The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men

Sunday, August 22nd, 2021

Man never looks in the right way. Pride comes, he thinks he knows everything, but our God is "Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." (Revelation 22:13) There is nothing under heaven that cannot exist unless the Lord has ordained it.

God has the power to create, man does not. We must have 100% faith and trust in God. It is Satan who comes to inject this thought into man that he can know more than God. But before this thought came to Satan's mind, God already knew.

In Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom, there was Daniel. God does nothing for nothing. Nebuchadnezzar wanted to show his power and the people of Israel were in captivity. Nebuchadnezzar had a dream but it escaped him. So he asked all his magicians and astrologers to tell him the dream and to give the explanation. No one could do it, but God revealed it to Daniel. The magicians said to the king: "There is no one on earth who can tell what the king asks; so no king, however great and powerful he may have been, has ever demanded such a thing from any magician, astrologer or Chaldean. What the king asks is difficult; there is no one who can tell the king, except the gods, whose dwelling place is not among men." (Daniel 2:10-11) God must demonstrate in every generation that those who are His are special. The world must recognize that He is the Sovereign. "But I have let you (Pharaoh) stand, that you may see my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. (Exodus 9:16) "This sentence is a decree of those who watch, this resolution is a command of the saints, that the living may know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of men, that he gives it to whom he pleases, and raises up the lowest of men to it." (Daniel 4:17) No matter what man may do, God remains God.

When Daniel began to tell the dream, the king began to shake because he realized that he was before a god. "The dream is true, and its explanation is certain. (Daniel 2:45) With God, we are always certain. When He comes, I will go. This assurance comes to us from the One who has called us. When Peter and John came before the man who was lame from birth, humanly speaking, it was impossible. They said to him, "Look at us!" They were certain. "I have no silver or gold, but what I have I give to you: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk. (Acts 3:6) They did not rely on the things of the world but on the things of God. Jesus Christ is a tangible reality. He is always present, otherwise how can you be sure that when the trumpet sounds, my name will be mentioned?

Do not be like the people of Israel who came out of Egypt, who saw the miracles of God and did not enter. "And even so I regard all things as loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have renounced all things, and regard them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ" (Philippians 3:8) Why look back, let's walk forward! I am not what I used to be, God has done something in me. There will always be people who will remind you of this. Look at Elisha, "The sons of the prophets who were in Bethel went out to Elisha and said to him, 'Do you know that the Lord is taking your master over your head today? And he answered, I know it also; hold your peace." (2 Kings 2:3) God wants you to be in His Image, He is going to carve you with His instruments. "And as we have borne the image of the earthly, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly. (1 Corinthians 15:49) It is necessary to strip ourselves in order to put on Christ.

"O king, you are the king of kings, for the God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory, and has given into your hand the children of men and the beasts of the field and the birds of the air, and has made you ruler over them all: you are the head of gold. (Daniel 2:37-38) Then later, Nebuchadnezzar had another dream. "These are the visions of my mind, while I was on my bed. I looked, and behold, there was in the midst of the earth a tree of great height... He cried aloud and spoke thus: Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches; shake off the foliage, and scatter the fruit; let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from among its branches." (Daniel 4: 10 and 14) He asked for the explanation of the dream. A man of God, you have to know him because he has reactions that you interpret in a certain way. Daniel was silent because there was a problem in connection with Nebuchadnezzar, not because he did not know." "Then Daniel, named Belteshazzar, was for a moment astonished, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream and the explanation trouble you. And Belteshazzar answered, My lord, let the dream be for your enemies, and the explanation for your adversaries. (Daniel 4: 19)

"The tree which you saw, which had become great and strong, whose top reached to the heavens, and which could be seen from all parts of the earth; This tree, whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was plentiful, which bore food for all, under which the beasts of the field sheltered, and among whose branches the birds of the air made their homes, it is you, O king, who have become great and strong, whose greatness has increased and risen to the heavens, and whose dominion extends to the ends of the earth. " (Daniel 4:20) The king did not believe this, but one day he arose, pride ascended. Let pride never rise in you, for then you will be on the ground. "The fear of the Lord teaches wisdom, And humility goes before glory." (Proverbs 15: 33) "Arrogance goes before destruction, And pride goes before a fall." (Proverbs 16:18) When you cut a branch from a tree, that branch still looks green for a few days but soon after it becomes dry. The life is no longer in it from the moment it is cut from the tree. If God has brought you to this assembly, if there is a voice to listen to, it is the voice of the shepherd. My ministry is not only for the local church but it is a ministry for the body of Christ, it is a ministry for every son and daughter of God. If you are not of God, you will not bear what I preach. I have been given an apostolic ministry by God to set things in order for God.

Job 13:13-15

When I was reading this, the Spirit of God came upon me and said, "Is verse 15 that you have just read true to the Scriptures?" I answered, "It is not according to the Scriptures because a son of God always has hope. At that moment, the voice left. There is someone standing next to me when I preach! When this happened, I was wondering, so I picked up the Bible in the Darby version and read "Behold, let him kill me, I will hope in him; only I will defend my ways before him." (Job 13:15 Darby version) The carnal man could not see this but God watches over the man He holds in His hand. I preach the Word of God, you hear and you do the opposite as if you want to show that you contradict it. When you do that, it is already death for you. "Whoever speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven in this world or in the world to come. (Matthew 12:32)

Esther was at home doing housework. When Mordecai said something, she obeyed. When you see a woman like that in your parents' house, that is a woman you want to marry. But how are our children now? We must educate our children well and teach them from youth. "Honor your father and mother is the first commandment with a promise, so that you will be happy and live long on earth." (Ephesians 6: 2-3) When a child answers to his parents all the time, it is a shame for the parents. Children, listen to and obey your parents, you owe them respect. "Know that in the last days there will be hard times. For men will be selfish, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, rebellious to their parents, ..." (2 Timothy 3: 1-2) This is what we are experiencing! Esther was at home with Mordecai. See the character that God places in His own daughters. When you are a child of God and you obey the Word, God will always defend your cause. Esther had respect and submission in her. Mordecai was like Esther's father. If you don't obey your father already, how will you obey your husband? If you don't obey your mother, how will you obey your mother-in-law? God was preparing Esther. God expects you to obey. Never complain, God sees things and at some point He will change that. When they came for the girls of the kingdom, Esther never went out in front. Be clean but don't go beyond that because it is a spirit of prostitution. Even if you don't want to show yourself, God knows who you are. When you care for God, God cares for you!

God knew Esther. The king had a queen, Vashti. She was rebellious to the king, she thought she was above him. The king called his wife to introduce her to his guests, but the queen refused. Anger rose in the king's heart, and the king's advisors said, "It is not only toward the king that queen Vashti has done wrong; it is also toward all the princes and all the people who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. For the deed of the queen shall come to the knowledge of all the wives, and shall cause them to despise their husbands; and they shall say: King Ahasuerus commanded that Vashti the queen should be brought into his presence, and she went not. And from that day the princesses of Persia and Media, when they hear of the queen's deed, shall report it to all the king's princes; hence much contempt and wrath." (Esther 1:16-18) You sisters, when you do as the world does, you will begin to contaminate others. Bad company corrupts good morals. You destroy others, the judgment will be great for you.

God wanted to raise Esther to the position of queen. Esther who was there submissive, God lowered the queen. When all the beautiful girls of the kingdom were selected, they all made themselves beautiful to be the most beautiful in the eyes of the king. Don't waste your time on this, God knows what you are like. When the girls passed by, no eunuch approached to give advice because they were rebellious. The king observed during this time. But when Esther passed by, the eunuchs looked at her and she found favor in the eyes of the men. The real beauty of a woman is her character. The eunuchs loved Esther, they approached her to give her advice. When they spoke, she heard and listened because she had learned obedience from Mordecai. Esther was beautiful on the face but also beautiful on the inside. When Esther entered, she did exactly what the eunuchs had said. God has given you obedience and submission. When you are in that position, you are always in victory.

When Nebuchadnezzar had the dream, Daniel gave the explanation and everything happened as Daniel had said. Nebuchadnezzar was able to realize his condition and recognized that only God could give power. When he recognized this, he regained his position as king. Men are raised as gods. We trust scientists. Why don't you trust the Word of God? Men think they have the power. When Pilate said, "Don't you know that I have the power to crucify you, and that I have the power to release you? Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given to you from above." (John 19: 10-11) Man does not realize that he has done nothing but it is only God who allows to fulfill his Word. The European Union sees itself as great today but if we go back to the Tower of Babel, men were united and look at the end. "You were watching, when a stone was loosed without the help of any hand, and struck the iron and clay feet of the statue, and broke them in pieces. (Daniel 2:34) It is not man but God Himself. What we are experiencing has happened before. Look at Sodom and Gomorrah. This earth will go through fire too. Scientists want to do everything possible to make man eternal. God can never be surprised.

Genesis 3:21-22

They can do what they want, but they will never succeed. You were taken from the dust, you will return to the dust. The body that was created, God gave it a time. Then it must return to dust.

Question by Brother Thomas Digbe: The length of a man's life on earth is given by God in advance and man's effort to lengthen it has no effect. But why is it that in the northern countries (where medicine is advanced, where people do sports, respect the rules of the road), the life expectancy is higher than in the African countries?

 

God has fixed the life span of each man. You trust science too much. Machines are limited. Man has something special. When you go to hospitals, the machine shows you that you are sick but you trust the machine too much. God is able to change the situation. We trust the machines more than the Word of God. All variants can come but "You shall not fear the terrors of the night, Nor the arrow that flies by day, Nor the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor the contagion that strikes at noon." (Psalm 91:5-6) God expects you to live by faith. "And my righteous man shall live by faith" (Hebrews 10:38) "and the victory that overcomes the world is our faith." (1 John 5:4) We are in the image of God, but you don't know the value, the power you have. We have the power to change the laws or decisions of the land. "Whatever you ask in faith through prayer, you will receive." (Matthew 21:22) The issue is your determination. "Your God commands you to be powerful" (Psalm 68:28).

In the Bible, Adam lived 930 years. What sport did he do? And what medicine did he have? It doesn't matter what medicine or sport or what you can eat, it is God who determines the number of your days. God knows what He is doing, don't be blinded by what you see.

Question from Sister Lyse: Why did God forbid that one could kill Cain?

"I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed" (Genesis 3:15). Therefore, Cain needed a seed.

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