Authentically Christian | Becoming an Example 2.0 | Pastor Olayinka Adebayo

Hi there! This is the PowerPoint tribe where our life is safe and our food is the world. Prepare to be strengthened and encouraged through the teachings of God's Word and the ministry of the Spirit. Good evening tribesmen, good evening. Hope for all doing good. Amen. Okay, so I mean in the words of my pastor we have some way to go today. So let's let's vocal up. I'm following after a good example and really you know pastor I mean such a an amazing series we are starting the year on a pivotal series just starting the year on and you know the Bible the Bible says Paul at different times you know tells you know either the disciples or his sons and daughters in the face and he says that you know you have me for an example say as you have us for an example and in in the PowerPoint tribe I believe that one of the things that pastor Dami can boldly say you know is that you know we have him for an example and and you know we can follow him as he follows Christ we can across a different domains of being of you know of expressing ourselves you know past Dami is worthy of emulation and so I just want to thank you know pastor in in in in some ways you know going through this series is also is also honoring you know a senior pastor and the angel over this in over this house because he's not saying something that is not lived and he's not touching teaching something that he hasn't shown us you know by the conduct of his life in in everything you know as a possible charged you know Timothy in everything in conversation in purity in faith you know we see pastor Dami exemplify all of all those things across every of those domains so pastor we thank you thank you for shepherding this house with scale and with integrity of heart and with love and with joy and with comedic expressions and just with sincerity of our thank you so much sir we love and we appreciate you and we honor you and of course to all our associate pastors we also are all worthy of emulation thank you so much says I'm asked for your labor of love which would never ever go on rewarded in Jesus name okay let's just say what of prayer as we proceed Heavenly Father or actually before we pray let's just again lift up our voices and just thank God and just worship him thank him for strength thank him for the season that has come upon us as a house thank him for being you know mindful of us being mindful of us individually us as a company as a church as a family on the God and also being mindful of us individually thank God for sending you to a good house and thank God for you know all of us together just like the the the prayer chat this morning was saying all of us together as supplying our own our own our own ministries we are supplying to ensure that we continue to be an invitation that God can freely express himself and can freely leave so Heavenly Father we thank you we thank you for the privilege of approach we thank you for the privilege of sonship we thank you for being able to come to you and to learn at your feet we thank you Father because scripture that opens us that we are not reading scriptures and and we don't understand them thank you Father because forever for every time we open the word of God to divide the word of truth we understand we come to knowledge thank you Father for your Holy Spirit who reviews the truth to us thank you Father for your Holy Spirit who patterns our lives after the sustaining power of God's Word the only thing that lasts the only thing that would remain and thank you Father because your Holy Spirit glorifies you in our heart glorifies Jesus in our hearts Lord we give you all the glory we declare that even as we teach the night we declare that everyone is edified everyone is strengthening everyone is encouraged in the name of Jesus so we give you all the glory and praise Father in Jesus mighty name we have prayed amen and amen okay to the extent that you can you can drop so I can see the I can see our reactions or comments in the group so you can drop the comments you can drop the comments on the on the group as you and I'll look at them and read them at the intervals okay so I mean we're on the series becoming an example and Pastor started on a very high notes last week it was a very exhaustive you know broad teaching on just introducing the concept and the thoughts becoming an example I'm just going to be going over some really and the things that we touched on I think we touched on about three about five things five major headers we touched on five major things and of course there are a lot of he has a lot of babies and grand babies and great grand babies and as a story of babies what's out just summarize you know most of the things that we touched on and then we would move on to today's teaching so so last week we touched on pastor started by you know listing out the series objective objectives of the the objectives of the becoming an example series which is listed as three the first is to equip tribesmen with the right consciousness of leadership and godly influence on the earth the second is to learn how to socially engineer behavior that is acceptable before God through conviction based living the third is to preserve the legacy of faith upon the face of the earth legacy of faith upon the face of the earth onto you Jesus comes and then pastor went on to give us the definition of what it means to be an example and in simple terms an example is someone or something that is fit for imitation so it's fit for imitation and pastor said that to be fit for imitation you need to meet two conditions the first is that you have to be it has to be seen for something to be fit for imitation it has to be seen and the second is that it has to have a pattern so you cannot imitate what you cannot see and you cannot imitate or copy what is patternless so there is a pattern there is a consistency there is a predictability to to an example right and then pastor went on to say that you know the pillar for this series is actually actions actions is the pillar is the pillar for this series and three justifications why actions by action matters or why action is the pillar or three justifications for the pillar of the series which it actions the first is actions matter to God the second is that actions shape the present and determine the future and the third is that actions define personality and identity so actions define our personality and identity and next pastor went on to speak about what makes a person fit to be emulated so two things two major criteria so substance which is spirits and then form right and pastor began to put some juxtapose those two frameworks and to say that you know there's there are people that have substance without form there are people that have form without substance and there are people that have form and substance you know for for people that have substance without form what that leads to is that it leads to immature it breeds immature and confusing Christian so you have the substance you have if you have you know the form of Godliness but you denied the power they are of power you know by physics it just means ability to do so you have the form of Godliness but you denied the power that means you are not able to do the form that you have right so it's just like the the parable of the fig tree where from afar it looked like okay there was something about it but when Jesus came to eat for food you know he could not produce what it looked like he had the capacity to do so substance without form leads to an immature and confusing Christian form without substance leads to condescending and hypocritical believers so they are you know they are just for lack of a better word they are really actually empty barrels but they make it big they make very loud noise and sometimes you know one of the things you know the Holy Spirit as I meditated on that one of the things that came to me is that you know they're making a lot of noise to actually distract you from the fact that they are empty so they're making their apocrytical and condescending and they are making a lot of just how bullies work so they are bullying you but that that's act of bullying is actually to distract you from the fact that they are empty and they don't have the substance that they claim to have or they claim to deduce that those particular instructions or those particular words or those particular condescending words from so from without substance makes for condescending and hypocritical believers and of course where we should all strive to be and where we actually are where God expects all of us to be is that form and substance is that we have both the substance rest and then we also have the form and of course what that makes for is mature and compelling Christians I remember one of the things that Pastor said is that we're supposed to influence the world you know one of the things this series supposed to do for us is to make us into people of influence people of influence but not afraid to be seen we are not afraid to be visible because we know that when people see us we're going to point them to Christ right some people are afraid to be visible because they are afraid of what people what people will see when they come close right and and and just in summarizing that bit you know Pastor talked about how that you know substance it requires patience because what comes into our what we have at the initial at the initial phase as Christians in the early days of our Christian experience is substance which is the spirit you know we cannot be an example without the Holy Spirit and to be an example without the Holy Spirit or the power that that's sort of the spirit that powers exemplary living is to is to be frustrated really is to be frustrated so it starts from substance but the expectation is that you start from substance and graduate into form your form gradually begins to show but you know and Pastor also mentioned this last week as well how that we live in a world right now where you know in some setting domains of Christian expression they believe that it's only about the substance so it's substance only it's not it's not substance only from next or from eventually is actually substance only from never so they don't want to they don't they don't believe in evaluating your Christian experience against form against actions against good works you know they just believe in it evaluating your Christian experience against what you believe but again a pastor said last week the problem where you believe is that nobody can see you know what you believe and then Pastor talked about although he didn't touch on it but he just mentioned the domains of exemplary living which we see in our in our focus scripture for for this series and I will just read that for cross scripture so it's as a text is "First Timothy 412 says this is let no one despise your use but be an example to the believer in word in conduct in love in spirit in faith and impurity" and we see a similar rendition in when Paul was speaking to you know Titus as well and he was saying in Titus 268 just adding that as well it says likewise exhort the young men to be sober-minded and he says in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good work so you see what Pastor was saying about you to cite and pattern a pattern of good works in doctrine showing integrity reverence in corruptibility sound speech that cannot be condemned that one who is an opponent may be ashamed having nothing evil to say of you not nothing evil to say of our thoughts not but nothing evil to say of our of our hearts but nothing evil to say of what we're doing because we are showing ourselves you know to be a pattern of good works so the title of my teaching today or tonight is authentically Christian that's the title or authentically Christian and basically we're supposed to move into sort of each of the domains of you know the admonition to Paul the domains of exemplary leaving but while I was just meditating and going listening to the message again I just going over the scripture I felt like you know there was some additional thoughts that the Holy Spirit will have me share on you know just exemplary leaving you know the principles of exemplary leaving and after that to the extent that we can go over all seven of them and we can conclude that then we would go into the first domain of exemplary leaving which is which is word so I'll try to think I have about 45 minutes there about so I think we should be able to cover all and if not our underwear to the next person to continue from where we leave off tonight okay so one of the one of the things while I was just looking at the scripture in first Timothy 412 the word example apart from being defined as a pattern defined as something worthy of imitation one of the original definitions of that word example is actually a mark and a blue so I'll just read it as it is the mark of a stroke or a blue it can also mean its car and I found that very interesting because that the word example means the mark of a stroke so it means that there is something about an impact that creates that creates an action so it's not something that it's not just I'm just I'm just acting for the purpose of acting because then it wouldn't be sustainable it's there is an impact there is a mark there is a stroke there is a blue there is something that you cannot recover from that then create that then makes you into an example so there is it has it's it's called an effect there is a causative principle or concept be behind your actions so you're not just acting because you are acting you're not acting you are an example or you are acting in this way you are acting after this manner you are doing things that people can see you are following this particular pattern because there is a certain blue there is a certain impact on your life that is that has etched your life forever that has etched your life forever and of course when you start to think about that and you just put that against you know the Christian faith and the base of the Christian faith of course that's that's the impact of salvation and the doctrine of salvation is enough an impact to create that ripple effect of actions in life of a believer so when Paul is saying that you know you know don't let anybody despise your use but be an example is saying that live a life and live a life express a kind of life that shows the impact that Christ has had on you that the level the extent to which you express you you are an example the extent to which you pattern your life after a certain way the extent to which you show certain actions is the extent to which we can say that Christ has actually impacted you that if you do not understand or if you do not even experience the impact of Christ and it's a strike so there's there's something about that the concept about forming memories right so they're there are two pathways there's a pathway where a memory is formed by continuous exposure to that map to that to to that memory or to that thing that will create the memory so you read something you keep on you keep on reading the thing you keep on reading the thing and then it's it's etching your memory it just stores it there's another shorter path path which is impact so if someone has a but for me they're very ghastly as accident it's there's every potential that that accident creates a very heavy dance in the person's life in the person's neuronal neuronal network or yeah neuronal pathway and then it sort of changes how the person starts to behave or it creates things like a trauma or PTSD because of the impact of that thing on the person so it's saying that the the way you act the way you show what you show is actually a hotel sign of the impact that you know the salvation experience has had in your life or the impact of whatever it is that you're showing or explaining by your lifestyle has had on your life so being an example is for example saying that actually Jesus has happened to me so if I'm if I'm speaking in my speaking Jesus has actually I'm trying to tell you that Jesus has happened to me in my acting in my purity in my passion you know in my expression of love I'm trying to tell you that there is something that has had an impact on my life and in that has left an indelible mark in my life that is making me to act in the way I'm acting towards you it's not causeless you see you know how I'll David you say that okay he's then to cause to this thing is there so my actions are not causeless my actions are not causeless and my actions are not it's not a kind of impact that just begins off over time and that's why constant exposure to the word of God continues to sort of dig that neuronal or dredge that neural pathway that allows us to continue to act you know according to the conduct of believers or believing or Christians right so I just thought to share that at the beginning that another definition is that example means the mark of his stroke or a blue and it can also means his scar so one of the things I wrote in my notes is Jesus has cut me for good and he has cut me for life he has cut me I can never recover from the from the impact that Jesus has had in my life and he has cut me for good and he has cut me for life and everybody everything everybody is a benefit of the impact that God has had or Jesus has had on and in my life phrase God so we're going to be talking about you know seven principles of exemplary living and then would then move on to to the extent that time permits you know one of the domains of exemplary living which is word therefore things I want to share with you so for the principles of exemplary living so just from what pastor shared last week again I feel like one of my assignments in one of my assignments just in in PowerPoint magazine tutorial master I like to expand you know what pastor has already said I just is I just find that it's the way things come to me sometimes or most times just to expand what pastor has said or what a pastor has thought previously so there are simple thoughts about again just to contextualize these things you know as we aim to leave them out so the first is that you know exemplary living is the expectations is the expectation on and off Christians and not just leaders so you read through first Timothy for you read through titles to and the things you see there is a you can say oh I mean I suppose talking to Timothy Timothy was the bishop over the church in Ephesus it was going about you know putting the church in Ephesus in order appoints in leaders you know just you and and the church in Ephesus I think was in Asia might know so a performance that was probably going around so it was it was a bishop it was an overseer and you know titles as well you see at the beginning of titles that Paul also tells titles that you know you should go and set things order in set things in order in the churches increase so you can also say that okay Paul also give titles and injunction titles was a leader over a group of churches so it was it was another top of some sorts and you know one can explain it away and we see that's almost also a play to today as well where you see some Christians say okay you know these certain behaviors are meant for you know leaders are meant for each of these are meant for bishops you know they are so surprised when the bishop does something that they don't they think you know they think it bishops should know I've done but they are not as surprised when they do something that they think you know is not is not is not prescribed by scripture is not it doesn't align with you know the dictate and the doctrines or the the the attributes of the believer they're not surprised when they do when they do something like that when they when they are misaligned or they do something that is opposed to what what's scripture preach is but they are very surprised they have they are so surprised they are taking a back you know they want to leave the church when a bishop or a leader you know does something that that again is not is not aligned with what's written in scripture and the excuse they give is I mean you are a leader now you are supposed to be an example but we we are members we are not supposed to you know you can cut off some slack you know but when we read and of course there is basis for that because the Bible says you know I'm Paul also giving charges to Timothy and Titus now in choosing the leader you know there is their certain attributes that you must look for in choosing the leader but remember Paul did not say that Timothy when you want to do the leader give one yearly time and then before that one years start telling the truck that we are about to appoint the kings we are about to appoint elders so the people that sort of bring them into like a house of well not big brother house but out of you know leadership accelerator so whereas they go through they start to exhibit that behavior you know is after one year period they can now appoint people to be leaders so let them audition for being leaders no and we also see that same thing in acts as well what the Bible says that they were going to choose you know deacons and elders because the apostles did not want to leave you know the ministry of where the parents start serving tables the Bible says that they should choose from amongst them so it was sort of the the the the sort of the disciples or the communication of the disciples at three of their apostles was sort of that as exemplary living you should be so common amongst you that at a random selection of the PD says it's all the time a random selection of believers is actually a Stephen a random selection of believers is actually a dick and a random selection of believers that are working according to the pathway and the doctrine of salvation and godliness is actually a dick in one order right because that is what is expected so you know exemplary living is not reserved for people who would be leaders of the church of course for people that are the leaders of church is not negotiable but it's not reserved for them exemplary living is the expectation of all Christians it's the expected norm and it's not the exception is the expectation for everybody every Christian is is meant to live an exemplary lifestyle is meant to show by their good work is meant to have a consistent pattern that people can people can tie back to scripture people can read and say that this one is a Christian what I'm reading in what I'm reading in Romans in this my neighbor fits it what I'm reading in in Romans this my this my colleague at work fits it what I'm reading this person that I'm sitting on the queue you know fits it that the other day I was I was traveling I was traveling back I think we were at at this no we were coming at the different points that we stopped chat this woman okay well it was just one suppose because I saw once and then I saw in Ligus so I saw she was on the queue she was she was you know she was just on the queue she was abiding by the laws whatever they said she was you know abiding by it she was following the queue immediately we got to Ligus this woman decided to jump the queue she just left the queue as they're moving forward and then I just I just I just said I think I exclaimed boy it was loud I was like ah that boy you were willing to you know line up and I'm dead to the rules in at this I think and then she said oh that was your own your needs too much and that's what she said and she is that then she continued to work talk to all exemplary leaving is the expectation is the expected norm and not the exception it is expected regardless of geography it is expected regardless of stage of life it is expected regardless of leadership position it is expected of every believer first the Thelonians won from the 67 says says and you became followers of us and of the Lord I won't receive the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit so that you became examples to all in Macedonia and I care who believe so I was saying here that it's a a possible was talking to the old Thessalonian church and was saying that because you were followers of us and you were followers of the Lord because you have received the word regardless of why you received it sometimes you also received it in much affliction and I'll touch on that in a bit it says with the joy of the Holy Spirit so that you became what that did to you is that it made you an example to everyone in Macedonia and I care so it's expected of everyone you know exemplary leaving is also expected even when there are contradictions sometimes we say that the certain context that we enter into it is like oh God you know give me a break give me a break just just give me a break you know you are you are on that sort of intense pressure you that used to say my brother I greet you my brother sister God bless you God be with you you are on that intense pressure you just you just use a vulgar word I am like ah sorry if the pressure is the pressure the pressure was a lot the pressure was a lot it says you receive the word in much affliction there is no level of contradiction there is no level of affliction or temptation that would excuse the requirement of exemplary leaving in the life of a believer that's the expectation of scripture like we said it requires patience to go from substance to progressive form or increase in progressive form so we're not we're not discussing the the work of patience we are saying patience I've been it's perfect working you at some points must leave you entire must leave you grown must give you mature patience must have said but then allow patience to have its perfect work let it do its perfect working you the aim of patience is to work perfection in the believer is to work perfection in the believer so it's not like oh I have the spirit is in my heart is in my mind is what I've is what I've taught you know is what I say in my room but somehow it's not it's it's never in your conduct it's never in your actions it's never in your actions so examples unfortunately unfortunately we are not exemplary leaving is not also excused from contradictions we cannot be going through contradictions and say that okay because I'm under pressure and so at that time that I'm under pressure you know I can I can just give in you know I can I can act like the people of the world I can act like the I can look like the children of disobedience just for a day just for a day you know just for a night only just for one day you know be not knowing that it's in those seasons that you are we sometimes witness the most it's in the seasons where people say that I am this person doesn't have any money this person doesn't have fifty nine years this person is the treasury officer and this person would not take a dime this person would not take a dime because because this there is an impact that Christ has on it has had on this person there is an impact there is an impact the person cannot recover from that impact the person can recover one of the pictures that you know that was painted in my head just as I was reading and meditating was you know imagine you are okay I think that's for the second point I'm going to say but okay I'll get I'll get there then let me run ahead of myself so there is an expectation and I know some HDDs they go at the at the at the beginning of last year or was it was the end of two years ago we started to look at you know the letter of you know Jesus to you know the churches and you know Jesus tried to write letters to the churches through the angels of the churches and he started to evaluate them against certain metrics and one of the thoughts that left with me is if there is no expectation then there is no basis for evaluation the reason why Jesus is writing the letters and he's saying that oh you know I have I have this against you I know that you know you know how to you know rebuke false teachers but I have this against you you have you have forsaken your first love is because this expect that there is a manner of believer there is a way a believer should conduct himself in love impurity in faith and because at the end of a particular time these believers have not conducted themselves so I'm writing an evaluation statement to them so that they can cross correct so if there is no expectation there would never be evaluation there would never be examination there will never be a reason why there is a fire at the end of you know at the job at the at the end of time during judgments and our works will pass to which works if there is no criteria which works which fire is my works now passing through if there's no criteria so exemplary leaving again is expected is the expectation of Christians and not just leaders and it's the expected norm and not the exception number two and example present contextual applications of concepts and principles you know in the book of Hebrews there's a concept about priesthood that Hebrews shows and highlights where he says that you know a priest is taking from amongst them for them so and you can apply that to the concept of exemplary leaving as well you know they an example is a an explanation or a relatable explanation of a principle or a concept that would otherwise have would not be understood so somebody saying what does Christ mean for someone that has gone through this kind of life and God's the Holy Spirit or Jesus saves you from that kind of life and to the work of the Holy Spirit begins to work transformation in you you are actually the explanation for what it looks like for Jesus for Jesus to save somebody that has come from that experience but imagine a scenario where and I'm just going to use a very a very extreme example right in an extreme example where somebody is saved from prostitution you know literally used to be in a brothel with a bunch of ladies days to go out every night you know and then this lady says she saved and this lady leaves the brothel for for for maybe six months or a year I mean she saved she's taken out of the brothel she goes somewhere they don't I used to be friends don't see her anymore and they then meet her in two years time but actually they actually meet her not on the streets of not on the streets where they used to pedal before they now see her on another streets you understand another street five away from them and they ask they ask okay oh we have you been with nothing you for a long time and then she says oh yeah I got saved I'm a Christian and and I I propose this that three years and for some people it might take four years five years but I'm saying people don't see you those people don't see you for a length of time and they didn't see you and they're like oh we have you been and she's like oh yeah I got saved I moved out I don't do that life anymore but they're seen now on the streets about to flood down your car and she's saying oh I'm a Christian now imagine the amount of confusion that's like okay you have a Christian ahead like what does that what does that mean what has done out don't you like okay I Christian shoe or and I'm using extreme examples now it's if that used to they used to raid and all of that and then you know again it leaves is called go somewhere and then it comes back and it tells his friends I'm a Christian now and oh we are going tonight oh let's pray let me pray let me bless your raid let me bless our raid tonight let me bless where we are going to or a couple that is not a couple you know wake up from the same bed that is not a matrimonial bed and because we must say these things right we must we must put forward these examples else where we are you know there's something Charles Pergen says it's sham conversion we're not we have to we have to put so that these things are relatable so you you you the couple the couple that is not a couple wakes up from a matrimonial bed that is not a matrimonial bed together go to church and they lift up their hands and they're not lifting up their hands and they don't go to church and go directly to the pastor pastor's office they go to the main bowl of the church the main auditorium they lift up their hands in worship to God to God and then they lift church lock their hands back together and go back to the house that they came from and in their neighborhood they are known as Christians and example is a conceptual explanation to a concept and principle that otherwise is misunderstood by everybody else that everybody else they don't understand what it means to be Christian but when they look at you it suddenly comes to light remember how Antioch says that they saw them and the only thing they could use to describe them was that these people are Christians I remember what I said earlier it's not without afflictions it's not without contradiction when I was saying that you know this godly living or this exemplary living is when everything is you know nice the sun is shining that's not what we're saying we're saying that can't rain conscience and even in the deepest of afflictions it's used to stay with this person that has card me forever and for life I'm for good for good I'm happy doing it I'm happy in this in this good and good what may look like a box life boy that's really a free life praise God so an example is a relatable explanation of a principle an example doesn't exist by itself it exists as a contextual representation of an otherwise incomprehensible principle your talk will not get get them to ready need to get to sometimes your your talk needs to be backed by your actions most times your thoughts need to be backed by your actions else your thoughts will be your actions will betray what you were saying our actions will betray what we are saying it will betray what we're saying you know we have sometimes you know Christians in some certain positions and they can't they can't even venture to to witness in that place they can't they can't venture to witness in that place in fact they they can't even show that is the truth that they are going because it means that everybody everybody just put all of us in the same basket because if this is your member that means all of you are like that that means your pastor that that's I remember when I got when I initially got saved and I was so my mom my mom is the same and we got saved and there are times that at home you know we'll do something and my mom is the first thing she will blow out would be like this is what they are teaching people in church so this is what they are teaching people these are the teaching people to act these are the teaching people to speak these are the teaching people to so it's like I'll get there but it's like it's a telltale sign of so there they are I can vividly remember times and this is decades ago now please decades ago I can vividly remember time that you'll be like tomorrow you're following it's the mosque because if this what they are teaching people I'm going to take you to the back to the mosque where I can know that they're going to use king to to you know bring you back into alignment so she's like is this what they are teaching is this what they are telling is this what they are teaching is this how because and reason she said that is because there is a behavior that is not aligned with what she thinks they should be teaching and this is even more realistic now because it's not even so there is a moral base then there is deeper than or higher than that the Christian base right so and in a in a generation you know pastor said last week that when you do an example in the generation you have lost you have lost the generation and in every generation the workings and the beautiful working and in the mercy of God's beautiful working of the Holy Ghost is to ensure that there is a way it is trend things believe us to stand in that generation so that there is no generation that is without excuse when we start to you know shift ground and we start to excuse ourselves from some domains of example I live in because of the amounts or how dark the days are what we are saying is that actually whenever we come to God on the Judgment Day there is an excuse what we are saying is that the high priesthood of Jesus is actually not sufficient that there is a domain of temptation there is a domain that is is priesthood doesn't actually cover that the fact that oh he has been tempted in every way as we are actually doesn't apply in all context that Jesus you have not meant to believe us in 2026 all this what they are saying is for is for the time of you know or do you want to learn by the believers I'm talking about the believers in 2026 you have not made them so you're your blood these are just just puts your blood aside this one this is what's what there is something that Romans 5 says it says that where sin abounds where darkness is stuck where sin abounds he said there is something that abounds much more he says grace abounds much more now what they the provision in God that no matter how dark the times get there is a manner of light that can still shine from a believer forced into the world that makes the world without excuse it makes the world without excuse my wishes that we are fragrance to some people we are fragrance of life on to life people see you and they're like ah thank God I'm on this parcel thank God I'm on this but I see brother so so I thank God I'm on this part but there's a moment that see you and you are actually a fragrance to them of death on to death because you are they just look at you and they're like they are offended by you they are offended by you and there's some you know setting groups of people in some in some parts of the world that are offended by believers believe us are just standing where we are in sheds my sheds is offending you my smile is offending you my refusal to do something is offending you I'm not going on the offensive I'm only staying on the defense in fact I'm just going to abut my normal life but my normal life is the idea of fending you it says that's the kind of believers that we are we are of so examples are required to speak the language of godliness in a generation it's required in 2027 in in generation generation Z we need examples there alpha we need examples omega we need the examples whatever will come after omega I don't know I don't know if I need to come after omega again they already named them but omega I don't know what will come after them again plots per adventure of course there will be people that will come after them whatever they named them examples examples Christians that will leave their lives after a certain pattern and they would speak the language of godliness in a generation okay let's move number three examples are not only are only created through examples are only created by exposure to godly doctrine to the doctrine that occurs and agrees with with godliness with godliness that's that's how any other doctrine would read concept fit exact examples or counterfeits never examples counterfeits every other kind of doctrine reads counterfeits the only example that actually the only doctrine that actually breeds examples in the world today is the doctrine of godliness true examples are as described by scripture and the admonition that Paul gave to Timothy is god is the doctrine of godliness right titles one one says Paul about one servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the face of God's elect and the acknowledgement of truth which occurred with godliness Dalatians 167 says I marvel that you are turning away so soon from him who has called you into the grace of Christ to a different gospel which is not the gospel but there are people that come into the face by another kind of gospel and so it's almost not surprising because there is a kind of lifestyle that follows that gospel or some people start on the gospel and the doctrine of godliness and the gospel of salvation the true gospel of salvation and they get swayed swayed or they get moved or blown into and not a false doctrine that makes them stop the life of exemplary living and start to do other things and there are two kinds of doctrine that you know produces perversion produces concept fits the first doctrine is the doctrine of escape from terror escape from terror the second doctrine is the doctrine of convenience the first doctrine is doctrine of escape from terror where people are coming into face people come into the fold and the reason why they've come into the fold is just because the ones who escape the ones who escape a common doom and I most of us remember I can remember it vividly from compost days where you are in the boss and a certain denomination rightly so because there is also room for that expression of evangelism in the face we need we need that okay so they they get in the boss and they're like give your life to Christ and the reason why you give your life to Christ so that you don't go to her and I remember this particular day that myself my friend and I were walking to the library of course I wasn't well not of course but I happened to be wearing the jeans daddy and I don't even know my friend was wearing and this lady comes to me as we're walking towards the library can I take a library and you are this lady comes to me and she didn't even greet me she didn't say sister how are you she didn't say anything she just said the way I'm dressed I'm going to help you know and my friend as if she knew she just started to say in Cal just let's be going in Cal don't speak which is a lesson in faith as well she said in Cal don't speak you know just don't let us be great I said no I called that back I said I was speaking I called I just let us go and read I said no I called that back and I was like that is not the right way to preach the gospel that's okay like why would you just say I'm going to help like you don't even know my context don't know where I'm coming from like that's not the right way of course as long as she she had me you know but I just I had to say what I had to say which is not a lesson in faith you know sometimes you have to keep quiet but I had to say what I just wanted to say that and then my friend and I just you know continued in so can I decay like breathe I perhaps she would see another lady and then she would also or somebody else as you probably say that's what I got it off my chest anyways so the doctrine of terror where people feel like okay the reason why they're they've come into the faith is actually to escape doom to escape doom to escape hell to not be punished so sometimes when people leave their lives a certain way and just towards the end and this is not again we know about the the three from the cross that are just at the end of his life you know he found himself just because he repented and you know told Jesus to remember him he found himself in paradise so there is a there's a domain for that there's a place for that there's a video that I saw on Instagram that sort of you know just graphically represented that and he was so funny and he just spoke about the mercy of God but there's a domain for that but there are people that they know that they want to do what they want to do in this life so if if I come into if I become a Christian now all these requirements no I want to enjoy my life let me enjoy my life then they wouldn't say that what's who was the end at the quarter that's if they are God they have the timeline they have the clock so they know when it's quarter to the trumpet sound he said before the trumpet sounds I would give my life so that I would just put more yeah there's a yoga where I'm looking for that doesn't come to my mind that I just I just escaped I've just entered right and there is a story I saw in second king 17 and for for time I'm just going to leave through it's very quickly where that explains this very very up list second king 17 so second king 17 from verse so the backstory here is you know the Israelites you know this a bit God the rebel against God and God made or gave allowance to the king or Syria to actually cut them away as you know refugees of religious or whatever into a particular land and so he moved them think he moved them out of the land the Bible says in verse five second king 17 verse five she is now the king of Assyria went throughout all the land and went of the Samaria and be seated for three years and in the ninth year Oshia the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria and placed them in Allah and by the abode the river of gozaan and in the cities of medicine I'm just going to go past all of that and in verse 24 he says that then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon Kusa ever amaz from Sefar veim and placed them in the cities of Samaria and instead of the children of Israel they took possession of Samaria and so these people these strangers dwelt in those cities and it was so at the beginning of the adrenaline that they did not fear the Lord and therefore the Lord sent lions amongst them which killed some of them so because of the lion that God sent amongst them the nations so they spoke to the king of Assyria saying the nations whom you have removed and placed in these cities of Samaria do not know the rituals of the God of the land therefore he has sent lions amongst them and indeed they are killing them because they do not know the rituals of the God of the land then the king of Assyria commanded saying send their one of the priests whom you have brought from there let's even go and dwell there and let them teach the rituals of the God of the land then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and brought in Bethel and began to teach them so it was like a misplacement God drove up and which is a symbolism of what has happened to us you know God ungraphed the Jews so that we maybe as Gentiles we may be grafted in so he says we came into a particular land that was not a land that quote and unquote belonged to us from from from the beginning quote and unquote which God always wanted us to be in but he says that as they entered into that land you know they were they were attacked by lions and they said that the reason why you are attacked by lions is because you don't understand the rituals of the God of this land and you need to understand and that's why you've been attacked by lions so the king of Assyria then took a a priest from the Tribune of Israel and took them took the priest to Samaria where these strangers now were and was not telling the priest to teach them about the the way of the God of this land which is God and he says that however every nation continued to make the gods of his own that's in restaurant nine and for lack of time I will just jump to because now it's time to mention the different gods and all of that I'll just move to verse 33 which is the the pact that struck me the most he says they fear the Lord yet served their own gods according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away and that's the impact of false doctrine when you know people are exposed to false doctrine the doctrine that is not you know according or agree that doesn't agree with God liness what happens is that they fear God in one kind of way but they continue to uphold their own idols in their own hearts so but the problem with that is that God cannot be paired with another kind of God God cannot you can't put God in the same book else you can't you know make a blessing to God in the morning and then they do that for another God in the night God wants us to serve him and him alone God wants our life to show that we are serving him and him alone so these people were they were the caricature of the phenomenon so they were fearing God but they had their own idols they were fearing God and what they had they had their own idols and sometimes that's also what you know the doctrine of escape from terrible produces that oh I'm coming into Christianity because I'm afraid because they think that at the end of one end of each now you know there would be a there would be judgment and I don't want to be in hell so I'm going to be here but I'll also hold on to my idols I will hold on to my idols I will hold on to those things that I can't dare I will hold on to the things I love I will hold on to the things I revere and I only need God for it's he gets into everything beyond that so the doctrine of escape from terror tells people to come into the face only to be saved from doom so salvation is motivated by fear the problem is that the Bible says that fear creates bondage because they have all their lifetime been subject to bondage because they are afraid that that's what fear creates bondage so they are still afraid so salvation is reduced just to escape they don't touch on the life of the Holy Ghost they don't understand what it means to be a new creation concept or a new creation reality that all of that of freedom from sins power they continue to be held bound to sin held bound to fear so what they do is that they manage sin and they're not they're not taught or I am powered to overcome sin overcome a lion tongue overcome you know a deceitful lifestyle overcome a life of stuck hatred overcome a life of and I'm not saying this simplisticly or insensitively I'm not saying these things like oh as if I'm insensitive to what people may have gone through but like I said you know an example means that someone has had an impact on you and there is an impact the word of God doesn't come with word and it also comes with power there is an attendant power the salvation brings along with it it's called the power in the life of the Holy Ghost so I'm not saying that you know you are you did not have this kind of origin that's what I'm saying I'm saying that there is a provision for your origin in God that when you when you interact with the person of the Holy Spirit interact with the word of God at some point you will begin to reflect like past or totals just stay here you know at some point you will respond at some point you will reflect but we cannot say that you know there is something that may have happened to us in our history that would make us never reflect that make us insolent or we will never reflect all of the power of God I say that's in life that's in life of the devil that's that's what I say that's that's my that's my conclusion on that matter it's in life it's in life so sometimes when people are when we are speaking about God and it looks like we should be very sensitive to where people have come from and all of that yes that's we we are we we have that as a backdrop against what we are saying but we also know that there is power there is power in this thing that we're talking about there is power here there is power power to change it it exists for is God so these people that align with the doctrine of terror they are frustrated but they continue in the life that they hate or sometimes even love they are saved but they are still enslaved and sometimes you can love they can love their enslavement sometimes they can hate their enslavement you can either love it you can love what you are enslaved to because it doesn't mean you're not a slave the fact that you are addicted you can love being an addicts you can love what you're watching but it doesn't still mean that you are still you're still enslaved you're still in bondage and then you can also hate what you're doing and you're still in bondage right so they they are frustrated but they continue in the life that they hate the doctrine of convenience says that Christ exists as a service provider to serve us our ambitions our lost our comforts and our inordinate desires and so there is no concept about laying down our lives to pick up the life of Christ there is no concept about living the life that's borrowed we are using you know people in those sects are using you know salvation and the doctrine of salvation and the blood of Jesus and the grace of our Lord to validate their desire and not to crucify their desires that's what they're doing so everything about the gospel and every doctrine is almost commoditized what's in it for me you know our pastor was talking about some this is 20 20 20 20 22 let's 22 like everything is not about you know what we what you eat what you would drink you know how you would survive you know every everything every word every revelation has to be about this thing is speaking about the car at the bible says when Elijah told they have you know let his character in our head he said ah thank you Jesus my love beginning is coming it's taking me ahead it's taking me my love beginning is taking me ahead you know everything is just everything is just commoditized everything is survivalized everything is everything is just everything is about us what we will eat what we would drink I will survive you know I'm going to talk about much on you you are thinking about you know one else in banana island that that's where you're going to end up that's the one showing that God is talking about that's the mansion that God has prepared for you you know and of course he is possible our companions he has blessed every spiritual person seven places in Christ so you're like uh everything is come everything is just commoditized makes your selfish Christians and we are not your selfish and when I say selfish it's never going to selfish to ourselves it's actually self you're not considered of the blood that actually died for you like like really the blood that died is for you to by the beginning like really the blood of like Jesus came down from heaven and went down to heates God buried God crucified God beating God's pattern and the reason for that is that you're driving messages that that's that's the height of your Christian experience is is messages that that's the heights is is banana island is that you have traveled 190 eight out of 155 countries that's the height of your Christian experience really really so those kinds of Christians are overrun by greed and they are God is their bellies so whatever it is so when you have to in guessing those things that you think are the show of face when you have to um you know sacrifice on the altar those things that Paul is saying been an example of a believer you can lie now what's lying what's lying if God the mansion that God is praying for me is banana island I must get there I must lay hold I must lambano I must lay hold of what God has promised me which is so what's lying what's lying in laying out because if I don't lie now I'm not lay out of the house and God will ask me heaven God will ask you how many houses that you had so you need to lay hold and you need to lie to get there you need to cheat somebody you need to be competitive you need to be caught throats to get there that happens when our God is our bellies and for this domain of Christians as well conviction is seen as harsh discipline is seen as legality so he's somebody living in life of discipline look at past the damage and I say pastor pastor has been legalistic you know pastor is too much this barbie fastin seven days is too much is leg is legality you know you you you equate every Christian to it every true Christians we far we see which is wrong um and then correction is seen as on loving so somebody tries to correct you and you're like his own is true I beg I beg I beg I beg I beg I beg I beg I beg God knows every way that is seven days at the end of day we all know we all know God knows my heart God knows I love him so much yes God knows that you love him but God also wants you to love him too he loved you so much he gave his son to die for you what will you give what will we give God to also show that we also love him back it's not just about collecting collecting collecting we also have to give God as well and the way we give God is offering a sacrifice to him a sweet smelling sacrifice not a sacrifice that God you just have to take this one the food is sports bar bag tickets my leg god use uh use it that was I can go like this food is not nice but does take it does accept it's no we have to love to want to give God a sacrifice that is sweet smelling to him sweet smelling because he wanted to have that communion with us he sent Jesus Christ to die you have to understand this he sent Jesus Christ to die because he wants to commune with us then you're now saying that after God sent Jesus Christ to die just take me as I am just take it's yeah do you guys guys have died I am my parents pranked the blood but just you take it no no we must leave a life that accords with the doctrine of godliness it accords with the doctrine of godliness and one of the prominent features of a godly and fully exemplary christian is the fear and the reverence of God look at what Joseph said would I do this thing and and and see me against God I don't care about Pharaoh Pharaoh is the list of my worries because if I satisfy God I will satisfy Pharaoh and if I satisfy God and don't satisfy Pharaoh I'm willing to go to prison for it I'm willing to go to prison for it I'm in prison I will still be happy like he had some call I'm in prison and I'm still happy like Pharaoh's wife who does be confused don't I've said oh like look I'm sorry I'm a pretty first wife she would not be confused I look at this guy that I sent to prison he's laughing he's happy he's interpreting people's dreams he's the comedian in the prison you know he's learning he's still learning besides many times I'm not sure but he's the comedian in the prison regardless of what's going on with him he's still joyous because for him he's leaving for the audience of one he's only God that matters and I'm not saying this again because you know we have to caveat everything all this things every time I'm not saying that he's only God that matters in that you know you know you know you you don't disobey the voice of come so that's not what I'm saying but I'm saying in the face of contradiction God God God matters above you know a line a line or a line in with that contradiction right and when we talk about the doctrine of Godliness the doctrine of Godliness never jumps on us it's not something that you just with friend ourselves be exercise ourselves so there are things that like if I had obeyed my friend diet I should not keep quiet there are times that you know you are in your right to speak but God will ask you to deny your right and keep quiet you are in your right to act if you know if you are acted this way out of pressure people look at you I'm like ah it's okay you haven't tried but even in that moment you deny your right to act in that way because you're training your body on to Godliness you're training your members you're modifying your members one of the things you find in the the trail of a an exemplary Christian is a living trail of modification they can tell you what they died to yes they can they can tell you what they died to two days ago the Holy Spirit is always asking you to die there is always something there is always oku deer oku deer oku deer until you don't come sorry for those guys that they don't understand what I'm saying there's there's always something there's always something more there's always some more fun in the Holy Spirit wants to do there's always some days the Holy Spirit never has it like that there is never enough because for him the picture is seen is Christ and as long as Christ does not come he wakes up well he doesn't sleep or wake up but let's just say for February he wakes up in the morning and he sees that oh Christ does not come okay Christ does not come online because this way you must die today as Christ does not come there is there still a picture there is a pimple here so this that's what you must die to apply a patch on it apply a patch you know and if you fail the class you repeat it again for his God I watch here don't be toned in your body but lean in your spirit don't don't don't subscribe to five months of of of eyewitness classes but you know you are we are obese in this spirit because we are not training ourselves on to goodness we must train ourselves on to goodness and it is in this realm and pattern of exemplary living that God has called us to first be differentiated as Christians not in mundane mundane possessions will come we'll have those things you will have those things and we know that this is not a house that's preaches you know the fact that all of all those things are not necessary yes prosperity is important for the progress of the gospel but it's in the domain of exemplary living according to what Paul admonished Timothy that God would expect us to first be differentiated he doesn't want you to have cars and there is there are characterizes stench to people he doesn't want us to have cars and vulgar words everywhere we are we are using rights words in church but you know you know there was a picture that came to me one day there was this advertiser and I sort of thought about it in in a church sense I was like imagine you're typing on your phone and you type a google from and past Adam's voice comes back to you so you say google what is this and the person that responds to you is past Adam's voice like so past Adam's voices are your phone how excited in difference or I shit like where would your reaction be in this scale excited in different or ashamed seller just I'll just I'll just leave it there um number four I think well almost run out of time number four there would be no exemplary living if there is no repentance on partnership with the Holy Ghost I'm not I won't be able to deep dive on into this because of time but what I will leave us with is this the Holy Spirit you know Ephesians 2 10 talks about that God we are God's walkmanship so he says that there's a bridge we are God's walkmanship were created created to do good works but the bridge between that is that we are created in Christ Jesus to do good to do good work so that God has before or then for us to do so God has prepared us prepared us to good works and the prepare the prepare I'm saying here is not prepare P-A-R-E exactly P-R-E I think P-A-R God has already before the beginning of time he has paired us up with good works each and again going to the what I said about it being an expectation God has paired us up with good works he has paired us up with good works he has paired us with good works and so what the Holy Spirit comes to do is it comes to prepare us for the work that God has already prepared us so we are prepared with those good works but the Holy Spirit comes to prepare us for so it's not like it's unexpected the Holy Spirit knows where he's going through if he does use him he knows where he's taking you to in the worst of his Christ Jesus because we have been prepared with Christ we have been set out with Christ we have that capacity on the inside of us to actually become like Christ and so what the work of the Holy Spirit is just simple if we yield and we partner with him he prepares us to the good works that he God has already prepared us with hallelujah the fifth thing is that examples leave a borrowed life and they leave on borrowed time our life is not our own we leave a borrowed life and we leave on borrowed time delicious to twenty six I have been crucified with Christ he says I no longer leave no there was a funny thing that like an agent shared in one of his books where he said you know I think he got saved then he went I think there was a brick in school and then he came back I don't know if I'm saying he writes but that's how I remember it's he came back and when he came back he started to tell his friends they started to ask him things they did the last term or last session and it's like he was like oh I cannot remember and they were like what's wrong with this wrong with this young boy it was like good I cannot remember yeah I cannot remember what he was trying to and the point was trying to drive home from that scenario that he painted was that he no longer leaves the you you knew no longer exist and it might look like you were saying in life remember what I put in me where he says you you are smoking boy he's passed out to him that while smoking does be saying I'm the righteousness of God and Christ Jesus is different from is is saying that to etch that reality in his life because there was a day that king and that shows the sincerity of your hearts there was a day that came that you could no longer bring that cigar close to his lips because he's there he suddenly don't don't even there is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus I no longer leave the life I leave now I leave in by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me so examples leave on leave we understand that we are living a broad life he's not my life so he just say keep quiet he says Jesus wants his mouth to keep quiet I remember my pastor said about the Holy Spirit is actually the landlord of the house and he can't even know if Victor's in Jesus name but he can't wait to tell you what he wants us to do Bible says you are bodies are temples of the Holy Ghost so he can tell us what he wants to do I want you to keep quiet yes I don't want you to watch that in today I don't want my body doesn't want to watch it I don't want to watch it's because there's sometimes that God wants to give you an instruction but he gives you in the first person like he speaks like is you you feel like you're hearing I want to do something but he doesn't want his body to do doesn't want his body to go day he doesn't want his body to go to that place he's the owner of the body it is his life it's no longer mine praise God I think I've touched on this before examples leave for the audience of one and the point here is God cannot have a room it either feels the entire room or he's not there at all remember the story of God and Deagon you know they brought the ark of God into the temple of Deagon and by the time they woke up the first time the guy had fell down the guy the the guy had a micro is that is that English that it doesn't it doesn't seem correct fell down and then by the second time God was like a barbecue he just everything about him scatter and his pieces were everywhere because God cannot it can't squat it can't share rooms no he either takes the whole of us or he takes none of us he takes the whole of us progressively like we said patience translate substance into form but not that perpetually you just want God to have a room to be squatting no no so a life of an exemplary lifestyle is a life that continually discovers and breaks idols so you realize that I this thing is an idol in my life I take it and I break it and I walk on that thing until I break it until God is the only one that is enthroned on the on the seat of my heart and like I said earlier it's a living thrill of modification the last one as I round off now is that examples provide the basis of judgment of the true God by outsiders you know it by who says let your light social and then men may see your good works and glorify your father and ever so also when our lights don't shine or when we when us yet they are not really the salt of the earth people are seen as and they are provided they are they are estimating the person that we we claim to represent they are given an evaluation of the person that we claim to represent so you you can oh you're a discharge member they say oh you know you're a tempest dummy's church just that you have cast like that you have to know after believing because now because however you act it's like oh past dummy remember there was a time that passed us the testimony with us where you know one of our leaders in the baptizing church network sent a test sent a recommendation to him or a commendation to him that you know the people of the PowerPoint trip are so excellent they are so excellent he has referred them to companies you know we've worked with companies we've you know that we are just excellent we are excellent and we've heard different times we're honorable we are excellent you know and this is true of the average PowerPoint tribe member but there's a maximum in someone says that a six-foot tall man drowned in a river that was already five feet deep you know that's not what I mean so a six-foot tall man drowned in a river that was already five foot so there were some parts of the river that was deeper than six foot almost like eight feet there was a part of the river that was shallower than five feet and so the six foot they said they told him that the river the death of the river is already five feet and then be that information the six foot tall man went to cross that river and he drowned in that river because they did not tell him actually that there is a part of the river that is ten feet tall the ten foot deep what I'm trying to say is this is a testimony of the average tribesman but you know your own testimony you leave it yourself you leave it yourself you know the things that you're battling with you know the things that you are sincere about and it's very important that you do not ascribe to yourself the testimony of an average tribe member is that you take these words as we go through the series and use it to inspect and check yourself you know ask the Holy Spirit to do a deep work of interest in inspection and evaluation in your life and ask yourself am I really excellent am I really honorable am I really an example of a believer in word am I really showing for this pattern of godliness am I really are people actually giving God praise on my account or people are like ah don't talk to this person because if she has busy the way she will wash you she will level you to the ground you will not exist anymore and a Christian so I hope and pray that as and one of the prayers of my heart you know just as we are going through the series is that God just show us ourselves and you know work on us work on our hearts holy spirit work on our hearts and transform us to be like Christ I rest us I rest us and transform us to be like Christ let us believe in witnesses of your spirit of your doctrine of your lifestyle of the grace that you have provided to us as Christians and I'm not able to go into the words as domain of exemplary living and the I have here for spiritual signals eating words but I would not I would not go into this because we don't have time all right so um let's just buy heads and pray let's just buy heads and pray um the Bible says that whenever the Holy Spirit one of the actions of the Holy Spirit is to is to convict us is to convict us is to convict us although the Bible says it is convicting the world of saying it's convicting the world of of righteousness but it can also do that work and convict us it can also show us the living that we have to remove from our heart it can also show us the ways that we have to align ourselves you know if in my mind I'm like oh it's only a leader I can act the way I can act I can be I can afford to be rude to a leader because after all I'm not a leader I'm only a member that's wrong as the Holy Spirit to to shine that light to bring that truth to be in your heart and begin to transform you to align with what scripture promises and what scripture um what scripture detects and commands and at the end of the day the God is glorified in your life that people look at me people look at you people look at us and you only think that comes out of the amount from to God is thanks given is thanks given heavenly Father we thank you we give you all the glory and praise in Jesus mighty name we've prayed amen and amen wow what a word for more messages connect with our tribesmen across all social media platforms at PowerPoint tribe