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02. Atmosphere Camp - Bearing Fruit -1
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Atmosphere. Machaneh Collection - 80. Preached in 2012, 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 #2 of Atmosphere. All right, Glory to God, you guys are doing a great job. All right. Where were we being there? It's a strategy of victory for doing well. Are you going to become good first love pastors in the future? Wow. Because the first love churches are the children of the Lighthouse churches. Do you understand the children? Fantastic. Is it amazingly fantastic? So you're going to have the opportunity to preach. You're going to have the opportunity and you rarely preach to people that are older than you. Yeah, really, it's true. No matter how good your preaching is, it's unusual to have older people listening to you. Usually it's from your age, a year older, two years older, three years older than it's getting finished. But around your age and below, and especially 8 years younger than you and below. They already listen. To you they. Start really listening. To you more. So see who are 8 years. Younger than you now where? Are they? Those are your future members. These are your members. That's, that's that's how it is. I'm explaining how things are so that you don't fight to have a member of Parliament as your me
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Welcome to track #2 of Atmosphere. All right, Glory to God, you guys are doing a great job. All right. Where were we being there? It's a strategy of victory for doing well. Are you going to become good first love pastors in the future? Wow. Because the first love churches are the children of the Lighthouse churches. Do you understand the children? Fantastic. Is it amazingly fantastic? So you're going to have the opportunity to preach. You're going to have the opportunity and you rarely preach to people that are older than you. Yeah, really, it's true. No matter how good your preaching is, it's unusual to have older people listening to you. Usually it's from your age, a year older, two years older, three years older than it's getting finished. But around your age and below, and especially 8 years younger than you and below. They already listen. To you they. Start really listening. To you more. So see who are 8 years. Younger than you now where? Are they? Those are your future members. These are your members. That's, that's that's how it is. I'm explaining how things are so that you don't fight to have a member of Parliament as your member, a church member. You understand somebody who has fought elections and has won. You want him to be your church member. Or somebody who is selling carpets want him to be your church member? OK, so I was explaining to you that you are a wonderful tree. Now I really want you to believe that you are a tree. And the implications are. Serious Matthew chapter 3 verse #10. And this is the. Preaching of John the Baptist or we can read from verse 9 of his 8. Bring further for fruits, meat for repentance and think not to say 1010 in your iPad, your child pad, your Galaxy, 1010 in it, all these papers. Let lay your hands on your Bible and say you, your days are numbered. So your days are numbered. We are going digital, digital. And align them for the last. This is we are going to. I'll show you a child path later in the afternoon. I'll show you a child path. Now verse 8 bring further for fruits, meet for repentance. Think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father. For I say unto that God is able of these stones to raise our children unto Abraham. Verse 10 Now the. Acts is laid unto the root of the trees. Hey, Therefore every tree which bringeth nut for good fruit is hewn down. And cast into the fire. Hey, so it is. It's not easy to be a tree. Yeah, because a tree, we are expecting fruits. So when I'm telling you that you are a tree. But one of the implications is that being there is a great blessing. It's a key. Strategy of a tree to be there. But there are a lot of serious implications about being a tree as well, All right. And one of them is that if you are a tree, fruit is expected, fruit is expected, fruit is expected. I mean, you can't, you can't just be there and not bring forth fruit, fruit. So when I moved to my house, OK, about 20 years ago, 20 something years ago, I planted a tree, a mango tree. And the reason that I planted a mango tree was that I was expecting mangoes, OK. After the first year, I had no problem with the tree because it was growing. It was about below my knee. Second year went by third year, fourth year, fifth year, 6th year. 7th year, eighth years, and I was still taller than the tree. I was still taller than the tree that I fracted. Ow. So I took a radical decision. Another tree and I cut it out. Of the house out of my garden, yeah. So once you are sitting here hearing the word of God, coming to the camps, receiving Macanese, investments are being made into you. Everybody here must have a Macanese. Yeah, we are completely digital generation, totally, totally, totally total digital. Every analog phone you have and all these and all these things. Fast. You are expected to bring forth fruits. The greatest mistake of your life is to live without bearing fruits. Yeah, is to live without bearing fruits. When I say fruits, I mean spiritual fruits Is the greatest mistake of your whole life. It's not to live without getting married. Marriage will be disappointing to you. Yes, it will be. You can write it down. It will be disappointing to you. Yes, it will be. You can write it. You can write it down and put it in brackets and just write today's date. I'm not kissing you, but I'm telling you it will be disappointing to you, but it is not what you think it is. It's true. Solomon said it's all one everything. The conclusion was shall I fear God? And he kept married, he married 700 times and he had he had a lot of faith. But some people when they marry one, if their wife dies, that they say. One person has had a chance that it's enough. You cannot marry again. Yeah, it's over. And you see them say one day I went to a party, I saw a man. Sitting what he was. Sitting in a chair, my wife told me this man. Why? My wife knows everybody. She told me this man, Husband, wife. His wife died 15 years ago. He has never married anybody. He just stays, stays there, Doesn't want anything. Yeah. Some people are just depressed after anxiety is enough. So Solomon, he had faith. He kept on trying. Each I want to try a new marriage 807 hundred and apart from that 300 sides unofficial women. And that is all useless. I didn't write the Bible. Yeah. So so so so. You have to. Refocus your mind on bearing fruits for God, for Christ. Your days are numbered your. Life. On Earth will be full of trouble. There's trouble. Only trouble is waiting for you. Yeah. That's how life is. Maybe you don't know you are new, that's why you should respect the words of an older person. The Bible says you shall rise up before the grey headed and honor him. Rise up when you see I'm older, but rise up before them. Honor them when you listen to save you from some of their experiences. Yes, that's how life is. That's the truth. That's why we don't only preach it. If I was to preach the broad truth, you'd be depressed. So we live our continuous, continuous, continuous. You'll be very sad by the time. So Jesus came with truth and grace, full of grace and truth, not just the truth. The grace is like there's hope. Oh yeah, it. Should be OK. If I make it, yes we can. Are you listening? Yeah. So fruits is expected of you. And if you don't bear fruits, you are going to be cut down. You are going to be cut. Off. You are going to be cut away. You are going to be. Discarded. Even in my life there are people that have complained. I don't call them anymore. I call people that I work with if I'm working. With you, you will see me. You hear of? Me, you will even be tired, but when I when I don't work with you actively, I don't have my strengths around because my whole life is working for God. Do you understand? Yes. So as soon as you stop working in a certain way or you are in another different line, I just, I don't have any. No, I don't have any reason even the time, because for me I reply almost every text that I get. It's also a project for me. I try, nobody has texted me a text. Why should I not reply? I try even. If it's oh hello, at least it's an attempt. So if you stop working, you become useless. If you stop working, it's not that I don't like you. For instance, there was somebody that I used to do construction with. I was always working with him because he was, he was into building. So he helped to build the cathedral. Collegano. Do you know Collegano? And the building over there. The school up building and the Grace Tower and all those he built, all those things. I knew his number by heart because he was involved in building. I know his number up till today. It's one of the only numbers I know in the whole world. It's true. Because I was. Working with him, I can mention his number, just it's in my head an O2, it's still his number. So I don't, I don't want to say, I don't want to say his number. It's an O27 number 0277. And then it's just in my head. I ring him 10 times a day. Yeah, because construction is like that. You have to always talk to the person on the site and you are pushing the project. This is like that. As soon as I stop working with him, I don't I don't call him. I don't have any reason to call. Him, he's a member of it, but I don't have any. Reason to call it. So as soon as you are not in a certain sense very in a certain kind of fruit, your relevance in the space of time of things to attend to, you drop to the. Second or third room, that's how it is. So if you are not going to bear fruit, it will not be important. So make sure you bear fruits. Don't, don't, don't be swallowed up too much by the things that have to happen in life like getting married, having children, prospect. Don't let it swallow you. It's swallowing too many people, unbelievers are like that. Their whole life is marrying, having children. They are building our family life. This. It swallows too many people, you see? Yeah. It swallows too many people. You get it? Yeah. Don't, don't let. It swallow you up. Don't let it swallow you up. OK, yeah, rather focus on bearing fruits, especially the sisters. You sisters. You know, I used to think that Boys Like Girls more than girls like boys because. Because when I was in a relationship, I thought that I liked my beloved more than she liked me. Yeah, I always. I've always felt that way because she's cool. And it's like, you know, I am the one who is, you know? Yeah. I love you. Let's get married. I love you. I mean, this is love, man. Let's go to the beach. Let's have a good time. And it's like, she's cool. Let me go somewhere. So she's afraid of this. She's afraid of this. Oh, you're afraid. Let's go. No, don't worry. No. Oh, yeah. So I, I, I always know that. Oh, it's like voice. Like voice. I have more energy. But as I've gone through the years. I've realized that girls like boys more than boys like. Girls and I've seen. More. Girls going off into the deep end of stupidity through relationship. A lot of sisters be sitting here saying. Oh, we are going to serve God. We. Want to really well. Let a brother come from some chest somewhere, Google Gob, whatever international church and say that he's he wants to be in love with you, he's marrying you and there will be a brother who is in the same flowing whatever is going to you will say no. This one, it's the one that I want over and over and over. I've seen it. So sometimes it make her not take sisters seriously. That's why in the Bible, they weren't counting women. They count the men, and they don't count the. Women. The children. Don't count them at all. So when we see that you are settled, when we see that you are settled. So the reason why we have allowed the sisters to be here is because we want to train you, Jonathan, so that you will not be some way when we marry you. Sister, say thank you. Every tree which bringeth not good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Oh. Amen. So you think God is looking at you? As a tree, and it's looking to see that gradually over the years. You bear certain kind of fruits. Yeah. Your marriages are going to be better than the marriages of the older generation. Do you know why you are hearing more things than we ever you know? I was sent counseled. I never, no one ever advised. Me, it didn't. For one no one hour before I got married. Yeah, not even 30 minutes. All that. Marry this person or don't. There's nothing like that. You have the whole book and fastest and fastest to talk to you all the time. Related, you have a beloved. What's happening? This is nothing helping you to really understand yourself. They're happy you to even understand yourself. Look, this is what I am like. This is what I need. This is my temperament. They know anything like that. As years have gone by, it's not. I look back and try to see, OK, so this is what temperament was he? It never. Occurred to. Me, my my my friends. Who she was saying my mother, spiritual mother who who helped me to grow up in Christ taught me how to have my quiet time and all that I never I never even I even analyze. Her like she a choleric or she is likematic or is she but today everybody you you mean be honest? Is he a choleric This? Is this vigmatic? I can't even. I can't. It's never even a cat. To me it's just not a person, a believer that's a believer. It's simple, end of end of story. Just a believer. Well, a believer is different from a phlegmatic believer. A phlegmatic believer is different from a choleric believer, and a choleric brother believer is different from a choleric sister believer and a sanguine believer. A Sanguines have certain spiritual problems. Yeah. Sanguines have more problems with their flesh. Sanguine is more likely to have fornication and those kind of things. Yeah. Melancholic are more more reliable, more faithful. Yes, melancholic are more faithful. They are very. Faithful people, loyal, they become missionaries, pianists, organists, I mean those type of I mean. People that you write about. You take pragmatic Christians. They are likely not to know scriptures. They cannot discipline themselves to sit down and do the work or do follow up, don't understand or do set the drive and like Matthews, can house a lot of evils because they look good like Matthews. Look like angels? You see, but they are often very stubborn and they have the camera ring for evils. You will never change their mind. Stop them. So, and I say, I'm saying that is why you are going to, you are going to have a better marriage. So instead of rather having more divorce, which is what is happening now, the more divorce, more people are breaking up, more people are becoming some way, you should rather have more stable marriages. When you know you are going to marry this choleric girl or this choleric brother or this phagmatic brother and you want to drive this diagnostic rather to become a choleric, talk like that, please talk like that. And he will never be. No matter what you do, he cannot change because God, what God has created him, is more than what you can train him to be. You go to university, three years, it's not even a good school. And then you say that you are a biologist. Meanwhile you sit down while eating KK and fish flies are landing on the KK. Every time you put your hand in the KKK, the fly goes up. When your when your hand into your mouth, the fly comes back. When you put your hand down, the do the fly goes. And you say you are a biologist. You are a biologist or a botanist or zoologist or whatever. Or you did home science. Or you did medicine. And you see that the medicine that you've done, the next thing that has already entered you properly for your laziness to suck the fly inside, that I should also eat some. So it's like the fly is also hungry. So you should also eat. So why you take one blow? The fly also takes one blow. Yeah, you get it. So the botany and the zoology and the biology you plant has not affected you so much. It's. True as your laziness or your plagmatism has made you a certain way. Have you seen the choleric drive to start a church, to obey God, to do the will of God, to go forward, to press on that thing? It's like you see that even your plagmatism fighting, even your spiritual calling, it's like you feel it like you feel tired. What you. Can. Say I'll feel it, I'll feel it tired. Is everything all right? All right, sit down, sit down. I told you that you are a three, so we are expecting more fruits from you. What do you think? See Matthew 7, verse 16. You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, of figs of thistles Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruits, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth corrupt evil fruits. So which tree do you think Jesus was talking about when he said every good tree and that a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit? Was he talking about trees? Was he talking about tree trees? Or he was talking about human beings, so. I was talking about. People, isn't it a good tree? Bring that forth, good fruit. He's talking about people. He sees you as a tree. He's expecting something from. So Christians who sit there doing nothing, never rising up, never becoming a shepherd, a basic rank in a church is a shepherd, never becoming a shepherd. It's like you are a wasteland as far as God has wasted all his resources on you. You are a waste of God's time. It's true. God is disappointed in you that you never became a shepherd. You just use the church to get a beloved. And so you just use the church to get a beloved. You really become a shepherd. You use the strategy of being there to get a beloved. But there's nothing to show where are your fruits? Where are your fruit? Where are your souls? I went to. Vienna. You know, recently I was in Vienna. Austria, the home of Mozart. You know Mozart. That's where I went. And some of our church members from Hungary came and their and their pastor Hungary not not. Feeling hungry, Hungry. Budapest. The pastor is a lady. Yeah, she's a lady. And she came with the white. People. One of them was a lady, one of them was a gentleman and some other people they drove all the way to Vienna for the tech service. And so they were talking different things came up, but a tech service and so they were talking different things came up at the end at a point. Then the white lady, she said to me she converted me to Christ. I didn't know God, I didn't know Christ, never, never been a Christian. I've never been to a Czech before. Then she said strong believer, even in want to involve in translating books. She she she, she met me on the street, led me to Christ. The other one also led me to Christ. And I looked, I said yes, somebody who has attended camps in London. I said go after Misha brothers were sitting there. And she said, I'll go, Yeah. And she went to Hungary. She was not living originally in Hungary. She doesn't live there. She was in London. She went there. And somebody said she this one brought me to to Christ, to not. I was in Catholic, I was Anglican. I was in Pentacles and then I was brought to Lighthouse. No, I was, I was not. I don't know God. I don't believe even in God. She converted me. She. Brought you the word converted, yeah. And you are certain that there's nobody can point say he converted me or he brought me to Christ. So it shows that you have not brought forth fruits you know worthy of. What has been? Invested in so a good tree. A good tree is a good brother. A good tree is a Good Shepherd. A good tree is a good pasta. A good tree is a good church member. A good tree is a good first lab member, a good lighthouse member, a good whatever member. That's a good tree. Bring it for good fruits. Bring us forth good fruits. I hope to stand in your churches one day. Just as I stood, I stood in Vienna and I simply said these are fruits. Somebody has been there, a good tree. Bring forth good fruits. I went to our church in Geneva, you know not. Really where the church, but church people came there to the church. And I was saying that the church is there. It's still there after so many years, 20 something years. The church is still there. And they would say yeah. Pizza. Pizza Hut. You know, Pizza Hut? It's a pizza. It's a Pizza Hut. It's a pizza. Hut. S. No more. It used to be in Geneva, Vice. It's closed down. They could not survive. And KFC. KFC, which is in Ghana, it used to be there by it has closed. Down it could not survive. But Lighthouse is there. It has been. Able to survive. That's fruit, fruit that is remaining. Amen. It is a blessing from the Lord. So I'm saying. To you today, my friend, that if you are a tree, then be a good tree, not a useless tree. Inspect the nearest tree. Inspect the nearest tree, see if there is any fruits. Hallelujah. Amen. Now 10 with middle Matthew Chapter 12 now. God is expecting a lot of good fruits from you. Are you going to bring both good fruits? Yeah, all of you. Stars. I'm expecting good fruits from you. All kinds of stars. Because the church is full of stars. I'm expecting good fruits from you. Yeah. Good fruits. What do you think? Good fruits from you. Wow, Are you ready to? Bring forth good fruits Are you sure you're ready to bring forth good fruits what do you think Matthew 1233 either make the tree good and his fruits is he his he talks about you as though you are a man a man the. Tree and he's a person. God. Sees you, are you there? Are you there? God sees you as a tree. Amen. And so we are expecting good fruits from you. Make the fruit good and the tree corrupt. Free fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by His fruits. OK, now how can we know a tree, whether you are a good tree or a bad tree, Fire fruits, that's one of the things even on Earth it is important for you to have fruits. OK, I want you to have fruits. That's why I encourage. People to be shepherds, to be to be elders and to be shepherds to have churches. To me the most. Impressive people. And most important people. And not singers? No, no, I've never been. Neither are they businessmen. The others are not rich people. If it was, I'll be courting a lot of rich people. Always are we having it comes with the rich people. With businessmen we have we have a lot of. Businessmen. And that comes with the businessmen. I have sessions. Yeah, workshops and I'll show them that I'm also into business and my business is more successful than their business. In my field I'm more. Successful than most of them I'll show them, but it has never been. The most important people to me are the fruit bearing trees some, and a fruit is a person you see. There are so. Many ways I could. So this the fruit of is the song, the fruit is a concept. The fruit is this program, the fruit is this word. But ultimately the fruit are the people you see, you, the people that are here. You are my fruit. So the people speak more than anything else, more than the money that is mentioned this that the people are the fruits. That's why Jesus didn't write any book or build any building. He just invested in people and those people went out and brought forth more people. Priest also wrote letters, ministered, planted churches and brought forth people. So Jesus didn't write songs or tell people to make songs. There are people who are gifted with music and they can make music out of the message of music to worship God. But the real fruit is human being. So my investment. Why someone does? Why did you get all your pastors from? Where did you get all these people? I was one day within an assemblage of God, chess, very large chess in a country, the pastor said. Where do you get people to? I mean, where do you get people from? You are the people. So I'm spending my time with you, not with businessmen. I'm spending my time with you. You don't What? Do you have children? You are somebody's child. Your. Parents are in the church. Many of your. Parents are in the church. If anybody has anything, your parents is the one who has something. Not you. What do you have you? Don't have anything. But the people are the main thing is the person, the people. So the investment is in you. So you must also see that the fruit is people. People are the fruit. When you see people, one person, two people, three people, four people, five people, 4-6 people, seven people, ah, then that's fruit. Always count your fruit in terms of people. Also I'm bearing. Fruit for the Lord I've sang 3 songs today. I'm bearing fruit for the Lord. I've gone for a prayer meeting. I'm bearing fruit for the Lord. I've been to church every day this whole week. I'm bearing fruit for the Lord. I like worship today. Thank you for leaving worship. Thank you for singing this song. So if you have your period, you say you've had a child. Say you've had a child. Listen. If gas, gas. Comes out of your your below below orifices. You understand orifice, you say you've given birth. To a child if certain. Brown things come out of. You from below you say you've had a child. What is a child? A child is a child. A child is not gas. A child is not black. A child is not urine. A child is not mucus. A child is none of these things is a child. So people are bringing forth blood, mucus, gas, pupu different things and it's nice when the gas comes out, you feel better. You feel like is you understand it's not the same as Barry Fruits. You are not born fruits. You don't like what I'm saying. I'll say let us stop calling gas Fruits. I like your dancing. It's nice you dance. I'm not. I'm the one. I'm I'm your promoter. I'm a promoter. I'm the one making you a star. I'm not against you. I like the dancing. I like the music. I like it. I have a lot of it makes me happy. It also makes me happy. All these things make me happy. Do you understand? But it's not fruited. I mean you. You may be happy, you know. Sometimes you are with some people and there's a lot of gap in your stomach and when you suddenly you are on your own and it's like look. At last has it. Happened to you before. But it's not the same as a child. So a lot of people are doing things in the church and saying that they are very. Fruits. Let's see. I'm sorry to surprise. You and and and maybe disappoint you, but I'm telling you fruit is fruit. A leaf from a tree is not fruit. A branch from a tree is not a. Fruit. A twig from the tree is not fruit. Fruit is fruit and fruit is a producing of yourself. Yes, fruit you produce yourself. Another Christian, another shepherd, another pastor, another born again person just like yourself. That's fruit. That is why people who say, ah, for me, I'm an organist for Christ, I'm a guitarist for Christ, I'm a sound controller for Christ, I'm a chair arranger for Christ, I'm a flower arranger for Christ. I'm a poet for Christ. I'm a a sweeper for Christ. Thank you for all. These things that you are doing for Christ for which you have your reward. But fruit is not gas. But the fruit is not gas. It makes you relieved, it makes you happy, but it's not a fruit. It's not fruit. I want to see a soul, one I want. To see a soul gathered. And a soul who is being taught, a soul who is growing up and a soul who is becoming serious. And a soul, a soul who is saying, yes, I want to do what you are doing, too. Then I started. Our fruits are being born. Yeah. You see, yesterday we had a Carol. Service at the church we had a lot of. Sons. Beautiful. I mean, look Reverend, of course. Sang a song that. I mean, he should be an opera singer. Some kind of high. Whatever, I tell you. Fantastic. I mean, you couldn't. You would. You would be amazed. Yeah. But it's not fruit. It's not fruit, but reverend. Of course. Fruit. I see them. Are there any people here who are? It's fruit. I see you, you see you are different from being gas. Are you gas? You are his children. And so you see when he when he comes around. A lot of people. Come to him. Those are his fruits. Yeah. Where are your fruits? Where's your gas? Gas or fruits? That is why my main emphasis is everybody become a shepherd. Shepherd. Yes, a shepherd. A shepherd, you see. You must. You must tell the singers. Try, you see, because I can also say, I can also talk to some extent I can say. Some method I can play instrument, some method I can play. One time I was playing in the Uki was playing the drum. A lady came to me after the service. That's whether I was a professional drummer. I mean, of course I played drum through the service. Look, Can you imagine after the? Service. I came up the stage and then this lady just came quietly to me. All that Lady, she came here. So are you a professional? The drums, I said. No, please, I'm not a professional. It's just some gas. I was. Releasing. You see, you don't even know today. If I continue playing drums all this time, will you have the Machanet to even listen to? Hurry up and clear from that. What do you want to hear before I I come there? So. I'm going to play this on the Macarena so you can listen to it for hours. I'm going to say gas, gas, gas. Gas is not fruit. It makes you happy, it relieves you and you feel. Good. And you say at last. Hey, I feel free, but it is not fruit. Nothing so sit down. All sisters to sit down brothers, stand up. Listen, you call yourself a brother. I'll tell you something if you are strong only in the. Physical. You are not strong at all. You see, there was a time, there was a time when you are strong physically. Do you understand then? It is important in those days. Why? Because before technology came, you need. Physical. Strength. And so all. The. Older films of Chinese films, you learn how to fight physically. But. With technology, I have so many things to throw you away somewhere I just have some depressive You just disappear. I'll just throw you away. So it has. Proved that bodily exercise prophetess later very little. You may be Mr. Macho. What? Whatever there was a time when you have a snake, a snake's face or the cat's fault or the eagle's claws. It's important, but now we just throw you out with someone. It's nothing. You get it and nobody needs that anymore. Nobody uses that. All these people in films and so on, they're all not real people. They're taking a lot of hormones. They're taking a lot of hormones and overdeveloped with testosterone and certain and so on. They have developed their bodies and their organs way beyond the normal capacity. It's just like the chicken that we eat. It's something that that's why I, when I go to a party, somebody gave me chicken. I don't eat it. Yeah, chicken and all those things. Yeah, not normal. Something that should have taken 12 weeks, 15 weeks to grow within three weeks. It's. A grown up with this see we see they have injected them, they have injected the chicken with hormones, they feed them with hormones and they become. Overgrown like Ambo and Arnold Schwarzenegger and all those guys, they are overgrown, overdeveloped. No normal person is not like that. So your bodily strength is of very little value. The number of girls you have slept with is equally of no value. It's your own. It's nothing. It's not even gas. No, that's not what I mean by gas. It's rubbish. It's nothing. Intellectually. All right, you may pass exams, but. Still. You have to be practical. Do you understand? To do well, you have to be practical. So you may pass exams, but still you cannot. You don't have money. So all these. Ways of making yourself strong don't amount to much. OK, now if you are going to be a real man spiritually, you must become a man spiritual. But unfortunately, more people, brothers are not realizing how much strength. Comes into them by becoming spiritual. You see, becoming spiritual makes you very great and very strong. Way beyond any mental or physical development. I'm telling you. For instance, when I was a student many years ago, right, I didn't, I never did all these these games. And I mean not these games. I played games, I was injured once, I stopped playing, but I never did all the boxing, wrestling. And all these kind of crazy things. I used to do that, yeah. And in school, you'll find that people will make a lot out of that that decide, oh, yeah, this guy is strong. This guy is not strong. This guy is weak because even they say the word weak. It's not even the right English word, but the guy is weak. When I became spiritual and I came to Christ, I tell you, a certain strength came into me which surpassed all forms of strength that any brother can have by doing any of these things or even mentally doing well academically or whatever I'm telling you. So I then even became surprised that people wanted to marry me. True. Because you're just yourself, so you don't know. As you become more spiritual and more straight, the virgins love thee. Now listen, if you are spiritual, you will never struggle. For a beloved and. When I say spiritual, I mean really spiritual. That is, you learn all the things that a spiritual person then. Because when you come to the camp, from the beginning of the camp to the end of the camp, even though it's a spiritual camp, there are so many things. You hear. I meet people all that recently I went to somebody's house. He showed me this room. He showed me this thing in my room here. I heard it in a camp. So I did this in my room. I. Said wow, He said there are so many other things to learn. If you read the book, catch the anointing and so on about. Listening to tape, there is a place where you listen. To you realize that now you are even just being advised. Advised this, this, this, this, this. You are being advised. So if you. Become truly spiritualized. You, you will become a certain way and you will develop the a certain level of spiritualism. You will never struggle like somebody you are proposing to people say, will you marry me and say she's, she's thinking about it. Let's think about what? Oh what? Hey girl, women were not even. Counted. They were not even counted. Oh, I didn't write the Bible. If if it was now I've counted the Bible. They were not counting them. They will be begging to marry you. Begging. Thank you. So I beg you. Marry me. I like you. I beg you. I like you. I like you, Pennsylvania. So you, you become strong, really strong, because that is where real strength is in the spirit man. Oh yeah, the real strength is the spirit man. The real you that will live on is the Spirit. That is the most of you. When and when we were choosing Eldest, it was all ladies, the elders campus. Elders come and stand here, so kel, kel, kel, kel, line up, line up. Kel, Kel, Kel Flaky. What is your name? What's your name? Ajaman. Yes, Ajaman and Frank. Where's Frank? Yeah, you see. And this is Paul Baidu. Yeah. You know. See girls, a lot of girls. It was mostly girls. Chief elders were. Asked to Who can be the chief? Elder. Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls. It's like the brothers feel that it's like to be an elder or to be spiritual. It's as if it's taken away from your mental or financial or physical strength in some. Ways look. Don't tell them man. I had one day a meeting. All brothers who are 35 years and above who are not married come and see me. Them king were sitting there and as I started to interview them I realized I knew immediately why they couldn't get anybody to marry. All of them and spiritual, not spiritual development at all. And they were all completed. The ladies that have come these days, they like money too much. Yeah, this and that. The girls that have come these days, you need a lot of money to marry. You need a listen. You need a lot of. Money to marry them. And I thought to myself, wow, me, I don't use it in one CD. Yeah. I'm not even one. CD There is no relationship that is good that is based on money or gifts. No good relationship is based on money. Those are people who can be. Bought with 20 CDs or 40 CDs to vote or by the given Hyundai I-10 to vote. You are the cheapest, the cheapest. All the politicians will sleep with you before they finish with you. You are so cheap you can be bought with a car and the car will be bounded just now. You know, bound down to be spot just now to be bonded just now sharing land cruisers, 1000 land cruisers to buy boats and you are cheap whatever you get it. Yeah, money. So they were saying that the girls that have come these days, No. The girls that I. Know they are not bought with money. As you are anointed etc. The ladies are like Bluetooth. Is it Bluetooth? They are attracted to the strongest signal, Strongest signal, strongest goodbye or am I wrong? Is that? How is that? Yeah. So those of you who say you are, you are. You are in the church, please. Those of you who say you are, you are brothers. You are brothers. You are a. Man, you are a man, many of you here. You are not virgins. You know yourself and then. Some of you are you are conventions with pornography. These are these are what you are developing. Instead of developing spirituality, you are developing foolishness. And worrying yourself, all those people in those are actors who are paid, none of them are real. You are developing. You are laying a foundation for unhappiness because. In future, you will be disappointed because you will not see what you are seeing in the films. Yeah, you will always be sad. I was expecting that. We're expecting something different. We're expecting something different. We're expecting something different. Hi there. We're expecting something different. And. Are you listening? So, brothers, what's your name again? Daniel. You see, Brothers? You need to. Really. Sit up. Your real strength is in your spirituality, you see. Look, when there's a crisis in the country or between people or even in families, they will call for, oh, this is about Ossopo camp. He's always at the end, The strongest man in the family. The strongest man in the family is a spiritual person. He will always be the strongest man in the family. The spiritual person, the most spiritual, is the strongest. More spiritual, the more stronger you are. Take it from me, I'm telling you, the more spiritual, the more strong you are in this world, the more you can lead a minister. The more you can lead a minister, the more spiritual you are, the better it is for your life. So you sit back and say I'm concentrating on my studies, you're concentrating on your studies. So you have time to do so many other things. You have time for this time, for that time for this student have time for politics to receive Hyundai. I tend to do campaign that one is not concentrating on studies and then to be an elder in a school to preach that you don't have time. Please give me a break. One of my friends, when we were in school, they said they were doing students. A looter, you see, So he went and followed them. I think those days against Rollins, I think about 30 years ago, I'm preaching. So he thought. That it was, you know, the principle that Freedom and Justice, those things, you hear them, people come and speak. So he followed the Alutan and they went somewhere. And they went. They said, oh they have, they should have a. Meeting so they. Entered a mosque. Students who they entered a mosque for a meeting. When they entered they were having the meeting. Then some people brought out many dollars, and they were counting dollars, sharing dollars. He was amazed students. That was his baptism. He realized that the politics that they were doing in the schools that are looted had this, not knowing that challenge. It is being financed by some people. Dollars are being. Shared in most yeah. And even the politics they are doing these days, sharing Hyundais and what have you, it is even open. Even you have openly NPP groups openly NPP groups on campus openly and the politicians come to campaign on campus openly. So your office is open and don't say it wasn't open. That's why they were sharing dollars in the mosque some. Place that you should be praying are sharing dollars. So you see that all of these things, there are motifs and things that are going on and people have time for it. And you, you say, don't have time for. Church. I'm just explaining to you that it's your choice. You have chosen not to be spiritual, and I'm charging you today to become a spiritual person. Yeah, become a spiritual person. You will never lack anything. Yeah. Whatever it is is found in God. Can I have an e-mail from somebody turn to the nearest father and say shame on you for not being spiritual? Now can I the nearest sister? And I want the sister to rise up and tell the brothers that we will not marry you if you are not spiritual. We will not marry. We will not marry you if you are not spiritual. All right, tell somebody. Tell the nearest brothers and sisters. Brothers, be quiet so that sisters can talk to you. Don't talk back. When they speak, tell them that you cannot just say you have changed. It's not just with your mouth that you change. Brothers, don't talk back. Just be quiet. Let them speak to you. All right, Sit down. All right, ten with me to Danielle. Have you found Danielle? Chapter 4 Have you found chapter 4 right? Glory to God? Have you tell yourself glory to God? You guys are doing a great job Daniel Chapter 4 Tell your neighbor neighbor honestly. A lot of gas has come from you. Tell your neighbor neighbor. Honestly, I think it's time for fruits. Yeah. It's time for fruits. Amen. You see, I'm bearing fruits. Watch. Watch me carefully. You are my. Fruits. You are, you are, You are going to become. Pastors. Most of you are going to be pastors and you will become churches. So I'm explaining to you that I'm bringing forth fruit is another of you. So if you are a Christian, fruit is another of you. It's not a song, it's not a cantata, it's not an opera, it's not a sound, it's not a song, it's not a dance. These are not fruits, these are gasses. When we see souls and we see start seeing souls being gathered together in groups, so we see that yes, you started to bear fruits. And when you start having fruits in different places, start having branches. The fruits are growing and fruits in countries, fruits are growing. I'm talking about fruits. Thank you for the things you are doing and for the grounds. If I've played, consider playing jobs for the last 20 years, Do not be here. There will be no church. So gas is no fruit. Thank you for your gas. We want fruits, we want fruits. It's nice. That you are here, you are cancelling your fruit by the number of of services you've attended, the number of camps you've been to, no matter how long you are around. You've been around for 10 years, you've been around for four years. Time for your gas, Time for. Fruits. I, in the book at Nizza, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace. I saw a dream which made me afraid. Are you with me? And the thoughts upon my head and the vision of my head troubled me. Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the sootheers, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known unto me the interpretation. But at the last. Daniel came in before me, whose name was Veltishaza, according to the name of my God, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And before him I told the dream, saying, Oh, Beltisha is a mass of the magician. Because I know that the spirit of the Holy Ghost is in thee, and that no secret trouble of thee. Tell me the visions of my dreams that I have seen and the interpretation thereof. That's where the visions of my head in my bed I saw and behold a tree in the midst. Of the Earth. And the high thereof was great. The tree grew. I'm going to say I'm a tree. Wow. Are you reading a dream? Listen, you see, there are people in your life who can have dreams that affect you. Your watchman can even have a dream. It may be true Sometimes an unbeliever in your life can have a. Dream that is a voice of God, so if you are humble. You'll receive it. Humility makes you receive messages from God no matter where and how they come. Humility if you are humble and your heart is soft. You will hear and see God all the time. Yeah, the greatest visions and dreams and revelations of God come. To you by things that are happening. People that you are meeting every day, you can learn the most fantastic revelation. But two things prevent us from getting those revelations. One of them is hardness of heart. Our hearts are hard so we don't feel and receive from God. Do you understand if if something has happened to your sister or your brother or your friends in front of you and it obsessed to you, you see it somehow God is speaking to you, but #1 your your heart has to be soft. When Jesus met the disciples and he tended thousands of loaves and fishes, brought them out out of 22 fishes and five loaves. Later on he told his disciples, he said beware of the living of the Pharisees. And the Bible says that they did not understand it. And Jesus said to them, why is your heart hardened? Don't you? Remember the lobes and? Speeches I sent, they said 5000. I said the 4000. Don't you remember? In other words, what had happened? Not even thinking about that. So what has happened? You're supposed to think about it. When you don't think about it, it means your heart is hardened because Jesus said why is your heart hardened? Why don't you remember the 5000? Why don't you remember the 4000? So soften your heart so that when something happens in front of you or around you, something is happening. It will be a message to you also. And the second reason thing that will help you to receive visions and revelations from the oddest of sources. And I'm telling you because Ghana was about to receive a revelation from the strangest of characters. The Book, and these are of all people, was having a dream, not a prophet, who the prophets in the Church were not. Seeing these dreams but this unbelievable. Thing was seeing these dreams. And I'm explaining to you that God can speak to you from all kinds of events. If your heart is soft, events that of care will always set you thinking, Are you with me? If you have the softest you are sitting here, you will benefit from it greatly. Your Father's state. If your heart is soft, your father, if your heart is soft, you will learn from how your father is. If your heart is soft, so Jesus said, is your heart so? Hardened. You can go and read it if you're interested. So did you remember I said 5000? I said 4000. Your heart is hardened. You can't learn. You see when things happen, you don't learn anything. When I said beware of the living of the. Pharisees, you were thinking of bread. You think I'm short of bread, you see. Still, everything that occurs to you, things happen. You don't hear things happen, You don't feel things happen, You don't learn anything. Your heart is hard, eh? It's a hard heart. You don't learn from things. Wow, and if you are humble, a fool will teach you and you will say thank you Lord. Anyway, back to the King. The King's dream. See. The tree grew and was strong, and the hide thereof reached unto heaven. The leaves were fair, and the fruit was much, and it was all meat, and the beasts of the field had shadow under it, the fouls of heaven, and all flesh was fed of it. And I saw the visions of my head upon my head, a beholder watcher, and the only one came down, and he cried aloud, and said, Heal down the tree and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, scatter his fruits so the beast gets away from under it, and the fowls from under his branches. Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his. Portion be with the beast. In the grass of heaven, and let his heart be changed from his man, and let a beast's heart be given unto him, and let 7 times Passover him. This matter is by the degree of the watches, and the demand by the word of the holy ones. So they intend that the living might know that the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of man, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and set it up over it the facest of men. Mercy, this dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen now Verzazza, declare the interpretation thereof. For as much as all the wise men of my Kingdom, I'm not able to make known unto me the interpretation. But I'm not. Able, for the spirit of the holy God is indeed. Then Daniel, whose name was Vertishazza, was astonished for one hour, and his thoughts troubled. Him. And the King speaker, said Vertishazza, that's not the dream, nor the interpretation thereof. Trouble thee, Satishazan answered and said, My Lord, the dream is to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. In other words, the dream is not a good prediction for him. That's 20 The tree that thou sawest, the tree that you saw which grew and was strong, whose height reached unto heaven, that tree and the side thereof to all the earth. There's 21 Whose lives were fair, that tree and the fruit thereof much, and in it was neat for all under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven. Have their habitation. It is thou, O King. It is you. You are nutrition. You are the trees. You are that tree. That has grown and become strong, but thy. Greatness is grown and richest. Unto heaven and thy dominion to the end of the earth. Well the King and the soil watch iron. The only one came down from heaven day hew the tree down and destroyed yet leave the stump thereof, even with a band of iron and brass tender in the grass of the field. Let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beast of the field, till 7 times Passover him. This is the interpretation, and this is the decree of the Most High which is come. That they shall Dr. thee from men, And thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wed thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall Passover thee, till thou nowest are the Most High rulest in the Kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will mercy. Whereas they commanded to leave the stamp. Thy Kingdom shall be sure unto thee, and after that thou shall have known that the heavens do rule. All right. Well, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break up thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility, In other words, if there could be a prolonging of the peaceful times. And all this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of 12 months. He walked in the palace of the Kingdom of Babylon. And the king speak and said, Is this? Not big Babylon that. I have built for the House of the Kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my Majesty. While the word. Was in the King's mouth there fell a voice from heaven saying, Oh, I see King Nebuchadnezzah. To thee it is spoken, The Kingdom is divided from thee. And they shall Dr. thee from man, And thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen. And seven years shall pass for thee. The 33 The same hour the thing was fulfilled, and Nebuchadnezar was driven from men. And he did eat grass. His body was wet. He had a special disease. A special disease? All right, not the disease. Does anybody know the name of that disease? I know the name. What Lycanthropia? Say again? Lycanthropia. What does it mean? Wolfman. Lycanthropia. A wolfman. So he became a wolfman. Have you seen Michael Jackson's thriller? He became a wolfman, all right. And he was driven from men so historically. And his hairs were grown like eagle's feathers. Can you imagine? His hair grew like feathers, And his nails, the 33, his nails like beds claws. And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him. At first he was saying that look at what I have built. I'm so great, bless you. And I praise and honor him. That livid, whose dominion is an everlasting, and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. And he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven. All right, verse 36 at the same time my reason returned unto me for the glory of my Kingdom, my honor, my brightness returned unto me, and my counselors and my Lords sought unto me, and I was established in my Kingdom. Wow. Now I in the book admissions, verse 37 praise and extol and honor the Kingdom of heaven, whose works are truth, and His ways are judgment, and those that work in pride He is able to abase. Mercy, is it fantastic? So now who is the tree? Nebuchadnezzar was the tree, is that not so? Look at verse. 22 It is thou, O King. That I have. Grown and I become strong. Do you understand? So you don't need to be Nebuchadnezzar to know that you are a tree. You just need to come to this camp to know that you are a tree. Do you want to have such a dream? It's not a good dream to have. All right, so how many are going to? Do what a good tree is supposed to do. If you don't do what a good tree is supposed to do, expect to be cut down. Now this tree was going to be cut down and then it would be covered with some metal. And that it will still be there, not uprooted. So in history, the book developed a mental disease. OK. And. He became like an animal that he was. Kept. And his son or? Somebody was the head of state acting for him for seven years. It happened in history and the person ruled that after he recovered from the sickness, they made him become the head of state again and he continued to rule. I'm sure they were thinking that some small mental sickness somewhere is hiding somewhere. So a lot of kings behave like mad people. Do you understand so? Ladies. And gentlemen, it's very important for you to recognize that you are basically a tree that is developing and all the things that happen to trees. Including being cut down. Cut off, including being assessed for fruits, including the importance of being there, and especially including the importance of the atmosphere in which you can develop. Alright, very important for you to know and to have now. That's why there is a certain atmosphere at a camp, OK, which is different from an atmosphere of, let's say, a Sunday service or any other jet service. So it's important sometimes there are certain things that will happen to you at a camp which will never happen to you in church on Sunday. Because a certain. Atmosphere is not there. It's not likely that you are going to have sex here in this room now or be able to watch your pornography here now you understand, because there's no atmosphere for that now. Is that not so? OK, so tell somebody, Look, I'm prepared to accept my status of being a tree. So #1 what every believer must know about a tree. Number one, you are a. Seed that is going to grow into a great tree.