04. Enjoy The Fruits Of The Ministry And Consider Deeply What I Say And Keep Reminding The People

Welcome to track number four of the Beautiful Job. Glory to God, some new people have joined us. All right, welcome. OK, we're having a good time before you came. All right, All the people here are becoming pastors. So all of you who are here, if you are new, you just came and you don't have that plan to become a pastor, you need to leave during the coffee break. How many agreed to leave during the coffee break? Now, what was your favorite point in the last few points? Michael, what is your best point? It gives several points. Which one is your best point? Can some can somebody give him a microphone? Can somebody give him a microphone? You're making my American accent come out, you know. Hallelujah. Yeah, My favorite point was about enduring hardness, because even in the secular world, when you are working for Pharaoh, without hardness you can't achieve success, you can't achieve a good business. How much more in the ministry when the God of this world is against everything you are doing? So you really need hardness for the ministry especially. That's my favorite. What kind of hardness in the ministry? What kind of hardness? Hardness in what areas? Hardness in follow up, in prayer, in fasting, and. What is the rule for hardness? If, if if if it's. To be done, it must be done. No. If it can be done, it must be done. If if it. Can be done. It must be done. If it can be done, it must be done. Yeah, even if you can fast for 40 days, then we must fast for 40 days to see how it is done. Too much. Now who else had another favorite point? What was your favorite point? My, my favorite point was about the entanglement. Like I, I've never really understood the explanation you gave to us about entanglement, like going deep into something that is so difficult to come out. So I really understood why I should not really get involved into. Too much money. Business love. And and not to love something too much, but it will be all right, all right, Glory God, glory to God. Who else had another favorite point different from any of these two points? What was your favorite point in the last? Yes, chaos. My favorite point was the strife or mastery that you always have to fight to get an award or in in heaven. There are so many things that you can be so in anything that I'm doing, I should try to be the best that if it's church good. I should have the biggest church If it's the number of branches I was that I should start the most number of churches. If it's preaching, I should be the best preacher. Anything like to strive for my people. That's my favorite thing I like rather than having their rewards because even God said in the power of the talent that he was talking to that person and he said that because thou are good and faithful, I will make you a ruler of many nations. So whether God we're what? And he gives it to people who. Strive for it, not just the people who are lazy like the man with the one talent. All right, glory thy God, Priscilla. Bishop is my favorite part. Was preaching the same thing I've had I. Had Who had that? Was that your favorite point? Is anybody else who had the favorite? Point. Preach the same thing. Just a few of you. You have two timid. You do 2 timid. Was that Doctor Kumar? Was that your favorite point? All right, you tell us. Why was your favorite point? I have a Big Brother who is a reverend and then he keep on saying that why do we preach the same things that you preach and that I I'm not developing myself. So I used to have contradicting ideas, but tonight when you preach it, I realized that I really understood why I should preach the same things that you are preaching. So I'm very glad. Wow. Give it to Doctor Kumar. He's going to explain something. Thank you Bishop. Why was my favorite poem was because of, I mean, something that you can practically judge how well you are doing by the effect you are having on the people. I mean, it's not abstract. You preach and you teach this. You realize that if you preach a different way, it doesn't achieve the same result. You know, so you are, you realize you're on the wrong path. And as you watch and you learn and you do it the same way, you are achieving the same result even in the church that you have with the same people. And so I for me, that was my favorite point. I was like, you have to master this one. If you can master this one. Then you can add what? What two things can you add? After you give us 22 spices you can add. You can you can add cuckoo men cuckoo. Men. Cuckoo men and then and Bishop it will be. Nicer after you add the. Cuckoo. Men and. Nobody will even recognize when they see you, they say, are you? Are you? American or Australian? Glow red. I got. OK. All right, so let's go on the next one. Enjoy the fruits of ministry. Not all the points are hot like in your hardness. This one is nice. Enjoy the fruits of ministry. Second Timothy. Oh, this is private. You know, you can't say this publicly, isn't it? I can't say this publicly. Like enjoy the fruits of. This is a private thing. Don't forget, I told you, don't tell anybody. This is just between us. This is father to son. Enjoy the fruits of ministry. Second Timothy chapter 2 and verse number six it says the husband man that laboureth the. Husband man that Laboureth must be first pateka of the fruits. Wow. The farmer must be the first person to taste his oranges, his Coco yams, his sweet potatoes. You must be the first to fry your sweet potatoes. You must be the first to make some Kelly Willy from the plantain in your garden. Is that not a good idea? Wow. Now listen, whether you like it or not. When you do the ministry work, there are going to be benefits of all kinds, all kinds of benefits, and you will benefit from ministry. Amen. Wow. Now some years ago I was ministering. In school. And I was doing follow up and I came across a virgin. Yeah, yeah, I'm talking about fruits. Yeah, I came across a virgin. Yeah. And I mean, the Scripture says I should enjoy the first fruit. You see, it is not, it was not the aim in doing the work of God to find myself a virgin. No, I didn't set out to look for that. But I got myself one. Glory. I got. Yeah, I got myself one. It's a beautiful job. Are you listening to me? So there are many benefits of serving the Lord and you're going to benefit from from it. You're going to have. Friends, good friends, lifelong friends, the people that I have been with in the ministry that I have been working with from campus, listen carefully from campus, not recently from campus. Days from before campus, from secondary school, Bishop Eddie was working with me in Achimoto School on the Western compound. Bishop Eddie, he came to sixth form and I needed a president, somebody who was going to be the leader of the Scripture Union. I was not the leader of the Scripture Union because I told you I've never been chosen. It was up to people to choose me. They never choose me, but I was very much involved in getting the next person to be the president. And this was a new brother who had come from Premier College. He was not an Achimotan, but amongst the people I sensed that he would be the best person to be our president because I wanted to hand over. I mean, although I was not the president, I was, you know, an unofficial leader because I wasn't chosen. Are you understanding me? Yeah. I wasn't chosen. Don't worry if you're not chosen, because I've never been chosen by people. Yeah. And so when I realized that he would be a good person, I realized he didn't have the Holy Spirit. He didn't have the holy. Spirit, yeah. So I told him he needed to have the Holy Spirit. Yeah. So I said I want to pray for you to receive the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues like I do every Sunday. I did the same for him many, many years ago. Yeah. So I said let's go. And I took him. I took him and some others went to the library place there on the western compound. I prayed for him, and he began to speak in tongues. He's my friend, my life. He just left here a lot this morning. You have friends for the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, yeah, some of you are going to have lifelong. You can depend on them. A friend who comes to a house when you are not there and he needs. Something he can break the door and go inside and call a carpet, take what he needs from your house, come back, get a carpet and fix the door and go. It's the type of friend I'm talking about. Yeah, I'm explaining what a friend is. What a friend. Is it amazing? Is it fantastic? Is it a friend that when you, when you come, when you come, you're not? There. He can break the door down, go inside your house, take what he needs, get a Carpenter to refix the door, and go away without texting you or calling you that. I came to the house, I broke the door and I came in and out. This is your friend. What a friend. Come sing it for me more than a friend. When you feel like your life has ended, nowhere to turn, your future holds no promises, you're at an all time low. Whatever you do is just not enough. You feel like giving up thoughts of cashing it all in every situation isn't no way I know someone who's there on him. You can cast your burden to him. You can give your care because he's more than a friend. He's a real friend. He will love you at all times. More than a friend, he's more than a friend. He's more than a friend. He's a true friend. He's disclosed than a brother. More than a friend. More than a friend to me, there are times I've been discouraged. Thoughts of turning back, questioning my destiny. I'm bound up when I should be free to the crowd. It seems I've made it. But inside my heart was breaking. My mountain seemed too high to climb, but he was with me all the time. I know someone who's there on him. I can cast my burden to him. I can give my care because he's more than a friend. He's a real friend, and he loves me at all times. More than a friend, he's more More than a friend, Jesus is more than a friend he's a true friend He sticks closer than a brother More than a friend More than a friend to me. How can I repay you for all you've done and have a cool And how will die replace you? I never vote 'cause you're the only one for me. Oh yeah, I know. Jesus is more than a friend. He's a real friend. He will love you at all times for And I have a friend. He's more and more and more and more and more. He's more than a friend. He's a true friend. He's explosive than a brother. More than a friend. To see and the friend I'm talking about is a friend who can come to your house when you're not around, break the door and go inside and take what he needs to get the Carpenter to fix the door and go, but without sending you a WhatsApp or a text. And he came to the house and Jesus is more than this kind of friend gives a lot of shout of praise. You are going to have lifelong friends from from campus, from school time. All the friends you make now, they are lifetime friends. They are the best friends you can have acted for for hello for years. I'm telling you, take it from me, especially from church. If I take even Betty, who was look after me from school, spiritually, even I don't see hardly see her. In my life now, I can go to her house and break her door. It's true. I can, if you like, ask her when. When I see her, I'll call her. So you can. I can go to her and break her door to her house and then break the door to her room and take something that I need and go away. She will not be angry with me. Yeah, I'll just send a WhatsApp to her husband. Text. I've been around, I've been around. I was here at seven. I was there whilst you were in touch. These are benefits. Yeah. Then I'm talking about fruits. So you must you must take the. Fruits. Then I've given you to. I talk about you, find you. Find a partner. You can find a partner now. Don't come. Don't come around with. Non non non possible partners you see there are. Partners that are not. Compatible with serious ministry. Don't bring them, OK? It's very important. You're going to have lifelong friends. Then you're going to have lifelong fathers. Wait, take it from me. You're going to need, you know. When you grow up in life. You are going to see the needs of a referee, especially in your marriage, somebody who has power to tell you that you are wrong. Yeah, take it from me. Because when an evil spirit comes into you and you are going off, you'll be surprised what is happening in your life. Yeah, and you? You'll be surprised, the strength of the hand that says stop it. Yeah, I remember one sister who was going crazy. Your sisters go mad easily. Well, let me explain it to you. Some of you think that I'm saying something against you. But listen, let me explain it to you. Can I? Can I explain to you? Are you sure you want me to explain to you? OK, OK. No problem. I will explain it. Just calm down. Calm down. Now. What are the main features that you need to diagnose? Madness. Schizophrenia can any doctor help me give me 323 what are the When you have this 1-2 then you diagnose this is schizophrenia #1 stand up. No, no. No. State, state, state. All. These three hallucinations, especially of what kind? In the third person. That means they. Can prosecute 3 auditory hallucinations, bizarre and bizarre hallucinations and so on. OK #2 second delusions? Delusions. What type of delusions? Paranoid. Grandiose delusions. Not grandiose, necessarily. Paranoid. Delusions which may be bizarre. We have two types of bizarre and non bizarre. So listen, a bizarre delusion is something fantastic, A non bizarre delusion. If you feel that your husband is in love with somebody, it's not bizarre. It can be. It's not so. Far fetched, a bizarre delusion that you think that the ceiling is going to come down whilst we are in church. Throughout. So you have put some good app to support it. That is a bizarre delusion. Or you feel that there's a microphone in every plaque, so you put plaster on each plaque. You see. You are convinced about it in the house and you have put plaster on every plaque because you feel that there's a microphone. People have put microphones in. They are listening to you at the CIA headquarters and you are sure about it. So you've plastered all. That is a bizarre. Delusion and when they explain you, you don't believe it. They show you the connection. There is nothing there is still you don't you don't believe it. It's a it's a bizarre delusion that a non bizarre delusion that you think that your husband is is in love with his secretary or is he in love with a person that he's working with. It's not a bizarre, it's non bizarre, you understand, So paranoid. Delusions, these two. You have these two, you can diagnose the person, of course, is a brilliant. OK, true or not? Yeah, you got it right now. OK, now paranoid delusion is fear. Paranoia is fear. So half. The major. Half component of madness has to do with fear, and women are having a lot of fears all the time. They fear fantastically so they can easily shift into almost a mental state. You understand what I there's so many things they fear just as as we brothers, we. Last. All the time. Too bad. Brothers, is it not true we are always lasting? Oh. So but that that doesn't tend towards any mental. It it, it tends towards HIV, so it's also dangerous anyway. So that's all. So that's why I say lady can easily go go mad. All right, because of the fear component of madness. Madness has a large fear component now a a delusion. Paranoid is something that you are afraid of so much and no one can change your mind in spite of contrary evidence. They've shown you the evidence that you don't change your mind. Then it is a delusion, but it's not a delusion only, but paranoid, fear filled delusions. OK, like you fear the ceiling is going to fall down. All right, How did we get into this? I was telling you something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Father, Father with a strong. Hand, Who can say to somebody who is just being filled with fear, stop it now. Stop it. The other day I saw one sister who has gone to take some medicine and there was no basis for her to take that medicine apart from fear where she was afraid and suspicious that maybe she is having that disease. But there is no miss. And so when I say, ah, what is wrong with you? I said you are. Making yourself a patient when you are not a patient. So I said stop that medicine now and wanted to conduct various. I said no, you are just such stop it. Yeah, you know, just disappear. So, ladies and gentlemen, what I'm. Trying to tell you. Is that you're going to have. If you develop strong relationships, you will be able to say, let's call Bishop and and the other person says I agree, let's call me what he says. That would be it. Yeah. But when you don't have such a good relationship, you can't even call. When you call, say. My name is Do you remember? I was sitting on the 4th row and my name is. You don't know, so your relationship is far. Yeah, you are, You are #4. 633. Or. Or another thing is that some of the other pastors that you have, God has given you here. You have lifelong pastoral relationships, lifelong. So these are fruits and one day your messages may have value. You see, my preaching today even has financial value that it never had before. For many years in my life, no one ever invited me. Most of my life no one has ever invited me. Then from a particular point I started to be invited and nobody hardly ever gave me anything when I preached. Then from my particular point people started to give me. It was as if they started to put a value on just speaking for 30 minutes or 40 minutes, very high value, which would amaze me. But it just started at a point. But for most of my life I've never known my never value, but suddenly value then interest in what I would say international interest. Yeah. So I'm saying that. There are benefits. Do you get it? And fruits, but you'll be the first to see that serving the Lord so blessed one of our pastors, you know, he was just a lay pastor, a lay pastor. And then it was time to take his children to school. And the school fees in his country was so high and the best schools were Catholic schools that you cannot get and and you. You have to. Pay and you can't get in or something. So he decided to just go and apply. When he applied, they said a pasta he said, he described, he said what what do you do? Well, he said, pasta, pasta pasta student is free now. The the, the, the cost everybody was paying. Whatever. And he was not paying. He didn't even know that a pastor was valued in that system. Yeah, Yeah. So. Being a lay. Pastor, suddenly he was now not paying fees. When you grow up, you will see that all your money will get finished on school fees. And also that's why the more children you have, the less capable you are of building a house. Yeah, and if you ever build a house, you have to build it before the school fees become real. You will benefit. Take it from me. This is personal. You will benefit from the ministry one day. Yeah. I I don't ever thought she would travel. All around the world, every time she goes to the American embassy or the British embassy. Please can I have a visa delivery? How much do you have? Look at your Gaza. Refuse OH. But today she can go in and out just 1-2 days. She comes back three days. Look, sing 2 songs, come back Wow. Tell you whenever you'll be the first to find out that the ministry is beneficial one way or another. But you know, I can't say this in public. Do you get what I'm saying? It's a private thing. It's a personal thing. This is a personal letter. No one intended this letter to be made public. Some people have taken this letter and have made it public. That's how come I'm even using it. Yeah. He's telling his son that look, Adiano, he will benefit from it. You will benefit from it today. I have people that work for me that. I don't think President Mahama has such people, I'm telling you. Yeah, yeah. I don't think President Obama or the one in the Bush has. It's true. Ask secretaries, pastors, workers. Some are doctors, some are lawyers, some with masters, PhDs, first class. What are views? It's true. They will, they will, they will. They just do anything for me. Anything. It's wonderful. Look, this is personal. You will be the first to benefit. And I have classmates today. They are still ironing their own shirts. Yeah, they are super specialists of staff specialities. Huh? It's amazing. One day I arrived in Malaysia and I was going to the immigration. Suddenly I met someone. So you are welcome this way. I said which way? He said this way and so by here he said no, this way and I went this way and so on. Very important. You don't go through immigration. I'm passing where the royalties and others pass. So I was taken to the side. And so sit down. I have to go for my. Forget about your luggage. We are breaking it. A king has invited you to this country. Yeah. Wow. So just this private. I'm just telling you that you'll be surprised. You'll benefit from what you are doing. Yeah. One day, one of our pastors, he was a black man working for white men. The white man looked at him as a black man said, what can you do up to this point? You can do up to here. He was a lawyer, but I said you just be here. So one day the white man who is the owner, big, big, big, big company, he had to go somewhere and he said the clients will will be there. Just start speaking. I'll be rushing, I'll be there. Just just delay. It's all very bad. And he knew that this black man cannot do much. So he rushed and came back. When he came, this black man who was the lay pastor, also a lawyer, was talking to the When he got in, he just paused for a moment. Then instead of coming forward to take over, he sat back. And now listen. And the black man was talking, talking, talking to him. Then he just let him talk and talk and talk. And after I said, man, I didn't know that you were a public speaker. Public speaker? Where? How come you are such a good public speaker? I said, oh, I'm a pastor. I preach every Sunday. So wow, suddenly he was promoted up, up, up, up, up, up to a highest possible level. Yeah, you see, take it from me. You'll be the first to find out. Yeah. Are you listening to me? Yeah. One day I was with a poor brother. He didn't have much. And because he was so poor, when he was going to town, he didn't go straight. He passed right to where rich people walk. There was a road that. Rich people. Walk the road with hotels. Arabs would come to that city with their cars and check out of the car, out of the plane with the car and rent the whole floor of the hotel. Their children would be Wheeling into the ashtrays of the hotel. Very expensive. Arabs from Kuwait, from Dubai, from Qatar. Yeah, these people. So as we were driving, he was driving. And he'll drive and he'll brake and he'll brake steps. What are you doing? Suddenly he stopped. I'm coming. He opened the door, got out. Run and he. Picked something from the ground and I came back. He ran back to the car, opened the door, sat and sparked the car and he showed me $500. Yeah, equivalent $500, I said. I said I always get money on this road. I always get money on this road. Rich people, they throw money away. And he, he's a poor man. He's my poor member. Yeah, he was working at a factory, as a factory hand. He may have much money, but God bless him. Remember, I told you you'd be the first to know. One day I needed money. One day I needed money in the ministry. I went to say I I didn't. I couldn't even see my toe. And my pastor said, go and see that guy. Tell him that I need some cash for projects. Yeah. Then he went to his home. He dug. Then he put his hand and gave him $20,000. He said, take it to him. The guy who was looking, the one who looked on the streets. Yeah, he's actually. I should have given him 100,000. Give him 25. I don't want to write a letter. What letter? You don't write letter. Take it. I should have given you 100. I'm sorry to take 2020 thousand. I told you his personal. Be the first to know. You'll be the first to know. Yeah. As you keep preaching the people, you'll be surprised. Somebody will be so blessed. Bless you. And help you. Yeah, I needed for my project in Canada. I said give me money. I said you'll be the first. Paul was right and said look, this thing, you'll be the first one to eat the fruits. All my friends today, I got them from the church. My friends from before the world were half Swiss, half Dutch, half Austrian, half Ghanaian. All my friends were half caste, half caste. Of white people. The current friends that I have, I got them through ministry and your lifelong friends that if you relate well, you have all, they are all from the church. So tell your neighbor. Look, you are going to be the first to benefit from this thing. It's personal. Don't tell anybody now. Tell your neighbor who is are you? Could it be that you are looking for a beloved outside the the church world? All right, tell somebody. Enjoy the fruits. Husbands, wives, friends, fathers, referees, money, me. I don't know what. I don't know. Joy. Tell somebody, enjoy the fruits. No problem at all. You'll be the first to enjoy. Wow, it's a beautiful job. How many agree that it's a really fantastic job? #13 Deeply consider the things that I said to you. I'm enjoying a cold drink prepared specially. How many drinks are prepared for you? Think about it, you better get down to the job and start preparing it yourself. Am I enjoying the fruits Totally? Think about the lunch that you had in the hotel today. Some small fruits are beginning to show up here and there. Some small fruits are beginning to show up. Now consider Second Timothy 27. Consider what I say, and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. Consider deeply the things that I've said to you. That is number 13 and #14 expect God to give you understanding. You see, you must expect another, a personal understanding from every scripture that you think about. I'm going to say it again. Can I say it again? Deeply consider the things that are anything that I say to you. Deeply consider it. But I didn't. You see, this is Paul writing to his son. And if you are not my Son, I wouldn't tell you these things. Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. Now the number 2 is expect God #14 expect God to give you an understanding, a personal understanding. Now this is the where you start to differentiate people who have a personal revelation and a personal anointing. This is the particular. Scripture. That separates the sheep from the goats. It's this one. Yeah. You see, I think you you would have thought that though this is something like meditate. No, it is. It is where the sheep are separated from the goats. It's where the boys are separated from the men. It's where the anointed are separated from the de anointed. It's where those who are called are separated from those who are not called. It's on this scripture. How is that so? This is that these are the two things that don't happen with people who never. Amount. To much in the ministry, Number one, they don't think deeply or they don't consider what is said. They hear what is said, but they don't. Like, let me think about only this then he says, and the Lord shall give you understanding. God gives a personal understanding to you about everything. So that is why when you hear me preaching, you feel that. But I've been reading the Scripture. Yeah. What has separated me from you is that I've thought about it deeply and then the Lord has given me an understanding, which is what I share with you and sounds like it's something different. You remember. Remember when the scripture. I was sharing those of you who were here earlier. I was telling you that he that pleaded his course first sounded just. But what? This neighbor cometh and setteth out the matter when the neighbor comes. And no, it's not like that. It's not so nice. I know her very well. I'm her neighbor. I'm her roommate, I'm her mother. I'm the mother. I know my daughter. She's not so sweet as she looks. Wow. So listen carefully. Listen carefully. This is where you separate from me. This is where everybody goes. Left and right. All these messages are preached, machanes are given, poemanos are given, logoses are given, remes, carisos, negemes, everything. The books are given to you. But those who consider what I say to you all who think deeply and get their their own personal understanding, those are the ones who. Go into ministry. At a certain level, one day I was in South Africa. I don't know what happened. Usually when I'm with my pastors, I always preach. I rarely hear my own pastors preaching. That day I happened to hear Bishop Pritchard preaching. He was preaching about commitment. Four types of He was preaching. From. Mega church. And. He was. Explaining the people commitment and as he was teaching it look, I became so blessed yeah and he explained the. Commitment. Then when he got to marital commitment, then he started to talk about Princess Diana, explain. How? Marital commitment, you would never be separated. But even though Princess Diana was fornicating in Paris with her boyfriend when she died, it was her husband who took a plane to camp for her both dead body and put it in the plane and carried it back. That his marital commitment is like, you are connected. Yeah. And as her funeral was, her husband and her children were walking behind the coffin, even though she was fornicating in Paris with her boyfriend, they were maritally committed. The marital commitment, it never ends. Yeah. He was explaining that when you get to marital commitment, your commitment is very high. It's permanent. So when we are marital committed in the ministry, you are permanently committed. So as he was explaining, I began to understand marital commitment. I wrote the book, but I was understanding it better. Then I have, I took the book, I said this is a very good book. So I decided to come back to Accra and come and start teaching things from the book. Yeah, you see the the book that I write, you can teach. Me, my own book, in a way that would will be such a wild blessing, because when you consider what is written there, the Lord will give you your own understanding of it. And when you share it, I'll be amazed. Are you sure? This one. More than once I've had my own person preach. It has inspired me to come and preach my own thing. I wrote it. More than once it has happened to me. I hear them talking about saying, hey, this thing is the wild thing. Because you see, it's not really my message, because all the words. So when you. Think about it a little. Then you get some personal understanding. That is the understand that separates us. That is when we see that, it says, have we all written the Bible? We don't see that. You don't have time to think about just one line. You don't have no time for that. Yeah. Which line of the Bible are you? Have you been thinking about today? I can show you a line, a sentence. I can show you. Sentences if if you know where I'm having my prior time family, you look at the Bible, you will see the sentences which are jump. One of them is this scripture me that because I it keeps you know, I always know the Holy Spirit shows me particular verses When when that verse strikes me, I, I, I always go back to it. I see that verse is what is coming today. Then suddenly starts to come up as if the verse is waking up from the dead and I start to think about it. That's why I don't mind sharing with people what the Lord tells me or even what I read. Nobody even. Bothers to read. And to think about it when I think about it, because I'll read with Jonas book and I'll be thinking about it. Meanwhile, you have the book as well, but it it doesn't mean much to you. This is where we pass company in the ministry. This is where I shake hands with you and I say bye bye. Yeah. And this is where you pass company with me and you also start climbing. This is where you start adding cucumin and question. Because you now can explain it better, even maybe. Better than me. Because you see some of you, your life experiences. Can give you a better explanation of certain things than I have, because I don't have any such. You know, one day I heard Archbishop he came to Commonwealth Hall to preach. He was standing outside, outside the hall in open, open air. He was preaching, I tell you, and he was talking about demons. And how Satan took him to Kolebu and he used to smoke cocaine and travel and do this. And he described all the discourse he was going from gondola to Pusika to Keteke nightclub and other places, water club. And he said that an evil then the the evil spirit told him put your hands into the fire. So he put his hand into the candle in Kolebu and bent his own fingers. Yeah, he was describing the level of demonic powers and oppression that was on on him to destroy. That's how his fingers got destroyed, that he doesn't have these three fingers. And he was wiping his hand and his thing in Commonwealth. It was electrifying and fantastic. So as I was standing there as a student, I was listening. I said, Lord, now me too. I don't have all these kind of things. Not can I ever preach. Because it's so electrified and so bothered. Lord, can somebody bend one of my fingers? But you see, when I think about my own little life stories in medical school and 123 colaboo and so on, I'm also able to find a way of preaching without all those things. I don't know where it is. Pussycat Gondola, nightclub, Wato Club. Hey, are you listening to me? So when you. Start to think. Think about all the things we are saying. Think deeply. The Lord will give you understanding. Lord hasn't given you understanding yet though. Understanding comes when you think. You think you've heard? I know that. Mr. What is he going to preach about? He's going to preach about. I know what it's going to be about. He's not to preach about. Kill yourself for Jesus Bishop, He has only three messages. Kill yourself for Jesus anointing and sacrifice. Mr. He has only three messages. Hey, may I know what Bishop is going to say? Your mouth. You don't. You don't know what I'm, you don't know what I'm saying, you don't know what I'm saying. And even if you know what I'm saying because you haven't started thinking about it, when you start thinking about it, you're going to grow, baby. Amen. Wow, is it exciting. OK, OK, OK, OK #15 expect to suffer trouble. This is personal, you see. I can't come to the kodesh and start preaching. Expect to suffer trouble, No. Nonsense. Get to the job and tell them something good. Tell them God is going to see them through. Tell them, Christ in you the hope of glory. Tell them, God, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in hell. Even as I saw prosper. Tell them that Abraham was blessed, Isaac was blessed, Jacob was blessed. I see no reason why you shouldn't be blessed. Abraham's blessings are mine. I experience the blessings of Abraham. I'm blessed in the morning, I'm blessed in the evening. Abraham's blessings are mine. Give the Lord a shout of grace. Sit down. That's what I That's what I'm going to preach at the Cadets. I'm going to come in and tell the people I expect to suffer trouble. I told you to expect a miracle. Tonight is your night, I said. Tonight is your night. Yesterday is gone. I don't know about tomorrow, but I know something tonight. God. Is going to breakthrough for you, Saddam? Don't come to the church and say I expect trouble. Do you think my members will be excited with such a method of expect trouble? But this is a personal letter. He was telling his young person that personal. Now look, expect trouble. Wow. Yeah, expect trouble. I'm going to have trouble one day. There was a certain sister, she had a nice boyfriend in the world, and I spoke. To her, she's a very pretty girl. She was so pretty that boys would climb over the walls to get into her house, climb to the balconies upstairs and break into the rooms just to gain access to her. Yeah, she was a beautiful. She was a beauty. But one day she gave her life to the Lord. She started coming to the church and to the fellowship and everything. Then I told her, listen, you cannot continue with this guy. So she said, OK, I'm stopping, I'm stopping. So she stopped. Then she started to have all sorts of problems from the guy and at home family. One day she came to me. She said Bishop, not Bishop, pastor, friend, whatever I was. She said I've never had such problems in my life. Oh, the time when I was having my boyfriend doing whatever, I never had it. Now, rather than I said I percepted so many problems. You see, because this is the message, I should also expect trouble. I've been serving the Lord. I never thought I would have. I thought once I'm following the will of the Lord, God will take care of you, but it doesn't seem to be that way. I expect trouble my. My mother. My mother doesn't allow. Yes, the mother doesn't allow. I expect trouble. My father. My father doesn't allow it. Expect trouble. Your old boyfriend is not letting you go. Expect trouble. You don't have money or. When I go to the ministry, my parents are certain that I will be able to look after the rest of my siblings. With my siblings, we are 7, do you say? And I'm the second, my first, our first point is deaf and dumb. So it's my turn. I have to look after everybody. So I'm the senior. So they are expecting something from me. So I cannot just say that I'm going to work for the Lord. And I said I'm going to work for the How will I get something to look after the rest of my siblings? My siblings are also. Expecting something from me. My mother is now 63, my father is 73. So it's up to me. Look, tell you, everybody expect trouble. He said, I want to tell you something. You see, I know everything is OK for you, but it's not like that's for me. Everything's OK for that's not like that for me. That's what I'm experiencing. Since what you're experiencing, what I'm experiencing, I'm experiencing troubles. I'm experiencing a lot of problems. That's a lot of problems since I came to them. Now this time I'll say wait for the lawyers is through something. But if something is and I'm feeling it differently, I'm feeling it differently. That's why, Bishop, you're always happy. You are smiling and laughing. There is something that we are always. Laughing, but it's not like that for me. Look, expect trouble, expect trouble. And when trouble comes, the Bible says the wise man built his. House upon a Rock. The rains came, the floods rose, and the winds blew vehemently, but the wise man's house stood still on that rock. Make sure you go down to that beach before you go and put some sand. Make a small sandcastle, everybody, and see how long it will last. One wave is finished. Somebody brought me the complimentary card of the bank that. She was working at. When I looked at it, I said to myself, this is the complimentary card of a sandcastle, It's a sandcastle manager, you are managing a sandcastle, so don't come. So my mother, my grandmother, one day somebody said because of my grandmother, I cannot go to the mission. But my grandmother is not feeling well. I'm not joking. Grandmother So when I saw him recently, I told him that you are holding the record or grandmother my grandmother because of my grandmother, I cannot be the people are saying my mother, my father, my sibling that you there you are taking it to grandmother. Grandmother. Wow #16 Continue to preach the word in even when you are experiencing trouble and difficulty, continue to preach the word. This is personal. He was telling Timothy no. He was telling him, Tali Holi loco, try mono or continue. We're there. Don't stop there. We're there. You get what I'm saying? We're there, le Tali, don't stop it at all. No matter the troubles you are experiencing, Timo, You get what I'm saying? Tali, don't stop preaching. No Timo, I said Timo, don't stop the preaching, no, no matter the trouble. Financial trouble Marita trouble. Family problem O2. Funerals in one month. Don't stop preaching, Timo. He said Second Timothy 2, verse 90. This is a personal letter that I've tried to extract. You know, it's a personal letter. I don't want to go too deep in somebody's personal view, but he's saying here wherein I suffer trouble as an evildoer. Even and to bond, even to the point of prison. I've even gone to prison. But the word of God is not bound. No matter what has happened to me, I never let the word of God be bound. I allow the word of God to just continue. Yeah. So when Mrs. Saki was Juanita, when she died, the day she. Died. I had to preach in the evening. I had to preach. I had to preach at her funeral. I had to preach at her. Very difficult. I had to. I, I had to. I had to. I had to, Yeah. So no matter what you see, originally I wanted to do all the things that you are saying. But my eyes, there are so many. And my examinations end of year and then other things because of that project and other things a lot of difficult. And then also financial. I don't have money to take taxi to come for a meeting and I cannot walk too. I cannot endure hardness. The road is too dusty. I feel dirty by the time I have come back. Keep preaching, keep preaching. Keep on preaching. Don't stop preaching. There's a song like that. Keep preaching. My friend came to me the other day. He came and he died to set us free from a life of sin and shame. I gave my life to him that day. That's the reason I can tell you. What are you going to tell us? Tell you. To keep preaching, keep teaching, tell me all about the sake of love for all. Well, that's what friends are for. That's what friends are born and I never thought I'd be this way. Since he came into my life I have never been the same. What a difference Jesus makes. Jesus Christ is the way the truth lies, and there is there's no other name by which we can be saved. Will you give your life to to you love? Keep bringing. Come on, keep. Don't stop it. Everyone must know I'm saving a life for all. That's what friends are for. Keep praying and keep sharing. We must share the gospel everywhere. Yeah, and that's what friends are born. Keep preaching. Tell me what I'm about to save your love for all. That's what friends are for. Keep praying and keep giving. We must share the gospel everywhere. That's what friends are. For keep preaching in spite of all your problems, all your exams, all your funerals, all your difficulties, all your financial problems, all your relationship problems, all your broken hearts. Keep preaching, keep shouting. Tell the world about the Saviour, Yeah? I fell down. I touched something. I fell down. You fell down, you fell down. Start filling up and you'll be OK. OK pull yourself together and fill upwards in Jesus name. Hey, do not follow down and up like that. Oh do not be good. Oh, said the word of God is not bound is. I was pressed about on every evening and to death. I didn't stop. I said we were. Pressed to this dream measure and you just keep on preaching. Sometimes when I watch myself a video and I don't when I watch myself in a video of past preachings and past programs. The only thing that I remember, I did trouble that I was going through at that time. I don't remember anything. Yeah, each. Video actually reminds me of a particular trouble. Yeah. It doesn't remind me of any victory. Yeah. And you see, I can't tell you more than that. If I placed that in video, I just remember this. I remember that, I remember this, I remember that I said to you, all right #17 the rim is getting. Hotter true or not true? The rim is. Do you know what a rim is? A room. It's a room in French Rim. Are you enjoying hardness? I don't want to say anything. It's too hot. It's too cold. We are feeling cold. We are abroad in winter. They say we are feeling cold and you are saying we are hot. This one are tired, this one are happy, this one are hungry. This place you are new, isn't it? Is it a new person who is saying those things? Go and warn those the new people. Oh, you have your gun. I also have one. I have my own gun. Please can I get my gun? I need my gun for my car. My gun is in a car. I have a gun. Special gun for camps but I think this looks also looks like a powerful gun. Go and fire some of the new people and see. No, rather this is firing the the Shall they catch him? Catch him. Don't allow people to just more treat you. Those are the back. Somebody is shooting you. Catch the guy S legs. Nobody is catching him. They are soft, soft teeth. Shall they come back? No problem. #17 Endure all things because of the church. Endure all things because of the church. Second Timothy 2, verse 10 Therefore I endure all things for the electric, that they may also obtain the salvation, which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. Amen. It says I endure all things for the elect's sake. So you see a pastor, it has got to be a good pastor. There are things you will experience or endure not for your own sake but because of the people. You just stomach it so that everything will just carry on cooling. And that is what a lot of mature people do in their marriages, especially in the older. They will stay in their marriage because of their children. Yeah, they never leave. One pastor, he told me how a man was married with four children and when all the children grew up, as soon as all the last child left, when he divorced his wife and went and married a man. Yeah. A true story. Forgive, but it's like he was, he was, he was rather enduring, if you call it enduring his marriage because. Of His children because children a lot of children, especially the third one they become abnormal when their parents separate a. Lot of children are. Affected by the separation of their parents. So parents who know that sometimes. For their children sick, they just stay together and give a picture of everything is OK, although it's not OK and it's for your sake. And they don't even talk about things to the children or they cover things up because they love their children and they are trying to help their children. To be OK, so if unbelievers or even homosexuals can. Stay in a marriage. Which they don't want to stay in because of their children. If homosexual can do something for some people can a pastor not also endure certain things for the sake of the people and I didn't write the Bible, Paul said Paul wrote this to Timothy. He said that endure for the. Elect sake for their sake, Just put up with some rubbish. Maybe you deserve something better, or maybe you should have some better life. Maybe you should have a better financial situation, But sometimes for the people's sake that they may also fear about salvation, put up with ABC so that everything is OK. So if unbelievers can do that, we can also do that. So when those of you, when you get married, this is going to be one of the things you can't get up and say, ah, I can't take, you can't take it. You have to take it. Not even for anybody, even for the children's sake. For the church's sake, for the elect's sake, so that the elect will also be normal. And, and you may say, oh, we can't just get, we are putting up things for the, we are pretending to the public. No, you are doing what Paul said. You are doing something for the elect's sake, for the sake of those who have been called and those who are. Elect yes. Oh well, I I I can drink wine. I can drink wine, I can drink wine, I can smoke. Cigarettes. I can do so many things which will not harm me at all. If I drink wine, if I drink there, nothing, nothing bad will happen to me. God will not punish me for drinking beer. Yeah, I can drink there. I mean, it can even go down. This is the point. But what I'm saying is that it's not in the Bible, that it's a sin, that sometimes for the sake of the elect. I may say that, wow, this people when they see me drinking wine, they will they will say he has backsliders. Or if I was to drive certain cars, you may say, ah, he's chopping the money. So because of that, I would drive the car that you think I'm not chopping. Money. For your sake, for your sick, for your sick, so that it can help you to be saved. Can I have an Amen? All right, I think we will soon start boiling. So I think we need to take a break and go out. Can we open the windows? Are the mosquitoes? Are mosquitoes going to come in? Turn on the lights. We are on number what 17. The low rate I got. OK, now listen carefully. We were on number what, 17? OK #18 Keep reminding people of the same things. When you are a pastor or a shepherd, keep reminding people about the same things. OK, now a pastor must be repetitive, but in an innovative way. You get it? You must be repetitive. Now think about it, in many houses they eat the same thing on a particular day. Did you know that? What do you eat on Sundays for food on Sundays? What do you eat on Mondays? Vancou And what? Vancou and Nokrosti on Mondays? OK, you tell me what is yours? Sunday is what? Give me a microphone. Yes, I'm going to get about 3 menus. On Sunday mostly I'm in church so I don't eat bacon. They eat contaminate Stew every. Sunday Every. Sunday. Contambre and what? Maybe yam or plantain? Yam and plantain #2 on Mondays. Is banquet no costume? Every. Monday. Yes, every Monday, without doubt. So with. So when you come to church and you get the same thing on Monday, there's nothing wrong with that. It's part of the menu. Yeah. And you must realize that we are actually giving the same thing. Over. And over. But you just have to do it, and innovatively if possible. Tuesday. On Tuesday to be a soup, either groundnut soup or palmnut soup. So it rotates every other Tuesday. Groundnut or palmnut soup? Wednesday. On Wednesday it will be a Stew, any Stew like beef Stew or anything, or fish Stew with rice. Wednesday Stew and rice and Stew. Rice and Stew. Thursday. Thursday will be garden next Stew. Garden Next Stew Standard Standard every Thursday Most. Likely you get that. On garden next Stew and what? And that one also depends on me. Maybe whatever potatoes that's Friday. No, Fridays is just off. Always. Every Friday. Every Friday is jollof and Saturday is what? Saturday is the day for new other things coming up because it's a cooking day so new stews come so it can be sometimes fulfilled with but a lot of us don't into that so it will be watching or anything something. And Sunday is what? Sunday was the consumerist. OK, you can be give me, give me Sunday is what, every Sunday? Sunday Sunday, it's rice and Stew. Every Sunday. Every Sunday without fail. Every Monday is what? Yam and contour rain. Every Monday is every. Monday. It's been going on for years. Every Tuesday is what? Banquo and Ukro? Every single Tuesday. Every Wednesday is what? Fufu and light too. Every Wednesday, fufu and light too. Every Thursday is what? Kinky, kinky and pepper and fish. Kinky Every Thursday is tinky Fish and Pepper Every Friday is what? Jolof Jolof Every Friday. Saturday is what? Fufu again. And Sunday is what? Rice and Steve. Rice and Steve stand up and it's every every Tuesday. Every time, every time you should expect it. So every Tuesday is what? Banco and Okra. Every Friday is what shut off every Sunday is what? Sunday. Friday is to you. Yeah, it's a menu every month. Does anybody have that also in your house? That is regular, huh? OK, Now what it says is that this way it is, the menu is being done. It's being done in a way that he knows Wednesday. Any day that I asked, he would tell you what it is. So that is an uninnovative way of repeating it. But if you actually look at everybody's schedule, it's about the same. But in some cases it is. So they they, they do it in a regimented way. I saw that Sunday. Yeah. So you see, I could also preach my sermons and you know that in March I always preach about this in September. Then you say September, We, we, we, we, we hear out of shepherd. On December it is loyalty, on January it is this. I could also do that, but the way I have mixed it up, you don't know what I am on. What if I sent you Thursday? Kinky. You see so by when you come to a church. Even. Though you may eat cake today for food, rice, this, it keeps on going round like that. You are not as sure as like you tell Monday. So when you come to the church, you may be surprised if you actually look through the menu. We have actually been going through a particular this, then this, then this, then this, then this, and we go round this and this and this, and then we go round that is it. So Paul wrote to him and said, look, this is between us. Yeah, keep reminding the people about the same thing. Yeah, cook it again. Cook it again next week. And you can either do it in an innovative way where they will know what is being given every, like in his case when I say every day Saturday. Fufu. It's like Magic endorsed it so well, I see. Some of us will. Also eat fufu once a week but we don't even know which day. Recently I noticed that my wife did put some particular food on Saturdays, but I hadn't noticed that it was a plan. Yeah, I I realized, ah, every Saturday. Is what you you cook. I never, it was recently that I realized there is a plan in the. So just keep on repeating that people will not know that you are repeating. Amen. Thank you brother. Now in terms of repeating, I just want to chip this in here, not really chip, but bring it in here.