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0:00Saul [music]
0:02and David, they told Saul that the
0:05kingdom was going to be taken away from
0:06him. And the next thing he [music] was
0:08begging for the kingdom, but when they
0:11came to David, he said, "Take not the
0:13Holy Ghost from me." He knew that his
0:16dependency and his essence was tied
0:18[music] to the Holy Ghost. If you take
0:20the Holy Ghost, the kingdom is nothing.
0:24The Holy Ghost was more important to him
0:25[music] than the kingdom of Israel. SO
0:27TO PLEASE THE FATHER became his
0:29heartbeat and that was the heart of
0:31David. [music]
0:33So until WE COME TO THAT POINT WHERE OUR
0:37HEART beats and [music] the heartbeat of
0:38God is the same then the heart of David
0:42is not really ours [music] because we
0:45are considering this man then we should
0:47take up the nature. For somebody here,
0:50you have strategies. You have plans. But
0:52can you say to the Lord, [music]
0:54"There's nothing I can do without you.
0:57Not my will, but your will. Not my plan,
1:00but yours. Not my strategy, but yours.
1:04Not my own opinion, [music] but your
1:06opinion.
1:08[singing]
1:12[music]
1:12I can
1:15on my own.
1:16I can [music]
1:18on my own.
1:23[music]
1:24I [singing] can make
1:28[music] I can make it
1:33on [singing] my own.
1:36Yes, I [music]
1:39can make it.
1:43I can [music]
1:44make you
1:47on [singing] my own.
1:51On [music] my own.
1:54I [singing] can't make it.
1:57I can make it.
2:01[music] On my own.
2:05On my own. [singing]
2:07[music] I can't make it.
2:11I can make it.
2:16Yes.
2:20[music]
2:26[music]
2:29Yes. You are [singing and music]
2:36a
2:38[music]
2:43[singing and music]
2:45My beloved
2:48is [music]
2:50the most [singing]
2:51new among thousands
2:54among [music]
2:54thousands
2:5610,000
2:58and thousands [singing]
3:00my [music] beloved
3:01my beloved
3:04the most beautiful
3:07among thousands
3:08[music and singing]
3:1110,000
3:1310,000
3:15Yeshua. [music and singing]
3:20[singing and music]
3:22Come on.
3:25[music]
3:27[singing]
3:30Hallelujah. [music]
3:32Please be seated for a few minutes.
3:35So continue with the sound. Okay.
3:38instrumentals. Okay,
3:40we're considering the heart of David
3:43with focus on love dimensions.
3:47The heart of David with focus on love
3:49dimensions. So for the past two weeks,
3:51we've been studying on David, the heart
3:54of David. And the focus has been on
3:58sacrifices, [music]
3:59right? Focus has been on sacrifices.
4:03We live in a generation where a lot of
4:06people love to get involved with
4:09sacrifices.
4:11I perceive the Lord will have me speak
4:13certain words to certain people, but
4:15let's stay on the [music] word first.
4:16Okay, if time permits, we'll get into
4:19that. Praise the Lord.
4:21A lot of sacrifices.
4:24Fasting is a function of sacrifice being
4:27made to the Lord.
4:29When you give is sacrificial, [music]
4:31especially when it's from nothing.
4:35Hallelujah.
4:37At this point or juncture in Nigeria,
4:39coming to church is also a sacrifice.
4:43Some people pay bills, I mean to
4:45transport themselves here, thousands of
4:48naira. You know, there could be churches
4:50all around, but you decided to
4:52fellowship here. Sacrifice and that's
4:54the heart of David. So we saw that he
4:57did those sacrifices not because he was
5:00expecting a reward.
5:02Hallelujah. But because he was
5:04interested in the will of the father and
5:06that was a hard posture that David had.
5:09And we learned about that and we've been
5:11getting involved in sacrifices. I want
5:13to believe right. Hallelujah. But it's
5:16important also we consider that the
5:18heart of David was the heart of a man
5:20that was filled with love. And that is
5:23why we're looking at the love dimension.
5:25Now if you read Romans chapter 15 and
5:29verse4, Apostle Paul writing the church
5:32in Rome, he says, "For whatsoever
5:33[music] things that were written before
5:35time," he said, "they were written for
5:37our learning that we may through
5:40patience and comfort of the scriptures,
5:44we might have hope." Praise the Lord. So
5:47everything that was documented in the
5:50Bible, they were written for our
5:52learning.
5:54They were written such that we glean
5:57from their wisdom.
5:59Praise the Lord. I said this one time
6:02and I'm saying again today that wisdom,
6:05the way God gives us wisdom is that he
6:08gives us his word number one or he gives
6:10us people.
6:13No one is foolish on his own. The way to
6:16walk in foolishness is also tied to the
6:19association you keep and to the things
6:21that you pay attention to. as regards
6:23your hearing. Hallelujah. So, Apostle
6:27Paul then addressing the church in
6:28Galatia, what he say in Galatians 3 in
6:30verse one. Sorry, I'm very Bible I'm
6:32very doctrinal. So, you are fine with
6:34Bible, right? That's why you came to
6:36church, right?
6:37Amen. So, once I'm speaking above your
6:39head, wave your hands, okay? Is it fine?
6:43If I'm speaking too fast to raise just
6:46raise your hand, okay? Is it good? So,
6:49if you with me to this point, say amen.
6:51[music]
6:51Amen. Glory to God. So he says to them
6:54in Galatians 3:1, "Who has bewitched
6:56you? Oh ye foolish Galatians or oh
6:59foolish Galatians, who has bewitched
7:00you?" Right? Now he didn't say what he
7:04say who. Meaning that based on the
7:06instructions I've given to you, it is
7:09able to make you wise. Remember his
7:10council with themote how that he says
7:13through the pages of scripture they are
7:15able to impart you onto wisdom for
7:18salvation. Right?
7:20So he had already counseledled and
7:22thought built up this church in Galatia.
7:25However, they started giving their ears
7:27to other things and that's the thing
7:30with sounding mysterious.
7:33I was sharing in a meeting on Friday
7:35[music] how that many things that we say
7:38are actually nonsense.
7:41The cravings to sound deep outside of
7:44the written word is a craving to be
7:46lost.
7:48Hallelujah.
7:50Someone who has not learned on
7:52righteousness wants to learn on the
7:53constellation of the moon and stars.
7:58Hallelujah. You want to learn of how the
8:01sarafhic movements they are moving d or
8:04wait what is holiness? What's
8:06righteousness?
8:08And that's one thing about God's word
8:10impacts us with wisdom.
8:13The same word that saved you [music] is
8:14enough to grow you.
8:18Hallelujah.
8:20Peter writing in 1 Peter chapter 2, if
8:23you start from verse one, how that he
8:26was saying that lay aside. Okay, you're
8:29going to run. Okay, lay aside
8:32all filthiness,
8:34all malice, hypocrisies, guile, envys,
8:38and evil speaking. Okay. He goes further
8:41to verse two and he says, [music] "As
8:44newborn babes desire
8:47the sincere milk of the word that ye may
8:50grow thereby."
8:52So if you do not desire it, growth
8:55cannot happen.
8:57You must first desire growth and approve
9:00of desire is pursuit.
9:03Are you with me? So you cannot desire a
9:05thing and not pursue after it.
9:08Brothers, you cannot desire a sister and
9:10not pursue.
9:13Hallelujah.
9:15A lot of sisters have desired Brazilian
9:17hair and they've pursued after it. I
9:21will forever be chasing after you.
9:25Hallelujah.
9:27They've been going after it. SO IT SAYS
9:30DESIRE THE SINCERE MILK OF A WORD. SO IF
9:32YOU DESIRE IT, YOU WILL PURSUE AFTER IT.
9:36Praise God.
9:39I know that brothers will be in meetings
9:40and during worship is a sister that they
9:43you know
9:46the one I [singing] love is [music] ever
9:48before me. Meanwhile, she's in front of
9:50you truly.
9:52Hallelujah.
9:56It's you that I [music] see.
9:59It's you that I see.
10:03Praise [music] God.
10:05So in all your desire, pursue.
10:08So you don't just say, "I love the
10:10word." Pursue after it.
10:13Moses while he was about living had to
10:16instruct Joshua. Popular scripture
10:17Joshua 18. He says, "This book of the
10:20Lord shall not depart from thy mouth."
10:23The way it will not depart from your
10:24mouth is that your eyes will see it.
10:28Deuteronomy chapter 6 from verse 6, down
10:309, IT SAYS, "WRITE IT. MAKE IT PLAIN.
10:33LET IT BE ON THE BANGLES. LET IT BE ON
10:35THE IN THE DOPLES. LET IT BE EVERYWHERE.
10:38LET HIM SEE THESE THINGS.
10:41So if we must learn David and the state
10:43of his heart, we must learn his
10:44devotion.
10:46So in Psalms chapter one and from verse
10:48one, Bible says, "Blessed is the man
10:52that sit not in the seat of a scul or
10:55nor delight in the way of sinners."
10:56Right? But his delight is in the law of
10:58the Lord. For in it he meditate,
11:02right? Day and night. For he shall be
11:07okay, you see verse one.
11:10Like a tree, verse three,
11:14planted by the rivers of water that
11:17bringeth forth his fruit in his season,
11:19his leaf also shall not wither, and
11:20whatsoever he dwet, he shall what?
11:22Prosper.
11:24So David stayed there.
11:27You will see how that David was referred
11:28to as a man after God's heart. Why was
11:31it called a man after God's heart?
11:33Because he knew the will of God. And the
11:36will of God is not in the air, is in the
11:38word. It was um um Kenneet Ehagen who
11:42said that faith begins where the will of
11:44God is known.
11:46And where the will of God is known is
11:47written in the word. Hallelujah. And
11:50there are three major wheels of God.
11:53Number one is that man is saved. Number
11:55two is that the kingdom is populated.
11:57And number three is that man grows in
11:59stature.
12:02Praise the Lord. I hope that um we would
12:06get time to focus on that. But we need
12:08to concentrate on the heart of David.
12:10The heart of David was a heart of love.
12:13So the things that were written
12:15according to Romans 15:4, they were
12:17written for our examples.
12:19They are written for our learning.
12:222 Timothy 3:16, Apostle Paul writing in
12:24Timothy, he says, "All scripture,
12:28they are written
12:30UH BY THE INSPIRATION OF THE ALMIGHTY."
12:34So the Holy Ghost inspired the writings.
12:362 Peter 1:18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Let's stay
12:41on 20:21. You will see how the Bible
12:43helps us see that holy men spoke as they
12:46were moved. So they didn't speak because
12:49they felt like speaking. They spoke
12:51because they were moved to speak. So
12:53every documentation in scripture is
12:56inspired by the Holy Ghost.
12:59Even the mentioning of the harlots in
13:01scripture.
13:03Amen.
13:05Yeah.
13:07Uhhuh. They married multiple wives in
13:10the Old Testament. Doesn't it mean that
13:11God permits us to marry? No. Their
13:14mistakes were written so that you will
13:16learn
13:18not so that you replicate it. And that
13:21is why we do not see God best until we
13:23see him through the lens of Christ.
13:26So whatever Jesus did not validate is
13:29not permitted to be a doctrine.
13:32Praise the Lord.
13:34And you see quickly how that we build
13:36doctrines. I think I've shared this one
13:37or two places. How that we build
13:39doctrines. Doctrines are built majorly
13:41about five or six focal points. Number
13:43one, um, you must check out if it is
13:46written in the Torah, [music] right?
13:49That's the first five books, right?
13:53Genesis, what reference was it there?
13:55Um, was it was made there? Okay, check
13:57out for it.
13:59Was, for instance, let's use love as a
14:02litmos test. Was it mentioned in
14:04Genesis? Was it mentioned in Leviticus,
14:06um, Deuteronomy, Exodus? Was it there?
14:10Then the second place that you need to
14:13check when you're testing for [music]
14:14validity of doctrine is to check in the
14:17book of the prophets. Check the
14:19prophets. Okay? So when you check the
14:22prophets, you check the psalms number
14:23three. Okay? You check the four gospels.
14:27Hallelujah. You check the epistles.
14:31Amen.
14:33How many is that now?
14:37Praise God. Before we form doctrine,
14:40holiness
14:44check all through it stands right
14:48check all through love it stands. So we
14:51don't just come say h I think I think I
14:53think and that's the only way you cannot
14:56become a victim of edatitus
15:00you don't eat titus
15:03was titus is sinning
15:07so the visions people are having we
15:09place it side by side with scripture
15:12so scripture becomes the final authority
15:15praise [music] God so he says the things
15:17were written for our examples say for my
15:20examples
15:21for my learning. [music]
15:23My life is made better
15:26by the authority of the word. So stay
15:29with me.
15:32So in case you're writing, write this.
15:36Scriptures was written to be spoken
15:38[music] and it was spoken to be written.
15:44So if these men wrote as they were
15:47inspired of the Holy Ghost, [music] it
15:49means that they heard before they wrote.
15:51Right? So it was spoken and then written
15:54and it was written to be spoken. Right?
15:57So each thing each time you look through
16:00scriptures and you study, it is to the
16:02end that you are empowered to speak the
16:05same. Are we together? So David was a
16:09man of the word because he was a man
16:11after God's heart. God's heart is
16:13written codified in letters. So if you
16:16do not have access to the written word,
16:18you might not have access to his heart.
16:20The heartbeat, the heartbeat of God is
16:23made very visible by the written word.
16:28What's the heartbeat of God? Souls.
16:30What's God doing on not building
16:32buildings?
16:33Sorry, he's not building cathedrals. God
16:35is winning souls.
16:38This is going to sound a little
16:39controversial, but that's the truth. God
16:42is not taking seven mountains of
16:44influence
16:45because Jesus did not emphasize that.
16:48If you must take the seven mountains of
16:50influence, it's to the end that you are
16:52propagating the gospel. Amen. [music]
16:55So if you want agriculture, you want
16:56tech, you want all those, good. It
16:59shouldn't be because, oh, I'm going to
17:00take it because that's what Jesus died
17:02for. No, no, he didn't die for that. He
17:03died for souls. Amen. [music] Is it
17:06fine? Awesome.
17:09Now, David had to pray in Psalms 119 and
17:13verse 18.
17:15David [music] says, "Open my eyes that I
17:18may behold wondrous things out of thy
17:21law." Praise the Lord. Open my eyes that
17:25I may behold.
17:27Not just look at anything, not just see
17:29anything, but I may behold wondrous
17:32things out of thy Lord. Jeremiah had to
17:34say in Jeremiah 15:16 [music] that what
17:36I did eat and it became meat and
17:38rejoicing of my soul. [music] So there
17:40are things in the word David sought
17:43after. Men of old have sought after and
17:45we also should seek after. Praise the
17:48Lord. Again we are talking about love
17:51dimensions as a [music] subtopic of the
17:55heart of David. Praise the Lord. Quickly
17:58let's read together Psalms 19 verse
18:017-14. We're going to read together
18:04Psalms 19
18:06verse 7-14.
18:10Is it? Are we ready? Let's try and read
18:13together. One to go. The law of the Lord
18:16is perfect, converting the soul. The
18:20testimony of the Lord is sure, making
18:24let's stay there. So he says the law of
18:27the Lord is perfect. means that
18:30it's flawless, right? And next thing
18:33he's doing is that he's converting the
18:34soul.
18:36Okay?
18:37And next thing he does
18:40is that he makes wise the simple. By
18:43simple here it means the foolish. Okay?
18:45So he makes them wise. God's word is
18:47able to impart [music] wisdom.
18:51I use King James version. I grew up
18:53reading old King James. though.
18:58All my memorizations are old king James.
19:01I'm sorry.
19:04Amen.
19:06Next verse, verse 8. [music] It says,
19:09"The statues of the Lord are right,
19:12rejoicing the heart. The commandment of
19:16the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
19:20The fear of the Lord is what? clean,
19:23enduring.
19:26The judgments of the Lord are true
19:28[music] and righteous alltogether.
19:31More to be desired are they than gold.
19:36Yay.
19:39Sweeter also.
19:42Let's stay here. Now, sometimes you can
19:45raise songs and say that I wouldn't
19:48trade you for it is [music] good. I
19:50won't trade you for riches unto you are.
19:53You are my everything. You are You are
19:56my everything. Sometimes when we sing it
19:57is because we have not really seen
19:59riches untold.
20:04You know what riches untold is
20:09you are [music] the reason I live. If it
20:13was pastor Lawrence who was sharing with
20:15us, you will know the heartbeat.
20:18Your heart knows what you respond to. So
20:20we can say it you looking at 100,000
20:24I wouldn't trade you.
20:26I mean when that money comes in where
20:30they're just telling you just sign this
20:32your share is just $100 million.
20:39I mean an alert you receive and you
20:41cannot sleep.
20:43Not because you are sick
20:46but because your heart is already
20:47finding are you they just say sign just
20:50sign.
20:52It's easy to play church and stand and
20:54say [music] I love you forever. It's
20:57because our love has not really been
20:59tested. [music]
21:02Love is not butterflies in your belly.
21:07[music]
21:08The butterfly will develop into
21:10something else. And you know the
21:12lifespan of butterfly is short.
21:18[music]
21:20Hallelujah.
21:25It is Christ in me, [music] the hope of
21:28glory.
21:29So the sign of love is not that heart
21:31that is bumping [music] on WhatsApp. It
21:34is the cross.
21:37Hallelujah. So we must come to see this
21:40love will be tested. David's love was
21:43tested. [music]
21:46See
21:48the way we respond to things
21:51when pressure comes is a true reflection
21:54of the state of our heart.
21:56He said I [music] didn't know what came
21:58over me. I just saw that I slapped her.
22:01It has been hungering you if there's a
22:03word like that to slap her. [music]
22:05He said just got out of hand.
22:09Hallelujah.
22:11I cannot slap my wife. I cannot. But you
22:13slapped her. I didn't mean it.
22:18We know you meant it.
22:21Hallelujah.
22:23Get a bottle of Coke. [music]
22:25Shake it. Shake it. Shake it. Shake it.
22:27Shake it.
22:28Then open it up. [music] What will come
22:30out? Water.
22:32The same thing there. Same thing. Some
22:36people have been waiting to curse the
22:37nation. They've been waiting to curse
22:39the [music] president.
22:41And so he just needs to implement one
22:43policy that is not favorable. [music]
22:45And the next thing the floodgates.
22:49I said it. THAT MAN IS AH it has always
22:52been there.
22:55If you drive in a bad you will learn how
22:57to
23:01the the bikemen [music and singing] they
23:03they will teach you a lot.
23:07Your love will be tested. [music] And
23:09hear me this is not a prophecy. This
23:11week your love will be tested.
23:14[laughter]
23:17It's not a prophecy. This week your love
23:19will be tested. [music]
23:21Whether you say amen or not you will see
23:22it.
23:25For those of us who grew up with
23:26siblings, [music] you know, you have you
23:29have a younger brother who you've
23:32arranged that tr you want to wear.
23:35He just visits you and the next thing he
23:37ransacks your wardrobe.
23:40That one that you have kept, he now sees
23:43that is bigger than him. [music] He now
23:44slim fits it.
23:49That's the one he loves. And the next
23:51scene is coming before you and say how
23:53does it look like
23:56[music]
24:00for our age. Yeah. That
24:03[music]
24:04you know I know some of us grew up in
24:07homes where your dad your mom was
24:09telling you that you are loving you are
24:11amazing. You're the next person that
24:12happened to them. When me I was growing,
24:15the way my dad and [music] mom perceives
24:18that we should understand love is that
24:20they paying our school fees. I love you
24:23and pay your school fees. I am I am I'm
24:26doing that.
24:29And my own father told me I love you
24:30before.
24:33[music]
24:34Maybe he would.
24:36Hallelujah. Uh it was in 2004 I heard I
24:39love you for the first time. I ran away.
24:43Yes, it was strange. How would you hear
24:45that? I I say you're lying, Joe. This
24:48guy know I beg. [music]
24:50I ran out of the library.
24:53Yes, that was SS1 or SS24. I ran away.
24:56It's not possible.
24:58Ah, which kind of love? I beg.
25:01In fact, the way we tell our siblings
25:03that they are looking well is that ah
25:05[music] you look like human being today.
25:08That's me telling my sister that she's
25:10looking beautiful. Ah Omar join
25:13eh
25:15that's a guy you are beautiful you are
25:17handsome
25:19see your head well the clothes is fine
25:22sh
25:25and so when people are now liking their
25:26post on [music] Instagram they are now
25:28that's my brother
25:30we can farms from afab we don't do that
25:33I think I shared once how that my sister
25:35had traveled and um I think then was um
25:39she she went to Malaysia for a few days
25:41[music] and when she returned obviously
25:42I'd missed that they were you know and
25:44so she came to church she came to look
25:46for me here and I [music] think I was
25:47attending some people so when I got down
25:49the ushers told me that ah your sister
25:51came look for [music] you so I just went
25:52to look for her and she saw me she was
25:54almost coming like you know I know we
25:56don't do that here like
25:58how far I missed you too
26:01what kind of hug I know handshake too
26:04okay
26:06but these things we learn [music] and
26:08the things we are handing over to our
26:09next generation to our children are a
26:12better version of the things that we
26:14experienced. [music] Not the same. Not
26:16the same. We are gleaning on their
26:18wisdom. So [music] David was a man who
26:21longed after the heart of the Lord.
26:23Okay? So when he was comparing the law
26:26and the judgment of God to find gold, it
26:29was because his heart had seen gold.
26:33It was literal. [music] He didn't write.
26:37He said, "Uh, no, no, no." He had been
26:39tempted, [music]
26:40tested. He knew what he was saying.
26:43Praise God. Side by side. I know we
26:47[music] have a lot of unsincere people
26:48or insincess, sorry, insincere people in
26:50the church where we [music] say a lot of
26:52things that are different from the
26:54things we do. I know. But I'm saying
26:56that we should consider the heart of
26:57David based on this scripture. He said
26:59more to desire.
27:02God was talking about the Lord the
27:03judgment that is the Bible the the word
27:07than gold.
27:09[music] He went further to say yay than
27:12much fine gold in case that gold is not
27:14fine.
27:17He now say sweeter
27:19than honey
27:21and a honeycomb. [music] Praise God.
27:24Next verse.
27:27[music]
27:29Let's read together please. One to go.
27:31[music]
27:32Moreover, by them is thy servant,
27:36and in keeping of them
27:39[music]
27:39the same law. Continue. Next verse,
27:42we're going to verse 14. Who can
27:44understand his errors? [music] Cleanse
27:46thou me from secret faults. Next verse.
27:50Keep back thy servant also from
27:52presumptuous sins, [music] lest let them
27:55not have dominion over me. Then shall I
27:58be upright, and I shall be what?
28:00[music]
28:01from
28:02next verse. Let's read together. One to
28:06go.
28:07Uh-huh. [music]
28:09Meditation on my heart. Be acceptable in
28:12thy sight. Oh Lord, my strength and my
28:15[music] redeemer. Hallelujah.
28:18Once there's a sync between what we say
28:21and the posture of our heart, [music]
28:23then we will make advancement.
28:27A lot of times we are saying a lot of
28:28things that different from a posture of
28:30our heart
28:32and David was not that man but he knew
28:35that it was natural for the human mind
28:38to think [music] differently from you
28:41know and say something different for
28:43what he's thinking and so he had to pray
28:46that let the words of my mouth and the
28:49meditation of my heart
28:51let it be acceptable in thy sight. It
28:54was a prayer and I think it's a good
28:57prayer to still pray.
28:59Hallelujah.
29:01Sometimes we have met people who we know
29:03that these ones have intentionally hurt
29:06us and yet you have to say to them,
29:09"Guy, [music] I love you. I celebrate
29:11you." In your heart, you are not
29:13celebrating them.
29:15Your heart is different from what you're
29:17saying. Such a one needs to really ask
29:20the Lord. Especially in our generation
29:21where we are healing everybody. Chama.
29:24Ah my boss I celebrate you. Meanwhile in
29:27your heart of heart I say see.
29:30Hallelujah.
29:32But that was not David. The heart of
29:34David was such that he understood his
29:36fities and he trusted the Lord to help
29:38him.
29:40I hope that you will not be too big to
29:42ask the Lord to help us.
29:45Hallelujah. [music]
29:47So a man can say that he loves the Lord,
29:53but until he spends time with the word
29:55of the Lord,
29:57his words are not true.
30:05God's word is his romantic peace to the
30:07[music] believer
30:10because he is a groom and we are his
30:12bride, right?
30:15So every documentation in the word is to
30:17the end that we are presented to him
30:20without what spot or wrinkle. Right?
30:22[music] You could see Ephesians 5:25-27
30:25how that Bible Apostle Paul talking to
30:27the church in Ephesus. Husbands love
30:29your wife even as Christ loved the
30:30church and gave himself for it that he
30:33may sanctify and cleanse it. Okay. With
30:36the washing of water by the word that he
30:38might present it to himself. All right.
30:40a glorious church having no spot or
30:43wrinkle, okay? Or any such thing that it
30:47should be holy and without blemish.
30:49Praise the Lord.
30:52So, David lived a life that was worth
30:54emulating. So, when you glean through
30:57scriptures, you see that the life of
30:58David was one that we need to learn.
31:00Yes, you've learned about his
31:01sacrifices. You must also learn about
31:03his heart, which is the heart of of
31:05love. Praise the Lord.
31:08So quickly let's let me let's let's run
31:11let me see 1st Samuel 18 because of our
31:14time 1st Samuel 18
31:171st Samuel chapter 18
31:21let me skip some things and verse one
31:25and it came to pass when he had made an
31:28end of speaking [music] unto Saul that
31:30the soul of Jonathan was what okay was
31:34neat with the soul of David and Jonathan
31:37loved him as his own soul.
31:40Now Jonathan loved David.
31:43Now you understand what had happened
31:44there. David had just defeated Goliath,
31:48right? And now this guy seen by
31:52Jonathan, Jonathan just saw him and
31:54said, "Ah, no, no, no, no. I love this
31:55guy."
31:57Brotherly love.
32:00I mean, the love that Jonathan had for
32:02David was such that Jonathan could die
32:04in the state of David.
32:07Jonathan was such a guy that he could
32:10boldly defend David anywhere.
32:14[snorts] At a point it was said that you
32:17know the father of Jonathan that is
32:19Saul, King Saul said to him, don't you
32:21know that this guy is going to be the
32:23next king.
32:25It's like saying that he's using your
32:26glory
32:28and yet you love the one using your
32:29glory.
32:33Do you understand what I'm saying? that
32:35what is meant to be yours. The one who
32:37would end the dynasty,
32:40who would end the the track record of
32:43leadership or kingship or whatever it
32:45is, royalty
32:47is the one you are saying that you love
32:48like your soul. He would inherit all
32:51that is meant to be yours and you say
32:53you are fine with it. That was the kind
32:56of love that Jonathan had for David.
32:59Before then, we didn't see if David had
33:02that kind of love towards others. But I
33:04could glean on that and say that
33:06Jonathan Jonathan's love for David made
33:09David's heart
33:11to come into a posture of love towards
33:14other men
33:17because before then
33:19if you read about his sacrifices yes you
33:21will see how that he had love for
33:23animals and all the likes right you
33:25could defend them and his heart was such
33:26that he could defend sacrifice himself
33:28towards that but now this was a human
33:30coming loving him as himself off.
33:35Now, few verses after this, the women
33:39started [music] singing that David
33:42defeated 10,000,
33:46Saul defeated 1,000. That's from around
33:49verse 7. [music] Now, conflict is always
33:54built or ignited or stirred up by words.
33:59By words. Now the true test of
34:01conviction.
34:03Convictions are tested on four
34:04platforms. Number one, time tests
34:07conviction. Number two,
34:11the devil tests conviction. Number
34:14three, God himself tests conviction. And
34:18number four, conflict tests [music]
34:19convictions. Right? Conflict.
34:23He say, "I love you, Lord. I will not
34:26leave you." And that is why when for
34:28instance if those of us who have
34:30finished from universities and all the
34:32likes you will see that the fact that
34:33you're a fellowship president does not
34:34mean that you will still serve the lord
34:36after
34:37after time just you just see that ah you
34:39need to pay bills oh I said ah no no no
34:42lord you know I love you but [music] we
34:45need to chase the bag you always be here
34:48let me chase the
34:50you will see praise the lord so time
34:54will go past and certain people will
34:55have lost
34:57Praise the Lord.
34:59Okay. So these women started singing
35:00those songs and the next thing that
35:02happened in the next verse verse 8 Bible
35:06says and Saul was rough right that is he
35:10was angry and the saying displeased him
35:12and he said they have ascribed unto
35:14David what
35:17to me they have ascribed but
35:21praise the Lord. So he heard them. So he
35:24was angry. Go to the next verse.
35:28And Saul eyed David from that day
35:31forward. This is King James. The truth
35:34is that he gave him bombastic side
35:35[music] eye
35:37that you heard. It's fine that you want
35:41to even take my son's possession. But
35:42like me and you now, they're now singing
35:46your praise in my presence.
35:48Hallelujah. Move on
35:51the next verse.
35:54Bible says and the very next day in fact
35:57a tormenting spirit from God. Hold on.
36:00Does God have a tormenting spirit?
36:04So you understand what this guy is
36:06saying. The absence of God's spirit is
36:08[music] room for the enemy to manifest.
36:11Right? So because at the point the
36:14spirit of the Lord was not upon him
36:17because strife was already in his heart.
36:20Okay? Competition was already there.
36:23self was already there. So it gave room
36:28for an evil spirit to operate. So it's
36:30not like God has evil spirits somewhere.
36:32So when you misview evil spirit, it's
36:34your time. So evil spirit, you have done
36:37enough. We come out. Oh yeah. No, God
36:39doesn't have it. So once there's no
36:42light, there will be darkness.
36:45[music] Amen. So the evil spirit came
36:48upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst
36:51of the house. Next thing that happened
36:54was that David played with his hand and
36:56as at all the times and there was a
36:57javelin in whose hands?
37:01And the next thing Saul did was he threw
37:02the javelin at him?
37:04Have you gone to the next verse? Yeah.
37:06It says, "And Saul cast the javelin, for
37:09he said, I will smite David even to the
37:11wall with it. And David avoided out of
37:14his presence how many times?
37:16He tried using the javelin [music] about
37:19two times.
37:21Now you know that this person does not
37:23just hate you in their heart. physically
37:28they have showed you that auger
37:32it's like someone you visited and person
37:34say I love you that when you open and
37:36the person forgot to tell you that he
37:37has a rod trailer and a American pit boo
37:41and then you just open the gate once you
37:43open the gate lock it there's no gate
37:45man there I open it for you so you just
37:46open bar and next you lock it and the
37:48next thing these two guys are waiting
37:49for you
37:52I like to use an example of a dog
37:54because I remember the time when some
37:56Nepal guys came when it [music] was NEPA
37:58not BHT okay then and they came to the
38:01house to cut light and I told them that
38:02we had already paid they said no we have
38:04not paid and the way [music] the wire is
38:06if you cut it the wire will drop into
38:08the compound and you know they like to
38:10pack wire so I release the dog I said we
38:14have paid they say I'm not paid I said
38:16climb
38:20so the dog was barking from this end to
38:22that end from this end to that [music]
38:24end the barking everywhere barking
38:26Backing, backing, backing, backing,
38:28backing. So they couldn't cut it because
38:31if they cut it, they won't be able to
38:32pack it.
38:35Hallelujah.
38:37A lady once was going to, you know,
38:41grind pepper
38:43and looked, peeped, saw our dog, said,
38:47"Tiger, tiger, tiger."
38:49I told the [music] dog, "Hold on."
38:52She finished. No, God has forgiven me.
38:58So finished grinding the pepper. She was
38:59coming back and she came again. Tiger,
39:02tiger, tiger. And I said to him, catch
39:05her.
39:08That was my heart. I've changed.
39:13And he went after her
39:16and [music] she held on
39:19to the pepe.
39:22But it got to a point it was between her
39:24life and the peppe.
39:26So she threw the peppe.
39:30The dog returned home after the peppe
39:32came down. So immedately my dad
39:34returned. Then I said dad this happened
39:36today in case some people come to
39:40this is what I did. This guy he was say
39:43tiger tiger tiger. And I
39:46I knew he was going to defend me. So he
39:48was also waiting for them to come but
39:50they didn't come.
39:54And that's the natural state of heart of
39:56a man. Selfish
39:59[music] you know in fact I make bold to
40:02say that that is one reason why selfie
40:03was developed
40:06to help harness [music] the selfish
40:08nature in man because each time you
40:11point a camera at yourself you are the
40:13focus of attraction. You discover that
40:15your head is bigger than everybody's
40:16head because it's selfie.
40:20But the death on the cross was not a
40:22selfie. It was a group photograph. All
40:25of us we featured inside.
40:28Hallelujah. All of us were there. They
40:32didn't cut some people's head. He said,
40:33"We didn't see this." No, no. We were
40:34there. So when he died, we died. When he
40:37resurrected, we resurrected. Praise the
40:40Lord. So this guy had javelin thrown at
40:43him about twice. And yet he kept on
40:46going to serve the Lord. So, one thing
40:49happened. Let's jump to the next verse
40:53[music]
40:54or let's go to verse 14. Go to verse 14
40:57because of our time. Go to verse 14.
40:59Bible says, [music] "And David behaved
41:01himself wisely in all his ways and the
41:04Lord was with him." Meaning that he had
41:07reasons to lose his mind. He had reasons
41:10to misbehave. But guess what? He still
41:14behaved wisely. [music]
41:16So the reason why a person will say that
41:19I started smoking because my parents
41:21abandoned me they did this is not
41:23because of those situation it was
41:26because [music] they lost themselves.
41:29David never lost consciousness of who he
41:31was his
41:32[music]
41:33identity. Are we together? He had a
41:36choice. It was enough reason for him to
41:38hate Saul. It was enough reason for him
41:40to say that no let me go and stay in the
41:42bush. If it is lion I'm contending
41:44against I know I'm contending against
41:45lion but this one you now say you love
41:46me you brought me to royalty and yet you
41:48are even attacking me you want to kill
41:50me thank God I escaped for my life
41:53praise the lord but these things were
41:55required they were important for the
41:57journey of becoming a king
42:00you see the greatest expression of a
42:03believer's maturity is his love work
42:07if you truly are maturing it will show
42:09in your love work
42:11in your love work. If your love work is
42:14still questionable, then truly
42:18your maturity is questionable.
42:21And that is the thing about this love
42:24work. We are all growing in it daily.
42:27Daily.
42:28Hallelujah.
42:30Praise the Lord.
42:33So a war because of our time a war had
42:36broken up or broken [music]
42:38you know broken out and Saul was
42:42involved. He went with Jonathan.
42:45Let's jump to
42:482 Samuel
42:51chapter 1. We're going to stay on this
42:54for a bit. 2 Samuel chapter 1. We'll
42:58read from verse one.
43:00Now it came to pass after the death of
43:02Saul
43:04when David was returned from a slaughter
43:05of the Amalikites and David had abode
43:08two [music] days in Zigglac. Next verse
43:11it even came to pass on the third day
43:14that behold a man came out of a camp
43:17from Saul with his clo
43:20and [music] the earth upon his head. And
43:23so it was when he came to David that he
43:26fell to the earth and did obesence. Now
43:29hold on. Bible says [music] he came out
43:32from the camp. It didn't mean that he
43:35belonged to that camp, right? Thank you
43:38sir. Now he came out and he rent his
43:42clothes. So you would naturally say that
43:44he was mourning right? Come on now talk
43:46to me. You you say he was mourning right
43:49now that oh there's a loss. So we are
43:51mourning. So he tore his clothes and he
43:53came out. Even puts debt on his head.
43:56You say ah this guy is sympathizing with
43:58us. [music]
43:59Right. But move on. Next verse.
44:03He says, "David asked him, where have
44:05you come from?" He says, "I've escaped
44:07from the Israelite camp." The man
44:09replied. Just follow this story. Next
44:12verse.
44:14And David said unto him, "How went the
44:17matter?" I prayed thee. Tell me. And he
44:19answered that the people have fled from
44:21the battle and many of the people also
44:24are fallen and dead and Saul and
44:26Jonathan his son are dead also. The way
44:29I'm saying it is I'm because I'm reading
44:31it. Go back. Let me actually say it
44:34possibly the way he said it. Ah hey the
44:38fight that broke out there is even God
44:40that saved me.
44:42Even Jonathan and Saul they are dead.
44:46say, "Wo, is God saved me? The only
44:49thing I came out with is my life."
44:52Next verse. Because if you hear that
44:54narrative or story, you start beating
44:56this guy. Uh-uh. Sorry. Thank God you're
44:58even alive, right? Not even knowing that
45:01he's the one.
45:04Move on. And David said unto the young
45:06man that told him, "How do you know
45:10that Saul is the eye that
45:16Go back to the previous verse.
45:20Thank you.
45:23King James version.
45:26That's what
45:28I love.
45:32Are you led?
45:34Okay.
45:36And he answered,
45:39next verse, please. Verse 5.
45:43And David said unto the young man that
45:45[music] told him, "How knowest thou that
45:46Saul and Jeratan his son be dead?" Next
45:48verse.
45:50And the young man that told him said,
45:53"As I happened by chance, you would see
45:55whether it's chance
45:58upon Mount Gilboa,
46:00behold Saul leaned upon his pair,
46:06and lo, the chariots and the horsemen
46:09followed hard after him." Next verse.
46:13And when he looked behind him, he saw
46:16me.
46:17Someone who is in war.
46:21And he called unto me and I answered,
46:23"Here am I."
46:26You see the story. Now you think that is
46:29one of them.
46:31With this, if you have read to this
46:32point, you will believe he's one of
46:33them, right? But look at what happened.
46:35And he said UNTO ME, "WHO ART THOU?" AND
46:38I ANSWERED HIM, "I am
46:41the people that we are fighting against.
46:44So [music] your position now called you
46:46to come.
46:49I don't know if you are on you are
46:51following and you too you now you just
46:53ah I am your enemy and he felt
46:55comfortable with you. Next verse and he
46:57said unto me again stand I pray thee
47:01upon me and slay me.
47:04Simply put he begged me to kill him for
47:07anguish is come upon me because my life
47:10is yet whole in me. Next verse. So I
47:14stood upon him and slew him. See the way
47:16he said it. Because I was sure that he
47:20could not leave. Could he leave Jo? So I
47:24just finished the work. After that he
47:26was falling and I took the crown
47:29from upon his head and the bracelet that
47:32was on his arm and I have brought them
47:35hither unto my Lord
47:37is the audacity for me.
47:40So he brought it to David so that David
47:42you know you have been anointed king now
47:44and this one has been standing on your
47:45way. You know we can even raise it as a
47:47prayer point. Every man who has been
47:48standing upon my rightful position. Oh
47:50yeah. What are you waiting for? Die.
47:52DIE. RIGHT. BECAUSE THAT SHOULD BE HIS
47:54PRAYER POINT.
47:56And now they are presenting to you what
47:57you have been praying for.
48:00Next verse.
48:03And David took hold on his clothes and
48:05[music] rent them. So he was not even
48:07excited at
48:09are we together. So the fact that he got
48:12it was not it. It was a process of
48:13getting it.
48:16The heart posture we must have if it is
48:19going to break hearts for us to arrive
48:21at it. That is not what God will plan
48:23for us to have.
48:26If we have to BRUISE HEADS, A LOT OF
48:29BLOOD SHED JUST FOR US TO HAVE THAT
48:31WHICH was rightfully ours.
48:34And you can understand what happened to
48:37Jacob and Esau. IT WAS PROPHESIED AHEAD
48:40OF TIME that Jacob will rule over. But
48:44Jacob had to put in flesh
48:47to help.
48:49And after he even got the blessing from
48:51his father, he still wrestled with an
48:53angel and he was telling the angel to
48:54bless him. If you were blessed by your
48:57father, which blessing again are you
48:58asking for?
49:01He said, "I will not let you go unless
49:03you bless me." But your father has
49:04blessed you. And that is when you come
49:06to see how that truly it is the blessing
49:08of the Lord that maketh a man rich and
49:11he has no atom of sorrow added to it.
49:14Jacob then stood before Pharaoh and
49:17Pharaoh asked him how old he was and he
49:19had to addund
49:22and something hard years. King James
49:24added hard to it. He had toiled all his
49:27life. He was carrying the blessing. But
49:30yet he was suffering
49:33because the process was not well done.
49:37Each time we break God's [music]
49:38process. Each time we break God's
49:40process, we elongate our journey each
49:43time.
49:45So the heart of David here was that he
49:49didn't want this to come to him
49:51leadership to come to him based on the
49:53hurt of another.
49:55If you read 1st Samuel 24, you will see
49:58how that David tore a piece of the clo
50:01of Saul
50:03and his heart broke.
50:06Ah, so other men were like, "Ah, God has
50:10given you." I mean, the guys who were
50:11the mighty men, God has given you said,
50:13"No, how dare me touch the anointed of
50:15the Lord." That was his heart. Now the
50:19push of that heart in 1st Samuel 24
50:22imparted on please go back to 2 Sam I'm
50:25sorry chapter one imparted upon the
50:29heart of these guys who walked with him
50:32because after David rent his clothes THE
50:34NEXT THING THAT happened was that these
50:36people also rent their clothes. [music]
50:38Watch 2 Samuel 1. Are you there?
50:44Next verse.
50:47See, then David took hold of his clothes
50:49and rented them. Likewise,
50:53all the men that were with him. SO, IT
50:55WAS NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT DAVID DID.
50:58THE HEART OF DAVID HAD been imparted on
51:00them.
51:02No competition here.
51:05Our generation has a problem where we
51:08begin to compete with people we should
51:10be learning from.
51:14Competing with people we should be
51:15collaborating with.
51:17That was not David.
51:19The people who had walked with him had
51:21come to take a glean from his heart. But
51:24that's not where we are going to.
51:27This verse says, "And they mourned and
51:28wept and fasted until even for Saul and
51:32for who? His son. And for the people of
51:36the Lord and for THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL."
51:38ARE YOU SEEING THE HEART? Because they
51:41were fallen by the sword.
51:44Next verse.
51:46But it looked like David just took a
51:48break from the suru. Now ask this young
51:51man that brought the news
51:55where is thou and he answered I am the
51:58son of a stranger
52:01an amalikite
52:03you even
52:06he even said you're a stranger.
52:09David then said unto him,
52:11"HOW WAS THOU NOT AFRAID
52:14TO STRETCH FORTH THY HAND to destroy the
52:18Lord's anointed? Me that have been
52:20anointed, I can say that after all, it's
52:22anointed against anointed." I be man of
52:25God against man of God. But you, you've
52:29not even SMELLED MINISTRY AND YOU ARE
52:32DRAGGING MEN OF GOD ONLINE.
52:36YOU'RE NOT EVEN A WORKER.
52:39[music]
52:39YOU HAVE NOT PASTORED.
52:43Every friend that has come into your
52:45life, they have all left. YOU ARE
52:47STANDING ALONE AND YOU ARE BOLDLY
52:49DRAWING AND DRAGGING MEN. And that's how
52:52those men of God are. That's how they
52:54are. And next thing we chat you up, what
52:56church do you attend? What do you do in
52:58your church? Said, no, I just like to
53:00stay low.
53:02I'm just there in the church. I don't
53:04like to be noticed. YOU ARE NOT SERVING
53:06IN ANY CAPACITY, NO RESPONSIBILITY
53:09TAKEN,
53:12then you have no right to talk. He asked
53:15him, who are you? He [music] said is I'm
53:18a son of a stranger, an Amalachite. I
53:21says, what gave you the boldness
53:24that you now think that you can now
53:27touch the Lord's anointed? [music]
53:29Next verse.
53:32And David called one of the young men
53:34and said, "Go near and fall upon him."
53:38Simply put, go near him and kill him.
53:41And he smoked him and he died. That
53:43mouth, that's the last news. The one he
53:46thought he brought good news, but good
53:47news became the head of his life.
53:52And David said unto him, "Thy blood be
53:55upon thy head [music] and for thy mouth,
54:00[music]
54:01it has testified against thee, saying, I
54:05have seen the anointed." So most things
54:07that stand against people are the word
54:10spoken.
54:14He didn't not even because he killed the
54:17anointed, but [snorts] because he could
54:19speak.
54:21And you hear the words of Jesus saying
54:24that the sin is even greater in the
54:26heart than it is in action. That if you
54:28look at a woman lustfully, you have
54:29committed immorality with her in your
54:32heart. The devil did not have to. It was
54:35in his heart that I [music] will ASCEND
54:37AND BE. GOD JUDGED HIS HEART FIRST AND
54:41EACH TIME we come before the Lord, the
54:42Lord first judges our heart. The summary
54:45and the totality of a man's life is
54:46first the posture of his heart
54:49as a man thinkketh in his heart. So he
54:51is so the words you would say is out of
54:54the abundance of your heart. Maybe he
54:56was thinking that the next he will give
54:57him a ministerial position for bringing
54:59the crown. After all you slew my enemy.
55:02No that was not the heart of David.
55:06Move to the next verse.
55:09David then made a very very profound
55:11statement when he was lamenting. Next
55:13verse
55:15he says.
55:18Next verse ma'am.
55:22Next verse turn not
55:25is said good. He says the beauty of
55:27Israel is slain upon the high places.
55:31How are the mighty fallen?
55:34Next verse
55:36he now goes further to say tell it not
55:38in Gats.
55:40publish it not in the streets of
55:42Ashcelon,
55:43LEST THE DAUGHTERS OF THE PHILISTINES
55:46will rejoice. SO THERE ARE CERTAIN
55:48THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN IN THIS FAMILY
55:51BECAUSE LOVE IS AT THE CORE OF OUR
55:52HEART.
55:54It will also end in our heart. It does
55:57not go outside of our heart. It doesn't
56:00need to be heard by another because the
56:02same offense in my heart will be
56:04multiplied when it is heard by another.
56:06Are we together? So David says, "Let's
56:09[music] kill it. Let's make sure it's
56:11not published. Let's make sure nobody's
56:13testifying of it." And that was why he
56:15killed that guy. You can't talk about
56:17it. That he the Lord's anointed died
56:21anyhow. [music]
56:22The Lord's anointed.
56:25Yes, he had every right to say that he
56:27was against me. He was doing this
56:30against me. But again, the Lord had his
56:34hand upon him.
56:36Praise [music] the Lord.
56:38He said, "Lest the daughters of the
56:39Philistines rejoice, [music] lest the
56:42daughters of the uncircumcised
56:44triumph."
56:47There are things that happen in the body
56:48of Christ
56:50and you see the way people talk about
56:52it, you will know that the love for the
56:53body is not there.
56:57And this morning if we are learning
56:58about the heart of David, we must learn
57:01about the love dimension that David had
57:04in which [music] when he saw his
57:05enemies,
57:07people who were not enemies in in
57:09secret, enemies publicly, he still loved
57:12them. And that is why I say a lot of
57:14times that love is for our nature before
57:17it is our culture. [music]
57:20Love is not something we first give.
57:22Love is for something we are, we became,
57:26[music]
57:28we can give because we have. Every
57:32demand God makes upon a man is a demand
57:35of his investment upon such a man. God
57:38has invested love in our heart. So when
57:40he demands for it is not above our
57:43capacity to deliver.
57:46Hallelujah. And God wants you to love.
57:51Jesus speaking to his disciples, he
57:53says, "By this shall all men know that
57:55ye are my disciples if ye love one
57:57another."
57:59Hallelujah. If you love one another,
58:03Matthew chapter 5, if you read
58:05downwards, you see how that Jesus was
58:08saying to them, how that they should
58:10love not just as the way the world
58:12loves. Where is your reward if you love
58:14the way they love? So we ought to take
58:17our love ahead above the love expressed
58:21[music] by this world.
58:24Love is not a now is a doing word.
58:27Love is not understood until it is
58:29expressed.
58:31Love gives. AND THAT WAS THE HEART of
58:34David. David gave. David did not just
58:38give his substance. He gave himself.
58:41Apostle Paul did the same. While I was
58:44studying, I came across a woman who,
58:49you know, likened to one of the god's
58:50generals, um, I think, um, Mark Fen. Am
58:53I correct? Media, I think you guys have
58:55the [music] name. She developed a bow
58:58leg
58:59for constantly going to preach the
59:01gospel. [music] She was always riding on
59:03a horse. So after a while, she developed
59:05ble. She was not born like that. Some of
59:09us want to maintain our figure eight. We
59:11don't want to lose anything for the
59:13gospel. How much will you do for the
59:15love of the gospel? Hallelujah. If the
59:20whole crux of the gospel that you have
59:21believed has to do with the things that
59:23you have gotten, then you have not
59:25really come to embrace the gospel. The
59:28gospel when received, yeah, that's an
59:30Amy simple mfassen.
59:33Okay. The whole crux of the gospel is
59:36not just what we receive, it's also what
59:38we lose. You must lose self. Lose self.
59:43A man was asked, they said to him, "What
59:45have you gained by praying? You are
59:48still on the same one room apartment and
59:50nothing has changed." He said, "Yes, I
59:52agree that I'm in the same one room
59:54apartment and that and that and that."
59:55But one thing has happened. I've lost
59:57anger. I've lost malice. I've lost
1:00:00ability to hold on to strife. [music]
1:00:04What have you lost to the gospel?
1:00:07Is the gospel priced enough to make you
1:00:09inconvenient?
1:00:11Me, I just love my convenience. You
1:00:14I just love it.
1:00:16Have you come [music] to that point
1:00:17where you can go all out for the gospel?
1:00:20Some people cannot hear God say to them,
1:00:22[music] "Sell all that you have and give
1:00:25for the cause of the gospel."
1:00:27Some people are graduates today. They
1:00:29cannot hear. Even in our age, it's
1:00:31becoming more strange to hear God say to
1:00:33people, resign your job and go to a
1:00:35village and be a missionary.
1:00:38It's becoming strange.
1:00:41Leave all and follow.
1:00:44Leave all and follow.
1:00:47All Apostle Paul says THAT I EVER
1:00:51COUNTED gain I saw it AS LOSS.
1:00:54ALL I FELT THAT I LOST, I found out
1:00:58[music] that it was truly gain.
1:01:01So all that you ever think, imagine that
1:01:04you lost to the gospel, heavenwise, it
1:01:07was a gain. All that you thought you
1:01:10gained
1:01:13by your convenience,
1:01:15if it is not translated to souls, then
1:01:19it was truly not a game. The heart of
1:01:21David is the heart of love.
1:01:24Every day love will be demanded from
1:01:27you. Your response must be
1:01:31enough given to everyone.
1:01:34Give it to everyone. This guy came to
1:01:37Jesus asked how [music] many times
1:01:39should I forgive my brother? And Jesus
1:01:41said 70 * 7 right in a day. So it means
1:01:46that you must be jobless to be counting.
1:01:49number one step on you said you know I'm
1:01:52warning you that's how you did the other
1:01:53time number two I forgive you number
1:01:56three until 490 right
1:01:59no
1:02:01Jesus was simply saying [music]
1:02:03that love is in your heart count no
1:02:06wrong see me and hear me well if you
1:02:09read 1 Corinthians 13 you will see that
1:02:11a man can sacrifice and yet have no love
1:02:14but you cannot love and not sacrifice
1:02:18you can do the things that David did and
1:02:19yet not have the hearts that David had.
1:02:23But the heart ensures that you have the
1:02:26result and that is why we are
1:02:28considering the heart of David.
1:02:31I want you to bow your heads and ask the
1:02:34Lord.
1:02:38The Lord,
1:02:42find my heart yielded to your word
1:02:46[music]
1:02:48yielded to your instructions,
1:02:51yielded
1:02:53to your pruning.
1:02:55We are like
1:02:58those people in the hands of [music]
1:03:01you know
1:03:02the potter.
1:03:05The way he pleases is the way he moves
1:03:07us. [music]
1:03:09And we have seen the heart of David.
1:03:13How that he loved. [music]
1:03:15He had reasons not to love but he loved.
1:03:20He saw men who HURT HIM AND YET HIS
1:03:22RESPONSE was love.
1:03:26long lost relationships will be
1:03:27restored.
1:03:29[music]
1:03:35Lift your voice and talk to your father
1:03:37to help your heart. [music]
1:03:40Tell him to help your heart.
1:03:43[music]
1:03:46I want to see you more clearly.
1:03:49[music and singing]
1:03:51Love you more dearly.
1:03:54follow [music] you monarly
1:03:58day by
1:04:01we want to see [music]
1:04:03you [singing] more clearly.
1:04:06Love you more [music] dearly. [singing]
1:04:10Follow you more
1:04:14[music]
1:04:15deeper.
1:04:17If you don't mind, rise up on your feet
1:04:18as we close [music] this meeting.
1:04:20[singing]
1:04:23Make sure you're still praying [music]
1:04:24to your father. [singing]
1:04:28Follow follow you, Lord.
1:04:35[music]
1:04:37I want you to get a neighbor. We're
1:04:39going to pray the prayer we prayed last
1:04:40week. [music]
1:04:42Philippians chapter 1 verse 9 and 10.
1:04:45Get one neighbor. You're [music] going
1:04:47to pray for that neighbor. Philippians 1
1:04:499 and 10. Just one person.
1:04:52Get [music] one person to pray with. Are
1:04:56you there? Philippians [music] 1 9-10.
1:05:03I sense the anointing of our Lord here.
1:05:07I'm waiting.
1:05:13Philippians 1. [music] If you can pick
1:05:15your Bibles, please do.
1:05:18Okay, they're here. Let's read together.
1:05:20Okay, let's read together. One to go.
1:05:23And this I pray.
1:05:26That your love may abound yet [music]
1:05:28in knowledge.
1:05:31Verse 10.
1:05:33[music]
1:05:34Wow. That he may approve things that are
1:05:38excellent. That he may be sincere.
1:05:43So [music] you're going to look at your
1:05:44neighbor and you're going to read this
1:05:45scripture in prayers to them. Are you
1:05:46are you are you with me? From verse
1:05:48[music] 9.
1:05:49Take it again. Proverbs 9. You are
1:05:52praying for them. And this I pray that
1:05:55your love may abound yet more and more
1:05:58in knowledge and in all judgment. Next
1:06:01verse.
1:06:04That ye may approve things that are
1:06:07excellent. That he may be sincere.
1:06:10[music]
1:06:12Lift your voice and pray for that
1:06:14neighbor.
1:06:16[music] Pray for that brother. Pray for
1:06:17that sister
1:06:22that their love may abound yet more and
1:06:24more [music]
1:06:28that they may APPROVE THINGS THAT ARE
1:06:30EXCELLENT.
1:06:33Be sincere without offense.
1:06:37Come on, pray.
1:06:42[music]
1:06:47[music]
1:06:50Pray for their hearts. [music]
1:06:53Want to see [singing] you more clear.
1:07:00Pray. Pray. [music]
1:07:03Pray.
1:07:06[music]
1:07:12Pray for them.
1:07:13[music]
1:07:14Pray for them.
1:07:22[music]
1:07:28[music]
1:07:31Yes sir, we are that church that loves.
1:07:34[music]
1:07:35Yes sir, we are that church that loves.
1:07:39Whatsoever [music] things are pure,
1:07:41whatever things are lovely,
1:07:43there are things you are to prove on
1:07:46your heart is without offense.
1:07:49My God, [music]
1:07:55your heart is without offense. My God
1:07:58[music]
1:08:03[music]
1:08:06in Jesus name we are praying. Get
1:08:09another neighbor to pray for. [music]
1:08:12Some people's hearts
1:08:15as we are praying for them, some
1:08:16people's hearts are receiving healing.
1:08:19While we are praying for some other
1:08:20people, we are preparing [music] them
1:08:22for the days ahead.
1:08:24We're preparing them for the days ahead
1:08:27where their hearts [music] will be
1:08:29yielded
1:08:31to give love at the face of offense.
1:08:34[music]
1:08:36We're going to pray the same scripture
1:08:38over this new neighbor [music]
1:08:40from verse 9.
1:08:43that their love may abound yet more and
1:08:45more in knowledge and in all judgment
1:08:50that they will approve things that are
1:08:52excellent that they will be sincere
1:08:56without offense [music]
1:08:58till the day of Christ. Lift your voice
1:09:00and pray for that brother
1:09:02online on ground. [music]
1:09:04Lift your voice and pray for that
1:09:06sister.
1:09:08Your heart is without offense.
1:09:12Offense has no place in your heart.
1:09:15Love will grow in you.
1:09:18You will grow in the knowledge of the
1:09:20love of the father. [music]
1:09:22Yet more and more.
1:09:26Yet more and more.
1:09:31[music]
1:09:33Yet more and more.
1:09:36[music]
1:09:37Yet more and more.
1:09:42Let's more and more.
1:09:45[music]
1:09:50Let's pray.
1:09:52[music]
1:09:54Come on. Somebody needs to pray some
1:09:56more for that brother. [music] Somebody
1:09:58needs to pray some more for that sister.
1:10:01Your heart will be found loving as the
1:10:03Lord wants you to love. [music]
1:10:11[music]
1:10:18[music]
1:10:23[music]
1:10:29[music]
1:10:34Jesus.
1:10:35[music]
1:10:41[music and singing]
1:10:42In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
1:10:46Let go of the neighbor. Lift your hands.
1:10:48I perceive a second wave of the
1:10:49anointing here.
1:10:52Lift your hands and give him worship
1:10:53once again.
1:10:55Give him worship.
1:10:57Raise your volume, brother.
1:11:00[music]
1:11:00Give him worship.
1:11:06I perceive a second wave of the
1:11:07anointing. [music] I began to hear how
1:11:10that the spirit of wisdom
1:11:12is being released.
1:11:14I heard it on Friday. I'm hearing it
1:11:16again.
1:11:18How that is impacting his sons and his
1:11:20daughters
1:11:22with the spirit of wisdom. With the
1:11:24spirit of wisdom. It's like the wisdom
1:11:27of the ancient. [music]
1:11:29It's like the wisdom of the ancient.
1:11:32It's like the wisdom of the [music]
1:11:34ancient.
1:11:36Yeah,
1:11:38I heard this on Friday. Young ancient.
1:11:40[music]
1:11:45Yeah, there's a spirit in man. [music]
1:11:48The breath of the Almighty giveth him
1:11:50understanding.
1:11:55Wow.
1:11:57[music]
1:12:03Hallelujah.