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05. Laws Of Loyalty 2 cont.

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
December 12, 2024 36m 56s

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Camp Title - Finish what you Started. Machaneh Collection - 56. Preached in 2009, 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 finish what you started. See what is being said and what is to be said. They can't see it, so they argue. They just argue and argue and argue and argue till they see that look, this is not. What you're saying, what you are saying, is that generally in such instances, this is not the appropriate response period. Period. Try and see. Try and see when you are being spoken to. Try and. See what is being addressed. It will save. You from answering back. It will save you a lot of talking back and a lot of discussions and a lot of arguments and a lot of days a lot of that. It will say it will save you from a. Whole lot of problems if you can see very. Fast. I think a lot. Of eyes are closed. I don't know what to do. I mean, do you usually sleep at camps? So I don't know. I don't know what is to be done. You don't drink water. Do you want something? I don't know. No, but it's camp. It's not your. House, it's camp, so I can't provide everything. So my brother. OK, they're awake. If I'm feeling sleepy, I'm going to stand at the back. OK. So that I wouldn't have to send you there because I'm a nice guy. I wouldn't lik

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Welcome to track #5 of finish what you started. See what is being said and what is to be said. They can't see it, so they argue. They just argue and argue and argue and argue till they see that look, this is not. What you're saying, what you are saying, is that generally in such instances, this is not the appropriate response period. Period. Try and see. Try and see when you are being spoken to. Try and. See what is being addressed. It will save. You from answering back. It will save you a lot of talking back and a lot of discussions and a lot of arguments and a lot of days a lot of that. It will say it will save you from a. Whole lot of problems if you can see very. Fast. I think a lot. Of eyes are closed. I don't know what to do. I mean, do you usually sleep at camps? So I don't know. I don't know what is to be done. You don't drink water. Do you want something? I don't know. No, but it's camp. It's not your. House, it's camp, so I can't provide everything. So my brother. OK, they're awake. If I'm feeling sleepy, I'm going to stand at the back. OK. So that I wouldn't have to send you there because I'm a nice guy. I wouldn't like to, you know, at least for now. So when you're sleeping, you stand, OK. Because if you sleep at the wrong time, you will get a response that may not be pleasant. Yeah. OK. So try not to sleep. I think you know it when sleep is coming, isn't it? Sleep is not, it's not like, OK. All right, all right. The next symptom, the next symptom of pride is general rudeness, that you are generally rude, generally disrespectful. You are the type that is rude. They're generally rude because you don't see why. You don't see why you must yield, submit to anything. So you stand up to anything. Everything you have affront to it, everything. You have an attitude towards it because you don't see why. I mean, why? Why should I? Give in to this. Why should I listen to this? Why should I listen to such rubbish? Why should I listen to such such? Talking. Why should I listen to it? What are you changing? No, no, no. How many of you have found some symptom already? Out of the two, you have found something. You can see something that. Has to change now, So are you changing now? It's changed. Now change must come. Yeah, can change. Yes. Yes, we can, isn't it? Yes, we can change. Yes, yes, we have. Yes, we have. Yes, yes, we have. We have. Change. Yes we have. We have changed. So general rudeness #3 is refusing to come when called. When you are called, come. Say you won't come, but if we're shuffling, come, I won't come. Tell him I won't come. But that calls you come, is it? I'm busy, I said him. Brother, I invited him recently for a prayer meeting. You just come fast to pray, to fellowship and to be there a reply that you know, no, he, I mean, he has a church he's pastoring a church. He said a text. But I say, you know, he's having, you know, some fasting with his congregation. So, so can I, you know, can I change the date? I mean, he's. A He's a nice brother, but. He has not heard the end of it. I said me, I should tell me. I don't have anything doing me. I don't have a congregation anymore, so I'm just sitting somewhere calling people to come and pray. You're telling me that I should change the date because you have a congregation? I said to him, Do you remember Saul? So do you remember Saul? When he was sent. To go and kill everybody, What He came back to say that the people said they wanted something. And now your loyalty. Has gone to the people and not to the one who sent you. Now you are following the instructions. Of the people. So that's why you stay with. People for a while after you've been sent to them, you develop sympathy for them. And when the visionary and the person who sent you calls for you, it sounds. As though he's crazy. It sounds as though he's insensitive. You sound as though you are busy. You are too busy because you are he's. Falling the Wick he's. Stepping the Wick. You're in the midst of a convention. It's a totally classic message. The one who sent you, who knows what is good for? Where he sent you. And what he wants for where he has sent you, you are now giving him excuses and reasons why you can't come and see him, why you can't meet him because he's disturbing the work, Because now you have developed deeper understanding. Of the work than the one that sent. You you have developed your own. Vision for the work. You know where you should be, when you should be, where you should be, and how you should be where you should be, and what you should be doing where you are. So you can't be. Called. You can't be called. Unnecessary sympathies. You are the carer of a ship. He is carer of goats. You are a Good Shepherd. So when they call you, you say you are busy, then you are called, you say I can't come, I'm busy. I'm in the middle of a program. I'm in the midst of fastings and prayers. I am dealing with principalities and. Princess of the Air, I am pulling down. Strongholds and casting down imaginations. You are sending messages to us that you should come and see. The dead are raised, the peoples are working, the deaf are hearing, the blind eyes are seeing, and blessed is he who comes in your name. You are busy. When you are. Called you can't come. When you are called, you can't come. Yet you can preach loyalties. To the higher authority. Who is your higher authority? Loyalty is the higher authority must first be applicable to you. When you are called, you drop everything because the caller is a higher authority. You must stop. Everything must stop. Everything must cease. It must cease immediately. Because the one who sent you is calling. You. Bobby has a new direction for you. New instruction for you, new things to be done. You are standing there with your sympathies, unnecessary sympathies, excessive sympathies, changing the vision, the. Vision, the instruction you had five years. Ago you are still running with it. I think the message is clear. Are you with me? The next symptom of pride? Is. Feeling indispensable. Feeling indispensable? Yeah. He can't do without me. They. Can't get rid of me, I'm here forever. I am the. Type that they can't do without. One of the signs of people who have this feeling that they are indispensable is that when you correct them, it doesn't correct because you know that after your shout and your screen, you need them. So they'll still be there, so they won't change. They won't tell you I. Won't change, but they won't change. If you tell them come to church at this time, you come to church late, you are coming to play the keyboard, you come late. Come early, you say, you say. OK, he say. OK. He say come at 9:00, he said. Yes, pastor, I'll come. Next Sunday we're. Working at 10:00. Because he he has a feeling, he has a feeling, he has a feeling that you can't tell him that don't touch the keyboard, don't play this. He has to feel. The feeling is there. The. Feeling is there. He's got the feeling, he has the feeling. Because he. Sees you. He sees you that when it comes at 10. O'clock the worst you. Do. Is that you? Don't smile. That's the worst and. He knows that you need to preach, so by time by time you're coming to be, you need a. Flow, so you start smiling. And he knows you can. You won't suck him, but he has to know that you can suck him. He's got to know that he can be sacked. He is not to know that he he must be told. This is your last time. He has to be. Told but when he. Sees that you can't do anything. Watch. Watch People You Have. Corrected and having corrected the people you have corrected and they have not. Affected the change you recommended. Watch them. They have a feeling that I'm indispensable. He can't touch me. If they could, they would have stood the front and say. No, no, no, no, no. You can't touch me. If they could. The day you correct them though, they say you can't touch me, you can't touch me. If they could, they would have done that to you. They would assume to you that you can't touch. Me, you'll see you. They would have told that you are a dog that can bite don't tell you that you back but you can't bite. Don't tell her. Hey, bite me. You can't bite me. Yeah. So it's it's some sometimes the. Weakness of a of a leader creates the feeling of an indispensable in the congregation. It creates a feeling and an atmosphere of lack of discipline, lack of order, lack of respect because the leadership is weak. The leader hasn't got strength, the leader hasn't got faith that look, this thing, I can iron it out. So he just lets everything but everything. Is OK, he said. Everything is OK. So this is OK. This is also OK, but this? Is also OK. It doesn't. Really matter. I mean, it really doesn't matter. I mean it's. OK. I mean, everything is OK, you know, it doesn't really. Doesn't matter. I mean, we're OK. We will. It will. Change rather than we. Have faith, you know. It's OK when you have to correct something, you give the person a patch. On their back. When things. That are not OK. You have to say it is not OK. Come nine o'clock 9:30. Come 930, you're. Smiling, it's OK. You're actually encouraging the. Person. You're actually making the person. Feel good, feel right, feel comfortable. You are. Creating a very bad atmosphere a very bad. If you are creating a very weak church, you are creating a Church of rebellious people. People can easily rebel. Against you because they feel they can't be sacked. Any assistant, any branch pastor, any shepherd. Must know that he can be sacked, he can be sacked. And sometimes must be sacked. Yeah, sometimes man, sometimes must be. Moved to the move. From here so you know that he can be sacked. And it's good for his character. It's good for his attitude. It's. Good for. Him to learn humility, to learn how to be humble. To learn that look, it is. No, it's not yours. It's not for you. You can be changed. You are not indispensable, you understand. I think you do the next one. Next sign of symptom of pride is smoking and laughing at leaders. Are you enjoying the symptoms? Are you changing? If you feel indispensable, let that feeling go now, now, now. Let that feeling go now let it be gone. It tells how to do something and it won't do it. I immediately see the feeling they have because you see in another person you see you say do this and it's done immediately. And it is done instantly. And you see another person do this. Yes. Have you done it? Oh no. Oh, have you done? It I'll do it. Have you done it? No, I don't say anything. I transfer this late. Type of late type of behavior because it's. OK. He can't do anything to me. He can't change. He, I mean, he can't, he can't change it's. What you studied? You see, you don't have the guts to change. You don't have spine. Do you know spine? You have spine. You have Backbone to stand up for. What you said. Is watch you over the months and over the years and when you say. Stuff when you back, you don't back. You don't bite. It's just. Backing so so backings. Yeah. It's like a lot of mothers in their homes. Every day I'll beat you, every day I'll beat you. Every day I'll beat you. They never beat. The child every day threatening. I mean threatenings a. Lot of children are threatened. I mean, every time threatenings, I'll beat you, I'll beat you. Stop it. Stop it before I get there. The child is watching you. I'm not getting there. For the last 10 years, every time stop it before I get there. You never come. So the child has developed something, has developed something. I beat you. You don't beat beat you. We don't say without money. We do it. I. Didn't say to somebody I'm bitchy. You don't say. I'm bitchy, you don't. Say I like to. Say you don't say. You understand every. Day I beat you, you don't be the child Child has become some. Sports child walking around. Because the only thing I get, I beat you, then stop it. Stop it. Stop it before I get there. And it's ended from here to here. Stop me before I get. Stop me before I. Lay my hands on. You stop me. Lay my. Hands on me. You threatened that. The threatening carried no. Power. There's no power in the Threatenings. This is the last for the last 10 years. Every time your last time. So when is the real last time? When is the real last time? When will be the last time? Help people not to be indispensable, not to have that feeling, not to have that. Feeling not to have that feeling. Everybody should know. Everybody should know that they can be replaced. Christians should know, especially Christian wives should know that they can be replaced. They should know divorce is not the only way of replacing. So it's not divorce, but you should know you can be replaced. You should know there's another way you can be removed. There should be a removal. Yeah, you should know because I'm saying, you see, some of these Christians say they're so stuck in their ways because they know, Yeah, they know you can't do anything. You are a Christian. Besides, you are a pastor. Hey pastor, what can you do? What can you do? What else can you? You can just shout and say, but you can't do much. You are. You are pastor. You have pasta. We know you. We. Know you can't do anything. So you see them. Unbelievers are not like that. I believe wise they know. They know. They're not. They know, they know. The type of game they're involved in, they don't do some things. They know the. Race is hot, but you should see the Christian. Wise they can answer. Back. They can do this they can do. That they don't care. When you say this, they don't care. So you are going out of shape. They don't care if you don't like me, again say, But you see the unbeliever. One or the one? Married to an unbeliever, The one that. You see them in. Money. Nobody's anybody. Money. Well, you ask her, where are you going? I'm going jogging. She knows the competition is tight. Tight. She'll go jogging. You see the other one? She'll be drinking soup. When she says that the soup is nice, that means that unprocessed animal fat is on. Top of the soup. She's drinking it from me. This soup is very, very, very nice. So listen. Watch it. Watch what? Now you've changed. You don't like me again. Now you've changed. But she feels. She can be replaced. She feels she. Can't be replaced she feel that feeling is there that feeling is there she has that feeling she. Has that feeling you can't change me you. Can't change me you. Can't change me till death do us part. I know you're a. Serious Christian she. Knows you're a serious. Christian, she knows. You love the Lord, especially the anointing. She knows you love the anointing, and she knows you study the seven steps to loosen the anointing. So you don't want. To lose the anointing. So it gives the room to drink animal fats. Drinks animal fats I'm. Preaching a good message. She knows. You can, you can't. Do anything, no matter. What you do you. Go you be you be. Like her and the. Children, I'll beat you. I'll stop it. Stop it before I get there. She don't. You won't get there. You. There's nowhere for you to. Get to. As I. Sullivan, we are in it. We are with you. You can't do anything. I won't change. Yeah, and I. Told you, Turn around. There you go. And such you do. There's a total message. Anyway. We're talking about mocking and laughing at leaders, mocking and laughing at leaders, making fun of leaders, laughing at leaders. It's a sign of pride, letting leaders because you think you are pastors. They don't think they are. They actually are to make fun of leaders. When you have the courage. And the boldness to talk and to make. Fun of leader of. Pastors of pastors of Geos. Of reverend ministers, of leaders in the church. You can make fun of them. You are proud. You are. You are an equalizer. You feel you're the same. You probably even feel higher and better. How do you think Judas was able to betray Christ? I mean, look at Christ. There is no man whom it has been said he was anointed. Without measure. Powerful. Man powerful. But Judas, I'm sure he looked at his, he equalized him. He just majored on some things. He's like this. He feels hungry. He cries sometimes. He's this. He's irritated here. He's keeping people in the temple. He's, you know, no, When I when I look at him, you know, when I look at him, you know, I can sell him. I can sell him. I can't do without him. I can't betray him. I can't mean, I can't he's, I mean. There's no, there's, there's. Nothing special about him. He was sleeping in the boat. Even if his water was falling on him, he couldn't feel the water. I mean, waves, storms were splashing water on him. He couldn't wake up. What? Kind of problem is this, he looked at the guy, said this guy's ordinary, this guy's normal, this guy's normal. As soon as your leader, your pastor, gets close to you, let your guards go up because you see what other people can see. You see. What other people don't see, you will see. Some things that are there, it's not as though it's hidden, it is there, but so when? You are far, you can't see it. It's when you come close. Now you see things when you come close, when you come close and you see things. So everything that you see, a certain lady was talking to me as you were standing in front of me talking suddenly she said, Reverend, you have Gray hair in your eyelashes. As I look at you, you came close. You see something you can't see from a distance You. Can't keep quiet. You are talking. You just come close. You just see one. Thing grey hair and eye. What is grey? Hair and eyelashes going to do what I'm telling you. It's a complete message. Because when you come close, you will see. What you can see from a distance, Yeah. And when you see doesn't mean you must discuss it doesn't. Mean when you go home, you must talk. About it. You must go and laugh about it. You must. Go and make fun of pastors and leaders. You're a big fan of pastors and leaders, whether in Lighthouse or House Light, we don't make fun of leaders. We don't. Next one, a feeling, the next sentence a feeling that I am as good as my senior, I am as good as him. That's why you talk to him the way you talk to him. That's something you can rebuke him. That's sometimes you can correct him as you feel you're as good as him. If you always do it, you can do partly even if you can do it better. Yeah. So you feel you can do it better. That's when he's asking do things. You feel he's too slow, he's too dull, he's not Maverick enough. I mean, you are a maverick, you are a mover and a shaker. How can you be? Operating under this. Kind of dull type. Of person he's too slow so that you need a slow leader to learn patience yeah you need to learn patience say ah he's. This. He's like that. You guys didn't do this Look. Let's let's go round. Let's let's go round, let's overtake him the way he's doing. Like, you know, like I can't work under such a person. I can't work with such a. Person. Look, I'll tell you again. I said it in the morning, I'll say it again. Never have a ministry of dishonouring leaders. No matter what you do, let them look good. Let them shine. Let them look better than they really are, no matter what you do, no. Matter what you do, no matter what fault you see about them, always let your pastor look good. Always let your leader look better than you. No matter what you see, no matter his fault. Do not dishonor a leader. Do not. Dishonor a good person. When you see an. Opportunity to dishonor and. Step back and step away from it. Say nothing, Say nothing. Say nothing, do nothing. Don't say it's too cool for you. Don't say it's not sharp for you. Don't say it's this. Don't say it's like that. Don't say he's like this. Because now you're becoming a rebel. The song you're singing is a song of rebels. They. Always wonder, I said. Rebel who once said that. Do these people always have to be my seniors? Are they? Going to be my. Seniors forever. Is it a life? Is it a lifetime? Thing he's boiling under them, he doesn't see why he can't be promoted to be made equal because you see his parameters and things he's using to. Judge it's so wrong like like some of. These guys, when I read about them, they're talking about Moses. You see, God has also spoken to us about dreams. It's not about dreams. God has to talk about visions. It's not about visions. God's choice. Is not about who. Who has sad dreams? And who has sad visions It's not about. Who has laid hands? On someone who has fallen, who has not fallen, it's about his. Choice. It's about what he wants, what he sees that you don't see, and you can't see even the fact that you are. Talking about your dreams and visions and things, just ensuring. It's a sign that you are not. Even good for that job. Because you talk too much. Because you don't give glory to God. Because you are beginning. To. Feel now you are beginning to feel good. Small revelation God gave. You a feeling too good, You're feeling too good, you're feeling too good. What would you do if you're able to patch the sea? Slight revelation that you got. You are. I mean, you are dying. I mean you are. Dying. You are dying because now you know must know scriptures. As you're saying that, I can even tell that the person examine you doesn't know what you're saying. Don't mock. Always have honor and respect for leaders. Always have honor for them. Always give them honor. Everyone you think, you think by mistake, the thought will get to you by mistake that you are better or you are good. Still give them honor. As for fault, you see it. You see time, including on yourself. As you can see, you're already sleeping. This is the first day. We just, we're just, we're just walking here. We're just, we're just pissing ourselves. An already sleeper scam. So you can see yourself, you're no good. You can see you're weak. So why do you want to criticize someone you can? See you can you can see with. Just little breakfast you had. You are sleeping already. What will happen after lunch? Do you get it? You got it. You believe it, You like it. The next one, next symptom. Constant criticism. Constant criticism means that you always see faults now. You always see that you know your standards are not being met. Always criticize. You always see a problem. You always see something you must complain about. Always. All the time. All the time you see something you must complain about. You never. Say it's good. It's never good enough. It's never good enough for you are. Never impressed. I mean, when will you clap? When will you go to check the pictures? Come here and you. Clap. I mean when will you start find cause to clap? For the pitching. And I'm still saying that you're not clapping. No, but when? That's the thing, when will you get the words like, oh man, it's a good message. It's a good word. I mean, what a message, what a word. I'm so blessed, I'm so touched, I'm so moved. But every time in the midst of the preaching, the midst of the. Message the midst. Of how things are organized. You can see folks, where will you? Where will you go for to church worship time and you will lift up your hands or you will knelt down and worship. I mean when, when will you be relaxed enough to enjoy what is there every time you see? The way they stand. What do you think they need some alignment You. Know, yeah, I think, I think that. It's not. It's not symmetrical. Every time there's a problem, every time there's a fault, every time there's something, it's pride, it's pride. It's only pride that. Makes you see problems all the time. There must be times where you can shout e-mail. There was a times where you must be excited. There is times where you can clap. There is times where you can lift up your hands and worship God. Why are you not impressed? You must be impressed. Sometimes must be impressed. You must be happy. You must see something good. You must see something great. That's. Always see, that's not all. Every little problems. But there are fewer. Problems there. Are a lot more good things you. Must see the. Good things and. Enjoy the good things. No Constant criticism, constant. Constantly criticizing. Always. I mean, you are faithful in. Criticizing you are. Constant and consistent we can rely on you for. A criticism. I mean, we can count on you. For a criticism. You can be counted on if we want criticism, something to change. We can count on you. We can count on you that after service you come, you will come and tell us you have something. Yeah, you know, the word was good. But, but, but, you see, I think sometimes you should, you should keep the young fools. Quiet a little bit so that. Some of us are adults, you know, and then we need a bit of serenity to gain some focus. Why are you not impressed that these young people are excited about the way and they love the way and they enjoy the way and they are into the way? Why are you not excited about it? They won't just say if they're on the roads, on the streets, on drugs, doing crazy things, but here they are in church, shouting in church, screaming in church, excited in church, and you are not happy. You must be happy. You've got to be happy. You've got to be. Excited. You must love it. You must enjoy it. You must want it. Be impressed. Tell me about being impressed. Be impressed. Sit down, sit down. Sit down. You're impressed enough. Sit down. The next one, next law, the people are chatting outside, is is there a reason? Is it part of the law so that we can go out and chat during the camp loyalty demands. So somebody should tell them that join camps, we don't chat outside. All right, OK. All right. Are you blessed Loyalty? Demands the right attitude and loyalty, follows instructions or people die so we take a. 30 minute break. And then? We'll be back so. 30 minute break. Give a lot of shout.