TRUTH REVEALED THROUGH THE GLORY FULL OF GRACE | APOSTLE MAX NGOIE

0:01 This is another day the Lord has made for you to rejoice, for you to be glad. We want to share the word and later on we will pray. We'll take time to pray. Tell your neighbor you need the truth. Jesus is the truth. Tell your neighbor, you shall be set by the truth. When you know the truth, the truth will set you free. Hallelujah. Tell again your neighbor, Jesus

0:48 prayed for you to be sanctified by the truth. So last Sunday I began to share on the second aspect of the prophetic word God gave to us. The glory full of grace and truth. In the first semester I did more emphasize on grace. Hallelujah. And in this second semester I will emphasize on truth. And we have seen so far that truth is first of all a person and that person is Jesus. Tell your

1:34 neighbor truth is first of all a person and that person is Jesus. And Jesus has to be fully formed in you. If he's not fully formed in you, it means you do not yet have the truth in you or you do have the truth but not in the full measure. And that was the prayer of Apostle Paul who understood that. Galatians 4:1 19, "My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth

2:19 until Christ Jesus is fully formed in you." Now Jesus himself said in John chapter 14 verse 6, I am the way, the truth and the life. So he introduced himself as the way, the truth and the life. Not every believer is necessarily manifesting the fullness of truth in him. And actually it does not happen overnight. It's a process. And this process involves your willingness.

3:06 You have to take your full responsibility. Grace is unmmerited favor. You you do nothing to receive that grace. But for the truth to be fully formed in you, you have a role to play. So the same Jesus who is grace or manifest his grace to you saving you without you doing any effort. But for the same Jesus to begin to manifest in you

3:54 as the truth, you have to avail yourself. If not, he will be there by grace. He has saved you. He is there. But you do not necessarily live his life. That's why in the church we are being taught. That's why in the church we take time to pray. If we do not cooperate to seek him we will not leave the truth. Am I communicating? And I said last Sunday two things major

4:41 things have to be done. The word of God, meditation of the word of God and prayer. And by prayer we understand also which comes with fasting. Those are the two things every believer should do. prayer and fasting and commitment to take the word of God, reading it, meditating on it for the truth to be in us. And once again we emphasize on the truth as a person because some of us they have

5:29 all the Bible verses in their head but they are not transformed. So we can have scriptures in our head intellectually without having Jesus in our heart without having the truth as a person in our spirit in our heart. The first thing to desire is to see Jesus being fully formed in us. Say amen. Say amen. Now

6:14 let us read Romans chapter 12 and then I will go to the parable of the swer in Luke chapter 8. Romans chapter 12 first we read verse one and verse two. I did emphasize on prayer in the past. I want to emphasize today on the word. The word of God. The word of God has the power to transform you. You can experience

7:02 transfiguration through the word of God. And Romans chapter 12 verse 1-2 is bringing that dimension of transfiguration through the word of God. Transfigur. Say with me, transfiguration through the word of God. So the truth Jesus can be fully formed in you through the word that you decide to meditate on. Now, Romans 12:1-2 is telling us this.

7:55 Romans 12:1-2. Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship. That introduction means live a holy life. When it comes to your body, this physical body, do not let it be involved in sin, but offer it as a living sacrifice. Now, the body is the temple of your spirit.

8:45 As a man, God gave you this body as a house of you who is spirit and having a soul. Tell your neighbor, God gave you this body as the house of you has a spirit and having a soul. So don't let the body be destroyed by sin. So it means there are many sins that want to satisfy the body. Do not let your body be used for sin and

9:35 especially sexual immorality. When you study scriptures, you will understand that the context there and an emphasis there is about sexual immorality because whatever other sin a man can commit is outside his body. Apostle Paul says, but sexual immorality, it's involving your body. Do not let your body be destroyed. but offer it as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. And that is your true and proper

10:21 worship. Now, if in the church, in the house of God, many are still trapped in the sin that involves the body. Whatever else they might try to do at the level of the spirit and soul becomes useless. Are you following me? If you are trapped in the sin, especially the sin of sexual immorality, your spirit, your soul

11:08 is trapped by that sin. That's why now in verse two he says verse two do not conform to the pattern of this world. Do not conform to the pattern of this world. So do not let what the world is suggesting to you become your model. Do not let whatever the world is saying influence you,

11:54 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Be transformed. The word transformed there it is the word that means be metamorphosed, be transfigured, change the state by the renewing of your mind. Now what is it that can cause you to renew your mind? It's the word of God. Be transformed, be metamorphosed by the renewing of your mind.

12:42 Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing, and perfect will. So sin put us into the state of becoming and able to appreciate the word of God. We cannot be metamorphosed if we do not embrace holiness. Are you hearing me? Whatever sin that involves your body

13:27 and especially the sin of sexual immorality is making you enable to have access to the word of God. Why? Because sin is what brought separation between man and God. Fellowship between God and man stopped because of sin. Am I communicating? Adam began to die

14:13 first of all spiritually the day he disobeyed and sin. So that's a principle. Everywhere there is sin fellowship communion at the level of the spirit and soul is interrupted. And how do we have fellowship with God? Here we see the dimension of the word of God. So the word of God comes to you so that you can have fellowship with God. It's not just prayer.

14:59 It is by having the word of God that you will know the will of God. What is good in the will of God? What is pleasing in the will of God? And what is perfect? So what is good? What is pleasing? What is perfect is just describing the truth. They were there to prepare the right environment for the ministry of Jesus to keep on being revealed. Now verse four, while a large crowd was

15:46 gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable. Many people were coming, large crowd from one town to another. Oh, I pray that we can have such an influence. Say amen. >> Now, you're not saying amen very well. >> Amen. >> Now, for that influence to come, don't forget the introduction in the three verses. Men and women of prayer on one side and men and women who are powerful financially to provide.

16:33 When you combine the two, you have influence. Say amen. >> You're not saying amen very well. >> Amen. >> Say amen very well. >> Amen. >> A farmer, he gave this parable. A farmer went out to sew his seed. And as he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path. It was trampled on, and the birds ate it up. First aspect, the seed falling in the ground. And birds coming to eat it up. Number two, some fell on a rocky ground.

17:21 Rocky ground. First of all, along the path, you can say like on the road. And then number two, falling on a rocky ground. It's a ground, but it's rocky. And when it came up, the plant withered because they had no moisture. Number three, other seed fell among thorns which grow up with it which grew up

18:07 sorry with it and shocked the plants. So the ground is a good ground but with thorns. When the plant the seed grows the plant is growing it is shocked by the thorns. Number four now still other seed fell on good soil that is entirely fertile soil. It came up and yielded a crop a hund times more than was sown. When he said this, he called out,

18:53 "Who have ears to hear? Let them hear." His disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, "The knowledge of the secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables so that though seeing they may not see, though hearing they may not understand." Now, who are these others? These are the people who are still caught up into sin. They are not ready to repent. they I speak to them in parables. So every time we are not repentant,

19:41 God's word will be to us a parable. So it means a parable is not something that you easily understand. You hear but you can't discern. You can't understand. You see, but you cannot truly discern. Everything is like in parable. Say, "Oh Lord, I refuse to receive your word in parables. Speak with revelation to me." And then he began to explain this is the meaning of the parable.

20:30 Now he's giving the revelation. The seed is the word of God. The seed is the word of God. Don't forget the word of God is the truth. John 17:17. Sanctify them by the truth. The truth, your word is the truth. Now the seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts so that they may not believe and be saved.

21:17 So we can hear the word but as soon as we hear the enemy comes and steals the word so that we might not be saved. Say I refuse to be in that category in the name of Jesus. How can the devil come so easily to steal the word from you? It means there is something of him within you. Oh, there is something that belongs to him that is happening all around you

22:05 and that reflects sin that reflect also demonic activities in the lives of many people. For instance, every time you open the Bible, you begin to read it 2 minutes, you begin to sleep and even snoring. Am I teaching someone here? But you have been in the church for years now. You can't concentrate, hear the word and receive the revelation from the word of God.

22:53 It means the process of transformation is not starting in you yet. You hear and the word is stolen straight away because it is in an environment that is not proper for the word to penetrate. When we are at that level, we have to stop sinning and we have to seek deliverance. Am I teaching someone? You stop sinning

23:38 and you seek deliverance. For some, it is because they are still practicing sin. They are not living a pure life. They have to take a decision to stop sinning. For others, it is more something spiritual within. They need deliverance. Hallelujah. As I've said, you do not necessarily sin, but spiritually speaking, you face certain spirits that are not allowing

24:24 you to take pleasure in the word of God. You need deliverance. And there are many signs to descend that my environment spiritually speaking is not good. The kind of dream I have. If all your dreams are about people chasing you, dogs chasing you, serpents all around you. That is to show you spiritually speaking your environment is not good. Am I teaching someone? If you often see spiritual husband, spiritual wife,

25:10 it is a sign that your environment is not proper for the word to penetrate you. Yet you are in the house of God or you're in the church. Why can't you have dreams of angels? Why can't you have dreams where you are eating with angels? You are always eating with people you know are in witchcraft. You know very well this one is that person in my village and it is known that this person is a wizard. a witch. When you have a dream eating with people, those are the kind of people you

25:56 see. So that image is not good. You should have another picture. You meet with angels. You meet with men, women of God, anointed. Those are the people who appear in your dreams. And when you have to eat, it is around those kind of people. Then you know that your spiritual environment is good. Hallelujah. So I'm just giving some illustration to allow us to understand. Some are trapped into sin. They practice it especially sexual immorality. Others they are not into that kind of sin as such

26:41 but they are trapped in an spiritual environment which will never allow them to have access to the revelation of the word of God. Say, I choose to be in the angelic environment in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Then number two, Jesus explained verse 13. Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy. When they hear it, they receive the word with joy. When

27:27 they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while but in the time of testing they fall away on the rocky ground. They hear the word they receive it with joy but they have no root. So it means they are still in an environment with certain issues that will never allow the word to fully

28:13 penetrate and to have roots. I see here what I often call toxic emotions. Tell your neighbor, be careful with toxic emotions. And I gave a teaching on that. You might go back on YouTube and find that teaching on toxic toxic emotion. But I will just summarize quickly. You are not into sin as such practicing it. But the sin you do have is allowing toxic emotions

28:58 to control your life. They are still there. Hallelujah. Toxic emotions will not allow the word of God to bring you to revelation. Number one on the list of the toxic emotion that does not allow the word of God to penetrate is unforgiveness. When you go home, read 1 Corinthians chapter 13 from verse 4

29:48 going down. Speaking on love, Apostle Paul says, "Love does not keep the record of wrongs." Love does not keep the record of wrongs. Can I be wronged? Yes. And it is impossible to live without facing people who will do wrong to us. First of all, yourself, you wrong others in one way or another. Even in the church, I can still be offended by my brother,

30:34 by my sister. But the Bible teaches me not to record the wrongs. Some of us they have a huge capacity to record wrongs. See today with computers you are a superco computer in keeping the data of wrongs. You can't lose those data. Even if a virus comes to destroy, no those data they must be kept.

31:21 I'm trying to use the technology language for you to understand. So the powerful computer today is the computer that keeps data and cannot lose them. Anytime you need information, you go. That's how we have today artificial intelligence. It is based on that. All the data of the word whatever has been discovered now it is centralized. Any question you ask they give you an answer. Now do not be like that with wrongs data.

32:06 Love does not record wrongs. Does not. It means it is impossible to record. Did the wrong happened? Yes, but I can't record it. But why are you struggling with the wrongs that have been done to you 20 years ago? The gift is there. The word has come to you. But the word does not have root in you because so far you are struggling with another information. You have recorded wrongs. Now the word cannot have roots in you.

32:55 Am I teaching someone? And that's where many people struggle because we have been wronged in so many ways sometimes by our own parents. The first word we heard is you equal to nothing. You are useless. Now you you have grown up with those kind of words. Rejected. Now you're a Christian. You're in the church. The pastor is preaching. If that wrong is still recorded, whatever I'm saying will face an opposition until you understand that this has to go out of my heart. It has to come out.

33:42 It has to come out. I refuse to keep it because if I keep it, it will be opposing the word, the truth to have roots enough in me. And forgiveness is a result of recording wrongs. When I I record wrongs, I cannot forgive or I will struggle to forgive. Hallelujah. So I gave a long list I think 17 of toxic emotions because of time I

34:27 highlight just that one unforgiveness. You have rejection is a toxic emotion. You feel always rejected. Why? Because that's what you suffered. You have never been accepted. You have been tolerated and you know it. People are just tolerating. They do not accept me. That feeling destroys you. Jesus does not tolerate you. He accepts you just as you are. If people do not accept you, you have one who has accepted you, Jesus Christ. And having him in your heart sets you free. Hallelujah.

35:13 He set you free. Some are suffering from loneliness. They've been rejected. All those toxic emotions they are not allowing the word to penetrate. Some have been betrayed. Betrayal is one of the thing that destroys deeply people because it's coming from someone who was supposed to remain close to you. a husband, a wife, a child,

35:59 parent. When they do certain things you do not expect at all, you call it betrayal. Even if you experience it now that you're in Christ Jesus, don't continue to live with that toxic emotion of being betrayed. It has happened, yes, but there is someone who heals, the Holy Spirit. All the toxic emotions have to be cured. They have to be cured by the power of the Holy Spirit.

36:49 Hallelujah. When I did first all those things, I go to the person of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, help me. Help me. So you see we shouldn't just be praying to have cars, praying to have breakthroughs but with heart full of toxic emotions. We should take fasting one day, 2 days, 3 days, 21 days because we want to be healed. That's why you will see sometimes someone in deep prayer he begins to cry crying crying crying. After that

37:35 experience the person is healed from rejection. The person is healed from recording wrongs. It becomes another person. Are you hearing me? It is the work of the Holy Spirit when we allow him to do so. He will heal us. He will cure us. That's why Jesus said, quoting prophet Isaiah, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. And then he said to heal the brokenhearted.

38:24 The anointing comes to heal our hearts. I can be a preacher, but if I'm a preacher with a heart full of toxic emotions, it will it will transpire in my ministry. I can be a prophet. Yes, it's just a gift. It's just a gift by grace. But that gift will not necessarily be full of truth until I am healed from toxic emotions.

39:10 And the first environment where we suffer toxic emotions is our family. The family environment before you meet friends outside there you meet first your own parent your own siblings. If you have been rejected in your family you will also reject others if you are not careful. May Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit heal your heart. so that the word can truly have root in you. Amen. Say thank you Jesus. Thank you dear Holy

39:56 Spirit. The third category Jesus said it is those. We read it in verse 14. The seed that fell among thorns stand for those who hear. But as they go on their way, they are shocked by life's life worries, riches, and pleasures, and they do not mature. The seal that is falling in the ground

40:43 with thorns represents the worries of this life. Oh God, I want to make it in life. It is good to have a good job. There is nothing wrong about it. It is good to have money in the pocket in the bank account. There is nothing wrong about it. But worrying about it when you do not have it, that is what is wrong. And today in our churches sometimes we lead prayers to feed

41:30 those wories. No. God wish you well. Wishes you well. But he does not want you to worry about what you do not yet have. Thank him for what you have and thank him for what you do not yet have. Amen. But the worries of this life is also about the challenges that we face in

42:15 this world. A child of God can face challenges. What does it mean? It can happen that you lose your job because of the economy. Am I communicating? Especially in Africa, in our countries in Africa where the unemployment rate is too high. It is too high. I think in South Africa it's between 27% to 30%. I don't know even if it has gone beyond that but in other countries it's 70%. Even 80%. So it means what? You finish university,

43:04 you graduate but no job and you are a Christian, you are in the church but your brother who has gone to America and employment rate is 2% 3%. He does not have the the same challenge than you. Of course, if it didn't go without the right papers because some are just there, they can't do anything because no document. Am I communicating? But sometimes even without document, he can still find a job here and there.

43:49 But not in most African countries. Now we are the church in that environment. Are we together? It means we will face the realities of that environment. It can happen that we do not have a good job. It's not because we are demonp possessed. It is not because there is still a bondage, family bondage. No, everything is not about family bondages. I have delivered you already. But you still believe that the family bondage is still there. But when you go to America, the family bondages seize.

44:42 Hallelujah. No, it's not it's not about the family bondage all the time. It's about the environment. And this goes beyond you. The leadership, political leadership has to do something about it. So we can be the church in those conditions. We are serving God in those conditions with people with no money. Am I teaching someone? or with people who are limited financially. We can struggle to pay school fees of our children

45:27 not because we have family bondages but because we are in a difficult environment. So we can face that not to say God is not able to bless us. He is able to bless us in whatsoever condition but it will be the result of the word in us having deep roots. It will be the result of the word of God that is at work in our lives. But if the condition in which we live begin now to distract us

46:13 instead of following God, instead of praying, instead of serving him, we worry all the time. The word which has the ability to take us out of that condition will not do its job. Am I teaching someone? Say, "Thank you, Jesus. No matter the difficulties in my environment, keep my heart from worries. Keep my heart from worries in the name of Jesus.

47:02 Refuse to be distracted by the worries. Thank God because worries will lead to mamming. And when you murmur, God is not happy. But it difficult. But God, I thank you because there is a way out. There is a way out. You can do all things. It is difficult but I will go to church again today. It is difficult but I will go on my knees and pray. It is difficult but I will go and serve you. I will go and sing. I will go and be an ash. I will go. You do what you have to do in that difficult environment. Thanking

47:48 God. Now the word of God which has power to make the impossible possible will be proven in your life. Are we together? And then Jesus says the pleasures some they are not facing difficulties. They have all they need. Now the provision that they have leads now to pleasures. Now that they have 100,000 in the pocket in the bank account, instead of serving God with that money, that money leads them to worldly

48:35 pleasures. They find it difficult to come 8 a.m. Sunday. Said, "No, it's it's too early." But they have a car. They have money to put fuel. They have everything. Now they want more comfort. But when they did not have a car, when they did not have money, they were praying. Now that they have money, they stop praying. When we are like that, we do not allow the word of God

49:23 to bring us into another level of transformation, transfiguration because now the comfort of wealth is distracting us. May God give you the ability to remain focused on him even when you will be extremely rich in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. And now the last category Jesus says

50:10 verse 15 and the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart. Noble and good heart. So it means the three categories did not have a noble and good heart. May you belong in this last category. Those with noble and good heart who hear the word return it and by persevering produce a crop. By persevering produce a crop. Now when you read in Matthew or in Mark chapter

50:56 Matthew chapter 13, Mark chapter 4, the same parable. This is the image. Those with good and noble heart, they hear the word and they return it. And then they produce some 30, some 60 and some 100 true perseverance. So even when you will have a good and noble heart, you still have to pay attention. Do not be content with 30% if I may say

51:43 so or 60%. But he 100%. So the truth, the word is meantly to be in a good and noble heart. That is the heart that is free from spiritual issues, delivered. That is the heart that is free from sin. That is the heart that is free from toxic emotions.

52:28 If we are still pushing you for you to forgive, then we have a problem. If after 10 years, 20 years of being born again, you are still struggling to forgive people. Oh, it's a big problem. That's what weakens our churches. We pastors, we who are leading, we are still struggling with those kind of issues.

53:14 A pastor using the pilpit to attack another one and members are saying, "Amen." A pass on the pit criticizing another man of God openly. It's a problem. Never never criticize anybody because your heart is in pain. If there has to be a criticism, let it

54:02 be a positive one because you want to add value, not out of bitterness. In a simple group, in a church, you stop serving. Why? No, because this one spoke this way. Now, why did she look at me like that? Next Sunday I'm not coming. So what is this? What kind of Christian are you? This is now 20 years of Christianity. We are still there to beg you to come back because someone didn't look at you the way you wanted to. It's the problem.

54:49 Am I communicating? Have a good heart. have a noble art and now it is your responsibility telling the Holy Spirit help me that noble heart good heart is seen in Jesus Christ is the standard of all mankind to produce 100% sent pray to be like him.

55:34 The truth is a person first. I am the truth. Jesus said every day pray say Lord I want to be like you in my heart. church. That is what we should focus on teaching, repeating until members become like Jesus in the heart. We should insist on that. Why many marriages are failing? Because people are not like Jesus in marriage. Why many families are scattered? Because

56:20 people are not like Jesus in those families. Yet they are our church members. 20 years we have been together. They don't speak one another. They don't talk to one another. But they are in the same church. If you are a member in this church, you can't still talk to your parent. I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Go and talk to your parent. You can't call your family members because there was an issue. So nothing you do nothing about it. It will stay like that. You are the same yesterday, today. And I fear to say you will be like that tomorrow. So that problem will stay like that forever. And before you

57:06 know it, it will be passed on to your children. The problem you had with your siblings, if you don't fix it today, it will be passed on to your children and we are in the church. We are praying. We speak in tongues. We prophesy but we do not have good and noble hearts. The word cannot penetrate us and produce to the maximum. Say thank you Jesus. I want to be like you. Deep in my heart. Help me today

57:51 through the power of the Holy Spirit to have a noble heart to have a pure heart. It is written, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are the pure in heart, for theirs is the kingdom. Help me, oh Lord, to be pure in my heart, to have a good heart and a noble heart, and teach me to persevere until I produce 100% in the mighty name of Jesus.

58:37 Not just 30, not just 60, but 100%. Let it be my goal in my relationship with you. Oh Lord, disconnect me from the power of sin. Sin power over my life be broken. Whatever sin I struggle with in my body, I refuse it, I rebuke it in the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. Oh Lord, deliver me from any demonic

59:22 activity, any spiritual environment that is a prison for me not to experience the truth, your word. Oh Lord, deliver me from it. Deliver me from bad dreams. Deliver me from evil spirit coming in my dreams, influencing me. Oh Lord, I want to be like you. I want to be like you. Disconnect me from toxic emotions. Purify my heart from unforgiveness, from betrayal,

1:00:09 from rejection, from loneliness. Help me, oh Lord, to be healed and be healed completely in my heart in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Oh Lord, help me not to be distracted.