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The Principles of Spiritual Fervency 3 (Moderation & Spiritual Fervency) | Rev. COS Fawenu

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  1. Who is this a Freedom Bible Church, The Church of A?

  2. Disney Christian narration. Our focus today, we're going to

  3. be examining moderation and spiritual fallacy.

  4. Moderation and spiritual fallacy.

  5. But before we go on, I like you to understand this study as an

  6. advanced class and the school of discipleship.

  7. In that sense, you will need to pay keen attention to get the

  8. information accurately. Praise the name of the Lord.

  9. I'm trusted the Lord that I will not misinform you.

  10. I'm also trusted the Lord that you will not misinterpret me in

  11. the name of Jesus. And so we also get ourselves to

  12. the guidance of the Holy Spirit for help.

  13. And I know it will build a teacher and the structure of our

  14. mind this morning in the name of Jesus.

  15. When we talk about spiritual Farhan, see, it is expected to

  16. be more evidence among young people generally, all believers

  17. to be spiritually Farhan. We've been emphasizing that over

  18. and over again. But when lukewarmness

  19. characterize the youthful Christian population is an issue

  20. of serious concern. Am I talking to somebody is an

  21. issue of what serious concern? Because what are you going to

  22. give us an explanation that warrant that you will not deploy

  23. your youthful energy and active commitment to your faith?

  24. So spiritual privacy, though expected of all believers, of

  25. all age groups and categories, it is much more expected to be

  26. more evident among young people, not only young people, among

  27. young believers. There's a difference between

  28. young people and young believers.

  29. Young people is a question of age.

  30. Young. Being a young believer is a part

  31. when you come to know the Lord, praise the name of the Lord.

  32. So a person of a younger age may not be a young believer if it

  33. comes to know the Lord earlier in life than an adult.

  34. Am I talking to somebody? And so I'm saying essentially

  35. that spiritual fervency should be much evidence among the

  36. youthful Christian population generally.

  37. Then it is also expected that when you just come to the Lord

  38. as a young believer, OK, that fires to be evident.

  39. So maturity is therefore required for moderation in

  40. handling your zeal. And that is why we are bringing

  41. in the balance that is necessary to manage spiritual vacancy this

  42. morning. So maturity is required to

  43. moderate the kind of zealousness that a young believer will

  44. demonstrate, the kind of zealousness that is always

  45. evidence among the youthful Christian population.

  46. Because if that moderation is not taught to help them attain

  47. maturity, no, they become a victim of what I call spiritual

  48. juvenile syndrome. So I'm going to speak so much

  49. about that as we proceed in the study.

  50. Spiritual juvenilism or spiritual juvenile syndrome will

  51. always result when spiritual pharmacy is not managed with

  52. moderation that can help young believers to quickly attain

  53. maturity. So if you are young in faith and

  54. you are young in age, you have no justification to be

  55. spiritually sluggish, no justification for somebody who

  56. is a Christian and young in age or for somebody who is young in

  57. faith to be spiritually sluggish.

  58. You know the advantage you have as a young person.

  59. It lies in the combination of your youthful energy and the

  60. only spirit baptism that you have received.

  61. So the combination of your youthful energy and the Holy St.

  62. baptism is expected to produce super spiritual commitment,

  63. excellent spiritual commitment. Am I talking to somebody?

  64. So a situation whereby you are carefree and you are not serious

  65. with your faith is, is an issue of serious concern.

  66. The Scripture says in Lamentation it is good for a

  67. young man to bear the youth in his youth.

  68. Of course, our Lord Jesus Christ stood opposed to Peter, that it

  69. is natural for young people to be vibrant.

  70. You remember after he resurrected and he visited Peter

  71. and a few other disciples by the sea where they were trying to

  72. catch fish and they could not catch.

  73. Then he eventually he made already prepared fees available

  74. to them. Then he started a discourse with

  75. them. That was where he emphasized to

  76. Peter to put his attention his focus on feeding the sheep.

  77. You recall that story there about goes back on to Saint John

  78. chapter 2021, Prince, the name of the Lord in that place.

  79. He told Peter, I said now that you are young, you can jump up

  80. and down. So a time will come when you

  81. will need younger persons to lead you.

  82. All right, So Jesus here was incredibly saying that it is

  83. natural for young people to be vibrant.

  84. So it's an abrasion if you are young person and not spiritually

  85. vibrant, I am not dedicating your youthful energy, OK, or

  86. expressing your youthful energy even in the area of commitment

  87. to your feet. So the lack of social vibrancy

  88. in young people is an abnormal situation.

  89. Get off that abnormal situation, tell your neighbor, get off that

  90. abnormal situation. And of course, in older people,

  91. people who have stayed long and fit or they have stayed longer

  92. in years, if we find spiritual vibrancy in them, it is

  93. commendable. Then we should move closer to

  94. searchable to learn the secret. If an elderly person is still up

  95. and doing in the area of prayers, in the area of

  96. evangelism, OK, in the area of spiritual sharpness,

  97. sensitivity, OK, Certainly there is much to learn from such an

  98. elderly believer. So to me, it is both

  99. supernatural and commendable that old people sustain their

  100. vibrancy. Because when you catch fire, OK,

  101. the tendency is there that as the wind is blowing, it may blow

  102. out the fire. A life coal that is not

  103. supported by Ezra coal, OK, to keep burning, we eventually die.

  104. So what? The natural progression of the

  105. lifespan of any fire. In that fire we want to go down.

  106. Am I talking to somebody? But whereby you find elderly

  107. people, OK, they are still burning for the law.

  108. To me it is something supernatural.

  109. It is also something highly commendable on the part of those

  110. elderly people to have been able to sustain the fire.

  111. So it is therefore wise on the part of younger believers and

  112. the youthful population to move closer to such elders, relate

  113. with such elders, to be able to know what is the secret that

  114. kept them burning, that help them to sustain their spiritual

  115. vibrancy. So as a youth, the challenge is

  116. on you, the responsibility is on you that you must exercise the

  117. natural. What I mean by that is that it

  118. is expected of you naturally to be energetic.

  119. It is expected of you naturally to be up and doing.

  120. It is expected of you naturally to be vibrant because you have

  121. everything going well for you to be able to do so.

  122. Biologically you are son. Head wise you are son, mental

  123. wise you are son. And so you expect to exhibit

  124. natural sharpness, including spiritual sharpness.

  125. Am I talking to somebody? So, but where you hold back,

  126. where you are among the population that lay back in

  127. spiritual privacy at the younger age, you are creating a problem

  128. for your future years. So as a youth you must exercise

  129. the natural for you to be able to exhibit the supernatural at

  130. old age. So don't hold back the natural

  131. capacity to be fathomed. Don't hold back the natural

  132. capacity to be hope and doing. Don't hold back the natural

  133. capacity to stay up in the place of prayer as a spinster because

  134. a time will come when the hormones of baby making we make

  135. your strength to win. Am I talking to somebody?

  136. So when it is natural for you, exercise it such that when it is

  137. not natural for you, you enjoy the supernatural dimension.

  138. You'll be able to exhibit the supernatural.

  139. If you slack at young age, you will suffer at old age Blonde

  140. truths. If you slack at your younger

  141. age, you will suffer at. I pray that you will prepare

  142. yourself for the years when natural energy will not favour

  143. you in the name of Jesus. So now that you are expected to

  144. be vibrant at younger age, our today's focus is to draw your

  145. attention to the need to match your vibrancy with maturity.

  146. So the focus for today is how you can exercise moderation in

  147. the exhibition of your vacancy. How to manage your physical

  148. vibrancy and your spiritual vacancy with moderation.

  149. Because when you have passion, you must learn caution.

  150. Where you have passion, once you learn, you learn caution.

  151. How do I mean by that? Recently I posted on my Facebook

  152. page. You might have come across it.

  153. I said the wise in your devotional activities and I

  154. related that to the consecration that can affect your aids.

  155. I said endangering your aids is not consecration.

  156. I said faith is vital, but it must not become fatter.

  157. Faith is very vital that in your fit life you must be there

  158. upright, you must be there fragment, you must be there

  159. optimally, but it must not become fata.

  160. We have had stories of people who, because of their zeal to

  161. carry the power of gold, go into fasting, but because they didn't

  162. do it with knowledge, OK, instead of coming out, it's OK

  163. to demonstrate power before men. After the consecration of prayer

  164. and fasting, they are now before Angel singing.

  165. So be wisely your devotional activities, because endangering

  166. your earth is not consecration. Faith is vital, but it must not

  167. become fertile. Let's relate it practically.

  168. If there are students, Bible study is necessary for your

  169. spiritual growth, but it must not replace your academic study.

  170. Moderation and under spiritual vacancy As a student, Bible

  171. study is necessary for your spiritual growth, but it must

  172. not replace your academic study. Zeal mismanagement has never

  173. helped spiritually, so you need to learn how to manage your

  174. zeal. Zeal mismanagement has never

  175. helped spiritually. It has always lead to a

  176. regrettable hand and that is why my emphasis today will be on how

  177. to overcome spiritual juvenile syndrome or spiritual

  178. juvenilism. It is a disease that come

  179. predisposes to a spiritual dead end.

  180. How do I mean by spiritual juvenilism or spiritual or

  181. spiritual juvenile syndrome? It is that stage of faith

  182. whereby if we call you a spiritual B, you will be

  183. offended because you have been around for some time, you've got

  184. born again for some time, praise the name of the Lord.

  185. So at that stage of spiritual juvenilism, if we call you a

  186. spiritual B, you will be offended.

  187. And we are also not comfortable to regard you as a spiritual B.

  188. But it is evidence in the way you are going about your faith

  189. life that the basic parameters of maturity are obviously absent

  190. both in your speech and Christian conduct.

  191. So that's my definition of spiritual juvenilism.

  192. Are you with me or you want me to come again?

  193. Maybe I'm relating with your reality.

  194. Maybe I'm relating with the reality of somebody you know.

  195. OK, he's been around for some time.

  196. He's been born again for some time.

  197. OK, he is here and there and everywhere in the things of the

  198. of the spirit. But you can actually not place

  199. that person as somebody who is serious, who is mature.

  200. They easily form victim of seal management.

  201. So it is that stage in your first war whereby if we call you

  202. spiritual baby, you will be offended and of course we are

  203. also careful to call you like that to regard to you like that.

  204. We are also not comfortable, OK to see you as such.

  205. OK, so you are neither a babe or a grown up and you are staying

  206. too long at that plateau, OK of not being a babe or an adult.

  207. Am I talking to somebody? Why is this so?

  208. Because the way and manner you are conducting yourself

  209. spiritually, we can obviously see that the parameters of

  210. spiritual maturity are obviously absent in your life.

  211. The apostle Paul first, that kind of situation with the

  212. Corinthian church. Let's hear him in First Constant

  213. chapter 3, the 1st 2 verses of First Constant Chapter 3.

  214. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual.

  215. In other words, if I communicate deep things of the Spirit to

  216. you, you will not understand. If I share deep things of the

  217. Spirit with you, you will not understand.

  218. If I engage you OK with the kind of assignment that spiritual

  219. adults should be giving you will mess it up so.

  220. And here you are, you are speaking in tongue, here you

  221. are, you are manifesting gifts of the Spirit.

  222. You are vibrant, you are everywhere.

  223. So when it comes to the issue of external vibrancy, external

  224. vibrancy, you are there, but you are lightweight in the spirit.

  225. You have volume, small, full year.

  226. Am I talking to somebody? Your volume of gravity is

  227. missing, he said to the church in Corinne Brethen I could not

  228. speak unto you as unto spiritual.

  229. So if we address you as spiritual, babe, you'll be

  230. offended. And we are also careful not to

  231. address you as sword because we knew that you have been around

  232. for a very long time. But as unto Kana, so your

  233. classification or the classical configuration that fits you most

  234. is to call you a Kana Christian, but you are not seeing yourself

  235. as such. But for the Spirit of God and

  236. your spiritual mentors, that is what they are seeing in you.

  237. Even as unto babes in Christ, I have fed you with me and not

  238. with me. So by the years that you have

  239. been around, by the presence that you create, OK, you are

  240. qualified to be invited to the table where they share meat.

  241. But if we make mistake of feeding you with meat, you will

  242. not be able to digest it. And we don't want to cost you

  243. spiritual Constipation. And so we continue to feed you

  244. with me. In fact, in the only spirit

  245. personal dealing with you. OK when you come with your SQC,

  246. we accept it just to tolerate you.

  247. So what can perfectly define relationship with the only

  248. spirit is toleration. Those with himself is not

  249. comfortable with you, but he can't throw you out.

  250. Am I talking to somebody? So that is the state that I

  251. define as the state of spiritual juvenilism.

  252. They are fed you with me and not with me.

  253. But either though you are not able to be, IE neither yet now

  254. are you able in our thinking, OK, we are saying you should

  255. have outgrown this stage, but we are still comfortable around

  256. that same mountain of spiritual juvenilism at that stage.

  257. Your case is the case of having less of wisdom and essence of

  258. zeal, less of knowledge and essence of what zeal?

  259. Remember I told you that you should give Kane attention

  260. because this class is an advanced class in discipleship.

  261. Is the case of imbalance between zeal and knowledge?

  262. Is the case where individuals prioritize emotional

  263. experiences, where individual prioritize simplistic answers

  264. over deeper learning We are individual prioritize self

  265. reflection and the over self reflection and mature faith

  266. practices. The prioritize simplistic

  267. answers over deeper learning over self reflection over mature

  268. faith practices just create an atmosphere of Jamboree.

  269. They are there are we together? But when they come to issues of

  270. deeper reflection, mature faith practices, they are not

  271. comfortable to use medical terms is a condition that can be

  272. likened to the essence of essential or more that is

  273. actually needed in moderate quantity whereby you need more

  274. of or more that attract towards knowledge.

  275. You are demonstrating essence or more for hyperactivity.

  276. Am I talking to somebody? So the why you need a moderate

  277. quantity you have with an s s quantity.

  278. For instance, the condition called hypothyroidism in

  279. medicine which is an abnormal medical condition whereby your

  280. thyroid gland is overactive producing too much of thyroid or

  281. moon. And of course you know that this

  282. will cause symptoms like weight loss, rapid heartbeat, anxiety,

  283. eat intolerance and evil deaths. Are you relating with me and

  284. even that so in the process, the terror or more was supposed to

  285. serve as your body engine regulator to control metabolism,

  286. energy level, growth and development.

  287. You know the thyroid or more required to keep your body

  288. running smoothly. Now start to overall now start

  289. to operate riotously. I'll give you the example of a

  290. young prophet in the Bible. It's a lengthy reading, but

  291. there's so much to learn from him.

  292. OK. How he could not moderate his

  293. spiritual vacancy. How you could not manage his

  294. spiritual calling. How you could not manage his

  295. spiritual giftedness. And Iran to a dead end.

  296. You will not run to a dead end in the name of Jesus.

  297. So let us examine the case of the young prophet that was

  298. affected by spiritual juvenile syndrome in the Bible and pick

  299. lessings that can help us to avoid is kind of hero First

    1 Kings 13 chapter mention

  300. Kings chapter 13 we're reading a whole lot of 32 verses.

  301. Church, are you good to go? Answer me.

  302. Church, are you good to go? If you were a copper, you

  303. answer, good to go, good to go. Praise the name of the Lord.

  304. That's when and beyond here came the man of God out of Judah, by

  305. the word of the Lord unto better.

  306. So a man can be a man of God, a man of the puppet, A preacher,

  307. and yet is spiritual juvenile. Are we together?

  308. Yet is spiritual, juvenile, and beyond that came the man of God

  309. out of Judah, by the word of the Lord unto better.

  310. And Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn insane, and it cry

  311. against the altar in the word of the Lord.

  312. So it might come be a preacher who has the word of the Lord,

  313. who has instruction from God, and yet is pretty juvenile.

  314. And say, Oh, altar, altar does sell the law, the old, the child

  315. shall be born unto the House of baby Josiah by name.

  316. So a man can be able to professor accurately.

  317. Now if you go further in Bible history, you will discover that

  318. the prophecy that he gave were very accurate prophecy.

  319. Everything prophesied about King Josiah.

  320. OK, eventually happened. Am I talking to somebody?

  321. You know, for somebody to come by said it was, I think it was

  322. prophet Isaiah that came close to that, OK, who prophesied that

  323. a child will be born and this is the name of the child.

  324. And it happened with accuracy in history.

  325. So this young prophet here, though is between juvenile who

  326. was very, very vibrant and effective, OK, even in his

  327. prophetic ministry. But juvenilism eventually did

  328. not allow him to survive. Spiritual predators.

  329. Am I talking to somebody? Part of the danger of staying as

  330. a spiritual juvenile is that you become victim of spiritual

  331. predators. And in our days there are many

  332. spiritual predators on the pulpit.

  333. OK, you think you are serving the Lord along with them.

  334. You think you are following them to heaven, but they are leading

  335. you somewhere else. They are exploiting you.

  336. They are taking advantage of you.

  337. Praise the name of the law. There are not a lot of young

  338. people that are wasting away OK, thinking they are a ministry,

  339. but actually they are nowhere near serving the law.

  340. They are merely serving me. Am I talking to somebody?

  341. Some men just take advantage of the hospital juvenilism.

  342. Brainwash them, OK, and keep them productive unto them, not

  343. unto God. So this subject is a very

  344. serious 1:00. AM I talking to somebody, Joseph

  345. by name? And upon thee shall over thee

  346. shall over the priests of the high places, that bonuses upon

  347. thee and men's bones shall be borne upon thee.

  348. And he gave a sign that same day, same This is the sign with

  349. the Lord has spoken before The altar shall be reigned, and the

  350. ashes that are upon shall be poured out.

  351. And it came to pass, when King Jeorbaum had the same of the man

  352. of God, which he had cried against the altar in better that

  353. he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, lay hold on him

  354. and his, and which he put for against him dried off, so that

  355. he could not pull it in again. To him who without the hand of

  356. the king, the man of God or God, answer me, Is it the man of God,

  357. that without the hand of the king or God?

  358. God, because that the hand of the king with that was not part

  359. of the pronouncement. Young man, settle down, you need

  360. this message seriously. The author also was reigned, And

  361. the ashes proud from the altar, according to the sign with the

  362. man of God, are given by the word of the Lord.

  363. And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now

  364. the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand

  365. may be restored me again. He started by taking instruction

  366. from God. Now the king is now trying to

  367. absorb the place of God and start to instruct him.

  368. Am I talking to somebody? And because of spiritual

  369. juvenilism, he missed it. He acted according to what the

  370. king demanded, and one thing led to the other until he lost his

  371. life. Beware of spiritual predators.

  372. And the man of God besought the Lord, and the King's hand was

  373. restored him again, and became as it was before.

  374. In the earlier fascist, we read the manuscript, we read the

  375. mandate, we read the old package of what God has commanded him to

  376. go and do. Going there to go and perform

  377. miracle of him in the hand of a man that put trouble upon

  378. himself was not part of the package.

  379. So part of what you find as the problem or error of virtual

  380. juvenilism is that you want to showcase power even when it is

  381. against the will of God. That's why I said in that stage

  382. of your spiritual faith work, OK, you prioritize emotional

  383. display above deep reflection. If there was a deep reflection,

  384. he will not respond to the request of the king.

  385. And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, I

  386. refreshed, I say, and I will give thee a reward.

  387. And the man of God said unto the King, If that will give me half

  388. of the house, I will not go in with thee, if you are a matured

  389. man of God. The old conversation we had

  390. there, but he proceeded, Neither will I eat bread nor drink water

  391. in this place. Well, he has not said much here,

  392. but he didn't stop. Verse 9 For so was he charge me

  393. by the word of the Lord. Did he need to communicate his

  394. consecration? Hello, say eat, nor bread, nor

  395. drink water, nor turn again, by the same way that thou camest.

  396. He has said too much. Part of the casualties of

  397. spiritual juveniles is that they always say too much the same,

  398. more than necessary. Hello, the message I want to

  399. preach today by the grace of God as I enter the bathroom when I

  400. half my clothes OK before I will take the soap and pour water on

  401. my body. Then suddenly you also said hold

  402. on to me and the woman who is saying that is a Pretty Woman of

  403. God preaching among young people and try to describe what was

  404. happening in the space room. Those young men will no longer

  405. listening to you. You already suggested something

  406. to you, they are no longer saying you preaching, they are

  407. saying your nakedness. Am I talking to somebody?

  408. You said too much when you are still at that stage of spiritual

  409. juveniles and you don't realize it.

  410. For someone she charged me by the word of law say eat no bread

  411. nor drink water nor turn again by the same way that thou came

  412. as assume it was this days of banditry.

  413. OK, he has already given you an information that this is the

  414. route I will take. Am I talking to somebody?

  415. You have to preach your revelation and keep your

  416. consecration. But in Spiritual Juvenile we

  417. both preach his revelation and expose his consecration.

  418. Just to feel big, OK, Just to prove and impress people.

  419. That is super spiritual. Am I talking to somebody?

  420. Because as I teach you on spiritual fibrancy and spiritual

  421. fibrancy, grace will come upon you.

  422. Part of the lesson you need to learn to manage the grace that

  423. comes with fibrancy is our only to communicate your revelation

  424. and keep your consecration to yourself.

  425. Here He was exposing his consecration, for so was he

  426. charged me by the word of Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink

  427. water, nor turn again by the way that thou came in.

  428. So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he

  429. came to birthday now that dwell, and all prophet in better.

  430. And his sons came and told him all the words that the man of

  431. God had done that day in better, the words which he has spoken

  432. unto the king. Then they told also to their

  433. father, And their father said unto them, What way went he?

  434. Ordinarily, when this whole predator that is called a

  435. prophet wanted to follow after him, he will have followed the

  436. path he came from. Are you with me?

  437. Because if he came from the West, certainly if they want to

  438. pursue him, they will also say, well, this is the way he came

  439. from. We saw when he was coming,

  440. therefore he must have followed that path.

  441. But he already exposed his consecration by excessive

  442. communication that God told me that I should not follow the way

  443. I come from. And so they knew the alternative

  444. route. So they will have missed him,

  445. but they caught up with him because he exposed his

  446. consecration. Am I talking to somebody?

  447. And the father said unto them, What way went he?

  448. For his sons had seen what way the man of God where we came

  449. from Judah. And he said unto his sons,

  450. Saddle me the house. So they saddle him the house.

  451. And he rode thereon, and went after the man of God, and found

  452. him sitting under an O. And he said unto him about the

  453. man of God that came out from Judah.

  454. And he said, I am. Then he said unto him, Come home

  455. with me, and eat bread. And he said, I may not return

  456. with thee, nor go in with thee, neither will I eat bread or

  457. drink water with thee in this place.

  458. For it was said to me by the word of the Lord.

  459. He never stopped committing the same error.

  460. Thus I eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to

  461. go by the way that thou came. He said unto him, I am a prophet

  462. also, as thou art. And an Angel speak unto me by

  463. the word of the Lord. The Lord himself spoke to the

  464. young prophet. The old prophet said an Angel

  465. spoke to him with superior. He dropped what the Lord said to

  466. him to embrace what somebody claim an Angel said to him,

  467. Somebody that has been having personal and private building

  468. with God, who understand the counsel of God.

  469. Somebody is now saying a message from a secondary agent, OK, to

  470. substitute what it got directly from the law.

  471. I pray for you. You love the Lord, you want to

  472. serve the Lord. You will not serve the law under

  473. a spiritual predator. Many young people today are

  474. serving under spiritual predators who are just taking

  475. advantage of their juvenilism, saying, Bring him back with thee

  476. into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water.

  477. But he lied unto him. There are many line spirits on

  478. the pupil today. So he went back with him, and

  479. did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

  480. And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of

  481. the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back.

  482. I would Ali, Ali, I will battle in there but in one law and the

  483. crown to the man of what I came from Judah saying, Don't say the

  484. law, for as much as thou as disobeyed the mouth of the law

  485. and has not kept the commandment with the Lord, thy God commanded

  486. thee, but came back and has eaten bread and drunk water, in

  487. the place of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat not bread

  488. and dig no water. Thy carcass shall not come unto

  489. the sepulchre of thy fathers. And he was not even careful, he

  490. was not even remorseful to deliver the message because all

  491. along he has been helping the young prophet that how could I

  492. be in the land, OK. And it's going to be a younger

  493. person that will be delivering the mind of God.

  494. You will not be a victim of malicious elders in the name of

  495. Jesus. And it kept to pass after he had

  496. eaten bread and after he had drunk that his saddle for him,

  497. they asked to wait for the prophet whom he had brought

  498. back. And when he was gone, it lion

  499. met him by the way and slew him, and his carcass was cast in the

  500. way, and the ash stood by he. The lion also stood by the

  501. carcass. And behold, men passed by, and

  502. saw the carcass cast in the way, and the lion standing by the

  503. carcass. And they came and told it in the

  504. city where the old prophet dwelt.

  505. And when the prophet that brought him back from the way

  506. had thereof, he said, it is the man of God who was disobedience,

  507. or to the word of the law. He never mentioned a part of

  508. our. He contributed to his

  509. disobedience. They will trick you to evil.

  510. When the consequences come, they will wash off their hands.

  511. They will distance themselves from you.

  512. My Denny Kennedy, also Reburuku. It could be another person, it

  513. could be a friend. They push you to eat, and when

  514. the consequences come back to you, then they run away.

  515. They leave you to eat, to survive it alone.

  516. Therefore the Lord had delivered him unto the lion.

  517. We had turned him and slid him according to the word of the

  518. Lord, which is speak unto him, and he speak to his son, saying,

  519. Saddle me the house, and the saddle him.

  520. And he went and found his carcass cast in the way, and the

  521. ass, and the lion standing by the carcass.

  522. The lion had not eaten the carcass, nor turned the house.

  523. And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God and

  524. laid it upon the house and brought it back.

  525. And the and the the prophet came to the city to mourn and to bury

  526. him. Your enemy will not celebrate

  527. your death. Your enemy will not celebrate

  528. your downfall in the name of Jesus.

  529. Deceive us will not deceive you to your death.

  530. Deceive us will not source to deceive you to your destruction

  531. in the name of Jesus. And he lay this cast in his own

  532. grave, and the mourn over him, saying, Alas, my brother.

  533. And it came to pass after he had buried him that he speak to his

  534. son, saying, when I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre

  535. where the man of God is buried. Lay my bone behind his bones.

  536. You want to identify with him because of the great miracle and

  537. the prophecy that he gave. For they say which he cried by

  538. the word of the Lord against the all time better and against all

  539. the houses of the high places which are the city of Samaria

  540. shall surely come to pass. Let's do a further reflection on

  541. this reading. It was easy for the old prophet

  542. to deceive this young prophet because of inexperience, because

  543. of juvenilism. His disobedience was not

  544. deliberate. His disobedience was born out of

  545. inexperience. To me, this is a clear case of

  546. spiritual juvenile syndrome. It was deceived by testimony of

  547. encounter, an encounter that the whole profession with him that

  548. an Angel spoke to me. Hello.

  549. And you know the way we garnish prophecy, we garnish our puppet

  550. presentation. OK, That soup you off your leg.

  551. OK, I make you think that before I came to church this morning,

  552. myself and an Angel has eaten a plate of amala.

  553. And so because of that, you are ready to swallow everything that

  554. I say unto you. Correct or not correct?

  555. Am I talking to somebody? So you will sweep all these legs

  556. by the testimony of an encounter with an Angel that you professor

  557. within. He did not do a background check

  558. of the character behind the encounter.

  559. So one of the things you must do is that when somebody sharing an

  560. encounter with you, do a background check of the

  561. character that is sharing the encounter.

  562. Am I talking to somebody? So it was deceived by the

  563. testimony of encounter. He did not do a background check

  564. of the character behind the encounter.

  565. This is not going to be the first time that prophet will be

  566. telling lies. Are you with me?

  567. And if we are, he cannot even get a person to check with.

  568. Why can't he check with his spirit?

  569. God spoke to me and the same God that was speaking to me wanted

  570. to reverse the instruction. OK, He has to go through a third

  571. party to reverse the instruction.

  572. No, I need to pray about this matter before I took.

  573. I take steps. Am I talking to somebody?

  574. He said that I didn't hear God correctly or somebody's lying to

  575. me. This is what the Bible says.

  576. Very clear position of the Scripture.

  577. But somebody said God has given him a revelation.

  578. God has given him a Rhema that contradicts the word of God.

  579. That's a clear contrast to the clear position of the Scripture.

  580. You need to check the character behind the encounter.

  581. In the face of God, character matters more than encounter.

  582. Hold that in the face of God, in the face of the spirit,

  583. character matters more than what the encounter.

  584. That is why we say on the last day to some people who will come

  585. hear your name, where is the dead?

  586. In your name we heal the sea. Then we say unto them, Go away

  587. from me. I don't know you, you workers of

  588. inequity. So the encounter he didn't deny,

  589. but their character didn't match.

  590. Am I talking to somebody? So in the things of the spirit,

  591. character matters more than encounter.

  592. Don't let anybody use their testimony of encounter to

  593. deceive you. Then we noticed that it

  594. performed a miracle that was not originally a part of the divine

  595. Commission. Even the widow hand of the King

  596. was not part of the original Commission.

  597. Always check the manuscript of your personal encounter and let

  598. it be consistent with what you are doing.

  599. Am I talking to somebody? Then he preached his

  600. consecration that was supposed to be kept.

  601. I emphasize that seriously, while we're analyzing the

  602. Scripture, he preached his consecration that was supposed

  603. to be kept. And this is your rule.

  604. Preach your revelation, but keep your consecration.

  605. Manage your communication. Speak decently, avoid excessive

  606. talking, excessive narration. I recollect the story of a man

  607. of God who bragged about his matamorial fidelity.

  608. I was dragged down to commit immorality against his wish by

  609. Jezebel in his church. Here's the story it's in A man

  610. of God shared it with us years back when I was in Syria that a

  611. man of God was celebrating 25 years of his marriage and he

  612. said I thank God in the last 25 years that I've been married to

  613. my beautiful wife. I've never seen the lap of

  614. another woman and a decibel sitting on the pue live say you

  615. it means you have not met people like us and what does she do She

  616. got home and arranged with a few other people OK and and fame

  617. madness OK and that same Sunday they rushed her to the church

  618. that the lady that were together in church today.

  619. No has been inflicted with the spirit of insanity.

  620. And the man of what I was bragging was a deliverance

  621. minister and then he prayed and because it was a fake madness it

  622. has to go because man of God has prayed praise the name of the

  623. Lord. And they took her home and as

  624. soon as he got home the madness returned.

  625. So they have to return her. And they repeated that until it

  626. was getting late in the night. And then a suggestion was made

  627. is part of the script to the man of God that since the atmos in

  628. the atmosphere of the church the madness was not coming on was

  629. coming on her president of the law let us stay over overnight

  630. and then they put her in the bus scooter OK everybody left.

  631. He went to his own main building to go and sleep and when it was

  632. the dead of the night OK, when the wife was also already

  633. sleeping and tired, the lady started to demonstrate again in

  634. our quarters in our apartment. And then the man of God had to

  635. come again to minister deliverance and by the time she

  636. will he will enter the we enter the apartment.

  637. They met a stack naked woman and then she quickly pulled the door

  638. and locked the door. It was her and the man of God

  639. and I said man of God do it or I scream that you came here to RIP

  640. me. So with the support of the

  641. demons that were working with her, the man of God that was

  642. boasting on the puppet in the day that for 25 years he has not

  643. seen the lap of another woman, slept with her and said you know

  644. Philly, why you are doing your posting when saying that you've

  645. never met our type. Preach your revelation, keep

  646. your consecration. So he preaches concretion that

  647. he was supposed to keep, and the rule is preach your revelation,

  648. but keep your consecration. He acted against his

  649. consecration again by staying over at better and by eating in

  650. the House of the prophet. A spiritual warrior that is not

  651. mature is vulnerable in many respects as we have seen with

  652. this young prophet. A speaker juvenile is vulnerable

  653. to hear any strange voices without being able to design.

  654. What do you need to do? 6 virtual groups pursue

  655. progressive revelation. Commit to that seriously and all

  656. repent deadly. You need spirituality to anchor

  657. your consecration. You need maturity to anchor your

  658. fortification. Hello, you need spirituality to

  659. anchor your consecration. But match that spirituality with

  660. maturity, because that is what will fortify you against

  661. spiritual predators. For that essential lesson, you

  662. need to know that spiritual warfare is not a fleshly

  663. emotional venture. Spiritual warfare is not a

  664. fleshly emotional venture. You need to put on the whole

  665. amount of gold. Yeah, you may be able to stand

  666. against the wise of the devil efficiencies from verse 11 to

  667. 13. Verse 12.

  668. For what is to not against flesh and blood, but against

  669. principality, against power, against the rulers of the

  670. darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high

  671. places? Therefore, or wherefore, take

  672. unto you the whole armor of God, not part of them the whole armor

  673. of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil days, and

  674. having done all you stand, you don't sleep.

  675. Second Lesson. Spiritual warfare is a delicate

  676. field of operation, therefore spiritual juvenile must engage

  677. in it with caution. Even spiritual veterans must be

  678. aware of self volition approach to spiritual warfare.

  679. Self volition approach to spiritual warfare.

  680. It was self volition that made him to heal the wider hand of

  681. the king. If you don't put all these

  682. cautions in place, you don't put these cautions in place, you

  683. become a victim of what I call negative bass bag.

  684. Because in science it is said to every action that is equal and

  685. opposite reaction. And in the faith for every

  686. Kingdom progress, there is a matching protest from hell.

  687. Hello, there's a matching protest from war from hell.

  688. So spirituality match which maturity is required to be an

  689. effective spiritual warrior. Otherwise you may abuse

  690. spiritual gift or you mismanage divine instruction.

  691. That young prophet was a victim of boots.

  692. He abused spiritual gifts. He mismanaged divine

  693. instruction. A spiritual warrior that is not

  694. mature is vulnerable to deception that may lead to

  695. destruction. Rise on your feet as we pray.

  696. Rise on your feet as we pray. Rise on your feet as we pray.

  697. Ask the Lord to help you. Ask the law to make you commit

  698. to spiritual growth. Ask the Law to help you to be

  699. able to manage your consecration.

  700. Ask the Lord to help you to make you outgrow your spiritual

  701. weaknesses, like excessive talking, like prayerlessness,

  702. like simplistic attitude that make you vulnerable and you can

  703. be easily deceived. Thank you Lord for answer

  704. prayers in Jesus name we are praying the church can say

  705. louder. Amen.

  706. Father, I commit your children to your evil hands that as they

  707. reflect on this matter, you will give them spiritual gravity.

  708. They will stop being spiritual lightweight.

  709. They will stop being people who pursue fancy.

  710. They will pursue reality in the name of Jesus.

  711. Thank you Daddy for answer prayers in Jesus name we have

  712. prayed Hallelujah. Don't be left.

  713. In the dark, get proper understanding of life through

  714. the Word of God. My people perish for lack of

  715. knowledge. The Word of God is an

  716. illumination which gives direction.

  717. Remain placed as Reverend was fallen illuminates your mind

  718. with the Word of God with all simplicity and clarity.