INTERNATIONAL YOUNG LEADERS CONFERENCE DAY 2 EVENING

Rachael weeping for her children, but they are no more. Now it looks like a political move, but it's not political. The devil was moving in the fullness of his strength because the Messiah is born. Little wonder when Moses was also born All the males around that time were killed. The pattern is the same. Sometimes the devil can fight a family because of the kind of child they have given birth to. Let's leave that. What I'm trying to tell you is, if the devil is fighting you, there's something about you. If he leaves you alone, you are either finished or finished. Are you still with me? Help me celebrate Daddy. Thank you. Amen. Please be seated. So the devil was moving. From the moment Jesus was born, the devil needed him dead as quickly as possible. And oh boy, at some point the devil was not just interested in Jesus dying, You see, look up, look at me. I believe that the greatest miracle Jesus did was recorded in the epistles. It was not enough that the sacrificial lamb will die. Anybody can die, but it was important that the Lamb of God that will take away the sin of the world must be without spot. Must be without blemish. So the miracle is how a man lived 33 and a half years and died and said, the prince of this world came to me but found nothing of ease in me. That's a miracle. I've seen people draw men out of crutches, but yet they are still in the prison of the devil. Look at the greatest miracle Jesus ever did. Hebrews chapter number 4, verse 15. Hebrews 4:15. For we have not— look at it. Hebrews 4:15. Can they be fast with me? For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like us we are, yet without— that's a miracle. That's it. But the devil wanted to take away that record, and one of the things he wanted to do was something called offense. You see, when you read the Bible, you have to understand strategic moves. One Jesus came to Peter and looked at Peter and said, the devil has desired you, that he will sift you as wheat, but I have prayed for you. What does that mean? It means that the devil had keen interest in making sure that the one that will betray him will be one that is close to his heart so he can be offended. Why was it Judas? I'll show you in the Bible. Because Jesus did not just say, no, Peter, it can't be you, so Judas, it will be you. Let me show you. Matthew chapter number 16. I'm just going to quote because of my time. Matthew 16, Jesus began to ask, who do men say that I am? Um, some said you're Elijah, some said you're Moses, some said you're one of the prophets. He said, hey, who do you say that I am? Peter said, you are the Christ. The Son of the Living God. Jesus looked at Peter and said, you are Peter, and I said to you, upon this rock— that's the revelation of Christ being the Son of God— will I build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. And then Jesus, believing that since they understand these basics, they should understand something deeper, how that the Son of Man will go to suffer, then die. Then he began to talk about the suffering that is about to come and his death. The Bible said Peter took him by the hand, took him to a corner, began to rebuke him. Jesus looked at Peter face to face and said, 'Get behind me, Satan.' You know what Peter did? He took the correction. Verse 1, pass. Verse 2, Judas. Jesus went to greet Mary and she bought a very expensive perfume. At that time and poured the perfume on Jesus and began to use her hair to wipe it. Did Judas came, looked at the event and said, this perfume should have been sold and the money given to the poor? Meaning that I have observed Jesus, my closeness to him, he doesn't deserve this kind of honor. Have you heard people who say things like, oh, people are building churches, they should feed the poor? You think they are passionate about the poor? They don't. In fact, the tactics is so old, it's over 2,000 years old. The world should try something new. Then Jesus rebuked Peter, said, the poor you'll always have amongst you, but me you will not have. 3 chapters later, he sold him. What was that? Offense. Offense makes you susceptible to the next move of the devil. Once you're offended, you will play into his hands. I don't know for the sake of who. Never make any destiny decisions once you're offended. Heal first, forgive first. Don't deceive yourself. What you say the Lord is leading me into in the moment of offense, it is clear it is not God. You're playing into the hands of the devil. Tell your neighbor, beware. Are you still following my story? I'm going somewhere. So the devil wanted Jesus dead, wanted him out of the scene by all means possible. Let's get him out. So it was so quick, they were eating. Um, Jesus told them, he said, one amongst you on this table is going to betray me. Um, they said, who is it going to be? John whispered to him, I said, tell me who's going to be. Said, the one that when I take this bread, put into the soup, and put in his mouth, he's going to betray me. See, listen, when he did, the devil entered Judas, and Jesus said, what you want to do, do it quickly. Then he got up. How much did he sell Jesus for? 30 pieces of silver. About the same price they sold Joseph. That's the price you sell slaves for. He sold him that cheap because of his valuation. But the Bible said behind the scene, it wasn't Judas. Listen, the biggest artillery of Satan can be deployed to a matter, and the matter will look simple. Spiritual warfare is not until the room is scattering. The— no, no, no, no, no. See, there could be 2 billion demons deployed to a matter or a decision, and when you come there, you don't even feel anything about the atmosphere. You just look at— it's just one decision, and that's it. It looks simple like Judas, one of his betrayed him, blah blah blah. But the Bible said in 1 Corinthians chapter number 2, 1 Corinthians chapter number 2, I want you to see it. This is the third most important outing of the devil. 1 Corinthians chapter number 2, if you're there say amen. Now look at this. Let me start the reading from— let's start the reading from verse 7. Pay attention to this scripture. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom of God, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. Yes, which none of the princes of this world knew For had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Paul was attributing the crucifixion of Jesus not to Herod, not to Pilate, not to the Israelites, but to the princes of this world. They were the ones moving an entire community saying, preserve Barabbas, kill Jesus. It was the devil moving chiefly. So what that means is the devil is not as smart as you think, because the Bible said they did that because they didn't know. He was thinking, even if you are the Messiah, then you are going to be sacrificial lamb. Okay, you've lived till now without sin. Yes. Now you will die. Yes. Who is the high priest that will offer up the sacrifice? But what the devil didn't know is that the offering is the offerer. The one who died is the one who offered it. That's the mystery of God. When he died, the Bible said he descended below. He said he set captivity free. Those who have been in chains, he set them free. He spoiled principalities, he spoiled powers, he triumphed over them in Victory! Listen, it didn't take Jesus 3 days to do that. He spent 3 days in the grave because the custom of that day, they don't believe death is established until after 3 days. The 3 days was not because it took him time. Day 1 was preparing for fights, then day 2 they fought more. You have to understand, Jesus is the King of glory. There is no such thing as— there's a war, Jesus versus Satan, who win? Jesus and Satan. By him all things are made, and without him was not anything made that was made. And that's why if you read Revelation chapter number 1, verse 18, I love one of the ways Jesus was described. Am I correct with that text? Quickly, Revelation chapter number 1, verse 18. Look at the way he described himself: I am he that liveth and was dead. If you talk about Buddha, Buddha was dead and Buddha is still dead. Talk about Muhammad, died. Talk about any of the gods, died. It is only Jesus that you say was dead, and behold, I am alive. For long? Forever. Listen to this. Jesus was not the first to arise from the dead. Before Jesus died, Lazarus died and came back. There was a boy who died and they threw his corpse, and the corpse touched the bones of Elisha and came back. So what's special about his resurrection? It is the fact that he rose never to taste death again. He swallowed death up. Now, can I get you a bit into some theology? So look at this. The issue with the incarnation of Jesus was that when he came to this world, he became man. God became flesh. Follow me. And dwelt amongst us. Walking the earth as a man. When he died, he was killed as a man. When he rose, did he stop becoming— did he stop being man? Let's check what the Bible said about that. 2 Timothy chapter number 2, 5. 2 Timothy chapter number 2, verse 5. Look at what the Bible— so if you understand what God did, if we say there's more, you know that you'll be funny not to give more. Look at this. Oh no, 2 Timothy starts from— oh sorry, 1 Timothy. Sorry, 2:5. 1 Timothy 2:5. Sorry. That's the scripture. Quickly, we don't have time. Uh, let's clap for the media. You have to celebrate them. 1 Timothy 2:5. Can we read this together? 1, 2, 3, go. For there is one God, the what? The what? Hold on a minute. The devil wanted to be grafted into the God class by force. Jesus came, became man, still as God, rose from the dead, and did not give up that nature. As he is, so are you. You know, it takes a level of degradation for a man in God's image to be patronizing prostitutes. That's a king. It takes a level of degradation for a man in God's image to be hooked on pornography. It's not for kings. He's doing that because he doesn't know who he is. He doesn't know what he is. For a man like that to be scared of witches and wizard. That's the lowest intelligent demonic agent. If you think the most important battles of believers is against witch and wizard, think again. When people go for mission field, you think it is witches and wizard that is most important enemy? You talk about principalities, you talk about powers, you talk about legislative influence of ideologies of the devil in territories That is why we pray for long to cast down their influence. You can go to a territory for missions and see that— why is it that across this place, everywhere you turn, there is teenage pregnancy? Are you wondering why? A principality is responsible for that. There's a level of ideology that is making everybody behave the same way, even when they didn't go to the same school. Thank you. What's the first outing of the devil? Major outing to fight God. Did he win? What's the second major outing? Huh? Did he win? Huh? Ah, think again. What he did to Adam was what Jesus came to undo. The project Adam, we didn't really get to see the maturity before Adam. You see, look up, look at me. What you see, what you are seeing is that Adam fell, but you are not paying attention to the timing, the timing of the temptation, the timing. He made sure They fell before they gave birth so that their seed in their loins will be in that fallen state. There is a time that the devil needs you to fall the most. Your fall will not always have economic value. Am I speaking to the right people? For instance, it needs you to fall in the days of your youth so that the seed of the remaining part of your life dies, and they can leave you in your old state when there's nothing you can do and to think about the regret of what you have done with your life. Your life is looking beautiful now, but let me decree in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you will not fall. There is no greater tragedy in life than to look at people that God was raising you at the same time and say, I could have been amongst them, but for a girl. Before you sell it, Think about the price. It is too expensive. I'm praying for you again in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You will not fall. Let me give this word of advice. Once you know who you are, there are kinds of people you can't marry. A good marriage is not the union between a fish and an eagle. If your calling have to die for the marriage to work, it is not God. It is your calling that reduces your options. It does. The third outing of the devil was to make sure that he aborts the purpose of the coming of Jesus. The first outing, he came as a person. Second outing, as a person. Third outing, as a person. But there is the fourth outing. Which is the battle of the devil against the church. Look at the way Paul puts it in 2 Corinthians chapter number 10. 2 Corinthians chapter number 10, verse 3 to 4. It says, though we walk in the flesh, we do not war. Lift your right hand and say loud and clear, we are at war. You are not saying like a soldier. Say it again, we're at war. Say it again, we are at war. You see, one of the realities of being at war is that warfront and comfort don't go hand in hand. Can't be at war and have comfort. We have many Christians, many civilians, but few soldiers. If you look at what Jesus said in Luke chapter number 10, it does— that's a very painful statement for Jesus to say that the harvest is indeed plenty. But laborers, laborers, not spectators. Laborers are few. Were few then, they are still few now. And that's the reason why when God is calling you, never say there are so many people. He's the one who knows that many of them are just hanging around. We are at war. It says though we walk in the flesh, that is, we walk in our earthly world, in this earthly life doing these things. That's not the way we fight. It says in verse 4, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God. Are you seeing your Bible? What's the next statement? Mighty through God for the pulling down of what? Strongholds. You see, when you read that, let's read that same scripture. Project it, um, yes. Now let's read this same scripture from verse 3. 2:4. Let's read it in Message translation. You know, I've spent most important part of my day, you know, crying about this simple message because sometimes you, you know, I just, you know, pray that you understand that if God is bringing you out as a soldier in his camp You are not a celebrity, you're a servant. You are coming to join the labor. In case you have viewed ministry as an opportunity to ride the kind of cars you want to ride, to come to a place and everybody's getting up and celebrating you, wrong timing. You know, sometimes when I go to places, I play an introductory video, I'm just like, oh God. I appreciate it. It is honor. It just doesn't change the fact that we are at war. Look at what it says: the world is unprincipled. Listen, let me, let me disturb you a bit. Can I disturb you a bit? Let me disturb you a bit. Have you seen some of these movies that somebody joins the soldier— the military, sorry— and, um, he goes to fight and he's doing it actively, only to find out that you're actually on the wrong side? You see, as an elementary Christian, oh, one day I can't wait to work. You know, I studied medicine, and you know, all this— I want to work with all these organizations. I want to work with, you know, Bill Gates Foundation so we can, you know, save lives and then vaccinations. Until you mature and see that there are things called the globalist agendas. The world is unprincipled. Anything you see on the surface is not what there is. Oh, it is dog eat dog out there. The world doesn't fight fair, but we don't live or fight our battles that way. Never have, never will. Look at the next verse. The tools of our trade aren't for marketing or manipulation. They are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. There is a culture that is forming. It is a godless culture. The devil is using the system of narratives through media, through movies, through all those things. They are creating a culture. You define culture as the way of life. And a set of people get things done. There is a culture of an average youth that despises God. It begins with, I don't like Nigerian pastors, but the idea is, I don't like God. There are philosophies coming because the fourth outing of the devil is not coming as a person, is coming as a system. God is going to use you to influence systems. This is the time for us to beat our pruning forks into spears. When the battle is fierce, anyone that has two hands must be trained to wield this sword. Fight with your creativity. Fight with your voice. Fight with your music. Fight using every platform God has given you. We are demolishing massively corrupt culture. If I could beg— I have 5 minutes more to get like 10 more minutes. Thank you, Daddy. Let me celebrate Daddy and Mommy. Yes, amen. Listen, how did the idea of same-sex become something that is so common? Movies, media. They were pushing it bit by bit. It began with men ogging themselves 2 extra, then pecking, then kissing. And you wonder, you go to Canada, you go to America, you go to the United Kingdom, students, children have been educated in schools that genders are not assigned from birth, that when you give— when you are a child, you are not male or female, you are whatever you want to identify as. Are you seeing that? Ideologies One time I was flying from London to Scotland and a woman was beside me, and, and of course something was written on her nose. I knew she was a prof. But you know, she was reading a book and the back cover of that book was actually a man in deep kiss with a man, and she was reading it publicly. Passionately, with so much interest. Why? Because over there, that culture has come to stay. What the devil does is that he pushes it in bit by bit with strategic moves, ideas. It sounds intelligent, it sounds creative. There are things young people say now on social media, on all those platforms. They are saying it, it is looking smart, but it is not. It is dumb. And that's why it takes not knowing who you are to want to be like them. Just like an eagle trying to learn from a chicken how to fly. You have the higher life. The wisdom of God that we have is foolishness to those who are perishing. Until we become fool in their eyes, we are not wise. Let me tell you something. If we ever put a video out there and those who are not born again likes it, I ask my team, we must have said something wrong. How can they like us when they hated our Savior? Are you better than Jesus? Many of us are desperately craving for acceptance from the world. You want to marry a girl, the girl said, I can't marry a pastor. Say, God didn't call me, you only flash me. Go back to that scripture. Go back to that scripture, 2 Corinthians 10. I bless you, Father. Nibiti, the key. I bless you, Father. Solemnly, lift your hands and sing it one more time. I bless you, Father. Nibiti, One more time. Kosi otiwo. Kosi otiwo. Kosi otiwo. Kosi otiwo. Akwara e shu da. Akwara e shu da. Nipiti. Look at it. The world is unprincipled. It is dog eat dog out there. The world doesn't fight fair or don't live or fight our battles that way. Never have, never will. Verse 4, quickly. The tools of our trade aren't for marketing or for manipulation. They are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. Yes, Femi Lazarus, we use our powerful God tools for smashing corrupt philosophies. I believe that there is a move in the last days, and it is the move that must be understood in context. Because while the devil knows that the time is short, he's fighting us on many fronts. We are fighting against the external enemy, but yet he's also going to raise enemies from within. But I see God in this season raising a very strong army to confront. I didn't hear amen to that. He's raising a very, very strong army. To confront what the devil is doing! If the Devil is coming through media— men and women strong creativity will arise from that place to take back mountain for the Lord! If the Devil's coming through music— Men and Women of Strong Creativity Anointing Will Arise From That Place And Take The Mountain For The LORD!! If the Devil Is Coming Through Politics— Men and Women anointed grace-wise will rise up there please and take the mountains on their own!!! You have a role to play. You have a role to play. I'm glad you've learned about the things that God did in the past, how you saw great and mighty amazing works that God did. And I'd like to quickly show you a picture of what the past looks like and what you look like and where you are in this prophetic puzzle. Can I have 7 men? Or 5. Quickly, come. 7 men or 5. Come, line up behind me and face that side. Quickly, let's make it fast. Face that side. Thank you. Now turn your Bibles to the book of Joel. Joel chapter number 2. Read from King James. There are some of you that the fire is burning already, but hold on a minute. There's going to be a flow, a sweeping of the power of the Holy Ghost across this place. Are there amen to that? Many of you are going to receive fresh season and fresh anointing. If there are things that went dormant in your life, they will be jacked back to life. The glory of the Lord is here. The power of the Lord is here. His presence is strong because what God wants is to pour out his Spirit upon all flesh. And he said your young sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, they will see visions. They will see visions. They will see visions. There are some of you that certain realities look like you went mad. Strong presence of the Lord, you used to see a while. Some of you have strong prophetic graces, you used to see visions and see things, but you somehow got busy and fell out of that flow. You can't tell what changed. At the count of 3, let it be back. 1, 2, 3. Touch them! Pour back that oil from their head down. Let it touch them. Let it rest on them. Let prophets that went dormant come back. Lift your hands where you sit. Let fresh fire men who have lost sight of their calling and they are not a lot and fast. And the Holy Ghost said, separate where unto I have called them. Let there be a move of separation amongst us. Sit down for a— out of your belly flows rivers of living water. Some of you are