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04. The Ways Of The Kingdom
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Mission South Africa ‘Prepare The Way of The Lord’. Machaneh Collection - 89. Preached in 2014, South Africa (Krugersdorp) 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 #4 of Mission South Africa. Take me to Matthew 13. Wow, are you are? You ready to read Matthew 13 something there? Yeah, it's beautiful. Now Matthew 13, Jesus spoke about the Kingdom, OK, and you must, you must believe in the ways of the Kingdom. And the ways of the Kingdom are clear in Matthew 13. Jesus said in verse 19, when anyone here at the word of the Kingdom and understandeth it not, then the wicked one comes and catcheth it away. Amen. And verse 20, he that received the seed in Stony places is the same that here at the word and unknown with joy. All right, but let's look at verse 3. Martin 13 verse 3. As Sowa went out to sow, when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside. The fowls came up and devoured them up. Some fell on Stony places where they had not much earth and fought with. They sprang up because they have no deepness of earth. When the sun was up, they were scorched because they have no root, and they withered away. Some fell amongst thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them, but others fell into good ground and brought forth fruits, some a hundredfold, some 60, some thirtyfold. Amen. Are you st
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Welcome to track #4 of Mission South Africa. Take me to Matthew 13. Wow, are you are? You ready to read Matthew 13 something there? Yeah, it's beautiful. Now Matthew 13, Jesus spoke about the Kingdom, OK, and you must, you must believe in the ways of the Kingdom. And the ways of the Kingdom are clear in Matthew 13. Jesus said in verse 19, when anyone here at the word of the Kingdom and understandeth it not, then the wicked one comes and catcheth it away. Amen. And verse 20, he that received the seed in Stony places is the same that here at the word and unknown with joy. All right, but let's look at verse 3. Martin 13 verse 3. As Sowa went out to sow, when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside. The fowls came up and devoured them up. Some fell on Stony places where they had not much earth and fought with. They sprang up because they have no deepness of earth. When the sun was up, they were scorched because they have no root, and they withered away. Some fell amongst thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them, but others fell into good ground and brought forth fruits, some a hundredfold, some 60, some thirtyfold. Amen. Are you still there right now? This is the parable of the SOA, right? But it's very important that you and I understand and believe it's OK. Now verse 31 another. Parable said. The Kingdom of heaven is like a grain of Master seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown is the greatest among herbs. Become at the tree, so that the beds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Amen. Now the Kingdom of heaven. Is what you must believe in. You've come to a Kingdom where things depend on seed. Power. OK, things depend on seed power in our Kingdom. Not South Africa, the Kingdom of Heaven. Which is the. Kingdom we belong to collusions one the 13 says. We have been translated from the Kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of His son. So all of us really belong to 1 country. There were not really S Africans, Ghanaians, Nigerians, whatever, but we all have been transferred from 2 kingdoms. There are only two kingdoms really in the world and remember South Africa was not South Africa before. There was Lesotho, Swaziland, all these different places and there were little kingdoms, OK that have been merged together to form 1 country. Nigeria is also like that, Ghana is like that. All countries are like these borders we have are recent borders from independence, OK, like 50, not even, some are not even 100 years old. All right, since the borders were formed. Are you with me? So what you must realise is that. God's. Kingdom OK, Are you there? Is that the? The world is actually divided really into only two countries. The Kingdom of darkness and the Kingdom of His Son. Look at Colossians 113, You see them? Colossians 113 God, we have been translated from the power of darkness into the Kingdom of his dear Son, isn't it? Have you seen it? So really we should all be having Kingdom of Heaven passports, not South African passports and this other passport and that passport, but Kingdom of Heaven passports, you see. So every country should actually have Kingdom of Darkness and Kingdom of Heaven, not S Africans, non S Africans and Africans and the rest of the world. That should be Kingdom of Darkness. You go to the left, Kingdom of Heaven, you come to the right. Are you with me? That's. Actually, what it should be. Hello. OK, now when you come to the Kingdom of heaven. Different. Rules operate. Yeah. And these are the rules that Jesus is teaching us. And one of them, he says that in the Kingdom of heaven, everything is like seeds. You sow a seed, then it grows. OK, so there are seeds. But then he went on. To explain even more, he. Said the Kingdom of Heaven is like a master seed, which is the least of all seeds. Like it's very small. That's what he's talking about. Very small, but very powerful. Think about your life. Well, think about preaching. Preaching looks like nothing. And you preach, it's like you've done nothing. By the time we finish, it's like we've spent money. We've come all the way here. We've spent money and and what do we get? It looks like nothing. And people have laughed at me for years, but some of them are no more laughing. People laugh at me and say oh. Who is this? Boy, what is he saying? It's a small boy. What is he saying? What is he teaching? What is he saying? But you see a lot of them. Now try are trying to learn from what we are doing. After laughing at me for some time, they realise. That the killer of heaven. Is like a master seat and it looks like I'm doing. Nothing at this time, but. I'm doing something very great. Yeah. Because it is. It's. Not a big. Programme on television. It's not a big. Programme on television. There are no posters, there's no adverts. Nobody even knows that the programme is coming on and the. Smallest of all seats that. Seem to be being sown. That over the years. You will now begin to see in South Africa. You'll be. Driving and you will see a sign lighthouse. Chapel International over here too. Here, here, here, here, here. Where else are they? Yeah, because the Kingdom of heaven. Is like something small that doesn't look. Important, but it's the. Main thing and that. Small thing really changes. Your whole life and changes everything, yeah. And sometimes even unbelievers. Outside. Respect it more. I remember one millionaire, he went to Central Africa and when he saw my signboard there, our life, our signboard. He said here too, he had told. Because he was. From he was from. Ghana, he said. What? Is these people doing here as well? And he told, And then he invited. Me to speak, you know, and and and and. The other speakers were. The the the the managing director of Mercedes-Benz. The whole world. The managing director of. Qatar, Qatar. Campaign. The whole world and myself. Yeah, he said that these three go together. Yeah. He respects you see also sometimes unbelievers. They from outside. They run. Or they see from outside and they say. Wow, this thing is not a small thing. Yeah, but you see you, you notice that. People don't respect the smallness. Of the Kingdom of heaven, yeah. You see the people who came forward here listen. If you did only. Ten of them. And as I said, there's. One person here, only you. Can change South. Africa. Just one person here. Can change South. Africa. So much, much, much. More than President Mandela or Zuma or. In Beki can change South Africa, I'm telling you just. One little. Boy, a woman. Nobody. Will ever know or think. Is anything Yeah and. Even this your your leaders, you. See that? Many of them were. Outside Ghana and came. That is how come they are able. To be leaders. That's why I want you to come outside and come back for the international exposure break. Something that you see a fellow African. Rising up and doing things. For themselves that you don't do for yourselves here, for things that have been done for you all along. The Kingdom of heaven is more small things. Look at me. Look at me, I'm I'm preaching. No, let's let's before. You look at me, look at you, you know? Think of how. Your mother couldn't change you and your father couldn't change you, Pastor Salas. Could your mother change you at all? What about your father? At all. What were you doing that they? Couldn't change you Drinking, smoking, all the things, Bishop. They couldn't change me. They couldn't. Yeah. Did they try victims? Everything, Popkins. I didn't change. You didn't. Yeah, he's a prophet. But they couldn't change him. But something small could. Change him preaching preaching some. Of you have been bitten by your parents. That you cannot. They cannot. Take lashes. Val. Nothing can change you. Look at you today. You are sitting here. Quietly. Calmly. As if you were born a. Saint doing anything that can be done. You were doing some. But something small. So when you come to the church. You have to respect small things. A little book. You. See it lying there like that? That book. Can change you you. See it like that? You see it lying in your room. It. Has power the day you. Take it seriously, it can change you. Look at me preaching. A book. A Book I. Came into contact with Kenneth Higgin. Small book like the small ones, not a full book. 20 pages small. Pamphlet then, I said. Wow, what is this? Man, and I wanted to read more and I started to read and to listen. Small book I've never been. Trained in the Bible. School before but. My training which is 7 years in the pedicles to seven good years. Seven years of making me into a doctor studying anatomy, Physiology, biochemistry. Pharmacology, Microbiology. Biology. Psychiatry, ophthalmology parties seven years of training training couldn't. Change me from the time I start a small book that made me into a minister of the gospel of Jesus. Christ as well go. That is why you must not despise the small things. In the King of Allah or like sort of. You must understand how things work here here. Just a word. Just advising somebody, telling somebody something, it can mix, you have no idea. That's why, that's why you someone, you wonder how Bishop has seemed to believe in that. I really do. Because someone said what do you see? I don't see anything. I see nothing. But I, I. Know that I've learnt to respect that that's. More person and you see it's like. Nothing. That's the that's the main person. That's the main person is. About to become that great. Thing. Children. Yeah, you see the kid of God when? You come you you only want to talk to rich people who have this one has getting material shop. This one is selling carpets. This one is. Selling cars so. When you see the children and you see the. Young people, you feel that this is these are. Nobodies. Oh, oh, in my church. Now I am no more at the Kodesh, I'm at the university church. They are all children. These are the main people. These are the main. People, I was even. Coming with with with one of them. These are the main people, yeah, even come like, you know, with all respects most more things or even they say they are having sessions. They say, oh, you are. Outside you are doing this. You are. Doing like I was talking yesterday. Busy body. It could be like a. Particular session or a particular something you know you. Think that it's a small deal. I just missed one hour. I just missed 30 minutes. I just missed. I just. Missed the morning session. I was sleeping. I just I was just whatever you. Ask yourself, you don't respect. Small things, yeah. You don't respect small things. Small preaching, small boy, small girl, small book, small Bible, small tape, small CD, small message, small listening. What, 30 minutes? All those things they are. Small, small things you. Have to respect. Them when you come here, you have to fear them when you come. To the church you must. Fear it, I tell. You. That's the powerful thing, yeah. And if you don't respect it, you don't fear you if you're going. To you're going to lose, you're going to look, look at your police. Police cannot take you from being an. Armed robber. Death sentence, Prison. Nothing can. Change you, but just preaching. The man is standing there. He's talking, sharing. And it's, it's you have changed. Wow. It's too wow. I mean if. I came to if I went to see your president now and I told him that I'm bringing a special hypothoracic neurotoxic surgery to. South. Africa from America. Do you think he will accept me that he wants me to be? I'm taking the deprived part of But if I went to him and I said I'm bringing the gospel, this, my Bible to a deprived part of South Africa, do you think he will be happy to to have? We have a lot of churches here already. We don't need more religion. We don't need this. We don't need that. It looks like a small thing. So don't make the mistake the world is. Making When you come to the House of God, the rules are different. Every country has different rules. You better know the rules when you go to a country, otherwise I'm going to get into big trouble. Every country has different ways things work. If you come to West Africa, you're South Africa. We don't. Have we don't have. Things working the way they work here, there, and things don't work there the way they work here. Yeah, OK. Every country is different. If you don't learn it quickly, you'll, you'll you'll be shocked. So as you come to the Kingdom of God, better learn it quickly. Things are different here. What works in the Kingdom was different from how it was in the world. When you were in the world, you have to look smiling, good to use, you know, physical power to get a husband. Here we don't use lipstick to get husbands. Your lipstick rather puts us off. When we see the lipstick, we say, ah, he's a strange woman. Hey this a strange. Woman coming. She's coming for my soul. She's coming for my life. She's coming to kill me softly with her lips. No Amen. Are you still around while you're going home? Tell somebody I'm in the Kingdom of. I'm in the Kingdom of God now. My passport is Kingdom of God Passport. Wow. In certain European countries, when you go, you are supposed to carry a certain amount of money on you by law. When we catch you now say money, you must have some money. Does it work in South Africa at all? Only the night. In the night, you must have money. All the robbers meet you. OK, OK. You have to give them something. Look, I'm talking about the police. You, not robbers. Switzerland. You must have your passport. Anywhere they ask you for passports anywhere they stop you. You can stop you with guns and anytime. So just passports identification. Yeah. Who are you can you don't have it. We don't, we don't. There's no identification. We just, we're just there. We're just happy. We just move around freely. Every country is different. One day I went to preach in Nigeria my first time, and they came to pick me to preach. They said, they said, they said preaching services at 5:00 in the afternoon. I said yeah, an afternoon service or even says, so this is our evening service, but it starts at 5:00. So the car came for me in the afternoon, a beautiful car, and I've never and by 8:00 the service is over, but in Ghana, 8:00 the choir is now. Singing and then Nigeria. 8:00 is finished, everybody is going home. I don't know about here, something like that. You don't stay too late, there's no transport. Is that what happens here too? Not too late. Yeah, not like Ghana. Ghana 9:00 They haven't even started preaching. We are, we are OK. 12:00 They've closed everybody. 'S going home, everybody find his way, not a problem. Yeah, so I went to. Preach. They took me and then. In a beautiful. Car. Then at 8:00 when we finished, I was going and I walked straight to the car which came for me and they said no, no, this car and it should be a very old car and I went to that car. I said, but why are you taking me? I thought I like the old the one you fucked me. They said no, no, no at 8:00. We don't use this car to pass through this area. I said. Yeah, we we don't use. Such cars at this time. To go this way, when we are going we use this type of car. It may be your last journey so. The next day it was the same, the new car in the afternoon by day and by night the old car. It's a different Kingdom with different set of rules. Everything is working differently because it's the Kingdom of Nigeria, you understand. So if you don't learn it well, so the the the, the man who the pastor. The guy who was taking me, right, I said, look me, I've lived in Nigeria all my life. I've never seen an armed robber before. I've never been attacked. Nothing bad has ever happened to me since I've been here all my life, he said. You have to know how to stay here. If you know how to, you will never see anything bad. That's what he said to me. He said I am a pharmacist. I've lived here. All my life I've never. Even seen an armed robber. Any bad thing before and he was taking. Me in the old old car by night. New car. By day, is it not the rules how to stay here? You see, So what I'm. Trying to explain to you is that if you want to do well. In the Kingdom of God. You have to know how. Things work here and then adjust. Yourself that. Here it's not a big thing that. Means that God is doing something some of my most. Powerful. Camps are the small this. Is a small group relatively. We could have. We could have a big. Program. Advertise this, this, this, whatever, but you have. To respect smoke when a. Church is such a very. Great church faced a small. Thing in somebody's room. But when you don't respect, you can never start churches. Churches cannot be started, but you always want to. See a lot of people. And the kinnable, but we don't need a lot of. People for anything great to happen, he said. It's. Like a mustard seed, which is the smallest? Of all possible seeds. When the influx, Larry. Brought me master seed from Ethiopia, He. Brought it. In a, in a, whatever. I said what is this it it looked like. Powder or sand? When you pour it on the ground, you can't find. The master seed you can't find anything. It's a very. Big tree. I mean, I just knew a lot of things. But I've never seen a master seed. I still have those master seeds somewhere. If you pour it here, you can't find yourself. I'll pick one. You can't see them. It's that small. It's like grains of sand. Maybe you can touch it with your finger and you see it. Whatever, that's it. That's the seed of a. Very big tree and the. King of God is like. That big thing that. Is going to be. It is this small thing that you see. That big thing is this small thing. That big church. Is this small church? That big church. Is this small church? One day, the churches we have planted, they will. All be very big. Churches and you'll see that. Many, many people are coming. It's this very popular churches, so many everybody is thinking to be the largest church in South. Africa. You wait and see and you if you are there on that day, then you you should play today's preaching. And say that that small. Is that big that small thing? Is that big thing? That small. Thing is, that big tree, that small tree is that big tree. That small tree is that big tree. That small tree is that big tree. And sometimes people tell. Bishop, you seem to believe in that. How do you know? About this I don't know. I see the Bible. The Bible says the small. Thing is that big thing. So how do you know these young people so that? Small thing. Is the big thing that small? Girl is that big thing. That's done that small boy, is that? Big man somewhere that nobody is that rich person. One day, that little thing is that great thing. That's how things work here. Stand up, David. You even you have, you have been married now, so you have become. Bigger, yeah. Where is your wife? OK, so that small thing can become a big thing already. It's even getting bigger. Amen. Wow. But why didn't you bring your wife? She's working. No, she should have come. You see, you have to be strong. So you are going. You are going. You should. You should say Bishop doesn't often come here. The last time they came here was three years ago. You can't stay. You are coming. See, that's what I'm talking about, being a man. Don't let them do what they want. They're just playing around. You want to? Yeah. Don't let them do what they want to do. If it was my wife, I would never let her stay in the house. What are you staying? Stop going. Yeah, we. Are going. I'm the head of that and I said that we are going take the work that that work. Is done at this time. Which work is it that you cannot get a deal? If your father was dead or mother was dead, will you not get a deal? All these excuses. Take your wife. Those of you who have. Come your wife don't obey you when you say. Come when you say. Sit. They don't sit when you say. Stand. They don't stand. Hey, from today we are be. Carrying war on all those things in the name of. Jesus, you want to have? Sex your wife tells you later later you cannot accept. Such as what you call it, you tell. You sit her down and explain to her that it's very. Difficult to have an erection. So when you see an erection, you have to respect it and respond. You cannot say letter. What do you mean? By letter and the ladies are looking away. Well, who are those? You. Are looking away. When I'm preaching. You are not. Happy with what I'm saying? Stand up, stand up. Who are those? All of this one. Fire them. Fire all of them. Fire them. And what? This one, This one, They are not happy. They are not. Happy with the message, OK. Those of you. Say that. Look, those of you have made yourself weaklings. Weaklings. Your wife is playing soccer with you. She's playing whatever game she wants to play. We have the camp. You she can. Tell you that she will not come, but she can go for something else. What do? You mean, I say you have come, you are the man, you have, you have got an erection, something that they are paying medicine and people are paying so much medicine to get that. Thing you have it. And you are saying come later, but you people come later. What kind of? Nonsense is this. It's unacceptable, but. You people are not. Happy about what? What are the people? You are happy, so why are you not? Standing up. Sit down, those of you listen. That is why your church. Is not working because your first and primary church member you cannot control, you cannot make a attempt, you cannot make a sit down, you cannot make a smile. You can you. Have to make a smile. You tell her when I'm preaching, smile. You don't have to tell your wife when I'm preaching. Smile. Don't look down. Don't. Make your face. Don't make your face when I'm preaching and when I finish preaching, you must say it's a good message. Yeah. Yeah, you cannot allow you see. As I'm preaching, I'm not. Allowing people to. Sit down and speak their faces. What is he saying? He's a man and he said why? Do you say? That about what I'm preaching about you don't say I'm a man when I'm preaching this for you say I'm. A man. What do you mean by that? When it's time to officiate. Your wedding, you want me to come and officiate so. Bishop, will you please appreciate my wedding? When I'm preaching the two, you say I'm a man, and when I'm officiating you say what God has joined together, you say what God has joined together. When I'm joining you together, you say I am God, I've joined you. Together when I'm preaching other things then I turn into a man so I. Become a man. When it's convenient for you. And I become a man of God when? It's convenient for you. And I even become. God, when it's convenient for you. Here. Sit down, sit down. How can your church grow if your prime principal church? Member is not under control your principal member. And you are not prepared to fight. For the control to come. You have to. Fight. You have to stand. Up, see if we are going. Yeah, one day when we started the church at the beginning. My wife was saying something. I said listen, listen, never say anything bad about the church, about the church members, that is we are suffering or it's difficult. Never say that we are suffering or it is difficult. Don't say it. Ever. That is be the last time. That's all and. Since then we are not suffering and we are not difficult. There is nothing like that. We are happy, we are. Happy to be here. It's a blessing, isn't it? Not a blessing. One day. I went to I went to a meeting, some of my pastors who had gathered at a meeting. We were sitting around when I when I came in, you know, I had AI had a place where I. Usually sit and he, he. One of the one of the past was sitting at the chair. I said get up, get up. Let us sit on my chair if I'm not there. If I'm not there, let my my chair to. Be empty. Let us sit in my chair. Let us because there are people who always want. To be out of order. Get up. Wait. I'm not there. Don't sit. On my chair. What do you mean? If you can't control your principal member, which is your wife, how can you go when somebody is taking control of the church and put him in order? Yeah. I, I, I I will transfer. You to show you that you you. You can be transferred, yes. However, I cannot transfer you. Then you are too big. I transferred persecuted. I know that he's here, I know that he's South Africa. He lives here, he goes to school here, his children are here, said my friend. Off you say. Now go to Ethiopia. Yeah, if I can't move you to. Ethiopia, you are not qualified to be here, as if you cannot. You see, if you are too big, then you are too big if you are too big. You can't come to Ghana, you can't go here. You can't. You are. Too big. For the for the church. None of that is dude. I have been. Moved from the Kodesh. Since I built it. I have not been there. I said I've never been like this. I'm the. Resident pastor of that church since it was it has been there and then it is and it has grown bigger since I I was transferred. Who? Are you that you? Are too big. Hi you. Cannot move your wife. To just a camp. Meeting or to church? HEGG. Make the face in the House of. One pastor, you know, he came in. He was I. Think he he. Couldn't control himself. He should have controlled himself better. He told the wife you. Were coming here to smile, looking nice and everything in the house. You make your face, get up and go to the back. Get up to the back to the back. Yeah, because there are people. They make their face in the house. Hey, when their. Mood come and they are. You'll be talking. So where's my towel? Where's my towel? Then they'll take their phone and send a text. Your towel is downstairs. I don't feel like talking, OK, I'm not. Nonsense. What's up you? Know it is downstairs. Your towel is downstairs. I don't, I don't feel like. Talking, this area looks very. Fast AM. I saying am I saying? Something wrong? OK, OK, leave them there. Older, older ladies there. Maybe they know more than what I'm saying. Wow, we are talking about the. Kingdom, why are you always. Standing up, sit down. How many are glad to be part of this Kingdom it. Doesn't need to be big. For it to be good, it doesn't need to be big. For it to be great, yes, it. Doesn't need to be huge. For it to be great. In fact, perhaps the the person. Who is teaching us that thing? Best of all is the pastor in Nigeria, Pastor Adebuye of the largest church. I was telling you about him yesterday. Yeah. You see, you can't travel. Anywhere and really. See a large redeemed church. There's no big Church of redeemed. It's just plenty small small. Churches, that is, what are. Made in the biggest church. You can't go anywhere. So this is the huge no, no, no. If I I don't even personally. Know even one building like that rather. A lot. Of small, small, small churches to be able to build a place where they will come for all night on Friday, 2 million, 2 million people. Yeah. When you are taking, when you give your life to Christ. You go. To the roadside you take care about, there's a road, there's a road by the hall. Yeah, like, like really practically. There you have You can go and see when you travel, you will see. That's why I want you to. Travel. Yeah, I told my, I told my pastors in Ghana. I said you. Don't. Know anything about the church? The church is bigger than we know. Nigeria is ahead of us by more than. 2040 years so I put all. Of them in a bus and I took them to Nigeria. Everyone let us go and see. We are all going to see. I have been there. I see. I want you to all. Learn when you travel. You learn and you. Go out of your myopia. You grow. Out of your glaucoma. Hey. You know myopia. Myopia is short sighted. You can see only when it is near. You can see that and glaucoma. You lose your fields so your vision becomes smaller and smaller as your eye. The pressure is increasing and destroying your eye. You you can see far when you have glaucoma but the fields start reducing. You don't notice that the fields are reducing, so you. Used to see like this. All to the side, but it becomes less. You don't even know that it's becoming less and the eye is finishing and it's becoming less see. And so some of us, we not only have myopia, which is we can't see TA, but you have glaucoma. You can't see white spiritual glaucoma. Welcome to the Kingdom of heaven. This is what John the Baptist came preaching small is good Kingdom and Jesus preached the. People were so amazed, they said, where did he get this great wisdom? From where he preached about these Kingdom things. Where did he get this? Great wisdom and these mighty works. That was when they asked that question. This is the greatest wisdom. If in South Africa we can build 1000 small churches, we have by far. The biggest church in South. Africa, and there are thousand of us here. We can have. We can have if. Everybody here if everybody here. Will. Decide to share the Word of God with. Somebody and we have 100 people and 1000 of us is how much 100,000 that's that is small thousand 1000 or 10,000 churches of 100 people that's that's what's I mean that's still very small we need a lot of churches wow there's forty 40 million people how many are you 45,000,052 million we. Have. Been given back. We now have to reach 50 million people, Huh. If we have 100 churches which have 500 people in them, how many is that 50,000? Very small. Can you see how many churches we need? I need a lot of churches on SO 1000. People so you see what what I'm preaching, you see it's it's like. It's like a drop in the bucket. Very little work is being done. And how? Many of our churches are. Eating up to 100 people, Yeah, it's not easy for a church to. Grow up to 100. Recently I visited a church, they were celebrating 20 years anniversary and they had and not a lighthouse church, another church. There were less than 100 people and they were really celebrating. And I said, I said yeah. Lord, our churches are not that bad and I realised that we should be thankful for what we have. Yeah. I tell you I'll be proud of you. If you have a church with 40 people, I'll be very proud of you. Yeah. Yeah, you can gather for not somebody's church members, 40 original souls. You talk to them, love them, care for them. I'll be proud of you. Jesus will be proud of you too. If they if they can become 400, wow, it's a miracle. They can become 4000. An even greater miracle. Hallelujah. Are you going to do it? Are you are you afraid of small? Are you shy of small? I say I attended the check 20 years celebration. They were less than less than 100, isn't it? Yeah, 80 months everything celebrated and invited me. Are you shy of small? Many of us are shy, so because we are not shy of smoke, we should have plenty. You see, when you have small, you have plenty. There are plenty balances for the size, so maybe the. Kingdom of God is more. Oriented towards having a lot of small than one or two big, yeah. So I say it again. That the Kingdom of God is more. Oriented towards having a lot of small than having one or two big. Don't you know some very famous big churches? How have they affected, let's say, this area? Do you see anything here? Anything, anywhere. Yes, you are. Big and great and everybody comes to me and you are on television and So what? It's just. Where you are, but there can be more and there can be greater and we are going to do it. So, ladies. Are going to be pastors, ladies? Ladies are going to be. Pastors, humble pastors submissive, controllable. You are saying controllable, but you didn't bring your wife. You didn't control. Well, look at, look at, look at, look at this guy. You are saying controllable? You didn't bring your wife. You allow, you allow her. Fire him. Fire. Him. All right. Stand on your feet, everybody. Lift up your hands and ask the Lord for your change to come as you come towards the Kingdom. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Father. None. The. Father, thank you for this gift. We have received. In Jesus name, Amen, you may be seated. Check out your offering. You're not expecting to give an offering this morning. You will check out a good offering. Please. Are we breaking out of that thing that S Africans don't give. Let me pray over your. Offering Father. Check your neighbor whether your neighbor is giving an offering. Father, thanks for this great opportunity to give this offering. Bless everyone that gives today in Jesus name, Amen. Hallelujah. Are you glad you came? Would you be that seed, that small seed that will become a big? Tree they. That be true in our lives. May we out of this camp have a lot of churches starting because we changed. Amen.