HOW GOD ORDAINS THE MEN HE WANTS TO USE MIGHTILY || APOSTLE MICHAEL OROKPO

  1. In Matthew 12:43 and 44, Jesus was teaching and he said when the evil spirit when an evil spirit is gone out of a man, he said he moves about in dry places. He said if he finds no place seeking places to rest, finding none, he said he returns. And he said when he returns into that house from whence it was cast out, if he finds it empty, although clean, he said that spirit will return with seven more wicked demons. And he say worse will be the state of that man than the original state he was before the demon was cast out. So it’s not enough to be set free. The things attacking your life, the things fighting you, you can be delivered of those things. But after you are set free, you must be made free so that you are not empty. You must be built up. You are set free when you encounter an external force. But you are made free when you become a force. You are built into a force. So you are not expecting deliverance. You are salvation walking. Glory to God. And for you to be made free, the Bible said you must know the truth because it’s the truth that makes you free. It’s the truth that brings you into your inheritance. That’s why I said I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. It’s able to keep you and it’s able to give you an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified. 2 Peter 1:3 and 4 is a scripture you are familiar with here. I quote it a couple of times. He said, “According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertains to life and godliness.” Second Peter 1:3 and 4. According as his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. He said, “But it is through the knowledge of him that called us to glory and virtue.” This knowledge is what brings us into that place of glory. So we are not just delivered, we are formed. We are transfigured into glory carriers so that we become the likeness of him who saves. Glory to God. And if you read verse four of this scripture, he said he has whereby has given us exceeding great and precious promises. He said by this that we may be partakers of his divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. So on one side you are delivered from the forces in the external but on another side you are made to be a partaker. You are made to become one with him. This is God’s program of restoring man to dignity and to glory. That through the ex external forces of God he is delivered from the things that tries to negate him from the outward. And then through the workings of the word and the spirit on his inside he’s built up to live above those things. And I said it’s important for us to raise people who are like this so we don’t end up having church members who are religious people. But we need to raise people who are like Christ and people who God is able to entrust with his mandate. It’s on this wise that we are looking at the subject we are looking at tonight. The man of God and I told you that a man of God is not necessarily a preacher. Of course every preacher, every minister should be a man of God. Nonetheless, a man of God is beyond a preacher. A man of God is actually one who is of God. That’s why it’s called man of God. That means his essence and his being is primarily God. The raw material for his his making is God. I told you if they said this thing is made of iron, it means the composition of that thing is iron. If they say this thing is made of rubber, it means the composition is rubber. So when they say you are a man of God, it means your composition is God. So you may not be a preacher but if you are composed made up of God, you are a man of God. And I said number two that a man of God is one sent from God. So he’s not just made of God but he runs God’s errand and he carries God’s authority to execute that errand. So when you find anybody whom primary purpose and assignment on earth is to fulfill a divine mandate and is executing that mandate with authority then you have met a man of God. He may not be a preacher in the five-fold ministry as a prophet or an apostle preaching from the altar like this. But he can be running God’s errand in the bank. He can be running God’s errand in the army. He can be running God’s errand in the academia. He can be running God’s errand anywhere he finds himself. That’s a man of God. And when you meet such people, their priority is to see that the kingdom of this world become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ. Their primary burden is to see that the will of God finds expression anywhere they find themselves. And I told us in order to truly truly understand this, we have to look at Jesus Christ because he is the original model of this program being able to carry God and being able to run God’s errand in perfection. Jesus is the model. So we took time on Sunday to explain who Jesus is because if we understand him, we will understand the model of the man of God. Now there’s a little difference between us and Jesus because Jesus is not just a man of God. Jesus is also the God of man. Praise God. We are not the God of of man but we are man of we are men of God. Glory to God. But if we understand what it means to be man of God, we need to first of all look at Jesus. And so I took out time to explain two dimensions of the person of Jesus. The first thing I looked at was the fact that Jesus was God in human form. And the second thing I looked at was the fact that Jesus bore the image of the father. So he carried God and he also reflected God. Praise God. And we read a few scriptures to confirm that because we are trying to to understand a man of God being a being that carries God’s substance. a being that reflects God and runs God’s agenda. And the clearest one to study, we saw that it was Jesus. So we saw that he was God in human form. And there are a few scriptures we used to support that. Number one was John 1:1 and John 1:14. He said, “In the beginning was the word. The word was with God and the word was God.” So Jesus is God. This is why he’s God of man. But the emphasis is in verse

  2. What reflects him as man of God? He said, “And the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.” We beheld his glory. So he became flesh. By implication, he is of God. By implication, he represented God to humanity. So that scripture shows us that it is possible for God to dwell in human form. And I told you it’s important to understand this because if you don’t understand and believe it, the program can’t be run on you. The basis for this program to also be run on you is for you to believe it. So if you don’t believe that God can dwell in man, then you can never carry God. So God did it first in Jesus as a prototype to show us that this is a possibility. And there are numerous scriptures to support it. 1 Timothy 3:16. I’m doing exist now trying to use scripture to interpret scripture because in the face of two or three we witnesses every truth is established. Glory to God. He said and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness. He said God was manifest in the flesh. God was manifest in the flesh. So Jesus is God in the flesh. Glory to God. That’s why we say he is man of God. Of course, above all, God of man in that respective context for him and him alone. We also saw in Matthew chapter 1 verse 21 and 23 when the angel came to speak to Joseph in the dream, he said, “And she shall bring forth a son.” Talking about Mary now, “And thou shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.” And then he went to verse 23 to reiterate. And he said reemphasizing what the prophet said now a virgin shall give birth to a child behold a virgin shall shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and you shall call his name Emmanuel being interpreted God with us. What does that mean? This man that will save his people from their sins talking about Jesus now is God with us. So all of these scriptures prove that God indeed tabernacled in Christ. Glory to God. God tabernacled in Christ. So the prophet captured it, the angel captured it and Jesus himself emphasized it in John chapter 8 from verse 56 to 59. He was talking with the Pharisees and he told them, “Your father Abraham rejoice to see my day.” And he saw it and he was glad and the people were wowed. What are you talking about? He said they said unto him, “Thou are not yet 50 years old and has seen Abraham.” And Jesus went higher. I’m not talking about time. I’m talking about reality. And Jesus said unto them, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.” And the people knew what he meant. He was quoting Exodus 3:14. God told Moses, “Tell them I am have sent you. The I am that I am.” So he didn’t say, “Before Abraham was, I was.” He said, “Before Abraham was, I am.” So this is not a linguistical context. He’s talking reality from the realms of the spirit. Before Abraham was, I am. And the people understood him. So in verse 59, the Bible said, “Then took day of stones to cast at him. They wanted to stone him. You are calling yourself God. So Jesus is God in human form. Jesus is God in the flesh. This is why Jesus could boldly say in John 10:30, “I and the father are one.” That word again, that phrase again is from Deuteronomy 6:4, the Bible said here, “O Israel, the Lord your God is one God.” So when he said, “I and the father are one,” he was saying directly that he is God in the flesh. So the prophet captured it, the angels captured it, Jesus himself emphasized it, and all the apostles knew it because I showed you from John 14:33, Matthew 28:9 that the apostles worshiped him as God, and he didn’t reject the worship. So the apostles knew he was God in the flesh and himself knew he was God in the flesh. So he received worship, he didn’t reject worship. In fact, in John 20:28, when Thomas doubted him and he presented his scars to him, Thomas knelt down and said, “My Lord and my God.” That’s a Jewish man. He knows that there’s only one God. So for him to call Jesus, “My Lord and my God.” It means he knows what he saw and he knows what he was saying. And Jesus didn’t say, “Oh, I’m not God. I’m a prophet.” Jesus received it and say, “You now believe because you saw me.” So he didn’t refute the fact that he was called God. when they worshiped him, he didn’t refute that fact that he was God in the flesh. Now, why am I saying this? I’m saying this because you cannot believe that God can dwell in the flesh except as you see it in Christ Jesus. So, all of this exaces is to show us that yes, God can tabernacle in the flesh. And the first time it happened, God himself took on flesh to show us that this is a project that he wants to run in us. So when you see scriptures interpreting scriptures without contradiction then is a truth beyond doubt. And I said just in case we don’t have the luxury of using many scriptures to interpret this truth. Each of the scripture I quoted here also captures that truth in its original language. The only reason why it’s a bit difficult for us to get it very clearly is because we are reading the Bible in another man’s language. If the Greek read this, they will understand it clearly. Let’s rehearse some of the scriptures we have read and see the way Jesus was described. John 1:14. Go back to that scripture. He said, “And the word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us. And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.” That word made, if you click your concordance, you are going to find the word ginomi. And the word dynomi means assembled. It means generated. The way a program is generated and then you see the manifestation. The way car parts are assembled together. You see a door, you see tire, you see engine and they couple it together and becomes God. That’s the word ginomi. He said Jesus is God generated from within him out. You know God is spirit. 1 Timothy 6:16 say God dwells in light unapproachable. So for God to dwell among us, a program, a God program had to be written for God to be generated to be made manifest. So Jesus is the manifestation of the coupling together of God. Praise God. So that’s what that scripture is telling us. God verse one verse 14 generated into flesh so that we can relate and interact with him. In verse 18 of that scripture, I showed you again three words that brings clarity to this assession of John. He said no man had seen God at any time because 1 Timothy 6:16 said he’s unapproachable. He’s unseeable. So God wants to be seen. God wants to be approached. So God wrote a wrote a program to make himself seeable, touchable and approachable. That program was generated in Christ Jesus. And then verse 14 showed us what happened. He said no man has seen God at any time. He said the only begotten of the father which is in the bosom of the father. He had declared him. And I said there are three key words here. The first one is only begotten. Only begotten is the word monoganist. What it means is soul. The way you say the only one available. So there’s no other place you can find God apart from Christ. He is the sole custodian. That’s what it means. The only one. So he’s the only one who is one with God. He’s the only one who carries the fullness of God. But you see the problem was that he was with God. You know John 1 vers1 said in the beginning was the word and the word was with God. So he is the only one who carries God. So if you must see God, if you must touch God, you are the mercy of encountering him. But the challenge is that the only one who carries God was in the bosom of God. So he dwelt inside God. That’s why the Bible said he was in the bosom. He was beneath deep inside God. And I said the word bosom is the word copus. It means depth. So he carried God, but he was in the depth of God. So the Bible told us that he had to be declared for the word to encounter God and that word is exegum. So the only custodian of God that was hid on the inside of God was exegum is the word rehearsed. The same the way you you come to the stage here you see the choir singing and you are enjoying the perfect harmony. What happened was several activity in the studio that produced that harmony. So God sat together and decided to couple himself. AND I’VE TAUGHT YOU about God before. I told you when you study God, the feet of God is dominion. The hair of God is purity and agelessness. The eyes of God is judgment. The hand of God is power. I showed you all of that before, right? So God needed dominion, JUDGMENT, POWER, PURITY, AND agelessness to be coupled together in a way that he could be interacted with because all of that was inside God. So when God gathered those things together in a sequential manner, what came out is a person called Jesus Christ. So the sole custodian of God that was locked up inside God was generated like a program and rehearsed so that it can be manifested. So when first Timothy 3:16 said great is the mystery of godliness that God was manifest in the flesh. The word manifest is the word and the word phero means made apparent. So nobody COULD SEE GOD. NOBODY could interact with God. But there was a means by which God could be touched. There was one who was in custody of God which is God himself. But that God was inside God. You know I told you God lives in God. The Bible say God is light and the Bible say God dwells in light. So God carried God inside God. And so when God wants to be interacted with, God decided to put himself together, generate himself like a program and made himself man manifest in Christ Jesus. So when you touch Christ, you touch God. When you interact with Christ, you interact with God. So Romans 8:29 told us that he used the word image. He said for whom he did for you, he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his son. The word image there is the word icon. So what God did was that when he generated himself, he presented himself like like a stamp like a seal to prove that this is my original copy. If you want to find me when you encountered this being, you have found me. So Jesus is not just God in flesh. Jesus is also the image of the father. So when you see Jesus, you have seen what God looks like on the exact basis. Glory to God. So this was put together to make us understand something beyond salvation. Now it was put together to make us understand that if God could live in the flesh, if God could live in a human body, then is is possible for God to put himself also on our inside so that we can become the children of God. So the only reason by which you and I can be creatures of God is for God to come into us. And God proved that it is possible to come into us. He’s given justification to our faith. So when you and I believe that God lives on our inside, the only justification is the fact that God demonstrated it in Christ when he put on flesh. SO GOD DID WHAT he did in Christ by putting on flesh to prove to you that he can live on your inside. Because the place where God wants to live is inside you. So you can no longer doubt by saying God lives inside me. You can no longer say if God wants to live inside me, where will he live? He already showed you that it’s possible for God to live in a man when he demonstrated it in CHRIST JESUS. THE DIFFERENCE between you and Christ is that Christ is God in the flesh. You are man carrying God on your inside. Are you following? So it’s Christ in you that makes you a man of God. God dwells on your inside. If you read this scripture, it said for whom he did forno, he also predestinated to be conformed to the image of the son. He said that he might be the first born amongst many brethren. This is God telling you the Jesus project. The reason why I labored to come out from inside me to present myself like a program manifest for you to see is because I want to show you that I can live on your inside. So what I did with Jesus is what I want to do with every other person so that people can now become carriers of God. And so we said when you carry God and become one with God then you become a man of God. Now this thing was was was typified in the Old Testament but the full reality was manifested in the New Testament. So when a man of God shows up he doesn’t need to introduce himself. When you stay around him you will perceive God in him because he’s one with God. the thing will flow and when he begins to operate you will know that this guy carries a burden that is not normal. He’s working as if God is doing something and he’s the only channel through which God wants to do with it. You will KNOW THE OLD TESTAMENT saint demonstrated it in a measure but you see they didn’t have God living on their inside. So no matter how much burden they carried, they could not manifest the full weight of what it means to be a man of God. Let me show you from the Old Testament before I I drag you into the New Testament. Glory to God. 2 Kings 4:9 8 and 9. This is the story of the Shonomite woman. She just saw Elisha passing. Elisha didn’t talk, but she looked at him. There was something coming out of this guy that made it look this guy is not normal. There’s something about him. The Bible said, “And he fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunim, where was a great woman, and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was that as of off as he as of as he passed by, he returned in tida to eat bread. Verse 9, he said, “And she said unto her husband,” this is why she brought Elisha in. She said unto her husband, “Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God which pass by us continually.” The guy didn’t talk, BUT WHEN THE GUY PASSED, the woman perceived there’s God on this man. This is a holy man of God. There’s something about it. without introducing himself. There was so much of God. You know when you carry God, God will flow out of you. If you read Hebrews 1:3 when the Bible was describing Jesus, the Bible called him the brightness of his glory, the express image of his person. If you have a concordance, click it. See the word brightness and see the word image. You you can’t carry God and it will not be perceived. The moment you carry God, if he flows out of you, THERE’S A WAY GOD, he will just flow. You will see. People will see you and know. So if if people are not knowing, it means something is wrong. When people see you, they should know. The word brightness is the word apogasma. It means efort. The way gas euses out of a container. That’s how if you carry God, that’s how it euses from you. People must perceive that you carry God. Unless it’s not there. IF IT’S THERE, THERE will be an e forgence. THE WORD EXPRESS IMAGE there is the word character. You know what that means? Engravement or stamp. The way they put stamp on the on the material that this is original. If people see you, THERE MAY SEE THAT’S WHY YOU DON’T NEED TO FIGHT defending yourself. There may be 200 fake people. If you are genuine, people will know.

Because if God is in you, he is like a stamp on your life. He’s like a stamp and he WILL FLOW. THE FRAGRANCE of God will flow. This is what Jesus showed us and this is what people in the Old Testament were already manifesting partly but they had not come into the fullness because Jesus had not come. The Holy Ghost could not live on THEIR INSIDE BUT WE WHO ARE in the New Testament, glory to God, the fullness of God dwells here. So I I’m A MAN OF GOD not because I’m a preacher but because God dwells on my inside and because God is on my inside there is there is the effort of God from within me. There is the stamp of God on MY LIFE. IF YOU FIND PEOPLE BEGIN to struggle so much to prove themselves there’s something wrong with them. Relax. What is flowing out of you will vindicate you. What is flowing out of you WILL VALIDATE YOU. DON’T DON’T START HUSTLING UP AND DOWN FOR SOMEBODY TO CALL YOU man of God and you cut it and put somewhere they say it’s a man. Relax. God is already doing a better job. God is already you know today if you tell somebody this is a man of God. If you have popularity they will cut it and put somewhere that this bishop called this person a man of God. Hey this apostle cut. Forget those things. Honor men. I honor men. I love great people. I honor them. I receive from them. But I my assurance is beyond the realm of men. There is God on me. There is God in me. And the God in me flows OUT OF ME. I’M A MAN of God. Tell yourself, I’m a man of God. This is Elisha. In the Old Testament, God was flowing out of the man. And in the New Testament, in Christ, God consumated that project and say, “Yes, the fullness of God can dwell in a man.” Let me show you first by taking on flesh so that when you see me wear flesh, you will know that you can carry me. And so in Christ, God showed us that God could wear flesh. And when God wore flesh, after a while, he told them, it is better for you that I live because if I don’t leave, you can’t become a man of God. If I don’t leave, God can’t live in you. God will be with you, but God can’t be in you. SO IT’S BETTER for you that I leave. So when Jesus left, something happened. DNA changed. And he said, he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. I am one WITH GOD. WHAT GOD demonstrated in Christ, he has also done on my inside. See, God look forward to your manifestation. The Bible said, “FOR THE GLORY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM, he endured the shame OF THE CROSS.” YOU THINK THAT GLORY IS A CLOUD IS YOU. God was wanting what it will look like if he’s in you displaying himself, manifesting himself. You become the FORTUNES OF GOD. WHEN GOD DID IT IN CHRIST, IT HE WASN’T SURPRISED. I’m the one doing it. But I want to see myself in Richard. I want to see myself in Sunny. I WANT TO SEE MYSELF in Apostle Neb. I WANT TO SEE MYSELF IN A SAGA. LET ME MANIFEST THROUGH THEM. COME ON, BROTHERS. GOD IS ON YOUR INSIDE. WHEN YOU STEP OUT, DISPLAY GOD. PUT GOD ON DISPLAY. DON’T BRAG WITH YOUR CERTIFICATE. OH, I study philosophy. I STUDY PHYSICS. ANYBODY can study philosophy. Anybody can study physics. IT IS GOOD. THANK GOD FOR IT. OH, I HAVE A MASTER’S DEGREE. I HAVE A PHD. IT’S GOOD. BUT SEE, YOU HAVE A MAN’S VALUE IS NOT IN THE MULTITUDE OF HIS POSSESSION. CHRIST in you is the hope of glory. I TOLD YOU WHEN THIS CONSCIOUSNESS DAWNS ON YOU, you become a being that cannot be defeated because anything you go through, you tell yourself God is here. God can’t sink. There’s no circumstance that can sink you. God, nothing can sink God. You you you can’t sink. You tell the devil, “THROW YOUR BED SHORT. I’LL BE HERE STANDING.” BECAUSE THE RESURRECTION POWER IS HERE. SEE, THIS is the foundation of victory. Look at the WAY JOHN PUTS IT. SIT down for a moment. I’m trying to avoid preaching. See the way John PUT IT IN 1 John 4:4. He said, “You are of God, little children.” What is the implication? HE SAY, “FOR GREATER is he that is in you than he that is in the world.” That means you are bigger than everything on earth. YOU ARE BIGGER THAN EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD. WHETHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, he has nothing to change your status. YOU ARE OF GOD. GREATER IS HE. AND BEFORE HE SAID THAT, HE SAID, “YOU HAVE OVERCOME THEM.” SO, I’M AN OVERCOMER BY DNA. I’M AN OVERCOMER BECAUSE OF WHO I AM. GOD LIVES HERE. GOD MANIFESTED it in CHRIST TO PROVE THAT it’s a possibility. Now that Christ has gone, if you want to see God on display, come close, brother. You’re going to see the way God talks to the sick. We are going to see the way God talks to circumstances. WE ARE GOING TO SEE THE WAY GOD TAKES OVER. YOU ARE GOING TO SEE THE WAY GOD RULES. Is here. This is Christianity.

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