Walking in the Spirit 2 (The Facts and The Fallacies) | Rev. COS Fawenu

Who is this a Wisdom Bible church?

The Church of a Christian? The Holy Spirit will help us

today towards the endpoint of today's message to be able to

differentiate between what are the facts and what are the

fallacies. You will not work in error in

Jesus name. We are talking about working in

the Spirit, but the temptation and the tendency is also there

that you are working in error and you think you are working in

the in the Spirit. And of course, let's take a

Biani again from where we stopped last week.

The emphasis is on the fact that the Christian faith is the faith

of followership, likewise is a faith of fellowship.

I also take my time to differentiate between the two.

You need the two understanding to excel in your work with

Christ. Praise the name of the Lord, and

you must not take one for the other.

So the Christian faith is a faith of fellowship.

It's also a fate of follower sheep.

Praise the name of the Lord. And if you really want to follow

Jesus, there is no alternative to walking in the Spirit.

So when Jesus said it so they will be disciples and say the

same thing to us today. Follow me.

What is the way to go about it? The way to go about following

Jesus is to walk in the Spirit. The very common and central

statement of Jesus to every of his would be disciple as we

X-ray it from portions of the New Testament.

The gospel in particular last week was that there is this

common Charlene, this common call follow me.

How do you go about it is by walking in the Spirit.

So that phrase or statement, follow me is an invitation to

walking in the Spirit. Galatian 516 and then I jump to

525. This I say then walk in the

Spirit, and yes, shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

This is opposed to Paul writing to the Church of Galicia because

they were a church that started with zeal embrace the gospel,

but along the line they embrace the fallacy about the faith as

against the facts, the truth of the faith.

It got to a point that Apples to Paul was so troubled and

concerned that he had to rebuke them after three.

He exclaimed, You foolish Galatians, people who are

supposed to hold the truth, but they dropped the facts and they

were following after fallacies, after error.

So the tendency is there. Therefore, like I said earlier,

that you may be walking in error and you will think you are

walking in the Spirit. I pray again in the name of

Jesus, that as I bear the mind of God to you this morning, the

grace to differentiate between the weeds and the saps will be

given unto you in the name of Jesus.

Said so. This was what informed that

emphasis we find repeatedly in chapter 5 of the book of

Galicia, where in our captain I'm marrying it unto them.

Walk in the Spirit. This is the way to escape error.

Walk in the Spirit. This is the way to overcome the

flesh. If you get to verse 19, you will

not discover that he listed the works of the of the flesh that

are contrary to working in the Spirit.

So he said this, I said then walk in the Spirit and yes shall

not fulfill the loss of the flesh.

Then some people mistake walking in the Spirit with mere by mere

being baptized in the Holy Spirit. 1 is a situational

event. The other is a progression.

You know, I told you that the Christian faith is not only a

faith of confession, is also a faith of progression.

Am I talking to somebody? So we now get to verse 25.

He said if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the

Spirit. It means you can be in the

spirit and stagnant. Hello, generally you are born

again. Indeed you can.

You are started for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

You have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

You are living in the Spirit, but you are not working in the

Spirit. You are not making progress, you

are not growing. So what guarantee your growth is

not just by being baptized in the Holy Spirit.

You must also follow after Jesus.

You must walk in the Spirit. If we live in the Spirit, let us

also walk in the Spirit. And of course last week I

clarified that salvation is not a one step journey.

Operating in the Spirit is also not a one step experience of I

am baptized and once I am once I am baptized I need do nothing

more. Are we together?

So why? Christianity is a race?

It is not a place. Hello.

The Christian faith is a race. It's not a place, it's not a

location. The the part of the faith that

is a place is heaven. And it's not a place we have

arrived. It's a place we are going.

Hope I'm not confusing us. So Christianity is a race.

It is not a place. It is heaven that is a place,

and salvation to Christ is the gate to heaven.

You get born again, OK, to see the Kingdom of God.

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

So you don't have a clear sight of heaven.

You don't have a clear sight of God.

Your eyes of understanding is not a lighting.

But the foundation for the Enlightenment of your height of

understanding is that the place of being born again you see, you

are attracted, but you don't stand where you see.

You walk towards what you have seen.

Am I talking to somebody? That's why Christianity is not a

place. Salvation is not a place.

Christianity is a race. You got by the gate to see, and

once you have seen the next things for you to advance

towards. So salvation to Christ is the

gate to heaven. And of course, you will agree

with me that access to the gate of any compound does not connote

access to the mansion. Look at that compound now, OK,

somebody can come into this gate.

I mean, coming through the gate and stay in the compound.

And where you asking? Where are you?

You will say I am at Oasis of Wisdom Bible Church, yet it's

outside there in the compound, but it's not in the auditorium

to be part of what we are doing in the auditorium.

And that is the experience of some believer, one in land who

live Balani. So access to the gate does not

connote presence in the mansion. With the mouth you confess unto

salvation. That is the scripture.

Romans 10/10 For with the heart man believed unto righteousness,

and with the mouth we confess unto salvation.

But you must progress or follow onto eternal life.

You confess unto salvation, then you progress onto eternal life.

That was why Jesus would always say follow me, and the way to

follow Him is by walking in the Spirit.

Holy Spirit, give us understanding.

Let me push that illustration further.

From Psalms we can learn the structure of His presence

clearly. Psalm 65 Four, bless his demand,

whom thou choosest. You know we are saved by grace.

We didn't choose God, God chose us.

Am I talking to somebody? And Cosette to approach unto

thee, that he may dwell in thy code.

So when he chose us, he called us OK that we may approach unto

him. So a man that is beckoned on a

man that is called OK if he will ever enjoy the relationship or

contact with the person that has called him.

It is your nurse is on him to advance to the one that called

him. Are you understand what I'm

saying? If I say Brother Enola come, I

am the one that should stand. It is you that should watch

advance towards me. So Sam Srirafosse blesses the

man whom thou chooses and causes to approach unto thee.

So the door is open, but effort must also come from our path to

assess His presence, to be able to gain direct contact with Him,

that He may dwell in Thy cord, which I be satisfied with the

goodness of the house. Evil of Thy holy temple.

Then 84 is 26 psalms. My soul longed.

Yeah, evil fainted for the court of the Lord.

So the longing, the hunger, the passion to advance and assess

God was on the part of the one that has been given the

opportunity, the one that the girl has been open on to.

My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Now, until there is that anger for God in you, you may not make

so much progress in your work with God.

So this is a critical part of the faith which responsibility

of thee lies on you. So this is a part of the faith

that your disciple cannot play for you.

This is the part of the faith that your parents cannot play

for you. That hunger must be of you.

That passion must be of you. That long game must be of you.

That readiness of heart must be of you.

That willingness to get hold of this God must be of you is a

personal responsibility. Verse 92.

Psalm 92. Verse 13 those that be planted

in the House of the law shall flourish where in the courts of

our God. Then Psalm 104, the one that is

very popular that you know and you sing in song.

I will enter his game with a civil.

I will enter his call with. So there's a distinction between

the gates and what's the cause For how long will you stay at

the gates? For how long will you stay in

the arena? God is saying come into the

court. The court is the place of

decision. The court is the place of

judgement. The court is the place of

government. Hello, are you with me?

Because the Christian faith is the Kingdom.

It is in the course you have the true not at the gates, not in

the compound. So the king is seated on the

throne in the court, which is courteous that you and I should

be. Am I talking to somebody?

You are called to be a part of the Kingdom, and we enter His

gate without giving and into His court.

We pray, be thankful to Him and bless His name.

So salvation is an experience. It is not the terminus.

Salvation is what an experience is not the terminal point.

It's not the end point of your relationship with Go.

I consider salvation as the springboard for deeper

experience with Go. For higher dimension of

relationship with Go, salvation is the springboard.

If you have seen divers before, OK, when they want to dive,

there is a particular board, OK, that they stand on and they

bounce and bounce on it and then that springboard will launch

them into the water and from there they begin to swim.

If somebody stand on the springboard, another just stand

on an ordinary ground, OK, To dive into the water.

The one that stands on the springboard already have an

advantage because the springboard will push in, OK.

And then from there, if we just swim on, are we together?

The one that stand on mere floor is not a good swimmer.

If he jump into the river, he may sink.

Am I talking to somebody? So salvation is an experience.

It is not a terminus. You consider it properly as a

springboard for your spiritual journey.

Remember that our colleague into the field, OK is on to a journey

and not to judgment. So salvation is the beginning of

the race, giving your life to Christ in place.

By that you have accepted to follow Jesus.

And yes, of course, Jesus in one of his is either teaching or

parable or narration. I agree.

I don't know which one it belongs to.

He said there were two sons of the same father.

And he called the first child. He said, you will go with me or

you go for me to the farm. And he said, yes, Sir.

And then he turned away from the father and he didn't go.

The second one he called him. He said, Daddy, I will not be

able to go, but what I said I will not be able to go,

reconsider and he eventually went.

So not until you start to follow, we cannot say your

salvation is genuine. Not until you start to walk in

the spirit, live in obedience to the word of God, we cannot say

you're racing up your hand and you are weeping.

I am surrender unto Jesus name. I go follow until we start to

see you do it. Practically so.

Christianity is a faith of fellowship, as we have it in

Galatians 525 if we live in the Spirit.

So that tell us that Christianity is a faith of

fellowship, a call to live in the Spirit.

But Galatians 535 says, if we claim to live in the Spirit, we

must demonstrate it by walking in the spirit.

So as a face of fellowship, that fellowship can only be

demonstrated by practical followership.

You are called unto fellowship. You are called unto union with

God. Are you with me?

That is fellowship, but the Genuity of that court of

fellowship that you have answered.

The proof of it in practical time is your followership.

You're walking in the spirit. If we live in the Spirit, let us

also walk in the Spirit. Apostle Paul stressed it

further. He said we must work out our

faith with fear and trembling. So if you understand

Christianity as a fellowship and nothing more, you will think

salvation is the endpoint. Are you piercing the materials

together? So you would think being

baptized in the Holy Spirit is the peak of Christian

experience? The moment you can, you can

speak in tongue. You say you have reached the end

point of the faith, but I put it to you that even with the

ingenuity of your salvation and your experience of baptism or

the Holy Spirit, the role is still very long.

I will dig a little deeper. Jesus love must be sweeter.

I will dig a little deeper. Deeper.

Yeah, I will dig. I will dig a little deeper.

Jesus love must be sweeter. I will dig a little deeper.

Deeper, more. That's why I was supposed to say

that I may know him. The power of the selection, the

fellowship of the software be made confirmable unto his death.

So the road is still very long, there is still more ground to

cover. The opportunity is still there

for you, for richer experience to explore.

And that is why the owners lie on you, to make up your mind to

walk in the Spirit. So if you have that

understanding that Christianity is a fate of followership beyond

just fellowship, it will be clear to you that salvation is

only the starting point of the range.

Let me make a little more clarification on the fellowship

dimension and the followership dimension and why you must take

the 2 together in your journey with God, in your relationship

with God. On the month of transligoration,

something happened. Jesus took, I think three of his

disciples. Peter was one of them, to the

month of transligoration. And while they were there it was

an El Dorado. And when Apostle Peter

experienced that union fellowship with the patriarchs

that have been long gone, Moses was there, Elias was there, and

Jesus was there. And Peter said we are as should

a person want to be than to be here forever as they let us hear

duty Tabernacle, one for Moses, one for Elias and one for Jesus

and let us be here forever. Let the headquarters of Jesus

Ministry International be on this month.

And we are going nowhere again. So there is a possibility that

you can be lost in fellowship that will be left behind in

followership. These are deep issues.

I pray you will understand. That was the experience of

Peter. You can be lost in fellowship.

OK, That the cloud will move, OK, I will not know.

I will still be staying inside the assumption, OK, of the cloud

of the past. That is why I give it to the

children of Israel while they were in the wilderness.

Whatever they are doing, even if there's plant little crops, OK,

and the crop is ready for harvest, the moment the pillar

of cloud move, they abandon all of that and move with the cloud.

Am I talking to somebody? But Peter didn't learn from

that. He was lost in the fellowship on

the month of transfiguration, and he was saying I go nowhere.

This is where I will stay, assuming Jesus had permitted him

to stay on the month of Transfiguration.

You may never have the experience of walking on the

streets of Jerusalem whereby a shadow will be erasing the dead

and healing the sick. Am I talking to somebody?

So you can be lost in fellowship that will be left behind in

followership. You can be lost in prayer that

you will not be useful in evangelism.

Am I talking to somebody? And that's why Jesus was very

emphatic and balanced when he said you will receive power when

the only ghost come on you. He didn't stop there.

He said then you will be my witness.

You will move. The faith is a movement, not a

monument. Our faith is a movement is not

what a monument? You know, a monument is a

beautiful thing that tourists come and see and you watch and

you enjoy the presence of it and you take picture around it.

Hello. And all that many people do in

church every Sunday is to take pictures in church.

I don't, I'm not say those who take picture are not doing the

right thing. Well, after taking those

picture, where are you taking the picture to?

Are you taking the picture to bring other people?

Are you taking the picture to share the gospel on the social

media or just operate how beautiful you are?

Am I talking to somebody? So our faith is not a monument.

Our faith is what? A movement.

So if you are lost in fellowship and you are left behind in

followership, at that point, you may be doing the correct things

of yesterday that are not the current things on the calendar

of Jewish Spirit for today. You'll be doing the correct

things of yesterday which are not the current things on the

calendar of the Holy Spirit for today.

That was why when Cornelius was to be the first of the Gentiles

to be saved and an Angel appeared to him, I said the man

that we be the instrument for your salvation and for the

entrance of the gospel to Europe and from there to other parts of

the world, is Apostle Peter. Apostle Peter was still holding

on to the correct revelation of the days of Moses, that the

Israelite must not hit a clean animal.

The Israelite must not associate with Gentiles and where he was

and God said send men to Jopa where Peter was and beckon him

to come. God had to be giving him

revelation of revelation. And this part of revelation he

was still arguing a basket came with different kinds of animals

that were forbidden from eating. And the Angel was saying, Peter,

stand up and he doesn't say no, I can't eat or kill me, Eat, I

can't eat or kill me. It was great reluctance that he

agreed to follow the servant that came from Cornelius.

In fact, when he got there, he started to preach very lengthy

religious message that may not end in invitation to salvation.

And when the Holy Spirit discovered that this man is

still staying in the cloud of yesterday, fellowship is not

following correctly. The Bible says even without him

calling them to salvation, the only Spirit descended on the

meeting. Acts chapter 10.

Acts 10 · chapter mention

The only Spirit is not to wait for him to invite them to

salvation. OK.

And they were all baptized, the entire household.

It was there. Peter and I said, now I agree.

Now I will move, now I will follow.

Who am I to deny these people? What are baptism when God

himself advertised them with the Holy Spirit?

You find all of that in that chapter 10.

AM I talking to somebody? So?

And it was not only an act that started it.

This started with him even on the month of transportation.

Thank God for the voice of intervention that overrule His

opinion. You see why you are a fellowship

and you don't understand the followership dimension.

You may be operated by opinion and presumption as they gave you

operate by revelation. So there was the voice of

intervention that came from heaven.

This is my beloved son. Hear him maybe we should read

that story in Matthew 17 so that I don't assume that we all

understand what I'm relating to Matthew 17 and after his day

Jesus taken Peter, James and John.

That's one verse one his brother.

I'm bringing them up onto a onto a high mountain apart underline

the phrase and high, high mountain, high mountain, high

mountain. We should be able to take kudos

to Peter, James and John for travelling long enough to get to

the mountain, that peak level of fellowship with Jesus and was

transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the

sun, and his women was white as the light.

And behold there appear unto them Moses and Elias talking

with him. Then answered Peter and said

unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here.

It is good for us to Tabernacle here.

It is good for us to stay here permanently.

It is good for us OK not to explore any higher other higher

level or dimension. This is good enough if that will

let us make here 3 Tabernacle, one for thee and one for Moses,

and one for a liar. He still wanted to stay in the

past, he still wanted to hold on to the law and to the prophet.

One ye speak, behold a a black cloud over shadow them to

overrule the opinion he was offering.

I pray in the name of Jesus when you are about to make a mistake

that will not align with the program of God for your life,

Heaven will intervene and overrule you in the name of

Jesus. Why yes, pay beyond the black

lad over shadow them and beyond a voice out of the cloud.

We said, this is my beloved son A whom I am well pleased hear

him. So from fellowship you gain

community benefits of the faith. But if you marry that with the

fellowship understanding of the faith, you will be helped to

also understand or to gain understanding of personal

accountability. Am I talking to somebody?

Because many of you, your faith, survive only in fellowship.

You are actually not into followership.

Remove fellowship from you. The devil will finish you in

fellowship. The weakest brother can stand

under the complete anointing to do exploits, including casting

out devils. But without a personal private

work with God, the devil will deal with him.

Nazi Leslie, whenever he's alone and he wouldn't know that the

cover he had was the corporate fellowship anointing.

How strong are you against the powers of darkness when it is

you and you alone? How effective are you in your

prayer when it is you alone that is to pray?

AM I talking to somebody you know?

I am not preaching against fellowship, but I am saying that

there is a place of personal accountability, that only your

work in the Spirit, personal work in the Spirit, will be what

will matter. For a day will come when we

shall all appear before the judgment St. of Christ to give

accounts, not good accounts, not common accounts, not cooperative

account, not a better account, not family accounts.

Are you with me? No denominational account,

individual accounts. So if you cannot follow Jesus

instruction, you cannot flow with him in the Spirit.

That was why when that voice of intervention came on the month

of transaction. OK, the emphasis is here Jesus.

So for you to work in the Spirit, you need closer personal

work with Jesus, and that is the only way to avoid being

distracted out of the way. You are not following Him afar

off, but you are following Him. You are keeping step with Him.

You are walking in His step. So a closer personal work with

Jesus is needed to avoid being distracted out of the way.

If you have ever travelled on a road or to a place you don't

know before and you call for help, that somebody who know the

road should lead you. One of the things you must do

and you must not fail at is that you keep close proximity with

the person that is leading you. But if you will not do that

because the other person knows the road, he knows all the band

and all the nooks and crannies, by the time you do the first

band, the second band, OK, let it be Lagos, you will be lost

forever. Am I talking to somebody?

So, the only thing that can help a follower is to keep close

proximity with the person that is needed.

How close are you in fellowship and followership of the Holy

Spirit? So the only way to avoid being

distracted out of the way is to follow closely a closer war with

Jesus. I will dig a little deeper.

Jesus love must be sweeter. Remember I once taught you from

this poopy, A closer walk with Jesus is not a disadvantage.

A closer walk with Jesus is not. What a disadvantage some of you.

You don't want to be too committed, you don't want to be

too involved. You want to stay and lose.

You are giving occasion to the flesh to overcome you and for

the devil to overtake you. Am I talking to somebody?

A closer walk with Jesus. Confess the liberty of the

Spirit of you to check the flesh.

Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the desires of the

flesh. Walking in the Spirit closer

walk with Jesus. We make even your bodies subject

to the dictates of the Holy Spirit.

The reason the flesh can easily overcome you is because you are

not keeping close work with Jesus.

We all perform better on that monitoring.

Hello, is that not? You may want to relax when

you're not being monitored. So if you walk closely with the

Holy Spirit, if you walk in the Spirit, the sense of being

monitored will be there. And so you be careful.

That was what helped Joseph when he had the opportunity to sleep

with the wife of his master. And if he, if he did that, are

you with me, it may lead to some other even kind of benefit for

him. But a sense of understanding of

spirit monitoring. He said how shall I do this

thing and sing against God? So he was working in the

consciousness of the presence of God.

You can cheat your wife, you can cheat your husband, you can

misbehave, OK, because your pastor is not there.

But what about the presence of the Spirit of God?

How much of the consciousness of the presence of God do you

carry? Am I talking to somebody?

Yes. You have travelled to evaporate,

your wife is not there. You drop and clean mouth and you

think no man has seen you, but has God not seen you?

So spiritual consciousness, we announce your sense of social

responsibility. If we announce your sense of

marital fidelity, am I talking to somebody?

If you announce your sense of destiny accountability, that

whether say or not say, you will account for every of your

action, you will account for every of your words.

Can we check the facts and the fallacies?

And we stop here today to look on the facts and fallacies next

week. And the reason for that is that

it is possible you are working in error.

Why you think you are working in the Spirit?

It is not only the devil that misinterpret issues.

Our flesh and our religious presumption can equally lead to

misconception of issues. And that is why next week we

will focus on what working in the Spirit is not, so that we

can separate between the facts and the fallacies.

God bless you. I love you with the love of

Jesus. We believe you'll be blessed by

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

of all you've heard. For further inquiry and

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