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Strategies of Church Growth 14 : How To Achieve Comprehensive Church Growth (B) | Rev. COS Fawenu
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Who is this a Fisdom Bible church?
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The Church of a distant Christian narration?
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The Holy Spirit is yet to quit us from the topic Strategies for
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church groups. Last week we set our mind to
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identify 10 basic strategies on how to achieve comprehensive
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church groups and we were apartment to discuss the place
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of impactive pulpit ministry as #1 the place of impactive pulpit
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ministry #2 the place of effective prayer ministry #4 We
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also mention conducive atmosphere for the Holy Spirit
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to superintend, the place of creating a conducive atmosphere
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for the Holy Spirit to pretend. Then we from there discourse
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intentional involvement of the youth and we itemize how Jesus,
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I mean how opposed to Paul in particular, was helped greatly
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to drive church groups by intentional involvement of young
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persons. And then we examine strategic
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engagement of the women. Now, meanwhile, after that
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discussion during the interactive session, my
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attention was drawn to the fact that we should bring up also the
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pivotal rule of the men for discussion so that the men will
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not erroneously assumed assume the position of just onlookers.
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And that will now bring our point of discussion to a level.
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But we're going to push that one to the last to be discourse.
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If we have the opportunity, we do it today or it will come up
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as another session. So let's continue from where we
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stopped last week to 1st cover the balance of the 10 strategies
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we initially said to address. So number six, for church groups
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to be effective and more importantly to be 21st century
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compliant, the place of technical involvement of
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professionals should be taken seriously too.
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The place of technical involvement of professionals.
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I read Exodus 31 as ancient as the days of the Israelites in
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the wilderness. OK, since that time, no, the
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place of technical involvement of professional has always been
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in focus. Praise the name of the Lord.
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So if as far back as the days of the wilderness we should be
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considered as primitive error, the technical people
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deliberately or intentionally being factored by God OK into
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his work, We will much more require the their involvement in
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the 21st century. Exodus chapter 31 and the law
Exodus 31 chapter mention
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speak unto Moses, saying, see, I have called by name Bezalim, the
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son of Europe, the son of Europe of the tribe of Judah.
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I have called by name, called for what purpose, OK, called to
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perform what function, And I have filled him with the Spirit
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of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge,
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and in all manner of workmanship.
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So for workmanship, a man had a calling from God, and to carry
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out that workmanship, it was filled with the Spirit of God.
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Praise the name of the Lord. So to devise Corning words,
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anointing to construct the Tabernacle, anointing for
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construction. Are you saying what I'm saying?
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To work in good, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of
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stones to set them, and in cavern of timber.
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To work in all manner of Workman.
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See. And I build.
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I have given with him a who layer the son of Isa Mark of the
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tribe of Dan. And in the heart of all that are
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wise hearted I have put wisdom that they may make all that I
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have commanded thee. So there are two dimensions to
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the ministry of Moses, the spiritual aspect of it that he
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will settle on the Monday, and the technical side of it, for
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which he must have professionals around him to carry out the
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vision. So the pattern was shown to
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Moses, so he has responsibility now to communicate it to the
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professionals. But before he will communicate
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it to them, God himself has gone ahead of him to speak to the
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professional. OK, who had a leader called
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Basalin to God gave him a calling.
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Not a calling to go to the warfront like Joshua.
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Not a calling to become a priest like Hero, not a calling to go
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with Moses to the mountain, but a calling to construct the
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Tabernacle. So there is always the technical
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side to ministry. OK, as way back as in the days
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of Israelites in the wilderness. So if it if technical
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involvement of professional was that serious as far back as
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those days, imagine how serious it has now become in the 21st
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century. So Besalel had that ministry of
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contributing skill to ensure that the worship of God was done
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properly in the wilderness. So that Besalel kind of ministry
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of contributing skill to promote the gospel is much more now
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desirable in the 24th century. So there's a place for your ICT
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skill in ministry. Hello, there's a place for your
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wealth ICT skill in ministry, your engineering skill in
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ministry, your musical skill in ministry, your administrative
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skill in ministry all are needed to create a better atmosphere, a
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conducive atmosphere and attractive atmosphere for
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worship, and to also generate initiative that we enhance
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church growth. Praise the name of the law to
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generate initiative that we enhance church growth.
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The number of people that are listening to our messages online
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globally are far more than the number of people that sit down
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here Sunday after Sunday to listen to us Praise the name of
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the Lord. This is made possible through
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the skillful hands of the professionals that I had in our
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media. Praise the name of the Lord.
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I was at a political meeting yesterday and as I stepped my
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feet in the all the MC who happens to be a Muslim.
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OK As soon as I entered the all, Pastor Akilo Say was with me.
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As soon as I entered the all the man started to welcome me to the
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meeting and he was saying I listen to Reverend Power no
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messages online the same way I listen to our Islamic clerics
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praise the name of the Lord. Now he you won't come here to
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sit down to come and listen to me, but right in his bedroom by
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the skilfulness of our media people, the technical
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involvement of their ICT know how OK we are everywhere on the
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social media beyond our immediate vicinity.
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Now to construct this worship place, OK, technical people are
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are involved. This building that we have OK
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with all the complexity that comes into the expansion is
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still standing very, very strong.
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If we are not involved, the technicality of professionals,
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OK, per adventure, we may have issues and a lot of
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constructions are going on today, church buildings that are
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collapsing the same way other structures are collapsing in the
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in the country. If it's happening in other
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sectors, it should not happen in the church because God has
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factor it into the work of ministry that we should carry
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the professionals along. Am I talking to somebody?
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We should carry the professionals along.
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I have given you Bezel. I have called him, I have
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inspired him. I have given him skill for
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workmanship. Praise the name of the Lord.
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So professionals also have their own place in the work of
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ministry. And as the work expand, more and
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more hands will be needed. So the men needed for church
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growth are not just are not only those who we go on television to
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preach, those who go from street to St. to preach will also need
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the technicality of those that are versatile.
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OK, in bringing technology to bear in the advancement of the
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gospel, can we move on? Can we move on?
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Another strategy is that there must be versatility of the
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delivery approach of our message.
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There must be versatility to the delivery method that we adopt to
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deliver the message. If you look at the ministry of
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our Lord Jesus Christ, he was the one message man, the message
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of the Kingdom. But Jesus was never A1 Method
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Man. You hear that Jesus was A1
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message man, the message of the Kingdom.
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So His message was consistent, OK, but his style of delivery
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was not just one method. So in the same way, if there
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will be groups in the church, OK, we should learn how to
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package our one message of Christ, OK in ways that will be
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appropriate to our different audiences.
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I might talk it to somebody. So Jesus was A1 message man, but
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it wasn't A1 Method Man. We should make our message
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consistent, but our method dynamic.
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The method of delivery should be dynamic.
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There must be versatility. Jesus, you'll find Jesus on
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one-on-one evangelism pattern with the woman at the well at
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Saika goes back on to Saint John chapter 4, one-on-one.
John 4 chapter mention
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The same Jesus speaking to a crowd OK on the mountain the
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same Jesus by the seaside borrowing the boat of Peter OK
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and standing on the boat of Peter OK because that crowd was
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was huge. Are you with me as such a
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meeting you will not conduct it on the plane because they will
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not be able to to reach the entire population.
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If you will stay on it, you will stay on a plane.
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And as at that time the technology of voice
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amplification has not been invented.
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And so by going to the seaside, then standing on the sea, they
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wave of the ocean of the sea, we amplify his voice, the wind, we
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amplify his voice, so you'll be able to reach more people.
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So going by the seaside and then standing in the boat on the sea
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while the other people are standing on the shore, this
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highly technical, praise the name of the Lord so that he will
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be able to reach the larger audience.
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So in that place you saw him do a preaching.
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Then he will now go again and carry some people to the amount
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of beatitude. And at the amount of beatitude,
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rather than preach, he started to teach praise the name of the
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Lord. Now this, this, this same Jesus
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will go into the temple and right in the temple he will
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perform miracle. He will teach.
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Of course, it started from the temple, but he didn't say
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because it was welcome in the temple in is it Luke chapter 4
Luke 4 chapter mention
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where the book was given to him and he announced his calling and
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so on and so forth. And then I say perpetually all
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the time you want to minister to the people and we ask the people
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to gather and come and meet him in the temple.
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So he adopted different method to ensure that this one message
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reach all sectors praise the name of the Lord.
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Soon we can embrace aggressive conventional evangelism methods
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such as Cruces, but which also not neglect specialized
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ministries such as drama, television, use of social media,
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OK, including sports. Then establishment of
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institutions for the purpose of discipleships.
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So when we for the purpose of discipleship, so when we go into
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establishing schools, it should not be for the money, it should
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be for the fact that we will use it to preserve our faith and
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promote the faith. Praise the name of the Lord.
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Can we move on #8 pragmatic social weather program,
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pragmatic social welfare programs.
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The Church in Acts Chapter 6 factored welfare program into
Acts 6 chapter mention
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whatever they were they do. It wanted to bring issue, but it
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did say because this thing is very good issue, let us cancel
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it. It was not cancelled.
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Rather, they look at the way to do it better to improve on the
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management of the process rather than cancel it.
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So pragmatic social welfare program where the church must be
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addressing the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger and other
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money related challenges. Praise the name of the Lord.
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OK through empowerment. OK, not just in terms of, you
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know, dashing out gifts, but also in terms of workshops that
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we make the people to pursue self-reliance as we do here.
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Praise the name of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord.
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So we saw Jesus feeding the hungry.
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The early church were breaking bread from house to house and
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doing distribution to the widows.
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All of this OK for the purpose of pragmatic social welfare
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program to make it part of the church system and all to the
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intent of achieving church growth and propagation of the
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gospel #9 effective conflict resolution mechanism.
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Effective conflict resolution mechanism.
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The church is a spiritual institution, but it is
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considered by human beings, not robots.
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Hello. The church is a spiritual
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institution. It's situation made-up of human
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beings that are different level of spiritual maturity.
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So therefore conflicts, misunderstanding, offenses, OK,
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cannot be taken out, but it must be minimized and well managed.
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Praise the name of the Lord. So the Church, I said, is a
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spiritual institution, but this spiritual institution is not
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made-up of robots that can be teleguided by remote control and
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made to behave in a particular pattern.
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What brother A we take calmly, Brother B can take it violently.
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Am I talking to somebody? What Brother A we see and look
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away. The brother, another brother,
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will make issues out of it. We preach that as much as
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possible. We ask ourselves in every
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situation, what will Christ do and behave like Christ?
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But we are still growing. So you just discover that one
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way or the other, the flesh will filter out.
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The flesh will always want to raise its ugly head.
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The flesh is always in contention with the Spirit.
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So our objective and obligation is to see how to modify the
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deeds of the flesh by the Spirit.
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But if eventually, occasionally the flesh is manifesting, the
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church must have an effective conflict resolution platform.
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So more so, not only that we are different levels of maturity, we
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are also coming together from diverse backgrounds, diverse
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background. Some are coming from the peace
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out background, some are coming from the affluent background.
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We are coming together from different parts of the nation,
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different tongues and culture. OK, but when we come to the
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household of God, we become one family.
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And so we must all work together to breaking the barriers,
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breaking words, the barriers that it may be one food, one
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shepherd, working together in the unity of the Spirit.
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So conflict is inevitable, but with proper conflicts, the
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social mechanism in place, no conflicts in the church is all
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resolvable. So Aqua Catharino Church and so
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people are so Canon that they will fight with your brother and
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you want to resolve it. While all I want to parry every
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is not a place to resolve conflict once you carry grudges
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to heaven. OK, you already know your
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address on the other side. Your address is Hellfire.
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Praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord.
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So do I allow conflict to set the church back.
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So let there be resolution of conflict so that we can grow
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together #10 unity of faiths, unity of faiths, and
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collaborative approach in the manifestation of the gifts of
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the Holy Spirit. We are cool laborers together
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with God. We are not here to compete.
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We are here to complement each other.
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We are not here to compete, so gifts must not compete.
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Don't let us storm the church to the Corinthian church where all
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they do with spiritual gift is to use it to create problem.
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But here let us give ourselves to the Holy Spirit to help us to
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complement each other. So let's give collaborative
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approach to the manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and
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the administration of the various ministry offices,
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including units. All of us must be actively
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involved in the work of ministry.
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All of us must be actively involved in the work of
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ministry. All of us must be actively
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involved in the work of ministry, working together.
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OK, as one man, many people coming together with one voice.
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Praise the name of the Lord. Tell your neighbor we are one.
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Let us behave soon, let us work together.
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The Lord will help us in Jesus name now. 11th 1 coming about
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from the issues that came up last week that we should address
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the issue of the place of the men purposeful leadership by men
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of vision our media we have to follow.
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You may not have that on your slide Purposeful leadership by
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men of vision. Of course, any responsible man
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should know that the male gender man has the greatest
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responsibility in Kingdom affair male and female.
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Can you quote that scripture in Genesis created in them and when
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he created them. What did you call them?
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Man? Praise the name of the Lord.
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So that's why I deliberately call Ma the male gender man and
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woman is the female gender man. Hello.
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So any responsible man therefore should know that the male gender
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man has the greatest responsibility in Kingdom
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affairs. The way God designed it from the
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beginning. The female gender man called
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woman was designed to provide support.
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Hello was designed to do what to provide support.
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So when you profile the works of creation and the sequence by
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which Adam was given assignment, you will discover that the
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responsibility to keep and to dress the Garden of Eden was
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given to the man before the woman was created out of him to
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assist him. Hello.
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So the assignment to keep the garden and dress the garden came
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before the woman was taken out of the man.
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Let's read Genesis chapter 2. We're going to John Priest
Genesis 2 chapter mention
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because of time. Genesis chapter 2 verse seven,
Genesis 2 chapter mention
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are we there? And the Lord God for man of the
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doors of the ground and bred into his nose tree the breath of
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life. A man became a living soul and
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Lord God planted the garden eastward in Eden and yeah, he
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put the man where he had from where was the woman at this
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point the woman has not arrived. So from there, every man should
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know that he has the greatest responsibility in Kingdom
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affairs starting from his family affair.
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So the man should always take the lead for the woman to
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follow. And the Lord God, verse 15.
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Now we jump to verse 15. And the Lord God took the man
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and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
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Where was the woman? She has not arrived versus T and
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the Lord God commanded the man saying of every three of the
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garden, thou mayest freely eat. When God was serving the
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instruction on how to relate with the components of the
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garden OK, including what to eat, what not to eat, The woman
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was still in the dream of God. Praise the name of the law Now
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whatever the woman knew about the management of the garden was
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what the man communicated to her and that was what happened to
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Paul was saying that a man that is what is Onion must be able to
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deal with his wife by knowledge and I keep on advocating it that
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if there is one objective every man should set for himself is to
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always be ahead in knowledge when it comes to the management
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of your home when it comes to dealing with your wife.
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Praise the name of the Lord Your wife should not be a dose call.
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Are you with me? But it's your own responsibility
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to ensure that you are the teacher in the house as a man
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because that was the way God structure it from the beginning.
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Anything that doesn't look like the beginning, the way Jesus
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would respond to it, that it was not so when they brought in the
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issue of divorce and they were saying Moses said Jesus answered
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and said it was not so from the beginning.
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You see, distortion or reconstruction is tantamount to
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destruction. Hello.
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But we love to embrace distortion, We love to
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accommodate distortion, We love to go with distortion because
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maybe we find it convenient. Well, here is again.
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Distortion or reconstruction of the original pattern of God.
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We always need to destruction and look at what is happening at
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the home front today. Homes have been battered.
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A lot of things happen in our society that's not glorify God.
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Why? Because we we sit comfortably
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with distortions and reconstructions.
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So whatever if knew about the management of that garden were
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the things that Adam communicated to her, maybe even
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the exaggerations introduced into and that we must not touch
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it as a guess. We must not eat out of that
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particular three. OK, Maybe it was even a wrong
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communication from either and the female gender man, the
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female gender man, OK. If you if you handle them
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maturely, OK, they also take you and follow you seriously.
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But obviously of the good of of good and evil, thou shall not
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eat of it, for the thou it is thereof thou shall surely die.
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If was not there and what God said, it is not good.
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Now look at verse 18. The one I read now is just is
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verse 17. But of the two of the knowledge
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of good and evil, thou shall know it of it.
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For the other doubts are surely that all of those ones
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completed, we now come to verse 18.
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And Lagos said it is not good that the man should be alone.
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I will make him an earthmate for him.
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How would the woman know what to do if the man cannot
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communicate? How would the woman do the right
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thing if the man is not responsible?
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Hello. Because both the the assignments
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OK and what to do with the assignment?
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How to handle the assignment was given to the man God now watch
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the man doing it and he discovered that oh, he will need
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help. So let me create an help meet an
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help suitable form. So primarily the assignment is
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of the man. So it's a huge responsibility to
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be a man. It's what a lot rest on you as a
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man. But how many young men, or even
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all that men, married men? I see them around, OK, living as
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if nothing is at stake. Am I talking to somebody?
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You see the attitude in the family, you see the attitude in
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the church, you see the attitude in the place of work.
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I want to ask, did these people actually understand what
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responsibility lies on the shoulder of a man?
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It's not just about sleeping with a woman and you know,
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making her produce baby. So when eventually the whole
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process was messed up and God was to call them into
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accountability, even though the arrow came from the woman when
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God stepped into the garden, the God didn't say if if we are a
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thou, it's the first person to be called to accountability was
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Adam. Am I talking to somebody?
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Because it was to him he gave the primary responsibility to
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take charge. Young man in the house.
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He said before you. Hello.
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He said before you. That is far beyond Snickers.
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Hello, hello. We have among you now.
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Telly brother, be the man that God has made you to be.
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Are you with me or convinced of being it?
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Over said this over said you see another man.
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Please leave the seductive the seductive way of talking to the
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women. Be standing in your
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communication. Talk with gravity.
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Am I talking to somebody? So whereas it was Eve that
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suggested to Adam to heed the forbidden fruit in the garden,
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but when God came in, when God stepped in to call for
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accountability, it was unto Hidam.
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He first directed his call. Genesis chapter 3 from verse
Genesis 3 chapter mention
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one. Now the serpent was more subtle
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than any piece of the feed with the Lord God had made.
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And he said unto the woman, Ye And God said, Ye shall know it
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of the of every tree of the garden.
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And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
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of the tree of the garden, but of the fruit of the free, which
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is the means of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of
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it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
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And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die,
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for God don't know that in the day ye they are all there.
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Your eyes shall be hoping, and ye shall be God, knowing good
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and evil. And when the woman saw that the
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tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
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hello, it was good for food. Praise the name of the Lord.
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Praise the name of the Lord. Leave the We want to go to item
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7. We want to go to KCF.
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We want to leave it to the women.
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Hello, you work for the money that we used to carry them there
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and my dear daughters in the house.
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Any man that the same fare me come and take me to K come and
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take me to ID treats. Be very careful.
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Are you with me? Oh yeah, was good for food, and
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it was blessed for the eyes, and it to be desired to make one
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wise, she took all the food thereof and did it, and gave
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also unto her husband with her, and he did it.
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JA EBA some anu Alun de yehu, some anu Alun de second you
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close your eyes. Hallelujah.
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Am I talking to somebody? Hello, are we together?
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That is why outside the Christian family, outside the
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household of God, OK or coming generally.
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Water corsi muni water corsi. And the eyes of them both were
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open and they knew that they were naked and they see figures
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together and made them serve aprons.
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And they had the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden
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in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife E
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themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the tree of
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the garden. Now verse 9 is the emphasis.
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And the Lord go call unto Adam. He didn't call unto Eve.
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Hello Adam only accountability officer not Eve.
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So if if we be called to question and even the devil
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adapt to Zule OK, if he will be called to question Adam was
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forced commander come for his negligence.
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AM I talking to somebody and the Lord God called on to Adam and
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said to him we are thou we are thou.
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Now it's not about location, it's about are you standing in
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your office? It's about are you being man
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enough? It's about are you dependable?
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It's about can can can I give you an assignment and go to bed?
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Am I talking to somebody? We are now
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then, that goes to Judges, the war that Deborah laid against
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the Philistine in Judges Chapter 4.
Judges 4 chapter mention
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It was Deborah that led that war, that word that freed the
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Israelites from the oppression of Philistine.
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But when we came to the book of Hebrew, Hebrew Chapter 11, it
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was General Barack that was recognized among the heroes of
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faith. Now this is the balance to the
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life of Adam and the life of the life of Barack.
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Praise the name of the Lord. Now when God does not design it
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in such a way that when human have capacity, you disallow her.
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God did not design it in such a way that where a woman have
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capacity. OK, you don't give our
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responsibility. So in Judges chapter 4 there was
Judges 4 chapter mention
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a serious situation and the only person for that moment that has
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put the of the office physically and the anointing spiritually to
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contend the issue was a woman. Am I talking to somebody?
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Judges chapter 4 and Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidos.
Judges 4 chapter mention
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See George Israel at that time, and she dwelt under the palm
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tree of Deborah between Rama and Bethel in Mount Ibrahim.
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And the children of Israel came up to her for judgement.
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And she sent and called Barack, who was the army general, the
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son of ABI Noham, out of Kades Naftali, and said unto him, I've
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not a lot. Goddess recommended saying, Go
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and draw towards Montabo and take with thee 10,000 men of the
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children of Naftali and of the children of Sebulum.
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And I will draw unto thee to deliver Kison Sisera, the
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captain of Jabin's army, with his childhood and his multitude,
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and I would deliver him into the hand.
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Now verse 8 And Barack said unto her, If that will go with me,
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then I will go. He understood the principle from
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the beginning, that a man may have the assignment, but to
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succeed he needs the supportive woman.
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Am I talking to somebody? A man may have your primary
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responsibility, but for him to carry out that responsibility
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successfully, the support of a woman cannot be over emphasized.
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You don't say because you are the male gender man.
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You now look down on the female gender man as if they are good
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for nothing. Let a woman say I am good for
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something big. I can't hear you.
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So Barack understood that God gave man the assignment from the
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beginning, but it was God is rather to observe that this man,
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no, he can't go on all alone. Let me create a woman suitable.
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And Barack said if that will go with me, then I will go, but if
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that will not go with me, then I will not go.
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A lot of men are not achieving today because they are going
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alone. They don't embrace the wisdom of
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God to carry their wives alone. Many will have moved further
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than where they are if they have learned the wisdom of God to
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carry their wives alone. And they say, I will surely go
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with thee, notwithstanding they turn it, that thou taker shall
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not be for thy honour. For the Lords are set to the
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hand of a woman, and Deborah arroz away with Barack to
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cadets. So Barack was of the opinion
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that once we win the victory and glory goes to God, whoever takes
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the credit does not matter. Are you with me?
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Then we come to Hebrew in the New Testament in the Hall of
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Fame. We are heroes of faith.
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While listed verse 32 of every 11.
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And what shall I what? What shall I most say?
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For the time will fill me to tell of Gideon, the man who
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fought without a woman involvement.
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Praise the name of the Lord and of Barrack, a man you will want
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to judge as a weak man who said he won't go except a woman
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following him. Yet he was categorized among the
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heroes of faith in the class of video and of something.
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Are we together? The important thing is that you
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succeed, OK, if you know that your woman have capacity, give
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her room, give her what room, utilize our suggestion,
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cooperate with her and of Jeff, you also know Jeff
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the one that was rejected and eventually he became the mighty
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man that God used to deliver his people from oppression there of
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David. He might be a barrack in the
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class of David as far as God estimation is concerned, a man
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that he would naturally want to judge as if the man that a woman
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asked him to go to war. He said he wouldn't go accept a
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woman go with you. So God was teaching a lesson
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there are we together. God was teaching what a lesson.
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So take your woman input and appreciate her.
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Then somewhere the prophet that the scripture wrote that nothing
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that he said fell to the ground. You find a barrack in the
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armies, interestingly, go and read that place over and over
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and over and over again. OK, you won't.
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You won't find Deborah. Mention in every level.
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If there's a mention of eyes go to be a failed one that was not
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specific to her. Am I talking to somebody Maybe
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we had to talk about many other women and of course even that's
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why Bible say they were the widows who received their dead
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back to life. So the Spirit of God was
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actually teaching something here.
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OK, that a woman should be enough, should go humble enough,
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OK to allow her husband to take the credit.
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OK for our sacrifice. Hello, you pay these children's
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school fees, but you must announce to the whole world we
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will also Hello, You must call the children.
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I said I said to only when you don't say you paper sitter and
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bye bye Nikki. Nikki Nazi came on and see me.
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You don't do that. Are we together?
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So the place of the man super voter in all of kingdoms and
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family affairs. When Jesus came he had 12
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disciples. They were all men.
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So where do you get the idea that spirituality is a
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speciality for women? You told your wife to a prayer
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contractor, hello, you generate prayer point, I give to her.
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You are not praying at all either for yourself, for your
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children, even for her. Like you get that idea from.
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So when Jesus came here, 12 disciples, they were all men
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supported by women. We discussed that last Sunday.
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Susanna, Johanna. They were there supporting the
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men. They really need their place to
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the women. Am I talking to somebody?
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The first set of decades that were appointed in the Bible,
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Acts chapter 6. We keep on coming back to that
Acts 6 chapter mention
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scripture. Acts chapter 6.
Acts 6 chapter mention
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In the last 14 Sundays we have started the discussion.
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We keep on coming back to that scripture.
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The first several decades that were appointed were all men.
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It was later that women like Fabian were listed.
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So where do you come about that idea that spirituality is a
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speciality that must be reserved for women?
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We are supposed to be the one that will drive them there.
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We are supposed to be the one that we know, listing them up so
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that they are proud. So your wife will attend Sunday
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school, OK, You will come into the middle.
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You will come in into the middle of the service.
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Spiritual and seriousness that we eventually have a grief
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destiny consequence in the future.
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Hey, Bombay, your partner, another woman.
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Am I talking to somebody, Bombay?
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And some of these errors are mistakes.
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They are mistakes that are hardly redeemable.
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I want city Obama, I call it operation.
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But the dodo is God talking to somebody.
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Will you sit up? Tell yourself I will sit up.
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I will not joke with my responsibility.
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So all said and done, for church growth to be effective, the role
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of visionary men provided purposeful leadership, cannot be
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overemphasized. That's the thumbless sketch.
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That's the summary. For church crew to be effective,
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the role of visionary men provided purposeful leadership
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cannot be over ever sized. We should not be men who sit
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down to eat the bread of lads while contributing nothing.
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I played that message many years ago under the topic and the men
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sat down. I'm running a convention,
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speaking in a church today. I mean since since Wednesday or
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Thursday, since Wednesday. I'll be back there this morning.
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And the man of God there said the last time you came to the to
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my church, the message you prayed was and the man sat down.
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And that was well over a decade ago.
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And the man sat down. So if such a message is making
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great impacts in all the churches, it's going to be
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totally wrong that yeah, we can see half man sitting down eating
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the bread of lads, the bread they didn't provide for the
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lads. John, chapter 6, verse 10, and
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make the men sit down. Now there was mud grass in the
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place. So the men sat down in number
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about 5000 to provide the bread that fell. 5000 was a
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collaborative effort a woman by our prudence plan that this
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meeting we are going will be an extensive 1 and we will not
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finish a good time. After serving his child
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breakfast, put an extra in the lunch box for the child.
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And then, as Seers predicted it, the meeting was very extensive.
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The meeting didn't close in good time.
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By the time they were to round up, everyone was exhausted.
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Hungry. Jesus Tom to Philip, where do we
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get food to feed these people? Philip said it's an impossible
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task. Andrew heard about it.
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He said there's a bowl here. There has five loaves of bread
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and two fishes. And then when Jesus took that
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food from the small bowl and while by lighting you 5000 of
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them and the men sat down those 5000 which one of them lifted a
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finger to contribute not one of them.
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Hello women convention. Everybody should attend women
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convention when they say Dana, Dana, they will come with men
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organized the convention to you and the man sat down.
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So don't let us remember. We can sit down on assembly to
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hear the bread of lads while contributing nothing.
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But I should remember colloquy dealing here in many families.
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OK, and then? And the men what?
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Don't let us be men sitting down on assignment, OK?
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To want to reap from where we did not sow Only Lima.
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It was a series there close to two decades ago when I print
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this message and that man of God brought it back again.
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The second leg to the message is when men slept.
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When men do what slept, a man showed good seat.
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In every field you have categories of people play a
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different role. You have the sower, you have the
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keepers, you have dirty pass. The souac came is sold.
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But for the men, their responsibility is to watch, to
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serve as the keepers. But they slept and they created
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problem. The enemy sneaked in.
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It was when you were sleeping. Spirituality.
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The devil came and snatched your children.
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They are now in courts when men slept.
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So we should not be man who sleeps while the enemy sowed
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weed among the weeds, I say and I'm right treating it.
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Spirituality is not a speciality for women and children, rather
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it is the responsibility of all men and the father figures
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should provide the needed leadership to make their entire
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household spiritually whole. So church group therefore, as we
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draw the cotton today on the subject, is every member's
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responsibility. Church groups is every member's
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responsibility. It should not just be thrown at
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just the women or the youths or the children or the pastors
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alone, the ministers alone or the courageous alone.
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Gay. When you are saved or you are
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brought in as a member of the church, the purpose is that you
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also grow to become a minister. Am I talking to somebody?
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But to stay for years just as members contributing nothing,
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it's not good. Church growth is every member's
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responsibility. There is no room for idle
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onlookers in church. Everybody must be involved as a
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team of workers and Co liberals with God.
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God bless you. We believe you'll be blessed by
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the ministry of this message. You will do well to be the duer
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of all you've heard. For further inquiry and
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spiritual help, contact this number is 08035685882 or worship
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with us at Oasis of Wisdom Bible Church, adjacent University of
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Ellorin Teaching Hospital. O Kelsey Ellorin, God bless you.