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Our father, here we are sitting at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. As our custom is on Wednesday and thank you very much for those that week in and week out, you are part of this session. You are part of the study of God's word at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are so grateful to have you back again in the study of God's word at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then you have chosen to sit with us at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. So we are so grateful to receive the word of God at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ in our program uh sitting at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ where we receive the word of God where we are nourished and we are built up in our faith he built up by the word of God to the study of God's word at the feet of Jesus and welcome you to the study of God's word at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ you.

Now, welcome to the study of God's ways. You know where you are of our Lord Jesus Christ. Shalom. Shalom. Greetings you saints in the wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Can I hear you shout aloud? Amen. Hallelujah. >> Amen. >> Glory. Glory. Glory. >> Welcome to the study of God's word at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are so grateful tonight. Thank you for joining us. We are glad to be back after almost a month. Blessed be the name of the Lord. The Lord is good. Don't take for granted Bible study. So let us thank God.

Our father, we are so grateful tonight. The opportunity that we have, the invitation that uh you have extended to us to come on in and sit at the feet of the master and be nourished and be fed and be advanced. What a privilege we have. We take it not for granted, but we are grateful for it. Teach us your ways tonight. Lead us in the paths of righteousness by your spirit. bind us together with cords of revelation that are not quickly neither easily broken and we give you the glory for it in Jesus' name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Blessed be the name of the Lord.

We are grateful tonight for the opportunity that we have and uh to come and sit at the feet of the master, our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining us. If you are joining us for the first time, you are welcome. If you are one of those who have been faithful week in and week out, uh welcome back again after a month. So many things happen so that um this opportunity is not there. So don't take it for granted when we do have it. Blessed be the name of the Lord. A lot of things do happen but we are grateful that we can be able to share God's word tonight and uh we are continuing uh with our series uh the path of righteousness which is based on Psalm 23 uh verse three the second part of verse three he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Now we are focusing on the first part of it. He leadth me in the path of righteousness. Now understand when he says me, David is making this personal because the parts of righteousness are personal. You have to have a revelation of the puzzle righteousness for yourself to find them and to pursue them and walk in them. Which means you will find yourself sometimes explaining the choices you have made which other people may not agree with you which others may question because it's personal. It he he leadeth me. David says he leadeth me in the path of rash. He doesn't say he leads me and my family. He says he leadeth me. Which means he acknowledges that as much as he loves his wife, his children, um his nephews, his sisters, his brothers, as concerning the path of righteousness, everybody has to discover it and make a choice to walk in it. So take note of that introduction because we will see that in his family not everyone got the revelation of the path of righteousness and those who did um the enemy worked over time to get them out. So we will see and learn tonight what are those things that the enemy can use to get one out of the path of righteousness. We will also then learn a little bit more that in the one error that David committed the mistake the sin when he walked the path of righteousness or when he walked the path of unrighteousness what had the enemy used to get him into that path. Because if we are sedakians, those who walk in the path of righteousness, the enemy is going to use the same thing. Now when you read the the story of David, um people may conclude very early that oh David walked in the path of unrighteousness because of immorality with Bath Sheba. I want to show you something else. I want to show you what the enemy used to get him into that path of unrighteousness. >> And I will show you a pattern of it. So I won't show you only with David. I'm going to show you a pattern of it because in his life there are those who walked in the paths of righteousness like David their father. So they had a revelation themselves too. and they were kings. You will see a similarity across all of them. So at least I'll be able to touch on four kings, David and the other three who walked or who did that which was right in the sight of God. You see as David their father did. So which means they had obtained the same revelation that he obtained. But the pattern is the same. I'm referring now to the pattern that the enemy uses. So if the pattern is the same, it means it will be the same for you and me. So studying this, these things are written for us who are called the Sedicians, the those who are the righteous ones, the ones walking in the paths of righteousness. We want to walk in these parts of Russia since we want to remain in them. And then we understand that it's personal.

The second thing I want you to see in that statement, he leadth me in the paths of righteousness. Not only is it me personal, but is the paths. The paths, you see, it's not a path. It's parts, which means a network. It's a network. It's ways. It's it's tracks. Um the word I want to use is network. So he leadth me in the network of righteousness. This is these paths and this tracks they create a network. You see understand that they create a network. And so um this network has to be discovered. Now the good thing is this uh this this network exist in all sphere of our existence which means whether you are young or old man or woman whether at home or at work in the business place there will always be a network of the path of righteousness where you are. The honors is for you to find them, to pursue them, to follow them, and walk in them. Now, Isaiah, you know that um is is a prophet worth to be honored in many ways. And one of the things that we honor of him is the level of revelation that he had. and he he discovered so many um things about life and we thank God for Isaiah because he was married. He had children. However, he was not hindered by any of those things from experiencing the glory of God and finding the revelation of God. >> Glory. >> The revelation he had was so much when he put it into words, it produced what we call now the 66 chapters. Now those are many. Those chapters are many. When you have 66 chapters that talks to the depth of the revelation that he got and the intensity of that revelation. So he got so many things. So when you read Isaiah, you will discover yourself. You'll find yourself in there somewhere and then you will also find other important discoveries about life. Now when it comes to paths and ways and highways, he had a very unique revelation. Now when you read his book, you will hear him talk about highways. Now those ways refer to first the natural highways that existed during his time which crossed regions and territories and countries. He speaks about the highway from uh from Egypt uh to to Assyria. But when you read Isaiah, don't just be limited to maybe the natural way of what existed during his time. He also had a revelation of the network of things that existed uh in the realm of the spirit. Now one such revelation that they had was the way it's a highway and that highway linked up with what is called the way of holiness. Now, you have to understand that it had to be spiritual. And I'm going to read that verse for you. And there's a reason why we want to study the parts of righteousness from this angle of the revelation that Isaiah had of the highways. These are networks that exist in the spiritual even to this day. And now if you see Isaiah 35:8, let's look at some of the things that Isaiah saw in this area. So quickly in Isaiah 35 and um this this book of Isaiah 35 it's one of the most beautiful chapter that you will find because in this chapter he he's talking about the coming of the Lord and some of the the things that he will do when he comes. You know, I love I love Isaiah 35 because in verse three, he says, you know, strengthen the weak hands, you know, strengthen you the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance. Your God will come. He's comforting them. He says, your God will come. and he will come with vengeance. >> So they were feeble in their knees. They were weak in their hands because they were so full of fear. There were so many things that are making them afraid. So he say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not. Hallelujah. >> Behold your God will come with vengeance. Even God with a recompense, he will come and save you. Hallelujah. The God that came to save us is called Jesus. Hallelujah. Say to those that are of a fearful heart. Say to those that are of a fearful heart, be not afraid. There's a song like that, a very beautiful song, you know, be strong and fear not. Your God will come and save you. Praise the Lord. Then he speaks about the eyes of the blind shall be open. The ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a heart. Christ walked in this. He found himself here. And when the Bible says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were prayers of the devil. He was fulfilling this scripture. >> He was fulfilling this scripture. It's the verse eight that I want you to see when he continues to talk about what's going to happen when when the Lord comes and a highway shall be there. He's speaking now. They there shall be a highway there where in the wilderness. Okay? And he says and a way. So there's a highway and they say way. And it shall be called what? The way of holiness. Can you see that? It shall be called the way of holiness. Which means what dominate that way is holiness. Now we are talking the parts of righteousness or the way of righteousness which is dominated by what? By righteousness. And the fruit of that we have already shared you know a week two weeks back. The fruit of that is what is peace. It is dominated by peace. The sign that you are in the puzz of righteousness, the sign that your your your decision is in righteousness, it is peace. Glor, >> it is assurance, confidence, it is quietness. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Now here he says the way of holiness and the unclean shall not pass over it. So there is a restriction. Who walks in this way is the unclean or the unholy. Okay. But watch this. But it shall be for those the wayfearing men though fools shall not add therein. Uh-uh. So already this way will not accommodate the unholy ones, the unclean ones. However, it does accommodate clean fools. Did you hear? >> Uh he says the waying wfairing man. These are journey. These are people that are on a journey. These are people that are on a traveling. They are wandering. Actually you could call them wanderers. These are travelers. They are moving from one place to another. It says if his classification was that of a fool and he finds himself in the way of holiness, his foolishness will be consumed by the holiness there. So that he will not even air. He will not air. Here we are hearing that there is a way you can occupy that it will do. It will do away with error and mistakes. Now we we live so much in a world and environment where because we make a lot of mistakes it becomes a norm. When you hear that there is a way that you can enter in and you don't air your your mistakes or your your ability to make mistakes is arrested and suspended. Now most people will dispute that and said no way that's not true. We all make mistakes under normal circumstances. Yes, we all make mistakes. But there are other people who will tell you that they have found a way. Sometimes it's maybe after prayer, after some time in prayer that their spirit is so conditioned that error is suspended. So if they have to do something, they carry it out with error arrested. >> Glory. Now Isaiah had the revelation of that he found that there is a way of holiness and in that way he saw some fools but they were clean fools. They they were holy fools. And he says as long as they stayed in that path he found that they will not even air there. Outside that path their life is dominated by foolishness and error. But in that path holiness suspends both foolishness and error. here. Learn something if you want to reduce and to eliminate mistakes and error because we live in a world where people accept rape. We all make mistakes and it's acceptable. You may find this very difficult to accept but I know for sure there are people who have proven this there is a prayer you can pray. After that prayer, it's like you have entered a certain level or realm where you are operating. Whether you're writing your exam, whether you're making the script, um whether you are a plumber or an electrician, whatever you are, that you will find whether you're an usher, you will find that you operate there after you have entered through the vehicle of prayer that you don't make mistakes. There are mistakes that are avoidable if people have conditioned their spirit through prayer. There are mistakes that are a result of lack of prayer by whoever is responsible for whatever it is. Here Isaiah says he saw fools that were clean or holy and their foolishness and their errors were arrested by the holiness that dominated the way of holiness that they discovered. And that's why it's very important to understand that everybody who has responsibility has to know that they can limit, reduce and eliminate errors. If you are called to be a medical doctor, you need to know there is a prayer you can pray before you go and do operation. That during the time you're doing that operation, your hands will be error-free. If you are a businessman the same and you will see that your errors can dominate your life when there are certain things you were supposed to do that you didn't do. So Isaiah saw that there are parts a network and it formed highways that he found some people entering. The conditions they met was that of holiness. although they were fools. Now you may think how can a person be a holy fool. It tells you something that their foolishness may also have been defined by people because of the choices they made that were not famous. People call them fools. But those were fools that were accepted in the way of holiness because they met the cleanness or the holiness required in that way or in that path. They were called fools. They were errorprone meaning they used to make a lot of mistakes. But they discovered something that gave them an advantage. It arrested their foolishness. And it arrested their error. It was the way of holiness. They discovered it. So when Isaiah saw there, he says, "I'm seeing all these travelers that have discovered the way of Russia, I mean the the way of holiness." He says, "Well, they are known to be full of errors, but here they are not doing any errors. They shall not air therein. They shall not air therein. Very important. And I'm giving somebody who will hear this an open secret. Especially if you find yourself being dominated by errors in what you do. You you have done this there's an error in it. You have done this there's an error in it. I am telling you there's a prayer you can pray and it's not 2 minute prayer in Jesus name. Amen. No it's a prayer that you have to take a little bit of time because it will condition you. >> Amen. During that time of prayer, you are entering a highway. Glory to God. You are entering a highway. In there, foolishness is arrested. In there, error is arrested. Glory to God. And so you will find yourself for those who have tested this, have done this, they've had moments when before they embark on a journey or whatever it is that they needed to do, you know, they spend some time in prayer and then it seems like you are more alert. You are able to see things before they happen and you prevent errors. You are more alert. Even in a even he needs to do the ushering. He needs to pray. Uh the member of a worship team, the messenger sing, they also need to pray. The kibodies, they also need to pray. Often when people just rush to do the work and they do it in their strength, their abilities, there's errors. You sing this song when you should be singing that one. And now the question will be how will you know it should be this one? When your spirit is conditioned and you're in the way of holiness, even fools, they don't air there. >> Glory. >> You you get the right song. you get the right beat, the right level of uh of the beat too. If you're uh ushering, you will know. You know how to hold the person there are certain times when people are being prayed for and this thing that's falling down, it's it's actually a it's the walls that are falling down. You see, but what will you find? You'll find an usher holding the walls of Jericho that should be falling down. It's like they said these walls of Jericho must fall down. And it's more than just a person falling. There's something that's falling off. But the ash is not conditioned. So he's full of errors. And they've got sometimes people fall so bad when the asher should have held them up. because of errors and mistakes. So understand what is available, understand what these things means. Let's understand what Isaiah saw. So that being said, you will then understand that these ways, whether it's the path of righteousness, the way of righteousness, you need to have a revelation of them. So we understand that David, he had the revelation You have to understand David's choice about righteousness because of what he encountered. I shared with you that David encountered mec >> the king of righteousness. For him to say I walk or he leadeth me, the Lord leadth me in the path of the deck of righteousness. It's because he discovered or encountered the king of righteousness, the king of today. We saw as we studying God's word how Melisedc has to be interpreted and understood that by interpretation he is called the king of righteousness. And after that he's called the king of salam. >> Glory >> or king of peace. And uh we we spend about 2 3 hours and the teaching is available. How there is relationship between righteousness and peace. And that revelation was given to mec. That's why he was a king of righteousness and after that king of Salem, king of peace. So we saw that one of the keys that needed to be unlocked in walking the path of righteousness is understanding of the word correction. So we went into the depth of it, understood how correction is one of the keys to get us into the path of righteousness. And correction is not a bad word. It's a normal it's a normal word. And that revelation was given to people such as Job, people such as Jeremiah, even Apostle Paul. God corrects whom he loves. And the reason correction comes is so that we walk in the path of righteousness. And as we walk in the paths of righteousness, we shall have peace. Peace is the dust produced in the streets of the paths of righteousness. Glory to God. Glory to God. >> Now when David encountered Melkisedc, remember MelkiseDC lived like 2,000 years before David. He lived in the day of Abraham. Glory. >> But he encountered him and MelkiseDC had a profound impact on the life of David. So when you encounter mechic you find kish you find kish so let's go and see that encounter which we have read in Isaiah I mean in uh psalms 110 in psalms 110 this is the psalm of David >> David found himself you know it depends where where you are sharing this in terms of locating this event in his life. He had an encounter at what stage in his life. It depends. But watch this. In Psalm 110 he says the Lord and I shared with you it's capital L O R D which means is is is the name of the Lord from which we get Jehovah Yahweh. Now this is the tetra grammaton the fourlet word. Y W H. So we get Yova Y H WH. Okay. >> From which we get Jehovah. So the Jews will not pronounce that name. So they will write and call him the name or Hashem. Now we are allowed to call that name because it is that name that God gave to Jesus when he raised him from the dead, highly exalted him and given him his personal name that at the name of Jesus of Nazareth Every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess. What confession? That Jesus of Nazareth is Lord. Jesus is capital letter L O R D. Jesus is Yhovah. Jesus is that is the exalted name given to him. He he God gave Jesus his personal name and that is the highest name of all names that are named in this world and in the world to come. There will never be a name like that. So what it means is when that name is called it is recognized by things known and unknown. That name is recognized by objects, by creatures and the things that are created in the known and unknown universe in this world and in the world to come. So it's not an ordinary name and God has given that to Jesus. You see in the Old Testament when people encounter the Lord they will give him a name and it was a compound name. You know when you say compound name you you take the name Yhovah and the experience that you had you combine the two you make them the name. So like when when they say the Lord is my shepherd is Jehovah Rohi. Jehovah Rohi the Lord is my shepherd. That node is capital letter L O R D the tetra grometer four letter word Y hw. Okay. And then when they experience Jehovah they they they meet Jehovah and then they have peace like they have never experienced before. So they call him Jehovah Shalom. So it's a compound name. So everyone discovered him like that. Oh, Jehovah Shalom. Jehovah roi Jehovah. Okay. Jehovah. The Lord that sanctify me. All right. >> The Lord that sanctifies. So all of those names they were put into one. That Jehovah who revealed himself as Jehovah Shalom, Jehovah Roi, the Lord our righteousness, the Lord that sanctifies us, Jehovah, the Lord our ba, you know Jehovah Gyra, the one who provides When he came, he put on a human suit. He came down here on earth and said, "All all those names, I put all of them into one. My name is Jesus of Nazareth." And when he exalted him, gave him a name and says, "This is Jesus is Jehovah. Jesus is Jehovah. >> When he exalted him, because he humbled himself, when he exalted him, he said, "Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess." Which means the one who says, "Oh, I'm looking for Jehovah Shalom. His name is Jesus." Says, "I'm looking for Jehovah Roi, the Lord, my shepherd. His name is >> Jesus. It's him. Glory >> glory to God. >> Glory to God. >> He now represent all those names in one. Now at this time when David was encountering this you will see there is different personalities here and David is allowed to witness this event that involves Yahweh Jehovah and the one we now as Adonai. So watch this. The Lord said unto my Lord, so Jehovah said unto Adonai, Adonai mean is from the word adon which means master say. So he had he Jehovah said unto Adoni and this is my adon. David is confessing on this is my master. Jehovah was talking to my master and this master will later be manifested as who? Jesus. Yet David is encountering him here before he becomes and humbles himself and become the person we know now as Jesus. It was also from this encounter that David he possessed that seed to go and introduce him and he will be known as the seed of David. He will also be known as Benita son of David which Jesus will come and ask and says if you say I'm son of David but David says the Lord said unto my lord which lord was he talking about >> telling them that I am David's master. >> Amen. >> I am David's Lord. I was born out of the words that he declared. That's how I became his seed. But understand that he encountered me. I encountered him. Out of that encounter, he went out knowing that he needs to give birth to a seed of David. I hope you understand. You're not confused. The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies your foottool. So take note of this occasion because it will this is going to remain with David in many ways and it's very important because the persecution and the difficulties is going to experience there is a lesson here in this occasion. David is a witness. He is not allowed to contribute to what is happening but he's allowed to witness like John the revelator. There was a book in heaven that needed to be opened on a very special gathering that required all representation to come to the throne including all the 24 elders they were summoned on that occasion. They are not always 24. You can go now and find only two. You might go and find 12. You might go and find one >> who is there to give report and to also get some information and go on into their territory. But on the occasion that John the revelator went to heaven. It was a special gathering a convocation where you gather all representatives from all realms of existence. They are summoned by Jehovah God and his Christ. And John was summoned from the earth. Come up here. Come up before the throne of God so I can show you the things that are coming because the book that's going to be open, it's a book that reveals what's going to happen in the future. So John is taken up by the spirit of God. You see, we we are told John, right? He's taken up. How about others? How do we know there were others there? It's because when it was time to open the book, the Bible says there was no man found under under the earth, on earth, and in heaven. What does it mean? It means the highest representative of all those realms. They were there and they were told to come and try to open this book. They couldn't. You see there in Revelation 5:3 say no man in heaven nor in earth neither under the earth which means there was a representative from under the earth. >> Amen. There was a representative that comes concerning men that are in heaven and the men that are on earth. John represented men that are on earth. He none of them was able to open the book neither to look there on just to open the book. You you required certain abilities to read that book. You required certain abilities. None of those representatives were able to open the book, not even to look. So now we are not told the representative of men that were in heaven, who was it that was trying to open the book and he couldn't. And he said, "No, I can't." He says, "I give up." Mhm. >> And it's a very serious book because if you are going to to open a book that details the dream of Godh what God saw concerning the future. If you are going to open that book that book carries heavy stuff. Huh? No wonder the Bible says blessed are they that read the book of Revelation. Just read it. You are blessed because you are reading the dream. the revelation of the dream what is in the mind of God but what I wanted you to see is that even the book of revelation it's a special book that requires a special gathering and John is there to witness this and then he's even told okay now you record what you see what you hear record we will give you understanding of some of these things. But you see that's an encounter. You can uh you can be given an encounter for your education. Maybe you have a question you know or what happens to babies when they die. They're still borns and this and this and you have that question. It's bothering you. An encounter can be arranged, an appointment where you are allowed to trace a baby from here on earth from the womb of the mother or from the hospital. And then you see what happens to that soul and which section does it go to? Who receives that one? Who what what do they do to perfect that one in that state? What education do they start going through? How long does it take them? You can be allowed without contributing just for you to learn. You say I want you to learn something here. Then you learn. You learn. You are taking notes. You are being educated. You are being advanced in the things of life. So David was going to be advanced in righteousness and he will come out and he will choose righteousness and make it his own. So this occasion involves Jehovah, Yahweh and Adonai. David is meeting Adonai, the master, the owner, before he humbles himself and is born and comes as the person called Jesus. So he hears Jehovah saying to his Lord, he says to him, "Sit thou at my right hand until I make your enemies your foottool." It will seem therefore that Adonai was standing up to deal with the enemies. Glory. >> And the Lord said, "There's a way I deal with enemies." He says, "You see it." Wow. So, David is watching this. This thing is going to leave such an impression that David will not fight for himself because he is witnessing something. Jehovah is the one who fights. He even tells Adonai to sit. So that's why David will say, "Nah, I'm not going to fight for myself. You fight for me." >> He's witnessing this. So he says, "Until I make your enemies your foottool." So the other thing that stood out for David was he saw how Adonah respects Yahweh. Wow. So Adonai sits down without questioning Jehovah. How are you going to do it? So David is witnessing now about authority. This is the reason why as long as Saul was the king, David says, "How can I stretch my hand against my master?" >> Amen. >> Because he saw how Adonai respects Jehovah. He saw how Jesus respects the father. No question. When he say sit down at my right hand, he doesn't say, "No, I have got this covered. Let let let me deal with the enemies. No, he says, I want to see. Then the Lord says to him, he says, the Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion. He says, I will send the rod of your strength. And he says, rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. So he's going to rule through a road. Ah that's the reason why now David when he says he leads me in the paths of righteousness the Lord is my shepherd he leads me in the paths of Russia he says what thy rod and thy staff they do what they comfort me because he's learning that the road that is coming from Zion it's it's an intelligent object it can rule okay watch this your people shall be willing in the day of your power. So already the Lord is giving him the secret that you're going to rule in the midst of your enemies and it's going to be through your people and they are going to be willing. They are going to be willing in the day of your power in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning. Thou has the due of thy youth. Now the Lord is continuing to uh speak with him. He says the Lord has sown and will not repent. You are a priest. Uh-uh. He's telling him this Adonai is also a king. Remember? Glory. >> Yeah. We are talking rulership here. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. This a king. Now he's also telling me you are also a priest. Okay. Now the go Jehovah here is introducing another being who part of this occasion and David will see him. Now what does he see? The Lord has sown and will not repent. You are a priest forever after the order of Melkisedc which means Melkisedc was part of this occasion. >> This is the encounter that David had with the owner of Zedc, owner of righteousness, master of righteousness, king of righteousness. Others may say Adonai is Melkisedc. But no, this is a different this is a different being. Adonai is being anointed a king and a priest in the presence of Melkisedc by Jehovah. It is on this occasion that David also learned something. Remember I'm telling you about this encounter. So many things that David learned. It was from this occasion that David learned. If I am going to get h the ark >> as a king and people die, I must go as a priest. But because I come from uh I don't come from the family of Aaron, how can I go and collect the ark? I can only go if I go in the order of a priest in the order of Melkisedc. >> Amen. >> That's how he went and got that ark successfully. >> And when he came back because he was so happy he was successful. They say he was naked. So most people think David was naked. He was not naked. What he was was he was not wearing a kingly robe. >> Amen. >> He was wearing a priestly robe. >> And because he's known as a king, >> it's like he's naked. >> He naked himself. >> Amen. >> No, he is wearing as a priest. And he understood. And if you read, you will hear put those of the priestly family of lever. He put them in order and said you walk so many steps and you sacrifice. But himself is wearing as a priest on what fashion in the order of Melkisedc >> because he knew there's an order higher than this. When I went to get that ark, I should just have activated the higher order. I went as a king. I should have gone as a priest. >> Which priest? in the order of Melkisedc. >> Glory. >> Hallelujah. >> Glory. Glory. >> So David is seeing this thing. These things will stay with him. Now there's a line I want to emphasize. So we can go David. He saw how a person can be can be provoked that Adonai almost went into war because he was provoked. And it took Jehovah to say sit. >> It took Jehovah to say sit. He was allowed to witness that that there are enemies that can provoke you >> and you can forget yourself. >> Amen. me. >> Oh, don't forget this line because that's the cracks of tonight. So, you can see from this encounter, David is living with rich experience. Whether it's him now laying the prophetic egg from which the son of David will hatch, he goes with that. Whether it's him operating as a king and understanding how to operate as a priest in the order of Melkisedc, he's living with that. But do you know the other thing David left with from this encounter? Not only did he live with the desire to walk in righteousness because he saw this Melkisedc, he came to this occasion from the land of righteousness. >> He's a master of righteousness. He has mastered the the art of righteousness and peace. And David also understood this being here this mech he lived in the day of my father Abraham and he he was a king in Salem that's why he told himself when I become a king I must rule from Salem >> glory >> which is known as Jerusalem in his day. Remember? >> And it was guarded by blind people. Huh? >> It was guided kept by blind people. Very notorious wicked blind people that used to, you know, David was a man of love. He hated those blind people. Even himself, he said it wrong. My soul hates those blind people. He was so merciless. He sent Joab there to go and kill them and take and take Jerusalem from the hands of the Jebusites because he understood that they had taken that territory from this great king >> who lived long time ago and that he occupied that place and he didn't die. Melisedc didn't die. No. No, sometimes we think only Enoch ascended and Elijah ascended. Where is the grave of Melkisedc? Where is it? That's what the Bible says. You know, he was made in the simultitude of the son of God. He's in that league. They don't die. They are sent. >> Glory to God. >> Glory to Jesus. >> Hallelujah. Glory to God. And you know the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 7 we consider how great this man was. So somebody will say are you exalting me? Yes. The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 7 says consider how great this man was. This is verse four. Yeah. He says now consider how great this man was. We are considering him not how small he was not howly how great he was. Glory to God. It says that even unto him unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoil. >> Hallelujah. >> We're considering him. You he was not a small boy was mighty. He didn't die. Is there in the Bible says he was made in the simultitude of the sons of the son of God in Hebrews chapter 7. He was made in the similitude in the same way. You see in Hebrews chapter 7, he was made. Let me get that for you. In Hebrews chapter 7, >> we are considering how great this man was, isn't it? >> Verse three. Hebrews chapter 7 verse three and then verse 15. Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the son of God. Made like unto the son of God. You see, he was made like unto the son of God. He abides a priest continually forever. Glory to God. Look at verse 15. And it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of the of Melkisedc there arises another priest. It's made like Melkisedc. And Melkisedc is like is made like unto the son of God. Glory to God. Let's go back here because we are not done in uh in in Psalm 110. So one of the things that David walked with or out of this experience, David walked away from this experience with what is called the key of David. He walked away with what is called the key of David. What key was that? How is it related to Melkisedc? This key we will find it being promised one of the prominent leaders in the day of King Hezekiah who I have something to tell you about in relation to walking in the path of righteousness. He his name is Eliakim. Elakim is a son of Hilkia. He's an administrator in the in the palace in the day of Hezekiah. He he walks in honor and respect. At that time there was Shebna. Shepo was a like a a palace a prime minister and um as a car and there was there was an incident that happened and Shbna did not do well and therefore he needed to be replaced. And the leader that I had done well was Elakim, the son of Hil Hil. And then he was told that he will also be given this key of David. >> Now that key is a key that opens and no man can shut and it shuts and no man can open. No, >> that key is worth studying because I believe David walked with that key from his encounter with Melkisedc. And I'll tell you what, and what key is that? What does it mean to open? And no man can shut. And it shuts. No man can open. >> And the ultimate owner of that key of David is Jesus Christ himself. Remember? >> Amen. What did Jesus says to the church of Philadelphia in Revelation 3:8? He he says he has that key himself there. He says, "I know your works." He's talking to Philadelphia church. Behold, I have said before you an open door. No man can shut it for thou has a little strength and has kept my word and has not denied my name. There it is. the master himself using that key for the church of Philadelphia. Now, if you read the whole um scripture, it's the next verses, I will cause them of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jew. I'll cause them they will come and bow down before you. >> Glory. >> Okay, that's verse N. And behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not. But do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet and to know that I have loved you. But he says they will know that first of all, I want to take note. Says first of all, they will bow to you because I will open the door. No man will shut I will shut. No man will uh will open. Here is the secret of uh uh the opening of dimensions or realms. Okay. This key of divity is a key that you open dimensions realms. So for Philadelphia church so you understand context the people of the synagogue of Satan these are occultic people. for occatic people to come and bow down and and uh uh respect you. It means you will have to have shut everything that backs them up. >> Glory >> because these people they rely on higher powers. Okay. >> Amen. So in this occasion with that key there are certain

things that used to be them up here on earth, these people of the synagogue of Satan. Okay. So they know they can do incantations and be able to invite certain things that come and give them power and give them abilities. So if you walk with Jesus, they disrespect you because they are backed up by spirits. And some of these spirits have deceived them. Do you understand?

To walk with Satan, you have to be deceived. You are first deceived. And one of the highest deception and manipulation is as people get initiated in Satan's kingdom, they are taken up. And that's a higher manipulation. You know, when you are taken up, it's not on earth, under the earth. It's not in the water here on earth. It's high up there. You go there, you will meet beings, including a being called Jesus. You'll find it in prison.

Do you understand? This is an occultic person. So he goes there, he will meet a being when he's talking to it, he says, "I am Jesus. I have been under punishment. I've been arrested by Satan." It's deception. So that's why those kind of people when they come down here and you say, "In the name of Jesus," says, "Shut up. You are talking about that Jesus who's arrested."

They are deceived. First, to serve in that kingdom, you must be deceived. Amen. So when they are here on earth, they are very bold and very disrespectful. So when the Lord Jesus says, "I have used the key of David that if it shuts, no man can open it. It opens, no man can shut." What the Lord Jesus is saying is, these ones of the synagogue of Satan, I have locked the things that back them up. And when they go in the spirit, they will find like your name. It's like you are the one who closed that dimension. You are the one that closed that, that closed that, that closed their backup. That's the reason why Jesus says, "In the natural, I'll come. I'll make them to come and bow down before they you realize we are big." He's referring to the Philadelphia churches. "I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not, but I will make them to come and worship before your feet." He is not saying I will make them worship Jehovah. He says they will come and worship you. Why? They will find out who you are.

They will find out that I have loved you so much, I gave you access to a key of David. Which key was meant to close and open certain things. Close certain things so they don't come this way. Open certain things so the good stuff that should be coming here comes. So if you look at David now, if you were, let's say, you were to encounter David in your life at that time with that key, and you have done that which pleases him, if I can use that, David could open certain things in your life that you could encounter and experience. It's a fact. Now, I'm making use of an example of David. Right.

Here on earth, there are many men and women of God that are custodians of certain realms. Okay. If you encounter those people, certain things open, not because they are, you know, they are God or what, but let's not belittle them because God has exalted them the same way he exalted these people. The same way he exalted David. We know one of the things David was sent to do when he came here on earth, among the assignments he got from God, it was to shut the production of giants. When David finished with the production of giants, they stopped to be produced. He shut that realm. That's the reason why, because he understood. He's yet to shut that thing when he was told it's Golad. But prophetically, he went to get five stones. And Golad in his family, there were five, him and his brothers. Okay. We know he used this stone, he killed Golad. What happened to the other stones? Do you know what David did? He gave those stones to four of his mighty men. As long as that man kept that stone, he had the grace to kill one of the brothers of Goliath. And they did.

If you read your Bible, you will hear there's a time they killed all of them. When they killed the last one, the Bible says Satan rose up against David. He was so angry with David. The Bible says he rose up against David. He provoked him, provoked him, because he did away with his seed. It's actually amazing that the Bible says when David cut off the head of Goliath, he says he took it to Jerusalem. It's there in the Bible. He says he cut the head and he took it to Jerusalem. Do you know where David went to bury it? He went to bury it in Golgotha in Jerusalem. M. That's why Golgotha was called the place of the skull, the place of the skull, because of two things. One, when you look at Golgotha, the limestone, you see it's like a skull. Mhm. It literally looks like a skull with opening of the eyes and the mouth, physically. I have taken a picture there, I'll show you one day. You will see the skull. That was one of the reasons. The second reason is because it's where David buried the head, the scar of the enemy. Glory. That's why he buried Goliath prophetically. He understood what he was doing.

So he gave all the four stones. He gave it to his mighty men. And each one of them that had that stone, he had the secret to contribute towards shutting the production of giants. From the time of David up until now, there are no more giants produced. No more giants produced. David was born. Part of the reason he came here, it was to shut that laboratory. Yes, you may have abnormal growth hormones now where a person is gigantic and he grows, but it's not the giants in the Bible, the ones that were produced by manipulation.

So, one of the things David walked away with was a key. It was a key. And it is true as you associate with his writings, especially Psalms, if you associate with the Psalms of David, there are things that can be opened unto you. He didn't just write those things. He didn't just give birth to those things. Those Psalms of David are pregnant with opening of dimensions. And this will be open unto you. This will be open unto this. It can be souls. This can be open unto this, can be open unto this, can be open unto you. Glory to God. Glory. Glory. I will leave it there. It's a key of David.

So in 2 Kings, is it 2 Kings or in Isaiah 22? In Isaiah 22, this key is given to Eliakim because he was an honorable man. Honorable man. Look at verse 15. "Thus says the Lord God of hosts, Go and get thee unto this treasure, even unto Shebna, which is over thy house. What is thou here? And whom is thou here that thou has used thee out seal here as he that use him a separator. And and that graves habitation for himself in Iraq." It's talking about pride here. What started to happen with Shebna? He was a prime minister under Hezekiah. He started to be taken over by pride. "And behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. Continue. He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country. There shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. I'll drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down." If you read here, you will see he was comparable to what happened to Lucifer.

Okay. So when you read, you will see it says, "He will surely violently." And it shall come to pass in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah. You have to go into 2 Kings 18 to read a lot more about Eliakim. "And I will clothe him with thy robe." Do you hear? So the Lord says, "I will take the robe of Shebna and I'll give it to Eliakim and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand." Okay, his administration. He was a high official. "Says, 'I will take what was yours. I'll give it to Eliakim because Eliakim was taken over with pride. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder. So he shall open, and none shall shut.'"

Glory. Glory to God. And he shall shut, and none shall open. He's going to operate. He will operate in that secret. That was Eliakim. I don't have much time to tell you more about him, but maybe we'll touch on it when we go into 2 Kings. So you will see how he conducted himself when there is conflict and disrespect for his king Hezekiah from Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, in the day of Isaiah and Hezekiah. How he starts to negotiate with Rabshakeh. "Rabshakeh, please speak. Don't use the Jewish language. Don't insult our king in the language that our people can hear because the people stand there." He says, "You people don't listen to Hezekiah. He's a liar. He wants you to believe in God. Don't believe in Hezekiah. He's a liar. He disrespects his key." There's something there that you learn about respect and honor. And the reason he is given the key of David is because David, if you talk respect and honor, he possessed it because he saw Adonai's respect. When he says, "No question, he sits." Are you people listening to me?

Why David, when people will tell him, "Let's strike this soul once and kill him," he says, "No, don't touch the Lord's anointed." Don't touch who? The Lord's anointed. Why? Because he attended an inauguration ceremony where Yahweh was inaugurating Adonai as a king and a priest, and he saw the Lord's anointed in Adonai. He said, "No, I'm not going to strike him. You can't be grateless if you do that." Glory to God.

You know, it takes revelation to know people. Those who walk blindly, they have no clue who they are talking to, who they are answering, who they are. I have no clue. I told you I had a waking up lesson years ago in my early days. Just got married. Man, my wife is a good cook. It was a chicken. Chicken cooked real good, man. She cooked chicken nice, and I was eating it, watching TV years ago, probably my first year or second year of marriage. So there's a man of God, he was on TV. So, man, I think that food was just nice. I started to speak ill of that man of God. Now, I don't believe in coincidence, and I refuse to, because there's no coincidence. As I was doing that, a bone got stuck here. Now, instead of making fun of a man of God, now I have to survive. I must survive this bone. And I learned a lesson. To this day, I do not criticize men of God. Amen. Women of God. If I have nothing to say, I'll keep quiet. It's none of my business. I've learned my lesson. I'm not a fool now. I'm not a fool. I learned something. And that same man of God has been such a blessing in my life.

Glory. Are you listening? Amen. I saw that man of God years ago. You see, because I repented. You see. I saw him years ago. The Lord using him to deliver me from something I had eaten somewhere. And he came to pray for me, and I vomited it out. Vomited, vomited, vomited, vomited.

It takes revelation. And I will say, if you don't have a revelation, hand on your mouth. Yeah. If you don't know people according to the mind of God, hand on your mouth. Until you ask God, "Who's this?" Amen. Even if it's a man or a woman, people say, "Nah, this one can't be of God. This one." Why don't you ask God yourself and say, "God, is that your servant?" Even if it's not his servant, God will tell you, "No, that one I don't know." But keep quiet. It's none of your business. Who are you to judge another man's servant before his master? He will stand or fall. Because people have no revelation.

So they speak carelessly. They criticize this work. And plus, today, you know, just because you have data, it doesn't mean you have maturity. You can be a baby who has access to so much data and platforms, that doesn't mean you are mature. You know, having access to platforms doesn't mean you are mature. Huh? You just have everybody waking up because they've got platforms, they've got this, they want to criticize that one and criticize that one. And some of them, they do not know the calamity that comes, the difficulties they experience in their businesses, in the workplace. They don't know that that man they are criticizing, he is the one who has operated with a key.

The things that should be troubling him and his family and even his marriage, that man they are criticizing, he's the one who has locked those things. Now he opens his mouth against that man. Now you must know that key doesn't work for him anymore. Amen. Are you listening to me? That key doesn't work for him anymore. The stuff will come out of those territories and they will enter into his business. They will enter into his children. You have people that they start speaking against certain men and women of God, and then their businesses go down. Their children get into drugs, habits, they start having marital problems. The level of misunderstanding because the one who had shut with that key, this key is given to Eliakim because of honor.

It was given to David. David had the secret of it because of honor. He that has ears, let him hear. Let him hear. And you have people that they start just talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, and then they invite stuff into their families, into their workplace. Things rise up. Things rise up. Things are happening. And then they have no clue where it's coming from. And because they operate without revelation, they will move from one man of God to another man of God to say, "Pray for me. Pray for me." They can't even figure out this. "I invited..." And now prayer will be offered there. There will be no answer until they know why. Amen. They might be offended in that man, go, "Ah, that one is not powerful. He has no anointing. I went there for him to pray. This thing doesn't go away. In fact, it's worse." Until they will meet another one who has a revelation about their case. And you tell them and say, "You, your mouth is big. You have opened this your mouth. And with this your mouth, you have opened doors into your family." Because they are men and women, they have keys of David. They open, no man can shut. They shut, no man can open.

Glory. But people, when they start criticizing them, when they start fighting them, they are opening doors so that this stuff can enter into their families and into their life. And there are many men that have lost businesses because of that. He has a taxi, you know, he's doing very well with his taxis. They are doing very well. Now, all of a sudden, when he hears people just talking, "That man of God, that woman of God, I don't like them." What? What? What have they done to you? Nothing. Yet their prayers are the reason you are successful. Amen. Now you start opening, opening up, and then you hear they've taken that taxi. Uh, they've come to repossess this. They've come to... You can't afford this. He can't afford this. He can't afford. And he has no clue where this is coming from. He might even say, "No, it's because somebody is bewitching me." But why are they successful now? For the past five years, nobody was able to be with you. Why are they successful now? It's not witchcraft. You have opened the door with your own mouth.

So, one of the keys that David walked with was the key, what is called the key of David. And it's the Philadelphia church that Jesus said, "I want to give you the secret of that key." The people that know the realms of the spirit, those of the synagogue of Satan, he said, "I will make them. They will come and bow down because they will meet you in the spirit. They will know that you are not small boys because I have loved you." They'll find out that you have locked stuff there that's supposed to come and help them. That's why they'll come and bow. You come and honor. That's what it means. It's to honor. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Glory. Glory. Hallelujah. Glory.

I'm going to finish with this. David had other sons that they had a revelation of the same righteousness. Maybe before I tell you about those sons, this is what I want to say about David. Remember when he saw Adonai before Yahweh and Melchizedek? He saw how enemies can provoke one into getting out of the path of righteousness. David had told himself that when I live my life, I will walk in righteousness because I met the king of righteousness. But he will be tempted and provoked to get out of that path of righteousness. And the reason Jehovah said to Adonai, "Sit until I make your enemies your footstool," it's because the enemies use foolish things to provoke somebody to get out of the path of righteousness. I'll say that again. Amen.

In this case, fools are used to get out of the path of righteousness. When the righteous are walking in the path of righteousness, the foolish ones are used to provoke them to get out. That's why Jehovah said, "Because I see that the fools, the enemies, they are provoking you with their foolishness." David was provoked twice with foolishness. Glory. The second one unfortunately was successful. But for our learning, the first one, he is tested by a man of his tribe from Judah called Nabal. And Nabal means a fool. He was so foolish, they named him a fool from birth. I don't know what level of foolishness he exhibited for them to say, "This baby is a fool." I don't know if you understand. "This baby is a fool." He was such a guy that he was rich. He was rich, and he was of the line of Caleb. You remember the Caleb of Joshua? All right. He came from that family. He felt that maybe he should be royalty in the order of Caleb. So he didn't like David, but he had married a very beautiful and wise woman. The only one that the Bible says was both beautiful and wise. Her name was Abigail. And I think I shared with you how she may have fallen with just one part, fallen in love with the one part about him, but 90% of his life was dominated by foolishness. You know, I've shared with you that sometimes sin in a person can rise up like an element in a wild person, just an element, one part that makes one to overlook the rest of foolishness. Only for her to find out that Nabal was a fool, and that which attracted her to him didn't hold water again. That's why she was clear when she went to David. She said, "Please remember me when you come to your kingdom."

Now, what I wanted you to see is this. David was kind to the headmen of Nabal, protected them, took care of them and the livestock. So David heard that Nabal was busy sharing the sheep, at which time he would slaughter for his men some. So David, he's angry with his men. So he sent a message and said, "Nabal, please remember us. We were kind to your people and your livestock. Remember us and give us some supplies. We need some food here." And the Bible says Nabal insulted David's men. Now David was provoked by that fool. Because when he heard it, the Bible says David said, "Let's go. I'm going to kill everything in that house." At that point when David was going, the thing that prepared him for this occasion is Yahweh saying to Adonai, "Sit, sit until I make your enemies your footstool." But he forgot that because he's angry. He is thinking, "How can Nabal speak and treat me like that?"

So here he is, he's angry. He says, "I'm going to destroy the whole house, everything." At that time, David was being provoked out of the path of righteousness to the path of unrighteousness. Because David has learned from that encounter that Yahweh fights for you. You don't fight for yourself. Fortunately, as he was approaching the house, Abigail hears the message and then she comes. She meets David. She reasoned with him. She put sense in his head and said, "Don't fight for yourself. The Lord fights for you." Glory. Oh, it takes a wise man to hear the voice of wisdom in the midst of anger. Yeah. Takes a wise man. When he's provoked to walk in the paths of unrighteousness, out of the paths of righteousness. When he heard that woman, he said, "Oh, thank you for keeping me from fighting for myself." In fact, I remember that Yahweh told Adonai to sit until I make your enemies your footstool. So David, he went back. And to show that the Lord will fight for David, when Nabal heard what was going to happen the following day, the Bible says he had a his heart was turned into stone, which means he had a heart attack. He couldn't recover out of it. Few days after that heart attack, he died. Gone. Was that not the Lord? Was the Lord fighting his battles? Are you with me? Amen.

A fool almost got him out of the path of righteousness. If there is anyone who will get you out of the path of righteousness, it's foolish people. They will provoke you, and you must remember Yahweh speaking to Adonai, "Sit until I make your enemies your footstool." When we see David sinning against God in the issue of Bathsheba, do we know what happened? Also, read in 2 Samuel chapter 10 leading up to chapter 11. The Bible tells us that when David had the death of Nahash, the king of Ammon, who had been crying because David took his parents there, he sent to his son Hanun to comfort him. Hanun, when he heard him, when David sent people to comfort him, the elders of the people, they told Hanun, "David sent spies here to spy here so they can come and destroy your kingdom." And then what did that man do? He shaved David's servants. He cut their clothes and then he sent them back. David went to meet them, and he saw their shame, and he was not happy. But this what they did, people, the Bible says when they realized they stunk, meaning they were stinking before David, they went to hire the Syrians to come and back them up in fighting against David. Now, the Syrians were people who, today you will call annoying in their battle strategy. They don't lose completely. They are on and off, on and off, on and off. So when they fight you, they fight, and then you destroy them. Then the few that are left, they run away. They regroup, and then they come again. They regroup, and they come. That was their battle strategy. That's what that prophet told that other young man and says, "If you want to destroy the Syrians, you must shoot seven times." And he shot only three times. Do you know what happened? They kept going back and forth fighting with David until David was tired. When you read 2 Samuel 11, when it says, "It came to pass in the time when kings went to battle, David remained." He was tired because he had been fighting the Syrians in the previous chapter. So they wore him out with their foolishness so that when he is tired and he does not even desire to go to the battle, he remained. And in his tired state, he saw a woman.

Are you listening? He was worn out by foolishness. You know, foolishness is so foolish that it can waste your time. It's the nature of foolishness that while you are trying to respond and deal with it, sometimes you may forget what you are dealing with. You are dealing with something that is there to wear you out so that when the real battle comes, you are tired. That's how the righteous are taken out of the path of righteousness. You wear them through foolishness. They fight foolish stuff, stuff that doesn't make sense. You get them. When they are worn out and tired, then you release. That's how they got David to get out of the path of righteousness in the matter of Bathsheba. They wore him out. Read the battles between the Syrians and David. And remember, the Syrians were supporting the children of Ammon. Now, a man of Ammon had a city called Rabbah, which is called the City of Waters. And there in Rabbah, in the City of Waters, the Bible tells us that dead things were formed under the waters. And it's referring to the giants. There are special giants that occupied the waters of Rabbah in Ammon. And they were monitoring David because remember, he's coming to shut them down. That's why even his sin involved water. He saw Bathsheba bathing, water was involved. They were monitoring him from the City of Waters called Rabbah, where dead things are formed under the waters. And from that place, they hired the Syrians to come and annoy him. You know, when you are fighting those foolish battles, David actually got to a place where, "I'm bigger than this. I don't have time to go and fight with these useless ones." It was that thing when he was tired.

Do you hear? There it is. Job 26:5. "Dead things are formed from under the waters." Those dead things are referring to the giants formed from under the waters. And by the way, Job is the one who's exposing them here. Job, one of the reasons why he was attacked is because he had seen the secrets of Satan. M. You see where the Bible says Satan went around, he says he says, "Where Job stays, he says, I see a protection here and here." It's because Job also he peeped over and saw even the dead things that were being formed. He seen things coming out. "Dead things are being formed." You know, you can read there, "Dead things are being formed under the waters." Those are Rephaim. That word "dead things" is Rephaim. The giants.

Glory to God. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. I'm going to finish with this. I love this king. There were three kings that the Bible tells us they did that which was right as their father David. The first one was Hezekiah in 2 Kings 18:3. So I've told you a little bit about Hezekiah. I won't have time, but if you can go to 2 Kings 18:3. "And he did that which was right, righteousness in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did." It's referring to Hezekiah. Amen. 2 Kings 22:2. Josiah. Josiah, he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. That's Josiah. Good king. They got the revelation of righteousness from their father David. Number three, Asa. 1 Kings 15:11. 1 Kings 15:1. "Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did." Okay. Do you know what is common for all of them? I will end with Asa because Asa, I love this story. All of them, they were provoked. All of them. Hezekiah was provoked by Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib. That's 2 Kings 18 that you must read. It's your homework. For him, he survived because he had the secret that when he threatened, he will take the letter and go to the house of God and read it before God. Amen. And then God will use Isaiah to give him comforting words so he doesn't get out of the path of righteousness. But don't forget what happened to him when he almost died and the Lord said, "Set your house in order." For him to pray that prayer and then got reversed. Provoked. That's why the same disease he had, Asa had it. He had boils. They were provoked. But we'll go to Asa. Josiah. Remember Josiah, how did Josiah die? Provoked by Pharaoh Necho. He provoked him, going passing through his land to go and fight. And Josiah said, "Where are you going?" He said, "I'm not coming to you. I'm going to the king of Assyria." "But why are you passing through my land now?" And unfortunately, Josiah was provoked to go and fight. And that Pharaoh's king, he died at 39 years old. Asa. Oh, the Asa story is one of my favorite players. There is a teaching on our YouTube channel called "Lessons from King Asa's Disease." Please listen to that. It's one of my classics. I like that story. King Asa was a very good king, people. He was one that had learned the power of the spirit of God in his life. You'll come mighty. Glory. And fight for him. You know who provoked him? Like for years, the land was at rest until there was a man called Baasha. Baasha was a king of Israel. Do you know what Baasha means? Baasha means a stinking smell. Yeah, that's what it means. Repulsive smell, offense, odor, smell. It is one who causes stench. That's Baasha. Baasha was a king of Israel while Asa was the king of Judah, and he was a king that found the paths of righteousness, and the enemy is going to get him out. Ah, because foolishness provokes the righteous ones to abandon paths of righteousness to go and respond to foolishness. That's what was telling Adonai, "Adonai, sit." You will be tempted to respond to the tactics of the foolish ones. And in attempting to respond to those, you will find yourself having forsaken the path of the righteous, the path of righteousness. Whether a student, whether a businessman, you are in the ministry, whatever it is, you will deal with foolish ones. M. And their works are so provocative, you feel you have to address it. In doing that, you'll find yourself on the path of unrighteousness, and they are masters there. So, King in 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles chapter 16, we'll read verse one. It tells us that, and this is the last part I'm finishing with. He was a good king. I love him. "In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah and built Ramah, uh, he comes and he just starts building Ramah." Ramah is the town of who? Somewhere. "To the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah." Uh, this will be like a man to provoke a pastor, he opens a church, he goes and opens a church opposite. Do you understand? Yeah. It will be like somebody who was with you in church. You correct them, and they get angry. So they get out and they just go opposite and they take some of the members and build a church, and their worship and praise starts at the time when you are preaching. Yes. So when you are preaching and everyone is quiet, that is the time they are singing. Foolishness is very provocative. Fools like Nabal, they were born to provoke righteous people. Get them out of the path of righteousness. Get them into their sin territory. So they think evil, they think foolishly, they act foolishly, and forget who they are.

So Baasha, this king Asa, up to now, he was doing very well. There is revival in the land. People are seeking God. People are rising up to go and learn the ways of God. But just rise up and say, "I know." He gets into Ramah. He's got building material. He starts building it up and says, "From now on, nobody will pass to go into Jerusalem and worship the Lord." Because he had there is revival. If you read chapter 15, you will see there is revival. People were seeking God. They made a covenant to seek God in the days of Asa. There was revival. So people are living by Asa's territory to go to Jerusalem. When a fool provokes you, before you respond, you must relax, otherwise you will fall into a trap. I asked myself, when David was going to fight the Syrians, where was Abigail? The voice of reason. She sped him from Nabal. By the time he's fighting the Syrians, she was already his wife. Where was she? She was the one who would have prevented the issue of Bathsheba. Huh? Look at what Asa does. "Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the Lord, and sent to Ben-hadad, king of Syria, that dwelt in Damascus." You see that? What does he do? You know, foolishness is so provocative. Asa, he is known to trust in God. He trusted in God to overcome 1 million Ethiopians, and he was successful. Now he's being provoked. What does he do? He goes and looks for natural relationships. So he goes to this king of Syria. "Take this stuff, the treasures from the house of God. Take the silver and the gold. Please, I want you to break your agreement with Baasha." So, which means I want you to only be my friend. And because I know you're a friend with Baasha, I'm giving you money. So you break your friendship with Baasha. Now, this kind of territory, this kind of tactics and tricks, this is Baasha's food. Ah, he likes that. That's the territory he operates in. It's the level he likes that game. Oh, are you coming like this? You are taking my friends to be only your friends. And Asa is an honorable king. He should not be descending to this level of tactics. Are you listening to me? Because who is he trusting in? He's trusting in the Syrians that are untrustworthy. Are you with me?

Look at verse seven. "And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah. He says, 'See, he saw something and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the Lord thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand. Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet thou, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine hand. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him. Herein thou hast done foolishly.'" Herein thou hast done what? Foolish. Because he was responding to Baasha, the foolish one. Are you with me? "Therefore from hence forth thou shalt have wars." Then Asa was wroth with the seer and put him in a prison house, for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time. Look at his response. And because Asa was righteous, he learned to live a righteous life. This new attitude of rage, of anger, the anger, the rage materialized and became cancer. Did you hear? The anger, the rage, because he's not used, his body is not used to this lifestyle. I tell people there is a body of sin. Yes. One of the things when a person repents is they must be delivered from the body of sin. And when we say the body of sin, sometimes some people say, "Everybody, I mean the body is..." You know, as the flesh is of sin. No. When a person walks in unrighteousness year in and year out, also his body takes that form of a sinner. When you are delivered or when you get born again, that body of sin must also be delivered. Amen. So it is also with righteousness and holiness. When you walk in righteousness, year in and year out, year in and year out, your body also, not that it becomes perfect, but your body also starts to take on the character of righteousness. So when that body now is introduced to bad emotions like anger, that anger becomes foreign to that body. Oh, it's an unrighteous thing in that body. That body is not used to those kind of emotions. The rage and the anger, the oppression that he was dishing out to the people in him, it materialized and became substance, and he started to have boils coming out. If you analyze that boil, yes, they will say it is this and this and this and this. But that boil, the evil life behind that boil was anger and unrighteousness. You understand this? That's what he had. So he went to the best physicians because this thing, it's fueled by an evil life. It could not be healed. The very best. And because of pride, he will not humble himself and say, "Man, I'm wrong." Pride kept fueling that disease until he died. Let's read this pattern, then we are done. Verse 12. "And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, thirty years later..." You see, he lived like this for three years. God gave him three years. I don't get this because this happened in the thirty-sixth year. Now, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet." Which means it took him three years living in anger, oppressing his people, abandoning righteousness, walking in the path of unrighteousness for three years. He will not repent. Are you with me? He was diseased in his feet. It started as boils. It broke out. It became what they will call a leg ulcer, cancer, until his disease was exceeding great. "Yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians." Now, sometimes people read here and say, maybe God doesn't want people to see and consult doctors. No. If the disease that you have is because of grudges, unforgiveness, there's no use to seek the doctors. Glory. Huh? Go to the Lord. Amen. The Lord is the one who says, "Forgive. Let go. You are too angry. That anger has materialized and become a disease. Let go of anger. Cease from anger and forsake wrath. So shall your health spring forth." Are you with me? Amen. Sorry. So the Lord is to say, "No, don't consult doctors. It will be like this. You know that when you worry a lot, when worry, worry, worry, you get a headache. Okay. Yeah, you are under that headache looking for pain relief. Okay, I can understand if you want to manage it for now so that you gain strength to overcome. But to think that that pain relief will banish this thing forever, it can't stop the worry. The worry is the root. Are you with me? Amen. So that's why here, he doesn't go to the Lord because the Lord will want to say, "Let's talk about your unrighteousness now, son." Since Baasha provoked you into foolishness, you have abandoned the paths of righteousness. What are you doing to Hanani?" He says, "See, I sent him so that he leads you back in the path of righteousness, and when you are in that path, you shall be healed." Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Unfortunately, the Bible says in verse 13, "Asa slept with his fathers and died in the forty-first year of his reign." It took three years to get the disease, and it took three years to kill him. You see, it took a while. He's strong. He said he's strong. If he could just humble himself and say, "Oh, God, I'm sorry. Forgive me. Like my father who yielded when he was provoked, I yielded, but you were merciful to my father. As I walk in the path of righteousness, heal me, cleanse me," and the Lord will heal you. Because in every situation, under all circumstances, there's always a right way to get out of trouble. And that right way is called the path of righteousness. "He leadeth me in the path of righteousness." Blessed be the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. Glory, glory, glory, glory, hallelujah. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for joining us. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. So many things that we have learned tonight. We have seen how the enemy uses the foolish words. They are planted in your life, in your workplace, in your families, family gatherings, and meetings. They will provoke you. They will despise you. They will insult you. Don't descend. Don't come down from your high tower to go down into the levels of the foolish ones. And they are masters there. You cannot fight them in that realm. Oh no, you can't. But thanks be to God that Isaiah even saw that there's a highway and there's a way. The wayfaring men that go in there, even the fools, they don't err in it. Glory. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Don't err. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. These are the paths of righteousness. These are the ways of righteousness. Thank you, Lord. And I believe, I believe that somebody who tuned in tonight, hearing this, there are some foreign things you have allowed, and they are materializing as disease, sickness, because the enemy is frustrating you through foolish people using foolish things. The things you are solving, they are not in your league. They are far below you. You are university material, your high school material. What is being thrown to you is preschool stuff to get you down there. Don't leave the paths of righteousness. Glory. And in Psalm 37, he says, "Cease from anger, forsake wrath. Fret not yourself because of evildoers. They shall soon be cut down." That's what the Bible says. "As for you, he says, delight in the Lord and trust also in him. He shall give you the desires of your heart." Says, "Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the workers of iniquity. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths." He'll direct you in the path of righteousness. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I believe I'm talking to somebody who's on the edge. You know, God knows how to fight. He does. He knows how to fight. David didn't have to fight for himself in the case of Nabal. David didn't have to fight for himself in the case of Saul. No. The Lord fights all these battles, and he won them all, and he will win all the battles for you. Hallelujah. Let us pray. Thank you, Father, so grateful. Thank you for your word. Thank you for your precious Holy Spirit. Thank you for the written word. Thank you for introducing us to these things, teaching us the ways of God, and keeping us in the path of righteousness. Oh, thank you that you heal us of all diseases, even as you forgive us of all our sins. You feed our mouth with good things, so our youth is renewed like an eagle. Hallelujah. You crown us with lovingkindness and tender mercies. Oh, you execute righteousness and justice for your people. As a father pities his children, so you have mercy toward us. Oh, thank you so much. We are so grateful indeed. We say, "Bless the Lord, all our souls, and all that is within us, bless his holy name." Thank you, Father, that you heal us. You heal us as we renounce every foreign object that seeks to take residence in our emotions, in our souls, in our bodies. Our bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. And we give you the glory for it. In Jesus name, we pray. Hallelujah. Amen. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for joining us. We will see you this coming Sunday. It's communion Sunday this coming Sunday. So we'll see. We'll take together the holy communion, introducing to our physical bodies the holy elements, reminding us of what the Lord Jesus has done for us, and we give God all the glory. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for staying with us. God bless you. Let's take the grace. Surely, surely goodness and mercies shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. By the blood of Jesus, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Thank you. I call on your name to my saint, even when I felt like I was grave. Jesus, Jesus, your name. Jesus, Jesus, your name. You took my life out of the hands of the snares and the prayer call for the ones in you. But you should save you, my brother. I feel you.