COMMISSIONED WITH POWER THE MANDATE Day 4 Morning Session with Apostle (2)

Amen, Good morning everybody. Thank you so much Apostophilix, and we honor our father. Thank you so much. On our mother. In the name of Jesus Christ. We go straight to the business of the morning. This is only the first session. Can we lift up our voices in one minute and ask the Lord to speak to us again, Speak to us again. Let your word come with power, Let it come with grace. Someone praying my Bible says they go from strength to strength as many as appear before the Lord. In sire Aaa da blahadi balatos chafriend de geberkoa bala cosiata President sanamanakotos kiata cross kay blast chaw brend de kosa rakoskaiada. Father, give me an encounter this morning. Grant me access to your wisdom, access to your power, access to your grace. In Jesus' name, we pray. Father, We thank you, and we honor you this morning. We ask that you will speak to us, challenge our hearts, position us to manifest and your power and your glory even in higher dimensions. And to Jesus be all the glory. Amen and Amen, please be seated, God bless you. Yesterday we began a teaching series that will end tonight Commission with Power. And I said a few things yesterday. I have a very brief time this morning, so I'll just go straight. But then, just as a reminder that God's intent and God's ordination for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is that we be a people of power, a people of wisdom, a people of grace. Remember that that the destiny of the Church in Christ is glory. The Bible says. That the entire journey of the believer should end up in glory. That means, regardless at what point you start with God as he transits you through the various phases of your life and your experience with him, that if you walk in keeping with the spirit of the Lord, the end of it will be glory, allelujah. But then we also said, according to Hebrews chapter two, the Bible says that we do not yet see all things under his feet. So inasmuch as that is God's desire for us, we have not yet come into the experience of that dominion, the experience of that state in the spirit where we manifest His life, his power, his wisdom, his grace, to his satisfaction. And I did tell us that. This conference is a journey helping us to understand the factors that have hindered us from stepping to that dimension of dominion. I identified three of those factors yesterday why the church the current state of the church in terms of its powerlessness and its inability to rise to a prophetic destiny. Number one, we said that there is the absence insufficient revelation. Of who we truly are in light of who Christ is. That the first major problem with the church that is responsible for her current state is that there is a bankruptcy of revelation. There is an. Awareness of who we are, but there is hardly a revelation of who we are who we are in light of who Christ is. Number two, we said that there is a bankruptcy of the revelation of our. Corporate mandate, our corporate purpose, our corporate commission. We have the knowledge of our individual visions, our individual assignments, but as a body, the average believer cannot articulate with intelligence the corporate mandate of the church. That would be my emphasis for this morning. And then number three, that there is the absence of the knowledge of the resources that we have in Christ alongside the dynamics of activating them in our lives. The Bible lets us know that the believer is not left weak and powerless. There are immense. Spiritual resources that have been accorded the believer through Christ and in Christ. Efficient one three it says that God has granted us access to all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Well, remember our scripture yesterday that man that is in honor and does not know, does not understand. Will be like a beast that perishes, allelujah. And so my. Sessions are an attempt to answer these questions to help us understand number one, who we are in light of who Christ is. Number two our corporate mandate as God's people, and the number three to help provide an understanding of the vastness the resources that have been given to us in Christ. I like the way Paul put it efficients one and verse nineteen. He says, among the many things he prayed that the church who come into the knowledge of was the exceeding greatness of His power. To us word, who believe the exceeding greatness of His power. Allelujah. So will take part two this morning very quickly commission with power. We're looking at the mandate, our corporate mandate. Allelujah. Now, every right. And every privilege in the Kingdom was supposed to be taught in connection to responsibilities. Every right and every privilege that has been given to the believer was never supposed to be taught in isolation to responsibility. When you mentor believers to understand their rights in Christ, their privileges in Christ, and you do not connect that understanding to responsibility, you will produce a weak and an irresponsible people. This has been the case. So many believers have a fair understanding of their rights and their responsibilities, but they do not know to what end those rights or their privileges. They do not know to what end those rights were given. Purpose, I wrote here is what gives value and perspective to every gift and every blessing. Let me take it again. Purpose is what gives value and perspective to every gift and every blessing in the Kingdom. That means, no matter what. It is that you have that constitutes an advantage in your life, in itself, it cannot be seen. As value until it is connected to purpose. Are we together now? Yes? FilmOn one and verse six says that the. Communication of your faith might be effectual through the acknowledging of every good thing that is in you in Christ. The acknowledging of every good thing that is in you in Christ, Allelujah. So it's important for us to acknowledge all that God has given, all that God has made of us. But then for you to know that nothing in itself finds fulfillment except it is used as a tool to serve a cause greater than itself. So when God annoys you, he annoys you for the nations esther. When God grants you access to beauty, it is beyond just getting to the palace. There is a mission connected to it. So if your beauty ends up in your being queen alone, you are bought the destiny. It must translate you from a queen to a deliverer away together now. So it's important for us to know this because this in itself is a deliverance for someone, a reorientation. So every time we say give me, there is a question from Heaven, what for. Give me? In the teaching of the Lord's Prayer, when Jesus Christ was teaching us the pattern for productive prayer, because you see in luke Synoptic account his teaching on prayer came as an answer to a request the disciples that teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples. So their issue was not prayerlessness. Their issue was ineffective prayer. Something about the prayer of Jesus was so potent, And then Jesus began to teach them to pray. And in order of priority, here's what he said. Thy Kingdom, Come, Thy will be done in earth as it is done in heaven. Now, with respect to that agenda, give us this day our daily bread for the sake of your kingdom. Forgive us our trespasses for the sake of your kingdom. Lead us not into temptations for the sake of your kingdom. Deliver us from evil for the sake of your kingdom. Are we together? Now? That was the missing ingredient that John did not teach his people. He taught them to pray. But the reason why their prayers were ineffective is that it was not connected to kingdom. Come. It was a communication of isolated desires with no purpose connected to it. Are you understanding me? This money in the body of Christ, there has been many pursuits, many desires, many acquisitions that ended up destroying people. Because it was not connected to purpose. There are many people their destructions started officially when they prospered. There are many people their destructions started officially when they became aware of the vast resources within their reach. They were better off. In ignorance because now. That they had come into an awareness of this truth, because it was not connected to purpose, they became an easy pray. The one thing Solomon for God was purpose, and it ruined every other thing he had. His confession was documented in the Book of Ecclesiasts. Everything my eyes saw I desired, and he got to a point where he was so frustrated. He said, of reading many books, there is no end, and much study is a weariness to the soul. Here is the conclusion of the matter. Fear God and keep his commandments, he said, for this is the whole duty of man. Away together. So I need to emphasize this because while examining why the Church seems powerless and why it looks like there is a restraint from the Spirit in granting us access to these weightier dimensions of glory, there is a reason why. Because God will not continue to invest these resources upon a people who are not driven by purpose. It takes us God impass the realm of zeal and desire. Purpose is what gives perspective to everything. Are we learning already? Yeah, So we have individual assignments, and I can tell you that we have done well in identifying our individual assignments. But my job this morning is by the spirit of God, to reveal to us the corporate mandate of the church, the corporate mandate of the church. It's important for us to know that as a people, we have a corporate mandate and that what we call our individual visions, whether as business people, as ministers of the gospel, should be derived as a subset of that corporate mandate. So as I read out for you the corporate mandate of the Church, you will use that corporate mandate to very fine what you now call the vision of your church or the vision of your business. And if it is in defiance to that corporate mandate, then you need to go for a retreat, because I can assure you already that you will not secure God's backing over any vision and any mandate that is not connected to the corporate mandate of the church. Are we learning this morning? I know that this is a session that is stiller made for business people and leaders. But I think this is a good start before we begin to talk about all the components that help us to succeed and to thrive in the marketplace or in ministry. It's important for us to be restored to vision. Every blind person in the Bible that Jesus met, he insisted. That their eyes opened. There were other miracles that didn't seem to happen, but not the issue of blindness, to a point that he late hands a second time. Because he wanted clarity of vision. What do you now see? I see men but like trees. No, I did not create men like trees. You have to see again. So just because you are seeing, we need to verify what you are seeing. It told Jeremiah, he said what sees now? And he says, I see the rod of an almond tree? And it says you have seen correctly. So the problem is not seen. You can see, but you can see men like trees. And then create a textbook that says men are trees from the lens of that aberration. So God is giving us clarity of vision this morning? Are we blessed? See why it's good to come to church. You always leave wiser. Yes, always always John one, six and seven. John Chapter one, the Bible says, there was a man. There was a man. It's like telling you a story, and he says, story, story. There was a man. But this man was sent from God, and when he arrived on earth they named him John. John was never his name. It was a means of identification when he arrived here. The Bible simply says, there was a man, this man. He never mentions Zechariah, he never mentions the mother Elizabeth. He just tells us there was a man sent from God, and when he arrived on earth, they named him John. This is why he came. Verse seven, give us Verse seven. The same came for a witness. He didn't come to prophet high. He didn't come to baptize. Prophecy and baptism were only a means to help him become This weakness I went together. Now, the Bible says, the same. Came for a witness, to be a witness of the light, that through that weakness all men might believe. So you would look at John. Some called him a prophet. In fact, the Bible tells us that he came in the spirit and. The power of Elijah. Then he began to baptize, and he was called the baptist, like you are called the businessman. So now you have been beguiled by the geography of your assignment, and you forget who you are, and you now call yourself a business man. But in the mind of God, you were not sent to the earth as a businessman. No, a businessman has become the platform that gives perspective, and it gives you room to bear weakness to the light. Are we together? So when you meet a terrorist in a medical class, you call him a doctor in training. Then he laughs at you. He knows he's not a doctor. He knows he's a terrorist, but that the nature of his assignment demands that he passes through the medical school to have access to the resources that kill. So he sits in the class with everyone, and while you are teaching him and notctomy and physiology, and to you you think you are training a medical doctor. But the man knows that he's a terrorist and he will be patient for ten years. Then you call him doctor XYZ. Then the medical counsel satisfies him and he says, now get out of the way. I have access to kill, to steal and to destroy. That means there are two regalias that everyone most aware. Number one is the regalia of a witness. Then number two the regalia of the platform that helps you to be a witness. Are we together? Now? This is very important because many people we call ourselves preach us. Then we call ourselves businessmen. Then we call ourselves politicians, then we call ourselves help me. Professionals. And from an at stand point, we are right, except that marching from an eternal standpoint, that is a very poor understanding of ourselves. You are not a business man. You do business. You are not a preacher. You preach. Now, I'm not saying go around harassing people. You get what you're saying now. Now, this is the reason why they met Jesus and said who are you? Some say you are Elijah because we see an element of Elijah's manifestation in your life. They were trying to identify him using the geography of his weakness. Some say you are this, you are that. We see the prophetic in you, We see this or that dimension. Then you speak, we call you rabbi. You've never said we're wrong in any of these things. Who are you? And I hope you know it was an intelligent man who was asking that question. Yeah, most people failed in calling him his name. It was one person who got it by the spirit. He said, I know who thou art. You are not a capainer's son. You are not a teacher, even though you teach. You are not a healer, even though you heal. It says thou art Christ, the son of the Living God. Finally someone would get it right. And then Jesus said, flesh and blood does not reveal this to you, Simon, but Jonah, but the spirit of my Father. And it says, upon this revelation, I will build my church. What revelation? First the revelation of my lordship and that I am Lord and Christ. But in addition. To it, I will build a church with this understanding that your geography does not define you, your occupation does not define you. Allelujah. Don't tell to me. I'm working with time. My father has to come up here. Allelujah. Now listen to me. The corporate mandate of the church is a threefold mandate. I plead with you in the name of Jesus Christ. Please listen very carefully. Your life will change magically. So if you understand what I'm about to share with you now. There is a three should mandate that was given to every and to all believers. It's been captured in a concept that has been known today to the church as the Great Commission. Listen. Unfortunately, and with all due respect to the body theological institutions, I have searched for a concise and an intelligent presentation of the Great Commission, and I have found it wanting on many grounds. What we have proposed as the Great Commission has come with many, many elements of inaccuracy. It is the reason why believers have been confused. The average believer understands the Great Commission are so winning. That is not wrong, but it is grossly incomplete. Are we together now? So, whether you're a missionary, whether you're a businessman, you're a politician, a diplomatic professional, a parent, I'm. Reading for you this creed that binds us all. It is on aunt of this that we can come together and worship. I can come into the court of law and sit on the seat of the Church. I do not have that qualification. I cannot go into a surgery call room, even though I'm an annointed man, maybe to pray, but not to perform any surgery. But we can all come together in the House of God, because there is a corporate mandate that gives everybody an invitation. Away together. There are three scriptures in the Bible very quickly. That must be examined in understanding the corporate mandate of the Church. Three scriptures. And if you isolate any of this scripture and teach from you will communicate imbalance. The scriptures have to come together. To produce a holistic picture of the corporate mandate. Scripture number one, very quickly, mark sixteen fifteen. Please mark sixteen fifteen. Please let's rush. And he said, unto them, go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature, Reading to. Twenty seventeen, now sixteen. He says, he that believed, please go back to sixteen, and it is baptized, shall be saved. But he that believed it not shall be damned or condemned. Seventeen These science shall follow them that believe. As they go in My name, they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Allelujah. The Bible says so after the Lord had spoken, So who spoke to them the Lord, So we are not in doubt. If he was a prophet would say he did not hear well. But it was the Lord himself given this commission. The Bible says, he was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God. The last scripture, it says, so in obedience to that commission, they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord walking. With them and confirming the world with signs following amen. Now most people have taught the Great Commission just from that scripture. That is the reason why everybody wants to be a preacher, Because our understanding is that if I have to obey God, the only thing I have to do to show that I'm serious with God is to get into pull pit ministry. And so our pull pits are full of people who have no business getting there. But listen, it was not just materialism. It was that there's no other way. There is a hunger in them to be part of God's program. And since they have been ill mentored to believe that the only way to be part of God's program based on this scripture is to go forth and preach. Inventors have become preachers. Scientists have become preachers. And that is the reason why there is a lot of inefficiency on the altar. Scripture number two. Matthew twenty eight, eighteen to twenty Matthew, twenty eight. This is another component of the Great Commission. And Jesus came and speak unto them, saying, all authority we looked at this yesterday is given on to me in heaven and in earth. Nineteen. Go ye therefore and teach. In Mark's account, he said preach. To preach means to declare, to announce, to proclaim. In preaching, you do not edit the message. The goal of preaching is awareness. The goal of teaching is understanding. If I you and say, go and tell Apostophelics, I am around. That message does not need creativity. Just go and declaree it as it is. I wait together now. But if I say go and help this person drive, now you have to bring in all the creative resources within your power, because that will have to be per person. There are many factors you have to examine. He says, Go therefore and teach all nations. There are many teachers here, and you know that in teaching people there are many things. You have to examine, their culture, their level of exposure, their level of understanding. Am I right on that? Then it says baptizing them comes from the Greek word baptiso to immerse someone, not just in a flood, but to immerse you in a reality such that you are not seeing again. You are covered and overpowered by whatever it is. Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost twenty teaching them to observe all things that would take more than a crup said, to observe all things, you go and read the all things Jesus taught the people beginning from Matthew chapter five, the beattitudes. He taught on money, he taught on marriage and relationships. Am I right on that he taught on demons. So when Jesus says teach all things, do not select what you want to teach. Jesus already said teach all things. Men taught the people holistically. Let them know about say it and let them know about God, let them know about money, let them know about destiny. Jesus said, teach them all things whatsoever. I have commanded you. And while you do that, have this assurance that I am with you all way, not always all way, even to the end of the earth. And like Mark, he also says, Amen. Scripture number three, so much Killer Kaba Suprickitty Acts, chapter one, verse six, reading to eleven. I'm showing you the three scriptures that must be put together to understand the corporate mandate of believers. Wherefore, when they therefore were come together, this was after the resurrection of Jesus. They aren't seem saying, Lord will now at this time. Restore again the Kingdom of Israel. I hope you know that at that time they really did not understand the implication of the death, burial and the resurrection of Jesus, because Jesus himself did not really teach them. It was Paul that came and helped us to understand. The things that Paul taught were the things Jesus said, I have many things to. Tell you, but ye cannot bear them now. Teaching them all those dynamics to be unfruitful because the Holy Spirit was not in them. So he said, how be it when the spirit of truth comes? He will guide you. It was Paul who came, and through the Polling Epistle, he brought perspective to the believers, understanding. Without the epistles would not understand the full import of redemption nor the benefits to the believer. The Gospel is a foundation. But we viewed upon the knowledge that has come through the epistles. Are we together? So they were all concerned about the restoration of the Kingdom of Israel and the various takes that they would have. Remember when the mother of James and John came to lobby a position for them, it was all in posits of that agenda. And Jesus now said, it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in. His own power. But this is what you need to know. Now eight ye shall receive power. After that the Holy Ghost has come upon you. And then he now says you shall be witnesses. The same one who said you will preach, the same one who said you will teach, now says, in addition to that, you will be witnesses onto me in Jerusalem, in Judea, Samiria, and to the autummost part. Of the earth. Verse nine. And the Bible says when he had spoken like Max, like Matthew saw he was taken up and a cloud. Received him out of their sight. Allelujah. So you have to put Max's synoptic account, Matthew's synoptic account, and look synoptic account as captured in the Book of Acts to be able to give you a holistic picture of the corporate mandate that we now understand the intent of God for the church. Remember, we're looking at our mandate. That, in spite of our individual assignments and calls, there is a corporate mandate that the moment anyone comes into Christ, among the many foundational things that should be taught the believer is our corporate mandate. This is why we are here, so that everything you receive and everything you know must be. Connected to that mandate. Allelujah. So very quickly, let me run through the threefold mandate, and then we'll pray and give rooman allowed Father to come and be a blessing to us this morning. There are three components, I said to the Great Commission. Component number one is called the Global Harvest. You may call it world evangelization. Please write. The first component of the Great Commission is called the global harvest, global harvest. The Bible tells us that God desires first and foremost that all men be saved, all men. There is no guarantee that all men will prosper, unfortunately, because Jesus said, the poor you will always have with you. Are we together? Now that was not a cause. It was a revelation of the stiff necked nature of men, that in spite of all the blessings, some were rejected willingly, and God would respect their choice. But then he says that he desires that. All men be saved. This was the philosophy that the Apostles had. Any one day saw who was not in the fall, they saw the person as a potential harvest. Now, Jesus, in talking about about the harvest, he considered every own believer as a harvest that was already ripe. The problem was never the harvest. The problem was the scarcity of true laborers. Jesus never never told us that it was the difficulty of the havevest. It was that the sickl was so blonde, it was so ineffective. He says, the havevest is truly plenty or wide. But the laborers there are many men. There are many Christians, but there are few laborers. Then he says, pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he would send laborers. There is an honorable name God calls the believer that believers do not want to be called because it carries a semblance of serbitude and weakness laborers. So the next time you say the laborer is worthy of his wages, you have to verify what. Kind of laborer you are. Paul was in prison, and he was not thinking about his escape. He was thinking about an opportunity to make sure not one soul leaves. That prison unsafe. How do I know that? Because when he became free, you would think you would run away. The jailer wanted to kill himself and I said, no, no, you'll be a wasted soul. We're not in a hurry to go take me to your house. If I came out of a prison like that, I would be out. Of that city. But not Paul. Paul was in prison and all he was concerned about is the health of the church, not his exit from the prison. He would write letters from the prison and say, listen, I heard some of your misbehaving. I will be out of this place shortly and when I am out, I assure you I'm coming to organize a conference and fix on all these things that I'm hearing. This was the philosophy of the Early Church. So winning it's not just for evangelists. It's an orientation that every believer must have. Allelujah. Now, our idea of soul winning, unfortunately, is to put resources together and organize a large crusade and then sit down as helpless people waiting for one man called Joshua Selman, respectfully speaking, called rain had Bunker, blessed Memory or tl husband to come and preach. Then we clap as the souls come out. That is wonderful bodies if it can be a destructive orientation because there are about eight billion people on Earth today and out of the eight billion people, statistic tells us that now there's about two point eight to two point six to two point eight billion professing Christians. That includes backsliders on cerrus. It's just the statistics that was used. It's not very five based on seriousness. It's just better. As funny as this sounds, it should be very distobbing. We shout the advantage of the Holy Spirit in our midst. We shout the advantage of technology. We boast of the dexterity of the message that we have, and yet for all of the ages our civilization has only been able to do justice to two point six billion people. And yet ten twenty years ago someone designed an app that has brought people embracing that idea in excess of five billion people. There are many ideas that have been sold to the world that are being received greater than the message of salvation. So a young boy sits. Down from his garage and designs a technological app, and all kinds of people you have never seen him, he's never seen you respect and adore him. You even receive updates of the app, and you are frustrated when your phone cannot update it. And yet a conference of two days is a burden for many believers. It then means we have to go back to the Lord of the Harvest and says something is wrong with our understanding and the kind of Jesus we are selling to the nations. Allelujah. Yes, the woman at the well, when she met with Jesus, she was so impacted. My Bible says she left everything there. Her priorities changed immediately, and she ran to the city and said, come, I know you know me as a prostitute. Forget that would discuss it later, but for now. Come forget about me. Come, come see a man who has told me everything. How witness was so compelling? People said, no, no, something have changed about this woman. How about the mad man in Gadara? One say, mad man bound hand and fit in chains. But in a moment he went to ten cities. Where did he get that energy? And why do we not have that same energy today? Allelujah? The first corporate mandate of the church. Regardless who you are and what you do, you must have. It at the back of your mind that there. Is an expectation from God that all the resources of intellect, resources of money, resources of access, resources of a good voice, a beauty who says a well built body is a waste to the economy of God if it cannot be converted as a two Did you hear what I said? It's a waste to the economy of God if it cannot be converted. Don't tell me you are beautiful, don't tell me you are handsome. Don't tell me you are intelligent, don't tell me you are prosperous. That does not impress me, show me how they have been confronted as resources towards the global harvest. Listen speared, break out all Stown speared, break cart. Ah, Heaven, come down. Speared, break out Shaba Saba la oh Sunday Basia. Break her whilstand spirit, break her. Heaven cancer, Allelujah, Please help usn'd the anointing. Listen to me, I'm working with time this morning. Component number one. If every pastor, every prophet, every apostle, every evangelist sold this idea and this orientation to every believer that soul winning is not something you should be part of, it is yours signent. You are not helping the preacher wind souls. You are not helping the church wind souls. No, take away that help mentality and see it as a mandate. That support mentality is very destructive for the entire churche. You are not supported men of God to win souls. No, it is our corporate mandate world evangelization, that every nation, every type, and every tongue will be compelled to call Jesus Lord in experience, allelujah, and. To guarantee that this mission is not aborted. The principle in charge is called the Holy Spirit himself, the Lord of the harvest. His presence is the short tea, the guarantee that the nations will be saved. House of Treasure, South Africa. One of these days we will see a display of God's power to save like we have never seen in church history. I assure you, by the spirit of God you're talking of revival. You will see an awakening, a move of the spirit. I've crossed your land. Allelujah. I wish I had time. Sit down. Let me tell you something the Lord told me. Please sit down. Listen. There are three mysterious ministries that will rise to support the world evangelization agenda, and we must have the discernment to not throw them away. Listen carefully. This was a. Revelation God gave me. Beware of criticizing the mad man in Gadarah when you see him preaching, Oh, there are mad men in Gadarah who will carry that mandate. You knew him as a madman. Now beholder preacher number two. The woman at the well you knew how to once be a prostitute. Do not reject how when you see her blazing the fire of evangelism. Are we together? There are mysterious ministries. Remember you said, if you do not praise me, I will raise up stones. He was not just talking about literal stones. A stone is inactive, it remains where it is based on the law of physics. Bodies generally, especially stones, they look lifeless. You keep them there after a thousand years, they are still found there. It says, I can raise off I will give life to stones. People who don't seem to have destiny and cannot move, I will empower them to stand up and begin to heral. This number three, the third kind of ministry that God is raising is the mini story of men like Apostle Paul, Those who once persecuted the church, chief persecutors of the church, suddenly in their homes and encounter by the spirit will come and you will see someone who once was a vocal advocate against God. It will stand and say, the Lord that I once preached is now my savior. Please hear me. South Africa, Evangelizing your nation is your responsibility. You will not have to wait for foreigners to come. It is everybody's business. If we do not take soul winning seriously, hear me. There will be a generation that will arise and corporately reject Jesus. Did you hear what I said? You see, with all due respect, this was the mistake of the West. Whilst your fathers were in the crusade grounds, they left the children at home. And most of these children they did not call upon the god of their parents. Their parents preached and called upon the name of the Lord till they died. And Satan was patient for two three four decades to allow one old generation passed. Satan can be that patient. Just because you seek him silent in South Africa does not mean he's stupid. He's waiting. He has already gaged the age range of a demography that loves God. And he said, I can't do anything about these people. Let me be patient till they all pass onto glory. Then he will now grow with the children. When Moses told Pharaoh, God told me to advocate and exodus. Pharaoh said, okay, the men can go, but the wives and the children leave them behind. And Moses said, no way, that was not the plan. Everybody, as for me and my house, as from me and my house, as for me and my company, as for me and my school, as for. Me and my spell of influence. It's not me alone as for me and my children, as for me and the church members. Hallelujah, World evangelization, there are poopis be restored to all tas that received seeing us. Back to the fold. That are homes become platforms that someone comes with a business meeting and while you are doing business, you design This man has access to five thousand people and they will waship anything he washiped. Here is your chance to reach five thousand people in one moment. For what schalite profit a man if he gains the whole world and lose is his soul. Hallelujah. Listen, I'm praying for you that schools of evangelism will arise in South Africa that will menjoy young men and women. Listen, this group of preachers we have rising do not understand God's agenda. I say that with every sense of humility, all that is being sold in the church now is just a display of gifts. And there is nothing wrong with gifts, but gifts without purpose will destroy and wreck our lives. Hallelujah. You secure the. Support of Heaven when you are ever committed to the ministry of soul Waiting, sit down, let me. Give you the other two we're working with Timel. A first keeper round. Can I tell you the truth, I honestly don't care how much revelation you know. I don't care the depth of the mysteries that you communicate. If I do not see soul save through it. You quote the Greek, Hebrew, Latin aramic. No matter what you do or do not do, there is a gentleman. Please hear me. If I cannot see souls saved through. Your life, you're singing, you're doing business. If all you show me is your bank balance, shame on that agenda. If all you show me, I'm not being sarcastic. My apologies for pushing hard on you. If all you tell me is that I'm a rich person, look at my houses, look at my cars. I will clap for you. I will not ignore your sacrifice, but I will truly be disappointed from an eternal perspective. Can I tell you those we call God's generals were first God's evangelists. If you are not. Ready to do what to be motivated by their pursuit, don't pray for their mantles. We have a careless generation that is obsessed with mantles and power with no assignment no zeal, no purpose. Most of these people were not in pursuit for power. They truly wanted to see nation save and from the simplicity and the childlikeness of their heart. That Lord, if you are looking for a vessel, find me available. The corporate mandate of the church. Can I tell you the truth when it has to do with sole winning numbers matter? With all due respect, men of God, let's be careful when we say it doesn't matter. Crowds does not for God's soul love the world. We're dealing here with men, The prize for everyone sold in South Africa is the blood of Jesus, not nine months. The blood of Jesus. Did you hear what I said? The prize for every soul in South Africa, from an eternal perspective, is not a. Nine months incubation period. No, the blood of Jesus. He desires that all men, including your business partner, All men including your spouse who you have slept on the same bed for twenty years with and has never heard about Jesus. All men, including. Your now teenager children, who are about to be destroyed through the deck captains. That is plaguing a world. I'd rather be considered a failure in life, and truly have Jesus and do my best to make him known to my nation and my generation. I believe in prosperity. I believe in increase. I believe in advancement and influence. These are also components of the Great Commission, as you'll be learning, but in order of priority, ladies and gentlemen. For many of you who have the call of God upon your life, apostle, I don't know where to start from. I'm telling you where to start from now, allelujah. For many of us, we're praying for church building. Lord replicate what is in house of treasures, and God says no until your heart becomes that large. For some of you, God is speaking to you. You've been having these dreams for decades, and God is saying, when will you a rise? When will you are rise? I have placed a mandate upon you. I have placed a mantle upon you. Can I tell you for every time you're coming laxity, one soul perishes. Did you hear what I said? This is a matter of life and death. If you lose money, you can make it back. If your house is destroyed, repossessed, you can still embrace yourself and get back. There are people who are fine for bankruptcy many times, who are biloonnere today. But when a soul perishes my bible, your Bible says it is appointed onto man to die once and after eat the judgment. You don't hear these messages on the altar. Gain you've heard me tell my people. I am both old and new school, both old and new school, depending on what you are talking about. There are landmarks that we must never allow technology, advancement and civilization to erase. Never make Jesus look like a burden to growth, a burden to civilization. You would think I should not preach you kind of message in a business session. This is the proper message for this kind of session. And I will not be side lent a will. Long world. As long as ah. Let's sit down. When my time is up, I will stop anywhere so that we respect our father and giving room to come up. Go to Europe today, Christianity is not the first that growing religion, and the religions that are the fastest growing across Europe. You don't see a widespread crusade happening, and yet there are massive conversions happening. Listen Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. In South Africa, we most wickedom in Africa. We must wakeop or the wise we will lose a generation. Take what I'm telling you seriously. Alleluyah. Thank God for the flam buoyancy around the church. But those things. Only find their value if they can translate. There is a generation that is building momentum to reject Jesus as a demography. They are coming up as an age range we choose that will not serve the God of our parents. May it not happen in our lifetime? Did you hear what I said? May he not happen in my lifetime? May not happen in my lifetime? That there will come You will come to church and find only old people. You will come to church and find people only from forty five to sixty. And you will find a generation and say, you know what, We've thought about it. We've examined your gospel intelligently, and we have chosen as a generation that Jesus is. Not relevant to our world. World evangelism also demands re examining that Jesus were presenting. There is a Jesus were. Presenting to the nations that makes it legitimate to reject him. We have presented a powerless Jesus, a Jesus who turns men from wisdom to foolishness, a wisdom who makes Jesus who makes fanatics out of people, taking away sense and intelligence and development from people's life. There must be a restoration. We need to represent Jesus. Number two. Please it, please it, Please see there are fathers who spend their lives the transversed Africa shouting the name of Jesus until they died. We must receive those mantles. We must. Don't just claim people's anointing, claim crowds as. A man of God. The Bible says the Lord added daily, any person who is not making altar calls, I respect you, but go back and create changes in your church. Don't say I'm too ashamed if I make the call. What if nobody comes out? It is because of that stage that God does not add allelujah. As for me, I have made up my mind that provided I wake up in the morning, someone must know Jesus. Before my head goes back to rest. Yes, sir, number two. The second component of our corporate mandate as believers is called discipleship. The maturity of the saints. Please write it down. I won't talk much about that, so that will wrap up. The first component is world evangelization. Do not forget. The second component is decileship. Do you know what discipleship is. Discipleship is a system that converts a follower an ignorant person, a naive person to reproduce and replicate his master. The intent behind discipleship is a replication, not information. So the end of your discipleship is. Not that people know what you know, is that they become a representation of who you are, who should be a representation of who Jesus is. If all you produce in church and knowledgeable believers, you have not done well. You must produce transformed believers. Transformed because there is a state where the Bible says ever learning, but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. Allelujah. Discipleship. We must mentor believers to attain a state of maturity as powerful as soul winning is. Soul winning only gives you access into the kingdom. But now there is one key to the kingdom, Jesus. But when you come into the kingdom, there are chees off. The kingdom are well together and according to Hebrews chapter six. There are six foundational doctrines that every believer must be methodically guided around if you must become people of stature and power. It talks about the doctrine of Christ and the foundation of it, repentance from dead walks, shave towards God, you least. The list goes on and on. The word doctrine comes from the Latin word doctrinew. It is a set of truth, believes, information that converts a disciple to become as powerful and as dexterous as his master. Now, I don't know if that happens, but please if that happens here. But in Nigeria where I come from, there is a tribe called the Ebo tribe, the Ebo people the Easternans right, and they have a system by which they raise people is called apprenticeship. So what happens is that an individual who is doing business will call a young man, probably send from the village somewhere the countryside, and then pragmatically, he will be trained to watch his master do business away together build a clientele for himself. While he's doing that supervise for a. Number of years, sometimes a branch and annexed and expression of the business will be built somewhere and he will manage it. So he learns leadership, accountability and all of these things. Then a time comes. Called a time of settlement, where the person would have learned for a sufficient time. Then they call him, give him some money, and release him to go. And that is an example of discipleship. The end of discipleship is not to maintain slaves and members. The concept of membership listen to me, should never be just ignorant people who just come and watch one man of God keep talking to them. It is that those people are turned into matured weaknesses who can now be deployed. This was the intent behind the local assembly. Are we together? Yeah, So when you say you are a member of a church, it means by grace and by understanding and by vision, you have identified with a spiritual family as a place for your building, your rising, you're making to learn God. But that the end of all that happens in church is that it must be deployed as a tool that helps to win souls and so on and so forth. Discipleship. If we only preach and don't disciple believe us, our church will be full of ignorant people who are full of the flesh. There are two main things who are mandated to deal with Sein and the flesh. You deal with scene in a moment when you confess Jesus. But flesh is a gradual, progressive work. And it is dangerous to have people who are saved but not transformed. They will cause trouble for leadership in church. They are the ones who keep you are not sure whether they. Are saved or not. They really are saved, but it's just that they are not transformed. Because a hearth, for as long as it's a child, he differed not from a slave, even though he be Lord of all. So the church is full of a lot of children, and some of those children are now appointed to be leaders. And there is a marketing of a lot of canality. You see that now, longevity in church does not equal transformation. Transformation happens by. The methodical communication of truth. Truth that deals adds Chapter two and verse forty two. And they continued steadfastly. This was the apostolic model given to us in the early Church. As chapter two and verse forty two. They continued steadfastly in the apostles Doctrine and Fellowship and breaking of bread and prayers. Let me give you the third number three. The third and final component to our corporate mandate is called territorial or societal transformation. This is the third component and largely the missing component in the African Church. The African context. Of Christianity has sold a narrative that has thrown this third component out. The gospel that we have sold to the African nation does not carry within a context that transform society and nations. It is the reason why there is a demography rejecting God. To this end, Jesus calls us life. He calls us salt, not just those given the ministry of reconciliation. He says, we are the light of the world. We are the salt of the earth. Allelujah. That means when believers understand their mandate, they know that there is a portion of this Greet Commission mandate that should influence systems, structures, the entire territory. I hope you know that a territory can be borne again just like an individual. Yes, sir, God desires that both you and your territory be saved. Because if you are saved and your territory is not saved, you are in trouble acts Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot was a man who. Loved God, but because he was among a people a territory that was plunging in Dicadece, his relevance and his light went down. When this man came and wanted to sodomize the angels, he was willing to give up two responsible daughters. That is what happens. Good men will look like evil men in an evil society. You do you hear what I said? Good men will look like and even act like evil men. If you doubt that God wants to save a territory, as Jonah why he ran away. He wanted Niniven, not just the king, the entire territory to be saved. Can territories be saved? At in a book at Nazza when he passed a decree constitutionally that anybody who spoke anything against the God of Shadrap Messua and a bed Negal, that he will be caught into pieces. I don't doubt your salvation. But can we say South Africa is saved? Can we say Nigeria is saved? Can we say is saved? Once upon a time there was a beautiful nation in the Earth that has now become a great nation simply because they made a very powerful statement that God honored. In God. We trust. In God. We trust not as an individual. It was a constitutional reality that as a corporate people, we have chosen to serve the living God. And God said, this is what you have done. Now let me exalt you above all the nations of the earth. World, evangelization, discipleship, and the maturity of the saints. Number three territorial transformation. This is where government comes. This is where economies come. This is now where a business forum like this comes, so that you can embrace influence and to a position where, if possible, you are the wealthiest man in South Africa. Imagine the wealthiest man calling upon the name of the Lord. Imagine the wealthiest man rolling on the floor before Jesus. I was honored when I heard Apostophilis appreciating professors and judges. And all of this. This is the kind of thing we need and the Church must not, in ignorance, drive these people. Sometimes we drive people of infurance because we say it doesn't matter, it is ignorance. We need gatekeepers and captains of industry influence us to say yes to Jesus, because the ideas will translate to the yes of many others. If I am saved, my business will be saved. If I am saved, my sphere of inflance will most likely be saved. Ladies and gentlemen. It is to this end that God has brought to us all the resources as will be learning tonight. So next time you pray and say God give me, he says, do you understand why you need what you are looking for? Then you can tell him, yes, I know that all that I ask for is to the end that number one, the nations we saved, Number two the saints we equipped and matured. Number three that territories and society be converted and improved Christianity. When you study revivals and awakenings, every time a revival happened, it translated to education. It translated to civilization improved. Allelujah. A time should come when the judges professors should say, we have noticed that Christian students are the best performing students. There is an orientation they have that has translated to academic exces lens. We should find out that the most honest, noble judges with integrity we have noticed statistically confirmed that These. Are people who call upon the name of the Lord. We have noticed that from an economic standpoint that when people subscribe to the government and the leadership of Heaven, it accelerates. They are being established by thirty percent, eighty percent statistically proven. Now you now see that your Christian faith becomes a program that nations can receive. Are we together that a parliament can sit together and discuse God as an idea that translates to development, that even if they reject His person. They cannot ignore the idea. The impact of society is too great to push it away. I have to stop here. Please rise, Commission with power. Now let me say this before I get back to my seat. Please do not miss tonight the final door to be connected tonight and you will see why God has commissioned us with power. Now we have understood the Commission. By night, will come to understand the vast resources that have been made available to the believer, will have the time to minister to people tonight, to pray, and now you can legitimately ask for impartation. And know why when it comes. Allelujah, Father, we thank you for this session. Thank you for helping us understand our corporate mandate as a people. Now that we know these things, we obtain grace by the spirit to work in keeping with these truths. And Lord, in the name of Jesus, I pray for everyone under the sound of my voice year on ground, and many who are following by way of Internet television. In the name of Jesus Christ, bring us to this awareness, this consciousness, this orientation that you demand of us, and you desire of us to use everything within us to serve your purposes. And may we be faithful doing so in the name of Jesus. Amen and Amen, give Jesus a big hand club