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03. What It Means To Be Faithful Unto Death

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 28, 2025 1h 40m

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Camp Title - Be Thou Faithful Unto Death. Machaneh Collection - 77. Preached in 2012, Switzerland (Neuchâtel). 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 #3 of be thou faithful unto death. Oh Hallelujah. Amen. Do you need the Lord early in the morning? You. Require. All good, that's all the matter. Amen. I mean, Father, thank you for the great blessing. I cheers for Sibaza. We have in you this morning Jesus name. Amen. All right, you maybe see that. All. Right. What it means to be faithful and to death now #1 it means to be the same until, until you die the same, the same in a good way. If you have some way, you must change, but if you are good, you must. Be the. Same. Are you excited about that? It means to be steadfast until you die. What does steadfast mean? Now? That is not the meaning of steadfast. Steadfast is an old word that came out from the Navy. Was a term that was used to explain a sailor's ability to stay on course in the sea. The Jazz Stadina. Corda plauert it. Is the most important ability of a sailor. The sum is Varnis pasomas merica. De la capacita, principal de navigator. When I flew from Johannesburg to Australia for 14 hours, almost 12 hours, we were only on water, driving at 1000 kilometers per hour. That shows you how much water 1000 kilome

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Welcome to track #3 of be thou faithful unto death. Oh Hallelujah. Amen. Do you need the Lord early in the morning? You. Require. All good, that's all the matter. Amen. I mean, Father, thank you for the great blessing. I cheers for Sibaza. We have in you this morning Jesus name. Amen. All right, you maybe see that. All. Right. What it means to be faithful and to death now #1 it means to be the same until, until you die the same, the same in a good way. If you have some way, you must change, but if you are good, you must. Be the. Same. Are you excited about that? It means to be steadfast until you die. What does steadfast mean? Now? That is not the meaning of steadfast. Steadfast is an old word that came out from the Navy. Was a term that was used to explain a sailor's ability to stay on course in the sea. The Jazz Stadina. Corda plauert it. Is the most important ability of a sailor. The sum is Varnis pasomas merica. De la capacita, principal de navigator. When I flew from Johannesburg to Australia for 14 hours, almost 12 hours, we were only on water, driving at 1000 kilometers per hour. That shows you how much water 1000 kilometers an hour for 12 hours. There's no land, just water. Karam military is your Johannesburg do Australia regeni gymnastics should solve. Karam military is kilometer of Shahs military, Tokanad vodoy ETA panete dieten panazz kao apschemos vadi. So if you are a sailor and you you are supposed to go this way, and you don't go this way, you make the ship go this way, you are going deep into water forever. All your food will get finished, all your animals, you kill them, all your fresh water is finished, everything. So it's a very dangerous thing to have a sailor who is taking the boat this way, but he doesn't know how to keep the boat going in the same. In a department near Sombato Dontelsons. So would you like to have a sailor? A captain who is not able to go this way is to the next land, and your captain is not. Sometimes he goes like this and like this, like this. Then in the. Middle of the sea. Esque puz de Maria Vara Mara Juan Y capitaine qui novotro bato Oyo de manito Niro le cabontel direcion parfois de villa Germain. So God is telling us that to be faithful and to death means to be steadfast, to be like a sailor who can stay on course until you are in the coffin. But Pastiani dos Siercsi it has been charged for Big Cap, Mauricon, Catruni de Jacuz paste Yangstrom dos Smirchi Pakatina Kaisen grabeau. Amen. The next one it means to be constant until you die. Stereoschi as a child with Pastajani Pakati Numeros. The post vivor savadir ETR constant juice casamor. Constant. Constant you, you pay tithes. You, you, you don't change it, you are happy. You don't become different. When I was in. Sierra Leone. When I finished preaching about loyalty, a pastor came to me. He has 1000 churches. He said when you were preaching, there was a pastor who used to be my assistant many years ago. He was my assistant and one day I had a visa and a special scholarship to take 4 pastors to America. And I called him. I said here is a special visa, special ticket, I'm taking you to America to go for this conference. And this pastor said I don't, I don't want to go. I'm OK. I don't. Want to go for the? I. He said. I told my wife I don't feel happy in my spirit about. This. Pastor so he. Went to the airport and his assistant went with him to see him up to the airport. Report should be at private. At the airport, he told the. Assistant pastor, are you OK? He said. I feel he. Said I'm OK what everything. Is OK. Then he said to him, Your attitude is different. He. Said as. Soon as he flew out. Turn into a full. Orango at at Pomosnic priorities of Paul names Orango. And has. Turned into nothing. In fact. On that day when I was, when I, when I was in that town in Sierra Leone, I was about to preach, I was preaching. He said He has not seen this pasta for a long time. On that very morning as he was coming to the conference, he saw him and he said, my brother, how are you now? He has left him. He has left him broken away, done whatever and it did not work. And so he called him and he said, I'm going to a conference. Come. And he, he came with him. He sat there and listened to me telling him what he did. Hungarie the dog. So as I. Was preaching people were the man was there. But. I always remember when he told him at the airport. Your attitudes say. Something. So when I say to be faithful and to death, it means to be to be constant. It's like you still have a good pastor. Jimmy has a good attitude. After 20 years of me teaching him how to be a drummer, he. Still has a good attitude. Pastor Jim on I. Can easily send. Him to Congo. Because of his. What a. Shock. Now tell to your neighborhood is. Are you attitude are? You the same. You see that this Sierra Leonean pasta, you have never met him before. But the devil, the same devil, with the same plan, and in the same way he. Does it? To everybody that. Is why I started by telling you just develop it in yourself. Tell yourself, tell yourself, tell the devil. Suggest a new idea. This one is out of the question. I can suggest to be a sexy dancer, suggest to be to walk naked from Geneva to Zurich, any other idea, But this one is not out of the question. It is not going. To work at all, say all. The question. It's not going to happen to me because I came. To a. To learn it, to learn it, to learn it, to learn it. So that particular problem I will not fall to it in the name of. Jesus. 5 #4 #1 is what it means to be the same. Number. Two, it means to be #3. It means to be constant #4. It means to be. Loyal. Amen until you die. Jews Casamo. Wow, you can check it. This is this is not a mystery. You can check in your dictionary what is the meaning. Faithful you just press. If you have an iPad, just press faithful and press synonyms. OK, all these words will come. I just press synonym. You die when you, when you do that, when you do. That. When you have that mind, I can assure you that the devil will try something else. Try something else. That one. Was possible. All the demons of that type. Will. Be transferred. To other people and. You will be graduated into another level of demon. For the demons, they are there, but you see the class one demons are always working class one tests and they are always succeeding. So many Christians are not going beyond Class 1. No, but it's a Germany piova clasa and if Pastriana is cuchait with this pitardi piova. Clasa. I have seen other kinds of tests that come instead of disloyalty when the disloyalty mind is. Permanently closed. People are tested with. Discouragement, laziness, la pares. Premature ageing. Premature agents. When you become old to Ellie, you become like an old man. Ellie Deaf. L'amour. Yeah, when Misses Saki died, it was a great temptation for us. The little. Ones of like should leave or misses Saki should tell him something bad in the house about me. Those are two basic. Temptations. One day told his wife before she died. To me, Bishop loves me more than you. A piece of that Lobic team in. A lobic. Even though you are working with him, you don't get it into your head that he loves you now more than he loves me. He loves He loves me more than he loves you. So this is another. Kind of problem problem it's. A higher problem they are. Now fighting over who is more closer and loyal. Test pirani barol. It should be pakazak toboli veli E toboli. Rather than another temptation where the wife is saying to the house, saying something bad to her husband, that this man, now I have become this man, or your brother or this kind of words. So I am explaining to. You when you take some things out of your head, you see that new problems will come. The devil will still, it will bring a new type of demon, but not the this one, this basic one. Where is it? It's too basic. It works. It works too easily. The number for E como Fermi La Porte a sesondo de MO la sontel Mon basique your daughter de Montevon bouzetra envoye. Africans in Europe, one of the commonest things is them accusing the pastor of stealing money or wanting money or whatever. You should grow out. You should know something. Just graduate graduate. Africans in Europe? Somebody should. Yeah, the other one. If you are feeling sleepy, you must sit near the front of the. Cold air will come. And. Give me those books from the bookshop. Those who leave you, those who accuse you, those who all the seven of them. Loyalty books #5 It means to be unchanging till you die. Hallelujah. Let me see the books here, The loyalty books. Amen. Wow. Now, my dear, help me, help me. Don't be in a hurry. To go away, OK. Give me loyalty and disloyalty. Loyalty. Those who pretend. Fathers and loyalty you must think that the commonest trick you must specialize in studying these. Ones. Those who forget. One day, never forget how you were made a. Pastor, just don't forget. Remember. When you came for a Swiss campaign, I said you'd be a pastor. Relax. Relax less movement, go touch my heart and say trust him. You. You, you don't know what can come out of him. That. Is why there are people in Italy who call you pasta. So one day if an evil spirit. Touches your heart. Remember. Souvietois. My friend Reverend Steve Benson. My drug. He said that he was a singer and he was he was twins and they were singing in the church and he said Bishop Duncan Williams in Ghana would call he and his brother and say call the twins let. The twins come. To me and he. Said he would go for lunch. There was a restaurant called Rickshaw Restaurant and he would go for lunch. Just Bishop Danca William and his wife and his children, and he would call the twins let. The twins sit here with me. De la Vega contain William Conti La La restaurant, IL la vexa fami la vexes or four It's de munde corammen OSI SE jumo portivian montgi Havecuri Donsan restaurant. He said today, whether he's alive, whether he's dead, whether he's divorced, whatever, is it now that he is going to get up to say that he's now a big pastor? He's going to correct him and say this, dress you down, I'll sort you out. He said, what am I when I was nothing, he would call it called the twins. Let the twins sit here, let them sing, let people know them. Is it today forgetting how little you were when you were elevated? This is how people. Are cadaya uji Veras nogulia? It should be S Pravitivo, Ysidda Jean Raziosa, Nagulia, Zabu, Atom, Cardiabu Malikim on Zwalni Guerrilli, Pazori Brache Businesso should be appealed anymore. Those who forget. As for me? You are. I, I, I I am determined. You are premier regime. Not to become one of those who forget. Mr. Agnim is here. Paturis abouwai. Amen. And those who leave you. This is going. To be one of the. Famous books. When you open, you see there's nobody's name there. Dedicated to all of them. God has. Used. Them to train me. Bog if it's possible, that all should be Minia Padatovic. Julie is actually say Pope of what my promo could choose. But I've used them to make me rich. Bog is possible. It should be direct near Bugatti Julie. Is actually rich. You see, each of them have taught me something. Like the bank manager. Each bad experience I've used it to learn something. A few weeks ago. I was. In a private jet, the one you see in James Bond film, those type of films, only about four or eight people in the plane. The people who invited me, they told, I said I'm arriving at this. So no, we sent a plane to pick you. And I said. When I when I finish, I I want I need to go back. We will send a plane to take you back. When? I arrived the one of the please, you have to preach about loyalty. We brought you here to preach about. To carry you back. 2. And 1/2 hour flight. When? I was going back. Nobody in the plane, just me, the pilot and the son. And you see the television in the plane. Just like the. One in the big plane, the television showing the distance where we are going, the plane. Flying. Those who leave you, that's wonderful and. What the next one? Those who accuse you, where is it? Where is those who accuse? You. There should be 7. 7:00 is a perfect number. I have seven of these books, if it was to be one book. It would be too fat. Different little books a. Loyalty and disloyalty. And. Loyalty and loyalty. Then those who accuse you, those who forget, those who and those who. Pretend Do you understand? So study it. And. Anytime something someone better than you is falling in front of you, use it as a kind of learning whatever for yourself. Don't laugh at somebody. People who are more committed than you have left. People who gave speeches. Does it? To. I wouldn't preach about it anymore. Because I'm scared it's. Scary. Amen. So I want us to realize that to be faithful and to death means to do all these, to not accuse until you die. Until you. Die. Never. Accuse until you die. Wow, wow. Never accuse. Until you die. Do. You remember Pastor Charles Bannerman. Pastor Charles. Bannerman. A few weeks before he died. We. Have. This group of pastors from Zurich. Group of. Pastor of Zurich who? Tried to get him to join. Them. Write to me. Write. To me. Have the letter some pastors wrote. To me from Zurich. Yeah, I have the letters. Too. They tried to get him. To write but if? He had written that. Letter. If he had joined them. He would. Have joined them just before he died. That's. All. And you, you never know. Nobody knows when he would. Die. So sometimes the devil wants to destroy you and this is the last to. Do I still? Remember sleeping on the same bed with him? I still. Remember driving all over Zurich with him to? Stand this. I still remember him giving me directions. He took me to everybody he knew. In Zurich, the only. Time I went to Rappersville, I know somebody Rappersville. He took me on the other side of the lake. In. The night I remember officiating his wedding is a long time. If the devil could get you. Before. You die, he will lead you to remove the roof of your house and everything, dismantle all that you have built. On the. So have this mind. Do not forget until you die. Do not forget until. You die. Do not. Forget until you die. Can you see that I can remember things people did, I did. With. And I'm telling you. My, my, my, my wife was telling me one day I should talk to the children. I was watching a film. I saw President, I think it was President Nixon. President Nixon? I think so. President. Nixon. His mother told him one day you will have a chance. To help Israel and. When they were having their war, the president of Israel called him, she said. She said we are going to be destroyed. You need. To have 3:00 AM in the night. She called the president. That is why, that is why I keep talking. Because you remember what your father said to you. One day you remember. And when I am dead, you. Remember it even more. You. Remember so many things when you come to state influx, you remember we were here. He said this you remember. So be careful. That will make you remember more, but remember even now. If he has not brought you, will you be? Here. You people from Ukraine. When were you coming to look at this lake? Don't. Know what their. Pastors have done for. You so until you die. You say? To yourself. Can I turn against Master Fred? Why? What spirit is entering me to make me forget everything? Please. I beg you. Amen. Until you die, never forget. Be faithful. I didn't write the Bible. I didn't write any part of the. Bible. You. Just. Press on your iPad the word. Faithful or you check. In the dictionary for synonyms. In 19. Don't forget till you die. Don't. Pretend, Don't pretend. Don't pretend. Do not pretend. To be a good Judas, you need to be a good. You have. To have one day we had a pastor, he was faithful in the church, but in his mind he said I'm going to do something. I love him very much. Book with me for two reasons. One, because he was. Faithful pastor and. The second is another reason I don't want to say. As. He was staying faithfully with us. He has started building another church with land and building and talking to the people. The day he announced. His move? He moved away with about 7 pastors. The instrumentalists and most of the most of the church we went. With them. That's why some people don't have assistant. Pastors. Where I. AM and. It kills the work of God. The same thing for that pastor who was in. Baden. Yeah, do we? Do we have a church in? Baden. No more. I hold your legs, I carry your. Bible, Sir, that's. Why I don't like? People carry my Bible. Real loyalty is not shown by coming to take. Are you listening to me? Until you die? Don't pretend. That is why that Sierra Leonean pastor said to his assistant. Are you OK? Something you don't look happy. Don't pretend the next one. It means to not leave until you die. It. Means don't leave until you die. When you die. So if you want to leave. You're going to. Have a chance to leave. But it was more. When you die. So until you die, don't leave. Wow, what do you think this is what it means? To. Be faithful unto death number. With one. 10 Be a faithful son. It means to be a good son until you die. A good son or. A good daughter, be a good son. Don't be a good son until you yourself become a big man. Mother calls me Dag and when she calls me I say yes. Mummy. And when I, when I, when I answer my mother, I don't say what, what, what even can I? Yes, Mummy, you see, no matter how old you are, you are still. You see that that gap doesn't change if it is. 24 years, Your mother is 24 years, you are always 24. Years. Younger Richard is now. The Bishop, Richard or what? I don't know what even is, you know. This is just Pastor Richard or a Peace Corps preacher really came to. Me. The same thing as any different Bishop. Richard Bishop. Good morning, Bishop. What is that? Are you crazy? Not, not with me in relation to my son. Once you have had a certain relation, like Bishop always tells people, is bigger, more branded, more everything. I've done more, written more books. Whatever, it doesn't change. My relationship. He means to be a good son. That's. What it means to be faithful and to death. You can never be too big to say yes, Daddy. 1. Day. A. Second brother came to a church where I was preaching and I was preaching about loyalty and this pastor was in the service and I was giving examples. Example And he was. One of the examples. And the camera was coming on him all the time. Number. One I didn't. I didn't really know that he was there. I thought he could be there, but I. Didn't know whether. He was there. And #2 I didn't care whether he was there. And. Number. Three, I have been asked to preach what I'm supposed to. Preach. This. Is somebody who was not respected. In. His former church he was only used as a driver. When I was preaching, he became so angry. That he got up on start and walked out of the church. It is 30° so. Big. You see, you have to be a good, you have to be a child. Even if. Your father is knocking your head. I didn't. Even know that I found out later. That and. When I preach, I always use examples. If I don't use the example, you don't understand my. Preaching. One day I told one of my when somebody was. Interpreting, I said. When I am doing something on the stage. I'm. Not joking. I am a dramatist or some kind of Eddie Murphy or an actor or something I am preaching. I want the people to understand what I'm talking about. Artist. Because I said. When I do when I do something. I'll give you, I'll give. You an example. Take one of the messages that I have preached that you understood and take out each story from here to here. Delete it from. And. See whether you. Understand this preaching it's. Like taking the miracles out of the. Read. The Bible without miracles. How many do you have now? Means to be a good leader. 'S. Hallelujah, the next one. It means to be hardcore. Until you die hardcore with Krypton. #13 it means to be dependable until you. Die. #14 It means to be trustworthy till you die. It means to be genuine, genuine the next one. It means to be devoted. Have I given you devoted? Devoted. They were devoted to the Apostles doctrine. Devoted. Means I like it. Devoted. Means I am into. It I. Am into the Church. I am devoted to the Czech, devoted to the teachings. Devoted. To the word of. God devoted to my. Father, don't you want to be a devoted son? Amen. All of you whose fathers didn't look after you. How many? Years. Your father didn't really look. After you I'll. Give you a secret of blessing. I'll. Give you just one thing to help you greatly. Who didn't look after you? Surprise that father this. Year. When he hears from you. When you send him a gift. He will. Be surprised. Don't worry about. Please don't worry about what he may think. You are bringing a blessing to your life. This is from your son. It will. Extend your life by more than 12. Years. Certain diseases will be cancelled from your your future. Certain accidents will be removed. From the agenda. What it means is that certain diseases that will kill you, they will not come or they will not kill you by honoring. Fathers. Anything that reduces life is removed by honoring fathers. Don't let. Me. Hear you say something stupid like I cannot honor a wizard. Don't. Stupid. And. Your mother. Will tell everybody my son this my son what my son had that did for. Me. Your mother and your father are more important than your brother and. Your. Sister. The Bible says, honor your sisters and your brothers, and it shall be well with you. Look after your brother and your sister, and it shall be well with you, and you shall live long. Are. So. Many. Things you have already done that are good enough to. Your life. Life is a balance between blessings. And cases. You even are aware you have done so many things that are shortness and destroy us before you become conscious. So. When you become conscious, you must have to do things which are in the Bible. That brings blessing, this being. Until you die. Until you die, be a good son, be a good leader, be devoted, be genuine until you die. I remember some of the pastors in Zurich Bishop Saki came to. See some of them. I was. Sitting. On my toilet and I was flooding myself. Now this guy I'm going to get. Him. No, you see, it's better to have 10 people who are loyal than to have 50 who are confused as to whether they belong or they don't belong, whether it's good or it's not. Good. It's better to. Have just. Amen. How many do you have now please? 16 The next one loving until you die loving. That's. What it means to be in marriage when they when they say I, when they say I love you, usually it means I'll be. Faithful to. You. The next one, be incorruptible until you die. Niparoshni. Amen. Wow. Incorruptible. You cannot be corrupted. You cannot be spoiled. You see, this is one of the characteristics. Of. Apostle Robert Dodu. Apostle Robert. So he was in Switzerland? On. Swiss. It's like. For him to be corrupted or to have a you look at him and have a different, it's like it's not possible. This is what I mean by faithful. And that way doesn't. He was here in. Switzerland. It never occurred to me that I was spoiling his life by sending him away from Geneva. I never. I have passed him too many tests. For instance, one day I came to Geneva. You are not such a good pastor. Your wife is a better. Pastor. Your wife is in. Charge. It never. Up till today, it has never occurred to me for three seconds. What? Is wrong with. You. His. Name. Is he was incorruptible? Some people you have to rebuke them only once, correct them once. I don't. Like being used as an example. I don't like these kind of things. The way he. Spoke at the meeting. One day we had a meeting, camp meeting. We had a camp meeting one day. One day, one day, some pastors came. I brought. One of the pastors serious issues to do with his church. After the meeting, it was all over. Everybody went back. Four years later, I called them. Again. And. I gave everybody. I gave. It was a small group. I gave them a special present. This pastor has been used. As an example. He gave a. Speech on the rich. He said. I'm so surprised. Surprised at what? I'm surprised that Bishop laughs. Laughs are. You surprised since that? Meeting four years ago, I feel something different. Inside and I'm. So. Surprised about this gift when I heard about it. Look at somebody. That's why the Bible tells us be careful even who you rebuke. Some. Of you if you are rebuked. Or corrected. So that's why you must not even. Be. Spoken to. Hello, hello. I was surprised that this pastor was was surprised at the because I never have even the same love I have for him. It was. It's out of love that you even. Tell the person something. Some of you. Have been shaking since Mighty Foundations. Since the Mighty Foundation's camp meeting, we had. This. Is what we need. Why do you think so many of you from Africa have come here to? Because then Africa there are no laws, many places, no laws, no police, everybody is doing. What he wants to. Do. When I went. To Sierra. Leone. And light a fire and stand outside with guns and defend the people alive. In the house if. We sit down as apostles and bishops and allow rebels to just freely move around within the church. You see them cutting off hands and destroying people. I'm telling you. How many do you have? Yes, 19, 18. Or. 19. To be enduring. To. The end. So that is what it means to be faithful, number one. It means what? Let's. Go through all the 20 different things that it means. Let's go through an English fest and after that we do Russian. After that we do. Each one you say it means to be this, it means to be this, it means to be this. OK, number one, what does it mean to be faithful and to death #1 So be no say to be faithful until until you die to be the same, to be the same until I die. To be what? To never accuse. Wow number. 7 to never forget. Do not pretend until I die. Do not leave to be a faithful son. No matter how. Big you become. #14 to. Be. Trustworthy until. To be devoted until I. Die. To be loving. This. Is incorruptible. Which is. Portioning. Until I die to be enduring, and during everything until I. Die. One day my mother called me. Mama asked. Me. To do something I did not want to do. It. As I looked at her, I said this is my. Mother asking. Me. To do something, to be obedient when you were, you were obedient at a point, but now you cannot be obedient there's. Something is. Wrong. So let's go. Through in Russian. No, everybody must stay together because after it Treaty E piati sistoy. Slowly, slowly take your time. Sigmoy. Sigmoy is what? What's more, isiate a dynasty divinasty, trinasty, shinasty, pitnasty, sisnasty, simnasty, bosnasty, divinasty devasati. Now I'm Francis. Franciski. OK. Let's fuck your phone, yes? Two sons sigue play pua a CAS que southeast pua du ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET ET. Did you write? The notes. On that comment point no. This ET Rambon FIS GISCA Samor, Hans ET Rambon leader GISCA samor dus France. And Amos Otto pacis que si de bon Pala peprefour tusoe sembla tres en corinfoi catos ETA Ding de corfiance scans ET roton ficis Casamor says esque de vuenus casamo de sects etre E montes casamo des Ritz des Ritz etre uncorrupted vis casamo des neuf ET Aung de ronchus casamo Evans. Stand. Up everybody. All right, all right, all right, All right. Lift up your hands. Father, Thank you for the great blessing. Thank you for the great blessing. Ask. God to give you the grace to be faithful. The grace to be faithful.