Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 2410 BOCNEWS.com APRIL 2017 Faith in The Name of Jesus – part iii The whole of John 17 is a mighty prayer for you and for me, a discourse between Jesus and the Father. Verse 22 says, “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.” The glory that you have given Me I have given to them. Today, by faith, you will receive the glory of the Lord. The glory that the Father has given to the Son is now yours. What is the glory? The glory is every- thing that is excellent in God, it is in Revelation 5:12. A. The seven glories Ask God to give you the seven glories so that you may operate under the anointing of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis. You will grow in it. 1. They said, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive” what? Power. Today you will receive power. As you surrender your life completely to Jesus and you say you will obey Him, the power will come. The power will remain. 2. Next, what is it? Wealth. God is going to do something wonderful in your business. God has blessed His children not to be poor, but to pros- per. You will prosper in the Name of Jesus. 3. Next one: Wisdom. Look, wisdom is how to live well, that’s all. Living through wisdom is how to live well, and the Word of God is going to teach you how to live well. It will be so in the Name of Jesus. 4. Next one: Might. Might means sheer physical strength. You will be strong. You will live many years. You will do exploits. 5. Next one: Honor. Honor—that is part of glory. That means wherever you go you receive favor. You will receive favor from God and favor from man. 6. Next: Glory itself is Glory. Glory is the summary of everything, but when you receive the glory, the blessing follows. 7. Last one: Blessing. That means all these attributes will come upon you until you become a channel of blessings unto people. That is your statement. The dream you are dreaming about is being fulfilled now because the glory of the Lord is your portion. He says, “The glory that You have given unto Me, Lord, I give it unto them. III. The Battle for Glory A. Whatever You Ask Father, open my mouth to speak only Your word. Help us to understand the power in Your Name and glorify Yourself even in this place today as we glorify You. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.” John 14:13-14. “And whatever you ask.” Did you see that? “And whatever you ask.” “Whatever you ask in My Name I will do it.” You say that Jesus is lying? When He says that word, either He is lying to us or we are yet to get the revelation of the importance of that word. I am so convinced that Jesus is not lying, because the Bible tells me in the book of Numbers that there is only one thing God cannot do: God cannot lie. And if He says ‘whatever’, “whatever you ask in My Name, that I will do.” B. Glorifying the Father Through the Son Why? Because that glorifies the Father through the Son. So, the reason He’s going to do it has nothing to do with your good looks. The reason He’s going to do it has nothing to do with how good you are. The reason He’s going to do it has nothing to do with how sinless you are. It’s true you must be sinless, therefore sin less, but this verse of the scripture has nothing to do with any of that—it has to do with the Father glorifying the Son. So, He said, “And whatever you ask in My Name, that I will do.” Why? “That the Father may be glorified in the Son.” The battle that we’ve found ourselves in today is the battle of who gets the glory. Is it Satan that will get the glory or God that will get the glory? C. The Battle from the Beginning Remember that in the book of Ezekiel the Bible tells us that somebody lived in the Garden of Eden before us. His name was, and still is, Lucifer. The Bible says, “O you Lucifer, you were perfect in all your ways. Everything about you was per- fect until iniquity was found in you. You were in Eden, the Garden of God. You were in Eden.” Ezekiel 28. “You were in Eden.” That was before Adam and Eve showed up. So, his home was Eden. That’s why when Adam and Eve showed up in Eden, he knew where to go to find them. He didn’t need a GPS. He used to live there before. Are you with me? And then he said that, “The multitude of your sin,” Isaiah tells us what is the multitude of his sin, and he gave us five ‘I wills’. “I will lift my throne above the throne of God.” Remember that? And God said, “You? You? My glory I will share with nobody." So, from the beginning it is the battle of who gets the glory. Is it God that will get the glory? Is it Satan that will get the glory? D. Our Battle Everyday When man gets the glory outside God, Satan gets the glory. So, for every man-made man, Satan gets the glory. That’s why He said, “Everything you do, do it to the glory of God.” Everything you do or say, do them to the glory of God, because the battle is for who gets the glory. And every day you and I, we vote for who gets the glory. We vote. Every action that we do is a vote of who gets the glory. Every talk that we talk is a vote of who gets the glory. Every reaction that we make is a reaction to who gets the glory. Jesus said, “If you ask anything in My Name, I will do it.” Why? “So, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” There is a song we used to sing in those days, when I was growing up: ■ ■ Christ must be honored ■ ■ Must be honored ■ ■ Must be honored ■ ■ Jesus must be honored in my life ■ ■ Everyday ■ ■ Hallelujah If Christ is not honored in your life every day, Satan gets the glory because it’s a matter of who is going to get the glory. The battle has been: who gets the glory. Jesus said, “The reason that I will do anything you ask in My Name is because we are talking about glory here, and I will not contribute to anything that will give Satan the glory. I will make sure I do it so that when I do it, my Father gets the glory. Praise the Lord. E. Adam’s Test 1.THE DEVIL’S FALL You see that’s why the Devil does not want you to know the importance of the Name of Jesus because he knows that each time that you pray in the Name of Jesus, Jesus will do it. Can you imag- ine that? And the reason Jesus will do it is because God will be glorified—ahh! Satan doesn’t want that. Go back to the gen- esis of the fight. The Devil said, “I want the glory. I want it. I want it. Why is it that God is the only one every- body claps for? Why is it that God is the only one everybody talks about up in here?” And God said, “You are out of here.” The Bible says, “He was cast out”—when he was cast down, then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image. Let them have dominion, because Satan thinks that because I cast him to the earth, he’s going there to rule. What a wrong calculation. I have another plan: now let Us make man in Our image. Let them have dominion.” So, when God gave them all that dominion and said, “Okay, this is how I will know you: that you will not be prideful and will honor Me and give Me glory. Everything in this garden you can eat, but this one: don’t eat the fruit from it, for the day you eat from it, you will die. You won’t be able to stand in My pres- ence—that is the meaning of ‘you will die’.” Satan had that. Do you understand me? Satan had that. Then he said, “Okay, now I know how to take over.” 2. SATAN TRICKS EVE So, he went to the lady. He didn’t go to the brother; he went to the sister. He said, “Sister-girl, what’s up?’ And Eve said, “Just chilling.” Satan said, “Ooh, chilling. With all this law hang- ing around your neck? I don’t know how you can chill with that. Did you see that tree? Ah, I used to eat that. “God said we should not touch it, that the day we touch it and we eat it, we will die.” Am I dead? Am I dead? That is the food the angels eat. You will be like God. You will know good from evil. I’m enjoying my life. You’ve been going to church like a one dollar note every Sunday. Meet me at the club, man; I’m enjoying my life.” It’s bait. He wants to remove you from the presence of God so he can deal with you. Isn’t it? 3. ADAM’S FAILURE Conversation was going on. No man talks to my wife while I’m standing around without my permis- sion. Brother Adam just kept quiet, and when Eve took that apple or whatever it is, and the Bible says that as she looked at it, the brother was salivating. She took a bite—watch this: nothing happened. She ate and nothing happened, because she was not the one that God talked to. But as soon as she gave it to the brother, and the brother ate, the glory departed. If the brother had not eaten, they would not have fallen. The Bible says, “And she gave to her husband, who was with her, and he ate, and the eyes of both of them opened.” That’s why when Paul was writing he said that it Ade Ajala By Rev. Dr. Ade Ajala SCRIPTURE Remember that in the book of Ezekiel the Bible tells us that somebody lived in the Garden of Eden before us. His name was, and still is, Lucifer. The Bible says, 'O you Lucifer, you were perfect in all your ways. Everything about you was perfect until iniquity was found in you.' Continued on Page 11