0:00 Romans chapter 12. In Romans 12:1, the Bible says, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect
0:47 will of God. Even though verse two is the emphasis that relates with the current tone of God speaking to us. Uh verse two is not existing in isolation. First of all, there is a call to consecration which is the emphasis that is raised in verse number one, a call to consecration. And then if you see the link between the first verse and the second verse, it seems that
1:33 the emphasis of the first verse is a linkage to the second verse. It seems to suggest that if the emphasis in the first verse is not yet satisfied, it might be difficult for you to achieve the emphasis of the second verse. So, we have a call to consecration that the Bible calls a reasonable service. And we'll take some time to explain why it states it so. And then after that, it speaks about a need for us not to be conformed to this world and that transformation will be achieved by the renewing
2:20 of our mind. My emphasis is the renewing of the mind. Transformation by the renewing of the mind. But like I said, if we do not fulfill the emphasis that is in verse one of Romans chapter 12, it will be difficult for us to achieve the prescription that is in verse number two. And the meaning of that is consecration is the first step. Consecration to God is the first step. Now um there are
3:06 three chapters in the Bible, Leviticus chapter 8, Romans chapter 6 and Romans chapter 12 that speak exhaustively extensively on the subject of consecration. Now the the arrangement that we have in New Testament theology is that by an act of God's initiative, an act of God's work, he purchased us through the price of the blood of his son. It means that our bride price was paid in blood. And I still remember
3:52 uh when I was given a list of the items to make available in order to satisfy the requirements to take a wife from a certain tribe. There was nothing wrong with the list other than it the fact that there was a specific specy of fish that I was asked to go find. And uh I was directed to Quir State in Nigeria to get this fish in order to make up this list. And it was a treacherous trip in attempting to satisfy the demands on the list.
4:37 But we eventually did and we exceeded the number of items specified on the list in order to ensure that there will be no bottleneck in the transaction. So if we were asked to bring 62 bars of yam uh you will not know the places the names of these places I want to mention. So I will not mention but those are the place that's the place you get yams that are yams indeed because I heard that someone took the number of yams to make up for the requirement of a list and they gathered three parts of yam and said this is one according to our standard. So it means that yam is
5:23 not may not be yam. So I got in excess of what was required if you have any insight into African culture and I satisfied the demands for the traditional rights. And when we put all the m the the items on the field where the traditional wedding took place, it was a mountain. And everyone that saw it pass by, they said, "We would like our daughter to be married like this." >> Hallelujah. But after you have satisfied all the requirements on the list and also
6:09 responded to the demand for the bride prize, you have satisfied what it what the traditional requirements are for marriage and then you now get set to go to church after you have done So we we went to church too. And when we got back from church and I realized that even though I paid in full what was required for the bride price and the requirements on the list, there was something I did not pay for because on the strength of the bride price and the requirements that you have
6:55 paid, the lady will follow you home after the church wedding, but she can follow you home and refuse to love you. She can be present like a piece of furniture and refuse to love you. You will need to pay another price in order for you to gradually get her to loosen up and to respond the way you expect. Now, this scripture is making a statement here. This scripture is saying, can you give me verse one here? He said, I beseech you, brethren, he's pleading and the
7:42 operating system of his appeal is the mercies of God. Uh you see the what has happened behind the scene is that God has paid your bride price. All right? And because God has paid your bride price, he has unreserved access and authority over your life. But you see, you will need to reciprocate the fact that you understand the price that he paid in order to secure you by offering him your love unconditionally.
8:28 So when my wife saw the mountain of things I put on the field and all the sacrifices, we we paid all kinds of money, did all kinds of thing. In fact, some people now came and began to tell me how they are related to my wife. I I'm discovering that that evening they began to plot the chart of the family tree and because of this fact the chart moves this way and this is where we are in the chart and according to tradition you are supposed to I paid everyone that claim to know her that from her father's side somebody will plot in fact I even paid one and I when I told her she said she's not she doesn't
9:14 know that but but I pay now so when you finish paying the only way she could reciprocate the effort that I made but that she will give me that love for free and that is in consecration. She now decides to sign up with me permanently and gives me access to her life in such a way that she can never give anybody else. So having paid your bride price in measures of his blood, there is a call for you to reciprocate that gesture by unreservedly presenting yourself to God as his instrument. It means that from that day
10:00 henceforth, no one, no nothing, nothing upon the face of the earth is permitted to be able to operate you, to use you, to get you to act outside of this one that paid your bride price. So you are living because of the one that paid your bride price. You are living by the authority of the one that paid your bride price. is the one that is supposed to have the capacity to send you in motion to set you in motion. So you have no other allegiance greater than this arrangement in and that is because you are consecrating to him because he paid in
10:45 full. So the direct direct next step after giving your life to Christ is an unreserved committal of yourself to God without any form of hindrance and giving him access to your life as he pleases to accomplish that which he pleases. This is supposed to be the next step in your journey after giving your life to Christ. It is this committer that gives God the liberty to be a begin to transform you into the individual that he has in mind. First of
11:33 all, he gets married to you. Then he begins to transform you so that he can bring you up to his standard. He he doesn't wait for you to come up to his standard before he marries you. He marries you then he begins to take spots and wrinkles out of your life and brings you to the standard that he can appreciate. Are you there? So he will not be able to work out the delicate works of that transformation if you have not consecrated yourself to him. Now this consecration is based on an understanding that you were purchased.
12:18 Meanwhile, if you refuse to consecrate to him, he will not force you. It's just that he will not be released to begin that transformation. It's just like someone that needs a surgery badly. He needs a surgery and uh he shows up before the surgeon. They run the tests. They show the person on the screen this is what is wrong. This is what we need to take out. This is what we need to fix. and the person refuses to submit himself for surgery. It doesn't the refusal of the person to submit his or herself for surgery does not deplete it doesn't diminish the surgical capacity
13:05 of the surgeon. But you see the s the surgeon does not have the right of way to begin to implement the cure. And so we have a bottleneck until we get to that place of consecration. God, even though he's skillful, he has not been fully allowed to begin to work out his skill in in expuning spots and wrinkles and bringing you up to the standard that he would like. He marries you anyh how you are because he has confidence in the skill of his hands to bring you up to the standard of his taste.
13:52 If you are still with me say amen. >> Amen. >> You know and I said to us that there are three chapters in the Bible that covers very extensively the subject of our consecration. Now the the piece in the book of Leviticus chapter 8 is quite an elaborate piece and it will take us time. Uh it will eat up all of our time. But what we are going to do is that we are going to put Romans chapter 6 and Romans chapter 12 side by side because these are the two two scriptures two chapters in the New Testament that speak extensively on the subject of our consecration. Now what I'm saying here just in case you are not hearing me
14:37 properly is that a man that is not consecrated is is is not yet a candidate for God's act of the renewal of the mind. God will not will not be serious about renewing your mind if you have not proven yourself reasonable in the marriage. And the only way you can prove that you are reasonable in this marriage is that haven't considered the cost of the bride price. You are supposed to reciprocate by consecrating yourself to serve his will as your preoccupation. Okay? You don't like what I'm saying. Um it's obvious you're not following me. So um
15:22 it's it's a great work and if if you are not following we can assume that we know it. So we go to something else. Hallelujah. >> If you are still here say amen. >> So in Romans chapter 6 I would like us to check a few things. Okay? Check a few things. Don't forget the scripture that my friend Gideon used in Colossians chapter 3 verse 9 and 10. Just keep that scripture. We will make reference to that scripture at a critical moment. But right now I like us to see uh Romans chapter okay maybe if you have a jar maybe you
16:08 are writing something draw a chart like this a a chart then you write J in Romans chapter 6 or let's start with chapter 12h in Romans Chapter 12. The goal. The goal of our consecration is service. Service. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies living sacrifice, holy and
16:54 acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. The reasonable service of consecration is your introduction into the life of service. So the life of service will result from what is called the reasonable service. And that reasonable service is your consecration. Giving God the right of way. Saying that I acknowledge the fact that you paid my bride price. And the only thing reasonable for me to do is to reciprocate that love by giving you the right of way to do with me what you please and to make me such a person
17:40 that you have always desired. All right. So the reasonable sacrifice, reasonable service opens the door to a life of service because all you'll be doing in the kingdom of God is to serve his will. Okay? So this is the goal that we see in the book of Romans chapter 12. But in Romans chapter 6, in Romans chapter 6 we have uh the uh binoculars of Romans chapter 6. Especially if we look at verse number 19,
18:27 verse number 19, 19 and 22. No, no. Let's go to 13. We'll do 13. Okay. 13 is clearer. It says, "Nei that yield your members." uh the word members that is used in the old King James refers to your body because the issue in the book of Romans chapter 12 is presenting your bodies. So this is another way of rendering the same emphasis.
19:14 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield your members unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Whereas in Romans chapter 12, the goal was service that was born out of reasonable service. The goal in the book of Romans chapter 6 is righteousness. That your members that are now unemployed are going to be employed in the mission
20:03 of righteousness. You see? So service, righteousness. Now service is an activity that you do in the pleasure of the Lord. Can you see that righteous living is is is existing in such a way that God is pleased. Now this righteous living is supposed to be the first emphasis. Righteous living to please God is what makes us enter into service to please God and last in that service. So there are two aspects to service. Are you there? Service to God as living in such a way that you please him and also
20:51 service to God in the form of fulfilling an errand that is asking you to furnish. Are you still with me? This is the language of consecration. Consecration involves living to please him and serving to please him. And the reason why serving is key is because of what we find in the book of Exodus chapter 19:6. Are you there? >> Exodus. Can you give me that on the screen? Exodus chapter 19 verse 6. Now this is when God decided to reveal the vision that he had for the nation of Israel. Just like India is a nation of
21:38 philosophy, the United Kingdom is a nation of education. Um China is a nation of technology and God wanted to evolve a nation that was distinct. And he called this nation a nation of priests. Are you there? That's the vision. He said, "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and and an holy nation." Now, when we say the a kingdom of priests, what exactly do we mean? We mean that every individual in that country that God wanted to fruify was going to be in his service. So service is critical in keeping with the original vision that
22:24 God had for his people. And unfortunately unfortunately uh uh this vision was not fulfilled because uh the priestly calling was eventually relegated to a single tribe. Meanwhile, it was supposed to be a national vision. And so in the New Testament, God seeks to fulfill his original vision which he could not fulfill with Israel. So part of the goal of our consecration is to restore that original vision and that's why there is an initial reasonable service that is the entry point to our ultimate life of service and the back end of that coin is found in the book of Romans chapter 6 wherein
23:11 there is a prescription on a lifestyle that is pleasing to God. So the lifestyle that is pleasing to God is supposed to be the foundation of service that is pleasing to God. So if you don't have yet the lifestyle that is pleasing to God which is work, you are deploying your members as instruments of righteousness. It means that you have no accommodation for something on Facebook that is not consistent with righteousness. Once once once that thing comes up, you are not interested. So you are scrolling because you are designed by your consecration to be uh an instrument of righteousness. There's none of my members, my eyes, my hands, my feet that will be used to accomplish a feat that
23:59 is dissociated from righteousness. My living matters to God and and is a foundation upon which my service is based. So we see that the goal in 12 service. The goal in six is living. Are you there? >> Good. Good. Good. Number two. Still go back to 12. When you have satisfied the goal in 12, there is a privilege that is handed out to you. And that privilege is in verse number two. He say, "Be not conformed to this world, but be you transformed by
24:46 the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Hey, if you have therefore consecrated yourself uh and you have initialized the process by establishing laying down the reasonable service which now opens you up to a life of service. Are you there? Such a committer will make it easy for you to access the will of God. This is what 12 says. There's so many people running around from place to
25:31 place trying to decode what God's will for their life is, what God's purpose for their life is. And at one point or the other, you'll be faced with that challenge. And if you have not yet found an answer to that challenge, you need to check your committer whether your life is really consecrated. Because God will only be take you seriously after you have reciprocated his gesture of love with a life of consecration. And if you have achieved that, it will be easy for you to stumble upon what God's will is for you per time, per place. His will is for you. You'll be able to access that.
26:17 You'll be able to articulate it if you have fulfilled the primary requirements. Are you still with me? Okay. So, so, so the goal here is service and the blessing for your reasonable service will be that you'll be able to access the will of God. The goal in chapter 6 is living according to God's prescription and the outcome of that arrangement. Are you with me? >> Outcome. Let's go back to six. Then we do 19. Then we do 22.
27:17 I would like a 10 infirmities of your flesh. For as ye yielded your members servants of to uncleanliness and iniquity unto iniquity, even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. So the goal here in six, the blessing of insisting that your life will be calibrated according to righteousness is that you end up in holy living. See, so six emphasizes living. Living 12 emphasizes service which is according
28:04 to the will of God. And your initial committal becomes the premise upon which God takes you seriously enough to reveal his will to you. Hallelujah. Now I still have one more verse of scripture that will be 22. He gives us a sequence and he gives us the graph. 22 is not a message. It's a map. And you can tell where you are headed if you read 22. He said, "But now be made free from sin." Glory to God. We have become servants to God and ye have your fruit unto holiness. So the holiness is a fruit that results from the set of
28:50 things. Are you there? >> Okay. So the fruit of this process is holiness and the outcome is everlasting life. So this map is quite clear and I can tell in all sincerity when I read the this verse of scripture if I'm still in root the ultimate destination because the fruit that my life is supposed to bear if I am in root the ultimate destination is that there's holiness in my life holiness means are you there Are you there? >> Yes, sir. >> Now, so so watch this.
29:39 Um maybe I Okay, let me use this your phone. So this Okay, I'm not a I'm not an Apple man. I cannot I I cannot bear with witness of this, but I'm more of a Samsung. I can bear witness. I can bear I can bear witness of this. Right. So, we get two two Samsung phones and I'm not a marketer for for Samsung. We get two Samsung phones from uh what do they call Best Buy. Okay. And we make one available and pastor is using one. Then we take the other one to the church office. And the one that is in the church office does no phone calls for for businesses
30:26 for no transactions. It's just there for for church use. So people can call into that line that the phone holds. Text messages are sent out based on church needs and church requirements. Now so what has happened is that this phone that is in the church only has uses according to church. Is that clear?
31:11 But this one holy is not the thing is the use to which it is separated onto now. So so now I am separated unto God. And because I'm separated unto God, I no longer have a mundane use. Are you there? Yes, sir. A lady separated unto God. You can't find her on the streets on Friday looking for a customer. That's a common lady. The one you find on the street is common. It's accessible by anybody that has money to pay. But the one that is separated onto God will only respond to God's things. Even though she's seen a 100 men coming
31:57 to ask her hand out for marriage, she's not responding to this 100 men because the one unto whom he's been separated has not yet given the signal. You see that one that is separated, the life issues from the place of authority of the Lord. It is the authority of the Lord that regulates that life. And if someone is in that category of being regulated, you will find out that the person is not common. It's not common. That is a person of value. That person will become different because God is different. In scripture, you cannot put God in the class that you put any other
32:43 thing. He's in his own class. He's separated. You'll find scriptures say there is none holy like the law. There is none besides him. He doesn't have a deputy or someone. Satan is not the opposite of God. Satan is not in the same class with God. If you are talking about God, he's in his own class. And when you are separated unto him, you will become different because one of the meanings of holy is different. We are expecting that we will see a difference. You're not like other men. The man that you are is a product of your separation. The things that you are allowed to do is what you were permitted to do by the authority that governs you. I it it it's
33:30 going to make you completely different from the person that you find on the streets. And if you understand what I'm talking about, are you there? You are going to earn a lot of names from the age in which you dwell. Many will call you a Jew. Many will call you and if you have not earned sufficient names, you're not bright enough. >> You're not bright. Even among pastors because we have common pastors that are in the marketplaces. >> They are for sale. They have a a bag. They are trading. They are there in the lagoon. They are there everywhere. They are common pastors. Then we have separated pastors and those ones are so different that their life in God becomes an object of judgment to common ones.
34:17 >> You will earn a name somehow. Maybe in the whispers and in the in the darkness there'll be your names might reign. You must earn a name because you are not after the cause of this world. You are manipulated by the very authority of the Holy Ghost and you will not become. The Bible says that the fruit that should result from this arrangement is that uh you will see an evident manifestation of the fact that you are under government and you are not available. You're not available and that will be the proof that you are in root the ultimate destination. So verse 22 is a map. If you are still with
35:03 me say amen. >> Amen. Haven't summarized the issue of consecration. It is only consecrated people. Are you there? >> You see, there's a link between verse one and verse two. So, I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God to offer your body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And so, there's a direct connection between one and two. And it must be understood that it was uh if my calculations are correct is it 136 or 36 years 36 years after those writings that the punctuations came.
35:49 I went to Israel and I was privileged to see the scrolls and there was no punctuual marker on it. It was a perpetual continum. And you must understand that the punctuations were put in place and the chapter fragmentations put in place for the purpose of reference originally they did not exist like that. Oh, you don't like that? Okay, forget about it. But it's okay. There's no problem. There's no problem. Whether you believe me or not, it doesn't it's not too important. But the thing that is important is the conjunction and. It means after you have fulfilled the first aspect then this second aspect is in view and
36:35 be not conformed. Don't enter into the mold that the world presents. It means that as you are journeying in life and you are navigating in life, you will end up in a mold. That's what he's saying. It's not the way you started it that you will end life. You you you may have started with a kind heart and you end up wicked. Oh my god. You will become something. You will transform to become something. Whether you don't want to be, you don't want to transform into the image of Christ, you will become something else. You That's what I'm saying. No one will retain his original scent. There will be mixtures that will take place. You'll be shaken out of measure and you will take on a different mold. He's just saying,
37:20 he's just saying be not conformed to this world because you can start in Christ and still be conformed to this world. And the only thing that will guarantee that you do not conform to this world is that your mind must be renewed. And there are three ways by which God renews the mind of a believer. Before I can sit on this matter of renewal of mind, I need to introduce a concept which I call the reckoning of faith. If you don't understand the reckoning of faith, it will be difficult for you to understand how God renews the mind of
38:06 a man. The reckoning of faith. Can we jump to Oh my God. Oh my God. Well, if I if I need time, I'll ask I'll ask pastor to give me time. But we are in trouble now. We're already in trouble. In the book of Romans chapter 6, I know I told you yesterday, Romans chapter 6 is now that you are born again. So the path of spiritual progress begins from Romans chapter 6. And there are points on the path of spiritual progress. Romans is a map. It's not a message. If you read the book of Romans
38:52 with illumination, you will know where you stopped on the journey on the path of spiritual progress. It's a map. All right. Um, I would like us to take note, take inventory of what I want to do, right? Oh my god. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Just go to 11. Go to 11. Go to 11. We can't do the part of spiritual progress. Let's go to 11. You see, I don't like reading a verse that starts with likewise. It means it's comparing itself with the previous arrangement. But for the purpose of the time constraint just that's not the theological way, but we will need to use that approach tonight
39:38 just for the purpose of time. He it he it said likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin and but what alive unto God. So he's calling us to reckon two things. The first thing he's calling us to reckon is that we are dead to sin. Second thing he's calling us to recon is that what? Okay, now stay with me. Let me explain what I mean by the reckoning of faith. Once upon a time in my experience as a pastor,
40:24 a very young lady lost her husband under very mysterious means. And the kids were very little obviously. And the problem with that arrangement was that I've seen people lose people before in my experience. But I've not seen someone that lost someone and the person cannot be comforted. It the more we are tempted to bring comfort, it was impossible to achieve it. And I have a gift, a gift of exaltation. I I can stay with you and I can tell you
41:13 what God is saying. Not that I will say thus say the Lord, but I can find the mind of the Holy Spirit and I begin to say his mind about a situation. And the number of times I was able to hop into that gift, I was able to break sorrow. In fact, there was a burial there they mistakily invited me. It was a mistake. They invited me to to do something in that barrier and I found that gift and by the time we were done nobody was weeping and it's not a good arrangement in a burial situation but it was a gift and I so trust that gift that it will
42:01 work especially if I pray and I prepare myself but for that lady the gift failed. I entered into the gift but I think I left her in a worse situation that because I was far away from achieving the comfort that I was thinking that I will achieve. So I I left in discouragement only for me to see her on the Bible study day of the week and she was full of life. say, "Wow, a greater preacher than myself must have delivered on on this matter." So I called her to the office at the end of the service full of excitement and I asked her, "What happened to you?" Ah, pastor that her
42:49 husband, her dead husband appeared to her in the dream and said, "Are you aware that this is for eternity? I'm still available for you." And when she saw that dream, she popped into great joy. And I opened the scripture to her. Today, that day was not by that gift. I was just doing critical Bible study for the moment. And according to the scriptures, it is written that is appointed unto man once to die. And after that, the next agenda for that individual on the schedule of God's kingdom is called judgment. his works are going to be weighed in the balances and Jesus will be the one standing on the pavement.
43:37 So the reason why familiar spirits can bring the image of your husband to you is because you did not you did not you did not reckon that he was dead. As long as you refuse to reckon him dead, many entities will come as him to you. >> Oh, you are not with me. >> Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me. It's only the first night that I confess to you that I I I went I wanted to pray but I slept. I I didn't sleep now. I didn't sleep. I came I came and in order for me to receive in order for me to receive help I had to tell you >> that when I told you when I told you then the the the signal began to to operate. You know he
44:25 say confess your faults one to another. Uh-huh. So so as long as you have not yet reckoned him dead there are many impostors that are going to come into the layer of your dream and and come as him. She began to cry that so her deliverance her real deliverance there was tears in it. I was hoping that I would take her out of tears. Meanwhile, when her real deliverance came, it required tears because it was the tears of her coming to reckon that you are gone. We can no longer have any interaction. >> Yes, sir. >> Now, listen to me. The Bible is saying that you need to reckon that you are dead to sin. You're not you're not
45:10 following me. >> You you you must what? Reckon. So when sin you are navigating and and sin is everywhere. Sin is in in in the airplane. Sin is at the restaurant. Sin is at the train station. Sin is in the post office. Everywhere you go is not only on the beach that you see. No. No. Sin is in your office. Sin is in your office. But the reason why sin will not be able to get to you is because you have re is that's what we call the reckoning of faith. It is the acknowledgment of of facts, spiritual facts. Are you there? >> Yes, sir.
45:56 >> There are the there are three ways God relates with the New Testament Christian. The first way is through a promise. You engage God and you fratonize with him enough to receive a promise from him. And because he's a God that is not a man that he should lie, his fidelity is attached to every utterance that he makes. So you can count on his promise. The second way God deals with New Testament Christians is through spiritual facts. A spiritual fact is something that is already accomplished in the realm of the spirit. For instance, the book of John 7:39 says that the reason why the Holy Ghost had not been given was because
46:43 Jesus was not yet glorified exalted. So now we know that Jesus had been exalted and is doiciled in the heavenlies. It means that even today anyone that needs to be baptized in the Holy Ghost, we don't are you born again? You can be baptized with the Holy Ghost today with the evidence of speaking in tongues, taking advantage of spiritual fact. But the thing about spiritual fact is that you must reckon that fact to be so. Reckon that fact to become the current reality. Reckon that he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for iniquities. Those are spiritual facts. And the average believer doesn't reckon spiritual facts to be so. So he can still be sick.
47:29 fibroid can still grow in your womb because you you you did not do a reckoning of faith. The reckoning of faith is an adjustment that you make to accommodate the current state of truth and make it your most natural state of reality. You're not following me. You're not with me. >> You're not with me. You're not with me. You're not with me. YOU'RE NOT WITH ME. MOST OF US SITTING HERE AND MOST OF US FOLLOWING ONLINE, YOU DID NOT MAKE that deliberate adjustment in the reckoning of it. That's why sin is still pondering you because you kept the door open. You you in your mind you are saying that you know sin can happen. Sin can take place.
48:15 So you created accommodation for it and that's why it's taking place. There are some of us that close the door, burn the door, dispose of the key. >> And in our mind as we as we stand now, there is no accommodation for that reality. The Bible says likewise reckon yourself to be indeed dead to reckon your faith. You need to reckon yourself according to the status of spiritual facts. So whenever Satan comes to bring that thing your way and you have adequately reckoned it dead that thing is not an option. There is no way we can begin to consider it. I will not use my mind to think on this matter because it is
49:02 closed. It's closed. And the same way in the same breath that I reckon that I'm dead to sin is the same breath that I reckon that I am alive to God. That state of reckoning makes make brings me to a point in my mind that I know that the only reality that I have left is that I'm living in the reality of my God. It even helps it makes it easier for it to hear God because my reality now is that I'm alive to God. So I cannot be blind. Yes, I must see by the Holy Ghost. I must understand by the spirit of God. THIS IS MY NEW REALITY. Many of you have not reckoned yourself alive unto God.
49:48 And that's why whenever it's time to hear God, a maze of confusion invades your mind. You created that possibility. You created it. You are not radical enough. You just want to get by and say, "Okay, I'm a church girl." Church girls die easily. No, I'm not just a church boy. I'm a victor. I am everything that God's word says I am. So whenever you are confronted with the truth, you reckon it. So you make adjustments to make that truth your your reality. That's how to live in truth. So having understood this, let me show you. Oh, I
50:35 in my own opinion you might have a different view. Apart from Jesus, the best teacher is Apostle Paul. You will see as I will show you in a moment and I don't Oh, there's no time. There's no time. There's no time. But I will I'll be pleading with my landlord. He's a good landlord. So I bala I don't know I don't know of you but death has come to me a few times has come to me but I found in scripture that I I shall not die >> but live I don't know if you have reckoned yourself so >> yes sir yes sir yes sir
51:20 >> and the death I'm talking about is on a plane that had lost control and the captain was already giving us pep talks that is what I'm It's not as if it's not as if I'm driving. I'm the one holding THE WHEEL. NO. NO. Someone else is all over. >> Meanwhile, I was sleeping. When that happened, the woman by my side now gave me a dirty slap and told me that he she has already lived her alive. That you are young. You are the one that is losing. WHO CARES? >> I told her, I am going to weary. I You
52:07 can die, but I'm going to worry. Yes, sir. >> I'm going to worry. And I went back to sleep because I did night vision. I wanted to use the 45 minutes to sleep. It was when the plane landed that I woke up. I don't need to see how it lands. So many evil things can happen to good people because they have not rec you have not taken the responsibility to make the adjustments. So possibilities are bound that will still befall you. Are you with me? >> Yes sir. >> Okay. So let me let let's do this. Let's do this. I had seven things I would have raised. This is Paul.
52:55 Okay. So, covenant is the third one. Promise, spiritual fact, and covenant. Maybe I don't need to I don't need to explain covenant because my landlord has Yeah, my landlord has responded. So, I I don't want to I don't want to undermine his goodwill. Okay. Now, so you will now find a few scriptures. This is Paul. Can we go back to Paul? Whenever you see this, I want to show you something. Go to Romans chapter 6. Let's begin that journey there. That's a part of spiritual progress. Those days I used to teach it for how long? 14 days that I teach the part of
53:40 spiritual progress. So that you know what it means when we say you are a new creation. Hh. Because I will tell you that you are becoming a new creation because it's only your spirit that has gained that prosperity. Meanwhile, you have territories in your soul. You have territories in your body that should be brought into the same economy. Oh, okay. Let me leave you. Uh-uh. You can't go to my scripture again. Watch. Oh my god. Okay, let's leave. Forget about those media people. If not I will have he said what shall I most say? What shall we say then shall we continue? This is this he's trying to
54:27 do mind renewal. The purpose of this presentation and there's a particular word that he uses anytime he's trying to change your mindset. Paul knew that one of his missions was that he was the agency of mind renewal. That was one of his missions. Now he now said he said shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? This man is trying to challenge us. Then he said God forbid. You see it's is he has moved you out because most of us are are ready to keep some space and not reckon ourselves dead to sin. Maybe once in a while let us not rule it out. You touch something
55:13 say God for that's why he answered the question because if he had left it open we would have been in a theological dehate till today then he makes a statement in verse two verse two god forbid how shall we is trying to help our mind that are dead to sin so he's trying to reveal your status your status of as a Christian is that you are dead to sin now I'll explain what that means How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Next verse. Next verse. Anytime he wants mind renewal therapy for his congregation, he uses this word, know ye not.
55:59 Anytime you see PAUL SAYS, KNOW YE NOT. PLEASE settle down and listen to him. It means that it is possible for you to sustain the wrong mindset about that matter and it's trying to deliver you. Oh, he said, "Know you not that as many of us that were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death." Now, you see, see, the only history that you have that the scriptures can recognize is that you were backdated to the cross. It is your debt, your exit from this realm. Your exit uh is what the scriptures captures as your legitimate history. And that exit from this realm, this
56:46 world, this the systems, the spirits, the darkness, your exit from it was accomplished by death. Because your entry into it was accomplished by birth. Because you hear someone like David say that in sin did my mother conceive. Even my conception had already bestowed upon me a nature that was contrary. So my exit will be by death. It is that your exit which is by death. That is what is exemplified in baptism. In baptism you have reckoned that you are dead and only people that are dead are buried because baptism is a burrier. If you are not dead and they are burying
57:31 you, one hand can be come out of the grave and that is already the living dead. That may the Lord give you understanding that's that's already it's a strange arrangement now that you have acknowledged. So you now see that he brings the issue of baptism up because baptism is supposed to be a burial and burials are for people that know that they are dead. Only those that are alive in the flesh crave for sin. Those of us that are alive in the spirit has shut down the language of the flesh.
58:17 We are dead to it. It means even if you bring sin around us, we have no organ that that sin can appeal to. It's just like a remote control Samsung. You press it, it changes a channel on Samsung television because there's a sensor that recognizes the sensor of the television. But now you bring sin to us. We have no sensor to recognize those products because we are we and it's a reckoning of faith that will bring you to the experience of the fact that you are dead. That's how mind renewal takes place. And I challenge you anytime you find I will not go into other matters. He he spoke extensively and he brought some critical matters in the Christian faith and he reveals HOW THAT HEY KNOW YE not
59:08 for instance you will find him saying in 1 Corinthians 3:16 know ye not that your body is a temple of the living God. He's trying to is getting your mind. I said there's something else you used to know. But the reality as far as your status as a Christian is concerned is that your body is the temple of the living God. The spirit of God dwells in you. And because of that, because he dwells in you, the way you use that body matters to the one that occupies it. In fact, he was so ve ver vehement that he said that that Okay. Yeah. Go back. Go back. Go back there. Go back there.
59:54 3:16. Oh my. 1 Corinthians 3:16. He say if you defile that body that God himself will destroy you. So God will fight you because you want to carry the Holy Ghost inside and then join that body to a hallowed. That's an abomination. And I've heard people that have come up with new revelations. They have adjusted the place of scripture and they have brought in log logic and philosophy in order to create soft landing for sin. Sin ended in chapter 6 and the door was permanently close to it and your path your journey on the path of spiritual progress only begins the moment you take a decision about sin.
1:00:39 If you have not taken that decision you have not been on the path of spiritual progress. You are still in limbo without coordinates. So even the Google map of the spirit cannot track where you are to give you the next advice. May the Lord help us in the name of Jesus Christ. >> All right. So you see here the first thing that we see in mind renewal is that God confronts us with his word. His spirit will bring a scripture, package a scripture, huh? And then he will throw it and challenge you with it. What he's trying to do is that he's trying to challenge your thinking. And he wants the the change in your thought process that is
1:01:25 different from what you used to sustain. So when he does that, he's renewing your mind according to the word of God. Are you there? Your part in that business is that when you have seen the position that the Holy Spirit has highlighted, you are supposed to you are supposed to augment. You are supposed to respond by the reckoning of faith. This is my reality. And in order for you to accomplish that, you do that through regurgitation in the place of prayer. You pray that thing into your life as your reality. Because what is in your mind, you will forget. But what is written on your heart, the Holy Ghost can bring it into your mind in the day
1:02:10 of trouble. Thy word have I hidden. Is the regurgitation of prayer. Use that scripture and pray it into your life. It will hide in the chamber of your heart and in the day of trouble, the Holy Ghost will bring it up. We activate it, it will become an object of defense. That's the number one. I have three, but I will end at number two. Number two takes us to 2 Corinthians chapter 1. I'll end at number two. 2 Corinthians chapter 1. 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse number 8. Now I have 10 minutes to go. That means our practical will not exist today because this number two is very
1:02:56 important. For we we we would not brethren have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia that we were pressed out of measure above strength in so much that we despared even of life. Next verse. But we had the sentence of death. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God that raises the dead. Second way God renews our mind is that he allows us he allows us he doesn't orchestrate those circumstances but he permits us to enter into treacherous circumstances that will shake us to our foundation.
1:03:46 He said, "Brethren, I won't want you to be ignorant of the trouble that came to us in Asia." What happened? He said, "What? We were pressed above measure." I know you have read your Bible and your Bible says that God will not allow you to be tempted much more than you have the capacity to bear. That is temptation. In temptation, God will not allow you to to be tempted much more than you have the capacity to bear. But in dealing, God, it is God's way of always stretching you beyond your capacity. That's when you lose you lose confidence in your mindset. In in in
1:04:31 dealings, God can stretch you beyond your elastic limit. It was because God stretched him beyond his elastic limits that he felt as though it was a sentence of death because he had gone beyond his capacity to bear. He thought it was dead and he saw how futile his philosophy was. You are still holding your philosophy because you have not suffered. Say yeah. Say I'm the beautiful lady of Chicago. Don't worry. There's something that will touch you. When it touches you, it's because you have not been to Asia. That's why you have sustained your your your philosophy. He say it is possible for you to forget
1:05:18 Asia. But I don't want you to be ignorant of it that God renews the mind of men that way. When the guy went through the thing, he said, "But this happened." See the change of mindset. This happened that we should not trust in ourselves. But in God that raises the dead. That was how his transition took place. There are experiences God will give you in order to there's something a mindset you have that would short change your destiny. He will fight it by allowing you enter a situation where you have no power. You have no authority to change. Then you will discover that you are not in yourself. You are not as powerful as you thought. >> I'm going to stop there. That's number two. That's number two. That's the second way
1:06:05 he renews our mind. Pastor, I was one of the most proud the proudest men on earth. Yes. You will not believe. I'm telling you. >> Hey. Oh my. Those days in school, I could lift a textbook. I could cram a textbook. And I knew that there was nobody in my class that could cram the way I do. So I don't read. I wait for the test. Then I would take 24 hours. I can sit for 24 hours and cram the book.
1:06:52 Yes, I was flowing. I do many things. do all then I come back and cram and because of that I used to tell my mates that your brains are baskets you can't you can't retain anything it's a sign OF A CURSE I was I was terrible so when Jesus wanted to help the boy I finished cramming one day and entered then he touched me I forgot everything then I I came out of the hall I remembered everything it happened five times And I come from a family of scholars. When that happened, I died. I die. So, oh, I die. I even told Jesus that I'm not fit for the call anymore. You
1:07:38 see, now you are ready for it. This happened that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God. Even even those among his most precious jail wells, he will stretch you beyond your limit so that he can attack confidence that you have built in yourself. It's not confidence in yourself that makes you pass. It's confidence in in God. I'm going to stop there. I'll stop now. The last one I'll just say it. He He renews your mind by encounters. He himself comes to show you things. Yes, sir. >> Causes your eyes to behold. The moment
1:08:23 you see one of those angels that are high up into the heavens, you will just know that you're not that great. You're not that great. It's because you've not seen anything. That's why you are still carrying your So no one came to pick my bag. Ah, >> you you are blind. >> Yes, sir. There there are things powers that God can open your eyes to see that will change your mindset instantly. Instantly. We want to pray just just a little prayer. Oh my God. I know you will not pray with me if I say Lord take us to Asia. You I know you won't pray. The greatest deliverance I got in my
1:09:11 life was that that thing. Do you know how many times I died before I attended carryover class? It's a taboo for someone from my family to be in carryover class. It's a taboo. Among all my brothers, I'm the least intelligent. Those ones are so Yeah. Oh. Oh. Oh. I had to look for dark goggles to be in. Oh. Hallelujah. Heaven.
1:09:59 You're my father. singing hallelujah. You are >> you're my father. >> Singing hallelujah. Heaven. >> You're my father. >> One more time.
1:10:50 HEAVENL. You're my father. Single. Heavenly Jesus. >> You're my father. Father, >> now listen, we want to make this moment count. This moment must count. This moment count. Must count. There are things that if God shows you, it will cure you.
1:11:36 It will. We need to see those things. He said, "Call unto me and I will answer you and I will show you." You were not asking me to show you stuff. You were just asking for answers. So, I'm going to answer you. But in addition to your answers, I will show you great and mighty things that thou knowest not. Can we ask the Lord, "Show me. Show me. Show me. Santori
1:12:21 or show me. night. I am I am I am a seeker. Graceful. Oh my
1:13:08 father bless you. la.
1:13:54 Hallelujah. We are you are Heaven.
1:14:50 Hallelujah. My son, you're my father. Hallelujah. We lift our eyes up to the heels. My son,
1:15:50 you're my heaven. You're my heaven. Sing halle hal. Happy birthday. >> Listen. Listen. And I beheld in the spirit, and I saw a bright light that came from the presence of God.
1:16:37 This bright light that came from the presence of God, it lighted on the eyes of an individual. And the Lord whispered to me and said, "I will open this eyes. I will make this eyes to see my glory. I will be made manifest before this eyes." There is someone in our midst that God is calling to number among the company of seers.
1:17:24 God will open your eyes to begin to see things, mighty things, great things that you know nothing of. Now I know it's more than one person and in the next 21 seconds the hand of Jesus will begin to come upon those people in order to administer that anointing in the next 21 seconds. The hand of Jesus the hand of Jesus. Oh my God. We begin to in the name of Jesus. Can you just be still? Be still.
1:18:09 There is a sister that I see in the spirit. This is your night of transformation. Because what God will begin with you today, oh my God, is an entry point, an entry point into your golden age, the best days of your life. And grace will be given unto you in order for you to accomplish this pre pilgrimage. The hand of Jesus, therefore, is upon you as I speak. the hand of Jesus and that weight of glory will become will become stronger will become stronger. It will become stronger. The Lord opens
1:18:56 a pathway. He opens a pathway for your destiny. He opens a pathway for Oh my God. Yes, it's a it's an opening into the pathway of destiny. And and and my landlord, I see on your right hand, a whitish substance was placed therein, and the Lord whispered to me, that is the healing anointing. The healing anointing. >> You shall be known as a healing minister. Amen. >> You shall be known as a healing minister
1:19:41 >> for the healing anointing will be your announcement. It will be your announcement. You shall be known If you are baptized in the Holy Ghost, something has been open in the spirit. Oh my my God. Make sure you enter into it. Make sure you enter. Make sure you enter. Make sure you enter. Make sure you enter. Make sure you enter. Make sure you
1:20:26 enter. Make sure you enter. Make sure you enter. I am so
1:21:16 Hallelujah. One more time. One more time. happiness. You are even from tonight if the journeys begin the doors are open to admit people into their unique experiences.
1:22:03 Some will have to go to Asia. BUT GOD WILL BE SHIFTING US IN OUR MINDS so that we can stand in alignment with SPIRITUAL FACTS. And then the Lord will begin to enlarge himself within our vessels. For thine is the kingdom, FOR THINE IS THE POWER, and for thine is the glory.
