Game Of Thrones (Part 1)

Intro Apostle Family Lazarus is a man raised by God to demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the Last Day Church. He is the lead Pastor's Fear of Light Church and God told him years ago that a time will come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough times in the body of Christ. Then I will cause your voice to be heard and all who pay attention to my word on your lips will not lack light and direction. He's a man sent from God, sent to raise God's end time armies with Apostle Fermi Lazarus. Every minute counts as you listen attentively. Speaker 2 That through this series you will bring your church back to alignment. You will bring your church back to alignment. For anyone who has been in the state of perpetual blindness. Through this series there will be recovery of sight. There will be help for the church, The church in Nigeria, the church in Africa, the church in America, the church in Europe, all over the world. Lord, you will realign us and strengthen us. We give you praise there, Lord, in Jesus mighty name, Amen. All right, God bless you. You may please be seated. So I'm going to start today and I'm going to say a few things as we commence. Let me give you an introduction. Cover your boat note. Short your note. Let me talk to you for the next 10 minutes. OK, close your note. Anything that concerns the crowd or should I say history as soon as, and I need to be specific now that the crowd, they are not always smart, they are programmable, they can be easily deceived, particularly what we are trying to learn now. We are already behind schedule for it in the timetable of God and we have lost ground. So tonight I'm going to make an attempt to show us the ground that we have lost, that we will move from need based Christianity to having combatant mentality. We will move from procrastination to proactiveness. We'll move from selfish Christianity into understanding of the agenda and what is at stake. So when we teach in this direction, the gate of hell react. And the reason why most times the reactions of the gate of hell is mostly successful is because many Christians are dull. 80% of believers are not in churches that there are strategic systems for building. So you may hear them use the church language, but they don't even know what the church is. And when you listen to them and hear their thoughts, it is more glaring that the agenda of the Kingdom that should be the fulcrum of the Church has not been communicated, and many don't know that their Christianity is yet to start. They give their life to Christ in the midst of Give me, Give me all the theology they know, all the doctrine they know is wired around themselves. So we practice a kind of Christianity that we tend to project that I'm expecting God to do this, and if it doesn't come, I have an option. There are many civilians, but few soldiers. We measure church strength by seating capacity, not sending strength, and they sit for long and they are not sendable. At some point it is irresponsibility to be at the age of war and not be able to go for war or go to war. In Israel from age 20 should be numbered amongst men of war. It is important that you understand that you're already overseating your welcome. The End-Time Church It's time to go to war. The church that is in the most distressing time in human history, the end time church. If that church feels relaxed, it is not because there is no war going on, it is because the church is yet to see. The church that we have now don't know their right from their left. They can be easily manipulated and the loudest people don't even know anything about Bible. How can people who don't know the Bible know who is a false teacher, who is a correct teacher? It is not eloquence. So what we are about to learn the church, he's already behind schedule for this. And because we are behind schedule, like I said, we already have casualties. I've lost ground and it is my innest desire that God will open our eyes. I didn't hear you meant to that that God will put in horse. The hunger for end time battle the desire to bring down the Kingdom in one or two-minute leaves your voice and pray loud enough. Help me. I want to be relevant in your agenda. I want to serve you. I want to do my part the last day Church, help me, help me, help me. Please pray you have a moment. Please pray, pray, help me. Thank you Lord, in Jesus mighty name. We're praying. All right, please sit down. Revelation 1 Let me try introduce you to this. And I teach in the simplest way. So you ought to be able to understand. Turn your Bibles to the book of Revelations. Revelations chapter #12 And I'm going to start the reading from verse one. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, Revelations 12 from verse one. Revelation 12 And the moon under her feet and upon her head a count of 12 stars. And she been with child, cried travelling in bed, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and 10 horns, and seven crowns upon the earth. And he still drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be delivered for to devour child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule nations with a rod of iron. And a child was caught up unto God and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared of God that they should feed out there for 1260 days. That's what there is called verse seven. And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not neither was their place found anymore in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world, was cast out into the earth, and his angels cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying, In heaven, now is comes salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ. For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before God their knight, and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimonies, And they love not their lives unto death. Therefore rejoice ye heavens, and ye that dwell therein. Now this is very serious woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea for the devil is come down to you having great roots because he know it that his time is short. Now this is a very, very interesting scripture and if there's you understand Bible time or timeline arrangement or what we call chronological arrangement of event. The Beginning of the World But this particular event described a beginning or somewhere in the beginning before the beginning began. So when you read the book of Genesis 11, you meet an introduction that says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was tough form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God upon the peace of the waters. And God said, let there be light and there was light. So this was the beginning. The same way you sometimes you see a movie and you start from the beginning of the movie, but you still know that something is wrong and it looks like the story is not complete. But it is in the discretion of the script writer somewhere in between, to go back to a beginning before that beginning that will make you understand that beginning. So when you read Genesis 11, in the beginning God makes the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form and void. That is talking about a beginning. But it doesn't make sense in itself because if the Bible says that God made meaning that he perfected and He finished two things, and the Bible now says in verse 2 without much explanation that one was empty, and then it was without form, and then darkness was there and the one who made it is light, then something is wrong. It puts us in a place where we have questions. So Genesis chapter #12 now attempts to introduce us to the beginning before that beginning that now makes that beginning make more sense. So if the Bible says that in the beginning God made the heavens and the earth, so we now know in between that there was war in heaven, the dragon, which is the devil, and his angels fought. What were the demands? What were the things that happened in that war? The Bible said there was no place found for him, and the one who stood to resist him vehemently is the Angel called Michael. OK, So what was the demands? What were the things that happened? What were the things that were contained in that war? So the Bible is not much of A direct book in terms of chronological arrangement or what we call human calendar arrangement. Sometimes you go forward, sometimes you go back. Sometimes the answer in the to the future is in the past. Is that OK now? Sometimes the answer to the past is in the future. So we look at the event showed to us in the book of Isaiah chapter #14 Isaiah chapter #14 and I want us to pay attention to that. Isaiah 14 Now let's start the reading from, let's start reading from verse 12 for the sake of time. Isaiah 14 from verse 12 Our Thou fallen, O Lucifer, son of the morning, our thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken nations. Now we read from Genesis 1 to the Book of Revelation. OK, we find out that the fall of the devil is not anywhere between Genesis 1 and Revelation. It must have been somewhere before. Is it simple enough to understand? It must have been somewhere before. So Isaiah now is speaking prophetically. And I want us to understand that the Bible is not an academic literature. It is not literal. In Biblical human ethics we teach students on how to understand the science and the heart of Bible interpretation. There are no Bible scholars. We are Bible students. The Bible itself is a prophetic compilation. Some things are literal, some things are prophetic. Only men speak as they were moved of God, but if you ask them, the men of them may not understand the depth of the things they were sharing. But it did not take the fact that this is an inspired word. Is this simple enough? Because Isaiah began to speak as moved by the Spirit. For instance, if you look at the event documented in Ezekiel 37, it's not literal. The hand of God came upon me and took me in the Spirit and took me to a valley full of bones and the Lord caused me to walk around them that that that scripture was talking about the nation of Israel. That was their spiritual state. So when he said call for win from the fall from the head, I read call for the wind as he let the wind blow up on the sling. The word wind there is not literal rock. It's the breath of God, and I'm teaching you this because as long as the heaven and the earth remains, the Bible cannot be treated as an academic book. You have to understand that. Is this simple enough? All right, so how are thou falling from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? How are thou caught down to the ground? And which did what weaken nations? Now look at verse 13. For you, thou hast said in thine heart, you said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the clouds, the height of the clouds. I will be like the Messiah. Yet you shall be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit, and there that CD shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying, Is this the man that made the heads to tremble, that did shake kingdoms, that made the world as a wilderness? Nobody in human history has done this but the devil, and destroyed the cities thereof, and open not the House of his prisoners. Now, so we we have seen that this great or otherwise formerly great general or Angel at some point said, I want to be like the Mossai. I want my throne to be exalted above the stars. In order to give you insight as touching what that word means, I will have to show you the Book of Job chapter #38 Job chapter #38 Turn your Bibles there. Job 38 Now this was when Job was asking questions and was talking about his righteousness and how that is too righteous to go through what he's going through. So from verse one the bows says, then the Lord answered Job out of the wild wind and said, who is this that darkness counsels by words without knowledge? Grid up now your loins like a man, for I will demand of you certain questions, and you will answer me. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if you have understanding who laid the measures of it. Tell me if you know who stretched the lines upon it, Where was the foundations fastened, or who laid the corners? It means the earth can't be a Big Bang. God is taking responsibility. I laid the foundations, I drew the lines, I fastened the depth, everything as touching our physical earth. When you study to understand it, you know they are precise. And sometimes if you have a measure here and you lack something that you have a disrupted state. Even the speed with which the force of gravity attract the distance between the earth and the sun. It was a bit farther. Who freeze? If it was a bit closer, we'll born, he said. Who did the measurement? Tell me if you know, science cannot prove God. Science can discover a part of His works because even the laws of science are established on the faithfulness of God. They are not created, they are discovered. You don't create the law of gravity. You discover it. It's there and you need to understand for us to build around those laws, we can only successfully build around them because they are constant. You can't build around God's faithfulness and come back and say it doesn't exist. It's foolishness. So it takes a fool to say in his heart that there's no God. Is it simple enough? We're going somewhere. Now look at verse 7. Verse 7 now says when the morning stars sang together and all the songs of God shouted for joy. Now there's a lot of theological arrangement argument around these subjects. So let me show you one more scripture. Turn your Bibles with me. Oh my. The book of Job chapter #1 Job chapter #1 Job one. Job 1 Let's start from verse 6. Now look at what the Bible says here. Now there was a day when the sons of God came and present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came amongst them. Now in Job 38 verse seven, since when the morning stars sign for joy and the sons of God. So who are the sons of God? I've been referred to here because the Bible here is not referring to men coming to present themselves before God. It's talking about starting class of angels. OK, so let me leave it there. But to buttress, there's a reason why Gabriel is called Gabriel and Michael is called Michael. El El Elion Elohim Hell. So when Zechariah dared to doubt him, he said, I am Gabriel, I stand before the throne. I tell you, you won't speak till the fulfillment of this prophecy has come to pass. He was talking about what's the fulfillment that God is about to give them a son. How can you wake up and say God doesn't give babies something? Zachariah went on. For the way Christianity is going, you become Eddie and your spirit man will be lean because we want to be intelligent. The Angel came and meets Abraham and Sarah in their old age and said by this time next year your wife will be with a child. If biology is what produced children, they should have produced it. They should have. They should have for 75 years they tried. It's beyond biology. All good and perfect gift comes from God. He gives. He's beyond biology. You see people who have been doing the biology for years and they've not had children. You don't tell them. And there are times that doctors can't find anything. Not all things are literal. The end time church must wake up the attempts to remove God from the equation. So the sons of God here describes the angels, certain class of them. The Sons of God So when the devil now say we can link this back to that Isaiah chapter #14 back to that scripture, let me tell you something. Do you know that influence is powerful? But what is the benefit of your influence in Egypt when Pharaoh dictates your well-being? You don't know what I mean. If there's anything the end time church must be careful about its popularity. What is wrong can spread because it appeals to those who are not formed. The deeper it gets, the fewer we become. So when it says that in verse setting, you said in your heart I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars. So you understand the stars now in Job 38, the morning stars, the angels. So it says that I want to be the number one amongst them, and I've shown you this. I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the star, the clouds, the height of the clouds. I will be like the Messiah. What does that mean? I want us to be colleagues. I want to be like you. That word can sound innocent. How can I be like you if I come to Palatovsky and say, Hey, I want to be like you? That word made. It depends on the subject. If you come to Pastor Mimi, I say what you are to your husband. I want to be like it. That's confrontation. To become what she is to me, only one person can be. To be that thing you are saying she needs to die to be like the Most High minis, We must find a way to get him out. OK. It is complete overthrowing. That's what you want to do. He was trying to stage a coup. And I I want to say this rebellion didn't start on earth, it started in heaven. Rebellion is not a sign that your system is faulty. No, it's not a sign. You can't build a perfect system against rebellion. You can manage it. We can't deserve that. And rebellion is lethal to the degree that the rebellious is close to power. Any rebellion that is loud is because you once trusted the person to occupy a position where it can be felt. That's why sensible leaders don't trust people before they train them. It is training first, so it was open challenge. I want to be like the most high. I want to rise above the stars. I want to sit in the size of the north of the congregation. That's what he was saying. I want to be like you. He's saying that it doesn't take much to be you if I can get few soldiers. Now because that season was not measured in human calendar. So it is we don't have details as touching if we interpret the season, how long it took. And sometimes people ask questions like if God is all knowing, if God knows that the devil was going to rebel, why did he create him in the 1st place? It's like God is melodramatic. If God knows that man was going to sing each of the three that is in the middle of the garden, why did God put it there only to now act surprised? What kind of person is he? His system, does it? Does it make sense? Even me, I can't run such administration. That's what they are telling themselves. So let me give you an instance. This is General Nakali. Nakali declares open war. I'm going to deal with Apostle. What you do to him depends on the kind of system you want to build. If I decide now get out of this place and dematerialize, it means the basis for your relationship with me is fear. If I allow his rebellion run his full circle, it means I'm interested in knowing those who love me willingly. God can't dematerialize him and come back and say His love. That's not a system. Run your full course. What about humanity? He knew Adam would fall. Why did you? There's an answer in the Bible. Don't rush. Sometimes people ask questions and they feel the question is a big deal. This question is deep. Let me see a pastor who can answer. What are you talking about that is a deep question in your mind? It's simple. Deuteronomy chapter #30 verse 19. Deuteronomy 30 Please sit down. Deuteronomy chapter #30 verse 19. I call heaven the heaven. Am I correct? Heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death. Blessings and what cursing. Therefore, don't choose life that you and your seed may live. Man is man because he's a free moral being. He can make choices. And you can't say you love until there's an option. Love is not loving. There's no option. I love you. You're the only woman in the world. You have no choice. So man can't exude the kind of worship that God wants until he has the option to rebel. Even till now you have the option to rebel. You can decide now that I want to go to heaven today. You can decide now. Even when you are seated, everyone is not far. You want this John, away from it. That's how free you are. Just one decision and that's it. You can decide. You can really almost decide that by this time they say you want to have hundred children, start doing mass impregnation. Then you have it and you're you know that. You know what? What becomes of it is your business, but that you can do it. You can. Why man is a free moral being. What you get when choice is not available is not love. What you get is a robot, and that's not what God has created. Let me say this to you. In creating a perfect system, you make room for imperfections. If you have a perfect system, then you have a system with limited potential. What you should have is not a perfect system, but a growing system, because the growing system will accommodate the weakness of the people and mature them. So the system God is running, it's not a system of robots. Are you aware there are people who are earnestly desiring that they will misrupture, so that when they misrupture, they'll now be able to sleep with as many girls as possible? It's a choice. It's a decision. Judas preferred 30 pieces of silver than the riches of God eternally. It's a choice. Even when the devil came for Peter, the only thing Jesus could say, look at this is that Peter, Satan has desired you to sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you. Why didn't he? Why didn't he pray for for Judas in the video Bible? He prayed for everyone. He actually prayed for everyone. They can intercede. You can be a man. You have a mother who is interceding for you and the Bible she opens to intercede for you. You decide that you like that Bible to use the leaf inside to wrap people, and because that is your choice, you do. If God wanted to control us like a robot will not be alive, some of you would have done some things that slapped you. They will go and pick your tongue in Shokoto. But it's benevolence has given us room for repentance, for growth, for maturity. It is not a weakness, it is strength. The largeness of God's heart is not a weakness, it is what strength? We're going somewhere. Are you still with me and are you learning something? OK, so whatever it was that the devil was telling those angels, Revelations 12 back to it now. The Angels Followed Jesus So much so that within the period of his rebellion, one thought. One thought. Of the stars followed him, it means that guy must have an appeal on them. Many of you probably read about people like Adolf Hitler and when you hear things that he did, how that a man will attempt to kill 6,000,000 Jews. They put them in concentration camps, put them in tunnels and kill them with gas with children, women and men. One of the things, one of the reason why I was able to do that was because he had the backing of his people. He was a master communicator out of Hitler. If the guys sit you down for an hour it will leave you 18 those eight master communicator, the devil who could speak and angels fell. The Only Chance You Have Don't overrate yourself in front of sod bean. The only chance you stand is Christ. You are not that strong. I was born in a crystal home. I can't do this. It is Christ in us, the hope of glory. That's that's the only chance. You hear thoughts in your mind. Strange thought, where is God? Who is God? Where did he come from? What's the proof that this Bible thing we are holding is even true? What's the proof? Who was there when Jesus came? When people die, where do they go to? Who has gone there to come back and tell us? Does he have proves like video recording cameras and all that? Your your head starts spinning and asking questions. That's why you need Bible study because what the devil is presenting now is that the fact that you have those questions means you are smart. You're smarter than the rest. All those who are Christians, they're fools, but you are the smart generation. So you have smarter questions. And when when they talk, you look at the things and present the things. And this is this deep question, like even no apostle will be able to even answer this question. And you hear the question is that all this question is just a sign that you were not taught. The danger of mass production of Christians You didn't grow up in a Sunday school says you didn't, you were not taught. We're not laid on the foundation. And let me tell you this, the danger of mass production of Christians with our systematic approach to biblical teaching is that the loopholes where the questions exist will be filled by devils. We can't say it is revival yet because prayer meetings where people are asking for their personal needs to be met is filled. That's not revival. It is revival when they want to hear God's word. It is revival when we begin to intercede, it is revival when we carry the burden of God. That is revival. Anybody can go before the priests of all those deities to ask for anything. Copying and pasting in Christianity is not anything special. You just change. Who are you asking? Period. An average beer parlor runs about seven services on Sunday. You run into you say we are the fastest growing church in Abuja by what you seek. You know, one of the problem with Christianity is that most times I believe we are very shallow and we are quick to make conclusions. Very, very shallow. Oh, I I control the biggest gathering in so, so and so place. How many people? OK, I say guess what population. OK, you are still doing 0.005%. Yeah, but we are trying one high man in the city of the blind. I think God is raising the church that is asking for more. Can I hear you mention that? I said God is raising the church asking for more. Can I hear a louder Amen to that? So we have seen and I'm I'm still laying theological foundation so we can see the demands of the devil. And the Bible said he was cast out of heaven and sent to the earth. He did not get what he wanted and he did not repent. So it means what he wanted then is still what he wants now. I don't have time to. All right, I have time. Let me show you. He didn't fall alone. It fell with, it fell with high-ranking beans, high-ranking angels. In systematic theology, we have a course called angelology. It's a very deep, long one. And there's also something called demonology. There is a big difference between fallen angels and demons. Fallen angels don't. They can't What's the word now possess people, the influence, the influence externally, demons possess. So when you hear we wrestled against flesh and blood, but against principalities, Princess, that's not demon. Those are angels. Principalities, powers, those are not demons, those are angels. You don't cast those ones out because they were never in. You don't cast them out. You don't cast out. You don't, you don't come to Abuja and say Abuja. I, I, I cast out the principality in Abuja. No, no, no, no. You build counter throne because every Prince sits on a throne and legislates there. We know the principality by looking at his legislation. How do we dethrone him? Counter throne, That's how we dethrone him. Powers. They're called powers because there's power against spiritual wickedness in high places. Those ones are not your jurisdiction. Leave them. The one who died for you is advising. Let them be, because your jurisdiction is dead. OK, At the marriage supper of the Lamb, we are going to be in the coyote. So not this biosphere, this cloud we see, it is in the heavenly spheres. That is when we send away the spiritual wickedness in high places. And that's what David West said. He prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies. OK, we're going to sit at the headquarters and dine for seven good years. Seven solid. Yes, the church. Listen to what I'm saying. If the Church believes that the only way you can operate is bind and lose, bind and lose, you will deal with demons. Not powers, not principalities, and even demons sometimes you know. If there's anything lacking in the torch, it is strategic. We are not strategic. We just repeat the same thing. You measure power by telling the same demon every time. Get out. Dance, dance, dance. This. Take 15 minutes from the service where the world of work would have been taught then now leaves following service. The demon is back with some colleagues. As you say in the name of the man of the say, that's power, that's power, That's no power. Because you keep sending out them out, they keep returning with more wicked ones. It means the door is open. Power is the ability to shut the door. How do we do that? Teach them, teach them, teach. Teaching ministry is deliverance ministry. Teaching ministry is deliverance ministry. Is there 10 verse 27. Teaching is deliverance ministry Isaiah 1027. I showed you this scripture on Sunday quickly. Isaiah chapter #10 verse 27 And they shall come to passing that day that the burdens shall be taken from your neck, from your shoulder, and there's yoke from your neck and the yoke shall be the shock of the anointing. Can you give me this in NIV talk about the yoke this of God fatness. So as you eat, you eat. You eat the word, you eat the word, you lie down in green pasture and eat as you eat and become big the same yoke won't fit in. There's nothing deep about it. There's nothing deep Look at it in that day their burden will be lifted from their shoulders and your yoke from your neck because the yoke will be broken because you have gone so far. I'm not saying that there is nothing like deliverance ministry. When this thing get to where it get to there we need people who 1st my brother matter day because the mistakes of the church is to try to use one truth to cancel another. What I'm saying that the way we do what is lasting is that when you send out the Spirit, begin to teach, put the person under a curriculum that might trust the person, but now come out and say no, no, it's just teachers. It's just teachers, it's just teachers. So, so the body of Christ barely stay in the balance and the devil likes it too. There are people whose case has become too critical to listen to a ten week series. Before you are done with that series, they are dead. There's a need for those who have the rod of fire who say are you for what I'm saying one time a campus, I won't mention their name was saying that there's nothing like deliverance ministry. There's nothing. No problem Doctor Dico, look where I was invited and I was in that meeting. I was surprised to see them there. You said there's not like Diva me that you seeking somewhere in your mind. You know that let's just do 2 factor authentication setting so that the man of God say I I say dog running out of somebody's cat before we do exigencies. Let the dog live 1st and that's how this says I do woo woo woo. Calm down. God is too big to be fit into one man. He's too big. One man can't host the dimensions of God we see in part. You do your own part, I do my own part. So the body of Christ instead of embracing that we are all working together for the same good and I can cast out a demon for a person and say go and hear the message of man of God. But that man of God whose message iguana here has already said this ministry doesn't exist. You are casting out devils, but you are being ruled by principalities. So the devil seems to be playing games and one of the reasons why the devil plays game with the church. The Devil Plays Games with the Church I will give you 2 reasons. Reason #1 incomplete knowledge and arrogance reason #2 it is something called the last born syndrome. I'm going to explain incomplete knowledge and arrogance. You see, you can. How do you know a tree? You know the tree by the fruit. How do we know the correct move of God? We know the correct move of God by the fruit it bears, not just by the words. Look, go and read again. 1st motive #3 Look at the criterias for ministers. There are criterias. So it is not enough that what I'm saying is sound. Where it is coming from can be faulted if I'm not bearing the fruit. That is what makes what is bad even look better than the correction. There's something called last born syndrome. If you are a minister and you are also a minister and you are also a minister and you are also a minister and the four of you belong to the same generation, and this one came out first, the way they know him everywhere. Then this one came out. They know him everywhere. Then this one came out. They know him everywhere. While these ones are out, this one is asking, Did God not call me if this is you, If care is not taken the day God allow your voice to be heard, you'll want to overcompensate for the days you were labouring but not recognized. The moment this is there, you look at everything they stand for and fight. It is the last born syndrome. Have you seen African preachers discredit the move of God in America? Is last born syndrome? Oh, we are the ones now. Meanwhile, the fire we said is dead in America entered so deep. Their transition was founded on it so deep it entered their political understanding, consciousness and what we are shouting here in Nigeria. It has not even affected the local government charter. You see, America is not like Nigeria. They were diverse because you don't know history. There was bitterness, there was hatred. What they did to the Red Indians, there was idolatry. They were not sushi, they were worshipping idols. The move of God in Europe, men like John Wesley, what they did, you may call it monument, but if something that deep can become that Nigeria should not focus on comparison yet focus on digging. Nobody successfully collect a baton from those who are mocking. OK, sit down. Isaiah 60 So we have a situation that there is an open declaration of war. The devil has been sent down to the earth. Now if you read the book of Isaiah chapter #60 probably you will have better understanding of what the Bible is saying there. Isaiah 60 from verse one. Isaiah 60 from verse one. Isaiah 60 from verse one says Arise, shine, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you for build what? The darkness. What is the darkness? The same darkness we'll cover the earth. Which darkness? Genesis 1/2 The darkness will cover the earth, and gross darkness. The people and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Are you here? Are you sure? Get up on your feet and pray in the Holy Ghost for a minute. Pray. Pray with the draws in your mind that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened. Come on, pray. Pray for a minute, pray for a minute. Pray that light breaks into your spirit, that the eyes of your understanding may be flooded with light. In Jesus mighty name we pray. Sit down for a moment. I want to show you something. Your sight is actually not determined by the quality of your eyes alone. It is determined by the quality of light. The same good eyes can't see in darkness. We're not praying that God will give you another eyes. We are praying that that eyes that you have light will enter so that you will now be able to see. There are many things I've seen. I saw it, I saw it. I saw it. I saw it. I saw it. I saw the devil trying to attract my teachings against the body of Christ. I saw it and I avoided it. No, I will not be crowned against the body of Christ. And it threw me to the place of prayer for my brothers who are coming behind, that they will not love influence more than they love the body. When they get to these junctions, may they see these pits. I saw it. There are pits you won't see without light. I saw it, I saw it, I saw it. That in the season of your life that it looks like God is winning. That can be the scene that the devil has recruited you. I saw it, I saw it. May you see, may you see. May you see when we get to the point where so I say I put last house is a blessing, then you compare me with the fathers, I will rebuke you. I see it. I see that spirit. I see it. I didn't come here looking for influence. I came ready to serve. I'm ready to serve in the light and in the shadows. I see it. There is a mentality that the end time church must have because the lines are tiny. Tiny. And that's why you must allow God prepare you, because you stand no chance. Without preparation, you stand no chance. We can't be loud. And the devil knows with this kind of shabby paration, he won't stand for long. He won't stand for long, he won't stand for long. He that dwells in the sacred place of the Most High will abide under the shadow of the Almighty. We are at war, but not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against spiritual wickedness. The Church must be battle ready, conscious, conscious, conscious, conscious, conscious. Oh, God is doing conscious. Let me let me tell you something. If care is not taken, what we call influence is a trap because you'll be trapped to a message and you can't go to other part of the curriculum. We are ready to shut it down. Our strategic works can't be judged by views. OK, We are not ready for many of the stuffs. It can't be judged by views. I said it can't be judged by views. So from the moment the Devil has been banished from heaven to the earth, it is now a fierce battle between light and darkness, between the soldiers of the fallen General, the Devil or General Lucifer, and the soldiers or those we now call the Sons of God. The battleground is no longer heaven because it's been banished. The battleground is now the face of the earth, and the prize is the source of men. And the same way Michael fought till there was no space for him, you must fight till there's no space for him. You must fight till there's no space for him in your home. You must fight till there's no space for him in your life. You must fight till there's no space for him in your church. You must fight till there's no space for, I mean, your business. You have to fight. We wrestle, but not against flesh and blood. But we won't wrestle. We fight. Hey, you have to fight. From that moment, light will have to burst out of darkness. You have to fight in Isaiah. 2nd Corinthians 10 from verse three says do we walk in the flesh? We don't walk after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare. They are not canal, but they are mighty if deployed to God for the pulling down of what makes him walk remotely. Strongholds we pull down. He's not everywhere. We pull down strongholds, We cast down imagination, we bring into subtext or captivity every item that exhort itself against the knowledge of God. We fight, but not with carnal methods. It means anytime we're in this fight and the flesh begins to get in, we're on the losing side. We fight, We fight. It is a serious stuff. We're at war now. Let me tell you, sit down. Let me tell you the reason why I said we are starting quite late. We are fighting, but the most strategic ground for the war are not us. And yet we're fighting. And yet we are fighting against those that take instructions from him. So let me explain. There's barely any church in Nigeria today. What, what will you call influence? Whatever, whatever we call it, whatever you call it, followership, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, some even get short fellowship and they say they are celebrities. That's where we are. Those platforms are not established on the values of Kingdom and the owners of those platforms don't take authority from your Jesus and that is where you want to fight. You are one minute away from losing all your strategic grounds. The end time charts can't fight until we are first built Koshim. We must build Koshim. We must build. If YouTube said they don't want this video, all the thousands being blessed online are no longer going to be blessed. Do we have our platform? No, your Facebook said they don't want this video. All the platforms online, everybody who is there, we've been blessed. They are the mercy of Mark at the mercy of him at the mercy. If they say they don't want any church on this, the reason why you are still there is because you are bringing some economic relevance one day. So they are there that your little dance is over. Can I bring us away from need based Christianity into strategies? The need for strategy Somebody who is doing tech, is he saying I don't want my know what my ministry is? Is it still to be found? Can't you see it? Can't you see it? I was speaking with a friend of mine and he said these guys decided that my messages would not go anywhere. Many of you don't even know that Christian platforms don't have the same algorithm as other platforms. Is that even your concern? Oh gosh, I give you a wife and you are done. Kingdom walk over. During COVID, a woman came out and said this thing is not deep, we are treating it when we use hydroxychloroquine, our patients are recovering is not that deep. Well, are you aware there's something called systems? OK, let me give an illustration and let me say this for the record. There is no situation that Nigeria will find ourselves in that I've not thought. I'm telling you, go back and listen to my teachings. Reversing the mistakes of Joseph, Egypt, the crowd that want small things, we've taught them but we don't listen. Many things are meeting us unaware. We have celebrated people, ah, the church too. We have people in power. The problem of any nation is not lack of Christians in power. Come on, stop that. Who told you that? What to solve? Nigeria's problem is Christians in power. What kind of Christians? Thieves. It's not about Christians. What curriculum did they go through that is built to make them withstand the pressure of looking at billions of dollars? You can siphon and they can say no, you, you, you, you, you sit down and point fingers. I say they're thieves, they're thieves, they're thieves. And based on the structure you have built, the only reason you are not a thief because there's no opportunity to steal until you manifest a righteousness, you can't really point fingers. If I tell you I have $1,000,000 for you, do you bother to ask where did you get it? This is favour. Apostle prophesied it this morning. My God, I'm the first recipient. We have no values. We're only complaining because we're distressed and we're not opportuned to be the thieves. I cannot. I cannot do anything like you. Do you know you? How much have you been tempted with? How much? Tell me how much? How much? How much? Now the devil believes everybody has a price and even try to negotiate Jesus. You think he won't negotiate you? He tried to strike a bargain. I will give you the beauty of this world if you will do one thing. Bow. What audacity. If he told Jesus to bow, he will tell you to do much more. People are eating feces. Feces, not physics, poo, poo. And after eating it that he wants to put them on full list and await it. Let's say there's a way you can alter the this that just eat some strawberries before the process. That won't be that bad. And the economics of those gods can still put them at the top of the table. And it's not like they will go and sleep and money will come. They still have to work. What then is the gods doing? And then you can't give this money to anybody. You can only buy them beer. Anything you buy, you can use. And then you have seven years to enjoy it. Enjoy what? If only people know what they have in Christ, you will never negotiate with the devil. But they don't know Psalms 82. Neither do they understand the foundations of the earth. Out of course I've said to you, you are gods, and all of you are sons of the Messiah, say. But they will die like men and fall like one of the Princess, because they know not, they know not to share them. So let me wrap up. So we're at war and it is light against darkness. The battleground is the face of the earth and God has placed you in different territories. It is now your duty to decide what influence will be seen in your territory. And there are many things that puts us in a disadvantaged position. One of the most serious one is lack of comprehension of Scriptures, lack of comprehension. So we, we tend to have ideologies like God just want us to make heaven. So let me give you an instance. Someone says that whatever it is they do in the Olympics, it's not the business of the church. Your business is salvation. Just whistles. That's the only message. Have you heard those kind of things before? There's nothing smart about it. It's a dumb statement. It's dumb, it's dumb. There are people. Not all nations are like Nigeria. There are nations you go to. Sundays don't look like Sundays. In fact, in London Sundays is when the Sunday money is when they fix the sports day for many schools sports so you are having your service here that's when parents are parking with their children to the sports day of all days. What influence control the activity to be at the time you should be in God's presence. That thing there is hindering the salvation of many. If you see just salvation and neglect systems, those you should save systems will make sure they don't come. God is not interested in politics. If God is interested in nations, then he's interested in the processes. If the righteous rule, the people rejoice. If the wicked are in power, the people grown. Policies affect you and I they do. So God is interested. It is. He's interested in the kind of policy policies that nations embrace. He's interested. Imagine that Nigeria just signed something into law and now all Nigerian films can have scenes where boy to boys are kissing. There are those who may not be called into it, who may not be given to that lifestyle, but the influence of the fact that is on TV can draw them and makes our work more tedious. How can you be at war and say strategies are not important? Who has bewitched us? The church is ecclesia, the House of Senate. We don't become partisan and pastors start saying go on this, you better be careful. Not involved in all those nonsense, but we're at the heart of the society. When they look for righteousness, check the church. If we raise good Christians, good Christians, every pastor raise good Christians, every pastor raise good Christians, every Christian change. Nigeria will change if we raise righteous people everywhere. The nation will change and the world will change. So let's be careful of the knowledge we think we are that benefit only the devil who gains from the withdrawal of light from sectors. Darkness, darkness the church. The church should not be built on materialism. Pay attention. Materialistic gospel will produce greedy people. Give me, give me greedy people. But the Church must be built on the revelation of Christ as Lord. And our duty is to be an extension of Kingdom. So when the Bible says thy Kingdom come Matthew 6 verse Numbers 9, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So if Peter gets to the gate called beautiful and says silver and gold, I have none. The only reason we can justify that statement is that there is such as he has that can yield the guy. But if you don't have such as he has and you also don't have silver and gold, there are people who are not in need of rise up and walk, they're in need of silver and gold, OK. And it's still Kingdom when we have it. What does Kingdom means? What does Kingdom mean? Let me explain in the simplest terms, whatever you experience now, the price of rice, the price of whatever Gary, the price of beans, it affects all of us. I'm telling you it is a situation peculiar to Nigerians because you're under the influence of the Kingdom of Nigeria. When you step out of Nigeria and enter Dubai, the experience you have is determined by that Kingdom. So when he says Kingdom comes, it means let there be an infiltration and overhauling of your experience and bring the experience of heaven down here, that if I meet you, I can, while you are still here, give you an expression of what it means to be in heaven. That's Kingdom come. You can't do so much about that. Being poor. What we deal with is materialistic gospel, not the prosperity of the righteous, particularly those who know what to do with it. It doesn't matter how powerful your message is if you don't have the finance for the equipment to make it excellent and presentable, the spread is defeated. So let me round up. If the devil can't defeat the message, it will defeat the spread. And the way it does that is by making sure that the messenger doesn't believe in the means. OK, so this is a brief introduction. Conclusion There is no other topic We could have given this because it is Game of Thrones. Is there anyone here who is fired up tonight to begin to press into serious matters? Can we leave our hands to God and ask God to give us insights, wisdom, strategies? Come on, pray I I can see more. I can see Clara tonight. I can see that there's a lot more that can happen through me. A lot more can happen when we understand the Kingdom, when we understand the movement of God. Here I am, Lord, show me what I must do. Show me the role I must play. Show me the part I must take. I cannot afford to be. I do. When the battle is fierce. Use me. Use me, Jesus, son of David. Use me too. Use me too. Use my vocal cords. Use my lips, use my skills, use my ability, use my resources. I give myself to you. I give myself to you. Use me too. Use me. Please. Pray, pray. Pray for freshness of the anointing. Pray, pray, pray for insight. Pray that the influence of darkness will not over shadow you. Pray, not help me. I have a role to play. Help me, help me, help me. I don't want my heart to be turned against the Kingdom. You can't be colonized without knowing. You can be invaded on the flies with the wrong thought process without even knowing. Help me. I want to stand as a soldier, not a bloody civilian. The battle is fierce. Use me, Jesus, Use me. Use my hands. Use my skills. Use my ability. Use me. Use me. Use me, use me Lord, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me all, help me. Thank you Lord, in Jesus mighty name. We're praying on Sunday. I'm going to be showing you how kingdoms advance and how tunes are established. If you want to advance a Kingdom, first you want to introduce your culture. Culture, cultural influence, and that's it. May our eyes be open to see. May you know the blessed hope of what God has called you to do. May you stand out and stand strong in this season of perversion. May you not deny your master in the name of Jesus. It is done in Jesus mighty name. All right, let's give Jesus a big, big, big hand. Speaker 1 The message you just listened to is sponsored by the friends and partners of Femi Lazarus Apostolic Ministries, Ecumenical Flame. To partner with FLAME kindly make use of Visa Account details 221-500-5289, UBA.