Grace Much More Abounds

[Speaker 1] 2025. I want to welcome every one of us to this program. I want to say you are really, really welcome. and I trust the Lord that as we come together this morning for a time in his presence, it is going to be a refreshing time by the grace and mercies of God in the name of Jesus Christ. We want to particularly say God has been merciful. God has been merciful. Merciful because if we were to recount how God took us through the months of January through December of 2024, honestly, we cannot but say God is faithful. And I believe in him that he will continually be faithful as he has carried us through 2024, bringing us through into 2025. He would definitely carry us through 2025 by the mercies of God in the name of Jesus Christ. I want to welcome you all again. and what I first want us to do this morning, wherever you are connecting with us this morning, wherever you are, can you just thank the Lord? Can you just thank the Lord and say, "God, indeed we thank you. We thank you for bringing us into 2025 by your mercies. We are indeed very, very grateful. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your goodness. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for all who you are and all that you are. Thank you, our Father, in the name of Jesus Christ." Wherever you are, just bless the name of the Lord. Just bless the name of the Lord. Bless his name. Go ahead and bless his name. Give him glory, give him honor, give him adoration. Appreciate him for all who he is and for all that you are. Thank him, thank him, thank him, thank him, thank him. Honestly, we cannot but thank him. We cannot but say, "God, we are really, really grateful. Lord, we are really, really grateful. We are really, really grateful. Thank you, our Father. Thank you, our Jesus. Thank you for all who you are. Thank you for all that you are. Thank you for your mercies. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your goodness. Thank you for your grace. Thank you, Almighty Father. We are really, really grateful to you. We are really, really grateful. Thank you, Jehovah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, our Father." And wherever you are, let’s take this song together to worship the Lord just before we pray and go properly into the meeting. To God be the glory, great things he has done! So loved he the world that he gave us his Son, who yielded his life an atonement for sin, and opened the life-gate that all may go in. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice! O come to the Father through Jesus the Son, and give him the glory, great things he has done! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice! O come to the Father through Jesus the Son, and give him the glory, great things he has done! Let us have a word of prayer. Almighty God, we thank you for this day. We give you all the praise, we give you all the honor, we give you all the adoration. We appreciate you for all who you are. We thank you for all that you are. We bless your holy name, our God. We say be thou exalted, our Father, in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord our God, as we come together this morning, Lord we pray that your Spirit will work, Oh Lord, within us, among us, in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, our eyes on you, our eyes on you. As we look into this Scripture together, Romans chapter 5, verse 20 to 21, Lord we just pray that you will speak to our hearts individually and collectively in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, work in us. Lord, work through us. Lord, encounter us where we need you most in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord our Father, we pray for all our brethren connecting with us on Mixlr, connecting with us on Telegram. Lord, we pray, wherever we all are, Lord, meet with us where we need you most. Meet with us as individuals, meet with us collectively in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord God Almighty, let it be a time of refreshment in your presence in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Eternal Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Now, if you look at what I sent out yesterday, if you look at what we sent out for our program this morning, we said we'll be looking at the topic: "Where Sin Abound, Grace Abound Much More." And I wrote some things at the invite that I sent out yesterday. I would like to read what I wrote because we'll be taking off from there. What I wrote is: "Our first Singles Club meeting for the year 2025 will be a reflection on Romans chapter 5, verse 20 to 21." And I wrote further that: "Are you wondering, are you marveling at the extent and power of the manifestation of sin today? I need to announce to you, young man and woman, that deeper and greater things await us in righteousness. Please don’t come alone, invite someone." The reason why I had to read that as our starting point is because when you look around you today, when you look at what is happening around us, you might be among the categories of individuals who are wondering, marveling at the extent and the dimension, the magnitude, the trend, the way sin is manifesting today. When you look at the way sin is manifesting, the dimension that it is taking, you might be wondering. When you look at what man, humans, are doing, the extent of rebellion against the ordinances of God, the extent to which man has gone into diverse inventions, the extent to which knowledge has increased, the dimension and the trend of this increase, the way things are opening up, and what science is doing, and some of the things that men as a result of science are bringing to bear. When you begin to hear some of the latest moves of men, when you begin to hear things that are completely out against the order that God has put in place, you might begin to marvel. When you leave that and you come to the extent to which young people are involved in all manners of wickedness and evil, when you look at the manifestation today, you begin to marvel. "What is ongoing? Why is the sinful nature of man, the rebellious nature of man, that thing that want to say, 'Look, we are going to ridicule God'?" You know it’s not a new thing. It's not a new thing. When you go to Genesis chapter 11, men, they took a decision among themselves. The intention of God is that men should spread all over the earth. But at a point in man’s life, man was trying to do something else. And in Genesis 11, we find this account of what human beings were trying to do contrary to what God intended. The intention of God was that following the flood, man should spread, man should fill the earth. But man had a different agenda. And the Bible says in Genesis 11: > 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said to one another, "Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, "Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may be in the heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." God want man to fill the whole earth. Man had a different agenda. And man, you can see the capacity of man. Man started to build, the capacity was there. And then man began. And you notice what the Bible says? Bible says: > 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." Know what I'm trying to make you see? God himself, the capacity of God that is in the sinful man, God himself knows that with that capacity, there is a way God created man. Don't forget that man was made in the image of God. So even if man turn to the path of rebellion, there is a way he can still go very far with that capacity. You can see that God acknowledge that capacity here. What I'm trying to make you understand is that the capacity of sin is not something that God had not acknowledged. Because that capacity, when we say sin, is just the capacity of God turned in rebellion against God. Are you understanding me? So that capacity can actually go very far. That capacity can take man to a dimension that is alarming. You can see that God said, "Look, this is what they have begun to do. And look, there is nothing they want to do that they will not be able to do." But you see, God had a joker. What was the joker? The one thing that tied them together is still in the hand of God. He said, "See, they have one language. So all I need to do is just confuse the language." And that is just one thing, that is just one joker. And everything that man thought that "No, we can do, we can scatter the intention of God, we can destroy the purpose of God, we can go the way we want," became an abandoned project. I am telling you that it is going to be the same thing today. Men might have got up in rebellion against God, they might have gone far, they might have gone wide, they might have done several things this way, that way, things that are convincing, things that are unarguable and you say, "Wow, what else again? This is the fact, this is it." But look, let me tell you, God has a joker. God has a joker. Hallelujah! Somebody, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God has his joker. Please don't think God does not have his joker. And that is why we are going to Romans chapter 5, verse 20 to 21. We just want to look at something very serious there and see how what I've just said in the background, what I just said now, how does it tie with Romans chapter 21? How does it tie with it? Does it not tie with it? Does it tie with it? Let's see the Scripture. Romans chapter 5, verse 20 to 21. Romans 5:20-21. Let's see how the Scripture reads. That is where we actually took our topic from. Romans chapter 5, verse 20 to verse 21. It says: > 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Now, I want you to look very closely at this Scripture. Look very closely at it. The Bible says that there is something to connect with here. That "Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. The law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace much more the more abound." Now, I'm trying to make you see something very, very, very, very crucial in this passage. I want you to note that the Bible is giving us something very, very crucial that we as believers must understand. We must key into, and we must get very clear. What is it that we are keying into? What is it that we are getting very clear? He says, "Moreover, the law entered that sin might abound." Now, there is something, I will not take time to expand the matter of "the law entered." But you need to get something clear that when the law entered, it entered so that sin might abound. Now, there is something about the law and sin. There is something about human sinfulness in the face of the law. There is something about the nature of human rebellion against God. The Bible is making us to see that there is a working, there is a mystery, there is something that makes human rebellion against God to abound. Now, human rebellion against God is something that is abounding. Now, so what I'm trying to make you see, that's why I take you to Genesis. You see, human sinfulness, human rebellion, human standing in opposition to God, the dimension of wickedness, evil that you are seeing today, there is a programming, there is something, there is a mystery that is making this thing to go from one extent to another extent, and getting worse and worse, getting deeper, coming in a way that sometimes is alarming, shopping way of doing evil, the ways of doing evil that are mind-blowing, that are when you hear them, when you see them, when you see the level and the dimension of human sinfulness, you say, "Wow." But I want you to see something very crucial in that Scripture. He say, "But, but where sin abounds. Where sin abounds." I want you to note that "where." "Where" is talking about a location, a place. In the very place, on the very planet earth, sin is not abounding in heaven. Oh, are you listening to me? Where is this rebellion? Where is all of these things that we are seeing? This dimension of human wickedness? This mysterious working of sin that have brought man into building, inventing, doing so many things? And the heart of it is how to make sure to say, "Look, there is no God somewhere. We can do without him. We can live without his ordinances. We don't need his principles. We don't need his ordinances. We don't need his will. We have our own will. We know how we want it. We know what we want to do. We will do it the way we want. We will go the way we like." And man is busy inventing, and man is going on, and man is making indeed progress. And when you look at it, just like God said in Genesis, he said, "This is what they have begun to do." Man have begun to do so many things, so many things are in play by way of technology, by way of science, by way of invention, by way of invention. A lot of things are going on that are mind-blowing. Sin is abounding. But I want you to get something clear. While this mystery is abounding, the Bible say where it abounds. In the very place where it is abounding, the Bible says grace abound much more. You know what I'm trying to announce to you as a believer? You know what I'm trying to announce to you as a Christian? Is that if you are there marveling at the power, the magnitude, the way sin works, it is because you are not realizing that in the very place where sin works, grace has been designed to outsmart sin. Oh, listen to me, listen to me. You are not listening to me. In the very place, in that very place, in that very place, so for example let me take it like this. Maybe in your personal life, let me begin with you as an individual. Maybe in your personal life there is a mystery of sin, there is something about you and you have struggled, you have fought with it, you have prayed, you have done so many things, and you are wondering that it is still persisting. And you are marveling that "Can I ever conquer this?" Look, in that your very life, it is not elsewhere. It is not where, you see, where sin don't abound, grace is not there to abound. It is in the place where sin, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God has his joker. That's why I took you to the beginning. That's why I took you to the beginning. It was in the very place where men built their tower, it was there that God came. It was in that very place where sin shows its manifestation, its might, and its power. It is in that place that God want to display the power of grace. What is it? What is going on? what is going on? What is it? It's looking like "Can I get out of this?" It's looking like "Can I ever overcome this?" It's looking like "Can I ever be able to get around this operation that is around my life?" What I am pronouncing to you, what I am announcing to you, is that it is in those kind of places where sin is abounding that grace actually needed to show up. God had designed that where sin abound, that is where grace should abound much more. So if in your life there is a mystery around your life, there is a working around your life, there is a something persisting, there is something taking a dimension that looks like it is, it is, it is rather increasing in 2024, and as you are entering 2025 you are still wondering whether it's going to be something different. What we are starting with in 2025 is that actually what have been going on in your life is not the reality of your life. What has been going on in your life is the reality of ignorance. Oh, I need to explain that with a very good example. And the example I want to use is a very simple one. It's a very simple one. What is the simple example? Now, there was a day I was driving down from town and I was to pick some things for my wife at home. Now, I was not aware that I had cash in the bag, the bag I was carrying. So when I alighted from the car, I went across to the woman selling what I needed to buy. And I said, "Okay, madam, oh everything cost about 3,000. Okay, let me transfer." And the woman said, "No, I'm not collecting transfer." And I told the woman, "Please, I don't have cash." She said, "Okay, but we can collect from POS now." And I said, "But that will be at a charge." She said, "Ah, she doesn't collect transfer." But because I needed the thing so much, I walked across to the POS operator, I paid I think whether 2 or 300 charges, collected cash, came to the woman, paid, and then took the article, went back into the car. Then I drove to the house. It was when I got home, as I was unpacking my bag, that I saw the envelope that had about, was it 5 or 7,000? I mean, an amount far higher than the 3,000 I needed to buy what I wanted to buy. Now, when I saw it, I said, "Oh, ah!" Now, this what I want you to see. When I was where I wanted to buy something from the woman, what was the reality of my life? The reality of my life was that I had enough cash to be able to buy what I wanted to buy. That was the reality. But there was another reality in which I was operating: a reality of ignorance. I was not aware that about between 5 and 7,000 was in my bag. That wasn't my actual, my actual reality was that I had enough cash. But there was another reality. That other reality was that I don't have cash. The one that said I don't have cash is a reality of ignorance, not a reality of actuality. Oh, am I making sense to you? I don't know whether I'm just trying to use simple things to explain what I'm saying. That there is a reality of actuality and there is a reality of ignorance. When people operate in the reality of ignorance, oh their life is always pitiable. Their life is always miserable. Their life is always that they would be incurring more expenses. I never needed to walk across the road to meet the POS person. I never needed to pay the 200 naira charges. I never needed to do all of that. All I needed to do was to just open my bag and pay. That was the reality that was actual. But I was operating in another reality, the reality that was of ignorance. I was not aware. I pray for you this morning wherever you are listening to me. Everywhere there is a reality of ignorance as against a reality of actuality operating in your life, making you to suffer loss, making you to go through unnecessary, unnecessary travel, making you to go through unnecessary stress, making you to struggle, making you to rise and fall, making you to wumble and to fumble. I pray this morning that by the power of the Holy Spirit there will be a, there will be a reversal, there will be a visitation of God taking you from the reality of ignorance to the reality of actuality, making you to see that where sin abounds, it is in that place that grace has been designed to abound much more than that power of sin in the name of Jesus. There is a reality, a mystery around our lives. That is around our lives as individuals. As individuals. So when you see people talking and talking about failure, about mediocrity, how they struggled with this, how they could not overcome life, how they could not overcome some immorality, how they could not overcome some passion, how they could not overcome some emotions, how they could not overcome some things in their life, how those things, those things are ruling their life, how it has been there, or how some circumstances seem to prevail in their life, they have seemed to pray about it, they have done this, they have done that, they have done this, how some workings around their life, they could not explain it. When you see people talk around like this, when there are such things happening around, my prayer is that there will be a movement from the reality of ignorance to the reality of actuality. There is an actual thing. The actual thing for every believer is that where sin abound, in every life where sin seems to say, "Look, we are, I am stronger, I am powerful, I can destroy you, I can make a mess of your life, I will ridicule you, I will disgrace you, I will shame you, I will make sure you are not celebrated, I will make sure you are not a testimony, I will make sure that you are disgraced, I will make sure that you are not clothed with glory, I will make sure you don't enter the purpose of God, I will make sure everywhere sin is such operating," grace had been designed to operate much more the more. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! But you needed to know. You needed to know, you needed to be aware. You needed to come to this understanding. You needed to come to the awareness of what grace is doing. Praise the Lord. And then when you leave that, you come to the second major thing I want you to see. Now, not only is sin abounding in a way of sinfulness in human life, but I'm looking at sin now in the way of invention, in the way of technology, in the way of what man is doing, in the way of what you see happening around you where man is trying to say, "Look, we don't need God." I don't know how true it is, but I watched, for example, I think for instance I watched a video. You know sometimes social media things are things that you have to in a way verify before you can say "Okay it is true, that is the actual fact." But I watched this video and there is this invention by man such that a robot, but the robot is so much made to be in form of human being, having no affection, emotion of hatred, only emotion of love. It’s a feminine robot. The robot can live with you as a wife or as a housemaid. It can comfort you, it can do all kinds of your work, and it can even carry your pregnancy for you. So you may not even need to get a wife. Now, when you look at that, I'm talking about the ability of man to come up with things, things that look like progress in society, but things that are actually against the ordinances of God. The ability of man to invent things, to put things in place, creative ability of man. I'm looking at sin again in that dimension. And the reason why I'm looking at it in that dimension is that I desire to call your attention to something very, very crucial. Something very, very crucial. What is it that I desire to call your attention to? Is that the Bible says something which you might not have particularly connected to this Scripture. "Where sin abound, grace much more the more abound." So that just the way sin had reigned to death, even so grace may reign through righteousness to eternal life. Grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life in the very place where sin abounds. Now, I want you to look at something very important. Now, when you look at the manifestation of sin in terms of the ability of men to invent, to create, to bring to, to bring about things, to do things, when you look at that ability of man to do that, when you look at that ability, now I want you to get something very clear. Look at something. Sin in man, sin in man is making man to be, to be doing things that is making you to marvel. Sin in man is working in man. and that ability of God that is in man, that that is in this sinful nature of man, you can see what sin, how the enemy who is the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now work in the children of disobedience, you will see that in Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians chapter 2. I'm trying to show you the second thing about this matter. When you look at Ephesians chapter 2, the Bible calls our attention to a very crucial matter in Ephesians chapter 2. He said: > 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. You know what I'm trying to make you see? When you are seeing invention of man, when you are seeing the creative ability of man, and this ability of man is making man to say, "Look, we don't need God. What is it that we need God for?" And man begin to come up with different ordinances, different ways, different things to say, "Look, without, without God this can be done. We don't need to have a wife in your house to have a baby. It is not a must you marry. That thing that God said is honorable, you can cancel it. You can just bring a robot into your house. This robot don't have any emotions of hatred. It can serve to carry your pregnancy for you. What do you need marriage for?" You see, when you are seeing this thing, and man is saying, "Look, we can be God," just like they said in Genesis, in Genesis chapter 11. "Come, did God say that we are to scatter? We will not scatter. We are not scattering across the face of the earth. We are going to build a tower so that we will not be scattered." Mind you, God want them to fill the earth, to go everywhere and fill it. So God had to come to interrupt that project. What I'm trying to make you see, what I'm trying to make you understand, is that the way those things are working, I want you to understand that grace in us by the power of the Holy Spirit in us can also bring us into creative abilities, into mysteries, into doing things that will make men, sinners, to also marvel. Things that can outdo what they are doing in righteousness and in holiness. Look at what the Bible says. Look at what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 2. 1 Corinthians chapter 2. I will read from the verse 6. He says: > 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Hallelujah! There is a wisdom of God that is in a mystery. Just as sin is a mystery, there is a wisdom of God that is in mystery. He says, "Which God ordained before the ages for your glory." What I'm trying to make you see is that there is a wisdom of God which grace can make to abound much more than the way sin is abounding unto death. Grace can reign through righteousness to make a mystery abound. That mystery is the mystery of God's wisdom. This mystery of God's wisdom was something that God had ordained before the foundation of the world for our glory. It means when you don't operate this, you know, the wisdom of God as it's in a mystery, you can never really experience glory. Hallelujah! You can never really experience glory. If you really want to experience glory, then we must deal with, we must deal with that matter. We must deal with it. We must deal with it. The Bible says, the Bible says, "We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery." We speak God's wisdom in a mystery. This mystery that we are speaking, look at the Bible. "We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery." Note, we are speaking it. You cannot speak what you don't know. It has to do with an understanding. We must understand this mystery so that we can speak this wisdom that is in this mystery. What I'm trying to make you understand, just as you are marveling, you are marveling at what is going on in the manifestation of sin abounding. You are looking at technology, you are looking at science, you are looking at the inventions of science, and you are wondering. You are looking at it and you are saying, "Ah, where are human beings going? Where are human beings? Where are they really going? What are they actually trying to do? Is this thing not becoming too much?" I'm trying to make you understand, God has also ordained something: a wisdom that is in mystery, that is higher and greater. Because where sin abound, grace much more the more abound. That grace that you receive, there is a wisdom, it has a mystery. There is a wisdom in that mystery. It is the wisdom that is in that mystery that God actually ordained for your glory. What I'm trying to make you see is that when you are, when it's looking as if you are not displaying a glory, you are not coming forth with a manifestation that men too around you begin to marvel. "What is it about this young boy's life? What is it about his life? Look at the different thing showing up in his life." And unbelievers begin to say, "Come, there is something mysterious about you. Can you please show us the secret around your life? What exactly are you doing in this economy? What exactly are you doing in the level of, in the level of confusion that is going on? You are not looking like a confused person. You are looking like somebody who knows what he's doing. Everything is making people afraid, but you are so confident. You are so sure of where you are going. What is it about you? Why are you like this? Can you please explain to us? You said something the last time. You know at a point, Jesus spoke to the tree that it should not bear fruit again, and nothing came out of that tree and they were wondering. The disciples were wondering, 'What is going on?' He spoke and it was done." You know, people began to marvel around Jesus. I'm trying to say, look, the Bible says the wind blows, you don't know where it's coming from, you don't know where it's going to. So is everyone that is born of the Spirit. If everything about your life is just the, you know, the same lot with every unbeliever, every sinner around you, then there is something, there is something missing somewhere. There is something missing somewhere. Something is missing. There is a glory. There is something about you that would make men to marvel. David who said, "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but from them all the Lord delivered him." Do you begin to see something around the life of David? Look at David as a youth. How will ordinary a youth with ordinary catapult stood before Goliath? A man before which all the army of Israel ran? The whole army of a nation, they fled before Goliath. And then one small boy just came out. "The God who delivered me from the hand of lion, from the hand of bear, is able to deliver me from the hand of this Goliath. Let no man, let no man be afraid because of him. He has defied the army of the living God. I am going to defy him." And the boy just took catapult, and he was just walking in shepherd boy skin. He was not wearing any, any instrument of war. He was not carrying any shield. There was nothing in his hand other than a catapult. There was no sword, there was no gun, there was no drone, there was no nothing. It’s not as if he was somewhere and he sent a calculated missile to go and meet Goliath. He just went to the field and he was there. And Goliath was looking at him coming with stick, and Goliath cursed the boy. He said, "You come against me with stick? Am I a dog? Am I a dog?" But that boy was coming with a mystery. He was coming with something with which his world will marvel. He was coming with a wisdom, a wisdom designed for his glory. And he was manifesting that glory, and the nation of Israel was seeing it. There is something designed for your glory. Where sin abound, grace had been designed to much more the more abound. Young person, young man, young woman listening to me. Young man, young woman listening to me. I pray you are understanding me. I pray that you are understanding me. There is a wisdom that has been designed for your glory. He says, "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God have ordained before the ages for our glory." It is for your glory. If you don’t get into the mystery of this wisdom, you can never be glorified. You will be struggling till you die. There will be nothing spectacular about your life. There will be nothing spectacular. That’s why I’m showing you David for example. Look at how his life went. Look at when Joseph began to speak mystery, wisdom in a mystery, and he was explaining the dream of Pharaoh. And Pharaoh and all the men, they were just marveling as he was interpreting it. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. And before you knew it, Pharaoh said, "Heh! Who can be a better counselor other than this small boy? Please, please, please, please, please, let him become the second in command. Only at his word will anything happen in this country. Hey!" A wisdom, he was speaking a wisdom that was designed for his glory. There is a wisdom in mystery that has been designed for your glory. The earnest expectation of creation await the manifestation of the sons of God. May you be manifested in your time. In the name of Jesus Christ. Nation will rise against nation, we are seeing that already. Kingdom against kingdom, we are seeing that already. There will be famine, we are seeing that already. Pestilence, we are seeing that. Earthquake in divers places, we are seeing that. All of these are the beginning of sorrow. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation. They will kill you. You shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. Then many will be offended, and be betray one another, and hate one another. Are you seeing it? What will be going on? Then many false prophets will arise and deceive many. I'm showing you deception, I'm showing you a lot of things around all of these things. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will wax cold. But look at what follows in verse 13: "But he who endures to the end shall be saved." So while lawlessness is abounding, are you seeing it? While lawlessness will be abounding, while the love of some are waxing cold, there are some that will endure to the end. The Bible says he will corrupt many by flatteries, but the people who know their God shall be strong and do exploit. Men who are not ignorant, who are not working in the actuality of ignorance, who are working, are you seeing it? Men who are not working in the reality of ignorance, who are working in the reality of actuality. Men who are not working in the reality of ignorance, who are working in the reality of actuality, they will be strong and they will do exploit. But men who are working in the reality of ignorance, they will be weak, they will be exploited. They will not be able to endure. So you are very correct. Men, men who are not working in this actuality of knowing the mysteries of God, of working in the wisdom of God, they will be weak. They will be fearful. They will be afraid. They will be confounded. So they will be exploited. Their love will wax cold. But the people who know their God, they will endure to the end. So please you are very correct. You are very correct. You are very correct. You are very correct. Thank you for raising that question this morning. You are very correct. Thank you for that question. I believe we have answered that question. I believe we have answered that question. And no any other question has been typed. Technical? No any other question has been typed. So we want to close the meeting this morning. Oh, let's just thank the Lord. Let's just thank the Lord. Wherever you are, thank the Lord and I would just want you to pray. Lord, deliver me from the reality of ignorance. Oh, deliver me from the reality of ignorance. Oh, bring me to the reality of actuality. The actual thing you have ordained something for my glory because that is the actual thing about my life. There is an actuality. I have enough in my bag to spend. I don't need to have gone to the POS to withdraw money and spend all those extras. Lord, deliver me from the reality of ignorance. Lord, bring me to the reality of actuality. The actual reality around my life. The actual reality around my life. Thank you, Father. Lord, we pray this morning. Baba, Baba, Baba, by the power of your Spirit, by the power of your Spirit, bring us into the actuality of our lives. For anywhere sin abound, grace has been designed to abound much more. Grace is stronger than sin. In all ramification, there is a wisdom of God to deal with every situation. Lord, we beg you. Help us. You have ordained wisdom for our glory. Help us to walk in a glorious life in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Eternal Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. It's already 11:30. I don't know whether there are questions. Please if there are questions, send your questions now so that we can respond quickly to the question. If there are none, no question, we close the meeting. It's already 11:30. It is time to attend to questions if there are. Are there any questions for us to attend to? Is there a question? Any question? I'm giving just five minutes that people might be able to type if you are typing. Just send it. And like I normally say, sometimes you don't wait till the end when we'll be asking for the question. As the question come to your heart, just type it there. Just type it there. And by the time it's 11:30, we'll just be reading the questions and we'll be answering them. That's, you know, it will make the meeting smarter and faster. So sometimes as maybe as we are talking, a question occurs in your heart, you just type it. You type it there. By the time we finish, we just begin to relate to those questions. So it will not just be waiting for somebody that want to type and all of that. So please, somebody said yes, yes, from the technical? They are telling me that somebody is saying yes. and we are waiting for the person who said yes to type in the question for us so that we can relate to the question. While we are waiting for the question to come in, I'm sure the person is typing the question. Okay, they said the person is typing the question. Okay. So while we are waiting for the question to come in, we are. Okay, the question is, okay, so let's have the question. All right. They said, Jesus said that iniquity will abound in the last days, and because of this, the love of many will wax cold. Will this be as a result of ignorance on the part of believers according to our message today? Oh, you have just answered the question. You are correct. Please go back to that, where you quoted is in Matthew. Please go back there. You honestly, you are very correct. That's the answer. That's the answer. But the answer is also in that passage. That should be Matthew 24, if I'm not wrong, from where you pick that question. It should be Matthew 24. I'm there now in Matthew 24. Jesus said, Jesus went out and departed from the temple. I'm reading from verse 1. And his disciples came to show him the building of the temple. Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Verily I say to you, not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down." Now, as he sat on Mount Olives, the disciples came to him privately saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" Notice the first thing Jesus said. Jesus said, "Take heed that no one deceive you." Let me tell you, as long as a man can be deceived, then truth cannot prosper in his life. The operation of Satan is deception. If you go back to the matter at the very beginning, you will see it. There was deception in the Garden of Eden. Until Satan can deceive, he cannot prosper. There must be deception. So anywhere there is truth, Satan cannot prosper. So for deception to prosper, there must be ignorance. Where people know the truth, they cannot be deceived. Now, I'm trying to show you that the answer is in the passage. That you are very, very correct. So the first thing about the end of the age is that you have to be careful not to be ignorant. You have to be careful to understand the mystery so that you can be able to speak the mystery of God. Because until you can speak this mystery, you cannot be glorified. You must know what God has ordained for your glory. You must know this hidden wisdom that is in Jesus. The wisdom of God in your financial life, the wisdom of God in your marital life, the wisdom of God for your sexual life, the wisdom of God for your career, the wisdom of God for your endeavor, the wisdom of God for your location, the wisdom of God for wherever you are. You must understand that wisdom of God. Are you running a business? Are you in a career? Are you in school, maybe for your education? I don't know what it is. Whatever it is that is around your life, there is a wisdom of God. That wisdom of God is the mystery. That thing that God has, that thing that God is saying. Look at it. When Pharaoh gave a decree that, "Look, every male child must be killed," Jochebed, the mother of Moses, when Moses was born, there was a wisdom of God. The wisdom of God manifested. Moses was hidden for three months. After three months, they brought Moses out. They sought the elder sister, I'm trying to remember the name now, to stand somewhere and be watching. And Moses was put in a basket. You can see that there was a wisdom to manage even where wickedness was abounding. There was a wisdom of God. Jochebed entered that wisdom, and she prevailed. Everywhere sin abounds, there is a wisdom of God. There is a wisdom of God to deal with everywhere sin abounds. There is a wisdom of God. And I pray for you asking that question this morning. Everywhere you need the wisdom of God to prosper, to move on in this 2025, may the Lord, the hand of the Lord rest upon you for a revelation of God's wisdom to advance in 2025 in the name of Jesus Christ. There is a wisdom of God. You will notice that it is after that, that the Bible says, "For many will come in my name, saying 'I am the Christ,' and they will deceive many." Are you seeing it? People will be deceived. So part of the end time is what we are also seeing. When you see some things, "Ah, science can do this! Hey, this can do this! Ah, God cannot be real. I don't even need God to get this done." A lot of things will be going on. A lot of deception, a lot of manifestation will be going on around us. You will hear of wars, we are hearing that already. We hear of rumors of war, we are seeing that already. See that you are not troubled. All that you are hearing in Nigeria, if you are troubled, then you are not entering into God's wisdom. You are not supposed to be troubled with everything that you are seeing around us. Kidnapping, this and that, that and that, war, this, they are coming, Islamization, hey, this. All those things you are hearing, Jesus say see that you are not troubled. If you are troubled, ask God for the wisdom for this period. Ask God for wisdom. Something has been ordained for our glory that we will begin to speak it and display it. I'm just trying to make you see how men were marveling at those youth. At David killing Goliath. At Joseph turning the fortune of Egypt around. Oh, the earnest expectation of creation await the manifestation of the sons of God. May you be manifested in your time. In the name of Jesus Christ. Nation will rise against nation, we are seeing that already. Kingdom against kingdom, we are seeing that already. There will be famine, we are seeing that already. Pestilence, we are seeing that. Earthquake in divers places, we are seeing that. All of these are the beginning of sorrow. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation. They will kill you. You shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. Then many will be offended, and betray one another, and hate one another. Are you seeing it? What will be going on? Then many false prophets will arise and deceive many. I'm showing you deception, I'm showing you a lot of things around all of these things. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will wax cold. But look at what follows in verse 13: "But he who endures to the end shall be saved." So while lawlessness is abounding, are you seeing it? While lawlessness will be abounding, while the love of some are waxing cold, there are some that will endure to the end. The Bible says he will corrupt many by flatteries, but the people who know their God shall be strong and do exploit. Men who are not ignorant, who are not working in the actuality of ignorance, who are working, are you seeing it? Men who are not working in the reality of ignorance, who are working in the reality of actuality. Men who are not working in the reality of ignorance, who are working in the reality of actuality, they will be strong and they will do exploit. But men who are working in the reality of ignorance, they will be weak, they will be exploited. They will not be able to endure. So you are very correct. Men, men who are not working in this actuality of knowing the mysteries of God, of working in the wisdom of God, they will be weak. They will be fearful. They will be afraid. They will be confounded. So they will be exploited. Their love will wax cold. But the people who know their God, they will endure to the end. So please you are very correct. You are very correct. You are very correct. You are very correct. Thank you for raising that question this morning. You are very correct. Thank you for that question. I believe we have answered that question. I believe we have answered that question. and no any other question has been typed. Technical? No any other question has been typed. So we want to close the meeting this morning. Oh, let's just thank the Lord. Let's just thank the Lord. Wherever you are, thank the Lord and I would just want you to pray. Lord, deliver me from the reality of ignorance. Oh, deliver me from the reality of ignorance. Oh, bring me to the reality of actuality. The actual thing you have ordained something for my glory because that is the actual thing about my life. There is an actuality. I have enough in my bag to spend. I don't need to have gone to the POS to withdraw money and spend all those extras. Lord, deliver me from the reality of ignorance. Lord, bring me to the reality of actuality. The actual reality around my life. The actual reality around my life. Thank you, Father. Lord, we pray this morning. Baba, Baba, Baba, by the power of your Spirit, by the power of your Spirit, bring us into the actuality of our lives. For anywhere sin abound, grace has been designed to abound much more. Grace is stronger than sin. In all ramification, there is a wisdom of God to deal with every situation. Lord, we beg you. Help us. You have ordained wisdom for our glory. Help us to walk in a glorious life in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Eternal Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.