Young Adult Sunday (Generation Joshua) || Emmanuel Nwachukwu|| Belema Abere|| City Of David Atlanta

``Stewarding influence means guarding what influences you. In second Timothy chapter three verse five, it says that in the end days, there will be people who have a form of godliness, but denying its power. So the responsibility of the young prophet at that moment was to say no, I have a word from God, he told me I cannot do this, thus I shall not listen to you, but instead he allowed a bad influence to lead him to his demise. [01:03:27] (27 seconds)  #StewardYourInfluence

What has God entrusted in your hands? What is the gift that he has given you? What is the access that he has given you that will enable you to further the work of the kingdom of God. We have learned that impact cannot be talked about without discussing influence. How do you influence the people around you? How do you beg for the body of Christ? Joseph begged for the body and that is is an example of what we are supposed to do. [01:06:11] (27 seconds)  #UseYourGiftsForGod

How do my words and my how does my lifestyle impact others? Do does it bring people closer to Christ, or do they leave confused? Do they see me singing on Sunday, but saying crazy things on social media? Do they see me smiling outside greeting people, but dressing immodestly Monday through Saturday? We have to bring our influence in line with the word of God. Number three, successful stewardship lies in our ability to discern. [01:02:53] (34 seconds)  #AlignLifeWithFaith

So immediately we look at the word of impact, we automatically know we cannot talk about impact without discussing what influence is. There's a word there's a word that that I heard when I was studying for this. It was a phrase and they said that affluence will bring you to a nice neighborhood, a wealthy neighborhood, but influence will allow you to change that neighborhood. So automatically, we start to see that influence is our ability to impact those around us, our ability to change those around us. [00:56:13] (34 seconds)  #InfluenceChangesCommunities

Therefore, your body will not be buried in the tomb the tomb of your ancestors. The bible says that when he left going down the road, that is when he left, the young prophet, he left, immediately a lion saw him and killed him on the spot. So this takes us back to the two verse verses that I that I mentioned in the beginning where the the old prophet now sees this and he commands his sons, he says, hey, can we bury can you bury me where this man where we bury this man because he feels remorse. He realizes that he has he has exploited his influence. [01:01:25] (31 seconds)  #ConsequencesOfBadInfluence

Joseph was a man of of of excellence. He was one He was a member of the Sanhedrin Council, which means that he was part of the supreme court of the Jews. Now the interesting thing about him is that the bible says that he did not agree with their decision. So the first thing that I get from this is you can be a man or a woman of influence and not be influenced by the world. [01:05:18] (26 seconds)  #InfluenceWithoutCompromise

And that is what God has called us to do. He did not agree with the decision of the sin. He just crucified Jesus. So what did he decide to do? He decided to beg for the body. He was quiet before, but something came over him and asked him, he said, you know what, Pilate, I need the body. This body deserves a burial, this body deserves a tomb. He asked for it, Pilate gave to him, and he took it to the tomb and did what he was supposed to do. [01:05:44] (27 seconds)  #BegForTheBody

So obviously the king is so happy, he's he's excited, he's like, you know what, I want to honor you, I want to I want to give you a banquet, I want you to eat food, I want you to drink in in this land, and the prophet replies and responds and says, the Lord has given me specific instruction that I cannot eat, I cannot drink, up to the point that I cannot even leave the same way that I came. [00:58:59] (23 seconds)  #ObeyGodsInstruction