3 Foundational Pillars to Our Faith In Christ Pt.1

That you are enlightened in an area. That's when you have become that area. You must be made. Are you following? So that is what we have been given. So the Lord has over the years walked with me and given me this revelation. He unfolded. this thing that is needed. And not only that in knowledge and enlightening, but in personality. You see, humanity is a signal that needs to be healed.

And it is healed when you receive a certain virtue of the truth. As long as you're human, there's a way you cannot stop thinking. No matter how hard you try, you'll be strong on yourself, but you'll still be thinking depressive or all this kind of thing.

by the day you are healed of humanity the day the divine nature in you by the revelation of the spirit in the way it comes it takes on a new dimension beloved in christ you are welcome to listen to this teaching by dr david bindon Listen attentively by the Spirit as you feast on the truth of God's Word.

Three foundational pillars to our faith in Christ. I want us to see if time will permit us in the next few minutes we have to look at one, two, or three. Foundations to our faith in Christ. These things, they're like foundations to your faith in Christ. If you will prosper, if you will enjoy, if you will advance well and be all that the Father wants you to be in your faith in Christ, you have to...

be well placed on these foundations. There are many, but because we'll take a look at these three, it's important for us to realize that

Our faith in Christ is not a religious thing. Like we keep saying on the glad devotion, Christianity is not a religion. And when we say that, we are not trying to split ends with anybody or trying to be complex. Many don't understand what a religion is. You see? A religion is a person or a human's way of trying to appease or relate with a deity. Human effort trying to relate with a deity by a certain...

set of do's and don'ts or things you have to do and not do. But Christianity is not something like that. There is a form of religiosity in Christianity. For instance, You must read your Bible every day. You must give an offering. You must come to church. There are things you must do as part of the practice of your Christian faith. But all the rest is, is not in the things you are doing.

Are you getting it? This challenge happened to the people of the Old Testament. When they got replaced, they got to know that God gave them... laws and ordinances through Moses, and that required the sacrificing of animals and all that, and coming to Jerusalem once or twice every year, a lot of those ordinances. So they will...

religiously stick to those things and yet be worshipping more like. They'll do those things and yet still be sending their first fruits. You understand? So it's like, at a point... It was just about we are Jews because we have this form of things to practice. And God said, no. I'm not interested in burnt offerings. I'm not interested in all these come and go, come and go. There is something.

That is the foundation upon which all these things are based. Now, fast forward, the same thing is happening in the body of Christ. A lot of things we pray for answers. We give for prosperity. We do many things in church. We make declarations. We sing. We worship and all that. But it's important to realize that these are the religious practices, but they are based on something.

If you don't understand the foundations upon which these things are based, your Christianity will be floating on these things. I give and I get. I pray and I get answers. I worship and I feel this way. I do this. These are not really the things.

These are the means and the ways of interacting or relating with the real foundations. So someone can keep on coming to church very frequently or in a very devoted way, participates in prayer, worship, gives, does all these things. After a year, you measure his quality of progress in the spirit. And I'm telling you, he hasn't made any progress. He would have increased in the number of songs he knows to sing in church. He might have increased in the amount of money he now gives.

Because he has prospered more. He might have grown in, maybe he was in foundation school, he's now a teacher or school of life. Those things may happen, but they are not a real measure. There were times that some people who were, let's say, cell leaders did things and said things and we wondered, how did he go through the training to become a cell leader?

Some people were leaders of certain places and then we would discover or find some things or hear some things. And we say, how can you be here? So you see, going through the system is not the same as growth in the spirit. Are you getting that?

And you see, in the realm of the spirit, things are intelligent. Oh, dear Lord. The Father is intelligent. The Holy Ghost is intelligent. Jesus is intelligent. We can't even say this about them. Now, demons are intelligent. It doesn't matter how many of these things we cover ourselves with. If we aren't growing really, the things know in the spirit. Are you getting that? So sometimes people are confused about, I'm doing this, I'm growing, I can see results here, but it's not like that.

There are foundations. Tell somebody there are foundations. And I want us to be very clear about these things we are doing. There's a reality to what we are doing. There are foundations.

Is that okay? So if you go to, let's start somewhere from 1 Timothy. Hi, I love you both so much. Sometimes I just feel like walking around and just touching you or hugging you one by one. I see the time. Wanda, would you have a hugging service? Yeah. I've realized that sometimes the hugging, some people don't understand it, so it's challenging. Listen, when you have a flame with love,

You see people differently. It's hard to withhold it. We are not doing it because the Christian brotherly loves him. It's in nature. You know, sometimes when I meet the children, I hold them dear to myself and touch them. It's something. You know, it's like a handshake is not enough. Anyway, we are coming there. See, we are coming there. So those of you that don't want to hug you, you are straight like a mountain.

Relax. I will never relax. Of course, you need to be very ethical in everything you do. But let the love flow. This thing, there's something in it. There's something in it. Where were we going? Okay, let's start from, now we have three, we're going to read scriptures. Let's start from verse one. 1 Timothy chapter 2. Let's start from verse 1. I exhort, therefore. This is the apostle Paul by the Spirit. He says, I exhort, therefore. I inspire you. I challenge you. To do what?

That first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for who? Amen. This is something that as children of God we have to practice until it becomes part of our culture. Learning to pray for all men. Just give thanks for the lives of people on the earth. Make supplications for all men.

If you pray this way, you don't have a lot of enemies, whether political or social. No, no. If you pray for people, you don't have enemies. You can't hold things against them. The scriptures exhort us to pray for all men. That's the scriptures. When was the last time you just spent time praying for all men? It's mostly limited to you. But we are exhorted to have times.

To pray for all men. In the next 30 seconds, let's pray for all men. The scripture is meant to be done. Just pray for people in the world. Pray for Africa. Pray for North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia. Pray for children. Pray for families, wives, children. Pray for people of various kinds. Pray. Just pray. Thank God for their lives and pray that by the release of your peace, people who are in hard times right now are getting relieved because of your prayer.

Someone is in the hospital. A surgery is being done. Someone is just about to die. Right now, by your prayer, that death is suspended. A woman is in labor right now. And the baby was just about being born still. But by your prayer, that baby is going to come out alive. Something is happening somewhere. an emergency somewhere right now as you pray. Angels will just go there and take people out of accidents and evil things.

Right now, maybe even somebody is arrested, kidnapped, and they were just about to kill him. But as we pray right now, the light of God is going to strike in that place. And those wicked people are going to give up their actions. And the people are going to be safe. Right now, pray for the world. Father, we thank you. We thank you for the world. We thank you for the masses of men and women on their children.

We speak light. We bring our light to them. We bring our light to them. We bring our light to them, our liberty, our peace, our joy, our prosperity. We bring truth to their heart. We awaken them from darkness of ignorance. In the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you dear Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you Father. Wow.

So imagine every day you have some two minutes to pray this way for the world. You make your world better. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men. For King Z. And for all that are in authority. See? So you don't pray because MPP is in power, NDC is in power. You pray because they are kings and they are in authority. Is that okay? I'm going to pray for all the chiefs and kings of Ghana. Are you ready?

And all around the world, I'm going to pray for all leaders of nations. Presidents, let's pray for them. That wisdom, the wisdom of God will fill their offices. Confusion will leave them. There are courtes and evil men lobbying the offices of leadership. to bring in evil things. Right now, you want to intercept those evil things and shine the light of God into every public office and every leader, DCEs, assemblymen. I mean, any form of leadership in any nation, pray for them.

right now. That the light of Yahweh will take over their hearts and they'll make decisions after the counsel of God. In the name of Jesus. We pervade and permeate the rooms, the palaces right now all around the world. Presidential cabinet offices right now. Presidential offices, offices of leaders of nations.

in various capacities. We fill their offices with light and we bring to an end decisions that are ungodly. In the name of Jesus, we fill them with the light of truth and we fill their hearts with love and cause them to move forth. In the name of Jesus.

glory to God oh thank you Lord we make the edit better place through the actions of leadership we pray for the president of the America and all the nations of the world in the name of Jesus president of Ghana and other nations of the world in the name of Jesus causing light to shine in their hearts in the name of Jesus a lot to shine in the action wisdom to abound towards them in the name of Jesus thank you Lord for kings and for all that are in authority

that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all goodness and honesty. Of course, when disciples do well, everything is good for everybody, and of course, we'll get to enjoy. But of course... You have to know that the scriptures are written for various classes. You don't need their conditions to be in comfort. Right? But if they are comfortable, you know, add to what you will enjoy. All right. It says, verse 3, for this is good.

He says, when we do what we have just done, it is what? Good. Say, neighbor, what you just did is good. Say, keep it up, man. Say, do it every day in your home. Let it not be only in church. Yeah, this is why I'm speaking to myself. I have to be doing it more frequently. I do 11th ascension, but not in this dimension. I pray and serve this in the whole world. You know, it comes about specifically I need to do something special. Verse 3, for this is good and acceptable in the sight.

of God our Savior. So when we say God our Savior, you need to know from where the communication is. Who says God our Savior? The world. So if the apostle is communicating this way, he's communicating, he includes himself in the state of the world. Because to the world, God is a savior. But to us, God is a father. Are you getting that?

Right now we have upgraded. So when you read the Bible, you must read it clearly so that you don't miss things out. Okay? So I will be pointing out these things to you. Because the more you keep reading it this way and reading this way, if you don't know where you, if you don't take a stand. and read it according to who you are. You can't grow along these paths. Is that okay? For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.

Who will have all men to be saved? So how many people will God have to be saved? It means he desires that all men will be saved. What does that mean? Does that mean some men are not saved? There are dimensions. He has already saved them, but he wants them to come into the experience of salvation. That's what he means here. Is that okay? And not only that, and to do what? And to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Epignosis, the full discernment of the truth. This is where we're coming all this while. It's important to realize that being saved or experiencing salvation, a human coming into the experience of salvation. It's not the end of the story. There is a knowledge you must know. A lot of Christians are born again, and that's where they settle, and they get caught up in the religiosity of the faith in Christ. They are not enlightened. They have not been brought into full discernment and knowledge.

of how this work in faith is supposed to be. Remember, I'm trying to share with you some foundations of the Christian faith. Are you getting that? And I wanted you to appreciate that after coming into Christ, As a son of God, there is something to know. There is an enlightenment you must have that will make your walk a beautiful walk, a productive walk.

Some people have been working in Christ, but their work is not productive. It's been years of struggles based on just religious activities of the Christian faith. And they haven't moved forward. So I wanted you to see that God wants men to be saved. But it doesn't just end there. It goes on to when a person is saved, he must come on to the knowledge of the truth.

So there is a truth to be known now that you are a Christian. There's something to be realized. There's an enlightenment to receive. That will help you to maximize your being in Christ. Are you okay?

He wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge, the full knowledge, the accurate knowledge of the truth. Now, why is this important? When people don't understand that after being born again, They need to be enlightened to maximize that journey. Now that they are born again, they settle in religiosity and they're just waiting, I'm saved, so I'm waiting for Jesus to come and take me. That's where all this mentality came from.

Because after being saved, they never got enlightened. So, okay, I'm saved. What should I be doing? Just waiting for Jesus to come and take me away. So, while I'm waiting for him, let me go to church. Let me pray and let him bless me. Let me do this. Let me prosper. So everything else is like what the world does it only waiting for Jesus to come and take me away. It means there's no enlightenment. And that is why their greatest Christian vision is for Jesus to come and take them away.

It means that after they came into being as sons and daughters, they've not been enlightened about what else to do and how to live. When Jesus comes, he will. But if you got born again and you have not received enlightenment about this, You won't have a higher Christian vision. So I have a higher Christian vision. So I'm receiving enlightenment. In the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Let's go to 2 Timothy chapter 3.

I just want you to first appreciate that it's important to be well enlightened. All right. Second Timothy chapter. Give the Lord a hand clap. Second Timothy chapter 3. Let's start somewhere from verse 5 and see where we are going. And now let me tell you something. When you begin... Like what we began in church and we are teaching you knowledge, understanding, and we raise you and we raise you to be able to follow teachings. Now, teaching has to do with learning.

When you get used to learning, you get used to, okay, we are talking about important foundations. So let him just give us the foundations. That's what you are thinking. You miss the ministry of the word. You see, I gave you a topic that we are dealing with three important foundations. That's not what you should be looking for.

Be looking for the ministry of the word. And I'm ministering the word to you. So even if I don't mention Foundation One, I've ministered to you. Because at the academic level, Until I get to the points, and I saw point one, point two, point two. I'm watching my time. If I'm on the introduction, and it's time, I'll stop. All I'm doing, I'm ministering the word to you. Your growth is my concern.

It's not about how many points you know. Are you getting that? I have taught you on 19 ways, 7 ways, 8 ways. You can't even remember. But from now, it's not about three ways, seven ways. You should know that there's a foundation. Whether there are three or four, I don't know. What we should do is receive the word. Are you getting it? And that's why I'm intentionally reading the scriptures.

And I will go into them because I'm doing what is called ministering the word. Hallelujah. So now when you come to church. Come to church expecting to eat and be edified. Not to know. Because in the 18th anniversary, you will know. But if your focus is to know, you will miss the main mystery of the word.

So if I focus on the knowledge, all that I'm saying now, you're just waiting. Your topic has been written. Three foundations. Just waiting. Just waiting. So to you, all this time, I'm just wasting time. I need to re-teach you how I'm going to be teaching you. But in the ministry of the word, all you need is what we are reading. The power in the reading of the word without any topic. Just reading the Bible.

And I have come, not as a teacher, but as a spirit. To minister to spirits. And that is not in English. It is in English that I'm saying three points. In the spirit, there's no topic. We are just feeding. We are just feeding. Are you getting that? You need to understand that aspect. So if you come to church, and I say, today our topic is how to fly. And then I took off and I'm talking about how do you feel.

And I'm sharing with you, and I didn't go to our city. This day, he doesn't even know it. I don't know how he's teaching, you know. He said, we're going to try to fly. And we didn't even touch it. I was looking for that topic. Go back to our message. You have a lot of topics. Say it's a new day. Say it's a new day. Say glory. Hallelujah. Even in your laughter, you are receiving. I say you are receiving. Speak in tongues. I'm edified.

In the name of Jesus. Oh thank you Lord Jesus. Yeah. You see these are. Things that are not written in the Bible in plain language. But there are things that some of us have known to maximize. Environment. Environment. So if we don't teach you, you will think that all we are is the structured way. Spirit has no structure. Even though it is organized. Even though it is organized.

Okay. He spoke about the end times and how people are going to be there in verse 5. He said, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. From such do what? Turn away. If you want to get it, go from verse 1. How men are going to be lovers of themselves, A, B, C, D. Then it says, they will have a form of godliness. That means a religious shape. They'll be in a religion.

But the power of it will not be there. The reality will not be there. He says, don't be in that group. Don't get yourself locked up amongst those who have a form of godliness, but you can't find the real power of it inside them. He says, don't be amongst them. Let's go, verse 6. It says, for of this sort, so those who are in this class are there which creep into houses and lead captive silly women.

Lead them with sins. Do you understand what this means? They have women who are not mature in the things of God. And they have these men who don't understand anything. They are in the church as if they are in the church. And they go around them and have illicit relationships with them. These things have happened. Remember, you are related to Corinthian church where people are doing all these kind of things. They have a form of religion, but nothing is in it.

Are you following? He was giving you examples. He said, lead culture, silly women, lead them with sins. Lead our way with diverse lusts. These are the people. Go ahead. Ever learning. and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. This is a religious Christianity. Oh, this powerful conference, breakthrough conference.

Flying conference. New creation conference. Every day. Powerful program. 17 days. Topics. Ever learning. But you meet them five days. They are still talking the same way. Five years talking the same way. Same habits. Same addictions. Same way of seeing things. Same worldliness. Why? They are ever learning, but they are never able to come to the epignosis. The full discernment of truth. Why? They don't have these foundations of that. Are you following? So what I'm saying is that.

If you don't get these foundations clear in your Christianity, you'll be caught up in the religiosity of Christianity and you're not making progress. How can I tell you that I've been on a journey for 32 years and I know I've gotten something? It's been an intelligent journey.

I need, and I've always been sharing with you, I can tell you when I became this, when I arrived here, when this happened, when that happened. It's a journey based on a foundation. I'm not just going to church, going to church, then some way, some way, I agree to become a pastor. No. It's alive. Say it's alive. So are you not ready for the foundations? Have you understood why it's important to have the foundation? Because without the foundations, you'd just be learning, learning.

You are just saved and that's all. But there's a knowledge to have. There's a clarity. So I receive clarity. I receive understanding. Foundation number one about...

Our faith in Christ, it's a person-centered. Our faith in Christ is a person-centered. Our faith in Christ is a person-centered. Maybe I should just list the three for you. Those of you who are still interested in... Academia. It's a person-centered. It is relationship-based. That's number two. And it is purpose-driven. These, I believe, constitute a tripod of the foundation of your Christian faith.

that will make you have a prosperous Christian journey. Pillar number one, a person-centered. Number two, relationship-based. Number three, Purpose-driven. Purpose-driven. These are the foundations. I mean, for now, what I'm sharing with you, that will make you a Christian journey. Very amazing. And bring you to where we are going. It's important to realize that all that we are doing, video camera, dancing, drumming, is centered around a person.

Your giving of offering is centered around a person. Your prayer is centered around a person. Your coming to church is centered around a person. Everything we do, my preaching right now is centered around a person. If you take this person out of the picture of everything you are doing, you are left with an empty religion. And anything you do without that person in focus is religion. So if you met me and bowed down, oh, papa, papa, and even cleaned my shoes.

And you never had this person in view. Your bow down was nothing. Are you getting it? Because sometimes it's easy to get carried away in doing the things without thinking that there is a person at the center of all this we are doing.

Are you still here? And who is that person? God. Jesus. The holy God. The Godhead is the center. Oh, dear Lord Jesus. Imagine you spend 30 minutes praying. And you never had a focus or anything on God. You prayed. But the foundation is weak. Imagine you kept coming to church and it's just because you want to have your children in a good church. You are coming to church but it is useless to you. Everything you do.

Our Christian faith is a person centered. It must have God at the center. It must have God as the focus. Why am I preaching and sweating? I'm not preaching and sweating because of you. You are the tech target. It's because of a person and what he wants done in you. So that's where you come in. If I take the person out, I'll not be a professional pastor. And then I will not want to give you. What you need so I can keep you. But I give you what he wants you to get. Are you getting that?

Those of you are cell leaders. The day you take that person out of your cell leadership activity, your cell has become a community group. No more a cell. Those of you leading churches, the day that person get lost, your church has become another community. There is a person at the center of it. At the center of it all. At the center of it all.

It's Jesus. When Jesus came in John chapter 10 verse 10, what did he say? The thief cometh not but to steal and to kill and to destroy. But I am come that ye may have life. And have it worked more abundantly. So if you summarize Jesus' mission, it will come back to one word, life. It was that life that he came to give to mankind.

By the time he was coming, mankind was nowhere to receive it. So he has to descend into death where man is and bring man to where man can receive that life. Did you get that? So, his ultimate goal was not to come and die per se. The death was to bring man to a place where man can receive life. Are you okay? Now, this life is the ultimate. So in John, you read many places when you believe you have life. Titus chapter 1 verse 2 says that this life was promised before the world began.

So when Jesus came in the fullness of time, he came to make that life available. Have we settled that? That's the ultimate goal of Jesus' coming. Now what is this life? Go to John 17. And let's read verse 3. John 17, verse 3. Okay, let's go. And this is? Full stop. So, you said Jesus came to give you eternal life. Now he's defining for you what eternal life is. This is life eternal. What is this? That they may know did only through God and

Jesus Christ whom thou hast. So at the end of the day, eternal life, eternal life, eternal life. What is it? It's a person. Are you getting this? Eternal life is to know God. It's the life of God. It's about a person. It's about Jesus. It's about the father. There's a person at the center of it all. 1 John chapter 5. 1 John chapter 5. So here the emphasis was on the Father and Jesus. Now let's go to 1 John chapter 5 and let's read the 20th verse. 1 John 5 20. One, two, go.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding that we may know him that is true. That's the only true God, you see? Uh-huh. And we are in him that is true. Even. So you see the father and the son are interchangeably used. Now let's go. This is the true God and. So what is eternal life? The true God. Are you getting this? So the ultimate goal of your faith in Christ which is eternal life is actually a person.

So when you are preaching the gospel, you are actually introducing people to God. To a person. Eternal life is a person. So I say, I got eternal life. That means I say that I got God. eternal life is much more than just a substance it's a person and that is the ultimate of God for mankind at the center of this faith in Christ

It's a person. So lift your hands now. Look at me now. So this is the point here. It's the foundation of your Christianity. Whatever you do. Have God at the center. Why am I giving an offering? Is it because every Sunday when I come to church, it is part of church? Though that is true, if you give your offerings because of that, you have missed it.

You give your offering because you've come to fellowship with God. That's why in this house we call it blessing the Lord with your worship offering. We're not saying it to make it look holy. That is the truth. Because your giving must be connected to the person. Okay, it's time for OGT, OGT. I want to grow. What do you want to grow? What is it about? It's about a person.

You're working now to pray. What should energize you? It's not so that when you grow, you also be able to get money. It will be part of it. But it should be because of a person. Are you getting this? Why are you a star leader? Why have you accepted to be a video cameraman? Why have you accepted to be, was it yesterday? I go to, you know something, there is a certain fight. Every now and then there is a fight in the system. One of the current fights is a fight about musicians.

They should play drummers or play musicians or not play them. We'll have our conference, right? We'll learn. Don't be moved by those things you see around. Who are you coming to play drums for? That's the question. And it's because Christian singers don't know the difference between wellness and ministry. They call themselves musician. You're not a musician. You're a minister of the gospel.

But you want to put yourself in the above so that the difference will not be, okay, Shatawada sings about Satan, you sing about Jesus, that's the difference. So when you get these ungodly musicians sitting on the radio and talking, as if they are talking for you, they want to introduce worldliness and say, my pastor should hear this. Your pastor will not hear anything.

Are you here because of the webinar? Then he said, oh, but the pastors are paid. And I said, okay, did you come because of pay? And that's even the problem. But I'm not saying people shouldn't pay their pastors. But why are you paying a pastor? Did you employ him? Where would you sit to determine his pay? Who gave you that authority? Anyway, let's continue our subject. You see, listen, we are chipping it and giving men audacity.

To say just what they want because it looks like it. But what we are doing is not an earthly project. We are carrying out a heavenly Papa God's vision which has nothing to do with this monarch. matters on the earth. We got to do with eternal life. We're dealing with God. We're dealing with building lives. Kingdom beings. Not with drums and microphones and all these keyboards and things. Then we lie. These are things that help.

Television, it helps, but the church is not about television. Air condition, it helps, but church is not about air condition. We have churches under trees. And they worship Jesus. Are we still here?

So the point here is that you actually are sitting here. Why are you in church even today? Did you think about God before coming? See how simple it is? Actually, we're baffing. Hey, wifey, let's hurry up. Children, let's hurry up. Everybody's hurrying up. Okay, hurry. Did you think about why you're coming to church?

Was God at the center of it all? As you came, I just want to come for first service. Nine o'clock, I'm gone. So now it's 845. When will the offering come? I want to leave. Did you think about God? Did you think about God? At the center of it all is the person. When you do this, when you are reading your Bible, at the center of it is God.

When you are praying, at the center of it is God. When you do this because of God, you get to a place where you don't need motivation from a pastor. Because it is now you and God. This is a foundation for true Christianity. To have God at the center. To have Jesus at the center. To have the Holy Ghost at the center of all that you are doing.

At the center of your praise. At the center of your worship. At the center of your giving. At the center of your sacrifice. Whatever you are doing. This faith is a person based. It's centered around.

a person. Did you get that? Can we go to the next one before we close? What's the second one? It's relationship based. Okay, let me pause. Who has the question so far? Who has the question so far? Have you understood all that we have said so far? You have a question? Okay, yes. Thank you, Papa, for the opportunity. You are blessed. Please, I want to ask if you say our foundation is having God at the center of it all. Is it?

Having God at the center, you mean by in church or in everything we do, like when we eat, we should have God at the center of, you know, like husband and wife, when they marry and they are in bed, it should be God. At the center of it all. Like they are doing it for God all. Hallelujah. Give the Lord a mighty hand clap. An interesting question. And thank you for asking. Some will not ask. But your question has answered their question.

You see, the Christian has one life. You don't have academic life, marital life, student life, mechanic life, driving life. So that when you're driving, you can shout on people, then you can pastor life. You have one life. And God is at the center of it all. How can you run a marriage when God is not at the center? Those who don't have God at the center are fighting among themselves.

They are focused on, my husband is this, my husband is this. No, they don't have God at the center. They are focused on, my wife is this, my wife is this. Every area of your life. I can't get it. There's no part of your life that God is not involved in. What did he say? She said before eating. She said, receive with what? Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving to who? To the farmer? That thing I said, God bless the farmer. It's not a prayer. It's a joke.

Yes, if you want to pray for the farmer, pray for all men. Not when you are ready to eat, then God bless the farmer, the cook, and the one who served me. Amen. And the eater. And God bless the... Praise the Lord. Very intelligent question. Every area of your life. The Christianity that has given to Caesar what belongs to Caesar in which case

They come to church and it's church, church, church. When they go to the market, hey Charlie, this place market, no church. It's a lie. It's a deception. That scripture has a proper way of applying it. But a Christian is a Christian everywhere. If you are in politics, you are a Christian politician. If you are in business, you are a Christian businessman. If you are a teacher, you are a Christian teacher. Are you getting that? The Christian is first about you before everything.

So God at the center of everything. Final question. She has opened the door. Oh, you have a question. Wow. Thank you. Please let the one who hear you. Thank you for the opportunity. Religion is structured. Yes. So is religion that bad because it's structured? And most of the things we do are structured. So I want to ask, is religion that bad? Okay. So thank you so much. Let's give him a happy hand clap.

Remember I said there is a religious practice in Christianity. The tendency to shift from the person into the structure is the problem. That's what we are teaching. You see, spirit... It has no structure, but it is organized. You understand? Now, imagine that the church council wrote a sermon for me. And when I came, I'm supposed to minister, and then I didn't plan to ask for questions. But I know what I'm doing by the Spirit. I have a producer. Then I came, and then he said, ask for questions.

And then, no, no, no. When I said that, when we go back, chairman of the council and secretary of the council will feed me. So Charlie, let me stick to camp. If not, then they'll vote me out and vote under pastor in. You see, structure has to replace the person of the Holy Ghost. There's no more the spirit to operate. It has become a structure. And that is how come in many places the reality of the spirit is taken away. I'm not blaming anybody. How can we want to elect?

A senior pastor. Then we say, come and vote for a senior pastor. Are you getting what I'm talking about? So, the structure is good if it is... based or directed by the spirit. So Paul said, let everything be done in an orderly manner. But when there's a structure and now because of that structure, you cannot follow the spirit, the structure has become an idol.

And that's religion. But there is a religion in Christianity. For instance, come to church at 7, close at 11. It's a religion or something. But it's good because guys have to be able to plan our time and our lives. Are you getting that? But when we do that and then maybe once in a while you are led to do something but because of the structure you can't do it, it becomes an issue. Are you getting it? Alright. Jed has a question. It's Werlo. All right. But I said the last question.

thank you for the opportunity my question is that you said eternal life is a person so if eternal life is a person in the songs that we sing they use eternal life as it So she will be using it as X or she will be using it as key. Hey, Israel! So you can see what I'm answering at home. Hallelujah. You know, in human communication, some of the things are challenging. For instance, the word is a person. We know that in the beginning was the word, the word was God, and the word was God.

You see us referring to the word as it when we are referring to the written word or the Bible, something that is like inanimate. But we are conscious that... The substance of the word is spirit and it's a person. So in our communication, we can choose to refer to that. For instance, eternal life is a person, but there is a virtue to it. There's a substance to it.

So if we say it, then we're referring to the substance dimension of eternal life. But we know that it's a person. Are you getting it? So it depends on the direction of the communication. Is that okay?

All right. Good. I think we should stop here. We'll continue the next two points next week. Is that okay? Have you learned something? Have you received the ministry of the word? Speak in tongues. I declare that I am edified and built up. This is a family thing. And that I'm being built on a foundation. I am out of religion. Whatever you heard this morning, it is that which the Lord has used to edify you for today. Begin with thanking for it.

And by speaking in tongues, drive it inside you. Summarize what you have received this morning. And thank God for it. And let it drive you now. In the name of the Lord Jesus. Thank you. Thank you, Father. Hallelujah. Praise God. You have to be born again. You were born by a man and a woman. Before you were even conceived by that man and woman, you were known from God before you became a conceptus.

And there was a plan for your life. The plan was that you'll first be born as a man. And then you'll be born again as a son of God. So if you're watching me now or reading or hearing, depending on the platform, it means that you are a human, which means that you have been born.

you must be born again. What does he take to be born again? Receive the truth of the word that Jesus is the son of God who came to die for the sins of the world. He consigned mankind to God and he rose again and today he is Lord. If you receive that truth, you believe it.

Instantly you become born again. You become a son of God. Your belief in Christ makes you born again. The Bible says that by grace are we saved through faith. Your belief that Jesus is Lord is what makes you born again. Do you believe? If you do, instantly you've been born again. But I can help you make a confession that will establish this reality in your consciousness. Say this with me. Dear Lord Jesus, I do believe that you are the son of God who came into this world, died.

was raised from the dead, ascended to heaven, and you are Lord. I declare you Lord of my life. Hallelujah. For that, with all your heart, truly, you are born again. Surely, I'm going to come to you again in our next episode. Let's take a look at this object matter from another light. But until then, Life is good. Enjoy. Thank you for listening to the Word Podcast with Dr. David Bindan. Join us again for the next episode.