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Shalom. Greetings to you saints in the wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Greetings tonight. Thank you for joining us uh a study of God's word at the feet of the master, our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Let us pray. Our father, we thank you for the invitation once again this week to come on in and sit at the feet of the master and learn and receive at his feet. We are here. We have chosen to be here the same choice that Mary has made years ago and that which cannot be taken away from her. And we have chosen your word tonight. Teach us your ways. Lead us in the path of righteousness. Establish and perfect our thoughts concerning that which you have invested in us in the form of your glory. Dear Holy Spirit, bind us together with cords of revelation that are not quickly broken. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. >> Amen. Glory. Glory. >> Blessed be the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. >> Amen. >> Thank you, Lord Jesus. Can I hear you shout aloud? Amen. Hallelujah. Lord, God Praise the Lord. So, thank you so much once again. I want to draw your attention on what we are learning at the moment, the restoration of the soul, the soul to behold. You know, Apostle Paul when he had that revelation, he was writing to those that were at Thessalonica and he say, I pray God the God of peace. You know he's praying the God of peace to make them whole spirit, soul and body and preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So we have understood that the soul came into existence due to the reaction between the breath of life and the physical body. And therefore this soul became a phenomena. It was a product that was not there before. This kind of interaction, the physical body and the breath of life of a man made in the image of God, it had never existed before >> and it was a phenomena. And when he became a living soul, it became a subject of so much study. And you know I've told you that one of the greatest achievement is to be able to understand yourself to be able to know and fully understand yourself. That is one of the greatest achievement you could have. And so we understand that um Adam he did not know much about himself. And uh I'll be able to show you why when you are young and when you are new, it's important to use the escape way of obedience. When you are new to a place, an environment, a company, a community, your defense is obedience. Nothing else. >> Glory. >> And when you are young in creation, you just came. You were brought into existence. You don't know yourself. You don't know the creation. You don't even know the creator. be obedient. Sometimes people ask the question, why did God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? I can give you a lot of reasons that that tree served the purpose that it served. I've shared in the past that that tree the aroma from that tree it used to protect the environment. It will kill germs and bacterias and viruses and so that that's one of the the purposes of that tree. The other purpose for that tree which is what I want you to understand today is that that tree was a tree to test obedience. It was a tree to test obedience. God planted it and told told him an instruction from day one to emphasize to him that your survival to the stage and the time and the phase in your life where you understand yourself. Your survival is in obedience. He that's one of the reason that tree was given. It was to send a message when you are young be obedient. When you are young or when you are new be obedient. It's your defense. You go to a new workplace. You are working in a plant where there is moving paths. You are not familiar with that environment. They've inducted you. Obey whatever they tell you. >> Glory. >> Don't act smart. >> You might not survive that environment. You go to a new place. You may be old but you are new to the place. Your defense is obedience. So here is Adam. He's new. And God want to send the message that your survival up until such time when your faith will be turned into knowledge when your obedience will be turned into knowledge. There is a face. There is a level that you can grow to when you you are not just obeying >> but you have understanding. You are not just obeying but you have knowledge. Obedience will then have been like a a school principal. It will have been like a guide to guide you until a certain stage where you can now walk in obedience still, but your obedience now is backed up by knowledge and understanding. That's exactly what God was attempting to tell Adam with the the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Take note, it's a tree of knowledge. >> It's a tree of knowledge. That tree has knowledge associated with it and is the knowledge of good and evil. So most people when they hear that tree, they think that tree was bad. Wait a minute. It had good in it. >> Amen. >> It's the knowledge of good and evil. It's not the knowledge of evil and good. It's the knowledge of good and evil. So the tree was not bad. >> Don't compare that tree to the tree of life and say, "Oh, I want to avoid that tree." No, the tree served multiple purposes. >> Amen. [clears throat] It was of knowledge of good. It was a doorway into the knowledge of good. But the first thing when he sees it, he must learn obedience. Then that tree will open to him a door called knowledge of good. Wow. M >> it will be like a door. Adam was good but he didn't have the knowledge of good. >> What it means is he didn't know himself. He didn't know how to maintain good. through through the knowledge of the the knowledge of good and evil through that tree he will know the levels of good goodness. So it served purpose multiple purpose that tree the evil he was going to know also through that tree. That tree was an amazing tree almost like you could go into it. This will come later. You could go into it and it like it opens a portal and you travel into the world and then you come out. You are here and then you enter. You go. You are learning good. You are learning the origin of evil. in the evil even us we are not allowed right now now we are not allowed to know the evil that befell Lucifer what are the things that deceived Lucifer >> we are not allowed but Lucifer was also deceived >> and it's in your Bible it's in your Bible I'm not going to read it Hey, I just want to spark it. But it's in your Bible. If you read your Bible, you have seen that there are ancient beings, certain attributes of God that were allowed to take personalities like wisdom allowed to have descendants willingly. Those are ancient beings. So in the knowledge of evil, you'll get to know where everything tie up and go back. >> Glory to God. >> Hallelujah. Praise God. That's not the purpose for tonight, but the emphasis is on obedience. So the tree part is the sidewalk. The message is about restoration of the soul. So don't forget that. So we see how that tree was supposed to establish in him the habit of obedience because he is young and he's new. So you need to understand that. So understand that when the soul came into existence, it was a a divine secret, God secret where God decided that I will not put all the eggs in one basket. Have you heard that expression? Don't put all the eggs in one basket. M >> I hope you have heard that because you might lose all of them, right? >> Amen. >> So there are some things that were located in the soul on purpose. There was a glory located in the soul on purpose as a precaution, precautionary measures. When this man fails, his spirit will be affected immediately. But there are some eggs that are not in the s in the spirit. They are in the soul. It was by the wisdom of God. The the the tabernacle was structured like that. Heaven is also structured like that. What do I mean by that? Let's start with the human body or the human being. You are a spirit being. Your spirit possesses the soul. It's part of the soul. The soul is part of the spirit. And but the spirit also has faculties. Has faculties and then the soul has faculties also. And then you live in the physical body. So there are some things that could be in your body and they may not get into your soul. They may not get into your your spirit which is part of your protection. >> Amen. >> And that's what the Lord Jesus was trying to say when they said why don't you wash your hands before you eat you people. He said wait a minute you think what you eat can touch your soul can touch even your spirit. He said, "No, what touches your soul, it's what you think." >> Amen. >> He says, "It's what you think." And that can eventually affect your physical body. But what you eat, no matter how strong it is in concentration, it cannot reach the soul. It can reach the spirit. You can eat physical food so much it won't make you a spiritual giant. >> That food has limitation no matter how strong it is in concentration of a particular ingredient. >> You can make that ingredient so high even alcohol in the highest level of alcohol it cannot reach the soul. It's in the body. It will mess up the physical body. It can mess up the brain which is part of the physical body but it won't get there. So understand these things are designed with limits. So if you check the tabernacle is the outer court, the inner court which is the holy place and the most holy place. You may conquer the outer court and move up and down. Perhaps you might even go into the holy place. But if you want to die after eating the bread in the holy place, say I'm going in there. There you will find that even the high priest used to go once a year once a year, twice on that day for himself and for the people. You go there, you'll find the area is defended not by temple guards. It's defended by the glory. Oh, [clears throat] in the outer court, you'll have temple guards. You know, in the holy place, you'll have other gods that are higher than the other ones. So, understand that it it's on purpose that there are treasures. There are treasures you find in the alter court. You find the altar. You you find the uh the base that has got water where they used to wash their hands. You you find couple of things there. But you won't find the same in the holy place. You find the lampstand. You find the table of showbread. But you won't find those in the most holy place. is the ark there and there are symbolic beings that protect the glory of God called cherub beams >> glory >> in fact we say they protect the the glory of god um I must correct that lie the custodians of the glory of god are the saraphims the saraphs the cherubims ea is the holy Holiness. They guard the holiness. Glory to God. >> Glory to God. >> They guard the holiness of God. And so let's understand that the soul had some things hidden in. And the glory hidden in the soul is called tam. Ta. So God, he hides things in layers and levels. Glory to God. >> Glory to God. >> That's a shouting point. >> He hides things in layers and levels. If you talk even the hedge you have a national hedge you have a family hedge you have a personal hedge. If the national hedge fails uh the family hedge kick kicks in there there is some protection that you will walk in because your family is maintaining a certain lifestyle >> and it will protect you. But hey families can break the hedge. Amen. >> And there kicks in the individual where the Bible says the soul that sinnth it shall die the soul of the father and the soul of the the son they are all mine says the lord. So if if if if you have parents and they choose to make terrible decisions with their life that's not the end of you. You still have a life. You still have a future. You still have your own arm to protect. You can still make decisions that will protect you. You can still make decisions that will keep you. That's what you need to understand that the things of God are are hidden [snorts] in layers and levels. So the soul had the arm. So in the fall of Adam the spirit died instantly which means it was disconnected from God. But the was so strong that Lucifer in his calculation and let me call it mis calculation he thought by defeating Adam and Eve he will be able to take over creation. He realized after the fall that the children they produced, >> yes, their spirit was disconnected from God because their parents spirit was disconnected from God, dead spiritually, but the arm was at the high level. Right? >> He found out that I still need to access the soul >> in order to take over. That's when he experimented [cough and clears throat] with what I call project K. Project K is the assault on the soul of that man [clears throat] who was like the firstborn and the assault was done through anger. It was at the conclusion of that project that Satan discovered what became a spiritual law that anger gives place to the devil. He didn't know himself until that project was concluded. He found out that anger can give access to a person. Later on you will find out other things that will give h access to the person later on including sexual immorality. It was a project later on. He didn't start with that project. It was a later project where he found out oh sexual immorality can also give him access >> to the life of a person. But his first one was anger. So anger becomes your first enemy. Never protect anger. Glory. Never ever protect anger. It's your first enemy because it has been in the study of the soul. It was found to be the easiest way to access the tam that is located in the soul. So the reason project Kane was initiated, it was to overcome him and then through him kill the younger brother. If Abel didn't die, you know, we know he died, right? But sometimes you must play a life of that righteous man who can spend time with God directly where the Bible says God had respect. He was pleased with him. In fact, if you study the word he had respect unto his offering is the word that we get like bewildered like God was surprised. It's like he was shocked that this young man loves him to that extent. [clears throat] >> He was wondering. >> He he he he surprised him pleasantly. Oh, Lucifer knew that it's going to be a long road to take over the authority of the earth. And that's why he said I cannot allow this boy to leave. But yes, he did that. He met another one in the likeness of Abel called Enoch. Him he couldn't get. >> Amen. And the reason he couldn't get Enoch is because Enoch had a lifestyle of uh separation. Yeah. >> Amen. >> He had a lifestyle of separation. So he didn't debate and argue a lot. >> So if you check in the case of Abel, how he got how Cain got Abel, you read your Bible, he said it came to pass that Cain talked with Abel. He was talking with him and as a younger brother, he's trying to reason with him. >> You can reason with sound people >> but not with an angry man. >> Amen. >> The the the the level of anger that he had tapped into, it's not one that is open to be reasoned with. It's what the Bible says uh Apostle Paul when he's praying he says pray for us that you know the word of God may have its free course and that we may be delivered from wicked and unreasonable people when he say wicked he means twisted they are twisted in thinking unreasonable it means in their twisting in their anger they reached levels that reason cannot reach. >> Lord, >> you see there are levels where you are you are upset >> but that level of anger reason can still reach you. There are people when they are angry it doesn't matter how reasonable you are you will not be able to conquer their anger through reason. Cain was at that level and Abel talked with him and he was trying to talk some sense to his brother. He was trying to talk some sense to to his only brother but his brother was so upset. The way it puts it says and Cain talked with Abel which means it was Kane who started that conversation and Abel is trying to reason with him. So you need to understand that that people in their emotions they can migrate and move boundaries where sometimes your reason may not work. Glory. >> And then there are boundaries that people cross and then you can only use prayer. You can pray. Yes, you can pray and be able to arrest the thing that has teamed up with them. So instead of reasoning you can pray. [clears throat] Are you listening to me? >> Yeah. >> There are some people when they are so angry tell them let's pray. >> Amen. >> If they are angry so much that they cannot stand prayer. If you are using a car, run, jump into the car and drive off because prayer is one of the highest that can calm down levels of anger. You you can be able to arrest a lot of stuff. This is the reason why they are sometimes when people are confused. You can meet couple that's confused. You can have people that are they confused. They're upset. They are confused because they they carried stuff and you try to reason, you try to speak, you will not get to them. And then you say, "Let's pray." The power of prayer and the level of prayer is able to is a higher than the level of confusion, discouragement, disappointment, or even anger that they came with. And that's why you will see the people that attend intercessions in churches, they are more sound. I'm I'm talking in church. >> Amen. The late ones that avoid intercession, they can exercise certain levels of madness and anger in the church during the service >> because they've avoided that which is of higher order. Glory. >> There there is something that prayer does when people are angry and upset and say let's pray let's pray. So that's why you can find people sometimes they can go into a church they just rocked up wherever they coming from they were confused by somebody in the road or at home or the call they received and then they just go there. You know, there are those people who say, "I'm only here to hear the word." They don't know that you also need to qualify to hear the word. [laughter] They underestimate the word. They think it's at their level. Number two, they underestimate the one speaking. [laughter] They think he's at their level while he's talking. So, they think, "No, I come here to hear the word." and they don't know that they are not even a grade one in relation to the word itself and in relation to the one delivering it. >> So people don't know that you have to qualify to also hear the word. So people think I can just rock up coming from the world coming from tavenvern from where and then you sit and hear the man talking to you is not coming from tavern. >> Amen. >> The man talking to you is not coming from confusion. >> Amen. >> The woman standing there is not coming from gossip. >> Amen. >> Glory. >> You see, so some people they underestimate the things of God. They elevate themselves and they wonder why they are not changed. >> You see, because the things that God has put in place, they they have no place in them. >> God has put things in place to help them, but those things have no place in them. >> Glory, glory, glory. So that's why so if you find people like that coming from confusion they've not been prepared by prayer they are not prepared even by praise because praise also prepares people >> do you know what praise does do you know what songs do they gather your soul and take it a step higher >> that's why it's always good to sing songs that have meaning that While I'm singing, while I'm dancing, I'm engaging my mind. My mind is engaging the words. The words that are being sung, they take you on a trail of thoughts. As you go, you know, it's like a car, you know. It's like a car. As you go on a trail of thoughts, as you are meditating, dancing, it's like you are putting foil fuel in your trip. The more you dead is because it's the more you are getting fire in your soul in your thoughts. You are you are getting light the the light is entering you. Hope is entering you. Faith is rising up in you. Courage is finding and locating you. >> That's what praise does. >> Glory. >> So imagine you bypass prayer. You bypass praise. He said, "No, I only attend church when it's time for worship. Who are you? Who are you? Where are you coming from?" And they wonder why people say, "No, but you know, they are not change. They are worse. They have anger issues. They can control their emotions. They can deal with challenges. They can reason with people. they can handle differences and they say, "No, I'm a Christian. I only attend worship and uh and uh you know and the word." But they don't qualify to hear the word. >> Glory. >> We are not just having salvation class. We know what we're doing. >> Yes. >> Amen. >> We are not just having, you know, uh testimony time. We know what we're doing. If you miss some in prayer, you may locate them in praise. If you miss them in praise, you may locate them in testimonies. >> But in worship, >> it's very hard to locate people then. In fact, that's why there are people when others are worshiping, it's like others are bored. >> Yes. >> And then if you who's ready, you look at them and you are discouraged to worship God, you also don't know yourself. You don't know where they are. Those ones who are standing there bored when others are lifting up their holy hands. Oh, glory. Others are bowing down. Then you have got these spectators. They're looking around. >> Others are crying. >> They're looking at Yeah. Others are crying. Others they are hearing God. Others are seeing visions. >> Amen. >> This one, >> they can't see nothing. They can't hear nothing. All they see is these people and they are wondering looking at them. What's wrong with this people? What is wrong with this? And they look at why is that man crying? Why is that man crying? Oh, he's those CC man. That's what he's thinking. There's no CC man. And then [laughter] look at the woman. The other one is down and he's thinking do this is what people are thinking because they are so far from God. He's thinking this woman is crying wiping herself and this one is thinking you do all that makeup to come and take it out like this. You see a man who came with a suit and he's is bowing down. You thinking take a suit to the dry clean to come and do this? Well, what you don't know is those people when they came, they came prepared knowing that look, I look my best. They are not planning to do certain things, but because of readiness and moving through the elements of the service that prepares them, they end up bowing down. They forget what they wearing >> while one is still full of himself. And when they leave, they've not been touched by God, but they said they are a Christian. No wonder their life is a contradiction. >> No wonder. And they doubt others other people's encounters. When somebody say I saw an angel, they say stop lying. So those who are ready, they mustn't see an angel [clears throat] because you are not ready. and you can't see why. >> They must join you and be like you. And if they've encountered something that transforms their life, they must not talk about it because you are never ready to encounter such. Are you with me? And you, if you understand yourself, don't go down to the level of people that don't know God. You may not know him the way you ought to know him, but the light you have, walk in it. Walk in the light of what you have and what you know. And in the process you may win one or two that will see you and be encouraged. >> When I was young and I was in church and people who are worshiping the Lord, I see the sisters and the brothers, they look up and they are smiling. So I want to see what are they seeing which is making them smile. And then I look up. All I see is a roof. There was no ceiling there. It's a roof. And I wondered why are they smiling looking up. You see, I found out, oh, those people may be looking up because they don't want to be distracted. >> Yes, >> they are looking up. They're lifting up their eyes unto the Lord. Their minds are stayed on him. And he is giving them perfect peace. >> And they respond in that peace with a smile. They're talking to him. He's talking to them. That's what you discover. >> So which means they warn me. >> So understand, don't go and join people who don't know God. >> Yes. If they they are just standing there like I'm bored. I'm very bored. And these are some of the people they can leave church and you hear they died after a week. And people will say [laughter] well, but they were in church. Were they in church? Were they in church? Do you know in the olden days you used to qualify even to enter the church? Huh? Like in the days of persecution, you used to make a sign to enter church and they even go to an extent where if you came to a church meeting and you say I'm a Christian, they say are you a Christian? You say yes. They say okay let's go. And then they go and you find people who are sick. They say you see a Christian. here [laughter] the only way to enter the church is after you have raised this one from the dead you have cleansed the lepers you have [laughter] cast out devils and then they say you are a Christian let's go you can attend the meeting because at that time in the early days people were were were betraying one another >> yes you know that's the reason why they they were uncomfortable with Saul who later became Paul after he converted and he came into the meeting. If you were in that meeting, I'm telling you, the people that closed their eyes, they didn't close their eyes when they prayed that day with one eye. They were doing watch and pray. They said, "I'm wondering if this guy has really changed or he's here to arrest us." [laughter] It was one of us who stood there said, "Brothers, I have tested this guy for a couple of weeks. I am faith. I am so sure that he has changed. Um, trust him." And they started to close their eyes again. But you know it was not easy for people to just joy and and just joy and and that thing will help people understand that this is also a holy environment. It's a holy moment. It also has qualification. It's not just about rocking up. >> Amen. >> You know rocking up. That was a sidewalk. It was a long sidewalk. But I believe I was talking to somebody. Glory to God. >> Hallelujah. Thank you Lord Jesus. [clears throat] So you see oh the the glory of God that was located in the soul. It was one of the mysteries of God knowing that it it's a plan B. God knew that in the in the realm of possibilities Adam could choose this way he can choose that way. And if you want to know how God works, okay, you must also have that understanding that I'm sharing with you now about the realm of possibilities. So what happens there is um there are possibilities about your life. So remember the revelation of the possibilities about our life according to Romans chapter 12 is that there is the good, there is the acceptable and perfect will of God. All right, those are the three that are revealed. But there are many possibilities. So what it means is with God this is the perfect way and path that he wants you to lead your life. That is what is called destiny. That's what destiny means. So you go this way that's how your life is going to be. That's perfect. However, there is possibilities. And the possibilities is because you have a will. You can choose. You are given a will to choose at any time. So in the world of possibilities, if you are destined to go this way and then you go off, there is still a way. And that's why I tell people it's more easier to go to heaven than to go to hell. To go to hell, you have to have a certain level of stubbornness. It's not easy to go to hell. I am telling you, it's not easy to go to hell. Hell is for people that have reached levels of stubbornness. And that's why those people will never change. >> The moment you make a hell, it means you are very stubborn. Even in the calculation of God, if you are given a thousand years, you will still not repent. You will still go to hell. Because in the realm of possibilities, it is this time you go this way. But if you go off here, you can come back this way. If you don't come back here, you will come back that way. And that's why God [laughter] line up people even animals and creation to bring you back to himself. So by the time you don't listen to him and you die without him, you are stubborn. Even if you given a million years, you will still be stubborn. That's why you allowed to die in the calculation of God where people reach you know when you are doing titration. Yeah, I don't know if you know titration but don't worry about that. When you are putting you know things together you know you're putting this chemical and that chemical and then it reaches a certain color. Uh there is there is in the realm of um the human spirit condition there's a condition that you get to God knows that you cannot go back. Okay? You can't go back. Even if you were given a thousand years, you will still not go back. Those who make health have reached those limits. That's why in the Bible you hear the Bible says you know there are people that um they have tested the powers of the world to come and so many things he says if these ones if they draw back you cannot bring them back again. Why they reach a certain level that they start to exhibit that which is beyond that color. the color of the human spirit condition sidewalk. So you can understand the scriptures the this initiation stages associated with like triple six. The reason why the Bible says those that take the number, the name or the mark of the beast, they cannot repent. It's because that mark, that number, that name, they represent stages of initiation [snorts] where you are initiated into certain things. among those things is to blasphe God. That's why if you read the book of Revelation, he says even though he brought boils and saws upon them, they didn't repent. Rather, they blasphe him over and over again. Now in the blaspheming of God which is a a a level of initiation you see the Bible reveals to us 6 that's not the only level there are other levels Lucifer was not initiated at triple 6 level he uses it which means that level is one of the highest in initiating people to cross the boundary where they cannot return. But there are other levels lower and the people do enter those levels and some of them repent and they come out. But that level of triple 6 which up to now has not yet been revealed. Yes, a person can move can write triple 6 upon him. He doesn't know what he's doing. He can write it upon his car. leader. When real triple 6 comes in, >> when people take it, people will be a person will be transformed. A person will go through real transformation where people who live with them will tell this is a beast. If even if that person had been known to be moderate and kind and normal after he's initiated either he takes the mark the number or the name those who are stubborn they will go and say I want all three of them the number the mark and the name in one the mighty transformation that will take place in them these are the people that for some they will even turn into like animals like werewolves >> and they will tear the living. They will kill the living mercilessly. Mercilessly when you hear that that is the time of great tribulation. It's also talking about the transformation of the human being when he has been initiated into levels of Satan of the kingdom of darkness and the person is transformed and they will eat their own children. And you you remain behind in the rapture because you loved such a being. Remember he is your husband is your wife. N you love him. You love him so much. You didn't take care of your relationship with God. And by reason of that love you remain for him. Yes. >> And he goes on to take this mark and he come and turn on you. Uh that's what Jesus is referring to when he says brother shall betray brother father shall betray a son the son will betray the father and the mother the people will betray each other why because some of them will go and they will take this mark they will take the name and the number they will come back transformed you you think my husband you will see evil in his eyes that you have never seen >> you

Can tell this an evil man, and that's when people will say, "They run to the mountain. Say, 'Mountain, please consume me. Why I remain behind on account of this fool, and he has turned on me. You don't know where he has been. You don't know what he took, and you don't know the transformation he went through.'"

These people that say, "No, if I remain behind, um, I will run away and I will go and hide." We will see if he will hide. Because the things that will be looking for you, they will be able to scan the forest like Predator. You know the movie Predator, Anne? There's this thing that was scanning the field. The the soldiers as they are moving there, and they shoot. There's this one who has an AK-47 that when he shoots, he makes a way on the forest. I don't know if people have seen Predator. Those kind of beings that can scan the forest and then they can see a person even when they are running.

Some of the people will be transformed by initiation into these levels. Triple 6, triple 9, triple 3, triple 7. They will be converted, or transformed rather than converted, into creatures that can see through the walls and be able to scan. You say you are hiding behind. Mhm. Then they will scan through the wall and and they will see a red that shows the person. As you move, as you run, they see. They see.

"Men of God, are you scaring me?" "Yes, I'm scaring you so you can make rapture." Glory to God. Because you better be scared now. Otherwise, when it happens, you will say that preacher was right. And it's true. So imagine those who will remain behind because you love somebody more than you love Jesus, and that person turns on you by going to get, they will go and get the mark because they prioritize themselves. You prioritize them, but they don't prioritize you.

You can't control them. If you tell them, "Don't go anywhere," they say, "For what?" Because you are the one who loves them more than you love yourself, more than you love Jesus. And and that's what's going to happen. You people, you hear the woman, uh, Lot's wife. She she became a a pillar of salt. What does that mean? She was transformed into something. She became a pillar of salt. She thought when she was going back, she will survive. And there is a stage as she was moving that there was a mighty transformation, and she couldn't survive the transformation. Glory to God. Glory to God. You people are getting this, aren't you? Amen. Glory to God. Glory. Amen. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

So the soul has been subject to um, process of um, attack, and the target is tam. They're looking for what? For oh. Is the reason why, even in our falling state, naturally speaking, we have made an aeroplane. Even man in his sinful state, as a sinner, there is something in his soul that by the wisdom of God, it was preserved. You don't, you don't put all the eggs in one basket called the spirit. The soul will have something. That's why it was a phenomenon. Lucifer said, "I have to study this." And you know, in the fall, the soul, the soul took over the spirit. All right? It took over the spirit, and that control of the spirit was supposed to be supervised by the spirit of God until restoration.

So witchcraft, which started very early after the fall of Adam. Witchcraft started in the early days. [snorts] It took those angels that were sent to teach men righteousness, and they suffered a coordinated attack. I have shared with you. If you do not know yourself, and then there's somebody studying you, your profile, and you are not studying them, you are not even studying yourself, you can lose. Here are these mighty beings. They are sent by God to teach men righteousness. This is after the departure of Enoch. Enoch left such a gap, it had to be filled by close to 200 angels. To tell you the capacity of that man, to tell you [laughter] the capacity of that man to instruct in righteousness. The gap that he left, it had to be filled. So these beings are sentient. They come here, they are the righteous ones. Oh, they don't know that Lucifer is preparing a special project to tempt them. It was listed, and he used a serious manipulation to produce special kind of daughters of men that started to explode with common features. M. The ones that these righteous ones, when they looked at them, they said, "Hey!" [laughter] "What am I seeing?" They have seen women, they've seen daughters of men. They said, "But this one I have not seen. Let me turn and see what is this." And they had common features that were well pronounced about. And it is that which will be attractive to those righteous ones, or it was a trap, a big trap.

They went on in because it was a special project which they didn't know. That project led to them being disconnected from Him that sent them. And then they produced giants. They produced children that are well, they were renowned, they were outstanding. Outstanding in their mental capacity, outstanding physical strength, outstanding in their appetite, what they eat and what they like, man. But also outstanding in the extent they can go if they think, even. They were so powerful that these angels that are like fathers now, they, they overpowered them. They could not control their own. And plus the mothers were specially produced. They sided with this. So these mighty beings are disconnected from God and are abandoned by the family. And what did they do? They became even more wicked. I'm talking angels now. When the arm is affected, they became more wicked. They are the ones that started to teach people how to make use of the soul. But you don't know what you have. That thing is powerful. It can travel. Soul travel. Astral projection. You can project. You can sit here and focus on a candle, and your soul can leave. Your body can be here. You can go out, you can do stuff, and come back. Started to teach them. Oh, how about transport? No wor you [clears throat] can clamp on your, you can use a broom. They say, "How is that possible?" I start to teach them. That's when witchcraft. You see, so it has to do with the soul. So don't underestimate the power of the soul. And when God is restoring the soul, the God of peace, the God of togetherness, oneness, sanctify you holy, I pray God, your spirit, your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

So the soul became so much part of the target because of tam. Remember, tam. It can manifest. It is the word for glory in the Bible. They will use taste. And it's used in Jeremiah 48:11. To whom Jeremiah, it was revealed to him that among the tribes here on earth, at that, the the tribe that had unpolluted, the well-preserved tam from youth, he found it in Moab, of all people. He found it in Moab. He says, "They they've been at ease from youth. They they've been at ease from youth and they are settled. They have not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither have they gone into captivity." So their taste is still in them. And that's why the finest to come out of that was Ruth. Ruth is a mighty woman of God. And you know, we love Ruth. We talk Ruth. She's a Moabitess. Yes. Glory to God. Glory. Glory. So it, it, when it's in manifestation, it could mean intelligence. It could mean perception. It could mean discretion. And I like the following. It could mean decree. Decree is the tam of kings. The of kings is called decree. It could mean discretion. It could mean reason. It could mean understanding. It could mean counsel. It could mean advice. That's da.

Now, there was a special force of darkness. Special force. Now, obviously, for people that are new, they don't know maybe some of the scriptures, right? I'm talking first and foremost, I'm talking to people to whom I've given them homework, right? So maybe there's somebody new who says, "I don't like that preacher. He doesn't read the Bible." I'm speaking from the Bible. And I'm going to go and read. But the people, majority of the people I'm talking to, we gave them homework. So they read the scriptures. Amen. Okay. But for your benefit, not to offend you, I'm going to go and read in the book of Luke, which is also part of the, the, the homework that we got for everybody, right? But I'm quoting this because now you know, if I say soul hunters, you know, it's in Ezekiel 13, right? Okay. Praise the Lord. Um, the special forces that were specially prepared, these ones after the soul was studied, there is a special force. You will not find them busy with other assignments. For them, their job is to deal with the soul of men until they can squeeze out the arm. The first ones are called wanderers. When they were unleashed upon the Moabites, their daughters were found at the for of Arnon, the streams of Arnon, and the soul hunters were waiting there for them to drop off themselves and they pick up. I have shared with you that revelation that we need to to teach in Ezekiel. If you have to read from 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 for you to really understand even the glory of the nations, how it was being traded at Ty, trading center located in the sea, Mediterranean Sea, close to present day Lebanon. [clears throat] Nations were taking their glory there in the form of minerals, ivory from uh trees, all of that. So you have wanderers. What they do, they target when a person is young or new, and they cause them to wander, knowing there is a chance, not that they know that they will have 100% success. There's a chance, a high chance that when you are wandering from one place to another, you are at your vulnerable state. And you can lose your D. It's, it's the study. If you were to go and then you read, you know, these obviously are evil books. Don't look for them. So, believe God for revelation. But the kingdom of darkness has evil books. Amen. And one of those books is the book that talks about targeting the soul of a human being to get the glory out of it. You know, the Bible is quite clear that they also have the books about prominent ones. Prominent ones like John, like Elijah, like Samson, like Gadin Maniac, and tonight the prodigal son. I'm going to show you something about that boy. There are things about them that was listed in the book that, "This, what we're going to do. This kind, this tribe, this line, these characters, if you are to get the arm from them, this is what you do to them. This is what you do to them. This is what you do." At this frequency, you keep, you keep doing it, you will get it. It's written.

So these special forces are made first of wanderers, followed by soul hunters, followed by soul traders, and last is the soul users. These special forces have been unleashed from the beginning. They spearheaded. They spearheaded the attack on Cain. Project Cain. Do you know Cain? The Bible says after he killed his brother, he became what? A vagabond. You know what is a vagabond? It's a wanderer. That's exactly what it is. He started to wander, and he ended up wandering and settled in the, in the place in the land called Nod. You know what Nod means? Wandering. The first city he built is called Wandering. He wandered into that place and he stayed there. So the wanderers have been working. These are agents of darkness that you'll find at school, you'll find in communities, families, everywhere. And what they are about is to shake the life. Shake the life. Perhaps if I can shake it for some of them, out of 100, I might get 60. When they start to wander from one place to another, some of them will lose themselves, and we're going to harvest. So they, soul, the wanders, the soul hunters, and the soul harvesters, and the soul traders. I think I had left out the soul harvesters. The ones that know how to [cough and clears throat] it's a chain reaction or a chain, a value chain. These ones, they know how to harvest it from the tissues, the tears associated with it, the handkerchiefs, they know how to harvest it from the waters. Those that are trapped there, they know how to stability. So I'm giving you this so that when we get to the prodigal son, you get more and understand more about him.

So the age, the target age is the age of vulnerability, which is young age, where you are immature. Immature. Remember from two weeks back, we have learned that you can be highly loaded and blessed, but immature, like the child. Remember that young child in Revelation chapter 12? I told you when you read that story, you must think three things. So every time there's symbolic stories, past, present, and future. [clears throat] The present is application to you. Future is prophetic. The past, it may have happened. It's history. That woman, that boy, even his mother was, she has a crown. She's standing on the sun. The moon is under her feet, and she's pregnant. She was pregnant with a child bigger than her, like Mary was pregnant with Jesus, bigger than you. The the size of that child attracted the dragon. Not just a dragon. He came to fight a small child, and he brought, the Bible says, with his tail, he threw the third of the stars, the army, the fallen ones that were in heavenly settlements. He brought them by force. They were not willing. He drew them. He said, "Come help me for a small boy. Small boy." And then God, knowing and understanding with this boy, he doesn't know himself. He doesn't even know what he has. He rescued him with with rapture. You see, he was being targeted. What happened to Jesus when he was young? Under two years, Herod went to kill the babies in Bethlehem. Huh? He went to kill babies in Bethlehem. They died. Why? He was looking for him. Those challenges that come when you were young. What happened to Moses when he was young? He survived the Nile. Three months moved from here to there to survive the administration that had given a policy that must kill all the boys. So the enemy has always been looking to kill when people are still young. That's why I tell young people, when should you be more serious in life? You know, it sounds simple, but you have to really get it. When should you be more serious in life? When you are young. When you are young, you should not be playful. You should be more serious. You will play later. Why? Because even the house, when should you be more serious? It's the foundation stage. It's not in the wall building. It's not in the roof making. It's not in the paint making. It's in the foundation. You get the foundation wrong. The wall may be beautiful. The furniture may be beautiful. The roof may be beautiful, but it will fail. Amen. So the stage to be more serious with your life is when you're five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen. So if you're nineteen [laughter] twenty, twenty-one, you pass those stages and you have your town intact. You are a force to be reckoned with in this world. Nobody will stop you. Nobody will shut you down. They can try to do this. Nobody. Nobody. There is no one who has been born and has mastered the art of shutting down the dam that has not been tempered at a young age. Survive those stages. You will see your vision will be clear. Your decisions will be sound. Your focus will be precise. Glory to God. Glory. Glory. Young age.

So the attacks are then coordinated, and most of the coordination is centered in the waters, and it's according to the list and your tribal profile is used. That is your family. [clears throat] We've seen with Samson. We've seen with Elijah. We've seen with John the Baptist. We've seen with the Garin Maniac. And now we're going to see today with the prodigal son. All these people I mentioned, they in the same family. Samson, Elijah, John the Baptist, the Garin Maniac, the man that Jesus went to deliver, and the prodigal son. And each one had their own tam, but I'll show you the tam of the prodigal son. Elijah, I mean Isaiah, he saw something because remember Isaiah is also sent to work with understanding about the glory that fills the earth has been hijacked and how to restore it. So one of the things he saw, he saw the profile, I call it the landscape of the soul after it has been attacked, after the wanderers have done their job, after the soul hunters have done their job, the harvesters, after the, the soul traders have done their job. He saw the profile of the souls of people, or the landscape, how the soul became. He saw that the soul in Isaiah 40:3, that some of the souls are like ve, but they were not like ve before. They were levelheaded. They were balanced. Some are like mountains and hills. But before that soul was levelheaded and balanced. You can remove the scripture so people can focus. So the, the, there was levelheaded and balanced. Now, understand when you meet a person whose soul is like a valley, that can become, it's like their personality, it's their lifestyle. Now, you do not know what they were before or what they were meant to be. The valley was levelheaded. You know, I'm a geologist, ologist, you know, so I understand landforms. But to emphasize this um, this point, the spirit of God is geological too. It took me. So where I come from, there is, there's a big valley. It has got a river and it has the area that is very sandy, and it's surrounded by two mountains, this one and this one. Believe, believe it or not, the spirit of God took me and showed me that before that valley, that mountain and that mountain were leveled. They were one. He showed me. Think about that. I don't know about you, maybe I'm not excited, but I was excited. And it was in the light of this teaching, and amazingly, what stood out for me is the fact that now I understood when I woke up. Now think about this. I'm a geologist, and I had never really thought about this, even though I went to school to study this kind. But after the vision, I understood that landscape. Yeah, man, that's exactly what happened. So if you take, if you take that rock from there and that rock from there, you will see is the same rock. And again, you see the sediments that have accumulated in what is now the valley. Those sediments is where they, the crops, those sediments are coming from the mountain. So I was allowed to see before, to now. Now I know, now the way it is now. But I have seen the way it was before. I'm privileged to see the way it was before. Glory to God. Glory. Maybe I'll show you that valley one day. But understand, because for me, it's part of the teaching. God is emphasizing the teaching. Amen. That you can meet people. They are crooks. And you know this one is a crook. But they were not always like that. There is something that tempered with them. They were straight before they became a crook. We saw with Samson. Yes. Listen, for others, they become like mountains after the soul is dealt with. That can be dealt with that a person is proud. The result is a person is not humble. Is proud. The crooked become straight, or they, they become twisted. They were straight before they become crooked. And that word crooked is the word I call. Don't worry about that. But what it means is fraudulent, deceitful, and polluted. They become deceitful, polluted, and fraudulent. The other profile that Isaiah saw is people who were tender and young and innocent and plain, wide, level. They become rough. They become what? Now you are ready to hear about the prodigal son. Go ahead. When the plain, the innocent, the humble become rough. In Luke chapter 15, because of time, I will [laughter] give you some few things here, and then we'll go straight to the part of the man that had two sons. The setting is Jesus draws people towards him. The people that come close to him, it's what is called publicans and sinners. Publicans were tax collectors. The Romans, when they conquered a territory, they will take other people from among their people and then they will elevate them and say, "You are working for us to collect tax from your people." So the people didn't like tax collectors or publicans. They were their own people, and some of them, they became bad. I'll tell you two of them that were attacked that way. And then among these groups that are drawn to Jesus, it's not only publicans, but it's sinners. It's two groups. Telling you that of a person or persons can be affected by different things. Others, their tam can be lost in the world of love of money, like tax collectors, publicans. Others in the love of immorality, those are the sinners. But others, their tam can be lost in the world of science and academics. It can be hidden there. Well, and now the Pharisees, they saw the people coming to Jesus, and they started to complain. And their complaint is, "Why is this man receiving sinners?" Now, according to Luke 15, they only complain that he's receiving sinners. They didn't mention the publicans. Although the publicans were also thrown to him, because remember, the people you don't like is the people you don't benefit from. So it seems the Pharisees, they used to benefit from the publicans. So they say, "Why is he receiving sinners?" They don't say sinners and publicans. Yes. You don't get it. You'll get it when you read verse one and two. Some people, they prefer a certain classes of sinners because they benefit from them. Yes. So they are complaining. Now, here is the thing. Jesus is receiving them. They are coming to him. Why? Because for the first time, they were hearing a man telling them [clears throat] who they are, not what they've become. He didn't hear it. They were hearing a man telling them who they are, who they are supposed to be, not what they are. Amen. You meet a crooked one, twisted. You may say, "This is a crook." But Jesus receives that in the light of this man was once straight. Is supposed to be straight, and when he's straight, this is what he can achieve in life. Yes. Glory. I hope you hear me. He was not condemning them. So the reason they were drawn to him is because they have never heard it this way, or me, I'm a sinner, but I'm very special. So let me tell you about a man called Matthew. Can you take a little bit about Matthew? Matthew was a Levite. He was from the family of Aaron, and then his name was Levy. You know Matthew, the one who wrote the book of Matthew, his name is Levy. Because he was a Levite, he was born in that family and had come in the plan and purpose of God. He was born to be a scribe in the league of Ezra, the scribe, the Levite, from that grace that was upon Ezra, was upon Matthew Levy. Now, if you know Ezra, and I don't think we've really, really studied Ezra the scribe, most of the Old Testament books were written by Ezra the scribe. Did you know that? No. Including the book of Samuel. If Ezra was not around, we not have 1 Kings, Chronicles. It's him. He had mighty grace upon him, and he was a Levite. Do you know in his days, if you go and read the book of Ezra, you will read the book of Nehemiah chapter 13. Read the word of chapter 13 of Nehemiah, because they lived more or less the same time. Is that the other one came for the rebuilding of the temple, the other one for the walls. But the challenges were the same. Do you know Nehemiah? One of the biggest challenges of Nehemiah with the Levites was what? It was the fact that he found out that the Levites had all fled to the field. They were no longer serving in the temple because they were starved. They didn't have food. So they abandoned the work of God to go and work in the secular world. [clears throat] That's what happened to um, uh, to the, to the Levites in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. So in Nehemiah 13, you will find this, some of them got into wrong relationships. I'm talking the Levites, the people who should serve in the temple. Yes. So, but what stood out was the fact that they were working in the fields. The Levites were not counted among the 12 tribes of Israel because they don't live in one place. They were sown or planted among all the 12 tribes to be their priests, to help them in relation to their relationship with God. So they were not allowed to be distracted by other things, which were important things like crops, livestock, and that. But they were supposed to be there among the eastern camp, the northern camp, and among all the tribes, really. So if there is a sick one, you call the Levite, they will address it. If your house has a breakout of, uh, of, uh, leprosy, you call the Levite, they come and assess, they give you guidance. So at the time of Nehemiah, you will not find them. Do you know what that thing continued all the way into the day of Zachariah? John the Baptist. Zachariah stood out because he was faithful. So he kept serving God, and we saw the result of his faithfulness. He received a special child. But among the Levites that were spread all over, there's one called Levy. He even changed his name, Matthew. Why? He was collecting tax, and boy, he used to cheat them. This is a disciple of Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus, the son of Abraham, short and crooked. [clears throat] And then this Matthew is there in the mind of God. This publican is the scribe in the league of Ezra. I know we read the book of Matthew, but what you need to understand is what that book was supposed to be. First of all, Matthew, as a Levite, his was dreams. It was what? Dreams. Dreams. That's why in the New Testament, you read between chapter 1, Matthew chapter 1:2, you will hear many dreams from the dreams of, uh, um, Joseph, um, the dreams of the, the wise men, how God used dreams to save Jesus. Matthew, that part stood out because it was his. Now listen, and listen carefully. The book of Matthew was supposed to be much more than it. And already, you know, because you see, it has how many chapters? 28. It's already telling you the grace and the tam. What was being attacked in his life was the tam of dreams and recording details. He was supposed to do much more than what he did. He did the best. Don't get me wrong. He did the best. But, uh, just to give you, if you do a word study between Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and then you are just doing the word study of money. The [clears throat] word money, if you do money in Matthew, you will find it eight times. In Mark and Luke, you will find the word money four times. In John, you find it two times. You know what his tam was so tempered with? He came back with a high consciousness of money. You, you can get out of God's will. When you come back, you may not be 100% pure again. Amen. He didn't hear that. Do a word study. You will see money. Just the word money. If you mention money around Matthew, even in his restored state, he didn't miss that. He recorded money. Money, man, eight times. Eight. Luke and Mark four times between the two of them. John only two times. There is a, a, a tempering with the arm that when you come back, you have to be careful to know that I'm not that. Amen. Yes. I was not meant to be that, and I must not entertain that because I was lost in that world. You see, there are people that they were in the, their was through music. They are prophets. They are prophets of God. So when they come back, they are full of jokes. And some of them, they say, "No, I now sing gospel." And they were not called to sing gospel. This is a prophet of God. This an evangelist of God. He can sing in the crusade, but he's not meant to to focus on the album. You don't get this. Somebody went there, they, they got into drugs. They were attacked into drugs. So now when they come out, they think they are called in to get people out of drugs. Yeah. Out of poverty or out of drugs. So they don't even know that even in the restoration, they, they are missing the fact that you didn't have to test that world. That world you tested it because you were attacked according to what was listed. When you come out, say bye-bye to it. There are people who are sent to that world. Amen. As for you, you were lost in that world. Focus this way. It's very hard to get people to understand what I've just shared. Because they think, "No, I, I was lost there, so I can, I understand, and and be like that." [clears throat] Okay. So, that's why some of them, they find themselves operating at 30% of the, go, and the enemy is happy because you are not doing the perfect. You are doing the acceptable. It's acceptable that you came out of there, so rich out to the people who are there. But in the perfect, you are a prophet of Almighty God. Have nothing to do with those people in that area. There are people who are sent to those kind. And they have a tam for that. Right. So, Matthew, if you said money, you see, because that is the area that attacked him. He wanted to save God. And he, he had dreams. Do you understand why Matthew had dreams? Why dreams stood out for him? That's why if you do a word study again of the word dream, you will find more dreams in Matthew because they stood out because it's part of what was gifted to him as a Levite. Who was the Levite? Who was a mighty in vision? Moses. What did Moses do? He recorded the first five books. What was Matthew supposed to do? One book. One book. Matthew only. That Moses, who said in the beginning, when he was not there, he recorded the beginning. Matthew, there are things he was supposed to give us. He was attacked before he even knew himself. He found himself among tax collectors. Matthew, what are you doing here? Five shekels. Five shekels. And even rob people. Lie to others and say, uh, you owe much more than what you have brought. He said, "No, please, I don't. I give. I will report it to the government who are losing all the, the property." Pay. If you read how he called him, it's strange. It sounds strange. The God says he found him sitting at the customs office and said, "Follow me." And he followed him. What happened? He saw him in dreams. Amen. He met the Lord in dreams. [snorts] Who told him who he is. So when he saw that tall Galilean Nazarene [clears throat] passing by and he said, "You follow me." "I saw him last night. I saw him." And then he told the people, "I'm dropping everything. I'm following this one." And he said, "Follow me. I will make you. I'll make you." So understand this thing is a serious thing. In that family of Levi, they were gifted in visions, dreams, and in recording as scribes. The great one that really stood out as the, that's why he's called Ezra the scribe. That same grace that was upon Moses, was upon Ezra, was upon Matthew Levi. There are things he was supposed to record in the same area that, um, Moses recorded and Ezra, Ezra recorded from somewhere. But Ezra was not alive in the days of someone. It's not everyone who can write the Bible. Okay. I know there are people who think, "No, I can just wake up and eat bacon. After bacon, I will record the Bible." Not everyone. [clears throat] This is a mighty grace. It takes grace. It takes grace. You are called. You are gifted. You are equipped for that thing. You are recording events. You were not there. But because holy men of old, they didn't speak out of their own will, but they spoke under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. When that inspiration comes upon the selected chosen one, their visions are involved, their dreams are involved, their understanding is involved, and the way they record. But you see, you meet people. He's a publican. You see the Pharisees, they are looking at him. Basic. He's drawn to him. Why are the publicans and sinners drawn to Jesus? Because he's telling them who they really are. He's not emphasizing what they've become. Listen, first of all, if you emphasize to people what they've become, you're not going to help them because first of all, they don't like themselves. They don't like what they are already. They don't. You are telling them what they don't like. You are the drunkard. They already know it, and they don't like it. Tell them God's mind about them. What is in the mind of God? You are a drunkard because this area and that area was attacked. That's the reason why you are like this. And those who hear, they will hear because the, the landscape you are seeing, it's crooked. It was once straight. You are seeing a landscape that is rough. It was once tender and clear.

Now enter the prodigal. Let's read in Matthew chapter 15. I, I, I'm going [clears throat] to just pass by the parables. Jesus, when they are complaining about the receiving the publican sinner, he says, "What men of, uh, you, if you had one sheep, I mean, 100 sheep rather, and you lose one, and then he says, will you not leave 99 in the wilderness and you follow that one that was lost? And then when you have found it, you put it on your shoulder, you come back. You don't go to the wildernesses, you go home. You call your friends and your neighbors. You say, 'Rejoice with me,' you know, for the sheep that was lost, I found it." Praise the Lord. Just a sidewalk. When he's celebrating with the neighbors for the sheep he found, we are not told which one he slaughtered. Okay. Didn't hear that. He, he could have slaughtered that one. Okay. Secondly, the Bible tells us that if the, there's a woman that she had 10 pieces of silver, so she lost one. And then when she lost one, um, she light the candle, she sweep the house, she search or look for it diligently until she finds it. After she finds it, she then calls the neighbors and friends and says, "I have found the peace." Don't forget that word, the peace. Somebody said the peace. That's a key word. So, can you put it, um, verse 9? Luke 15:9. "And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbors together, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found what?' The peace which I had lost." Luke 15 verse 9. I have found what? The peace. It's what? It's the peace. Why? It's more valuable than others. It's the peace. From that understanding, you can then understand that it was not just a sheep. It was the sheep. That which was lost was the sheep. The peace that was lost was the peace. Which means even if you have the nine, you hear? Even if you have the nine, but that one that you have lost, that sheep or that piece is more valuable than the pieces that you have. The sheep that you lost is more valuable than the 99. But the 99 are not useless. I'll show you. So then the scripture, the Lord Jesus makes reference to something that confuses a lot of people, and today I want to demystify it. He says there is joy in heaven, and he even says among the angels of God when one sinner repents, more than over the 99. Hey, that scripture troubled me for a while. But what do you say? The 99 don't bring joy? But you see, in heaven, when you go, you have to understand heaven has parts. So you can go to a place that you think you have seen the whole of heaven. That part of heaven values repentance more than anything. And I want to show you why there is great joy for that part, and why repentance is valuable. It says more than over the 99 persons that need no repentance. So does it mean the 99 doesn't bring any joy? Hey, there is joy that is brought about by the obedient. Glory. There's the joy of the obedient that the repentance may not bring, and it's valuable, and don't underestimate that. But there's a reason why that part, they emphasize the joy related to the repentance. So the Bible here says in Luke chap 15:1, it says he said, um, "A certain man had two sons." So this is an actual story. That's why Jesus said, "A certain man." And he says, "And the younger of them said to his father, the what?" The younger. The introduction of the two sons, we hear of the younger. When you hear the younger, you must say, "Oh, the younger, their defense is what?" Obedience. They, they are vulnerable. Their is not well developed, but it may be huge. It has [clears throat] huge potential. They are vulnerable. Their obedience is defense. Watch this. The younger are also not aware of the enemies of their fathers. I want to emphasize this point because I believe there's a lot of people that need to hear this. You can suffer and be a victim of an ancient battle that you have no idea where it originated. Do you understand that Adam was a victim of an ancient battle which started somewhere before he was even created, and now it's being unleashed upon him? He was targeted because he is the son made in the image of God. And therefore, when you are younger and you are ignorant of your father's battles, you can enter into a marriage which is what is called revenge marriages. There are revenge marriages where a girl looks for a man who whose fathers have done wrong to her family. There's a marriage where a man can look for a girl whose family wronged them in the past. And upon this girl, upon this man, the revenge will be unleashed. And he cannot explain the hatred. There are many that are suffering from ancient battles. And I think we started to share for those who were paying attention a few weeks back that if there is someone of darkness that dies, and they were dying attacking a Christian, that family on during the anniversary of the death of that person, there are prayers they pray against that Christian, even though he doesn't know. Now, if that Christian does not know, and then [clears throat] his children don't know, they can be targeted and suffer. There are people who are suffering targeted attacks because of what happened in the past, and they have no idea. In the book of 2 Samuel 21, if you read, you will see that David almost died in that targeted attack. Um, I'll give you the verse. It's in 2 Samuel. 2 Samuel chapter 20, 21. Can read from verse 10. You know what happened? David, he actually went out with the, the soldiers at that time. He was fighting the Philistines, and then one of the brothers of Goliath almost killed him. And that thing happened on the anniversary of the death of Goliath. At that time, David has forgotten that actually he killed Goliath years ago. That was many years ago. Let me read this for you. 2 Samuel 21, verse 16. Verse 16. You got it? Okay. Maybe you can put 15 and 16. "Moreover, the Philistines had war again with Israel. And David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David was faint. So he was faint. He's he's tired. He's old. He's old and weary. And Ishbi-benob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of his spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight. He being girded with a new sword thought to have slain David." You hear? He came for an ancient battle, but he knew, "I have to have a new sword for this man. I'm going to finish this story." Yes, they will say he killed my brother, but I killed him. And David is not even thinking here. He's thinking, well, I'm old, but you know, I still want to see battle. I like to see fight, relaxed. But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, which which is the word succored, which means saved him, and smote the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David said unto him, saying, "You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you quench not the light of Israel." He was the light of Israel. Do you understand? David was the light of Israel. Not the light of his city, the light of Israel. And said, "We're going to kill it." You can forget. And I'm emphasizing this because what began to happen, the prodigal son was attacked by wanderers, and the wanderers were the enemies of his father. These are people that they found him stable, but they don't like his fathers. He was at ease and settled. They wanted to empty him. Do you know what they did? The first attack of this boy on the soul. Remember the soul has been studied, and I hope when you are learning here, you can apply it to yourself because what's the use of studying about this boy if it doesn't apply to us? Amen. So I hope you can make the relationship. The first attack, it's what, uh, Isaiah saw, that you twist. You twist. You make crooked what was straight. This young man, the strength he possessed was humility. Now, the humility that he possessed, that was his so big that it condemns Satan. Did you hear me? Mhm. What he possessed condemns Satan. That you can leave the house of your father and repent and come back on your own without being kept by pride. You didn't hear. So you will understand a little bit more. So you can understand why there was joy among the angels of God when they saw that young man repent, because they looked for Lucifer to repent the same way. He never did. You didn't hear. M. You see, some people, uh, think it's repentance. True repentance, you don't have to be caught. Yes. True repentance, you come back on your own. Lucifer will never go back on his own. True repentance. It's not when you're jobless. Yes. People can be without a job, and you think they've repented. True repentance is not when you are in the hospital bed, and you are lying there sick, and they say, "He's righteous." See when he's healed. Yeah. True repentance is not when you are disappointed. Amen. [clears throat] True repentance has nothing to do with being caught. A lot of people that are caught, and people think they've repented. It's not repentance that they go back again. This boy possessed something that Lucifer didn't have. And angels that were damaged by his rebellion, and were praying and looking for his return.

When they saw one man who truly repented, who was disconnected from his father and was over there without his father chasing him, he came to himself and turned around and said, "I will go to my father." Glory. And when I get there, I'll tell him, "I've sinned against you." Oh, that's what the Bible says.

When angels see that, they say, "Is there one like that?" Because we've been looking for such. It's not a lot of people that repent. We use the word lightly. It's not a lot. All it is is because people are disappointed. People have nowhere to go. They are sick. So they act like they've repented. Look at them when they are healthy. Look at them when they have money. You will know if a man or a woman is repented. Amen. Good. It's like people saying, "I'm fasting." Because they don't have food. It's because they don't have food. The food has run out. It's 80. So [laughter] they say they are fasting. The true fast is when the food is in abundance and you can say no. Ah, you are fasting.

Repentance. You don't have to be caught. So those who wait to be caught, and you know you really have to demonstrate if you are caught that you really repented because on your own you go back. Yes. So when one sinner truly repents, when one sinner truly repents, and angels can see that's repentance, they rejoice. There is great joy because it's part of also healing them. The rebellion of Lucifer, the stubbornness, and the way he walked out, and the words he said, the insults. Those other angels were hoping that he would come back. He will say, "I'm sorry." So when they look here and they look there, they don't find people who repent. When one sinner repents, one truly repents, those angels they go with joy and say, "Yes, there is repentance indeed," because by repenting, he demonstrated that the father was not wrong.

Lucifer to this day is still accusing God to this day. He said God is a bad God. He is a good devil. He accuses him before people. He said, "God has done this. You lost your father. You lost your mother. You lost your son. Lost your daughter. What? What? What? It's God. It's God. God is bad. God is bad." He keeps accusing him. "No, I'm the good one. I was taken out for standing up for the rights of the people." That's Lucifer making God look bad. No repentance.

When they were hoping for repentance, I'm talking the angels, why they value repentance, why there is joy. When they were hoping for the repentance of Adam, they found him saying, "It's the wife." When they go to the wife, the wife says, "It's the snake." And the angels, they they were watching that whole thing. They go, "Hey." And then when you go to the snake, he says it's Lucifer. And then when you go to Lucifer, he says, "You made me. It's your fault." [laughter] Goes back. The cycle goes back. Everyone can blame God. That's why I tell you, if you blame God, you are angry with God. You, it's your loss. It's your loss. It's your loss, my brother and sister. It's your loss. Those who have been angry with him, upset with him, they have lost so much. So that's why they rejoice to see repentance.

In the Bible, you don't have a lot of people that repent. You have people who are caught. You have people who have excuses. When that boy came to himself, he said, "I will arise. I'll go to my father and I'll say I've sinned." He doesn't say, "I will say no, it was the influence of people." No, it's because people were like this. No, he says, "I knew better." Yes, I knew better. He says, "I've sinned against heaven and against you. Heaven was correcting me. I didn't listen in dreams and visions, but I still walked away." And then before you, because before I left, there are words I've spoken. I want to cancel those words. You're here. That's why angels are rejoicing. But let me just read a few verses of this story. So you can hear the riches already. You can tell. [clears throat] Glory. You can tell the possessed humility that they that's what they attacked. And this is what they did. The wanderers because he was settled. He was at ease. There are certain things he was doing that were very successful, and part of the success was because he was in touch with his father, and he became very successful. So they targeted him. Listen how you twist a settled child, a person who's doing well. You go to them and you tell them the love and care that they are showing you is manipulation and control. Did you hear? Those are the wanderers. They are suing a seducer. Oh, you see, you are doing well. It's because they manipulate you. It's not care. It's not love. It's manipulation. It's control. So he starts thinking, yeah, and then he sees through that lens. So every time they show care, every time they show love towards him, he says, "No, no, no, I'm tired of being manipulated and controlled. I'm also growing up." So they tell him and say, "You are successful because you are under your father's covering. So prove, get out and prove to us." Hey, this one. Prove. Do you hear? Prove to us that you can make it without him. Hey, they are working on him. And these are his father's enemies. They know that to see his son in pain, it will pain the father. Yes, these are people who attacked his father many times and they failed in their anniversaries of the disappointment. They recite prayers and they waited until the young one was born. Every time you have young and new people, be careful. Satan tried by all means to get Adam until the day Adam entered that garden. When she was in, you, he said, "This is another opportunity here. I know I've been coming." Remember, he went to Jesus and he couldn't get him. Mhm. Mhm. If Jesus got married after that temptation, if he went and got married after the temptation, he wasn't going to take sin, he will come the following day. [laughter] He said, "There's another chance to get it." Glory to God. So the day Eve entered the garden, Lucifer and the pack, that agreement, those people that were in agreement with him, he said, "There's another chance we can get him. Why? There's a new person. There's a new person." So the elder boy, he knew about these battles and he had learned to live above them. He knew that there are people who don't like his father. Not that they didn't try with him. They tried, but he was a hard worker. He kept working hard and he never took advantage of his father. The young one, they started to work on him. So understand that sometimes the requests that your children can make could be a result of being defeated outside. It's a prayer request, but it's a sign of defeat. It's a sign that they've lost the debate there. Now they want the iPhone. Not that if you want an iPhone, it's bad. I'm saying you can be defeated there and then you look down upon Nokia because that's what you can afford. So you come say, "Yo, you don't love me. You don't care for me because I don't have an iPhone. I'm going to kill myself if you don't buy me one." Did you get this? They were defeated by others. Instead of standing up for themselves, they are coming here taking showing tantrums to their parents. Glory. So sometimes the the pressure you are feeling as a parent, it's because your child was defeated outside and is defeated by those that are part of the coordinated attack against your life. Some of them, it's people that don't like you.

And here's the advice for young people. Don't underestimate your parents' enemies or people who don't like your parents. Glory. If a man or a woman doesn't like your father or your mother, don't entertain that without understanding. [clears throat] Don't just say, "No, I understand. Just my my old man doesn't understand." You don't know where this is coming from. Some of these your parents, they are victims of ancient battles, and they have stood strong, and the enemy has not managed until you arrived. You arrive with a loose way of looking at life, and you embrace those that are bent on destroying you and hate your parents because they couldn't get them directly. Glory. It's a coordinated, it's well-played. We didn't get the elder. Let's go for the younger. So the first thing they they start saying to him is, "Oh, preparation. Preparation is a waste of time." Did you hear? "Oh, your father calls it preparation. No, it's his delay tactics." [clears throat] "You are ready. It takes too much." So training, that's twisting. You will find normal, sound people exposing their sound mind to twisted, wicked people, and they are listening to them. And then these are wanderers. They are ready to be emptied. These vessels, your mind will be tampered with by listening to them because your thinking will be twisted. Love and care is manipulation and control. Preparation and training, it's delay tactics and waste of time. No, my potential is being stifled here. I am much better not understanding that you were successful because you are remaining under that covering.

Now I want to show you why the father did what he did. Okay? Why he did what he did. So obedience, because he was obedient. This boy was very obedient and innocent. Disobedience was called brainwash. They say you are brainwashed. Let's talk about brainwashing for a moment. We are all brainwashed. We just have to choose which washing we choose. [laughter] We are all brainwashed. Even the people that are saying you are brainwashed is because they want to brainwash you. What is brainwashed? Is to wash the brain with knowledge. Amen. You choose the knowledge which you want to wash your brain with. [laughter] I choose to be brainwashed by Jesus. And I am brainwashed by Jesus. Glory to God. Glory. I'm brainwashed by the Bible. [laughter] Hallelujah. Glory to God. You see, they say, "Oh, because he's obedient." You are brainwashed. You're stupid. You're brainwashed. Oh, I'm brainwashed by my father. Man, I'm glad I have been brainwashed by my father, and I'm going again. I want him to brainwash me more and more. And have you seen that my father is more successful than your father? [snorts] Have you seen that he looks more younger than your father, but your father is younger than him? I like his brainwasher. That is the kind of washing I want for my brain. That's the way of thinking you're supposed to have. But these things he took them. When he took them, it worked on him. He defeated him. The wanderers have done their job. He's ready to be emptied. So the father allows him. Now, there's always a question on why will his father allow him to go? I want to give you two reasons. So you can understand this. The first one, why his father will leave him. So he says, "Give me my inheritance." The father obliged. He allowed for two reasons. One, it was a sign that I respect you, even though you're disrespecting me. Did you hear? That was one of the signs. The second one, it's those fathers that say, "It's better I see how he will manage when I'm still alive than when I'm gone." Did you hear? "I want to see how he will do when I'm still alive." Number three, he didn't want a sulky face. No, is a sulky face to have a kid that stays in the house and is angry because he didn't get the inheritance. So, he irritates everybody, disrespects everybody, has mood swings. So the father thought, "Let me give him what he wants." Here is the fourth reason why the father allowed him. The father allowed him because him going will help him [clears throat] to also find himself. I'm referring to himself here, their father. So listen and listen carefully. Sometimes when you live with people and they open themselves up to outside influence and they start to give threats, "I will leave you. I will leave you." What begins to happen when you don't want to lose people is you start to live in fear. And fear has torment. [clears throat] So in letting him to go, it's also to test yourself new limits. Oh, I never thought I could live without him. Man, it was hard in the first few days, but hey, I'm able to sleep. My life was so attached with him that I'm learning. Even though he's out there, I'm not worried. The father was finding himself because since he was born, this boy has never left him. Did you hear what I said? He's also finding himself. I thought I can never live with myself without him. This is an opportunity for me to test myself, to grow new limits, to grow new areas that cannot be grown by anything else other than by this circumstance. And this circumstance, because it has never happened in his life, is the first time. And he was afraid. He found out that he can leave. This will help you because some of you, you are under bondage of fear because you are under constant threat, "Or if you do this, I'll do this. If you do this, I'll do this." One day you must do like this father and say, "It's okay." Amen. Glory. If [clears throat] a person says, "I'm walking away, I'm leaving you," you say, "It's okay." Amen. Why? Because I've been afraid of this day and I've lived in fear. Your threat started long ago, and I've been afraid, but it's okay, you can go. Amen. So that's how the father thought, "It's okay, you can go." Now, there is a notion sometimes in movies that the father woke up every day, he went to look. I want to show you that he may have done that the first few days, but with time, he outgrew him. With time, the father learned new ways, the father found himself. This is the beauty of life is that even in bad days, you can still find yourself. Even when people think, "No, you can't make it," you will find the strong you. The strong you will rise up, who will never have come up. I can assure you, if the father used to go and look, he will have done it maybe the first two, three weeks. But with time, he looked once, and after a while, he [clears throat] stopped looking. He learned new habits. He learned to live with the servants that remain. He learned to live with the elder son. Did the young one leave a gap? Yes. Did they miss him? Yes. But what's the use of living with a sulky one, angry, moody, in a good environment when you could let them go and have their way? M. This the attitude he had is, "Let me allow him to have his way." You know, there are some men that say, "Well, you can't live without me. If I live here, you people will die of hunger." You can live in that torture and threat year in and year out, and that thing can start eroding into your blood [clears throat] and give you stress, high blood, hypertension. One day you are supposed to be honest and say, "Look, you want to go, you can go." If he says, "Won't you miss me?" He will say, "Yes, we will miss you, but we will learn until we don't miss you again." Amen. Amen. [clears throat] Because the power of the human soul is its ability to adapt. It's given. That's why we cry when we lose our loved ones, but we don't cry forever. Amen. We may miss them, but we live. That's the power. The father thought, "I'm going to find myself." And you know what happens? Among the servants, those hired servants, he found one who stood out, who had been observing the young man. He stood up. He replaced him. Do not mistreat people. Amen. Because you think you are irreplaceable. M. Yes, you are irreplaceable. There's no one like you. Even as there is no one like Jesus, there's no one like you. You are unique. But understand, people adapt. People are able to live with lesser quality because the best quality walked away. Yes, people adapt and say, "Well, this is the quality that life is giving me. I'm going to live with it." Why? Because the best quality, I wanted it to be here, but it doesn't want to be here. It must be where it wants to be. So others take advantage of the love that people have for them and they use it to threaten them. Don't do that. Amen. Don't do that. If you are the one working, don't threaten that woman because she's not working and say, "If I walk out of here, you will die of hunger." She will not die of hunger. Before you married her, she was alive. Amen. What was she eating? You don't even know what she was eating, but she was eating something. Amen. She ate it until she met you. Amen. Could she struggle? Yes. After your God, she might struggle. Man's may be his, but the human soul can adapt. Amen. So let's not use the love that people have for us and use it against them [clears throat] because they will let us go. And the Bible says, not many days, not many days, that's verse 13. Not many days after the younger son gathered all together. I I believe with all my heart that the father, when he divided, yes, he's thinking like that, but he's thinking maybe the boy will he will stay. Oh, he realized the amount of defeat that this boy has suffered outside is so huge. He didn't spend days. You know when you are hoping that somebody will change, they get worse. Not many days he left. Not only did he get the living, all these substance, you know, you think day two he will say, "Father, I was joking. I wanted I just wanted some attention." No, he didn't want some attention. He's going. And you think the heart of the father is happy? No. He doesn't want him to go. Who wants people to walk away from them? The people they love. Nobody. But when people have opened themselves to wrong seeds, wrong thoughts, they got corrupted.

Let me show you a verse and then I will just throw a little bit so you can see what happened to Lucifer, and then we will uh we'll close with this. In Luke, in Ezekiel 28, I want you to read Ezekiel 28 verse 15 and 16. It says, "You were perfect in your ways from the day that thou was created till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of your merchandise, they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou has sinned." Okay, I want to read verse 16 again. "By the multitude of your merchandise, they have filled the midst of thee with violence." Who are they? Who are they that filled the midst of thee with violence? Okay, that's I wanted to just throw that in there. Remember I told you in the beginning, it's in your Bible that there's evil. There's evil and there's evil. [clears throat] All right. So when people are listening to the wrong things, they are going to be turned against the right ones. But listen as I finish. Not many days he leaves. Oh, he goes to a far country. I want to tell you what that country is. That far country. We will find out the country based on the life they live. He says, "Not many days he took his journey into a far country, and they wasted his substance." That word substance is the word essence, which means [clears throat] the white, the oneness of a thing, the what of a thing, the being of a thing, which is the so here it's referring to physical property, possession that he had, but it also means he started to waste his essence of being, his whiteness, the whiteness of being that damn. He was being emptied. It says with riotous living. Do you see that word riotous living? That word riotous living. It comes from the Greek word and it only occurs in this verse in the whole Bible. You know what word is that? Asotos. You don't get it. He lived. He wasted his substance with a lifestyle. Asotos lifestyle. Where did he go? Which far country did he go to? He went to Ashdod. Asotos. [clears throat] Where do you find in Ashdod? Asotos. Zechariah chapter 9 verse 6. What does he say? What do you find in Azotus, Ashdod in the Old Testament? Bastards. What bastards? Illegitimate children. Among them the girls, and the girls are turned into harlots. What? Prostitutes. So what did he waste his substance with in Ashdod? In Luke 15:30. He devoured thy living with what? With harlots of Ashdod. This boy was attacked by what attacked Samson? Why? He had the same grace as Samson. What? What is the similarity between him and Samson? Humility to come back to God. Even though they are not pushed by anyone, Samson said, "Lord, remember me." He could have been angry with you. Amen. Say, "Lord, remember me." So he wasted it at Ashdod. A-S-O-T-O-S. Ashdod living, asotos. That's where he went. How you get it? I'm going to finish because of time. We don't run out of the good news. We run out of time. So after he spent all that he had, the Bible says there was famine in there, and he joined himself to the citizens of that country, who the Bible says he sent him to the field to feed the swine. That's how bad those people are. But I love verse 17. Can we go to verse 17 and see what happens to this boy, which makes him to be appreciated by all of heaven? When he came to himself. When he did what? He came to himself. Which means before this, he was not himself. When he left the house, he was not himself. When he insulted [clears throat] the father, he was not himself. When he was asking, demanding for his inheritance, he was not himself. He was under the influence of the wanderers. The words that they encled him, those are the ones that were influencing him. [cough] When he came to himself, the first thing to show that the mind was not completely gone, the first thing is the memory of love and care by his father. Did you hear? He says, listen to what we said. When he came to himself, he said, "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger." From the time he left his father's love and care, he said he's a manipulator. He said he is controlling. He said the training and the preparation he was giving him, he said he was brainwashing him. He was delaying his progress. But when he came to himself, no accusation. He appreciates the love of his father, the care of his father, which is extended even towards the servants. The ones that when he was not himself, he insulted his father and said, "You manipulate all of us here, you control all of us here." Glory. The insults that Lucifer unleashed, the blasphemy against God, the words he said, the angels that heard those words. And that's the reason why when they see one sinner repent, do the opposite of what Lucifer could not do, they appreciate and they they they are joyous. That joy, it's a sign. There's something healing them. It heals them. They are healed by observation. When he came to himself, he saw his father's love for what it is. So that's why, what does he say? "I will arise and go to my father." He still calls him his what? His father. [cough and clears throat] The fellowship was broken. The relationship is permanent. His father is his father. He can never change that. Yes, he may not have been in good speaking terms with his father, which is fellowship, but his father is his father. He can see that it's my father. Now, you people may think this is easy. This is not easy. This is not easy what this boy is doing. There are few people who get to this point. Majority of the people, what will begin to grow is pride. Remember what uh Isaiah saw the profile of the soul. Some of the souls when they have been dealt with and attacked, they are left with pride like a mountain in the gay. There are people like this. You walked away from your marriage, your family, your work, your church, and then where you go, things don't go well. First of all, there is no way this boy was going to be successful because he is breaking one of the greatest commandments: "Honor your father." Why? "That it may be well with you and that you may live long on earth." He didn't honor him. It doesn't matter who deceives him, wherever he goes, it will not go well with him because his spiritual law. His father, whom he insulted, that is a bad father, and he had invested so much against over his life. He cannot go there and be successful. Huh? He will be robbed. And he was robbed. But you know the thing is this, there are few people really that can repent like this boy. Majority is because they are caught and it's situational. It's just the situation. It doesn't come from their heart. And that's why this boy stands out. He stands out because when he repented, he said, "I will arise." And he arose. He says, "I'll go to my father." And he says, "When I get there, I'm going to say to my father, I have sinned." No excuse. No blaming others. No blaming him. Against heaven, because heaven warned me. And before you, he says, "You are also important. It's not enough to say sorry to God. I must say sorry to you because there are words I have spoken." And that's why I encourage people when you walk away from people, don't speak a lot of words because you don't know tomorrow. Just withdraw quietly and go on with your life. Don't insult anybody because you don't know tomorrow. You don't know tomorrow. So he walked away. But now he's coming back. He says, "I will arise. I'll say I have sinned." And you know what? He arose. He arose. He He was determined. Nobody was going to stop this boy. He arose because he has determination. He's himself now. He may have lost property. His may have been tampered with, but his being and essence is rising up to restore him to his father. People who truly repent are rare. Glory. Go and investigate what I'm telling you. They are rare. Most people, it's conditions that make them look like they repented. Even themselves, they think they have repented. [cough and clears throat] This boy, you see this boy, he will never go back. He will never [clears throat] go back. And the other reason, which I must say, one of the reasons why his father allowed him to go, it's the um Onesimus principle. It's a Onesimus principle. Onesimus was that slave that robbed his master, Philip, uh, Philemon, and ran away. And where he went, he got in trouble, ended up in prison. He meets Paul in prison. Paul converts him. He gets to know him. He finds out he's coming from where Philemon used to stay. He writes the letter of Philemon for restoration. And one of the the beautiful thing there was, maybe he left for a season as a slave so he can return forever as a brother. Do you know what it means? It means when this boy went out, he met cooks. He met bad people. He didn't know life can be this bad. He met insensitive people. He met people that can never say sorry. They can never check up on him. They use him and dump him. When he's down, instead of helping him, the same people, they send him to feed swine. They still don't give him the food for swine, which means he's less than a swine. He learned that. So when he came back, like Onesimus, Onesimus as a slave, he started to complain about his master. You know, people get comfortable and they start complaining about this one, complaining about this one. That's why you let them go. So they can see out there it's rough. There is no mercy. There are people who are merciless and they don't care. Amen. So that's why when Onesimus came back, he came back forever. He will never leave Philemon ever again. This boy, there is no, he's going back there. Those people who were speaking, speaking, speaking, in fact, is the one who beat them because he also learned few tricks out there. You know, part of this story, you know, as I conclude, is you know, this story, it's it's a beautiful story. I don't have enough time for it, really, but I am summarizing so much, but I really needed to go through it verse by verse, verse by verse, verse by verse so we can learn so much. This story teaches you one, that when you come back, this is a restoration. You are coming back because you have seen it's rough there. This where you belong. What the story doesn't emphasize, does not talk about, is the journey now of restoration in his life. And then what the Bible says, some other people, their sins follow them. You understand what we mean? That after the celebration, you may find that he has got two kids. You hear that? You may find he has two kids that he planted when he was living like that, and he needs to deal with them now in the restoration. You find he promised women that he would marry them. Some of them, they know where he stays. He needs to deal with that. After celebration, the real journey of restoration begins. It's that the story doesn't emphasize that part. It's good for others that go there. When they come back, there is very little that follows them. But other people, when they come back, there is a lot that follows them. There's a lot that has changed. But that's not the emphasis for today. And I want to finish. There is something that happened here. When he came back, of course, the father ran. He had compassion on him. He ran. He kissed him. He hugged him. Kissed him. And he said, "Give him the best robe, you know, the ring, the shoes, and then he said, 'Kill the fatted calf.'" There was music. Then the situation changes to the elder. That's the first time we hear about it. And I learned something that I want to pass on to you. And and this is a lesson. Be careful not to lose living relationships during the restoration of the dead ones. Glory. Because the elder one has been with you. And understand when you are also in the restoration, that sometimes the joy of restoration for you could be the pain of someone who has been around. So be sensitive to that. And the father was so smart about it. When he heard that his elder son didn't even want to come in, the Bible says he went out to him and entreated him. He begged him. And then the brother, when he speaks, he says, "Look, when when this your son came after he wasted his his substance and his living with the with the with the prostitutes, now look, you have killed the fatted calf for him." His father didn't say, "Grow up, man, grow up." He didn't. The Bible says he said, "Son." Do you hear that sensitivity? So you don't lose living relationships during the process of the restoration of the dead ones. Amen. Because even receiving this one who's coming after the celebration, there are stories that may follow. Yes. Even he's back. Glory. But impregnated five women. You have five grandkids out there. Are you listening? [laughter] So you cannot turn against the elder because the younger is restored. Glory. Glory. But the younger must also understand the elder, and then the elder must also understand the younger and the journey he has gone through so that he can understand that he will respect him the more if he's truly repented, and this one was truly repented. The reason this story is here, it's the power of true repentance, and the fact that when you repent like him, like this boy, the way he repented, when it's true, the amount of restoration can take you almost to close to where you were supposed to be. I must make this point so clear so we can close. This story is showing us when people truly repent, when they truly repent, like Kathryn Kuhlman. Kathryn Kuhlman, that mighty woman of God, she made a terrible mistake, you know, married a married, she married a a young evangelist who was married and stayed with him. In fact, she passed out when they were exchanging the vows on the wedding day. She passed. The Holy Ghost was not happy with her. She was a Holy Ghost girl. He was not happy with her. And then she passed out, and then for a couple of years she was traveling with him, and she would be sitting there at the back crying, crying, because the Holy Spirit said, "No, no, no, no, I didn't call you to be like this. You have destroyed somebody's marriage, and you are staying here. I'm not happy with you." So she used to cry, to cry. One day, not that he did anything wrong, that man, he was kind to her. One day she was walking down the road, came to the dead end of the street. You know, the street that has got a dead end. She got there. She said, "This is the end of me. Now I'm giving my life to God, and I'm going to save him." And I'm walking away from that man. She used to call him Mister. Mr. So she told me, "Mister, you haven't done anything. Not that you didn't give me food, clothes." I'm paraphrasing, of course, but I have to go. She went on to follow the Lord. Her latter end was greater than the first because she truly repented. And the sign that she truly repented, you never hear Kathryn Kuhlman's scandal with a man again, ever. That's it. This thing of back and forth, it's a sign a person has not repented. Yes. Look, we want to call it this way. We want to call it when men, women truly repent, the repentance that touches heaven, where heaven rejoices. Understand that heaven is not a Mickey Mouse. It's not a yo-yo which is made. Oh, we we rejoice today. We are saved. We rejoice. We are saved. It is the repentance that touches heaven, which they know. This is true repentance. They are rejoicing over that one. They know this person has changed. Come hell, come high water, this person has repented. They are not going back. It's not this one Sunday or two weeks, three months, four months, back, forth, back, forth. You know, the angels are not Mickey Mouse. You may have Mickey Mouse pastors. And that's why God has made human being pastors, not angels. Because there are some things they will not tolerate. That's why they say, "Watch, man, that you are mindful of him. And the son of man, that you visit him." You know, there are some manners that irritate them and annoy them. That's why the Lord said, "Hey, be careful of that angel. He's coming, and he will not pardon you." Okay, remember Gabriel, he said, "Zakar, I'm not joking. You are laughing like that." That's the last laugh. Yes. I zip your mouth. I stand before Almighty God. I have power to zip your mouth and unlock it. That's the seriousness of angels. So when he says, when angels, one one sinner, I repent, one sinner, I repent, it's talking about genuine and true repentance, not because, "Oh, I'm sick now. I live. I live a holy life." You're not living a holy life. You are in the hospital bed. You are sick. You are sick. It's because you can't do what you normally do when you are healthy. We will know if you really repented. You are broke. That's why you're not drinking. It's because you don't have money to drink. When money is in your hands, we will know if you repented. [clears throat] So when you want to know people that they've truly, truly repented, it's when they have opportunity on their own. Nobody being there. This boy stands out. We may look down upon him. This boy on his own said, "I will arise. I'll go to my father." Many people are kept by pride. They say, "I would rather die himself." Lucifer, he said, "I will never say sorry to God." And he meant it to this day. He would rather do wrong and keep doing wrong and keep doing wrong rather than to say sorry. Never. He will never say sorry to God. So this boy, you look down upon him, but his repentance touches heaven. Glory. Glory to God. Can I hear you shout aloud? Amen. Amen. There is repentance that touches heaven. It's not situational. It's not situational. Glory to God. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We have run out of time. We wish I know for those who have read this story, I think you have got a fresh perspective about it. But there's so much more. There's so much more, including the counting of the stars. Psalm 47 says he tells the number of the stars because we are checking. He wasted his substance, both physical and the mind. How much has he left? You you have to help him. He must also help himself. Those people that attacked him, they still going to come after he's restored. They still come. And how how are you going to relate with them? And then how many stars are you left with? The Bible says he he counted the number of stars. He tells each one of them by name. He's counting them because he says when you left here, there were 12. I am seeing three. Which means nine is gone. In their place, there are mannerisms and habits he has learned. Which is what Proverbs chapter 2 is trying to tell us. None that go unto her return again. If they return, none of them, neither do they take hold of the parts of life. So what he's trying to tell you is there are some they go, they don't come back. But others, when they return, they struggle to take hold of the parts of life because they have learned certain things out there. The things they should not have learned. He left innocent. He's coming back here. He has been with the harlots. Not one, many. He has learned. There are many reasons. His dreams are not the same. Glad he's back. But the road to restoration requires the same determination he came back with. Glory. And his father receiving him and giving him the best. It was to show him what you are more valuable than what you have lost because he can be restored. Why? The Lord restores my soul. He's restoring our soul. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Can I hear you shout a loud amen? Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen. And amen. Thank you, Lord. Glory [singing] to God. Thank you, Jesus. [clears throat] Amen. Um, are you able to display the poster? So, tomorrow we are in church. Dr. Sasha long time having night services. We have Apostle P. Papuri. Tomorrow we meet at church 9, I mean 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. So 1900 p.m. 7:00 p.m. in the evening. Get your taxi where you normally get it at 6:30 p.m. Praise the Lord. And uh, we'll have a nice weekend. The theme is "Give God a Chance." So we are giving God a chance in our lives. Blessed be the name of the Lord. That wonderful man of God will be with us in Jesus mighty name. Hallelujah. Glory. Praise the Lord. So we'll see you tomorrow morning for prayer and again in the evening for a nice service. If you have responsibilities in church, please arrive earlier so that you can set up and make sure that we are well ahead. So I understand there are those who are working will be on shifts, but as soon as you get home, please make your way to church if you have responsibilities.