02- What Is A Good Fight?

Welcome to track #2A fight's a good fight, now fight a good fight. OK number one, what is a good fight, what is a good fight and what is a bad fight? Now a bad fight is a fight alright with a bad motive, a bad reason. Now most of the films that we enjoy have fighting with bad motives like revenge. Almost every Chinese fighting film is a fight for revenge, and usually the Chinese films start with somebody who is killed, isn't it? Isn't it? And then the son will grow up and go and learn how to fight with the tax force or a Snakespeare or a special whatever. Then he goes and goes and goes until he meets the guy who killed his father or killed his mother or killed whatever, and then he fights him, isn't it? Yeah. So most fights have this. They are bad fights. If you are fighting because of revenge #2A fight out of hatred, OK, is also a bad fight. These are not good reasons. The fight, I just hate this group of people. I just hate somebody. Hatred, revenge. Then another reason why the fights OK are a very, very common reason is racism, juicy racism, like Ghanaians and Nigerians, Elwes and Ashantis, northerners and southerners, and you get a lot of hatred and a lot of racist you see. And these are all bad fights, all black and white. So you see Malcolm X, he changed his name. He was Malcolm Sampling, and he said I'm changing my name to XX in a mathematical equation he gave us. He said math, when you do math two X -, 4 is equal to 2 + 4 over. What is XX is the unknown. He said I don't know my name for the white man has changed my name and I've taken that name away and my name is X for unknown. Yes, I've lost my real name because they couldn't pronounce their names. So you see that a lot of black Americans have strange names like Dolla or just simple names. Jakes Dolla because they couldn't pronounce amateur Webley or Otre Jose Owusu Dakun, they couldn't pronounce it. They can't say Orchery, they can't say that Shrek, Shrek or some of our Nigerian names. Give me some of our names. Chigundu. Chigundu, they cannot say it. They cannot pronounce Obobisa. One of our pastors, they they could not pronounce his name Obu Bisa. So they would call him Olivolussi, Osibiso, Obusibasa. Hey, Obusibasa, Obusiba, Obusiba Alivolucci, just that name they were calling him because they could not pronounce Obu Bisa, Obu Bisa. So they started calling him different name Usibuzu Bazar, Abuziba Usibala al Evolucci. So when you see the African American, they have certain types of names. Yeah, Jackson. Jackson. Roxon Jackson. Like Michael Jackson. What is that? The black preacher? What is he called? Black preacher? Jesse Jackson. It's also Jackson, Jackson. Brown, white. So my friend, racism is one of the main causes of fighting Nigeria is they've got the east, they've got the north, they've got the South or the southwest, and it's like there are different groups of people trembling. Yeah. Do you understand that's another reason why people fight, It's a bad fight. Another reason why people fight for religion. Religion we have now Islam and Christian things, all of us. These are all useless fights, you see? Yeah. Killing people for nothing. All right. Another reason why people fight is greed for money. Yeah, greed. There's a lot of greed in the world. You can join all these fights. Another reason why people fight is politics. Politics, NPP and NDC, are they not fighting all the time? Even now they are fighting in court. And when I say that NPP and NDC are the same, they don't like it because when I watch them from afar, I see two groups of people doing almost 100% the same things. Fighting and politicians cannot build countries. See to politicians, they, they, they, they lie, they are hypocritical. They are pretending. You know, I, I was listening to the television, they were saying that the Ghana was broke, there's no money. So they were talking, they were saying OK, this the, the, the, whatever. They are borrowing money from here. They don't have this, they don't have this. So then they call the other side and they said, they said this man has said that the country is broke, it doesn't have money, they are mismanaging their finance and so on. So they called the other side and I was thinking, oh, they are going to say something intelligent that is going to explain the financial situation that we are in. And then to my surprise, it made me turn off the television immediately. I said I'm wasting my time. I can't watch this immediately. They said the guy said the man who is speaking, the opposition person who is speaking, when he used to be the finance minister, he was sacked from being the finance minister. So how can this, how can his comments be of any use? Do you understand? And the other person said he was not sacked, he was changed. He was changed because they always suffer. You are just, you are just listening to two people fighting overnight. Is the country broke or not and what has caused it and what can be done to make it. That is not what we are interested in. And that guy when he when he can, he can, he shouldn't say anything. When he was financially he was changed, he was removed, he was sacked. So he has no credibility. So he cannot be. He doesn't know anything about finances. Meanwhile, he has been a finance minister for many years. So you see that we are not actually trying to build Ghana. We are. There are people who are fighting over their politics. That is why it is one of the most unattractive things to me. Yeah, one of the most unattractive things, you know, and there's so much hatred in Ghana, and not only in Ghana, in America, between the politicians, there is so much hatred. When President Clinton became the president. I mean, if you see, I once watched a documentary about how they were trying to find out something about him, embarrass him, to disgrace him, to destroy him. Throughout the time that he was there, they felt that he was not qualified to be the president. So there's a lot of hatred, a lot of hatred. And you see, that is why when you see a Christian who says he wants to go into politics, we need Christians in politics Now. You must really have that good calling, you know, to be there. You know, you must have that calling to fight and debate about almost nothing all the time, getting newer because if really people wanted something to build Ghana to be built, there are so a better Ghana. And I'm interested in a better Ghana and I'm also interested in Ghana moving forward. These are the two things I'm interested in. Are you listening to me? Yeah. Now another reason why people fight, which is a useless fight, is that they fight over boys or they fight over girls. Fighting over a boy because you have sisters in church who, I'm not talking because of a boy. It's like you've taken the guy that I love and my guy is looking at you and I don't like it. I don't accept it. I don't see why he should look. I don't see why he should be kind to you. I don't see why he should speak to you. I don't see why he should call you. I don't see why he should text you. I don't see why he should answer your call. Service myself has come. These are all useless fights. And some ladies they take the fight, some we are depend on the personality of the lady. Some of them they just use invisible radiations from their they, they, they inhibit that and and the man will say what is wrong? Are you OK? So nothing, nothing wrong. OK, so invisible radiations and attitudes, they will quench your excitement and happiness. Others will say, others will say something about it and they will point out, they will say I am a woman and I know what I'm saying. She is also a woman. And this is a woman's issue. And I want you to know as a woman, start up with your woman, woman things. You are not interested in your woman, woman things you are too conscious of your woman, woman, woman. If we are always conscious of man, woman, man, woman, then we will, we will not even sit by you. Go and sit somewhere. And then you also, if you will not let the woman come to the church, you will be outside. Because in the Bible, women and children were not counted. And some women take it as physically the third stage. The third one is invisible radiation. The second ones are speaking with synonyms and Paracels and words, piercing words of confrontational accusations. And the third stage is where they take it up physically and they call their sisters and let this and call my sister and they say we are going to the office to beat that secretary because she is interested in my husband. And they go physically and they say poor. Do you understand where I have come? Oh, boom. Honour 123. That is that. Let this be your last time. Wow. That is stage 3 and stage 4. Stage 4 is a stage of murder. Yeah. Where they will murder the other lady. Oh, they met her. The man? Yeah. One lady. She was. I remember when my wife was practicing, she had killed her boyfriend. Yeah, because he was going with another girl. She took a car with him and she sat at the back of the car and they strangled the man. Yeah, because of a girl. Another girl that year. Yeah. Just Accra. Yeah. So it was a big case in court. So you see, these are 4 stages. It's a useless fight over a boy or girl. Look, if they don't like you, let them go. It's a problem, man. You cannot be fighting over a boy or fighting. It's a foolish fight, Fiber says. Fight a good fight. You have started fighting a foolish fight as a young person. If they say they don't like you, why? What? Did not know see before? What did not know see before? I own self mandate, you see, self mandate job I've seen before Da gappa, da gappa written is written. If they will like you, they will like you. Don't like you? They will not like you. Hallelujah. Don't fight over a girl. Some of you brothers you are proposing there, you propose this a long time ago. They are praying about it that forget about this police not a long time. Who are struggling? We only fight good fights and fighter has something good about it or a useless fight over a girl or a boy. What do you mean? What did Mano see before? I yourself manage, you see self manage job. Sit down. Look better. Open the window, Sir, because getting hot. So those who are fighting over a boy are fighting over a girl. You are lost. Look, you can never listen. You can never force somebody to love you. You see, when you have to give the person, Let me give you 6 reasons why you should love me. 6 reasons why you should love me. The love is already for sports because you have to share 6 reasons why. After you share 6 reasons why you have to share seven ways how to love me, how to love me. And after that you will have to share 15 principles on how to forgive me for my mistakes. So Larry, we don't force it by fighting. When you start fighting, you've already lost. You have taken your sisters to go and fight somebody S secretary in the office to beat her in the office. So that your husband will love you. Don't think he will love you. You are fighting for your husband's love because he's gone out and he's come late. You sat down here. You have put your peanut soup on the on the on the on the dining table with what do you call it with fufu or or mutu or whatever it is there. When he sits down, you hold the tablecloth and you pipe on my head and you tell him that he should go to where he has come from to go and eat. You've listened and say and pour it on him pap nut soup that he should go back to where he has come from so that he he will concentrate on you. Do you think he can concentrate on you now? That's why I said that it's not a good fight to fight for your man's love for you or fight for a girl's love for you. You have lost when you start fighting. The day that you start fighting is your losing day because the person realise that you are fought for the parents. Your attractiveness and level of importance has lowered just because you fought. Are you listening to me? So it's a it's a useless fight. It's a useless fight and I don't want to see engaging in subtle. I'm fighting and I said I'm fighting for MPP, I'm fighting for MBC, I'm fighting for black people. One day I was I was in the House when somebody called me. He called me to the golf course. He said please, we are having elections. I said what? What election? I've never been called. I said, yeah, the reason why I'm calling you is because some white people want to come and take, they are running the golf course and today is black versus white. So we are calling you to come so that you can help us to fight these people to go away black versus white. I said I've never gone to fight black versus white before. I have no reason to to fight such a fight black versus white. Another useless fight is soccer fighting, because the game of soccer is also a fight, A fight between clubs, a fight between teams, nations. How many times have our hearts been broken? And how many times, how much can your heart take? How many broken hearts can you have? Yeah, yesterday our hearts were broken again. Yesterday I was, I was, I think I was in the office and I heard some shout. I said, hey, what has happened? I'm shot that nice playing some match. And I think they were playing, isn't it? This is the reason why, I don't know. It's because I have followed these things before and my heart was seriously shattered and it was, it was many years ago when Cameroon was playing in the World Cup and Cameroon went very fast, went to quarterfinals or so. That was Roger Miller's time and they were playing, you know, I, I, I, I, I wasn't happy with the game, how it went. I wasn't happy. I, I wasn't happy. I was very, very sad. And then Ghana, about 20 years ago, Ghana played Africa Cup and we went to the final with Ivory Coast and they came to penalties. And this penalties, it wasn't even a normal penalty of five people. All the 11 players played in everybody's fault. Yeah, everybody. Yeah, we were just watching that time we were fasting. This was January, You know, Africa can't be play in January. So we were fasting. So we were watching. We couldn't believe it. Even when they scored, we didn't understand it. We just we just looking at it. What's that? And the West of all is this world. Suarez. No, no, no, no, no. I cannot that that was too bad. That was too bad. So it's something I cannot worry myself. I will be in my room when I hear, when I don't hear anything, I don't be lost. Are we going for a wealth Cup or not? They are still on it. How many more matches look at something. So what I'm saying is that there are many things we can fight for or fight about, but the Bible is telling us, you see, and everybody is engaged in some kind of a fight, but which fight are you going to fight? So the Bible says that there is a good fight, you know, and the good fight is a fight of faith or about faith in relation to our faith that we have in God. Do you understand? And that is what I choose personally to fight for. I can fight for academic excellence. I can fight for laurels. I can fight for achievements in this life. I can fight to have so many things. But what do I want to fight for? That's why when I finished medical school, I said it's enough of education. I've had a I've had a good shot at in seven years. This is a lot. I mean, I've done some. Do you understand? I have food enraignment. I've got, I've achieved the food enraignment status as far as education is concerned. I can go on and on forever. Yeah, I can do something else and another thing and another thing and another thing to go on and on and on. Why? Let's see Manusi before. All right, so those are different kinds of how many want to choose to fight a good fight. Are you sure? Now? Another very bad fight is the fight between husbands and wives. It's one of the commonest fights. Do you know that when a man dies in a mysterious circumstance, the first accuses his wife? And when a woman dies in a mysterious circuit, the first person who is is the suspect is the husband. Why? Because husbands and wives are known to really fight. So you must plan that I'm going to have a lift without fighting in my marriage. And it's not just as easy as saying Amen because some of you are already showing signs of contention already. Now, how do we know? You can see, You see, you can see somebody's behavior when the person is behaving not in relation to you. You see, brothers, you must realize that when you marry, you are trapped. It's called a trape. A trape in French, I don't know if it's French, but a trape, you are trapped. Now listen, when a man is hunting in the forest, OK, he puts a trap. When he's fishing, he puts a trap that looks nice and you see and you are going so all all the beautiful sisters you are seeing a trapeze calling you sit down. They they are hoping to get you to sign the document once you sign finish. That is why quiet, listen, concentrate on what I'm saying. That is why they look so nice before, before you get married, they look so nice. They don't even look nice only to boys. They didn't look nice to girls. Girls find girls also beautiful. God gave them natural attractiveness. Appeal somebody, they appeal. They call you Jesus, so they are appealing. They are calling you. They call you. Come, come, come. Amen. Are you there? Well, what are we talking about? How do we get into all this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. OK. So they look very nice. So you are. You are. You are fooled. Sometimes we are either attracted to a very Moody person, but the Moody person is always smiling. Very Moody. Oh, doesn't talk, doesn't speak in the house. The house is going to be fired unless we have the television. The house will be fired because found in the house. Only time the house will be television, if the train will be on, then they will be speaking in the house. But that very quiet and Moody person will see the fence back. But you see, they need to pull you and they need to get you to commit yourself. Sign, sign, sign. Look, most of the girls, when they are wearing their wedding dress and you sign, they wish they can leave their house a victory. Listen, I'm telling you something. Listen, you listen. Listen carefully. One day we were in the labour ward and the woman was pushing her baby out. She pushed it and finally the baby came out. When the baby came out, she lifted up. Now that is what they wish they could do during the wedding signing when they started. I've got a man, I've got one, I've trapped one. I've trapped 1A Personal man is mine anyway. But amazingly, after you have been lured, then conflicts beginning and it's actually mysterious. It was like how, how this in the middle of this night, I had a message from somebody, a wife. She said I will never go to where my husband is. I will not go. I will not go to him. And I thought, wow, beautiful, nice person, quiet, nice looking, beautiful everything. I will not do. You have spoken to everybody. As I said, I will not do it. So what? Yeah, that's all. I got my ring. I got my Spence. I got my child. So need you now. So what I'm saying is not out of imagination. I'm not like imagining something. And I've been a pastor for 25 years, called Pastor. I've been called pastor for 25 years. I used to be called brother. Then I was called pastor brother. Wow. So there's something we call coffin marriage. You are down for when we are in the coffin, we are sealed. Oh my God, you know I have one of these coffin marriages. So that's you must, you must, you must. So if you want to know how somebody is going to behave, how is the person behaving in another circumstance not with you, That's how you know how the person is like. If you are in another church, let's say you are in another church and you are the assistant to a pastor there and there's no flow between you, the senior pastor there and you. OK, I know that you are some way. I don't need you to be transferred to be my assistant before I'll find out that you are some. This is a principle that you always have to know. How somebody behaves to this person is how the person is. Many people that I have not accepted to work at a certain level, I did not accept them because of how they work with that person. It reveals how they are because to me, I'm the boss man. I'm the boss man. So people see me. Everybody's nice to me. So it's like marriage. So before I realize you are trapped with somebody that you don't need to be trapped with. Yeah. So you can, you can have an idea. So if you are an elder all right, and there's a chief elder and you are always having conflict with a chief elder or you, you don't, or maybe you, you, you are, you are in the check. You don't, you don't do anything. You don't, you don't, you don't do your exams, you don't get up, you don't come, you don't do other things. It's how you are. You are showing it already before you even come to come and work at another level. And when you become something else or you go on the mission field, you say the check doesn't work. Because the same attitude that you wouldn't get up early to go and fix instruments is the same attitude of laid back Ness, if you like, which is manifesting again over there in the fields. That's how you are. You are laid back. You are not a hard working person. You are not disciplined, you are not polite. You are all those things is showing on the field over there. That is why being an elder in school and working in school reveals so much about you. Yeah, it reveals so much about you. So you know, if you are a brother, you're going to get into a sister. It's good. I would say. I would advise you to have a long relationship ready to jump out if it is not good to work. Yeah, that's where you see. That's where you will see how people are. Yeah, these type of people who come, they just enter into their singing worship song, oh Lord my God, And they look with the right eye. You will see somebody over there. They say, I've chosen you. Hey, we don't choose with right eye like that. Somebody who is rebellious towards the father, towards the mother. I mean, you were husband then where would you stand? As long as you are nothing, Brian, you are nothing, You are nothing. Your father cannot control you, your mother cannot control you. Much more your husband. As soon as you get used to the marriage, No, that will be the end. You are down for. When they say something to you, you will shut yourself.