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07. 5 Principles Of Orderliness
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Warnings of Purpose. Machaneh Collection - 69. Preached in 2010, Ghana (Cape Coast). 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 #7 of warnings of purpose. 5 Principles of orderliness. Let me just give that to you before we move on. Five principles of orderliness #1 The presence of confusion signifies the presence of another authority other than God. The presence of confusion signifies the presence of another authority other than God in operation. Amen. Why? Because First Corinthians 14 verse 33 says God is not the author of confusion. He did not make confusion. So if there is confusion, another author or another power is working, Mercy, what power is that? Which authority is working? Something, a power, is at work, Amen #2 disorderliness, shabbiness, confusion, and the symptoms of the presence of evil spirits. It's a sign of the presence of evil spirits. You see how we dress when we are being formal? You understand It's a sign of certain evil spirits have gone away. Amen. They, Isaiah 14 verse 17, They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying, is this the man that made the earth to tremble and did shake nations, and that made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the House of his
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Welcome to track #7 of warnings of purpose. 5 Principles of orderliness. Let me just give that to you before we move on. Five principles of orderliness #1 The presence of confusion signifies the presence of another authority other than God. The presence of confusion signifies the presence of another authority other than God in operation. Amen. Why? Because First Corinthians 14 verse 33 says God is not the author of confusion. He did not make confusion. So if there is confusion, another author or another power is working, Mercy, what power is that? Which authority is working? Something, a power, is at work, Amen #2 disorderliness, shabbiness, confusion, and the symptoms of the presence of evil spirits. It's a sign of the presence of evil spirits. You see how we dress when we are being formal? You understand It's a sign of certain evil spirits have gone away. Amen. They, Isaiah 14 verse 17, They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying, is this the man that made the earth to tremble and did shake nations, and that made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the House of his prisoners, Huh. This is talking about Lucifer. Everybody look at me because we are just about to end this session. Are you? Are you seeing something? He's talking about Lucifer. Lucifer has 22 verses in the Bible, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 2814 * 228. So it's Isaiah and Ezekiel and it's 14 and 28. Remember that easily. Can you remember that easily? 14 and 28. Isaiah and Ezekiel 14 and 28. OK now are you there talking about Lucifer? The chapter which talks about Lucifer he describes is this not the man who made the world a wilderness, mulliganized the place Satan. That is why when I drive through Africa and I see the confusion as the type of principality and devil that is brought all over wilderness, turn the world into a wilderness. Mercy. When you go to Samoa in the islands, where's a young, you have Western Samoa and Samoa, American Samoa and Samoa. An American Samoa is America. Those of you Americans who want to be missionaries back in America, Samoa back America, you need an American citizenship to be there. Have you been there before? But what have you heard about the place? I know they use US passports. The people from Samoa cannot go to American somewhere, they need visas. They need visas, yes. Will you kindly give the value to this one? If you are from just Samoa to just. It's just a small island, just like a barrier. But if you want to travel from Samoa to American somewhere, you need. A visa. You've got to go to like the US immigration. You can't just go and work there. And is it a different place? Very well I mean no the same just. Is a small? Are they? Is one side nicer than the other? Very. One side is like America, one side is like, like Samoa and. The same colour, the same people, same people. Same colour. But a different kind of order and government on the same small island from here is America, from here is your own things here. We don't urinate everywhere here. We don't sell onions. We don't open drinking bar everywhere. You can make a school anywhere you can, you can make a school anywhere in Ghana. If there is a private area, everybody quite presidential, the next house, they can change it into a school tomorrow. And you will be when you when you look outside, you will see 40 cars early in the morning. Everybody has come to drop yourself at your house. Everybody can make us go anywhere. Gas station. Yeah, you can plant a telephone mass anywhere with radiations and everything, radio station anywhere, everything you can do any test. Nobody who says you can do this there. You cannot do this there, You cannot we unless you're white man. And if we try to do it, look at Macola, they've used the term at the road to sell. What if they were to allow the airport? And the reason why some places are it's international law. They will sell kiosk on the runway. You see that then you come when you when you when you land and you go on the runway and you come, you see that there's kiosk all there. The people with that doesn't say figure chip, Antian chip, Zen chip, you can come as soon as you land, you get your God, your God, your God, whatever this and that taxi, taxi ride on the aeroplane, only that is International Security. So even the harbour has a huge war because they will not allow a ship to come from Ghana if it is not having a very high wall security fence from the harbour because of Al Qaeda and the bombs and all those things. So the Air Force is what are forced to do by something external, not our own management. As soon as you come out to the car park, you see we are here, we are in touch W normal Samoa is standing from here. So how many will don't? Don't you realize it is so bad? So what I'm talking about, you see, is that I'm fighting to lift us out of that thing so that it will not be part of our picture. It's a case, you know, at first when I used to see Ghanaians going abroad, I didn't understand it. But nowadays I understand. So when I see them going, I mean, you can't really blame somebody for wanting to be under a different kind of management and a different kind of leadership. Maybe you can't understand why anybody can block a road anywhere. You can block any road. No, you can just block it. It can block anywhere. Nobody can say it can block the main route. It can do anything. And we are saying you can't just preach anything. You can't just do anything. You can't just be there. You can't just not come. You can't just not attend. You can't just be there. You cannot. No, we don't accept it again. We don't accept it again. We don't want all those kind of things. Please, no matter who you are, we like you and all that. We are not around, but we won't accept all those kind of things again. How many things that what I'm saying is a good thing? You think it's a good thing? Yes. So let us not be the very people that whom seen that thing. Yeah. You understand the word Amen. So please, I beg you, let us not be like Ghanaians. You see? You see this hotel, the man who built this beautiful hotel was standing for elections in Ghana. He had less than 1%. Why? Because the people don't know what is a leader, because all the other people who are standing for election. If you are being a lecturer at a school, a lecturer is one of the most monotonous jobs that there's no achievement in it. You just, this is the subject matter and this is the whatever things to be lecturer. Being a lecturer different from building something out of nothing. Being a politician, just winning favours here and there for for 40 years is different from converting a wilderness into what it is. And not only that, as far back as this hotel must be, I don't know, maybe about 20 years old and it's still in a certain condition, the same. We come all the time. It has a certain level. I've been here for more than 10 years ago I was to come here, which is very different from even just the Aflato Togo Rd. Aflato Tema Rd. It has not, cannot stay. It cannot stay because we are running it in our way. If we say fill a form, we say no. There will be no more filling of forms. If we say this is a woman, why should this and that we cannot pray to the Holy Spirit. Is it the Church who is whatever? Why should this and that, all those type of things? That's the very thing that we cannot. So what I'm saying is that we don't pick things that are good. So that's what I'm saying, that you see somebody who can convert and not convert US. Look, you know, for instance, the golf course in Ghana, we sell land plot by plot. Every plot belongs to a different person. So what you see here, there may be more than 700 people whose land has been bought here to make this golf course. Here. From here to here is a plot. From here to place a plot. This people farming, this one, this one, this one. That's why we cannot develop here. That's why there are no large farms because every plot belongs to a different person. You, you, you don't know. But I'm telling you something, you are not called land administration. This is one of the biggest problems in Ghana. It's a big problem. You can't buy land, you can't get a big drug and do commercial farming. There's nothing. Even the government side, as a teammate, as the aviame rice pot, you cannot get the land. So you see the person has been able to piece by piece, he has been able to get the land and plant grass, whatever the problem is, be able to solve it 1 by 1 by 1 by 1 by 1, all of them. And all I'm saying to you is that try to see leadership and admire it. When you do, it means the first time that you come. That's why when the pastor said yesterday as he stood there, he was too hinder. Kenyans would not choose somebody like this. Then I realized that for the first time this person has begun. His eye has not started noticing leader, you know the people who have invited me to give lectures. Sam, Jonah invited me to come and give a lecture. Even. Well, is he? He's a he's a he's an entrepreneur. He's a millionaire. Delta Bank invited me. It's also a private person. You know, the real entrepreneurs, they recognize what because all these people, they still go to Gambia. They will see Lighthouse, Central African Pub, they will see this job. And they said no. This guy, they said come and give a lecture not about politicians, but they are not. They don't build anything. It's just whatever. They don't recognize somebody like me that I'm also building something out of nothing. This is true. But I want you, you are pastors, you are leaders. Don't be like the common person who cannot identify. So this person is a leader. The other day I had they said 024 is King Solomon. And so and I was asking that on which basis why they call the person King Solomon? Because to me, I've not seen the standard. So much money comes. And so you would have maybe they have built a big universe. Do you think if I'm the president or even put me in trouble, I cannot make a new university? I will even demarcate it and start just the entrance block. The entrance from here to here is the university to enter. Here is administration board. You think I cannot start by December? How many think I will start that project by December? Start to recognize leaders and leadership and it will start to be part of your life. Yourself will be using those principles in your life to prosper. One of the sad things I pray for lay pastors is that lay pastors, if you are not full time, if we're thinking about like I've explained to you everybody this one brings, but use the principles that we that we have in this house that make people rich. There's a lot of prosperity thing here. We don't say it too. We don't say it, but ask me who is more prosperous than us? We don't. You don't. You don't see I'm talking about money. How? Ask yourself who is more prosperous than us? And it doesn't depend on any particular person here and you know it. You walk out of the church. You see the church is not affected by your your exit. So as a layperson, you have to get the things so that you use it in your personal life to really prosper Because in a layperson, you are pursuing a childhood dream and that dream at least even you can accomplish it by a certain age. Certain things you have accomplished so that you don't get to 46 and you are disappointed. You are restless, looking for a source of something to fight, something that you don't know. I want you to achieve your childhood dreams. I want you to build a house. Some of the layperson you don't follow, you take somebody like Pastor Obi many years ago and he told me, he said I owe you a house. I thought I said I met them later. I said do you have the house? We are doing business, we are doing this, we are doing this, we are doing this. I said my daughter do the house. He followed my instructions, not even instructions, just advice. I don't have. I cannot different little. I can show even businessmen who are not in the church, they can tell me, said the house, that I have one brother. I said to him, a friend, he was missing the amount of my I have. Do you have a house? He said, Oh no. I gave him some advice, foreign advice. He followed my story. He said I thank him when the whole business was tending to confiscate. The only thing I have is that thing that you suggested that I should do. It is there, but sadly, the laymen rather who are rather pursuing money and these principles we are teaching will not follow those principles. And ask yourself, what again do you want? Let us not wait for a white man before we will just accept him without thinking. I know there may be a case or whatever, but I tell you, there is a way to overcome with wisdom. Anything, let's say anything that is a case. You ameliorate the effect through wisdom. Women have been cursed in childbirth. It is lessened by hospital and wisdom of medical wisdom. Our curse to suffer as sons of harm. And what you ameliorated by wisdom, it will be better, I'm telling you. Did you hear me? I say it will be better through wisdom. Shake your neighbor. Say neighbor, I don't know what to say to you. Ghana 1957, we inherited railroad, railway. What is it today? It has been turned into a wilderness because of demonic leadership. I am calling it demonic leadership now. That's what it is. It's demonic. The country has been turned into a wilderness. We inherited Westerly girls, 250 girls in a school today. That school just around here, thousand 1600 girls in the same building without changing it. Ask yourself what kind of place it will be. Little, little girls all over. They said they are making tents in the schools. It's the demon. We are rather converting everything the white man left for us. We are converting it into a wilderness. That's why I call it demonic leadership. Aburigails, you go there, they have stopped using toilet. They are KDIP, no water. A place which is raining every day is raining. The main, the main. The main, the main the golf course at Chimoto Golf or they built a nest about 80 to 90 years ago, make it beautiful white people came to be the captain, the Romania Tasek. Suddenly they started to put pipes in the ground, dig bore holes to get free water. Then one day a brother came, called me and said am I coming to the golf course tomorrow? I said no, why? He said there is election. I said, what election? He said, oh, tomorrow is white against black, let us boot out these white people. It's white against black. So I should come so that we vote the Tasek British guys out. And truly they went for the election and they voted them all. The buttholes don't work now everything is poured. We are back. You see a golf course red like this cyanide desert, You see it red like that, red like that. It's just converted into a boboy. I should come to the golf course tomorrow because tomorrow it is white against black. Where there were roads, there's no Rd. It's gone down, down, down that pontoons that were there. You see the boat? Oh, I see the people like animals. And there's certain kind of man's leadership. That's why I'm begging you. I beg you with all my heart, don't reject the wisdom and the beauty of shuffling conference and the order in the forms and the different thing. Don't put it aside. Don't let us rather than little, when you preach here, it will be recorded here. It will be recorded there, it will go there. Let's accept this thing. There are wonderful things that God is given that are taking away certain cares from our system. Amen. Are you listening to me? Unity, The unity with the Union and Confederates fought for the Civil War in America. They recognized that to have California as part of New York and as part of Atlanta and part of Louisiana together, oh, it makes them far stronger. They knew it. It would have just been America, would have been just that little part at the top. Atlanta and others would have been different countries and then Mexico. And if they are able to stay together and work together, they will be the strongest. And that's why the devil, he knows only one thing. Divide them, divide them, scatter them. And that's why we are against it. The devil has planned, we do. We have also purpose. Chobwe, Chobwe. Is a phenomena, is a phenomena, is a phenomena #3 The presence of disorderliness and confusion is a sign of the absence of Apostolic leadership. Because Paul is a sign of the absence of an apostle. Amen, Because Paul said, let all things be done decently and in order. Amen #4 The presence of disorganization and disorder is a sign of the presence of demonic wisdom. Demonic wisdom. The way of thinking is demonic. Amen. Are you there, You are there or you are not there. Notice James 3 verse 14. It says if you have envying and strife, do not glory. This wisdom descended not from above, that is earthly, sensual, and devilish. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. There is what disorder and every evil thing? Amen. And #5 ha, disorganization, dirtiness, confusion are works of the flesh, and where we have disorganization and confusion, we have more works of the flesh, because Galatians chapter 5 verse 19 says, Now the works of the flesh are manifest #1 adultery #2 fornication, and #3 uncleanness. Amen. Wow. OK, You know what? I'm tired. Let us be blessed. Are you blessed? Hey, what is the offering that I took for healing Jesus? Yesterday I realized that it has disappeared. Who has taken it? Have you got it? Listen, how many are blessed with wine? The purpose of shuffling. How many understand the purpose of shuffling better? Do you understand it better? Judgment. Order. Choose it. Let's choose it. It's our choice. Let's choose to be together. How many reasons why you have shuffling? Thanks 12 #13 for unity, Unity, Amen. Unity. Wow. Because when we meet as a family, you get it. Then what happens? When we meet as a family, what happens? You bring your idea. I bring my idea. Then I realize that, oh, there's a problem in Alaska. Then you realize there's a problem in Timbuktu. Then we all flew in. What do you think? Father, thank you for the blessing of giving us your word today. In the name of Jesus Christ, we thank you, Lord. Amen. I want you to take out an offering for healing Jesus Crusade, special offering for the crusade. Listen, they sent us SOS from offer. They need money and they called me from the donor management office. They don't have money. So I want you to give generously to help to pay for our crusade. Every crusade is a different bill. I'm telling you, you may not believe it, but that's why I want volunteer treasurers who will not come and say you are charging a percentage of the bills you are paying. Let me pray over your offering, Father, what a blessing it is to receive this offering today in the name of Jesus, Amen. Have we been here since the morning and it's 4:00 now? Is it a long time? Because we said it in the morning, isn't it? Wow. OK, so wait, have I prayed about the offering? All right, receive the offering. Hello. Walking to camp on a Thursday evening, walking and hearing the future reach, seeing the folks will mean everything to us without as we lovely say. Oh, it's so good to be raised in the Lord again. Here, as the quiet sings the loudy time, pray as a brother leads us in prayer. Hearing the preacher give out with the mercy, you can just feel that the Lord is there. Oh it's so good to be praising the Lord again when I think how Jesus loves thee to live for him. Can you imagine the joy of heaven? Can you imagine the Angel song? Can you imagine God? We will be praised. Jesus the Lamb we have in the true song. Oh it's so good to be praising the Lord again when I think how trees love the Arctic heart. Walking to church on a Sunday morning, walking and hearing the church bells rings, seeing the folks will be everything to us. Praising the Lord as we loudly sing, Oh it's so good to be here praising the Lord again. When I think how Jesus loves thee, my depart to live for you here as the choir sings aloud, and then pray as the brother leads us in prayer here in the preach. I give up rhythm as you can't just feel that the Lord is there, but it's so good to be here. Praise it. You think you can learn that song? It's so good to be here. Come on. It's so good to be here. Praise in the Lord again when I think how Jesus loves me is. It good to be here. Oh, it's so good to be praising the Lord again when I think. How tease? I, I I. They're talking. Going to church? Tell us how it goes. Walking to church on a Sunday morning. Walking and hearing the church tells me see in the faults will read everything to us, praising the Lord. I feel loud. Say, come on. Oh. It's so good to be praising the Lord again. When I think I'm Jesus happy, I think heart to live. For him. Come on, let's take it into the camp. Walking to camp on a Thursday evening, walking and getting the pasta preach, seeing the falls to me, everything to us. But we can see that the Lord is here. Come on. Oh, it's so good to be praising the Lord again. When I think out Jesus, Lord, take heart, I take heart. Come on Sunday morning. Every Saturday, walking to church on a Sunday party, walking and hearing that church bells ring, seeing the folks will be everything too. Praising the Lord as you now say. Oh it's so good to be here praising the Lord again when I think how Jesus loves me. I take heart to live for you here as the quiet sings aloud and and pray as the brother leads us in prayer. Hearing the preach I give out with a mess you can't just feel. You can feel it. Oh. It's now going to be raising my Lord again. When I think how? Teens are lost the hard to come to live. Can you imagine the Troy ever? Can you imagine the angels sing? Can you imagine that we will be praising Jesus, the land beyond Jesus? Oh, so don't you be praising the Lord again when? I think. I think I dare. Oh, it's so good to be here. Praise in the Lord again, when I think. Of Jesus going to come, come in the evening. Walking to come on a Thursday evening, Walking and hearing the past every in the fall to me, everything too. Praising the Lord as you loudly say. Oh, it's not going to be praising the Lord again. When I say how she's laughing, I say how to live Sunday. Morning one more time. Walking to church on a Sunday morning, walking and hearing that church bells ring. See in the cold soon it's everything new. Praising the Lord as. You come on, everybody always sound. Good to be praising the Lord again. What? I. Think when I think how Jesus the heart take heart. Oh, it's so good. Come on, it's so good. It's so good. To be. Praising the Lord again, when I say how Jesus loves me, I say more to live for the last time. Hallelujah, you may be seated all right. The purpose of a denomination OK, OK, I'm tired after break. Is it good to be here When when she was seeing that part, seeing the folks who mean everything to I thought about that statement of Gordon Brown that your things are not well thought through. When you are orangulizing. You realize you have not thought it through that seeing the folks who mean everything to me praising the Lord. So the folks who mean everything to me, your whole life you have known them and you just walk out and say, damn you. Your policies are not what well thought through. Your policies are not what well thought through. Your policies are not what well thought through. You have not thought it through. That's why you are seeing the grace of lighthouse Grace not thought it through. You change it later because your policies are not well thought through. Wow, how many are loving judgements, shuffling order, these wonderful things that would change our vein to to bring about a blessing and save us from primitivization. It's true. Kamin Krumar came and he gave us this, that, that and since he left. Calling from our first president, he seemed to know many things that nobody industrialisation, secondary schools, every school is the same. He built in every every, every district capital or something. He built regional capital in Fancyman Secondary School, half a semi secondary school, the same shape, the same design, just like how we are building the churches all the same. And those are the main schools that we have till today and after that we just primitivization are making tents. You wait until you start to make tents and when they make the tent it will be permanent. The school always, because the best example is the National Conference Theatre. They wanted a bigger auditorium, so they made a big tent and it's now a permanent tent there. When you go, that's our main. This is a tent we cannot build. A nation cannot build a theater for its celebrations or anything. There's nothing like that you don't have. It's a tent. When Abercrash came together, he was in that tent. That's what we have. So why do you think white people will come and have respect for us? We don't respect ourselves. Anyway, what time is the return? Yeah, when we come this evening, 7730, 7:00 or 7:30 or 8:00, 8:00, 73733 hour break. We'll be here for seven hours. We we here for seven hours. Yeah. When we started in seven hours, we have been happy to go. Church service Where? Where I'm invited to preach 45. They have been close by. This time is finished. Go get your own arrayment. You go. But you see, that is also what has made us what we are. If we don't also go through these things, we cannot understand what we are doing very well. Because I have many purposes to share with you. Purpose of a denomination and other purposes. Yeah. And the purpose of the devil. You saw a purpose coming to that one. Amen. So 730 is the gathering time. So you may eat, do anything that you feel that you need to do. We meet at 7:30. Your offering is smaller than yesterday's. When I look inside the basket, it has dropped. Whose church basket is this? OK. During one shuffling conference, Lady Pastor Becky gave an envelope to give to somebody and council meeting. Those people are not here. OK, All right, then it will not be enough. So welcome, Bishop in temple. Hallelujah. So please, let's use the time properly. Rest each so that one.