Galatians 5. The works of the flesh and The Works of the Spirit. Preserve your freedom In Christ Jesus


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Galatians 5. The works of the flesh and The Works of the Spirit. Preserve your freedom In Christ Jesus

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. 7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? 8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. 9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. 11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. 12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

Holy Ghost Congress 2012 Signs and Wonders. Sermon And Prayer Points By Daddy G O Pastor E A Adeboye


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Holy Ghost Congress 2012 Signs and Wonders Sermon And Prayer Points By Daddy G O Pastor E A Adeboye

 

 

 

December 14th 2012,

Let’s lift our hands to the Almighty God and begin to bless his holy name, let’s give Him glory let’s give Him honour, bless the King of kings the Lord of Lords, the Ancient of days, bless His holy name.

Bless the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac the God of Jacob, bless His holy name, give Him glory, give Him honour, give Him adoration He is worthy to be praised, bless his holy name.

There is no one like Him, magnify His holy name. Praise Him, worship Him, adore Him, give Him all glory, give Him all honour, give Him all adoration there is no one like Him, bless His holy name, bless His holy name.

We give You glory, we give You honour, may You forever be glorified, may You forever be blessed. Blessed be Your holy name. Thank you Jesus…

In Jesus mighty name we worship.

I want you to lift your voice to the Almighty God and say Father; before the sun rises let me sing a new song; a new song of joy, a new song of breakthroughs, a new song of victory, a new song of Signs and Wonders….

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Please join your hands with your neighbour and pray for him/her and say Father, for this your child that I am holding, let this be a night of Signs and Wonders… In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

You are the mighty God the great I am, halleluiah, halleluiah!

You are the mighty God the great I am, halleluiah, halleluiah!!

You are the mighty God the great I am, halleluiah, halleluiah!

You are the mighty God the great I am, halleluiah, halleluiah!!

Almighty God, all knowing God, Ancient of days, Rock of ages, the Holy one of Israel, Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the One who is the One who was the One who is to come.

Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of peace, the Way, the Truth and the Life. Glory be to Your holy name. Father glory be to your holy name.

You are Greater than the greatest, you are Higher than the highest, you are Stronger than the strongest, you are Older than the oldest, you are Wiser than the wisest.

You are Richer than the richest, glory be to your holy name. Accept our worship in Jesus name. Thank you for January, thank you for February, thank you for March, thank you for April, thank you for May, thank you for June, thank you for July , thank you for August, thank you for September, thank you for October, thank you for November, thank you for December.

Glory be to your holy name. Thank you for what you did here on Monday, thank you for what you did on Tuesday, thank you for what you did on Wednesday, thank you for what you did yesterday, thank you for what You are about to do today and thank You for what you will do in our tomorrow, accept our worship in Jesus name.

Tonight visit Your children, before the sun rises everybody here present and all those who are listening all over the world, before the sun rises again let all of us sing a new song.

Let this be a night of Signs and Wonders. Do something in our lives you have never done before and at the end of it all let your name be glorified.

Thank you Almighty God in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

I want you to shake hands with about three or four people and tell them God will surprise you tonight, then you may put your hands together for the Almighty God

As at 7.45pm the number of babies born on this ground since the Congress started has increased to forty one; the girls are still leading but the boys are already catching up, we now have twenty boys and twenty one girls. So let the sister shout praise the Lord! And let the brother shout halleluiah!

Those of you who are born in December you can stand on your feet so I can pray for you.  If you are born in December let me hear you shout halleluiah!

Father I want to thank you for your children born in the month of December, I ask Lord God Almighty that in the lives of these your children you will make everything complete. You will give them a new beginning; a new beginning of joy, a new beginning of success, a new beginning of promotion, a new beginning of anointing, a new beginning of a closer walk with God, let it be well with hem and let them serve you in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

God bless you, you may be seated.

Daddy GO’s Message titled: SIGNS AND WONDERS

This is going to be a wonderful night.

It is going to be a night somebody here will never forget. Whenever I go out of the camp to hold a Holy Ghost service, there is something I always tell those who are coming for the first time, one of which I am about to repeat here tonight and that is when you go through the scriptures, you will discover that almost all those who got a miracle from Jesus got it by faith.

Jesus would ask them “do you belief I can do this?” If they say “yes we believe”, then He will turn to them and say “be it unto you according to your faith”. Or He will say your faith had made thee whole.

Tonight without any doubt God is here.

How do I know?

He says where two or three are gather in My name I will be there, here we are more than two or three so I know He is here.

Second reason i know He is here is because when He called me to full time ministry He said “Son where you go I will go with you.

So He is here right now. So God is here, by the grace of God I am here, I am ready. By His grace He has prepared me for tonight.

Now the question is are you ready? When do you want your miracle? When we come back in January? When do you want your miracles? Be it unto you according to your faith.

All I am going to do in the next few minutes is to encourage your faith to grow, as soon as I have done that the rest is between you and God and I am sure you will never forget tonight.

Isaiah 7 v 14 Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign, behold a virgin shall conceived and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel.

Tonight we want to talk briefly on Signs and Wonders.

Now what is a Sign?

A sign is an evidence – that what you claim to be is true. Pharaoh said in Exodus 5 v 1 -2 he said I don’t who is the Lord, I am not going to let Israel go. Then God said alright I will give you a sign; I will kill all the first born in the land of Egypt in one night and then maybe you will still say I don’t know you.

Exodus 12 v 29- 32 after God

has shown Pharaoh a sign he is the one who begged Israel to please go.

And I am prophesying to someone straight away all the Pharaohs who says you will not go, God will show them a sign.

Nebuchadnezzar said in Daniel 3 v 14-15 he said to Shadrach , Meshach and Abednego, if you don’t bow and worship my idol, i will throw you into the fiery furnace and who is that God that will deliver you out of my hand.

So God showed him a sign, in Daniel 3 v 24-29 the same Nebuchadnezzar said there is no God like the God of Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego.

As the Lord lives before the end of this month, all those who have been saying where is your God? They will come and bow and say there is no God like your God.

Now what is a Wonder?

A friend of mine once said a wonder is that which causes you to wonder. In other words, a wonder is a miracle so big that your mouth will fall open involuntarily.

In Act 3 v 1 – 10 when a man who has been lame for forty years suddenly began to leap, to walk and to praise God, everybody in the church began to look at him with amazement.

I am decreeing right now to everyone of you here tonight and those of you who are listening all over the world, God will turn you to a wonder.

So as we see in this passage, he said the Lord himself will give you a sign and the sign He will give is that a virgin will conceive and bear a son.

And when you say a virgin will conceive the first thing that will come to anybody’s mind is impossible! So God says I will give you a sign by making the impossible possible.

In the name that is above every other name, in the life of everyone here tonight and all of you who are hearing my voice, every impossibility will become possible tonight.

Now the life of any man can be broken into three compartments:

Physical,

Social and

Spiritual.

Tonight I want to encourage you to increase your faith in the various compartment of a man’s life so that  you can grab the God of wonders and go with your own wonder tonight.

When God said to Abraham in Genesis 18 v 9 -14 that a ninety year old woman would bear a son, Sarah laughed because inside her she was saying impossible.

But there is a God who doesn’t want to hear the word impossible, as a matter of fact the moment he hears the word impossible he rises on his throne and said let me show you a sign.

Whenever somebody tells you that your case is impossible, begin to rejoice because there is a God in heaven with whom nothing shall be impossible.

If He can make a virgin to conceive then what is the problem about a woman who is married? After all she has a man. And I am talking about a God who can produce children out of stones.

According to Mathew 3 v 9 He can produce children from stones, so if you are here tonight and the doctors have told you like they told the lady who testified earlier on; that one of your tube is not working and there is even something in your body that will not allow you to conceive and you saw her carrying a set of twins, then that should tell you there is still a God on His throne who can make the impossible possible.

Some of you who are here, you are here when a sister was sharing her testimony, the doctors have told her she can never carry a baby till nine months, they said the womb was too small so latest five month the baby must come down, she wrote we prayed and God told me she would have her child.

And I wrote back to her and that month she became pregnant, this time she carried this thing to maturity and when the time came to  deliver she gave birth to four at a time; two boys and two girls from a womb that they say cannot carry one, the Almighty God put four there.

There is somebody here today that which they say is impossible will become possible tonight in Jesus name.

So when God says I will make a virgin conceive He is saying anyone who is barren here tonight can also have their own wonders before they go. Now a virgin conceiving is totally unscientific, it is beyond science and medicine and so a virgin conceiving should tell somebody that doctors have called incurable is very easy with the One who can make the virgin conceive, because this is a God that is not controlled by science and medicine.

Thank you father, the Lord says there is someone here tonight, he said every word coming towards you tonight is not a prophecies but a decree.

John 9 v 32-33 the Bible tells us of a man who was born blind and Jesus opened his eye and people began to argue whether it happened or didn’t happened. The man said since the world began, it has never been said, it has never been heard that somebody opened the eye of someone born blind.

There is someone who can open the eye of the blind, there is someone who can make the virgin conceived, that someone is here tonight.  So I want to ask you a question; have you a physical problem? Do you believe that the God of wonders can solve that problem? If you believe, be it unto you according to your faith.

The second aspect of a man’s life is the social aspect, that is when you begin to talk about career, promotion, getting married and things like that.

But they all come down basically to one underline factor. And that has to do with material wellbeing.

Why do I want to rise to the top in my position of work? Because if I get to the top the salary will be different. They asked a young man not too long ago, why are you not getting married? he said “there is no money in my pocket”.

Making the virgin conceive actually means producing something out of nothing. There is a God who can produce water out of the rock according to Exodus 17 v 1-6  He brought water out of the rock.

There is God who can take the last and turn it to the first. You know the story of the widow of Zarephath in 1king… There is a God who can take the little you have and keep on multiplying it. He has done it before in 2king 4 v 1 -7 He told the widow to keep on pouring the little oil that she had and it will keep on flowing until there is no more room to contain it.

This God who can multiply the little and turn it to much, this God who can produce something out of nothing, He is here tonight and He is now asking you, do you have a financial problem? Do you believe that this God of wonders can solve that problem? Do you believe? If you believe, be it unto you according to your faith.

I have told you the story of my father in the Lord when he was alive, when things were very hard and he went to God in prayer and God told him the pot of stew that your wife has just prepared; tell her to keep ditching from it every day, not looking into the pot. Just keep on ditching it.

For days mama will ditch; today it is beef, tomorrow it is chicken, the following day it will be goat meat.  She kept on ditching until one day curiosity overcame her and she looked into the pot and the pot became empty.

Now I know you don’t believe that, you don’t think it can happen, be it unto you according to your faith.

But I have also told you the story of what happened to me, they didn’t tell me it happened to me. I went to preach in Onitsha and was returning, I got to Asaba there was no fuel, I said no problem.

I will get fuel when I get to Benin. I got to Benin no fuel, I said no problem. I will get fuel in Ore, I got to Ore no fuel, by now my tank was reading reserve.

Almighty God what do I do? It was Sunday evening and I must go to my lectures on Monday morning in Lagos.

And the Lord spoke to me and said son, take your eye off the gauge and drive on. And i drove all the way on reserve for ore till i parked in my house in Surulere. There is a God who can bring something out of nothing.

Is there anybody here tonight who is in need of a major financial breakthrough, and you  believe that the God of wonders can do it for you, be it unto you according to your faith.

Thank you Father, the Lord said there is someone here tonight, He said you have been hearing of something called a new song, He said you will sing your own very soon.

Daddy says I should tell somebody tonight, He said don’t be afraid, you are not going to die you are going to complete the assignment I have given you.

The Lord says there is someone here tonight, He said it is my grace that brought you to where you are, my grace will take you to where I want you to be.

The Lord said there is someone here tonight, He said you need just one more miracle for your joy to be full, He said you will get it tonight.

The Lord said there is someone here tonight, He said the night has been much longer than you expected, He said wait till you see what I have for you in the morning.

The Lord asked me to tell someone here tonight, He asked me to make your dream much bigger than they are now, He said because I will fulfil all of them.

Now the third aspect of a man’s life is the spiritual aspect.

Almost everything we do in this world is controlled by spirit, the spiritual controls the physical. Before trouble came to Job, there was something that happened in the spiritual.

There was a meeting between God and the devil where they discussed him. It was their discussion that brought all kind of problems to Job, some of us are where we are today because of some certain spiritual forces.

A blessing is a spiritual force, when your parents bless you, spiritually they are sending assistance to you. I have always told you, that I am where I am today by the grace of God and by the prayer of my mother.

Anytime I did something that pleased her when I was very small, she would say to me, you this boy you will call one person, two hundred will answer. I didn’t understand what that meant. How can I call one fellow and two hundred will answer? But today if I say pastor come; and I didn’t mention the name of the pastor, how many people do you think will come running?

Well I am your father in the Lord maybe I should use this opportunity to make pronouncement.

I say to you who are my true children, from now on you will call one person two hundred will answer.

Just as a blessing is a spiritual force, a curse is also a spiritual curse. I don’t want to go into all the details about that, but one thing is clear, the God who can make the virgin conceived has a spiritual ability that can deal with all spirit.

In Mark 5 v 1-20 we see the story of the mad man of Gadarean, the devil knew that this man had a glorious destiny , that the plan of God for that fellow is to be an evangelist. He sent six thousand demons to bind him up. But one day the Almighty God who can do all things came, overcome all the demons and restored the destiny of this man.

Do you belief that whatever may be your spiritual problem, the God of wonders can solve them, do you believe? Be it unto you according to your faith.

If we ask you, can the shadow of a fisher man heal? You will say impossible, but ask Peter. Can the handkerchief of a lawyer cast out demons? You will say how come? Ask Paul.

Can the handkerchief of a mathematician produce signs and wonder, you will say how come?  But you have heard testimonies. You will hear testimonies; you will share your own testimonies too.

Thank you Father, the Lord said there is someone here tonight, He said you have wept for months, he asked me to tell you that you will laugh for years.

The Lord said there is someone here today; He said in your family in the year that is coming, there will be more than one thanksgiving service.

The Lord said there is someone here this night, He said you have enjoyed miracles up till now, He said get ready for wonders.

The Lord asked me to tell those of you who are here tonight, He said He is going to release unique miracles to seventy of you.

When He said seventy, so I feel that I can try and negotiate. Do you know what a unique miracle is, it is a miracle that had never happened before and will never happen again. Seventy of you,

How many of you think you will be one of them? Be it unto you according to your faith.

Please listening carefully, God is talking to one particular person, please listen carefully.

The Lord said “your cry has always been God, make me your divine treasure”. He ask me to tell you, He is offering you a deal tonight, please listening carefully, this is very important.  He said within the next six month he will double your fortune and you yourself knows that this can a only happen by God.  Now here is the deal and listen carefully he said fifty percent of the increase you must return it to Him. He said this will be the test to find out whether you are a really ready for great things.

Whoever that fellow is, we will see within the next six month.

Now Luke 1 v 34- 37 Mary was born, she is now a virgin young woman and God was about to fulfilled the prophecy that He gave through Isaiah and so the Angel came and told her” woman you are now going to have a boy and…

Thank you Father, the Lord ask me to tell someone in particular, He said you will understand that the tied is already turning.

So the Angel told Mary, you are that virgin the prophet is talking about you are going to have a baby boy, He is going to be the Son of the Most High and so on and so forth.

Then Mary said how can this be? I don’t know a man and the angel said the Holy Ghost. It is the Holy Ghost that is going to perform the wonder in your life.

You see there are certain things when God said He is going to do something, it is so big that your mind cannot even contain it. How will it happen? Not by power, not by might but by Spirit said the Lord of host.

Through the power of the Holy Spirit, everything your heart desires you will receive it tonight in Jesus name.

Thank God of the testimony of that young man, I was seating down there, the choir was rehearsing, they were about to finish and I saw a little action towards my right.

I saw a woman pushing a man in a wheel chair, she wanted to come to where I was seating, the guard said no way. Suddenly the Lord spoke to me, “ask him to be brought”, so I said bring him, I called the one standing by me, go and bring that man and they brought him.

I didn’t pray, I just did what God asked me to do. I laid my hand on him and I said the desire of your hands is granted you. Whatever that desire is and I left. And he got up immediately! You heard his testimony.

May I raise my hand towards you and say to all you who are here, whatever may be the desire o your heart receive it right now in Jesus name.

Who qualify for signs and wonders? Mary was a virgin not a harlot. She was pure, she was holy.

Matthew 7 v 6 says you don’t cast pearls before swine. People like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who got signs and wonder kept themselves pure.

People have asked me why do you keep hammering on holiness? Holiness is the master key.

That is the master key to signs and wonder.

That is why I want to encourage you tonight, because you are going to pray in a moment and whatever prayer you pray here tonight, God is going to answer it. Be it unto you according to your faith.

Before we pray, get out of your sins! Give your life to Jesus Christ, let His blood wash you clean, let His blood wipe away your sins and then you can cry to him and he will hear.

David said if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me, the Bible says the Hand of the Lord is not shorten that He cannot save, neither is His Ear is heavy that He cannot hear, but He said sin can block the way between you and your God, that even when you are crying, He won’t hear, if He doesn’t hear, how can he answer?

That is why i want to call those of you who have not given your life to Jesus Christ to come forward now, that is why we have arranged in the inside the auditorium several mini altars, they are about thirty six of them scattered all over.

Each one has a flag on top of it, so when I say come to the Altar, just go to the nearest of the altars to you and there the ministers of God will attend to you.

When I am praying for those who come to the front, the prayer will reach you there, so I am going to count from one to ten I am telling you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, things are going to change from tonight.

So if you want to give your live to Jesus, come now, as you come begin to pray, begin to talk to Jesus Christ, ask Him to save your soul, ask Him to forgive you your sins, promise Him that from now on you will live for Him.

He will become your Lord and Saviour. Begin to talk to Him, ask Him to be merciful unto you, ask Him to cleanse you in His blood, tell Him from now on you will serve Him…. in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Saviour I want to thank you 1 want to thank you for your word and I want to thank you for all these your children who are standing before the various altars.

You promised Lord that whosoever will come unto You, You will in no wise cast out. These Your children have come now, please receive them in Jesus name. Forgive all their sins in Jesus name, let Your blood wipe away all their sins in Jesus name, save their souls and write their names in the book of life in Jesus name.

Tonight Father, give them their own signs and wonders and anytime they call upon you, Father answer them by fire and let them serve you till the end, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Amen.

All of you in the various altars, I want you to listen to me carefully, I want to thank God for what He has done in your life I want to promise you that from now on I will be praying for you, so I am going to need your name, your address and your prayer request and I promise you I will be praying for you.

So the counsellors will give you cards where you are now, please fill them before you go back to your seat.

PRAYER POINTS

1. Praise God for being able to make it tonight, the fact that you came means the devil has lost his battle over you.
2. Father, please perform a wonder in my body so that I will never be sick again.
3. Father, perform a wonder in my marriage so that it will become a model for others to copy.
4. Father, perform a wonder in my family so that we never know sorrow again.
5. Father, perform a wonder in my finances so that I will soon be lending to nations.
6. Father, anoint me so heavily that evil forces see me coming will run.
7. Father, any evil left in this old year; keep it far from my home.
8. Any signs and wonder left in this old year send them to my home.
9. Father, before the year ends let my testimonies be complete and perfect
10. Father, forever let me be a channel of blessings.
11. Your Extra prayer request.

The Lord will perform a wonder in your body, you will never know sickness again, the Lord will perform a wonder in your life, your marriage will become a model for others to copy the Lord will perform a wonder in your family, your family will never know sorrow again, the Lord will perform a wonder in your finances, very soon you will begin to lend to nations.

The Lord will anoint you heavily, from now on when evil forces see you coming they will run. Every evil left in this year will not come near your home, all the blessings this year will come to your own.

Before the New Year your testimony will be complete. From now on and forever you will be a vessel unto honour in God’s hand, you will be a channel of blessings.

God will give you wonder and your joy will overflow and you will serve the Lord, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed. if you receive that say “I receive it”, then shout halleluiah to God.

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

2 Corinthians 12. Paul’s visions and revelations. Paul’s love for the church


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2 Corinthians 12. Paul’s visions and revelations. Paul’s love for the church

1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

2 Corinthians 11. False Apostles. The danger of being deceived


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2 Corinthians 11. False Apostles. The danger of being deceived

1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things. 7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

2 Corinthians 10. Paul’s warfare and authority


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2 Corinthians 10. Paul’s warfare and authority

1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s. 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. 13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand. 17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

2 Corinthians 8. Christian giving. Excel in giving


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2 Corinthians 8. Christian giving. Excel in giving

1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. 6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. 8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. 11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: 15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.

16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you. 17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. 18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches; 19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind: 20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: 21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. 22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you. 23 Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ. 24 Wherefore show ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

2 Corinthians 6. Paul’s sufferings in his ministry. Warning against pagan influences


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2 Corinthians 6. Paul’s sufferings in his ministry. Warning against pagan influences 

1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; 9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 13 Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

 

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

2 Corinthians 5. Hope of eternal glory. Friendship with God through Christ


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2 Corinthians 5. Hope of eternal glory. Friendship with God through Christ

1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart. 13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

2 Corinthians 3. The New Covenant With God Written On Hearts


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2 Corinthians 3. The New Covenant With God Written On Hearts

1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

2 Corinthians 2. Forgiveness


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2 Corinthians 2. Forgiveness

1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. 6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. 9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. 10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; 11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, 13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. 14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? 17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!