How to Be a Strong Christian (Duality) pt1 continuation 30.04.2023

But two it's very high. If next week I'll give you another two points,

you'll forget one or even not remember. So if in a month I've

given you ten points as a connel Christian who doesn't take notes, when you

come to church, talkless or carry your Bible, you will not even remember

five points. But if in this season what you need to grow and become

a strong Christian is that ten points God has given to you through is servants,

then as a colonel Christian, you are not going to grow. There

will be no nado. You will just be as you are a man.

But I need you to understand that in life, there are seasons in life.

There are seasons in life, and God has designed seasons in life so

that in every season we learn new things. There are seasons where we so

see it, they are seasons where we reap or we harvest. Amen.

But if in the season of soling you are not applying yourself to sol when

harvest comes you have nothing to harvest. You can pray all you want,

there will be no harvest. Amen. And so shout out to all our

kinna Christians. We are becoming spiritual Christians. Someone saying, oh, I

didn't hear you, I said, shout, ask all our kind of Christians

who are becoming spiritual. Amen. Amen. And so to be a strong

Christian is to be a spiritual Christian. To be spiritual. Amen. Let's

look at the fifth point and the saith point quickly. To be a strong

Christian is to become holy. To be a strong Christian is to become holy

Hebrews after twelve, verse fourteen. The Bible says that follow peace with all

men and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Amen.

Who wants to see God, who wants to see Jesus, This Jesus we've

been talking about. This Jesus we've been preaching about. The Bible says that

the same way he left, he ascended to heaven, he will come back

again. Amen. And the Bible says that when he appears in the clouds

of glory, all eyes will see him. Amen. And so he says

that pursue peace with all men and holiness, without which this is impossible to

see the Lord. Amen. The Bible says in the Gospel of John chapter

four, Jesus was talking to the Samaritan woman, and he said to her

that God is spirit. And they that worship God, must worship him in

spirit and in truth. Amen. Because our God is a holy God.

As a child of God, your holiness comes from God. And so by

the Christ, the blood of Jesus cleanses us and makes us holy. So,

as a child of God, it is not in our interest to contaminate

ourselves after Christ, Jesus has cleansed us and made us holy. Amen.

And so to be a strong Christian is to become holy. Amen. The

fifth point is that to be a strong Christian is to become matured. To

be a strong Christian requires maturing. To be a strong Christian requires growing up.

Amen. Unfortunately, in the body of Christ and in the Church,

there are a lot of grown up people who are very childish because they are

not spiritual. Amen. And so in efficiency of the four was fourteen.

The Bible says that that henceforth be no more children. Don't be children anymore.

Amen. In the youth church, our youngest age is thirteen years old.

And so from the age of twelve years old you enter the season of

accountability. If you meet your maker today, you can't tell God that,

oh, I'm a child, because that won't fly. I'm a minor.

It won't fly. I'm a teenager. It will not fly. That excuse

will not fly. Amen. The Bible says that Jesus, at the age

of twelve years, went into the temple with his parents, and he was

so caught up in a conversation about the Word of God that his parents left

him in the temple for three days. They forgot about him. He was

there talking, engaging, discoursing with a pastess on the word of God.

The Bible says that he had wisdom, he had matured in stature. He

was very spiritual. So, as a child of God, to be spiritual

means to mature, to grow up. Amen. There is an expectation of

matured people. When you are matured. There is a certain expectation when you

are a certain age. We don't expect you to meet you and be talking

to you and be smelling bad breath, because at that age, the expectation

is that when you wake up in the morning, you brush your teeth.

You understand, there is an expectation that at a certain age, when we

meet you, we shouldn't be smelling your armpit views because the expectation is that

you take of yourself, you put jidor unto your amble. Amen, there

is an expectation that when you get to a certain age and you come to

change and your past is preaching, you should not be talking with your friend

because at that age you are expected to be patured. Because when you go

to class and your teacher is giving you a pop for exams, and you

know your life depends on this apport. If you don't write it down,

Chelle, your bomb, you become a bomber. When your friend is trying

to talk to you will not talk to them because you need what is important.

Amen. And because the Word of God has a life, and it

has the ability to change God to change your life, it is expected that

you value the Word of God above all things. Amen. And so to

be a strong Christian means to become matured. Today, I'm not going to

do all on the maturity bits because I've blasted you enough. Amen. Let's

go to the seventh point. Amen. The seventh point is that to be

a strong Christian is to be zealously affected, always in a good thing.

To be zealously affected always in a good thing. To be zealous means to

show great energy and enthusiasm in pursuit of a course or an objective to show

great energy towards the course the pursuit of a thing, to be zealously affected.

Amen, how many people are zealously affected for good things in the House

of God? Here? Oh, can we? I see one hand over

there? I see two over here, I see some four over here.

However, here I see many here and over here, and over there,

and over here and over here. The expectation is that to be a strong

Christian you should be zealously affective for things of Amen. Friday night, you

should have feeling butterflies in your stomach and excitement on coming to church on Sunday.

Because if on a Sunday you have to be walking up seven times to

get up in bath and go to church, you're no zealously affected. Amen.

And so to be strong in the Lord is to be full of zeal.

To be strong in the Lord is to be full of zeal. Do

you see the way when a basketball team is going to play a match,

how you all headled together, and then the captain will say some words to

stare you all up? Then what'll jump on? Three? One two?

Three? Champions? The champions? We are zealously affected? See the way

footballers when they are going to play, they all headle around and the captain

will tell them, could you tell no fool in here, we are going

to score goals. Don't play the food. They are hey zealously affected,

and you see it in the way they play, because the objective is to

win at all cost. And so God is telling us that to be a

strong Christian is to be one who is zealously affected in all good words.

Amen. And so if you play the keyboard, you have to be zealously

affected. We have to see it in your execution. If you are in

the choir and you are singing, you can't come and stand here and just

do anything. Amen. The expectation is that whatever you are offering to God

is of excellence. The days of bringing God, I don't want to use

some word things that are unworthy have come to an end. You didn't say

amen. Amen. The days of playing the fool with God have come to

an end because we are being zealously affected onto every good work in the House

of God. Amen. And so in Galatians after four of Us eighteen,

the Bible says that, but it is good to be zealously affected always in

a good thing. And not only when I'm present with you. This is

poor to the church in Galicia that you don't need to be pretenders when I'm

with you. You have to be properly zealously affected. So when you come

to church, and the expectation is that when you come in the youth church,

we have a rule here before the pastor comes to preach, feel the

seat in front of you. There should be no empty seat in front of

you. So if you're assisting on the back, it means you need to

come forward down to feel the front seat. So if the pastor comes and

there's a seat in front of you, means you're lass affected. Amen.

In the first service, we blasted the acquiring the first service, but they

were zealously affected immediately after and they moved to cover the city in front.

Amen. And that should be the attitude. Because we want to be strong

Christians for the Lord. Let's look at the next points. The next two

points. To be a strong Christian is to be fruitful John fifteen sixteen.

You have not chosen me, Jesus speaking, but I have chosen you and

ordained you that you shall you should go and bring forth fruits, and that

your fruits you remain that whatsoever you ask of the Father in my name,

he may give it to you. The reason why many of you are praying

prayers and God is not answering you is that you are not being zealously affect

You're not being fruitful. You're not being fruitful. When you are you get

to the place of being fruitful. You don't even need to pray about certain

things. You just need to desire them and they will come. I'll give

you a testimony for free. About a week ago I went out. You

see my nice sneakers I'm wearing. I went to buy it a week ago,

and when I got there, I saw some crocs that I wanted to

surprise my daughters with. But the sizes they had it wasn't really what I

wanted. So I really desired to get it for them, and so I

decided that I'll come back and check them next day. On my way home,

my nephew calls me that, oh, my sister has sent some things

for my children, so I should pick it up. So I passed by

to pick it up and guess what was inside? Two crocs the proper size.

Amen. You see for many of you who thinks nothing it's just croks,

it's just plastic. But it's the principle behind that I'm telling you about.

When you are fruitful in the things of God, Jesus said that go

forth and bear fruit, and let your fruits remain. How many inviters I

want to change today? Anyone? Yes? Where's the person invited to change?

The person is there? Okay, wonderful, good job. Let's cloud

for her. Amen. You see, there are many people who will come

to church without inviting anyone to church because you don't care. You don't care

whether they go to Hell. You don't care whether they go to Jupiter.

You don't care whether they go to mass. I understand they've discovered some new

planets. Which ones are those you see? But to be fruitful as a

child of God, it requires you to put in some effort. Amen.

Because Jesus said that I have called you. You have not called me.

I have called you, and I've ordained you as children of God that you

should go forth and bear fruit. So a dimension of it has to do

with you having fruits. That on a Sunday you can tell them, hey,

could you men who we are going to church? Ardy, I'm coming

to get you Amen, Darren, I used to driving your car. Did

you come alone? So imagine Darren, he drove from his house his car,

can't see ow many people? Five people or serving people? Five people?

Yes, but he was in the cow by himself. He comes to

church, you're close and you go home again? Oh, by himself.

He zealously affected for God, do understand. So your friends in the neighborhood

who have done their hairstyle like you, who and tell them about Jesus and

invited them to church. Someone say Amen, Oh you didn't see him,

say a better Amen. To encourag him. You might even be surprised.

Nest with you. Bring the first badge of people and drop them and say,

Chalia, I'm coming. Go and sit down and go home and bring

another badge. So encourage him, give him some better amen. Amen.

Amen. So to be zealously affected means to become a fruitful Christian. Amen.

The other dimension to being fruitful is for you to bear the fruit of

the spirit. Galatians Chapter five, Best twenty two. Bear the fruit of

the spirit. Bear the fruit of the spirit, because by bearing the fruit

of the spirit, you become more like Christ, and people will see Christ

in you. Amen. And want to follow you to church. Amen.

The ninth and the last point for the characteristics of being a strong Christian is

to be a strong Christian is to be in a state of readiness to meet

God at any time. To be in a state of readiness to meet God

at any time. I told the story about when I was growing up.

A few of my friends and I, when we hear that Jesus is coming,

then your heart will escape a bait because perhaps that day you want to

do something bad and you have been praying for forgiveness. But tell you,

I'm not sure God has heard you. So when you hear that Jesus is

coming, in your heart to escape a bait, you hear a few in

your heart. Amen. Being a strong Christian is to be in a state

of readiness to meet your God at any time. Amen, to meet your

God at any time, because Jesus is coming, and he's coming very soon.

Amen. The time and the hour nobody knows. If Jesus were to

say that I'm coming on twenty ninth February twenty seven at five pm, that

is when people say, oh, let me fool or the fooling now,

So that on twenty eighth our ask for forgiveness. But I see Jesus is

coming, and the dates and the time and the place you appear nobody knows.

Amen. So as a strong Christian, we need to be in a

state of mind that we are ready to meet our God at all times.

Amen. Can we buy our heads briefly in this place? Just buy your

heads briefly in this place. Buy your heads briefly in this place. We've

heard the teaching on what it means to be a strong Christian. You know

yourself better than anyone else. You know there's more room for improvement in our

work with Christ. You want to pray to the Lord, the Lord,

help me to be a strong Christian. Help me to be a better Christian.

Help me to live my life to please you at all times. Help

me to be strong, to be matured, help me to be spiritual.

Help me help me O Lord, help me a Lord. Help me to

develop a deeper life. Help me to be steadfast, help me to be

zealously affected. Help me help me their Lord, help me help me dear

Lord in the name of Jesus. And finally, help me a Lord,

to be in a state of mind that I'm ready at all times to meet

my God and my King in case he appears in the clouds of glory,

Jesus Precious, Say Amen. In Revelation chapter three, verse eighteen, the

Bible says, therefore, be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at

the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,

I will come in to him and dine with him, and him with me.

Amen. And so Jesus is standing at the door of your heart,

art, and he's knocking, standing out all of your heart, and he's

knocking. If you are here, you don't know Jesus. Jesus is not

lord over your life. Jesus is not lord over your life. You live

by yourself. You rule yourself. Jesus is not lord over your life.

But you want to give your life to Jesus. You want Jesus to be

lord over your life. If you are here and you're such a person,

you want to say that, pastor pray for me. I want to give

my life to Jesus. Just please lift your hand wherever you are, let

me say a word of prayer for you, so you become a child of

God. Also coming to church. It's not the same as being born again.

Having friends who are pastors is not the same as being born again.

Being born again requires that you believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord,

and that Jesus was sent by God to come and to die for us.

And he also require that you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.

Amen. So, if you are here, you are not born again.

You want to be born again. You want Jesus to be lord over your

life. Jesus says, I'm knocking at the door of your heart. You

want Jesus to come and live in your heart. You are here. You

are such a person. You don't need to be shy. Salvation is an

individual affair. Just lift your hands above your head and let me say a

word of prayer for you, that you also become born again and you also

become a child of God. Amen. Let's just say that's prayer together,

everybody, Let's help us say that. Say Father, in the name of

Jesus, we thank you for your son, Jesus, who came to die

for us. We thank you for redeeming us by the precious blood of Jesus.

We ask the Lord forgive all our sins and iniquities and trespasses and cleanse

us and make us clean. Say today we open our hearts. Please take

residence in our hearts. Lord Jesus living our hearts, and be Lord of

our lives. Be Jesus precious name. Let us believe a shoutern Amen well.

Let us believe a shouter better amen. Let us believe a shouter glory

us amen, and give praise to the Lord with a hand club while we

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