The Corinthians - Shora Kuetu

1 Corinthians 6
Who were the Corinthians? The Corinthians were Greeks and they loved discussions, debates, wisdom…

Paul wrote this letter to the Corinthians because, he learned that there was a lot of disorder in these churches. And, he will receive many letters. And he will even say in 1 Corinthians 1:11: For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

There was a lot of rivalry among the Corinthians. Why were there so many rivalries? Was it because they didn’t agree? But why did they not agree? The flesh. Yes, but why the flesh? Jealousy, envy…Why envy? Why jealousy? It was the lack of maturity. But why the lack of maturity? We are getting somewhere. I want to make you love the Word and the biblical’s history. Because of the gifts of the Spirit. Because of grace. Yeah!

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:5 That in everything you are enriched by Him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge.

The Corinthians had a great knowledge of the Word of God. A very great knowledge of the Word. Paul says that, they were overwhelmed with all the riches concerning the Word.

Verse 6, the testimony of Christ having been firmly established among you, verse 7 so that you will not miss any gift.

They had all the gifts. So of course, when we have all the gifts, knowledge, if the flesh is not broken what happens? We become prideful. Paul says: “knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.” So, it means that, you see the flesh that we have, if God filled it with His glory what happens in general? The flesh become swell up. And God comes and does what? He breaks it. So, the more God fills you with His grace, the more He has to break you. The more you ask the Lord for gifts, the more your flesh will manifest itself. All seed must produce, every seed swell out the body that have received it. When a woman is pregnant what happens to her belly? It swell out. In the mind, it is the same thing. When someone is filled with the Spirit what happens? It swell out at first. It is terrific, what God wants to share with us today brothers. That is why Paul says: “And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.”

Who wants to have knowledge? Who wants a thorn in his flesh? We don’t want it! We ask one thing to the Lord and it opposite. We have a problem!

Before your conversion, you didn’t have envy problems. For you envy was not a problem, you naturally coveted and you were not bothered by it. No one was bothering you. But, since your conversion, you feel like there is a fight in your flesh. Every day is a battle. And when you go out in the morning you are in prayer, and when you come home at night it is a relief.
Who is living that? Tell your neighbor: “the flesh is bold.”

And you tell yourself: “before my conversion I did not have as much pressure.” And we will come to realize that we are like the Corinthians. Oh! God, save us!

There are young people who have grace, but at the same time they cry and do not understand why.
“I can’t find a job, I struggle, left and right.”

God is breaking you because He knows, He knows… How your flesh can do damages because of knowledge, because of the anointing. You feel like, you are losing your mind, that you will go crazy. Sometimes you feel like you’re going around in circles at your house. You are in language: “I fight, I fight, I fight…“ Yet, you are newlywed but you do not understand…  “What’s happening to me?” The siren said: “I will not let you go.” You know why? Because she is telling you “your flesh is inviting me.”The flesh swell out, swell out, swell out to the point where it meets the siren. You do not see that but you’re so… in the mind. When you say: “Lord, give me a vision, give me your word”. But the word of God is a seed. Every seed must growth. You receive the word, the seed, the day of your conversion, automatically your flesh swell out, you are spiritually pregnant. And the hidden things in your heart begin to manifest. Things you did not know existed, behaviors you did not know begin to manifest. And you tell yourself: “did I do that? Is that what I am? What’s happening to me?”. You put on a bizarre attitude…When a sister comes to you, you are like (head bowed, in prayer) you can’t even look at her. The sister says: “this brother is weird”. If you see him like that, he’s at war, you have to understand him. It’s terrible my brothers and sisters, what’s going on. They have received all knowledge, they have received the Gospel.

Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 told them that they had received the gospel of death and the resurrection of Jesus but, yet they were still living according to their flesh. And the people of Chloe went to Paul, saying: “Your children in the faith, the Corinthians, what’s happening in their homes is serious, they have become carnal, they have cults, there is a cult for you, there is a cult that claims to be of you, your denomination."

- Oh, is that so ?
“Yes, Paul. There is another cult claiming to be of Peter, Cephas. There is another cult claiming to be of Apollos and another cult of Christ.”

Four denominations! Kimbanguism, it did not start today, it started in 1 Corinthians, ever since man is on earth. Kimbanguism, Pentecostalism… all that. The flesh.

So, Paul says in 2 Corinthians 12 :7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

To not be prideful! A sister who begins to have revelations, if she is not broken, if God does not put trials at her way, she will be prideful. She will be so full of pride that she might go in hell because of her gifts. But because God is love, He will allow trials in her life, God will put her into the wilderness. God will use someone close to you to break you. Someone whom you helped, someone whom you loved, that you love. God will use that person to begin to speak rudely to you, to insult you, to criticize you, to gossip about you, to break you everywhere and because you are going to suffer, you will start to grow, to cry and you will remain in humility.

God says to a demon:
"Demon?
- Yes Master.
- Go to Paul and give him bellows everyday”.

Everyday. The demon came. And these bellows, they were transformed into what Stoning, jail, whiplashes: 40 lashes minus 1. Five times! It was the demon who went to see the Jews, he possessed them to beat up Paul. Paul groaned: “Oh Lord”. He asked the Lord to remove the demon, three times. The Lord told him: “My grace is sufficient for you”. So, the demons who are attacking you, the trials you have, it’s a grace! You who fear God. You will realize that your trials, your tears, it’s grace, you who fear God, it’s because the glory of God must manifest. This is because the anointing must flow into your life. That’s why you cry. God will use your children, your husband, your wife, your father, your mother, your employer… He will use this world, a pastor, a preacher…he will use the people closest to you. And you don’t understand why you’re suffering like that. And yet you are converted, you fear God, you walk according to His word. Because He is a father who loves us. What is that child who is not punished by his father? Punishment is the proof of the Father’s love for us. Because He does not want to lose us, He wants us to be saved, Hebrews 12 tells us. God is our father. Paul had great revelations. God brings him to heaven. Paul has seen things that we can’t even explain. There is no human vocabulary to explain what he saw in heaven. When God brought him back, God says to himself: “if I leave him like that Satan will get to him because of pride and he will die. And since I am his Father, I love him, I will use a demon." God our father who is sovereign, demons are at His service without realizing it. God controls demons in hell, God controls Satan, God controls sorcerers. So, sorcerers can attack you who fear God, you don’t understand why. It’s not that you are possessed, no! If you fear God, God allows this for His glory to burst. His glory has to be revealed. The fire of glory. Great responsibilities in the Kingdom of God involve great sufferings. A great calling involves great sufferings. Great illuminations involve great rejections, great wounds. Paul was called to free the nations, it was necessary for that demon to be by his side all the time to keep him in humility. And our Dad was in control. And He will say to him: “My grace is sufficient for you”. So, the grace of God is Yehoshua who walks by our side, and as long as He walks by our side no demon can kill us. They are going to make war on us, it’s written, it’s normal because, with war, we learn to fight. God left some Canaanite nations for the Jews to learn the war. So, God lets your enemies by your side. It allows your father to rise against you with his witchcraft, because He wants you to learn the spiritual fight. He allows it so that you may be exercised in war and exercised in spiritual attack, exercised in prophetic prayer, for you to be a warrior. He puts a table before you… it is written… in front of your opponents and He anoints your head with oil and your cup overflows. When there is no adversity, there is no overflow of glory. If there is no adversity, there is no anointing that will flow over you. God allows adversity for His name to be glorified through your life, your home. That’s why you have to stop going to pastors all the time. You have to understand that it’s God who allows it… If you fear God. I am speaking to the children of God who are in sanctification. If you have a problem, stop being idolatrous, go before God and say: “Lord, may you will be done”. Paul says: "when I am weak, that’s where I am strong because the grace of God flows in my life in my weakness." He told me: “My grace is sufficient for you because my power is fulfilled in weakness”. You can’t experience the power of resurrection, if you do not realize that you are weak. So, your flesh must realize that it is weak. It is then that the power of God, of the true Gospel will begin to flow into your life, flow into your veins, into your heart. And thus, you will see your family freed, you will see your father freed, you will see your witch mother completely confused. You will see your religious father completely delivered. You will see your children delivered. You will see your church delivered. You will see your nation delivered.

Glory is coming.

The old man must be crucified on the cross. The cross is the instrument that the Father has chosen to break your flesh so that His glory will manifest. That’s why you must persevere, you who fear God. The cross is the best instrument that the Father has chosen to crush the flesh so that the spirit rises, for the spirit to be freed. May the spirit be freed.

God is here! Welcome Him. Doors raise your lintels. Let the King of glory make His entrance. We welcome you Jesus. We welcome you Lord.

The word is given to the Corinthians, the flesh came. We become conscious of the weakness of the flesh once God has touched us. Not before! Once God has really touched us, it is there that this word which fills us, shows us how weak our flesh is. That it can easily take us away from God. It can fall into pride. That it can be very wicked. And the Father, because He is love, what is He going to do? Well, since your conversion, it is as if there is a war between you and your family that is not yet converted. There is rejection. And you do not understand. “Why all of this?” And God gives you dreams, visions of the state of the people around you. The most violent attacks come from the people closest to you. And that’s why it hurts the most. And your heart will bleed. God allows that for you to be totally dependent on Him. He will show you how bad human beings can be. «Cursed be the man that trusteth in man». This verse will become a reality for you. This prophetic message is to speak to the hearts, to speak to the hearts of the children of God who do not understand why they suffer like this. The glory of the second house will be greater than the first one. But what we forget is that, the suffering of the last house that we are will be greater than the first one. That’s why there are, more and more suffering, tears, cries. God will impose you, loneliness because He wants you alone in His presence, in the secret place. It’s not that He does not see people fighting you. It’s not that He does not see that you are being attacked all the time. He allows it…if you fear Him of course. If you fall, you open doors, that’s something else…but it you fear God; I want to insist on the children of God; If you fear God and at the same time there are all these attacks…you have the feeling that pagans are better than you. It’s just a feeling. It means that God is working. The potter is at work. He is molding you. He is shaping you, He is giving you the image He wants, the form He wants. He is finishing His work in you. Woman, God will isolate you. He is going to take you away, He is going to take you away from the people who are close to you. He will set you apart. And it is there in the dessert that He will work deeply, that He will shape your soul, that He will remove all the dirt, He will remove all kinds of dross. He will get rid of all the things that can weigh you down. He is going to alleviate you, He will separate you, separate you from friends, separate you from your family. To separate you. For it is the sword! He came to put division. The Lord said: « In a house five shall be divided: two against three, three against two. » Yesterday’s friends will be your enemies today. Today’s friends, tomorrow they will be your enemies. God allows it, He exposes you to criticism, He exposes you to rejection to outrage. You are going to discover what the Christian life is like, you will discover how human beings are. You can even curse the day that you were born. 

«Why me? Why was I born? I feel like the sky is falling on my head, while I do only good to people. Why do they always do me wrong? I do not understand why. Why is my family suffering like this? Why is my mother crying like this? Why me? Why us? What have we done to deserve this? »

They are going to want to attack your children. They are going to look for problems. whereas you fear God. You do not understand since the day you received this prophecy, your problems began.
And you have the feeling that the visions that God has given you are not going to be fulfilled, yet you have received prophecies, visions, words from the Lord, promises.

God says: “between the moment you received my word, the promise and the moment when it will be fulfilled, I have to mold you, I have to work you, I have to break you, I have to shape you, I have to purify you, I have to clean you, I have to wash you.”

Because pure gold needs to be cleaned, it has to go through the fire at more than one thousand degrees to be purified, free from impurities. That is why God, by your tears, your attacks, your problems, purifies you. People will falsely accuse you. They will accuse you when you haven’t done anything. But God always justifies His children because those whom He has known beforehand He also predestined them, those whom He predestined, He also called them, those whom He called, He justifies them, and those which He justified, He glorified them.

But between the time God has predestined you and the moment when He have place you among your enemies, you must know rejection, you must know sufferings, you must cry, moan.

“Why is my flesh always sick? Why do I always have to see doctors? Why me? Why us?”

You will hear words that can shake you, scare you, threats, intimidations: “you will die, you will have a disease, you will have such problem.” But God says, if you fear Him of course: “there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus of Nazareth and who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit of God.”  

A thorn in the flesh. The cross every day. But look how God used Paul. See how God used him in deliverance. It is said that God performed extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul to the point where the tissues that had touched his body were applied to the sick and the sick were healed. There was such glory of God. Though He is son, Hebrew tells us, he learned obedience through the things He suffered. You must suffer before you reach glory, you must suffer before you reach excellence, you must suffer before you see the souls of the liberated. You must cry, you must groan in His presence. The more He fills you, the more your flesh will manifest itself, the more He will kill your flesh. There are levels of glory in glory, there are seasons. 

Keep yourself in sanctification, do not give in to the temptation of the enemy, to abandon. Do not give up, do not back down, for we are not of those who withdraw to lose themselves but of those who have faith to save their souls. Because at the end there is victory. At the end there is the crown, at the end there is the reward. And with every victory you win, the Father is glorified, the Father rejoices, heaven rejoices. Every time there is a victory that you win because of Jesus, because of your obedience the angels cheer God in heaven. For all that is born of God triumphs over the world and the victory that triumphs over the world is our faith. The work God wants to do in you, it will triumph. In your family, there will be triumphs. Among your children there will be triumphs, there will be victory. You will not give in because of temptation, you will not fall with another woman, you will not fall into disobedience, you will go to the end and you will say at the end of your life: “I fought the good fight, I finished the race I kept the faith now the crown.” We are victorious. To Him who overcomes! To Him who overcomes will say the Lord seven times. We were created to overcome brothers and sisters. The flesh will be crucified. Your flesh will be broken, so that the spirit in you may excel, so that the gifts of God in you may be exalted, so that the fruits of the Spirit may be consumed.

Yes, young girl. This body will no longer be a dwelling of demons, a dwelling of sex demons, it’s over. This body is now the temple of the Holy Spirit because now you are going to breathe holiness, you will experience the glory of the holiness of God because you have understood the teaching. I am speaking to the children of God.

No compromise !

At every victory you win, God gives you a new authority over diseases, Satan, demons, souls who have to be freed from hell, the bonds of death…at every victory God takes away your old garment. He gives you a new coat, a new belt, a new grace. That is the authority you had yesterday and the one you have today is not the same. A new command stick. That’s why when you open your mouth many are touched. That is why when you pray heaven fulfills your promise. The more God breaks you, the more your prayers will be answered. The more God breaks you, the more hell will tremble before you. For Satan is afraid of one thing, the name of Yehoshua and the cross. The cross makes hell tremble because at the cross hell was exposed. That’s why it was at the cross that Yehoshua said: “it is finished.” Your fulfillment, you will live it at the cross. You are going to live it every day. Each day has enough trouble of its own. You will understand the Christian life differently. It is a life of tears, a life of sufferings, a life of victory in suffering. They will make fun of you the Father will give you victories. They will criticize you but they will not be able to do anything without you because God will make you a man, a woman unavoidable in this perverted and corrupt generation. A time will come, as with Joseph, where your brothers will come to ask you for advices because they have no choice, because you are the choice of God because you are the choice of God. When the Lord approves of a man’s way, He will favor him with his enemies. Even your enemies will recognize that God walks with you because you have persevered. God takes pleasure in perseverance in trials, perseverance brothers in these times of the end God wants men and women who persevere. We are not of those who withdraw to lose themselves but of those who have faith to save their souls. Whatever happens, it may rain, snow, we will hold fast because Jesus has accomplished everything, Jesus overcame the devil. We are victorious. That is why people do not understand you, because they thought that you were going to give up the faith but they realize that years after you are still standing. No, you will not give in because Christ did not give in.

 “You, little ones you are of God and you have defeated them because the One in you is greater than the one who is in this world.” 

You are young, it is true, you are a woman, it is true, you are African it is true, you are French it is true, you are Arabic it is true, biracial, Asian but there is one thing: He that is in you. If you are so fought, it is because of what God has placed in you. That’s what brings fighting, it’s nothing else. You who fear God. Now you who have trials because of your sin, it is time for you to repent. That you leave falsehood, fornication, envy, that you abandon pride, that you abandon porn movies you watch…return to the Almighty and if it is still possible He will restore you. Yes, it is time. It is time!
They will say to Paul: “these men who have shaken the world have come so far.” And when they said to Paul: “what anointing!” Paul could say, “if you knew the battles, the trials that I have. If you knew.” And when the Father was looking at Paul, He said to the angels: “this is my son.”  As he could say to Satan concerning Job: “have you noticed Job my servant? On earth, there is no one like him.” Do everything so that God may say, because of the grace He has granted you: “on earth in France there is no woman like my daughter. There is no princess like her. She fears me. She is consecrated to my kingdom. She does my work, she intercedes for my people."

When the devil, demon come to your city, they say to themselves: “this apartment we can’t approach it. When they come into your neighborhood, they say to themselves: this house can’t be approached. Because it is the house of someone who belongs to the Master of maters.”

That is why you who have received the message of the time will be stoned for the truth that you have received. Don’t give up daughter of Abraham.  Don’t give up! When you were religious, everybody applauded you. Now that you are sanctified, everyone begins to fight you. Even Christians who were supposed to encourage you, are beginning to criticize you. It’s normal if you see it, rejoice you who suffer, rejoice.

“Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven.”
“Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.”
“A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.”

“If they have called me Belzebul, they will call you Belzebul. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you” says the Master.

But if we walk in the footsteps of Jesus, we must go through the same things, the same criticisms, rejection. But before us there is victory. Behind there is failure before, there is victory. And we are going toward victory. We will not bow down to sin.

Let no man touch your body young lady while you are not married because your body is consecrated to God. If yesterday you were a garbage dump today you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. I know one thing: because of Yehoshua’s name, because of the perseverance you have, they will change their language. When Paul was bitten, the barbarians treated him like a murderer, Paul didn’t pay attention to their words, on their criticisms, Paul shook the animal into the fire.

Do not stop at the attacks of your family, your father, your mother, your brothers and sisters, the Christians around you, the pagans. Shake away their whispers into the fire of the Spirit of God. And focus on Him who saves men. Focus on the One who called you. Do you realize that we are seven billions on earth but God knows you, He knows your name, He calls you by your name, He speaks to you in a dream. God has chosen you. It is a grace. That’s why He wants to use you, to bring the revival.

James and John went to see the Lord, they ask Him one thing: “let us sit one at your left, the other at your right hand.” The Lord said to them, “are you capable, ready to drink the same cup as I do?” They said, yes. Let’s drink His cup!

You may have the feeling that trials are coming at you from everywhere. You are riddled.

“Peter, Peter, Satan has asked for you to be riddled like wheat. But I prayed for you so that your faith will not fail.”

He did not say: “I prayed that you and the others may not be riddled”, but “I prayed that you would hold fast.” Bother, he does not pray that you will be spared from attacks, no, he prays for you to hold fast. You will be riddled from everywhere, left, right, front, back, below, but do not worry if you fear God, a thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

My God...

"And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall."
“They shall fight against thee.”

It is written! You must be waged, you must be waged, you must be treated as a wanderer, an enlightened one, a cult, a guru… it is normal that tongues rinse against you on Youtube, it’s normal. People need to talk about you on Facebook, it’s normal. Your friends must reject you at school, people have to tell you that you have grown old, that you no longer live. In college, in high school everywhere… You have to be called by all kind of names. “You do not live anymore, you do not have a boyfriend.” You will cry, you will suffer but know that you are preparing yourself for eternity. You have something they do not have. Jesus, holiness. You have someone they do not have: Jesus. You have something: the life of God, the holiness, the joy, the peace that you have in the midst of trials. We Christians are at peace. Despite the attacks, we are at peace, we sleep in peace, we awake in peace, we sing in trials, we pray in trials, we bless God in trials, we adore the Father in trials, brothers in the name of Jesus. We are not going to see psychologists because in worship we are healed. The anointing oil of the Spirit comes upon you and heals your soul. Do not go to pastors all the time, stop with that. Go to the Father, say to Him: “Father, here I am, I am in the secret place. You know my problems, you know my trials. You know…”