01- O Man Of God, Flee These Things

Welcome to track #1 to fight the good fight. Father, thank you for this opportunity. Today we ask you to guide us by the Holy Spirit to all truth and all of your will in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. How many of you? I've never been to a camp before. Can I see your hand, please? You've never been for a camp. Raise your hand, please. Very important. Stand up. I want to see you. This is your first time at a camp. Wonderful. Very good. Is this Debo? Debo. And where's your friend Yemi? Let me have before a camp. But Bibo hasn't been OK. Very good. Now you know the rules of the camp. We are going to be here from now till midnight. OK? You are not allowed to sleep. You are. You are not allowed to be tired. You are not allowed to chew gum, OK? Do you understand? And it's not intended to be a time of relaxation and holiday, do you understand? It's a militarised so don't be worried if you feel tired. It's normal, but in your tiredness you are not allowed to show it. You understand you're not allowed to. Show the tiredness by sleeping If you sleep, we will wake you up. If you sleep, we will wake you up and we will ensure that you you don't feel sleepy again. We will not wake you up with a tap, we will wake you up with water. The more you tell lies, the wetter you will become. When we have identified, just own up, don't argue, and you receive your wicking up. Treatment, OK. Are you excited about that? So don't be offended. Don't feel that somebody doesn't like. You, you get it. Don't have any bad thoughts and be thinking to yourself, somebody is fighting me. Are you excited about that? You sure you don't mind getting wet, huh? Wow. OK, now you want me to tell you to sit down, right? But I'm also not ready to tell you to sit down. But you must, you must believe God, that a spirit will enter you at the camp. A good spirit. Because above all, it is the spiritual things that enter you at a camp that are very important. Amen. Now before I came here. This morning, the Holy Spirit impressed upon me. Yeah, you need to turn off your phones as well. Turn off your phones. And we turn it off when there's a break. Turn it on when there's a break. All right, all right. Glory to God. Now before I came here this morning, the Holy Spirit, I believe it was the Holy Spirit, said to me to go and look at something in a book. So I did. And he said I felt that it was important. So when I did, I went into the book that I read. The book is called the book is called The Torch and the Sword. So when I opened to the chapter that I felt the spirit was leading me to, I found a part that I had underlined already. Alright. A part that I had underlined already. And then I decided, I looked at it. It struck me. Come you, Lisa. Come. Is it underlined already? Is this underlined already? Is it underlined already? OK, She's proving that it was already underlined. Thank you. Now, what did it say? It said the children that you are about to meet are for signs and wonders. They listen. They will soon go forth. To my last mission on the earth before I return. Wow, I was. Surprised. Come back. Read the path that is underlined here. The children that you are about to meet are for signs and wonders. They will soon go forth to my last mission on the earth before I return. Wow, the children you are about to meet. So because I was just about to come here and then I felt the Holy Spirit telling me something. So when I checked it up then I I suddenly felt a while. The children you are about to meet are for signs and wonders. They will soon go forth. To my last mission on the earth before I return. So I do believe. That God is going to do great things with your lives. Now listen, I know that you have some problems and all these kind of things. That is not the point. Do you understand God is going to use us anyway? In spite of all our problems and in spite of all our failings and feelings? Do you understand God is going to use us? So I don't want you to, I don't want you to think that you are not the one. You are the 1. You are the one. God knows all about you. And some of you are what we call late bloomers. Do you know what is a late bloomer? I'll show you what a late bloomer is. A late bloomer is somebody who does well in school later on. You see, there are you, I'm sure you can remember from Class 1, there are some people who are always first. Rarely do you meet somebody who is first in class, one who is doing well in university and even in life. Yeah. And there were people in class three, class fours like me every day. They are fest, fest, fest, fest, fest. Then later on you can't see there because they get bored of being fessed. If no more any great thing for them to be fessed, it's true. So they get tired of doing well. Then they say, hey, what else is there in life, you know? So then after school, even there are people who do very well in school, for instance. In medical school. We have a lot of girls who do very well in the school, get prizes and days prizes, and that when they finish school, it's over. All they want to do is to marry and have children. Yeah. So I remember when we were finishing the school, we had people who had first, what do you call it, distinction and prizes in surgery and difficult subjects, very difficult subjects. Even the lectures say, oh you, you are just nothing. You are just going to take the prize and then do nothing with it. I mean, some of them were told that you are you are just going to do nothing with it after this is over. So we have what we call late bloomers. No prizes. They didn't seem to do well. But when life begins, you see that they are doing well. So I'm just saying that because I know, you know. Some of us have some problems, but don't worry, God is going to use you greatly. So it's good that you've come for the camp because even if you don't become a pastor, it will help you greatly that you came for the camp. Nobody who comes for the camp is ever the same. You'll always remember that you came for a camp one day. Wow. Oh, God is going to use you greatly, even you. I want, I want you to, I want you to believe it because it's going to happen practically. Amen. And some of you are going to be late bloomers. I know one of our missionaries, you know, he was not even an elder when we were when they were on campus. So when I used to ask where are the elders, Where are the elders? He was never, he was not in the in the group. Yeah, he was not an elder and he was nothing actually in the. But today he's one of the successful past us in one of our successful missions because not all the missions are successful. Do you understand? Not every seed you plant grows. That's why you have to plant a lot. Yeah. So that's what we call a late. Bloomer. And when they were choosing and they didn't choose him, he said, oh, you are not a main. Wow, OK, so as the theme for our campus fight, the good fight. So thank you First Timothy Chapter 6 fight the good fight. Sit down now. The fact that there are good fight, there's a good fight, there are bad fights. All right, there are. Foolish. Fights. There are bad fights. So First Timothy 6, verse 11. But thou man of God, O man of God, tell your neighbor, O woman of God, O man of God, Wow. Oh, listen, think about it. A young man, Timothy, who was not even ordained as a reverend Paul said to him, oh, man of God, today God is calling you a man of God. God is calling you woman of God. You know, from today you are no more just our main sister, whatever you are, a woman of God or man of God. Yeah. What a title. Yeah, and you don't have to be. Worried about it that why are. People calling you a man of God when Reverend ministers and bishops are being called man of God. Look, if we are going to use such reasons not to call you a man of God, you know, then a lot of men of God. We should not be called man of God because Daniel was in the lion's den. And he was able to close the mouth of lions. And today people who are common of God are not able to even kill mosquitoes with their with their words. So if they are using such criteria that nobody is a man of God. So sometimes what we give you a name is a is a confession and they are dressing you in the spirit. Wow. Oh man of God, oh man of God, but thou, Oh man of God, introduce yourself to the neighbors. I am a man of God, a woman of God, whatever. And if somebody asks you why are you a man of God, you tell the person because I'm related to God, I'm connected to God. There is a connection between me and God. That is why I'm called man of God. Wow. Flee these things. Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Find the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. Amen. So what God is saying to you here is that man of God. As a man of God, all right, you must flee certain things, OK? And you must follow certain things, Amen. And you must fight certain things, and you must lay. Hold. On certain other things. Wow, now. So this is where we want to take off and I want us to look at exactly what we are supposed to flee from. We are supposed to follow what we are supposed to fight and what we are supposed to lay hold on. And he said and has professed a good profession. Now, I know you think of profession as like work, but it is it is not the word profession as we know it. I'm sure some of the other versions, if you have, will be saying confession, Some are saying something else, right. But actually it's a word that comes from the word homologio, which means confess. So most of the time when that word is used, it says you have, it says you have, and you have confessed a good confession or you said something good. You see, Timothy was being called a man of God because he has said something good. That's why I'm telling you call yourself man of God. Somebody asks you why call yourself a man of God? A small. Boy, like you said, I'm related to God. I'm connected to God. I'm, I'm, I'm born of God. I'm, I'm, I'm anointed of God. Wow. So flee these things. So that's the first point in our before we even get to fighting. You know, you must learn to flee. OK, now. Let's look at verse 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain, Amen. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can carry nothing out having food and raiment. Let us therewith the content. Amen. So our aim financially OK should be food and raiment. Food and raiment speaks of the most basic things that we need. This should be your aim. It should not be your aim to be rich and have. So. Much money, do you understand? I'm reading from the Bible, he says we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we shall carry nothing out of the world. Do you get it? Yes. When a person is old and is going to die, you see that he shrinks as you are. You see the person getting smaller. It's the end stage. Of life on earth I saw it when my father-in-law was going to die in fact, when I saw him after he died, I was surprised a big. Man who has shrunk to a smaller size? Yeah, he shrunk to a smaller size. Recently I met another elderly lady, she's almost 90, and I realized that the same thing had happened to her. She had. When I saw her, I said wow, it's like a ghost. She has shrunk smaller. Everything is smaller, you know, because as it's going out of the world, it's getting ready to go out of the world. You become even your juiciness. You see it's getting finished and you are getting to the point where you are shriveled with that and just about to become only the bones. And then when you actually die and then you go into the grave, all the meat goes away. And you gradually become bones. And if you've ever worked in a cemetery, I spoke to 1 gentleman who works in a cemetery. He told me that he has assumed so many dead bodies. He said after 40 years you will have just. He said you'll still see the hair of the person. The hair will remain in some few bones, but everything is gone. It just evaporates. So what the Bible is saying that? It is true. We brought. That's when you came, you were not wearing shoes. And when you were born, wearing shoes. When you were born, you were not wearing shoes. Yeah, you are not wearing shorts. You came with nothing and it is certain that when you are going out. You are going to go with nothing. Wow, so the Bible is telling us that. What? Do you need to be here? All right, You see, if we want to talk about fighting before you even go and fight. You have to. Run away from some things. And until you run away from those things, you will never be involved in the fight. When you are a soldier, you have to say bye bye to your wife, you have to say bye bye to your children. You kiss them bye bye and then you go. One soldier was describing how it was when he was about to be captured by the enemy, he said. And this was a German, he said. When the Russians came, they were about to take us. Capture us. We knew we were downfall. And he said my colleague who was with me knew that it was over, so he put his hand into his pocket here and took something out and it was a picture of his wife and his two children. He said he took picture of it and he had two small children. So he took that picture of his wife and his two children and he just looked at it. And then he took a a gun and blew his brains out and. He. Could not do that. So he was captured. And he said when he was captured, the Russian put the gun on him. He was waiting and I was there and they didn't shoot. And he said that when he didn't shoot, then he said my second life began. Yeah, because I thought that was it. Well, they knew they were going to die. You get it. But you see, you have to. Look at the picture and say goodbye Goodbye. To be a. Soldier is to say goodbye to the to the wells. So nobody who is going to really work for God can work for God with the mind of an ordinary wealthy person. You see an ordinary. Worldly person comes into this world with a vision to be rich. This is normal. It's normal. What's my brother who said he wanted to be rich? Is he here? Where is he? Aha, Good. Good. It's a it's a good vision, but it's a normal worldly vision. I'm sure I have that vision also. There is. Nobody who wants to be poor, there's. Nothing like that. But to be a soldier of the Lord, it's. Not a good. Vision to have. So we we've not even started fighting, but we've got to run away from studying visions. So when I came to be in the ministry, I ran away from the vision of possibility of being rich. And I would advise everybody. Who wants to fight the good fight? Well, I'm trying to talk about the good fight. There are other fights we can have fight of politics, fight of this fight of that different fight. But I'm talking about the good fight. It's good for a number of reasons. You know that if you're going to fight this good fight, you have to be cured. Number one of the vision, you see, every young person has a vision, but the vision to have a lot of money. Now I'm not poor and I have, I have more money perhaps than the average person, but that is not because that's what I wanted. That is not because that's what I want. It's also something that God has done for me, but it's not, it's not my aim. As long as I look at people who that is their aim, they they don't have what is their aim and what is not. My aim is is given to me a A A a fantastic, a a supernatural. Yeah, but that is not my aim. The fact that today I have a car that I can have, What Car I want is not because that is what I've been aiming for. Yeah, I don't aim for that. I can't have it. It's wonderful. So I see it as a fulfillment. Or seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his writers and all these things are there, but it's not a good aim to even have that all I'm going to fulfill. Seek ye first, the Kingdom of God. I'm. Going to I'm going to. Fulfill it. I'm going to fulfill it practically. So things will be added unto me. House will be added, this will be added. This will be added, this will be added. So I'm going to seek the Kingdom of God so that God will Add all this. Even that is not a good aim, you know, because in a sense you are still aiming for those things and trying to use the Word of God and use God to get all those things. When I became a pastor and I came into full time ministry, I knew that I would never travel abroad again. I knew that oh, I would never travel. I have travelled abroad many times as a child. Yeah, because I wasn't. First of all, I wasn't even. Born in Ghana, so I have to travel to come to Ghana. So I started travelling as a newborn baby. But I knew that when I entered into the ministry, that whole thing is going to be over in my heart. It was one of the things I deeply considered. And #2 I knew that we didn't have anywhere to stay. I went to see my father and I told my father. I said that you once promised you would give me a piece of the piece of land inside the house. Because the house. Yeah, there was a there was a space in the garden. There was a spot of the garden. And I went to see him to ask him if he wouldn't give me the garden so that I can have a build a house there. And my father told me. He said, listen, listen, I have other children. I have other children. I cannot give you the garden to build your house. Do you understand? Yeah. So it's not as simple as it looks. Amen. So I knew that I'm down for travelling is over having a house, is over having a car. I had a car as a student, a brand new car, brand new without. Not as a worker, not as a worker. As a student, I had a brand new car. My father bought it for me in fifth year and I was driving a new car and I when I was used to drive in Kolibu, because of the lectures and their wicked intentions towards 13 students, I never drove the car in the daytime through the campus. No. Because one day I was on the ward, a medical block. I was either on the 2nd or the 3rd, but we were having a ward round and our teacher was teaching us when the medical was a physician and he was talking to us. We got to a patient. She was, I don't know what it was we were examining about the woman and I was talking, he said you say this and the woman was complaining she cannot poo poo and he asked her how many. When did you poo poo? I think poo poo. Yes. He has a are you, are you at bed? Do you want to poo poo every day? It's OK, I just remember what he told her. I don't know. I don't know why you are laughing anyway. So he said. Are you at bed? He said I'm not a vet so then don't worry. He says he told her don't worry. Then he demonstrated something. He showed us and said, yeah, take this serious. We all standing there around the patient, take this serious, take this serious. And he said, you see that guy, the guy who drive the green Volvo? Yeah, See the guy, that guy who drive the green, He trembled here. He trembled here this week. He failed him in the final exam and he said, you see that guy, that guy who tried the vocal, When I heard, I said wow, I have to keep out of sight because what they see they would say, you see that guy who tried the Renault, that white Renault, he travelled here. Yeah, I said wow, I have to keep out of sight. It's one of the strategies of war. I'm going to give you 50 principles of war. Are you listening? Yeah. So the guys that you see, you see that guy, good guys, that green Volvo. He trembled here. And I realized that they watch you, they see what kind you have, they see what you have. When exam time came there, it didn't examine me. You are the one who has been driving and. Go, go here. You see something today. You see something here. So anyway, we must, OK, correct our vision for our life. And I'm saying I had a car, but I thought that was my last car. I will not have a car again. So I drove it with care. I I drove it so well that many years after I finished driving, I saw somebody driving it. It was still working. Yeah. It has worked longer than the average car. I I saw one day an advert about Land Rover. The Land Rover. They said that 90% of all their cars are still on the road. Ever built. Yeah, the road. It was an advert of that Land Rover, not the Discovery, the old one that is like a box. They gave the percentage. They said, I don't know, it's 90%, but it was only 90% of all the car they've ever built are still on the road, working to show how strong it was. So my car was still on the road. It shows you. How I looked after April because I knew this was my last car. And then when I when I was I was out of school, I was drinking. Somebody sent me a Toyota Corolla second hand, bought it for me and sent it to me. Yeah, that was the second car that I ever had. But I was surprised to have that car, a second hand Toyota grade, color grade even they don't, you don't see them working in town these days. That time of Toyota Corolla and then after that the church one day when we were in Colegono, I think it was around 1992, it bought me a Toyota Corolla which was upgraded from that first second hand grey coloured one. Yeah, Toyota Corolla white. It was an it was an accident car that has been welded. Yeah, and I drove it for some years, and one day, for the first time, we bought another Toyota Corolla, which is still in town moving. I've seen it. Yeah, the cheapest Toyota Corolla, but it was a Toyota Corolla again, I never thought that I would ever drive any, any car, any good car. In fact, to show you my dream, one day I went to pray in Akuse Bishop Eddie used to work there for VRA. That time it was not full time and I was, I used, I worked in the morning, I used to go working. They have a lot of houses. And as I was working, I saw somebody had parked a Pejo 4/05 in the car park and Bishop Eddie had mentioned to me that the guy was telling when I passed. I looked, I said Lord, please bless me, bless me, help me, that I will have this car. So I actually found out the price when I used the price and I saw the car every morning I used to walk there. Jesus. I pray, Lord, Lord, on the door. Let it be possible. Yeah. So I would, I would encourage you don't have a, you know, God will take care of you don't have a vision for your life to be a rich person, have a vision to serve God. And as far as eat and to drink, have a vision to be able to eat, to be able to drink, to be able to have clothes. But I, I want to go into business. I'm going to rise. I'm going to start at this. Then I'll rise to this. I'll rise to. Then I'll become the principal medical officer. Then I will go abroad to do this. Then I'll come back. I'll set up this. I'll do this. I'll try it. It's possible that you can make it, but I'll tell you that. It's a it's a nice vision. That that, O man of God. It's not a suitable vision. For you as a man of God, you were shouting as a man of God, yes, I'm a man of God, and I'm explaining that for a man. Of God, it's not such a good vision. For a man of God. Can you imagine if? My vision was to have money. Can you imagine? How the church? Would change. What would I come and do here? I just roam around from Geneva to Zurich. I've mentioned cities, cities which when we mentioned you have imaginations of, I mean glass and silver and water. We have churches in all these places, churches in all these places and people inviting me to all these. If you want I will show you the letters Be tetious as how I can come. To London, to Birmingham, to here, to here. Plus I can come. I'm doing Crusaders. If I was looking for money, you will not see me. And when I'm being invited I will do calculations with the people before I go. So how much? How much? How much are you? There are pastors who ask. You pay before you step $250,000 you pay down. Yeah, they are not. Coming and the. And people pay, yeah. You pay down before they come. Yeah. You don't know. I'm telling you because I've invited such people before and I've received their bills. Yeah, they'll give you straight 300,000 U.S. dollars down and pay. So many weeks. Before otherwise we are not coming. So wow. It it it it changes everything like I don't. Even like you, because you don't have money. You don't have money. Poor students. What do you have? Say I have everything. Hey man, wow, you see when you like money too much, let's say you are a woman, you are coming to have a baby instead of you to have a normal delivery. When I look at you, I say. Madam, I think you need to have a caesarean. Session you see. Caesarean session is just about 5000. Normal Philippe is just 200 CDs. I think the baby's foot is a bit long. Who? Tell somebody man of God. Wow, God is giving you a good vision for a man of God, isn't it? So if how many want to be a man of God? I want to be a man of money. It's a man of God. Now there's nine they that will be rich. Fall into temptations. Do you want a lot of temptations? So when I say they that will be rich, if I say they that are rich, they that will be rich, like they want to be rich. Fall into temptations. That's how that's what I say. Like if I'm a doctor and I know that you're going to have a baby and now you're going to have a normal delivery, I say, oh, I think you need a caesarean section. And then when you come to the hospital and I feel that, you know, oh, I just received from malaria. So I think you need to lie down for, you know, some two days, you know, just to rest and then to have some drapes. And so you call your pharmacy, whatever, and you bring drapes dieser and you test, lab test. Everything is more money for the hospital. That's how we describe because I want money. So then that will be rich. They fall into temptations all the time. Politics is not is not done. The whole country is being run by people who don't love Ghana but wants to be rich, you understand. So they fight each other, they accuse each other of whatever, telling lies. And I mean, when you stand back, it's just, it's just a whole big facade. A whole big. Hypocritical picture, you can see, very difficult to do anything, you know. So if you want to, if you want to have money, you know, sometimes it's good for the country but because you are not giving me my percentage, I will never sign it. There are thousands of contracts like that, but because no one is getting something, it will not be done for Ghana. So it it it to be rich sets you up into temptation. You leave the real things and you go. So it's not a good thing for a man of God. It's also not a good thing for a politician. That's why the best politicians are millionaires. Like somebody who is already a millionaire whose aim is not to be rich. It is good for such people to be our leaders. That was a war to. You all land. When your kings, your Princess eat in the morning, the blessed are thou, O land, when your king is the son of a noble. To be the. Son of a noble, he has a different attitude from the son of. A poor man, because the son of a noble. Certain things are not attracted to all this. Oh, this one car. You are going to give me a car? No, I I hear there's a certain country. I don't know if it's true. That if you are, if you are, the coach is going to make you play. You have to buy a car for him or give them money before they let you play. I don't. I don't know that. I don't know that country. I don't know if you know any country like that, but I don't know. I don't know anything, but I hear that there are some countries like that. So as soon as you want to be rich, so say that temptations begin. Yeah, Temptations begin. Yeah. When I was a medical student. Then you see that drugs, when you see the cheap drugs, when you do these drugs, you get a lot of money. Just swallow these. They will give you palate. Swallow. And then you travel party yourself, put it inside your body. Wow. Then you see them full up sitting on the plate there full pellets. Pray that it will not best because cocaine has an effect on on your heart has an effect on your blood pressure, has an effect on all your systems. So that is why the overdose is very dangerous, because if you take slightly over the dose that your body is used to or can handle, you can go into cardiac arrest, vest your vessels, all kinds of yeah. So it's very dangerous. As you swallow this thing, it's like you have swallowed things and pray that he doesn't best inside you. That's why you have tempt. You have been tempted so much just because you want some extra money, huh? Because you want some money. If somebody wants to sleep with you, it's going to give you juice. It's going to give you money. Yeah, gain. Gain that will call you say prostitution is gain. You gain something. So halotry in the Bible is like having sex for gain. So if you may not be paid in cash, will be paid in kind. But it's still halotry. So you got to watch out because once you want money, you'll find out that your vaginas are the most easy part of you to use to get money. Just use it and you get them. This man will jump on you for 5 minutes and then you've got $100 and if 10 men come to jump on you for the day, you've got $1000. It is not that at all. Your thousand a day if you come back for five days, Sunday to Friday, got $5000 from this dirty vagina. This is this is a lot of gold in there. So I'm explaining to you that when you want money, you are always tempted. The temptation as soon as you wake up in the morning, your temptations start. They start early in the morning and they continue to the evening. Every day is a series. Of temptations because you want money, you want to be rich, you want to get something, you are tempted all the time. God has called you. You will leave the ministry. You will change the ministry. You will be a businessman. You will do everything just because you're one man. So before you can even start the fight, the good fight, you have to learn to get free yourself, which is not easy. But to free yourself of the desire to be a rich person. It is a good thing to desire to be OK, but desire to be a rich man, to have riches to happen. It's not a good vision. They ought to be rich, fall into temptation and ensnare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, wow, which drown men in destruction and perdition. Now, when you want to be rich, not only are you tempted, but you begin to have foolish desires, desires which don't lead to anything good. For instance, you have desires, you know, let's say to smoke a cigar because the richest people. Smoke cigars. I was speaking to a millionaire and I know he's a millionaire because because he is a millionaire. From what certain things I know that he's a millionaire. He said to me when I was a millionaire, when I not when I was, but when I was in the world, he said I started smoking cigars and one cigar has 40 times the amount of nicotine that is found in one cigarette, 40. So one cigar is like 46 cigarettes. And he said I started smoking cigars. I said why? He said no, you know, that's what is being done. It's like at a point that's what when you become Britishness, you are how you must have girls because the girls come easy. I Mean Girls. So don't be cheap. Tell your neighbor, oh woman of God, no cheapness. Wow. So woman of God, don't be cheap. But as soon as the man is rich, even if you become a king, that's all, you must have some more. That's. Yeah. So you start to look around when you are rich, you start to have disasters. I must have a bank that is written on it, Louis Vuitton, and it costs $3500 for that bag, which is 7000 Ganassis. And I've seen all these things. When you interact with rich people, you'll see that their, their their values are completely twisted because they are used to so much money. Yeah, when you, when you become used to money, things change. You, you have desires. You never knew you would have such a desire. So I must have a car. That is one time I sat in a millionaire's car as we were driving. I was not with the millionaire house with a millionaires child in the car. So I just, I was just talking what is nice about this car. I couldn't see anything nice about the car, but it was it was supposed to be a car that only millionaires use. You will buy a dress, a watch. They have watches for you. Yeah. When you don't have these desires, these things look funny to you. One day a rich man gave me something that rich people use. At that time, my children were young and they had also heard of certain things. They were saying this and that. They had heard. And as they were talking, I said, oh, this you people have discussed. I have one. They didn't believe me. Oh daddy, you don't have that's. What I have, I have. So one day I just. Pulled it out, they were shocked. It's nothing. I don't even, it's not, it's not wonderful to me. It's not, it's not, it's not, it's not something wonderful. And being so nice to me didn't bother. A lot of these things when you God delivers you from the. Desire for it, yeah. You see that you are free. But when, when you become rich, you start having all sorts of desires. Another dress from here. You don't you go to that shop. Oh, how what happens is not I mean, oh, you, you. Because you see that's when we send you as a missionary. You cannot survive there. Yeah, because we everything is sold at where you are going. There is everything there, there are people there. But when you are special, yeah, even. On the road, those people who sell. When the cars, everything you can buy in the cars you are going, you get everything that you need very cheap. It's called what shop on the road, shop on the way. Yeah, you can do your shopping on the way everything. Wow. So once you want to be rich now and see that you have desire. I want my belt must be from me. My throzer must be from wow. OK, for the love of money. Is the roots of all evil. Wow. Which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith. Look at that, you made a you. You started making mistakes as far as faith was concerned. See as far as your faith was concerned, you started erring. They have erred that one. When some people coveted after they erred, they started making mistakes. As soon as you start competing, after you start making mistakes. So before we even start fighting, we better play these things. You start making errors, you start taking, you start taking wrong steps because of somebody who come and propose to you and you. Look at the person and say this person's family, they have money. So this is the guy. When you start airing, you start making a mistake. Oh, this girl, she's the one I want because her father is a rich man, so I'm going to go for her. You start making mistakes, Erin. You start Erin. Once you convert after. I cannot convert after either because Ida's family has a lot of money. I cannot convert. It's wrong. And result, I don't want Lu Lulu. I don't want Lulu because her family doesn't have it. I love Ida because her family has I started erring. Maybe the right one is Lulu, but I'm I'm err because Ida has money. No, no, no, no, no. If you want to start erring. From the face. Yeah, you're erring from the right way. Amen and Pierce themselves. Through with many sorrows. So when you see somebody who is pierced with many sorrows, just ask the person what what? What did you convert after? What did you convert after that made you air and Pierce yourself with many sorrows? But thou old. Man of God. Flee these things. You see what I've been saying? All this, this whole many things, please these things, please these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Wow. Fight the good fight of faith. All right, So then when you've gotten rid of those desires, I mean a soldier, you have to get rid of the desire to live. Amen. Look, me, I cannot be a soldier. These type of soldiers are going to fight in an army. No, no, no, no. If ever they are coming to call Ghanaians that all Ghanaians should go and fight against Nigeria or against Togo, that is when I will say please, I'm not a Ghanaian. I should go and fight a foolish. War. Hey, I'm not ready to die for such a reason. I don't mind to die for Jesus, but I I mind to die for a foolish cause. All wars lead to nothing. Germany and 4th, the Second World. When they finished fighting 4th, they killed themselves. Then they came back to the scene. Germany is here. This one is here. This change, Yeah, no change in anything. War doesn't change much. So fight the good fight of faith. Then lay hold on eternal life. Whereunto thou also have called. OK? God has called you to that and professed a good profession before many witnesses. Amen.