THE CHURCH PART 2

0:00 Last week we dealt on two things that the Holy Ghost comes with, right? Power, right? Three things that you receive when the Holy Ghost comes upon you. You shall receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you, right? And the power we called it. Dunamis. Okay. Then we we defined dunamis as how many things? Six things. Correct. We will not go back there. people who missed the the the sermon you find on YouTube. Then he says, "You shall receive power. The Holy Ghost comes upon you and you shall become what? Witnesses unto me where where shall you be witnesses?

0:48 Unto me both in Jerusalem, one, Judea, two, Samaria, three, and in the in the uttermost parts of the earth. to the tongas uttermost means conse mentioning all the tribes I'm trying to kill that tribal mentality in your head tribe and tribe is dividing you and a kingdom divided against itself Zambia is struggling we are too divided Now today we're breaking down witnesses. There are three kinds of witnesses. A witness in the legal sense. One,

1:39 a witness in the historical sense, two, and a witness in the ethical sense. Three. When you come here, you will definitely learn a new thing. A witness in a legal sense. One legal for the laws is L E G A L. Right. A witness in the historical sense for the members. It's not historical. It's historical. Brilliant. Okay. Then a witness in the ethical sense. Let us break it down. When he says,

2:25 "I'll make you witnesses," she's dealing with three kinds of witnesses that you can be. If we deal with you being a witness in the legal sense, it means you were there when the thing happened. This becomes very important. A Christian was not there. Only the disciples were there. So you can be a false witness. It's very dangerous. Did you see Jesus? Did you see him die on the cross? So how are you witnesses? This is where the Jehovah's Witnesses need a lot of help. How are you a witness?

3:11 Did you see it or did you hear it? I think so. If you stand in the dock in a courtroom and they make you swear and say you you will say the truth and nothing but the truth and they ask you to say were you there when this happened you say no I say then you are not a witness so this term in the legal sense of you being a witness it doesn't qualify for you and me doesn't it qualifies for the disciples who are there they saw it that's why First John starts by saying that which we have seen, which we have heard, which we have handled, which we have touched concerning the word of truth, we have brought to you that you may have

3:56 fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the father and with the son. That's how first John starts. Not the gospel of John. First John. So them are witnesses in the legal sense, not spiritually. They saw it. For God to make you a witness in the legal sense, it's by encounter. This is the power of encounters. I saw Jesus. [Music] I saw him. He's making a witness in the legal sense. Paul says, "This gospel was not given to me by man. I encountered Jesus. God made him a witness in the legal sense.

4:47 made him witness. The second kind of witness is a witness in the historical sense. In the historical sense, you must become a spectator. Now, in this being a spectator, you have seen God working. Remember last week we had dealt with the power of God and how that the resurrection of Christ right is evident when you see God's power it's evidence of his resurrection we dealt with that last week right can you remember those who are here where are your notes you're looking at me like my name is Tuesday h

5:34 Where are your notes? Huh? Do you remember? People are lost. We go back. But I don't want to go back. H. Why? Why? Why? Why are people lost? I can [Music] see him.

6:32 [Music] Go to verse three. Let me just help those who are not here so that they can just find us where we are in the spirit. Right? Go to verse three. To whom also, this is to the apostles, he showed himself alive after his passion. Passion there means suffering by many infalluable proofs. Right? And last week Fred helped us with what the word infallible means. He helped the members, right? Unquestionable proofs, right? Being seen of them 40 days. That's one of the infallible proofs. You can't argue with it. They saw him. So it's not something

7:17 that's excusable. It's inexcusable. We saw him. We touched him. This becomes very very important. And speaking of things pertaining to the kingdom of God. Now one of the infallible proofs is the power of God. When you see miracles, miracles prove Jesus is in existence. I want you to understand why miracles must continue. Why prophecy must continue. Why deliverance must continue. He this proves himself alive. When you remove miracles from work, when you remove prophecy, when you remove deliverance, what's the evidence that Jesus is alive? For Jesus to be alive, it must be proven that the way he was functioning

8:03 yesterday. He must function today. He must function tomorrow. If we see that the functionality has stopped, it means Jesus is dead. So when you see people have the agenda of saying miracles must stop all these prophets are fake miracles it's only the apostles who used to work miracles what they saying is Jesus is dead and he died in the day of the apostles and he's not resurrected to prove Jesus is alive is by infallible proofs. There must be evidence that he's alive. So the evidence you see is we pray for you get healed. Oh, we cast out demons. We prophesy it comes to pass. It's not for you to exalt the man of God. No, it's for you to know Jesus is

8:50 alive. So miracles point you to the resurrected Lord. It gives you shortity because sometimes your problems will feel like God is dead and he's not hearing you. But when it comes close, it becomes tangible. You had cancer, you are healed. You had HIV, you are healed. Okay, how did I get healed? The man of Gality. That man is still alive. He's still working through his people. So that should give you faith in him becomes very very important. Okay. So now being a witness in the historical sense,

9:38 you see Jesus working the same old Jesus, the same Jesus of 2,000 years ago. You are spectating and seeing him functioning even today in not just your life but in the lives of others. That's why attending church is very important for your faith. When you're at home and you're going through circumstances, it looks like God is dead. It looks like you're alone. It looks like there's no hope. But even if the man of God hasn't touched you or prayed for you, but you see how other people are testifying, you say, "I I still believe. I still have faith. There's still hope for me.

10:24 There's still hope." When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, it was not for Lazarus. It was for the faith of everyone else. Because when he starts teaching about the resurrection, how are they going to believe? That's the importance. The last kind of witness is a witness in the ethical sense. This kind of witness is a bit tricky. In the ethical sense, this is the witness of what we call a mata. A mataya, someone who dies for the for their message. A mat hasn't committed suicide. He has died for what he believes in.

11:11 All the disciples were matters. They witnessed to the point of death. This kind of witness is a dangerous kind of witness. It's it is not for baby Christians. Baby Christians are still no I must be alive. Christ must not come until I marry. This is for people who have set their eyes on things above. Where Paul says, "For me to live is Christ to die is I want to be a witness unto death." This is the last kind of witness. That's the last kind of witness.

11:59 Beautiful. When you enter heaven, there's music that playing consistently. That's how your house should be. That's how your car should be. I've taught you this. God is a god of atmospheres. There is no music in hell. So this thing where you are not playing music, you are preparing yourself for Oh no. Continue on that path. You know we just find screaming, complaining, screaming, shouting, kicking.

12:48 Oh god. Three kinds of witnesses. One legal sense, two a witness in the historical sense. And three in the ethical sense. In the ethical sense, it's those who after his example have proved the strength and genuiness of their faith in Christ by undergoing a value a violent death. The disciples reached a stage where they said, "We want to be like Christ in every way." And they truly believed that you can't be a Christian and the world doesn't reject you. So for them they saw it as a stamp on their Christianity for them to die the

13:35 way their master died. They followed his footsteps unto death. And most of them died by crucifixion. They saw it like that. Okay. But did that win anyone? Not really. Not really. It was just for them to show that they have dominated the body and the body has no say in their lives. [Music] Those are levels. It's not a joke. Most people who will go in the second coming of the Lord, not the rapture, they'll go as ethical witnesses. witnesses that will die for the gospel.

14:21 If you don't want to die, go with the rapture. Hello. Okay. Don't want to die violent death, go with the rapture. It's very very important. God will come and rapture his church. But there are those who are stubborn. Okay. I want to talk about something. What will make people remain when rapture happens is not necessarily sin also worldliness. There are certain things that are not seen. It's worldliness.

15:06 We in church you have gone to watch the world cup because the world cup is happening on a Sunday. worldliness. You are still part of the world. So God will leave you in the world. There are certain things that are not sinful. Paul says, "All things are permissible unto me, but not all things are profitable." There are certain things that are not sin. It's just worldliness. It's not sin. It's just worldly. It's things people of the world do. You're not sinning. You're just w

15:56 you have long nails like them. If they get a Christian, they put them there. They just someone from the put them there. There's no difference. You look the same. Someone needs descendments to know who you are. Worldliness. [Laughter] Oh god. This is for my daughters. Pay attention. If it takes makeup for a man to like you, he isn't your husband. Because at home, you won't be wearing makeup. Okay? When you go to swim, you won't be wearing. Makeup doesn't make you beautiful.

16:47 Okay, let's investigate. Right, beauty. It's a compound word, right? It it consists of two words. one beauty and [Music] this means full of just this statement means beauty is inside not outside if you're full of beauty then where is the beauty that so makeup doesn't make you beautiful it makes you look like a clown yes but it doesn't make you

17:36 What does a clown wear? Huh? Makeup, right? Yes. [Music] Other people's opinion about you doesn't matter. Your husband is going to like you. Don't need to. Don't need to. You can I'm I'm not saying if you wear makeup you will miss the rapture. No, no, no, no, no. Don't don't take it like that. No. There's certain level of worldliness. Every topic in the world you are involved. Anything trending, you are there. Your heart is there. That's

18:23 dangerous. Your heart will be there. Yes sir. You know all the teams all the teams you are prideful. You're arrogant that you even how you describe yourself. When someone asks you what you do for a living, you will rush to say a worldly achievement, not your sunship. That's what I'm talking about. Without that, you think you are nothing. You you know Jesus chose unqualified people to be apostles. Yes.

19:12 That's why they could not boast. And Jesus runs away from people who are too qualified. You question everything. Go left, you question it. Cross the Red Sea, know the the the density of water. If you had to multiply it, you see why he couldn't. That's why water will come from the rock. No, a rock is formed by the aggregation of that. He can't work with you. The road of Aaron could bad flowers. Scientifically it's not possible. It's not possible. Up to now they still argue. People used to argue Joshua stopped the sun. The sun doesn't move. It's to it's nowadays that they have discovered that the sun actually moves.

20:00 And people are saying the Bible is wrong. The Bible is never wrong. Relax. Relax. Most archaeologists use the Bible to find ancient landmarks. The Bible is so accurate. If the Bible says it's there, it's there. And they use the Bible for history, not even for spirituality. That's how accurate it is. [Music] Where where were we talking about makeup, right? Worldliness.

20:46 Worldliness. Be careful. Separate yourself from these things. These debates, leave it alone. These videos, leave them alone. Leave them alone. I've seen people in your own church they say send me the video this is my number shocked me the pastor very shocked now you can't inbox the person and say what's what I doing the person still quarrels about coming for evangelism and but the number for nonsense the person on every platform you go to cal someone puts the number put the

21:32 You go to co page the number. What are you looking for? If you sought the kingdom the way you are seeking for videos, you'd have found Jesus by now. You're seeking the wrong thing. One thing that always helps me in spirituality is asking myself one question. Then what? Okay. After you watch the videos, then what? Let's talk. Let us be frank. Then what? Then what you'll be satisfied the eyes are not full of seeing neither the ear is full of hearing. Solomon said that and all this is vanity. The eyes are

22:17 never satisfied. You will never get to a place where you see and you're satisfied. That's why people people who are married we will still be going to look for young women because you think satisfaction comes from seeing it doesn't you think it comes from hearing no comes from identity knowing who you are and knowing who Jesus is that brings satisfaction you are content in your identity in him you don't compete with people because you found your place in Christ. Mhm. The way children don't compete who is the favorite child of their father because they know dad takes me like this with one child the father plays soccer with another child the mother plays net

23:04 they have each found their place if you find your place in God. Oh God they are content. One of the preachers I love, pastor Chris Yakilom, brilliant man of God. When there was a rise of the prophetic, he kept on doing what he was doing. Others switched to call themselves prophets. He he he kept on calling himself. Now the head of the prophetic movement now goes to him to submit as a spiritual child. After everyone changed their name to prophet, he was content with what God gave him. Contentment.

23:50 He found his place in God. He knew this is who I am. That contentment. If you have not found your place in God, you still be searching. You've listened to every preacher. If you have found your place, you know, yes, this one is a man of God, but his message is not for me. Yes, he's not. There's people I can tell I tell people to say I can't listen to this singer. I can't. No, that's pride. No, they are singer. They a singer. Correct. But they for babies in Christ, that's not my my spirit can't feed from that and and feel satisfied. No, I must go to men of deeper realms like

24:36 my son Stefan. When I listen to him, I'm satisfied. When he sings my breakfast, my spiritual breakfast is done. I've eaten because deep to sleep. There are songs I can't listen. No, no, there's now a new one from the sun in the house. Just nonsense songs. A song not born of the spirit, born of what the president said. What kind of Christians do we have nowadays? What kind of musicians do we have? We have gospel artists. We don't have ministers of the gospel. Very big difference. We have people who perform for men, not

25:22 people who stand to minister to the Lord. The difference between a gospel artist and a gospel minister, a gospel artist sings for men. A gospel minister ministers to Christ in the audience of men. So they are serving God and men are part of the audience. This other guy is singing for men to make money. You can't compare. Even the substance of the song is born of the spirit. It's born of the kingdom. It can't expire. It's not temporal. Those are songs for generations. The spirit gave it to him. Up to now we still sing hallelujah. Is that song for men? It's not sung to men.

26:10 Adonai, we worship you, son of God, you are so good. It's not for men. Almighty God, hallowed be thy name. The Genesis will never know such kind of songs. You were born in 2000 2009. How can you be born in 2009? Okay, let us let us continue. Verse 9, I want to show you something beautiful, right? And when and while they looked steadfastly toward heaven, now at this point Jesus is giving them instructions before he's going, right? and they on the Mount Olivet or the Mount of Olives

26:57 and he's giving them instructions. Don't depart, go to Jerusalem, wait for the Holy Ghost and everything, right? And as he's talking to them, he starts ascending from the Mount of Olives. Isn't it interesting that it was called the Mount of Olives? You know what olives are? What comes out from olives? Olive oil. Even where Jesus I was talking to my wife the other day I was telling her you know your child was born at Hilltop Hospital. So it's like what's the importance I like have you heard the name of the hospital hilltop mountain [Music]

27:44 everything is spiritual the problem is people don't oh god a light set upon a hill when he had spoken these things while they beheld. He was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight. Why did a cloud receive Jesus? When you come to this ministry, I envy you. A cloud is

28:29 same of the presence of God. Others the glory of God. Yes, you don't worry for me. I point whether you are new, whether you welcome to the system. Why did a cloud receive Jesus in church? There are no wrong answers. Mhm. Okay. When you go up, clouds cover. So, it was a form of covering. Interesting answer. Very interesting. When he had spoken these things while they beheld, he was taken up and the cloud received

29:14 him out of their sight. I want to show you something. When the Bible is talking, some certain things look like they were just for the sake of writing. No, no. You will you will learn how to study the Bible attentively. You will give me Exodus 13. Exodus 13 verse 21. quickly. Exodus 13:21.

30:01 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light to go by day and by night. During the day he led them in a pillar of During the night he led them in a pillar of I want you to understand this. They that are led by the spirit, the sons of God. Right?

30:48 Moses said, "If your spirit does not go ahead of us, we won't go." Then God then sent two manifestations of the Holy Ghost. Write this down. Two manifestations of the Holy Ghost. The first manifestation of the Holy Ghost, he appears like a cloud. The second manifestation of the Holy Ghost, he appears as a fire. So when you see a fire burning the bush and Moses going towards the fire, you know who appeared to Moses.

31:36 Come on. And that's why I told you last week to say fasting doesn't bring power. No. No. You shall receive power when the Holy Ghost shall come upon you. After Moses encountered the burning bush, after Moses encountered the fire of the bush, it's not the bush he encountered. It's the fire. It's the pillar of fire Moses encountered. He encountered a manifestation of the Holy Ghost. So when Moses encountered the Holy Ghost, that's why the Holy Ghost gave

32:22 him a strict instruction. Remove your why the place you're standing is that statement holy becomes a deliberate statement. You're standing before the Holy Spirit. Remove your shoes. Remove your shoes. Meaning change your ways. God is telling him repent. You are in the presence of holiness. It is the same thing he did to Isaiah when Isaiah went to the throne room and he said, "I am of unclean lips. I've seen the Lord. I'm a man of unclean lips." And God said, "Get a tongue from the altar and touch his lips." And his lips were cleansed.

33:10 God caused Isaiah to repent before he worked with him. In the same way Moses repented. If you ever want to know when Moses repented from killing the Egyptian, you always hear people saying to say Moses killed the Egyptian and never repented. He repented when you stood before the the bush that was on fire. God the shoes he removed symbolized his ways. By the time Moses was leaving that place, he was a new man. He was not the man that went to the bush. When you get to the throne room, you will not leave the person you came. You die. Can I give you a statement? You cannot

33:56 see the Lord's face and live. What does that mean? He's not saying you will die physically. He's saying you will change. That nature of yours that that that loves videos, that being that addiction nature of yours, that stubborn, greedy, proud, you have a heavy heart, you are rebellious, you are, you can't submit to authority, no one can tell you what to do, you die, he breaks you, he molds you. It's a Gethsemane experience. Not my will, but your will.

34:44 You die. That's why his his sweat was as thick as blood. Jesus died in Gethsemane. He didn't die on the cross. A man dies when his will dies. What is flesh? A man dies when his will dies. When it is no longer I that liveth but Christ that liveth. When you utter that statement, you have died. Now the Holy Ghost can lead you because you will not debate should die, should I not. Dad, is it my mind or it's God? You haven't yet died. When you die, you will know. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. You have the

35:30 mind of Christ. Because your mind has been transformed by the word. Be it transformed by the renewing of your mind. How is the mind renewed? By the word. So who b Jesus in the womb of Mary? The Holy Ghost. You shall conceive when the Holy Ghost comes upon you. Who resurrected Jesus from the dead? The Holy Ghost. Who received Jesus in the sky? You can't function without the spirit as

36:16 a Christian. You're joking. You're joking. You can't. It's impossible. If the son of God, the only begotten needed the Holy Ghost, [Music] look at how precious his ascension was. The Holy Ghost covered him and took him. And another verse says, "When he's coming back, he shall come back riding on a cloud." So the Holy Ghost is going to bring him back. [Music] The word and the spirit cannot be

37:01 separated. You can't separate them. They were only separated on the cross when Jesus put the sins of the world on himself and he says, "My father, why have you forsaken me?" When you can't sense the presence of the Holy Spirit, check your life. You have lost your inheritance. You are like a political son. You have lost your advantage. You have lost your secret weapon. You lose the spirit. Cry. That's more than losing a physical parent. The Holy Ghost.

37:49 [Music] Do you know that rapture means the Holy Ghost is leaving the ether? Then we have left the dispensation of grace. the the reason why the son of pedition or the antichrist can't manifest. The Holy Ghost is still here. So that spirit is suppressed. The spirit of the antichrist is suppressed. He can't fully manifest. It's not his season. It's not his time. What do we call rapture? Rapture is God taking his church. Who are his church?

38:36 How was the church born? At the day of Pentecost, the spirit came and descended upon the disciples. That's how the church is born. How will the church live when God decides to take his spirit from the world? All those on that day who have the Holy Ghost in them will go. Those who don't have will remain. That will be a change of a dispensation. Now we now be in the dispensation of judgment. I don't want to talk about dispensations. I'll come and teach it on

39:21 a letter D. Okay? That we can give you a road map of where we are in the spirit. Okay? The church started by the spirit. Jesus told the disciples, "Do not bear witness of me without the spirit. Do not depart from Jerusalem." Wait. Now, I don't go ahead of this. It will mess you up. The distance between Mount Olivet and the upper room is 1 kilometer

40:12 from where Jesus ascended to the upper room. It's exactly 1 kilometer. We will get into it as we go forward. Next, next verse. Ah, what's the first word there? I can't read it. There. He took note away. Are you sure it's he? Is it he by faith or it's he? Yes. Sure. Yes. No. Let us let us wait for. Uhhuh. Ah. Okay. Now I know it's here. Okay. He took not away the pillar of cloud

40:57 by day. Oh, let's go back to Acts. No, I'm lost. I'm like, he what is he doing there? Next verse. [Music] And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven, as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel. while they looked steadfastly towards heaven. Now, now I'm going to teach you something. Are you ready? Are your shocks ready? Okay. You need spiritual shocks in this church. If you count this without spiritual, there are too many spiritual bumps. Okay.

41:44 The angelic realm. the angelic realm. How to open this realm? How to access angels? How to access angels? The angelic real. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven, as he went up, behold, to open the angelic realm is about your focus. When you start focusing on things above, the things above began begin to appear.

42:33 Say this slowly. They looked steadfastly. Steadfastly means without distraction. It's a form of consecration or separation where you just want spiritual things. You don't focus on the things of the world. When your gaze is steadfast towards heaven, heaven comes down to you because now you are numbered among them. They gazed steadfastly into heaven. Steadfastly what? Toward heaven. As he went up, behold, their gaze produced

43:21 something in the spirit realm. What you saw you reap, it's the same as the physical real. They didn't know that what they did provoked what happened. [Music] It provoked it. [Music] It's the same thing that happened when Jesus resurrected. They went to the tomb were looking for him. Their gaze was where has he gone? where behold angels also appeared and they began to tell them oh what are you looking for this Jesus who has been didn't he tell you that he will resurrect when your gaze changes

44:08 angels open it's the same thing you can open the demonic real when you focus on things below you open portals. [Music] The spirit behind the action is very dangerous. The spirit behind Jesus's ascension provoked where that spirit comes from. In the same way, when you focus on things like pornography, you don't know what you're doing. You're opening a portal.

44:58 The same way angels appeared is the same way spiritual husbands appear in your room. You call them. I taught you this. Spirits are summoned. They don't just come. You summon spirits. where you channel your attention. You call them. Spirit are called, they invited, they summoned. When you go to a witch doctor, they before you you know baba, this this is what's happening. He'll tell you put something that plate. When you put your sacrifice there, then he will start making noises. He starts hitting something. He's calling something.

45:45 The spirit is not there. Immediately you go to the witch doctor, he summons it. The same way when you come to church, we summon spirits by playing the keyboard worship. We are calling angels. We summon them. [Music] It's not their realm. This not where they operate. That's where we operate. We summon them. We summon them by where we give attention. Whatever you give attention to expands by steadfastly looking towards heaven. Meaning by steadfastly looking towards the things of God or the things of the kingdom, the kingdom of God opens to

46:31 you. Dad, I want to see an angel. It's not by prayer. I can't pray for you to see an angel. That's not how things work. Jesus never prayed for them to see these things. There were over 120 disciples here. I want you to know that it's not just the 12. From here, these guys went to the upper room and the people in the upper room were numbered to be 120. So when we are saying two men stood by them in white apparel, I want you to understand there are 120 people looking at this event. When Jesus is saying do not depart, he's telling 120 people. Some included women. It is in the verses that are coming. How come? Because for the disciples, you

47:17 might say Jesus prayed for them. What of the other people? What of the others? What of the other 108? How did they access the angelic realm? steadfastly looking towards heaven. You steadfastly channel your eyes and your attention towards things of the kingdom. The kingdom manifests. Pay attention to what I'm saying. It can't be. It's not as difficult as that's why I say I I explain spirituality. No one will teach you these things. They focused

48:05 on the kingdom, on the kingdom, on the Lord. They focused on the word because it's Jesus. Remember just is his word. They focused on the word steadfastly. Not today you do it. Tomorrow you don't. Hello. Okay. Spirits are habitual creatures. They like people who have certain habits and patterns. They follow your patterns. So when you see steadfastly, it's consistently without distraction. Turning neither to the left nor to the right. Not today. Today you're sinful to the other day.

48:51 Today you are no like that you'll be your your spiritual life will be up and down. Today you have a bad dream, the other day you have a day you have a nightmare. The other day you have because even you you are your dreams also be and you think it's a demon. You are the demon. They g steadfastly and behold two men. Doesn't say two angels. two men. Remember the same one I taught you at human angels. They what are called human angels. Angels that take the form of human

49:37 beings. It's part of the assignment. They like to do this in disguise. That's why the apostles said um do not neglect doing charity or being hospitable to strangers. Unbeknown to you, some have entertained angels. When did the strangers become angels? This is another class of angels. Human angels. Human angels are angels that don't have wings. They angels that have the face of a man, but they don't marry. They don't. Remember the angels that slept with the women? Those are human angels. That's why they slept with the women.

50:24 They were given a body. The same way you have a body, even them are given a body. And when they slept with the women, they produced giants. So these live under strict rules. They're not allowed to marry. They're not allowed to interact with women. They also love to operate in disguise. Usually they in churches. Yeah, churches and marketplaces where there's so many people, you won't you won't notice why. Especially when they can operate in disguise where there are so many multitude of people in a church and you can't even know who is who. They they will begin to attend. Part of their job is to bring the glory

51:09 of God and the presence of God to a certain degree. And their strengths are different. Some are strong in the prophetic, some are strong in healing, some are strong. So you find you come to the place, it's always saturated. They are there. When the church is small, they avoid such kind of places. It's easy for you to know them because you'll be interested. You Why aren't you getting married? Ah, everyone's getting married apart from you. What's the problem? So they don't like No, they like a bus station. Yes. Sometimes they can appear as a madman at a bus station. They like places like that. You'll be wondering, you have gone to there someone who's just never

51:55 graduating. They're always there. Be careful. They at the university, they the sweeper. They are the a security guard. You just don't know. There's this God who always used to greet you when you at school. Human angels. When you recognize them, they move to a different location. They always supposed to operate in disguise. You should not know their name. You should not know. That's why he just said two men. That's their job. So then people, some of them stand on certain roads so that certain roads cannot have accidents. They're like that. Pay attention to that. It's very

52:41 important. Okay. When they went build, two men stood by them in white apparel. That's what exposed them. Okay. Next verse. Which also said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, not another Jesus." We're not expecting another Jesus to come in these last days. Pay attention to this statement. this same Jesus. So there's a Jesus we're expecting the one that ascended from Mount Olivet, not another Jesus. So if someone comes to you claiming that they are another Jesus from Chipata, no, it's fake.

53:26 Okay. This same Jesus, the Bible is deliberate. Every word is important. This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven. We know where Jesus went, right? Shall so come in like manner. So we know how was he taken up? He went to the cloud. How is he coming down? The cloud. They have already prophesied. Okay. As he have seen him go into heaven. Next verse. Then returned they unto Jerusalem. So their job was to do what? For those who are intelligent, what was the job of the two men?

54:12 Come on now. Let's go back. 13. What was the job of the two men? Go back. Let's see. Uh-huh. Just here. What was the job of the two men? Yes. I think witnessing to witness. To witness. Okay. Witnessing what? The ascension. The ascension. No, they don't need to do it. They came from heaven. Have they come to witness the ascension? No. What have they come to do? Come on now. They knew the assignment. The time God was sending them on earth to be in disguise. They knew Jesus was was going to go and to

54:58 to inform the disciples. Correct. So there's a level of the prophetic that happens by angelic visitation. Okay. I call it angelic prophecy. You shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name. Who brought that message? An angel. Elizabeth, your cousin, is pregnant. Who brought that message? Don't cut your son's hair. Who brought that message? Who brought the message to

55:44 Joshua? Cross the Jordan and he wrestled with him how the whole night, right? And that angel came in what? Human form. I know I'm addressing something here which is very important. Pay attention. There's there's um a movie called Prophet Suddenly where it is believed that certain people prophesy using certain spirits and people who use that are not of God. I need to correct something. It's very dangerous. The movie didn't correct it by saying

56:30 you can also receive a message by an angel. So people remain with that notion to say you can't receive a message by an angel. It must be by the Holy Spirit. No, you have killed the ministry of angels. So when people receive a message by an angel, they'll be skeptical. That's dangerous. In a ministry, I don't know if I should go this far. part of what you call a spiritual mantle. You've heard people say a man of God has a mantle, right? There are certain things which a mantle comes with. A mantle comes with an anointing. One, a mantle is spiritual. It's not

57:15 physical. People say, "No, the man of God gave me his mantle. He gave me his handkerchief." That's not a mantle. Those are just handkerchiefs. the the the scripture says the handkerchiefs were removed from the body of the apostles and they carried the same power of the apostles. So those are just instruments that catch the power. Okay, mantels are spiritual coverings. When God is anointing, when the spirit of God comes upon a person for a work, he comes as a mantle. It's a it's it's a form of a cloth. What Elijah threw to Elisha was not his outer garment. You think it is Elisha? You think it's Elijah's what? Clothes which managed to to split the Jordan.

58:06 Okay. So, a mant comes with the anointing. Two, a mant comes with a class of angels which move with the man of God all the time. There's a class of angels. Some of if you find that it's a church where there's healing, there must be a healing angel attached to that mand. There must be a prophetic angel. If the church is prophetic, there'll be a prophetic angel. There also must be if the church does deliverance, there'll be a deliverance angel. If the church does teaching, there's a teaching angel. This is very important.

58:54 It's very important. This this I'm teaching you I know by experience. You you won't find this in your Bible. So this is not doctrine. This is revelation. Okay. Another thing a mantle comes with is a certain level of protection. Okay. There's a uniqueness also. It comes with the same level of uniqueness. Have you ever entered a church and all of them speak similar tongues? That's why that's how God functions in that ministry. You go to a church, everyone prays. [Music] You go to another church.

59:40 Okay, this is why they are called angelic tongues, not holy spirit tongues. Ah, they're not called tongues of the spirit. They're called tongues of angels. Okay. There are certain angels in that ministry that have given over their language. So that the people in that ministry are just speaking that language. They are sending those angels to work. So you must know how your ministry functions. [Music] It's very important. You enter a church and say kill that person. Holy Ghost kill that person. Yet

1:00:27 in that church there are no angels of judgment. and you wondering that church is not anointed, kill that, kill that. That's not how the the the the mantle works in that ministry. No. But in other ministries, for example, Omega Ministries, Apostle John Solomon, he has judgmental angels. Don't employ that man. He can kill you. Yes. And God will stamp it. Yes. Why? Part of the job of a prophet is to prophesy of what's coming. And part of what's coming is the judgment. So don't criticize such kind of people. You die thinking no but God is a God of love.

1:01:14 Doesn't look like that. So pay attention. Right? So these are there are certain things that a mantle comes with. So I have to correct that. It's very dangerous. You watch something, then you begin to the people that should criticize the prophetic ministry should be prophets because they know how things work. If you're watching from the terraces, you don't know how things work. It's very dangerous. Okay? You you you will criticize what God is doing in the name of looking at a weak prophet. Remember I told you that there are four kinds of prophets. You look at a weak prophet, a prophet that they are still struggling with certain weakness and you judge them as a false

1:02:00 prophet. No. Did God tell you that that the person is forced? Relax. There prophets that people criticize in the world. For me, I know they are true prophets. They are just weak. They have a weakness. That's why Paul says, "Pray for me even though I've won many that I might not be lost." Paul asked the church to pray for him because again he says I have a thorn in my flesh. How can a great man like that have a thorn in his flesh and yet the scripture says what all the works of unrighteousness are of the flesh and then he's telling you I have a thorn in my flesh then he says the thing I want to do I don't do what I don't want to do I find myself doing the guy who used to struggle with something

1:02:48 was he weak. The same thing I gave an example. If you find David today, the church of today will call David false force because he slept with the wife of a married person. But she today the church will call him force. We accept him because it is in the Bible. If you are living in his days, you' call him force. Why? David did two things. He murdered the husband and he slept with the wife. Would you attend the church of a man of God like that? If I got a married woman, slept with her and killed the husband, you leave this church and you will go on CNN and say

1:03:39 what? No, that man is force. you are bozo h but David did that is is that David is forced he's weak he had a weakness where did David's weakness come from let me explain remember that part of the conditions of killing golth what were the part of the conditions I'll give you my daughter your family will be exempt from tax uh-huh what else I will give you King Saul gave him three conditions after he killed Goliath. Saul never gave him his daughter. So David becomes upset now and says, "So if you have power, you can take advantage of people." He remained with

1:04:27 the wound. So when he then got into power, that's why it's dangerous to have power. Yet when you're wounded, you abuse it. So because someone took away his wife, he took away someone's wife. [Music] That's where his weakness came from. He knew he wanted now to practice what soul did to him. He remained with it. He didn't heal. That's why before you get into a new relationship, you need to heal from your ex. Hello. If you if you want to get into a new relationship, you must heal from your ex.

1:05:12 Before you marry, you must heal from your ex. It is very important. Hello. Okay. We don't do rebounds. Someone dumped to you, go and get their best friend. You haven't healed. You're trying to get back to that at that person. It will not work. You are a wounded buffer. It's just a matter of time. It's just a matter of time. You must heal completely. What I'm saying is very important. A person who has not healed and is trusted with power is dangerous. When you wound a buffalo, it's the it's very dangerous. It can kill a lion.

1:05:59 It it doesn't care whether you're a lion or if it has your wound. All it's feeling is the pain. It will use its horns to do anything to you. That's where the statement comes from. A wounded buffer. It's very dangerous. So a a Christian that is wounded is very danger. That's why God says forgive because everything it's wrath. It's violence. You come to a church, the man of God is always upset. Ah wondering what's the problem? Someone dumped him. He hasn't yet healed. He hasn't yet healed. If you leave this church, I'll kiss you. [Music] He's suffering from the spirit of rejection.

1:06:45 That's dangerous. That's very dangerous. Okay. Before they came to your church, didn't they leave another church? Why didn't you catch them when coming when they came? You have left the church. Why is it that you're cursing them when they're leaving? They they left somewhere else. When they did it to another man of God, you were okay with it. When it's being done to you, that's why Jesus says, first remove the beam that's in your eye before you start going to remove the log in your pattern. Even you as a man of God, you didn't become a man of God until you left someone's church. [Laughter]

1:07:32 You would not have been a man of God if you didn't leave. Okay. Okay. Let's be fair to one another, right? Let's be fair to one another. [Music] Verse 12. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet. It's still the the Mount of Olives, right? Which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath day journey. I need to correct this. This is why I told you from Jerusalem um from the Mount Olivet to Jerusalem is 1 kilometer. When people read the Sabbath day journey, it's it's possible

1:08:17 for you to think that it's seven days because of the day Sabbath. No, no. Sabbath day's journey is a statement is a Jewish statement which means the distance is so short that it will not feel like work. Because if you did work on the Sabbath, it was illegal. Okay. So a Sabbath day journey is any journey which is less than 1 kilometer. It's so easy for you to do it not be considered as work. This is a very important statement because when you read this it's very you think that it's

1:09:03 it's not 7 days. No, it was just a distance of one one kilometer. It's actually 0.99 something, but it's rounded off to 1 kilometer. Okay, I'm hoping you with your Bible study, right? Next verse. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room. Now, why are we dealing with this? You man of God, why are we handling this? It's because this is the birth of the church. You must understand where we're coming from. Okay? They went up into the upper room where aboard both Peter. Now for those who go to school when they say both it is two things right? The Bible is written in King James English. They will say both

1:09:50 and they will list more than four things. Okay. Where about both Peter and James and John and Andrew and Thomas and Barthome and Matthew? How is this both? Okay. So if you go to school, please separate. This is not proper English. Don't go and say this. There are three answers and it's both. No. Okay. Now this becomes very important. Go back to verse 12.

1:10:40 Stand up in the corner there. Stand up there. Stand up there. Do not worry. I'm the one who is preaching. I'm in charge. I want to do something. List for me how many disciples you know. John. Uh-huh. Peter. Uh-huh. Okay. She said Uhhuh. So, one of the disciples is Okay.

1:11:26 Any bath lome? Uh-huh. James. Uh-huh. Look. Uh-huh. Simon. Uh-huh. James is here. Andrew, the one that I pointed at in the corner is saying no, but she has listed all of them. What am I going to list? List the rest. Yes, you. No, there is no one behind

1:12:12 you. Huh? Phillip. Phillip. Uh-huh. Judas. Uh-huh. 10. Anyone to help from the three? Only these three people who are standing. Thomas. Uh-huh. Two more. Matthew. Uh-huh. One more.

1:13:00 Huh? Philip is already here. Huh? Mark. Okay. Now, this some of them are correct, some of them are wrong. Now I want to show you where many people make a mistake. That's why I've done this. Go back to the vers. Who? Who's the first one on the list? Okay. So we can mark this one. Right. Next. James. Uhhuh. John. Where is John? There. Andrew. Yes. Phillip. Yes. Thomas. Thomas. Yes.

1:13:48 Broo. Yes. Matthew. Yes. Okay. So, now there's another James. Okay. I know. There's no church where I've gone to where they they they teach you the name of the names of the disciples. This is dangerous. Imagine you don't know the people who brought you the message and you call yourself a Christian, but you know the age of Ronaldo, how many trophies Messi has and you're arguing on Facebook. Ronaldo is the goat. No, no, no, no. Messi. No, no, no. In 2002, Ronaldo won the shan when he played and he scored in the 7.

1:14:33 But you don't know one. There's another James. Next. Then Simon. Okay. Next. Judas. Next. Notice that there is another Judas. This is not the Judas that betrayed Jesus. Hello. So there were two Judases. Okay, very important. Okay, there's a Judas that is this guy. This is a different kind of Judas. Next

1:15:19 on the list there just the brother of James. Next go to the next verse. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women. And to ask you a question, where is Luke and where's Marhu? [Laughter] Where's Luke and where's Mark? Okay, I I know it's not only the people who are standing who mentioned them. All of you think Luke and Mark were part of the

1:16:04 disciples. They were not. Uhhuh. Okay. Okay. Luke was a physician. He was never a disciple. Luke's job was just to accompany Paul when he was preaching. He had two missions. He was a physician. One when they were sick, he used to deal with them. Okay. Secondly, he wrote the book of Luke and the book of Acts. He was educated to write. The rest were not educated. They were fishermen. So, there was one who needed to be writing the miracles that were

1:16:50 happening. this guy. That's why if you read the book of Luke, it's the most detailed. It starts from Elizabeth, then uh then Zachariah, then the angel of the Lord made him dumb and deaf. That that was Luke's job. She was not part of the apostles. No, Mark, the same thing, was not part of the apostles. At one point he was moving with Paul, then he moved and went with Peter. He his job was just to help them. They would move with Jesus. They were not part of the apostles. So when you see the book of Luke or the

1:17:36 Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Mark, it's not because they were apostles. No. This is why I had to write this because I needed to correct something. So you can go and test your brother and your father at home to say list the disciples. [Laughter] He mentions Luke come like daddy to read the Bible. No, but Luke was no. I even wrote really so let's handle to there are certain people who have similar names that you must master get your book

1:18:23 there are two Simons there are two okay there's one who is called Simon the Zeilot. Then there's one who is called Simon sometimes called Keas or Peter. There were two Simons. You must start knowing which ones are two. There are two Simons. Have you ever gone to a church that they teach you the disciples? Then start think about this. What have

1:19:09 they been teaching? You get married, you get a job, and you're still not married without a job. [Music] Two gems. There's one gems, the son of Alfas. Alfas, A L P H A E U S. There's one James the son of Alfairas.

1:19:56 Then there's also James the son of Zebedee. Now I need to explain something. The people in the the Jews, Jews didn't have surnames. So how they used to recognize each other, they will say James the son of yet they're not saying your father's surname. You're saying they're saying your father's first name. James the son of affairs. Jesus the carpenter's son. Christ is not the son name. James was

1:20:42 Joseph was not Joseph Christ. [Laughter] Don't worry we we we are about to be done. This is the last thing that I'm handling because of time. Right. They used to call so when you see terms like James the son of Alfas they're trying to separate him from the other gent okay Simon the zeot okay they're trying to separate him from the other Simon they never used to have surnames it's very important Simon every time the the the scripture would mention Simon it knows there are to Simon. So they would

1:21:28 actually say Simon who is also called Keas or Simon whose name was also changed to Peter. When you see Jesus changing names it was part of the reason he didn't want confusion. He says Simon to come like not way calling this one again. He says Simon they to come. He's like ah okay from from today you first this guy know remain as Simon. So it it also helped in handling confusion. Okay. Judas, there are how many? One was the famous one that you like, right? The betrayer.

1:22:14 Okay. One was the betrayer. This other Judas who is um maybe some of you have seen the name. The other one is go Christ called him Tadas T H A D E U S T H H A D U S. He is also sometimes called the son of James. His father was called James. So there is a good Judas. So you can you can go and confuse people

1:22:59 on Facebook by saying Judas was very spiritual. He is my role model. [Laughter] He's my role model and wondering you want you want to betray the Lord. No, you know that there are two. Okay. So these are just the guys to uh to to to know not. So this is just for your notes concerning Mark. Mark was sometimes called John Mark. Okay. He was not one of the 12 um apostles. He was a companion of Paul and Barnabas. Acts 12:2.

1:23:51 This is very important for your faith. Very important. Acts 12:2. I am teaching you this so that the enemy doesn't come and deceive you. He is called the deceive of the brethren. If you don't know, you're going to be deceived. Okay. Acts 12 25. And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their ministry and took with them John whose surname was Mark. This is the Mark that wrote the book of Mark, the Gospel of Mark. It's this guy. So, he was just a companion of Paul and Barnabas. After this they had a

1:24:38 difference and he went to begin to accompany Peter. He differed with Paul. Paul was very complicated. Okay. Then concerning Luke, Luke, the author of Acts of the Apostles and the Gospel of Luke, he was also not one of the 12. He was a physician and a close companion of Paul also. Colossians 4:14. I want to show you where these things are found so that you don't say, "But daddy, where did you get those things from?" Colossians 4:14. I wish we would have reached somewhere but because of time I'm just scratching the surface. Luke the beloved physician and Deus

1:25:23 greet you. So at the time Paul is writing to the church of um Colossia. What then happened? the time he's writing this he was with Luke as I saying Luke and Deus greet you they would pass their greetings it's like you call your dad or your brother or your sister and you're with someone you're like oh this one is also greeting you that's what Paul was doing there okay 2 Timothy 4:11 Timothy 4:1 11 2 Timothy 4

1:26:10 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee for he is profitable to me for the ministry. A god. You wonder why the only thing they did was copy and paste of what Jesus did. They didn't write any extra. Even the book of Acts, it is not something extra. It's just telling you what was happening. Peter healed someone at the gates called beautiful. This this this job was to follow Paul and to make his ministry easy.

1:26:55 It's not everyone who is called to lead a church. This teaches you that there are people whom God calls to walk with someone. At this time when he's writing to Timothy, he was only with Luke. Barnabas had left. Only Luke is with me. So Luke was then helping Paul where can I carry that thing? Yes. Can I? It's also ministry. He knew his role and documenting Paul did this. Paul then Paul did. He's a very good writer. This guy,

1:27:42 very good writer. Take Mark. Remember the Mark? Yes. The same Mark also. And bring him with thee, for he is profitable to me for the ministry. Kai, imagine this kind of a description. I'm with Luke. Yes, he's doing other things, but come with M. He's profitable. Can your man of God say say that about you? [Laughter] Take Mark and bring him with thee for he

1:28:28 is profitable to me for what? Ministry. When we start going to other countries to to spread the gospel, you will know those who are profitable. We'll be carrying them. [Laughter] There are certain people like Luke and Mark. There's a pattern God gives a ministry and that pattern doesn't change. That's why you see when a man of God goes to another country, he's going with the keyboard player. He's going with the and you're wondering why why not just find any random. There's a pattern there for that that person has picked the way the grace of the ministry works. He knows the songs that make the atmosphere

1:29:14 ascend that there people that are just good organizers. Wherever the man of God goes, whether it's to Cuba, they're going with him. Why organization, they know this one knows how to arrange that that that the man of God doesn't need to start thinking is the is there a puppet? Maybe not find a puppet. Are the chairs arranged? Why is there so much order? Ministry is not a one-man show. Hello. It's not a oneman show. The effectiveness of Aposto's ministry is because of Luke and Mark. God recognizes this. For you to receive

1:30:02 the way those letters of Paul were well written and everything, someone was doing other things that Paul was supposed to be doing while Paul focuses on ministry is not a one-man show. It's very important. So when you stay at home and thinking I'm not relevant at church who told you unless you don't save in a department unless you don't do that like that it's easy to backslide because there's nothing you're doing you don't feel relevant but if you give yourself an assignment to do what will be bringing you into church is if I don't go no one is going to do that same thing that same thing will keep bringing you to church and you not realize that you are growing

1:30:47 And they're changing. Make sense? You can be upstanding. [Music]