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01- Biblical Basis For Fighting
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Principles of War. Machaneh Collection - 83. Preached in 2013, Ghana (Mampong Akuapem). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.
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Welcome to track #1 of principles. Of war. Here he stands standing for the door, never going back again to the world and even waves. Here we stand fighting for the Lord. We will fight a good fight. Stay in the will of the Lord. So be strong in the Lord, in the power of his mind. Put on the whole armour abroad, and ye may be able to stand. There's the lines with you. Take up the sealed of faith and with the soul of the Spirit we will overcome. So I want to say here we stand standing for the Lord, never going back again to the world and leave away. Oh, here we stand, fighting for the Lord. We will fight the good fight. Stay in the will of the Lord. So if you wrestle that again, I can flash out of the but against Prince the powders he Oh and the powers of this world Woo casting down every evil boy that exhort itself against the word of God. So can you hear me say he please stand standing for the Lord, never going back again to the world and leave the way war here we stand fighting for the Lord. We will fight a good fight. Stay in the will of the Lord. I'm gonna fight a good fight and I'm gonna fight for what is right. I'm gonna fight the end o
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Welcome to track #1 of principles. Of war. Here he stands standing for the door, never going back again to the world and even waves. Here we stand fighting for the Lord. We will fight a good fight. Stay in the will of the Lord. So be strong in the Lord, in the power of his mind. Put on the whole armour abroad, and ye may be able to stand. There's the lines with you. Take up the sealed of faith and with the soul of the Spirit we will overcome. So I want to say here we stand standing for the Lord, never going back again to the world and leave away. Oh, here we stand, fighting for the Lord. We will fight the good fight. Stay in the will of the Lord. So if you wrestle that again, I can flash out of the but against Prince the powders he Oh and the powers of this world Woo casting down every evil boy that exhort itself against the word of God. So can you hear me say he please stand standing for the Lord, never going back again to the world and leave the way war here we stand fighting for the Lord. We will fight a good fight. Stay in the will of the Lord. I'm gonna fight a good fight and I'm gonna fight for what is right. I'm gonna fight the end of me, fight a good fight in Jesus name. So why don't you hear me say, Here we stand standing for the Lord, never going back again to the world, and we will wait. What a here we stand, we will be fighting for the Lord. Love us what we do, we will fly unto us light, stay in the will of the Lord. So here we stand, we're fighting for the Lord, and we will fight a good fight. Just stay in the will of the Lord. All right, glory to God now the biblical basis for fighting number one. To follow Jesus Christ you must learn how to make war. Revelations 19 verse 11 it says, And I saw heaven opened, and behold a White Horse. And he that sat on him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. OK, verse 12. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in white linen, in fine linen, white and clean. Amen. So you see Jesus Christ, as in this revelation, somebody riding a White Horse and he is going out to make war. So if you say you are following Jesus Christ, you must be somebody who knows how to do war. Amen. Now, the reason why a lot of us don't do anything for the Lord is because we just simply don't want to fight. You don't want to fight for it or you don't want to fight against anything. That's why a lot of people do not do anything in the ministry. As soon as there's some small resistance, it's like, hey, my mother said, my father said, my grandmother said, and then that's the end. My mother said, my father said, and you are no more in the ministry. That's not the right thing, OK? So do the right thing, OK? And as you see me, I'm not a, I'm not a peaceful person. I have, I'm in a lot of fights, wars, but you wouldn't know it. Everything looks good on the outside. But I, I cannot stand and tell all the different struggles I'm struggling with. When you come and preach, you look peaceful, man. It's not peaceful. It's war, war, war on all fronts. Amen. And so if you want to really follow Jesus Christ, get yourself ready to fight. You want to be pure. Nobody was born pure. We were all born with 10. All boys are born with erections. All boys who have erections, raise up your hand. Look at them. Even little boys have it. Nobody was born with a Bible in his hand or born as a pure person. We all have negative tendencies very, very some way. So anybody who is able to be pure has been fighting you stay down. You'll just, you'll just be there. So you know, I'm not like that. As for he, he's like this. He was, I mean, he's whatever. You don't want to fight, that's all. You don't want to fight about anything. Do you think my parents allowed me to come into the ministry easily? It was even more complicated for me because now even you have churches, we have missionaries. You are being encouraged. In our time there was nothing. There was only Anglican and Methodist. I'm Presbyterian. A church like action was still meeting in a little, what do you call it, the little room somewhere. There was nothing. Every a pastor was a priest. This is a a no head of any, any pastor, anybody who has a prophet or pastor or no, no, no, no. It's you who don't want to follow Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is riding a White Horse and making war. Yeah, My mother said, your mother said, my father said who? Who doesn't have a father? Who doesn't have a mother? Your wife said my wife, you see my wife is You are joking. Anybody who cannot leave his wife cannot leave the church. Oh, you know how the women are and shut up. You can't leave your wife. You can't leave the church. You don't qualify. And some of you can't leave your wife because you are not prepared to have any conflict at all as some behaving. Are you listening to me? Some of you are even in relationships you should break up. But you don't want to break up because you don't want any conflict. Yeah, any conflict. And it's better to break up a relationship than to break up an engagement. I've told you already, if you are breaking your relation, say it early. That's all before the engagement comes. If the engagement, say it before the wedding and the wedding You have up to Saturday morning to decide. Please break it on Saturday morning before you marry than to enter. But as you sign, that's it, you are down for After that you become a divorcee. Everybody who is doing something is fighting. The crusade that you see is fighting. Fighting meetings upon meetings, anything that is working meetings, fighting, striving behind the scenes. When you go to a restaurant and they come and serve you food, you don't know how they are shouting, hey, pick 1/2, put me through the throat egg here. Don't be doing so many things before the food comes out. A lot of struggle. Yeah. In that restaurant, there's an accountant. You don't see him, but he's there. There's a cashier. He's also there. There's a security man. They are stealing eggs, they are stealing chicken, they are stealing everything they are eating. They are doing everything. Huh. Before you see a nice restaurant, it's working. It's very complex. It's you who don't want to fight. It's you who don't want to fight. So one of the statements I'm very wary of in my ear and my head is I'm tired. It's a very dangerous thing to say. I'm tired because God is hearing, God is listening. Oh, you are tired. Oh, you are tired of of what? All these ministry, this, that shed, You are tired. Oh, OK, you've heard it. Nothing. You are tired. It's one of the frightening statements to come out of your mouth. Tired. But God, listen, that's what Elijah said. He was replaced. So even me, if somebody is doing something for me and I can see that the person is that it's OK, I will do it for myself. Wow. So be careful. If I'm tired, I'm tired. That was what brought Elijah's retirement. He was laid off immediately. You are tired. He's tired to sing. The wrestlers are a lot there. Oh, sorry. You see your replacement standing there. You'll be shocked. This church, when you go and come for a short time, you see that phrases, if you like, travel somewhere and come. You will see that the job you were doing, others are doing it #2. We are instructed to fight a good fight, Amen. We are instructed to fight a good fight, Amen. That one there is a command fight #3 Paul described. When he described his ministry, he described it as a fight. If I don't know whether I was describing his life or his ministry, he said I have fought a good fight. So the third one is Paul describes his ministry and his life as a fight. He says my life is a fight. In First Corinthians 926. He says I therefore so run, not as uncertainly. So fight I so fight I this is how I fight, not as one that beated the air. I fight with specifics. Are you listening to me? By the way? We are ending in a couple of minutes. Yeah, we are continuing at dawn. Yeah, you have to come here that night again, so you better go and sleep. You thought. You thought that it was just a holiday. Tomorrow I'm going to teach you how to fight with the principles of war. Do you want to know how to fight using the principles of war? Wow, Paul said. I therefore so run. Not as uncertainly, huh? But so fight. I, this is how I fight. Amen. Wow #5. #4 OK, I'm wrong. You are right. You are instructed to war a good warfare. This charge I count thee, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went on before thee, that thou miters by them war a good warfare. Wow, you are supposed to war. War, Good warfare. So tomorrow I'm going to share with you good warfare, how to do war properly. Yeah, and by the time I finish with you, you can join any army. That thou mightest by them war, a good warfare. You see in everything we have good and bad. We have good husbands and bad husbands. There are some people when you marry you, you will be sad. It's called fend for yourself husband. Fend for yourself husband. You have to fight for yourself, care for yourself, provide for yourself. Even if you want him to sleep with you, you have to engineer it. Otherwise you will lie there. Nothing will be done for you or to you. Just call fend for yourself. We have good presidents and bad presidents, good governments and bad governments, good wives and bad wives. All these exist. And also with war, we have good warfare and bad. There are people who are good at fighting, They are not also who are not good at fighting. Do you understand me? Wow. Number six, OK, you are right and I'm wrong. Number six, the ministry is described as warfare all the time is described as war in First Corinthians 9 by 7. He says who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges? Who goes to war at any time at his own charges? Amen #7 You are instructed to have weapons of warfare. What does he say for the weapons of our warfare? You are surprised that there is war? Plenty, plenty like that in the Bible. The weapons of our warfare at the end of the year war, there's everything about it is fighting. It looks peaceful, but it's not peaceful. That time that I watched Benny Hill on television, I have watched and I knew that he was under a lot of pressure. Yeah, long before they announced that he he was jetting, divorced and all that, as soon as I used to watch it and I said look at the bird. Trouble is fighting the bird. I didn't know anything about him, nor have any any idea, but I saw a look at this as, ah, trouble is fighting the bird. Yeah. What people are at war, You see the ministers, they are at war. So those of you who are ever going, you see out of us here, some will rise up and fight your way into the ministry. You will fight to be a minister. Some of you will just pragmatically say Moro de Moro, de Moro Goka. And there are some who will rise up and fight. You see me here as a preacher. I thought to be in the ministry, and I'm still fighting when I wrote books. No American publisher will publish my books. If they publish your book, you pay them to publish it. They will never publish it free. Americans don't do it free. Amen. Yeah, today a lot of people read my books, but it's not without a fight. Special arrangements are made, special arrangements, special things doing, forcing, fighting. There's nothing that is just there, so no, there's a big fight all the time till we die. That's why when you die, the right rest in peace. Amen. Join the army armies of the Lord marching everywhere to the darkest corners of this world. Spirit of the Lord is falling on the young ones who will go for him. True Papa God is raising man, True Papa. Who will stand for him today? Into the world, make disciples. Every nation go to every tribe, every tongue and every people. Preach the gospel of Jesus the Savior, all who believe they shall be beaten by the blood of the Lamb. Super super. You can join the army armies of the Lord matching everywhere to the darkest corners of this world. The Spirit of the Lord is calling on the young ones who will go for him. God is raising man, who will stand for him today. I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. We shall prophecy your sons and your daughters, and the young men shall see visions and the old men dream. We wonders in the heaven and the earth. We are super super. You can join the army of these of the Lord matching everywhere to the darkest corners of this world. The spirit of the Lord is falling on the young man who will go for him. God is raising man who spent for him today. You'll be your shield, you'll be your strength. You'll never leave you nor forsake you. He will be with you until the very end, the end of time. By His Spirit you will overcome. Trooper, Trooper, you can join the army. Armies of the Lawn matching everywhere to the darkest corners of this world. The spirit of the Lord is falling on the young one who will go in it. God is a raising man who will spread for him. Today you're a super trooper. You can join me on me. Armies of the soul matching everywhere to the darkest gardens of this world. The spirit of the Lord is falling on the young ones who will go for him. God is raised this man. Who will stand for him today? Is it fantastic? As that's fantastic. You enjoy the stands. You want more of the stands? You want to sing more songs? All right. We are instructed to have weapons of war, for the weapons of our warfare are not Colonel wow #8 We have been taught to be strong in the Lord. Be strong and arm yourself. If I told you I'd call you and I'd say buy a gun. Everybody must have a gun. You say, hey, why? But that is what Paul is saying in the Spirit. Put on the whole armour. Arm yourself. Yeah, it's going to be a fight, big one. And sometimes when you haven't seen such problems before, you will not know how important it is. Amen To be armed. All right #9 You continue giving different numbers. When I give the right number, you have to learn how to make war and fight wars because of the beasts that is going to fight with you. In Revelations 11 verse 7, Bible says and when they shall have finished their testimony, the beasts that are sent out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them. So watch out there is a beast coming to make war with you and all the spirits who are fighting with you, they all occupy men or women and fight you through the people that they are in. Christians and non Christians. Christians and non Christians are occupied by evil spirits because Peter was occupied by a demon and Jesus said to you, Satan deadly behind. You must know when the person is switching between evil spirit and his own human spirit #10 Get ready for war with the dragon. The dragon, the serpent which Adam didn't deal with in the book of Genesis. By the Book of Revelation it has turned into a dragon. When Adam saw him in the garden, he was a serpent. He should have dealt with him then, but he didn't deal with him. And by the Book of Revelation he has grown into a dragon. Those of you who don't deal with serpents at a small stage, by the Book of Revelation, it has developed arms and legs and tails, wings. It has become a dragon with fire coming out of the mouth. Some of you have small, small sepents, pornographic sepents. Instead of dealing with it now you are going to let it grow into a dragon and one day you will see that it is big. One day a pastor came to see me and he said he had a problem. I said what is the problem? He said my problem and this is one of the successful pastors in evangelism. And he said, pastor, my problem is women. I keep sleeping with other women and he's one of the best pastors I've known. I pray for your counseling advice. Try 123123 that every year it was happening until even the wife has accepted him as this is how you are. So one day he came to see me and he was very depressed. He said, Pastor Bishop, whatever I want to do, castration, if you can help me to remove my testicles. You see, the second we didn't deal with it has grown to a point where that it even worries when you do it. You are not happy. Yeah, you will not be happy because something you could have dealt with, you didn't deal with it when it was a serpent. Now the thing has grown. It has become something else. You are ask requesting for castration now. Yeah, that's why we have this camp, because God is telling you you can't deal with things. You don't deal with it here as a young person. It's going to grow with you and it will grow big and you will see that it's affecting you and at the point it will affect you in a greater way and you see that nobody wants to be with you or nobody can be with you because anybody you are with, you have to tell the person this how I am. I cannot stay with you. Is it? I have to go out. It's normal for me. I have to do this. I have to do this, I have to do this. I have to cause the serpent Adam didn't deal with in the book of Genesis, by the Book of Revelation, it has developed into a dry dawn, as I say. Yeah, it is Bishop Danka who told me that. Is there a second that Adam didn't deal with in the Book of Genesis? By the Book of Revelation, it has become a dragon. And it's true. It grows. This is your chance. Pass by the struggle, the fight you. You can fight. Now is the time to fight, fight to be the will of. Is that not all your song set? We shall fight to do it, to stay in the will of the Lord. Sing the Oh path for me. Just the Oh path. See, if somebody wants to fight, you see, it's like you realize that peace is over now. Come on. Here we stand, standing for the dawn, never going back to the world ending when. He beats that fighting for the Lord. We will fight a good fight. Stay in the will of the Lord. Here we stand, standing for the door are. You going to stand for the Lord? Are you going to walk with the beast and the Dragons? To the world and the. Sing the Oh, I want to see the. Just fight again, I love it. We will. Fight a good fight, just stay in the will of the Lord we stand. Are you ready to fight the beasts? What about the dragon, the serpent? I remember one day I found the serpent right here in the home. I was in the house and I saw the serpent in the house. Bishop Saki took a stick. He struck 2 times and he missed and the seven was moving. I said give it to me and I went after the seven. The seven wanted to say, oh, I said no, no, I see you killing seven. Oh, me sister. We. Stand standing for the Lord. We. Will fight a good fight. Stay in the will of the Lord. Yeah. Are you going to fight to stay in the will of the Lord? Fighting for the Lord. We will. Fight a good fight. Stay in the world of the Lord, sit down #11 Jesus Christ is a lamb who makes war, a lamb who makes war. And these shall make war with the Lamb, and the lambs shall overcome them. For his Lord of Lords and King of kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful. Yeah, a lamb that he makes war. Oh, now as Lambs, a war. You want to fight with us. You see us as lambs. You get up, you want to start fighting with us. But the Lambs shall overcome them. You see, there are people who look at us as weak. It's like Charlie, these guys just I'm going to. And you see, those of you are fledmarical husbands. And I'm speaking to you in in prophecy. I'm prophesying about your marriage. Don't allow some woman to rule you. You are a leader. Show. Show your powers. Stand up and fight. If your wife says she's got cholera, she's got a mouse stuck up to that mouse. Come on, man. What do you mean? When you were born? Were you born as a head or a tail? I want to take my heritage. I'm joking. I'm the leader here. I'm the boss, man. I'm the head of everything here. And this, this is my Kingdom, and you are my subject. You are my subject and I need you to be humble and just do what I need. There are too many men who are like women, your kindness who are like alarm, but the lamb is look at the lamb in the Bible. The lamb it makes war. They thought it was a lamb or they gave you bit them properly. That's about their laps are overcome. Therefore he's the king of kings and the Lord of Lords who not a lamb. The war. You want to try to just move around by the main. One day I was talking to a certain pastor who was about to become an Orango. And I told him that, you know, if you do what you are trying to do, you see me in a different way. And I told him you wouldn't like me any of you. If you if you want to see something you don't like, you see me in another way. Yeah. You wouldn't like me again. One day one of the pastor's wives, she said, she said she, she, she said I'm leaving my husband and she thought she was going to disgrace him. I told, I told her I was sitting. I was sitting in a chair. She was sitting here. I was sitting here and the husband was sitting there quietly and another pastor was there. He said he was going to leave the show. And as I told her some, I said, look, the day that you make this move your husband, I will put your husband at my back. It is me. You will see it is me you it is me you will not like in the world, this world that you came to. I'm the person you will not like, but you will not see him. Yeah. Oh, La La, la. You see that is nice is blowing. I I thought you want to spot the church. You want to threaten the church. You want to spot the church with your this plane. I'm leaving my husband divorce so that what is happening in the church. I say, look, you will see. I said you will see me if you. You will hate me. You hate me before you die. Yeah. You hate me before you die. Yeah. I I counseled her when she was getting married. I appreciated her wedding. I said me, you will see. You will see a different thing. You will see me as a lamp. You are coming to fight. You said the lamps are overcome. Them. Because it's the king of kings and the Lord of Lord are coming to fight the pasta. That's why you see that the pasta also has a pasta. You see shepherds when you see them moving around and so on, you feel that they are just cool. But David, who was the shepherd, when he saw a lion car, he said, look, as you see me sleeping in the forest, yeah, doesn't mean that I'm going power. He killed a loose and a bear. King said I've got it for my numbers. You must be talking. This a mistake. He killed the bear too. And he explained when Saul called him, he said, what qualification? He said, look, with my bear I said I killed a lion and with my bear I killed a bear. What was coming for one of my sheep? That is my credential. This man would be like one of them. I'm killing you. And when he finishes, he'll go and sing. The Lord is my shepherd. I saw with guitar. He'll be singing with guitar now when it comes to killing, when David was going forward to get married engagement, he cut 100 penises, 100 penises and brought it of Philistines penises. Andre Yes. It's a very, very, some very some way personal. You wouldn't like to beat him in a war. Yeah. Read some paper, David. That's when he was going to build a pallet, going to build a church and so on. Going to, you know, something. It's OK. Let your son build it the way you are. You have been fighting, killing so much. All of us must have a fighting sign that people don't like to see. You understand? We are cool and number when it comes to certain things and say no, no, no, no, no. And in marriage, every couple knows the limit. You can go know that when you wish. Here, This person. No. This one I cannot do. Hey, it will be something. It will be a big thing. Yeah, to be a big thing. Yeah. You see me as alarm and you are coming to kill me. You will be surprised that I told that Lady she was. I said. I said look, you will not even after today. I don't think she likes me. So my voice, I won her. I said look what you see. And that one, she stopped all those things that she was doing. So stop it. I want to spot the church. #12 Jesus Christ is described as the faithful and true who makes war. Revelations 1911 And I saw heaven open and behold a White Horse and he lost upon he was called faithful and true, and in righteousness that he judge and make walk. Wow is it not amazing? Here we stand standing. For the Lord, never going back. Never go back. To the world and the evil way. The devil must meet people who have very some way to fight and you will learn to be careful of you knowing that your type is not the type you like to fight. But I leave this one. Recently I was looking at pastors in the UK. That's us. In the UK, one is in prison, one is homosexual, 1 is in prison, one is dead, 1 is all of them. And the Lord was showing me. Do you see what the devil has done to all of them? That is what the devil would like to do to every one of us. His aims for you are extreme as you sit there thinking that Oh, As for me, I just like singing for the Lord. I'm just look, he's in for you are very well. So if you also come with this kind of oh, we are just saying guest for the Lord. We are just having a good time for the Lord. We are just having a get together for the Lord. Wow, you are going to be surprised. So be strong in the Lord. Did you hear me? God is going to bless you. Come to your feet and give the Lord a mighty crap of me.