The Making of Sons

Brethren in Christ, we thank God for another opportunity to be in his presence. Like David, I always say I was glad when they said unto me, james, let us go to the house of the Lord. It is a thing of joy to be at the feet of Jesus on a daily basis. Last week I always encourage us that the Bible says we should become student of the world.

You will notice the trend God wants us to be. We are learners, we are students. There's a curriculum that we are taking. If you, if you try and check in general now you notice what the Spirit of God is doing.

He's teaching us all things. The Bible says the Spirit will teach you all things. Because there's so many things that Jesus wanted to let us know about, but he could not. Because, I mean, time is a burden.

He had those 33 years to stay on this earth. He said, ah, the Spirit will teach you all things. All, all things. There are so many things he wanted to tell us, but thanks be to the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost is now within us teaching us all the things that Christ wanted to say, more things he wanted to say.

And he said, he will remind you of all the things I've said. So I want us to always engage the Holy Spirit. There's a lot of things the Holy Spirit wants to tell us. Even the disciples could not carry it.

But he said he will send the Holy Ghost so that it will help us to receive from the Father. Today, before we go to the topic today, I want to read something that Paul said to one of the churches, the people in Rome. The church in rome. Romans chapter 1, verse 9.

Romans chapter 1, verse 9. He said, I'm just prophesying. He said, God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by spreading the good news about His Son.

By spreading the good news about His Son. So I. Let me open it. So I will just read it.

Romans chapter 1, verse 9. Romans 1, verse 9. I pray that God will help us to be sensitive. He said, for God is my witness, whom I serve with my Spirit in the Gospel of His Son, that without ceasing, I make mention of you always in my prayers.

Paul is basically just trying to tell us that the way he serves God is that he serves God by spreading the good news about the Son. That is Paul's way of serving God. That's Paul's way of serving God. So the question before we start the topic is just a simple one.

How do you serve God? What exactly do you mean? What is your service to God? Many people say they are serving God.

When you check what they mean by serving God, to them, it is just, I read my Bible every day, I pray every day and I go to church. Now if you look at the scripture and look at all the apostles, that doesn't even mean they are serving God. You reading Bible, praying every day and going to church, the service to God service is you rendering help, is you ministering, offering yourself for what? Somebody else's purpose.

That is service. But you see, we are living in a age and time where Christianity is. You say you are a Christian because you pray, you read Bible, you fast and you go to church. So because of that, you say you are serving God.

I want to say that is not even basically serving that one. You're even those. That is for your own personal spiritual good. When you are doing all these things, how exactly are you now using those things that you have gotten in the place of prayer, in the place of study of the Word, in place of fasting, in place of going to church?

How are all those things helping humanity? How is it helping humanity? That is what it means to serve God. But that's not the topic for today.

But that question just came. How? Ask yourself, how am I serving God? Am I serving the body of Christ or am I helping humanity to know God more?

Am I serving the kingdom? How exactly are you serving God? Or is it just limited to you reading your Bible, praying, fasting? Everything is just your own.

It's just for you. You are doing everything. And you, you are growing, but nobody around you is feeling anything of any substance. Brother and sister, that is not service to God.

Service with God must touch lives. Lives must be transformed because you are worshiping God. But that's beside the point today. The topic today we are looking at is if you last time we talked about Jesus loves the little children and it's not a coincidence how the Spirit was leading.

Last week I received something on Saturday or Friday about the making of sons. Or should I say the topic is the forging or making of sons. Forging, Forging or making of sons? Now this topic came as a result of the the desire of the Father to raise sons and not just children.

I'll read all the scriptures that I'll be using so that we can just focus on building the foundation on those scriptures and we'll trust God to lead us as we go. Look at the book of acts. Sorry, Romans 8, 17, Romans chapter 8, verse 17. We'll read from there first Romans, chapter 8, verse 17.

Just want to read all the Scriptures. Then we'll now build on it. Now listen carefully, said, I need children. Then hairs.

Hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ. If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Let me read the second. Let me.

Let me read that part again. So we hear. Because sometimes we read something, but it has not entered. I. I want you to enter.

I said what he does in prophecy, that since we are his children, we will get the blessings that he keeps. For his people will also possess with Christ what God has kept for him. For we. For if we shall share Christ's suffering, we also share his glory.

Let's check the second one. Romans, chapter eight, verse 17 to 19. Okay, let's read to 19, verse 18 now. For I reckon that the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Verse 19. For the earnest expectation of the creature. Creature waited for the manifestations of the sons of God. You can underline that part.

Sons of God. Sons of God. Now let's go to Book of Galatians, chapter four, verse one to two. Galatians, chapter four, verse one to two.

Now I say that the hair, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be Lord of all. Underline that word. Though he may be Lord of all. But it's under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father.

Stop there. So let's look at Second Corinthians. Okay. Zechariah, chapter 13, verse nine.

Zechariah, chapter thirteen, verse nine. They are building something. Zechariah, chapter Thirteen. 13, Verse 9, verse 9.

Yes, 13. So I read. And I will bring the third parts through the fire. I will refine them.

As silver is refined, I will try them. As gold is tried. They shall call on my name and I will hear them. I will say, it is my people.

And they shall say, the Lord is my God. All right, so I just wanted to read some of the key verses I will be building up on. So I'm saying here God is interested in raising sons and not those children. We looked at how that Paul prayed a prayer.

He said, my dear children. He started calling us children in whom I travail in birth pains again. Until Christ be formed fully and completely in you, until you attain the fullness of Christ. Now that brings us to the question, who is a son?

What is the need? Why do we need. Why is there a need for us to become sons A son. A son that has attained the full stature of Christ.

Full stature of Christ. That means he carries the nature, the look and the feel, the likeness, how God behaves, how he talks, how Jesus Christ looks and everything. He carries the full image of God. He carries the power.

He carries everything that God carries. He carries it because it's a what hair, even joint hair with Christ. All the blessings, all the inheritance of Christ, we also have it. That's a full son.

Now if you look at the scripture we saw there, Romans 8:17 or even Galatians 4,1 2, you hear something that's very interesting. They said, as children of God, even though we are children. You go back to that Galatians. Go back to that Galatians.

I'll show something there. Look at the Galatians, chapter four, verse one to two. So we see Paul is saying something they said. Now I say that the hair, as long as he is a child, he is not different from his servants, though he be lord of all.

So when we receive Christ, when we become born again Christians, the funny thing is that everything that Jesus has, we also have it. All the promises, we automatically are translated from the kingdom of darkness, kingdom of light. You are now the father of the wealthiest person ever. That's God.

God is the owner of all. He said the earth is the Lord, the fullness of the world and all that is in it. Dairy, silver and gold belongs to God. So that means if your father is the owner of silver and gold, that automatically makes you wealthy.

But the problem is here, this is challenge that many believers still don't understand. This is why you need to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Being born again is not the end goal. There is another label.

And that label is under grace to become a son of God. This labor because you are a child doesn't mean that you just. Okay, you know, your child, your father is the owner of everywhere, everywhere in this place. But because you are still like 4 years old, even if you automatically have right to all these things, you will never be able to receive it physically, you will never be able to receive it.

It's just going to be there. Just like you have all the documents. But you can't. You can't really utilize it.

Why? Because you have not. Now, let me tell you different between a child and his son. The difference between a child and so is that the capacity of a child is smaller than the capacity of a son.

A son has a larger capacity. Notice that when you were a child, you were thinking like a child. We were Eating like a child. We were giving.

Like your appetite for food was lower. You could not absorb much information. If I start speaking physics to a three year old child, the child cannot comprehend. He will not be able to understand.

But when I start talking to his son, I don't need to talk too much. The son already comprehends. The son has larger capacity to receive more. He knows his son has ability to take responsibility.

His son, for example. Imagine in the night, the gate is locked, somebody is knocking and you have four children or two children. One is like four years old and one is already like 20, 25. Who will you tell to go and open the gates? And why now knowing fully well these two people have equal rights.

Like they have the same inheritance with you. They are both your children. Why would you choose to send your son oversending the child? I did not see your child.

Did they not see? Carry your same authority. Because anybody that opens the gate is still representing the owner of the house. Imagine, tell son, go and open the gates.

That means you are giving your son, that person the authority to open the gate. So the person that open that gates, anybody that is outside will know that oh, this person is representing the owner of the house. And so think about it. Why will you send your son over?

Sending a child? This is the fundamental thing that believers are yet to understand. That's why you see people still don't know understand why people are still praying. Why are you still praying like this?

Why are you still fasting? Why are you still reading the Bible? Are you not saved? Are you you not born again?

You think that when you get born again, you just sit down? No, there is. It is a call. It.

That's the first calling God calls us to become what? His children. Now when we become his children, he wants us what grow into sonship. This is the reason why we go to church regularly.

This is the reason why we are always having devotion every morning. Why? Why in a school? This is another school.

You think that school ends with secondary school, university? I didn't notice. Like someone will be wondering, you see how James is still reading and everything. Because someone felt me.

I already knew as soon as I finished school. Something was already telling me that oh, there's another school I need to go to. Because I noticed when I was in school, I was just basically studying book. There was not enough time to go deeper into certain things.

I knew that there was something that needs to be done. I need to learn how to become a son of God. This is why they don't need to. If you are still, if people are still forcing you to read your Bible prayer every day, that means you don't understand where you are.

You don't understand what is required of you. That is why many people don't even think about spiritual goods. Just ask a major regular believer today, how is your spiritual life? How?

It is a weird question. It, it looks weird. They don't even know how to explain. But they ask you, how's your studies, how your academics?

You can tell me. Oh, I'm in year three. I am doing this study. This is where I am currently.

You, you have a lot of things to say when you talk to spiritual life, how is it we thank God, God is helping us. You see God, that is the sound of complacency. You don't even know where you are because we don't see it as a necessity. You feel like we thank God, God is on the throne.

You use all this kind of English, all this church English to just cover up how lazy you are with your spiritual life, how uninterested you are with your spiritual good. You don't. You're not conscious that there is a requirement, there is a desire. God wants you to come to a certain level of maturity before he can give you certain things in his kingdom.

No wonder, you see, that's why Christians are frustrated. Many people have been praying, praying, praying. But they are wondering, why is it I'm praying and fasting? What is up?

You are not mature enough to receive certain things and God is eager to give you certain. You see now this person is not mature enough to collect this thing. I have so much I want to give. If I tell you that like 90 something percent of Christians, they have not tapped into the blessings of salvation.

If you know the package called salvation, what it contains, we have only scratched the surface. Which is what? Oh, you always sing the song, I'm no longer a slave to sin. You think it's just about freedom from sin?

That, oh, when you give your life to Christ, you will no longer die, you will not go to hellfire. That's the only thing people know about salvation. It makes me free from this thing. Finish.

If you know how deep the package of salvation is, my God, you will continue digging. That's why I say deep calls onto deep. You will continue going deep. No wonder Paul prayed this prayer.

That I may know him, that I may know him. Imagine Paul telling us that I want to know God. What does Paul want to know about Jesus Christ again, that he doesn't know someone that wrote out many scriptures. He's still saying that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering.

Paul knew that you can never know enough of God. There is more. I think people need to understand this world. There is more.

I don't want to know how big you have grown as a Christian. Maybe you are already. They call them General. God's General.

Maybe you are general. There is more, always more of this scripture. So God desires that we become sons. He said, though even if he's a child, as long as he's a child, he does not differ from his servant.

You are not different from a servant. Even though you have everything, though you are Lord of all. You know what it means to be Lord of all. That means you are the owner of everything that your Father owns.

You are Lord of all, but you are not different from his servants. But you are under what? Tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father. So for that time being, you will consider, remain under.

God is going to assign people to you that are going to be helping you to grow. Those are what you call the tutors and governors. There are certain people that go that you notice. If you check your Christian life, try and ask who are the people that contributed to your growth as a Christian.

You see that God placed certain people in your life to ensure that you don't just remain where you were. When you're born again, you kept on growing. Those are the tutors and governors. And those people, they will tell you what to do.

They will instruct you. It can be your parents, it can be your pastor. It can be a brother in Christ, a sister in Christ. It can be somebody you don't even know.

They are telling you, teaching you how to live like Christ, how to grow. They'll be pampering you, feeding you. When you fall, you're going to confess and they'll pray with you until you grow, grow, grow. Then you can now stand and now stand and make requests known to God.

You can now deal with the business of the kingdom. Is something called the kingdom business. Jesus started his Father's business at the age of 12. Jesus became His Son at the age of 12.

He said, don't you know I'm doing my Father's business? I said, I mean, he said. He said, where have you been? The Bible said that he was sitting down with the elders and the priests and all these people.

What was he doing? He was asking questions, making inquiries. He was answering and asking questions. That is somebody that understands sonship.

Because he knew that there is a need for him to grow to become his son. No wonder the Bible wrote it right. And Jesus grew in the stature. He grew in wisdom in favor of men.

Basically he grew. The Bible wrote it for a reason. God wants you to grow. You must grow by force.

Else I don't want to say. But many you are a waste with God. You don't matter to God. Because why?

Why will I? Why would God keep investing in us? And we are not growing. So we want to look at the making of sons.

Now, how does one become a son? How does one become a son? Why do we even need to become a son? Now let's look at that.

Romans that we read for the whole of creation waited for the end earnest manifestation of the sons of God. Now I was asking myself two questions. What do you mean by creation waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God? He ever.

You know that few verses before he said, he called. He said children of God. Children. Right as he go fast forward.

He now changed into sons. Why do you think Paul specifically mentioned the word sons in that place? That's what we want to look at. I trust God.

This is a very extensive topic, to be honest. But I'll just try to phrase right. So if you look at that verse 17 said and if children, then heirs. Heirs of God and joint heads with Christ.

So as a child, you're already brother and sister. You're a brother. Yeah. Jesus is your brother.

That's fine. If so, we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together. Now he now said, the earnestation of the creature waited for the manifestation of the sons of God. Now let's look at this matter.

This is one of the reasons why we must become sons. Creation from the time of Adam has been suffering. If you notice what is happening. Creation is basically crying out to God, when are we going to see the sons of God?

They are waiting. The world is waiting for me. For you to manifest the glory of God. Now when you give your life to Christ, there is something that is inside you that needs to shine.

Why do you think Jesus said? Jesus said, I am the light of the world. That's why he introduced himself first. All right.

Jesus the way, the truth and the life. There's another portion I said. Jesus said, I am the light of the world. But you not see.

Few chapters later, Jesus now said, you are the light of the world. Ask yourself, why is he now changing from I to you? It's because he said, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless.

What I live yet not I, but who Christ is living Inside you. This is what Jesus now wants to do. And the life we now live is by faith in what? Christ Jesus.

That means the life we live as Christians is by you. Keep on looking at Jesus. Keep on having faith in Jesus. That's how we live this life.

Why did not call us we are the light is because what he is living inside us. Right now as I'm talking, I saw a scripture yesterday that shook me to the core. I I was he. My heart beat my I was so I was just triggered.

See what he said? Luke, chapter 10, verse 16. I'm just reading, I'm just paraphrasing another translation quickly. Jesus said to his disciple, whoever listens to you, listens to me.

Look, Jesus said to who? His disciple? First thing I'll ask, are you a disciple of Jesus Christ? If you are a disciple of Jesus Christ, you see what Jesus is saying.

Anybody that is listening to you is listening to me. Anybody that rejects you is rejecting me. And anybody that rejects me is rejecting the one who sent me. That is God.

Do you see how deep this responsibility is? That means as I'm talking now, you are literally listening to Jesus Christ. If truly I'm a disciple of God, that means if I'm going in my normal activity, I'm walking, I'm doing everything, I'm talking, I'm literally expected. If I'm a true disciple of Jesus, as I'm talking, you are listening to Jesus Christ.

Do you know that means I carry a responsibility that I must. It's not I might not, I should not. I think I must represent Jesus Christ well. If every Christian can understand the weight of responsibility on your life, you will not joke.

No wonder I said, walk out your salvation with fear and trembling. I cannot afford to be talking anyhow as a disciple of Jesus Christ, as an ambassador of Christ. So now I said, there is something inside me that the world needs to see. There is something that the world is looking for.

That is it the whole of creation. The reason why Nigeria is where it is today. Let me tell you the truth is because of the righteous people in this nation. From this scripture, our the problem of the world can be.

The solution of the problem of this world lies in the church. Let me say it again. The solution of the world, what the world needs to be to be restored back to it. The restoration of the world back to its normal form lies in the church.

Jesus came to reconcile the world back to God. He went to heaven now said, I have given you the ministry of reconciliation to bringing people back. He's now continuing the work in us. So that is.

That is it. So when you say a son, when you say the manifestation of Jesus, it means that I am revealing the glory of God. Manifestation of true songs means that. What does it mean?

It means that I am revealing the glory of God. God is looking for people that will carry his glory. The glory of God. God is looking for men that will carry his glory.

In the office, in politics, in every spell of life. God is looking for men that will carry his glory. And when they see him, they see Jesus. The world is depending on the manifestation of the true sons of God.

Let me tell you how this thing looks like. Practically in the political space. For example, I know that the reason why. Let me tell you what happened that why now that nobody, in fact they advise yourself, don't even go to politics.

Don't even think about it. Do you know why? Because for so long the children of God have neglected that space. Let me tell you what happens now.

See this entertainment now, very soon, you hear? Don't. Don't even go to entertainment. 1.

One industry has already been taken away by the devil. Devil has taken over the politics now. That's why we are suffering now. Entertainment slowly, very soon.

Everything in entertainment is just coming from the devil. And who are, who are people digesting those contents? We, the believers. Because when we are bored, you want to watch something, open YouTube.

Everything you are seeing is from the devil. Because why there is no son. Nobody has grown up and mature and going to manifest God glory in that space. So therefore darkness, not even darkness, they said thick darkness covers the earth.

Thick darkness come into that space and take over the place. Before you know, there's no go area for a Christian. It's only those that are very strong. But there was a time when politics was very open.

It was not dominated by this. There was a lot of this. But slowly believers kept leaving that area. Slowly saying, let's leave it, leave it, leave it.

They kept leaving until they finally left it. Everywhere is now dark. So dark that anybody that goes there. It takes the grace of God for a man to enter there and still shine as a light.

This is what happens when believers do not manifest the glory of God. This is why there's a warning against. When you having your faith private. God did not save you to keep your faith private.

He did not save you. So that I just. I just received all the things I receive in church and I come and stay inside and only for myself. What then?

Why you now let him take you home? What then? Are you God Is I like? Of what use are you to me then, if you are here?

I've given you all these things. The Bible says that we should not neglect the gift that is in us. There is a gift that he said that was in us upon the laying on of hands of the elders. There is something that was deposited in you.

As soon as you give your life to Christ, God deposited his Spirit in you. And the Spirit is not just meant to. To just make sure that you go to heaven. There is something else that he has to do.

He said, you. We read. We sang the hymn, the first hymn there. Send the power just now.

But the power, he said. And the power was upon Peter. And Peter spoke the word with power. And souls were what drawn.

That is what. Let me tell you what happened on that day of Pentecost. What happened on the day of Pentecost is exactly what is happening in this. Romans 8, 19.

They were eager. In fact, let me tell you what it means for someone to be eager. It's like their neck is stretched like this. They were like, who is that?

Who is that talking? They were eager to hear what Peter was saying before. They were not eager to hear. But as soon as power came, these people were asking what happened.

They were eager to hear that. They listened long until Peter finished. They said, sir, what do we do? He told them, repentance and be baptized and everything.

And he now preached everything. And that's how 3,000 souls came into the kingdom. That is what it means when he says, the whole of creation is waiting for the endless manifestation of the glory of God. My question for us is this.

Where God has placed you. What have you done? What have you done? Since God placed you where he has placed you, how have you manifested his glory?

Or are you hiding the glory of God? Are you keeping. You are covering it. You know, a city set on you cannot be hidden.

But apparently it seems that Christians have found a way of hiding these lights. We are on a hill and you are trying to come. You are trying your. They said, no man lighted can't do and put it under a bushel.

Unfortunately, Christians, especially believers today, they have found a way of covering that light. You light it by when you come. Let me tell you what it looks like. You come on Sunday, you pray.

We pray together. I know there's corporate anointing you. We pray together. We read the Bible together and do everything.

We sing together. Something has been deposited on us. That light is shining. You now go on Monday.

Just cover it, put it where you reach your home. You just Cover it Monday to Saturday, you just. No light. Everywhere is off.

You are quiet. Nothing. You don't nothing about your faith. Nobody.

You just keep quiet. That's how darkness keeps. And guess what? You know the worst thing?

The worst thing is that darkness keeps on talking. They keep on spreading false information. More people are being deceived every day. More people are marching to destruction.

And me, I've received the light. Just enter. Just like that. How?

I don't. So how then? What then is my purpose here? This is why God is looking for men.

He said Jesus begged disciples before he sent them. He told them, pray to the Lord of the harvest. I should send laborers into the harvest field. Because Trudy, the harvest is plenty.

Many people are waiting to. You'll be surprised. The number of people that are waiting to hear this thing about salvation. You'll be surprised.

You need to surprise me. Sometimes I don't talk to somebody. Hey, how are you doing? Let's talk about business.

How you doing? So how's your distance? Some of those poet. Like I said, the person was just waiting for me.

I'm just talking. Hey, how's your business? Next thing just. I'll not lie to you.

I need help. People are suffering. So it causes me to ask a question. What then is the role of the church?

That is where we are talking about the making of songs. The reason why the church. One of the reason why the church was established is so that sons are being formed in this place. This is a place.

This is like an army barrack. I always say it. The church is. You know, when you.

I don't know. I think we need to go back to the days when we talk about soldiers of Christ. I think we have forgotten that every believer is a potential soldier of the cross. Imagine you go to a barrack and after staying in the barrack for how many years you come out.

You cannot even shoot a gun. I don't understand. What then were you doing in the back? That's what happens when.

So we should be ashamed? Whenever somebody comes out from a church, you say, I'm a member of this church. And when the person goes out, the person's life is not reflecting what the church is meant to be doing. Something is wrong.

The person cannot stand. The person cannot shoot. The person cannot defend. The person does not have authority.

Something is wrong. Who are we building inside the place called the church? What? What is coming out from the church?

If my church. If where I worship does not affect my society. Something is missing, then it's not complete. I don't know if you read through the Scripture, when the church, when the apostles were gathering, it was affecting people.

People lives were being affected the making of sons. So in order for us to make for one to become his Son, two things must occur. Two things must occur. Number one, that person must.

Christ must be revealed to that person. Then you now reveal Christ to others. The question I ask is this. Have you seen Christ?

Has Christ been revealed to you? That's another topic for another time. But just know that two things you cannot manifest what is not inside you. Manifestation is like unveiling, opening what is inside you.

Let's look at Second Corinthians 4. Second Corinthians, chapter 4, Second Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 6 to 7. He said, For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus. Now see this one.

That is very interesting. Verse 7. But we have this treasure. There is a treasure in eating vessels.

We have this spiritual. There's something inside me right now. That's why he said we have this treasure in eating vessels. That the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.

There is something every believer, a potential energy that every believer carries. That a set of people is waiting for you to shine. Just imagine some of the fathers of old, like Kenneth Hagin, George Muller, Katri Kumar, all these people of God that we hear of, all that brought massive revival. Just imagine those people did not manifest the glory of God in them.

Do you think Christianity will come to Nigeria? It's because somebody manifested the glory of God in them. There is something inside you God has appreciated. That's why you call what we have this treasure in ethnic vessel.

Your earthen vessel is the flesh that the essence of the power may be of God and not of us. God intentionally puts a spiritual treasure inside us. So that when you manifest, he did not make you, he did not turn. He put it opposite inside this, your earthly body.

So that when you manifest, they will know that truly this one is. This thing that this guy is doing is God. That is using him to do it. It's not him.

Because had even maybe the day we gave our life to Christ, our body became like white. Now look like angels. It will not be really. We will know that oh, this one is.

This one is something else. But God intentionally allowed us to remain as human beings. We are saved though. But there's something that happened inside us that you must open out.

I Don't know how else to explain this. So the process of forging is what will enable us to properly manifest that glory. That I will not give my life to Christ and stay in that position for 40 years, 60 years going to church. And at the end of time I realize I did not manifest the glory of God.

God forbid. Now let me tell you how serious this thing is. Let's look at Psalm 19:1 4 to show you that God desires to show his glory to the world. If nature itself can manifest God's glory, how much more me, a human being, a living thing.

Psalm 19, verse 1. He said the heavens declare the words glory of God. The heavens, that is the sky. Look.

So if you want to see God's glory, just look at the sky. Imagine no living thing is showing God's glory. Revealing the glory of God and the permanent sheweth is handiwork. Day and night, even the day and night alone.

Day on today they utter speech. That means the day is speaking. And night on tonight is showing knowledge. But guess.

See the funny thing, There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. The fact that the morning and the night they don't have mouth to speak. But yet there's a way they are speaking without actually using words. They are revealing the glory of God.

Even without. If you read all that translation of this thing, you will just be in shock. If creation can manifest God's glory, how much more me, the one that carry God. Do you know that you are carrying God and know if you understand.

God wants to show his glory. The reason why he created us. He wants to just pour. He wants to.

He want to show us. He wants you. God is so mighty. He's like, I just want to show my glory.

Let me just. I want people to just feel me. I want people to feel me. I want people to like, let them know that yes, I'm God.

Because it's actually God. It's actually God. He. He wants to manifest it.

He wants people to see it. But the question is, what are you doing? You are hiding God's glory. This is a very delicate matter.

The more of his glory you encounter, the more to be reviewed. There is always more. There is always more. Now there's a scripture that talks about us looking at the mirror, right?

And the more we look at the mirror, we are formed into his image. We are formed into his image. But we'll get to that scripture. So now I say I've explained that there are two dimensions of this revelation for us.

Manifest God's glory. Christ must be revealed to us. Then we will now reveal Christ to the world. The first thing you must behold, that's what happened to Paul.

Paul saw Jesus. He said, who art thou, Lord? Say, I'm the one that you persecuted. Why are you persecuted?

Why are you kicking against the brick? That's what he told him. He saw Jesus. The day he saw Jesus, that was the day and the day his eyes were opened.

After Ananias came to him, opened his eyes, Paul started what, revealing God in him. So Christ was revealed to him. Then he revealed God in him to the world. That is the process.

You receive Christ, show Christ receive, give, take, give, you receive. Then you give out, receive, give out, not receive, keep, receive, retain, you know. Yeah. He that giveth will not lack, give.

So when you hear that scripture, give and it shall be given unto you. Every time. We always take his material things. It's material.

You think, if you notice throughout Jesus ministry, Jesus was not really emphasizing too much on this material thing. That the way we carry it, anytime we're talking about God blessing, we're always talking about money, money, talking about material things. There is something deeper than this material I'm looking at. There is something called spiritual blessings.

Give and shall be given unto you. Good measure, press down, shaking, running over. There is more. There is something that you have that you can give to your nation.

But some people, we still don't understand. We are just. There's a treasure in every een vessel. And that treasure is Christ light, Christ life, the hope of glory.

Jesus wants to be seen. My question for you is that will you allow him to shine through you or will you just continue to remain hidden? Will you just continue to remain in that state? Now we're talking about the making of songs.

Time has gone. Jesus, so he said, sons of God don't manifest automatically. There has to be a place of preparation. And that's what we call the word forging, a place of preparation.

You don't just manifest right now forging is a pre designed cast that is used to create an object, right. You know, forging like, you know, forging is what you do in metal. How it is a process of, you know, in the metalsmith, you put a container and you pour what, molten lava or molten heat or what you, what you call it magma. You pour it inside there, then you allow it towards solidify.

Then you start doing what? Heating it, hitting it, hitting it until it takes the shape. It must look like the shape of that cast. That was said.

That is exactly what we are doing in Christ As I receive Jesus, the next thing is not enough. I got born again does not mean I'm going to look like Christ. I'm not. In fact, let me tell you, any born again Christian today is not a Christian yet.

A Christian is somebody that looks like Christ. A born again does not look like Christ. He has just received Christ. He has received the Holy Spirit in him.

But there is a what a label. There is a work that needs to be done. That person must go through what a forging process. They will come and Christ will come, will start removing things with check impurities today.

Remove it, Remove this one, remove this one. Remove lie, remove cheating, remove stealing. You don't think that give lies Christ, you automatically stop doing. In fact, all those things will be dead.

But you'll be conscious of it. Now he removes them. That's forging process. Some people now metal are forged in presence of heat, pressure, repeated strikes.

Heat must be applied. Pressure must be applied and there must be repeated strikes. Hitting, hitting, hitting you, hitting you, hitting you hit. You'll be every hits like this.

I'm pressure. This is the process that makes sense. That's why many people don't want to go through this poisoning process. That's why it looks as he presented.

But the Bible says my grace is sufficient for you. There is a grace that God gives you to go through that process. And trust me, when you come out from that process, my God you will man, you will shine like this thing and that process, it looks like what you are going through every day. Hardship.

You see. Imagine as we were in the car, I was just happy. The scriptures entered my said, rejoice, rejoice when you suffer persecution for Christ. Rejoice, be excited.

That means when suffer persecution, it looks like Jesus is applying heat, a lot of heat. I know when it's hot, you're almost there. You're almost forming and looking like Christ. And that's why he's saying be happy, be excited.

Yes, bring them, bring investigation. Somebody is excited that they are flogging him. He's excited that they are putting him in prison. But unfortunately, some people when they are doing those things, they now go away from Christ.

Because many people do not usually last in that forging process. That's what always happen. Many people when they go to forg, it's too hard, it doesn't leave. This is what happens.

Sons are those are carry the life, nature, order, body, authority and representation of God. They cry the life of God. They cry. The nature of God.

They cry the order of God. They cry the Burden of God. They carry his authority and they cry. They represent him, just like me.

Now I am able to represent Daddy when I go out. So because I carry the surname, I carry the name. So I must be conscious that I'm representing a house, I'm representing a household. I can't afford to mess up.

That's consciousness. A child will always have inheritance. A son will have the capacity to receive that inheritance. That is why many people are praying.

You will never receive things you want them. Pray for healing and pray for deliverance. Nothing is happening. Why is my spiritual life just, oh, God, you are not growing.

That's why you don't have the word of God in you. You don't have capacity to receive what God wants to do with you. And you'll be complaining. That's why people are suffering.

If you wonder, why am I not rich? I've done anything. Grow up. You just.

You just focus on growing. Do a hard check. A son always want to take responsibility, directions for his own. I've said it already.

As long as the child remains as a minor, even if he has an inheritance, he's no different from a slave. He will still be a slave. Now, the beauty of gold is not in raw form. The beauty of gold is not in raw form.

Because when you see gold, initially, it's always very rough, rusty. But when they put it with the forging process, when it comes down, everybody loves it. Now everybody is looking at people that have been fully forged, and they love the outcome. But they don't want to go through the process.

They want to jump. That's why people now go into all of these things, go to other gods to come and try and replicate what that person is getting. The glory of God. People are trying to replicate the glory of God.

They skip the process. Want to jump? No, there's no. You can never jump.

You can never cheat. In the kingdom of God, you must go through that process. It's called the refining process, the process of forging. And that's one of the things that the church is expected to do in believers.

They refine us until we look like the sun. And this is how you know, when I look like the sun, there's a mirror. The mirror is the word of God. You check, you look today.

How do I look? I check. Okay, okay, okay. I'm almost looking.

Like, you know, okay, okay, okay. Ah, my hand is not yet there. So you go and walk again. Okay, okay, I'm almost there.

I'm almost there. That's how the world is the mirror of God and you keep until you are fully formed. And you will never be fully formed until the day you see your king. Until the day you see Jesus in full glory.

That's when you know, that's when you take the full glory of God. No, contrary to what people say that God, God, the Bible says he will never share his glory with anybody. Do you know that? You know what the reason, what that thing means?

Do you know from the beginning of time, Jesus, God's was sharing his glory with us because we're in fallen state. He can't share his glory with any man. But when Jesus died and when he rose and when he accepted Jesus Christ, Jesus is not living in us. Do you know what?

We are carrying the glory of God. That means I am carrying God's glory. You see, if you see me, you have seen Jesus. That is how he's expected to be.

I don't need to. Once you have seen me, you should have. You have seen Jesus. Once you hear me speak.

It's just that he's talking. That is the level, that's the stage Jesus wants us to become. It is paramount that we all go into this process. I'll just wrap with the three stages and just end there.

Dimensions of sonship There are three processes. The first step, the first dimension is the beds. That's the day you give your life to Christ. That's why in John chapter 3 where Nicodemus asked Jesus Christ, what must I.

If not for the question of Nicodemus, nobody would have known what he actually means to be a born again. You see why I always encourage people ask questions, ask questions. You see a believer, a young believer, he's always just keeping quiet, watching you finish talking. Any question?

No question. If Nicodemus now asks this question, nobody will know what it means to be a born again Ask. You must be curious and hungry for the world. I went to my edition, they wanted to mimic me.

They said, who is this brother that always they try to mimic me like this and then ask everybody else said, ah, bro James, bro James. Because I ask questions so much and it's not because of anything, but because questions usually open your mind to see certain things you will never see. If you are reading Bible and you, you read finish, you just read Psalm 82 and you do not even ask a single question. Something is wrong, you damage.

You don't understand how to read Bible. You must be able to ask questions. When you ask questions, the Holy Spirit is there sitting beside you, waiting for you, say okay, any question. Because he said he will Teach you all things.

But how will he teach you when you're not ready to. You're not even curious to ask you. Ask him. Okay.

Holy Spirit, I saw this world. What does he mean there Anyways? That's what Nicodemus did. So the first stage is being a born again.

A spiritual bed is needed for you to enter into what? The process of sonship. Now, after you have now given your life to Christ, you are now in infants. The next stage is formation.

Christ must be formed in you. During this stage there is a struggle between the flesh and the Spirit. That's why you're always content. And I experience it daily, every day.

There is always a contention between my flesh and my spirit asking to do this or to do that, to sleep or to wake up and pray, to read Bible, or to just open TikTok and school to work for throughout the whole day, or to pause work and find time to pray and to study scripture. To go and talk to this person of Christ or to those going to play game or to go and watch movie. There's a contention of the flesh and the Spirit. The Spirit wants to do a lot of things.

That's why I say walk in the Spirit. And you will not fulfill the laws of the flesh. Walk in the Spirit. You will not fulfill the loss of the flesh.

The reason why many people are struggling with this thing of sin is because they are not working in the Spirit. We are always feeding your flesh. You are eating things of the flesh. You are eating junk.

We are always spending too much time on tik tok, all this social media. Walk in the Spirit. Do the things of the Spirit. Pray fast.

Read the word, ask questions. Inquire the lost temple, go to church, stay in service, stay around believers, ask questions. Fill your mind with things above, not on things on earth. Renew yourself.

It is a serious school, I'm telling you. This is a very rugged school. Like it's a. It's a school that doesn't end that formation process.

Formation is endless until Christ comes. That's the process. Now this is where people don't understand. That's why you see, people are just careless with their Christian life.

No, no, no, no, no. You must. It's beyond devotion or just your morning devotion. No, it's you setting out time to go deep.

Not because you want to preach, not because you want to do something, but because you want to know God more. That is formation. The final stage is now the manifestation. That's what everybody wants to see.

You want to see them shine. Ah, this man raising the dead, healing the sick, doing all these things. He's very wealthy. He ah.

He has many cars. He has jets. Manifestation everyone to see that one. This is the revealing of what God has been forming in a man.

In the secrets. Ask yourself what are you doing in the secrets? What am I doing? The secrets am I.

Before you can become a son, you must spend time in the secret place. Jesus told them he called disciples that they might be with him first before he sends them out. You must stay with Jesus first. Paul stayed with Jesus in Arabia for three years.

The Bible says that Paul said that Jesus had been talking to him throughout in Arabia. He spoke to him throughout in Arabia. He gave all the counsel to him. Then he now sent him out.

And that's why he's manifesting. That is the manifestation there. So the unveiling of the life of Christ formed in a man is called manifestation. So I'll close with this that there are many other things I have to say.

But we'll end there. But Jesus desires to shine through us. He wants to be seen. There's one movement called Jesus must be seen.

Must I? I challenge us today. Show Jesus to your generation. People are limited.

Did I understood that thousands of people, thousands of, if not hundreds of thousands of millions are waiting for on me? I don't know about you me to just manifest as the Son of God. Many people's life are tied are connected to my manifestation as son of. Imagine Moses did not manifest.

Do you know how? Do you know how many years it took for Moses to come into sonship Jesus. Because of Moses they had an extra 40 years. Imagine.

Imagine you knew that is this person that is responsible for your slavery in this place. Moses. Because of Moses 40 years they waited extra. The prophecy was that 400 will stay in Egypt.

Moses now do abidi. He went to go and mess up. He ran away. 40 Years he delayed people's destiny.

So when you see. That's why he said that my eyes of understanding be enlightened. So that I can know the hope of his call. So you can know why Jesus Christ called you from darkness into light.

There's a reason why he. You see. Many are called, but few are choosing. Is the reason why he called you.

You come. Everybody's in darkness. Why? What stops God from just saving everybody at home?

You see that people are not being saved at the same time. You can. I can understand you and preach now somebody. Some people give their life to Christ.

Then some people not give their life to Christ because God has called them at that particular time. And he came. He called you not just so that you come and stay, call you so that you can now stay with him. Then he might now send you out to go and bring other people into the kingdom.

This is the concept of the church. Until we come into this realization, we will not be able to receive. The church is not meant to lack. There are certain things that come as a result of you just doing what you need to do.

God can never send me on an errand without giving. You can never send a child on an errand. Now you tell a child, go and buy bread, go and buy sardine, go and buy milk, go buy. And you gave the person 15.

How's all how God is the same thing? Because you never, unless you went to go and do your own. Maybe they gave you 1000 to buy this and this and this. Then you now went to go and buy some extra things.

They don't say you buy. And it's beyond the cost that he gave you. Oh, is God is no more responsible for you. That's why you see many people are struggling in their life because they're not doing what God wants you to do.

The sooner you just align to what God wants you to do. It's one that called you. It's what I sent you, the one that commissioned you. Why don't you just do what he says you do?

Everything you need will be there. So long as you are working in his purpose, you cannot lack. David said something I have never seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. It's not possible unless maybe I have gone astray.

I'm going to go and build my own thing. This is why many people are struggling. Many men of God, many children of God. Many people are struggling because you're not working in purpose.

You are doing what did not send you. What has God called you? So the prayer is. God will preach the prayer of Paul.

Let my eyes of understanding be enlightened so that I can know the hope of my calling and the blessings that you have in store for me. And the power is three things he said. I wrote it down. Three things.

You know the hope of his calling, the hope for which God calls you. When your eyes is open, three things will happen. You will know the hope of which God called you. You know how rich are the wonderful blessings he has promised for you.

You know how you that means in summary, you'll be able to see your bank account. You know that. Oh, imagine you know that you have $10 billion in your account. You know there's a way you behave when you know you don't have and you be when you know.

Imagine you just open your phone, you just say 10 billion. Let me tell you how maybe you were doing it before you see 10 billion. Your body will change, you'll be working faster. You'll be happy if it's fine if you didn't this.

That's the same thing when your eyes open because you don't know what you have. That's why we still behaving small. You're still doing oh, we thank God though you're still. You're still managing.

You're still doing when you know you are kind God yourself we s and God belongs to once you know that if God open your eyes, you can see Jesus. So inside this room, all this gold is my own. Ah, you'll be working confidently. Ha ha.

You, you will be so confident as a Christian, you will not be ashamed. You can go outside and go and tell ah, are you sick? Come, come, come, come. Let me pray for you.

You pray for the person because you are confident and 100% sure that one of my blessings is that I can heal the sick. Because your eye is not open. So devil is now using and playing without knowledge or lack of knowledge of what you have. Devil is a bad person, a very bad person.

And the third thing you will know when your eyes open is that you know how great his power is in us. Everything I'm saying is in Ephesians 1:18. I'm not even efficient one. It's a read by yourself.

You know how great his power is in you who believe there is a power inside you that is so big. The same power that created this whole world. The Bible says Genesis 1:1, I was praying yesterday and Genesis 1:1 just entered. In the beginning, God created the world and the earth was in that form and void.

And the Spirit of God was moving over the earth. That same spirit that designed this whole world that you are seeing, I'm saying the whole universe. You are seeing the same spirit that is inside you walking right now. But because your eyes not open, you don't know the power that is available inside you.

That's why you are building small. My prayer is that God will make us to become sons and not remain as children in Jesus name. So go to God in prayer.