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05. 100 Reasons For Soul Winning

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
December 8, 2024 1h 5m

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Camp Title - Tell Them. Machaneh Collection - 51. Preached in 2008, South Africa (Pretoria). 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 #5 of Tell them 100 Reasons why you should be a Soul winner #1 Are you ready? Have you got enough paper to write 100 reasons? Number one, you must be a soul winner, because that is the Great Commission, the great command, the Great mandate, the Great instruction, the great order given to us by our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. That is the first reason why you must be a soul winner. We must be people who go out and tell people about Jesus Christ, Amen. Did you get it? You must be a soul winner because that is the Great Commission #2 great commands, great mandates, great instruction. The reason why it's called the Great Commission is that amongst the commands you get it. That is the great command. Because Jesus said many things. Forgive love. Blessed are this, do this, give this. That that this one. Has been categorized by Christians and by Christianity as the Great One. It's the Great Commission. It's the great commandments. Amen. It's it's the main one. It's a big one. OK. And is it not interesting that today churches have stopped doing what? Soul winning? We must win souls. We must bring people to the Lord. We must tell t

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Welcome to track #5 of Tell them 100 Reasons why you should be a Soul winner #1 Are you ready? Have you got enough paper to write 100 reasons? Number one, you must be a soul winner, because that is the Great Commission, the great command, the Great mandate, the Great instruction, the great order given to us by our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. That is the first reason why you must be a soul winner. We must be people who go out and tell people about Jesus Christ, Amen. Did you get it? You must be a soul winner because that is the Great Commission #2 great commands, great mandates, great instruction. The reason why it's called the Great Commission is that amongst the commands you get it. That is the great command. Because Jesus said many things. Forgive love. Blessed are this, do this, give this. That that this one. Has been categorized by Christians and by Christianity as the Great One. It's the Great Commission. It's the great commandments. Amen. It's it's the main one. It's a big one. OK. And is it not interesting that today churches have stopped doing what? Soul winning? We must win souls. We must bring people to the Lord. We must tell them about the Savior. We must tell people. Huh. We must tell the world about the soon and coming King. We must. Work. Whilst it is day, you must work whilst it is day, I must work whilst it is day because Jesus is coming soon. Amen. So this is the great, great command. There are different commands, but this is what this is a great one. Say this is a great one. That's why it's called the Great Commission or the great commandments. How many understanding that word better Great Commission is the big one is the main one is the big one. That's the big one. Go ye into all the world, preach the gospel to every nation. Amen. Now if you go and eat, and they put on your plate meat, and what else? Oranges and purple and water. And when you come back and they ask you have you eaten, they say I have eaten, what did you? Eat. I had the orange. I said I didn't eat the meat, you didn't eat the purple. That one is not even the potato maybe, Or the pop. But you add the orange. Have you eaten the? The main thing, the big thing that was given to you was the meat and you didn't eat it. You ate 1 orange and you've come. Don't you think you missed the big one, huh? Don't you think you missed the big one? You missed the big one. Amen #2 You must be a soul winner because God has called us to this great work. Though the Great Commission is found in Matthew 28 verse 18 to 20. I think it was Oswald J Chambers or so or so J Sanders who first began to call Matthew 28 the Great Commission. He called it. The Great Commission does not call the Great Commission. It's not in the Bible the Great Commission, but amongst the commissions and the commandments. It is called the Great One by Christians, not by Jesus. That Christians call it the Great Commission and that is going to all the world preach the gospel to every nation baptizing them. Go ye therefore and teach all nations. Go, go, go, Go ye therefore and teach all nations. Go, go, go. Go ye therefore and teach all nations. Go, go, go baptizing them in the name of the fire and son and holy God, God, God, go Hallelujah. Go ye therefore teach all nations. Go, go, go sing. It so that you remember it. Go ye there. Matthew 28 verse 18 verse 19 verse 20 Go. Go baptizing them in the name Father and Son and Holy Ghost, God, God, God God, Hallelujah. If you love me, really love me, feed my sheep. If you love me, really love me, feed my sheep. Be with you forever, ever until the end of the world. Go, hey, go, go, go, ye. Therefore go. Ye. Therefore go. Ye therefore teach all day ages Go go. Don't stay. Go, go, go. Ye therefore and teach all nations, go, go, go home, baptizing them in the name, Father and Son and holy God, Go, go, go, go. If you love me, if you love. Me. Come on, sing it. If you love me, breathe, love me, feed my sheep. If you love me, breathe. They love me, feed my sheep. Hey, Low, I'll be with you Forehead. Look, write down the words. Write down the words. Some of you don't know. You are looking at me in wonder, in amazement, in confusion, in awe. You have not heard the song before. You are a new Christian. You've just come. Write it down, my dear. Do you have the sweats on the board? Write it. OK Go ye therefore and teach all nations. Go, ye therefore and teach all nations. Go, go, go. Have you got that? Go ye therefore and teach all nations. Go, go, go times 2. Isn't it Then the next line baptizing them in the name of the Father and Son? OK, did you get it? How many don't have it yet. Go ye therefore and teach all nations. Go, go, go. OK, then go ye therefore and teach all nations. Go, go, go. Have you got that? My sister at the back there in the blue shirt. Have you got it? Have you got the last one? Now you got everything? Baptizing them, Baptizing them. You have to write it. If you don't write it down, you are something that I don't want to say, but I'm thinking what I'm not saying. Baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. Baptizing them in the. Name of the Father and Son, and holy God, God, go, go. Go, go, go, go. At the end, go go, go. OK, then the second verse. If you love me, really love me, feed my sheep. Have you got that? If you love, If you love. Me really love me feed. My sheep. Oh. OK, have you got that? Have you got that? If you love me comma, really love me comma, feed my sheep. Have you got that If you love me, really love me, feed my sheep. If you love me, really love me, feed my sheep. OK, have you got that? Then the next line. Lo, I will. Be with you lo. I'll be with you, Lo, I'll. LO, I'll be with you. Forever and ever until the end of the world. Go. Have you got that LO? I'll be with you forever and ever until the end of the world. Go, go, go. Amen. If you love me, really love me. Feet, my sheep. Sing it now if. You love me, really love me. Feed my eyes, sheath lo, I'll be with you forever, ever until the end of the world. Go, go, go. Amen. So the Great Commission involves #1 going #2 to all nations. So Lighthouse intends to take this vision literally. You understand what I say? Literally every country in the world, we are intending to go there, from Nepal to Tibet to India to Mongolia to China to Asia to Pakistan to Bangladesh to the. Uttermost corners we are intending to take. This command? Seriously. And we are assuming that nobody else will obey it. We are assuming that it. Depends on us. Amen. What do you think? Is it fantastic? Wonderful. The next one, you must be a soul. Winner because God has. Called God has called. Us to his banquet. Yeah, you can't. Go without salvation. Salvation yet? You think it's not a song? It's a song. God has called. US. To his banquet. You can't go without salvation. Salvation yet? Amen. Now you must. Be a soul winner because God has called He's. Called you. He's calling you Matthew 22, verse 14. Many are. Called, but few are chosen. By the time the few are ready, you know a lot. Of things happen. A lot of things happen and the few you get it end up doing the work. So I may preach to many of you here that few will obey. So the devil will come for you to try to make it impossible. Do you understand impossible? Do you understand me? Matthew, there are two. Verses in Matthew that have this many are called verse Matthew 2214 and Matthew 2016. Don't forget it's 22 and 20 and 14 and 16. Will you remember? It's very difficult to to remember. I always mix up these verses. 22/14/2016 Many are called, Many are called, few are chosen. Few are chosen. It's the same verse 2 times in Matthew. OK, now. God has. Called you. That is the second reason why you must be here. So second reason. Out of 100 reasons, how many? I've heard of William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army. This is what he said about the core. I'm still on the second reason why you must be a soul winner. Listen to what William Booth said. About the core, are you? Listen, listen, listen. I'm quoting, he said. Not called. In other words. You are saying you are not called. Tell your neighbor not called. You say you are not called, then listen to what he said. He said not had the call. I think you should say. You should rather say I will be here, but not that you have not been called. You have been called but you are not hearing that call, he said. You say you are not called, he said. Don't say that, rather say I've heard it, but the calling it is there. Now listen, are you there? He. Said put your ear down. This is William Booth to the. Burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful will for mercy and for help. Put your ear to the ground and hear. Are you hearing? And he said, Go and stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned, and treat you to go to their father's house and beat their brothers and sisters and servants. And masters not to come here then? He said are you listen. He said put your ear to the girl and hear human beings calling out for help. Then go to the gate of hell and hear the people screaming. Tell my sister, tell my brother, tell my friend, tell my servants, tell my masters, tell the people, and after you have had it, tell them not to come here. Then he said, After you have heard it, look at Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him yourself whether you will join your heart and soul and body and circumstances in the March to publish His mercy. To the world. Put your ear to the ground and hear human humanity in South Africa and other parts of the were crying for help. Then go down to the gates of hell and stand at the gates and listen to the screams of the people. Then after that you look at Christ himself in the face and and tell him whether you you you you have had the call or not. Tell him personally, don't look at me. And tell me anything. Look at him in the. Face and tell him whether you will. You will not bring your heart, your mind, your soul, and even all your circumstances to. Join in the. Effort to publish this. Gospel of Jesus Christ, that's what William Booth, the founder of Salvation Army Church. Recently we went to Bagra. In the 18th century, Salvation Army sent missionaries there, far away in Ghana. Why did they send missionaries? There because they have. Such a leader. Are you there? They had such a leader who would tell the people. Go down, stand outside the gate. And hear, they shout. They come up and don't tell me, tell Christ. I won't go tell him yourself. I have not. The one who you say you have received is mercy. This same man, he was to attend a meeting with his pastors and he was not able to come, so he sent a message. All the pastors gathered around to hear the message that he had. So when they gather around, they open the telegram so that they will read it to the people when they open doors. Only one word. The fastest was sitting. Thinking they will come to hear Corinthians, this Matthew, Jeremiah. There was only one word. You know what the word was? Others OTHE. Rs others others. There are others. There are others apart from the ones you. See plenty and every time there is an election you see the reality of others because you get votes from so many places. And you wonder about where these people come from. But they are all human beings, forgotten ghosts. But they are real people. So my friend Penny. Put your ear to the ground. And listen to people who are waiting. Help me. After that, where do you go? Down to hell? Stand outside the gate. Listen to the people. Go and tell Taboo. Go and tell John please and hear the screams of the people. After that, go and see Christ himself personally and tell him yeah, the one who? You say has had mercy. On me. Tell him I won't go. Let's tell. Him yourself, or tell him whether you will go. Amen. Let me tell you, if we want this church to have life and have it more abundantly, what I'm sharing must always be on our hearts and men. The day we take it. Out I will start to look for prosperity and other things which Christ has not sent us to go and look for. A setting power. We'll go out of the church and it will seem as though we still have power, but we would have lost the real power of the church. I'm telling you. One day my wife went to visit her friend at a certain House of a certain friend, and I came there to visit her. That time she was not my wife. When I got there, I came into the house and just as I came in, I saw a dog. The dog was like a junior horse, big and tall. And I saw the horse. The dog in the house and I ran away and then she. Came to the gate. I said I should come in. I said look behind you, this big dog. And she said, who this dog, you know, get power. It is just like a lamp in the house. You know why it has been castrated? So a setting power has been taken away from the dog, so all that it is left with is what size. Big without power? The real power that is needed is not there. Yeah. Oh, you don't understand. The real power is gone, so the animal is weak. Amen. Stand up, everybody, Isabel Kuhn said this was a missionary to China and Thailand. Listen to what he or she said. I believe that in. Each. Generation God has called enough women and men to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not. God, who does not call it is man who will not respond. I'll say it again. This was what Isabel Kuhn, a missionary to China and Thailand, said. Amen, he said. Or, she said. Is it a woman or a man, Isabel? A woman, Yeah, she said. I believe that in each generation, God has called enough men and women. To evangelize all the yet. Enriched tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call, it is man who will not respond. That's why I'm talking about in this point I am sharing. You must be a soul winner because God has. Called us. To do this work. And Isabel Kuhn says that it's not that God is not calling, it's not that God hasn't called more Billy Graham's or God has not called more Benny Hinn's. He has. Called, but it is. Human beings who are not responding. And that's what God is saying. William Booth. Said don't say that. You are not called. Say that you haven't heard it and that. Now he says go and go down to hell and put your ears at the gate. And listen and when you. Hear the screams. And you hear human beings waiting in South Africa for you to come then. Go and see. Christ personally look into his face and tell him, yeah, which means I'm not going. Amen #3 If you are feeling sleepy, you can go to the back and get coffee. Do you have coffee there? Yeah, but don't be in my vision, because it also makes me. Tired, but all that. I'm preaching. I know it already. It is my book. I'm preaching to you. I wrote it so I don't want to see you. So if you are tired or you can't go to the back and get coffee and stay out of my view, you get what I'm saying? So that you don't quench the whole camp because you can end the camp. Because what I'm saying, I know it already. I'm saying it to you. I have 100 reasons here. We have type all. You don't know the hand. If I ask you the reasons you finished just now #3 The third reason why you must be a soul winner is because soul winning gives meaning to your Christianity. Soul winning gives what meaning to your Christianity. Amen. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10 says we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus until good works, Amen. Is that not so? Which God had before ordained that we should work in them? Amen. God has ordained that you should do some good works. When you do good works, you become happy. Did you know that when you do good works, you become happy? You get it. Life is not determined by what you have. Jesus said a man's life does not consist in the abundance of things that he possesses. Amen. What do you think? Is it not true? Yes, otherwise all the rich people would be very happy. But it looks like they. Have a lot of problems. They seem to have more depression, more problems, more suicides than anyone else. And you see, when you come to Christ, thank God that you are saved. But what is the meaning? Of your salvation. One time I was in London with and I took a taxi, a black cab for a cab. And as I was going along with this cab, I asked the driver whether he believes in God. He's a white guy and he said why should I believe in something like that? I don't believe in. Things like that. Then he asked me. Do you? Believe in heaven and hell, I said. I. Believe very much. In heaven and hell. Then he asked me a. Question. Which I think is a very important and I've never forgotten that question. Do you want to know the question? He asked me. Do you really want to know the question that he asked? Are you sure you want to know the question that he asked me? He said, if you believe in heaven and heaven, you believe that you go to heaven when you die. Why don't you kill yourself now and go to heaven immediately so that you escape from this world and all the troubles there? Because if you. If when you go to America everything will be OK, why don't you go now? What are you still doing here? I was about to answer. When we arrived at where we were going and I didn't have a chance to answer that question, but I have thought about that question for years. Because if truly heaven is. Great, when you go, you don't owe anybody. No problems, nothing. You'll be happy singing. TRA La La La La La La La La La La La La la. Free. Then why don't you go? Now, OK, so if you're not going out, then why are you still here? Why? Why has God left you here? Oh, you don't understand my question. Why? Has God left? You on earth, why doesn't he take you out now? Even when a young person in the church dies, we are all so sad when even we've been told they are going to a better place. We are so sad. Why are we so sad we want them to stay here? And suffer. So the question. Is or the answer is that. Bible says in Ephesians. Chapter 2 did you open it ephesians chapter 2, verse 10 ephesians chapter 2 verse 10 are you there for we are his workmanship created in. Christ. Jesus, until good works, which God has before ordained, that you should walk in them. Amen. You were created for some. Good way. You come. You in the red. Come. Wow. What's your name, brother? Come. Huh. Come, Come up. Veli. Veli Belili. Come turn around. Velili was Belil Belile. Belile was created for some particular good works that only Velile can walk in. I'm pleased to meet you. You are a very important person. You were created for some good works. Amen. Are you? Are you, are you happy to meet him? Clap for a very important. Person, because since he was saved, Christ has not killed him. Christ has not removed him. So he has some particular things that he's supposed to do. I'm very happy to go. Go back to your seat. Come by him. All right. Are you clapping? For the word or for my wife? Both. Now you didn't clap like that when I was preaching. OK, I've forgiven you. Now you are who? SIM SIM timbile. SIM Timbile, I'm so pleased to You are a very important person, created for some particular good works which only seem to be like 2. Why don't you come up? How many people want to shake? His hand. Come and shake his hand. Congratulate him. Wow. Created specially for some special good works. Oh, are you? Pleased to meet him. Are you pleased to meet a very important person? So make sure you don't die without doing. Those great works which you were created. For OK. It will be very seal after all these people came to shake you. OK, go back to your seat now. One second, is it, is it Nana or? Nana, come. Now I want to introduce. Another very important person who was create congratulate. I'm so pleased to meet you. I've been just. Been informed that you've been. Created for some special. When you have, you are. Here on assignment. Hey, you want to congratulate her? Oh, you feel free. Feel free to welcome, congratulate her, hey. Hey, so you, you have you. Been told the details, You've not been told the details. I'm giving you 100 reasons. Why? You say you have not been told the reason. If you give only three reasons, is it not fantastic? OK, God bless you now. Come what is your name? Philippinelli, Delisa. Delisa, Delisa. Hey. Delisa. I've. Been just. Informed that you are a special person created for some very good and so. Oh, take a picture. Who is taking a picture? Where is the cameraman? Where is the photographer? Who is that? You quickly smile. Hey, congratulations. Now, one day. A certain brother had a vision. In the vision, he. Died and. When he got to heaven. A lot of people came, surrounded him and started hassling him by you. Why? Why didn't you work? Come, I need some people. There were places that why why didn't you work? And he was why he said and he was saying wait, wait. Let me explain. I have there was a space and look, my school I was doing PhD and then wait, wait, wait, wait. There was just my PHDI will do PhD my wife, my wife. Hey I. Was trying to have children. Please, please don't stop. Stop. And he said in the gym they were harassing that when he was eight, he was he was explaining, he was explaining, trying to explain why he didn't. Do. The work. So take your time. Once on Earth, it wasn't easy. And then suddenly. He woke up. Go. Away he woke up and the people were not there he. When he had this vision. He came to see me because he was doing various. Things delay. Up to today, he's still doing those delay things and I always remember him because of that. Vision, he said that people. Surrounded him in heaven deal with. How didn't you? What didn't you do? What were you thinking about? Why didn't you work? What was it there he was explaining. Look, he did the thing in the dream. He said he was telling. Take your time. Let me explain what happened. So, Brother Delisa I. Hope you'll not arrive in heaven and you'll be surrounded. They'll be. Saying to you, please let. Me the. People in heaven were so bored with him. Please don't go out of this. World without doing what you were brought here. In fact, I should say. What you are being? Left here to do why you have not been killed, why you have not been removed with cancer of this cancer of that cancer of that accident of this. This or that disease? Of hair disease, of hair, all those things have not. Happened to you. When they are happening to people just like you and you are still. Cooling moving in the system, you should understand that it is a permission in this new vision by Rejoiner. The angels were. Discussing, they said we have received instructions that we should not accompany the Lord to the wilderness for the temptation. And then they said that when that temptation doesn't work, they have the that one, the evil one who has come from will turn his attention to John the Baptist to kill him. And he said we have been instructed not to intervene. And the angels were said what they asked. Do you know who John the Baptist is? How? Can you say and one of the angels are the senior? I said with all due respect. Can you? Are you sure of what you are saying? That instruction has come from above. Do not intervene. You see, angels are always intervening about your death Tuesday. They intervened. You didn't die Friday. They didn't die because. Devils are trying to kill you all the time and they are constantly intervening, but a. Day will come when the angels will be told back off. Don't intervene. Then you will see certain things that you have been kept. From for years. And then you go out of this world, and then you find yourself. So now it just are constantly fighting. And keeping things off so that you work and you say you are doing what masters you are doing what Look, don't let anything keep you from doing the reason why God has allowed your breast, your breast not to have a cancer. If you think your breast is nicer than other people's breasts, or better of that. There are more vitamins. In your breast, I'm here to tell you that, look, the race is not to the swift, not to the strong, or to the. Wise. By by the message of Jehovah you shall be kept. God bless you brother. Hey. Come, you are who? Emmanuel Sia Major from Zambia. I've just been told that you are a very important person who's been assigned with some good works, that you are being left here on some mission. Have you been told the details of the mission? Just three of them. Three details, just three. Three reasons. Yes, three reasons on. But the the works you are going to do. Do you know what it is? I have an idea of them. What? What is the idea? So winning. So winning so. Winning. Wow, and going go go go. You didn't hear the go go go part? What about teach? All nations I'll. Teach all nations, I'll teach. All Zambia. I'll teach only Zambia. I'll start with Zambia. Start with Zambia. And teach all nations. Teach all nations. Will it not be a good thing if he can? You see then people. Will stop saying people will stop saying Christ came to die for just a few people. If all of us were to do the great works we have to do, people will stop saying Christ. It's just for a few because all of us are doing what we have to do. Is it not true? So I'm so Remember Me when you come to glory, we are giving you rewards, OK, you are blessed. Next one you must be a soul winner because soul winning gives great joy to Christians which is different from it gives meaning, it brings joy. If you want to be a happy person, give yourself to God's work. In Mark Luke chapter 10 verse 3, Bible says, and after these things the Lord appointed 70 other also, and send them two by two before his face into every city and place. Therefore said he unto them, the harvest truly is great. Go your ways. Behold, I send you forth. And the 70 returned again with joy. Joy, joy. The opposite of depression. Happiness which cannot be found from money, which cannot be found from buildings, which cannot be found from your bank, Joy will come to you. Joy. I said joy. I said happiness. Do you want to be happy? How many want to be happy? Benny Hinn said something. He was preaching. He said that when he got saved, somebody was looking for him and there a lady told her, told the person. When you go. To the church you see a second brother. Who is always? Smiling, and he's always happy. That's Benny. He said that's. How he was described. To the person. The one who is happy. And he was explained that when you are full of the anointing, you have a certain joy and a certain peace which cannot come from all the issues in this life and in this world. Amen. So brothers and sisters, there is a certain joy that will come to your life when you start to do the work of the Lord. The thing that gives me the greatest joy is to do His work and to do His will. One time Jesus was eating and they went and bought some nice food and they came. You know, that's some people saw that when they are serving food, they think that food is everything and you bring the food, they will stop all that they are doing to eat that food. But many times we are not. Interested in the food that they are even spending all their energy to get and and they were what? Jesus, the food is hot. Now why don't you eat whilst it is warm? And Jesus said I have meat. That you don't know about. My meat is to do his. Work. And to finish his work, it gives me some satisfaction in there. Many of you are going to have satisfaction only through this work I'm talking about. Your husband will not satisfy. Even your Christian husband will not satisfy him. Yes, your Christian wife will not satisfy him. One of the reasons why people become unhappy when they get married. Do you know why? Because they are disappointed. Zigzag, they are disappointed everything is not. As they thought, disappointment compounds. The reality, that's why Jesus, all his warnings, he was saying very bad things. Hate your mother. Father, you cannot be my disturb. I mean hardly. In this world you have to play. They say nice things at all. So that as you are. Going your mind? Is expecting the West if it happens that it doesn't. Happen in that way, at least you came with the mind. But some people have the picture of glory land. And when they? Enter, they say. Oh is that what I have found? Everything is not as. It was looking to be A and the heart. Starts to break the heart. San Treble. A and the disappointment of what I. Thought and what there is. Oh. When she wakes up in the morning and she washes her face and you see not knowing that it was not a real face, that there was something else. That was covering the face. That is what happened to Jacob when he married. Leah when he woke up in the morning. He said. Oh, what? Who are you? Because he married in the night. You must not have your wedding in the night. Have it in the daytime. So that you can see things clearly. Is that is your state? Is her name and her mission what she was doing in the room? That is his wife, Leah. What I What is your name and what is your mission here? None of those things are going to satisfy you, but what is going to give? You joy, I said. They went and when they came out. There was great joy. That's going to give you peace, happiness. Your job will never give you happiness. You know how I know your job doesn't give you happiness because you always want holidays. That's how I know that your job doesn't make you happy. If you didn't want holidays, then you do know what my problem is. My problem is I don't know how yes where I will take the holiday because. I I don't feel like. Closing work, I don't feel like stopping. I don't feel I want. I want that case. I'm waiting for August. So that I can go and leave for six working weeks. So I'll be free. I'll be free. No, what I'm. Doing I'm free already and it gives me great joy I never look for. That I'm waiting. For Saturday and Sunday, so. Friday I just close. Close, then I go. That thing that you are. Doing how you want to live, you are looking at the time. It's a sign. That that work. Does not make you happy. When I used to work as a doctor, my name was I'm off. I used to say on the word I'm off. As soon as I. Finish all the work, I'm off. So at a point I didn't know that it had been the nurses have discussed among. Themselves and they have given me a name, and my name was Amof because I was always off. As soon as I can finish my work. No, I'm off. Doctor Amof is gone. I used to calculate the leave 18 working days or 20 working days, then I'll. Try to take the leave and mix it with Christmas Day and other. Holidays so that the 20. Days will become. About 30 days when you add 1st January 25th and then some weekend and. Time it in a way. So that when the leaves start then it becomes as. Long as possible. Have you experienced that before? It's a. Sign. That you are in the. Wrong job The way you find this work. You, you want more to do more. My myth is to do the will of him that sent me. Amen. What do you think? All right, how many reasons do you have 4 #5? You must be a soul. Winner, because the true greatness of any church is not how many it sits, but how many it sends. The true greatness of any church, church, church, church is not how many it seats, but how many it sends. So if our. Church in South Africa is great. It's not determined by We have 2000 seats. We have 1000 seats. We have 500. Seats. Now, how many did we send from here even? I'll tell you, even in Accra, I measure the greatness of the mission by how many people are in the Bible school in Accra that have been sent. It's a sign of that mission. Yeah. And we have a lot of South Africans, and I think the Kenyans are now more. Are the Kenyans more? But there seem to be a lot of Kenyans now and now also quite a few Nigerians have come to the school. But you see your ability. To send shows your strength. When the Ghana Armed Forces or armed forces are giving some troops to the United Nations, you know the strength of the army is shown by the number of troops it can send. And in Africa is the Nigerian Army, which can give a lot of troops to any conflict because Nigeria has a larger army than Ghana or Togo or Benin or Sierra Leone. I don't have much. One day I was flying over Nigeria, Kano and I looked down, down and what did I see on the. Airport. They have a special airport for the Air Force and I saw these American fighter jets, F17F, whatever, they were packed, so many of them. On the. Airport. I mean the special. Airport up in the north and I said. Hey. The Nigerian army is not a small army. Because in. Ghana, we have only. One of that. Aeroplane, I think one or two, and I think it even crashed Cote d'Ivoire. Cote d'Ivoire. Had two. Planes and then the French army bombed them. So that was the enemy. They had one or two, one or two. And during the problem, the French army bombed it and that was the end of it, so. The strength of your nation shows. In how many Arab place you can send? Oh, you don't think so? Yeah, its a sign. For us, how many you can send? How many can you send from here to the other parts of South Africa? How many can you send from South Africa to other places? That's what shows the real strength. I said about it. You can have thousands of people but nobody will go. Can you imagine if you have an army big? I said go and fight. He said we won't go. We. Won't go, We won't go. It it. It is the same as not having an army. He's not an army, he said. Go. You don't. Go. So the real strength of a church is is is not in how many it seats, but how many it sends. That's what shows the strength. So. Swaziland. Where's Swaziland? Where's Andy? OK. It's not in how many people can fit into your auditorium. It's in how many you can send out of Swaziland. You get it? What do you think? Yeah, years ago the American church was sending missionaries to Latin America, Africa. All over Africa you see AG missions, AG missions, AG missions. You have some in Zambia and Ghana, Nigeria. I don't know about Nigeria, about Malawi, all these countries. AG missions, AG missions, AG missions Today you rarely meet anybody who is AG missions. It's an. Indication of the strength of the Church it is. True that the Church has. More money now. But I told you about the dog. Very big, but no power. Amen. Very big, but no what? No power. Amen. Very big, no power. So it's bigger now when you when you put on a television, you see churches, big, big ones with. Pastas in suits special types. Now there are different types of. Suits different styles. One without collars with collars. With chains with. Different types of pocket 3, pocket 4. I mean different types of shoes. Large congregations with aeroplanes and everything. But not even one missionary can be sent from that church. It's it's a sign of the strength of the church. Yeah. You can't send even one. One day I went to preach in the church. The church was a very big church full of stars. You see some of the film stars you see on TV. That's their church. Hey. Millionaires. Who when they meet the pastor on the corridor, they gave him $1 million. I mean, that's how they they offer just one time I met the pastor of this church and he told me so when I was coming my this thing gave me he just gave a chance. So pastor Bishop, this is this is for for your trip. He was going some of this for your trip. So he just wrote a check $1 million. So he told the person who was giving the $1,000,000 oh, the trip that I'm going for now. Is for this so he asked him please you give me just. 500,000 And then I'm coming with another project and I would like 500,000 then and then the man smile he said look you take this 1,000,000 when that one car I would begin to that the problem the problem is it not fantastic. So I held a. Conference in that very church and I spoke about missions work and afterwards the director of missions came to see me, he said I felt so embarrassed when you were speaking about missions, I said. Oh, have I? Preached it wrong because I've preached before. I've been rebuked after preaching more than once. I've been sat down and said. Look over here they are. They are more mature here do. You see, you cannot just. Say such things. So I was afraid. What have I done? I said, Oh no, I said when you have mentioned the missions you have in your church, what I went to preach and what they told. Me don't say what you. Have oh, they just preach. Don't mention all those things he said when you were saying all I felt. Embarrassed because we don't have. Even one missionary, long term missionary, even single one, like a brother went to a funeral, he said. They did not give even one groundnut to eat. He's a single one. Hey, the church is big. But what? No power. What do you think? Is it fantastic? So the strength is determined by how many it can send, but not how many it can sit? Yeah, that's why I say that. To me, the Nigerian army, Ghana should never go to war with Nigeria. They will beat us hands. Down we will have to become suicide bombers and things. In order to survive. We will fight with them in football but not in there because when I. Saw the Air Force. This message continues on the next track. Keep listening.