HOW TO GAIN MASTERY OVER THE FLESH - DR. AROME OSAYI

0:00 Lord, in the name of Jesus, we ask that you navigate us through that path that you have ordained for us to walk. Let no one miss their way in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Please, you may be seated. God bless you. Turn your Bible to the book of Galatians chapter 2. Galatians chapter 2.

0:47 If there is a verse of scripture that is a summary of the entire New Testament concept, it should be Galatians chapter 2 verse 20. Now, so we're going to zero in on that verse of scripture. Galatians 2 verse 20 is an executive summary of the entire idea that is established in the New Testament. So, we'll take it one after the other. And uh we'll see

1:33 where it leads us. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Hallelujah.

2:20 Now, in order for us to do justice to this scripture, I will need to take us to the book of Genesis to show us project man. Project man was a conception that God had in the council of the Godhead when he said, "Let us make man." Not create man, but make man. And there were supposed to be three aspects in the making of man because there were three members of the Godhead that constituted the us in that scripture.

3:08 Now, before we go into Genesis, I would like to show us from Galatians chapter 2 verse 20 how that the testimony of the Christian life is not a changed life. You know, those days in Nigeria, there's a song we used to sing, "The things I used to do, I do them no more. There is a great change since I'm born again." The concept here is not change, the concept here is exchange. And that's why it's called transformation.

3:54 It's not change, it's exchange. It's no longer I am crucified with Christ. And I'm going to show us what the I am in that scripture means, what exactly was crucified, and then the result of that reaction is that it is no longer I. Are you there? Now, because I'm talking to teenagers, I'm going to try to be as simple as possible. Are you with me? Like Okay, so let's do some definition of terminologies.

4:40 The first concept we'll need to define is the old man. Okay? The old man. What exactly is the old man? And the scripture that makes reference to the old man is Romans chapter 6. And I told you that Romans chapter 6 reveals now that we are born again. So, there are few things that come into focus the moment we get born again. And one of those things that we need to understand uh is the old man. In Romans chapter 6 verse

5:28 6, the Bible says, "Knowing this, are you there? You know, yesterday we said that in the literary style of Apostle Paul, if he wants to strike at uh your mind. He He makes statements like, "Are you not aware of this?" He makes statements like, "Knowing this." He's trying to take you on a ride from the place of ignorance into the place of spiritual knowledge. So, he's also making that attempt in the book of Romans chapter 6 verse 6, where he says, "Knowing this,

6:14 that our old man is crucified with him." So, they I am crucified with Christ in Galatians chapter 2 verse 20 is pointing to our old man. It was our old man that was quoted crucified with him. Why? That the body of sin might be destroyed, and that henceforth we should not serve sin. Please stay with me. Stay with me. So, what exactly is the old man? You are not likely to understand the reason why pastor will want you to be in the place of prayer

6:59 for 2 hours, 3 hours every day of your life. You will not understand the reason why he's given you that recommendation if you don't understand the import of the old man. Are you there? All right. So, the old man is contains two things. There are two components that make up the old man. And the the first component is what we call the flesh. And we are going to look at what the flesh is. What exactly is the flesh? Because you will find out very soon as we define these terminologies. So, the first component of the old man is the

7:46 flesh. And we're going to go to the book of Galatians chapter 5 to understand what the flesh is. Before we do the second component, which is the falling self. The falling self is the second component. So, it means that the flesh plus the falling self equals the old man. So, in the book of Galatians chapter 5, if you are there with me, I would like for us to find out what the flesh is. In Galatians chapter 5,

8:32 um let's begin from 16. Galatians chapter 5, verse 16. The reality of the crucifixion of the old man is that we now receive empowerment no longer to serve sin. It means sin is a taskmaster. Sin wants to uh bring you into servitude. Wants to make you a slave. Sin wants to be the operating system that controls your life, controls your existence. Uh so, sin is a bad

9:19 taskmaster. And and it's trying to ensure that you stay in his service all the days of your life. But, God struck a hard blow against the old man. And the defeat of the old man was captured in the crucifixion of Jesus. And there is a way that applies to you. And if you come into full understanding of the implication of what happened on the cross, you will see that the old man has been paralyzed. But I want to take you through the steps one after the other. The paralysis of the old man is what gives you consistent victory over

10:05 our sins such that you are no longer a slave to that taskmaster. He said He said "This I say." I'm in Galatians chapter 5 verse 16 right now. He said "This I say then, walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." So, we need to underline lust. Lust of the flesh. The power of the flesh is in the lust that it sustains. And it happens to be that the objective of the flesh is to ensure that you are not under the authority of

10:51 the Holy Spirit. The The activity of the flesh is designed to ensure that you never yield to the authority of the Holy Spirit. Are you still with me? Are you with me? All right. So, the the bait that the flesh uses to bring you into captivity is called lust. And I need to explain that. Are you there? Now, you see the problem with the fallen man is that uh the nature of sin takes advantage of all his appetites.

11:37 And when I say appetites, appetites like sleep, sleep is an appetite. After working for so many hours, you come to a point where you know that you need to sleep. And your body uses biological language to suggest to you that it is time to sleep. Are you there? Hunger is an appetite. And the sense of tiredness, which justifies a moment of sleep, that sense of tiredness is communication, but is different from the sense of hunger. That's another communication. Are you there? You're not there. You're not following. Uh it's also different from other senses.

12:24 Other senses that are powered by various appetites that the body holds. Now, so what happened to us in the fall is that that nature of sin is what regulates those appetites. For instance, if the Holy Ghost is asking you to come for the time of prayer, you just got back from work, you are so tired, and most of the time at work you were on your feet because you are a medical personnel, you are a nurse, and so you were almost always on your feet for the time of your duty at work, and it happened to be that that day in the hospital was a very chaotic day, and so you could not even find a moment to rest yourself on your seat. You did all of that, and when you got back home, the

13:09 Holy Spirit began to request that you stand before him. And and it is the same way that you have tiredness, and the the language of tiredness is communicated to you through a feeling. That's the same way that the Holy Ghost will register his intention to have a moment with you in the place of prayer. That That's how it is. It's a language. It's a communication. So, see, when you now got home, uh the tiredness began to speak. And then in the midst of that tiredness, the Holy Spirit also registered his own impression. How that he wants you to stand before him. So, you have you have

13:55 two signals. Are you with me? Please stay with me. Trying to be as practical as I can. You have two signals. If you decide to yield Are you there? >> Yes, sir. >> If you decide to yield to the tiredness and you despise the Holy Ghost that day not every day, but that particular day, that tiredness that you yielded to was a sin. Even though tiredness is is neutral. But yielding to it when the Holy Spirit is making a request for you to stand before him that act of tiredness that you yielded to, that day's sleep, that

14:42 sleep was sin that day. So, the idea of the flesh is that it is designed to ensure that you do not acknowledge the authority of the Holy Ghost. Because he has the capacity through the appetites to send a signal of request demanding that you act in a certain way. Are you there? >> Yes, sir. >> As you come to discover, sex is also an appetite. And the the the nature of sin is going to throw out the desire for you to have sex. It's also a signal, just like hunger, just like

15:29 But, if you exercise the need for sex outside of what is consistent with the word of God, it means that that day for that day, sex that sex was sin. You're not following. Are you there? So, this is the actual argument here is an intention, what will exercise mastery over you, because the flesh is attempting to make you a slave of those appetites, so that he exercises mastery

16:18 over your life. Meanwhile, the spirit of God is also sending his own signals, and the intention is that the spirit of God is seeking to exercise mastery over your life. And this battle between of supremacy between the spirit and the flesh will be a consistent battle that you are going to experience all the days of your life. And if in this battle of supremacy, uh uh uh uh the flesh masters you, your life is going to reveal that you are a carnal Christian. It means that you were not able to take

17:05 advantage of the potential that was in the grace of God for you to overcome the intention of mastery that was launched from the platform of the flesh. Remember, sin is a nature. And this nature called sin takes advantage of the appetites that is in your human body. This appetites. So, if the devil is going to put you in captivity, he will do so through appetites. So, the first line of mastery that a young adult must have is mastery over appetites. Now, if I ask you Meanwhile, they they desire to see is also an appetite. It is on the strength of that that

17:51 people become victims of pornography. You are not following me. Now, now, let me let me give you some practical things that you need to do to test how yielded how disconnected The The word is is detachment. That is the biblical word. It's detachment. Detachment from the control of appetites. If I ask you now to switch off your phone and don't switch it on for 3 days, most of you cannot do that. Because unconsciously, Satan has seen that appetite and he has built transmissions along that appetite, and

18:37 you can no longer see yourself existing without the use of that appliance. Think about it. So, even if someone is a victim of pornography online, and the person knows that the window through which this thing comes is a window of the cell phone. And there is a recommendation that if you can keep the cell phone away for 3 days, that's 72 hours, you'll be able to that appetite will no longer be as powerful as it is to regulate and to control you. What we are talking about here is mastery. Most of you don't have the courage to

19:22 set your phone aside. That's how That's how controlled you are from the layer of the flesh. And the thing is this, if you are a victim of flesh control, something is wrong. Something is wrong. But I don't want to tell you now. They I want to tell you when it is majestic. When your eyes will be open to see what I'm talking about. So, the first thing that the young adult must be exposed to is mastery over appetite. You must learn how to swim against the

20:09 tide by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is not something you can do unconsciously. It is a determination. It is It is deliberate. The first appetite that you will need to conquer is that is sleep. You should be able to On Friday, when you are less busy, maybe you finish your school work, you finish everything, and you have some time on Friday. Try yourself out that I'm going to stay all night until 4:00 a.m. I want to pray in tongues. Keep Keep struggling until you achieve that. Because if you are not at If you are not swimming against the tide, it means you are not making any progress in

20:54 the area of transformation. You know why? Okay. You You We have not reached to where you'll be able to pick what I'm saying with respect to this the scripture that I raised yet. Are you there? So, you must have a routine that I want to gain mastery to be able to stay awake for 3 hours in the night when it Are you there? On Friday. I want to swim against that tight. Everything will be saying it's time to sleep. You don't have homework, you don't have school the next day. So, stretch yourself, especially when there's snow. And then you hide under the duvet. And you say, "Let me sleep." No, no. Swim against the tide. Oh my. The Bible says There's a

21:40 scripture I don't I'm It's tempting me. The scripture is calling me, but I don't want to follow it for now. You need to learn how to swim against the tide. That's the first appetite you are going to conquer. It's called sleep. The second appetite If you can conquer the appetite of sleep, if you can conquer sleep, sleep is the most fundamental appetite. Everything revolves around it. If you can conquer sleep, then you can conquer hunger. So, and according to hunger, you will need to set at least 2 days in a week where you fast. You fast with your school. You break the fast by 4:00. You are attending class. In fact, you are going to be very mentally sharp

22:26 when you are when you are fast. All the energy that your body uses for digestion is focused on articulation and comprehension. It will make you very sharp. And I'm telling you from experience. If you cannot keep If you cannot master hunger, you're already a victim. There was a lady those days that could not but eat beans. May God give you understanding. She must eat beans. And we were working in the office the other day and and it was 6:00 p.m. And then she shouted from the back that she has not had beans. That the time passed for 2 hours.

23:15 It was a commotion that day in the office because there was someone that did not master the appetite of hunger. It means that all the temptations that Satan will bring your way are going to be hunger dictated. Hunger. You're not ready for real life if you don't master the appetites. So, when you conquer the appetite of sleep, the next appetite that you need because sin takes advantage of your appetites. Anytime the Holy Spirit wants you to do something, then that nature of sin will crawl into an an appetite that will counteract the requirement, the instruction that the Holy Ghost is giving you, and you will

24:00 find yourself always not fit to go on the Holy Ghost's errand. It's a It's a It's a game of mastery. It's a game of mastery. When you conquer sleep, then you conquer hunger. If you have conquered hunger, you can conquer sex. If you have not conquered hunger, go and sit down. If you have conquered hunger, you can stay hungry. Then you will now discover when hunger begins to bite you and you refuse to feed it, the hunger will let you go. After 2 hours, 10 minutes, to let you go.

24:46 So, you will now discover that you Yeah, yeah. You will now discover that you can live beyond the touch of hunger. Are you there? >> Yes, sir. >> Cuz when you conquer hunger, you conquer sex. When you conquer sex, you can conquer your eyes. You can decide that I will not feed my eyes with this. You Your eyes will have more power over you until you conquer sex. Then your eyes you can say no, I will not look in that direction. And any man that cannot say no to himself cannot say no to others. Are you there?

25:33 Satan will use everything and anything. You see the temptation of Jesus, it was a spirit that came to test him. When that spirit came, the spirit checked and scanned him and saw that there was an opening in the area of hunger and all the temptations are going to come along that line. If you are someone that is has an appetite for money and gain, Satan will tempt you along those lines. If you are someone that has any kind of appetite that you have made available becomes the entry point of the spirit being that is seeking occasion to make an attempt at your downfall. So all the nine gates of appetites must be Are you following me? You are not following. You are not following. Now

26:19 listen, listen. The reason why I'm saying this is this. The power of the flesh is in the lust. And the reason why you have authority to conquer all those appetites is because you were crucified with Christ. The life of those appetite those appetites have been cut off, but you are not aware. THE POWER that is resident in those appetites have been cut off, but you are not aware. You can see a be a slave to what has died. That's why I took you to the book of Romans chapter 6 verse 6 to show you how that your old man, which is inclusive of

27:04 the flesh and the fallen self, they were crucified. They were cut off. So, they don't have any foundation. They only have expressions. If you wait them out, if you wait them out, they will diminish. So, many of us have become captives of shadows, things that do not really exist spiritually. If you are still with me, say amen. Okay, so we got that that's number one. Master appetites. So, I've been in the US for almost 2 years now, if I'm not

27:51 Yeah, 2 years, if I'm not mistaken. And I've had the privilege of counseling with so many people in different places. And I just discovered that most of the issues for which these counselings are based are basic issues of flesh. Still that battle of supremacy that people did nothing intentionally about to master. Because if you are going to be a spiritual man, are you with me? These these appetites I mentioned are the basic appetites for Christians, but if you want to be a warrior, there are others that you need to master. You want to be a warrior? So, you stay somewhere and you say some

28:37 things and it changes the atmosphere. Now, if you are going to do that, then in addition to all these ones I've mentioned, and I I prescriptions for you. If you want to conquer sex, there's a prescription I have for you, but I will not say it in this class. Not in this class. There are chains of fasting that you can do. You can blot out that power. And you will do that chain of fasting. You do it annually. So that there'll be no mishap around your your life in that area. I have I have a a clean a prescription clinic for every kind of May the Lord help us in the name of Jesus. But if you want to be a warrior, you will do more than what I've just said. In being a warrior, it means that you

29:23 must be able to observe what we call the oath of silence. Now, the oath of silence was the technology that God gave Joshua to combat Jericho. Is it possible for you to stay without talking for 3 days? You you tell your wife that I will not be talking for 3 days. So she understands. You will use 3 days to to tell her. 3 days. You use 3 days to tell her that in the next 3 days I will not be talking for 3 days. Then she will forget. You will tell her again in the afternoon. You use 3 days, morning, afternoon, and night. So that she will be sure that there's no problem. Try it. You will see that your uncle

30:08 from Nigeria will visit your house the next day. After you have done 24 hours, your uncle will bring yam from Nigeria and say, "I've come to you." Everything will make you break it. But you want to test whether you are strong enough. Try it. In this in this regime, you are only talking to God, but you are not talking to any mortal. Try it for 3 days. That's when you will know how weak you are. That you are still a slave of the flesh. You will Let me stop there. Let me stop.

30:56 I I forgot that we WERE YOUNGER ADULTS. TRY IT. If If there are places from places in Chicago where where where people go I mean sense a sensitive place is a place where people that worship Satan. That's where they take sacrifices to give him. That's a sensitive place. Are you with me? >> Yes, sir. >> If you want to cancel out that sensitive place, I'm telling you how to do it. Don't talk for 3 days. Don't talk to any human being for 3 days. Just be talking to God. Talking to God from morning, afternoon, night. You sleep, you wake up, you greet him, talk to him, you salute him. He

31:44 might speak to you and say, "You do this." Do it. That's all you are doing for 3 days. If after the 3 days, go to that place that is sensitive and close it. And see See what will happen. Go It's flesh that has made us like this. And the purpose of flesh is to transmit lust, to trigger appetites that will make it impossible for you to obey the authority, respond to the authority of the Holy Spirit. It means that the war, the battle of the flesh is that the Holy Ghost will never gain the supremacy. Because whereas the Holy Spirit trans

32:30 Are you there? The Holy Spirit transmits through spiritual language. I You know, like hunger is a language. It's the same way. The Holy Ghost may want you to fast, but you will not speak. You will just There's a feeling he will transmit from inside. And those that have their receptacles exercised will know that the meaning of this feeling is that I should stay without food for now. So, you will need to do the intentional discipline to shut down the authority of those appetites. That's number one. Then, you will ensure that when you receive transmissions from the Holy Ghost, whether you are tired,

33:16 you will yield to it. Then, you will discover that there's power in the Holy Spirit to swallow up human tiredness. The Bible says that he will strengthen us with might. Might is is is capacity. The The might can swallow up the tiredness you accumulated for 16 hours of work on your feet. When might is transmitted, so the Holy Ghost is trying to make you migrate from being a victim of those appetites to being a victim of his own transmissions. So, if you begin to migrate and those appetites can no longer hold you captive, you have becoming a different entity, a different man.

34:08 Try it. Try 24 hours. Tell your parents, tell your father that I learned something somewhere. I want to practice. I don't want to speak for 20 You will not succeed. The day you succeed, you will know that you have changed level. It means that you have gone so many miles away from the reach and the control of the flesh. Because the ultimate sign of a spiritual man is that he has the ability to bridle his tongue. Let's do number two. The second component of the old man is a fallen self. I think we'll use Lucifer

34:55 as an example to understand that. Come with me to the book of Isaiah chapter 14. Isaiah 14. Are you there in Isaiah chapter 14 verse 12 to 14. This is a prophetic story that Isaiah told about the fall of a mighty cherub called Lucifer. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning?

35:42 So, the prophet begins with a question, how are you fallen? You were not designed to fall. You were not meant to fall. It was not God's intention for you to fall. So, how how are you fallen? How are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations? For thou hast said in thy heart. So, this is how he fell. Thou hast said in thy heart, I will Are you there? I will ascend into heaven. You will see what was going on in his heart. You could not detect the reason for why Lucifer fell from what he said, from the

36:30 things he speak. The only way to detect why he fell was what was going on in his heart. And this was what was going on in his heart. I will ascend into heaven. I don't have time to work that these scriptures. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also in the mount of the congregation of the sides of the north. Yes. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be what? Like the most high. So, can you see everything was self. I will. I And I don't have time. There are many critical matters captured in this prophetic story that we cannot look into

37:15 right now. But ultimately you will see that the goal of self is to be like God. So, it means that self is an alternative God. Whereas, are you there? Whereas, the flesh is designed to ensure that you never come under the authority of the Holy Spirit, the self is designed to ensure that Jesus is never Lord. It's an alternative God. And that was It was in keeping with the the psychology of self, the exaltation of the psychology of self, that Satan visited Adam. He says that in the day that you eat you

38:00 shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the day that you eat of this fruit, you shall become wise like God. So, there'll be no need for you to be looking for a God out there because you will just discover that you are God all by yourself. So, it is this flesh plus self. and I don't want to go deep into this matter because I have something to take we are we are going somewhere. It is this flesh and self that must be defeated in order for the Holy Spirit to have authority and in order for Jesus to be Lord. Now, so the Bible says, are you there? Stay with me. I am crucified with Christ. Romans chapter 6 verse 6 now says the I

38:47 am that is in that scripture is referring to your old man was crucified. It means that the self and the flesh do not have true foundations. They are shadows. If you decide to disobey them, nothing will happen to you. I'm crucified with Christ. It means that are you there? I you know I wanted to take you to the book of Genesis to show you the sequence of things. There were three members in the Godhead that conceived the idea of man and they said, let us make man in our own image and after our own likeness. So there were two things in the blueprint for

39:33 man, image and and likeness. Image is what qualifies you to be able to operate in the authority of God, delegated authority. Likeness is what qualifies you to be able to operate in representative capacity. God you are representing God. Okay. So the creature man is the only creature in the entire creative enterprise of God that was not created in his own image. Every other creature was created in his own image. It means that the example the best example of a goat is a goat. But for you, you were created in God's image and in God's likeness and the implication of that is that you were not created as man in the image

40:20 of man. You were created as man in the image of God. So, it is It means that you were going to operate the way God operates. And that means that it's only God that can tell your level of compliance. I think that's a big word for you. Keep that word. There's no better word than that word. You were created to operate like God. It's only God that can tell whether you're operating like him or not. People might say you are successful person, but when God looks at you, you What does he say about you? People might be hailing you and say, "Okay, yeah, yeah, a strong guy. You You

41:06 But, you see, from the perspective of God, don't allow a man to give you an estimation because it's wrong. That's what I'm saying. So, you were created in the image of God. So, you That's That's the blueprint, image and likeness. And then the first member of the Godhead now set out to begin because the three members of the Godhead had a part to play in the in project man. You get that? They conceived it together. They have Each member has a part to play. The Father played his own part. His own part is bara, to create, to bring into existence out of nothing. You will know that the aspect that the Father created is the aspect that is immaterial, which is your spirit. Your spirit came from him. And your spirit will go back to him.

41:51 I know you know that enough. Huh? Then the second person of the Godhead, Jehovah Elohim, as it is written. Because You will You will see it from the book of Genesis chapter 2 verse 5 to 7. And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb before it had grown, for the Lord God, Jehovah Elohim, had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. You see? So, there was vacancy. All right? The man that was created was a spirit entity. He had no license to operate in the three-dimensional world. So, it was Jehovah Elohim that came to do an act of modeling to create a container that that spirit

42:36 entity will operate in. And I don't know how he was able to trap the spirit entity in. It was by the breath of life. When Are you there? Please, walk with me. Walk with me. When the spirit entity came to tabernacle this earthly vessel that was modeled by Jehovah Elohim, the Bible revealed that man became a living soul. So, at this stage, he was man of man. Are you there? Man in the image of man. That was what he became at the second stage of the process. The Holy Spirit was supposed to come and

43:22 do his own part. And the part that the Holy Spirit would have done would have been effected if he had eaten of the tree of life. Then, the life of God would have tabernacled in his spirit. He would have had access to the realm of God. You will notice in the Garden of Eden, it's God that came to visit him. He could not visit God. Because he did not have the life of God. He was innocent, but he was not righteous. It was in that state of being man of man, he being a living soul, that he man fell. Are you there? So, what happened was that he was not only a living soul anymore, he was going to live by the soul, live from the soul. The soul that was supposed to be

44:08 neutral, taking instructions from the spirit, is now living independently. So, that's when the soul became self. If you become a follower of the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus, in order for you to serve his will, you will need to be selfless. You are doing it not because of you, but you are doing it because of the Lord. So, God is going to need to He will have to break that program of self, commitment to self. It was a program of self that Satan was running, and he felt that he needed to be like the Messiah. So, when we say I'm crucified with

44:54 Christ, it means that the old man, which is flesh plus self, crucified. It means flesh and self, they don't have foundations. If you say no to self, nothing will happen. The journey of a spiritual man in his transformation is the journey from self, self, this self life, what we call human life, human intelligence, is in your soul. I don't have the time to do all the theatrics through scripture. That human life is in your soul. The The divine life is in your spirit. Are you there? The nature of sin is operating to

45:39 manipulate the appetites in your body to make you a carnal believer. If you're operating from the soul realm and the self life, you are a self-centered believer. But, the description of a spiritual man is that you have taken Christ that is in your spirit as your real personality. The man that is that sin is using his appetite to make you respond to that man that that sin wants you to respond from the appetites. That man is a carnal man. The man that wants to operate from the realm of his soul, if the thing is not going to benefit him, he's not interested. That man is the soulish man.

46:24 He's self-centered. He's self-seeking. And he doesn't have the ability to do the will of God. The story of your Christian life is that you take Christ as your real personality. The man, the personality that is sitting in your spirit, that's your real personality. So, if that scripture says that I'm crucified with Christ, it means that the flesh has no true foundations. It means that the soul life has no true foundations because God did not create us in the image of man, God created us in the image of God. Are you there? This is the way of transformation. First of all, you must have a deliberate a deliberate program to defeat your appetites. That's the first thing.

47:14 Second thing is this, whenever you are under pressure, whenever you are under pressure, you your instincts will make you want to respond to that pressure from the knowledge of your soul. Like, maybe I come to you and I give you a slap. The your your soul will calculate the number of people here, 300. You say 300 people saw that you were diminished. 300 people saw that you were made like nothing. So, you must make an attempt to recover your masculinity by responding with So, this teacher that is giving you this idea is a teacher that is speaking from the fallen nature.

48:02 Anytime that teacher begins to teach and to give you a logical reason to respond from that platform, as a Christian, what we do is that we paralyze the voice of that teacher. That means we don't give that teacher the opportunity to find expression in our members. You will need to walk It's very If you If you do it once, the authority of that teacher will will begin to reduce. Walk against that teacher. Walk against it. And the way to walk against it is Make sure you begin to speak that I'm walking in love.

48:48 I'm a creature of God. We don't respond in the flesh because the flesh has no foundations. The flesh has been crucified. I am a new being. And my reality and my personality is sitting in my recreated human spirit. Now, I wanted to choke you with a scripture as I round up. Let me choke you with one scripture. Oh, I don't have time to show you about Okay, I have time. 10 minutes. All right. Um the first scripture we will use is um Ephesians chapter 4 verse 24. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 24, quickly. It say, "And put on the new man." This new man is the person the

49:35 personality that warehouses your spirit. That's the new man. The old man is that personality that operates in the flesh. Are you there? That personality that operates in the self-centered self, the fallen self. There's a personality regulating these two platforms. And when these two platforms are operational, it is the old man that is operating. And the name, the theological name for the old man is Adam. The new man is the personality that inhabits your human spirit. The theological name for that is Christ. The Bible is now saying, you put on the new man.

50:22 You see, you can't put on this new man if you have not yet weakened the old man. So, I'm not a victim of sleep. I can, in the midst of exceeding tiredness, I can begin to call upon the quickener. You know, the Bible says, "So shall we not depart from thee? Quicken us, and we shall call upon thy name." Your ability to pray and to pray long is a function of spiritual quickening, and it's not your responsibility. It's the Holy Spirit's job, for the Bible says that it's the spirit that quickens, the flesh profits nothing. So, if you're playing from the platform of the flesh, you'll get exhausted in no time, because there's no profit in the flesh. The issue concerning the flesh has already been judged. It has no profit in

51:08 it. So, there is no need for me to want to live by it. You need to deny that person, the person of the old man, because it want to surface again, to want to be the one to take charge. It'll be the one to be the one to to speak, to uh is crucified. Must paralyze it. So, that you can put on the new man. And this new man is created after uh which is after God, created in righteousness and true holiness. That's the nature of the new man. If you begin to allow the new man to be expressive, you'll begin to see that your life will score points of righteousness. To score the points of true holiness.

51:54 Because that is the nature of the new man. The old man is a man of sin. He's a man of compromise, a man that lacks conviction. He's a man that is tossed to and fro by every appetite that is calling. But the new man is created in righteousness and true holiness. Are you there? All right. Second scripture was the scripture that my brother used the other day. And he's not aware that I'm the one that made him not to explain it. Because it's it's a critical component of what God had given me. So he was he was varying into that place. I restrained him by the Holy Ghost. It's not very easy for you to preach in

52:39 a series of preachers. You will need to be constraining them. I say, "Holy Spirit, you know that this thing you gave me, the core of it is here. So make it relevant to him." I do that a lot. I do that a lot. Amen. So Colossians chapter 3, verse 9 and 10. So the new man is All right. So So the new man has the nature of righteousness and true holiness. The old man has the nature of compromise and Are you there? So you need to That's the reason for which Pastor Emmanuel will say, "Let's come and do 7 hours prayer." The old man can do so many things, but

53:24 he cannot pray. Doesn't like prayer. So if you are still here and there's a resistance, a threshold, something that resists you from exploring prayer, it means that the old man is still strong. He still has a say in your life. Anytime they are doing 10 hours prayer, 7 hours. Join. Even if you don't know understand the prayer point, just be praying. Just be praying. Because what you are praying, you are strengthening the new man. In praying, you are insisting that your reality will come from the new man. In praying in the spirit, you are insisting that your life will not be lived on the plane on the platform of the flesh.

54:10 And you need to do a 10-year prayer investment for your destiny. 10 years. I tell you this by experience. 10 years of a life of fasting. You are still young. How How old are you? You? Yeah. 20? 26? But you are still young. You are still young. To do what I'm saying will take you 10 years. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. And any man that doesn't do it doesn't has not laid the foundation for his destiny. I've seen people that are anointed but confused. I've seen people that are strong but lack wisdom. I've seen people that that

54:58 he's doing something here today. He will leave it. He start doing so One came, he got married somewhere. He left that one. He got married. And then he said he said I said, "You know what? What is happening to you is that the flesh is powerful. Anytime he's always agitated. Yeah. I want to meet my soulmate. If If it were here, you would say I need to meet this I said Oh, can't you see the operating system? It's when you are 97 that you not discover you were running from pillar to post you never achieved anything. You need the 10-year plan. I will never

55:43 tell you I will never tell you what will not work. My core calling is is discipleship. So, I give you the numbers. It will take you 10 years to to enter to project the image of this new man so much so that the reproach of the flesh can no longer hinder your testimony. Conquer that night. You wake up and you are praying in tongues for 3 hours before you sleep every Friday. The moment is Friday, you do that. If you maintain that culture plus the prayers you pray in church, the 7 hours you do once in a month and you do that.

56:29 If you see your husband, you will know. And may you not be involved with a man that is not yours. I went to Brazil and the interpreter the the lady interpreted for me. I don't want to call her name because she will be watching. After the interpretation, she now came and told me about the fact that she wants to get married. She doesn't know Satan is fighting her marital life. Okay. So, it's a good prayer point. Then I now probed further to find out what kind of man do you are you looking for? He said the kind of man she wants the kind of man that when she's in a car, then you come and help her open the

57:16 the door this side. I said the last of those MEN HAVE DIED. >> THE LAST OF THEM. YOU SEE YOU STILL THE listen to me. You still the flesh that is giving out those ideas. She's still under the operating system. It's not according to purpose. It's according to what you feel, what you like. God will move you from that context and then move you into purpose. Then when you come into purpose, you you have new eyes and new lenses. She was still

58:03 operating. It was the flesh that gave her those ideas. I'm not looking for an angel. And I never sought for an angel. I knew that my calling was difficult and I needed someone that loved Jesus. It was not about the face, not about the height. And I've been in it for 19 years. And I know that I made the right choice. You are looking for you are you are looking for a cherub that that cherub will be Lucifer. HE IS THE IT IS THE FLESH THAT IS still the flesh. And you know, I'm not a pastor. I give you the truth the way it is.

58:49 Huh? Then if if we're going to be friends, we'll now know from that day. I just I told her that this fantasy this fantasy leads you to a place that has no address. So we stopped communicating because of that. They They I've seen men that I told the truth. Eight years later, they crawled back and say you were the only one that told me the real truth. With scars and their destiny is already damaged. Make the make the investment. Make that investment. A day will come you will come to Pastor Emmanuel and you will thank him. Thank you for putting us in the

59:35 cantonment, for stretching us in the spirit, because we must PUT ON THE new man. There's a man inside. There's a personality inside. The one in your spirit, that is your true personality, not the one in YOUR SOUL. MAKE WAY FOR THAT ONE. WHEN THAT PERSONALITY IN me began to come out, are you there? That's the real you. Began to come out. It began to come out. He came out as a teacher and a prophet. I don't know how how it will come out in your own vessel, but it this is how it came out in mine. This is the personality that was recreated in me through Jesus Christ. And this personality, according

1:00:22 to Gideon's scripture, go to Gideon's scripture. Colossians Are you there? It say, "Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man and his deeds." You see, the old man will still try to It's dead, though. But Have you Have you watched that movie? It's called The Living Dead. It's dead. It's dead, but it it has found a way to to have influence even though it's cut off. Have you seen a snake? You cut the head off, but it still move. So, the the old man is dead, but it has found a way to maintain some motion. And And he has created an illusion, and many people still believe that it is reality.

1:01:10 SEEING THAT YOU HAVE PUT OFF THE old man with his deeds. Next verse. And I put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge. The new man that rises from within you. Are you there? You need to have knowledge of that new man that rises from within you. Because the way the new man that comes from the vessel of Pastor Emmanuel is and what that new man can do and what that new man is capable of it it his own new man. Are you there? It's different from yours. So, Christ in you

1:01:55 is uniquely I don't know. I don't have a word for it. Let me try to use this illustration. Maybe it will it will make sense to you. He said, "If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation." It's a new species. So, in orange has different species. Orange has citrus lemon, that's lemon. Orange has citrus paradisi, that's the big one. The the What's that? That big one. Grape. Orange has citrus aurantifolia, that's tangerine.

1:02:42 Are you there? So, so you are the only species of your kind in the economy of Christ. What I'm saying is that you are not a product of a production line. When God used a mold to make you, he broke it after he made you. So, the way Christ will be expressed from this vessel is unique to this vessel. His operations is not a reference point to me because even though it is Christ, but this expression, you know, I he said today that God cannot exhaust his his his his diversity. You will never know that new man

1:03:27 until you discern the flesh and allow him expression. Then you might find that the new man in you was designed to be president. That's the working of the economy of grace on your life to bring you into political power. The working of the economy of grace in my life it has produced what you are seeing. If I sit on the Bible because of the way my own new man operates and I sit for 5 minutes, what I will get out of that book, you may not be able to get it for 5 days. Because I have found the the knowledge of this unique new man that is expressing through my vessel. You need knowledge. You need to know

1:04:12 that man. How much of that man do you know? What is that man capable of? That's the only way you can interpret the grace that is upon your life. Let let let let me let let us pray. I think we need to pray. Put off the old man. There is an aspect of you. Listen to me. Listen to me. There's an aspect of the old man in your life that has formed a stronghold. Maybe a lying spirit. I formed a stronghold and Satan is hoping that even though you are developing and developing because that stronghold has not been dealt with, he will still come in the in your shining days to exploit your destiny using that stronghold.

1:04:59 You know that stronghold. If you defeat that stronghold 70% of the job is done. And every man has one. You still remember Jacob? Before when he wrestled with the angel? Remember him? When he kept wrestling, that's how we wrestle with God. In the flesh. The flesh doesn't want to die. But you know what? God's hands are skilled. And God touched him and dislocated the nerve of his strength. Yes. He dislocated it so that he can no longer lean on it. Many times God needs to dislocate

1:05:47 the nerve of your strength so that in your navigation, in your sojourning, you will never lean on it. I found my strength. I found my strength. You know, I told you of the predicament of pride. And as long as I stayed there, God could not use me. Because God said to me that revelation and pride cannot go together. You were called to operate in revelation, to dispense my truth, to dispense my insight. I will not allow pride to corrupt it. So, the nerve I had to fight was pride. And you know the the the trick? The trick is swim against the tide.

1:06:34 All right? Respect people that you even believe you are better than and until you become at home with respecting them. Swim against the tide. Can we pray together? >> Yes, sir. >> The prayer point is swim against the tide. Swim against the tide. Oh my God. Can you swim against the tide? When pastor is calling you for 7 hours prayer, he wants to help you swim against the tide. The flesh does not like prayer, doesn't like waiting on God, doesn't like receiving instructions from God. Swim against the tide. That appetite that wants to bring you

1:07:21 into captivity, that appetite that has held sway over your life, can you can you can you rebel against IT? CAN YOU REBEL AGAINST IT AND SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE? HEY! I BELONG TO JESUS. I BELONG to Jesus. I began to receive knowledge of of the new man expressing himself through my life. You need that knowledge. You are not a product of a production line. WE WERE NOT MASS-PRODUCED. You are a unique expression of the spirit OF CHRIST IN OUR generation and there will be none like you that will come after you.

1:08:10 SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE. SWIM against the tide. Swim against the tide. We bring the flesh and its manifestations into captivity. We are not of the flesh. We are not from the flesh. We are of the spirit. SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE for God is not a man that he should lie. God is not the son of man that he should repent.

1:09:03 You are a new >> You are a new species. There's never been one in your likeness. There is a new brand of the expression of Christ that will come from your vessel. If only you can put into captivity the old MAN AND HIS DEEDS. THE OLD MAN HAS no true foundation. You can ignore him. Elemasike Elema makoria Elema santoria Elema sele Bakote Bamasala Uremakaya Uremasakonda

1:09:52 Yakoseli Yamakantekombo Abelesi Abamonte Abamakasoba Ukela ba Alabosa Alabantekoria ARIKASABA UTAWA HEY! Labobobobobobobobo Alastia Abokamansomenite Abelesko Abamakaya Abeleskomante I have put on the new man. I have put on the new man. Renewed in the knowledge of him that has created him. I have put him on. He's my new identity.

1:10:40 He's my new personality. He's the real personality in my vessel. He must be seen manifest through my vessel. I put on the new man. Ayatosomenakadia Ayamantababa >> For sin shall no longer have DOMINION OVER YOU.

1:11:37 For it is the spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, they are life. My words are not empty. Spirits travel with the utterances. Yes. Yes. The new man IS POWERFUL. LET HIM LOOSE.