Kingdom Priesthood - Sun 17th March 2024

To give opportunity to two or three people. Two or three people you want

to tell us that God has done something for you, so please hear it.

Someone will ask, oh, why do we share testimonies? Please?

You share testimonies to encourage others in their faith. You also share testimonies because

testimonies are meant to be shared. Hallelujah, hallelujah. If everyone came to

their testimonies, will not know how good our God is. Amen is.

Unbelievers wi't get to hear of the good things God has done. So if

you're here, maybe God helped you in exams. Jenny messys, you prayed

for something, You've seen the results you have answers. Please run up here,

take the microphone, boldly, say your name and share your testimony.

Don't have two or three people at least at least two to three people coming

forward to say that this is what God has done for me. Do we

have two to three people here, Let's clap for them. Let's encourage you.

Or you're looking around no club. Maybe it's you. It's you that

needs to come, so we are clapping for you. We have two to

th people. At least two to three people Church two to three people.

We can't see God has not done anything. No, that's an error to

come if you have a testimony. Just woke up here, woke up here.

Come, don't second guess it's come. Don't look around. Come,

yes, come, come, come, No second guess it's come. Come,

Yes, hallelujah. Someone you're sitting there, you're seeing my voice doesn't

sound nice in a microphone. All of us, okay, all of us,

you come. All of us are voices don't sound nice in the Michales

will come, come make you feel comfortable. Do have a second person,

I have a second person, I have a third person. I have a

fourth person. Yes, I told you put your hands together for or I

have a fifth person. Put your ass together for them. Hallelujah. All

right, So where do I start from? Left? You will start?

Look sorry, good morning. I just want to thank God for helping me

past my mom excelling. Yes, thank you please this good morning. Okay.

So my name is Michelle and kay, so I'm just going to give

this t moneylocome. So, my my sister has always wanted to back this

famous musician and which is Alvin Swatter. And she'll be praying and praying I

was praying for her, and then Monday they added her to this group and

the name of the group was that our just what I d felt thomsing.

So they said he the song she's supposed to lend, so she'll be back

in the musician she has always wanted to, like you know, back And

I'm so happy for you. And I think first Monday is God God do

so just thank you for this. My name is Ellen. When I was

Friday, I was coming back from school and my friend and I almost got

hit by a car by thank God for giving us safe. My name is

Asher and last week we had it as your ah H g R. Last

week we had exams and I wasn't able to study on the weekend because I

had sporting activities. Last week I had the exams and I wasn't able to

study because I had sporting activities on the weekend. So the day before exam

week, I prayed to God to help me with wisdom, and that week

I got all a's from my exams. My name is quite cool. I

got to the ZAM school lesson we had example last week. Actually I don't

study because as I am very easy person, so I just prayed to God.

I told them to help me in my exams, and throughout the week

I got ease and all my exams. Hallelujah. Please you know what,

stretch for your hands towards them and let's secure your testimentis la system. Michelle

said, sister had dream come true. As you're praying, as you're connecting,

some of you have dreams. Maybe yours is some Elvin Slaughter. Yours

is maybe someone else, someone in the movie industry, someone in the party

industry, someone you're looking out to meet one one. Pray and connect.

Your sister also said, go help there in your math example. Some of

you know Marth is a problem. Connect security ar testimony. Your brother said,

God has done so much praying and acts that the same thing being pushing

the God do so much that you can't even explain or start to talk about

it. Hallelujah or Jesus name, we pray it thanksgiving, Amen, Hallelujah.

Put your hands together for them, sorry, put your hands together for

them as they take their seats, and take your seats a man as hallelujah.

So those of you that have sporting activities, God can give you a

wisdom when you can pass a man. Yes, and for our sister that

share the testimony about divine escape. No one here will be hit by any

car Jesus name man, you go home safely and come back safely. Now

with all the Jesus joy, we've got into an important part of the service.

Let's be on our feet with a standing ovation in a round of our

clause. Let's be welcome our shepherd, Reverend Rawn, So really thank you,

hallelujah. Who are the Christians in church this morning? Are the redeemed

of the Lord in church this morning? Christ in you, oh, I

said, christ in you, Amen on, behalf of our Father and the

Lord, the Archimishop Nicholas and Williams. This morning we will welcome to church.

And please look to your left and your right and tell your neighbor's good

to see you this morning. Please tell someone else I see the glory of

God all over you this morning, and it's good to have you in change

this morning. Amen. Let's do our anthem and not go straight into the

word of God. As we gather speak ad me your spirit dwell within us,

and sweak don't well and will be best because we can tell your neighbor

now name less, because I can't. Let's think about the step that's not

it's lessons. Bray miss your favorites face Heavenly Father, we thank you for

your faithfulness towards us. Thank you for gathering us together again by your great

tender mercies. And we thank you for loving us with a love that is

everlasting. Lord, we thank you that the entrance of your word brings light

and it brings understanding. This morning, as we have come to receive from

you, Let light enter our hearts, Let understanding into our minds. And

Father, let your will and let your purpose be made manifest in us the

precious name of your son Jesus, we give you thanks, and we give

you all praise in Jesus' precious name. Let a believer say an abay,

and please tell your neighbor it's really good to see you again in church,

and please have a seat in the presence of the Lord. Hallelujh Yeah.

Amen. Please the one who said the testimony in American English, I did

he hear anything or what did he say? He said something? Amen?

But we thank God for all the testimonies. Please ask your neighbor when are

you giving a testimony. Please ask your neighbor. Since you became a Christian,

we've not had you give a testimony before. When are you giving a

testimony to glorify God? Amen? Please tell your nabor next week. It's

your last chance. You have to give a testimony next week. Amen.

And so we thank God for another Sunday where we will be blessed. How

many of you know that it's only in church that you can be blessed especial

way if you go and't see President or you'll be blessed that way, Amen.

But when you come to church, God will bless you and special with

me because God is here in our Amen. Let's go straight into our teaching

for today. Today, I'm speaking to you about kingdom priesthood. Kingdom priesthood,

and before we end the service, there is a surprise for all of

us from our father, the Archbishop. So before we end, you get

that surprise. Amen. Let's look at Romance chapter twelve vers. One and

two. Romance Chapter twelve is one and two and there's a scripture that we

are very familiar with because in the past few months we've been dealing with the

renewal of the mind. Amen. And so Paul wrote to the church in

Rome and said to them that I beseech you there for brethren, by the

message of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice which is holy

and which is acceptable to God your reasonable service. Amen. In the Kingdom

of God, God gives us an identity. Amen. If you are an

American, it means you come from America. If you are a Ghanian,

it means you come from Ghana. It is your identity what we got people

who come from Kuwait, sorry, Kuwaiti Okay and as abaijan az Avaijanty.

Wherever you come from gives you an identity. Amen. Wherever you come from

gives you an identity. When you mentioned your surname, it's easy to place

which part of Ghana you come from. Do you understand? And so in

the Kingdom of God, there is also an identity in the Kingdom of God.

It is very unfortunate that many children of God who come to church call

themselves Christians, but they don't know anything about the Kingdom of God. That

is an error because you can't just be a Christian who comes to church.

You must know something about the Kingdom of God. Because your identity is secured

in the Kingdom of God. Amen. And so today I'm going to teach

you about what your identity is in the Kingdom of God. Can I hear

an? Amen? And so Paul right into the church in role. He

said that for your identity to come forth, present yourselves a living sacrifice,

holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. I explain to

you what your reasonable service is a few weeks ago in that your parents are

paying your scoofees, they are taking care of you. Is that not the

case? So your reasonable service to them is to respect them and to honor

them. The moment you start disrespecting your parents, the moment you start dishonoring

your parents, it means your service your parents is unacceptable. How many of

you know Jesus died for you, That Jesus was hung on across they crucified

him for you, with all Jesus suffered for us. If you can't offer

yourself a living sacrifice to him wholly unacceptable, then it means your act of

worship towards God is unacceptable. Amen, your worship to God is unacceptable.

Now, worship is not just a song. Please say, Worship is not

just a song. Worship is an act of sacrifice. That involves your obedience

to God. So offering yourself a living sacrifice to God is your reason numble

act of worship Amen, number verse two. And do not be confound to

this world. I explained to you that this world talks about the patterns of

this world. As a child of God, you cannot be doing everything and

anything that everybody else is doing. Amen. You can't say that in the

world, my mates have boyfriends and girlfriends, so I will also have boyfriends

and girlfriends as a child of God. Amen. How many of you have

boyfriends and girlfriends? You give the lord away and shave the down. Amen.

You can have friends, you can have beloved, but you can't do

what other people are doing as a child of God, because it will get

you into aer Can I hear an Amen? See those who don't want to

they're not saying Amen. Please look at your neighbor tho I say say Amen.

If they didn't say many means they are doing, they are guilty.

Amen. So it says that don't be confirmed to this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind. Amen. In the Kingdom of God

is a place for transformation. And so you can have someone who is a

thief who is an arm Robert who has killed many people, who are stolen

many things. They can receive Christ and they can become born again. And

the moment the Word of God starts to come to them and they receive the

Word of God, the process of transformation will happen in their lives. That

the things they used to do, they will do it no more. Do

you understand. So someone who used to steal a phone, even if your

phone is in your pockets, they will find a way to steal it.

Now, when they are transformed and they become fully born again, you can

put the phone, and you can leave the phone. They don't even touch

it because transformation has happened. Amen. And transformation comes from the word of

God, because the Bible says that it is only the Word of God that

has the power and the ability to save and transform lives. Amen. And

so Paul says that don't be conformed to the patterns of this world, the

way of doing things in this world. As a child of God. You

can't do what everybody else is doing, but be transformed by the renewing of

your minds. And the reason why we need to be transformed is that so

that we can prove and test and know what the will of God is for

our lives. The will of God is good, the will of God is

acceptable, the will of God is perfect. But until we are transformed by

the renewing of our minds, we cannot know the will of God. We

can't see the will of God. We can't accept the will of God,

we can't appreciate the will of God. Amen. And everywhere the will of

God is done, the Kingdom of God is established, because the Kingdom of

God is everywhere God raigns, God rules, and his will is done.

So if you want the will of God, if you want the Kingdom of

God to be established through you, then the will of God has to be

done through you for God's kingdom to be established through you. Amen. And

so it is important that, as a child of God, when we are

pathed into the Kingdom of God, to begin the process of mind renewal,

because if you don't renew your mind from the old ways of doing things,

you will not be able to have transformation in your life. Can I hear

an Amen, Let's look at his three Okay, God best for Amen.

So this is another subject for another day. Let's go to first Visa chapter

two best four to five. First Metuch chapter two past one to five.

Please tell your neighbor. In the Kingdom of God, we don't apply for

visa. Amen, let me explain. When you're going to London, you

have to apply for a visa if you're not a citizen of London. But

this is of the UK right. If you are going to America, you

need to apply for a visa. Without the visa, you can't go.

If you go illegally and they catch you, they'll bounce you, you'll deport

you. In the Kingdom of God, there is no embassy to apply for

a visa. In the Kingdom of God, we are born into the kingdom.

So when you are born again, you are born into the Kingdom of

God. Amen, you are born into the Kingdom. Ask what as a

baby? You are born into the Kingdom of God as a baby. And

the reason why God has done it so is that when God created Adam,

Adam was not a baby. When he created him, Madam was a fully

grown man. Adam did not understand consequences. Adam didn't wear diapers. He

didn't have foo full diapers, so he didn't understand how to crawl, the

consequence of crawling standing to try and run and fold out and get up.

He was created. He was a whole brown man in his tot. So

he didn't understand the consequence of seeding the dominion authority to say it, and

he didn't understand it. But in the Kingdom of God, as it where,

you need to be born into the Kingdom of God, and you need

to grow as a baby grows in end. So in first the two vers

one, Peter writes to the church, therefore, laying aside all malice,

give us the nalt of the nivy. So get rid of all evil behaviors.

We are establishing what our identity is in the Kingdom of God. Before

we get to our identity, there are some things we need to let go

of. Please tell your neighbor there are some things we need to let go

of. There are some things we need to change from. There are some

things we need to renew our minds from. And the first thing is evil

behaviors. Some people are evil. They are evil. Have you met an

evil pensive before they are evil? We don't mind throwing you under the bus

because they are evil evil behavior, It says, get rid of all evil

behavior. Number two, be done with all deceits. Shout out to all

the liars who lie to deceive people. Be done with it. Stop lying,

stop deceiving people. Amen. If you're you don't have gagon, don't

say you have jagon. Amen. If your father doesn't have messities, benz,

it's not telling. Nobody will catch you. Don't say your father has

messities, Benz. If your car there's no air condition inside, Charlie is

not by folks. Don't say there is air condition your car when there's no

air condition your car. Stop lying and stop deceiving people. Amen. Don't

tell people you eat caiche and coffee for breakfast when we know Charlie you don't

even know what kish is. Amen. So this has a boot all the

line. So the writer says that stop the lying. Please tell your neighbor.

Are you in the business of lying? Ask your neighbor, Hey,

don't look at me. Ask your neighbor. Are you in the big lying?

What did they say? They say? Yes? Hey. The writers

say that stop the lying, because we are coming to establish our identity the

Kingdom of God. Do you understand? And lying would deny you of all

the benefits of who you are in Christ Jesus. Amen, stop the hypocrasy.

Don't be a hypocrite. Stop that gets rid of it. We are

letting them all go get rid of. Don't be a chameleon. You are

a pretend. Don't be a pretender. That's what I'm saying. Don't be

a hypocrates. Stop jealousy. Stop being jealous. Your eye red for somebody's

takes. Stop being jealous. When I was in secondary school, one day,

somebody's father just walked into a dormitory and he went to open the sounds,

you know, bogs, and he was asking, where's this one,

where's this one? Where't one? Where's my son's speakers? Then here's aw

somebody wearing it. I said, hey, come here, why are your

eyes read for my sons? They don't make Don't let your eyes be read

for my son. You remove it. Stop the jealousy, amen, don't

let your eyes red for someoney's thing. Amen, and get rid of all

unkind speech. There are some of you when you they in sold you five

years later, when you remember that so tally that the still pains you.

Stop on kind speech. If you don't know how to speak kind words,

keep your mouth shuts Amen, Because your identity and your calling requires you to

speak kind words. Amen. If you don't have kind words to speak,

learn to keep your mouth shut, because the Bible says in the Book of

Proverbs that a fool who keeps his mouth shut is considered to be wise.

So learn to keep your mouth shut. Vest to like new born word babies,

you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full

experience of salvage. And give us the new king genuation for the scripture.

So in the Kingdom of God, we don't apply for a visa. In

the Kingdom of God, we are born into the Kingdom. Amen. And

so as newborn babes desire the sincere or the pure milk of the Word,

the Word of God is our milk that will cause us to grow. Amen.

So if you are someone who is not interested in the Word of God,

then you will not grow. You will be in the Kingdom of God,

all right, but you will be a baby. And God's expectation is

that every one of us should grow up to become a spiritual giant, so

that in your blood line you are the priest. In your you are a

spiritual giant. And when something is going bad. You can stand in the

God and command and demand that thing to turn around, and you will turn

around. Amen. But until you have a desire and a craving for God's

word, you will not grow. Amen. How many of you have had

your quiet time this week? Give the Lord a wave and shame the devil

or above your head, Amen, how many of you have not had your

quiet time? Lift up your hands to the Lord and shame the devil.

See you're not shaming level because the devil is We can be your friend.

You must what desire the word of God so that you can grow. Because

in the Kingdom of God, it is all about growth. In the Kingdom

of God, it is about growth. We don't have kashako babys in the

Kingdom of God. Jonathan, Yes, you have to grow in the Kingdom

of God. And how you will grow is by studying the Word of God,

meditating on the Word of God, speaking the word of God. That

is how you will grow. Outside of that, you will not grow.

So you can come to change and pretend to be a Christian all you want,

you will not grow because the only way to grow is through the word

of God. Let's who covers Three. I can hear some people preaching over

them, going to give them the mic. If I hear another here you

come and preach. Oh you know, yes, if indeed you have tasted

that the Lord is gracious. How many of you have tasted the goodness of

God? How many of you know that God is good and you have tasted

God's goodness? Amen, some hands are down, they've not tasted God's goodness

yet. Father. Let them experience your goodness this week. Show them a

token for good this week, that next week, by this time they will

come running with a testimony that yes, the Lord is good and his Messice

and your forever say a better Amen. Amen, Past forward, coming to

him as a living stone. Now we are now going to establish our identity

in the Kingdom of God. We are coming to Jesus as a living stone.

Jesus was rejected by men, but he was chosen by God and it's

precious in the sight of God. Past five, Please tell your neighbor you

also please tell your neighbor like you are not afraid of them, say you

also please don't be afraid of their faces. Tell them you also please say

to someone else you also. You know there are some people that do their

face be but chally know nothing. Give them look at them. I want

to tell them you also, you are a living stone. Amen. Tell

them you also you are a living stone. Amen. So we have come

to Christ Jesus, who is the living stone. We also, because we

have been bathed into the Kingdom of God, we have also become a living

stone. So that is your first identity as a child of God in the

kingdom. You are a living stone a man number two. You are being

built up as a spiritual house. You are being built up as a spiritual

house. Say to yourself, I'm a living stone that God is using to

build his temple. And then do you see how pressures you are? Have

you seen how pressures you are? You are a living stone that God is

using to build his temple. You are also a holy priesthood. Give me

the anenalty for this. You are not just a living stone, but you

are being built up as God's temple and you are a holy priesthood. You

are a holy priesthood. So you are living souls that God is building into

a spiritual temple. What's more, you are His holy priests through the mediation

of Christ Jesus. You offer spiritual sacrifices that please go. Do you understand

so your identity in the Kingdom is not just a church God. Your identity

in the Kingdom is that you are a living stone that God is using to

build his church. You are not just a living stone, but He's also

made you a priest, a spiritual priest that can offer spiritual sacrifices to God.

You are not just a priest entitled, but you are a priest that

can offer sacrifices to go Amen. So unlike you when you go to school

and you see people's my God is journous God. My God is su journous

God. See loves me. See what they think they are offering to God

as praises is unacceptable to God because they are not born again. Because the

same lives though used to sing my God is actually awesome God. They will

flip the song and sing some very profane song, so they are praises is

unacceptable to God. But you as a living stone, you as a temple,

you as a priest, a holy priest God. If you start to

sing the song from the depths of your heart to God, then you are

offering up to God's spiritual sacrifices. Amen. So when there is a song

in your heart that you are offering to God, you are in spiritual sacrifices

to go. In the past two weeks, I've had a very fantastic deja

vu moment at home where I'll be upstairs and I'll be singing a song.

I'll be singing a song, I'll be praising God, and then I'll stop.

And by the time i come downstairs, and it's not like I'm shouting.

When I come downstairs, my wife will probably be in the kitchen out

here hair singing the same song. She'll be singing the same song. Just

two days ago, I was sitting at the dining table and she was there,

and I was about to open my mouth to sing a song because there

was a song in my heart, and the moment I was just about to

open, I decided to hold it, and then she just at the same

time, she opened her mouth and sang the same song. Do you understand?

So, as a priest, you have the capacity to offer to God

spiritual sacrifices. Amen. There have been several times where I've come to church

and there's a song in my heart and the moment comes to sit on the

piano should be playing a song. Or the moment Je Jason comes to stand

here, he'll be singing a song. Was it two weeks ago? I

was sinking and shouts the song. I was saying it. When he came.

As part of the song, they said, list you, Susanna,

and I was very blessed at the back. Amen. So, as a

priest, you can offer to God's spiritual sacrifices. So when you sing my

God is such an awesome God, and they saying my God, the difference

is clear before God, there is one that is accepted and there is one

that's not accepted. Because your identity as a priest gives you the ability to

come to God with a sacrifice. You can come to God with a sacrifice

of praise. You can come to God with the sacrifice of thanksgiving. You

can come to God with prayer. When you pray, it is a sacrifice

that is set before God as incense. They put it in fire and it

becomes incense before God. Your prayer it becomes sweet smelling incense. Amen.

When other people pray, there is no aroma in their prayer. I went

to a wedding yesterday. The paston called the father and the mother to come

and pray and bless them. When the father came, he said, oh,

I bless you. Then they want the father, I understand. The

mother came and said, well, I bless you, and the thing was

dry. There was no aroma to that prayer. Amen. But I see

when you stand and you pray, the reason why God answers your prayer is

because of your identity as a priest. So when you pray, your prayer

goes up to God. Amen. So your identity as a priest in the

Kingdom of God gives you the right, gives you the opportunity to offer spiritual

sacrifices to God. Amen. And so when you are saying, we bring

sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord, that is a sacrifice you

are offering to God. We bring sacrifice of praise into thes of the Lord.

When someone else sings, it's the effect to be different. Amen.

Have you been to change? When some whey are sung and childy the thing

is dry, it doesn't move your craw. The difference is clear when somebody

else picks up the microphone and starts singing, and everybody will lift up their

hands. The person as you need to shout, hey, lift up your

hand. Why are you looking at me? Close your eyes. Everybody will

lift up their hand and they will be praising God. It tells you that

the one who is the one who has that effect is a priest who is

fully functional as a priest. Amen. So from today, when you see

them, measure them. When the thing is not moving. You can do

this change over because I used to do that when I was in university.

I was as the music director. When the music director is singing and chally

the song is not going and I say, must I come here? Then

as I'm walking on the stage, he's working to me, and then I'll

take the mic. Oh yes, I did need to him so many times.

Now when he sees me doing this, not so when it's as that

he's ministrator. You look at me, Chad say okay, because if not

to change your word, Amen, because we are going to offer spiritual sacrifices

to God. Now, please God. It is not every sacrifice that pleases

God. But when you are a priest who is in your identity as a

priest, as a living stone, as a temple built by God, as

a holy priest, when you offer sacrifices to God. Those sacrifices please God.

Please tell your neighbor for free, God want sacrifices that please him.

Amen. Please ask your neighbor what are you offering to God? Are you

offering momnis smell or gob smell or you're offering sweet aroma to the Lord?

Amen. So based on your identity now as a child of God, who

is a priest, a living stone the temple of God. Don't you know

that your body is that tempole. So Jesus is building you up as a

tempole. Amen. And because it's building you up as a priest, no

matter where you go in the world, all he needs is you to start

his church and to build his church. Amen. When Peter came to the

revelation that Jesus is the son of God, Jesus says that, yes,

Simon, you have caught this revelation. It's only God who could have given

you this revelation. And based on this revelation, your name is now Peter,

which is the rock, a living stone. And he says on you,

I will build my church and the gates of Hell will not prevail.

So God is in the business of building his church on living stones. Amen.

But are we living stones that are priests that God can use or we

are just church goers and church comis. Amen. Our identity has to change

by the renewing of our minds, because when you renew your mind that you

are a priest. Even how you dress or reflect your priesthood. Amen,

How you dress reflect your priesthood. How you dress reflect your priesthood. There's

a saying that Bishop, how many of you have heard of Bishop any Is?

He said that day he saw the scripture, even how he dresses,

he changes, He changed it, and he began to walk with that mindset

that I'm a priest. Amen. If you are a priest, you can't

dress like how the world presses. There has to be some difference to understand.

You can't be like everybody else. You can't go everywhere, You can't

eat everywhere. The wedding we went to yesterday, I went to with a

past a friend of mine, and said, also mean when I go for

a reception, I don't usually eat when I weigh the environment. He said,

whatever I say, Because there were a lot of unbelievers. They came

to dance, but Bobo and everything there. I said, Oh, now,

so as a priest. You are guided by God, because a priest

doesn't it everywhere? Amen. When people have done one loglog line to go

by, go bay, Hey, as a priest, you can't do that.

Amen. Oneglog lie it sees one long line and the priest is inside

telling hey, give me away. You cannot be doing that. Amen.

Your identity now has changed. Amen, give me very sex. And the

swepture says that I am placing a cornerstone in Jerusalem, chosen for great honor.

So when you walk in your identity as a priest, you are ordained

for great honor. Amen. Please tell your neighbor I am ordained for great

honor. Or tell your other neighbor, I am ordained for great honor.

Yes, I am ordayed for great honor. So behold, I lay Zion,

a chief corner stone, elect and precious, and he who believes in

him, by no means shall be put to shame. Because you are a

priest, that you are representing Christ Jesus, there will be no shame attached

to your name. Amen. When others are bombing their exams like my brother

gave the testimony, you'll be passing as oh yes, because you are walking

in your priesthood. What it would take people three months to study and understand

twenty minutes, you will understand it. You write it. Palm, hey

a plus. Do you understand what it would take people twenty years to achieve

as a priest? Within one year? Two years? Palm is there?

You have achieved it. Do you understand? And there will be no shame

attached to your knae. So anything that is shameful, God will keep you

fire away. Because Jesus is born as shame already, we don't need to

go through shame anymore. Jesus, as the King of Glory, hung shamefully

on the cross for us. He took on us sicknesses. He took on

our shame on the cross for us. And because we are now walking as

priests, no shame will come near us. Amen. The Bible says that

the Lord is my shield. Some three. That's three. The Lord is

that's my favorite script. That the Lord is my shield and my excellent grain.

More, he is the lift above my head. It is God who

lifts up our head. So there is no shame. People who look down

people sha, see why you've got to dance something? You're looking now.

But the Lord is there lifting up. Amen. The Lord is my shield

and my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. Amen.

So, as a priest who is walking in your calling, there will be

no shame attached to you, Amen, no shame at all. So if

there is a situation that is you are saying that there's a trace of shame

attached to it, as a priest, you can stand in the girl and

declare, in the name of Jesus, because of what Jesus suffered for me,

and because I'm a priest walking in my priest calling and my identity,

I declare, let shame be far away from me. The shame will run,

it will run away. Go back to the scripture before this, Amen,

Oh I said, Amen, have you been blessed this morning? Amen?

Next verse verse seven. Therefore, to you who believe he is precious,

how many of you believe that Jesus is presscious? Amen, Jesus is

precious, and we believe that he is precious. And the stones which the

builders rejected have now become the chief cornerstone. Amen. In your family.

They think you amount to nothing. But newsflash, have good news for you.

The stones that the builders rejected will become the chief cornerstone. Amen.

God will set the table before you the presence of your enemies, that when

they see you come in, do bow their heads. Because you are walking

as a priest, as a living stone. You are walking according to the

will and purpose of God for your life. So God will make you stand

out. You are the one who bind everything together. Without the chief corner

stone, the house is incomplete. You are the one who bind everything together

when they need a certain kind of advise because of the wisdom of God in

you, you are the one that will come to fourthers. Amen. That's

eight. And for those who don't believe in Jesus Christ, and they don't

believe in the power of God to change lives, you will become to them

a stumbling blog. You become to them like an offense because they disobey God's

word. And so when they see you and they want to do their things,

because you are there, they don't be able to do their things.

Yesterday, when the past I was preaching those one guy, he's an unbeliever.

I can't now mind that guy. He was there talking toasting some girl.

He didn't know that he was sitting across past this. Then he will

make some comments and he will look away expecting feedback. You know, some

people do their comment and do it. It's less support this. He said,

my guy, you're in the wrong place. When we didn't minime,

we got up and left. Amen, you become because we didn't encourage him,

so we became a stumbling block to him. So you got up and

left. So you become a stumbling block. When they want to do that,

they say, hey, what's awful is here? We can't do a

thing. We can't do a thing. One guy who met me one time

I went to a funeral said, I said, Charlie, the woman has

died, or we are going to booze until we die. And he looked

at me and said, oh, do you booze? I said, oh,

I'm a priest. I'm awful. I don't booze. I said,

ohful, Hey, I'm sorry when I'm misbehaving like that, I'm sorry.

You become I'm sure he didn't drink that day. You become a stumbling block

to them. Amen. You will become a stumbling block to them. Amen.

And so because you are the cornerstone, God will use you to settle

such things. When you show up in your class. All their profanity will

stop. All those who like when they see you, know, Charlie quiet,

everything will go mute because you have appeared, because you are a priest.

If they bring the profundity, you quote them a scripture and settle their

case. Amen, give me best. Nine. This is the conclusion of

your identity in Christ, Jesus and in the Kingdom of God. But to

you, you are a chosen generation. God has chosen you. You are

worth a chosen generation. You are not just anybody. You are chosen by

God. Do you know that your being here is not collincidental. You're being

in the youth chesche today. It's not by mistake, because God works in

times and in seasons, and in every season there is something that He does.

Amen. So you are a chosen generation. You are a royal priesthood.

You are not just a priest. You are a holy priest. You

are a royal priest. You come from royalty because in the Kingdom of God,

the king of kings is royal. Amen. So, even how you

speak, if you only allow your mind to be renewed and be transformed into

the royal that you are, you realize that even your speech would change.

Amen. Can you stand up as a royal priest? Can you stand up

on your feet? Just stand up? Take a step as a royal priest.

Just take a step, take a step in your hearts. Tell yourself,

I'm a royal priesthood, Amen, tell yourself, I'm a royal priest.

Amen, because you need to speak your identity yourself until you believe it.

Do you understand what's your name said? Sorry, Gotti, your name

is Gotti. If I come and say your name is alulo me, alone

me is not your name? J understand? But see you can be adopted

by alone Ordun whose name is Alulumi Jonathan. And because of the weight of

what comes with his name, because you've been adopted, you gladly accept alulu

Me as your name Jonathan. So in the Kingdom of God, because of

the weight they expands of the royalty of God, it is easy to take

on the identity because it's not just a name as given. There's power and

dominion with that name. Amen. So when there's someone who is sick,

as a pre you can pray for them and God will heal them. Because

you are a priest, God can went through your hands. Do you understand

I've seen healings where the passon just removing shoes and told the person to wear

their shoes and healing was the person was healed. Do you understand, I've

seen instances where person yes removed his jacket and threw it on the person.

Person was made. All the issues with a person come came for an end

because of the office of the priest. And you are a priest. You

are a royal priest too. You are a holy nation. You are especial

people to God. Do you understand? Your generation is a generation that is

chosen by God. It's chosen by God to uphold his heritage. So fifteen

years from now, twenty years from now, thirty years from now, forty

years from now, fifty years round, you live very long fifty six years

from now, because you are there, the heritage of God can continue through

you. Do you understand, But until you take on your whole identity as

a priest of God, so that God starts working through you to transform you,

to make you a spiritual giant, not a spiritual baby who is bullied

by the devil. But it's spiritual giant that it can stand in the garden

for God's purpots to be brought to bear in you. If you don't renew

your mind, let me transformed, you can't come to that place. And

then please sit there for a moment. And so you are a holy nation.

You are word a holy nation. You know the verses before it says

a holy priest says you are a holy nation. So out of you your

seed dot com can be a nation of holy priests. Understand, God called

Abraham his wife was buried out of him the whole national priests came out.

God can be the same for you. Amen. So even the woman you

marry crad God to God has a say inside. This is not about your

will. It's about God's will and God's purpose, and it's often about the

heritage the next generation. So your priesthood is important because God needs priests who

can command this house after them, who can command their house after him.

Amen. So you are a holy nation. You are God's own special people.

Amen. If you think nobody likes you, are here to announce your

God likes you very much. Amen. If you think no one likes you

because Jelli they think you are some way, please news flash. God likes

you very much. Amen. He likes you very very much. And he

has given you a new identity, Amen, so that we may proclaim the

praises of Him who has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.

The purpose of this is so that we can offer spiritual sacrifice. Praise is

a sacrifice, so that we can proclaim the praise of Him who has redeemed

us, who has saved us, who has justified us, who has made

us home, who has brought us out of darkness into his marvelous light.

So we can proclaim save the one you say has come to us. So

we can proclaim and say he the one you hear has come to So we

can proclaim hemper you held has come to us. The one you redeem came

here to bless your name. The one you justified has come to glorify.

You have the right to proclaim the praise of he who has saved you,

the one who has redeemed you. Amen. Please give me invest ten.

And the truth of the matter is that we were once a people who were

not a people, but we are now the people of God. We are

now the people of God. Amen. You are now a child of God.

Your identity has changed, so you must renew your mind. Amen.

We were once not eligible for mercy, but now we have obtained mercy from

God. We have obtained mercy from God, that we can come boldly before

His throne of grace to obtain mercy. We were once without mercy, but

now we have obtained mercy. That if you are in a car and the

car is meant to have an accident, because you are in it, the

mercy of God speaks and everybody in the car is saved. Amen. Even

though the car will have an accident, nobody would die because of the mercy

of God. Because of the mercy of God. God can prevent many things

from happening. Because of the mercy of God. Because of the mercy of

God, you can go to bed and wake up because of the mercy of

God. Because eternity is parallel to time, anybody can step into eternity any

time. Five year olds are stepping into eternity. Ten year olds are stepping

into eternity, fifty year old, fifty years, ninety years, They always

stepping. They can't step into twenty at any time. But it is because

of the messies of God that we are not consumed. Amen. So we

can sing forth His praises to declare how much we love him, and we

can offer to him spiritual sacrifices. Can I hear an amen? Please give

me Verse eleven. In conclusion, beloved, I beg you ofr Soul,

Genus and pilgrims. Abstained from I mean you know that, abstained from.

Oh you know you know what I mean. Abstaining from all of it,

everything that you are against with your soul, with your body, with your

flesh. Let's abstain from it. Because we are priests, and we are

not just priests. We are holy priests. We are royal priests. We

are living stones. God is in the business of building. God is a

builder. He wants to build something with us. Amen. So let's maintain

ourselves in that identity. Let's renew our minds so that God can bring some

transformation to us. Can I hear an amen?