The Presence and Pleasure of God || 14.07.2024

00:37:43
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Summary

TLDRThe sermon emphasizes cultivating a strong relationship with God through constant communion and pleasing Him with obedience. The speaker stresses the importance of God's presence, using biblical references such as John 8:29 and the story of Lot's wife, to highlight the dangers of disobedience and returning to worldly desires. It encourages maintaining God's presence by aligning one's actions and desires with His will, prayer, and fellowship. The sermon also warns of the distractions present in the world today and urges believers to live a life dedicated to God's service and promise of constant presence, as demonstrated through personal testimonies and biblical examples.

Takeaways

  • 🙏 Maintain God's constant presence by obeying His commandments.
  • 📜 Engage with scripture daily to understand God's will.
  • 🚫 Avoid worldly desires that distract from your faith.
  • 👩‍❤️‍👨 Uphold constant communion with God, as Jesus did with the Father.
  • 🌍 Beware of worldly temptations like Lot's wife, who looked back.
  • 🙌 Embrace God's promise of never leaving nor forsaking you.
  • 🎤 Personal testimony illustrates the fragility of life and need for divine protection.
  • 🎼 Worship and praise God continuously to honor His presence.
  • 🕌 Build an altar in your life dedicated to God, destroy old worldly altars.
  • 💬 Engage with a community of believers for support and encouragement.
  • 🇨🇻 Live a life that is a testament to God's love and favor.
  • 🏛️ Remember, you are the salt of the earth; your presence should positively affect others.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    A prayerful and worshipful opening talks about God’s worthiness and love, emphasizing His mercy, faithfulness, and constant presence. The speaker offers praise and asks for God’s continued guidance and presence.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The message focuses on God's presence and how to maintain it through doing what pleases Him. The assurance of God's constant presence, similar to Jesus' relationship with the Father, is emphasized, urging believers to hold onto God's promise during difficult times.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The importance of obedience to God is stressed, referencing numerous biblical quotes. Believers are encouraged not to turn back to worldly ways, as illustrated through the story of Lot’s wife. The prophetic nature of current events and the imminence of Christ’s return are highlighted.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The speaker tells a story illustrating worldly temptations and the need for true Christian living, free from worldly desires. Churches today should avoid being like Lot's wife, who was transformed into a pillar of salt out of disobedience, emphasizing the permanence of Godly commitment.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The need for obedience to God’s word and not loving worldly things is maintained. There’s a call for believers to focus on pleasing God and avoiding the pride of life, stressing that true joy comes from loving God and aligning with His purpose and will.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    How to maintain God's presence through prayer, scripture reading, community, and dealing with uncleanliness or sin in one’s life are discussed. The necessity to demolish old ungodly altars and build one for God is noted, reinforcing a life dedicated to God’s will.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:37:43

    The conclusion summarizes the main points: striving for God’s presence, living a life pleasing to Him, being a testament to His love, and doing kingdom work like winning souls and showing God’s love through action. The importance of God’s presence for true fulfillment and the closeness of Jesus’ return are reiterated.

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Video Q&A

  • What is the main message of the sermon?

    The sermon emphasizes the importance of God's presence and how to command it by living a life that pleases Him.

  • How can one maintain God's presence according to the sermon?

    By obeying God's commandments, living without yielding to worldly desires, and maintaining daily prayer and communion with God.

  • What is the significance of Lot's wife in the sermon?

    Lot's wife is used as an example of disobedience and looking back to the past, symbolizing the importance of not returning to worldly desires.

  • Why was the story of the speaker's personal experience shared?

    To illustrate the fragility of life and the importance of staying in God's presence, as it shows human vulnerability and God's protection.

  • How does the sermon view worldly desires?

    Worldly desires are seen as distractions that lead away from God's presence and are to be avoided to maintain a connection with God.

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    morning and those who are watching
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    online this is no time to withdraw from
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    time how were you able to survive this
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    of flation to people at this timey time
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    you if he's with you till this
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    time then no matter what you are going
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    be a perfect
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    example no matter what make up your mind
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    bodies as a Living Sacrifice who
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    scripture the scripture is here to guide
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    strive to obey
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    that scripture Luke 17 that I want us
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    to Lear empasis on and then we round up
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    with John 8 again verse 29 Luke chapter
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    17 and verse
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    about the the the the the the coming of
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    the Lord Jesus Christ the end of the
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    time and
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    Genesis chapter 19 and see what happens
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    him and she became a pillar of
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    salt she became a pillar of
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    the angel that is very
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    clear she disobeyed don't look back she
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    look back don't turn back turn back and
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    Jesus Christ said anyone who haven't put
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    his hand on the plow and look it back to
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    Matthew 5:13 is not fit for the
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    kingdom it's not fit for the
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    kingdom praise God friends we are
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    people we are Kingdom
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    people amen we are Kingdom people
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    and as Kingdom people once you have put
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    your hands on the prow you can't afford
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    to look
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    back you
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    generation is
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    that we are
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    believers we have been delivered from
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    world but we refuse to leave the world
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    I share a story here sometime about a
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    sister who says she's believing God for
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    her husband so I said ah I have some
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    promising young man my church who I know
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    say no no no no no no no I don't want If
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    he if he coming from you I don't want
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    holy holy holy holy I don't want your
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    anybody who is coming from you be like
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    you wow I said so what do you want
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    say yes but I want I don't want any any
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    restriction I don't want any restriction
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    I want to be free I want to be
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    free
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    yeah and that's has some Christians are
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    today they want to enjoy Christianity
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    and enjoy the
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    world she said I want to be free I want
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    to be free I want to that that that I'm
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    a Christian do don't mean I can't enjoy
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    myself I don't know I didn't go further
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    but I don't know what she meant by
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    herself
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    not tell us but she looked
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    back and how many Christians are still
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    looking back
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    today how many Christians are looking
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    back what amazed me most was that she
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    did not turn to a pillar of
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    cement but she turned to a pillar of
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    salt
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    does that send a message to
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    us what SC say about we being the Sal of
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    the the
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    Earth right all the while that she was
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    in Sodom nobody enjoy her
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    salt but nobody enjoy her
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    salt Bible say when a s had lost his
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    church cannot use out anything because
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    it's a pillar it's it's it's
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    out I think melt dis off even the one
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    they do in my Village that is like a
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    scrape it and use it but when this one
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    is a
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    pillar is become
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    useless useless pillar and they not
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    pillar in the city pillar in the
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    wilderness may we never become pillar of
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    swords in the name of Jesus Christ that
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    small
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    praise
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    God she became a pillar of Sword because
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    she
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    disobeyed
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    friends the situations in the world
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    today not just
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    Nigeria is telling us to look back don't
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    you think Egypt is
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    better let's go back to
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    Egypt let's go back to
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    Sodom let's go back to
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    gomorra let go
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    back this this this Jesus this
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    Jesus it's like like some people say
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    it's better to be in the
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    world than to be here but I said
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    no friends there's nothing comparable to
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    be a child of
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    God
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    hallelujah so she looked back
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    and she became a pillar of Sword good
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    for
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    nothing how can we avoid becoming
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    spillar of
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    salt how can we avoid becoming spillar
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    of
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    salt number
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    one number
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    one obedience to God's
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    word obedience to God's
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    word that John chapter 8 verse 29 says
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    because I always do the things that
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    please
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    him always allow your
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    action every step you take in
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    life with God's word number
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    two love not the
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    world first John 2 from 15 to to 17 1
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    John chapter 2
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    verse 15 to
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    17 is it on the screen love not the
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    world okay do not love the world or the
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    things in the world if anyone loves the
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    world the love of the father is not in
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    him the two cannot go
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    together for all that is in the world
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    the lust of the flesh the loss of the
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    eyes and the pride of life is not of the
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    father but it's of the
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    world the loss of the flesh everything
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    has to do about me me me me the loss of
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    the ey as whatever my eyes sees I
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    grab the pride of life after I arrive we
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    are the war we are in charge
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    now if I ask so many of us here this
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    morning will you like Jesus Christ to
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    come tomorrow or
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    tonight now how many people like to come
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    now are you sure you want it to come
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    now ask your answer very
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    well are you sure you have built that
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    house you wanted to
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    build are you sure you are married
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    already the children you want to have
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    have you got all the children the cast
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    you want to ride have you got the cast
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    this are reality of
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    life that bu you want to start don't you
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    don't you want to start that business
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    before he
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    comes that
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    contract that billionaire contract is
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    that is smelling smelling close to you
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    don't you think you want to accomplish
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    that that contract before Jesus Christ
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    should come how many people want Jesus
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    CH to really really come
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    now you say Jesus Christ don't come yet
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    don't come yet don't come yet ah that
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    Rolls-Royce I must right
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    it that L us don't come yet ah waiting I
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    was married too now every people are I
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    must have my own
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    children praise
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    God but whether you like it or not he
  • 00:22:56
    will come where you least expect it
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    he will
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    come Hallelujah the pride of life the
  • 00:23:05
    pride of life love not the
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    world
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    next love
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    God if anyone loves me will keep my
  • 00:23:20
    commandment love
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    God then next to
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    that build an altar to God destroy your
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    old altar build an
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    altar an altar where you have a Daily
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    Commitment with god let's look at Judges
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    chapter 6 I'm running up Judges chapter
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    6 Judges chapter
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    6 when the med oppressed Israel Israel
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    were in terrible
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    time God appeared to Gideon
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    he say I'm the Lord your God do not fear
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    the go of amor in whose land you dwell
  • 00:24:03
    but you have not obeyed my voice so he
  • 00:24:05
    give them to but then appear to
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    Gideon and said Gideon should build him
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    an
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    altar verse
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    23 then the Lord said to him peace with
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    you do not fear you shall not die so gon
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    build an altar there to the Lord and
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    call it the Lord is PE to this day it is
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    still in Offa of the Abit
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    and then he went
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    further in verse
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    28 gidon went from that 28 he went on to
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    destroy their family
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    Altar and then
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    build the altar of God he destroyed the
  • 00:24:45
    alar of bar and be the alar of God You
  • 00:24:49
    Must Destroy every altar in your
  • 00:24:52
    life to maintain God's presence and to
  • 00:24:56
    do his pleasure whatever it is that
  • 00:25:00
    stands an altar as an altar in your life
  • 00:25:03
    will be
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    destroyed and what an alter stand for is
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    a place of
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    sacrifice the sacrifice that you should
  • 00:25:14
    give to God you are given to something
  • 00:25:16
    else that is an
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    altar whatever you sacrifice your time
  • 00:25:22
    your energy to is an
  • 00:25:25
    altar where you lie down to sleep
  • 00:25:29
    what's your last sleeping
  • 00:25:32
    thought what do you think about before
  • 00:25:34
    going to
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    sleep that's an altar whatever occupies
  • 00:25:39
    your mind and your your your your your
  • 00:25:42
    entire thought is an
  • 00:25:44
    altar if it's not God destroy
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    it build an
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    altar build an
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    altar build an altar to God
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    Hallelujah back to John uh uh John
  • 00:26:03
    chapter
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    8 it
  • 00:26:06
    says he that sent me is with me my
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    father has not left me
  • 00:26:14
    alone because I do the things that
  • 00:26:17
    please
  • 00:26:18
    him the
  • 00:26:22
    last thing you need to do is to deal
  • 00:26:26
    with every Fitness in your life
  • 00:26:29
    in Zechariah CH 3 we talk we talk about
  • 00:26:31
    uh the Bible told about about Joshua the
  • 00:26:34
    high priest that was clothed with 50 RS
  • 00:26:40
    a high priest with 50 RS how did he get
  • 00:26:43
    to that level where high priest is now
  • 00:26:46
    clothed with f RS dirty
  • 00:26:50
    clothing priest garments are associated
  • 00:26:54
    with
  • 00:26:55
    cleanness purity
  • 00:26:58
    when God Ser Our Father law is telling
  • 00:27:00
    us to dress neatly is telling us to
  • 00:27:03
    dress according to the
  • 00:27:05
    scripture praed and known for
  • 00:27:08
    neatness but this one has mixed himself
  • 00:27:11
    with the world that became F50 to the
  • 00:27:14
    point that the enemy could come and say
  • 00:27:16
    Yes I want
  • 00:27:20
    him child of God deal with every Fitness
  • 00:27:23
    in your
  • 00:27:25
    life to maintain God's presence
  • 00:27:30
    we
  • 00:27:31
    need to do these things I've have just
  • 00:27:33
    listed up for us this last one
  • 00:27:38
    ftiness superfl of
  • 00:27:41
    nothingness measuring in the
  • 00:27:46
    minor and so this morning as I
  • 00:27:52
    conclude do you really really really
  • 00:27:55
    desire his presence
  • 00:27:58
    because without his
  • 00:28:01
    presence we can't go
  • 00:28:06
    for spend time each day in
  • 00:28:10
    prayer and scripture reading to
  • 00:28:13
    cultivate a deeper relationship with God
  • 00:28:17
    make a conscious effort to obey God's
  • 00:28:21
    Commandments and the leading of the holy
  • 00:28:24
    spirit in your life engage with a a
  • 00:28:28
    community of believers who can support
  • 00:28:31
    and encourage you in your walk with God
  • 00:28:33
    do not
  • 00:28:35
    avoid
  • 00:28:37
    God's presence in the place of gathering
  • 00:28:40
    together with God's
  • 00:28:43
    people as I
  • 00:28:46
    conclude John 8:
  • 00:28:50
    29 reminds us of The Unbroken
  • 00:28:53
    presence and support of God in our lives
  • 00:28:59
    and cause us to live in a way that
  • 00:29:01
    pleases
  • 00:29:03
    him just as Jesus Liv in a perfect
  • 00:29:07
    communion with the father we too are
  • 00:29:10
    invited to experience the joy and
  • 00:29:14
    fulfillment that comes from a life
  • 00:29:16
    dedicated to God's will let us commit
  • 00:29:22
    ourselves to seeking his presence daily
  • 00:29:26
    at all time
  • 00:29:29
    trusting in his
  • 00:29:32
    promises and
  • 00:29:34
    leaving to please him in All We
  • 00:29:39
    Do let me say this to
  • 00:29:42
    us
  • 00:29:44
    that our
  • 00:29:47
    life hangs on a
  • 00:29:53
    thread
  • 00:29:55
    thread it's a little snap P we are
  • 00:30:01
    gone we are gone I share
  • 00:30:04
    this personal testimony on
  • 00:30:07
    Thursday I'm going to share it again I
  • 00:30:10
    not to scare anyone but just to let us
  • 00:30:12
    know that we are alive because of God's
  • 00:30:20
    mercy I was coming
  • 00:30:22
    from yagu from
  • 00:30:25
    ringroad and I was in serious
  • 00:30:30
    cold my whole body was shaking so I
  • 00:30:33
    prayed in Tong from till Jericho
  • 00:30:38
    Mo so I got to Jericho Mo I wind up my
  • 00:30:42
    glass my glasses run M run from yagu to
  • 00:30:47
    Jero
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    M there's a pharmacist there so I went
  • 00:30:53
    turn and got to the pharmacy and I par
  • 00:30:56
    in front of the pharmacy
  • 00:30:58
    so I stay in the car and I was praying
  • 00:31:01
    heavily in
  • 00:31:02
    tongs I was praying T praying T praying
  • 00:31:05
    Tong so that I could I could generate
  • 00:31:08
    heat that was the last year I remember
  • 00:31:11
    and it was
  • 00:31:12
    around
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    to5
  • 00:31:18
    p.m. friends I went off
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    wind up engine
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    off inside the car Seated on the car
  • 00:31:35
    with a seat belt
  • 00:31:36
    on yeah receip bed
  • 00:31:39
    on and I went on with receip bed
  • 00:31:44
    on sat on the
  • 00:31:46
    chair and I went
  • 00:31:49
    off I came back 2 hours
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    later 7:05 because I checked the time
  • 00:32:01
    705 and when I came back I was where am
  • 00:32:05
    I where am I I tried to move I the SE
  • 00:32:08
    was holding
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    okay what happened how did I get
  • 00:32:13
    here I remove the SE bed as I open the
  • 00:32:17
    door I almost fell because you know you
  • 00:32:21
    were breathing breeding out carbon
  • 00:32:22
    dioxide and smoking and bringing in back
  • 00:32:25
    carbon dioxide so the whole thing I was
  • 00:32:28
    my brother system everything was
  • 00:32:31
    destabilized so I staggered out of the
  • 00:32:34
    car and I held the door of the car fresh
  • 00:32:38
    air came in and I came to
  • 00:32:41
    myself and when I came back to my I said
  • 00:32:44
    wow so these how people
  • 00:32:47
    died are you listening to me I went off
  • 00:32:51
    I didn't even nothing no sign didn't
  • 00:32:53
    remember nothing my leg was not numb I
  • 00:32:55
    didn't feel nothing I went t
  • 00:33:02
    praise
  • 00:33:03
    God
  • 00:33:05
    friends is just a sign to us that are
  • 00:33:09
    just some seconds away from
  • 00:33:11
    there are you listening to
  • 00:33:14
    me
  • 00:33:16
    please
  • 00:33:18
    please command his
  • 00:33:21
    presence do the things that please
  • 00:33:26
    him as said round
  • 00:33:29
    up we are Sal of the earth anywhere you
  • 00:33:33
    are people must know that you're a child
  • 00:33:35
    of
  • 00:33:36
    God make sure you spend much time
  • 00:33:39
    winning souls for God at this time that
  • 00:33:41
    we're
  • 00:33:43
    in this is no time to begin to think
  • 00:33:46
    about yourself alone do the thing that
  • 00:33:49
    pleas the
  • 00:33:51
    father win s for his kingdom lay out on
  • 00:33:55
    the sick raise the Dead
  • 00:33:59
    do generous work for his
  • 00:34:02
    kingdom as much as God has given you
  • 00:34:05
    life use that life for him shall We rise
  • 00:34:09
    up on our feet Hallelujah come on give
  • 00:34:13
    him praise this morning give him praise
  • 00:34:16
    Giving Him
  • 00:34:17
    Glory thank you
  • 00:34:21
    Jesus are you here this morning rise up
  • 00:34:23
    and give God praise are you alive this
  • 00:34:26
    morning give God praise
  • 00:34:29
    are you living a life that is pleasing
  • 00:34:31
    to
  • 00:34:32
    him that prophecy say I am with
  • 00:34:36
    you I am with you I am with you fear not
  • 00:34:41
    you are here because God is with you you
  • 00:34:44
    are alive because you are still IR
  • 00:34:47
    relevant
  • 00:34:49
    amen when I hear people hear that people
  • 00:34:52
    inside car I think I have that
  • 00:34:55
    experience now it's possible
  • 00:35:00
    give him praise this
  • 00:35:01
    morning worship
  • 00:35:03
    Him worship Him worship
  • 00:35:08
    Him thank you
  • 00:35:11
    Jesus thank you
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    Jesus thank you
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    [Music]
  • 00:35:17
    Jesus pray and say heavenly
  • 00:35:19
    father I rededicate my life to
  • 00:35:22
    you help me to live a life of
  • 00:35:26
    fulfillment
  • 00:35:28
    help me to live a life that is dedicated
  • 00:35:32
    to your
  • 00:35:33
    will help me to commit
  • 00:35:36
    myself to seeking your presence to
  • 00:35:40
    trusting your promises and living to
  • 00:35:43
    please you in all that I do take it turn
  • 00:35:47
    to prayer and pray in the name of
  • 00:35:54
    Jesus help you to live a life a way in a
  • 00:35:57
    way that pleases you oh God In The Name
  • 00:36:00
    of Jesus pray for strength pray for
  • 00:36:03
    wisdom to work in obedience to God's
  • 00:36:05
    week in the name of
  • 00:36:08
    Jesus say Lord make my life a testimony
  • 00:36:12
    of Your Love make my life a testimony of
  • 00:36:16
    your grace in the name of Jesus
  • 00:36:27
    in the name of
  • 00:36:29
    Jesus thank you Lord we give you all the
  • 00:36:33
    praise and all the glory in Jesus's
  • 00:36:36
    mighty name we have prayed heavenly
  • 00:36:39
    father I pray for your people that Lord
  • 00:36:44
    we we
  • 00:36:45
    experience your presence like never
  • 00:36:49
    before Lord strengthen everyone who is
  • 00:36:52
    weak at this
  • 00:36:54
    time Grant unto us wisdom
  • 00:36:58
    to live in a way that pleases you in the
  • 00:37:02
    name of Jesus Christ cause our sought
  • 00:37:06
    not to lose his
  • 00:37:08
    flavor in the name of Jesus may we not
  • 00:37:12
    be like lost wife oh God In The Name of
  • 00:37:16
    Jesus Deliver Us from the things of the
  • 00:37:19
    world Deliver Us from lust of the
  • 00:37:22
    flesh Deliver Us from lust of the eyes
  • 00:37:26
    Deliver Us from the pride of life that
  • 00:37:29
    will not look back we have put our hands
  • 00:37:32
    on the plow will not look back we give
  • 00:37:35
    you all the praise and all the glory in
  • 00:37:39
    Jesus's mighty name we have prayed
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