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[0:00] Hallelujah! Thank you for tuning in to this powerful message by David Entry at Caris Face 2, our Christ-centered youth services. You can never find Christ outside of the open word of God. May Jesus Christ reveal himself to you as you listen.

[0:19] Ephesians chapter 4, verse 1. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness and long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the burn of peace.

[0:54] There is one body and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.

[1:09] In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Therefore, I explained, I, the prisoner.

[1:20] Remember, I said that when he wanted to talk about doctrine, when he wanted to talk about doctrine, he said, I, the apostle.

[1:33] But, he said, Paul, the apostle, when he came to talking about duties and responsibilities, he's going to tell you things you got to do.

[1:44] He said, I, the prisoner, I beseech you. Verse 1, I, therefore. I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, I beseech. Beseech. Let's look at different translations and let's see how the beseech is friended.

[1:58] A different translation. NIV or prisoner of the Lord, I urge you. It's like a charge. New living translation.

[2:15] Prisoner for serving the Lord. He said, beg you. Begging you. You have to do something. You know, that church life that only takes from God is not true Christian life.

[2:31] Hey. Christianity doesn't start from what you are taking from God. It starts from what you are giving to God. Because he has already given. And in your giving to him, you discover what he has provided for you.

[2:46] If you are Christian, some people are, you see, they are only praying about, God, do for me. God, do for me. God, do. Many people's prayer life is about, God, I mean, like you're not in the boat.

[3:02] That is the lowest level of prayer. The highest level of prayer is, God, what do you want me to do for you? God, what do you want me to do?

[3:13] Did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you just pray that? If it's possible, let this cup come pass. Matthew chapter 26, verse 36. He went, if it's, he prayed that prayer three times.

[3:26] If it's possible, let this cup, this cup come. And he said, nevertheless. If it comes to what I want, then it shouldn't happen. But my will is no importance. That's when you, that's when prayer is, is hitting the realm of divine supernatural attention.

[3:45] Nevertheless, not as I will. It's prayer. It's not just coming to tell God your will or your wishes. It's giving you a check, feeling, feeling what you want.

[3:58] Prayer request, prayer request, prayer request. Most people, they think prayer is all about what God must do for you. Oh God, prayer is a place of yielding to God. More than God yielding to your whims.

[4:13] God couturing to your desires, to your inclinations, to your aspirations and expectations. So God must submit himself to your, because most of, that's why you are disappointed about what, I prayed, I prayed and God didn't do anything.

[4:27] Go ahead and ask Hannah. Her prayer had to come in alignment with God's desires. She said, give me a child and I'll give him back to you. This is about you.

[4:39] Until your prayer is about God, you are not going to see any unique answers. So, all things work together for good to them that love the Lord and are called according to them.

[4:53] Not your purpose. Not your wishes, according to his purpose. I see somebody receiving good testimony. So, it says that, I beseech you, I beg you, I beseech you that you walk worthy.

[5:14] Did you see that? He starts by telling you how you should walk. It's working now. It's bringing you work. That Christian life that doesn't expect commandments and instructions is not a true Christian life.

[5:33] The more spiritual you are, the more you look forward to taking orders from God. Godly orders, I mean. Godly orders. God speak to me.

[5:44] God lead me. Many people want, I want to hear from you, God. Forget about that. Just look at what he has said and start applying it. Do you know, it's going to get even hotter. Yeah, it's going to get hotter in there.

[5:57] There are some stuff in there. He cast to the chase because he attempted to tackle it in chapter 3. But he went back into Revelations. So, when he came to chapter 4, he didn't waste time at all.

[6:08] He said, I, therefore, the prisoner of Christ, beseech you. What should you do? That you should walk worthy. When they look at the lifestyle, it matches the calling you have.

[6:20] Wow. Some of you, as soon as you enter a relationship, you start kissing. Wow. Walk worthy of their calling.

[6:36] Walk worthy. Some of us, our attitude, our character.

[6:50] You will fight with anybody and everybody. No, no, no, no. You didn't come in based on your behavior. But now that you have accepted the calling, you have to walk worthy of the calling.

[7:06] Do you understand it? So, God is not waiting for you to behave well to save you. But if he has saved you, he said, please, I beg you. I beg. I beg.

[7:18] Start walking worthy and stop this fraud. Start walking worthy. Some of you Christian brothers, if a sister is in a relationship with you, how safe is she?

[7:36] Walk worthy of the calling. Some of you guys, the noise you make in church does not correspond to your actual lifestyle. Your actual lifestyle.

[7:49] Who you are outside of church is very different. When the lights are off, who are you? Girl!

[8:01] When the lights are off, when no one is with you, when you're by yourself, Allah. That's where who you are as a Christian is discovered.

[8:15] Not in church. Church is not a sign of how Christian you are. When you are, God said it's not good for man to be alone. When you are alone by yourself. When your emotions are running.

[8:30] When your feelings are trying to catch you up, catch up with you. Paul said, I beg you. So remember, walk worthy.

[8:42] Tell somebody, walk worthy. Walk worthy. I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I about walking.

[9:17] It's a lifestyle. Live in a certain way. That you don't have to tell people who you are. They can tell. I met somebody and after church I had a chance to interact with him.

[9:33] This is not his first time. And he said, he mentioned one of the brothers in church's name. He said, I've known him for years. But we've been talking and I realized this guy's life has changed.

[9:47] I knew him before he started coming to church. And he said, the guy's life has changed so much. Talking to him, I'm interested in coming to find out what produced this change. Walk worthy.

[10:01] Walk worthy. Walk worthy. Walk worthy of the calling. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.

[10:12] Hallelujah. Look at verse 2. How do you do it? With lowliness and gentleness. Other translations use the word meekness. Lowliness and meekness.

[10:30] Lowliness means just bringing yourself low. Lowliness is almost like humility.

[10:41] bringing yourself. Not making yourself I'm very important. You know. Bringing yourself. It doesn't mean dishonoring yourself or disrespecting yourself. It has a small attitude now.

[10:54] You have an attitude that doesn't make you feel like. So sometimes let's say and he's come to church and he's writing notes and you even know he's chief executive. And I just can you get him go and sit there.

[11:05] But then he also gets him go and sit there. He doesn't even make anybody know who he is. Like lowliness is like you just bring yourself low. Bring yourself low.

[11:16] Doesn't mean you've lost respect. But because of church relationship and church life you allow yourself to be relatable in a way that sometimes people don't even know.

[11:29] They don't have to know who you are. Meekness is not fighting for yourself. So you see two things there. you make yourself low and not fight for yourself.

[11:44] A meek person does not fight for themselves. When I say fight for yourself somebody spoke to you in a way and I will talk you back. I will prove to you. No a meek person does not do that. That's why Moses the sister spoke against him and Aaron spoke against Moses.

[12:00] And God said hey he spoke against Moses like this the whole there's no one I speak face to face. And he says because there's no meek person on this earth more than Moses. Yeah.

[12:12] He said Moses is the meekest man on this face or the face of this earth. He's meek he won't fight for himself. So when people are meek it's easy to take their meek right?

[12:24] When you are dealing with them. Meek people he said with meekness Moses he said when I other prophets I speak to them in dreams now he says now the man Moses was very meek above all the men which upon the face of the earth.

[12:43] He was very meek. Let's start from verse 1. Miriam and Miriam meanwhile she was a prophetess. Yeah. Aaron was the high priest.

[12:55] These are top top people among God's people. And yet Moses Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married.

[13:08] For he had married an Ethiopian woman Moses and Hezves. So they said as the Lord is in this spoken only through Moses has he not also has he not spoken through us also.

[13:24] Are you the only man of God? So you can't think you are right. We know you are wrong because we also hear from God.

[13:36] And Bible says God heard it. Now you see do you know why they were treating Moses like that look at the strength because Moses was very meek. So they were taking the meeky.

[13:49] So they could talk to him! And you would! They know Moses would do! Listen leniency is not weakness or meekness is not weakness.

[14:04] Doesn't mean you are weak. Sometimes you are so strong. When you used to be in the world people feared you but now you are born again and no one fears you because intentionally you have become meek. You have become gentle Jesus meek and mild.

[14:19] You have become meek. Meek. some of you if someone crosses you what you do to them. You are not meek. Someone is telling him but the Bible says that.

[14:32] I don't care what the Bible says. That one is gone past meekness. It's pride. I don't care what the Bible says. I don't care what the Bible says. you will never see the glory of God in your life.

[14:48] Anyone who is like that. Meek people God defends them. Matthew 5 5 Matthew 5 5 We'll come back to Moses.

[15:00] Let's read that loud from the screen. Let's go. I can't hear you. Louder. the pathway the highway to true prosperity is meekness.

[15:18] You will inherit the earth. That's prosperity. That's true breakthrough. Blessed when you have a meek attitude. God said you are blessed. Some of you since you got born again you haven't changed at home.

[15:31] You still fight people at home. Every day there's battle between you and your mother. I don't understand you. You're not walking away the other way. When I became born again I used to fight before I became born again.

[15:43] My older sister. How many of you sometimes used to fight your brother or sister? Yeah. Oh we used to fight. It's nice.

[15:58] Then I became born again and one day my sister was doing something. Why not used to fight? Somebody said you touched for David when he comes. You know he doesn't take it.

[16:10] He said no it's changed. I'm not afraid of him. He's changed. He can't do anything. I'm not afraid of her. Yeah and she was right. I'll just look at her and walk away.

[16:21] Walk away. The only thing I'll fight is when you touch God's work. That one I'm fighting for God. so. My fighting instincts are still there.

[16:35] A meek person does not fight for himself. Did you see that? Yes. A meek person does not fight for himself. Let's finish this Moses thing.

[16:47] Numbers chapter 12 verse 4. Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, come out. You three to the tabernacle of meeting.

[17:00] So the three came out. And what did you go? This is nice. Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam and they both went forward.

[17:16] And the Lord said, if there is a prophet amongst you, I, the Lord, make myself known to him in a vision. I speak to him in a dream. Look at that. not so with Moses.

[17:28] He is faithful in all my house. Look at what he said. I speak with him even plainly and not in dark sayings.

[17:41] And he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? See, Moses didn't fight for himself.

[17:54] God said, I'll take care of this. He didn't talk to Moses. He didn't discuss himself know whatever was going on. He said, you said, you are prophets. All are three of you come out. Come and meet me in the tabernacle.

[18:06] Come. They said, the two of you step forward. Meekiness. Blessed are the meek for Deisha.

[18:16] God are God are God called. How do you do it? With all lowliness and meekness.

[18:32] With long suffering. What's the meaning of that? Ability to suffer for a long time. Long suffering. Long suffering.

[18:42] Sometimes I don't like what this person is doing. It's too much. I don't like it. It's to be okay. The reason why a lot of poor Christians end up in divorce is because of lack of long suffering.

[18:55] Are you learning something? Your attitude is what will endanger marital peace.

[19:07] Attitude. Both men and women. Your attitude towards women especially if you didn't grow up in a healthy marital or relational environment.

[19:21] You have to believe God and stay focused and be a Christian. Start walking worthy of the calling. It helps adjust and prepare your character.

[19:35] He said the word of God which is able to save your soul. James chapter 1 verse 21. receive with meekness. Therefore lay aside of filthiness and overflow of wickedness and receive with meekness.

[19:55] You receive the word of God with the implanted word which is able to save your soul because your soul is the seat of your personality. That's what is going to give you problems in your career.

[20:08] It's going to give you problems in your potential future family life, marriage life, marital life, and even your career. Some people can't stay in any meaningful career because of attitude.

[20:22] Attitude. Attitude. Receive with meekness. Okay. So he says that walk worthy of the calling wherewith you are called with all loneliness, all meekness, not with long suffering.

[20:40] Don't be in a hurry. Don't be in a hurry. Sometimes you say you've joined the ashes and every time they are not making you an usher pastor.

[20:53] That's your dream. Long suffering. Is someone getting something?

[21:05] I'm reaching with some of you because I'm not just preaching. I'm trying to save your soul. Because God is going to give your enemies a big shock.

[21:20] What do I mean? Because they programmed you to fail, but God will prove to them that in spite of what you have done, I can raise a giant from this one.

[21:34] He said in the scriptures that the stone which the builders rejected have become the chief cornerstone. Yes. Psalm 118. Psalm 118. Psalm 118.

[21:47] The stone which the builders rejected become the chief.

[22:03] Look at the next verse. This was the doing God God who used you as a marvel.

[22:22] So it's okay. You have that such unpleasant background. That's okay. God is the only one who can take you from anywhere and make something out of you.

[22:34] So that at the end of the day you cannot claim the victory. He personally is responsible for that. You know you are humble enough to say this is God. That's what God likes.

[22:45] So that means that those who are more disqualified in the hands of God God prefers that one. Let me give you a testing scripture.

[22:57] Moses Moses Moses Moses was raised in the house of the king. Moses would be driving his Ferrari on the streets of Egypt and his number plate to be one faro.

[23:13] Those are the boys. Those are the oil boys. They drive Ferraris. They stretch it and pack it and go for the Lamborghini and later you see them driving Rolls Royce.

[23:26] Convertible. Moses Moses Moses Moses Those are the big boys. Money is nothing for them. Their alloy is gold.

[23:39] Money is nothing for them. Moses left all that. He left all that because the Bible says that in Acts chapter 7 when Moses was of age he decided to go and help his people.

[23:57] And he saw one fighting an Egyptian beating a Jew. And seeing them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed and struck the Egyptian and the Egyptian that 25 for his hope this is where he got it wrong.

[24:15] He didn't get it wrong but he didn't realize that God didn't need his skills. He said for he supposed that his brethren give me an I view because his brethren is just sounds!

[24:27] like bread. Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them but they did not.

[24:39] They did not. They rather asked him who made you a ruler and judge of us? The fact that you are driving Bentley doesn't mean I will listen to you.

[24:58] Who are you? Do you know who you are talking to? He's the king of him. He's going to be the king.

[25:09] The Pharaoh. Do I care? Who are you? Leave me alone. Think you can kill me like you killed the Egyptian? Moses became meek.

[25:24] I believe that's where his meek started from. Because if you look at verse 22, Moses attended the Yale and the Oxford of those times.

[25:36] Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. So he thought he could use that for God's work.

[25:47] God said, I don't need it. So he went to go and defend the people, thinking they would understand that God was going to save them by him. God that was his calling but not with those apparatus and accoutrements.

[26:03] And when he heard that he became a fugitive, ran out of town. The woman took him. Suddenly Miriam and Aaron are going to talk. Do you know how much this woman has helped Moses?

[26:15] When he didn't believe in himself anymore. Every time he said I'm a useless guy, I'm a useless guy. The woman said don't say that. Don't say that. God can raise you.

[26:33] The woman talked him, talked him, encouraged him, encouraged him. And the woman's father was a priest called Jethro. Jethro was teaching him. So Moses, so he ran away from Egypt and went towards Ethiopia.

[26:50] Wow. And then after I've watched this, after 40 years, when he was 40 years, God said I can't use you. Now that he was 80 years and he has lost strength, God suddenly shows up by himself.

[27:07] God, Elohim, Elohim, Elohim just shows up in a burning bush that got Moses attention. So he saw the bush burning. So he decided to go close to go and look at it. When he went through he heard a voice, Moses, Moses.

[27:21] And God told him that, come, I'm coming to send you. And I like the way verse 35 puts it. In Acts chapter, it says that, this same Moses whom they rejected with the worst, who made you ruler and judge, he was sent to be there and deliverer by God himself.

[27:41] he was and he was and he said, I'm going to send you. And when God called Moses in Exodus chapter 3, he said, I'm sending him. Moses said, no, I can't go.

[27:53] But you were ready to do 40 years and he said, no, no, no, I'm not the right person. Now he said, go and tell him. He said, no, I don't know how to talk. Didn't you see how he was learned and mighty God appointed him.

[28:14] Don't be deceived to think that I've just been to Bible school so I'm standing here and doing this. God sent me. The deliverance that some of you are enjoying, it cannot be man generated.

[28:29] It's heaven instituted, heaven instigated, heaven generated. So I'll send you. Moses went, what am I trying to tell you?

[28:41] God likes using people who don't think they can be used. That's why with your past, God can still use you. Nobody has past that is gone past being used by God.

[28:59] No, you can't have past bad enough that God can use you to do his work. But the only thing is would you be able to humble yourself? Look at your state. He says that for Luke chapter 1, he has regarded the lowly state of his handmaid.

[29:21] From henceforth All generations shall come be blessed. Yes. Verse 48, for he has regarded the lowly state of his handmaiden. Or may 7.

[29:32] For behold! Henceforth his mighty holy is his name.

[29:45] God has done great. I'm telling somebody that actually God will use you now. Conditions for God using you walk worthy of the calling with low loneliness, meekness, and long suffering.

[30:05] It doesn't end there. bearing one another in love. Bear one another. Baring one another goes further than tolerating one another.

[30:21] When you tolerate somebody, you're okay. But bearing, you accept them in spite of their flaws. And you know, how many of you know many mothers when their child is going through bad criminal some court cases.

[30:37] The mothers, that's my child. Mothers don't give up on their children. Yeah. Mothers won't give up on their sons. Won't give up on their daughters.

[30:50] Walk worthy of the calling wherever you've called. And for bearing one, bearing with one another in love.

[31:02] In love bearing one. See, why Paul says that I beseech you as a prisoner. Because he's going to talk to you. He said therefore as a prisoner. The things I'm coming to talk to you about is heavy in demand.

[31:15] It's not just God has done, God has done, God has finished his own. Now use your turn. And the word of God is coming to you to make something new out of you.

[31:27] So that when you are presented you cannot say it's me. You can say this is what God has done. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner. This is the doing of the Lord. It is marvelous.

[31:38] Am I preaching at all? In God there are no permanent failures. No, no, no, no.

[31:48] It does not matter how worse things have been. You can still make it worse. Walk worthy of the calling with which he has called you.

[32:01] But you cannot do it without loneliness. You cannot do it without meekness. You cannot do it without long suffering. And you have to do it bearing with one another in love.

[32:14] Let me add a little bit of the next verse. I love this master. I got here. I said hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[32:28] He said endeavoring to keep. He said it's not the Holy Spirit that would do it.

[32:39] You have to endeavor. Endeavor to keep. To keep. To maintain unity. Unity is lesser a word.

[32:51] the Greek word there is oneness. Oneness. Oneness. Endeavor.

[33:02] Eager to maintain the unity. Amplify says that make every effort to keep oneness.

[33:13] look at verse 13 and amplify again. Until all rich come and shut up. One is the church life.

[33:26] So if you have been saved, you have to walk worthy of the calling. Live the church life properly. You can't live the church life without loneliness. You can't live the church life without meekness.

[33:38] You can't live the church life without long suffering. You can't live the church life without bearing with one another. It's enough. It's enough. I know you don't like the way sometimes she talks. It's okay.

[33:49] Bear with her. Who will bear with her if you don't bear with her? If we just cannot accommodate and bear one another, then who? Out there is too rough.

[34:00] People don't like him. People don't like her. Now she's born again, but she'll get there. Bear with her. Give her space. Give her time. Bear with him. Give him space.

[34:11] Give him time. Yes, he broke your sister's hand. But you know what? Forget about that. Bear with him. Bear with him. God, I was contemplating, I felt God was teaching me something so profound yesterday and today.

[34:26] I said, my goodness, my goodness, God was teaching me how he values people who show mercy. Then, you know the scripture I quoted in Romans chapter nine.

[34:39] verse 23. He calls, he says, some people are vessels of mercy. I said, yay. Jesus has done it again. He says, I've done it again.

[34:52] He says, I've done it again. He has done it again. He has done it again. He says, that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of what?

[35:07] I was pondering, meditating. It looks like the spirit of God was teaching me that what does vessel do? What do vessels do? To contain.

[35:17] And so, when we say vessel of wheat, vessel of oil, vessel of, that means the vessel contains that. So, if you're a vessel of mercy, then God wants to use you to be a container of mercy.

[35:33] Now, what does that mean? That means that sometimes when people are even wrong, you are showing them some level of, no, no, no, I'm not talking about endorsement.

[35:44] You are not endorsing their misbehavior, but you are treating them as human beings who have gone wrong. Because you know you go wrong. You can also go wrong.

[35:55] Show people mercy. Some of us are too mean. You are so mean. You are so vindictive. Unless no one steps on your toe, you will hand them down and step on their leg.

[36:08] Mercy. You've seen someone has done that. He's got it wrong. He's got it wrong. It's okay. Stop broadcasting it everywhere. There are some negative stories about some people.

[36:19] You have to vow as a matter of principle that you will not be the one to talk about it. You will not be the one to advertise it. You will not be the one to tell others about it.

[36:30] It's none of your business. If it was you, you wouldn't want people to talk about it. So you won't talk about it. You won't tell others about it. That's mercy. Mercy. Please, have mercy on somebody. God has a special place for people who contain mercy.

[36:45] That's why I say, blessed are the mercy for this chapter in mercy. Then I realize that sometimes we are so busy. I love you, God. I love you, God. But what he wants us to do, he wants to use you to show kindness to somebody.

[36:57] Come on, Jesus. Bearing with one another in love. endeavoring to keep the oneness.

[37:12] In John chapter 17 verse 11. This is Jesus' prayer. Before he died, his last prayer on the earth, he prayed for his disciples. He said, now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world.

[37:26] And I come to you, Jesus, praying to the Father, Holy Father, keep through your name, those whom you have given me, that they may be one. Verse 21.

[37:39] It says that they all may be one. Verse 22. Look at verse 22. And the glory which you gave me, I have given to them that they may be one.

[37:53] Just as we are one. Verse 23. This is Jesus' prayer. I in them and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one.

[38:08] Oneness. Now Paul says that endeavor to keep the oneness of the Spirit. Ha ha. What kind of Christian life is this?

[38:20] That does not endeavor to keep the oneness of the Spirit. A practical gossip and church splitter like you. Oh. what kind of Christian?

[38:34] Many people are not spiritual. Their spirituality is activities. Don't mistake. Please, don't be impressed by somebody. It's not spiritual.

[38:52] It's not spiritual. spiritual. That's activities. Activities. I can't fire. When we come to church, you are bouncing all over the place. You are not spiritual.

[39:06] There are some people, they are only spiritual in church because their spirituality is activity-based. when we are shouting, they shout.

[39:18] When we are dancing, they dance. When we are doing outreach, they do it. But when they are by themselves, ground zero. Ground zero. True spirituality is evidenced in some of this things I'm teaching.

[39:32] Meekness. Meekness. Lowliness. Bearing with one another in love. The way you are so vindictive. You haven't changed. You haven't changed.

[39:43] You are not walking worthy of the calling with which you have been called. I'm putting it to you. If you are spiritual, prove it. Prove it with your attitude towards God which reflects towards men.

[39:55] You can never claim to look up to God and look down on men. I am challenging people personally.

[40:07] That's how you grow this Christian life. It's not about your suit. It's not about, you know all the songs in church. You even can sing it better than the one who wrote it or the one who sang it or recorded it.

[40:21] You can. You can. There are so many things you can do better because naturally you are good at some of these things. But it does not equate spirituality. Don't be deceived by I'm not saying when someone is shouting, Amen, they are not spiritual.

[40:36] I didn't say that. God, that can be expression of desire, intense love for God. That can be an expression, but that in itself is not adequate.

[40:48] That in itself is, because anybody at all can also shout. But meekiness, meekiness, lowliness, where you bring yourself low, where you don't fight for yourself, that's where we can see how spiritual you are.

[41:04] One day, your ex-boyfriend who broke your heart and went for your sister and broke her heart too, and went for your cousin and now he's run away, went to Dubai with your cousin. He's going to come to church.

[41:16] Yes. And you be the usher, you see him, you're frozen. You hate him, you hate him. What's he doing here? What's he doing here? I see? See? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now God, we want to check how spiritual you are.

[41:29] You can say welcome and you have some bitter feelings, but you choose to overcome it and be lowly. You don't fight for yourself.

[41:40] Welcome. Here you go. When it's getting too hard, you say, God, help me. I will never hold it against him. I know you, Lord. I want to say, then you can tell me you are spiritual.

[41:52] Then you can tell me you are spiritual, but not this. He had the fire. Akudu, kudu, kudu, fire. Igbe, Igbe, Igbe, Igbe, Igbe. It's good.

[42:03] It's good. It's good. It's good, but it's not sufficient. It's not sufficient. Some of you, you think you are spiritual. Let's wait until you enter into a relationship.

[42:16] Let's wait until you enter into a relationship and see whether your old sexual habits will not resurrect. Yeah. They will resurrect. They will come out from the woods.

[42:29] Yeah. You think you have changed. You, let's wait. Let's wait till you find lover boy. You don't have a personal devotion life. Why would you wake up and make sure you are reading your Bible, spend time, 30 minutes, one hour, just between you and God.

[42:47] Your phones are off. Just between you and God. How can you be doing while reading your Bible on your phone? It's like going for dinner in someone who wants to poison you in his house.

[43:01] Why? Because most of the biggest distractions is from the phone. Our biggest distraction is from the phone. Is it evil? It's not evil in itself, but it's very destructive and intrusive and invasive.

[43:16] Tell me I'm lying. Most of us, your phone is your world. Your phone is not running your life. Your phone is ruling your life. Because of your phone, you don't have time for any other thing.

[43:28] All the bad things you do are on the phone. Yes. Endeavor to keep the bond of the Spirit, so the unity, the oneness of the Spirit, in the bond.

[43:41] Say bond. Bond. Bond. In first, in Colossians chapter 3 verse 14. In Colossians chapter 3 verse 14, it talks about all these things.

[43:55] Put on love, which is the bond. love is a bond of perfection. By inefficiency, we can see it's as the bond of the Spirit. The endeavor to keep the unity through the bond of peace.

[44:11] Peace. Peace. The bond of peace. Romans chapter 12 verse, I think go to verse 18. Romans 12, 18 rather.

[44:22] Sorry. Yes, that's the one I'm looking for. Yes. I want the one to use the word peace.

[44:34] Yes. If it's possible, as far as it depends on you, live with peace with your mother. Live with peace with your father. Live with peace with your sister.

[44:45] Live with peace with your brother. Live with peace with your flatmate. Live with peace with your crossmate. your crossmate. Live with peace with your departmental leader. As much as you like. Live with peace with your... I want to say X, but some of you take it out of context.

[45:05] Yeah, some of you take it out of context. They say, thank you, Jesus. I've been waiting for this. Yes. Peace. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 14.

[45:17] Hebrews chapter 13. Let's read here. Let's go. The Spirit is with all people. I can't hear you. The Spirit is with all people. I can't hear you.

[45:28] The Spirit is with all people. I can't hear you. The Spirit is with all people. What kind of Christian life you have that is fraught with tension?

[45:40] You always have problems with people. He said, peace. Keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. Wow. Pesce you peace with all people.

[45:52] Did you remember how the cross borders peace? In Ephesians chapter 2, verse 14, verse 15, verse 17. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 14, verse 15, verse 17.

[46:02] Look at verse 14. For him, he himself is our peace. Wow.

[46:14] He secured this peace by the cross. So our own is to, that peace is the bond. He says, endeavor to keep the oneness of the Spirit through that bond of peace.

[46:26] Don't let someone come and gossip about somebody to you, about what they are saying about you. He is spoiling this bond of peace. Look at verse 15, and we go to verse 17. What does it say?

[46:38] Verse 15. Having abolished in his flesh the emits, that is the law of commandment contained in the ordinary, so as to create himself one new man from the two. That's making peace.

[46:50] Endeavor to keep the peace. Verse 17. And he came and preached peace to you who are far and to those who are near.

[47:01] This is peace. Peace. I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called with all loneliness, meekness, with long suffering, for bearing one, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep, keep it, the oneness, the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.

[47:46] Colossians 3.15. Let the peace of God come in. Let the peace have the peace.

[47:58] There are people here, they just don't have peace. One of the things that you can never have peace without is without Christ you can never have peace.

[48:12] There's no way you can have peace without Christ. You can have things, things, but no peace. Without Christ you can't have peace.

[48:25] You can't have peace. You don't have it. Jesus said, my peace I live with you. Peace I live for you. John chapter 14 verse 28. The peace I live with you.

[48:36] My peace I live for you. Not as the world gives. peace do I give you. Let not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be faint. Not be afraid.

[48:47] I'm not giving you the peace the way the world does it. But I'm giving you true peace. Let the peace of God rule your heart.

[48:59] Endeavor to keep the bond of the spirit through the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace. Hallelujah.

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