The Supernatural Nature of the Christian Gathering (Part 2)

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right in. We need to continue from where we stopped

on Sunday. I want to thank God for the opportunity

again to bring the word to us. And I also want

to thank the asterisks. Matthew chapter 28. Matthew

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chapter 28. Matthew chapter 28 from verse...

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18 to 20. We're looking at the supernatural nature

of a Christian gathering. Praise the Lord. The

supernatural nature of a Christian gathering.

What makes this place or this gathering a supernatural

one? What makes it different from other meetings?

What is the uniqueness of this meeting? why are

we meeting like this? Praise the Lord. So that

we can have better understanding, we can have

better knowledge of the things to do and the

things not to do in the house of the Lord. Matthew

28, 18 -20 says, And Jesus came and spoke to

them, saying, All authority has been given me

in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make

disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the

name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy

Spirit, teaching them to observe all the things

that I have commanded you and lo, I am with you

always, even to the end of the age. Praise the

Lord. So we looked at these scriptures and we

saw that one of the responsibilities that we

have as believers Some of the responsibilities

that we have is that we are called to make disciples.

Praise the Lord. We are called to make disciples.

We are called to bring people to the knowledge

of the truth or to make somebody a student of

the word. Praise the Lord. This is our responsibility.

This is not what the church alone does, but it

is the responsibility of every... individual,

everyone that have believed. Praise the Lord.

So we also looked at that there are signs that

accompany a believer. Praise the Lord. We said

that there are signs that accompany a believer,

that we're not just people that are decent people,

good people. We're not just people that are...

You know, we can handle some things. We're not

easily angered. We're not this or that. Praise

the Lord. There are good representations of what

the Christian faith is, but there were people

that are supernatural. Praise the Lord. That

our salvation is supernatural. Praise the Lord.

That the experience that we have in God is supernatural,

right? And we saw that... Jesus was saying that

to them that believe, that is to he that have

believed in Mark chapter 16, Mark chapter 16,

Mark 16 · chapter mention Mark 16 · chapter mention

from verse 15 to 18, he tells us to them that

believe, there are signs that follow them. And

one of the signs that we see that follow a believer

is that he said that they will cast out demons.

Praise the Lord. So when we see people that are

demon oppressed or demon possessed, we cast out.

devils praise the lord and the casting out of

devils is not just something that we do as a

result of a maybe something is happening now

you say okay let me go and pray about it or let

me go and pray first then i will come back praise

the lord it's not something that you say let

me just go out there it's something that is in

you that you see a situation or the oppression

of the enemy we saw that He was talking about

that you will take up serpent. And we said that

he refers to the works of darkness. That is to

confront the work of darkness. So part of the

things that we have or part of the things, qualities

that we have as believers is that we confront

the work of darkness. That you see something

happening. You see something around you happening.

And you know, this is not the will of God or

this is not the purposes of God. You confront

it. Praise the Lord. So it's not something that

you go and say, okay, let me pray first before

I come back. It's something that happens. And

so if you're not walking in that light, right,

it's because maybe you don't have the knowledge

of it. Praise the Lord. Or you are not practicing

or you're not participating in it. It's not because

it is not there in the inside of you. It is not

because it is not present. Praise the Lord. So

part of the things again that we do is that we

heal the sick. The Bible tells us that you lay

your hands on the sick and they shall be healed.

Praise the Lord. So when we find people that

are sick around us, we don't just not do anything.

We pray with them. Praise the Lord. We pray for

them. We lay our hands on them that they might

receive healing. So these are some of the signs

of a believer. Praise the Lord. So don't just

be contented by the fact that, yes, you are,

you know, you're living in a certain way, or

that you have some of the things that you used

to do before, you have stopped doing them by

the grace of God, God has helped you, God has

delivered you for many things, but also that

you walk in the supernatural. Praise the Lord.

That you show forth the quality of He that is

in Christ. Praise the Lord. So we also looked

at also that it is important to note that as

children of God, that part of God's, part of

the things that we must know how to do is to

interpret the scriptures or to be able to teach

the Bible. Praise the Lord. Is to be able to

teach the Bible, is to be able to expound, right?

The scriptures. We saw that in Luke chapter 24,

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when Jesus expounded, He said, beginning at Moses,

he began to speak about the things concerning

himself. He opened their understanding. He has

founded the scriptures to them. Praise the Lord.

So part of the things as children of God is that

we're able to teach the scriptures. We're able

to shed light, right? To bring knowledge. Praise

the Lord. To remove ignorance from the lives

of people. So if somebody comes and meets you

and says to you that they don't understand the

scripture, or can you explain this or explain

that, right? Even if you don't know it, or even

if it's not fully clear yet to you, right? You

can explain it tomorrow. Praise the Lord. You

can tell them, come back tomorrow. I will be

able to explain it to you. Praise the Lord. You

can tell them, oh, come to me next week. I'll

be able to explain it to you. Praise the Lord.

So part of the things that we do also is that

we are able to explain the scriptures. It is

important for the believer and it's something

that we must do. It is a part of Christian work

that is not, I said, it's not elective. It's

not something that you choose. It's not something

that you decide whether or not you want to do

it. Praise the Lord. It's not something you decide

whether it is good for you or not good for you

or whether it's important for you or not important

for you. It is important. It is a compulsory

thing that we must do to be able to explain the

scriptures. It is also confronting the works

of darkness. Praise the Lord. To somebody who

is ignorant or somebody who does not know God.

Praise the Lord. By teaching or by preaching

the gospel, you're confronting the works of darkness

or the works of the devil. Praise the Lord. So

we don't say to ourselves that we like a particular

part of the Christian walk, right? I was giving

an example that we don't say that we don't, maybe

you like to sing, right? That is your own department.

Or you like to usher people into the church,

or you like to cook, or you like to do so many

things. We saw that even in Acts, right? We saw

that the disciples were also people just like

us. There were people also who were serving.

There were people who were also serving tables,

but there were people who were full of power.

They were full of the knowledge of the Word of

God, and they are able to teach it. So it is

important that these things are part of our lives.

Praise the Lord. So what makes this gathering,

or what makes this gathering a... supernatural

gathering. What makes this place a supernatural

gathering? It is different from, this meeting

is different from your office meeting. Praise

the Lord. Some of us were in class today. What

you had was a class meeting. Praise the Lord.

Some of your teachers are here. Maybe if you

know them, the interaction that you had with

them there is a teacher to a student interaction

or relation. What is the difference between that

and here? You meet the same person here and you

are here. Praise the Lord. So what is the difference?

Or that some of your lecturers taught you so

many things. Or that you are working in a place

and you have office mates and they are also in

church with you. Are you still in the office

with them? Are you having an office meeting?

Praise the Lord. We saw from Genesis that The

very beginning or the very opening of the chapters

of the Bible was supernatural. Praise the Lord.

Because he said that God in the beginning was

there and the spirit of God was hovering over

the waters. Praise the Lord. We said that your

salvation is supernatural. We believe in angels.

We believe in, we believe there are devils. We

believe there are demons. Praise the Lord. These

things are supernatural things. What makes the

Christian gathering a supernatural gathering?

I also said that they are not experts in the

world. We looked at from John, from Timothy,

how the Bible encourages us to continue. in the

things that we have learned. He tells us to continue

in good works. He tells us to continue in prayers.

He tells us to continue in studies. He tells

us to continue to preach time and time again.

Praise the Lord. And we said that the difference

between somebody who... Let's open to 2 Timothy

4. 2 Timothy 4, verse 2. 2 Timothy. He said,

2 Timothy 4:2

preach the word, be ready in season and out of

season, convince, rebuke, exalt with all longsuffering

and teaching. Praise the Lord. So he says to

them that, or he said to him that he should teach

in season and out of season. Praise the Lord.

It means that whether he's treating like it,

whether it's cold, whether it's hot. Praise the

Lord. His job is to teach the scriptures. Whether

it is convenient or not, teach the scriptures.

Whether it is a good time for you or not, preach

the scriptures. Whether you are in a good mood

or not, teach the scriptures. So there's no time

for teaching the scriptures. And I said that

the things that makes us look at people or men

of God or people that have given themselves to

the things of the Spirit as experts is because

they have. Their life is very consistent or they

are consistently feeding on the word of God.

They are consistently feeding on prayers. They

are consistently feeding on preaching the word.

Praise the Lord. They are continuing in the things

of God. They are continuing in the things of

God. So, expats are just people that are consistent.

Praise the Lord. What happens? When you decide,

for example, this next year is coming and you

decide to challenge yourself, right? Or you decide

to encourage yourself. You say, in this next

year, maybe what happens when I fast? What will

happen, right? If I decide this next year that

I'm going to study the Word of God like I've

never done, what will happen to my life? Praise

the Lord. So these are the kind of challenge

you should take. Praise the Lord. There are so

many challenges everywhere now, right? Something

comes out, people will challenge this person,

that person, maybe a dance challenge, who can

do it best. Praise the Lord. As children of God,

you should be thinking about these things. What

happens when you pray? Not because your school

fees is not paid. Praise the Lord. Not because

you have one challenge or the other. Not because

you... Your family is in serious problem. What

happens when you pray? What happens when you

come to the presence of God and you have no prayer

point? You have no, okay, God, I want you to

do that for me. I want you to do this for me.

What happens? What is the result of that? What

is the result of if I decide I'm going to study

the scriptures or I'm going to study my Bible

every day for 30 minutes? What happens? You discover

that your life will begin to change. Praise the

Lord. You discover that something different begins

to happen. You discover that I don't want to

give you what will happen. Right? Just take on

the challenge. Praise the Lord. Right? Take on

spiritual challenge and find out what the result

is. People have said, I'm sure you have seen

people online shouting, you know, I fasted for

100 days. I know some of you might look at this

like, who is this person? Why do we need to fast

that long? What is going on? Try something. You

try something and see. Praise the Lord. Instead

of maybe criticizing them and telling them, why

are you doing that Lord? What is going on? Praise

the Lord. What challenge have you done? What

spiritual challenge have you done? How have you

challenged yourself to do spiritual activities?

Praise the Lord. Because if you become consistent

in the things of God, you begin to discover that

understanding will begin to come. So many things

that you have tried by your own strength to stop

will begin to give way. Praise the Lord. Because

it is God who will enable you and strengthen

you. So when you continue in these things, or

when you continue in the things of God as the

Scriptures have encouraged us, When people begin

to see you and maybe you give a word and somebody

sees the accuracy of the word that you gave,

it's because these things have become familiar

and familiar and familiar to you. Praise the

Lord. Because of your continually doing it. I

told us on Sunday that whenever you meet somebody,

praise the Lord, you find out that not everybody

is able to open up to you or open up to somebody

or say something to you about what they are going

through, right? It should not be so. But there

are people like that that don't. Or maybe you

see them, they are smiling. You think everything

is okay. But by the Spirit, you can know that

there's something that we need to pray for. God

can give you a word for them. Praise the Lord.

Of something they have never told anybody. Of

something that they have never shared with anybody.

Praise the Lord. So whenever we gather together,

Whenever we come together, it is an opportunity

for us to edify, for us to bless one another,

for us to encourage one another. Praise the Lord.

So a person who is consistent in the things of

the Spirit, right, is somebody that will not

need a... pastors to come and encourage them

to pray. Example, we're here in church and the

person who just led prayers, leading prayers.

Somebody who is consistent in prayers or consistent

in the things of God will not need that person

to say, you, why are you not praying? Praise

the Lord. Because they know where they are. Praise

the Lord. They know what time it is. Praise the

Lord. They know what to do at this time. They're

very aware of their surroundings. So we need

to have an attitude of hunger and to just challenge

ourselves to do the things of God. We don't see

church services as an event, as something that

we just need to attend because we just need to

be here. Praise the Lord. It is a supernatural

place. Praise the Lord. So I said that we can

come together, right? As believers, we can come

together as teacher and student. But what makes

it different? What makes this setting different

from that of your teachers? What makes this setting

different from that where you are coming from?

Praise the Lord. What makes it different? As

believers, I said we can gather as people who

support the same football team, right? You can

gather as all of you are believers, but you're

Arsenal fans, right? What is that meeting about?

You can gather as a group of accountants who

are believers. You can gather as people who are

lawyers, who are doctors, right? You can even

gather as... Your siblings are children of God

or are believers. You can gather as a family.

But what makes a difference is that when you

gather together like this, or when we gather

together like this, we gather in the name of

the Lord. Praise the Lord. Matthew 18, verse

Matthew 18:20

20. Matthew 18, verse 20. He said, for when two

Matthew 18:20

or three are gathered together in my name, I

am there in the midst of them. Praise the Lord.

So when two or three are gathered in his name,

he's there in the midst of them. Right? I am

here in the midst of them. So when we gather,

we have the consciousness that what we have come

to do is supernatural. which means that God is

in the midst of us. Praise the Lord. So when

we gather like this, we gather with the consciousness

and we know that God is in the midst of us. So

what does that mean that God is in the midst

of us? Right? So we do not come here to meet

God. We don't come to this blue hall to meet

God. Praise the Lord. We come as individuals

who are indwelled by God. Praise the Lord. We

come as individuals who are indwelled by God.

John chapter 14, verses 16 -17. John chapter

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14. So we don't gather here to meet God. To meet

God in this place. We gather here because God

is in the inside of us. Praise the Lord. We gather

because God is in the inside of us. John chapter

John 14:16–17

14, verses 16 to 17. It said, And I will pray

the Father, and he will give you another helper,

that he may abide with you forever. The Spirit

of truth. Whom the world cannot receive because

it neither see him nor know him. But you know

him for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Praise the Lord. So we gather as people who are

indwelt by God. We gather as people who are indwelt

by God. Praise the Lord. So we also see that

Paul writes of the same thing. Right? In 1 Corinthians.

1 Corinthians chapter 3. 1 Corinthians 3, verse

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16. He said, Do you not know that you are temples,

the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God

dwells in you? Praise the Lord. So we gather

as people who are indwelled by God. Because why?

The Spirit of God dwells in the inside of us.

We are temple of God. And the Spirit of God dwells

in the inside of us. So, when we come together,

we know that our gathering is a supernatural

gathering. Praise the Lord. Gatherings of people

who God has indwelled in the inside of them.

So, that means that the way we see people, the

way we see believers, also matters. Praise the

Lord. The way we see each other is very important.

So if we're gathering, not because God is here,

right? In terms of that we're coming to meet

him here, but that we're gathering because God

is in the inside of us. And so we come together,

right? It means that we need to see ourselves

differently. So you no longer see that person

as your student. Praise the Lord. You no longer

see that person as your office mates. Praise

the Lord. You're not seeing that person now as

your fellow accountant or your fellow lawyer

or your fellow doctor. Praise the Lord. Because

the way we see these people, right, will determine

how we receive. Praise the Lord. The way we see

each other will determine how we receive from

each other. So if you see somebody as, they will

not bless you. you will not be blessed. Praise

the Lord. If you see somebody as, oh, God cannot

use that person to speak to me, you will not

be spoken to. Praise the Lord. So we gather with

that consciousness that everybody is indwelt

by God and we come to fellowship. So the way

we see people in a Christian meeting is the way

we receive from God and the way we worship Him.

Praise the Lord. So we cannot be careless and

just walk into the place and maybe the usher

say to you, please, can you sit in that place?

And then you ask them, why should I sit there?

Praise the Lord. So if you have this consciousness

that God indwelling all of us and we are gathering

together, if you walk into a service and there's

somebody saying to you, can you do this or can

you do that? You're not beginning to ask questions.

Because you know or you are conscious of the

gathering that you have just walked into. Praise

the Lord. So the moment you begin to do that,

the moment you begin to tell them, no, I cannot

sit there, you are disconnecting from the purpose

of the meeting. Praise the Lord. Or the moment

they're saying, oh, you cannot. I'm sure that

we sometimes have struggled with some people

about the way they should dress. Right? So they're

saying to you, oh no, that is not okay for where

you are. Right? And you're asking yourself, who

are you to tell me that? Right? You are disconnecting

from the purpose of the meeting. Praise the Lord.

You're disconnecting from the purpose of the

meeting because God indwells all of us and we

meet together. Praise the Lord. Maybe you're

just looking for a place to be comfortable. Right?

And they're telling you do this or do that. Praise

the Lord. So the moment we do that, we are disconnecting

ourselves from the purpose of the meeting because

what we say is important. Praise the Lord. What

we say is very important. It carries our consciousness.

Praise the Lord. So the first thing we know about

or we should know about the Christian gathering

is that it's a gathering of spirits. Praise the

Lord. It's a gathering of the spirits. Praise

the Lord. It is not an ordinary gathering because

it says in Matthew chapter 20, 18 verse 20, that

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they are my in their midst. Praise the Lord.

It is a gathering of spirits. It's a gathering

of the spirits. So therefore, what should we

do in this gathering? What should we do in this

gathering of the spirits? So the first thing

we do is that we keep the place sacred. Praise

the Lord. We keep the place sacred. Genesis chapter

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28. Genesis chapter 28. Genesis chapter 28 from

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verse 16 to 19. So this is the story of Jacob

when he was running from verse 16. Genesis 28.

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely

the Lord is in this place, and I do not know

it. Praise the Lord. And he was afraid and said,

How awesome is this place! There is no other

than the house of the Lord, and this is the gate

of heaven. Praise the Lord. Verse 18 said, Then

Jacob rose up early in the morning and took stones

that he had put at his head and set it up as

a pillar. and poured oil on it. And he called

the name of the place Bethel. Praise the Lord.

But the name of the, but that was not the previous

name that was there. Praise the Lord. So we see

here that Jacob woke up, right? Or he came to

the recognition that this is not, this place

I am is not what I thought. Praise the Lord.

that this place is indeed a holy place. Praise

the Lord. He said that God is in this place and

I did not know it. Right? Surely the Lord is

in this place and I did not know it. And he was

afraid and said, so the way he came in or the

way he slept is not the same way he woke up.

Praise the Lord. So the same way that some of

us have come here and the same way that this

knowledge is coming to you, that's... The house

of the Lord is a sacred place, right? And what

makes it sacred is because God is here. And God

is in the inside of us. So he set up stones,

right? And he poured oil on it. He said, oh no,

this is a holy place, right? This is a sacred

place. And so by their tradition, he just poured

oil on it and he called the place Bethel. Praise

the Lord. So what happens when you have come

to recognize that this is the place of God? This

is a sacred place. This is a place of worship.

So a normal place has now become a sacred place

to Jacob. Praise the Lord. Something that was

normal. He slept with the same stones. He's not

calling them or he's not setting it up as pillars

that he called Bethel. Praise the Lord. So a

sacred place has become, right, a noble place

has become a sacred place because of recognition.

He has come to a knowledge. He has come to an

understanding that this place is different. This

is not what I thought it was. So recognition

of what the house of God or what the meeting

of God, of God's children is, is very important.

So it's how he saw it, how he saw the place.

How do you see this place? How do you see the

house of the Lord? So sometimes, again, to workers

and leaders, people who set up the place, sometimes

because of maybe the too much work or the constant

demand on us to ensure that things are set properly,

we begin to lose sight of what we are doing.

of the importance of the place, of the importance

of the gathering. Praise the Lord. Because, you

know, it has become your normal Saturday. Let's

come and rehearse. Let's come and clean. Let's

come and arrange. Let's do this. Let's do that.

I have this responsibility. I have the responsibility.

We begin to lose sight of how important what

we are doing or how important what we are setting

up is. Or maybe you're angry that people are

not following your instructions, people are doing

what they should not do, and all of those things.

Praise the Lord. So one of the ways that you

can help yourself as you come, as you know, as

you're fixing the place, as you're doing, is

to continually to pray. Praise the Lord. Saying

that this place, as I'm setting this up, is a

sacred place. People are going to be blessed.

Praise the Lord. So as you do these things, you

don't let it overwhelm you. You don't let it

make you lose sight of how important the place

is. So you keep yourself in a supernatural consciousness

that this is a gathering of God's children. Praise

the Lord. This is a gathering of God's children.

We pray in the Spirit as we fix the things. So

what makes this place a supernatural gathering

is because God is here. He tells us that. He

said, I am there in their midst. It's because

God is here. Praise the Lord. God is here, not

like God is everywhere. As we know, God is everywhere.

Praise the Lord. God is here, but He's different

from that God is everywhere. God is here because,

He is the head of the meeting. Praise the Lord.

He is the reason of the meeting. Praise the Lord.

God is here, not as He is everywhere, but because

God is here as the head of the meeting. He is

the reason why we are meeting. Praise the Lord.

We know that God is everywhere, but not everywhere

is sacred. Praise the Lord. Not everywhere is

sacred. So we see him as sacred and we know that

he walks through people as I've explained earlier.

So there is a supernatural recognition of the

things of God or the meeting of God. Or you should

have this supernatural recognition of the meeting

of God's children. That God is here with us.

So the fact that other people don't see it as

sacred, right, does not mean that it's not so.

Praise the Lord. Or the fact that somebody else

does not behave that way does not mean it is

not true. So people found it easy to crucify

Christ or to laugh at him and crucify him. And

it's the same Christ who is your Lord and who

is your Savior. Praise the Lord. You see him

in a different light. Praise the Lord. You see

him in a different light. So the object of people's

mockery has become your object of worship. Right?

The thing that people laughed at or to him that

people laughed at has become your object of worship

because you have seen it. You have recognized

it. Your eyes is opened to it. It's the same

way that Paul also mocked christ he arrested

people he put people in prison and so many things

but the moment he recognized who christ was he

surrendered to him praise the lord it was he

that he persecuted before but now he has surrendered

and he's doing the assignment of god because

he has seen it in the way he should be seen praise

the lord so the way you see the house of god

right is very important So recognition is very

important. Praise the Lord. It changes how you

receive. Oh, when you find out that, you know,

there's a lot of people that, I'm going to use

a secular example. Maybe you find that somebody

is, oh, let me use an example that I will say.

Maybe Pastor Manuel is in BAU and You are a new

student and you don't know that he's in your

department. And then maybe you're not as wise.

And then you maybe saw him on the road and you

bumped into him. And then one day you saw him

in your class teaching you. What will happen

when you come out? Right? You have seen something

different. Praise the Lord. So recognition changes

how we received. So even the brothers of Jesus,

they were observing him. What is this man doing?

Praise the Lord. They gave birth to us. They

gave birth to you. Our Mary is looking at Jesus.

And the scripture will say she kept these things

in her mind. Praise the Lord. But the moment

they have come to recognize who he is, they became

disciples. Praise the Lord. They became disciples.

Meaning that they have changed, right? The moment

they change their recognition, things change

for them. Praise the Lord. So the moment we begin

to see or begin to recognize that this meeting

or the believers' meetings is a supernatural

one, that moment we begin to receive. Praise

the Lord. We begin to receive all that we need

to receive. In Acts chapter 2, from verse 1 to

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4, it talks about the day of Pentecost, right?

There was fire, there was stones of fire, there

was the supernatural things happening. People

were speaking with new tongues, right? And then

you found some people invested in, they were

having fun. They said, these people are drunk.

What are they doing? Praise the Lord. So the

fact that somebody else is not seeing the meeting

as you're seeing it, does not mean that it changes

what is going on here, what is true about it.

Praise the Lord. So we do not judge a meeting

from what it looks like from others who don't

recognize it. Praise the Lord. We don't judge

a meeting from what it looks like from others

who do not recognize it. So what is supernatural

about the Christian meeting? It is not where

we are. Praise the Lord. What is supernatural

about this meeting is not where we are. We are

in the blue hall. This place in the afternoon

is electrical. Praise the Lord. It is not where

we are. Right? It's not maybe because, you know,

this place was decorated with some things. Maybe

there's a cross in the middle. That's what makes

it. It's not what makes it a supernatural meeting.

Praise the Lord. It is not even the time. It

is not even the time of the meeting. Praise the

Lord. It's not because this exists. We cannot

say this meeting is supernatural because, you

know, we meet at six. And we have been meeting

at six for the past one year. So the consistency

of this time has made it supernatural. No. Praise

the Lord. We can meet early in the morning. We

can meet middle of the day. It is not even the

feeling that it gives you. Praise the Lord. It's

not how you feel when you come to the meeting.

Praise the Lord. It's not whether you came and

then you are feeling happy going or you are feeling

energized going. That's not what makes it a supernatural

meeting. It's not even the way the church is.

Praise the Lord. It's not the background. It's

not the blue lights. Now I don't know why people

put blue lights in the church. and so many different

types of lights in the church setting. But it's

not about those types of lights. It's not about

the way the pulpit is organized. It's not the

altar. Praise the Lord. That's not what makes

it a supernatural meeting. So what makes it a

supernatural meeting? As we have said, Who makes

it a supernatural meeting? And we said that God

is in the midst of them. So it is God who makes

it a supernatural meeting. It is the presence

of God that makes it a supernatural meeting.

He said, I'm in the midst of them. So God is

here. Praise the Lord. God is here. We need to

recognize the significance of that, that God...

is here in us. Praise the Lord. God is here in

us. So that's why we said it's not a place. Praise

the Lord. We can decide to move out now and be

outside. God is there. Praise the Lord, because

we are there. Praise the Lord. It's because God

is here. So if God is here, then How do you see

yourself? Then who are you? Do you see yourself

as a citizen of Namibia? Do you see yourself

as a citizen of Nigeria? Do you see yourself

as a citizen of one country or the other? Or

do you see yourself as a lawyer, a doctor, a

businessman, an entrepreneur? Do you see yourself

as a man or a woman? Yes, you can see yourself

as that, as a man, as a woman, as a business

person, but that's not what we represent here

when we come together. Praise the Lord. So when

we come together, we didn't come to represent

business, something association. Praise the Lord.

That's not what we come to represent. So what

we represent is that we are temples of God. Praise

the Lord. We are temple of God. And our recognition

is important that we are temple of God. So who

is supernatural? God is supernatural, right?

Because God is here. And you are supernatural

because God is in the inside of you. Praise the

Lord. You're supernatural because God is in the

inside of you. Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter

Romans 8 · chapter mention Romans 8:1–9

8, verse 1 to 9. There is therefore no condemnation

to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not

walk according to the flesh, but according to

the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life

in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law

of sin and death. do in that he was weak through

the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in

the likeness of a sinful flesh on account of

sin. He condemned sin in the flesh, that the

righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled

in us who do not walk according to the flesh,

but according to the Spirit. For those who live

according to the flesh set their minds on the

things of the flesh. For those who live according

to the Spirit, They are the things of the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death, but to be

spiritually minded is life and peace, because

the carnally mind is an enmity against God, for

it is not subject to the laws of God, nor indeed

can it be. So then, those who are in the flesh

cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh,

but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God

dwells in you. Now, if anyone does not have the

Spirit of God, he is not his. Praise the Lord.

Verse 9 tells us that, it said, but you are not

in the flesh. You are in the Spirit. Praise the

Lord. You are in the Spirit. You are supernatural.

Praise the Lord. You are supernatural. So the

church is supernatural. The gathering is a gathering

of supernatural beings. This gathering, is a

gathering of supernatural beings. That recognition

is important for us to be able to receive. It

is a gathering of supernatural beings. It is

important, praise the Lord, that we know who

is here. Praise the Lord. God is here. You are

here. And that God is in the inside of you. It

is a supernatural gathering. Praise the Lord.

It's important that we organize them because

that's how we receive. In John chapter 14, sorry,

John 14 · chapter mention

John chapter 4, verse 7 to 10, we see the Samaritan

John 4:7–10

woman asking Jesus, who is he to ask her for

a drink? He being a Jew. Praise the Lord. Who

is he to ask her for drinks? John chapter 4,

John 4:7–10

verse 7 to 10. In verse 10, Jesus answered and

said, if you knew the gift of God and who is

it who says to you, give me a drink, you would

have asked him and he would give you the living,

he would give you living waters. Praise the Lord.

So she does not know or have not recognized who

is speaking to her. Praise the Lord. So recognition

is important for receiving. Praise the Lord.

Recognition is important for receiving. If you

knew the gift of God and who is he that acts

your drink, praise the Lord, it's a very important

element for blessing to know who is here. God

is here and your fellow believers are here. So

a very important element of being blessed in

a meeting is recognizing who, the person is and

like i said god is here and you are here jacob

recognized who was there and he showed respect

oh he recognized this place i am is not a normal

place basically it's like oh let me build let

me build pillars right and raise up something

there and pour oil on it as an altar and he called

the name of the place Bethel So he showed respect

because he knew what was there. Praise the Lord.

So how do we show respect in the gathering of

God's people? We show respect by not being a

distraction. Praise the Lord. So when you recognize

or when you have come to recognize that God is

here and you are here and the brethren are here,

praise the Lord, you show respect by not being

a distraction. Praise the Lord. By not being

a distraction, by not moving around. There's

some people that they finally have to sit down.

Praise the Lord, especially in church. They are

always moving, moving. Maybe they are, I don't

know, in their head, maybe they wore a fine dress.

I don't know, maybe that is causing them to stand

up and say, look at me. Praise the Lord, right?

It's not to keep moving around, right? To show

up on time. Praise the Lord. To reduce unnecessary

talk. You are in church. You are preaching. You

are talking to your neighbor. Are you here? Did

you see what happened yesterday? Praise the Lord.

To reduce unnecessary talk because you have come

to recognize that this is a gathering of believers

where God is and you are in. Praise the Lord.

So, When I recognize that you are here, it means

that I also recognize that God is here. Praise

the Lord. Because you recognize that this person

has the Spirit of God, right? And it is a supernatural

meeting. So I treat the person as sacred. Praise

the Lord. I treat the person as sacred. We treat

each other as sacred, right? And I think it's

something that we would have to... expounding

teaching in terms of how we treat each other.

How do you see a Christian brother? How do you

see a Christian sister? Praise the Lord. So we

treat each other as sacred. So you don't come

here and the moment you begin to treat this person

as, oh, that guy is my housemate or that person

is my housemate, then you are off. Praise the

Lord. You're not understanding what is going

on. Praise the Lord. You treat the person as

sacred. Like I said, there's nothing special

about the whole, right? What makes it a supernatural

or supernatural or makes this gathering supernatural

is how we see it, how we recognize it. Praise

the Lord. How we recognize it. The same thing

goes for people, right? How we see people. When

you see somebody in Christ, you are able to receive

from them. Praise the Lord. If you're going to

see them as, you know, this person is my classmate

or my housemate, and then how can I receive from

them in the house of God? Then you will not receive.

Praise the Lord. So imagine you see the person

as a man of God. Imagine you see the person as

a woman of God, as somebody who can bless you,

as somebody who will bless you. Praise the Lord.

As somebody who would speak the mind of God to

you, it will reduce your confusion. Praise the

Lord. It will reduce your solution -seeking everywhere.

Praise the Lord. Because your eyes are beginning

to open to the people around you. Praise the

Lord. That God can use them to help your life.

Praise the Lord. That God can speak through them.

That God can give them a counsel concerning your

life. Praise the Lord. You will not be running

around looking for healing while your housemates

can lay hands on you and you'll be well. Because

you have come to recognize or you have not recognized

that this person is somebody that God indwells.

Or that you have not come to recognize that this

person is supernatural. Praise the Lord. So it

will reduce you running around. It will reduce

a lot of the things that will come your direction.

It will reduce those who you will call because

you're trying to find solution for your life.

Praise the Lord. So avoid see finish as much

as you can. Praise the Lord. So when we come

to... A Christian meeting, we come with a consciousness

that God is here. God is here, right? And we

are here and God dwells in the inside of us.

Praise the Lord. God dwells in the inside of

us. Praise the Lord. Can we just open our mouth

and just begin to pray? I just thank God for

the meeting. Thank God for the opportunity to

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