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Please do listen to all teaching. Please do listen. Please do listen to all teaching. Please do listen. Please do listen. I beg I'm asking. Please do listen. Please do listen to all teachings. Please do listen. Please don't listen. I beg I'm asking. Salvation is only in Jesus. Don't you want to be like the God of righteousness? Of righteousness. Please don't judge me. Feel Heat. Heat. You are welcome in the word of God. A study of God's word at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. When we have opportunity, let us sit down at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ and receive the word of God. The study of God's word at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ for your time. Thank you for joining us tonight. Let us pray. Our Father, here we are sitting at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ as our custom is on Wednesday. And thank you very much for those that week in and week out. You are part of this session. You are part of the study of God's word at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are so grateful to have you back again in the study of God's word at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then you have chosen to sit with us at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. So we are so grateful to receive the word of God at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ in our program, sitting at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ where we receive the word of God where we are nourished and we are built up in our faith, built up by the word of God to the study of God's word at the feet of Jesus and welcome you to the study of God's word at the feet of our Lord Jesus. So you are welcome to the study of God's ways. You know where you are Jesus Christ. Shalom. Shalom. Greetings to you saints in the wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Can I hear you shout aloud? Amen and glory. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Welcome to the study of God's word at the feet of our master, our Lord Jesus the Christ. Let us pray. Father, we are so grateful once again for the invitation which you have extended to us to come on in and sit at the feet of the master and dine with him. Thank you for nourishment tonight. Thank you for your word tonight. Thank you for the precious Holy Spirit, our teacher and our guide. And thank you for the written word of God which comes alive in our lives, in our hearts, and in all different areas of our life. Lead us in the paths of righteousness and bind us together with cords of revelation that are not quickly and easily broken. And we give you the glory for it in Jesus name. Amen. And amen. Glory to God. Thank you so much for joining us tonight in the study of God's word at the feet of our master, our Lord Jesus Christ. I am his servant. I am his messenger. I have a message for you. Hallelujah. Glory to God. So he has sent me to you with a message. Praise the Lord. So we have followed the cloud of God's glory. That cloud that moves from one place to another and we tabernacle around that scripture, that verse that we believe that the cloud has rested upon where we recognize the grace of God in a verse or in a particular scripture and that happens to be Psalm 23:3. We are focusing on the part B and it says he leads us in the path of righteousness. I want to remind you that the Lord has been on a journey of teaching us his ways and what he has done first and foremost was to restore our souls. Glory to God. Now our souls needed restoration because we were marred or what will we use? Our souls were affected. For others their souls were eroded. Others the souls were altered and for others their souls were left in a state that required that they be gathered together. Isaiah the prophet, he saw the profile of the soul in Isaiah 40. The revelation given to him was the state of a soul that has been tempered with and cannot manifest the glory of God fully. So that profile was represented by the lens shapes. For some it was like a valley. For another it was like a hill or mountain. For another it was like crooked meandering. It's not straight. For others it was rough rude. And he says when these things the state of the soul is restored he says and then the glory of God will be revealed and all flesh will see it together. So now that the soul got into the state it was in in most cases it was because of unrighteousness. Now that it is restored, it is maintained in the path of righteousness. That's why the psalmist says, "The Lord restores my soul." And then what does he do immediately after restoring my soul? He leads me in the paths of righteousness. And we thank God in this context. He's not just leading us in the paths of righteousness. He is teaching us what are the paths of righteousness. Glory to God. And I want to draw your attention that the word used, you know, the word used in Psalm 23. That word righteousness is the word. So for our purposes we will align it with maybe how it's written today with a K not a Q. So let's use K not Q. It's a deck. T S E K E Z T S E D E K. It's a deck. Okay. From which we have the name Melchizedek. Mechedc which means the king of righteousness. He's the king of righteousness. So I want to draw your attention today as we continue on in this teaching concerning the revelation that was given to David according to the book of Psalms. So let's go to Psalm 23 so that we can read it together. Blessed be the name of the Lord. So let's head to Psalm 23. We know this. We can quote it, but it's always valuable to read it together. Praise God. So in Psalm 23 verse three, maybe we'll start it with one and two and then we go to three because in one David introduces us to the Lord who restores him and who's his shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Now, the Lord that David is talking about here is the one who revealed himself to Moses as the great I am that I am. And you will see the Lord here is the Lord L O R D capital letters all of them. And it's significant because he's making reference to the Lord that he encountered the day that he met Adonai and Melchizedek. So the Lord here is the one known as Jehovah or Yahweh. And let me tell you something about it so you can understand it. In Psalm 110, this name capital letter L O R D it's what is called the tetragrammaton. Tetragrammaton is it means four letters. And for those who are students of the Bible, you will know that Hebrew, the ancient Hebrew does not have vowels. You know vowels I A E O U. It only has consonants. So this name used to be written as Y H W H with no vowels. And it's the name of God, his personal holy sacred name which the Jewish people, even the scholars, they felt they do not deserve to pronounce it, to call it out. And so when they record it, they used to call him Hashem. Hashem means the name. And sometimes they will use the name Adonai which means master, owner, lord, capital letter and small letter o r d. And that's what they used to do. Then how did it get from Y H W H to Yahweh? You know what they did? They they put the vowels. So it's Y H. No vowels. No I U right? It's only consonants. And they added the vowels. They added a from Adonai and put it between Y and H and it will be pronounced Yah. And they took E from Elohim which means God's and they put it between Y and H and it became weh. So when you say Yah, you are pronouncing God's personal name with the addition of the vowels Adonai and Elohim to be pronounced as Yahweh. When they record it in the Bible, they call him Jehovah. Now the pronunciation that is very close to the original name it's Y H W H. We're allowed to call that name because the bible says every knee shall bow every tongue shall confess that Jesus is what >> is Lord. L O R D is Y H W H. Jesus is Jehovah. There it is. He has been so exalted and he was given a personal name that Jesus is the Christ. Jesus is Lord. Hallelujah. The Messiah is Lord. Now this attribute called righteousness is so important and we have shared when we were learning about the attributes of God that some of those attributes were permitted to have personality. We know that wisdom has personality and allowed to produce after its kind and therefore has children that are more ancient than even angels. We know that from Proverbs chapter 8 we studied that in in in details and amazingly in that Proverbs chapter 8 you know what wisdom says wisdom says I lead in the path of righteousness. Glory to God. I lead in the path of righteousness. Now this attribute of God called righteousness was so important that it was allowed to even have a king or a master to master that and to teach it to inhabitants in heaven and beyond. And that king was called Melchizedek, the king of righteousness. He comes from the land of righteousness. His language is righteousness. Then he is so mighty that he is responsible for a higher order of kings and priests. And that is so significant because when the Bible says you and I have been made kings and priests, we cannot be kings and priests except it's through the order of Melchizedek. Christ himself when he came through Judah, he could not have been a priest because that part was given to the family of Levi through Aaron. They they had a Levitical priesthood but Christ was a priest after the order of Melchizedek. Now that order was introduced long before Christ came and when he came he walked in its pattern. It had already been introduced. There are people I call them the Zedekians. For our purposes when you hear me use this word I call them the Zedekians. The Zedekians are righteous ones. Today they are pronounced as righteous ones. Those are the Zedekians. So the purpose of this teaching is to gather the Tedicians, is to encourage the Sedicians, even those that have been overwhelmed by situations and they cannot believe that anything good can come out of their life. The Lord will use the teaching of God's word to gather the Tedicians. These are the disciples of Melchizedek. These are the righteous ones. They are the righteous ones. And they will be known by seeking the right thing to do, pursuing it, following it when once they find it to produce righteous acts. Those are the Zedekians. For our purpose, we'll call them Theakians. Glory to God. So these are the disciples of Melchizedek the king of righteousness. The Zedekians in the Bible they are called in Isaiah they were revealed to him as the trees of righteousness. I believe in Isaiah 66 they are called the trees of righteousness. Those are the Zedekians. Hallelujah. They produce out of those fruits come forth righteousness. In every situation they are in. They seek, they find, and they follow righteousness. Even in a bad situation, that's what they will do. So I believe I've been sent with a message to gather together. And I hope you are one of those. And as we share God's word, something will burn in you. Something will burn in you. You know where the Bible says love in 1 Corinthians chapter 10 says love does not rejoice in injustice. It it rejoices when justice prevails. The Zedekians they rejoice when righteousness prevails. Hallelujah. They are always looking out for the right things. What is the right way to do these things? What is the right way, you know, to to handle this situation? Those are the the pediciums. Those are the the the trees of righteousness according to Isaiah's revelation. And and I believe that as they hear God's word, they they they will respond. Hallelujah. Some of them have ceased to believe that anything good can come out of them. Some of them have believed that they are actually bad people. Some of them have believed that I must just live this way. But I'm here to show you that you can rise up and and take your place in the land of righteousness. Glory to God. So this Melchizedek is the one that you and I are going to be coronated as kings and priests in his order. Can you just quickly look at Revelation chapter one? This is the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ which he allowed John to witness certain things and he heard some things that the Lord said indeed. Look at Revelation 1 5 and 6. Listen what it says. And from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth. You see he's the prince of the kings of the earth. Now you you will have thought you know a prince is lower than a king. No this is a prince is a principle of the kings. But let's hear which kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. So he loved us to an extent that he used his own blood to wash us from our sins. It was not sufficient to find us in our sins and leave us like that. He used this blood to wash us from our sins. So the application of the blood here, it's like water in washing away the dirt. You find something that is so dirty, but it's still valuable and you want to remove the dirt and you apply water on it and then you wash away the dirt and the real value of that individual comes out. This is what Christ has done. He loved us and the love was demonstrated by the washing with his own blood. Now for him to wash us with his own blood, he had to share that blood. So he shed his blood to wash us from our sins. Glory to God. And after washing us from our sins, he didn't leave us just like that. The Bible says he has made us kings and priests unto God and and his father. He has made us kings and priests. We are kings and priests. We are made kings and priests after the worship. After whose order are you going to be a king and a priest? It's after the order of Melchizedek. Glory to God. It's after the order of Melchizedek. And it says to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Hallelujah. Glory to God. You see, kings and priests unto God and his father. It's after the order of Melchizedek. So Melchizedek had a lot of disciples which I call Zedekians. One of those was very instrumental in teaching Moses the ways of God and that is Jethro. Jethro was a priest of Midian. We understand when we do a deeper study of Jethro, you actually find out he was a Kenite. of it. A Kenite is a group of people that appear in Genesis 15. They just mention as Kenites. These were nomadic people that were very mobile, staying in tents. They had certain things that they subscribed to including living a simple life understanding that a complicated life can introduce unrighteousness trying to maintain it. So they lived a simple life and later on there arose a descendant called Rehab who then have a son called Jonadab who was bold enough to put into laws if you will instructions if you will that instructed his people concerning the way they ought to live their life. They are known as the Rechabites. So in a way the Rechabites are Zedekians. The Rechabites are Zedekians because it's the teaching that came through Jethro who became the father-in-law of Moses. And that teaching just needed a very strong leader who will give an instruction and produce a group of people that can survive hundreds of years of cultural change but they still remain true to their convictions. Those are the Rechabites. One outstanding Rechabite is Jabez whom you hear. He called on the God of Israel. Glory to God. And so we understand how strong those people were. And the other part that we have not touched on while we were focusing on their refusal to partake in alcohol. It was the instruction concerning not building houses, you know, not planting vineyards. Now that instruction needs to be studied deeply to understand what was the purpose of that instruction. It was simply meaning live a simple life because a complex life is often an introduction to the pressure that leads to unrighteousness. So the Zedekians need to know what Apostle Paul was saying to Timothy when he says a soldier is not entangled in the affairs of this life. What he's talking about being entangled is being caught in a network of their affairs of this life that you may please him that called him. So what is he talking about? It's telling you that there is a corruption. There's a wrongness that come in because of living a complex life. You know, I will start in Canaan. I'll start in Israel. I'll start in Midian. But certainly I will end in your house. You can be sure of that. Haven't you seen people who who complicate their life, they get a job, immediately they change their lifestyle. So what they didn't have before they now have but with an ungrateful heart because it's not sufficient to sustain the change of lifestyle. They introduce complexity. And if you are talking about Zedekians, they need to know this that you must not complicate your life. If you don't want to go into unrighteousness, keep your life simple. Glory to God. How many people they get promoted at work and then you cannot see even themselves they cannot see the results of that promotion because immediately they were promoted. They changed this, they upgraded this, they upgraded this and this and this and the result of it is now their life is more complex. And then to sustain a life that is complex, you are exposed to unrighteousness. I hope you're with me. You are exposed to unrighteousness. That's what he was teaching his descendants. Keep it simple. Keep your life simple. Don't complicate it. You will find people that when they were not working they will say well I will appreciate 5,000 rand I'm making example I'll appreciate 10,000 rand because in relation to where they are they don't have it then they get it and what do they do complicate their life upgrade their life And not long after that they are complaining again. So the problem is not what's in their head. >> Amen. >> The problem it's what's in their head and what's in their heart. That is the issue that must be addressed. So the what you find is people think no let me get more money. Let me go get more money. Now we all can do with a little bit of Rs. We understand life has become very much complex but we must simplify it. Cut your coat according to your size. >> Amen. >> This is the righteous teaching by the way. Righteousness, rightness, doing things right. And you know what you find? You will find a man and a woman. And remember I told you excuses don't make sense. And when you make excuse before you do you must think because excuses exposes you and insult the intelligence of the people that you are speaking to. Listen to what I say. Let me repeat that. Excuses they they expose you. This is where you are at. Number two, you are insulting the intelligence of people listening to you because you are almost saying you cannot you people cannot think, you cannot see. And while many may be quiet about it, they already made an assessment of where you are. >> Mhm. >> Okay. And this is an example. Here is a man. He got a job or he got a raise. So he goes and complicate his life by doing what? By upgrading. He buys this which he can afford. Now he can't even support his mother who maybe was fasting and praying or maybe even supporting him before he even got the job. So he can't support his mother. And then when he's asked why are you not supporting your mother when you were not working she was helping you now you can't even help her. I'm making an example. And then the person says, "Well, I am in debt." Wait a minute. You are in debt. When did you get in debt? Since I started working. Now, the excuse why you can't support your mother, it's debt. If it goes to let's say, you know, supporting the work of God for an example, you have people say, "Oh, I can't I can't pay tithe. I can't do this. I can't do this." And and I'm I'm not referring to everyone. I'm referring to people who understand their responsibilities. And they are saying this to a place which supported them when they had nothing. They even got grocery from that place. They got support. They were helped with transport from that place. So now they get a job instead of supporting the work of God so that somebody else can be a beneficiary like they were a beneficiary also. This is what people come with. No I can't because I'm so much in debt. Why are you in debt? You were not in debt before you started working. You were all right. What happened? You got in debt. You complicated your life. Then you were entangled. And then there are ways to be unrighteous. And then excuses come. And the problem with those things is not only are you exposing your state, insulting the intelligence of others, but you are disadvantaging yourself from future opportunities. I hope you're with me because if you are talking these are people they don't just come with excuses instead of excuse they give the right reason I messed up this is what I did wrong because in every situation there is a right way of doing things that is righteousness in every situation. Oh, I messed up. I complicated my life. So over the next 6 months, 12 months, I will be uncomplicating my life. The reason being when your life is complicated, associated with a complex life, it's diseases. I hope you are with me. I hope you are with me. Because last week I shared with you about a king who patterned his life after his father David, we call him Asa. You want to go and listen to a teaching we gave concerning Asa's disease. It's on our YouTube channel. Asa was a righteous king and the Bible says he did that which was right as his father David did. So he walked in the path of righteousness. He was so righteous that even his mother Maacah who had an idol, he removed her from being a queen to maintain righteousness. He he was so righteous. However, something happened with him. He started to complicate his life. How? Through friendships. Through friendships. There are relationships. There are friends, there are people. When they come into your life to maintain that friendship, you're going to have to complicate your life. You may be living a simple life, no problem, simple. You start to drink at the well, the poison well of their advices, your life becomes complex. That's exactly what happened to Asa. He befriended certain people from outside his nation. He started to exchange gifts with them and those people were not walking in righteousness. Complicated his life when God sent a man of God to say Asa you were walking in the path of righteousness doing that which is good. What you have now taken it's the path of unrighteousness. Return from it. Even in this situation as you can still do the right thing because there is always a way out for the Zedekians in every situation. So he said come out of it and he was going to show him the way to come out. The Bible says Asa became angry with that man. The prophet started to afflict him, make life difficult for him and the result was himself when he stepped out of the righteous way into the unrighteous way. This was the path he was not used to. He had trained himself to walk in the path of righteousness like his father David. And he was good at it. So good that God delivered him from 1 million soldiers that had come to attack him. 1 million soldiers. And he had very little number. And the Bible says he says, "I look up onto the Lord." and the Lord fought for him. He he was he had mastered that art of trusting him to an extent that the Bible says for many years the land was at rest or at peace because he was a righteous king. So peace also manifested in his kingdom. It ruled and reigned for years. It was quiet at rest. It's when he started to befriend certain individuals. He started to complicate his life to maintain that life. He starts doing this. He starts doing this. And when he receives correction instead of taking it, he punishes the person who was sent by God to provide that correction. And that correction was a demonstration of the love God had for him. Because God corrects whom he loves. If God doesn't correct a person, it means he doesn't care. >> You see, >> if he corrects a person, even the correction is a sign that he loves me. >> Amen. >> And now, how will he correct a person? Will he come and correct themself? What does he do? He sends a person. If he comes, he he told us, he says, "You are so stiff necked. If I come myself, I'll kill you." M >> if he's correcting people the attitude that people sometimes give the face they give you give God that one he says I'll kill you by the time I leave you I will finish you so he sends a human being like you >> okay amen >> you see he sends a person like you and that correction is an expression of love because love corrects so when was corrected so that he can turn back and walk in the path of righteousness and still enjoy being a good king. No, he he he stayed in the path of unrighteousness. And here is the problem. Because he was not trained to walk and live in that path, his body reacted. What it means is this righteousness. It's not just something that remain in your spirit and say I've been made the righteousness of God which is true. It's supposed to come out and start to consume your very thoughts that even when you are thinking you are not thinking to do evil. You are thinking how to do right. >> Amen. >> That that righteousness has started to dominate your soul. >> Glory. And when you do that, it will come into your body too. The body, the physical body will start to be the recipients of the waves of righteousness. >> Amen. >> From your soul. So you can imagine Asa when you saw him as he was walking in the paths of righteousness, you could tell it it even manifested in his body. So when he gets out, what will happen when he switch off that righteousness? The way he treated the prophet was not right. The Bible says he afflicted that man of God. He put him in such affliction, put him in prison, harassed him, tormented him, destroyed his character, told the people how bad that man is just because he was a messenger to come and say, "Thus says the Lord Asa." Are you with me? >> Amen. So the Bible says because Asa became an angry man and unrighteous man, the longer he lived in that unrighteousness because his body was not used to that the unrighteousness in him which was foreign to his lifestyle. If you can understand, >> it condensed and became a boil. I don't know if you understand this. Uh it's when when a foreign emotion to a person who's not used to living that lifestyle when that foreign emotion it's in them it condenses it manifest it crystallizes if I can use that word and become a disease. This is what sometimes people some other people do not understand. When somebody say well they've got cancer and then somebody say forgive. They say forgive. No way. I'm not going to forgive. You don't understand what they did to me. Not knowing that that unforgiveness, that grudge, it's a foreign emotion to them. They are not used to living in that kind of emotion. They are not trained that way. The reason they tolerating this foreign emotion is because of these friendships that they have where people tell them you are on the right path when they are on the wrong path. That's what happened to Asa. The unrighteousness was foreign to him because he used he was he was a Zedekian and when that those foreign emotions like anger and unrighteousness manifested crystallized took on the physical it became a boil. This boil was not natural. The Bible says he went to the physicians. In our language they will say doctors. There's a boil that boil was sustained by an evil life of anger and unrighteousness. It was they were those things were feeding that boil. The physicians did their best they could with that disease. They opened it, but it grew bigger. It's like it's infected. And it was on his legs. It grew. It grew until it became what they call it leg ulcer and it can't get healed. They put this remedy put that remedy because what is giving it evil life is this unrighteousness in his life that he has subscribed to. Unfortunately in the case of Asa who was such a good king started good got entangled through friendships complicated his life left the path of righteousness went on the other paths the result is he died he got the best medical help and still died. The story of Asa is a story of Zedekians and how there are certain things they must not live in those. So when is unforgiveness when somebody has wronged you and the message reaches you forgive them. >> Amen. >> And move on with your life. >> Amen. >> And you fight to protect that state. A fear truth addictions. Not long after that you will start having problems in your body. It could be a headache and this headache you will use Panado, you will use Grandpa, you will all the different painkillers. They will not be able to kill the pain because that pain is fueled by the foreign emotion that you are harboring. And if it stays long, it can lead to the clots in the brain, lead to stroke. And people said, "How come?" But they are children of God. But you see, you don't know what's in them. You don't know what they are harboring. You don't know what they entertaining which is foreign to the way they've been trained of walking in righteousness. Oh, the enemy will come when you are walking in the paths of righteousness. He will come. He will be provoked for sure. You will be. You will be provoked. You see, and that's why we're living God's word. So that once we are restored as the Lord has done so we are now walking in the path of righteousness to maintain the restoration of our soul and the manifestation of the glory of God in our soul called the arm. Glory to God. So let's let's have that understanding. Hallelujah. Now let me show you something. In studying about righteousness doing that which is right. One such area like what we have started to introduce in the life of Asa it's how you relate with people or others. It can be righteousness unto God. Let me give you an example. Can you go to Deuteronomy 24? Look at Deuteronomy 24. This mighty man of God, Moses, um, who I believe should have been given a lot of time to teach Israel the ways of God. Vesting. Um, uh, I will start with verse 9. Rather, let me show you something. Remember it says what the Lord your God did unto Miriam by the way after that you were come forth out of Egypt. Now um he is talking about the incident of leprosy. So maybe flag verse 8 let the people see verse 8 first. He says, "Take heed in the plague of leprosy that you observe diligently and do according to all that the priests, the Levites shall teach you as I commanded them." So do so you shall do, you shall observe to do. Remember what the Lord your God did unto Miriam. By the way, after that you were come forth out of Egypt. Miriam had leprosy. And how did that leprosy come about? You know, it came about because as they were going in the wilderness, there was a report that was given concerning what happened to Moses during the years when he was in the wilderness. And the way it was reported, it was it was incorrect. And you will hear how others get out of path of righteousness because of what they hear and they didn't hear everything and they didn't hear correctly. So Miriam heard that Moses was married to an African. This was not referring to Zipporah. It was not referring to Zipporah. What actually happened is when Moses was in the wilderness during those 40 years, there's a place he went and he actually saved a territory. When those who had attacked it, they killed their king. And Moses rescued. And the people wanted him to be like a king, their king, to be their leader. And so to inherit that throne, to sit on the throne, they also said you must also inherit the queen. He never married her, inherited the throne, inherited that, never touched it until he left because he had the call of God. So this information reaches Miriam, oh have your brother married so and so, so and so. And at that time it roed a lot of questions about Moses' judgment, Moses this, Moses that. Oh, he's like that. Oh, he's like that. He's like that. When people are here, these are siblings. The two are complaining about their is their younger brother. He's the youngest. Miriam is older than all of them. In this case, she was supposed to call Moses aside and say, "Sit down here, my younger brother. You know I love you so much. I heard this and this. Tell me what happened. I want to hear those 40 years when you are you ran out of Egypt. For those 40 years, where were you?" He will tell her when he left there, this is what happened. This is what happened. I had to survive this. I had to survive this until I got to Jethro's house. And there I got married. This is how I got married. These are the children that I have. She didn't do that. And I'm going to show you the paths of righteousness for the in dealing with conflict with your brother, your sister. There's a right way to do it and there's a wrong way. You see? So instead of asking Moses, she went with the report. And this is the painful thing. She's doing it to the one who loves her so much. He will never pray an evil prayer against her. Be careful what you hear about people. Verify what you hear. Even in marriage context, if you hear from one spouse, you will think the other one is a demon. Until that demon comes and sit down and the demon opens up, you realize this is an angel. The devil himself is the one that reported this thing. It's amazing how things balance when you hear from both sides because you hear context also. People will tell you the story the way they want. They will lie the way they want. And if you are not careful, you will be taken out of the paths of righteousness, right into the paths of unrighteousness, which is what happened to Miriam. You know what happened when the Lord was

Talking to to to them? She was arguing. How do we know? Because the Lord didn't finish the conversation. The Lord said, "Come here." And then they were in the meeting. The three of them. Moses was there too.

The younger brother, the one they should protect, he's younger. They must support him. They must be glad that God has chosen their brother. And in the program of God, they also were called to work with him. Glory to God.

So when God was speaking because he looks at the heart, you can see the heart of Miriam. Miriam is arguing with he's arguing WITH GOD. Remember there are people they are used to arguing. They can argue even with God. Even in the presence of God, they argue. He's arguing, arguing, arguing. The result is God. The Bible says God departed. Immediately departed. Leprosy manifested.

Now Aaron is talking Moses. Moses, Moses, look at our sister. Look at our sister. And Moses prayed to God. He doesn't say no it's good to show his heart. He prays God heal her and he said heal her now. That was the prayer and God heard it and answered it and said she must just go through the process for about 7 days.

So here Moses is writing says hey you people I want you to remember what God did to Miriam. He's telling them that as much as I prescribed in verse 8 that if there is leprosy do as I commanded but prevent leprosy prevent it don't allow these diseases to break in because of unrighteousness because of and and this unrighteousness is hidden that's why it's for rain you see so it manifests so it manifested as a boy for assa It manifested as leprosy for Miriam. It's unrash is that that attitude that she had towards Moses for those days or weeks and how she went about talking about him.

You know when you read there you need to to be careful when you read the Bible and say why was it that it was only Miriam who got the leprosy and not Aaron. It tells you one the source of that conflict. Who carried the news? Number two, it also tells you the state they were in when God was correcting them.

He says if there's a prophet here among you, I myself will talk to that prophet through dreams, through visions. Moses is not that kind of a prophet. God is telling them, you Miriam, you are a prophet. That's what the Bible says. She was a prophetist and she knew how to sing. You Aaron, you are a prophet also. However, you are not the same kind of a prophet like this one. This one is a prophet that I speak to face to face. I don't communicate with him in dark speeches. You I use dark speeches so that even when you miss it, I can say it's because it was a dark speech. This one I speak to him face to face. THAT'S WHY WHEN HE misses it, I tell him, "You're not going to enter the land." How were you not afraid to speak against him like this? Don't you know I can hear that's what the Lord IS SAYING?

SO AS HE'S SPEAKING, AARON in his heart who had been influenced in his heart Aaron like we know Aaron Aaron is quick to repent. Did you know that of Aaron? Aon is quick to repent. Aaron in his heart is oh. OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH. MIRIAM, SHE'S arguing with God. She's arguing with him and he sees it. He didn't even say bye-bye. The Bible says he left. when he left that foreign emotions that were inh that was even manifesting in the form of an attitude the facial expression of uh Miriam when God was speaking if you saw it it was an attitude face and then when God says h this this Moses I don't speak to him uh like others and then that's what the Lord said oh you will give me that I'm out of here he left. WHEN HE LEFT, THAT thing that was in him, it broke out. In the natural, they will say leprosy, a form of skin disease that's eating up body parts. The Lord was gone.

So Moses says remember what the Lord did to Miriam. These are diseases that harass the deacons when they get out of the path of righteousness. You can be so sick that even with medical help you still don't come all right because of unrighteousness. It's a foreign thing that you have absorbed in your body. It's when it ceases to be just natural. A natural boil will respond to the natural remedy. So check because some of you sometimes you argue so much. You argue so much. You argue so you fight so much. Even if you win the fight, it came at a cost. You even have a headache because you are so angry. You are so angry. That level of anger you have not visited it. So the moment you visited that territory, your body react because you have a foreign emotion. It's foreign to you. It's not normal. It's foreign. It's a You have got a foreign object. I hope it's landing. >> Amen. >> Now look at the rest of what it said here in Deuteronomy 24. And Moses says, "When thou does lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge."

Now he he is giving them the path of righteousness. Okay. So he says okay you have you have borrowed somebody something. He says don't go into his house to fetch it. What will happen when he goes to the house to fetch it? Moses here is referring to an attitude of embarrassing a human being. Have you seen how embarrassing it is when a furniture shop goes to repossess a car or furniture rather? Huh? They do it in violation of this scripture to embarrass that man, to embarrass that woman. I hope you're with me because we're talking relationships here. >> Amen. >> Following the path of righteousness in relationships. That's what I'm focusing on today.

So he this man he goes I mean he borrowed him something. So he goes into his house to embarrass him. not only embarrassing to the neighbors, even to his children. I want the children to know that their father is a thief and is useless. And the Bible says that's not the right way to do it. Okay, read this. You shall thou shalt stand abroad and the man to whom thou does lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. What it means is you will keep a distance. You will communicate with him and say I'm here for this. So that man will find a way and the tithe to come to you. But you see when you go in the the commotion you cause in the house. You want even the neighbors so that by the time you leave even the neighbors will know what's happening. You didn't know it's in the Bible. Listen. And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge. Okay. What is it? If the pledge is a it's a blanket. So watch this. So he say this man borrowed you something. Don't go there and embarrass him. Don't go and embarrass the person. Protect the dignity of that person. He says if he is poor, if you have assess his condition, this one he borrowed that thing but he is poor. Instead of going into the house and you take that blanket and then you take it out when everyone is seeing and then you leave him to sleep in the cold. THAT ATTITUDE THAT THAT action it's an action of unrighteousness and wickedness. He may BE WRONG BUT TWO WRONGS don't make right. There is a right way to do it. That's what Moses is telling them. Even in that situation, there is a right way. And when you do it, it shall be credited to you as righteousness before God. I hope you're with me.

So if he if the man be poor, you shall not sleep WITH HIS PLEDGE. DON'T KEEP THAT BLANKET JUST FOR the sake of spiting him and say I embarrass him. I know he doesn't have a blanket. Okay. Now you keep that blanket. You keep it here and say I don't even care that you will die out of the cold. Now when you are speaking like that you need to understand that you at that state you are in a certain territory that is unlike God. You have entered that territory. You have forgotten who you are. Now if in any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down that he may sleep in his own reignment and bless you and IT SHALL BE WHAT? RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THEE BEFORE THE Lord your God. Amen.

These are the teachings of Melkisedc. I told you it got to Moses. He had to be taught through the priest, the Tedian himself, Jethro. There are things he taught him. There are things he received in the mountain and there are things he taught him and say when there is a situation like this, this is what you do. Yes, that man we borrowed it. BUT NOW you know that man is poor. You are better than him. And this blanket you don't need it. So the moment you realize he really needs it, he can't even pay it. What? Okay. You can't even bring it back. What is the right way to do it? Do you go and embarrass him? He says it's wrong. Yeah, >> it's wrong to embarrass him. Even if it's your right, even if that blanket is your right, even if it's your right, you demand it here. This is my right. You are wrong. You are wrong. You are wrong. You must do this and this and this. Moses says, the Lord says, when you assess the situation and realize, oh, who am I dealing with here? I'm dealing with a baby. I'm dealing with a poor one. Says, oh, let not the sun go down with that blanket. Is that not the same as let not the sun go down upon your wrath? It is. Huh? The reason you are keeping that blanket is because you are angry with that man. That's why you're keeping it. Why? >> So he says when you take it back to him, HE SAYS that man will even bless you. Amen. >> Because you have shown him mercy. >> Amen. >> And when he blesses you on your part unto the Lord, you are righteous. You are. Glory to God. >> Hallelujah. You are a sediction. You You have done the right thing under that situation. >> In every situation, you must seek to be right before God. >> Amen. >> Oh, people may label it as weakness. They may label it like this. That's how they influence Assa. Well, Assa, you are leaving that man to speak to you like this. How you are a king? He's speaking to you like this. He come in here and tell you and correct you. You can't just let HIM GO. YOU NEED TO PUT HIM IN HIS PLACE. But it was Assa. If you look in the beginning when he came from the battle in 2 Chronicles 15, the Bible says he sent a prophet and say, "Assa, the Lord is with you when you are with him. If you forsake him, he'll forsake you. Take courage because he's with you." It was a prophet, right? He took that message. He was encouraged. Now, the same prophet comes and say, "Now you've gotten out of the way. Now that prophet doesn't love you." Huh? Now that prophet is an evil man. Those are the attitudes of Ahab. You see those are the attitudes of Ahabs. They want to be told only what they like. When they are told the other way, they're ready to kill. Assa is learning those attitudes and those parts was not right. So watch here. He says, "If you do that, yes, you have lost a blanket, but you gain righteousness." Glory to God. And with that righteousness, all these things shall be added unto you. Seek you first the kingdom, his kingdom, and his what? Righteousness. In this situation, the way to be right with God is to leave that blanket. You lost THE BLANKET. YOU GAIN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS. AND ALL THESE things shall be added unto you. WHAT ARE THESE THINGS? MORE BLANKETS. MORE BLANKETS SHALL be added unto you. Glory of God. Because you sought in this situation. What is the right way of dealing with things? What's the right way to deal with this man or this woman who borrowed me a blanket and they not retaining it? YOU ARE SO ANGRY you even entered the house. You are so angry you are screaming at. You have forgotten. You are screaming, screaming, screaming, screaming at them. That is unrighteousness. >> That is uncristlike. >> Amen. >> They're supposed to demonstrate who you are. >> Amen. >> Glory to God. That's what Moses is telling them. He says, "It shall be righteousness unto you before the Lord your God." Hallelujah. You know that's why when he continues, you shall not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates. You see, he he is teaching them what is called the statutes. You see, he's teaching them the statutes. These are the teachings of MelkiseDC, >> the king of righteousness, >> glory of God. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> I hope you can take a little bit more. >> Let's go now when the master the Lord Jesus is also having to address these things of relationships. In Matthew chapter 18, he tells us that when you find people, there will be conflict. Okay? He doesn't shy away. There will be conflict. He knows. So let's see the teachings in Matthew 18 verse1 15.

Moreover, if your brother shall trespass and that word trespass it means to it means wrongdoing to do you wrong. uh to pass somewhere where you have put in a restriction and say unauthorized access. You have to be authorized to pass. You must be allowed which means to trespass means to cross a boundary. To pass a boundary. Now in our lives we have known and unknown boundaries. You see that there are boundaries that you have because these are your preferences. This is your privacy. This is where you have drawn the lines. Some lines are announced, some lines are hidden. I want to repeat that because most people think every boundary is visible. There are some visible boundaries and invisible boundaries. There are certain things that you don't prefer. There are certain things that you do not like. But that doesn't mean everyone knows exactly. THERE ARE some people you didn't tell them. And so there has to be a way to manage those relationships.

So let's look at this. If your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. Watch this. It's your brother. They trespass against you. Go and tell him. Tell him what Jesus said his fault. Take note. HE DIDN'T SAY GO AND TELL him his faults >> because according to Jesus, you are not piling up stuff. >> Amen. >> Waiting for it. NOW YOU ARE COMING WITH 120 things including things that happened 5 years ago. That's not right. Amen. >> He says go and tell him his fault. Which means the Lord Jesus is saying if you want to address the faults, address them timelessly. Don't let them pile up. Go and tell him his fault. This is your fault. You trespassed this. Just go and tell him. And then he says alone. Why? Because the creator who made the human being, he knows how his creation responds when their fault is announced alone. He knows they are likely to respond positively. Now I will shock you because this process was applied even concerning Lucifer. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. Lucifer was taken through this process. I may not have time to tell you today but if we have time we will touch on it a bit. He went through this process. When you read the Bible, you hear it says um Apostle Paul, he was um he was talking uh to, you know, to Timothy when when he says he he charges him, you know, he he charges him before his elect angels in 1 Timothy 5:21, he says, "I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus And the elect angels, elect angels, elect chosen ones. On what basis? They passed certain test. There are certain things Lucifer failed until he became Satan. The way Satan is produced today in children, in adults, in married people, single people, he's produced when he goes through a process of correction and he will not be corrected. So let's go there and you see.

So the Lord Jesus says, if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault. Not faults. His fault. His fault. Between you and him alone in Africans al if he shall hear you, thou has gained your brother. NOW WATCH THIS. THE LORD JESUS HIMSELF, he says, he uses the word if. If it's a sign that I admit there might be a different response. One, I myself witnessed this. When we wanted to rescue Lucifer from his ways, there was a process that was followed. He could not be gained. The reason he was disqualified is because the process of the reconciliation of angels when it was taken and made available he could not be rescued. You know, you have to infer from the study of God and his character to know that there was intervention to rescue Lucifer >> because God is merciful. God is gracious. This is the same God when his son Adam did what was wrong. He didn't leave him without first of all without preventing that wrong. When he went wrong there was a way to rescue him. Now there are people who said well in the Bible there's no way uh where it was said about the rescuing of Lucifer. Now and others will say if angels have done wrong they cannot be rescued. No it's just that the Bible is not the study of angels. Angels we study them in relation to what? Their interaction with men. >> There are books about angels that are in heaven. >> Yes. >> Amen. including a book that details what happened with Lucifer and what was the intervention uh who was sent and how he responded and the master the Lord Jesus Christ who said when he came here he said I saw Lucifer fall like lightning he gave a parable that is so revealing when he he spoke about the the kingdom of heaven is like a man who who planted his vineard and he let it out to the servants AND HE WENT TO A FAR COUNTRY WHEN IT WAS TIME TO get the fruits he sent messengers and said go to get the fruits and those people said hey we don't want those we don't want to give the fruits to pay um for hiring this vineyard let's kill the servants, they stone others. They did this, they did this until he said, "Let me send my son." You know, if when you read your Bible, you will know that Lucifer had a throne and the throne included a jurisdiction that included the earth. Whether he was occupying that throne for the time being, we don't know. But what we know is he had a throne. It was below the clouds and below the stars according to the revelation to Isaiah, right? And it included the earth. So what happened? There was a time there are certain things that were supposed to be reported from the region that he was in charge of which included the earth but the region was bigger than the earth. Included this there's a time he's supposed to report one he was no longer attending the meetings. In fact, when you read the scriptures, because some people think Lucifer deceived the angels in heaven, it's not true. He didn't deceive the angels in heaven. What he deceived is those that were dispatched with him were reporting under him and they were with him in the territories that were given to him under the earth, under the clouds or under under heaven rather. I hope you're with me. When he was supposed to report, he will not attend the meetings. And you know the first form of rebellion for a leader, it's not to attend the meeting and not even to send apology. You are trying to send a message. At that time he had already been entertaining the idea that I have to tell the people I'm a better leader than we are reporting. So he started to do his own thing and they knew the they knew. So what he started to do was some of the angels when they come they were no longer going back because he will deceive them. Do you understand that he will deceive them? Some of them he mistreated them. Some of them he arrested them. >> That parable that the Lord Jesus gave it what happened. >> Amen. >> The son that God in the parable you remember they said let me send the egg and they kill him. >> Yes. >> That was the first Adam. >> When now God says let us make man in our image. >> Amen. >> Let's send him. They said let's kill him. And they killed him. They didn't make him. >> THEY KILLED HIM. SO THAT'S WHAT HE DID. HE first he mistreated those as they were coming here. Others he locked them. They couldn't go back. And heaven day is counting. There are people who we sent. They have not come back. Huh? Then he started to shut portals for them to go back. started to shut quarters when he had done everything and he was ready. That's the day he started to announce, I will ascend into heaven, >> kingdom destroy. >> You see, I will be like the most high, what he meant was, NOW THAT I HAVE TAKEN OVER THIS TERRITORY, I'M GOING TO GO UP AND dethrone him and take over. And one of the things he was targeting was the mountain called the mountain of the stones of fire. He he wanted to get himself in that mountain. It's one of those including Mount Zion itself. So what he didn't know was when he was doing all those things immediately heaven activated Michael and many other mighty mighty angels of the Lord and they were sent and they were stationed at a particular place and say you have to defend this territory. Some of the angels that escaped, there were angels that he he captured here on earth. They escaped. They went to report what's really happening. This is the corruption has even affected animals. It has even affected animals. the corruption. That's why it was the decision was made. We will destroy everything with the flood. That was Lucifer's flood. It's what we call Lucifer's flood located in Genesis 1:2. Whatever creatures, whatever animals that he had deceived, whatever corruption that had gone even to the animals and the plants we are talking in relation to the earth, right? Other planets were also affected and they exploded. In the judgment, the planet there are planets that didn't survive that judgment. We are told about the water that covered the face of the deep in relation to the earth. There are other planets of which they are remaining as debris in the air. Debris is like just rocks. Those were planets. They they were complete. They were complete in the judgment. There was so much that happened not just on the earth in other planets. And so when he said, "I will ascend my throne above the stars. I'll be like the most high and God said, you shall be cut down." And that whole incident when he started to go up and he met Michael somewhere up there, the Lord Jesus, he said he was watching it. He says, "I saw Satan fall like lightning. He's falling because he was on his way up." Okay, he's he falls down here and a lot happened, but we're not going to dwell in it. And that's when God said, "Now, I'm going to send my son." You see, that's Adam. And when they saw him, they said, "Oh, let's kill him. Let's kill this boy and take over the vineard, which is what happened. The vineard being the earth." So when the second Adam was sent, even him, they said, "Let's kill him." But they couldn't succeed. Glory to God. >> Glory. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. And and what what I mean by succeed, it means first they couldn't kill him before they set time for him to die for the wealth. And even when he died to pay for the sins of the whole world, he rose again and is alive forever more. His name is Jesus the Christ. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Glory to God. So understand that there were ways that we implemented says that the Bible is the record about men and angels in relation to men. >> Amen. >> Glory to God. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. So, we're in Matthew 18 and um I believe we will take a little bit and then finish with this. It says, "If he shall hear you, thou has gained thy brother." What do you gain in your brother if he hears you? It's what God has put in him to help you because we are a network. We help one another. We're designed that way. And among this, it's what you call destiny helpers. The people that areworked together to help each other this side of life. Destiny helpers. She says you will gain them. Which means if you lose him, you have lost what God has put in him. But watch this. If you do what is right and you lose a brother or a sister, heaven is responsible to provide you with a replacement. Don't forget this. Don't forget this. That's why when you lose people, you must make sure that you have lost them the right way. Meaning, it's all because you did that which was wrong. You did that which was right, but they just had to make their own decision. This is what Christ meant when he said, "If you lose brothers here, sisters, even a wife, a husband, children, for my name's sake." He says, "YOU SHALL GAIN WHERE?" HERE ON EARTH, HE SAYS, "I will replace them." Glory to God. He says, "I will replace them." What it means is what you lost because of somebody's unrighteousness while you were trying to walk in a in righteousness. Heaven is responsible to locate that help elsewhere and lead it your way. Ah that's so powerful. Okay. Thou has gained your brother. So you gain your brother and the help that was in him. No >> but if he will not hear you. So the Lord Jesus admits that it's possible you can do things the right way and your brother may not hear you. A sister may not hear you. Why? They've got choices. And it doesn't surprise the Lord Jesus because he has seen with Lucifer. He doesn't want to be reconciled. He's not interested. It's part of the report. He said, "I'm not interested." when a MESSAGE WENT OUT. WHY ARE NO COMING TO MEETINGS? NO. ARE YOU I'M NOT INTERESTED. OH. OH. The the rebellion and stubbornness that you see sometimes when people are going out of the way of righteousness, it there's nothing new under the sun. It has happened before. It has happened before. The people are not coming. Remember in the in the case of Kora and Abraham and Ga in the day of Moses when he called them to a meeting they said we're not coming. The Bible says Moses was so angry and God was looking at Moses there's nothing new. There's nothing new. That's the reason why Lucifer, you see, at the time when he's supposed to go and attend meetings, when sons of God that come from different regions that they've been deployed to and they supposed to go and report, he didn't want to go. But in the day of Job, huh, he attended that meeting which is another parable from Jesus. Oh, the the parables of Jesus are worth studying. When the Lord Jesus said there was a man who had a wedding for his son and he send invitation and people started to make excuses after another on the day of the wedding after the invitation was now extended to those who are available in the highways. The Bible says on the day of the wedding when HE CAME HE SAW A FRIEND. HE ASKED THE FRIEND HOW DID YOU COME HERE and you not dressed like others which is what happened that day when the Bible says when the sons of God came to report from different regions in the day of Job it says Lucifer was among them AND THAT'S WHY THAT DAY HE DIDN'T know that a man was selected which he had been looking for called Job who was a a aian. Huh? You know what Job says as a deedian in in Job 29? He says, "I put on righteousness." Glory to God. I PUT ON RIGHTEOUSNESS. Can you put that job 29? He said, "I put on righteousness." I'm a hallelujah. And if you read the rest of Job 29, you will understand fully as a how he was walking that that whole chapter paints a king and a priest. You see? So that's Job 29:14. He says, "I put on the dead. I put on righteousness and it clothed me. My my judgment was glory to God. I have no time to tell you about Job today. We we have a day in in the study of God's word along the paths of righteousness where we must camp around this man called Job. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. But understand that when he breached and went when he was no longer needed in the meeting like in that parable of Jesus, they told the the the master, the king, the father, he said, "How did you come in here?" And what did he say? He was shocked that he was out. He was he doesn't look like others. And what did they say? They said, "Bind him. Bind him and cast him into darkness." That's what that king did. And that's what happened to Lucifer. So Job in line with that parable, he was told how to restrict Lucifer. After that attack, Lucifer never went up to that place ever again. And he was restricted because of what Job did. The sacrifice that he did after the restoration, it limited Lucifer's movement to enter that place. Okay. >> Thank you, Lord. Can we take a little bit more? >> If you will not hear you, then take with you one or two more. that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established. Ah, what happened in that parable of the vineyard? There were sevens that went the first time. There was the second witness and the third witness. Go and really confirm is it really so that there is rebellion in that in that region. If you hear how Jesus ends that parable, he asks the people there. He says, "Now that they killed the egg, what will that man do?" And they said, "He will destroy those people." That's what they say, >> "He he will obliterate them. He will do away with them." Glory to God. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> So it says you can go and get one or two more. These are the witnesses. What are the witnesses? They are the witnesses that we have heard this side, we have heard that side. This side they refuse to repent. Now um the the importance of one or two witnesses others is to bring fresh perspective. Okay. Yes. You went alone. you were not successful. So you are bringing another person or two to bring their fresh perspective into the case to also help you if perhaps there is something you are missing. But in this context they have established and found out that the brother here is wrong. and they want him to do what? To repent. This is still being dealt with privately. And by the way, if I can emphasize the first point of go to him and tell him his fault. Most people don't want to do that, but it works and is the right thing to do. And I don't know how many times even as a pastor you have to emphasize that point. Uh you know what people will do if somebody wrong them? They will leave church. All right? They will leave church without addressing the issue. And here is the problem. Wherever you go, even if you leave this place or that place, wherever you go, you're going to find people and there will be conflict. For how long are you going to run away? When are you going to grow to say, "Well, let me face it and tell him or her their fault and see if it leads anywhere. If he doesn't, Jesus said there is still a right way to deal with things. Hallelujah. Says even when there is rebellion and stubb stubbornness, there is still a right way to do things. You can get a witness or two. And then again, he says if they will not hear you or if they neglect to hear them, the two witnesses, tell it unto the church. Make it public. Why is he saying that? Oh, the master is teaching us something important. He is saying when you are dealing with a person will not receive direct feedback one on one and then even with additional perspective they will still not want to hear. He says, "Don't be quiet. Don't hide what's happening because their attitude, they're going to spread it to the rest of the assembly." Oh, I hope you are listening because this what Lucifer was doing. Why heaven had to announce in the loudspeakers that Lucifer is no longer on our side. Why? Because he has deceived others there. He's still going to try. There are some people because of stubbornness and rebellion and the poison they have. The church has to be told who have been dealing with the case. But now it's getting out of hand. And we want you to know why? So that when they are going on the corner and the corner and the corner, they're already exposed. It's permitted. There's a stage. It's allowed. When you are dealing with certain kind of people in an institution, everyone in a company, everyone. It's just that with companies sometimes they restrict your access. You don't go in again. But it's church. You don't necessarily restrict access unless you are William Simo. William Simo um the one was uh part of the early revival in the 1900s uh Auza Street Revival in in uh Los Angeles, America. He didn't like to debate with people because at that at the turn of the century he was getting a hold of the big Holy Ghost that manifest with speaking in tongues. The the amount of the Holy Ghost that he was getting a hold of. He didn't want to spend and waste the Holy Ghost on debate and strife. So he used to have a pedlock. If you cause trouble, he ped lock where then used to assemble in Auza street. He ped locked the gate and those that are inside they are there to pray and they are praying. The the amount of the Holy Ghost that was sent, we are still feeling that Holy Ghost to this day. Glory to God. There are congregations today that we can name them that were birthed out of that Holy Ghost that descended when that black man with one eye got a hold of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> And he will not want to waste his time on debate and strife. So he paid lock. So certain companies they restrict access. You go you take you can't go through because the individual is a poison to the territory. There's a right way of doing things. Even when you are grieved, even when you are not happy, there's a right way of doing things and that is called righteousness. That's called righteousness. Huh? You see, he says Jesus says you can tell it to the church. Communicate it openly to the church. There's a right way. You know, I love Gazi and I'll tell you why I love Ghazi. Here is a man that was very close to Elisha and he was in the line to inherit the double portion of Elisha, if Elisha inherited the double portion OF ELIJAH, WHAT DOES the double portion of Elisha look like? >> The double double portion is it? >> Amen. >> The significance of the double portion of Elisha, you see it after he's dead. after he's dead for years and his bones remain with the the POWER THE portion that had entered even into his bones. Huh? and they throw a man there and the Moabitete rises up again. That that's telling you the the level of the portion that was available to be inherited. Now, the secret of Elisha was the angels he inherited the day he saw his father Elijah leave. And those angels used chariots. They were behind the miracles he did. Now, here's Gazi. He's saving his master. And then Nan the Syrian comes to be healed. He was used to going to Somas. So he will go with gifts. He will pay for his healing. Now the problem was what he carried was not right for the Tedicians. >> I hope you with me. was not right. So he comes with a gift. The man of God gives him instruction. He dispute it first. At least he received feedback from his servant to if this man told you to do a hard thing, you'll have done it. This is so simple. Let's go in deep. He went to deep seven times. He comes back. He's healed. Baby skin. Now he takes the gifts he wants to give to Elisha. Elisha says to him, "No, I can't receive this from you." Because beside maybe the spiritual other things associated with the gift here is an opportunity to teach this man that you were healed by the mercies and the grace of God. What you have here, you can give it any other day to support the work of God. But if I receive it of you today, it will be exactly the same way as you have been going from one sangoma to another sangoma. At the end you pay, at the end you pay. I want to teach you that this came out of grace and mercy. So you can know that God is merciful and gracious and this knowledge you must take it back to Syri. I hope you're with me. >> Amen. So Gazi is sitting there already is having evil thoughts towards his master and remember for emotions to the manifest as disease. So he is thinking hey this master he wants to prevent an opportunity for me. This is the attitude that you will get even in church there are people they are there for business deals. If they hear there is a protocol that you know the protocol here is if you are busy doing anything here and you have met in the name of the church let the leadership know because when things don't work out people leave church and you don't even know why but you know there are people when they hear such protocol they have evil thoughts they think like a hazy oh We are being denied opportunities here because they are selfish. They only think about one side. And that's exactly what Gaz is thinking. >> No, I'm not going to miss this opportunity. I will do it my way. I do it my way. When Nan is going, I'm going. My master is sparing this N. The Syrian. My master is stupid. That's what he was thinking. My master is a fool. My master doesn't know. That's what people think. You know, it's a lot easier to break protocol until you are the one in leadership. What it means is this. When what you are doing to others is being done to you, you will cry foul. >> How you treat people, reverse it and say, "But what if this was done to me?" Do you know David? Those people who say he killed a thousand and say I mean he killed 10,000, Saul killed a thousand. the people who were exerting him. >> Huh? >> Yes. >> Thank God he didn't allow that to go to his head because he was a deacon. >> Amen. >> He's a righteous man. He doesn't allow that to say, "Let me kill Saul. Let me do this to Saul. Let me disrespect my master." Why? Years later, the same people are singing to Abselum. He seted the gate. He judged few cases and he told Israel I'm I'm better than my father. If I was a king, you people there's a lot of things that you will not experience. And the people the Bible says they started to sing. Abselum is better than David. Abselum solves our cases faster than David. David takes long. Sometimes David shows mercy when he's supposed to judge. David shows mercy when he's supposed Abselum is better. And they even added and said even Abselum is even handh. And the Bible says from D to Bath Sheba which means from the north to the south all of Israel went after Abselum. That's why the Bible says when David headed he left the city. Why? The chickens have come home to roost. What you do to others, it will be done to you. It's a spiritual law. And when it's done to you, you may make yourself forget. This is how you treated others. And the reason David survived it, it's because he chose to do right where Saul was concerned. So when his son rose against him, his son never took the throne. You didn't hear when they were singing, singing, singing, singing. David didn't allow that to disrespect his master. >> Amen. >> And because of that, he took the throne. Do you hear? >> But his son who disrespected his father because they were singing praises to him. He did not become a king. He died. His death was so bad. Even the trees were fighting him. The branches, they took hold of his hair. He had long hair and hold him in the air like this. Arrested him like this. He was hanging in the air and a tree. Can you imagine a thorn tree says, "I got Absalom. I got him. Here he is." It's like when you're holding somebody with a hair like this. You're lifting them that he was so disrespected by that tree. It it held him up like this and said he's up here. He's here. This boy small boy, small boy is here. Showed him how small he is. A tree. Read your Bible. And that's how he died. But you see, David, if he had entertained that song, yeah, it is coming back against him. You know the same people sometimes that respect disrespect protocol they run businesses and when people disrespect their protocol they get them arrested like you remember that man whose sins was forgiven by a king. >> Yes. >> He left the same place. When he left somebody owed him and he that man was begging the same way he was begging the king. He said give me time be patient with me I will pay but himself he will not show mercy. He says you are going to prison. He cannot see himself in that man. What you do to others you will find others that will match your character and they return it back to you. That's what happens. So, Gazi may be thinking, well, my master is denying me an opportunity. But wait a minute. When Neon came to the land with all that property, was he coming for Gazi or he was coming for Elisha? >> Elisha. >> He was coming for Elisha. So let Elisha decide concerning this because this was not for you. When people come to church and you meet them at church, were they coming for you? >> No. >> Did you gather them? Why do you scatter the people of God? Why do you do things that don't follow the laws of God? and loss of order. Why? You see that's what Gaz is thinking. So this is what he did. He went, he took the stuff he hide it. He come back and his master asked him, "Gaz, where are you coming from?" The fellow didn't go anywhere. Do you know what? Why Gazi answered like that? Because he remembered the day when the Shunamite woman's child was dead. And the Shunomite woman was going up the mountain, up to Elisha, up to Mount K. And then Elisha said, "Oh, I wonder what is wrong with her. The Lord has not shown me." >> Okay. >> Yes. Yes. >> Go and ask him what is the issue. So from that day the started to secretly disrespect his master. Wow. He doesn't know everything. >> There are some few things I can hide. You know when people get to know the humanity of their master they can disrespect. That's exactly what he thought. Oh he doesn't know everything. I can hide few things. >> He can lie. He will not know by his own admission he said he doesn't know why that woman is running and he sent me to find and inquire of her so that's what he thought so when he came back said where did you go he said I didn't go anywhere you don't know and Elisha said yes didn't my heart go with you I saw you when that man turned. I heard what you said. Wow. Look, the leprosy that was upon that man, it's on you. He got it. But the story doesn't end there, people. >> Amen. >> And this is what I like about Gasassi. This Gasi if he had been like many people who get offended when they are being corrected and because they were wrong. They go and destroy what they once built. They go and lie about what they once said it was true. They undermine what they built. Ghazi had the chance to walk around the whole territory and tell the people all the miracles of Elisha were staged. I was the chief organizer of those miracles. They were lies. Elisha is not a true man of God. Even that uh mantle that he says he found from uh uh he got from Elijah, I know where he got it from. He crossed the river to go to a woman to consult. >> He came back with a cloth. He uses it to perform miracles. Undermining what he once built. But Gazid

didn't. That's when we know even when you are under judgment because you did wrong, there is still a right way to do things. Sometimes is to withdraw quietly and be quiet and use that time of quietness to reflect: How did I get here? How can I think like that towards that man who has been so kind to me?

And that's what leprosy afforded him. It gave him a chance to be in isolation centers called labor colony outside cities. He had gone there with his children. His descendants, they got it because when he took the property back into the house, they started to use that property. So leprosy also got into them. So they are there and you know what? When they were there and talking, the four of them, they said, "If we stay, we die. If we go, we might leave or we'll still die anyway. Let's go." As they went, the same chariots that were working in his master Elisha, which he didn't undermine after he was corrected, the same chariot joined him. He didn't undermine the chariots. Therefore, the chariots also don't undermine him.

Do you know people who leave churches when they are angry and they go and say, "Oh, that thing that was done, it was fake. It is the thing that will kill them." If they say, let's say somebody was healed of cancer, I mean, was healed of cancer and they go and say, "No, that cancer, I know what really happened." And they lie. They are lying because they left under correction and instead of doing the right thing, which means if you are under correction, you can be quiet. If you feel this is not the place to be, go find another place elsewhere, but quietly. Don't destroy anybody. Just go quietly and say, "Well, it didn't work out. It's okay." That's a right. That will be called righteousness for that person who does that. Gehazi, this is called righteousness to you. The fact that he kept quiet. And all this time, he doesn't even lie. When they come, he doesn't even tell them lies and said, "Go to the city and tell them, I have a story. I've got a book to write about Elisha, that fake man." He doesn't do that.

What you undermine will kill you. It's a very serious thing because if a person goes, "Oh, that cancer case was staged." They will be attacked by that cancer. Oh, that wheelchair case was staged when it was not staged. They will find themselves in a wheelchair one day. What you undermine because you are telling God, you are telling even the spirit realm that there is no such healing of such a thing when you know you witnessed it. So you're going to sit on that wheelchair that you said was staged and you will not come out of it because I agree it's not faith. It doesn't happen. The thing that you undermine, which you used to testify about. Remember you used to stand when you were not offended and say, "This is the best church." Others even say, "This is the last bus stop." Others will say, "These mighty men of God, I have never met him." They're lying. They are expressing that because they are happy. The day they are angry, you will know their heart.

All right. That's the day you know. I'm wrapping up now. He didn't undermine the chariots that were behind the miracles of Elisha. So when he stepped, the same chariots, they took, they went on that step and the steps of the chariots were so loud, the Syrians turned and ran away. And we see Gehazi, he's restored. When you read chapter 8, 2 Kings chapter 8, you find him before the king. He's no longer a leper. Amen. He was mute. Amen. Has he proved to us that prophetic forever is conditional? If a prophet says, "You shall be a leper forever. It shall cleave unto you forever." That forever. He hasn't proved to us it's conditional. Amen. If you make things worse, you make it permanent and you make it forever. If you are humble and you do the right thing, even under that correction and that judgment, there is still a way out. There's still a way out. It's called the path of righteousness. Even in leprosy judgment, there's still a way out. It's called the path of what? Righteousness. He came out that way. So that's why the king is sitting with him in chapter 8. He says, "I have told me all the great things that Elisha did." He said, "Let me start." When he started, there comes the woman. He says, "What I'm telling you, this woman will confirm it. She is the one which tells you that Gehazi was used to speaking well of his master, even as a leper." You didn't hear that? Amen. Even as a leper, when he was in leper colony and they say, "Oh, that Elisha is a bad man of God." He says, "I get out. I'm going to deal with you if you speak bad about my master." He didn't say, "Let me tell you even worse stuff that I know that he was doing in secret."

Even though you will be lying. So even when there is judgment, even when according to Matthew 18, you are an outcast because you did wrong, there is still a path of righteousness. There's still a right way. Glory to God. There's a right way for every situation. Even when you have failed, you failed a class, you failed something, there's still a right way to do things. Amen. Amen. Did you lose a contract? You lose your job, still a right way to do things. You know, in 1 Corinthians chapter 7, it even tells us that if you had been married before you knew the Lord and then you come, you know the Lord now and then one of your spouses doesn't want to continue with you. No, your spouse doesn't want to continue with you because you have received Christ. He says they're okay to go. They must allow you to be free. And then he says, you are free. Free to do what? To get married. And he says, only in the Lord. What, what does he say? He says, if you find yourself as a devote because of such circumstances, you mustn't go around destroying other people's marriages. Amen. There is a right way to do things. If you find yourself, oh, your relationship didn't work out and you've got a kid, don't destroy other people's marriages. There's a right way to raise that kid and there's a right way to conduct yourself as a single person.

Don't make things worse. Don't embarrass other people. Don't belittle other people. Amen. There's a way. There's a way for widows. There's a way for widowers. There's a way for orphans. Esther was an orphan. She was a Sedekian, became a king in the order of Melchizedek, a queen. She was not an orphan that was selling her bodies in Persia. They said, "My mom, my dad died when I was young. I'm raised by my uncle Zama Zama." She doesn't do that because even then there is still a right way. You lost your parents. Tough, but God has provided Mordecai. He loves you. Yes, maybe he doesn't fill the whole gap of a father, but he does make up a lot and then be grateful and the Lord will cover the balance. Hallelujah. He'll cover the balance.

There's a right way of doing things. Amen. It's a right way of doing things. Don't be on that mission of destroying people because they corrected you and you go, you lie, you add, you add, you add, you add because they give correction. Don't join those clubs. And as I finish, let me also speak to married couples. Thank God we're going to have our session this Saturday. Glory to God, marriage seminar. However, I want to just caution you because there are others. Your spouse may have done wrong. Maybe they were unfaithful. The right way to deal with that unfaithfulness is not for you to be unfaithful to them. That is not righteousness. There's a right way of dealing things of doing things and dealing with that situation. And when you do it the right way, God comes to your defense. God comes to your side and He's going to help you. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Can I hear somebody shout Hallelujah? Glory. Glory. Glory to God. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory. Glory to God. Thank you, Lord. Let us pray. Father, we thank you for the precious Holy Spirit. Thank you for the word of God. We thank you for your grace and mercy in teaching us the word of God, the ways of Christ, the paths of righteousness. Thank you that as we are seeking them, here they are. We see them. We have found them by your grace. Now we pursue them. Now we choose them. Now we follow them. It shall be unto us righteousness and we give you the glory in Jesus name. Hallelujah.

You know God is healing even those diseases. You see some people have chronic conditions that they tried this medical health. You know, while it's working for other people, it's not working for them. You have heard that some of those, it's a manifestation of foreign things that are in your emotions and they are manifesting and crystallizing as disease in your body. Let go of that unforgiveness. Let go of that anger. Let go of that confusion. Let go of that revenge and it shall be well with you. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Thank you so much. We'll see you tomorrow in prayer in the morning. We see you those that have registered for marriage seminar. We have reached the limit. So thank you so much. We want to keep it to the number. Blessed be the name of the Lord. So we'll see you again on Saturday at 10 a.m. in the morning. And those who want to join us for prayer tomorrow morning, please do so tomorrow at 5:12:5 in the morning on Zoom. So we can pray in the light of God's word, in the light of what we are studying in Jesus mighty name. Hallelujah. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

So we'll see you. And for Saturday marriage seminar, we have a WhatsApp group. So we'll communicate some instructions for the preparation tomorrow. So I expect some guidance and instruction from us so we can have a blessed day on Saturday. God bless you. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for staying with us. It is such a blessing to come to you and share the word of God with you right from the studio, sitting at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. Surely, surely goodness and mercies shall follow all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. I am covered by the blood of Jesus and by the fire of the Holy Ghost and by the grace of God in Jesus name. Amen and amen. Shalom. Shalomat. Thank you so much. We will see you. You are, you are, I call on your name to my saints. Even when I felt like we, Jesus, Jesus, your name. Jesus, Jesus, your name. You took my life out of the hands of the snake. I live not your destiny. Pray your cause with the ones He made you mine. He's called you by name. Shine. Whoever calls in the name of the Lord will be saved. Whoever calls in the name of the Lord will be saved. His great wings carry you. Fighting your friends is for you. The rock of ages. He crushes those who go against you. He's never as powerful as you, my provider. My only guide, I call your name, save me from pain. Whoever calls in the name of the Lord will be saved. Whoever calls in the name of the Lord will be saved. Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Love you. In the name of my brother, I feel some girls.