(Part 8) - 10 LIES OF THE DEVIL YOU MUST LIVE ABOVE

You are now listening to a PK of Lawale sermon. Prepare to be blessed. Today we start line number nine. Hallelujah line number nine. Glory be to God. Praise the Lord. Father, thank you so much again for the honor to look into your word. The Bible says those who through looking to the perfect word of liberty. We are that father today we look into the perfect word of liberty. We receive liberty never to be seen again in the name of Jesus. Father, Lord, I pray the Lord you will reveal to everyone every listener those that are online now and those that watch later that your word is true and your word is powerful and that's all they need. Okay, all they need. Every other agent you use is the act on the word. I pray the name of Jesus. The father you give us a hunger. Revive the hunger he gave in us to search for you in your word to seek you in your word as your Holy Spirit helps us to understand. Holy Spirit, you are God. Show us who you are. Explain to us who you are. Thank you for what you've done so for Lord and Holy Spirit, I pray in the name of Jesus. You take Lord God Almighty of the fullness of what you still desire and imparting us today in the name of Jesus. Lord, let's only do what you want. Don't be done. The praise and honor be yours. Holy Spirit, you are the only one teaching here. I'm just there for you to use. I pray in the name of Jesus. Father, I will not go ahead of you. I'll not lie behind you. Lord God Almighty, all I will do is follow Lord in the name of Jesus. Let there be liberty in every heart tonight. Liberty in every home, every person that is in despair. Father will put them out of that despair. Everyone who's brothers and who's siblings have thrown into the pit of despair and have betrayed. I pray in the name of Jesus, healing will come upon that person in Jesus name. Father, bring that person out of the pit where it is no water in Jesus' mighty name. Thank you again. Amen, amen. Hallelujah. Whoever it is that your siblings have just betrayed you. You're in pain, please forgive, let it go. Judah, what's his name now? Joseph, okay. It's because you are going somewhere. That's where that happens to you. So go and study the lap of Joseph and make sure you hold no grudges. Otherwise you'll be stuck in the prison. So you'll be stuck in the pit. Because from pit you have to go into the palace, okay. So you need to get out of there and don't allow bitterness and unforgiveness. Make you stay there. So today we are considering line number nine. Hallelujah. Line number nine. If God is good, why should bad things happen to good people? I hear it so often and a lot of people we don't know who God is. We don't understand how God created the earth, the concepts, the divine concepts that sustains earthly ecology, both spiritual and emotional and physical. They have no understanding of it and they seem to look at God and everybody's angry again. Nobody's angry against the devil. That the devil is doing bad with nobody's angry but Joseph, if God is good, then why is all this thing happening? All right. And they don't want to take responsibility for the way they leave their action. Like I said, because they don't understand the spiritual ecology of the earth, which we try and explain today. Hallelujah. Praise a lot. Well, please, I'm sure a lot of you have asked, but God, I'm doing the right thing. I'm not singing anymore. I am doing my best to live a holy life. I have tonned away from restitution. My ways is all you, Lord Jesus. Why are bad things happening to me? All right. So if God is good, why should bad things happen to good people? That's one of the lives that the devil pedals. So he says also, he says, why do bad things happen on earth? Okay. And I said, okay, you know, I don't know about you. You've been around doing any of those storms that hit the United States, tornadoes or what do you call it now? Synames, whatever. Hurricanes. Thank you. Hurricanes. And it's always, people are always kind of point fingers at God. Like God, you've got this good word, this kind of thing. They see disaster. They see people die. They see properties destroyed. And they say, if God is good, why do bad things happen? Okay. Why do bad things happen? And a lot of people have just said, well, there's no need to be good because bad things are going to happen anyway. Okay. And the part of it is that because the points, the accusing finger to God, they do not, the devil is convinced them that demons don't exist. So they don't, in their mind, they can't attribute the wickedness to demons. Not actually attribute to themselves, human, we humans, but rather points to God because we feel God should be the one says, it's good. It should make sure that everything is good. So he says, the lie, lie number nine, says, if God is good, this lie number nine is a question. And that's what he uses in confusing a lot of people say, come sit down here. If God is good, why do bad things happen to good people? Because you see people very, very, I mean, the way you see them is like, this people are very, very well, they are the righteous or religious as it were. We only got no the heart of men. And that something bad happens. I wonder, why do good bad things happen to good people? Okay. And also why do bad things happen on the earth? Then he tries to convince people as they look demons and all those these things that all these witchcrafts talk about is just our fathers all night time is gone. That they are not demons anymore. That's a lie. Demons are very real. They interfere with day-to-day activity. And the life of every human being that allowed them, they tried to influence things on earth to try to fulfill the bidding and the mandate of the devil, tried to make sure that darkness is embedded upon the earth as much as possible. All right. So we will go ahead today and to look at this lie. Let's see other forms it comes. Well, there's no need to see other forms it comes in because this one is a question. Okay. So what we're going to do is this. We're going to address this question. So if God is good, why do bad things happen to good people? Why do bad things happen on earth? Then demons are not real. Okay. Now let's check the truth of the matter. Five points we're checking out here. The truth of the matter is that they are the night and day where so for you to understand that open your Bible, God did not promise us a life free of troubles. There is no place in scripture. Please, not one place. If you find one place, send it out to me. When God said, "Thou shall not have troubles." There is no place like that. The devil will not, he will not bring people's mind to that because it's time to sell them in life. God did not promise promises a trouble free life. I did I say that again. God did not promise us a trouble free life. Okay. Let me see. From even the work of creation, we can see ladies and gentlemen that a day, Genesis chapter number one, verse five, let's see. The Bible says, and God called it light day and the darkness is called night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. Every day, every phase of life, constitutes is made up of rather our constitutes a day or an evening. In other words, day representing the good times and the great times, then the night representing the times that we don't want, which are the times when bad things happen. So because of that, we feel, "Oh, well, life should only be day, day, day, day, day, no." The Bible says, "From the beginning, God give us a concept." Try to explain to us how the mother's operandi would be upon the earth that we've been waiting here for a night. Joe will always come in the morning. There will be a night, there will be a morning. They cannot have all monies. It's not possible. All right? Because God asked if we check all those verses, verse five, verse eight, verse 13, verse five says, "Even our money was the first day, verse eight, even our money was the second day, verse 13, even our money was the third day, verse 19, even our money was the fourth day, verse 13, even our money was the fifth day, verse 13, even our money was the sixth day." All right? So it's important, brethren, I know the seventh day, you know what happened? He rested. Okay? There'll come a time of rest where there'll be no even a money. And that's the seventh day. That's when all works are done. So that's either in death or when you are raptured or when we finally be with the Lord. For the sinner, it's not a time of rest. It's only those that are with God and are giving their hearts to Jesus. There's a time of rest. Hebrews 4 says, "There is yet there yet remaining a rest for the people of God." So that's part of the rest is talking about. There's a rest you'll obtain here. There's a rest we have from being on the being slaves to sin, being slivered to the devil and God's resource through the blood of Jesus. And we have rest. We have rest from His oppression. We have rest from His affliction. Now we become His tormentor and affliction also. All right? So it's important for you to understand that God by design did not state that there will be no trouble or that the earth will not be played. Okay? Someone says about the pastor while all these hurricanes, the Bible says, God says, "I will no longer destroy the earth with water." I said, "No, check the scripture." What the Bible says is that he will no longer destroy the old earth. Some part of it can still suffer from it, but not the old earth like he did in Genesis and chapter number seven and eight. Okay? It's the old earth that will no longer go on the water, but some part of it can suffer from it. So always please check scripture and make sure you could go correctly and rightly. What you promised was that the old earth will never go on the water again. You will never. Let me quickly show you that. All right? When was making the covenant after the flood? It was the old earth. Okay? That God says, "We'll never go on the water again." Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. You see that in chapter number nine verse 11, "I will establish my covenant with you, Genesis. Never again shall all flesh." So it is a flesh, it's an all. All will not be caught off by water. Some might go, some will happen and all will not be caught off by water. So even the creation of from creation, God is telling us that there will be times of challenging times and there will be times of rejoicing. The time when we are only going to have absolute peace on earth, it's just a prayer of 1,000 years. Okay? I've got the numb of the perpetrator. It's just a thousand years because the earth is not designed to be like that forever. All right? It is when you have the, this earth cannot have it. Okay? That's where I got out to destroy it and create a new heaven and a new earth. Okay? It's the new one that will have peace perpetually forever. No trouble ever. All right? That's the new Jerusalem and you and I will be there in Jesus' name. Can somebody type in Jesus' name? I can't tell me the topic loud amen. I say in Jesus' name, you don't know what's here with me, being in the new Jerusalem in Jesus' mighty name. Hallelujah. There's a new Jerusalem going to be our home forever forever. Okay? That was the time I saw a new heaven and a new earth and the new Jerusalem, like the bright prepared for a groom, been let down from heaven. Okay? And it was four square in nature. Hallelujah. We give the dimension. In Jesus' mighty name, none of us will miss out in being in the new Jerusalem in Jesus' name. That's why. So this earth by creation from the, from chapter one, we see that it's not possible. There will be, there will be day, there will be nights, there will be evening, there will be money. Okay? It's just only. Okay? In the new Jerusalem, which is not this one, the new Jerusalem will not be this, this one will be away. But I was able to pass away with five and eight. But I was saying, and I say new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first head that passed away. So all this one will pass away with five and eight. Okay? God will now create a new one, which is where we are going to live forever forever. It's the new Jerusalem. Guess what? The new Jerusalem doesn't have nights. All right? So anywhere you see there is day and nights within the system, there must be times of trouble and times of joy. But with the new Jerusalem, there is no night because the Bible says the lamp of God is the light of it. So all we have is day. There is no night because there is day only, there is no trouble ever. So anywhere you are going to have nights, there must be trouble. So within any system, anywhere on earth, I do you understand what I'm saying here? Anywhere on earth, within this world, anywhere there is something called day and night, there must be trouble and joy. All right? But why there is no trouble in the new Jerusalem is because there is no nights there. But I would say there's no nights. The lamp of God is the light of the city. So the light, the city is leased 24/7 ever. There's no time. But over and over again, and there is nothing that can cause any pain or trouble there. Number two, one of the things I'm trying to debunk the life that he says as a question, if God is good, why do good things happen to bad people? I've just told you from the design of the earth, as far as this earth is concerned. Okay? Then as long as there is day and there is night, there will be joy and there will be pain. All right? Then apart from that, whenever God needs to, God's way of training us, God's way of making us who He wants us to be, especially after the fall, is to allow us go through process. Okay? Even before the fall, you notice that when God created Adam, God put him to work, Adam began to work. Why was he necessary to work? Everything he was going to need, he was already supplied. Why he was going to eat whatever. But Babu says he was to care for the God and go. We'll always give something for you to do because there is a process that must take you through. Okay? A process, he must take you through. Okay? I don't want to go too deep here. Let me just stay on the surface. Okay? And the process is needed for development. Process is needed for development. Now, some of the times you call terrible times, painful times, at the time when God is taking you through process. All right? God is, the Babu says he is taking us, he's putting us in a refiner's fire. All right? Refiner's fire. The Babu says, Job said, it says after I've been tried, our comfort has gone after all my trials. So all these trials was to make him a better person. So when God wants to develop you, he has to take you through what we call a night's period or a time of pain. The body of Duma, he calls on to me out of Manseha, saying, Son of Man, what about the night? Son of Man, what about the night? It's the night comment. And yet the money, it's so, it will always happen. The cycle continues. So as long as you are going to, God wants you to be a better person, you are going to have challenges. It's as simple as that. Okay? As long as God wants you to be a better person, you're going to face challenges. Psalm 66, verse number 12. Let's go on very quickly. I have a lot to cover today. Psalm 17, verse 12. The Babu says, that was cosmic to ride upon our head. The first, whenever God wants to make you great, you will first of all get to your point where he will remove you. Your dignity is not that easy. He will let you. No, no, no. He brings you to the point where you no longer have your person is about him. Okay? So all the pride, go everything that has to do with yourself. God removes it from you and now gives you his own heart and his own spirit. So God wants you empty or so that he might feel us or he wants to empty or so that the presence already in us might be reviewed. Okay? Totality. It's important for us to understand that. You have cosmic to ride upon our head. You've taken us through the water and through the waters and through the fire and you now brought us into a large space. The journey to a large space is not just by sitting down and going through nothing. Before you get to a large space, all cosmic to ride upon your head. You will go through the waters. You pass through the fire. Then you get to the large space. Okay? That's God's way of developing us going through process. Another thing you need to understand the fact that the world good, good things happening to bad things happening to good people, good is not what we think it is. Okay? That's another point that I quickly highlighted that good is what God says it is. Not men because you know what we call good people. People that don't have anybody. We are not privy to the wickedness of their heart. We're not privy to their evil thoughts. We're not privy to their secret life. We're not privy to some other things. You understand? Oh, we are just privy to we are privy to the fact that oh, what we see of them. They are nice people. They are always nice to people. They are always giving. But life is more than that. Good is what God says it is. It is not men. Matthew 19, 16 to 17. The rich jungler came to Jesus and said, Master, a good master. He says, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus, first of all, corrected before he has had this question. He says, no, no coming good. Nobody is good except God. So God is the one that determines what good is. So when you say bad things happening to good people, good people to men might not be good to God. See, it will be God. What is right is not necessarily righteous. Okay? What is right is not necessarily righteous with God. Okay? What is good is not necessarily Godly. All right? So God, the way God's system is different. And we can see from the scripture how he systems. The Bible says, main judge with the outer outer appearance, I God, I search the heart. That's what God told somewhere. When he wanted to go on a date, another king in the house of Jesus, main judge by author, I pray, I judge the heart. Okay? Then point number four is the fact that even the bad, the good and the ugly, that happens on earth, all things are working together for good, especially the believer and the believer who loves God. Romans 8, 28, all things work together for good. So the bad is working for your good. The ugly is working for your good. The good is working for your good. Do you understand now that good is what God says it is? So a lot of times what we call bad is actually good with God because it's taking you somewhere. Can you imagine when Peter, Joseph was turning to the pit, I'm sure that's a bad thing that happened. For as far as all of us is concerned, that is the worst that can happen to you. Then things got worse still. Then he was so into slavery. Can you imagine somebody was born free? Who is a pet? Who is a spoiled brat? He has found a pseudemy coat of many colors from the slavery. He gave him the fortified house and he was there. When it was settling and things were getting better and it's good, he seems to have done the deas now come. No, he wasn't living life at the level he was living when it was in his father's house. Suddenly he debuts now, says he was pregnant, that Madame of the house wanted to not live with him. And he ran away for righteousness. He did the right thing, ran away so that I would not see the gains gone and the gains his boss. Then they lied against him because usually we think what we've done the right thing, then God should fight for us. But rather than oh no, God held up, they are God allowed them to send him to prison. And you might say, Abba, but God, I did the right thing. What might be said to prison? You have to ask that. What might I did the right thing? Why is righteousness painful? Oh, brother, no. God is working together for good because the people that will get him to the palace are in the prison. They are not in portifers house. As you listen to me, when God is working and is taking you somewhere and it seems as though what is happening to you does not seem to be the reward for righteousness, for the right decisions you're taking, for the right steps you've taken. Brethren, don't worry, you're better trust God. God did not say you should understand him. He said you should trust him, trust him the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge you should direct your path. Okay? So what we say, Brethren, is the fact that a lot of time what we call bad is actually good. He's working together for good. Finally, number five, now there's a need for us. I haven't said all this. There's a need for us to differentiate the walks, the walkings of God, the negligence of man and the wickedness of the devil. Now please, this is very, very important. A lot of us, a lot of people miss out this. Okay? So if bad things happen to good people, please, a lot of times, what we call bad thing is not bad because God is working. What we call bad things is bad because men wear negligence. What we call bad things is bad because men give room to the devil. Are you listening? Let's quickly read these two passages, Mark and chapter number 13. Please you have to differentiate in dealing with this light. You must know which one is as which which bad or which which evil is a consequence of of man's negligence or is an allowance of God or it the wickedness of the devil because men have decided to give him room. Are you listening to me? Mark and chapter number 19, 13, Mark 13, Mark, sorry, there's a mark Matthew 13, hallelujah, Matthew and chapter number 13. Open your Bible very quickly. We need to read these and we'll get to the last one. Matthew 13, Matthew chapter number 13, our read verse 24 to verse 30. Please, three factors, God, man and the devil. Which one is the walkings of God? Which one is the negligence of the devil? So it's not everything that is God is working together for your good. There are some God did not allow. There are some that came about due to our own negligence. There's some things men are supposed to do that men did not do. Okay, there's another one that is due to the room that we give the devil. Okay, you see all that in this passage. Matthew 13, 24 to 13. I read very quickly. Matthew 13, 24 to 30. Hallelujah, Matthew 13, 24 to 30. The Bible says, another parable, it put forth to them. Shame. The kingdom of heaven is like a man who so good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came. So we see three characters there. Number one, the man, if you read the interpretation, in verse number 36 to 43. Number one, the man, he who is God, number two is men. Okay, who slept? Who slept? God did the job. He gave, put it in care of men. Men went to bed. When men went to bed, the devil showed up and now also showed bad seed in the field. Okay, says when men slept, the enemy came and showed tears among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain has sprouted and produced a crop, then the tears also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, "Sir, did you not so good seed in your field? How then does it have tears?" Then he said, "An enemy has done this." There's something that is, I have got it. It is not even allowed by God, but because we were negligent, the enemy came and took advantage. Let me explain this to us. It is, there are some responsibilities that God has clearly said this is. There are some others that are yours. If you are negligent in doing what you are supposed to do, let me give you a typical example. The Bible says, "If you are willing and obedient, you eat the good of the land." In other words, if you are in the land and you are not willing, in other words, you are not willing to walk with God, you are not willing to be prosperous, you are not willing to be useful in hand of God, and you are not obedient to mandates. You cannot eat good of that land. Okay, pray from now to next year. The scripture is very simple. It's clear. The condition is if you are willing, if you are willing and obedient, not just willingness. Williness is not sufficient. Okay, so people are very obedient, but they are not willing. They want to be obedient to God, but they don't want to be rich. Okay, but God says, "If you are willing and obedient, you are willing to eat the good of the land for the sake of the gospel, and you obedient to God." Bible says, "You will eat of the good of the land." Okay, so it's not everything that is allowed by God. Do you understand? I give you a typical example. If I'm getting to Portifaz house, if Joseph not decided, he was going to sleep with Portifaz wife. Do you know what will have happened? What will have happened is, there will have been at least the minimum, is that there will be a delay in the fulfillment of the promise. Not because of God, God's timing cannot be shifted, but because man has become negligent. obedience is key in working with God. Jesus thought this happens. He said, "Wait, he stay here in Jerusalem." Now, because a lot of you are saying, "Oh, you have no testimony." Let me give you the new testimony. Jesus thought them in Acts 1, "Stay here in Jerusalem." Don't leave. Okay, until you are in Jewish power. Now, guess what, brethren? That was the instruction of God. If they left Jerusalem before the Holy Ghost came, they will not have received the Holy Spirit at the time they received the Holy Spirit. Why? There was a clear instruction. Remain in Jerusalem. Have you noticed ladies in Jerusalem? Let me show you one of the, do you know the one remain? Simply, simply means don't do anything for now. Be in a state of inactivity. When it comes to ministry taking decisions, doing things for God, anything else to do ministry. So spend for now until the Holy Ghost shows up. But guess what? They did one thing and people, well, a lot of people don't take note of that. They did one thing that ended up in an error. They did one thing before the Holy Ghost showed up. They ended up in error. And that's the fact that they elected somebody to take the place of Judas before the Holy Ghost came. So they died. That one was done by political election. And that's why the right person, because I want to believe that office was preserved and reserved for someone that was even yet to be saved. If they've only waited for the Holy Ghost to speak to them, they will have not allowed them the office free for now. The president occupied has not come. The person who writes the team books of scripture. He has not yet shown up. He's not even yet saved. He's your positive for now. Hallelujah. But they did that. There was no way they were not done in the spirit. They didn't have the spirit yet. They did it in the flesh. The guy they picked my tires. It was never useful. We never even had never mentioned a game in terms of doing anything in the gospel. Are you listening? There is a clear instruction. There's a working of God. But it's not all walking that are walking of God. It's not allowances of the night that are allowances by God. Some are negligences of men. Then finally, some is just the pure weekends of the devil. Let me tell you how that works. Man can allow him. And above all, the people that are allowing most most most of all are Christians. We live in a territory and you do not bring your territory under a preah cover. In other words, you don't pray for your city. You don't pray for the leaders. You don't pray for your councilmen. You don't pray for your MPs. You don't pray for your mayors. You don't pray for the people in authority, your president and blah, blah, blah. You are actually living the devil without the field. Because all you think is that your territory, your Christian territory is just you, yourself and your family. That is very, very myopic. And that's why I brethren, you see, the world outside will always find this way in. Because as long as outside, but I would say it's pray for the peace of Jerusalem. For you will prosper. That do it. You will find peace if Jerusalem has peace. And that's why a lot of Christians that with the Christianity, that only limits your your your your your influence to your family and blah, blah, blah. Is it is it's it's a wicked one. Brethren, we are meant to take charge. Take charge of cities. If you leave your city, I told my wife once some some some people were trying to get into election here in my city. And we have about electing another element of mention. And some guy who who doesn't really really really really believe in God. And obviously the policies are going to be well, I don't know, or whatever. God knows better. But I told the president, I said, not under my watch. That person will not enter the office. It is not possible. Not under my watch. But brethren, if nobody does nothing, the guy will go in. But when we pray, we make things happen. When we don't pray, God cannot do anything. Are you listening? So if you leave where the running of the city to just God alone, and that God will be done, no. God is God will is done when a man prays. And that leads me to the next question. Our time is running so fast. That leads me to the next question. If you are enjoying the study so today, please can you just like and love. Let me know you're enjoying the study. And God is making sense. So please take notes. There's walkings of men, the negligence of men. From where I've said the Lord planted man was supposed to keep watch of it. But man slept negligence. Then the enemy came and saw tears. The wickedness of the devil. Let's look at line number 10. That brings me to line number 10, which is the last line. This is the terrible light. The devil tells every believer, only Christ ends at the ones that are realizing this one. This light is for Christ ends. Born against pretty few believers. This light is for born against pretty believers. Guess what the light is? God is in control. That's the light. Virgin, that is a lie. God is not in control. The devil is the one telling all of us. God is in control. Do you know what that does? Because if you go this in control and without you praying, God is going to put the person in one's in power. Okay? Because you don't pray because you just believe God is in control. So you do nothing. No activity. Nothing at all. God is in control. Say, oh, let me, let me, let me, let me, this one is very interested. Now, I try to explain it. I'll put that light in different forms. He says, this is, you say, don't fall for this. Don't fall for this light. Now, whatever happens to you, it's God's will. That is God is in control. So anything that happens to you, that's how God wants it. That is a lie. That is a lie. I've told you that three, there are three points of, there are three determinants. Number one, the will of God. Number two, negligence of men. Number three, which is man's input in this equation. The number three, the wickedness of the devil. Wickedness of the devil is a very, very constant present present door waiting to happen if allowed. Are you listening? The wickedness of the devil is a presence waiting to manifest or happen if allowed. Hallelujah. Who can allow it? Not God. You. So it is not God. It is you. The Bible says in the book of James, brethren, do not err. Don't give room to the devil. That's what Paul said. That's what James said, brother, and the James, brethren, do not err. Do not give room to the devil. Why? You are the one. It is not God. You are the one that can give him room. I told you before in this, in this, if you are, if you are by part of this, our study group, explore the world after you many times. I say, for God to walk with you, he needs your permission. For the devil to walk with you, he needs or walk against you. He needs your permission. It is you are the one that is the center and unto you, allow or disallow is who you allow this a lot that happens. So if you are in the city now, guess what? Let me show you what I'm talking about because a lot of us just feel automatically God's will be done. Automatically, the person he wants in power will enter, will get there. Brethren, a lot of, when he comes to power, forces are at work. And if we do not suppress the force of darkness and exhaust the force of light, darkness will get there and we keep getting there and we will now be struggling and fighting and saying that they are working evil. Brethren, we have done the right by making sure they don't get there in the first place. The Bible says, "For you to understand that God is not in control." The Bible says, God said, God came down chapter 18 of Genesis. Let me explain this to you. This is very getting interesting. Genesis 18, God came down. He came to visit Abraham. And after he had launched with Abraham and blessed Abraham, gave them the promise of a child, within the time of the life. And when he was about to leave, Bible says, I'm not saying, I will not hold back from Abraham, what am I about to do? I will tell him what am I about to do because I see that will become a great nation because Abraham was his friend. So God opened up to Abraham, say, I'm going to Sodom. I'm going to go and destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. God now says, Abraham now says, you can't destroy the weekend with the right chose. If there are 50 right chose people who you spend the city, God said yes. God said yes. In other words, brethren, 50 right chose people who tell God you cannot do it, are you listening? But because there's no 50, judgment must come. So see, wickedness, oh la la, lollis will help me here. Judgment does not come on the place because of the presence of wickedness. Judgment comes on the place because of the absence of right chose representative. In other words, if right choseness is not represented, destruction will come. And so if something is wrong with our society, it is us, we should ask ourselves questions, are we living right? Do you understand? Because it is righteousness, the exact nation. Okay, sin does not bring down any nation. Right choseness, exact nation. Sin makes sure there's decay. But righteousness, if sin keeps saying there's decay, there's decay. Once there's righteousness, everything is exalted. Are you listening? That's why the Bible says when the righteous empire, the people rejoice. Why? Right choseness, exalted nation. So when you don't do anything about judgments and outcomes, we will now say why does good things, bad things happen to good people? Who are the good people brethren? You and I, you and I will become negligent in what our kingdom responsibilities, pray for our society, pray for our community, evangelizing, witnessing, telling folks how much God loves them and making sure that the devil does not reign in our cities. Brethren, it is our responsibility. So the devil tells us, "Oh, whatever happens to you, his God will." Ahana, it is not. Brethren, don't forget the three cardinal factors. It is not to go and find out, is it God's walking? Or is it my negligence? Or it is the, this is purely the work of wickedness of darkness. If it is wickedness, you know how to do with it. If it is your negligence, repent and align. If it is God, brethren, rejoice. It is taking you to somewhere great. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Second one when he says, "Happen is on earth is how he wants it." You know, I'm putting it on earth. So that's another, that's what the devil says. I'm just interpreting that same lie God is in control and bringing out on the, on the, on the ways he goes about it. Happening on earth is how God wants it. Brethren, I've heard a lot. Somebody called me and said, "Well, when the last days, that everything's going to get bad, I said no, but it's not going to be a free fall." The fact that everything will go bad does not mean that everybody should go to hell. It's not going to be a free fall. Some people will be saved. Some people will need to be revived. Okay, we are not just going to see that I say, "Well, the Bible has said so." Yes, the Bible says so. When the last is a lot of men who were schooled. And the last days men will be loved as of self, but also the Bible talks about a revival. The Bible talks about the people coming in a harvest of souls. The Bible talks about this gospel of the kingdom. Shall we preach all over the world? We are not going to stop preaching because there's going to be a plunge in character, a plunge in values and culture. There's going to be a plunge into wickedness. We're not going to be a free fall. There is a path we must play. We must keep preaching. We must keep telling the truth. We must keep standing in it. Even if the truth is not, it's not popular. See, it's not supposed to be because we are living the time of decay. What am I saying? Happening on earth is not how we want it. And I'm going to explain it. Now, number three, he also says, "You cannot change things. Accept your lot." He said, "Well, this man is God, but God gave me is a wicked man, but that is my own cross. It is not your cross. God will not give you somebody that can be changed." Are you listening to me? There's nothing that God created that is absolute nature. If you, if he gave you, if what you seem to have is brethren and you are sure it's God who gave it to you. Brethren, there is God in that thing. There is God. What you are saying, that rubbish you are saying, there's God. Are you listening? If it is not God, if you are the one that picks yourself, human negligence, okay? Go and repents. You are God who God sought at that part. I can't go there today. If it is the devil who gave it to you, I don't know what to say to you. And I'm always saying, "God will help you." That's all I can say. But brethren, if you are sure it's God who gave you this guy, who gave you this wife, and suddenly the person I don't crazy, God won't give you what is what is not good. If I not look great at the beginning, but brethren, if only you do what you are supposed to do. There is a digging, you need to dig. There's God in that person. God will always give you God. The Bible says, the gift of the Lord, make it glad. It doesn't, it doesn't bring sorrow. That's the gift of God. So if it's not giving you gladness, the Lord who makes you glad is still inside. There's still a part of you have to dig. Keep digging, don't stop. Hallelujah. Says, "You cannot take this, except your Lord." He also says, "There's little or nothing you can do about what is happening on earth." Avassa, that's, you know, there's this song, "Kissera, Serra." Whatever would be would be. I don't know whether you remember that song, they used to sing it to you. There's one, one poplar song. Oh, song, I think. "Kissera, Serra." What would be would be, and you know, then I think we're going to equate. In Nigeria, for that it says, "What going to be is going to be." That is not true. That is part of the line, say, "Tan, say, "What going to be is not going to be?" For ox, the part of the jost is like, how do we say any like? Brethren, we are a children of poppers. It's not, well, our life is not left to have happenstance and chances. What going to be is going to, oh no, oh no, no, I can't decide. Brethren, you are the one that decides your seasons. You are the one that makes your times are in God's hands, but your seasons are in your own hands. You are the one that can determine when harvest comes. It's a matter of when you sow. You can sow in prayer. You can sow in giving. You can sow in investing your time. Whatever it is, it's you. So, even you don't, so the Bible says, a little sleep, a little slumber. A little 14 of them, poverty will come. You can decide, you're not going to do anything now. And you don't, don't expect anything great in future. Grace doesn't cover that. It says, it is expected. That's through your faith. You are going to work. Faith is work. So, it's not key Sarah, Sarah. What's going to be is going to be. That is a light of the devil, hallelujah. Finally, as we wrap up this series, let us see what are the things we have to think about. Creation mandate. Now, open your mouth with me. I want us to look at all of these together. Think on this thing. And now, debunking that light. God is, say, the light says God is in control. God only has control where he has been given control. Brethren, then pick a whiz in control. You and I are in control. Hallelujah. If we don't give it to God, it doesn't have it. Hallelujah. Let me show you. He cannot, he is not someone that he cannot force himself on it. He cannot, not by his own design. Hallelujah. Genesis chapter number one, verse number 28. Are you listening? Genesis one, 28. Keith, Sarah, Sarah, whatever will be, will be. That song, the lady said, when I was a child, I asked my mom, I said, what will I be in future? Will I be a princess? Will I be rich? And the mother and the mother said, Keith, Sarah, Sarah, whatever will be, will be. The future is not for us to know. Keith, Sarah, Sarah, that is rubbish. It's from the pit of hell. We know the future. I know your future. The Bible says, better is the end of the thing than the beginning day of your future. Your tomorrow is better than your today. I can tell you future. I don't have to be a prophet. I just need to open my Bible. The part of the Gospel Romans 418 is that contrary light. It shines better and brighter. You will never have a better yesterday. That is your future. I can tell your future. Ladies and gentlemen, I can tell your future. The Bible says, they grow from strength to strength. Every one of them appears in Zion. As you keep fellowship with God, you become stronger and stronger. Not the perfect man. Before the upright, the end of that man is peace. I can tell your future, not by prophecy, but by the word of God. Hallelujah. Glory. So it is not Keith, Sarah, Sarah, whatever would be would be. That is for them. It is not for us, brethren. There's not Keith, Sarah, Sarah here. There is scripture, scripture. There's word, word, there's word of prophecy. Show word of prophecy concerning your life. Ladies and gentlemen, don't sit down and accept anything. Oh, no. No, no. Your life is not a mistake. It happens to us as circumstances. It cannot be done in your life anymore. You are now a vessel, but it will cause you a button asked in the hand of God. For others, it can anything can happen. For you or no, Sarah, it is working together for good. Every step, every one calculated, divinely by God, if you allow him and letting him be in control. That's why we tell you, whenever you leave in disobedience, you are taking control from God. Do you know what obedience does? Obedience says, Lord, I am some mischief to you. I admit you are my controller. That's all obedience is that a wherever losing obedience has given God control. For such a person, God is in control. But brethren, for a lot of us, God is not in control. You keep living in disobedience. He's not. God who comes and saves people who are not praying for. No, it will happen. Members of your family, intercession, keep telling them about Jesus. There must be deliberate work. God needs to respond to something. Why? Here is not in control. Let me show you that is not in control. Chapter number one and verse number 28 Genesis. Are you listening tonight? Chapter one, 28. Hallelujah. Glory be to God. The Bible says now, listen, let me read from verse 26. The Bible says now, listen carefully. Don't, I know you've read the scripture many times and that's why we miss the key things sometime because we're so familiar with you. But this time, I need you to read it as though it was your first time. The Bible says, and God said, let us, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, make man in our image. According to our likeness, let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over everything upon the earth. Are you listening to that? Are you listening carefully? Now, listen, brethren, please don't miss out some things. From that scripture, we see where God decided to draw the line for himself. And we see where God decided to open up man. Are you listening? Where he drew his line? Is where man started? As far as the earth is concerned, God says, let us make man. That is where our own job finishes. As far as this edge is concerned, our own job is to create the earth and create man in our image. But we are not to have dominion over the earth together. God did not say, let us make man in our image and let man and our self have dominion upon the earth. No, he doesn't have a lawyer. Are you listening? Oh no, he gave it to you. Man. And that's what we lost to the devil. That's what we lost. And that's what God could not come back to just come and collect from the devil. He gave it to man. And that's what God needed to become a man because only man can take it back from him. Are you listening? God, he can pull the hell on my heart. Listen carefully. I said the game. God said, let us create man in our image. So in our own likeness. And that is where his own job ends. As far as this edge is concerned, to create, put it in place, then he gave man the authority. He didn't say, let us along with man have dominion over the fish of the sea. That dominion. God did not shade. He gave it to man alone. God doesn't have it. He gave it to man. God doesn't have it. He gave it to man. Let us give man, let him have dominion. So the dominion is man that has dominion. As far as this edge is concerned, his man that has dominion. And that's why when the devil stole that dominion from man, God could not take it back from him. Immediately. It's not possible. Why? It was given to man. Only man can take it back. That's why God had to become man in the person of Jesus Christ so that he can come and collect it for us. Number two, proof that God is not in control. And that if you don't do what you are supposed to do, it is not automatic that goal intervenes. Mathematics, chapter number six, verse ten. You know the last prayer very well. Our father who has in heaven. How do I be thy name? Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. God's will is not done on earth automatically. It is a prayer. It is an image. If it's done automatically, there's nothing to pray about it. But it is it was Jesus that told them to pray this because it is not done. So why go have us here? He showed that he is will be done on earth as it is in heaven because it is not automatic. Then let me explain ownership and rulership. Ownership, rulership of the earth. God is the owner. The earth is the Lord, the furniture of the world and everything in it. But God is not the ruler of the earth. He became ruler after he became man, took the key of death and hell. That's now when he became ruler. But the moment he left and went to heaven, he needed to rule through some people. That's you and I. So Jesus cannot rule anywhere where he doesn't have representation on this earth. I have to stop there because of time. I think I've taught you on this earth. Determined will and desired will before. These are all proof that God is not in control. God desired that all men will be saved but not all men will be saved. So it's not what my define that he wants it does not mean it's going to happen as far as this is concerned. Oh, no. Why? Well, from creation, he created a boundary. I own it by don't rule it. I own it and I give you to rule on my behalf. And guess what? Do you know if God owns the earth, do you know they will come in time on this earth that is the Antichrist that rule? I pray in Jesus name you not be here. I pray for you in the name of Jesus when Antichrist is ruling, you will not be here. You will not miss your first flight. You will not miss your flights in the rapture in the name of Jesus somebody typing in the name and the loud amen. Okay, for you to know that God is not in control, the Antichrist will come on this earth and it will rule. Okay, for seven years, he will rule and his government will be absolute and there's nothing anybody can do about it. It's not to rule God. Why? He from the beginning, he had said he had ruled but Jesus will now show up. All right, come tangibly again just as the man has shut up and he will come with all of us tangibly. We will all come in your body and we'll come back here. They will not come back because only man can rule this place. It is for us to now be, well we get to the New Jerusalem. It should not be this body anymore. It will rule if I body, I will believe forever and forever and forever. There's no trouble. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. What a wonderful series we have had. Hallelujah. Oh, can somebody help me praise Jesus and thank him. I wish I had time to vlog number 10 and number nine so well. But I'm sure you understand what God is saying. It's the word of God is true, brethren. The word of God is true, is real, is glorious. So brethren, God is not controlling your family. You're doing in control. Okay, and he wants to walk through you to control it. So God means you to walk through you to control. All right, hallelujah. Okay, so if you don't pray for your city then what do they want to happen? Why? Because God is not in control. He has put you in control. All right, so take territory. Don't forget when it was living. Remember the story in Luke 19, the Bible says in man was going to a far country to one obtain another a kingdom and he called the servants and he gave them talents and he said, he said rule until I come take control until I come occupy till I come. Now that was control this place because the people in this city refused to bow to him and he couldn't do anything about it so he had to leave but he gave his authority. So this is a fact and he told them clear mandate. Take control of this place until I come occupy. God give you grace to occupy. Give you understanding. Give you the spirit and the anointing. Open your eyes of understanding and lighting you and empower you rather than all we need is for the Bible to come alive in our hearts and rather than the devil is in trouble already. Please we need to let's connect the dots questions please sending your questions next week and we know deal with questions only but I have just one day for questions so all through next week is just questions and questions only. You can send your questions now even if when you're meeting at the end that you can still go and tap it out and leave it there or you can hold it up until Tuesday but our rather than send it in so that at least we can group because we don't have many questions we've talked about 10 lines we're going to have many many questions please be practical if there are some things you will need advice on how do we go about this how you've already been a snare by a lie how do you get to work out of it how do you make things better you're already in a precarious situation you can't get out how do you make the best of where you are things like that okay the devil no longer take advantage of you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth hallelujah it's been my joy to bring you God's word and we really thank the Holy Spirit for helping us with this series really thank you my giving praise and pray then it is just him only I just was just being a vessel okay all right so please don't send in the questions that's very very important there's a lot of things that the teaching itself can cover but it will those those those those very key areas and great areas show up in the questions and we can attend to them the Lord bless you significantly the Lord will pull you significantly and don't forget it is not Syracia key Syracia what will be will be now for us you know our own is praise praise to God the path of the Jews like contrary light shines brighter and brighter onto the perfect day keep shining saints go bless you real good shallow love to all amen