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You know, Scott was Our next speaker Uh, I have to give some background to the

Covenant. And I was started at the church and Um, we were praying for breakthrough. You know, so, God, what's going on? So one day he told me, he said, look. Uh, you, I, I've said this to go somewhere. You should go back to the things you are doing in school. That you have despised and replant them. It's like you have siblings and you take it and you now replant them from the sheltered place. So one of the things we used to do was called the Bible Believers Convention. And you know I think we started in 1991, so we put Bible Believers Convention. So we scrambled it. So instead of writing the Bible, we wrote it to UNILAG and pasted it everywhere. And then we said, who can make meaning of this? And of course our folks came and said, God is no author of Confusion. All right, but it was called the Bible Believers Convention, and we used to invite speakers, um. We used to invite everybody.

And Our guest. Music minister then. Was somebody by the name of Christie Batui. So that is 34 years ago. We never held a conference, which is what, what I'm sure that is what evolved into Wolfburg. Without Christie Batuli singing. She used to come from, is it? She used to for Bishop did back then I think I remember. He won't preach without Chrisba raising him. I'm just saying this so you put things in context. So for some of us, it is full circle now. Alright, 34 years ago. Was the first time I introduced her to a rostrum. So 34 years after. Let's also welcome. Not to sing this time. But to preach and to teach the word of God. Reverend Christy Baturi.

Can you lift up your hand, what an awesome. To hear that. God can sustain people for that long. Thank you Jesus. Thank you that the story is not different. Because between me and him and the two other ministers who

Thank you Lord for us.

Until we see your face, Lord, there is no other place to go, no other one to follow. There's nothing else to hold on to. So thank you, Lord. We give you praise. Thank you for this season, oh God. Thank you for this season that you're preparing your people for the advent of Christ, oh God. You are removing from us the things that don't belong and you're adding the things that are needed, that are missing. Lord, we thank you, Lord. So they dropped me a few minutes before the bus stop. As I was walking to the bus stop at 5 a.m. or earlier than that, some people jumped to me and collected my bag, collected my money, collected everything.

Be scared of coming to Lagos, so I had to beg somebody transport money to go to UNILAG. To meet up with them and of course the address of where I was going was in the bag, so I didn't even know where I was going. The only thing I.

My head was my it was funny like stuck in my head. I didn't And

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It was somebody that ran and called a member of the fellowship or the pastor of another fellowship. That's the person that now call Pastor Paul, you came out and saw me drenched. I like, what happened? talk about it. That's how they took me to Marketo. And bought a handbag for me because I don't have a handbag again. I've collected it. But the Lord restored to me on that trip more than 20 times what I lost on that trip. People just got me. Let me just, yeah, send me Tapao because he would not have invited me, uh, Chebi have been there since he did not remember me. Thank God he's not here so I can say what I want to say. Praise the Lord. All right, this song is titled. Today the world has reached an age of sophistication. We're not that easy to press, and the moral standard is less. Teenage prostitution is no news now. Drug barons are movers in society. The things we used to call taboo

are now so much fun to do today.

News now and drug barons are movers in society. The things we used to call taboo are now so much fun to do, but there is a kingdom where holiness reigns and a new life is granted. to those who want to change, no discrimination. Equal opportunity where you have meaning in living, peace, direction, and love. Hallelujah. People don't commit. I don't anymore. Did I change key? Did I change key? Ah, don't confuse me. I did I change key. People don't commit adultery anymore, you know why it is referred to as having an affair. And sound business acumen is how to cheat your fellow man. I changed it now, Abby.

Find it here again. Mm. People don't commit adultery anymore. It is referred to as having an affair and sound business acumen is how to cheat. I humans.

And so we love the world and the views of the world and refuse to put God first. There is a kingdom is reggae where holiness reigns and a new life is granted. To those who want to change. Discrimination, equal opportunity where you have meaning in living, peace, direction. Break it down. What do you

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You may have fame, fortune, and power. If you are a sinner, you fall. God, accept that Jesus died for you and His kingdom will begin for you. Enter that kingdom.

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May be seated. There is a kingdom where holiness reigns. New. Change and the risk of discrimination. You know, in some kingdoms, some people are more worthy than others.

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Equal opportunity to everyone who asks, there will be an answer. To anyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. I'd like us to go to Genesis chapter one. I love the theme for the conference because And these are things we should be talking about, you see. fulfilled. In time prophecy. See the speed. If you're paying attention, things are shifting in the spirit. So this theme is so apt for this time. In Genesis chapter 1 and verse 17 and 18, I wanna read the amplified. First Genesis 7:1:17-18, God placed them in the expanse of The heavens to provide light upon the earth. He's talking about the sun. Sustained it. God is sustaining it. Praise the Lord. Romans chapter 14 and verse 17.

Romans 14:17. God is not meat and drink. But righteousness. And joy in the Holy Ghost. transition. I

Filled with righteousness, filled with peace, filled with joy. So you see, we're always chasing after the peace when choir was ministering just now. We're saying I got joy, then we say I got peace. I didn't hear I got righteousness. Hello. These are the three elements of the kingdom. We want the joy and the peace because those ones are cheap and easy. They, they sit on us easy. They leave us comfortable. They leave us in a place of ease, but righteousness is the one that pulls on our flesh until our flesh either by, so. I got righteousness. Say that one. Do you. Now, I'm not talking about the righteousness that Christ bequeaths on us. I'm talking about the one we walk out with fear and trembling. That's the one I'm talking about. And God separated the light. From the darkness and the kingdom of God is not. Easy. We belong to God's kingdom. Romans 14:17. Easy translation.

We belong to God's kingdom. The things that we eat and drink are not really important. Ah, for some people now just hearing that, their heart is shaking. Food is not important. They are foodies, foodies. One of my children, her teacher calls her food food a foodest. Food For some of us just hearing this, we are disturbed. Eh, Food and drink are not important. What else is important? They have to let us eat though. Some people are sitting here now and even though they're in the conference, their stomach is at home or is outside where the food stand is because let them not finish that particular one that I want before I get there or praise God. It's not really important. These things are important. These are the things that are important. What is right. In my mind Be happy.

It's God that helps us to live in joy, in peace, and in righteousness, but I like the fact that the Bible goes first to righteousness before it goes to peace and joy. And righteousness is not a topic we hear about often in church these days. We hear about what God will do, how much we can receive. We hear about how God can give us revelation so that we can shine. But God is calling us to a place of righteousness. And so, this afternoon I came to speak about the kingdom where it relates to your sexuality. I'm going there I'm going there. I am going, yeah, yeah, yes, I am. I'm going today. I'm going above the shadow. Somebody was leading praise worship. When I heard praise the Lord, I said that person is old because that song is an old song. This is one of the old songs. Your sexuality, your spirituality. That's what I'm talking about today. Praise the Lord.

Revelation chapter 12. Revelation chapter 12 and verse 1. We can do King James here. Revelation chapter 12 and verse 1, and there appeared a great wonder in heaven. A woman clothed with a And the moon under her feet and upon her head displaced the first one and that woman is found in Revelation chapter 17. Let's go there. Revelation 17 from verse 1. I'm gonna read from verse 1 to 5. And there came one of the 7.

Say unto me, Come hither, I will show unto thee the judgement of the great whore that seated upon many waters. I want you to pay attention to many waters she seated upon, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit. Into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast full of names of blasphemy having 7 heads and 10 horns. Uh-huh, and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand. Full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication, verse 5. And upon her forehead was a name written mystery. Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of earth. I want us to jump to verse 15. Verse 16 of Revelation chapter 17 verse 16,

and he said to me, remember. There was an angel with John. He, he said to me, the waters which thou sawest where the horse sitteth are who.

And Ah, whoever you are.

Part of a multi, definitely part of a nation. I see the flag of many nations here. hungry. Now, how about a very funny story. When he was a child. Until this phone has stopped work. OK, that started. It is actually. He said when he was a child, they were living in a compound and there was this man whom he and his wife married. They were the same size when they married, but because she kept having children. I want to shout. Help. And they ran into the house. What did they see? He was beside it and the woman was sitting on him. Like apparently that's what has been happening all the time and argument to try and push it to. I want to sit on him. That's what whatever she wanted, otherwise it's getting up. In the When you are sitting upon somebody, you are exerting full authority. said to my lord, sit down. When you are sitting, you have full control. You are in authority.

So this whore, this Babylon woman is seated upon people. She's exerting. Praise the Lord. Let's go back to the same chapter 17 and verse 6. I want you to see something in verse 6. And I saw the woman, so don't forget she had a cup and it was full of abominations, right? But look at what she was drinking. I saw the woman drunken with the blood of who? So it was saints that were inside her cup. They had the abomination and the filthiness. And with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. Jump to chapter 18 and verse 20. Just one place to live. Chapter 13 verse 20. Heaven, now he's talking about Babylon because. But I want to rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her. Who are the people that they are asking to rejoice? Who? And who apostles and who. OK,

go to verse 24. Apostles, saints, prophets, and in her. Was found the blood of who? And who He You know that some of the biggest kind of astronauts are centred on sexual.

Go to verse 4 of chapter 18, Revelation 18:4. Let me show you something else there. And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Everybody read. I Dew The mother of who? Come out of her, my people. God's people are inside the abomination. We have forgotten that the Bible says we are in the world, but we are not of the world. We have become of the world as much as we are in the world. I've heard crazy, crazy, crazy analogies about holiness that don't resemble what the Bible is asking us to do and be. Lord, OK, let's go to. Uh What's happening And the merchants of this God has judged now and the merchant of the earth shall weep. They mourn over her. Why

no one buy their merchandise anymore. Look at the things they were selling in Babylon. The merchandise of gold. And purple and silk and talent and all pine wood. the most.

I Or Frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and chariots. Look at the last two things they were selling in Babylon. The slaves and who? The soul. I, I can understand slavery. That's a physical so, how do you sell a soul. Thank you, my So And God said something to me as I was asking, how do men treat them? To me, a man can have fame and it won't satisfy him. That's why we had the movies called uh. What was that? What, what is that thing that these old, old actors came. Indis is indispensable? What do they call them? Expendables, uh-huh, Volume 1, not 2 or 3. You see all those men in their youthful days, they, they carried action movies. People watch them, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis. Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Longren, all of them gathered together.

They could not capture. None of them could carry a movie by themselves again. They're too old, so they came together. They were trying to recapture the glory of their youth. And they made more money than they ever did. You know why? all their fans watched the movie. So fame will never satisfy. That's why people steal the kind of money they steal. And you hear the figure, your brain can't calculate it. Even in lifetimes they cannot spend that money. You know, the Bible says that God gave Israel what they wanted, but He sent leanness into their souls. So what is driving people who steal that kind of money is not a physical poverty, it's the poverty of the soul, and they think money will fill it, but money cannot fill it. Only God can fill that kind of emptiness. So there's steal monies they can't spend in 10 lifetimes. I don't know what seeing that amount in the bank does to them.

Praise the Lord. So money will not satisfy. And God said to me, but when you take your sexuality. And you ate it. It's the only thing that has the capacity to compete with God and tip God out. Because your sexuality is your spirituality. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let's go to Revelation 19:1-4. Now, this Bodies and souls of men. God said to me, when you trade your sexuality for spirituality, you have sold your soul. That's how to sell your soul. But look at what I, I, I met a man at a conference and he was saying to me, hey, you know, Reverend Christie, we men, we're not emotional like the women, we're not mushy. So all that worship and crying and falling, it's not for us men really. Uh, we just wait for the meat of the word. So we, I say, sir, you are you are a liar. He was a pastor. I told him, sir, you lie. I said, you say what? When Isaiah saw the Lord, what did he do?

Was he a man or a woman? He fell. When Jeremiah saw the Lord, what did he do? He said, My bones, my loins were loosed. Was he a man or a woman? You say, you say what? I said, sir, let me tell you why you cannot bow when you come into the presence of God. There's already another God enthroned. There's another God seated already in your heart. That's why you can't bow before another. Another one already is there. Praise the Lord. I say, you say what? John saw the Lord, he fell. Daniel saw, did Daniel fall? Did Daniel fall?

And look at people

But you don't just say it, you just leave him. And God said to me, the reason. Lead us into the presence of God and you can tell the power of God is everywhere, but there are people standing and looking around like, what are? What's going on here? Uh, why, why, what is wrong with all these people? Why are they doing that? They are not able to worship. Look at Revelation chapter 19 verse 1. Let's read that and see, see what gets in the way. And after these things I heard a great what are the things after God had judged Babylon and she was burning and the merchants of the earth were crying because there's nowhere to sell their wickedness anymore. After these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying hallelujah, salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God. Why? For true and righteous are his judgments. Why? For he has judged the great prostitute

which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. Verse 3. And again they said hallelujah and the smoke rose up forever and ever. I thought that the 24 elders bowed before God out of routine, but at what verse 4 says and. Elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne saying amen, hallelujah. And God said to me, when people elevate me above their sexuality, it provokes true worship in the church and in heaven. This is what provokes worship. When we have enthroned God above the carnality of our sexual desires. That's what gets in the way. You know, that we keep talking about the external sexuality. Don't touch and we forget the internal sexuality where no ICs. Where the idols and the shrines have been set up, nobody sees. That's why David was saying, I will maintain integrity in my own house,

in private and in public. You know that song, I'll keep your lovely face. Ever before. This is my prayer. Oh, make my strong. is As in my sacred heart. No other Competes. No rival throne survives, and I serve only you, but he's not concerned with only the external sexuality. He's concerned with the internal sexuality where no human eye can calibrate. And so we find people, ladies who are so covered up. And because the internal sexuality is not aligned, we still find them falling. We have guys who look all put together with their suit and tie, but underneath are rotten sepulchres. And we come into church and immediately wear the toga of righteousness, not cleansing from inside out,

but covering the filthiness. And guess what? There are some wounds that you cover where you remove plaster. Hey, it is worse than it was. That's how most of us are in church. So you hear a man after 20 years in church committing some atrocity, be like, ah, this man has been in church for 20 years. Yes, nobody dealt with the filthiness when he came. They covered him with it. The church needs to begin to speak out. All these don't judge me. Don't judge, say you're not be judged.

The responsibility as brethren is to call each other out because there are certain minimum standards of behaviour that are expected of us. Certain minimum standards, no compromise. You can't tell me that you stood in church and said, I am a Christian. I am marrying in church. My body I keep for thee alone and then your body becomes the body of Sister Jane, Sister Joy, Sister Jennifer. Or your body becomes the body of Brother, Brother James and Brother Jeremiah. Ah, Jamil, not no vics. Thank God it's Bible names, so I'm not talking to anybody. Why shouldn't I expect fidelity from a man who stood and took a vow with me? Why shouldn't I why shouldn't I expect it? Who do I expect it from? Why shouldn't a man expect that if a woman took a vow with him, she has eyes for him alone. Who trained you to have eyes for 20 women at the same time?

Where did the training come from? It's not from the word of God. You are, you are hearing the lies of the world. Romans chapter 12 and verse 2, give me message translation. Romans chapter 12 verse 2. Listen to what Romans says in, in, in, in message translation. Don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. That's why a man would say, you know, men are polygamous by nature. I say, which nature? I asked the man, whose nature, whose nature was man created? He said, actually God. I said, and God is a cheat. God is a dog whose nature? He immediately he thought about what he was saying and realised, hey, I've been saying nonsense. Those are the kind of people I say, and he looks like he has a brain that works. You just repeat things you heard without thinking about it. Polygamous by whose name?

By whose nature? Let's challenge these things and stop bandying words that are from the pit of hell.

Now you can't tell the Christian man from from. Occultic men, let me go far. Let me not say ungodly. Let me say demonic, demon worshipping men are not different from church men. Demon worshipping women are not different from. Church women, mama. There is a massage parlour in Port Harcourt for married women only. All the Massuz are men. And they're not men with dry chest though. Muscular fine bobo honks for married women. You know it's not a massage parlour, shame. We go for massage for health reasons. These ones go for, I don't know what.

A woman came into my, my house. Please, ma, pray for me. Something is happening to me. She said, I'm having an affair. I'm married. I have 3 children. I'm having an affair. I said I'm having an affair and and the person I'm, this is my 3rd affair, and the person I'm having the affair with is a man of God. I don't want to destroy his ministry. I said, you have come, you have come here after you have done it. Why didn't you come before? I run a rehabilitation centre and we deal with addicts, all kinds of addicts, including sex addicts, and one of the things we tell them as part of their safety net is when you feel the urge, it starts with a thought. Call somebody. They always call after they have done it. I said, why, why, why didn't you call before, so you have capacity to call. Why are you not calling before you do it? Why are you calling after? Because

you are enjoying the pleasure of sin. So you do not hold yourself accountable before you fall. You allow yourself to go that day you say, I'm calling for accountability. That's not accountability, that's relapse. Praise the Lord. Why is the battle so fierce around our sexuality? Our sexuality was given for several reasons. And the most obvious being procreation and pleasure. Unfortunately, that's where we have gathered all our energies and put when a man marries a wife and 5 years later she does not have a child, yeah. I don't want my name to disappear. Oh, not two men daddy's house, so, uh, and somehow it's never the man's problem. It's always the woman. I don't understand. Because sometimes not the woman or the man. And even when they find out that it's the man, he will not tell his people, why are you people like that? They're your people now may be the problem.

Why are you making them abuse your wife?