1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,120 Who is this a Freedom Bible Church, The Church of A? 2 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,880 Disney Christian narration. Our focus today, we're going to 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,840 be examining moderation and spiritual fallacy. 4 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:19,440 Moderation and spiritual fallacy. 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:25,080 But before we go on, I like you to understand this study as an 6 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:28,360 advanced class and the school of discipleship. 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:33,520 In that sense, you will need to pay keen attention to get the 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,240 information accurately. Praise the name of the Lord. 9 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,800 I'm trusted the Lord that I will not misinform you. 10 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,400 I'm also trusted the Lord that you will not misinterpret me in 11 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,520 the name of Jesus. And so we also get ourselves to 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,520 the guidance of the Holy Spirit for help. 13 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:58,520 And I know it will build a teacher and the structure of our 14 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,640 mind this morning in the name of Jesus. 15 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:08,080 When we talk about spiritual Farhan, see, it is expected to 16 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:13,560 be more evidence among young people generally, all believers 17 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,640 to be spiritually Farhan. We've been emphasizing that over 18 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:22,320 and over again. But when lukewarmness 19 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:27,480 characterize the youthful Christian population is an issue 20 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:33,000 of serious concern. Am I talking to somebody is an 21 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,800 issue of what serious concern? Because what are you going to 22 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:47,200 give us an explanation that warrant that you will not deploy 23 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,720 your youthful energy and active commitment to your faith? 24 00:01:55,080 --> 00:02:02,480 So spiritual privacy, though expected of all believers, of 25 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:08,680 all age groups and categories, it is much more expected to be 26 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:16,680 more evident among young people, not only young people, among 27 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,480 young believers. There's a difference between 28 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,560 young people and young believers. 29 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,920 Young people is a question of age. 30 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,360 Young. Being a young believer is a part 31 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,600 when you come to know the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. 32 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:44,600 So a person of a younger age may not be a young believer if it 33 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,960 comes to know the Lord earlier in life than an adult. 34 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:54,560 Am I talking to somebody? And so I'm saying essentially 35 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:01,960 that spiritual fervency should be much evidence among the 36 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,680 youthful Christian population generally. 37 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,520 Then it is also expected that when you just come to the Lord 38 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:15,520 as a young believer, OK, that fires to be evident. 39 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:23,040 So maturity is therefore required for moderation in 40 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:29,280 handling your zeal. And that is why we are bringing 41 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:35,760 in the balance that is necessary to manage spiritual vacancy this 42 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:42,240 morning. So maturity is required to 43 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:49,160 moderate the kind of zealousness that a young believer will 44 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:54,560 demonstrate, the kind of zealousness that is always 45 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,120 evidence among the youthful Christian population. 46 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:05,760 Because if that moderation is not taught to help them attain 47 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:12,880 maturity, no, they become a victim of what I call spiritual 48 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,680 juvenile syndrome. So I'm going to speak so much 49 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,240 about that as we proceed in the study. 50 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:27,560 Spiritual juvenilism or spiritual juvenile syndrome will 51 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:33,560 always result when spiritual pharmacy is not managed with 52 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:39,560 moderation that can help young believers to quickly attain 53 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:45,600 maturity. So if you are young in faith and 54 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:51,000 you are young in age, you have no justification to be 55 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:58,000 spiritually sluggish, no justification for somebody who 56 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:04,360 is a Christian and young in age or for somebody who is young in 57 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,200 faith to be spiritually sluggish. 58 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,920 You know the advantage you have as a young person. 59 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:20,160 It lies in the combination of your youthful energy and the 60 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,640 only spirit baptism that you have received. 61 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:30,160 So the combination of your youthful energy and the Holy St. 62 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,680 baptism is expected to produce super spiritual commitment, 63 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,880 excellent spiritual commitment. Am I talking to somebody? 64 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:47,560 So a situation whereby you are carefree and you are not serious 65 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:53,320 with your faith is, is an issue of serious concern. 66 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,720 The Scripture says in Lamentation it is good for a 67 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:02,400 young man to bear the youth in his youth. 68 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:08,360 Of course, our Lord Jesus Christ stood opposed to Peter, that it 69 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,000 is natural for young people to be vibrant. 70 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:17,760 You remember after he resurrected and he visited Peter 71 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,760 and a few other disciples by the sea where they were trying to 72 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,080 catch fish and they could not catch. 73 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:30,760 Then he eventually he made already prepared fees available 74 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,760 to them. Then he started a discourse with 75 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,680 them. That was where he emphasized to 76 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:43,200 Peter to put his attention his focus on feeding the sheep. 77 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,880 You recall that story there about goes back on to Saint John 78 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:51,280 chapter 2021, Prince, the name of the Lord in that place. 79 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:56,960 He told Peter, I said now that you are young, you can jump up 80 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,080 and down. So a time will come when you 81 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,120 will need younger persons to lead you. 82 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:10,640 All right, So Jesus here was incredibly saying that it is 83 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:14,200 natural for young people to be vibrant. 84 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:19,440 So it's an abrasion if you are young person and not spiritually 85 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:27,240 vibrant, I am not dedicating your youthful energy, OK, or 86 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:32,040 expressing your youthful energy even in the area of commitment 87 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:37,000 to your feet. So the lack of social vibrancy 88 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,080 in young people is an abnormal situation. 89 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:46,200 Get off that abnormal situation, tell your neighbor, get off that 90 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:54,240 abnormal situation. And of course, in older people, 91 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:59,960 people who have stayed long and fit or they have stayed longer 92 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:04,800 in years, if we find spiritual vibrancy in them, it is 93 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,160 commendable. Then we should move closer to 94 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:16,840 searchable to learn the secret. If an elderly person is still up 95 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:21,600 and doing in the area of prayers, in the area of 96 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:26,720 evangelism, OK, in the area of spiritual sharpness, 97 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:33,520 sensitivity, OK, Certainly there is much to learn from such an 98 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,280 elderly believer. So to me, it is both 99 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:42,720 supernatural and commendable that old people sustain their 100 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:48,000 vibrancy. Because when you catch fire, OK, 101 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,880 the tendency is there that as the wind is blowing, it may blow 102 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:58,160 out the fire. A life coal that is not 103 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:05,480 supported by Ezra coal, OK, to keep burning, we eventually die. 104 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,120 So what? The natural progression of the 105 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,520 lifespan of any fire. In that fire we want to go down. 106 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:19,320 Am I talking to somebody? But whereby you find elderly 107 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:23,440 people, OK, they are still burning for the law. 108 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,480 To me it is something supernatural. 109 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,840 It is also something highly commendable on the part of those 110 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:35,840 elderly people to have been able to sustain the fire. 111 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:42,160 So it is therefore wise on the part of younger believers and 112 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:47,240 the youthful population to move closer to such elders, relate 113 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,960 with such elders, to be able to know what is the secret that 114 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:57,520 kept them burning, that help them to sustain their spiritual 115 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,960 vibrancy. So as a youth, the challenge is 116 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:15,000 on you, the responsibility is on you that you must exercise the 117 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,640 natural. What I mean by that is that it 118 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,760 is expected of you naturally to be energetic. 119 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,200 It is expected of you naturally to be up and doing. 120 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:35,360 It is expected of you naturally to be vibrant because you have 121 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:39,200 everything going well for you to be able to do so. 122 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:47,800 Biologically you are son. Head wise you are son, mental 123 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,520 wise you are son. And so you expect to exhibit 124 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:56,080 natural sharpness, including spiritual sharpness. 125 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:01,040 Am I talking to somebody? So, but where you hold back, 126 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,920 where you are among the population that lay back in 127 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:11,080 spiritual privacy at the younger age, you are creating a problem 128 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:21,520 for your future years. So as a youth you must exercise 129 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,880 the natural for you to be able to exhibit the supernatural at 130 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:33,520 old age. So don't hold back the natural 131 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,680 capacity to be fathomed. Don't hold back the natural 132 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:42,400 capacity to be hope and doing. Don't hold back the natural 133 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:48,240 capacity to stay up in the place of prayer as a spinster because 134 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,720 a time will come when the hormones of baby making we make 135 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,760 your strength to win. Am I talking to somebody? 136 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:06,200 So when it is natural for you, exercise it such that when it is 137 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,640 not natural for you, you enjoy the supernatural dimension. 138 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,720 You'll be able to exhibit the supernatural. 139 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:23,320 If you slack at young age, you will suffer at old age Blonde 140 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:31,320 truths. If you slack at your younger 141 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:38,480 age, you will suffer at. I pray that you will prepare 142 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:43,360 yourself for the years when natural energy will not favour 143 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:50,760 you in the name of Jesus. So now that you are expected to 144 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:59,160 be vibrant at younger age, our today's focus is to draw your 145 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:05,080 attention to the need to match your vibrancy with maturity. 146 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:14,400 So the focus for today is how you can exercise moderation in 147 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:25,520 the exhibition of your vacancy. How to manage your physical 148 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:30,560 vibrancy and your spiritual vacancy with moderation. 149 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:34,920 Because when you have passion, you must learn caution. 150 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:42,520 Where you have passion, once you learn, you learn caution. 151 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:48,680 How do I mean by that? Recently I posted on my Facebook 152 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:50,920 page. You might have come across it. 153 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:58,400 I said the wise in your devotional activities and I 154 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:09,080 related that to the consecration that can affect your aids. 155 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,880 I said endangering your aids is not consecration. 156 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,960 I said faith is vital, but it must not become fatter. 157 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,440 Faith is very vital that in your fit life you must be there 158 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:32,520 upright, you must be there fragment, you must be there 159 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,800 optimally, but it must not become fata. 160 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:45,880 We have had stories of people who, because of their zeal to 161 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:51,160 carry the power of gold, go into fasting, but because they didn't 162 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:55,800 do it with knowledge, OK, instead of coming out, it's OK 163 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:01,520 to demonstrate power before men. After the consecration of prayer 164 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,960 and fasting, they are now before Angel singing. 165 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:11,720 So be wisely your devotional activities, because endangering 166 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:17,480 your earth is not consecration. Faith is vital, but it must not 167 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,720 become fertile. Let's relate it practically. 168 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,560 If there are students, Bible study is necessary for your 169 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,960 spiritual growth, but it must not replace your academic study. 170 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:42,440 Moderation and under spiritual vacancy As a student, Bible 171 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,000 study is necessary for your spiritual growth, but it must 172 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:52,880 not replace your academic study. Zeal mismanagement has never 173 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,120 helped spiritually, so you need to learn how to manage your 174 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,840 zeal. Zeal mismanagement has never 175 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,160 helped spiritually. It has always lead to a 176 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:15,240 regrettable hand and that is why my emphasis today will be on how 177 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:21,480 to overcome spiritual juvenile syndrome or spiritual 178 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,360 juvenilism. It is a disease that come 179 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,920 predisposes to a spiritual dead end. 180 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:38,640 How do I mean by spiritual juvenilism or spiritual or 181 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:44,000 spiritual juvenile syndrome? It is that stage of faith 182 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,320 whereby if we call you a spiritual B, you will be 183 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:54,120 offended because you have been around for some time, you've got 184 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,360 born again for some time, praise the name of the Lord. 185 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:02,760 So at that stage of spiritual juvenilism, if we call you a 186 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,400 spiritual B, you will be offended. 187 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:11,839 And we are also not comfortable to regard you as a spiritual B. 188 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:17,280 But it is evidence in the way you are going about your faith 189 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:24,119 life that the basic parameters of maturity are obviously absent 190 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,280 both in your speech and Christian conduct. 191 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,360 So that's my definition of spiritual juvenilism. 192 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,440 Are you with me or you want me to come again? 193 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,040 Maybe I'm relating with your reality. 194 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,480 Maybe I'm relating with the reality of somebody you know. 195 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,280 OK, he's been around for some time. 196 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,280 He's been born again for some time. 197 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:53,440 OK, he is here and there and everywhere in the things of the 198 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,680 of the spirit. But you can actually not place 199 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:03,000 that person as somebody who is serious, who is mature. 200 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:10,080 They easily form victim of seal management. 201 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:16,120 So it is that stage in your first war whereby if we call you 202 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:19,840 spiritual baby, you will be offended and of course we are 203 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:24,600 also careful to call you like that to regard to you like that. 204 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:29,160 We are also not comfortable, OK to see you as such. 205 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:35,040 OK, so you are neither a babe or a grown up and you are staying 206 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:40,840 too long at that plateau, OK of not being a babe or an adult. 207 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:57,740 Am I talking to somebody? Why is this so? 208 00:18:57,740 --> 00:19:02,060 Because the way and manner you are conducting yourself 209 00:19:02,060 --> 00:19:10,040 spiritually, we can obviously see that the parameters of 210 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:15,000 spiritual maturity are obviously absent in your life. 211 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,840 The apostle Paul first, that kind of situation with the 212 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:24,240 Corinthian church. Let's hear him in First Constant 213 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:29,400 chapter 3, the 1st 2 verses of First Constant Chapter 3. 214 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:36,840 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual. 215 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,440 In other words, if I communicate deep things of the Spirit to 216 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,200 you, you will not understand. If I share deep things of the 217 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,040 Spirit with you, you will not understand. 218 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:54,440 If I engage you OK with the kind of assignment that spiritual 219 00:19:54,440 --> 00:20:00,440 adults should be giving you will mess it up so. 220 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,000 And here you are, you are speaking in tongue, here you 221 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,400 are, you are manifesting gifts of the Spirit. 222 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,080 You are vibrant, you are everywhere. 223 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:19,440 So when it comes to the issue of external vibrancy, external 224 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,720 vibrancy, you are there, but you are lightweight in the spirit. 225 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:30,160 You have volume, small, full year. 226 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:36,760 Am I talking to somebody? Your volume of gravity is 227 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:44,680 missing, he said to the church in Corinne Brethen I could not 228 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,320 speak unto you as unto spiritual. 229 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,240 So if we address you as spiritual, babe, you'll be 230 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,200 offended. And we are also careful not to 231 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,200 address you as sword because we knew that you have been around 232 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:14,560 for a very long time. But as unto Kana, so your 233 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,960 classification or the classical configuration that fits you most 234 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,640 is to call you a Kana Christian, but you are not seeing yourself 235 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,720 as such. But for the Spirit of God and 236 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,360 your spiritual mentors, that is what they are seeing in you. 237 00:21:34,550 --> 00:21:39,830 Even as unto babes in Christ, I have fed you with me and not 238 00:21:39,830 --> 00:21:46,080 with me. So by the years that you have 239 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:51,680 been around, by the presence that you create, OK, you are 240 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,640 qualified to be invited to the table where they share meat. 241 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,120 But if we make mistake of feeding you with meat, you will 242 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:09,680 not be able to digest it. And we don't want to cost you 243 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,240 spiritual Constipation. And so we continue to feed you 244 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:18,360 with me. In fact, in the only spirit 245 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:22,920 personal dealing with you. OK when you come with your SQC, 246 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:24,800 we accept it just to tolerate you. 247 00:22:31,370 --> 00:22:34,090 So what can perfectly define relationship with the only 248 00:22:34,090 --> 00:22:37,490 spirit is toleration. Those with himself is not 249 00:22:37,490 --> 00:22:40,810 comfortable with you, but he can't throw you out. 250 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,720 Am I talking to somebody? So that is the state that I 251 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,480 define as the state of spiritual juvenilism. 252 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,840 They are fed you with me and not with me. 253 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,200 But either though you are not able to be, IE neither yet now 254 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:10,160 are you able in our thinking, OK, we are saying you should 255 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:15,840 have outgrown this stage, but we are still comfortable around 256 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:23,920 that same mountain of spiritual juvenilism at that stage. 257 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,320 Your case is the case of having less of wisdom and essence of 258 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:37,480 zeal, less of knowledge and essence of what zeal? 259 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,240 Remember I told you that you should give Kane attention 260 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,960 because this class is an advanced class in discipleship. 261 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,200 Is the case of imbalance between zeal and knowledge? 262 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,920 Is the case where individuals prioritize emotional 263 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:10,200 experiences, where individual prioritize simplistic answers 264 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:18,960 over deeper learning We are individual prioritize self 265 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:26,280 reflection and the over self reflection and mature faith 266 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,760 practices. The prioritize simplistic 267 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:36,000 answers over deeper learning over self reflection over mature 268 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:41,440 faith practices just create an atmosphere of Jamboree. 269 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:48,360 They are there are we together? But when they come to issues of 270 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:53,000 deeper reflection, mature faith practices, they are not 271 00:24:53,000 --> 00:25:02,240 comfortable to use medical terms is a condition that can be 272 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:07,280 likened to the essence of essential or more that is 273 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:17,520 actually needed in moderate quantity whereby you need more 274 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,880 of or more that attract towards knowledge. 275 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,160 You are demonstrating essence or more for hyperactivity. 276 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,440 Am I talking to somebody? So the why you need a moderate 277 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:37,480 quantity you have with an s s quantity. 278 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,960 For instance, the condition called hypothyroidism in 279 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:47,800 medicine which is an abnormal medical condition whereby your 280 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:53,880 thyroid gland is overactive producing too much of thyroid or 281 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,320 moon. And of course you know that this 282 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:04,840 will cause symptoms like weight loss, rapid heartbeat, anxiety, 283 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:12,800 eat intolerance and evil deaths. Are you relating with me and 284 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:21,040 even that so in the process, the terror or more was supposed to 285 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:26,040 serve as your body engine regulator to control metabolism, 286 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,400 energy level, growth and development. 287 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,800 You know the thyroid or more required to keep your body 288 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:40,440 running smoothly. Now start to overall now start 289 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:48,000 to operate riotously. I'll give you the example of a 290 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,000 young prophet in the Bible. It's a lengthy reading, but 291 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,960 there's so much to learn from him. 292 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:02,640 OK. How he could not moderate his 293 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,800 spiritual vacancy. How you could not manage his 294 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,000 spiritual calling. How you could not manage his 295 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,720 spiritual giftedness. And Iran to a dead end. 296 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,120 You will not run to a dead end in the name of Jesus. 297 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,240 So let us examine the case of the young prophet that was 298 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,880 affected by spiritual juvenile syndrome in the Bible and pick 299 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,920 lessings that can help us to avoid is kind of hero First 300 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:37,280 Kings chapter 13 we're reading a whole lot of 32 verses. 301 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,880 Church, are you good to go? Answer me. 302 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,120 Church, are you good to go? If you were a copper, you 303 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:50,440 answer, good to go, good to go. Praise the name of the Lord. 304 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:57,400 That's when and beyond here came the man of God out of Judah, by 305 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,640 the word of the Lord unto better. 306 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:05,280 So a man can be a man of God, a man of the puppet, A preacher, 307 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:10,640 and yet is spiritual juvenile. Are we together? 308 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,640 Yet is spiritual, juvenile, and beyond that came the man of God 309 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,320 out of Judah, by the word of the Lord unto better. 310 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:25,080 And Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn insane, and it cry 311 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,800 against the altar in the word of the Lord. 312 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,800 So it might come be a preacher who has the word of the Lord, 313 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,840 who has instruction from God, and yet is pretty juvenile. 314 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,640 And say, Oh, altar, altar does sell the law, the old, the child 315 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,720 shall be born unto the House of baby Josiah by name. 316 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,480 So a man can be able to professor accurately. 317 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,440 Now if you go further in Bible history, you will discover that 318 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,600 the prophecy that he gave were very accurate prophecy. 319 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,080 Everything prophesied about King Josiah. 320 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,360 OK, eventually happened. Am I talking to somebody? 321 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,200 You know, for somebody to come by said it was, I think it was 322 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:15,920 prophet Isaiah that came close to that, OK, who prophesied that 323 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,200 a child will be born and this is the name of the child. 324 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,960 And it happened with accuracy in history. 325 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,760 So this young prophet here, though is between juvenile who 326 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,440 was very, very vibrant and effective, OK, even in his 327 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:35,280 prophetic ministry. But juvenilism eventually did 328 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,680 not allow him to survive. Spiritual predators. 329 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:45,080 Am I talking to somebody? Part of the danger of staying as 330 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,280 a spiritual juvenile is that you become victim of spiritual 331 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,040 predators. And in our days there are many 332 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,280 spiritual predators on the pulpit. 333 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,920 OK, you think you are serving the Lord along with them. 334 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,760 You think you are following them to heaven, but they are leading 335 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,160 you somewhere else. They are exploiting you. 336 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:06,960 They are taking advantage of you. 337 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,520 Praise the name of the law. There are not a lot of young 338 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,640 people that are wasting away OK, thinking they are a ministry, 339 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,720 but actually they are nowhere near serving the law. 340 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,360 They are merely serving me. Am I talking to somebody? 341 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,040 Some men just take advantage of the hospital juvenilism. 342 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:32,000 Brainwash them, OK, and keep them productive unto them, not 343 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:36,600 unto God. So this subject is a very 344 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:42,160 serious 1:00. AM I talking to somebody, Joseph 345 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,120 by name? And upon thee shall over thee 346 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,640 shall over the priests of the high places, that bonuses upon 347 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,360 thee and men's bones shall be borne upon thee. 348 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:58,800 And he gave a sign that same day, same This is the sign with 349 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,360 the Lord has spoken before The altar shall be reigned, and the 350 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,640 ashes that are upon shall be poured out. 351 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:11,160 And it came to pass, when King Jeorbaum had the same of the man 352 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,720 of God, which he had cried against the altar in better that 353 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:21,560 he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, lay hold on him 354 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:26,920 and his, and which he put for against him dried off, so that 355 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:32,120 he could not pull it in again. To him who without the hand of 356 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:41,880 the king, the man of God or God, answer me, Is it the man of God, 357 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,800 that without the hand of the king or God? 358 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:50,840 God, because that the hand of the king with that was not part 359 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,040 of the pronouncement. Young man, settle down, you need 360 00:31:54,040 --> 00:32:06,120 this message seriously. The author also was reigned, And 361 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,480 the ashes proud from the altar, according to the sign with the 362 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,440 man of God, are given by the word of the Lord. 363 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,840 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now 364 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,880 the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand 365 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,400 may be restored me again. He started by taking instruction 366 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,040 from God. Now the king is now trying to 367 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,480 absorb the place of God and start to instruct him. 368 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:39,080 Am I talking to somebody? And because of spiritual 369 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:44,320 juvenilism, he missed it. He acted according to what the 370 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,560 king demanded, and one thing led to the other until he lost his 371 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:53,080 life. Beware of spiritual predators. 372 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,280 And the man of God besought the Lord, and the King's hand was 373 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,200 restored him again, and became as it was before. 374 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,560 In the earlier fascist, we read the manuscript, we read the 375 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,440 mandate, we read the old package of what God has commanded him to 376 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,840 go and do. Going there to go and perform 377 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:17,240 miracle of him in the hand of a man that put trouble upon 378 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:28,680 himself was not part of the package. 379 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:40,080 So part of what you find as the problem or error of virtual 380 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:44,200 juvenilism is that you want to showcase power even when it is 381 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:52,440 against the will of God. That's why I said in that stage 382 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:59,320 of your spiritual faith work, OK, you prioritize emotional 383 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:08,000 display above deep reflection. If there was a deep reflection, 384 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,560 he will not respond to the request of the king. 385 00:34:17,380 --> 00:34:21,300 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, I 386 00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:25,820 refreshed, I say, and I will give thee a reward. 387 00:34:27,380 --> 00:34:31,460 And the man of God said unto the King, If that will give me half 388 00:34:31,460 --> 00:34:38,560 of the house, I will not go in with thee, if you are a matured 389 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,199 man of God. The old conversation we had 390 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:50,000 there, but he proceeded, Neither will I eat bread nor drink water 391 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:55,120 in this place. Well, he has not said much here, 392 00:34:55,280 --> 00:35:01,000 but he didn't stop. Verse 9 For so was he charge me 393 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,520 by the word of the Lord. Did he need to communicate his 394 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:12,800 consecration? Hello, say eat, nor bread, nor 395 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,360 drink water, nor turn again, by the same way that thou camest. 396 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:23,000 He has said too much. Part of the casualties of 397 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,640 spiritual juveniles is that they always say too much the same, 398 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:33,040 more than necessary. Hello, the message I want to 399 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:39,520 preach today by the grace of God as I enter the bathroom when I 400 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:46,480 half my clothes OK before I will take the soap and pour water on 401 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,760 my body. Then suddenly you also said hold 402 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:56,280 on to me and the woman who is saying that is a Pretty Woman of 403 00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:01,760 God preaching among young people and try to describe what was 404 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,120 happening in the space room. Those young men will no longer 405 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,800 listening to you. You already suggested something 406 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,200 to you, they are no longer saying you preaching, they are 407 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,920 saying your nakedness. Am I talking to somebody? 408 00:36:19,830 --> 00:36:27,350 You said too much when you are still at that stage of spiritual 409 00:36:27,350 --> 00:36:29,790 juveniles and you don't realize it. 410 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:42,160 For someone she charged me by the word of law say eat no bread 411 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,000 nor drink water nor turn again by the same way that thou came 412 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,240 as assume it was this days of banditry. 413 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,800 OK, he has already given you an information that this is the 414 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,000 route I will take. Am I talking to somebody? 415 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,760 You have to preach your revelation and keep your 416 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,800 consecration. But in Spiritual Juvenile we 417 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,920 both preach his revelation and expose his consecration. 418 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:21,600 Just to feel big, OK, Just to prove and impress people. 419 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:25,760 That is super spiritual. Am I talking to somebody? 420 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,480 Because as I teach you on spiritual fibrancy and spiritual 421 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,600 fibrancy, grace will come upon you. 422 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:36,200 Part of the lesson you need to learn to manage the grace that 423 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:42,760 comes with fibrancy is our only to communicate your revelation 424 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,840 and keep your consecration to yourself. 425 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:55,760 Here He was exposing his consecration, for so was he 426 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,600 charged me by the word of Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink 427 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,240 water, nor turn again by the way that thou came in. 428 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,760 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he 429 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:11,320 came to birthday now that dwell, and all prophet in better. 430 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,000 And his sons came and told him all the words that the man of 431 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:20,240 God had done that day in better, the words which he has spoken 432 00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:23,760 unto the king. Then they told also to their 433 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:28,320 father, And their father said unto them, What way went he? 434 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:36,200 Ordinarily, when this whole predator that is called a 435 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:40,800 prophet wanted to follow after him, he will have followed the 436 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,640 path he came from. Are you with me? 437 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,440 Because if he came from the West, certainly if they want to 438 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,040 pursue him, they will also say, well, this is the way he came 439 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,280 from. We saw when he was coming, 440 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,000 therefore he must have followed that path. 441 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,960 But he already exposed his consecration by excessive 442 00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,800 communication that God told me that I should not follow the way 443 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,840 I come from. And so they knew the alternative 444 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,600 route. So they will have missed him, 445 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,560 but they caught up with him because he exposed his 446 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,640 consecration. Am I talking to somebody? 447 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,960 And the father said unto them, What way went he? 448 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:23,360 For his sons had seen what way the man of God where we came 449 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,840 from Judah. And he said unto his sons, 450 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,760 Saddle me the house. So they saddle him the house. 451 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:33,080 And he rode thereon, and went after the man of God, and found 452 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:37,160 him sitting under an O. And he said unto him about the 453 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,360 man of God that came out from Judah. 454 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,600 And he said, I am. Then he said unto him, Come home 455 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:48,360 with me, and eat bread. And he said, I may not return 456 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,640 with thee, nor go in with thee, neither will I eat bread or 457 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,640 drink water with thee in this place. 458 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,600 For it was said to me by the word of the Lord. 459 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,680 He never stopped committing the same error. 460 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,760 Thus I eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to 461 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,320 go by the way that thou came. He said unto him, I am a prophet 462 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,560 also, as thou art. And an Angel speak unto me by 463 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,680 the word of the Lord. The Lord himself spoke to the 464 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,480 young prophet. The old prophet said an Angel 465 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:23,640 spoke to him with superior. He dropped what the Lord said to 466 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,880 him to embrace what somebody claim an Angel said to him, 467 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,400 Somebody that has been having personal and private building 468 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,840 with God, who understand the counsel of God. 469 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:41,360 Somebody is now saying a message from a secondary agent, OK, to 470 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,240 substitute what it got directly from the law. 471 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,640 I pray for you. You love the Lord, you want to 472 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,560 serve the Lord. You will not serve the law under 473 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,280 a spiritual predator. Many young people today are 474 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,960 serving under spiritual predators who are just taking 475 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:08,860 advantage of their juvenilism, saying, Bring him back with thee 476 00:41:09,060 --> 00:41:13,140 into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. 477 00:41:13,340 --> 00:41:18,420 But he lied unto him. There are many line spirits on 478 00:41:18,420 --> 00:41:22,780 the pupil today. So he went back with him, and 479 00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:25,180 did eat bread in his house, and drank water. 480 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:29,520 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of 481 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,640 the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back. 482 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:44,400 I would Ali, Ali, I will battle in there but in one law and the 483 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,280 crown to the man of what I came from Judah saying, Don't say the 484 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,920 law, for as much as thou as disobeyed the mouth of the law 485 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,400 and has not kept the commandment with the Lord, thy God commanded 486 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,760 thee, but came back and has eaten bread and drunk water, in 487 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:03,400 the place of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat not bread 488 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:08,400 and dig no water. Thy carcass shall not come unto 489 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:14,840 the sepulchre of thy fathers. And he was not even careful, he 490 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,280 was not even remorseful to deliver the message because all 491 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:22,440 along he has been helping the young prophet that how could I 492 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,560 be in the land, OK. And it's going to be a younger 493 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,360 person that will be delivering the mind of God. 494 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:34,040 You will not be a victim of malicious elders in the name of 495 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,880 Jesus. And it kept to pass after he had 496 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,320 eaten bread and after he had drunk that his saddle for him, 497 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,240 they asked to wait for the prophet whom he had brought 498 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:46,160 back. And when he was gone, it lion 499 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:51,960 met him by the way and slew him, and his carcass was cast in the 500 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,960 way, and the ash stood by he. The lion also stood by the 501 00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,640 carcass. And behold, men passed by, and 502 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,560 saw the carcass cast in the way, and the lion standing by the 503 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,320 carcass. And they came and told it in the 504 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,400 city where the old prophet dwelt. 505 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,160 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way 506 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:18,280 had thereof, he said, it is the man of God who was disobedience, 507 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,720 or to the word of the law. He never mentioned a part of 508 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,280 our. He contributed to his 509 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:29,720 disobedience. They will trick you to evil. 510 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,120 When the consequences come, they will wash off their hands. 511 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:34,960 They will distance themselves from you. 512 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:44,160 My Denny Kennedy, also Reburuku. It could be another person, it 513 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,680 could be a friend. They push you to eat, and when 514 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,840 the consequences come back to you, then they run away. 515 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,240 They leave you to eat, to survive it alone. 516 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,120 Therefore the Lord had delivered him unto the lion. 517 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,680 We had turned him and slid him according to the word of the 518 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,600 Lord, which is speak unto him, and he speak to his son, saying, 519 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,160 Saddle me the house, and the saddle him. 520 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,000 And he went and found his carcass cast in the way, and the 521 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,000 ass, and the lion standing by the carcass. 522 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,840 The lion had not eaten the carcass, nor turned the house. 523 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,720 And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God and 524 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:22,200 laid it upon the house and brought it back. 525 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:28,080 And the and the the prophet came to the city to mourn and to bury 526 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,600 him. Your enemy will not celebrate 527 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,200 your death. Your enemy will not celebrate 528 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,240 your downfall in the name of Jesus. 529 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,880 Deceive us will not deceive you to your death. 530 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,120 Deceive us will not source to deceive you to your destruction 531 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,960 in the name of Jesus. And he lay this cast in his own 532 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:51,880 grave, and the mourn over him, saying, Alas, my brother. 533 00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:55,680 And it came to pass after he had buried him that he speak to his 534 00:44:55,680 --> 00:45:00,280 son, saying, when I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre 535 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:04,720 where the man of God is buried. Lay my bone behind his bones. 536 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,840 You want to identify with him because of the great miracle and 537 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:14,680 the prophecy that he gave. For they say which he cried by 538 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,960 the word of the Lord against the all time better and against all 539 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,880 the houses of the high places which are the city of Samaria 540 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:28,720 shall surely come to pass. Let's do a further reflection on 541 00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:33,480 this reading. It was easy for the old prophet 542 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:39,400 to deceive this young prophet because of inexperience, because 543 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,760 of juvenilism. His disobedience was not 544 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,320 deliberate. His disobedience was born out of 545 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:51,600 inexperience. To me, this is a clear case of 546 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:58,200 spiritual juvenile syndrome. It was deceived by testimony of 547 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:03,800 encounter, an encounter that the whole profession with him that 548 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:08,400 an Angel spoke to me. Hello. 549 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,440 And you know the way we garnish prophecy, we garnish our puppet 550 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,120 presentation. OK, That soup you off your leg. 551 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:22,840 OK, I make you think that before I came to church this morning, 552 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:27,480 myself and an Angel has eaten a plate of amala. 553 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,160 And so because of that, you are ready to swallow everything that 554 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,080 I say unto you. Correct or not correct? 555 00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:42,040 Am I talking to somebody? So you will sweep all these legs 556 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,800 by the testimony of an encounter with an Angel that you professor 557 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,920 within. He did not do a background check 558 00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:51,560 of the character behind the encounter. 559 00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:57,400 So one of the things you must do is that when somebody sharing an 560 00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,760 encounter with you, do a background check of the 561 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,720 character that is sharing the encounter. 562 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:10,080 Am I talking to somebody? So it was deceived by the 563 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,680 testimony of encounter. He did not do a background check 564 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,560 of the character behind the encounter. 565 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,720 This is not going to be the first time that prophet will be 566 00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:24,520 telling lies. Are you with me? 567 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:30,320 And if we are, he cannot even get a person to check with. 568 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,200 Why can't he check with his spirit? 569 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:38,720 God spoke to me and the same God that was speaking to me wanted 570 00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:42,800 to reverse the instruction. OK, He has to go through a third 571 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,920 party to reverse the instruction. 572 00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,840 No, I need to pray about this matter before I took. 573 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,360 I take steps. Am I talking to somebody? 574 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,880 He said that I didn't hear God correctly or somebody's lying to 575 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:04,720 me. This is what the Bible says. 576 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:06,920 Very clear position of the Scripture. 577 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,560 But somebody said God has given him a revelation. 578 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:21,560 God has given him a Rhema that contradicts the word of God. 579 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:25,720 That's a clear contrast to the clear position of the Scripture. 580 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:32,400 You need to check the character behind the encounter. 581 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,520 In the face of God, character matters more than encounter. 582 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:45,720 Hold that in the face of God, in the face of the spirit, 583 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,040 character matters more than what the encounter. 584 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:53,400 That is why we say on the last day to some people who will come 585 00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,200 hear your name, where is the dead? 586 00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,960 In your name we heal the sea. Then we say unto them, Go away 587 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,000 from me. I don't know you, you workers of 588 00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,160 inequity. So the encounter he didn't deny, 589 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,440 but their character didn't match. 590 00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:13,000 Am I talking to somebody? So in the things of the spirit, 591 00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,960 character matters more than encounter. 592 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:20,520 Don't let anybody use their testimony of encounter to 593 00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:27,400 deceive you. Then we noticed that it 594 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,640 performed a miracle that was not originally a part of the divine 595 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:36,360 Commission. Even the widow hand of the King 596 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,200 was not part of the original Commission. 597 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:46,000 Always check the manuscript of your personal encounter and let 598 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,480 it be consistent with what you are doing. 599 00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:53,880 Am I talking to somebody? Then he preached his 600 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,360 consecration that was supposed to be kept. 601 00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,000 I emphasize that seriously, while we're analyzing the 602 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,200 Scripture, he preached his consecration that was supposed 603 00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,960 to be kept. And this is your rule. 604 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,080 Preach your revelation, but keep your consecration. 605 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:20,680 Manage your communication. Speak decently, avoid excessive 606 00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:29,320 talking, excessive narration. I recollect the story of a man 607 00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:33,200 of God who bragged about his matamorial fidelity. 608 00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:38,240 I was dragged down to commit immorality against his wish by 609 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:43,120 Jezebel in his church. Here's the story it's in A man 610 00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:48,120 of God shared it with us years back when I was in Syria that a 611 00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:52,240 man of God was celebrating 25 years of his marriage and he 612 00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:56,800 said I thank God in the last 25 years that I've been married to 613 00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,640 my beautiful wife. I've never seen the lap of 614 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:05,920 another woman and a decibel sitting on the pue live say you 615 00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:15,120 it means you have not met people like us and what does she do She 616 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:22,040 got home and arranged with a few other people OK and and fame 617 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:31,200 madness OK and that same Sunday they rushed her to the church 618 00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:34,360 that the lady that were together in church today. 619 00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:38,040 No has been inflicted with the spirit of insanity. 620 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,200 And the man of what I was bragging was a deliverance 621 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:47,200 minister and then he prayed and because it was a fake madness it 622 00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:51,840 has to go because man of God has prayed praise the name of the 623 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,080 Lord. And they took her home and as 624 00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,800 soon as he got home the madness returned. 625 00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,600 So they have to return her. And they repeated that until it 626 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:06,000 was getting late in the night. And then a suggestion was made 627 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:11,480 is part of the script to the man of God that since the atmos in 628 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:18,560 the atmosphere of the church the madness was not coming on was 629 00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:25,720 coming on her president of the law let us stay over overnight 630 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:32,640 and then they put her in the bus scooter OK everybody left. 631 00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:37,640 He went to his own main building to go and sleep and when it was 632 00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:42,640 the dead of the night OK, when the wife was also already 633 00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:48,680 sleeping and tired, the lady started to demonstrate again in 634 00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:54,440 our quarters in our apartment. And then the man of God had to 635 00:52:54,720 --> 00:52:59,840 come again to minister deliverance and by the time she 636 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:03,600 will he will enter the we enter the apartment. 637 00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:11,040 They met a stack naked woman and then she quickly pulled the door 638 00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:15,080 and locked the door. It was her and the man of God 639 00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:24,040 and I said man of God do it or I scream that you came here to RIP 640 00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:27,560 me. So with the support of the 641 00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,840 demons that were working with her, the man of God that was 642 00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:36,960 boasting on the puppet in the day that for 25 years he has not 643 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:41,200 seen the lap of another woman, slept with her and said you know 644 00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,760 Philly, why you are doing your posting when saying that you've 645 00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:55,810 never met our type. Preach your revelation, keep 646 00:53:55,810 --> 00:54:04,090 your consecration. So he preaches concretion that 647 00:54:04,090 --> 00:54:07,840 he was supposed to keep, and the rule is preach your revelation, 648 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:14,200 but keep your consecration. He acted against his 649 00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:21,040 consecration again by staying over at better and by eating in 650 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:27,280 the House of the prophet. A spiritual warrior that is not 651 00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:32,880 mature is vulnerable in many respects as we have seen with 652 00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:40,680 this young prophet. A speaker juvenile is vulnerable 653 00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:44,080 to hear any strange voices without being able to design. 654 00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:52,560 What do you need to do? 6 virtual groups pursue 655 00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:59,000 progressive revelation. Commit to that seriously and all 656 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:05,040 repent deadly. You need spirituality to anchor 657 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:09,320 your consecration. You need maturity to anchor your 658 00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:16,360 fortification. Hello, you need spirituality to 659 00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:20,880 anchor your consecration. But match that spirituality with 660 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:25,200 maturity, because that is what will fortify you against 661 00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:31,400 spiritual predators. For that essential lesson, you 662 00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:35,760 need to know that spiritual warfare is not a fleshly 663 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:40,800 emotional venture. Spiritual warfare is not a 664 00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:45,960 fleshly emotional venture. You need to put on the whole 665 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,120 amount of gold. Yeah, you may be able to stand 666 00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:54,120 against the wise of the devil efficiencies from verse 11 to 667 00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:54,960 13. Verse 12. 668 00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,440 For what is to not against flesh and blood, but against 669 00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,960 principality, against power, against the rulers of the 670 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,280 darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high 671 00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,760 places? Therefore, or wherefore, take 672 00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:11,320 unto you the whole armor of God, not part of them the whole armor 673 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:15,520 of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil days, and 674 00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,520 having done all you stand, you don't sleep. 675 00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:24,160 Second Lesson. Spiritual warfare is a delicate 676 00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:30,200 field of operation, therefore spiritual juvenile must engage 677 00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:35,440 in it with caution. Even spiritual veterans must be 678 00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:39,120 aware of self volition approach to spiritual warfare. 679 00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,720 Self volition approach to spiritual warfare. 680 00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:47,200 It was self volition that made him to heal the wider hand of 681 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:51,880 the king. If you don't put all these 682 00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:56,200 cautions in place, you don't put these cautions in place, you 683 00:56:56,200 --> 00:57:00,000 become a victim of what I call negative bass bag. 684 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:05,360 Because in science it is said to every action that is equal and 685 00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:09,800 opposite reaction. And in the faith for every 686 00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:15,600 Kingdom progress, there is a matching protest from hell. 687 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:20,760 Hello, there's a matching protest from war from hell. 688 00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:26,920 So spirituality match which maturity is required to be an 689 00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,680 effective spiritual warrior. Otherwise you may abuse 690 00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:35,520 spiritual gift or you mismanage divine instruction. 691 00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,160 That young prophet was a victim of boots. 692 00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:43,240 He abused spiritual gifts. He mismanaged divine 693 00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:47,320 instruction. A spiritual warrior that is not 694 00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:51,840 mature is vulnerable to deception that may lead to 695 00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,760 destruction. Rise on your feet as we pray. 696 00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,360 Rise on your feet as we pray. Rise on your feet as we pray. 697 00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:12,000 Ask the Lord to help you. Ask the law to make you commit 698 00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:17,560 to spiritual growth. Ask the Law to help you to be 699 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,080 able to manage your consecration. 700 00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:26,200 Ask the Lord to help you to make you outgrow your spiritual 701 00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:34,360 weaknesses, like excessive talking, like prayerlessness, 702 00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:41,480 like simplistic attitude that make you vulnerable and you can 703 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:45,000 be easily deceived. Thank you Lord for answer 704 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:50,800 prayers in Jesus name we are praying the church can say 705 00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:51,840 louder. Amen. 706 00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:57,320 Father, I commit your children to your evil hands that as they 707 00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:01,720 reflect on this matter, you will give them spiritual gravity. 708 00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,920 They will stop being spiritual lightweight. 709 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,480 They will stop being people who pursue fancy. 710 00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:13,200 They will pursue reality in the name of Jesus. 711 00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:17,560 Thank you Daddy for answer prayers in Jesus name we have 712 00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:20,760 prayed Hallelujah. Don't be left. 713 00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,640 In the dark, get proper understanding of life through 714 00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,560 the Word of God. My people perish for lack of 715 00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,480 knowledge. The Word of God is an 716 00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:32,640 illumination which gives direction. 717 00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:36,600 Remain placed as Reverend was fallen illuminates your mind 718 00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:40,320 with the Word of God with all simplicity and clarity.