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

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

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knowledge. 
The word of God is an 

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illumination which gives 
direction. 

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Remain placed as reverend was. 
Feminu illuminates your mind 

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with the word of God with all 
simplicity and clarity, the. 

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Tappy that we started to engage 
from December last year is 

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lessons on friendship and we 
have kept our focus on the 

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principle of clubbing to climb. 
Simply put, keeping the company 

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of the successful. 
So today we're still going to 

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continue on the fourth leg of 
the journey, lessons on 

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friendship. 
Today the focus will be on 

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friendship beyond the borders of
your social clan. 

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Friendship beyond the borders of
your social clan. 

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First Kings chapter 5 from verse
1 to 12 was the scripture we 

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engaged last week and that 
scripture we study the 

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friendship between King Solomon 
and King Arab. 

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Both the ups and downs of their 
relationship were carefully 

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produced in First Kings Chapter 
5 from verse 1 to 12, we noted 

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the agreement between King Iram 
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Israel, where Iram provided 
materials and Craftsman to help 

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Solomon build the temple in 
Jerusalem. 

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The kind of relationship between
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royalty, can be classified as 
friendship within a common 

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social clan. 
Friendship between a common 

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social clan. 
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supplies he made to Solomon, 
Solomon also supplied him with 

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food and other goods. 
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spirit of organic relationship 
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did noted earlier that in a non 
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symbiotic, there's got to be 
less expectation and much 

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reciprocation and that's exactly
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Solomon and King Aram. 
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with Solomon, as we also noted, 
was greatly influenced by their 

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father's friendship, David and 
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So here we can also deduce that 
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organic friendship to graduate 
into trans generational 

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heritage. 
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between David and Abiba, the 
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eventually graduated into a 
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Solomon and Iran. 
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us to note also that friendship 
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higher purpose. 
So if what you intend to achieve

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in life is within the bracket of
your capacity there, you don't 

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need a friend. 
But if you must achieve higher 

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purpose in life to a better than
one, so by the time you claim to

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have a friend and that friend is
not contributing to your 

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achieving higher purpose in 
destiny, you don't need that 

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kind of a friend. 
Am I talking to somebody now? 

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Solomon wanted to build a temple
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There were no skilled Craftsman 
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temple, and the material 
resources well that he needed a 

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good percentage of it, were not 
available in his own country. 

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And so he extended a hand of 
friendship to higher ram. 

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And higher ram supply both the 
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help him build so that 
friendship help him help him to 

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achieve a higher purpose. 
So friendship is needed for the 

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fulfillment of higher purpose, 
and if you may be able to easily

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find the friend you need to 
achieve higher purpose within 

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the border of your common social
clan. 

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And sometimes we have to cross 
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to get it. 
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explicitly as we proceed in the 
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So friendship should serve the 
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serve the purpose of 
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So simultaneously, friendship to
serve the purpose of adding 

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value to you or multiply your 
inherent capacity. 

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So friendship must complement by
making a valuable what you lack.

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So friendship must complement by
making a valuable world to life.

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Friendship must also multiply 
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capacity to do more. 
Remember last week I mentioned 

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to you that there's a need for 
you to regularly audit 

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friendship by asking the 
question what am I putting in, 

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What am I getting, what am I 
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So this another way by which you
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friendship. 
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friendship is meant to 
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yourself enough to know what you
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OK, the friends you are keeping,
are they able to compliment you?

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Then friendship must also apply.
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answer, your capacity to do 
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So a friend should be a catalyst
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A friend should be a catalyst, 
not an inhibitor. 

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So, and in the case of Solomon 
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week, we especially found out 
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their alliance on both side. 
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notice are the following. 
One, access to national 

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resources. 
The national resources in Tyree,

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where Iran was the king was wood
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Craftsman, he made them 
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Then in Solomon land was 
abundance of food because the 

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the the land over which Solomon 
was raining was an agrarian 

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society. 
So they also have plenty of food

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and spices and so on and so 
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So access to national resources,
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Also strengthening trade and 
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trade and diplomatic ties. 
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your friends should be able to 
create opportunity for you. 

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Your friends should be able to 
bring you to opportunity that 

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can help your destiny. 
Then they have joint business 

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venture. 
Now what are you doing with your

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friend that you cannot trust 
with money? 

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What are you doing with a friend
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That if you put your business in
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disappoint you or JIT you. 
So they have joint business 

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venture, they traded in good and
so many other things together 

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then regional influence and 
security. 

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So don't keep a friend that can 
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Don't keep a friend. 
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So regional influence and 
security, the two of them, when 

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they came together, they become 
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And there was no story that any 
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attacked as at the time they 
were keeping diplomatic 

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friendship together. 
So they are inheritance 

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friendship made it easier for 
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with Solomon those yielding 
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So it was an heritage because 
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friendship relationship from 
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So however, that does not mean 
that you always have it good all

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the time. 
So that indicates friendship 

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demands maturity, it also 
demands humility and one of the 

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two persons must take the lead 
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particularly maturity. 
So in that story of Solomon and 

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King Aram, King Aram eventually 
proved to be the most mature and

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one that is most sacrificial in 
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Let's be clear Explore that the 
maturity the Mossabai king Iran.

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We find out as we engaged the 
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Chapter 9 verse 10 to 14. 
After Solomon gave Iran the city

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that he promised to give in. 
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was displeased he was not 
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gave him. 
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city Kabul, which means good for
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what he got back for his 
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between him and Solomon. 
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didn't end the relationship with
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Now one thing that will also 
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have a long span tell if it's a 
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learn to use your magnifying 
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On the positive side of your 
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friend, the goodness that your 
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Learn to use the magnifying lens
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Hello, are we together? 
So don't use your magnifying 

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lens on the little error that is
in your friend. 

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If he has been doing you good, 
good, good, good and good, then 

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one day it does. 
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You don't because of that, put a
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of batting at the end the 
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Am I talking to somebody? 
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maturity, humility and patience 
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So despite the fact that there 
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something that didn't please 
Iran, he didn't end relationship

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with Solomon. 
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So Iran push himself as a 
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Solomon. 
So and that's why I said between

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the two of them, he demonstrated
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He gave more to the 
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He positioned himself as a 
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Solomon because it was after the
Kabul experience that he 

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deployed his Navy officers to 
help Solomon in his trade of 

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goo. 
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Haram as a skilled diplomat, a 
leader who prioritizes mutual 

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benefit and cooperation because 
despite being satisfied with the

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cities he received, he continued
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demonstrating his commitment to 
their alliance. 

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His action source is a 
pragmatist. 

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His action source is a strategic
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It's not my OP. 
He value the bigger picture over

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personal interest. 
You know the relationship has 

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come to the level whereby it's a
mutual benefit between their two

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kingdoms. 
So what he lost was not the 

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benefits to the entire country. 
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personal benefit. 
He doesn't say because of his 

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own personal benefit that he 
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Then we had the relationship and
put the entire country into into

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problem or missing the benefit 
that should flow in terms of 

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food and spices from Solomon 
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So from here, I can see a man 
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the Scripture says, in terms of 
honor, which will always put our

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neighbor ahead of us. 
So he lived the Christ standard 

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despite not being a Jew or 
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And on the part of Solomon, OK, 
it's unfortunate that he did 

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what he did to Iran. 
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the New Testament Christian, is 
that it is not good if you 

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guarantee of the unbelievers in 
the perimeter of our influence 

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cannot see the difference Christ
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Hallelujah. 
Now what Iran did to Solomon, 

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OK, one will expect that it is 
Solomon that you saw that level 

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of kindness and maturity, but it
was the other way, the other way

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around. 
So the unbeliever here looks 

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more like the better friend. 
Hello, the unbeliever looks like

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what? 
The better friend. 

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And that's why I say it's not 
good if the generality of the 

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unbelievers in the perimeter of 
your influence cannot see the 

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difference Christ has made in 
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Jesus teaching the beatitude on 
the month in Matthew 520 He said

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For I say unto you that accept 
your righteousness shall exceed 

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the righteousness of the scribes
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Yes I know kids enter into the 
Kingdom of heaven. 

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So in any relationship you must 
seek to be the better friend 

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tells yourself tell your 
neighbor be the better friend 

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tell your neighbor be the better
friend tell yourself I will be 

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the better friend. 
The Lord help you in Jesus name.

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Now. 
That was the issues we looked at

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last week and the lessons 
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Our time is fast pain, but it's 
important that we engage this 

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particular one too. 
The focus is friendship beyond 

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the borders of your social clan.
Friendship beyond the borders of

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your social clan. 
I have emphasized again and 

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again that organic friendship is
symbiotic in nature, organic 

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friendship is symbiotic in 
nature, and that regardless of 

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your rank, regardless of your 
position on the social scale, 

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you will not be able to predict 
the day you will need help 

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outside your regular or natural 
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So we all have our inherited or 
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How do I mean? 
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King Solomon to you. 
The father of the two of them 

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were kings. 
Are we together? 

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So their immediate or natural 
inherited social clan is 

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royalty. 
In the case of Jonathan and 

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David, it was not so. 
Both of them didn't come from 

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the same social clan or class. 
So we all have our inherited or 

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circumstantial social clan. 
In other words, there are two 

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type of social clan. 
We have the natural play 

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inherited social clan and then 
there are also circumstantial 

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social clan. 
For instance, the university is 

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a leveller, so you can find the 
child of the poorest man, OK, 

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sitting in the same classroom 
with the child of the richest 

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man. 
So circumstances has brought the

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two of them together. 
Am I talking to somebody? 

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So they are taking the same 
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same test together. 
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of education has brought the two
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So Solomon and Iram were born 
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inherited social clan. 
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was circumstantial. 
If not for Goliath issue, if not

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for the evil spirit. 
OK that always afflicts. 

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All these two circumstances were
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Jonathan to cross path in 
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Otherwise David wouldn't have 
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To the son of the king. 
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circumstantial. 
It was a baby of circumstance. 

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And if that if those 
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was possible that their path may
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Am I talking to somebody? 
So now what is the lesson here? 

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Don't keep yourself within your 
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The focus for today is 
friendship beyond the borders of

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your social clan. 
So don't get yourself within the

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borders of your inherited social
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Observe your circumstances and 
utilize it to improve your 

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social credential. 
One of the things you should 

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give attention to very early 
life is improving on the on the 

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credential. 
OK that you have socially. 

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So improve your social 
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Prepare yourself with the 
capacity to fit into a higher or

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broader social client. 
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you have a peace out background 
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commit yourself to improving 
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credential. 
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your circumstances and using it 
to improve your social 

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credential. 
So prepare yourself with the 

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capacity to fit into a higher or
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And so many circumstances is 
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So many circumstances are 
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instance, the opportunity you 
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one you have to participate in, 
the one year compulsory National

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Youth service must be utilized 
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beyond your tribe. 
Expand your social clan beyond 

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your faith. 
Expand your social clan beyond 

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your field of study. 
You have studied accountancy or 

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marketing? 
Praise the name of the Lord, OK?

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It's not too good that all the 
friends you have OK are people 

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who study accountancy. 
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university, you have done your 
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Utilize it to expand your social
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your field, beyond your field of
study, and as a working class. 

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Some privileges do come, so when
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workshops or you are giving any 
out of the duty post assignment,

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make sure you gain new friends. 
By doing that, you are expanding

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your social clan. 
You will not know where you will

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need that person per venture by 
the time your your party destiny

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cross. 
OK, you adjust lower ranked 

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officers at the state level. 
You may not know that friend you

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met. 
Now in 10 years to come, OK, we 

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have transferred service to the 
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a permanent secretary there. 
Am I talking to somebody? 

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Am I talking to somebody? 
So as a working class those 

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privileges you have to attend 
workshops or you are giving an 

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out of duty assignment. 
Make sure you gain new friend 

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friends that can add value to 
your life. 

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Then as a leader or a senior 
cater worker, ensure that you 

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are friends or confident even 
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Don't just boss everybody. 
Let there be a social 

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environment where your junior 
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and give you vital information, 
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You OK? 
You can deliberately pass on 

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files to a junior officer. 
OK, if the information there is 

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not classified, am I talking to 
somebody and ask the junior 

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officer to make recommendations 
to you and you will discover 

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that you find one thing or the 
other that is superior to what 

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you will have put on the on the 
file. 

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Am I talking to somebody? 
So have confidence among your 

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junior colleagues and respect 
their opinion. 

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Respect them. 
Why you cannot tell the day you 

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will need help outside your 
social clan? 

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You will not be able to tell the
day when you will need help 

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outside your social clan. 
So one day destiny may demand 

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that they may demand the king to
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a prophet to perform. 
I would justify that with with 

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his with his scripture. 
Second king chapter 5. 

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Second king Chapter 5 S one day 
destiny may demand a king to 

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perform the function meant for a
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How will he handle it? 
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verse one. 
Now Neyman, captain of the host 

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of the king of Syria, was a 
great man with his master and 

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honorable because by him the 
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Syria. 
He was also a mighty man in 

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valor, but he was a leper. 
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And the Syrian had gone out by 
companies and had brought away 

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captive out of the land of 
Israel a little maid as he 

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waited on Neymar's wife. 
Can you see a blend of social 

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clan? 
Now circumstances has brought a 

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little maid, a little guy, a 
slave to the household of a man 

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described as a mighty man of 
valour. 

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Now you will now see how a 
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life of a man of valour. 
And the lady could do that most 

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probably because he was not 
being maltreated in that family.

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If she were being maltreated in 
that family, she may not care at

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all about whatever evil before 
befell that family. 

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Verse 3. 
As she said unto her ministry, 

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Will God my Lord, while with the
prophet, while with the prophet 

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that is in Samaria, for you will
recover him of his leprosy. 

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And one went in and told this 
law, say thus and thus share the

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maid, that is, of the land of 
Israel. 

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And the king of Syria said, Can 
you see now military slave, now 

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to the palace? 
So you will not tell the 

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circumstance that will come up 
that will require you to operate

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outside your natural social 
clan. 

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The voice of that Lady resonated
in the kings palace and the king

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of Syria said go to and I will 
send a letter or to the king of 

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Israel. 
The lady told them about a 

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prophet, but the letter was not 
being sent to a king. 

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And he departed and took with 
him 10 talents of silver, and 

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6000 pieces of gold, and 10 
changes of women. 

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And he brought the letter to the
king of his saying, Now when 

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this letter is come unto thee, 
behold, I have therewith St. 

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Naman, my servant to thee, that 
thou mayest recover him of his 

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leprosy. 
There will always come a day 

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when they will give you an 
assignment that's outside your 

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capacity, that is outside your 
credential, that is outside your

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training, and you must carry out
that assignment. 

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How do you go about it? 
If you had one that's always 

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keeping to yourself, you are 
living only in your own world. 

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Am I talking to somebody? 
The King of Syria, as at that 

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time he has the capacity to 
punish the King of Samaria the 

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way the king of United States 
just punish the king of 

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Venezuela. 
If he didn't meet up with the 

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demand, are we together? 
So a request was on his table 

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that was outside his social 
corridor to handle. 

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And it came to pass when the 
king of Israel had read the 

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letter, that he rent his clothes
and said, Am I go to kill and to

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make alive that this man don't 
send unto me to recover a man of

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his leprosy. 
Wherefore consider, I pray you, 

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and see how he seeketh A quarrel
against me. 

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And it was so when a lifestyle 
demand of God had had that the 

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king of Israel rent his clothes.
Now there are so many silent 

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things that has happened between
verse 7 and verse 8. 

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Certainly there is a 
relationship between the king of

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Israel and prophet Elijah. 
Otherwise he will not hear that 

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the king was in trouble and be 
concerned. 

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Am I talking to somebody? 
This as part of the reason you 

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maintain cordiality with people 
and you keep friends beyond your

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social clan, so that when for 
any reason you are in trouble, 

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people will not rejoice, rather 
they will be concerned and see 

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how they can help you out. 
And it was so when Elijah the 

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man of God had heard that the 
king of his son had rent his 

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clothes. 
That is sent to the King saying 

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wherefore as our rent by 
clothes. 

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Yes, the matter has come to your
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OK, you may not have the 
capacity to hand me, but why are

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we friends? 
So the reason I am anointed is 

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to help you or your truth. 
Am I talking to somebody? 

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But that will happen because 
beyond the corridor of royalty. 

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OK, he also has a friend among 
the priesthood. 

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Let him come to me and he shall 
know that there is a prophet in 

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Israel. 
So Neyman came with his horses 

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and with Sharon, and stood at 
the door of the House of Elisha.

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Of course, the king of Syria 
should know that the king will 

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not kill leprosy. 
If a king could kill leprosy 

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himself was a king, He should 
have done that. 

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I don't need this file. 
You should know that that 

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assignment at most is a job for 
the prophets. 

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So why would the king of Syria 
ask the king of Israel to kill 

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naman of his leprosy? 
And of course he was well 

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informed that the little mate 
that brought the idea said that 

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is a prophet in Israel, not a 
king in Israel that could kill 

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leprosy. 
Am I talking to somebody? 

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So he was well informed that it 
is a prophet, he said, that can 

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cure the man of his leprosy. 
But he nevertheless requested 

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that they should go to the 
palace instead of going to the 

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prophets. 
And that request went to the 

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palace instead of directing it 
to the prophet. 

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Here is the answer. 
The day king will be asked to 

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cure leprosy. 
His reason? 

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He must have prophet in his 
circle of friendship. 

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What is the lesson they have for
you? 

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Your destiny assignment will not
be limited to only your 

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professional training or natural
gifting. 

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Your destiny assignment is 
different from your career 

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assignment. 
So your destiny assignment in 

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life will not be limited to only
your professional training or 

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natural gifting. 
Therefore, you need friends 

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beyond your natural social 
climb. 

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Know this, in life you will not 
be the one to solve all the 

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problems that will pass through 
your corridor. 

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Destinies are aware that that 
problem will not be solved with 

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your will not be solved on your 
corridor. 

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Are we together? 
But yet the problem will pass 

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through your corridor. 
So you will not be the one to 

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solve all the problems that will
pass through your corridor. 

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This is the reason you must 
create room for friends of 

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different categories of 
capacities in your corridor of 

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influence. 
So for the king of Israel or to 

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the king of Israel, what the 
king of Syria did was a 

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provocation, but to Elijah the 
prophet in the land, it was his 

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own natural vocation. 
So what the king of Syria 

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consider a provocation was a 
simple vocation for Prophet 

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Elijah to handle. 
So what was the saving grace of 

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the king of Israel? 
His saving grace was the cordial

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channel of communication between
the palace and the office of the

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prophets. 
Friendship beyond the borders of

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your social clan. 
So your office with all its 

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powers may not be relevant to 
solving some problems, but it 

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may only be relevant to 
connecting people to the 

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solution to their problems. 
And that is why the problem is 

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passing through your corridor of
influence. 

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Am I talking to somebody? 
So the problem you don't have 

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the capacity to solve, you may 
have the influence to refine 

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them to where they can be 
solved. 

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So the king of Syria didn't send
directly to Elijah, IS sent to 

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the king of Samaria who took it 
as a provocation, whereas is 

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well connected by communication 
to a prophet whose vocation is 

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to kill leprosy. 
So I round up gradually by 

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saying make friends across 
circles of social gradients, 

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have friends on the streets, are
now friends in the palace. 

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Let the social environment 
around you depict a rainbow. 

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The social environment around 
you must not be monotonous. 

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You must be accessible to people
of different social backgrounds.

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Be accessible to people of 
different social background. 

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So don't be a rich man who 
despises the poor and not be a 

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poor man who hates the rich. 
Let the rich respect the poor. 

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Let the poor admire the rich. 
There is no basis for qualms 

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where humility and maturity 
lead. 

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God bless you. 
We believe you'll be blessed by 

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

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of all you've heard. 
For further inquiry and 

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spiritual help, contact This 
number is 08035685882. 

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Our worship with us at Oasis of 
Bible Church or Just Saints 

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University of Illorin Teaching 
Hospital or Kelsey Illorin. 

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God bless you.