05.Levels of Love

Welcome to track #5 or fulfill your ministry. How many are ready to respond to God with good love, great love? Revelations chapter #2 To the Angel of the Church in Ephesus write The one who holds the seven stars in his right hand. The one who walks among the seven golden candlesticks says this, Read it. Somebody should stand up and read it out for us, right? This pen sayeth he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven candles golden candlesticks. I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil, and thou hast tried them. We say they are apostles, and are not, and has found them lies, and has born, and has patience, and for my name's sake has laboured and has not fainted. Verse 4. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast thou hast left thy first love. Remember, therefore, when from whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works, or else I will come on to thee quickly, and will remove thy Candlestick from his place, except thou repent. Verse 6. But good, thank you. Remember from where you have fallen you see the fall is to fall away from a certain kind of love. That one alone is a is a fall. And you see God was saying that you know the 1st works you did came out of the first love. That is why I say that the the detail you are talking about is found in your response to to the love in a certain way. If you respond in a certain way, you would, you would just do the right works, you fulfill your ministry because as soon as they fell from first love, they fell from their first works. So God will say, I know your work, you have labored, you have done, you have done. Look, you've fallen. You've fallen from the place. You are not working for me as you should work. You are not fulfilling your calling in your ministry. I won the best works again, and it came as a result of your first love. Without love for God, all ministry is not ministry. Ministry is out of love. When I officiate weddings, I officiate out of love. I love the couple and I want to help them. Oh, yeah, I don't. You know, you go to some churches, you see that this is a whole major duty. Even funerals, you know, you, you see it. I see it as I see it as something important to help the person in a way to set the person off. Do whatever will make the person blessed and happy. Not at all. I'm paid. I have to. It's my duty. Saturday, I have to be doing a wedding. No, it's out of the laugh for the couple. So love makes you do certain things, but you can also do a lot of works without love. You can have a nest looking after you. Who doesn't laugh? Where's your part? Have you got your folder? Where's your folder? Go and bring Mammy. What? Sit down there, do the like that you see them talking. They are looking after you, but not out of love. So responding to this great mercy is the great key to starting your ministry and responding to the call and fulfilling your call is love. I'll love you back, That's all. I will love you back. That's all. You'll find yourself fulfilling your your calling. Here I am today. Here you are. Here are 1000 churches plus no vision of Jesus saying my son, my son, I'll send it to the world. Thou shalt be a planter of churches, my son. My son, go as a deliverer. Thou art sent forth to bring light and salvation to the church. Thou shall raise up many churches and many pastors. Oh my son, this is my voice. Up until today, I'm still waiting to hear that voice. I hear pastors all the time saying how God called them with this voice and whatever. And I'm telling you that a large part of your calling is a response to your love, to God's love for you, with love of a certain type, of course. A love. Yeah. And all your life, let's say you are going to live to be 60 and you are 25 years old or 24 years old, 24 plus. What gives you 60, 24 + 36? So 36 / 60 is what percentage, huh? Let's say you marry at the age of 24 and you live to be 60. How many years is that 36 / 60? What percentage of 60 of your life is that? 60% of your life is the response to love. 60% of your whole life. Let us say you live to be 70 and you are 36 years. You marry at the age of 24. How many years will you have married? 4646 / 70 is what percentage of your life. 65% of your life, your whole life and your life's work is a response to your love, to sorry, to the laugh that has been shown to you. The rest is just your normal existence. The rest is 65% is your response to laugh, your response to laugh, your response to laugh. So, officer, what do you do when you laugh? When you laugh, everything that you're supposed to do will come naturally. Yeah. When you laugh, somebody you, you want to speak the person's language. My wife, you know, most of her, her family members are surprised when she speaks gang because I think she thought she was marrying a gang. So she decided to learn how to speak gang. Yeah. And then she make the food that I like. Her mother used to complain, what is this, that we are making this not food. And she used to explain that that is what he likes. That is what he eats. Yeah. That is what he eats. And after today, her mother cannot cook for me. After today. Yeah, absolutely. And I always tell you I've not shown your mother what I eat. That is why after today, she cannot cook for me. She cooks. I don't eat it. I can't eat. Hey, my mouth has got a filter. It filters a lot of things. Yeah, you learn I cannot have the details. I don't need the details. So if I can know my, do you remember what I said when we started the camp? I was saying that, you know, people are saying, well, if we knew Our Calling, we can fulfill it. If we know our ministry, we can fulfill it. If you can give that detail, we can favor. Then I took you to the cow going from Bogatanka to Accra, how to do the way, isn't it? And I'm saying there are many things that will show the way. And I said, I'm giving you 10 things that will show the way, isn't it? And I said, this is number. I gave you the list. You said you don't understand. OK, so #1 mercy and love, respond to it and you will see the details. So learn the language, learn the food, learn the sex, learn whatever all the things, respond to it, respond to God, respond to God. Just respond to God. Just respond to God the same extent that you are giving to you. Respond to him in the same way. Most marriages break up because my response to love is not the same as your response to love. Oh, yeah. Especially what we call A1 husbands. Yes, what we call A1 husbands. You know, we have a one, we have X5 A1 husbands. Usually they have ideals about marriage like, oh, we are going to do this. You have to send lab notes, go for walks. I mean cutlery. I mean, I do this the home. I mean this is my dream wife. Everything is the wife. Their wife is their their encapsulated happiness and vision, their ideal husbands. Whatever there has to be done, they try to do it. But usually the response they get is not that. Because once the person interprets that this man is trying to be a Bible husband, like he's trying to return back to the Garden of Eden and operate from there. Yeah. From the garden point of view, there are so many things they don't they cannot do. Yeah, and you see many girls are lazy. You know yourselves. You cannot wake up in the morning. You don't pray. Yeah, you are dirty. Don't. I mean so many things. You know yourself, isn't it? Don't bath. You smelling. You know yourself. That is smelling and smelling. You think I'll praise you? Why are you looking at me like that? The the the sister is looking at me. I don't know why she's looking at me like that. Can you find out what What is your name? Why are you looking at me like that? The sister in the yellow. Why is she looking at me like that? So somebody should find out why she's looking at me like that. No, No microphone. No microphone. Are you excited with the message? Is it a good message? Is it a true message? Watch your eyes. Be very careful. So responding, we need to respond to love. Yeah. And all the things will come. Would become naturally. Yeah. You would do this. Oh, since you loved me. This what I have. Since you loved me like this, This what I. And you see, when you're getting married to a man, A1. No. Is he somebody who doesn't care about you? So I'll go here. I'll go here. That is a different marriage. We have different types of unions. Different type. I'm talking about the Christian one. It's not that when I talk you think I'm talking. We are talking about the Christian one. Like the man who said that no matter what, I'll never divorce you. I will stay with you to the end. No matter what you do to me. That's the marriage. I'm talking about that one. Since you've seen that you cannot and will not go anywhere, then yourself comes true. Yeah. And then you see an attitude. An attitude. Yeah. So sometimes you hear about that and you even wonder. You say, what are you talking about? Because when I would be my boyfriend, men. Wow, That's not what I'm talking about. Boyfriend and girlfriend. The girl will even like you more than the boy. You see them jumping all over like frogs. Very, very excited. How many have been jumping all over like frogs before? Raise your hand. The sisters are not raising their hands, I said. The sisters are not raising their hands. Get their nearest sister and raise their hand. Some of them raise their two hands. OK, listen, listen, listen. The second highest kind of love, you see greater love. The greatest love is the love where you die for somebody. That's a greater love. Greater love has no manners. And a man should lay down his life. Now, the next level of love is first love. Yes. After greater love, you come to first love. Yeah. Greater love has no man than this. Greater love has no man. That no one can have a greater love than this. That's the greatest kind of love. So the love that is you can now use because you can't just go kill yourself, Lord. So then let's all go outside and die. That's what Jim Jones did and killed the whole church. You understand you can't do that. All right, So we are left only with the option of first love. Yes, that's our only option. And that's why God complained to the church when He said that you've left your first love. That means 70% of your calling is gone. You are doing these works and all these things, but your first love and first love works are gone. Yeah. So you must respond with first love. When you respond with first love, you know everything there is to be done. Yeah. But when you meet a lot of married couples, you say, do you do this? I can't do that. Sorry. They tell their husbands I'm not a prostitute, you know, I mean, you can go and get a prostitute if you want. I'm not a prostitute. Oh, yeah, I'm not a prostitute. They're paid, you know, they're professionals. I'm not. That is how Christians talk. That is how Christian Christians talk in their homes. That's how Christians talk at home. I'm not a prostitute. I'm not one of those girls, Lady Queen. You're not one of those girls, Lady Queen. Why did we marry you, Lady Queen, when you were jumping all over the place over there? Was that a problem? One day I called one of my pastors. He was driving with his wife when I started speaking to them immediately. I just asked how is your life again went into that area. They were shocked when they thought I was coming to talk about the mission fuel. Then I said, yeah, how is how is how is that aspect of Villa and her husband said, Bishop, you are in the spirit. You are in the spirit. You are in the Spirit. Yeah, they thought I was going to ask about, I mean, visitation and prayer and counseling. I said no, let's talk about sex as Christians on the mission field, the hazards, a Bishop who are in the Spirit. Wow. OK. Are you still around? Yeah. So now, if God cannot, we cannot give him the greater love unless maybe he asks us to die for him. What are we going to give him now? The next level of love is first love. Yeah. Wow, when you have just first love, I don't need to give you the details of your ministry to fulfill now you will fulfill it when you put young people. That's why people don't even understand why we do counseling. Some of you don't even understand why will you do counseling? Bishop, we know what to do when we marry. Yes, you know what to do. When there is first love, you always know what to do. There is no need of counseling when you operate in first love. But people quickly put aside first love and don't know what to do in marriage. Yeah, only first love alone will let you know what to do. It's spontaneous. Love is spontaneous. Love is a beautiful thing. That's why we all like weddings. We all like sea also. Oh wow, we like it. So what is first love? Number one? First love is the love you have for God when you are young. Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant row. Let her breast satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. Even reading it just puts pictures of silver and gold. Yeah, you know, somebody's asking. I want the details of my ministry. Can you give me the details of what I'll do when I get married? You don't need details, you will do it. Everything that takes from a young person to do. The only reason why we do marriage counseling is because of after first love. Marriage counseling is because of after first love, when you are not so young anymore, or even young relative because of that. You see somebody 29 years old, Igbo, you understand? I mean, the person is totally gone, 29 years old. It's over. It's switched off. Yeah. It depends on when they got married, if they got married when they were 23. By 29, some behave like they are 70. It's true. It is without Gray hairs. You see that they are behaving like 70 year old. Yeah, when you are full of love as a young person, nobody would teach you what to do. Do you think cows watch pornography? Cows, dogs watch pornography. Do you think any animal watches pornography and learns what to do or how to do it? Do you think you would not know what to do if you have not watched pornography? I can tell you whether you have bought pornography or not, you know exactly what to do. I tell you, you will know what to say, that this is the next move, this is the next step, this is the next step to do. How many want to marry a young person? How many don't want to marry an old person? Wow. God also wants young people. Yeah. God wants you to behave young. Yeah, when you behave young, it's nicer. Yeah. Yesterday I met somebody and the person was telling me, you know, because the person is at the Kodesh Bishop. You know we miss you at the Kodeshian. When I listen, I feel that you really like these people, these first love people. We are jealous, that's the truth. If I'm preaching, you are quietly looking at me. How do you think the preaching will be? Yeah. Listen, all I'm saying is respond to God as a young person would respond I you don't have to Bishop if I can know my calling. You are a pastor and you are please please without watching one pornography, nothing. If I put 2 of you together and I say that you are now husband and wife, feel free and I'll put you on an island. You yourself will find a way. The truth and the life true or not true. And that is what I'm saying that if God, you come to God with love of a young person, yourself will find your way to have this. I have to preach, I have to evangelize this person. I have to, I have to win this particular soul. I have to start a fellowship. I have to follow this one up. I have to go here. You yourself will find a way. You can, I say, Bishop Harid, I don't know what to do. Because you see, we are in school and we don't know, but you are able to locate a vagina that is under the leg somewhere. It is inside there. That's what you can find it without problem, without navigation, without compass, without a technical tools, without a map. You know how to see it. But you don't know where there are souls, isn't it? You don't know how to find a soul, isn't it? So there are no, I don't know. There are in school. I don't know where they are. I don't know whether I don't know whether you don't know. You don't know, you can't find that you are able to find your way down there to something that has been closed and gathered. Aya what Aya mobs Mobsacles. God is just saying. Look, respond to my mercy with love. You yourself will see your calling. Yeah, you yourself will see yourself myself. You are an evangelist. You are this. You are that. Even you can see with Andre Crouch, like his response to God. You can hear it from the songs. I don't know why Jesus loved me. I don't know why he cared. I don't know why he sacrificed his life. Wow. Yeah, Jesus is the answer for the world today. There's no other. Jesus is the way. Wow, Lord, I know you need somebody. You can depend on me. Is it a song? Can we sing that song? It's a long time we sang that song. You can depend on me, Jesus. I know you need somebody. You can depend on me, Jesus. I know you need somebody. You've got to have somebody. You can depend on me. So many people they never ever heard from, you know, so many problems they have, they think they can't go through it. This is. Andre Crouch can. Do the same for, just like you did for me alone. I know you need somebody. You've got to have some you can depend on. You can depend on me. You can depend on me, Jesus. I know you. You need somebody. You know you need somebody. You got to have somebody. You depend on me. Yeah, the harvest is right. But the laborers, I feel we make you this promise. Right now, we'll do what you ask us to. We're gonna speak your name. We'll never, ever be a St. I know you need somebody. I know you need somebody to have somebody. You can't depend on me. You can depend on me, Jesus. I know you need somebody. You got to have somebody you can depend on. You can. Depend on. You can depend on. You can depend on you and. You need somebody. No, you need somebody. You've got to have somebody. I want you to tell God, Lord, no, no, listen to what I'm saying. I want you to say, Lord, I can find my way in this ministry thing from today. If I can locate a vagina, I can locate a soul. Yes, yes, ask yourself you can locate something like that very difficult to find it, but just because you are young and fresh and you are saying ha, when you are married, you don't tell her you I cannot locate. I can locate. You say that we are hypocrites. You know that almost all all preaching exposes one thing and it is hypocrisy. Almost all true preaching, it exposes 1 unfortunate thing about us and it's hypocrisy. I can't do it in this, but I do it in this. I can swallow a camel, but when it comes to this little mosquito, I say yeah, it's too big. That's how we are. I need to know a detail of her ministry. Bishop, can you give me a notes when I get married? I will know that when you get married, you say let's check Page 1. Remove your blouse. Start from the top. Start from the top button. If there are more than six buttons, ask your ask your companion to help you with the buttons. Then when you remove the buttons and I says if there is a zip on the sketch locate zip, locate any zip possible zips, then we are pleased we are looking for zips. Then step #3 if there is a zip, extend to the last position possible and see if there is any response. Then you are checking because I want to know my ministry, I want to know the details. And you say you are called, you are the one who is great. You know everything. We don't know anything. That there is something called Brazia. It may be black, blue, red or brown or white. Please locate located if you find any difficulty with that telephone This number step #7 The Brazil must be removed at all costs. You need step by step explanation of what to do to bear fruits when it comes to God. You come up with mystical clouds just to push him back and push him away from your life and say I've not seen an Angel, I've not seen Jesus. I know I've not heard from God, I've not heard his voice. Just your pure love for God will tell you without any steps. The next thing is this person must be saved. Yes, When I went to Lagon, when I went to Lagon, the next thing I had, when I had the revelation, I said we need to have a fellowship and we should just share the word. And I started sharing. We sit around in the chair and share the word of God out of the love of God. It was, I have no, I have no idea of mind of pioneering something or establishing something. No, just a natural thing to do. And I said we must reach out, we must pray. We went to the gardens to pray. Not because God has said to me, go and pray because that is the next thing you will do. The next thing you will do is to go to the gardens to pray. Those come with your mystical face. Look, I don't understand what is what can I can I call you to see to discuss what to do next out of your lap for the people who God has sent you to with the must be saved. I must preach on this bus. Going to Kolebu, I stood up on the bus and preached on the bus because I said I must preach on the bus. We preach on the way back from Kolibo to Lagon, we preach there bars. My classmates were making condom. They were blowing condoms into balloons and throwing them in the bus as we were driving from Kolibo to Lagon. That's the fun that they were having. I also said I'm going to preach. No one had ever preached on the bus and I preached on the bus. Prey on the bus, preach on the bus it's natural. Is it the call of God? He said, what should I do then? Most of us who say I'm not called, whereas the Bible says many are called. Most of us have never seen an Angel hear from God. And even many of those who see those things are not obedient. I'm telling you 10 things. All of them are guiding you to your ministry and guiding you to fulfill your ministry. You sit there and say I don't know what to do. After removing the browser you will see 2 protrusions. These are called breasts. You may touch and see whether they are responsive local local. Don't tell me you are not called. Don't. I'm sorry, Bishop, I don't have any. I Can't Sing. I'm not like this. We would not do marriage counseling if it was not for the fact that first love of couples leaks away fast and they are left with the next lower type of love which which is agape. That one is Bible based. That is the one that you check notes. The Bible says I should be patient. OK, so I'm going to be patient. The Bible says I should be kind, so I'm going to be kind. The Bible says I should bear all things. So I'm going to bear all things. Yeah. So you calm down. We are now on Agape lab. Read and follow. That's where couples come for counseling. We only be telling them Agape labs. He's snots in the night. OK. First Corinthians 13, four best. He says laugh best or endures all things you have to endure. I feel, but he feels hot, so yeah. OK, so the Bible says this and that. Oh, he always wants to have sex. And I don't want to have sex. OK. That's why the Bible says that love is patient and love does not take into account the wrong Sabbath. But he offended me yesterday. Love says that like that. That one's the notes one. That's the notes one. But the first laugh one, there are no notes. And God wants you to respond to his great love for you with first love. No notes. You know what to do, No notes. You know what? Look at me here, standing here preaching. You call me a man of God or a Bishop or whatever, how I prefer to be known as a lover of God. All these titles and so on. It's because of the church structure. There are so many churches and so many. There have to be some like who says what and who listens to who and all that. You have to do it. Me, I'm the most informal person. I don't like those things. It's because of my wife that I didn't go to weddings and funerals and so on, and she knows all those things. She will be guiding me. Even yesterday I couldn't come because she made me go to a funeral. Not directly, but indirectly. When I was coming, I was feeling bad. I said no, I have to go. So I went back to Collegona before I came here. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't know formalities. These are Bishop, this reverend. What is reverend? How? Love God natural. Yeah. How many? One notes how to laugh. Maybe you should do that. The next couple that gets married is you take a notebook. When you get to the room, take the notes and say we have notes #1 this is what we are supposed to do. Lie down #2 would you like that? I Lord, I want to say you can depend on me from today. You can. Depend on me, Jesus. You can depend on me, Jesus. I know you need somebody. You got to have somebody. You can depend on me. So many people so. Many people they. Never ever heard from you. They never heard. So many problems they have so. Many problems they. Can't go through it all. You can do the same for them, just like you did. I know you need somebody. You've got to have somebody. You can depend on me. You can depend on me, Jesus. You can depend on me. Jesus. I know you need somebody there. Yeah, I know you need somebody. Or you got to have somebody. It can depend on me. The harvest is right, Lord, but the laborers are for you. We make you this promise right now. Do you? Make this promise right now do. When you ask us to, do we gonna speak your name? We'll never, ever be outside. Lord, I know you need somebody. I know you need somebody. You've got to have somebody. You can't depend on me. You can't depend on me, Jesus. You can depend on me, Jesus. Jeremiah chapter 2. Respond with love and you will find your calling. Respond with love to the end. First love to the end. You'll be in your ministry. You know why I came to First Love Church? One of the reasons because you see, when I started the crusade, I stopped preaching at the Kodesh for some time. Then one day I was having my quiet time and the Lord, I felt the Lord was telling. My quiet time was in Revelations and I came across this vest which I had read, and then the vest wasn't going away. When I had a quiet time, the vest wasn't going away. It was like your first love. I said, what first love again? I'm winning souls. I'm doing crusade. I'm doing what again is first love. And then the Lord, I believe, said to me that your first love of pastoring the people like you were the pastor, you were preaching in a church. That was the first thing I started doing as a normal, like a minister, pastoring and preaching. So how can I pastor? Because now I've left the Kodesh for some some people. Wow. So when the opportunity came, I came here and I and when I started the first time we had the first church. I told you, I'll tell you the name of the church next week, but I already knew it was first love because I had that name when I was in Burkina Faso. I said it's going to be called First Love Church. So it's my first love to pastor people. When you are doing a weddings, marriage counseling, talk to the people visiting if I can, everything I can, I like to do. I like to shepherd in AI, like to visit people, talk to them, talk to always talking. When I'm with sheep, I'll talk. I'll never stop talking. When I'm with enemies, I'm quiet. Oh, he's very quiet as I'm quiet.