07 How To Be Great

Welcome to track #7 of Mission Africa. Hallelujah. There's a song I want us to sing because it's it's a prayer. Also, let's lift up our hands and and sing it. Do something new. In my life, something new. In my life, oh love, something new. In my life, something new. That's all that's that's all we are singing. And I want you to know we are not just singing, we are praying. Amen. So be mindful of the words. They are very important. Maybe just one sentence or two, but it is the prayer you need to pray. Let's sing it again. Do. Something new in my life. Oh Lord. Do. Something new in my life. Oh Lord, do something new in my life, something new in my life, something new in my life. We pray. That you will do something new. You are a God who always does new things, new things, new things, Day by day, new things. You don't change, but you do new things. Wow. Thank you, Lord, that we have become the objects of your concentration to do new things. That your lenses are focused on us this week. Today you've chosen us to put us on your bench to work on us. We can become new. Thank you Lord, we bless your name in Jesus name, Amen. You may please be seated. Wow. You know, as we sang the song, when we sang the song and I was praying the Lord just. Took my mind. To 2nd Corinthians 517 Second Corinthians, you can't turn your Bibles to it. I hope you all brought your Bibles. Let me let me see. Lift your Bible and let me see or, or better still, if you don't have a Bible, let me just lift your hand. You are here because I can easily inspect Bibles. So if you don't, maybe you are in a hurry. The bus was leaving and you forgot your Bible. Let me see your hand. If you left your Bible. Oh, please, lift your hand. Very well, please. Yeah. Right here. Over here. Yeah. You are not very prepared to come. I mean, you have gotten ready and they said you should leave. So you left your. Let me see your hand. Well, good. All right. Great, you know 2nd Corinthians 517 says that If therefore, therefore, if any man be in Christ, Amen. He is a new creation, All things have passed away, Amen. Behold, behold, behold, look at that brother. Behold that sister, behold that brother, behold that shepherd, Everything about him has become new. Amen. And normally we use the scripture to talk about the new birth that when we come into Jesus, the old things, our fornication using of drugs, sleeping with married men, alcoholism and all these things pass away. Amen. They change they they they die. Not so and below everything is now new. I'm in church. I don't smoke again, I don't drink again. I'm a new person. Wow. Now it is also important to understand that beyond this Scripture being a very major verse for our transformation to become new believers in Christ, there are many doors, Amen. If any man be in Christ, You see, as we are all here, we are in different levels of Christ, Amen. We are in very different levels. That is why Ephesians 4 talks about till we all come to the fullness of the measure of the stature of Christ, all of us one day will become just like Jesus. But right now we are at different levels. Amen. So when you become born again, you have just stepped into the veranda of Jesus. If Jesus was a house, Amen. But there are many rooms inside the house, living room, kitchen and so on, including the master bedroom and anytime you take a step. I've been born again for about 35 years. Yes, and I have been. I have not been at the same place since I got born again. I entered into Jesus Christ, got born again, but since I got born again I have been stepping into deeper levels of the same Jesus. The same Jesus has got higher heights, the same Jesus has got deeper depths. The same Jesus has got different compartments. So you can be in Jesus, but be in the veranda of Jesus. Tell we all, all of us. The agenda is that we will come to the fullness of the measure of the stature of whom Jesus Christ. So this camp, actually what is happening to you is that you have been answered into another room in Jesus. It's the same Jesus. But by coming to this camp, by sitting on the bus, by registering to come to this camp, you have been ushered into another room that you have not discovered. Amen. And there also, you see, this Scripture also applies to this experience, that when you enter into another deeper compartment of Jesus, old things pass away. Yeah, the old things, it's not just smoking or drinking, it's true. But the old things in Jesus, there are certain things which at a certain level must be old, which must pass away. Even as I passed out last year, just last year, I mean this year some things I was doing last year passed away. They are dead in my life. If you come to me now, you will not see in my life and ministry some things I was doing just last year. Certain things must pass away. It's not just fornication. That's the type of behaviour that must pass away. And then we can see that wow, look at that shepherd, everything is now new. The next three years, some things which I knew today will also pass away. And you enter into newer things. Wow, wow. So some things must pass away. The point I am making, and if that is the only point I will make this morning, it's enough that in Jesus there are different levels and we are constantly being made new and for any level of newness you experience, some things must pass away. Right now, as you sit here after this camp, a certain type of prayer life must pass away. It must die. If it doesn't die, you will not become new. You will be in Christ, but be an an old medieval relic relic. You are a Christian, but you are a relic. You belong to the antiquities. That's the way you are praying. You have been praying. It must die. Some of you, some Bibles must die. Bible, God's Word, Bible. I'm not talking about pornography. Some Bibles must die. If you come into my life, there are some Bibles which are dead. I can't at my level use certain Bibles. So it's not just smoking or fornication. Certain lifestyles must die, including certain Bibles must die. Yeah, because now you are a shepherd. You cannot use engagement Bible to do ministry. You see, this Bible, for instance, is the word of God. It is the word of God. It's a sacred word of God. It contains everything. It's the Holy Bible, my wedding Bible. But but but to enter into a certain level, you see the fullness of the measure of the stature. You can you can imagine a glass, a glass of water, a third floor to 3rd fall for 5th fall. And so we are, we are, we are becoming 4. Christ is failing us now when he fails us at this level, when we are shepherds. You can't use this Bible to do ministry. It must pass away a Bible that when you open to and you read and you see something you don't understand, you cannot even have any help because now you are, you are accepted. You teach. How can you teach when you don't understand what you have even read? See the fact that you are reading the Bible, That's what I'm saying. Now it's a Bible. It's not pornography. No, but the fact that you are reading a Bible doesn't mean you understand it. I myself, I read certain scriptures. I don't understand. I need help the the the Ethiopian you know can ask it. Ask Philip. How can I understand? Accept someone. And sometimes your pastor may not be there. Your Bishop may not be there. Your whoever may not be there. The Bible you are using itself must be able to teach you. It must die. I cannot get any help from this Bible. At the end of it there are drawings of the high priest, Jerusalem wall, communion bread, the sword that David used, map of Jerusalem, Babylonian pots. Porter and Vasila say it must die. Yeah, drawings of a well. Now I would love to give this Bible to my 6 year old girl growing up. Yes, she needs it. She needs to say Jesus was at the well in John chapter 4. What? Well this is what will explain the well to my daughter. But when you are accepted, you have gone beyond drawings of wells. We are now drawing from wells. So it must pass away. You know, I'm, I'm excited. This camp is a landmark camp in your life, something new. There's no concordance. Nothing. But when I see a shepherd with a big Bible, Thompson 10 Reference Bible, it's also a Bible. But it's a level of a Bible. And I'm saying that all things must pass away. This is a Bible. So when you become a shepherd, this one must die, and this one must come into your life. No so so so please. Now I I read this verse to let you know that something is happening to you. Something is happening to you. Thank you ma'am. God bless you. I love you. Something must change. Amen. We are all I myself. I've been a pastor for a long as I sat here yesterday and Bishop, I was preaching about the 25 reasons why you must have a mega change. I mean I was taking notes. I've had ideas I've never had came to me true. Some things I've never heard. I heard it. It is a level you see the point I'm making and everyone you see, I'll tell you everyone here, your ambition in life must be to enter into deeper depths of Jesus Christ at this level, what must go all of us here. I don't think there's anybody here who has some unbelievable boyfriend or you have, you know, hobnobbing with some Weedsmokers grant card. We've all you've changed. But even right now, certain church members, Harare church members, Lusaka Church members, Long Way church members, Lumumbashi Church members, they are Christians, they are the children of God, but they are closeness to Someone Like You must pass away, yes. And then you must move into now having shepherds and pastors as your new friends. They are not bad. You see, I'm saying that right now we are not talking about smoking, drinking, fornicating, no. So even in the Lord some good things pass away. That's because there's a time in your work with God. Your choices are not between evil and good things. At this level. I don't. I don't decide should I should I have this girlfriend? Should I, should I add this girl to my wife or I should not? Those thoughts they are 35 year old thoughts right now. My my my question is should this person still be in my life because in the last two years I cut off a pasta for my life. A pasta, a pasta, yes, I cut him off my life because they want to step into a level and you can. Not every member of the Harare Church or Lusaka Church will help you to know Jesus more as a shepherd. I'm telling you not, not not everybody. Some people in your life must pass away if you want to ascend. So. So please see what God is doing. God is creating something new. And as I was praying, the script that came to my mind, and I, and I want to let you believe it. I want you to believe it. That's something. No matter who you are, Doctor Max, something new is happening to a Bishop. Something new is happening to a reverend. After this camp, you cannot and must not be the same person. All things must pass away. Wow. What's, what's your name? Calculate you. God willing, next year when we come to a camp and I say Cuckoo later, I'll say Cuckoo. Cuckoo, baby. Hi Cuckoo, can I see your Bible please? Then Cuckoo will pull out her iPod. Her iPod with 17 Bibles, Dicks, count all iPod dictionaries. Clap your hands for sister QQ. Thank you baby, glory to God. So this morning I would just want us to read 2 verses, one from John chapter 15, a very important scripture, and then John chapter 15. Are you there 15161516 Wow, some things are passing away. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. Wow entertained you that ye should go and bring forth fruits, and that your fruits should remain, that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He may give it to you. That's the scripture we are reading this morning. Amen. And it's God speaking to someone here this morning that ye have not chosen me, but I chose you. You didn't decide to come to best camp. You didn't decide to be a shepherd. Maybe your pastor approached you and and said to you, be a shepherd, be a pastor, be a worker. But God is saying here, because sometimes you may think that you chose God. You chose the ministry you chose. You decided that you would be a shepherd. You decided that you would be a worker in the church, but God is settling the matter now. He said he, He picked you up, He selected you, and He ordained you. Ordained means He has officially recognized you as a shepherd even before. But you see, we also need to officially recognize you as a shepherd. That is why you must write exams. But in the realms of the Spirit, God has picked you up. Yeah. So if you want, God sees you right now. He sees a pastor of a 5000 member church. Meanwhile, you have not even passed your shepherd's exam. He has already recognized you. He has officially settle the fact that you are a great worker, you are a minister. That is why you must hurry up to let certain things pass away from your life. Now he has ordained you to do what is there that you should go and bear fruits. That is, you see, imagine an ordination service. Imagine a consecration service. Imagine a huge service where you are being appointed. And that's what has happened in heaven. And why is God appointing you? Why is God now recognizing you as a selected worker in his house? Some time ago you were you were an ordinary member. I think some of you are actually ordinary members. I thought you were passing by the bus and they said enter now. Enter now with a gun. Enter or I blow your head and you enter the bus. But I'm here to tell you that it was God who made you pass by the bus. Yes, He's God. Once you are here, God has you on his mind. Your bill here is not a chance happening. My, my, my bill here is not a chance happening. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It is not an act of serendipity. It just happened that I arrived here. No, God has a plan for me. That is why I am in this room. My brother, God has a plan for you. And what is that plan? That's what I'm talking about this morning. The plan is that you must bear fruit. It is there. Listen, now it has become a serious matter. You see, at this camp and all the things Bishop is teaching us, at the end of the day, what is expected of you? It's not that you should be a married woman, get it? Listen, listen, Sometimes you can be confused because when I look at certain hairstyles here, it looks like you came here looking for a beloved because you are too. You are too sharp and posh for a sharpest camp. There must be another motive, but I'm correcting that. I'm saying that we are not here to get beloved, neither are we here to get new jobs. But we are here to bear fruits. The purpose is fruit bearing. Fruit bearing. Very soon, when Jesus comes to your tree, he expects to see certain fruits hanging on you. I'm telling you, maybe not this evening, maybe not next week. I'm telling you, some fruits I'm seeing in my life today began 10 years ago. I mean, you know, even in, in, in, in natural life, we see fruits after many years. Some come after months, some also come after a long time. But God wants to see bare fruits. Hanging on your tree is a part of the new life God wants to see. Because now when we see you, certain things are not hanging on you. And I can understand why certain fruits are not hanging on you. We can see some fruits in your life. And the reason why before we step ahead, we need to understand fruit bearing is that it is God's ultimate plan for your life. Anytime he at the end of the day, when you die and you stand before him, he's going to ask for fruits. When you die and you go to heaven, what accompanies your life? What will accompany your life? Are the fruits you bore? Are the wax fruits, fruits, fruits? We, we are going to see new things hanging on your life. We have been ordained, called, appointed, whatever to bear fruit. Can we all read verse 16 again together because some of you have forgotten the verse. King James one go, Don 15 verse 16 one go. Amen. It's OK. Don't even go. That's the a that your fruit should remain. That shows the level of interest God has in the fruit you will bear. Yes, because it's just I don't want you to just bear fruit today and the fruit will vanish, but that the fruit should remain. There are many, many things God wants to see in your life that you don't have now. Many fruits. Let us lest them all of us are going to lest the fruits, the fruits we must see in your life as a shepherd that we expect to see in six months time. In a year's time, we expect to see certain things in your life which don't exist now. And whenever God chooses you and appoints you, he chooses you to to bear these fruits #1 the first fruit God wants to see in your life is the fruit of a stable Christian life. It is a fruit. Stability. No tree, best fruits that is moved, transplanted, replanted, moved here and there. You are just preparing that tree to die. Stable means that you are. You are. You are around. You are not here today, there today. You attend weekday service once a month or you don't attend it at all. I'm talking about, first of all, your spiritual life must be stable. It is a fruit. It's a fruit. And I'm saying that many of you don't have this life. You are not stable. And some of you are even yet to decide to even be a member of Lighthouse. You, you may not, you may not believe it. Some of us here, you are here to make up your mind whether you should be a member of this church or be a member of another church. So, so already you are even disqualified from bearing fruit. Yes, you are not planted yet. To bear fruit you must be planted. Your spiritual life must be stable. I'm, I mean, I am not now debating. Should I, should I join? What are the churches here? Should I join Bread of Life or I should join Lighthouse? Should I join the Catholic Church? Should I, should I be a member of the Presbyterian Church? No, no, it doesn't even OK to me. My I am stable by the grace of God. I am stable in my mind that this is the ground God has planted me and I'm here by the grace of God till I die. And that alone sets the stage for fruit bearing. We must see and I'm going to really I'm, I'm, I'm sharing with you. I'm going to share with you about seeds, but we are just good. This one is just an exercise. We are. I'm going to ask some of you to also mention some fruits we must see in your life. These are mine. I'm sure you also have yours. I'm not I'm not. I'm not using notes. I'm not prepared notes. But you must be stable, spiritually stable. But I'm here. I'm a Christian. Some of you are preparing your hair to become Rastafarians. Everything I'm saying I've seen it in the text, I've seen it. I know a brother as we're all here. You you love the text. It's now growing wedlocks and as when the text he was actually preparing his hair. We thought it was just you know, this type of fashion. There's our new hairstyle only see that you guys, We don't know whether it's a madman or it's a real, it's a type of hairstyle. You know, they've not comb their hair. So this guy is just trendy, you know, not doing that. He was actually on his way out. Your mind is not made-up. The second fruit we expect to see in your life, which you don't have to be, is fruit of the knowledge of the Word of God. Knowledge of the Word of God. If you don't have bad fruits, you won't last. When Jesus met Satan in the wilderness, he didn't bind him. Hello. Jesus didn't bind Satan the the one who taught us to bind a loose. He didn't bind him. At least my Bible doesn't say that he did any binding. What he used to overcome Satan was the word, the word, the word of God. To be accepted you must have and know the word of God. You must know the word of God. When we come to your tree, we must see the word of God in your life, the Word, the Word, the word which you don't have now. And we are going to talk about that, how you can be a lady shepherd, a lady shepherd of the Word, shepherd of the word. Because when you stand in front of your members and you are teaching them, you are not teaching them newspaper stories, political news, Sports News. You may use one or two as a window, but you are teaching the Word of God is the Word of God. Hello. I say hello. Yes, and, and it must be in your life. It must be in your life. We must see the fruit. When we come to your tree, we must see fruits. Fruits #3 the third fruit. Let me give my tree. Then I'm going to ask you also for your two and three. The the third fruit we must see in your life are fruits of spiritual children. I and the children thou has given me. Now you are alone. You came to the camp alone. You are going alone. You'll be in touch alone. But it's going to end very soon. It's an old thing that will pass away very soon. That is going to pass away very soon. When we see you, we will know that this guy is the father of that sheep. Yeah. There will be people in the church who will owe their existence in the church to you. That I am here because of you. I am because you are. Yes. Is there anybody in the church who is there because of you? She's been thinking, Can you imagine somebody who has been pregnant for nine months delivered and we are asking the person, do you have a child? Hey, but it's going to end very soon. Oh yes, because vice when I ask you do is there anybody in the church who owes his existence in the church to you? Oh yes, Kiki, Coco, cuckoo and Kaka. Actually, it is a very important fruit you must bear. Yes, a shepherd. A What makes you a shepherd is not your staff. The the stuff of a shepherd is the shepherd batch. What makes you a shepherd is sheep. You may not even have a rod and stuff. And what makes you a shepherd is not the sandals you wear. A shepherd going without sheep, following him is only taking a walk. You are. You are just taking an evening walk. And some of you, if I say go now, nothing will follow you. Nobody will follow you. But there's some people I say get up and go. Some people will follow you. Yes. And it's a fruit. It's fruit. Paul pointed to some people and said you are my children, you are my fruit. Is there anybody who can point and say you are my fruit? A shepherd must be able to point to people and say you, you, you're mine. I have begotten you, I give back to you, and there be a man. But I have given birth. Can you say that? So, so, so that is what you have been ordained and God expects these things from you. He, he wants to see a man of the Word. He wants to see a spiritual person. This person is spiritual, obeys the Word, lives the Word, and knows the Word when it comes to you. He expects to see sheep. He expects to see people with you. Yes, it's a fruit. It's a fruit. My last fruit I'm giving you. Then we will. I'll get some more. Is the fruit of hard work, fruits, fruit, fruit. Some of you, you want to serve God, but you are lazy. You are lazy, you are lazy. It's called the work of the ministry. Not the joke of the ministry, not the hobby of the ministry, not the play of the ministry. You see, there are two ways you can do anything. You can do it as a hobby, you can do it as your profession. You can do it as your work. Almost everything can be done as a hobby. You can mow the lawn as a hobby or you can mow the lawn as your profession. You can play football as a hobby. You can play football as a profession. You can play golf as a hobby. You can play golf as a profession. You can braid hair as a hobby. You can braid hair as a profession. You can so close as a hobby. You can so close as a profession. Everything some of you fornicated as a profession. When others were fornicating as a hobby, you were fornicating as a professor. You are professional, professional professional sexy dancer. Every style has a charge. Everything lesson to be everything. You see this thing, I'm talking about this fruit. If we don't see it on your tree, it means that you are joking with Jesus. And you must always be very careful when you are relating with someone. You are doing something with someone who has taken what he's doing to the limit. He's very serious about it and you are in it, joking with it. Somebody is eating something as his main meal and you have come to eat it as a as a dessert as there's some easy pickings. The man, we are talking about this guy, he shed his blood to do this Waco. So be very careful. I'm not talking about coming into full time ministry. No, I said be very careful. As a student who's a shepherd, be very careful. Be very careful. It's not a joke. We may be laughing, but one day you saw what Bishop did when when the when the prophet was being judged. Yes, even the even the sound of the voice was frightening. Yes, yes. One day what will give you entrance into certain realms of heaven will be the worst. They will accompany you. The Bible says they will go with you to do what they will do something with you. You may enter by the blood, but you may sleep somewhere by the wax. Be very careful. The most frightening thing I had yesterday was when otherwise the Angel or God himself speaking that a certain number of people are going to hell because he didn't carry out the evangelistic part of his life. That's what I'm saying. It's not a joke. You may be working in the bank, but the ministry we are doing is not a joke. We, we need to see hard work, seriousness in the ministry. We need to see seriousness, hard work. Most of us here have not even began the work of the many. Many of us are in the play of the ministry. Yeah, some of you are tourists, Tourists of the ministry. You have just come with your, with your, with your wide brimmed hat and dark glasses to, to, to, to look at big falls. How is how is it like? What is this Shepherd Shepherd camp? Some of you have come to this camp as a tourist. Be very careful. It's a fruit you must see. It's sad that there are many shepherds. When you approach them, you don't see this fruit hanging on them, working hard for Jesus. Some of you remember your sheep on your way to church. When you see the church building, then you remember your sheep. Even past us, remember, but they are past us when they enter the church. Yes, of course, the results are there to show. But, but and and many other fruits. Who can give me one fruit? One fruit you might see on your tree. Fruit of the Spirit being spiritual, Yes. What are the fruits? What other fruits? Evangelism. We must see all this. Have you done that before? You see? Listen, God is interested when God sees. So everything about this camp is about what God expects when He comes to you. Do not forget yesterday, yesterday's table. When he comes to you, I tell you, he may say hello and hi, but those are just formalities. He's going to ask you for the fruits. So it's not a circus as you may think. It's not a holiday as you may think. It is a serious matter. And God is is is waiting to see all these things in your life. And as this camp goes on, remember that everything you are going to receive is a seed God is planting in your life so that you can bear the fruits that He expects of you. It's my prayer that you will not be found wanting when it comes to your tree. Jesus, when it comes to the tree and can't see any fruit in your life, you have been around for five years. He will curse you. He curse the tree. He doesn't take kindly to such things. I want us to stand to our feet. We want to pray. We want to ask the Lord to make our hearts fatal. Amen. To make our lives the right lives. Lift your hands and pray for a minute and ask the Lord, Father, as you are about to plant seeds into my life, let it show forth fruits. Let my life, one day when you come to me, may you see things in my life that never existed. Make me new. Do something new, do something new, do something new. Begin a new work. I've not taken the ministry serious at all, but do a new work, Start a new work in my life. Thank you, Lord, pray. Open your mouth and pray. Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Lord. What a blessing, what a blessing. What a blessing, what a blessing. You will see great things in my life. Thank you, I'm changing. Lift your hands and say, Lord, help me to change. Oh, to change. Wow, to change, to change, to change, to be new, to be new. All things must pass away. Certain things must go To be new, to be new. I can't hear you praying. Pray to be new, to be new, to be new. Lord, I want to see new fruits. I want to see new fruits, fruits I've not borne before. I want to bear fruits. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord for this great, great blessing. You will do great things. Thank you Lord, thank you for fruits, for fruits, for fruits. Thank you for fruits. Thank you Lord, that the word will be seen in me. Yes, I'll be a shepherd of the word, a lady shepherd of the word. Fruits, Lord in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. Wow. Are you ready to enjoy what God has for us today? It's a beautiful banquet. It's going to be wonderful. Let's put our hands together. This lady is called Ida. Everybody say Ida, I can't hear you. Ask your friend, do you know Ida? So that's her name. So let's put our hands together and welcome Ida, Say Ida Club for Jesus.