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Powerful Sunday Sermon ( Duality ) 16.04.2023

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  1. So the next voice you are going to hear is the voice of the Man

  2. of God. Weaver and run. Oh are you thanking God for his life?

  3. If you're clapping, then do it better. If you're shouting, then

  4. do it better. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Oh, hallelujah, I said,

  5. hallelujah. Are you in church this morning? Are you sure you're in church

  6. this morning? Then help me sing this song. You move mountains calls so

  7. far all power man a man. For our brethren celebrating one more year,

  8. we thank God for your lives. Oh are we clawing for the are we

  9. thanking God for them? And our prayer for you is that God will add

  10. many more years to your years. And as you grow, you grow in

  11. wisdom, and you grow to understand and have knowledge of the Christ who has

  12. saved you, so that your life gets better and better as you grow older.

  13. Amen. And as the Bible has said that the lights on your path

  14. will shine brighter and brighter and brighter to the perfect day. Amen. And

  15. for all our other brethren, with our testimony our little brother, we thank

  16. God for deliverance. Amen. That his little brother didn't get his eyeposed out.

  17. Amen, that his brother still has two eyes intact. Amen. We

  18. thank God for promises life for some of you. Five hund residies may be

  19. little. It's what you buy credits with. Amen. But if you have

  20. come from the backside of the desert, Ah, my God, that is

  21. something great enough. Amen, and we thank God for his life. Amen.

  22. On, behalf of our Father and the Lord. The Archbishop Nicholas Duncan

  23. Williams coming cloud for the Lord. You're welcome you all to church this morning,

  24. So please tell your neighbors Seaton to your right and to your left,

  25. you're welcome to church this morning. I can see some people. They are

  26. talking about the amounts and women. Please tell your neighbor you are welcome to

  27. church this morning. Amen. In the youth church we talk with our mounts

  28. opening. Amen. And so you are very welcome to church this morning.

  29. How many of you are here for the very first time? If today is

  30. the very first time you're coming here, please be on your feet. Let's

  31. welcome you with a great youth and actually welcome. Amen. Oh, is

  32. there anyone else anyone here for the very first time? Amen? Quie didn't

  33. bring anyone. Amen. You are welcome to Action Chapel international. This is

  34. aci youth church. Amen. We are the youth in action. Amen.

  35. And over here we have Christ in us, which gives us the hope of

  36. glory. Amen. So you are welcome here every Sunday. Amen. Either

  37. for fast service or for second service. You are welcome here every Sunday.

  38. Amen. Protocol. Let's have the forms for them. Do we have the

  39. forms for them to feel? Are we bringing it all? They should come?

  40. Okay, all right, So please be seated. They'll bring you some

  41. forms to share you, give us some information. You want to get to

  42. know you and to fellowship with you. So please be seated in the presence

  43. of the Lord. Hallelujah, Oh, hallelujah. Anyone else celebrating their birthday

  44. in the month of April, please give us a wave. Anyone else the

  45. month of April, please be on your feet as well. Please be on

  46. your feet as well. Happy birthday to you in advance. Your bady hasn't

  47. come yet, so happy birthday to you all in advance. Amen. Every

  48. month in the Youth Church, we celebrate and we pray for our friends who

  49. are celebrating their birthdays. Amen. So like we pray for our brethren earlier.

  50. May God add many more years to your years. Amen. May anything

  51. that cuts life short from your background may not have power over you. May

  52. you prevail over and against any power of the enemy, anything that shortens life,

  53. May you prevail far above them. And may God give you testimonies year

  54. on year in Jesus Mighty. Ay. Amen, please be seated in heavenly

  55. places. Amen. Anyone excited to be in church this morning? Oh,

  56. I can't see your hands. These people. I'm not excited. These people

  57. are not excited. You're excited to be in church. Amen. You should

  58. always be excited when you come to church, because over here you will meet

  59. God, you will encounter God, you will learn something that you don't know,

  60. a man to help you grow in the things of God. Amen.

  61. And so today, by the grace of God, I want to share with

  62. you on the subject duality. Duality and duality is or a double life?

  63. A double life? How many of you have watched a James Bond movie before,

  64. a Double O seven movie, or a spy movie? You've watched a

  65. spy movie before. Sometimes the blow man, as we like to call it

  66. here in this part of the world, he will pretend to be something else

  67. to infiltrates an enemies camp in order to get some information. And then when

  68. they discover that he's actually a spy has come to steal information, then they

  69. will bring all their people against him, and he will begin to show himself

  70. as the blow man and begin to show the double life, the things that

  71. he has in his ars. Now you begin to show it for us to

  72. see. Amen. But in this context, we are not talking about a

  73. blowman or double O seven Amen. But we are talking about living a dual

  74. life, living a dual life, and that is something that in the Kingdom

  75. of God is not advisable to live a double life as a child of God.

  76. As a child of God, you are not advised, you are not

  77. encouraged to live a double life. Amen. And so let's take our foundation

  78. scripture from efficients chapter five, verse one to five. Efficients Chapter five,

  79. verse one to five. How many have your Bibles here with you today in

  80. church? Amen? And how many of you forgot your Bibles? I know

  81. some people they forgot their Bible when they go to church and they were like,

  82. oh shoot, I forgot my Bible. Amen. But please, you're

  83. encouraged to bring your bibles to church so that you verify the scriptures that you're

  84. being taught here in the youth Church. Amen. Efficiency Chapter five is one

  85. to five, and the Bible says that, therefore, be imitators of God

  86. as dear children, and walk in love as Christ also has loved us and

  87. given himself for us an offering, and they sacrifice to God for us.

  88. Smelling your identity as a child of God is that you are a saint.

  89. And because you are a saint of God, you are required to be an

  90. imitator of God. You are required to be like God. You are required

  91. to walk in love as Christ walked in love, as Christ loved us and

  92. gave himself up for us a fragrant offering and a sacrifice. And because of

  93. all of these, the Bible says that, but let sexual immorality and all

  94. impurity and convertuousness, let it not be mentioned amongst you. Let it not

  95. be named amongst you. Let it not come up in your conversations. Let

  96. it not come up in your conversations. So, as children of God,

  97. when you meet to have discourse or to talk about things, sexual immorality should

  98. not be part of your conversation. I told the first service a true story

  99. about when I joined the main church choir about seven or eight years ago.

  100. We were fellowshiping, getting to know one another, and a young man came

  101. to me and he mentioned his name. I even forget what his name is

  102. now because I realized that he was not a true Christian. He came and

  103. the first question he asked me was how many girls have you conquered? And

  104. I'll excuse me, what this is church. This is not a night club.

  105. So what audacity do you have to come and ask me how many girls

  106. have you conquered? He the Bible is saying that let not such speech be

  107. mentioned among you. And I didn't spare him. I really blasted him.

  108. I told him, I'm not interested in that kind of conversation because I'm a

  109. child of God, I'm a child of light. I don't indulge in that

  110. type of conversation. Amen. And he realized that he had come to speak

  111. to the wrong kind of Christian, because for Christians who are living a double

  112. life, that type of conversation is nice. They will indulge in it.

  113. Amen. They will speak, they will give commentary, they will tell you

  114. I've conquered thousand, two hundred. I'm following Solomon. They will tell you

  115. all their conquests and exploits. But the Bible is admonishing us that let not

  116. such speech be mentioned even amongst you. That conversation is for unbelievas. Amen.

  117. And so today we are going to study a few things and will break

  118. into groups and will discuss very real life situations about living a double life as

  119. a child of God, about living a double life as a child of God.

  120. Amen. And so living a double life is something that God does not

  121. want for any child of God. It is the devil who inspires duality.

  122. It is Satan who inspires duality. Because the Bible says that Satan was created

  123. to be a special creature in heaven. He was a worship leader. And

  124. so although on the outward he was leading worship in the presence of God and

  125. he had a certain outlook, his heart content was wrong. His heart content

  126. was full of rebellion, and he actually went head to lead one third of

  127. all the angels in heaven into error. And so one third of all the

  128. angels followed the rebellion of Satan, and because of that, they lost their

  129. place in heaven. Amen. And so God's expectations for us as children of

  130. God is that no form or sinful living should be found in us. How

  131. many Christians are here today? Amen? You believe you're a Christian? Oh,

  132. I'm asking you a question. You believe you're a Christian? Are you

  133. sure you're a Christian? So if we take you to court today and we

  134. say that we are going to jail you for fifteen years, prove to us

  135. that you're a Christian? Can you prove to us that you're a Christian?

  136. Oh? I'm not hearing some Yes, some people are years. Are you

  137. sure, amen? Because the truth of the matter is that a lot of

  138. Christians in our day live a double life. We live a double life,

  139. whether knowingly or knowingly. And I'll give you a typical example. If we

  140. go to some of you, if we tell you that, okay, bring

  141. your phone. We are going to project your social media, your TikTok account

  142. on the screen, and we are going to go through all your posts and

  143. all the things you watch, and all the things you liked and commented on.

  144. And that is the only evidence in court that will show that you are

  145. a Christian. I can bet you with all the money in my wallets,

  146. and I have money in my wallets that many of you you will be found

  147. guilty of duality. Am I lying? You'll be found guilty because there is

  148. nothing to show on your social media that you are a child of God.

  149. There is absolutely nothing to show that you are a Christian. And if that

  150. was the only measure for evidence against you in a court of law, you

  151. will be found guilty. Amen. And so duality is a real conquer in

  152. the Kingdom of God. And it has crept into the Kingdom of God because

  153. of Satan, because of what Satan did. Because many believers think, and

  154. they are self deceived to think that, oh, I can come to church

  155. behave like a Christian. In fact, for want of a better word,

  156. I can come to church and pretend to be a Christian, and I can

  157. go out and live my life the way I want to live in Amen.

  158. There are many of you, all the worldly songs in the world today.

  159. If we give you the mic and we are doing talent hand here, you

  160. can't sing it for us back to back. You even know the bridges in

  161. the song. You know when it goes up and comes down. You know

  162. how Charley, you know the beats in your sleep. You can sing it

  163. and wrap it and you know all of it. Amen. But if you

  164. come here, we are singing. We are standing here only because you made

  165. the way. You are guilty of duality. Amen. And so today we

  166. are going to learn a few things. And we are going to use a

  167. Bible character who was very spiritual and yet who was very guilty of duality to

  168. learn some great lessons today. Amen. And my prayer for you that us

  169. the Lord has laid this upon my heart to share with you, that it

  170. will bring transformation to your life. Because two weeks ago I was just there

  171. and I heard the Holy Spirit saying duality, duality, duality. So everything,

  172. I come and teach you here, I come and preach to you here.

  173. I don't sit down and do impace, tp imp out, or I

  174. don't flip a coin and then come and no, it is as given by

  175. the Lord Holy Spirit, Amen, to help you in your Christian walk,

  176. so that by the time you ten twenty or twenty one and you become a

  177. young man and a young woman, you are a proper Christian. You are

  178. a strong Christian, that you are not blown away by any forms of doctrines

  179. to deceive you. Amen, Because guess what Satan is out there to deceive

  180. you? And if you give him chance, he would deceive you greatly.

  181. Amen. And so God's expectation is that a student of God, no sinful

  182. form should be found in us. Also, no fornication and cleanness and the

  183. like should ever be associated within our conversation or in our character. And people

  184. who are called Christians should live as Christians. We should be christ Like in

  185. our living and in our endeavors. Amen. And so what is duality?

  186. Duality is the act of living two lives, living a double life, living

  187. a double life. It is also the act of having two personalities or two

  188. natures embodied in one person, one lifestyle displayed in public and another lived in

  189. private. Amen. And so living a double life. You are two faced.

  190. Let's have the picture with a guy with the two faces. You are

  191. a two faced human being. You are a two faced creation. Amend God

  192. doesn't want you to be too faced. It is Satan who is too faced.

  193. The other one opposites faces in opposite direction. Yes, you are a

  194. two faced human being. A dual life is this. You are too faced.

  195. You exhibit one character here and then you exhibit another character there. There

  196. is no consistency with you. But as a child of God, you have

  197. to be consistent, so we know that indeed you are for Christ. Amen.

  198. In the Book of Revelation, chapter three, there's a passage that the

  199. Bible says that the spirit of apostle John was lifted up into heaven, and

  200. when he was in heaven, he encountered Jesus, and Jesus said, right,

  201. take a note book, take a pen, and write seven letters to

  202. seven churches who are in Turkey. How many of you have heard of all

  203. the bad things happening in Turkey many many of you might have been in school,

  204. but there's been many earthquakes there, a lot of people have died.

  205. There were seven churches, Christian churches in Turkey, way before it became a

  206. Muslim country, and there were serving ches. And God said, write these

  207. letters to them. And there was a church that Jesus said that I wish

  208. you were hot or cold, the lukewarm Church. He said, because you

  209. are neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out two face. The

  210. lukewarm church had two faces. So when they come to church they will behave

  211. a certain way, and when they go home they will behave another way.

  212. But God wants you to be hot. He wants you to be on fire

  213. for him. Being cold is not an option. Being lukewarm, it's not

  214. an option. God wants you to be on fire for him. Please tell

  215. your neighbor. God wants you to be on fire for him. Please,

  216. are you afraid of your neighbor? Tell them like you mean it. Say

  217. God wants you to be on fire for him. Tell your other neighbor.

  218. God wants you to be on fire for him. Amen. And so such

  219. a life of a person, or the behavioral pattern that this person exhibits,

  220. is inconsistent, both in private and in secrets. Amen. Some of you,

  221. if I say, somebody should volunteer their phone freely to me right now,

  222. and let's go through the phone. And I'm a telecom's engineer. I

  223. know phones. The things you're hid in it, I can find it.

  224. And I say, hand over your phone to me, and you hand it

  225. over and I say give me your password. You give me your password,

  226. and I say confess if you have anything in there that shouldn't be in there,

  227. and you say no. And I ask you if you're a Christian or

  228. not, and you say yes, I'm a Christian. And we go through

  229. your phone. It is very likely that we might find something in there that

  230. you are hiding on your phone that I don't want anybody to see. Amen.

  231. How many of you have ever been in a situation where you are doing

  232. something but I don't want anybody to know, or give the Lord a wave

  233. and shame the devil? Are you shaming the devil? Yes? So if

  234. you are doing something that you don't want anybody to know, that potentially if

  235. people know about it, they will see you in a certain light. It

  236. is not worth doing because it gives you a dual identity. Amen. And

  237. so as children of God, we are called to be light only, and

  238. no darkness found in us. Amen. And so duality encourages the spirit of

  239. hypocrisy. Duality encourages the spirit of hypocrisy. And so you see what the

  240. scripture said in Efficients five. The Bible says that the imitators of God,

  241. he said love, walk in love, Walk in love. If you are

  242. a hypocrite, it is only a hippocrate who pretend to love somebody, but

  243. in their heart they are kissing them. It is only a hypocrite who come

  244. and say, oh hi, my name is Ron. What's your name?

  245. And you mention your name? And they don't even put your name to memory

  246. because the entire and he leaves because they're not interested in getting to know you.

  247. It's only a Hippocrates who would say hello, give you the queen's wave.

  248. Is that the queen's wave, and not really think whether there's a human

  249. being standing there or not. There's only a hypocrite will say, oh,

  250. I'll die for you when you're in trouble. You can count on me.

  251. The day you are in trouble, you call them, they will see your

  252. phone and they will block you because you are being a nuisance. But it

  253. says a walk in love as Christ has also worked in love and giving himself

  254. up for you. Amen. And so in order to walk the walk as

  255. a child of God, as a Christian, they are requirements to this walk

  256. of faith. You can't just put the title I'm a Christian and live anyhow.

  257. It doesn't work that way, Amen, it doesn't work that way.

  258. You can say I'm a Christian, but when it comes to everything on Godly

  259. you are part and partaker of it. I was telling the first ever before

  260. about when we went to secondary school or we had all gone, we're all

  261. freshest Jale, We're all we didn't know ourselves. So everybody was being cautious.

  262. But as we went along, everybody started displaying their character. And there

  263. was this guy. He became the Jamma, the Jama, the author of

  264. Jama songs and every profane song ever on the face of the earth. This

  265. guy will sing it, and you will lead everybody to sing it. Fast

  266. forward. We finished school and then we went to some church and then we

  267. saw this guy sits in there playing drums. He was there playing the drums,

  268. praises. He was drumming doing He said like, hey, this guy.

  269. Later we found out that his father is actually the pastor of the change.

  270. Somebody said, hey, his father was the pastor, so all along

  271. he had been the pastor's son. Meanwhile, at home, he's the pastor

  272. son, who is playing the dams, who is leading praises, who is

  273. who is the good boy. On the flip side, when he comes to

  274. school, he doesn't even wear a belt, he doesn't lay his shoes to

  275. be walking as though he owns the world. He's a master of himself.

  276. And when he comes to Jama, oh my, he will wake up at

  277. dawn, don't broadcasting, and lead all the profane jama for us. He

  278. was living a dual life, and so you cannot be a Christian, a

  279. child of God. During Easter, we understood the seven places Jesus shared his

  280. blood for us. We understood the seven saints of Jesus while he was going

  281. through what he went through for us. You can't be a child of God

  282. and be worldly as well. Amen. So please tell your neighbor for free,

  283. you cannot be a child of God and be wildly as well. Amen.

  284. So now let's go straight into the lessons for today that I want to

  285. share with you. A man, Let's go to Judges chapter fourteen. Judges

  286. chapter fourteen, the verse one to nineteen talks about Samson Samson. Now,

  287. our background to Samson was that many of you know something just to be a

  288. strong man. That was a character in the Bible. But additional information for

  289. you is that Samson was not just a strong man. Samson was born and

  290. separated onto God. Samson was a Nazarite. Samson was a judge. He

  291. was a judge over Israel for twenty years. Samson. In those days there

  292. were no kings, so God ruled his people through prophets and through judges.

  293. So something was like a president, but a spiritual leader over Israel for twenty

  294. years. Amen. And if you read further, the Bible says that the

  295. Simson went to Timna and saw a woman of Timna, of the daughters of

  296. the Philistines. So Samson was a Jew, but he went to Timna and

  297. saw a Philistine girl that he loved, and he said that she pleases me

  298. much. The first instruction that God gave the children of Israel is I don't

  299. marry anybody outside of the Jewish tribe. But Samson said, oh, I

  300. am master of my own because I'm the spiritual leader, I can marry somebody

  301. outside. Fast forward comes. Let me use it as an example. Sampson

  302. went with his best man. They went to Timnaw to go married the young

  303. lady. And Samson said that, oh you wait here, I'm coming.

  304. I'll be right back, and he left. He didn't return for two months.

  305. When he came back, they had given his wife to his best man.

  306. Now something was very cross. He was very upset please it. So

  307. Something went to catch three hundred foxes. He tied their tails together and put

  308. fire in between their tails, and he set them loose into the farms of

  309. the Philistines and bent everything you understand. And so if Samson had not wanted

  310. to taste of the other side, there would have been no need for all

  311. of that. Fast forward, Sampson, who is still the spiritual leader of

  312. Israel, decides to still go to Philistine. He went to visit the prostitute

  313. who was a Philistine. He was living a dual life. Fast forward,

  314. he even met another Philistine girl called Delilah that he fall in love with.

  315. And Delilah was his end because through Delilah they found out the source of his

  316. power, and they arrested him. They blinded him. They put a sword

  317. in hot fire, and they blinded him with it, and because of that

  318. his life ended abruptly, rather than living the full course of his life.

  319. So those are some of the dangers of living a dual life. Please tell

  320. your neighbor. Light and darkness have nothing in common. Amen. If we

  321. turn off all the lights here, it will be pitched black here. But

  322. the moment we turn on the life, the lights will not now come and

  323. negotiate with darkness. Chale, you go small and come later. Darkness will

  324. disappear immediately. So light and darkness have nothing in common. Amen. And

  325. so because some sin wanted to enjoy a dual life, so he will be

  326. a spiritual leader today and tomorrow. We say that, oh, I'm going

  327. to the phillistanside, I'll be right back, and you're going to be there

  328. for two months and come here and go there and come here. Ended him

  329. up in many problems and many sorrows. Amen, to the point that he

  330. lived a very short life. Amen. And so I want to give you

  331. four examples of duality. Four examples of duality. And the first one is

  332. separated and unequally yoked. Separated and unequally yoked. And so when something will

  333. was born, because he was a child of promise, God gave specific instructions

  334. concerning something. He said, a razor will not touch his hair. So

  335. Samson, by the time he was an old man, he was a Rastafarian.

  336. He had seven serious breadlocks on his head because since he was born he

  337. had never had a clean cut like you and I before. Amen. And

  338. there was clear instruction that Samson should not drink wine. So Samson never drank

  339. wine. Sampson never drank tequila. Samson never drank those things that they puts,

  340. the cocktails that they puts, a mix the mixology ones. Samson never

  341. drunk any of it. And so from the time he was young up until

  342. when he grew and said I want to marry a Philistine, he was separated

  343. onto God. He was separated onto God. So please tell your neighbor for

  344. free, because you are a Christian, you are separated onto God. Amen.

  345. Are you looking at them? Look at them eyeball to eyeball, and

  346. tell them, because you are a Christian, you are separated onto God.

  347. Amen. And so Samson became unequally yoked with the unbeliever. And so that

  348. was his state. Though he had been religiously separated onto God, which he

  349. showed to everybody else, but outside of it he had indulged in the other

  350. side. He was an equally yoked with the things of this world. Amen.

  351. And So, if you are a child of God, and at this

  352. point in your life all these worldly things, the worldly music, you're so

  353. fast and hungers for it more than godly things. You're born again a characra.

  354. Did you understand the Spanish I spoke. If now that you are born

  355. again and you are a child of God, you still crave worldly things,

  356. worldly music, there are some of you here. Every week you watch pornography

  357. more than five hours. You watch pornography more than five hours every week.

  358. If you are a child of God and you are still indulging in things of

  359. the world, then you're born again. Is not complete Amen. And so

  360. as a child of God, you need to stay in light and not straight

  361. over and be unequally yoked. Amen. And so there are some Christians who

  362. may appear to be separated from the world, but yet they live in sin.

  363. Sampson was one of those who are separated and yet entangled himself with the

  364. world. Now they call something entanglements. Who are said entanglements before? Hey,

  365. are you here? I'm talking to you, who raise your hand and

  366. shame the devil who as head of entanglements before. Amen. Opposite our property

  367. where we live, there's an apartment's block and I have cameras around my house,

  368. so I can't see everywhere. And there are some ladies in their apartment

  369. block. They have many entanglements. So it's like they are doing an SHS

  370. course. This one will appear in the morning and disappear, And the moment

  371. they disappear, another one appears, like, oh my god, this one's

  372. their masters of their trade. Hey, But as a child of God,

  373. you can't have entanglements. Amen. So from today, all the ladies who

  374. have seven boyfriends, today we are leaving all of them. Do I have

  375. a witness? Can I get an amen? All the young boys with fifteen

  376. girlfriends today, we are leaving all of them. Can I have some amen?

  377. Brothers, the brothers, Amen, I said, brothers, Can I

  378. have an Amen? And so no entanglements Amen. Because Sampson entangled himself with

  379. the world and ended him up in a lot of problems. Amen. And

  380. so because you are receiving wisdom and you are moving far from that, God

  381. is going to help help you to be a better believer in the better child

  382. of God. Amen. And So Samson played with God. Samson played with

  383. God. And I want to tell you it is not in your interest to

  384. play with God. It is not in your interest to play with God on

  385. any level. It is in your interests any actual fact, in your best

  386. interest to save God and to obey his commandments. Because if you want to

  387. play games with God, you'll be the one who is laughing last, but

  388. at the wrong side of your mouth. Amen. And you don't want to

  389. be at that place where you are in trouble. You are laughing, but

  390. you are not laughing. You know that thing. You want to laugh,

  391. but the thing is not coming. You'll be the one laughing at the wrong

  392. side of your mouth. Amen. And so a scripture for that point is

  393. Second Cointience, chapter six, verse fourteen to sixteen. And the Bible says

  394. that please put the scripture up Second Corinthians six fourteen to sixteen. Second Corinthians,

  395. chapter six, verse fourteen to sixteen, thank you. And the Bible

  396. says that do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has

  397. righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? Do not be

  398. unequally yoked with unbelievers next verse? And what accord has Christ with bailiel?

  399. And what path has a believer with an unbeliever. I didn't write the Bible.

  400. The Bible was written by the inspiration of the Lord God Almighty, by

  401. the spirit of God inspiring it for the admonition of us, the correction of

  402. us, and for edifying Amen. And so if the Bible is telling you

  403. that don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, then God knows why he's telling you.

  404. Know, to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Amen. How many of

  405. you have friends who don't know Christ? Give us away? Yes, my

  406. two brothers they do. How about Amen. The purpose of any friendship could

  407. either be for mutual benefits or it could be for an advantage. There are

  408. some friends people become. People become friends with setting people because they make them

  409. look good. And so from where they come from. By having this person

  410. as my friend, it makes me look good from where I come from.

  411. There are some friendships that are for mutual benefits. Amen. But because a

  412. light and darkness has nothing in common, if your friends are not believers,

  413. one or two things can happen. It's either you influence them or they influence

  414. you. So which one will be? Will you be able to influence them

  415. with your Christ or will they be able to influence you with all their worldly

  416. things? Amen? And so if you are in a friendship that you cannot

  417. influence that friend to come to Christ. Because you that you call yourself a

  418. child of God, a believer, there is nothing to show that you're a

  419. child of God. If it wasn't for church you come to on Sunday,

  420. we won't know that you're a child of God. Because your friend has not

  421. seen you holding a Bible before. Your friend hasn't seen you read a Bible

  422. before. Your friend hasn't heard you singing a praise or worship song to God

  423. before. Your friend hasn't know you go to church at Action Chapel. So

  424. your friend knows nothing about you as far as your walk with Christ. But

  425. guess what, you know everything about your friend. You know all the tweets

  426. when they see some boy on Instagram, do tag you with it? All

  427. those funny jokes some of you. You can watch funny jokes and laugh from

  428. morning to evening, and you are there laughing like a cockerell because the things

  429. are exciting to you. But there is nothing to show that you are a

  430. child of God. And because of that, even when you go to want

  431. to preach, your friend will be like, Ah, what are you trying

  432. to do? Why are you trying to pretend? So as far as your

  433. friends are concerned, you are a pretender, Amen, because you have not

  434. truly shown to them that you're a child of God. But from today,

  435. as you are hearing the word of God, begin to change so that they

  436. will begin to see you as a child of Light and as a Christian so

  437. that when the opportunity comes, when they see the goodness in you, they

  438. would want to follow you to church. Amen. If by the time you

  439. get to thirty years you've not won anyone for Christ, it means your Christian

  440. work what deserts did for you, you're not taking advantage of it. Amen.

  441. If by the time your next bed, where's Michelle? Then next time

  442. your birthday comes again. If you have not led anybody to Christ, if

  443. your behavior hasn't led anybody to Christ, if your attitude hasn't led anybody to

  444. Christ, it means you're not living like a Christian. She'll live. Amen.

  445. Travel next year. By this time, the same thing applies to you.

  446. You should have grown in the things of God. People should see Christ

  447. in you. Our logo will be talking more about it, says Christ in

  448. you the hope of glory. When people see Christ in you, they should

  449. have hope for glory. Amen. And so tell somebody, don't be like

  450. Samson. Don't be spiritual and cannot at the same time. Don't be separated

  451. and unequally yoked at the same time. Amen. And so the Bible has

  452. admonishing us not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, So there are many of

  453. us here. Will need to end some friendships with some people. That boy

  454. that you've been fornicating with, he's not going to marry you. He's just

  455. using you. That's the truth of the matter, because they will use you,

  456. and by the time they are grown up and they want to marry,

  457. they're married some foolish girl somewhere. That boy that you're letting him deceive you,

  458. he's only deceiving you the love that he says. He's pretending because he

  459. wants something. Amen. There are some people you have to delete their numbers

  460. from your phone. You have to block them double if there's anything like double

  461. or triple block. Block them on every side. You see, Satan will

  462. send some people your way. When you decide that, oh I want to

  463. save God, I want to be righteous, downt to be holy, then

  464. he will send some foolish girl you away, and because you are not as

  465. strong Christian, you will fall for it and before you know you're wallowing in

  466. Chali. You have to block some people. You have to change their name.

  467. If their name is a course, change their name to don't some one.

  468. They're ones who disturb you a lot. When you block them, they

  469. use some other phone to call you the woman to figure out who they say

  470. agent or Satan. Change their name because they don't have any good intention for

  471. you. Amen, and so as a child of God, because we are

  472. not going to be an equally yoke with unbelievers, because He has a thing.

  473. If your boyfriend is an unbeliever and you are a Christian. The unbelievers

  474. their brain works differently, or I hope you know they are brain works differently.

  475. They don't know that things you know. So then when they have an

  476. opportunity with you, they will say that, oh, let's go to a

  477. crab and go and watch a movie. It is not just a movie they

  478. want to go and watch because they operate in darkness. They want a dark

  479. atmosphere to be able to exercise themselves. But don't give them that opportunity.

  480. Amen, tell them that I don't go into dark rooms. Hey, can

  481. you tell them that? Tell them I don't enter dark rooms and make child

  482. of light. I don't enter dark places. If there's anything, there should

  483. be light or I clapping for Jesus. Amen, you see today I'm preaching

  484. power. I'm preaching because I want you guys to get it right. Amen.

  485. So no dark spaces. When we break into a smaller groups, I

  486. want you to open your mouth and talk so we can also hear tens.

  487. Amen, because you know sense. Amen. So don't be like Samson who

  488. wanted to indulge in darkness. He wanted to indulge on the other side because

  489. if Something had married an Israeli girl, a Jewish girl, he would have

  490. lived very long. Please, who knows any of Something's children. He didn't

  491. even have a child. He was just fooling around, you understand. But

  492. if he had married an Israelite, he probably would have had twelve sons too,

  493. or forty sons or thirty six sons and thirty five daughters. But because

  494. he was fooling around, he didn't even have a son to say that,

  495. oh this is something junior, and I will hand over my dreadlocks to him.

  496. There was nothing to hand over too, because he wasted his life.

  497. Amen. And so we will not be separated onto God and we will not

  498. be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Amen. Can you help me say that we

  499. won't be separated onto God and be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Amen. Second

  500. example of dual being spiritual and being carnal at the same time, being spiritual

  501. and being canal at the same time. Samson was a spiritual person, yet

  502. he was carnal. At certain times he gave the impression that he was very

  503. spiritual, and at other times he was. It was surprising how carnal he

  504. could be. The contrast makes you wonder if one person can be spiritual and

  505. carnal at the same time. And in Judges chapter thirteen, verse twenty five,

  506. Judges, verse twenty five, and the spirit of the Lord began to

  507. move upon him at Mahane done between Zorah and e Food, So it talks

  508. about the spirit of God moved upon him. The spirit of God came upon

  509. him when something was going to marry the first time, his father and his

  510. mother were in front and he was following behind. And the Bible says that

  511. a young lion jumped out of the bush to attack him. And the Bible

  512. says that the spirit of God came upon him, and something held the young

  513. lion together and tore him apart. See how you can hold your little sister's

  514. teddy bear and just do. Something held the lion and did The lion was

  515. dead. Then next time when something was on that same road, that dead

  516. lion I was lying there. Bee had gathered inside that dead lion, and

  517. honey was oozing out, and something went to collect some of the honey,

  518. and he was eating it, and he gave something to his mother and his

  519. father, and they also they didn't know where it came from. Amen.

  520. So the same person who the Holy Spirit could come upon that he could tear

  521. a lion into two, was yet behaving canna because the Bible says that he

  522. loved the Philistine women. He even went in onto a prostitute who was a

  523. Philistine. Amen. And so the second contradiction for duality is that you can

  524. be spiritual yet be canna. Amen. But God is calling you to be

  525. spiritual rather than being canna, because when you are cannal, the carnal person

  526. is someone who walks only by their emotions and their soul. So it's today

  527. I feel like this, today, I feel like this. I don't feel

  528. like that. They don't walk by the spirit, they walk by their feelings.

  529. Amen. And so God is calling us to be spiritual so that we

  530. don't miss out on the leading of the Holy Spirit. Can someone say amen?

  531. Amen? And so in first Corinthians, chapter three, verse one to

  532. three. Fast Corinthians three, verse one to three. The apostle Paul wrote

  533. a letter to the church in Corinth, and he said to them, and

  534. I, brethren, could not speak to you as onto spiritual people, but

  535. as carnal people, as babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and

  536. not with solid food, for until now you were not able to receive it.

  537. And even now you are still not able, for you are still canna.

  538. For where there are envy, strife and divisions among you, are you

  539. not cannal and behaving like me and men? And so the church in Corinth

  540. was a new church. It was a mega church that had grown, and

  541. they had fed them. You remember, when we're doing our baptism lessons,

  542. how many have been baptized. For those of you who have not been baptista,

  543. I will be there. Oh you don't believe it, say I'll be

  544. there. Amen, When we're going to a bapti lesson. We understood that

  545. as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word of God, that you

  546. may grow thereby the Word of God is milk, The Word of God is

  547. meat, The Word of God is strong meat. The word of God is

  548. bones also, and so there's a time where you need to win off the

  549. milk and eat meat. But if you don't grow in the spirit and be

  550. more spiritual, you cannot eat meat. When your friends are eating gold,

  551. joel Off, and they are chewing bones and chewing the goads and removing things

  552. from the marrow, you you are still drinking. When we are breaking into

  553. bones to eat the savory stuff inside, you are still drinking baby milk.

  554. Same, you are still drinking milk. Amen. And so Paul was saying

  555. that when you were yet to be at a place where I could speak to

  556. you like spiritual people, I couldn't because you are still connal. When I

  557. speaks Rachel thinks to you, you won't even understand. When I speaks Rachel

  558. thinks to you, you won't understand. So I still need to speak to

  559. you like babes, like babies. But I see a God raisin mighty men

  560. and women here who are not going to be babies, but going to be

  561. spiritual. Immatured. Amen. Someone didn't say amen? Someone say amen,

  562. because that will be your story a few years from now. Amen. And

  563. so the second contradiction is that you can be yet spiritual and be connal.

  564. And that's is duality. God wants you to be spiritual than to be connor.

  565. Amen. When you are connel, you can never hear the voice of

  566. God. When you are connel, you will never hear the voice of God

  567. because God spirit and you need to be in a place of the spirit in

  568. order to hear the voice of God. Amen. And so the next time

  569. you are going to that boy's house he says, come and let's watch Netflix.

  570. Because you are spiritual, the Holy Spirit will tell you don't go.

  571. It's a trap. Amen. And when you turn away and go home,

  572. that boy don't answer. One will never call you again because God would have

  573. delivered you from a trap that will bring you an sdi someone say Amen,

  574. Amen, you better believe what I'm telling you, because it's very true.

  575. We can come to pass. Amen. The third aspect of duality is worshiping

  576. with your mouth and yet rebelling in your heart. Worshiping God with your mouth

  577. and yet rebelling in your heart. So are you are opening your mouth,

  578. but you are going to the motion. But in your heart you are thinking

  579. about that PS. Five game. In your heart you are waiting for us

  580. to close chests. You're going watch Arsenal and Everton. In your heart,

  581. you are waiting to where it's that a mutuo and listening your mother is cooking.

  582. In your heart, your mind is far away. You are not really

  583. here serving God. In your heart, you are already planning how your week

  584. will go. All the boys you talk to, all the girls you talk

  585. to. In your heart, you have already posted five hundred pictures on Instagram.

  586. Already self is in the bathroom here there there God has seen you.

  587. Amen. So you cannot be worshiping God with your mouth and in your heart

  588. you are in a place of rebellion. Amen. Romans Chapter twelve, verse

  589. one and two. The Bible says that I beseech you, therefore, brethren,

  590. by the messes of God, that you present your body's a living sacrifice

  591. wholly acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be

  592. conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

  593. that you may prove what is good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

  594. Amen. And so that boy that likes to play with you, and

  595. that likes to remove your clothes, though he hasn't paid brad price, Amen,

  596. that boy who likes to take off some things when nobody knows about it.

  597. Amen. The Bible is saying, present your bodies and living sacrifice onto

  598. God. Present yourselves and living sacrifice onto God. The boys who like to

  599. go and hide in the bathroom when they are bad thing boys. Any boy

  600. who bats more than ten minutes, there's something wrong with them. Some boys

  601. can win be in the bathroom two hours. They are still bad thing.

  602. If your brody is like that, go and knock on the door and tell

  603. him God has seen you. You know what I'm talking about. The brothers

  604. who like to go and hide in the bathroom. God has seen you.

  605. Present your body as a living sacrifice onto God. A man, present your

  606. body as a living sacrifice onto God. And don't be conformed to this world.

  607. This world has popular culture. There's everything popular that is going on in

  608. this world. And it seems that that is what people like. The things

  609. that are popular, that is what people like. But as believers, we

  610. can't like everything that is popular. Because out there they are saying that it

  611. is popular for a man and a man to marry. Can you imagine that?

  612. Are you with me or you know some man who are married? Hey,

  613. they say, it's a popular thing, and it is okay for a

  614. woman and a woman to be married. If let me hold my peace,

  615. amen. And so it says that don't be conformed to this world, the

  616. way the world works, the way the world thinks. Amen, it is

  617. natural. There was a funny story I heard about a young boy who called

  618. the police on his mother because he told a lie, and the mother took

  619. a king and beat him. So he called the police, And when the

  620. policeman came, he asked, and so what happened? They said, oh,

  621. she beat me here, and the policeman I said, madam, give

  622. me the king and told the boy the heir, if you lie again myself,

  623. I will come and I will discipline you. We live in a world

  624. where a boy or a girl can call the police on the mother for beating

  625. it. It is popular culture. And so we have a lot of people

  626. who are not in their right minds in those places. They grow up when

  627. they should be married and having children, they will say that, oh,

  628. I want to marry a tree that I feel I'm a tree stuck in a

  629. human body. I am a cat stuck in a human body. Do you

  630. understand. So there is a popular culture out there. There are replications to

  631. it, and the Bible says that God, because of these things, he

  632. will give you up to a debased mind. A debased mind, so you

  633. are even acting foolish. But then you don't know. You think, oh,

  634. it's popular that a man who say that we don't weare men clothes?

  635. Again, I identify as a woman. So he's coming and he's wearing women's

  636. dress and women sho mean while he has a beard. We know that your

  637. uncle John. But then he said we should call you janets. And when

  638. we call you, say you have said you said call me ma'am. I

  639. said, no, you are saying you look like say why should I call

  640. you ma'am. So there is a popular culture out there a man, and

  641. it's because people have decided to taste of darkness. Amen. People have decided

  642. to be more cannel than to be spiritual. But God wants you to be

  643. spiritual so he can speak to you, he can direct you. The Bible

  644. says that the parts of the righteous shines brighter and brighter onto the perfect day.

  645. When God is leading you on a path that he has set for you,

  646. he won't bring you into such foolishness. Amen. So by the time

  647. you get to a certain age, it is expected of you that you should

  648. marry, you should have children, you should pass the heritage of the Kingdom

  649. of God to the younger ones. But you cannot be a fifty year old

  650. man who is saying I identify as a woman me while you've never been married

  651. before, you don't have children. You are eighty years old. You say,

  652. I identify as a cat. If it was me as a governor,

  653. I will catch all of you. Are going to put you in the zoo

  654. because that is where you belong. Amen. But God help us so that

  655. we don't stray away by living and do our life. Someone say man,

  656. And then the last point I want to share with you. Men please us

  657. and God please us. Men please us, and God please us. Today

  658. looks like the time has run power for us. Men, please us and

  659. God please us. So there are people who want to please God, but

  660. also they want to please other people. So shout outs to all our peer

  661. pressure people, all our peer pressure prone people who are easily prone to peer

  662. pressure. Shout outs to you. Because you can neither please God and please

  663. human beings at the same time. Can we do an exercise. Everybody,

  664. try and look up. Just look up. Yes, and as you are

  665. looking up, try and look down at the same time, look up and

  666. look down at the same time. Was anyone able to do it? Hey?

  667. Please, we need a doctor here. It is impossible for the human

  668. eye that is working correctly to look up and look down at the same time.

  669. Prayer for our vision double vision. No, we are talking about all

  670. things being equaled, ideal situation. It's impossible. So you can't look to

  671. please God and look to please man. Amen. You can't look to please

  672. God and look to please man. The Bible says we should present ourselves as

  673. a living sacrifice holy unacceptable to God. So when that boy is telling you

  674. lies and you know what he wants, don't be a please out of men.

  675. Amen, please, man, let's tell us this. Sisters don't be

  676. pleasers of men. Hey, are you afraid of them? Say it's say

  677. sisters don't be pleasers of men. And sisters please tell our brothers. Some

  678. of them peer pressure is there is their sickness. Unless they don't hear,

  679. then they are going they are every way. Sisters, please tell the brothers

  680. don't be pleasers of men. Oh, sisters. Are you afraid of the

  681. brothers? Please tell them don't be pleasers of men. Amen. So choose

  682. to please God only rather than pleasing men. Amen. And so I want

  683. to share scripture with you from James chapter three, verse seventeen. James Chapter

  684. three, verse seventeen. And the Bible says that but the wisdom that is

  685. from above, the wisdom that is from above is first pure, It's is

  686. peaceable, it's as gentle, it is willing to yield. It is full

  687. of mercy and good fruit, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Amen. Let's

  688. please be on our feet. Has anyone learnt anything today? Or only one

  689. person? Has anyone learnt anything today? Amen? So we're going to do

  690. an exercise. You're going to pray for yourself. You're going to pray for

  691. ourselves because we know ourselves better than anyone else. When you go, when

  692. you are in your secret place, it is only you who is there.

  693. No one is there. No one knows your dual life. We can't tell

  694. your dual life on face value. Amen. But you know yourself, and

  695. you know yourself if you are guilty of duality. But today, as God's

  696. word has come expressly to us. We want to ask God for forgiveness,

  697. that the Lord should pardon us wherever we have missed it, wherever we have

  698. been pretenders, and we have lived a dual life, that God should show

  699. us mercy. Just open your mouth and begin to pray. Open your mouth

  700. somebody and pray. Open your mouth and pray somebody. All the things that

  701. we have done that gives us a dual identity that does not really portray us

  702. as children of God. Show us mercy, Lord, tasting of the sense

  703. of evil, tasting of evil, sense iniquities, trespassing. Forgive us,

  704. Lord, forgive us Lord, on the account of the blood of Jesus.

  705. Forgive us law, on the account of the blood of Jesus. Forgive us

  706. law. And help us, Lord by Holy Spirit, to live right.

  707. Help us to present our lives to you as a living sacrifice. Bless your

  708. name. Father. We give you a praise in Jesus name. Amen,

  709. some of you are no praise. So let's help everybody all right. Sometimes

  710. they don't even know they are living in dwells in So with your right and

  711. left and say, Lord Jesus, I come boldly before you today through the

  712. blood of Jesus, that I may obtain mercy. Say, Father, forgive

  713. me for wherever I've missed it. Any dual life, a need, dual

  714. personality in my life. Please help me to live right for you. Help

  715. me to present my life, to present my body, a living sacrifice wholly

  716. unacceptable before your throne of grace in Jesus Mighty. Ay, let us believe

  717. a shout to beg Amen, and let's welcome our EMC while you take your

  718. seats. Amen,