turn to your neighbor and say welcome welcome to another edifying and Faith boasting session of s the scriptures Jesus the Lord in his Earthly Ministry stated the reason why men s the scriptures but did not get the benefits of your search can I repeat that have you found many people with Bibles in their hands Bibles in their homes in every corner Bible under the pillow of their new baby that was just born they studied the Bible They Se the scriptures that never truly have an encounter with the word that became flesh he stated the reasons why the the scriptures and did not benefit from their search in John chapter 5 verse 39-44 John 539 to 44 he reads and I quote you search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life hello is this the CIT Global Community Church because in the past two Sundays I've preached in different churches home and abroad two Sunday ago I was with Pastor NE it was an exciting moment that people were really excited they wanted the word and last Sunday for two Services I was with Pastor SAR at the Family Worship Center you could see the excitement and now I said who did this to you in my absence you s the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life stop there what is eternal life Jesus Define eternal life in John 17 that they may know you the true God and Jesus whom you have sent you said the scriptures for them you think you have eternal life and these are they the scriptures which testify of me but you are not willing to come to me that you may have life no but you believe in the Bible don't you and so if danger approaches Psalm 91 he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty but you have not met the almighty if you are in need the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want my God shall supply all my need according to his riches and Glory by Christ Jesus but you've not made the almighty let me read verse 39 again up to four you are the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and these are they which testify of me you prefer Miracle testimonies to The Miracle Worker let's read on but you are now willing to come to me that you may have life I do not receive honor from men somebody say pray Church Pastor I can hear you and that gets into your head yeah they're receiving my no but I know you that you do not have the love of God in you I've come in my father's name and you do not receive me if another comes in his own name him you will receive how can you believe will receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God two major reasons why man in his days in the days of the Lord Jesus Christ in not benefit from s the scriptures as stated in this passage number one though the scriptures testify about Jesus yet people are not willing to come to him they prefer to turn to imposters who come in their own name and not in the name of the father people of God the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation is christocentric but people use the Bible for different reasons without discovering Christ number two reason why do people not come to Jesus that's by reading the Bible and using the same for what they think will benefit them is because such people do not have the love of God therefore they give honor to men and in turn receive honor from men they do not receive the honor that coms from the only God may this not be our portion as we s the scriptures in GCC in the mighty name of Jesus Amen today we'll continue with part four of our series titled the preeminence of Jesus Christ in his church and as we read Colossians 1:12 to18 to see the intention of God regarding Christ in his church I will also go to a subtitle that will fit into what I'm about to share with you Colossians 1:12 to18 giving thanks to the father who has qualified US to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in the light I think the Legacy you Fellowship know what these things are now he has the Deliver Us From The Power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the son of his love in whom we have Redemption through his blood the Forgiveness of sins is the image of the invisible God the first B over all creation but by him say by him I can hear you for by him all things were created that are in heaven and that on Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or dominions or principalities or Powers all things were created through him and for him and he is before all things and in him all things consist and he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning the first born from the dead that in how many things in all things he may have the preeminence friends today rather than Jesus having the preeminence in the church that he purchas with his own blood charismatic Voodoo practitioners and gospel Merchants like the atrophies whose name means nourished by Jupiter of taken the position exclusively reserved by God for Jesus third John verse 9-11 1 John I me beg your pardon third John 9211 I wrote to the church but theist who loves to have the preeminence among them does not receive us therefore if I come I will call to mind his deeds in which he does and which he does prating against us with malicious words and not content with that himself does not receive the brethren that's missionaries and forbids those who wish to putting them out of the church beloved do not imitate what is evil but what is good he who does good is of God and he who does evil has not seen God because of these Malay of men acting like God in his Temple a subtitle for today's teaching is the star syndrome epidemics in the Church of Christ say that with me say it one more time so I need to see so that you and I can see eyeball to eyeball on this matter and like someon all the energy I can get to deliver the message in the name of Jesus the star syndrome epidemics in the Church of Christ to do justice to this topic I we systematically take you through six different texts of scripture in both the Old and the New Testament after all six is the number of man so I'm going to systematically take you through six text of scripture to expose this Malay in the church of which all of us or many of us are clearly guilty I'll begin with Deuteronomy chapter 4 15-9 where God forbids the idolatry of worshipping Stars whether they are football Stars music icons or the so-called gospel Stars Deuteronomy 4:15 to 19 take careful heed to yourselves for you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you at orb out of the midst of the fire lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a cved image in the form of any figure it doesn't have to be an image in your living room the cved image can be in your mind the likess of male or female the likeness of any animal that's on the Earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the Earth and take it l you lift your eyes to where lest you leave your eyes to heaven and when you see the sun the moon and the stars all the host of Heaven you feel driven hello you feel driven to wash ship them and serve them with the Lord your God has given to all the peoples under the whole Heaven as a Heritage question can people be really driven to worship the Sun the moon and the stars I'll let scripture answer you Deuteronomy I beg your pardon Ezekiel 8:6 to18 can people be driven to worship the sunnday moonay Stars let's see the Bible so he brought me into the inner Court of the Lord's house and there at the door of the Temple of the Lord between the porch and the altar where priest should be crying to God to intervene the Affairs of men between the porch and the altar were about 25 men can't be 24 Elders it had to be one plus one 25 men with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the East and they were worshiping the son toward the they were in the temple but they turned their backs to God and were worshiping the son and he said to me have you seen this oh son of man is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the Abominations which they commit here for they have filled the land with violence where is violence coming from from the abnormalities in the Temple if there is no error there will be no Terror you recall in Samaria that when new people were brought to set in Samaria Lions came from everywhere and began to destroy them and they s to Nebuchadnezzar the people you have brought from Suk from this from that and settled in Samaria lions are killing them neod did not Sly Hunter did not send helicopter he sent one priest one to teach the people what the reers of the god of the land and as soon as the prince from bethl got there all the lions went into the den is it a trivia thing to the house of Judah to commit the Abominations which they commit here for they have filled the land with violence then they have returned to provoke me to anger indeed they put the branch to their know it's called I don't care therefore I also react in Fury my eye will not spare nor will I have pity and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice I will not hear them the question to ask at this juncture is will there be any judgment awaiting the gospel stars and the gospel merchants in the Church of the Living God yes there will be Ezekiel 9 1-6 then he called out in my hearing with a loud voice saying let those who have charged over the city draw near each with a deadly weapon in his hand much more deadly than all the weapons in the Armory of Nigerian Army and suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate which faces not each with his battle ax in his hand one man among them was clothed with leaning and had a rightous incor at his side they went in and Stood Beside the bronze altar now the glory of the god of Israel had gone up from the Cher where it had been to the threshold of the temple and he called to the man clothed with linen what the writers ink on at his side and the Lord said to him go through the midst of the city through the midst of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of The Men Who sigh and cry over all the Abominations that are done within it if you read Malachi such men are calling to themselves they H the name of God they are sign they're saying this should not be the state of the church but they do not know that their names are written where in the book of The Chronicles what does the bible call it Malachi the book of remembrance the names are written there angels are dispatched by God not by men to put a mark on the head of those who are saying No this should not be the state of the church you know one of the agonies in my heart is that in this land I fought the beast in the church in my generation and now a new generation of Beast are appearing everywhere bringing damnation and Abomination into the church and I'm asking God I fought in my generation must I fight in this generation again yes I will as the Lord leaves I will fight with everything God has given me to bring order into the church and I will not be the only one there will be men like me of like passion that will be raised East West and north and south to bring other back into the house of the Lord to the others he said in my hearing go after him through the city and kill do not let let your eyes Spar nor have any pity utterly slay who so those in my generation and those coming utterly slay old and young men maidens and little children and women but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark and begin at My Sanctuary so they began with who H they began with the elders who were before you think think is is a game to be called an elder in the church is a title to whom much is given which be required there is definitely a lingering judgment awaiting this gospel merchants in the Church of the Living God now another question is this why are men drawn to apostates before whom they bow and are there consequences for apostasy I will answer the question myself people are drawn to apostates because of the accuracy sometimes of their prophetic word if a man comes in here and RAB Rouses you and there's so much noise and joy I've never seen anything like this before before you know it you are drawn but you do not check the content of what they have brought forth is what they are saying in line with the word of God yes but he did this he did that I can I can put on the table over and over again the things that the Lord has done through me but well be TI you if you turn me into an object of worship and I will not allow myself to be drawn into that where people will begin to exalt me instead of esteeming me why am ad drawn to Apostles because sometimes God uses them to do wonderful things and many other times they bring prophetic word that are accurate oh our Pastor said sdp we fail NLC we lose because your pastor said do say the Lord he didn't say I am seeing and there were occasions that election was going on in this country and I stood on the pulpit and said I place a ban on this election and it had to be shifted I wasn't listening to security men I was acting as Elijah acted because he could see the Rumblings and the trouble that will come as a result of idolatry in the land as the Lord leaves before whom I stand there shall be no not do on this land except at my word it was because it was acting like Gabriel who said I stand in the presence of God and whatever I say will come to pass why because he picked it directly from the Lord Deuteronomy 131 to18 will be my fourth scripture if there arises among you a prophet or dreamer of Dreams and he gives you a sign of a wonder and the sign of the Wonder comes to pass of which he spoke to you saying let us go after other gods which you have not known and let us serve them you shall not listen to the words of that Prophet or that dreamer of dreams for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul is more than that you shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him and keep his Commandments and obey his voice you shall serve him and hold fast to him but that Prophet or that dreamer of Dreams shall be put to death because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God and to turn you to whom to himself who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk so you shall put away the evil from your Mist it's so easy to put away this kind of evil from your Mist if it's not your pastor if it's not your leader if someone outside so God step forward further if your brother hello can he be closer than this if your brother the son of your mother your son or your daughter the wife of your bosom or your friend who is as your own soul secretly entices you saying let us go and serve other Gods which you have not known neither you nor your fathers of the Gods of the people which are all around you from near near to you or far off from you from one end of the Earth to the other end of the Earth You shall not consent to him or listen to him nor shall your eye pity him nor shall you spear him or conceal him but you shall surely kill him your hand shall be first against him to put him to death and and afterward the hand of all the people now how do you put them to death by bringing accurate words by bringing the word of the Lord side by side with their heresies so that people can see and you shot their shars and you shall Stone him with stones until he dies because he sought to entice you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage it's more than days let's go further so all Israel shall hear and fear and not again to such wickedness do so we as this among you if you hear someone social media you here social media addicts are you here if you have someone in one of your cities which the Lord your God gives you to dwell in saying corrupt men have gone out from among you and entice the inhabitants of their City say let us go and serve other gods one of them got up to in this day and he said God has no Authority God cannot have authority because for you to exercise Authority you must be under Authority that sounds good he was quoting I'm a Manet under Authority that that Gentile spoke about you understand me I'm a man set under Authority he said therefore the law of authority says You must be under someone who gives you the authority you must be stupid you must be totally careless and callous to deceive and derail men how dare you say God has no Authority what you have just said there is that Jesus is not God because Jesus said all authority in heaven and on Earth has been given unto me oh then such Apostles would tell you is because Jesus was under God so therefore he was given Authority by God but you also said the law of authority who is the law Giver who is the you think Moses is the Lord Giver read your Bible the Lord is our judge the Lord is's our Lord Giver the Lord is our King he will Ser when you hear such nonsense you shut it down why because God is all authority God is all authority when you hear they are beginning to drive you away you must shut it down another one of their fathers in the land our Bishop he said is such a disgrace and it is regard for the sacrifice of Jesus for any believer to say I want to be like Elijah I want to be like Ezekiel and why they were listening to him and clapping he said because Jesus said of all men born of women none has reising that is greater than John the Baptist but the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he you are quoting scripture out of context Bishop that is inacurate that is error don't mislead the church and the people of God why do I say that is error because even in the new Heaven and the new Earth we still be singing the song of Moses and of the Lamb beyond that I want you to understand clearly this is a war will fight to Finish before they bring their apostasy and AR into the church when you say such things are you reading Within context that Jesus said even John the Baptist had come in the spirit and the power of Elijah the moment they take scripture out of context you begin to clap because you're already bought sold youve sold to them you're not searching the Scripture it doesn't matter their height and their sture one of them a patriarch in this land a p I would not mention his name he wor a gorgeous AB to preach and when he finished preaching he gave it to them to burn and he told the people to take the ashes that's Isa above India and yet they Among Us I'm not sure you're getting me I can go on and on but I'm not going to waste my energy on them I want to tell them that the battle line is drawn I'm calling an Apostolic cancel Live on television that would take their tape and smash it in public and let the world know that these are imposters these are not representatives of Christ because they are twisting the word of God take your Stones you can't hit me pray your prayer God will not answer it corrupt men have gone out from among you and enti the inhabitants of their City saying let us go and serve other God which you have not known then you shall inquire search out and ask diligently immediately this fellow said the nonsense he said about Authority and this I was told that Pastor Sarah is a spiritual mother I sent a message to Pastor Sarah I said pastor Sarah I understand this your spiritual son he said said pastor when he came to the city in Abuja he came to me as a honor to give honor to me as a mother in the city I prayed for him I've not seen him in years I don't listen to his tape I know the atrocities in his ministries but everyone Apostle this apost Apostolic Ministry is not a title is not a calling card oh but the crowd is following them oh yes the crowd will also do that they follow footballers also and they pay you shall inquire search out and ask diligently and if it is indeed true and certain that such an Abomination was committed among you what do you do you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the Earth what is the sword the sword of the spirit is the word of God utterly destroying it all that is in need and his life stuck with the edge of the world and you shall gather all his splunder into the middle of the street and completely burn with fire the city and all his plunder for the Lord your God it shall be a heap forever it shall not be built again so none of theuring shall remain in your hand that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you Mercy have compassion on you and multiply you just as his War to your fathers because you have listened to the voice of the Lord your God to keep all his Comm Commandments which I command you today to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God one of these Apostles got up you know you get them through social media don't you you want to hear this I leave it for another day are you scared here it's like you're looking at me dad are you looking for trouble again you know what this fellow said he said the tree of the knowledge of good and evil cannot a tree it was Moses metaphor and Imagination because it was not there when God created the garden it was just an imagination a metaphor because he was thinking about the thoughts in the head of men that what goes into man does not defile him even when God want him not to eat it does not defile him it is what goes outside of him from from within out of the hearts of men proceed evil thoughts so he was a thought not a tree idiot how about the Tree of Life In The Garden is a thought also why was it transplanted to Heaven Before the Flood and how about the tree in the garden that Adam fed on in order to survive the moment yeah another Revelation no that's divination that's not Revelation that's someone trying to twist the word and to steal your mind but they will not profit neither will they prosper their shs will be shut down by the Lord in the mighty name of Jesus except they repent are there consequences for because we keep quiet does not mean we we don't know the evil that's going on but you know there are so many people involved young people that's the agony of my heart father I fought this beasts but they given bir to their offsprings and they are spreading in the land and they are taking your people away from you how many scriptures have I given you I can't hear you so let's go to the fifth one if we are not men Pleasers what should be our attitude to apostates we should relax listen to the damnation and begin to send it to other people can you imagine this wonderful world look at the crowd in the place wow multitudes are following them well Galatians chapter 1 verse 1-10 was Apostolic attitude from the standpoint of Paul to these apost Paul an apostle not from men nor through men I don't know who ordained you as an apostle Paul an apostle not from men or through men but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead and all the Brethren who are with me to the churches of galatia grace to you and peace from God the father and our Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might Deliver Us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father to whom be glory forever and ever and the church said amen I Marvel that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel which is not another but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ but even if we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you let him be accursed as we have said before so now I say again if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have receive let him be accursed or do I now persuade men of God or or do I seek to please men for if I still pleased men I will not be a born servant of Christ or you say that's Apostolic that's the Apostle saying that how about you what should be the response or if you get the reactions of the new leaders in the church because the killings began with the elders in the temple what should be the response of leaders to God and guide those who are under their influence from being corrupted by the spirit of error walking naked in the church what should be the response of church leaders not just one not just Paul what should be the response of church leaders well if such leaders themselves work in wisdom they work in light the assignment is spelled out in Ephesians 58-14 that's my six scripture Ephesians 5 8-14 it reads and I quote Ephesians 58-14 verse eight for you are once darkness before you are translated into the kingdom of of the son of his love for you are one Darkness but now you are light in the Lord walk as children of light for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness righteousness and Truth finding out what is acceptable to the Lord and have no Fellowship say that with me have no fellow not for a moment and said well you have just taken one thing that they said that was wrong but there are other things are were right that's the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil it is the same root that is supplying what you are eating have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather expose them for it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret but all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light for whatever makes manifest is light therefore he says what does he say away you will sleep sleep I rise from the dead and Christ will give you life tell your neighbor wake up my friend wake up my friend before you are swept off your feet by rabble rousers say it loud wake up my friend up before you are swept off your feet by rabble rousers today my heart aches as I see men and women young and old overtaken by the spirit of error due to their insatable greed and inordinate ambition as they lead their followers into the slippery slope of religious Superstition and Damnation unfortunately these new age preachers are apostates will pedal the word of God and have become as a result gospel stars in the eyes of those who do not know the difference between Magic and miracle and between divination and revelation be question at this juncture is there a difference between Magic and miracle I can I hear you follow me to the cour of pharaoh Exodus chapter 7 8-13 then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying when Pharaoh speaks to you saying show a miracle for yourselves then you shall say to Aon take your rod and cast it before pharaoh and let it become a serpent so Moses and Aaron went into pharaoh and they did so just as the Lord commanded and Aaron cast down his Ro before pharaoh and before his servants and he became a serpent but Pharaoh also called who the wise men and the sorcerers so The Magicians of Egypt they also did in like manner with their enchantments for every man threw down is Road and they became serpents if you were there in the court of pharaoh Aaron threw down his Road they became a serpent Pharaoh called his magicians and Sorcerers they threw down their rods they became serpent if you walk out of that place you will say there's no difference between miracle and Magic but if you stay longer you'll see that the serpent from the rod of Aaron swallowed up all of that happens when God begins to perform genuine Miracles among us every false Miracles will just F away in the mighty name of Jesus I hope you are listening for every man threw down his road and they became serpent but Aaron's Road swallowed up their roads what did Pharaoh change no once you are hooked by the Charisma there's nothing anybody can tell you anymore your ears will be deaf your hearts will be hardened and Pharaoh's heart grew hard and it did not heit them as the Lord had said is there any difference between divination and Revelation there's so much more to teach you I'll come back next Sunday but let's focus on this if you are a student of the Bible you will realize that bellam was a descendant and offspring of Abraham Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines and sent them away to where to the east so when they got there the land Easter mysticism and when we get to Isaiah chapter 2 later you'll find out that the reason the mountain of the Lord's house shall be on top of all mountains and above all Hills is because of su who had learned the way of Philistines and who are still part of the family my heart desire is that those who are behaving like Apostles should repent before they sleep into their Doom I'm not competing with anyone I just want to raise the standard of the gospel and get ready yourself to defend the gospel in Christian D's darkest hour is there difference between divination and Revelation well let's go to Bam's seven altars seven Bullocks and every time he performed it God showed up but God was there yes he was let's show the difference numbers 23 27-3 then B said to Bam please come I will take you to another place perhaps it will please who I can't hear you perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there so BAC took bam to the top of P that overlooks the Wasteland and Bam said to belock build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bowls and seven Rams and BAC did as bamat said and offered a bull and a RAM on every altar you know guys you really do not know what is going on all these Apostles have their grandfather whose father listen they have their father whose father is a grand wizard of the mic LOD he say so with his lips is in Ghana and he's now given them shouts the D shout in your hand and when you lift it up there'll be thunder there'll be lightning and there'll be rain show me where that happened in the Bible and these goly fools God themselves roded into misic Lodge agenda let's read that portion I want you to see the difference between divination and Revelation next stay where I stop reading and bring it back quickly I didn't ask you to take it now when bam saw that it pleased the lord to bless Israel he did not go as at other times to seek to use sorcery but set his face toward the Wilderness chapter 24 and Bam raised his eyes and saw Israel encamped according to their tribes and what came upon him the spirit of God Came Upon This ozra when Saul at the king of Israel become mad and was looking and running after David to kill him they said David was with Samuel he ran there wanting to hurt David but the spirit of the Lord Came Upon and in Sinking and he prophesied naked all day night long when you hear them prophesy that way he say they are part of us they're not then he took up his AR and said the utterance of bam the son of be the utterance of the man whose eyes are open can you imagine the utterance of him who hears the words of God who sees the vision of the almighty Who falls down with eyes wide open why are you using sorcery because it takes s to steal the minds of people go to acts of the Apostle chapter 8 you will see what Simon the S used he entrapped them he enslaved them and they began to call him the great God now how lovely are your talent T oh Jacob your dwellings oh Israel like valleys that stretch out like Gardens by the river like allows planted by the Lord like Cedar beside he could describe accurately what God had in mind for Israel hey but listen the spirit of God is upon him but his sorcery is in his heart and has become an agent of mixture it's called Spirit Plus ritual they understand of that [Music] isual this is mixture and God hates mixture with passion it is better now to perform a single miracle and preach the truth like John the Baptist they said this man perform no Miracle but everything he said about Jesus was accurate and when he presented Jesus people followed him you're not supposed to follow an you not no no no no yes but Paul said imitate me as I imitate Christ the moment they no longer imitating Christ and they doing things not in line with the word turn back and look for another place to go if it happens here you are set free go because you must work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Revelation is not the same thing as divination how did they get you you're welcome sir uh you at that was what the moment they about to tell you two or three things you follow them look I know them if they don't change before I finish this series I will mention their name one by one so that you shut them down I sent the video that was sent to me to Pastor S I understand this person he said pastor I will not even open the video I used to listen to him I don't anymore and I will not even open this one I want my heart preserved and not contaminated if you do not know the difference between Magic and miracle and if you do not know the difference between divination and Revelation you'll be caught in their net they are all zookeepers they run what I call charismatic Zoo may you not be a victim in their net stand to your feet keep me through Lord Jesus Keep Me true keep me true Jesus there's a strong [Music] give me power give me power every hour to be true sing it one more time keep me true Lord Jesus keep me Keep Me true keep me true Lord Jesus Keep Me true there is a r there is a I must run there's a victory there's a victory to be oh give me power give me power every Lord Jesus we pray for these men and women who have missed their Road and missed their lord and stay away from you that in your love and in your power you bring them back in the mighty name of Jesus Lord we ask in Jesus name that you remove the veils from the eyes of those they have be wished so that they can be set free as it happened in Samaria let there be a widespread joy in our city in our lands in our country because these imposters are being brought down in Jesus mighty name we pray and the people said amen