Femi LazarusCEO at Femi Lazarus Consulting

Understand this in context. Failure to do so can offend your mind.

29 Jan 2025 · 3 min

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In this sermon, the speaker affirms that every human soul holds equal value and love before God, emphasizing that Christ’s sacrifice applies universally. However, he argues that individuals differ in capacity and influence, using football and chess analogies to illustrate how a few key players can outweigh many ordinary participants. He warns that spiritual warfare targets these high‑impact individuals—such as leaders or cultural influencers—because their decisions can affect millions, prompting the devil to allocate disproportionate demonic resources against them. Consequently, the speaker calls for "kingdom strategists" who prioritize evangelizing and discipling influential figures to achieve worldwide revival more efficiently than merely counting large numbers of converts.

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Soul is soul, soul is soul, but influence is not the same. In terms of value before God, or in terms of love before God, he loves all of us equally. The value of our soul is the same. He died for all of us. The price is the blood, but our usefulness is not the same. Let me give you another instance. You know, I'm not— you play football in school when they will say, let me have 5 guys here, and I have 10 people from here. So there's something— please come, my friend— there's something we used to do in those days in primary school. I think we did 2 in secondary school when people want to play ball and they say, so these are the 2 guys and it's 3 aside, right? And you pick, pick your number 1 player. This one pick, then you come here. Then you to pick your number 1 player, you come here. Then you pick your second player, you come here. Third player, come here. Sometimes the fact that you are the one who brought ball doesn't mean you play. Yes, sir! When it comes to this, value. Who has the capacity to deliver? Now, this is where I'm going. If you have all these 10 players, normal guys, but here you have Kylian Mbappé, you have Garnacho here, Vinicius here, now you will understand Soul is soul, but men differs in capacity. In the revival of the world, worldwide evangelism, we go for souls, but we need key players. You know, how many of you play chess? You know, there are some guys on that board that once they can take down, you are finished. That is how the devil does. While you are protecting the general civilian, he's going for key players, kings, soli solo. Sometimes, please get what I'm saying in context, when it comes to strategy, the devil doesn't mind you winning 10,000 market people than to win a president. The warfare that will face you to win one that can influence the rest will be more than the warfare of winning— we have won 200,000 souls. Devil say, go on, go ahead. But this guy, he can deploy 2 million demons for this guy because what this guy will do in a year, the 200,000 may not do it in a lifetime. But don't forget, soul is soul. We need kingdom strategists.