1 00:00:08,730 --> 00:00:12,370 Don't be left in the dark. Get proper understanding of life 2 00:00:12,410 --> 00:00:15,530 through the Word of God. My people perish for lack of 3 00:00:15,530 --> 00:00:17,410 knowledge. The Word of God is an 4 00:00:17,490 --> 00:00:19,570 illumination which gives direction. 5 00:00:19,730 --> 00:00:23,530 Remain placed as Reverend goes far and illuminates your mind 6 00:00:23,730 --> 00:00:27,250 with the Word of God with all simplicity and clarity. 7 00:00:27,450 --> 00:00:32,759 The topic we are considering is still working in the spirit. 8 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:39,120 Working in the spirit. It's Part 3, but the specific 9 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:45,040 focus last week has been the facts and the fallacies. 10 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:53,600 The facts and the fallacies we're trying to establish from 11 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,000 description. What's working in the spirit 12 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:07,360 truly name the correct biblical concepts of working in the 13 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:16,480 spirit as against mere sensationalism or vain religion 14 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:24,000 praise the name of the Lord. This is essential because one of 15 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,640 the things the devil specializes are is to create confusion. 16 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:40,360 So a specialist at selling fallacies as facts and we are 17 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,320 living in the age that I consider as the age of 18 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:52,080 meaninglessness whereby virtually everything that is 19 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:57,960 good for destiny prosecution. Again, I have been twisted. 20 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:08,320 So I consider the devil as a specialist in twisted narrative. 21 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:14,840 The scripture called him not just a liar but the father of 22 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,160 lies. Just as we have people by virtue 23 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,040 of how they have examined 1 discipline or the other and 24 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:27,080 contemporary they would regarded them as father of one discipline 25 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,520 or the other. Those of you who are studying 26 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,880 best thing you know which regarded as the father of 27 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,040 blessing, praise the name of the Lord. 28 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,560 Ditto for all that fields of discipline. 29 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:44,160 So in the same way, the best of the contribution that the devil 30 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,480 has contributed to creation, apart from being a thief, a 31 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:52,120 killer and a destroyer, is that he is the father of lies. 32 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,600 And so, so that you don't buy his life and run with it and 33 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,600 again get yourself ruined is the reason. 34 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,480 As we talked about walking in the Spirit, we are coming from 35 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:11,960 the plain facts of what is the correct teaching of the 36 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,680 Scripture, the correct position of the Scripture on walking in 37 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,160 the Spirit. So for today we are running on 38 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,840 the second level of the facts and the fallacies. 39 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,960 So the Bible introduced the devil to us for the very first 40 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:30,440 time of interaction with man as a narrative twister. 41 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,360 Genesis chapter 1. Nothing like the devil Genesis 42 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,840 chapter 2. Nothing like the devil in 43 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,360 Genesis chapter 3. You open that particular chapter 44 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:51,280 of the Scripture, and what introduces him to him was that 45 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,680 he came in as a narrative twister. 46 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:03,360 He moderated and exaggerated a clear, simple structure that was 47 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,600 given to Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruits. 48 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:14,000 Are you playing with me now That instruction not to eat the 49 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,079 forbidden fruit that was given to Adam and Eve in the Garden of 50 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:26,640 Eden was a simple instruction that does not require deep 51 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,200 knowledge of psychology, not even the deep knowledge of 52 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,400 theology. It was a simple structure to 53 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,600 obey. But the devil turned into a 54 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:44,440 theological debate eventually. From geological debate, it moved 55 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:50,400 to pushing Eve to a level of psychological reasoning about 56 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:56,160 what required simple obedience. You see, the Gospel is simple, 57 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,480 but the devil can make it look so complex that you think you 58 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:07,680 can fit in the instructions of God, the commandment of God. 59 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,400 OK, very simple. But one of the reasons the 60 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:19,080 devil, you know, keep people away from obeying God is that he 61 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:22,200 paints the destruction of God as something complex. 62 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,120 And so that which is really complex and we make your life 63 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,520 complicated is what the devil called layo and playo. 64 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,520 And so you go for it. Then you create damages to for 65 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:42,800 yourself that you cannot handle. The parents will ask the child 66 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:48,320 don't go out late in the night but the devil will come and say 67 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:53,320 the room is too boring and the child will sneak out to a White 68 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,880 Party and why they are there, they are breaking ball too and 69 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,080 then disturb him. He hand up in the hospital for 70 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,640 his surgery. Some cannot survive it and they 71 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,760 die in the process. Are we together? 72 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,280 Why? Because the devil came in and 73 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:14,840 told him simply stay in the comfort of your home at night, 74 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,120 OK? Either sleeping or or reading 75 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,920 your book or preparing your mind for the next day. 76 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:29,240 The devil said that is boring. So what requires simple 77 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,520 obedience? The devil turned into a 78 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,240 psychological risk name and the child felt where Let me snake 79 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:37,200 out. You snake out. 80 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,640 He put himself into a mess that he cannot handle. 81 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,880 So the devil moderated that simple instruction, not to one 82 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:54,680 particular tree, very clear instruction that requires simple 83 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,240 obedience. He moderated it, he exaggerated 84 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:06,440 it into something else. It's therefore for you to walk 85 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,440 in the spirit, you must be a sheep at heart. 86 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:18,320 You must be a sheep at heart. And what does that collude? 87 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,360 It could not that whenever you are restrained, you must not 88 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:27,240 resist. Whenever you are restrained, you 89 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,480 must not what? Resist. 90 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,920 Whenever you are instructed, you must obey. 91 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,520 Whenever you are warned, OK, you must take it. 92 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:45,120 Genesis 3. Let's read that story, the 1st 6 93 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:53,680 verses of Genesis chapter 3. Now the serpent was more subtier 94 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,720 than any piece of the feed with the Lord God at me. 95 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,360 And he said unto the woman, Yeah. 96 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:08,680 And God said, look at his approach, he was up to 97 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,520 something, but if he was not suspected. 98 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:20,400 And God said Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden. 99 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:23,880 It's already revising what God said. 100 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:29,240 It's already suggesting something that is departing from 101 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,640 the way God constructed it. Are we together? 102 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:40,159 So any listening or teaching, OK, that suggests to you that 103 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,840 obedience to God is something complex, is of the devil. 104 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:51,360 And God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden. 105 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,240 And the woman said, Of Saturday, We may eat of the fruit of the 106 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:00,040 trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in 107 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:07,120 the midst of the garden. God, I say, ye shall not eat of 108 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,800 these, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 109 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:20,560 And the serpent said of the Do man, ye shall not surely die for 110 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:24,800 God, not know that in the day you eat the arrow, then your 111 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:29,800 eyes shall be open, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and 112 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,760 evil. It turned it into a complex 113 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:37,280 theological debate. Ye shall be as God, good and 114 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,200 evil. And when the woman saw that the 115 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,360 three was good for food, now at that point it has moved from 116 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,960 geological debate to psychological whistling. 117 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,120 And when was saw that the tree was moved for food, 118 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,080 psychological whistling, and that it was pleasant to the eye 119 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,600 and the tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the 120 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:03,960 fruit the arrow, and did he, and gave also onto her husband with 121 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:09,200 her, and he did he. So here the devil by his cunning 122 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,960 device turn what was meant to be an obedience test to a 123 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:20,040 theological debate. Don't it from this particular 124 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,640 tree was an obedience test but the devil turn into a 125 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:29,360 theological debate and by psychological risk name he was 126 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:34,200 able to twist the narrative and make both the husband and the 127 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,320 wife to disobey God. I pray for you that anytime the 128 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:45,200 devil is probably your mind, you will design, I say you will 129 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,800 design in the name of Jesus. You will not buy the lives of 130 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:56,680 the devil in the name of Jesus. Now today, virtually everything 131 00:10:56,680 --> 00:11:05,440 listed in Galicia, chapter 5, verse 19 to 21 as seen and as in 132 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,120 dresses to walking in the spirit. 133 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:13,200 Those things listed as the works of the flesh have been reduced 134 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,880 to psychological topics and turn into theological debate. 135 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,000 That's where we find ourselves today. 136 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:27,880 OK, well we find ourselves today what did what the Scripture 137 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,120 called fornication. There's a way the world has to 138 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,000 study today and make it something that you can do and 139 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:41,160 escape. Am I talking to somebody now? 140 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:42,960 The words of the flesh are manifest. 141 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,160 Which are these? Adultery, fornication, 142 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:52,800 uncleanness, like viciousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, 143 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:59,600 various emulation, rot, strife, sedition, erases, envy, murder, 144 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:05,080 drunkenness. OK over that you'll now see 145 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:11,200 precious to free time being wasted debating OK whether 146 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:14,800 Christians to drink alcohol or not drink alcohol when the push 147 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,600 of the scripture is very very, very very clear. 148 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:22,560 Praise the name of the Lord. So when the devil begin to turn 149 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:27,880 issues that require simple obedience to theological debate 150 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,960 or so make you subject a structure of God to 151 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,440 psychological reasoning, you should know that he's about to 152 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,280 carry out his mission of stealing, killing, and 153 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,880 destroying. So if you want to to steal from 154 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,000 you, to kill you or destroy you, the first thing he does is to 155 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,440 sell a lie to you and want to buy that lie. 156 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:52,680 You have finished yourself. May you live your life with a 157 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:59,720 sense of accurate discernment in the name of Jesus rebellion and 158 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,720 sought like of the which I tell you before as I've also told you 159 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:08,440 in the time past that day. We do sort things are not 160 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:14,200 inherit the Kingdom of God when they say something will not make 161 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:18,840 you inherit the Kingdom of God. If you were wise OK, even if it 162 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,600 is not that thing, but any they have a semblance of that thing. 163 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:29,000 You do what you run from it. Oh kiss s s Subodh do I say oh 164 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:34,320 take to your heels. Am I talking to somebody? 165 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:40,160 Yes, it can be high. It can be debated that is not a 166 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:45,280 say, but since it looks like KC OK, the best thing you do is 167 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:49,080 avoid it because you are not losing by avoiding it. 168 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:56,600 Am I talking to somebody now beside the devil? 169 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:08,240 Who is a narrative twister who can always misinterpret issues? 170 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,560 Who can misinterpret scriptures to us? 171 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:20,360 Our flesh, our religious presumption can equally lead to 172 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:26,840 misconception of issues and that is why in working with the Lord 173 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,760 we are doing our best to separate the wheat from the 174 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,720 South, separate between facts and fallacies. 175 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:42,440 So today we are going to focus on what working in the Spirit is 176 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,960 not. So when we say walking in the 177 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,920 Spirit, what it is not will be the focus for today and I'm 178 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:57,480 going to discuss seven items under that number one, I would 179 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:05,080 said number one, walking in the spirit is not being boxed into 180 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:09,560 the bottom of vision and revelation before you can live 181 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:23,410 your normal life. Welcome again understand the 182 00:15:23,410 --> 00:15:29,050 foundation I have lead that the devil can miss interpret issues 183 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,960 and therefore can call for you working in the spirit world. 184 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,520 Working in the spirit is not in the same way. 185 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:45,120 Your flesh and your religious presumption can also put in your 186 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:50,320 hand or make you embrace what is not working in the spirit. 187 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,040 And then you embrace it and you think you are working in the 188 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,360 spirit, whereas you are either working in the flesh or working 189 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,640 in error or even working in fully space. 190 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:07,120 So therefore some people think bin, boxed into the bottom of 191 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,280 vision and revelation before they can live their normal life, 192 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:16,640 is working in the spirit. And so the only people must tell 193 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:23,480 him to eat a malano, eat rice. He must dream OK to decide 194 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:30,000 whether he should come out with red color and black I'm black 195 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:36,560 berets or to come out in blue native when I when it gets to 196 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:42,360 church is to sit beside an Ebony tiny lady or see fire the wheel 197 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,560 somewhere is I'm not talking about Daniel and blessing. 198 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:50,800 Praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord. 199 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,400 So some people think walking the Spirit means the only spirit 200 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:02,360 must spell out everything line by line. 201 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,680 So when we're talking about walking in the spirit, we are 202 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:11,200 not talking about being boxed into the bottom of vision and 203 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,839 revelations before you can live your normal life. 204 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,839 So we are not talking about turning in one location of 205 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:25,800 dualist be dictating the color of the cloth is where because 206 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,920 they wanted you to escape assassination into a tradition 207 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:35,720 or in the submissive culture or curriculum for young believers. 208 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,920 Maybe you want one location as a disciple, as a pastor, as a 209 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:46,040 destiny coach. OK, I wanted to step out and 210 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:51,960 don't you, minister to me go and change from your white dress to 211 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:57,000 a yellow dress. And I did it, OK. 212 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:02,240 And in the process, OK, somebody who has marked me for 213 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:06,360 assassination could not carry out his evil intention because 214 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:10,320 those who instructed him told him, I'll be coming out in white 215 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,960 dress. Are you with me? 216 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:18,680 I should not because that apple, OK, now turn it into a 217 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:23,440 disciplesive culture or a curriculum that I will be 218 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:29,680 teaching or a fundamental doctrine, OK, that I will say if 219 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,040 you cannot hear body by the kind of clothes you will wear to go 220 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:39,800 out, you are not spiritual. AM I talking to somebody? 221 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:47,600 So walking in the Spirit may involve the Holy Spirit guiding 222 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:52,720 you and giving you the tineless detail, but it must not be 223 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:58,640 turned to a tradition. It must not become a doctrine. 224 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:06,280 It must not become a discipleship curriculum whereby 225 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,800 you now exaggerate your spiritual importance and then 226 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:15,560 you are pushing and forcing young believers OK to also 227 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,480 operate in that experience. And if they cannot operate in 228 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,320 that experience, they see themselves as being less a 229 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:27,760 Christian. So walking in the Spirit, it's 230 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:33,640 not been boxed into the bottom of vision and revelation before 231 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:40,000 you can live your normal life. Somebody said, and I like it so 232 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:46,960 much that God gave us brain so that we can give him rest Hello. 233 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,440 He gave us brain so that we can do what we can give him rest. 234 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:55,840 And don't forget that when man was created, OK, part of the 235 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,120 instruction and the clear mandate is that you should take 236 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:01,680 charge. We should have dominion. 237 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:06,080 So over what? God has given you authority, OK? 238 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:10,480 Don't return such assignments, such mandate back to God or to 239 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:17,560 the Holy Spirit. Can we move on to the next one? 240 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:24,160 And that is very clear now #2 which? 241 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,400 It's just explaining the number one. 242 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:33,160 Walking in the Spirit is not suspending your intellects. 243 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:40,080 Walking in the Spirit is not suspending your intellects. 244 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:46,480 It is not disobeying your instincts, waiting for audible 245 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,880 voice of the Holy Spirit before you can act with discretion. 246 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,280 So you don't say because I've taught you to work in the Spirit 247 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,360 and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh, therefore 248 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,400 you end up suspecting your intellect. 249 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,840 You don't say because you want to work in the Spirit, you not 250 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:22,240 disobey your instincts. You don't over every matter. 251 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,200 Wait for audible voice of the oldest before you can act with 252 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:31,040 discretion. I put it jokingly this way. 253 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,560 Don't play Elaine Jonna then Ghana Water. 254 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,960 Have you had that said before? OK. 255 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:44,760 Where the house is burning Every everything, everything that has 256 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,320 life in itself. We're all that's the first 257 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:54,440 reaction is that not before we begin to think about what else 258 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:59,400 to to do but as far as the world is concerned, the world we don't 259 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,440 be standing there and everything we burn on it. 260 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,840 Is that not so That's why it's always said in some beautiful 261 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,680 palace that even do the Ghana war. 262 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,360 So don't live your life like that because you are working in 263 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:17,840 the spring. So working this week entails 264 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,480 embracing the Kingdom lifestyle of cry simplicity. 265 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:32,040 That's what it entails. The true fact, the truth, the 266 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:38,680 divination, the correct notion about walking in the spirit. 267 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:45,960 It means you embrace the Kingdom lifestyle of cry simplicity. 268 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,880 And what does that collude? Obedience. 269 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:54,280 Compliance with the teachings of Christ that you have had. 270 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,080 Compliance with the teaching of Christ that you have learned. 271 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,520 Compliance with the teachings of Christ that you have studied. 272 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,480 That is what's working in the Spirit means. 273 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:12,600 Can we move on to the next one? The second is clean off OK #3 274 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:22,800 walking in the Spirit is not an extra spiritual requirement for 275 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:30,360 a special class of believers. It is not an extra spiritual 276 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:33,920 requirement for a special class of believers. 277 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,160 It is the basic normal Christian life. 278 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:44,960 It is the standard Christian life, walking in the Spirit, OK. 279 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:50,320 It's not a preservative of the bishops, of the apostles, of the 280 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:56,680 evangelist, of the clergy. It is a standard, normal life 281 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,280 for every Christian to walk in the Spirit. 282 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:08,960 So it is not an extra spiritual requirement that, OK, my own 283 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,480 kind of Christianity, I won't take it to that level. 284 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,480 If you are not at that level, you are not a Christian. 285 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,000 Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the desires of the 286 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,120 flesh. So don't see walking in the 287 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:29,520 Spirit as an extra spiritual requirement meant for a special 288 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,200 class of people. And that's what I keep on 289 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,920 admiring it again and again. That closer walk with Jesus is 290 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:41,000 not a disadvantage. Deeper commitment to your faith 291 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,800 is not a disadvantage. Are we together? 292 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:51,720 Can we move to the next one? Can we move to the next one? 293 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:59,560 Number four? Walking in the spirit is not 294 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:06,120 achieved by disconnecting from realities to embrace all 295 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:13,560 realistic fantasies. It is not achieved by 296 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:23,120 disconnecting from reality. You you have walked non-stop for 297 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:29,960 weeks and then your body start to give you signals that stress 298 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,040 are setting and you may breakdown. 299 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,400 OK you don't say because you are walking the spirit will be 300 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,680 denied that reality and be forcing yourself to keep walking 301 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,280 and walking and walking or to break down without remedy and 302 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:50,600 blame it on demons. Are we together? 303 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:03,960 So when you can fix it that this way my body is feeling require 304 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,200 that I should visit my doctor. OK. 305 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:14,000 Don't spiritualize it in the name of the fact that you want 306 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000 to present yourself as somebody spiritual and therefore you want 307 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000 to come and boast in it with us during the testimony session 308 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,240 that in the last 10 years you have not visited a doctor 309 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,200 working in the spirit. We are separating the facts from 310 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:40,840 the fallacies so it is not achieved by disconnecting from 311 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,160 realities. To embrace all the realistic 312 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:49,840 spiritual fantasy such as even cutting off from friends and 313 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,360 relations in a manner that suggests earlier than thou 314 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:59,080 attitude. Another all the artistic 315 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:04,120 spiritual fantasy is to think that by walking in the spirit 316 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:09,400 then you cut off OK from friends you should have with your 317 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:23,400 spirituality. Or you disobey you, you, you 318 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,800 disown your parents, I said. Why? 319 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:34,160 Because my, my, my father is not born again and therefore I don't 320 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:43,740 visit home again. So those are all the artistic 321 00:27:43,740 --> 00:27:47,140 fantasy. It doesn't make you a better 322 00:27:47,140 --> 00:27:49,340 Christian. Can we move on? 323 00:27:50,620 --> 00:27:51,580 Number what? Now? 324 00:27:54,400 --> 00:28:00,960 Walking in the spirit is not denying the social reality of 325 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,800 your personality. That you are walking the speed 326 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:11,280 does not mean you deny the social reality of your 327 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:16,800 personality. If you are an estrophile OK, 328 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:21,640 Walking the speed does not take extrovertism away from you. 329 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,800 Are you with me? But you come by the Spirit of 330 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:34,160 God term the SSC that is always associated with extroverts. 331 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,120 Be an extroverts is not a sin. What you do with that nature OK 332 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,400 is what we determine whether you will see or not. 333 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:49,960 Am I talking to somebody? An extroverts is outspoken and 334 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,320 outspokenness is needed to defend the faith. 335 00:28:55,200 --> 00:29:00,960 Am I talking to somebody so it is not denying the social 336 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,040 reality of your personality. An extra fact we still talk, but 337 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:11,480 now with measured a define word are no longer extravagant forgot 338 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:17,440 words because now he knows that by working in the Spirit. 339 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,400 OK. The scripture has told him that 340 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,600 it will give account of every idol words so instead of 341 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,600 speaking, I do words. Now it will trust God for the 342 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,880 Holy Spirit to lead him and guide him to speak words that 343 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:37,360 edify what season we saw words that give grace to the ERS. 344 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:44,240 Am I talking to somebody so it is not denied the social reality 345 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:49,360 of your personality. Rather, by walking in the 346 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:56,240 Spirit, you now conduct yourself in a manner that aligns with the 347 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:06,200 simplicity of Christ number six, which appear like at the 348 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:11,200 extension of #5. It is not suppressing your 349 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,160 emotion such as laughter and grief. 350 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,920 Because you see some people, because now that they are born 351 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,520 again, they are baptized in the Holy Spirit, OK, And they are 352 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,200 seeking sanctification to walk in the Spirit. 353 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,560 Every time you see them, they walk with long fish and they 354 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:39,520 take long fish in spirituality. Hello. 355 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:46,120 Rather than rather than shake people's hand with, with, with, 356 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,600 with convenient. How are you? 357 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:57,440 God bless you. OK, so sanctimonious in the way 358 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:03,440 that is too good for comfort, too unfriendly to bear. 359 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:09,960 Am I talking to somebody? So walking in the spirit is not 360 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,480 suppressing your emotion such as laughter. 361 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,480 Even if it's a smile, Putin, because smile itself is a 362 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,960 message to the soul. Am I talking to somebody? 363 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,240 And your smile can be so contagious that it can also 364 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,760 revive somebody that is going undergoing depression. 365 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,400 So you can minister to people by your laughter if it's a 366 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:44,880 responsible 1:00 AM I talking to somebody so it is not 367 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,920 suppressing your emotions such as laughter, even grief. 368 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:56,280 Now I am I'm I'm a pastor. Therefore a pastor must not be 369 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:02,160 seen somebody sober or having a feel of concern when something 370 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,600 unpleasant happen. So you must pretend and go on 371 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:12,200 like that like that. We have it clearly in the God of 372 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,520 the Saint John Chapter 11 verse 35 that Jesus went. 373 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,080 So who is he? OK, that we can describe as 374 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,920 somebody who has worked better in spirit than Jesus and walking 375 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,280 the Spirit does did not prevent Jesus from weeping when he 376 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,080 needed to weep. Jesus weep when it was necessary 377 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,840 to identify with a grieving family friend. 378 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:47,200 But remember, the Bible say Jesus wept, not that Jesus 379 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,840 willed. Jesus did what he wept. 380 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:59,920 He didn't wait. That's where they do it in my 381 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:10,100 place. When somebody died, he was still 382 00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:14,220 in perfect control of his emotion, and he needed what to 383 00:33:14,220 --> 00:33:17,820 do to fix the problem. Am I talking to somebody? 384 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,880 So working the Spirit is not suppressing your emotions such 385 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:29,760 as laughter and grief. And I started to you the example 386 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,960 of our Lord Jesus Christ that worked when it was necessary to 387 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,800 do so. He did that with a grieving 388 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,000 family friend. I will go with that. 389 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,200 Then let's move to .7. I got any rounding up for today. 390 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:55,240 Walking in the spirit is not putting up a various attitude of 391 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,680 external piety devoid of inner purity. 392 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:07,600 The sewage, my house sewage or residence sewage. 393 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:15,080 Peace gave way recently and we have been suspected that there 394 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,920 is a problem with this sewage pits, but we didn't know the 395 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:24,239 extent. But when it was open I now 396 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:30,080 understood. When Jesus called, the Pharisees 397 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:38,440 decorated sepulchre on the surface. 398 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:43,520 The concrete and the floor of the sewage pit was looking 399 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,000 perfect. In fact, when eventually it was 400 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,840 open, it was open and we saw the kind of damage that has happened 401 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,120 on Daiv. We're just thanking God that he 402 00:34:55,120 --> 00:35:03,440 saved us. The old, the old wall that held 403 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:08,720 up the sewage pit had collapsed on that, but the concrete on top 404 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:14,360 of it and the floor around it OK was still looking very strong. 405 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,880 And that is the spiritual life of some people. 406 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,720 We see them and all the externalities of religion that 407 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:26,120 they carry on their head is presented them as somebody that 408 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:32,920 is spiritual where they are dirty, whereas in their inner 409 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,040 man is wickedness. That was what Jesus was 410 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:42,840 emphasizing when he was saying it is not the the outside of the 411 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,600 Corp that should be our point of interest when it comes to 412 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,600 sanctification, but the inside of the Corp. 413 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:57,160 So many of us like to put up the the sanctimonious attitude of a 414 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:01,800 brother, whereas we are not anything in the family of God, 415 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,800 we are not anything near the family of God, and yet we put up 416 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:13,600 the externality of a brother, a sister in the Lord inside us. 417 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,720 OK, we are already inside hell and we are appearing on the 418 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,640 outside as somebody closer to heaven. 419 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,760 So walking in the Spirit is not putting up a fariastic attitude 420 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,600 of external piety devoid of inner purity. 421 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:37,160 Walking the Spirit is not acting religion, rather it is 422 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,080 manifesting the finished war of Christ. 423 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:46,240 Matthew 23, the 1st 7 verses, then Jesus. 424 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,600 Then speak Jesus to the multitude and to his disciples. 425 00:36:52,400 --> 00:37:05,120 Say, describe, and the Pharisees seated or seat in Moses seat all 426 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:10,880 therefore whatsoever they did, you observe that observe and do, 427 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:16,200 but do not hear after their war. For they say, and do not. 428 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,200 For they bind everybody's and grievous to be born, and lay 429 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:26,560 them on men's soldiers, but they themselves will not move them 430 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:31,520 with one of their fingers. But all their was they do. 431 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:38,040 For to be seen of men they make brought their lassetries, and 432 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,320 allow the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost 433 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,760 room at fees, and the chief seat in the synagogue, and greetings 434 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:51,160 in the market, and to be called of men Rabbi, rabbi. 435 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:58,440 But yes, they are the ones that they will find a dying person 436 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:02,480 beaten and battered by armed robbers and they will not do 437 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,000 anything or lift or lift a finger to help. 438 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:10,560 Am I talking to somebody? So walking in the spirit is not 439 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:15,000 putting up the farisa, the fariasic attitude of earlier 440 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:19,120 than thou, whereby your character did not match your 441 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,960 profession. Remember I told you that this 442 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:29,120 faith and walking in the Spirit is a progression from mere 443 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:34,160 convention to the pursuit of eternity and service to 444 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:40,480 humanity. So we draw the curtain again 445 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:45,120 today to continue next week on practical step to work in the 446 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,920 Spirit. I will say essentially that 447 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:54,320 working in the Spirit is the manifestation of Christ. 448 00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:04,920 Let's let see your good work and glorify your Father who is in 449 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,680 evil. Shine your light so that men 450 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,520 will see your good work and glorify your Father who is in 451 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,520 evil. It is not the exhibition of self 452 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,280 as the most righteous. So it is not about competing to 453 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:26,520 show yourself as the most pious or the most righteous that 454 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:32,560 people can see you and by seeing you OK, they will say we, we did 455 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,480 not look for Christ again. That's working in the Spirit. 456 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:42,280 Hello, we need not look for Christ again. 457 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,880 We can see the assemblance of Christ in you. 458 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:50,040 That was the very foundation, OK, of the nomenclature we carry 459 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:57,640 as Christians in Antioch. They saw the believer and in all 460 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,960 of the characteristics they exhibited, OK, the only person 461 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,600 they could see was what Christ and therefore they call them 462 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:15,440 little, little Christ. So walking in the Spirit is not 463 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:21,880 driven OK by the Spirit that play religion to impress. 464 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:29,440 Or to oppress others, but rather to inspire others to become like 465 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:32,840 Christ. Rise and let us pray. 466 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,760 Rise and let us pray. Rise and let us pray. 467 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:45,960 If I have an any old time legal person that can help me, please 468 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,240 help me. I want to be like Jesus. 469 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,240 What will help me quickly? Quickly, what will help me come 470 00:40:54,240 --> 00:41:13,790 to the mind? Lord, I want to be like Jesus in 471 00:41:14,070 --> 00:41:25,630 my heart. Lord, I want to be like Jesus in 472 00:41:25,630 --> 00:41:48,920 my heart. I want to be like Jesus in my 473 00:41:54,560 --> 00:42:00,520 life, want to be like in Lord. I want to be like Jesus in my 474 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:01,000 life. I want. 475 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:10,000 To be like in. Lord, I want to be like Jesus in 476 00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:28,720 my life, in my heart, in I love my Lord, in my Lord, I want to 477 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:34,920 be like Jesus in my life. Thinketh in the whole of your 478 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:42,440 heart. Oh Lord, I want to be like Jesus 479 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:47,120 in my life. Oh Lord, have me. 480 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:55,280 Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my life. 481 00:42:55,280 --> 00:43:04,480 I knew God for you, Father, in my life. 482 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:22,040 Working in the Spirit simply means living like Jesus, 483 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:27,720 becoming like Jesus. In your talk, in all that you do 484 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:32,960 now ask the Lord. Lord Jesus, help me to be like 485 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:33,880 you. Talk to the Lord. 486 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:39,120 Help me Lord, to be like you. Lord Jesus, help me to be like 487 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,400 you. Help me, Lord, to be like you. 488 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,800 You will overcome worldliness. The moment the passion to become 489 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:57,440 like Jesus and Gulf your spirit. The moment the passion to be 490 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:03,200 like Jesus and gulf your spirit, then you will be free from the 491 00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:10,320 pool or the pulleys that are drawing you to the worldly ways. 492 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:20,760 But pass me, Lord, with a passion to want to be like Jesus 493 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:27,320 in everything. Lord, I want to be like Jesus in 494 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,680 my heart. Lord, I want to be like Jesus in 495 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:44,000 my life. And Jesus name we pray and 496 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:52,160 finally say, Lord, purge my heart, purge my heart from every 497 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:57,000 lies of the devil that I have embraced. 498 00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,320 We are praying in the name of Jesus. 499 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:06,200 Those lies you have embraced that make you fulfill that the 500 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:12,360 laws of God, the commandment of God are grievous, that make you 501 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:17,360 fulfill that deeper commitment to Christ will bring you social 502 00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,440 disadvantage is a lie from the pit of earth. 503 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,640 Deeper commitment to Christ will not bring you any form of 504 00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,400 spiritual or social disadvantage. 505 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:32,400 Becoming like Christ is not a demotion, is a promotion for you 506 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,800 in every aspect of life. It brings you to the cutting 507 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:42,240 edge of performance in destiny pursuit. 508 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:47,120 If you know Christ, knowing Christ the more is never a 509 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,960 disadvantage. Digging deeper in faith is never 510 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,680 a disadvantage rather it give you stability to face the 511 00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:01,440 challenges of life and overcome. So all those lies and narratives 512 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,920 who have believed from the devil, ask the Lord to put your 513 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,480 mind of them. Thank you Lord for answer 514 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:13,160 prayers. In Jesus mighty name we have 515 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:17,040 prayed Father, we have come again. 516 00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,440 We have had you Lord we are that what we have had you help us to 517 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:26,200 live in the name of Jesus. Thank you Daddy for answer. 518 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:32,600 Prayers in Jesus name we pray. We believe you'll be blessed by 519 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,480 the ministry of this message. You will do well to be the doer 520 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,240 of all you've heard. For further inquiry and 521 00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:49,160 spiritual help, contact this number is 08035685882 or worship 522 00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:53,920 with us at Oasis of Wisdom Bible Church, adjacent University of 523 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,960 Ellorin Teaching Hospital. O Kelsey Ellorin, bless you.