03- Principles Of War(Source Of War Information)

Welcome to track #3 of principles of war. Here we stand, standing for the Lord, never going back into the world. Damn evil way. Here we stand fighting for the Lord. We will fight a good fight. Stay in the will of the Lord. So be strong in the Lord, in the power of his mind. Put on the whole Amor of God, that ye may stand. Cut off your loins with truth, take up the shield of faith, and with the soul of the Spirit we were all become. What's I'm singing here we stand. We're standing for the Lord, never going back again to the world and evil ways. Oh, here we stand. We're fighting for the Lord. We will fight a good fight. Just stay in the will of the Lord while we wrestle, I guess flesh and the but against principality and the powers of this world, casting down every evil thought that it's all to tell against the word of God. Oh so happy, Say here we stand standing for the Lord, never coming back again to the world and leave away war. Oh here we there, we're fighting for the Lord. We will find a good right to stay in the will of the Lord. I'm gonna fight a good fight and I'm gonna fight for what is right. I'm gonna fight the enemy. Fight a goodbye in Jesus name. Come on and on with me. I don't see you. All right, glory to God Father, we are thankful and thanking you for today, for the opportunity that we have in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated now. Do you enjoy the stars? Do you love Ida and the stars? Do you love their music? Isn't it a fantastic? Oh, OK, now the net, we are now moving to a new sort of like a different phase or area of the camp, or a different camp even if you like. And that is about the principles of war, how to actually fight. OK, now whenever you take the work of the Lord lightly or jokingly, you will always expose yourself to problems, all right? You must realise that we are fighting a war and it's a very serious thing. OK, Now if you look into the Bible, all right, in First Chronicles chapter 13. Bible says that David was so happy he had been, he was being made the king, and he said, you know, let's bring the act of the Lord. And as they were coming along in verse 8, Bible says, and David and Israel played before the Lord with all their might, and with singing, and with harps and sultries and timbrels and symbols, and with trumpets. And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Ouza put forth his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled. The oxen stumbled. Now when the oxen stumbled, the ark of the Lord, which symbolised the presence of God, was about to fall down, because the oxen stumbled. And Ouza trying to help, they were all dancing, everybody was happy. So Ouza just tried to help. And the Bible says that. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Ouza. You see, God doesn't need your help. That's the first point you must realize God doesn't. Even need you God. Doesn't even want. You need your help. I should say and. And you see, you need to understand the reality that God does not need you. You see, if somebody is serving me or helping me, the person who is helping me should think that I who you are, the you are serving me or helping me. You who are helping or doing something should have a mind that he does not really need me. If you are singing nicely, you should have the mind that he does not really need me. I need him even though it looks like he's a Because that's the truth. Because we can have this camp without these songs and this music. Yes, you go listen to all the powerful and anointed camps we've had in the past. We don't have songs. We come to the camp and have a song. Fight the good fight, Super Trooper. So you have to always have the mind. No, not the other mind. But you must know that he does not need me and God does not need you. God does not need you to do anything to win the lost, to win the whole world. I mean, without you, if everything will happen as God has decided anyway. So those who feel that, oh, God has come. So you tell God that I'm coming, I will, I say I will respond. I will reply. Whatever he is saying, he should just wait. God should just wait outside. Tell him to sit in the reception. So wipe it out of your mind that God needs your help. When the oxen seemed to be stumbling, God was very angry. No, and he smote him because he put his hand to the ark, and then he died before God. Now this is what we call a tragedy. In the midst of rejoicing, suddenly one person was dead, and I'm sure that they attributed it clearly. What the when, when, when he died. I don't know whether he fell down, hit his head on the rock or something, or had a heart attack and so on. So when he was dead, everybody was. So what did he do? What happened? I said, oh, yeah, you know, everybody was dancing and the thing was kind of here rather than went to all the things and listen, no, what are you doing? What are you doing? God doesn't God doesn't need your your help. It's not a joke. It's not a just a serious business. You see people who don't take God seriously, they don't understand. Now the Bible says that David was displeased because the Lord made a breach upon Uzza, wherefore that place is called Perusa. And David was afraid of God that day, saying, how shall I bring the ark of God home to me? David was afraid of God, which is the point God is trying to bring you to, to be afraid of God. Yeah, as you are working for God and you are hearing these messages at the camp and you are listening, the point that God is trying to bring you to is to be afraid of God and to know that God does not need you at all. He must rather be so scared and know that you are not needed. As soon as you think in the other way, you don't do well, you don't work well because you think that. So all of you, there are some of you here are some preaching about the work of God. And so some of you are you taking as a joke, They're taking as a joke, but there's no joke here. And when you read those where war means war, it's it's serious business. You can't do what you want. You can't do. You have to do what God wants. Now, later on, you see that, you know, you see that God's power is real. Later on this this name David right in the next chapter you see that I'll show you in chapter 15, all right, And David made him houses and verse 2 that David said none ought to carry the ark of God. First Chronicles 15. He was now planning to move the ark again, but this time he was more afraid and more reverential, more careful. You have to be careful with God. I say you have to be careful. You have to be careful with your call. You have to be careful. We say fight to be in the will of God. You have to be careful. It's not a joke. We say fight a good fight. It's not just a song. And we say go to the ends of the earth. It's not just a song. It's a serious thing. Your life is at stake. My life is at stake. I'm preaching here because my life is at stake. Your life is at stake to be serious. Now, David, I've come to see that the thing was not a joke at all. And that is the essence of this camp is to make you see that The thing is not a joke at all. God is dead serious and dead serious means you can die. Then he said, no, not to carry the ark of God, but the Levites for them have the Lord chosen to carry the ark of God and to minister and to him forever. And verse 13, verse 13 for because you did it not at the first. The Lord our God made a bridge on us for that. We sought Him not after the due order. Yeah, we sought Him not after the due order. So the priest and the Levites sanctify themselves to bring up the act of the Lord God of Israel. Amen. Are you listening to me? Yeah. So you better straighten up and take this whole thing serious. Take your life seriously. Joke about it. Don't think, because in fact, to whom much is given, much is expected. Don't surprise. Don't be surprised if you died before your time just because you were at this camp and you heard the word of God and you took it lightly. Don't be surprised if Ouza happens to you. Don't be surprised. Yeah. Because you, you, you, you. You think that you are rather doing something and then you don't take it as seriously as you ought to take it. When I, when I listen to Kenneth Hagin, you know, and he's a good person to listen to. You know, those of you who don't, don't listen to him before. I don't know if you understand him when he's speaking, but the difference between Kenneth Higgin and almost all the other people that I listen to is that he just taught all his prophecies and his words of knowledge. The result of it is either somebody is dead or not. Everything is death or life. Yeah. When you give a message, if you don't do this, you will die by this. If you don't do this, you will be dead. If you don't do this, this, you will be dead always. And I think it's true. I think it's true. He himself had his own wish. When the Lord sat by him, he said he sat on my left side. He came in from the right, went round the bed and pulled a chair in the hospital room and sat by him. On that he said that he said I could touch him. I could have touched him with my with my fingers. And he was talking to me. Yeah. And he told him if I, if, when he said he had broken his hand a little, just a little. He had broken his hand the night before when he was preaching. And he said, I open. I allowed the devil to, to, to, to, to, to get you. Yeah, I allowed the devil to get because he said he was a prophet and a teacher. But I didn't like doing the prophetic things. He liked more just teaching. I didn't like that when I give you a calling, you take it seriously. And the, and the day before the stage that he was on, it was a wooden stage and they had polished the stage nicely and somebody had bought a tape recorder to record the message. And the tape recorder in the old system they had it, the old tape was on the by the pulpit. So something happened as he was, he was walking and he stepped on the tape when he stepped and he moved. So he moved and he fell. When he was falling, he, he used his shoulder to stabilize himself and he, he stopped a lot of pain when he fell, he broke there. So then the double came out like he didn't know. So he continued preaching for the pain. But after he told her no, you know, I think I need to whatever, I go to the hospital. There was a nurse there who worked at the orthopaedic hospital. She said, I know that the, the doctor personally, I will call him, come here this evening. So he went and the doctor said, oh, you have not broken, what you have is Western breaking. But the Lord told him in the car as they were going to the hospital. I I will speak to you about it, don't worry. I. Will speak to you about it. So he turned on in the car and said who, who who was that? So when they saw to him that night. The next morning, early in the morning, thought the nest was coming and he looked when it was told Jesus, he walked in, came into the room, sat down and told him, You I call you, I call you are joking, you are joking. Then he told him, if I have not interrupted with this small accident, he will not have lived beyond the age of 55. Yeah, he gave him his age that he would have died. No servant of God dies accidentally. Any time a servant of the Lord dies, there's something precious in the eyes of the Lord. Amen. Are you listening to me? Amen. So David was afraid of God. I want you to be afraid of God. Some people are in their rooms sleeping now as I'm speaking. Is it not true? Yeah. So a lot of people take things. They think you're God has this. Even me. I I know nobody has to, but I just know. So I need you to take. The whole thing is about war. Are you listening to me? All right, so then God showed, you know, God showed another wonderful thing about him. Then another of this time they brought, didn't bring the Ark home again and carried to the side to the House of Oberdon. And the Ark of God remained with the family of Oberdon and in his house for three months. And the Lord blessed the House of Oberdon and all that He had wow with the thing which killed somebody, made somebody prosper, which is again a mystery. God will always allow himself to be a little mysterious. If you want to understand everything about God, you can. So as we are here at this camp, you will not understand everything, but you must believe a lot of things. It must not be complicated. There are some people who don't receive things. Clearly your mind hasn't processed things straightforward way and you never see yourself as the one I'm preaching about. Every example is not you. When I say a woman this, this, this, this, they always do love her. You laugh and you think that it is not you. Wow, are you listening to me now? We are moving now to the how to fight wars, OK? How to the principles of war? OK, Now where do we learn? What are the sources of these principles? Where do you get them from? OK, like when you want to learn how to fight a war, where would you get this information from? Do you understand? And there are three or four main sources of such information, all right, Or such knowledge. You want to know the sources, All right #1 You can get such information about how to fight wars, OK, from a good army, a a well known good army, an army that is historically and practically successful in fighting and has won many battles. Now the Ghana Army, I don't know which wars it has won before peacekeeping, but there are several armies that have fought wars historically and not in not too far not to distance the past al right, such as the British Army. British Army has fought the First World War and won the Second World War and won alright and apart from that they fought in the Falklands alright and apart from that they fought. Iraq. Yeah, they joined in the Gulf War, joined the Gulf War and several, several extensive wars, you know, world wars and so on. But basically these world wars have been really the ones that have brought them out. Then the United States Army is another active army that have been fighting all the time. They are always fighting somewhere. You get it. War has been but they VE made themselves a policeman in the world. So. They fought in the First World War, Second World War, Gulf War, first Gulf War. They fought against Iraq is in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Guatemala. I mean, a whole lot of they fought against Japan in the Second World War. You know. I mean, they've been developing bombs, throwing them, trying them out. I mean, they're always, Yeah, you know, But the Togolese army has not been active, do you understand? We've not seen much of them. Are you with me? Now another army that you can learn from is the Russian army. The Soviet. Army. Yes, the red. Army. They are another deadly army and they are the ones who defeated Hitler and the German army. Yeah, we see Hitler fought all through Europe and occupied those countries, but in Russia? He saw. Something that he had not seen before. Yeah, wow. And that was the. Russian, and in fact at the end of the war. You know, I, I. I, I, I wish I had, I wish I had a, a map, a big map, because with war things, you need maps, especially when it comes to some of the stories. So maybe later on we can have that if we ever continue this camp. But if this is Germany, England was coming from the West and Russia was coming from the east and the Berlin is in the middle. So they were all coming for Hitler in the middle here. Hitler was in his banker in Berlin. So they were all trapped in the middle here from the British coming here and the Russians coming here, British and Americans coming here, Russians coming here, and they are coming to meet in the middle. Can you see? You can. See. You can see, yeah, right in the middle there. When they were about surrendering, they run from this side, the Russian side to the British side, so that they would surrender to the British, the British, that the Russians would fail. Read their wisdom way. Yeah, and Kal. Donitz, who was EU boat commander, the commander of the the Navy and who in Hitler's will was put in command of the German Army and in fact of the of the nation, delayed the surrender by about a week to allow almost 2 million soldiers to come to this side. And he is credited with saving the lives of about 2 million of them. Yeah, Germans. Yeah. Because if they are falling into the hands of the the Russians, is it what Hitler did? You go very far into somebody's country, that eight hundreds and hundreds of miles with your tank to go and kill them. When they also recovered and came back, it was not easy at all. Are you with me? So the Russians are a group. They have certain principles. One of their principles asks, how do you say annihilate or annihilate? Which one annihilate, annihilate, annihilation. Is one of their principles annihilation wiping out annihilation? They don't want to. Defeat you, they want to annihilate you. So the armies, these kind of armies OK are armies you can learn from. This is one of the sources. Of of of war. Principles. OK, the second source of information or knowledge about war, where you can learn if you want to fight and, and, and God told us, we read it yesterday. War, good warfare, war, weapons of war, war, war, plague. And that's what I started with by trying to tell you got to be serious. OK, now the second place you can learn about war from are philosophers. Yes, people who are philosophers of war, about war, you know, because what is a philosopher? A philosopher is somebody who thinks and analysis what has happened, like maybe something has happened. And he sits back and he says, oh, the NDC are like this and yeah, but this and they are like this and the MPP are like this. Since 1957 when we got into power, NPP were like this. NDC were like this and this and that and that. We can give you an analysis and explain, but not everybody is a philosopher. Solomon was a philosopher. Last one he said, oh, vanity or vanity, This is vanity, this is useless. Life is like this. Life is like. Most people don't think like that. Most people are like the chickens in the farm. They just receive the food every day and they say are so happy, are so happy, are so happy, are so happy. And then suddenly the farmer comes and cuts all that what he's even cutting. One day I. Went to Nigeria. And I was. In a Redeemed Church, Redeemed camp and they were having a camp or they were having some programme and they have a big kitchen. And they, you know. They don't. There's no need to get a freezer to keep them in. They had a fresh house. They were all standing in the line. Yeah. And one would be. Taken in to the slaughterhouse, they had a they had a place to slaughter the cows right there, then the kitchen was there. So it's just fresh meat? There's. Thousands of people. And all the. Cows were just standing there waiting. They don't even understand. Call it, they were just waiting to take one in the cut on the head. The others were none of them didn't ask any question. Why is he why? Why isn't he coming out? Why is he not coming back? When he went, he didn't come back again. Everybody who goes doesn't come back. Wow. Most people are not philosophers. OK, but there are some philosophers now and not the people who fight. In the. Armies. OK, may not be philosophers. They don't think. Maybe they are. They can fight. So one of the famous philosophers is a Chinese man called Sun Chu. Sun. TZU Sun Chu. Yeah, he wasn't a a commander of any army, but he was a philosopher and he analysed a lot of things about war. And his. His teachings have helped. In fact, if people were to have followed his, his teaching, for instance, in Vietnam, if the if the Americans had followed his teachings, they wouldn't have been defeated the way they were. Are you with me? Are you listening to me? Because. He has so many ideas about war, which if you were to I know them, you see that you win. OK. Now today, because there is war in many fields, his teachings have been used in business leadership because a leader is at war. Businessmen are also at war financially and now pastors also did not realise that we were at war. So now we are also realising we are at war. And so we we. Therefore such peoples philosophies also are important to us because we are also at war, so it's important to also learn from that. Another famous philosopher was a man called Klaus Wits. Klaus Wits. He was a German philosopher, you know, and he wrote a lot of things about war and what war is. By the way, another army to learn from is the German Army, the 4th 2 World Wars and they they were quite successful, they nearly won all the time. All right, are you, are you feeling sleepy? You have nothing. You know, yesterday I was listening around in the mid of the night, said these people are not sleepy to hear all of you. So I said, oh. Tomorrow should come. Where's the Where's the bucket? Where's the bucket? Yeah, I'm going. To get just one person, you will be flooded. Flooded. Where's the bucket? Go and bring the bucket, including. Girls, if you think that you are above cyclist, you can walk out. You like this? Instead of sleeping, you were chatting. What's happened? Three night calls. You are talking. You will see fire today. I tell you, fight about fire. So, Klaus. Witz is another philosopher, very interesting to learn from. The third source. I'm giving you four sources. The third source of knowledge about war are famous generals. You see? Famous generals, people who fought wars and the wars that they fought were, what do you call it, so successful and they did so many things that you can just learn from them. Examples of such famous generals Alexander the Great. Hannibal. Alexander the Greek was a Greek and he fought and extended the Kingdom of the Greek so Far East. More than anybody. Had very fast and he died as a young man. Hannibal was an African from ancient Carthage. He is the one who challenged the Romans, went into their country and fought with them there for eight years. Julius Caesar was another famous. General. He fought station wars, did certain things that you know are historically really outstanding. Julius. Caesar very wicked, man very, very, very weak, and all of these guys were very wicked. You know. But you see in war. Sometimes the. More wicked people that succeed when you, when you are a bit half hearted about war, you don't do well, you know. And that is what that's what that is what Hitler makes. When he went to Russia, he met a man who was this is Stalin. It means steel in Russian steel. That is, his name is not Stalin. His name was Joseph Something. He had another name when he changed his name to Stalin. Steel. Yeah, Steel. So Stalin, it means steel. That is the kind. Of person that he met, it was not easy for them at all. Do you understand? Yeah. So what do you call? It. These are the some. Of the famous generals. I'm just giving you examples. So. So when you, when you watch something or you read something about Hannibal, you know, these are names. You, you hear Alexander the Great, you, you should be interested because, hey, what is he doing? Because you will learn something about war from what these people have done in history. And then the final source of learning about war is the Bible. Yeah, surprisingly, the Bible has so much to teach about war. Waging war? And fighting wars. Amen. So all the different principles that we learn about. About war. You get it. We learn. From these four sources, yeah, OK. And you need to learn. If you don't, if you do not learn them, you know that for instance. When Jesus? When Jesus gave examples about about, let's say wisdom, you know he he picked. The example of a. Serpent and he said learn from the serpents, be wise like the serpents, because the animals that are found in the zoo like lions, tigers, snakes, what big snakes and none of the big ones are found here except one speech which is found in the zoo. It is so deadly. It's found in the zoo. It's found here, right where we are. We can find one. Because it's. Wiser than a lion? A snake is. Wiser than a lion. That's why snakes are everywhere and you see that a snake can stay for a long time, have children, develop a family, have a family life, do everything, have grandchildren, children, grandchildren and have a family life. But a lion? Cannot do that in this area. The whole. Ghana Ani will descend here and that will be the end of it. So a snake is wiser than a lion, a snake is wiser than a leopard. That's why there's no leopard. From here to Kumasi you will not see any leopard. All to the but. For snake ones, which are found only in zoos, we caught 1 here. It was lying there, healed with horns. With horns. Yeah, it will. Kill you in one stroke, like this one night. So Jesus was teaching, you know what's the snake? Another time he was teaching. So what's the thieves? Learn something from them. See how they come. That's how I also come. I look at their strategy. That is the best strategy to come. I will come like. A thief. So when you. Observe. Sometimes you may observe something that is even essentially evil, or essentially it is wicked. But you can sometimes learn something from a wicked thing or an evil thing and even apply some of those principles that you learn from a wicked thing like a snake or a bad thing like a thief. You can apply some of those principles in your own life like Jesus did. Wow, is it amazing. All right. So are you now ready to do you understand why, how we get how, where do we get knowledge from about what? You've got a bucket, brain. 2. Who is this going? To be. All. Those who are not here and are sleeping now. When they come, they. Will see something. Will cast all of them actually. I pray. It will not be you for the water. Water is called. Wow, OK. Now tell your neighbor. Look neighbor. If you don't. Believe in such things. You don't like life, you can live now. That's all. You can live now. Don't say that you went to a church and they were pouring water. You don't want to yell at the same anywhere. But I'm asking you. To leave now. Ask your number shall. I escort you, Shall I escort you? OK.