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Lessons on Friendship 1 | Rev. COS Fawenu

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  1. Who is this? A Wisdom Bible church?

  2. The Church of a distant Christian narration.

  3. We're turning a probing lens of study to the very important

  4. subject of friendship, and we are taking lessons from

  5. different models of friendship that were found in the

  6. scripture. I want you to know and

  7. understand very fundamentally that life generally,

  8. fundamentally is not a journey to embark upon as a Lone Ranger.

  9. Life is not a journey to embark upon as a Lone Ranger.

  10. God force created Adam by himself.

  11. He discovered that he must put somebody beside him, praise the

  12. name of the Lord. So from inception it was clear

  13. that life is not a journey to be embarked upon as a Lone Ranger.

  14. Not one man, as I always see, can do anything of significance

  15. alone. That is not that man.

  16. No matter how super talented he may be, no matter how super

  17. anointed a man can be, there is not that man that can by himself

  18. in law, do anything of significance without requiring

  19. the inputs of others. Let's take a bearing from

  20. Ecclesiastes, the Book of the Preacher, chapter 4, and then

  21. look at about 5:00 of four verses from that scripture.

  22. Then I return and I saw vanity under the sun.

  23. In other words, then I readdressed my mind to reality

  24. before. Now the King Solomon has been

  25. addressing his mind to vanity, so the things he taught had

  26. substance and had future. He eventually discover that they

  27. are nothing. I pray that you will not waste

  28. your life, your effort, your energy, your resources and the

  29. pursuit of vanity in the name of Jesus, he said.

  30. Then I return, which means I readdress myself to reality as

  31. against the pursuit of vanity. And every young persons OK

  32. always go through that temptation to first start out in

  33. life and spending energy on vanity.

  34. In the Yoruba palace, it is said that I call you warmer day Akara

  35. Lovinge. In other words, when a young man

  36. starts in life and fortune smile on him with financial resources,

  37. he end up buying things that are not necessary.

  38. He end up buying things that don't have a place in this

  39. future. Hello, I pray in the name of

  40. Jesus, the temptation to waste your destiny, the temptation to

  41. waste your resources, the temptation to waste your

  42. capacity, you will not fall for it in the name of Jesus.

  43. So he said, I return, I think I suppose here I'll call somebody

  44. who is already heading in the in the direction of vanity to

  45. return. Don't go too far before it is

  46. too late to return. Don't do damage to your destiny

  47. to the point that when you return you cannot recover.

  48. It's the Holy Spirit talking to somebody this morning.

  49. So the right out of this words of wisdom said, then I return

  50. and I saw vanity on that the storm before that time, these

  51. things he was calling vanity, he regarded them as beauty.

  52. Hello. There are many vanity today that

  53. young people are thinking have beauty and there's no beauty at

  54. all in them. Then I return and I saw vanity

  55. under the sun. And what was the vanity he was

  56. referring to here? The vanity that he thought

  57. because he had energy, he had potential, he had opportunity,

  58. he can go all out and succeed, not requiring the wisdom of

  59. elder or the help of colleagues. You know a man can be so

  60. endowed, a man can be so favour, that you can look down on

  61. anybody, because for now thing you are calling things and they

  62. are answering for you. Then I return, and I saw vanity

  63. under the sun. There is one alone, and there is

  64. not a second. Yeah, he had neither child nor

  65. brother, yet is there no end of all his labour, Neither is his

  66. eyes satisfied with riches. You know, a young lady can start

  67. out so well in life, in the path of career pursuits.

  68. OK. And she'll be doing very well.

  69. And then you start to speak to her that now at your head, OK,

  70. you need to settle down and get married.

  71. And we'll be telling you I don't need a man in my life.

  72. I mean, she'll be telling you I don't need a man in my life.

  73. It is not because there's any biblical conviction for that,

  74. OK, all because if I got married, OK, what will a man do

  75. in my life? Give me money?

  76. I have it. Am I talking to somebody?

  77. Said walking. Never satisfied with with

  78. riches, but no child, no brother, no second, no, no, no.

  79. Colleague later said, if for whom do I label and believe my

  80. soul of good? This also is vanity.

  81. Yeah, is a sore traffic then verse 9 Now say 2 are better

  82. than one. One can never be better than

  83. two. Two are better than one, for if

  84. one chase 1002, we chase 10,000 because they have a good reward

  85. for their labour. Yes, you are a resourceful

  86. person, but that is still value that another person can add to

  87. your resourcefulness if you learn to choose to keep the

  88. right company, not the company of vanity.

  89. For if before the one we lift up is fellow now is now addressing

  90. the value, the benefits you derive from friendship.

  91. Friendship is not just about you, Ma.

  92. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 5555 is beyond that.

  93. For if they fall, the one we lift off is fellow.

  94. But woe to him that is alone when he fallen, for he has not

  95. an order to help him. Or you see, the topography of

  96. life is never a perfect play. The topography of life, the

  97. topography of destiny is on to living.

  98. So the possibility that you may stumble is there.

  99. So when you stumble and fall and you cannot help yourself up,

  100. there must be somebody in your life who will see you as his

  101. responsibility. And that person may not

  102. necessarily be your blood brother, your blood sister.

  103. Am I talking to somebody? Again, if to lie together then

  104. they have it. But how can one be warm alone?

  105. That is not that one man that can do anything of significance

  106. alone. You need a confident to do

  107. something of significance in life.

  108. You need what a confidence and if one prevail against him too

  109. shall withstand him. And the reality of life is that

  110. you cannot be a friend to everybody for no reason.

  111. There will be people that are against you.

  112. So why will you not lend the wisdom of friendship so that in

  113. those days when some are against you, you have some that are with

  114. you. AM I talking to somebody?

  115. But some people are living their life like the spirit of Cain is

  116. on them. Their hand is against everybody

  117. and therefore everybody is against them.

  118. We are not say people will not be against you, but it is wrong

  119. that everybody will be against you.

  120. And the man that we have a friend, the scripture say he

  121. must show himself friendly. So there's a way you conduct

  122. yourself that we make people that will drop people towards

  123. you. Don't conduct yourself in a way

  124. that repairs people. Make yourself a magnet of good

  125. people. Am I talking to somebody?

  126. And if one prevail against him? So it's a reality of life that

  127. this man returned to, to address that essentially in life.

  128. You can't escape it. In fact, our Lord Jesus Christ

  129. himself said it. He said woe unto you if all men

  130. speak well of you. Hello.

  131. So in those days when men will choose to blackmail you, are you

  132. with me? There must be people who will

  133. speak about your integrity, who will fight for your integrity

  134. and defend your cause. And if one prevail against him,

  135. two shall withstand him. And a threefold cord is not

  136. quickly broken. What is that threefold cord?

  137. You, your friend, and God. Hello, you, your friend, and who

  138. and God. So that's why I often see, which

  139. I have also said repeatedly again today, that nobody, not

  140. one man, can do anything of significance alone.

  141. And if you find anybody attempting to succeed without

  142. the input of others, that man, that woman is either ignorant or

  143. arrogant, or the person is a victim of the two ignorant and

  144. ignorance and arrogance combine. So when you find a man

  145. attempting to succeed alone without the input of orders,

  146. that man is either ignorant or arrogant.

  147. Because in life you will require different kinds of company to

  148. make the journey playerable and productive.

  149. So to make the journey of destiny playerable and

  150. productive, you will require different kinds of company.

  151. In the church setting you have like mind prayer partners.

  152. Am I talking to somebody? You will have like mind study

  153. partner in church setting if you are a student.

  154. You will have like mind study partner that you do tutorial

  155. together if you are a career person.

  156. You have like mind professional colleagues that you are climbing

  157. the ladder of progress together. You are challenging each other.

  158. Am I talking to somebody not working against yourself?

  159. So in life you will require different kinds of company to

  160. make the journey of destiny pleasurable and productive.

  161. Do you know that even when you engage in hard work and you are

  162. sweating, if you have a friend with you chatting with you, it

  163. may look like I see if you are not working hard, but if you are

  164. the only one that is there, you will you will get weary quickly.

  165. Praise the name of the Lord. It is popularly said that

  166. problems shared is half soft. You have a body and as somebody

  167. you can share the body with, the body is spread, you become

  168. lighter. The problem has not gone away,

  169. but for the fact that you are not the only man in need, you

  170. are relieved to a degree. Am I talking to somebody?

  171. So take it and walk by it. Make it your life principle that

  172. as you journey in destiny, you will require different kinds of

  173. company to make the journey of destiny not only playable but

  174. also productive. And of course, somebody may see

  175. I am lucky and alone. I have been very productive.

  176. The truth is that if you think you are achieving much alone,

  177. you can achieve much more in the company of a faithful friend.

  178. Hello. Because 2 are better than one is

  179. a natural law, is a divine law. Am I talking to somebody?

  180. So if you think you are doing well in law, you will do better

  181. in the company of a faithful friend.

  182. So, and of course, in life, what you label for alone cannot be

  183. enjoyed alone. What you label for alone cannot

  184. be what enjoy alone. So there's a special joy in

  185. sharing that eating alone cannot offer you.

  186. So even when you think you don't need another man, another man

  187. needs you. When you think you don't need

  188. another person, another person does what needs you.

  189. And there is a special joy in sharing with others that eating

  190. alone cannot offer you. The scriptures say woe to that

  191. man that is alone. So for destiny fulfillment, a

  192. good and godly company is highly and inevitably desirable.

  193. For destiny fulfillment, a good and godly company is

  194. fundamentally, inevitably desirable.

  195. But when you want to choose your company, when you want to choose

  196. your friend, there are two things you must watch out for

  197. very essentially #1 is compatibility.

  198. Number 2 is productivity. So the kind of friends you

  199. choose, you must be compatible with that friend.

  200. Then the result of your compatibility must be

  201. productivity. So one of the way you assess

  202. whether my friend and I are compatible is what are you

  203. producing? What's your productivity rates?

  204. What's the efficiency rate alone?

  205. And now that you have come together as it reduce you or

  206. multiply you, am I talking to somebody?

  207. So you must be able to track it that since brother also came

  208. into my life, how efficient have I become spiritually as it

  209. enhance my prayer life or reduce my prayer life?

  210. Are you with me? If you are a student, what, what

  211. was your performance before you and that friend came together?

  212. Now that you and that friend have now I've come together,

  213. what is now your performance academically?

  214. Am I talking to somebody? So we are not talking about

  215. friendship for friendship sake. You will not keep the company

  216. that will be a mind loss to your destiny.

  217. I expect a louder Amen. Do I have young man in the

  218. house? I say you will not keep a

  219. company that will be a mind loss to your destiny in the name of

  220. Jesus. So a good and good company, I

  221. said is decidable inevitably for destiny fulfillment.

  222. And I said to achieve that you must watch out for compatibility

  223. and productivity in the kind of company that you keep.

  224. So fancy is not the primary purpose of friendship.

  225. Hello, Somashi. It's not the primary purpose of

  226. friendship. Social attractions are not the

  227. only purpose for friendship, fellowship, companionship.

  228. These are the irreplaceable purpose of friendship.

  229. Fellowship. Fellowship means heart shake,

  230. not just handshake. Hello.

  231. A friendship that has developed and is profitable beyond

  232. handshake and as transmitted to heart shake.

  233. OK, it's what is called fellowship.

  234. Am I talking to somebody? So in such kind of friendship

  235. you are climbing the ladder of success together.

  236. You are not just clubbing together to merely on wine.

  237. Hello. You know the reasons of people

  238. who are friends is when they have war, OK, Then in the

  239. evening time they go to the club to a wine and that is all to the

  240. kind of friends they keep. They cannot have financial

  241. issues and those friends will be there.

  242. They cannot have emotional issues and those friends will be

  243. there. Praise the name of the Lord.

  244. The friends that keep them in the club away from the church

  245. where they not have problem, those friends will not be there.

  246. It is then they now turn to the church.

  247. Yet it is that club that has been found them from being

  248. church. I bet Ponty Monsoni, you don't

  249. find them in church, you don't find on Sunday, you don't find

  250. them in church in Bible study, you don't make any contribution

  251. to church. In fact they don't pay their

  252. tithe in church. They don't give offering in

  253. church. But they can buy drinks for

  254. friends and club. But when real issues of life

  255. challenge them, OK, they will look around and those friends

  256. are not there. So when we talk about

  257. friendship, we are not talking about fancy.

  258. We are talking about fellowship. We are talking about

  259. companionship that has gone beyond handshake to at hook.

  260. Your heart is knitted together at knits.

  261. So when I say in that level of friendship you are climbing the

  262. ladder of saucer together, you are not just clubbing together

  263. to merely on wine, take this and listen on it.

  264. The wise club to climb, you know to club means to unite to come

  265. together. So if you are a wise person, you

  266. club to do what to climb, but the foolish club to waste time

  267. around the cup of wine and skirts of women of easy batches.

  268. So when you see them together, what are they discussing?

  269. They are disgusting girlfriend. This is the foolish that does

  270. that, who club to waste time around the Corp of wine and the

  271. skirts of women of easy virtue. But the wise when the club the

  272. club to climb, Tell your friend, let us club to climb.

  273. Tell your neighbor, let us club to climb, because that is the

  274. way of the wise. So essentially friendship must

  275. lead to multiplication of capacity.

  276. So your capacity must be multiplied in the areas where

  277. you are doing well. You start to do to do better if

  278. you have a good friend who is encouraging you on.

  279. So friendship must enhance productivity.

  280. Descriptor that we read is very clear about that 2 are better

  281. than one. So we all need friend.

  282. But take notes, not everybody can be a profitable friend.

  283. Hello, there's a friend in the class of Jonathan and there's a

  284. friend in the class of Jonathan. We're going to explore all of

  285. explore all of that and consequent teaching.

  286. But I pray for you, you will choose a Jonathan as friend and

  287. not a Jonadab. Jonadab Rob Amnon is positioned

  288. in Destiny as heir apparent to the throne of David.

  289. Hello, but Jonathan came into the life of David and help David

  290. to attain the truth. Climbing together, clubbing to

  291. climb together. But for Jonadab and I'm known.

  292. Hello Jonadab encourage. I'm known OK to go after the

  293. skates of Tamar And in the process Abnorm was robbed of his

  294. place in destiny as the heir apparent to the throne of David.

  295. I pray for you again in the name of Jesus.

  296. When you are choosing your friend, you will be rightly

  297. guided to choose a Jonathan and not a Jonathan in the name of

  298. Jesus. So whereas we all need friends,

  299. but not everybody can be your friend, not everybody can be a

  300. profitable friend. So what are you to look for in a

  301. potential frame? I will highlight for you a

  302. number of factors to look for in a profitable frame.

  303. OK? But let me just pick one for

  304. today, discuss it, and then we'll continue from there next

  305. week. So what to look for in a

  306. potential frame? Number one thing is substance,

  307. Substance. Substance does not necessarily

  308. means material resources, neither does it mean aquatic

  309. press. The name of the laws, are we

  310. together? So when I say substance, I must

  311. define the matter. Substance in our contents means

  312. possessing the capacity for sources.

  313. So the man, the woman you will choose as a friend, most fitting

  314. into the description of a man or a woman of substance.

  315. It is a man of substance that will eventually become a man of

  316. success. Am I talking to somebody?

  317. If you are not a man or woman of substance, it become hard for

  318. you to become a man of success. So being a man or woman of

  319. success is about being a value added personality.

  320. If VAP. Evap.

  321. Being a man or woman of substance is about being

  322. resourceful. We're talking about

  323. resourcefulness. We are talking about possessing

  324. a sense of responsibility with positive attitude to life.

  325. That's what it means to be a man or woman of substance.

  326. And I'll give you the example of David and Jonathan, how the two

  327. of them were people of substance in their own right.

  328. So both David and Jonathan were men of substance in their

  329. respective rights. One was coming from a pizza

  330. background, the other was coming from royalty.

  331. Yet the one coming from a pizza background was a man of

  332. substance. The one coming from royalty was

  333. not a spoilt brats. A lot of you hook yourself to

  334. children of the affluence who are spot brats.

  335. And the reason apple gets spoiled is with one is spoiled

  336. and the other ones are linked to it and then the jam start to

  337. spread. The bacteria of damage start to

  338. spray. Am I talking to somebody you

  339. will not hook yourself to, somebody who is carrying a

  340. bacteria of destiny, destiny damage in the name of Jesus?

  341. Some people will have will have done very well in life except

  342. for the wrong friend. They choose so.

  343. But for David and Jonathan, they were men of substance in their

  344. respective right. The one that was of royalty was

  345. not a sport brat. The one that was coming from a

  346. Pisa background also had the positive attitude to life with

  347. potential to also become somebody in life.

  348. So their friendship was ID. Even though they were from

  349. different social backgrounds, one was already there the order

  350. that was not yet there also possess what can get him there.

  351. Hello do you have what can get you there because there's a

  352. place called there you will get there.

  353. I have pray for somebody who will get there in the name of

  354. Jesus. So we are David was to

  355. eventually get to in lie. Jonathan was already a Prince

  356. there. Are you with me?

  357. So I said one was already there, the other one who is not yet

  358. there also possessed the potential to be there.

  359. So you are not wise and I want you to take this one also very

  360. seriously. You are not wise if you are

  361. thinking and behaving like those who are not going to where you

  362. are going. You have a destination in mind.

  363. You have a purpose that you are pursuing in destiny.

  364. Then from now start to behave like somebody that has a purpose

  365. in life, to be that wise child, be that wise brother, be that

  366. wise sister, be that wise man, be that wise woman who is

  367. thinking and behaving like the place you are going, because you

  368. are not wise. If you are thinking, you are

  369. behaving, you are dressing, you are talking, you are grooming,

  370. you are clubbing like those who are not going to where you are

  371. going. So where you are going to

  372. determine the kind of company you will keep.

  373. So David, I said was coming from a piece of background, but he

  374. had that potential that surpasses his low level

  375. background to the decree that even though he was in the

  376. wilderness with the animals, when they needed a man in the

  377. palace, he fitted into the palace, well fitted for it.

  378. Am I talking to somebody? Abuelo, are you with me?

  379. What a specific open in New York and is CV OK matches what was

  380. needed in New York. That's what it means to be a man

  381. of substance. That's what it means to be a man

  382. that understand destiny and you have purpose and you know that

  383. you are going somewhere great and you don't allow your present

  384. circumstance to rob you of demonstrating your substance.

  385. Am I talking to somebody? Even as a shepherd boy he was

  386. kingly. As a shepherd boy, he was what?

  387. He was kingly. Are you kingly in your conducts?

  388. Are you kingly in your appearance?

  389. Police are doing stop and search.

  390. Are you with me? And they can easily club you

  391. without? Please return like the wise man

  392. said from the scripture we read, he said and I return and I

  393. discovered that what I call beauty is vanity.

  394. I readdress myself to reality as against possibly vanity.

  395. Stop following the category of people that are calling evil

  396. good. Listen and listen good.

  397. Royalty is not land on the true. Royalty is not land on the true.

  398. It is brought to the true by those who understand how Ali

  399. that that is where they are going.

  400. That is where they belong. You don't learn reality on the

  401. true, you bring royalty to the truth if you will discover early

  402. in life that the throne is yours.

  403. So Jonathan in his own case was of royalty, but it was well

  404. cultured to recognize that before royalty become heritage,

  405. it has first existed as a sense of responsibility waiting for

  406. opportunity. I wanted to understand that

  407. before royalty will become your heritage, you should understand

  408. that royalty force exists as a sense of responsibility in you.

  409. It is that sense of responsibility in you.

  410. OK, that we now see opportunity and seize opportunity, then

  411. you'll become the king. So what we enthrone you is your

  412. sense of responsibility. Hello.

  413. It's not just opportunity. It's not just luck.

  414. What we enthrone you in destiny is your sense of responsibility.

  415. How responsible are you in your thinking?

  416. How prepare are you to take up responsibility?

  417. So royalty is not about inherited prosperity.

  418. That was what real world did not understand.

  419. The son of Solomon. You thought once I inherit it, I

  420. have it. You don't have it until you know

  421. how to keep it. Hello.

  422. Whatever you are giving is not your own.

  423. Or to learn how to keep it. Or to learn how to manage it.

  424. Have you forgotten that Yoruba poem on TI Obasi cell phone?

  425. Keep Hello. Well, a palara.

  426. Am I talking to somebody? So royalty is not about inerted

  427. prosperity, rather it's about product.

  428. I mean another is a product of capacity that is well applied.

  429. Royalty is a product of your capacity that is well applied,

  430. that is properly applied. When I say royalty, I mean

  431. greatness. When I say royalty, I mean

  432. fulfillment. And I'm saying it's about

  433. applying your capacity. It's about preparing yourself

  434. with a responsibility for the opportunity that can come at any

  435. time. Hallelujah.

  436. So Jonathan made friendship with David on the basis of present

  437. reality. I mean, not on the basis of

  438. present reality. You know, the present reality of

  439. David does not look like it. I might OK to somebody.

  440. I'm trying to expansion for you how both of them in their

  441. respective life were men of substance and that Jonathan who

  442. was of royalty was well cultural and all to make responsible

  443. judgment. Why keep friendship with the

  444. children of affluence and the only thing you are gaining from

  445. them is that they are introducing you to drug because

  446. some people as know they are so class conscious.

  447. Why become friend to your pastor's son if your pastor's

  448. sons will be recruiting girlfriend for you in the

  449. church? I do occasionally just to move

  450. below my job. I said yeah, these are serious

  451. issues. So the friendship of befit to

  452. Jonathan was not the friendship of a man sourcing as a go digger

  453. just want to be a friend to people of very high class for

  454. the mere benefit of what is there.

  455. Am I talking to somebody? Why become a friend to the child

  456. of an affluent? And at the end of the day, he

  457. introduced you to drug dealing and when eventually you are

  458. arrested, he has a way to escape it.

  459. And then they will now use you as the scapegoat.

  460. Same old Soros in, you know, Polo, Shambo, Aboye.

  461. So Jonathan made friendship with David on the basis of present, I

  462. mean not on the basis of present reality, but on the basis of

  463. presented or demonstrated capacity and future possibility.

  464. You know, David had demonstrated capacity as a warrior.

  465. He brought down Goliath, he killed lion, he killed the bear.

  466. But his present reality, the capacity was demonstrating, was

  467. not yet been rewarded. Am I talking to somebody?

  468. But it was so clear that prosperity in uni capacity of

  469. Yafu. But you think the only kind of

  470. friend you need is the friend I can give you money?

  471. That is, you should look for more than money in a friend.

  472. I might talk it to somebody. What money can you pay that we

  473. reward the amount of value I have to you every Sunday?

  474. So he made this judgment of choosing David as a friend on

  475. the basis of the capacity David has demonstrated and the future

  476. possibility. I'm going to read the Scripture

  477. to you as we progress in the teaching.

  478. When his father Saul wanted David eliminated, OK, and

  479. Jonathan stood with David, he said for I know this role is of

  480. you from the Lord. So present reality of capacity,

  481. future possibility of the fact that he will become the king.

  482. So these are things you look for.

  483. The man you are going with, where is he going?

  484. Why are you keeping a mind in your life that's not going

  485. anywhere? Why are you keeping a woman in

  486. your life that's not going anywhere?

  487. And don't forget, even bad relationship is about

  488. friendship. Are you with me?

  489. Why hook yourself to a man that's not going anywhere?

  490. Why hook yourself to a lady? OK, That is a sticker that has

  491. lost its adhesive. You know, a sticker that has

  492. lost its adhesive. A sticker always have adhesive

  493. at the back come. OK, But if we have placed it on

  494. brother, don't remove it from brother, don't place it on

  495. Brother Luke. Remove Brother Luke.

  496. Place it on brother. Do that.

  497. Do that. Place it on Brother Zachariah.

  498. Remove from brother Zachariah as we are talking about now is

  499. already is on broad. I don't know, I hear you have

  500. broad. I don't.

  501. So choose your friends, including your life partner on

  502. the basis of presented capacity and future possibility.

  503. You have no business dealing or clubbing with an NFA, no future

  504. ambition, not even a short future ambition, maybe somebody

  505. with a mega future ambition are not just people who parade

  506. wishes but people who are matching OK their vision with

  507. action. They are not there but the kind

  508. of thing they are doing is showing that they are serious

  509. about getting there. So Jonathan knew so well that a

  510. man of capacity that does not attend the top is only paying

  511. the bill to be there. So whatever you are doing today,

  512. you are paying the bill to be there.

  513. When you read your book very well, as a student, you are

  514. paying the bill for your greatness.

  515. When you'll be there to your parents, you are paying the bill

  516. for your greatness. Am I talking to somebody?

  517. When you join that cooperative society, you are paying the bill

  518. for your greatness. When you pray, are you?

  519. Are you fast? You are paying the bill for your

  520. greatness. When you give yourself to the

  521. reading of the word of God and meditation on it, you are paying

  522. the bill for your greatness. When you get good books and you

  523. study them, bless the name of the Lord you, you listen to

  524. testimonials that come boost your courage to go for

  525. greatness. You are paying the bill as

  526. yourself. Are you paying the bill for your

  527. greatness. So when you want to choose a

  528. friend, choose a friend that is so clear that This is why he's

  529. paid the bill for his greatness. Future possibility for summer

  530. 1755 to 58 and well saw saw David go forth against the

  531. Philistine demonstrated capacity.

  532. Every other man we're running away from Goliath.

  533. But David went and he came out and stood before Goliath, and

  534. fought Goliath, and saw, saw it, he said unto Abner, the captain

  535. of the Oz. Abner who saw is this youth.

  536. What bill are you paying presently that will reveal you,

  537. that will give you recognition, that will make people want to

  538. invite you to embrace opportunity?

  539. And Abner, say, as thy soul lived, O King, I cannot tell.

  540. So his background was not looking like it, but his

  541. attitude was everything that it is.

  542. Hello Atma said I cannot even after he has fought Goliath.

  543. Hello. They still they were still

  544. looking for microscope to discover where he came from in

  545. Fort Goliath in chapter 17 I'm reading for you Chapter 18 I

  546. shall not tell and the king said inquire down who some this try

  547. please what's on you or don't like that you bury.

  548. They were still looking down on him.

  549. He was looking off to where he was going when men are looking

  550. down on you OK stop bothering yourself.

  551. Start looking off to where you are going.

  552. And as they will return from the slaughter of the Philistine,

  553. Abner took him and brought him the first soul with the head of

  554. the Philistine in his hand. Bishop, we always say only fools

  555. doubt proof. So is that yes, Tripely.

  556. OK, but as a Tripely here is the head of Goliath your the head of

  557. Goliath that you need is your CV, the accumulated successes

  558. you are recording even in your low estate, even when nobody's

  559. looking at you, when nobody sees you start to kill your Goliath.

  560. Am I talking to somebody? I told you years back when God

  561. sent us to this axis of the city, he said go to that

  562. wilderness, kill your bear, kill your lion.

  563. After all, you are going to be invited to the city to come and

  564. kill your Kolaya. And today, for the glory of

  565. God's name, we can say we have the head of Kolaya to present as

  566. evidence for higher heights. Am I talking to somebody or the

  567. Kolaya Abukazai to go see for PT party when it's all over?

  568. And brought him before. So with the head of the

  569. Philistine in his hand. The man who brought him was the

  570. man that said I cannot tell, I don't know him.

  571. Hello. And Saul said to him, Whose son

  572. are thou, thou young man? And David answer, I am the son

  573. of the servant Jesse the Bethlehem.

  574. I you will become that person that will introduce your family.

  575. On the account of you, your family name will be recognized.

  576. On the account of you, your family name will be respected.

  577. On the account of you, your family name will be honored in

  578. the name of Jesus. Then chapter 18 from verse one

  579. to five. And it came to pass, when he had

  580. made an hand of speaking unto soul hello now he now spoke unto

  581. soul one-on-one, that the soul of Jonathan was neat with the

  582. soul of David, And Jonathan loved him as his own soul

  583. demonstrated capacity, and then he seized opportunity.

  584. Then he got a great friend and soul took him that day.

  585. I will let him go. No more home to this Father's

  586. house. You are not going back to that

  587. low level. You are not going back to that

  588. level of disgrace. Your capacity will recommend you

  589. for greatness in the name of Jesus.

  590. So his capacity recommended him for a Palacio place in the

  591. palace. Then Jonathan and David made a

  592. covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

  593. And Jonathan sweeps himself of the rope that was upon him.

  594. Remember he came into that place with the rope of a shepherd and

  595. gave it to David and his government, even to his word and

  596. to his bow, and to his ghetto. Remember, after he killed

  597. Goliath, are you with me? He, He was supposed to be giving

  598. the sword of Goliath. He was not supposed to come to

  599. that palace without his sword. But the sword of Goliath was

  600. taken from him and kept somewhere.

  601. As you study or you discover that that that sword was not

  602. with him, he was endangered. One day he ran to a priest.

  603. It was at that place. The priest now said, well, we

  604. don't have any reporter we can give you except this word of

  605. Goliath. They took it away from him, but

  606. a friend gave him his own sword. You see, a man of capacity

  607. cannot be completely denied, cannot be what?

  608. Because somebody we love you because of who you are and

  609. because of what you can contribute.

  610. So Jonathan striping and himself of the rope that was upon him

  611. and gave it to David and his garment, even to his ward and to

  612. his bow and to his get to so he didn't beg for the friendship of

  613. Jonathan. Are you with me?

  614. He paid the bill for royalty, so whatever Jonathan was doing for

  615. to him was not a favor, was a reward was what a reward was

  616. what a favor. And David went out wheresoever

  617. saw something, then he behave himself wisely, meaning that

  618. truly he was a man of substance could misbehave.

  619. Could they are think Oh my, Oh my doorberry, am I talking to

  620. somebody? That's why I said royalty is not

  621. land on the truth. It is brought to the truth.

  622. A shepherd boy. He got to the truth and he

  623. behave himself properly. He behave himself kindly and so

  624. sent him, and Saul set him over the man of war from one level of

  625. promotion to another level of promotion.

  626. And he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in

  627. the sight of Saul Sabbath. If he had a rebellious mind to

  628. stake a coup against Saul, he would have removed Saul before

  629. Saul started to run after him. Am I talking to somebody?

  630. Receive grace to be a man of capacity.

  631. Receive grace to be a man that grow in gifts.

  632. For the gift of a man we bring him before great men, not before

  633. men. Receive that grace to choose

  634. your friends wisely in the name of Jesus.

  635. Receive the mind of diligent to start to pay the B for your

  636. greatness and prayer and saving in obedience in study the word

  637. of God in the name of Jesus. Everything that is is required

  638. to be great in life will be convenient for you to do from

  639. now on in the name of Jesus. In Jesus name I pray Hallelujah.

  640. Don't be left in the dark. Get proper understanding of life

  641. through the word of God. My people perish for lack of

  642. knowledge. The Word of God is an

  643. illumination which gives direction.

  644. Remain place as Reverend was far and illuminates your mind with

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