Righteous Invasion of Truth

Guest (Male): Are you ready? Two hands above your head. Put them together with a joyful shout for our papa, Dr. Abel Damina!

Dr. Abel Damina: Glory! Glory, glory! Somebody excited this morning? Glory to God. Lift your hands above your head. Father, we thank you for the privilege of learning and being equipped. Revelation knowledge is gifted everybody under the sound of my voice. The entrance of your word giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple.

So, we come before your word with such attitude, ready to receive instructions and direction, ready to learn, relearn, unlearn, and ready to be built up and equipped. We declare that this morning, anyone that is not feeling well in his body, I command that body to be corrected. Sick bodies be healed. Your people are built up, equipped, edified, and Jesus is glorified. Thank you for the blessing that at the end of this service, we'll be the better for it.

In Jesus' name we pray. And every believer says a powerful amen. Glory to God! Lift your right hands above your head. Let's release our faith together as we say these words: I am born of God. I am born of the Word. The word of God is my nature. I do not struggle to do the Word. I do the Word naturally. Therefore today, I will understand the word of his grace. I will be built up. By the end of this service, I will never be the same, never ever be the same again, in Jesus' name. And every believer says a powerful amen.

We started a series this morning on why you must be in a local church and be committed. On Wednesday, I will continue my teaching on Understanding Satan: Myths and the Truth. Then on Sundays, I will deal with why you must be in a local church as part of the series of The Church of God in Service.

Jesus speaks about the local church after Peter gave him the revelation. Jesus said, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" And the disciples discovered they didn't know who he was. But Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."

Now look at Matthew the 16th chapter, the 16th verse. "And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Next verse. "And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." Next verse. "And I say unto thee, also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

Upon this rock—that is, upon this revelation. Revelation makes you a rock. Upon this revelation. So, Jesus spoke about his church. We said the church is the body of Christ. In the first service, we laid the foundation. If you were not in the first service, please go back, listen to the first service. It's on my Facebook page and on YouTube. You can go listen to it so you catch up with the notes.

The church is the body of Christ. The church is a post-redemption reality, a post-redemption reality, where he said, "I will build my church." And that revelation relates more to redemption. Because in the four Gospels, he was the only begotten Son, the only begotten Son.

John chapter 1, verse 18: "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." The only begotten. John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life."

But when Jesus rose from the dead, he became the firstborn. Romans 8:29. Jesus is the firstborn from the dead, that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren. In Hebrews chapter 2, verse 11, talking about Jesus after his resurrection, he says, "For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren." Next verse, verse 12: "Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee."

He now said, "And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me." Next verse. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he likewise himself took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil."

Jesus is not ashamed to call me his brother. In Colossians chapter 1, verse 18, he's the firstborn, and he's the head of the body, the church: "who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." That is the foundation upon which the church is built. He became the Lord and Christ when he rose from the dead.

That's why Brother Paul was saying in Romans chapter 10, verse 8 to 10: "Confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." You believe in your heart, you confess with your mouth that Jesus has been raised from the dead.

The lordship of Jesus is described by his triumph from the dead. Hebrews chapter 2, verse 14, where we read. Colossians chapter 2, verse 15, how that Jesus disarmed principalities and powers, made a show of the church, and the church is triumphing over the devil in his resurrection.

Jesus triumphed over death, and by his triumph, he established his lordship. In Ephesians chapter 1, verse 17, 18, 19, 20, we begin to see Jesus' lordship, how it has to do with when he rose from the dead. Ephesians chapter 1, verse 17, 18: "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints."

"And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all."

Jesus rose from the dead. In the four Gospels, he was Christos, or Christ, the anointed. In the Epistles, he is Christ the Lord. He is the Savior, he is the Master, the Kurios in the Greek. This statement that Peter made has to do with the redemption of men. It has to do with what Jesus did in the three days and three nights. He rose from the dead and then the church was born.

The church has to do with what Jesus did when he rose from the dead, which means that the church is called the body of Christ, where we read in Ephesians 1, "which is his body, gave him to be the head over the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." The church is called the family of God. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 18 and 19.

"For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God," or the family of God. It's called the household of God. Household means the family of God. I'm a member and a part of the family of God.

The book of Galatians chapter 6, verse 10 calls it the household of faith, a family of faith. So we have a family, and that family was born when Jesus was raised from the dead. And you're a member of that family when you receive the gospel and you were born into Christ. Ephesians chapter 3, verse 14 says: "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named."

Another version says: of whom the whole family derives its title. Another version says: of whom the whole family derives its fatherhood. We actually belong to a family. The church is a family. However, the church is the Greek word "ecclesia," that is, the called-out ones. "Ek," which means "called out," "lesia" means "a gathering."

If Jesus says, "I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail," "my church" means "my assembly." It means that an assembly is required. An assembly is a necessity. We're already born into Christ, we're already members of Jesus, we're one spirit, but all those that are members of Jesus require a physical assembly.

That physical assembly is called the local church. That physical assembly is a convergence of all members of God's family. That local church is where the members of Jesus' family assemble together physically to be nurtured, to be tutored, to be trained, and to have oversight and accountability.

If Jesus says, "I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail," "my church" means "my assembly." It means that an assembly is essential. You can't stay when I am in the church of Christ, I am already born into that church, I don't need an assembly. An assembly is a necessity.

That means Christianity is not personal. Christianity is not about you. Christianity is about you and the body of Christ. If you're born again, you're born into a family. If you're born again, you're born into a household. If you're born again, you're born into a body. If there's a body, it has to be assembled together for that body to function.

Imagine if your legs were in Aba where I just came from yesterday, and your head is in Eket, and your hands are in Calabar. You cannot function. For your body to function, it must be assembled together. God wants a functional body on earth. That is why the local assembly becomes the convergence of the members of God's family to form a body that can carry out his mandate on the earth.

The church therefore is an assembly of God, a gathering. Which means there's need to be in the assembly in order for us to have church. You cannot have church when we are in different places. Church is where all of us come together. Church is where we converge. To have church therefore, an assembly is required.

First Timothy chapter 3, verse 14—please pay attention. "These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly." Next verse, Paul now is writing: "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God." There's a way to behave in the house of God. What is the house of God? "Which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."

I'm so excited about what God is going to do in the coming years with us in Power City, taking nations, raising men, mighty men of the word and of the spirit. Mighty men of the word and spirit, doing great things all over the nations of the earth. Some of you will begin to wonder when it will happen. It's already happening at the scale where we're already operating.

I look back 30-something years ago when we started ministry. We looked like a joke. They didn't take us seriously. They just thought we were just entertaining ourselves. But we kept being faithful with it, and the scale began to increase. We stayed faithful. Look at what God is doing all over the world today with a young boy that chose to be faithful to the will of God, to the word of God, to the spirit of God.

And you're there right now, where people don't take you serious, and they think you're playing. But you know you're not a joke. You know that by the spirit of God on your inside, there is a witness that is telling you: this is what I raised you up for and this is why you were born, and for this purpose you came into the world.

Don't let anybody despise you. Don't let anybody despise the effort, and don't let anybody despise the ministry that you're expressing. You're already on the journey, you're already on your way into being into the fullness of what God raised you for to do. And it shall be done. And it shall be fulfilled. And there shall be rejoicing.

Because of you, nations will rejoice. Because of you, families will rejoice. Because of the light that you bring, the value that you bring, because of the direction that you bring, and because of the order that you bring into their lives by virtue of ministry. I'm so excited about what God is going to do in the years to come with every one of us here in this house.

When God brought you into this local assembly, he brought you right into the center of his will. You are right in the will of God. So stop looking for the will of God. You are right in the center of the will of God for your life. In that campus, in that house church, in that nation, you are right in the center of the will of God for your life. Cheer up and give yourself wholly to these things, and your profiting will appear to all.

I'm so excited seeing us in North America, South America, Canada, Australia, India, Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, all of Europe. By the riot broadcast, by our campuses taking charge of all available platforms and voices, reaching millions all over the world. People will be taught the word of God in different languages by our ministry.

Something good is happening in the body of Christ. I'm still going to be doing this in the next 60 years. I'll still be standing this tall and strong, still teaching God's word, still raising men, still building men. A gathering is required, an assembly is required. The church of God is the gathering of the living God. It is the pillar and the ground of the truth.

First Corinthians chapter 14, verse 23: "If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned and unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?" He's talking about the place of the interpretation of tongues. When we all come together. So there is a gathering.

All of Paul's letters, from Romans to Second Thessalonians—they were all written to churches. If you're not in a local church, you cannot understand those letters. The context of those letters are for people in local assemblies. It is when you are in a local assembly that the book of Romans will make sense, because it was a letter written to members of the church in Rome. It was not written to people that are just scattered.

The letter to Galatians was written to the brethren, the saints in Galatia, to the churches. Then First and Second Timothy, Titus, Philemon—all written concerning the church or to believers within it. Then First and Second Peter were written to churches and to the saints. The book of Revelation, Jesus spoke to the angel of the churches in Asia Minor.

The entire New Testament is written to churches. If you're not in a local church, those books will not really mean much to you. The context in which you will understand those letters well is that you belong to a local assembly and you're being addressed as a member of a local gathering. Gatherings are important in Christianity.

The church is called the body of Christ and the similarity of the physical body. Nobody here wants his body apart. If a part of your body is doing something different from others, you know that you have a disease. If one hand is dragging behind while the body is trying to move, then you know you have a disease.

Every part of the body should be moving together in the same direction, achieving the same objective. That's how the church ought to function in a local setting. That analogy is to help you understand that the body has to be a physical body and every member has to function together as one. The Bible says we have to be working together. You must understand the importance of the church. It's a necessity.

Attending church and being a member of a church is not a hobby. Paul's revelation was given to the church. Paul taught things to the church. In those days, they didn't have the luxury of social media or Wi-Fi. Every time Brother Paul wrote a letter, it had to be read in the church. If they wanted copies, they had to copy them individually or manually. That's why we have many manuscripts of the same letter.

Imagine if you had no church you belong to. We couldn't have amounted to anything. The impact we're making, we couldn't be making it if there was no local setting, if we were not a church here. We would not reach the nations the way we're reaching them. God's wisdom on the earth is the local church. Through the local church, there is a corporate anointing and empowerment.

Through the local church, we collectively in the corporate manner carry out the assignment of God on the earth. A gathering therefore is a necessity. Jesus saved you and he put you in a gathering. Paul's letters contain so many things that Jesus had in mind, but Jesus never said.

John 16:12 and 13: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come."

Brother Paul advances the verbiage in First Corinthians chapter 2, verse 9: "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God."

In the revelation of Paul, we can see very clearly certain things. Look at what Peter had to say about Paul in Second Peter chapter 3, verse 15. Don't forget we're examining why you must be in a local church and be committed there. Paul's revelation was the revelation that unlocked the entire scriptures.

Imagine if you read the book of Acts, and the next book is First and Second John. You would likely wonder what happened here. Paul's letters basically helped to smooth our study of the New Testament. Look at Second Peter chapter 3, verse 15 and 16: "And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you."

"As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." Peter says Paul's letters got to these churches. They were churches that were in different nations.

In First Peter chapter 1, verse 1, Peter calls them: "to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect." He's writing to saints, local churches in these nations. Peter read all of Paul's letters. He said, "as in all of his epistles," he wrote things that are hard to be understood. Peter must have read to know what is contained in the writings of Paul.

"Hard to be understood" in the Greek means it takes you a depth of understanding. In those days, Paul's letters were referred to as scriptures. Paul's letters had the same authority as the scriptures. Something inspired of God that became a reference point in teaching materials all over the world.

In Galatians chapter 1, verse 11, Brother Paul gives an insight: "But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." Brother Paul says his writings were the revelation of Jesus.

John and Peter majorly were people that had contact with Jesus. You also discover that the writer of Hebrews said: "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him." Paul said it is the revelation of Jesus Christ, not a revelation after man.

Paul's revelation was a key revelation in the Bible. It brought biblical sense to the Bible. Brother Paul's revelation brought a lot of logical sense to how revelation was received. In the books of Paul, there are two major doctrinal books: Ephesians and Colossians. Galatians was a defense of his gospel, so you see a lot of doctrine in there as well.

He had to write the book of Romans and establish the doctrine of righteousness. But Ephesians and Colossians were written in the same week. That's why there's a lot of similarities in both books. For example, the instructions to the husband and wife are very similar. The instructions to fathers, mothers, children, and bosses are very similar.

Similarity of thoughts in the work of redemption is seen in Colossians 2 and Ephesians chapter 2. Then in Ephesians chapter 5, verse 18 and 19: "speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart." Then you see him writing the same thing in Colossians 3:16 and 17.

These two books are his major doctrinal books. I also believe that the book of Galatians and Romans are also topical because they contain the very thought and revelation that God gave to Paul in the study of the scriptures. In the revelation that God gave to Paul, you will find four major things that Brother Paul taught.

Paul taught what we call soteriology. Zoology is the study of animals. Physiology is the study of body functions. We have people in life who major in one study. Someone said, "I study biology: first degree, second degree, PhD." Some people study animals. I study theology.

Soteriology is a major doctrine in the epistle of Paul. Soteriology is a study of salvation. Remember Peter said that the wisdom of Paul is concerning salvation. Salvation is the longsuffering of God. So the study of salvation is Brother Paul's major. He said to Timothy, "from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."

When you study Brother Paul, you will come to understand how salvation is received. Believe in the heart, confess with the mouth. There must be a preacher to preach, and the people must hear what the preacher is preaching. So then faith by hearing, hearing the message of Christ. You will know who the Soter is. You will know what salvation is.

The second major thing in Brother Paul's teaching is eschatology. Eschatology is a study of the last days, the things that happen at the last days. In First Timothy chapter 4, verse number 1: "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils." When? In the latter times.

Second Timothy chapter 3, verse 1, Brother Paul is telling Timothy: "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come." When you study Paul's theology, you will find out the things about the last days. Number three, Paul's doctrine, you will find pneumatology.

The study of the spirit. Jesus already told us that God is a spirit. Man is a spirit. Genesis chapter 2, verse 7, God breathed into man and man became another speaking spirit, an animating force. Man is a spirit. God is a spirit. First Thessalonians 5:23: "I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Man is a spirit. Angels are spirits. Hebrews chapter 1, verse 14: "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" Brother Paul's doctrine exposes spirits. Spirits are the unseen forces in human existence. God is one. Man is unseen also.

Jeremiah 17 says that the heart of man is deceitful above all things. Who can know it? Because man is a spirit, you can't know what a man is thinking. "What man knoweth the things that are in a man, save the spirit of that man? even so the things that are in God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received the spirit, not of this world, but that is of God; that we may know the things that are freely given to us of God."

We need to look at the word of God to know who we are in Christ, because you cannot see that except in the Word. Paul also did a study of the things of the spirit. First Corinthians 12:1: "Now concerning spirituals, I would not have you ignorant." A study in the spirit, you will see God through Jesus Christ, because God is a spirit.

You cannot know God by looking at things; you know God in his Word. Jesus said in John 6:63: "The flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." It is the spirit that quickeneth. Hebrews chapter 4, verse 12: "The word of God is quick, and powerful, sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit."

"Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession." Glory to God.

We have a high priest. Paul gives us pneumatology so we know about God, a spirit. We know about angels, spirits. We know about man, a spirit. We know about demons. Ephesians 6:11 and 12: be strong in the Lord in the power of his might. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers. Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. There's a wrestling to ward off the distraction of the spirits of the devil.

Number four, Paul's theology—and this is where I am going—majored also on ecclesiology. Ecclesiology is a study of the church. That is one of Paul's major revelations. It's Paul that gives us insight into the church, which is the body of Christ positionally, then the church as an assembly, the church as a gathering.

No writer of the New Testament gave us insight into the church like Paul. No writer into the activities, into the personalities, into the positions, into the responsibilities in the church. Some people just get excited. They're born again, thank God for his love. "Oh, thank you Lord Jesus, my sins are forgiven. I'm a new creature." You can't do that all your life.

There's more to the Christian life than just "my sins are forgiven, thank God I'm a new creature." Glory to God. "Yeah, I'm blessed. Yeah, I'm accepted in the beloved." You can't do that all your life. There's more to that. Thank God for the finished work, but there are responsibilities in the gospel of Christ.

God loves me, yes. But what if you don't obey his Word? He still loves you, but you will suffer for disobedience. There are responsibilities attached to the Christian life. And one of those responsibilities is going to church and being committed. Going to church, a physical location. You stand up from your home, you dress up, and you deliberately, intentionally go to church—a physical location.

Somebody said, "Everything is finished, nothing to be done again." Wow. That's very deep. So deep that it could be risky to fall into that depth. He's going to reward you. What is Jesus going to reward you for? He's rewarding you for what you have done in the body. So there are responsibilities to the Christian life.

Brother Paul taught about the church in Romans 12:4 to 13. He taught about the believer in the earlier chapters, that you're righteous. He talks about what Christ has done for us. But then in the later chapters of Romans, he talks about our responsibilities, our relationship. In First Corinthians he talks about what Christ has done for you, and then he talks about your responsibility.

In Ephesians 1, 2, and 3, he talks about who you are in Christ. In chapter 4, 5, and 6, he talks about your responsibilities. In Galatians the same thing. He taught about who you are, what the gospel has done. Then chapter 6: "brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye that are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness"—responsibilities.

Paul's doctrine included the insights about the church. The church speaks of supernatural relationships. When we say the local church, we are talking about supernatural relationships. The local church is the home of supernatural relationships. For instance, Benson and Eric chose to wear cream suits on a day when I'm wearing blue.

Both of them are not naturally brothers in the flesh. They're not from the same physical family. But the supernatural relationship that has connected the two of them, where their relationship with one another now supersedes whatever relationship they had with their biological family. That is what we call supernatural relationships.

The church is the home of supernatural relationships. Nothing natural connects us. But somehow by the decision I took to belong to Jesus, suddenly, you're my brother, you're my sister. So we are born again into supernatural relationships.

If you say you're part of the church, you must be part of the gathering, you must be part of a local setting. If you say you're part of the church that Jesus saved you and bought you with his blood, then you must be part of the gathering of Jesus' family. A gathering is required.

Supernatural relationships are critical. Look at how he describes the church in First Corinthians. It's like a physical body. And it is God that has done it himself. First Corinthians 12:28 says God has set some in the church. He does the setting by himself.

How many of you just woke up one day and discovered that your hand is part of your body? Did you know when your hand grew out of your body? Is there anybody here who knew exactly when the hand started growing out? You only woke up and discovered that two hands came with you.

You don't deliberately join a church; God borns you into the church. So somehow, you find yourself in Power City because you were born into the church to belong to a local assembly called Power City. You don't decide to be here. When you got born again, you were put in here. That's why the day you discovered here, you felt at home, because you actually came home.

The day you discovered Power City—some of you discovered it on Facebook, some of you discovered it on YouTube, some of you discovered me in a dream. You dreamt and they told you in the dream, "Abel Damina." You woke up and Googled "Abel Damina." You saw all the things written about him. You tapped one video, that's it. You knew you have come home.

You didn't need anybody to tell you. You just knew it. "Ah, this is where I belong." I found where I belong. I'm a living stone. In this house, I will grow. There is power here for miracle, center for ministry, make the broken whole. God is awesome. I love that song, seriously.

When you get to where you belong, you will know I have come home. There will be a witness in your spirit that this is the place. How many of you agree with me here? You know it. You will know it. You will know that this is where I belong. Online, in the campus, you will know when you come.

Even if you're inside another church with earpiece in your ear, while your pastor in that church is preaching, you're busy listening to me. You know that you're not there; this is where you are. You may be there for political reasons or for economic reasons while you're taking time to plot a new strategy to escape. Glory to God.

He said, "I will bring my sheep into their fold, and I will give them a pastor after my heart." It's God that does the setting. It's God that brings you to the family. It's God that gives you the pastor. You don't choose a pastor. Some of you if you were to choose me, you won't choose me. I know some of you here.

You wouldn't have chosen me because when you first heard of me, you didn't like me at all. But now, you can kill somebody for me. Yes. Yes. But before you didn't. Because it's not your choice. I am not your choice; I am God's choice for you.

You don't choose your pastor. God makes you discover your pastor. Your pastor is a discovery that God brings to you. And your pastor may not be even the last person in your list of the kind of people you want to choose. You like peace too much, but Damina likes violence. Woto-woto. You touch him small, you collect ten scriptures that describes your status.

When I am releasing fire, you just do like you're not hearing me. When I finish and I say, "So like we were preaching," you come back, you carry pen. You remove that side of me you don't like. Some of you I watch you now. I see you now.

When I say so, the spirit slapped you with a mist, and you have goggles. You were wearing your goggles. The mist did not clear the goggles, but the mist showed you me on wheelchair. What a convenient vision. You're wearing goggles and you can see wheelchair.

When I'm saying you just remove your face. "Papa has started. I will not receive that one." But there are some of you when I say, "those goggles," you say, "Yes, Papa. Give him." We're all the children of God.

You don't choose your pastor. God chooses your pastor for you; you only discover him. Sometimes you can be in the wrong church. It's part of the process to your discovery. The day you discover your pastor, you will see that you lose taste for the other church. Suddenly what they're teaching there doesn't make sense again because you have now discovered where you belong.

You will be behaving like Jonah who will soon fall into the belly of a fish if you still drag yourself by force even though you have discovered where God has planted you. "No, my mother church. I must still be in my mother church." After a while, fish will swallow you.

You will find yourself inside one condition like that where you are now forced not to go to that church. You are hanging, and after a while you have to decide whether to obey God or to be in that hanging position. And some people watching, that's where you are. You better settle so that whatever swallowed you will vomit you. This one is a figure of speech. I found where I belong.

Tell your neighbor: you're my supernatural relationship. I'm connected to you supernaturally in Christ Jesus. I didn't hear a good amen. Teaching good this morning? So you don't decide your church; you discover your church. You don't decide your pastor; you discover your pastor.

Supernatural relationships therefore are a fruit of our salvation. Now pay attention to this. In Ephesians chapter 4, Paul begins to talk about what Christ has done: descended, ascended, gave gifts to men. Apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher. For the perfecting of the saints, in view of the work of ministry, that the body of Christ may be edified.

Question: what is the body of Christ? The body of Christ is the assembly where we all come together physically. Why must we have that assembly? Ephesians chapter 4, verse 13 and 14. Pay attention. "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."

"That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." So you see here we're born into supernatural relationships, and these relationships are not natural.

Look at that Ephesians chapter 4, verse 15 and 16. Pay attention. "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love."

Supernatural relationships. We are called the family of God, the family called the church. Why must I belong to the family called the church? Because the family called the church stops selfishness. The moment you join a local church, the announcement you are making is: I have defeated selfishness.

Joining a local church is the greatest defeat of selfishness in the life of any believer. That's why God created the local church: an environment that destroys selfishness. Most people not in the church are merely selfish. I don't want nobody to step on my toes. I don't want nobody to beg me for money.

I don't want nobody to expect me to give them a lift on my way home with my car, especially now when petrol is very expensive. The more people you carry, the more fuel you consume. You remember the man that wanted to enter his car? He said I should sit first and I should twist like this.

He told me to lift my legs and enter the car so that my shoe will not dirty his car. Then he took my shoe and put in the boot. Had he known, he wouldn't have crucified. I felt so insulted, but I had no option. I had no choice. I sat inside that car pitying my life for three hours drive, imagining how my shoes are in the boot.

Some of you have car, after service somebody just say, "Give me a drop." You look at his shoe, look at him. You say, "Enter, but don't relax too much." Sitting in your car is paining you. As he's inside the car, you feel like the car is losing value. "This car would have been newer if not that he entered."

See how selfish people can be. It takes the church, the local gathering, to break that yoke of selfishness, where things don't mean much to you anymore like people mean to you. Where people are more valuable to you than things. You see a brother, you take your new shoe and give him to wear.

He wears the shoe and he's wearing it anyhow. It is not paining you. You have defeated selfishness. Some of you will give somebody cloth and still be monitoring how he's wearing the cloth. "See the way that skirt is sitting, it's not like that. Come, I won't give you another cloth next time." You're controlling. You really didn't give the cloth.

Turn to your neighbor, say: I defeat selfishness just by belonging to this church. Why am I laughing today since first service? What is this? The joy of the Lord, right? Somebody said to me, "Damina, you know you can be a comedian?" I said, "If you don't keep quiet, I would drop one on your head now."

I'm not a comedian; I'm a man of God. And when I teach, I bring joy. Comedy doesn't bring joy; it brings happiness. But I bring joy. I bring out that thing inside you. Glory to God. All right, so belonging to the church and identifying with the church is a proof that you have overcome selfishness.

Belonging to a physical local church and identifying with that physical church in a committed manner is a proof that you have defeated selfishness. The greatest force of sin on the earth is selfishness. Me, myself. Me, myself. Ours, mine, my own. But the church helps you to overcome selfishness.

Selfishness means you focused. But the church is a family of us, us, we, us, ours. The church helps you to overcome selfishness. Because in the church, not just attendance is required, but commitment to people. The church makes you committed to people, beginning from brethren to the disciples that you are raising one after the other.

Raising a disciple is a heavy commitment. If you're not committed to people, you cannot succeed in raising disciples. Raising the disciples will come from a realm of selflessness where you put yourself last and put the people you're raising first. Brother Paul would say, "I die daily so life can be at work in you."

The church helps you to overcome selfishness. God has been committed to you. He sent his Son to die for you without your permission. He required nothing from you. He bore your sins, he bore your griefs. He was offered on the cross. Because of that you're born again, you're now justified.

He gave you his Spirit. Now he expects you to express that commitment to those for whom he died. Except you're not really born again. If you're truly born again, the next desire in your heart will be to belong to a fellowship where your siblings are, so you can serve. Look at Second Corinthians chapter 5, verse 15.

"And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again." We no longer live for us; we live for him. And in living for him, we live for the people for whom he died. How do I live for Jesus? By living for the people for whom he died.

If I cannot live for the people for whom Jesus died, then I am not living. It means I am merely existing. It is fundamental that the Christian gathering is part and parcel of Christianity. Our faith in Christ involves our faith in the local church. You're not an observer in the church; you're supposed to be fully committed and engaged.

There are four things that people see or people ask. Somebody say, "Does going to church make me make heaven?" Well, going to church is not a ticket to heaven. The local church is not about salvation, but the local church is a fruit of salvation. It's a fruit of it.

If you are not in the local church, it's almost likely that you're not a Christian. Because we have so much mixed multitude today. Don't forget the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. The gospel is not: if you're poor, you want to be rich, come to church. That's not the gospel. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation, and the local church is the fruit of salvation.

In First John chapter 1, verse 3 to 4, pay attention. "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." Our fellowship with the Father and with the Son will be expressed in our fellowship with one another.

You can't say you love God whom you do not see and hate your brother who is sitting by you right now in this service. If you truly love God whom you do not see, how you express your love to that God is by expressing it to your brother. He says, "When I was hungry you gave me food to eat. When I was naked you gave me clothes to wear. When I was in the hospital you visited me."

They shall say, "When did we see you in that condition and when did we do this for you, Lord?" "Ye did it to one of the least of my brethren, you did it to me." So our love for God will be expressed in our love for the brethren which are in our local assembly. You can't see God to love him, but you can see God in me to love God in me.

You're not wanting to be in church may just be a sign that you're not a genuine Christian; you're just fake. Why will you not love to be in church? Yeah, I mean, I know people have abused people in church. Pastors have taken advantage of people. Pastors have battered people, mangled people, destroyed people, broken lives. Of course, it has happened in churches.

But that something is abused doesn't mean it is still not good. Just like it is in every society. I was in Zurich and then somebody's telling me, "You're Nigerian?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Oh, Nigeria is a bad country." I said, "Just like Zurich. Most of the thieves in Nigeria bring their money to Zurich and you people keep it here. So we and you people are partners in crime. Glory."

He just kept quiet and continued moving. There are people you don't look for their trouble because it's like they're always trouble-ready. We're in this world but we're not of this world, so we must be fully in and for this world. I told him we're partners in crime. We steal it, you keep it. We're shareholders. The man just left me and continued walking.

Look at somebody says before you talk, so that you know you small to collect big. Sorry, international audience. What I just said is you must look at somebody very well before you say something so that you will not give him a little and take a lot in supply. That's the transliteration of that utterance.

So you will not say because it has been abused, we will not use it. You won't say I won't join church. What you'd rather do is: Father, help me discover the church where I belong. Because when I finally get to the church where I belong, I will not be abused. I will be empowered and I will be used.

Say: use me, Lord. Say: use me, church. Say: use me, brethren. See, let me tell you, if you're not useful, you're useless. Tell your neighbor: if you're not useful, if we cannot use you, you are useless. Anybody that doesn't want to be used is what? Useless. Say it now. Useless.

Say: use me, Lord. Touch your neighbor, say: bro, use me if I'm useful to you. A brother bought a car and brought it and said I should bless the car, that I shouldn't dedicate the car. I have never heard that thing before in this church. He said, "Papa, bless my car. Papa, don't dedicate my car but bless it."

I said, "Why?" He said, "If you dedicate my car now, they'll be saying every crusade, every thing they say, 'Bro, bring your car, bring your car, bring your car,' because it is dedicated to the Lord. But if you bless my car, I don't have to bring it." I said, "See your face. I bless and dedicate this car for the work of God."

He said, "Ah, Papa, you have killed me." I said, "Right now, we're using your car to go for program. Bring the key, go home." That's how we carry the car. Any car we cannot use should not be blessed. The blessing is what enables us to use the car. Somebody shout: use me, Lord.

Tell your neighbor: use me, bro, if I'm useful to you in any area. I want to be a blessing. I am blessed to be a blessing. Glory to God. See how all of you are using me. See white, white everywhere. It's not age; it's you using me. If you were not using me now, I would have been a fresh boy.

But now you're using me, I have become a handsome boy because I have color separation on my face. And I'm glad to be useful. Because if you're not in active service, you're retired. I thank God that I'm still in active service. See, I'm serving you now. I'm not retired. There are many people that are young but on retirement.

Retirement without pension. No pension because they retired too early. Too early. It's like a man that becomes a major general in the army. He just became a major general, then they make a captain the Chief of Defense. So they retired him. Before he started office, they retired him. Early retirement and forceful one.

Where you're sixty, you have been retired. So what will you do for the next thirty years of your life? That's why ministry we don't retire; we refire. Because the gift and callings of God are without repentance. We do ministry till we leave this world. Somebody shout: my life is ministry.

Say: use me, Lord. Use my money. Use my car. Use my house. Use my family. Use me, Lord, to advance your kingdom. Use me. We were looking for a place for house church. Tell us: my house is available. Use my house. Don't say, "When they start coming now, the rug will finish."

So you think of house church, you think of rock carpet. The poverty that followed you from the village is very strong. Rug carpet. Rug. So because of rug carpet, you don't want house church. They'll come and use the TV. Na TV be your problem. Kai, you need to go to a deliverance church.

So that the pastor will tell you lie down on the pulpit, roll from one end to another 25 times. You be rolling till you have dizziness. You just see visions that are not from God because when you're dizzy you see things. Why are you laughing, Damina? Glory to God.

Say: me, my money, my family, my resources, my assets, are to serve God by serving his people. Everything you get is to serve God. All that we have is for the service of God. And how do we serve God? We serve his people. We serve God by serving his people. I'm teaching real good.

He says you love God, you love his people. You can't claim to be fruitful and not love the church. You're not wanting to be in church may just be a sign that you're not a Christian. In Ephesians chapter 1, verse 13 to 15, pay attention. "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation."

"In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints," Your faith in Jesus expressed in your love to all the saints.

Colossians chapter 1, verse 4: "Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints." Your love is for all the saints. Philemon chapter 1, verse 4: "I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers." Verse 5 now: "Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints."

Your love is toward the Lord Jesus. That is, toward all saints. You can't say you love God and you don't love brethren. You don't love the local church. Your love is questionable. That's why I'm giving you a plethora of scriptures to show you that coming with salvation is a passion to love God's children.

So if you claim to be saved and not want to be around us, I can tell you that you're not yet a Christian; you're not yet saved. I love to be in your presence, with your people singing praises. I love to stand and rejoice, lift my hands and raise my voice. I love to be in your presence.

Church can be so sweet when you understand the reason for church. Every time you come in the midst of your family, everything in this world ceases. Problems suddenly become nothing in the fellowship of the saints. Am I communicating at all? Yeah. Coming with salvation is a love for the saints.

Galatians chapter 6, verse 10: "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." Are you ashamed of believers? Are you always looking for how to run away from believers? You're not born again. You're a pretender.

How can you be ashamed of your brethren when Jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren? You can't honor God and not honor his family. No. It's just like saying you love papa, you don't love mama. Uh-huh, which mango tree you fall from? You can't love me and not love mama and not love my girls. You love me as a package.

You love me with everything I bring. You love me with my woto-woto mouth. Yes. You love me with my strong forehead. You love me all. You can't love me in percentage. "I love Papa to the extent to which he stays with the scripture." If I call you idiot, it is still with the scripture.

Because idiot is—Jesus said it in Luke 24:25, "O fools." That word fool is "idiotes." Idiotes in today's grammar is idiot. When King James wrote, there was no idiot; there was only fool. Idiot is the advanced expression. Wahala pro max. Are you ashamed of the brethren that Jesus purchased with his blood?

You can't be ashamed of the brethren that Jesus purchased with his blood. Some say, "No church, because there are too many hypocrites." Welcome to the club. Because after a while, you too, you find out you have your own. The church is a gathering of imperfect people like me.

That's what defines the church. All of us are imperfect that are being perfected. The church is a gathering of imperfect people. There are babes in the church. First Corinthians 3:1 to 2: "I could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto babes." It's like a mother says, "I don't want to go to my house anymore, because my baby is always bed-wetting."

So because your baby in the house is bed-wetting, you have disowned your house? Uh-huh. No. You will go home and clean that bed, and the baby will bed-wet, you will clean again and be grateful that you have a baby that you can clean the pee of the baby.

There are women who are praying to have a baby that will not only pee but poop on their face. At least your own, the baby is peeing on the bed, not on your body. So the next thing now is to look for how to help the baby graduate out of that phase of life.

You don't leave church because a brother is always talking when you sit. You look for face mask and wear him. You buy a face mask, say, "Bro, come. I have a vision. I just saw a vision. And in my vision, I saw you wearing a face mask, so I bought it for you."

Now we're living in a realm of visions. All of us are seeing visions. You have to love and belong to a local church where you are planted, where you're nurtured, where you are taught, where you are held accountable. You have to have a local church where you go to.

A well-organized, deliberate training for growth is the curriculum of the local church. You belong to a church where you are brought up in a systematic way. You have a curriculum where you're learning progressively and you can measure your growth over time.

After salvation is growth. And how do we grow? We grow in church where the word of God is being taught. That's how we grow. Hearing the word of God is not enough; being in church enables you to put the word of God to practice. Why did God say you should have a fruit called patience?

Because things will happen that will try you, and patience will be the winner. Why are you given a fruit called longsuffering, gentleness, kindness, goodness? Why are you given a fruit of the Spirit? Because you will need all of those capabilities because of the supernatural relationships you have.

There are some people in the family that are troublesome, some are nice, some are very overbearing. But they're all your siblings. So you need the fruit of the Spirit because of those supernatural relationships. There are some people you have to be patient with, some people you have to be longsuffering towards, some people you have to be kind to, bear them, tolerate them, endure them, suffer long.

It's all part of it. God already equipped you for these relationships by giving you the fruit of the Spirit that brought you into the family. So if a brother is making you uncomfortable, start praying for him so that he can grow fast. I have one neighbor like that. When they on their generator, it will just be pumping smoke into my house.

Mama said, "That's why your neighbors must prosper." Because if your neighbors don't prosper, you'll be a partaker of their problems. See as smoke, the whole atmosphere is being polluted. So I told Mama, "Let's pray that that next job they're believing God for should happen fast-fast."

And we prayed. After a few weeks, we didn't see smoke again. It's either a new generator came, or the other one was fixed, or something happened, but smoke doesn't come again. So can you imagine me relocating from my house because my neighbor's generator is polluting the house? I can't relocate.

You can't leave your brother in church because he is always doing something. You have to pray, you have to seek for how to help. That's why we're a family. We are here for one another, we look after one another, and we are here to support and grow together and be the best that God wants us to be.

Slap your neighbor's leg, say: you are my family. I'm your family, you're my family. Hearing the word of God is not enough; you put that word to practice in the place of service. That is how we hold you accountable. We teach you evangelism; we take you to go and evangelize.

We teach you prayer; we bring you to prayer crews to pray. We teach you walking in love; we make sure that if there's a misunderstanding between you and another brother, that misunderstanding is resolved. All of that is the practice of the Word under supervision.

Local church makes you accountable. Paul made 12 people in Ephesus, raised them as disciples. Before you know it, he made them overseers. And he says, "I kept nothing that was profitable unto you, but I have taught you the word day and night." So you must make sure that you're in a local church where you can be held accountable, where you're encouraged to grow, where you're encouraged to be established.

God gave you a supernatural relationship in the local assembly to serve his purpose together. We're having Homecoming now. Family members are coming. We need to give scholarship to students that want to come to Power Bible School. We are going to also ask you to make monies available.

We have to make sure that all the brethren coming from all over the world, at least we give them a bottle of Coke to drink that they don't have to pay for. When you go home to visit your family, you eat some things you don't pay for.

God is not interested in your lyrics. "I love you, Jesus." God is not interested in all that. Just save your voice, remove money. When you give that brother that money to go and eat, that's worship. That's worship in truth. I will close this service because it is catching me now.

In John chapter 12, a woman came to church and broke her alabaster box. Bash! Took the perfume, poured it on Jesus. Judas say, "What a waste. What a waste. What a waste." He is saying it but he is not looking at Jesus. He's moving around. "What a waste."

"We could have sold that perfume. Thomas, Thomas, come." 'Cause the only person that will give Judas audience on that thing is Thomas. "Thomas, did you see that?" Thomas say, "I wonder, even me I don't know to what end are they breaking the bottle."

So there is an ally for Judas. Bible says, not because he loved the poor, but because he's a thief. Judas is a thief. Utoto means thief. Anybody who complains about someone's radical giving is a thief. Anybody who complains. Somebody drop the key of his car and walked away and say, "Use it for crusade," and you're complaining. You're a thief.

Radical giving is a proof of love for God. Jesus said, "Anywhere the gospel is preached, for this thing that this woman has done, her name will be mentioned as a memorial." Are we not mentioning her name today? She radically gave to impact and affect the lives of men. She didn't sing songs, she didn't cry tears; she showed her worship in truth.

The church relationship help us define how selfish or unselfish we are. When you come into the church, God puts you into a larger vision where you can find your own personal vision. So in fulfilling God's purpose for all of us, nobody can fulfill God's purpose for his life in isolation.

Nobody can fulfill God's purpose for his life as an individual. God's purpose for you is part of a bigger purpose of our community. So when you play your part in our community, you're fulfilling God's purpose within the larger purpose of God in reaching mankind.

There's no room for lone rangers. God is a family man. Every purpose of God in the earth demands relationship. Nobody can rise and fulfill the purpose of God for his life alone. Woe to him that is alone. It is not good for a man to be alone.

One shall chase a thousand, two shall chase ten thousand. God wants us as a family, as a team to serve his purpose together and within this big vision, everybody has a vision in the vision. And when all of us are serving our visions within this vision, the achievement of our individual visions within the collective vision makes us achieve God's purpose on the earth.

Every purpose of God requires relationships. Nobody can fulfill the purpose of God by himself alone. It's together. We're in this together, serving God together. We pray together, we preach together, we raise disciples together, we build the church of God together, we light up houses all over the world together. Together.

The more we are together, the happier we shall be. Our togetherness is for happiness; it makes us happy. When I see you and you see me and we meet, it's exciting than when I'm alone. And it's a joy to know we have all this family here.

Stand on your feet and celebrate with somebody. Look for a family member of yours in this house and just rejoice with that person as we serve the purpose of God together. Tell somebody: we're in this together. I'm glad I'm not alone. I'm glad I have you.

You're my brother, you're my sister. We're in this together. We raise men together, we preach together. Tell your neighbor: your luck is my luck. Your breakthrough is my breakthrough. Your success is my success. And together we serve God's purpose.

You're my brother, you're my sister. If you do me wrong, you're still my brother. I may fight you, but I will not forsake you. I will fight you, we will settle, we will serve God. Glory to God. Tell your neighbor: that's why we work in love, because we will be offended. Things will happen.

Tell your neighbor: I may not always be a good person, oh. So don't think I am promising you that I will be a good person, just like I know you're not always a good person. As I'm looking at you, I know. I will tolerate you. I will love you. I will pray for you. I will support you.

Together we will serve God's purpose. Tell your neighbor we're leaving nobody behind. We're carrying everybody along. Together we will serve God's purpose. I didn't hear a powerful amen. Somebody shout: I walk in the spirit, I walk in love, I serve God, and I have this whole family to serve the purpose of God. So I must succeed. Glory to God.

Father, I pray for everybody in Power City, all of the family in this city and all over the world, the family of Power City International, that together as a family, thank you for giving us to us. Thank you for making us your family. Thank you for giving us this family to belong to.

Thank you for the vision you have given us. Thank you for the plan and purpose you have given us. Father, we're committed to serve this purpose, to serve this plan, and to carry your mandate to the nations of the earth. And together we will achieve everything you have declared concerning us.

Together we will take the mandate to the ends of the earth. And we declare that every member of this family is strong, every member of this family is healthy, and in the name of Jesus, every member of this family is growing every day in the knowledge of Christ Jesus.

Thank you for the blessing. Thank you for answered prayer. And we rebuke every form of sickness in this service. We rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Sick bodies be healed. Be healed in the name of Jesus. We give you praise and glory for answered prayer.

In Jesus' name we pray and every believer says that amen on a note of celebration. Glory to God! Glory to God! Glory to God! Tell your neighbor: whenever I see your face, my spirit gets excited. I love God's people because I love God. When I see you, I love God in you.

Grab your honor offerings. Let's give and celebrate the purpose of God given to us as a ministry. I want to thank all of you for always being generous to the vision. But as we keep learning about our commitment to the local church, our generosity will hit the roof.

We will be more generous than ever before because we have an assignment to collectively carry out to the nations of the world. Lift up your offerings. Father, we give in joy, we give with peace, we give with excitement.

And we thank you for the privilege as a family to bring our resources together so we can reach the world with your love, so we can get the gospel to the ends of the earth. Thank you for this privilege and as we give today, we rejoice that our offerings are a sweet smell before you.

In Jesus' name we pray and every believer says a powerful amen. Glory! Church, the offering baskets are before us. Hit the music! Let's do it as we worship Jesus the Rock.

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In Ephesians chapter 3, verse 3, Brother Paul, speaking about the mystery, the Old Testament, said: whereby when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. So there is a knowledge in the mystery of Christ. The word "mystery" is the word "musterion" in the Greek. It means that which is concealed.

And then he says how that by revelation—the word revelation is the word "apokalypsis," it means that which is revealed. So the revelation of the scriptures unveils the mystery. Revelation is the New Testament; mystery is the Old Testament. But it will take reading and learning to come to a place of full understanding, a precise and accurate knowledge.

Brother Daniel will say, "I understood by books." So there is a place of books in equipping you soundly with the message of Christ. Brother Paul will write to Timothy. He says to Timothy, "Till I come, give attendance to reading." Jesus, speaking to those Jews, says, "You do err, because you know not the scriptures, nor the power of God."

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