Because when you start speaking their
language, you adopt their identity. And
that language may not be what you’ve
ever it can even be a way of dressing.
That’s why we tell our sisters here who
think until you dress naked, you’re not
beautiful. It’s not is a language. The
way a generation dresses is a language.
It’s bad. That’s why when God wanted to
destroy that scatter language because if
they speak one language, they want to
find God in things themselves and they
will neglect the living God. So from
dressing to talking to lifestyle, all of
those things are a language. It gives
you an identity so that when the world
sees you, you will not be able to tell
the difference. Number two way of having
is that your focus is not the will of
God is greatness. There are many people
who are doing ministry today. They don’t
care what God says. They don’t care what
God’s agenda is. So long as they feel
relevant according to the standard of
the world. That’s fine. So you find
people doing things dislocated from
destiny. An intercessor wants to be an
evangelist online. An evangelist wants
to be a politician. An apostle who
should be in the mission field wants to
become people are just dislocated. an
apostles service because anyone that
looks as if it will give you visibility
the next day you have become a new
creature and you are doing it. So a man
who should be praying on the altar you
find him online opening platform he’s
trying to to be known is and the problem
is that you may succeed in it
but the more you succeed the more you
discover you have wandered away from
God. Somebody who should be a singer
come and see no sin is not working I
want to open my church. Somebody who
should be opening churches in the
village because God to be a missionary
village is not working to city center
[music]
and he come to city center
money from all the borrowing platforms
that is in that city after 3 years and
run away because you know why there
will go he will make you great for
greatness that’s why it’s called the
great he will suggest greatness to you
as your goal our goal is not to become
great our goal is to fulfill the will of
God when our our time is over. I’m not
telling you to become a mediocre. You
know, we advocate for excellence,
influence here because it’s a necessary
tool for advancing kingdom, but that is
not our priority. Everything that
greatness looks like is a tool for
advancing kingdom. Number three, way of
Babylon is a change of identity.
Anything that puts you under pressure to
hide your identity in Christ so that you
are accepted or you are given an
opportunity is not good is Babylon.
Babylon will force it down your throat.
Somebody told the story a woman wanted
her son to go for all these holiday
camps and she was so troubled. In fact,
she told some pastors to pray with her
because she was afraid that if the son
goes there and they discovered she’s a
Christian, they were going to be
taunting him, frustrating him. So the
son went for the camp and came back. The
woman was happy trying to find out what
happened. Hope your confidence hope you
have not been they didn’t insult you.
They didn’t say no no don’t worry.
[music] Nobody noticed I was a
Christian. He adopted the identity of
the world and managed it perfectly. Some
of you say ah here we go to your office
and we call you man of God. People will
return who [music]
man of God are you a man of God because
you’ll be shocked that you that’s why I
tell you what we talking about here is
not just to come to church and speak the
guy said oh king we are not careful to
answer you in this matter he said even
if you make the fire seven times we will
not we have a generation of people who
compromise even when we are not so when
we come to talk all of us like St.
appoint us but the moment we go to the
office we are disabled somebody said he
told the parable about he said on Sunday
Lagos is because almost everybody’s in
church but if you come back on Monday if
your glass is wind down you will steal
your home he said where do people go to
on Sunday because we are you become like
them don’t be a because you live in
don’t be a Jamaican because you live in
Jamaica don’t be a Nigerian because you
live in Nigeria be a citizen of wherever
you find yourself if your identity is
altered by the thing that defines the
way Bab is mixture eating food giving to
idols. It’s not everything we consume. I
was preaching the other day. I told our
people here they said they are
Christians. They want encounters. They
want to come for God. Carry their
phones. A secular song that everywhere
any you play before they sing the song
telling the artist as they eating the
word of God. That’s how they eating all
the secular musicians. Even the ones
that are outrightly honoring idols.
Please sing them. When you ask them they
said is it a sin to sing a song? They
are not kingdom oriented. Daniel and his
friends said we will not eat that
[music] which is sacrificed to idols.
They said they called it defilement.
Daniel 1:8 they refused. The songs you
are singing they came [music] from
spirits. They were inspired. You think
they just sang because they were gifted.
Why do you sing some songs here and you
start playing with? Because those songs
come from altars that generate energies
of the spirit. Who told you that you
sing some songs you will not start
feeling like morality? Who told you that
you sing some songs and your fire will
go down? Who told you men originate
songs? Songs come from the spirit. They
are vibrations of your soul. When they
release it, we catch it and we
communicate it. They don’t come from our
end because those sounds are trans.
There are songs you sing that you meet
God and there are songs you sing the
devil because those songs are bring
people they don’t know what to eat. Your
diet must be sanitized. We don’t eat
anything sir. We don’t participate in
every meal. Only the things from the
body of holies are the things we allow
to enter our soul and our spirit. That’s
how we fight
and somebody singing and dancing and
dancing and dancing. He doesn’t even
know what he’s talking about. A joke and
you hear Christian when I hear those
things I said which one is this started
saying it some days ago I was asking my
wife I said how do they know when these
things come? That means they tuned to
those places. The moment anyone shows up
you start hearing it everywhere. I I
said this thing I’m hearing what is it?
[music] They said that’s a man and
Christians are consuming it every day.
I’m not saying you won’t hear it. You
are in the world but you are not of the
world. You become a Babylonian when you
begin to consume it. When they pray that
you this can’t enter my soul. My diet is
selected. I’m careful what I eat. Number
five way of Babylon is bowing to men.
When a system is built, even if it’s
called church, if at the end of the day
the goal is for a man to become a god,
there’s a problem. And that is why most
of our churches today are balonial
system. It’s all about general overseer.
Even the message can’t be preached until
papa is quoted 10 20 times [music]
because you must say something that
makes papa feel that you are loyal is
Babylonian system because the same way
have built a graven image. Some of us
the land cathedral has become our graven
image. That’s why you see we kill
ourselves today to build certain
structures. All of that is packaging. I
know the place of order. I know the
place of excellence. I understand the
necessity of building befitting places
where people can walk on to worship God.
But we are not called to worship men or
things. The moment the emphasis become
about the man, if that man is around,
the man is so big that [music] God is
obs that place. No matter what they
saying, forget it. Another spirit has
there’s a place for honor. There’s a
place for respect. There’s a place for
regard. But men [music] cannot take the
place of God. But unfortunately, most of
the institutions of the world today,
it’s all about men. It’s not about
[music] God. It’s not enough. See what
Jesus told the you land and sea to make
a life. That means a young disciple. He
said but you make him twice the son of
hell that he was when you met him. We
people we say we have brought them to
the kingdom at the end of the day they
become our slaves and worshipers tell
people to pray they can’t pray but they
can come and wait for man of God for 10
hours something is wrong it’s not number
six manipulation and witchcraft you know
the way it will bully you to worship it
that’s why when the boys refused they
[music] cast them into a furnace that
was 10 times hotter the system we are
building today if you dare the man of
God you are finished he will kill you
I’m telling you it’s not a joke they
will preach messages that will make
[music] you become you’ll be obscured
They they will destroy your life and
ministry with sermons. The sermon will
make you worse than Judas is so that
nobody has anything to do with you. And
every power they have to shut you down
from their colleagues to their
resources, they will do it until you are
so frustrated and useless. It’s either
you come back begging like a useless
person or you are wasted and they will
use you as an example for others. They
will throw you into a seven times
because I’m telling you what you have to
do. Daniel thrown into the wild
thrown into fire that was seven times
water and if you not you will know that
it’s in the fire that Jesus appears and
he will listen respect serve anybody you
never worship whatever happens to you
receive it will be and trust me
everybody who stood their ground when
they in the fire Jesus appears the ones
who fail are the ones who and this is
not just politics
Go and check some of our brothers who
are serving the you ser for 6 years. All
of a sudden cases start coming up.
That’s when you are. That’s when you are
because the will make sure you are not
settled. And at the end of the day is
compared to settle you. They will settle
you in a way that you will never
prosper. They give you a shot at the end
of the town. If somebody for 7 years he
said to become because the whole idea of
the settlement is to relegate you to
because they always see you as a
competition. This battle dominated every
system. We must fight these things if we
will fulfill God’s agenda and serve his
purpose.
I will take time to do a teaching on all
of the spirit cities because there are
many. There is the Roman Empire, there
is the Assyrian Empire, there’s the
Ottoman Empire. You don’t know the
system that govern this world.
The reason you are not reason this is
why
you don’t conquer Egypt you don’t
conquer Babylon you don’t conquer
Assyria is a systems that war you until
you are out so you find certain
challenges that come to you every six
months
it will hit you for 2 months and go back
come again hit you for 2 months and go
back hit you the idea is to weaken your
strength until you come to point where
you just give up Satan doesn’t need to
come you yourself say no this will work
that’s why some people started they said
they abandoned it they became teachers
they became apostles after they say
please is there any business here when
they say what I want to be a businessman
some people enter politics they
try they counelor at the end of the day
no one said politics leave politics
alone they start don’t go there they
look for something else don’t run away
fight
the battle is don’t give up it’s not
about winning for a while you know that
this one your skin is and this is Heat.
Heat.
A man [music] was wrongly accused of
committing murder and he was in prison
for over 20 years [music] before the
case was open and they discovered the
man was innocent. [music]
I mean just go online
some of the crime stories in this will
be shot
people
[music]
and they say oh he’s innocent and then
thousands of millions of Heat. Heat.
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He was pastoring a church doing well.
Suddenly a sister
and followed this guy up and you know
some of these guys don’t have systems
preservative systems around them
and the sister followed him there.
[music] In the moment they met people
began to talk to the sister
king
this guy to the police accuse him of you
get some money.
see what happened and when she went the
whole church heard about it [music]
none of his assistant he wanted to step
aside no pastor wanted to take over as
I’m talking to you now church is closed
after church closed down the sister now
came that she wants to return the case
it was not the case it was they didn’t
know that in Babylon you don’t
compromise listen I know we are praying
now God will restore you but I’m using
this so that you learn some of you here
the reason you you your ministry ended
in the where you were God was using you
because the first day you see somebody
they got you and they said that’s what
you do.
God knows that you’ll Heat. Heat.money and you money that was not legal.
That was the way
and you told yourself I’ never
told me to take it. Nobody cares
anymore. You are compromised that will
make you a slave and you will be there
for 70 years.
So anymore
is destroyed because every moment
The Lord is telling me now he wants to
release an anointing for restoration.
See, some of you compromise when Babylon
came. You were not caught. But because
of your compromise, your wilderness
journey was prolonged. And now it’s
difficult for you to get trusted
in one place.
To anoint somebody here for
restoration.
This gift will not be wasted.