163 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,320 may look like I see if you are not working hard, but if you are 164 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,800 the only one that is there, you will you will get weary quickly. 165 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:53,440 Praise the name of the Lord. It is popularly said that 166 00:14:53,640 --> 00:15:01,080 problems shared is half soft. You have a body and as somebody 167 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:06,240 you can share the body with, the body is spread, you become 168 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,760 lighter. The problem has not gone away, 169 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:13,560 but for the fact that you are not the only man in need, you 170 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,120 are relieved to a degree. Am I talking to somebody? 171 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:27,880 So take it and walk by it. Make it your life principle that 172 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:32,280 as you journey in destiny, you will require different kinds of 173 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:38,480 company to make the journey of destiny not only playable but 174 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:43,440 also productive. And of course, somebody may see 175 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:52,160 I am lucky and alone. I have been very productive. 176 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:58,400 The truth is that if you think you are achieving much alone, 177 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:03,120 you can achieve much more in the company of a faithful friend. 178 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:10,480 Hello. Because 2 are better than one is 179 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:15,040 a natural law, is a divine law. Am I talking to somebody? 180 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:20,640 So if you think you are doing well in law, you will do better 181 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,120 in the company of a faithful friend. 182 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:36,960 So, and of course, in life, what you label for alone cannot be 183 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:47,900 enjoyed alone. What you label for alone cannot 184 00:16:47,900 --> 00:16:52,900 be what enjoy alone. So there's a special joy in 185 00:16:52,980 --> 00:16:57,300 sharing that eating alone cannot offer you. 186 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:03,780 So even when you think you don't need another man, another man 187 00:17:03,780 --> 00:17:11,440 needs you. When you think you don't need 188 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,680 another person, another person does what needs you. 189 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:22,160 And there is a special joy in sharing with others that eating 190 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,160 alone cannot offer you. The scriptures say woe to that 191 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:33,360 man that is alone. So for destiny fulfillment, a 192 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:40,640 good and godly company is highly and inevitably desirable. 193 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:49,080 For destiny fulfillment, a good and godly company is 194 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:54,840 fundamentally, inevitably desirable. 195 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:02,680 But when you want to choose your company, when you want to choose 196 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,480 your friend, there are two things you must watch out for 197 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:12,400 very essentially #1 is compatibility. 198 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:21,440 Number 2 is productivity. So the kind of friends you 199 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,200 choose, you must be compatible with that friend. 200 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:32,320 Then the result of your compatibility must be 201 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:37,280 productivity. So one of the way you assess 202 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:43,000 whether my friend and I are compatible is what are you 203 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,480 producing? What's your productivity rates? 204 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,240 What's the efficiency rate alone? 205 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,960 And now that you have come together as it reduce you or 206 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,120 multiply you, am I talking to somebody? 207 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:03,480 So you must be able to track it that since brother also came 208 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:09,960 into my life, how efficient have I become spiritually as it 209 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,600 enhance my prayer life or reduce my prayer life? 210 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,840 Are you with me? If you are a student, what, what 211 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,800 was your performance before you and that friend came together? 212 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,920 Now that you and that friend have now I've come together, 213 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,440 what is now your performance academically? 214 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,080 Am I talking to somebody? So we are not talking about 215 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,400 friendship for friendship sake. You will not keep the company 216 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,120 that will be a mind loss to your destiny. 217 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,920 I expect a louder Amen. Do I have young man in the 218 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,080 house? I say you will not keep a 219 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:55,760 company that will be a mind loss to your destiny in the name of 220 00:19:56,360 --> 00:20:01,000 Jesus. So a good and good company, I 221 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:06,120 said is decidable inevitably for destiny fulfillment. 222 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,480 And I said to achieve that you must watch out for compatibility 223 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:16,120 and productivity in the kind of company that you keep. 224 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,840 So fancy is not the primary purpose of friendship. 225 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:27,760 Hello, Somashi. It's not the primary purpose of 226 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:34,080 friendship. Social attractions are not the 227 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:43,920 only purpose for friendship, fellowship, companionship. 228 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:49,440 These are the irreplaceable purpose of friendship. 229 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:58,920 Fellowship. Fellowship means heart shake, 230 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,760 not just handshake. Hello. 231 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:10,920 A friendship that has developed and is profitable beyond 232 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,800 handshake and as transmitted to heart shake. 233 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,240 OK, it's what is called fellowship. 234 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:28,160 Am I talking to somebody? So in such kind of friendship 235 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,520 you are climbing the ladder of success together. 236 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:38,680 You are not just clubbing together to merely on wine. 237 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,800 Hello. You know the reasons of people 238 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,360 who are friends is when they have war, OK, Then in the 239 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:54,240 evening time they go to the club to a wine and that is all to the 240 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,960 kind of friends they keep. They cannot have financial 241 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,800 issues and those friends will be there. 242 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,600 They cannot have emotional issues and those friends will be 243 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,600 there. Praise the name of the Lord. 244 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,560 The friends that keep them in the club away from the church 245 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,280 where they not have problem, those friends will not be there. 246 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,120 It is then they now turn to the church. 247 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,680 Yet it is that club that has been found them from being 248 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:25,040 church. I bet Ponty Monsoni, you don't 249 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,120 find them in church, you don't find on Sunday, you don't find 250 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:31,920 them in church in Bible study, you don't make any contribution 251 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,800 to church. In fact they don't pay their 252 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,760 tithe in church. They don't give offering in 253 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,040 church. But they can buy drinks for 254 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:43,560 friends and club. But when real issues of life 255 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,840 challenge them, OK, they will look around and those friends 256 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:54,840 are not there. So when we talk about 257 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,920 friendship, we are not talking about fancy. 258 00:22:57,120 --> 00:23:02,040 We are talking about fellowship. We are talking about 259 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:07,400 companionship that has gone beyond handshake to at hook. 260 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,600 Your heart is knitted together at knits. 261 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:20,720 So when I say in that level of friendship you are climbing the 262 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:25,440 ladder of saucer together, you are not just clubbing together 263 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:31,600 to merely on wine, take this and listen on it. 264 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:44,920 The wise club to climb, you know to club means to unite to come 265 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,840 together. So if you are a wise person, you 266 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:54,160 club to do what to climb, but the foolish club to waste time 267 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:59,040 around the cup of wine and skirts of women of easy batches. 268 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,480 So when you see them together, what are they discussing? 269 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:11,990 They are disgusting girlfriend. This is the foolish that does 270 00:24:11,990 --> 00:24:18,760 that, who club to waste time around the Corp of wine and the 271 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:24,320 skirts of women of easy virtue. But the wise when the club the 272 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:28,600 club to climb, Tell your friend, let us club to climb. 273 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:34,480 Tell your neighbor, let us club to climb, because that is the 274 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:40,800 way of the wise. So essentially friendship must 275 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,240 lead to multiplication of capacity. 276 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:54,760 So your capacity must be multiplied in the areas where 277 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,720 you are doing well. You start to do to do better if 278 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,400 you have a good friend who is encouraging you on. 279 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,840 So friendship must enhance productivity. 280 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:15,880 Descriptor that we read is very clear about that 2 are better 281 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:21,400 than one. So we all need friend. 282 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:27,120 But take notes, not everybody can be a profitable friend. 283 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:35,440 Hello, there's a friend in the class of Jonathan and there's a 284 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:40,480 friend in the class of Jonathan. We're going to explore all of 285 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,360 explore all of that and consequent teaching. 286 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:50,400 But I pray for you, you will choose a Jonathan as friend and 287 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:56,880 not a Jonadab. Jonadab Rob Amnon is positioned 288 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,280 in Destiny as heir apparent to the throne of David. 289 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:07,680 Hello, but Jonathan came into the life of David and help David 290 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:13,240 to attain the truth. Climbing together, clubbing to 291 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:19,280 climb together. But for Jonadab and I'm known. 292 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:29,640 Hello Jonadab encourage. I'm known OK to go after the 293 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:38,320 skates of Tamar And in the process Abnorm was robbed of his 294 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,880 place in destiny as the heir apparent to the throne of David. 295 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,320 I pray for you again in the name of Jesus. 296 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,960 When you are choosing your friend, you will be rightly 297 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:55,440 guided to choose a Jonathan and not a Jonathan in the name of 298 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,080 Jesus. So whereas we all need friends, 299 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:06,040 but not everybody can be your friend, not everybody can be a 300 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:10,040 profitable friend. So what are you to look for in a 301 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:15,840 potential frame? I will highlight for you a 302 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:22,040 number of factors to look for in a profitable frame. 303 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,680 OK? But let me just pick one for 304 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,960 today, discuss it, and then we'll continue from there next 305 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,560 week. So what to look for in a 306 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,280 potential frame? Number one thing is substance, 307 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,280 Substance. Substance does not necessarily 308 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:50,240 means material resources, neither does it mean aquatic 309 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,640 press. The name of the laws, are we 310 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,040 together? So when I say substance, I must 311 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:04,480 define the matter. Substance in our contents means 312 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,960 possessing the capacity for sources. 313 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:14,200 So the man, the woman you will choose as a friend, most fitting 314 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:20,000 into the description of a man or a woman of substance. 315 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:31,360 It is a man of substance that will eventually become a man of 316 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:36,280 success. Am I talking to somebody? 317 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,360 If you are not a man or woman of substance, it become hard for 318 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:49,120 you to become a man of success. So being a man or woman of 319 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,240 success is about being a value added personality. 320 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,840 If VAP. Evap. 321 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,960 Being a man or woman of substance is about being 322 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,840 resourceful. We're talking about 323 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,040 resourcefulness. We are talking about possessing 324 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:15,240 a sense of responsibility with positive attitude to life. 325 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,320 That's what it means to be a man or woman of substance. 326 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:28,680 And I'll give you the example of David and Jonathan, how the two 327 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:33,280 of them were people of substance in their own right. 328 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:39,800 So both David and Jonathan were men of substance in their 329 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,360 respective rights. One was coming from a pizza 330 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,320 background, the other was coming from royalty. 331 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:53,640 Yet the one coming from a pizza background was a man of 332 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,800 substance. The one coming from royalty was 333 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:02,840 not a spoilt brats. A lot of you hook yourself to 334 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,600 children of the affluence who are spot brats. 335 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,520 And the reason apple gets spoiled is with one is spoiled 336 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:18,880 and the other ones are linked to it and then the jam start to 337 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,160 spread. The bacteria of damage start to 338 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,240 spray. Am I talking to somebody you 339 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,520 will not hook yourself to, somebody who is carrying a 340 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:35,280 bacteria of destiny, destiny damage in the name of Jesus? 341 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,480 Some people will have will have done very well in life except 342 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:47,360 for the wrong friend. They choose so. 343 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:52,120 But for David and Jonathan, they were men of substance in their 344 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,080 respective right. The one that was of royalty was 345 00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:00,720 not a sport brat. The one that was coming from a 346 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:06,760 Pisa background also had the positive attitude to life with 347 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,080 potential to also become somebody in life. 348 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,760 So their friendship was ID. Even though they were from 349 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:24,400 different social backgrounds, one was already there the order 350 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,320 that was not yet there also possess what can get him there. 351 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:36,000 Hello do you have what can get you there because there's a 352 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:41,200 place called there you will get there. 353 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,360 I have pray for somebody who will get there in the name of 354 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,080 Jesus. So we are David was to 355 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:55,560 eventually get to in lie. Jonathan was already a Prince 356 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,560 there. Are you with me? 357 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,440 So I said one was already there, the other one who is not yet 358 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,160 there also possessed the potential to be there. 359 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,800 So you are not wise and I want you to take this one also very 360 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,240 seriously. You are not wise if you are 361 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,880 thinking and behaving like those who are not going to where you 362 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:28,400 are going. You have a destination in mind. 363 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,440 You have a purpose that you are pursuing in destiny. 364 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:40,080 Then from now start to behave like somebody that has a purpose 365 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:49,520 in life, to be that wise child, be that wise brother, be that 366 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:55,640 wise sister, be that wise man, be that wise woman who is 367 00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:01,720 thinking and behaving like the place you are going, because you 368 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,640 are not wise. If you are thinking, you are 369 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,920 behaving, you are dressing, you are talking, you are grooming, 370 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:15,040 you are clubbing like those who are not going to where you are 371 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,320 going. So where you are going to 372 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,000 determine the kind of company you will keep. 373 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:31,360 So David, I said was coming from a piece of background, but he 374 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:36,120 had that potential that surpasses his low level 375 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:42,680 background to the decree that even though he was in the 376 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,360 wilderness with the animals, when they needed a man in the 377 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:52,360 palace, he fitted into the palace, well fitted for it. 378 00:33:52,360 --> 00:34:00,160 Am I talking to somebody? Abuelo, are you with me? 379 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:14,520 What a specific open in New York and is CV OK matches what was 380 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:20,520 needed in New York. That's what it means to be a man 381 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,000 of substance. That's what it means to be a man 382 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,400 that understand destiny and you have purpose and you know that 383 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,960 you are going somewhere great and you don't allow your present 384 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:37,360 circumstance to rob you of demonstrating your substance. 385 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:51,280 Am I talking to somebody? Even as a shepherd boy he was 386 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:56,360 kingly. As a shepherd boy, he was what? 387 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:01,360 He was kingly. Are you kingly in your conducts? 388 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,240 Are you kingly in your appearance? 389 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,440 Police are doing stop and search. 390 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:16,280 Are you with me? And they can easily club you 391 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:29,200 without? Please return like the wise man 392 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,840 said from the scripture we read, he said and I return and I 393 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,040 discovered that what I call beauty is vanity. 394 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,280 I readdress myself to reality as against possibly vanity. 395 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,320 Stop following the category of people that are calling evil 396 00:35:51,320 --> 00:36:00,450 good. Listen and listen good. 397 00:36:01,490 --> 00:36:09,570 Royalty is not land on the true. Royalty is not land on the true. 398 00:36:09,930 --> 00:36:15,770 It is brought to the true by those who understand how Ali 399 00:36:15,890 --> 00:36:17,490 that that is where they are going. 400 00:36:17,650 --> 00:36:20,690 That is where they belong. You don't learn reality on the 401 00:36:20,690 --> 00:36:26,080 true, you bring royalty to the truth if you will discover early 402 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,440 in life that the throne is yours. 403 00:36:35,890 --> 00:36:43,370 So Jonathan in his own case was of royalty, but it was well 404 00:36:43,370 --> 00:36:50,450 cultured to recognize that before royalty become heritage, 405 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,920 it has first existed as a sense of responsibility waiting for 406 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,560 opportunity. I wanted to understand that 407 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,680 before royalty will become your heritage, you should understand 408 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:09,520 that royalty force exists as a sense of responsibility in you. 409 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,560 It is that sense of responsibility in you. 410 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:21,080 OK, that we now see opportunity and seize opportunity, then 411 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:26,440 you'll become the king. So what we enthrone you is your 412 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,800 sense of responsibility. Hello. 413 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,000 It's not just opportunity. It's not just luck. 414 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:41,440 What we enthrone you in destiny is your sense of responsibility. 415 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,440 How responsible are you in your thinking? 416 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:48,040 How prepare are you to take up responsibility? 417 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:56,800 So royalty is not about inherited prosperity. 418 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,200 That was what real world did not understand. 419 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:11,240 The son of Solomon. You thought once I inherit it, I 420 00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:13,920 have it. You don't have it until you know 421 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:18,920 how to keep it. Hello. 422 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,600 Whatever you are giving is not your own. 423 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,280 Or to learn how to keep it. Or to learn how to manage it. 424 00:38:30,710 --> 00:38:34,870 Have you forgotten that Yoruba poem on TI Obasi cell phone? 425 00:38:35,670 --> 00:38:38,470 Keep Hello. Well, a palara. 426 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:50,920 Am I talking to somebody? So royalty is not about inerted 427 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,960 prosperity, rather it's about product. 428 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,480 I mean another is a product of capacity that is well applied. 429 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:03,360 Royalty is a product of your capacity that is well applied, 430 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:08,720 that is properly applied. When I say royalty, I mean 431 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:15,280 greatness. When I say royalty, I mean 432 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:21,240 fulfillment. And I'm saying it's about 433 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:28,200 applying your capacity. It's about preparing yourself 434 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,840 with a responsibility for the opportunity that can come at any 435 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:39,520 time. Hallelujah. 436 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:49,440 So Jonathan made friendship with David on the basis of present 437 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,680 reality. I mean, not on the basis of 438 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:59,480 present reality. You know, the present reality of 439 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,680 David does not look like it. I might OK to somebody. 440 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,400 I'm trying to expansion for you how both of them in their 441 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:21,870 respective life were men of substance and that Jonathan who 442 00:40:21,870 --> 00:40:27,190 was of royalty was well cultural and all to make responsible 443 00:40:27,190 --> 00:40:32,470 judgment. Why keep friendship with the 444 00:40:32,510 --> 00:40:36,790 children of affluence and the only thing you are gaining from 445 00:40:36,790 --> 00:40:42,680 them is that they are introducing you to drug because 446 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:48,000 some people as know they are so class conscious. 447 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:57,280 Why become friend to your pastor's son if your pastor's 448 00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,520 sons will be recruiting girlfriend for you in the 449 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:03,880 church? I do occasionally just to move 450 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:11,720 below my job. I said yeah, these are serious 451 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:22,130 issues. So the friendship of befit to 452 00:41:22,250 --> 00:41:30,930 Jonathan was not the friendship of a man sourcing as a go digger 453 00:41:32,330 --> 00:41:37,770 just want to be a friend to people of very high class for 454 00:41:37,770 --> 00:41:41,600 the mere benefit of what is there. 455 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:49,680 Am I talking to somebody? Why become a friend to the child 456 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:54,080 of an affluent? And at the end of the day, he 457 00:41:54,280 --> 00:42:03,320 introduced you to drug dealing and when eventually you are 458 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,200 arrested, he has a way to escape it. 459 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,520 And then they will now use you as the scapegoat. 460 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:19,400 Same old Soros in, you know, Polo, Shambo, Aboye. 461 00:42:25,990 --> 00:42:30,390 So Jonathan made friendship with David on the basis of present, I 462 00:42:30,390 --> 00:42:34,510 mean not on the basis of present reality, but on the basis of 463 00:42:34,830 --> 00:42:39,270 presented or demonstrated capacity and future possibility. 464 00:42:40,870 --> 00:42:45,440 You know, David had demonstrated capacity as a warrior. 465 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:50,320 He brought down Goliath, he killed lion, he killed the bear. 466 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:56,160 But his present reality, the capacity was demonstrating, was 467 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,960 not yet been rewarded. Am I talking to somebody? 468 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:03,880 But it was so clear that prosperity in uni capacity of 469 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:12,280 Yafu. But you think the only kind of 470 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,480 friend you need is the friend I can give you money? 471 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,200 That is, you should look for more than money in a friend. 472 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:30,160 I might talk it to somebody. What money can you pay that we 473 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,040 reward the amount of value I have to you every Sunday? 474 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:51,400 So he made this judgment of choosing David as a friend on 475 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:58,160 the basis of the capacity David has demonstrated and the future 476 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,240 possibility. I'm going to read the Scripture 477 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:04,400 to you as we progress in the teaching. 478 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:12,480 When his father Saul wanted David eliminated, OK, and 479 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:18,760 Jonathan stood with David, he said for I know this role is of 480 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:24,520 you from the Lord. So present reality of capacity, 481 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,320 future possibility of the fact that he will become the king. 482 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,960 So these are things you look for. 483 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,120 The man you are going with, where is he going? 484 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,000 Why are you keeping a mind in your life that's not going 485 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,000 anywhere? Why are you keeping a woman in 486 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,800 your life that's not going anywhere? 487 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,880 And don't forget, even bad relationship is about 488 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,360 friendship. Are you with me? 489 00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:00,520 Why hook yourself to a man that's not going anywhere? 490 00:45:05,910 --> 00:45:11,400 Why hook yourself to a lady? OK, That is a sticker that has 491 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:16,320 lost its adhesive. You know, a sticker that has 492 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:21,120 lost its adhesive. A sticker always have adhesive 493 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:26,920 at the back come. OK, But if we have placed it on 494 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,560 brother, don't remove it from brother, don't place it on 495 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,000 Brother Luke. Remove Brother Luke. 496 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:32,560 Place it on brother. Do that. 497 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:37,240 Do that. Place it on Brother Zachariah. 498 00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:41,600 Remove from brother Zachariah as we are talking about now is 499 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,320 already is on broad. I don't know, I hear you have 500 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:45,120 broad. I don't. 501 00:45:53,130 --> 00:45:57,050 So choose your friends, including your life partner on 502 00:45:57,050 --> 00:46:03,730 the basis of presented capacity and future possibility. 503 00:46:03,850 --> 00:46:09,530 You have no business dealing or clubbing with an NFA, no future 504 00:46:09,530 --> 00:46:16,200 ambition, not even a short future ambition, maybe somebody 505 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:22,240 with a mega future ambition are not just people who parade 506 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:26,280 wishes but people who are matching OK their vision with 507 00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:30,240 action. They are not there but the kind 508 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:33,280 of thing they are doing is showing that they are serious 509 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:43,560 about getting there. So Jonathan knew so well that a 510 00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:48,080 man of capacity that does not attend the top is only paying 511 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:54,360 the bill to be there. So whatever you are doing today, 512 00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,120 you are paying the bill to be there. 513 00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,400 When you read your book very well, as a student, you are 514 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:00,960 paying the bill for your greatness. 515 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,640 When you'll be there to your parents, you are paying the bill 516 00:47:05,720 --> 00:47:09,720 for your greatness. Am I talking to somebody? 517 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,840 When you join that cooperative society, you are paying the bill 518 00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:19,280 for your greatness. When you pray, are you? 519 00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:22,040 Are you fast? You are paying the bill for your 520 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,520 greatness. When you give yourself to the 521 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,120 reading of the word of God and meditation on it, you are paying 522 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:36,920 the bill for your greatness. When you get good books and you 523 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,800 study them, bless the name of the Lord you, you listen to 524 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:45,360 testimonials that come boost your courage to go for 525 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,440 greatness. You are paying the bill as 526 00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,120 yourself. Are you paying the bill for your 527 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,560 greatness. So when you want to choose a 528 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:57,240 friend, choose a friend that is so clear that This is why he's 529 00:47:57,240 --> 00:48:06,400 paid the bill for his greatness. Future possibility for summer 530 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:13,720 1755 to 58 and well saw saw David go forth against the 531 00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:17,280 Philistine demonstrated capacity. 532 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:22,400 Every other man we're running away from Goliath. 533 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:29,120 But David went and he came out and stood before Goliath, and 534 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:34,720 fought Goliath, and saw, saw it, he said unto Abner, the captain 535 00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:39,080 of the Oz. Abner who saw is this youth. 536 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,000 What bill are you paying presently that will reveal you, 537 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:51,840 that will give you recognition, that will make people want to 538 00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,240 invite you to embrace opportunity? 539 00:48:56,240 --> 00:49:01,600 And Abner, say, as thy soul lived, O King, I cannot tell. 540 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,320 So his background was not looking like it, but his 541 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,880 attitude was everything that it is. 542 00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:21,520 Hello Atma said I cannot even after he has fought Goliath. 543 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,440 Hello. They still they were still 544 00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:32,200 looking for microscope to discover where he came from in 545 00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:38,280 Fort Goliath in chapter 17 I'm reading for you Chapter 18 I 546 00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:45,840 shall not tell and the king said inquire down who some this try 547 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:54,520 please what's on you or don't like that you bury. 548 00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,160 They were still looking down on him. 549 00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,760 He was looking off to where he was going when men are looking 550 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,880 down on you OK stop bothering yourself. 551 00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,920 Start looking off to where you are going. 552 00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,320 And as they will return from the slaughter of the Philistine, 553 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,400 Abner took him and brought him the first soul with the head of 554 00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:27,180 the Philistine in his hand. Bishop, we always say only fools 555 00:50:27,260 --> 00:50:32,380 doubt proof. So is that yes, Tripely. 556 00:50:32,940 --> 00:50:40,880 OK, but as a Tripely here is the head of Goliath your the head of 557 00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:46,560 Goliath that you need is your CV, the accumulated successes 558 00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,160 you are recording even in your low estate, even when nobody's 559 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:55,960 looking at you, when nobody sees you start to kill your Goliath. 560 00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:02,120 Am I talking to somebody? I told you years back when God 561 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,560 sent us to this axis of the city, he said go to that 562 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,920 wilderness, kill your bear, kill your lion. 563 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,400 After all, you are going to be invited to the city to come and 564 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:14,960 kill your Kolaya. And today, for the glory of 565 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:19,000 God's name, we can say we have the head of Kolaya to present as 566 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:26,120 evidence for higher heights. Am I talking to somebody or the 567 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:34,200 Kolaya Abukazai to go see for PT party when it's all over? 568 00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,680 And brought him before. So with the head of the 569 00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,200 Philistine in his hand. The man who brought him was the 570 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,280 man that said I cannot tell, I don't know him. 571 00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:58,520 Hello. And Saul said to him, Whose son 572 00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,920 are thou, thou young man? And David answer, I am the son 573 00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,320 of the servant Jesse the Bethlehem. 574 00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,880 I you will become that person that will introduce your family. 575 00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,920 On the account of you, your family name will be recognized. 576 00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,120 On the account of you, your family name will be respected. 577 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:21,760 On the account of you, your family name will be honored in 578 00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:29,040 the name of Jesus. Then chapter 18 from verse one 579 00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:32,760 to five. And it came to pass, when he had 580 00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:41,440 made an hand of speaking unto soul hello now he now spoke unto 581 00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:49,760 soul one-on-one, that the soul of Jonathan was neat with the 582 00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:55,880 soul of David, And Jonathan loved him as his own soul 583 00:52:56,480 --> 00:53:02,080 demonstrated capacity, and then he seized opportunity. 584 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:07,200 Then he got a great friend and soul took him that day. 585 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,600 I will let him go. No more home to this Father's 586 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:13,560 house. You are not going back to that 587 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,960 low level. You are not going back to that 588 00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:21,960 level of disgrace. Your capacity will recommend you 589 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:25,280 for greatness in the name of Jesus. 590 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:31,640 So his capacity recommended him for a Palacio place in the 591 00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:39,000 palace. Then Jonathan and David made a 592 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,480 covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 593 00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:47,280 And Jonathan sweeps himself of the rope that was upon him. 594 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:59,460 Remember he came into that place with the rope of a shepherd and 595 00:53:59,460 --> 00:54:04,840 gave it to David and his government, even to his word and 596 00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:10,360 to his bow, and to his ghetto. Remember, after he killed 597 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:15,480 Goliath, are you with me? He, He was supposed to be giving 598 00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,360 the sword of Goliath. He was not supposed to come to 599 00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:22,960 that palace without his sword. But the sword of Goliath was 600 00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,800 taken from him and kept somewhere. 601 00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:30,760 As you study or you discover that that that sword was not 602 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:35,120 with him, he was endangered. One day he ran to a priest. 603 00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,600 It was at that place. The priest now said, well, we 604 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:40,800 don't have any reporter we can give you except this word of 605 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,440 Goliath. They took it away from him, but 606 00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:51,280 a friend gave him his own sword. You see, a man of capacity 607 00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:55,320 cannot be completely denied, cannot be what? 608 00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:59,560 Because somebody we love you because of who you are and 609 00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,160 because of what you can contribute. 610 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:08,160 So Jonathan striping and himself of the rope that was upon him 611 00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,240 and gave it to David and his garment, even to his ward and to 612 00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:17,040 his bow and to his get to so he didn't beg for the friendship of 613 00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:21,000 Jonathan. Are you with me? 614 00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:30,720 He paid the bill for royalty, so whatever Jonathan was doing for 615 00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:36,160 to him was not a favor, was a reward was what a reward was 616 00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:43,760 what a favor. And David went out wheresoever 617 00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:53,600 saw something, then he behave himself wisely, meaning that 618 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:59,480 truly he was a man of substance could misbehave. 619 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:05,120 Could they are think Oh my, Oh my doorberry, am I talking to 620 00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:12,160 somebody? That's why I said royalty is not 621 00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:15,200 land on the truth. It is brought to the truth. 622 00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,280 A shepherd boy. He got to the truth and he 623 00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:25,680 behave himself properly. He behave himself kindly and so 624 00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:32,320 sent him, and Saul set him over the man of war from one level of 625 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,000 promotion to another level of promotion. 626 00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:40,280 And he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in 627 00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:45,920 the sight of Saul Sabbath. If he had a rebellious mind to 628 00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:50,640 stake a coup against Saul, he would have removed Saul before 629 00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,920 Saul started to run after him. Am I talking to somebody? 630 00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:59,320 Receive grace to be a man of capacity. 631 00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:05,840 Receive grace to be a man that grow in gifts. 632 00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:10,440 For the gift of a man we bring him before great men, not before 633 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,360 men. Receive that grace to choose 634 00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:16,280 your friends wisely in the name of Jesus. 635 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:22,120 Receive the mind of diligent to start to pay the B for your 636 00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:29,320 greatness and prayer and saving in obedience in study the word 637 00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:35,000 of God in the name of Jesus. Everything that is is required 638 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:39,280 to be great in life will be convenient for you to do from 639 00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:46,720 now on in the name of Jesus. In Jesus name I pray Hallelujah. 640 00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:51,000 Don't be left in the dark. Get proper understanding of life 641 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,120 through the word of God. My people perish for lack of 642 00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,000 knowledge. The Word of God is an 643 00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,160 illumination which gives direction. 644 00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:02,560 Remain place as Reverend was far and illuminates your mind with 645 00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,880 the Word of God with all simplicity and clarity.