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08.That Which has Been is Now
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - God Requireth That Which Is Past. Machaneh Collection - 92. Preached in 2014, Ghana (Mampong Akuapem). 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 #8 of God require if that which is path. Wow Father, thanks for this time. We are grateful for your blessing in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. Are you enjoying the new stars? It's not easy to be a *. Oh, not easy. OK. Can you change this chair for me right now? We have to. Read something from the Bible. Isn't it Ecclesiastes? Are you enjoying Ecclesiastes? Are you surprised There are so many powerful things there? Verse 14. Three Ecclesiastes 314. I know that. Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever. How many want to do something God is? Doing. Everything else is not forever, alright? Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. God doeth. It that men. Should fear. Amen. This is the best I used when I was getting married. I wrote it on my wedding invitation card, I know that. Whatsoever God doeth. It shall be forever. Is it a powerful script up for a a wedding invitation? I know that. Whatsoever God doeth. It shall be forever. Wow, Karela, you want to use it for your wedding invitation card? How many want to? Use it on your card. Don't tell my wife that I told you so. You say that and how come,
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Welcome to track #8 of God require if that which is path. Wow Father, thanks for this time. We are grateful for your blessing in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. Are you enjoying the new stars? It's not easy to be a *. Oh, not easy. OK. Can you change this chair for me right now? We have to. Read something from the Bible. Isn't it Ecclesiastes? Are you enjoying Ecclesiastes? Are you surprised There are so many powerful things there? Verse 14. Three Ecclesiastes 314. I know that. Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever. How many want to do something God is? Doing. Everything else is not forever, alright? Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. God doeth. It that men. Should fear. Amen. This is the best I used when I was getting married. I wrote it on my wedding invitation card, I know that. Whatsoever God doeth. It shall be forever. Is it a powerful script up for a a wedding invitation? I know that. Whatsoever God doeth. It shall be forever. Wow, Karela, you want to use it for your wedding invitation card? How many want to? Use it on your card. Don't tell my wife that I told you so. You say that and how come, right? Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it, and God doeth it that man should. Fear before him. Now verse 15, it says that which has been is now like what we are doing now has been, is being done. We are in a campus which is dedicated to preaching, praying, teaching, doing the word of God. If you go to Nigeria, you'll find campuses like this. Many many churches haven't already redeemed Church 4 Square Gospel other. No, I don't know about winning the other. Light and fire. Some chapels churches with fire and light. Some churches with light and fire which have such campuses. Kenneth Hagen had it here. Alan built something like this a lot of. That that. That which has been is, is now. What we are experiencing now has been and you that you are what you are doing has been have already been around. Somebody just like you. Your same life and your same everything has been. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, just like you. That is why one of the. Best. You know, like. Instruction Books. In somebody's life. Because what? You are experiencing now somebody has experience and what happened to the person and what did the person do? Do you get it? And that which is to be that's a good one has already been. So how things are going to be for you has already been just like you. So people's. Lives. Are the best story. Books for you to learn from? Yeah, for you to learn from. Your mother, your. Father. Is. Just. You see? It is always you are most. Likely. To be right when you assume the theory of the bell cave, do you understand the bell cave? You know the bell cave. The bell curve is a curve. Like like a bell like this. And 90% of everybody falls in the middle, 90% of the people fall in the middle. Do you understand? So if you take let's say height. It follows the distribution of the bell. Curve like this. Goes up and down South. The lowest height may. Be, let's say 5 feet. To. 63 Most people are within the five feet. Occasionally we have. Somebody who is 4 feet tall this way. Do you understand the curve? And. Occasionally you have. Somebody who is 9 feet tall, 8 feet tall, or 7 feet even. But. Most of us. Will fall in the middle. Of almost anything. In this world, that's why Solomon was. Right without statistics, he said. There is one event unto all, and all things come alike to all men. Whether he sacrifices or he doesn't sacrifice, whether it's. Clean, whether it's good, whether it's unclean, whether he sweareth, or whether he fears an oath. Like. Most people experience similar. Things. So how you are as a girl? And what you are. Experiencing as a beloved. Or a non. Beloved or a wife? Is average. What? Girls. Experience and what boys experience is. Average and it helps you to be happy. It also helps you to be content. It also helps you not to. Seek for something that does not. Exist like you. You married somebody, and you? Say I wish I. Had somebody who was shorter, you know? And then you are going to look for somebody. Who is 4 feet tall? But most people. Have someone who is around. 5. Feet to 6 feet tall, yeah. But you are looking for. 4 feet or steps have you? Put. You have to go to America to find a basketball player, somebody like that, who is so tall. That is why. And it helps you, it helps. You planning? Your life projecting you know when I went to Korea one time I was looking for some shoes to buy to to go and play GG shoes you know you have special shoes you play you can use special shoes normal shoes golf shoes to play golf so when I went. All the shoes were because Koreans. You understand? With the. Bell curve, you rarely get a six foot tall Korean. Yeah, there are some countries I cannot buy trousers. I I I can't. Get my size. Because in that country, most of the people. Are short. So those who are doing. Business. They use the bell curve to know what sizes they should make. Why make? Things that nobody can wear. Are you understanding what I'm saying? Yeah, so your life, your life is going to. Be average. You know you are not going to. Escape the. Average what? Happens to everybody. So as soon. As you start thinking. That you are special this. Will not happen to me. I'm not like this or in my case this. We are whatever. You start to be a fool because that. Which shall be is now. Wow. And it's actually. Happening now so you can. Receive great guidance. Even shop owners use it. They. Use the bell. Kev to know. This is averagely. What you experience, you know. So. That's a very, very important listen. You see, there was a girl just like you, beautiful like you, average like you. And an average person also came to propose. When you look at the person's averageness, he was so average. He, he, he. Do you understand? He didn't. Have a car. He was average. He didn't have the. House He was average. His mother was averagely poor. Just as his father was averagely poor. And you? Look at him. And you say? Ah, I wanted somebody who. Stays at Laboni. I want somebody who goes to America all the. Time. I want somebody. With a green. Card. Wow. And you are not easily going to get a green carded person who is going to America often who lives at Laboni. With a car, they are going together on average. Most. Of us don't have. Anything. How many? Don't have much. On the average, most most people don't have anything. Most people don't have much. Yeah, yeah. Most people don't have much. One day I was doing marriage counseling. OK, I was doing counseling. A brother came to the office, he said. Bishop I I have decided to. Leave. I was not a Bishop pastor. I was doing a counseling at Jamestown. We had a church office in Jamestown. Yeah, he said pasta. My, my marriage is terrible. Yeah, I I cannot stay in this marriage. I said. Why? He said pasta. My wife is very dirty. Yeah, you see, the bell cave is there and. Almost everything the. Fence is about to say exists. Already. Yeah, only that you haven't shared with others. You don't know that yours is also like that. Then he said can can you? Believe. Can you believe that? There are cobwebs all over. You see cobwebs instead of writing up. I'm Libby. I am. Libby. I cannot stay with her. Wow. So. I counsel, I advise. I don't think he listened to me. I think he still left. His wife, I don't remember well, I don't. He wasn't any regular member. So when I went home. The. First thing I looked. For cobwebs, the number of cobwebs that I saw in my house. So I told my wife, you are very lucky. You are very lucky that I've not decided to leave you, but. I've since and I never. Noticed the cobwebs? Till that counselling session from. That day I started noticing the cobwebs. So the average. Sister in the Bell Cave is leaving all the. Cobwebs in the house. How many realized that you have not been removing the cobwebs in the house? Tell the truth. Yeah, so. That's which has been is now. And that which? Shall be. Has already been. Yeah, just like you. OK. But God. Requireth that which is past. And what? What does God? Require for us to do. What has been done already? As this campus. Is being built all around us. It is nothing new. Look, I would. Like to go with you? Shall we go? To Tulsa, OK would you like that? Yeah, why not? There's nothing better for a man. Than to rejoice in his works, and enjoy the good of his labor, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. We should be happy. Let's go to Tulsa. Father, I thank you for a trip to. Tulsa, OK In Jesus name, Amen. Wow. What a blessing. I see your passport and I see the. You are not going to be restricted. To Ghana. I liberate you from the boundaries. And the borders. Of God. In the name of Jesus, oh na le joke. Wow, sit down now what we see as we see the campus being built around us is not a new or unusual thing at all. That which had been is now. What we are seeing now has been. God requires you to do what has been done humbly, humbly now. One of the things that has been done in the past is to receive the anointing. Yeah, a young man just like you being a young boy or girl, huh? Receive the anointing. Wow, so you. Must decide to become a God man, A God woman. Is he a normal man? Yes, unfortunately. Corrupt how? Many realized that you are not so good. I'll show you something. In Ecclesiastes there was another observation that Solomon made. Brasilu verse 16. The next verse it says and. I saw I. Saw. Moreover, I saw under the sun. The place of. Judgment that. Wickedness was there, and the place of righteousness that iniquity was there. And I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time. There for every. Purpose. And every work. Wow. Notice, he said. I so understand the place. Of judgment like. The place where judgment should be meted out like the. Property should be done and. What did I find at that place? Wickedness. It's like. Looking at the Supreme Court of. Ghana or the. Supreme Court of America or the Supreme? Court of Nigeria. Or the Supreme Court of Place of Ghana and. What did I find there? Wickedness. We are all understand, we are all Ghanaians. We've all seen at the courts. And where you? Would have thought that this. Place of judgment there will be something. Good there. What did we find? There wickedness. Then he said, And I saw at the place of righteousness, and what was there? Iniquity. What the place of righteousness the. Church. I look at the church and I saw what iniquity was where in the church. Lord have mercy. Yeah, this is something he observed under the sun. And if you are. New. You will not know, but if you stay long in the church, you will see that there is iniquity in the church amongst us like at this camp. This is a place of righteousness. We should have seen perfection like men of perfection. Girls of Holiness. Pure sisters. Daughters of destiny, women of virtue. Women of honor. Men of sanctification, brothers of. Holiness, but what did I find there iniquity in that? Place. Is that this is something? That I saw under the sun. Yeah. You know, So what can we do? That is why I'm talking about the anointing. Because without the anointing, honestly, there is not much we can do. Yeah, you can't do much. God tell a look you more naturally seem than to be righteous. Look how many Rella that look I'm going to leave myself to be. Myself. How many rella you'll be really subway? If you feel you'll be subway, stand up. If if you feel you will not be somewhere, you can. If you feel that like if I just leave myself like like like feelings and everything that I, I feel like doing or want to do, I'll just, I'll be really somewhere, then stand up. If not, you may sit down. I want to see those who are sitting. Down how many? People are left sitting. Wow. I saw in the. Place of righteousness. And what was there? Iniquity in the place of judgment? What was there? Wickedness. Imagine yourself feeling free. No, No, no, no, no, no, Charlie. It would be too bad. Too bad. I mean, you are feeling free. Like let's say I'm doing what I want. No, no, I mean you. You don't even want to think about it. Look, if you look at, look at people's faces. And I want. You to select 345 or six people who you. Think this doesn't? Apply to and bring them to the front like you are very good people. You are selecting these are like what righteous ones? What these are what super righteous? There's no iniquity in them. Wow. Aim Saddam Junior. They don't look too good. Look, don't pollute the stage with people who look. Don't look, I want. Alright, come forward. These are what Righteous perfect perfectionist are you part of? The perfectionist? Wow. I ask that you have been removed. Who sent you? Lulu has sent you to be there. No, but his. Mates and others. Don't think that. Is this Nelson, Dana, Paul? He looks. Super righteous. How about atom A1? Righteous perfection, correct? What about this this one? Tell em. She's perfect in the day she was created, perfection was found in her. Wow, holy Mary and you. Who is this Yolanda? Also perfect. Wow. And you, Sichu perfectionist. There is no sin in her. Isn't it spotless? And this one, Perpetua, she's perfect. The name alone. And this is who? Abigail Aveta, innocent worship leader. And she's virginistic. And who is that Priscilla? Her face purity. Come this way. Your face has been chosen. Innocent. Pure. Priscilla, Eunice, Holiness, Innocence. Wow. Now Nelson, Daniel, all hold us, all of you. You are forming. An A1. Virginistic holiness Society. Holiness team come on a state fancy this and and who is this Geoffrey? Innocent, Virginistic. Iwanistic, Holy Ghost, Holistic. Wow. Come together fellowship You say you are holy. We we are we are we are the students. We are the students. Is that we we are there unclean and they are clean. Come on the stage so that we see you properly. Come on the stage, you are pure holiness team. OK, I want you to know that you are not above. The word of God, no matter how. How you look? And how your? Faces look innocent. You can. You are not. You cannot deceive us, Solomon. Said I looked under the sun, and I saw in the place of righteousness, and behold, iniquity was there iniquity. Was there there or not a? Righteous but iniquity. Is there are some more iniquity? Some of. These super. A1 faces when they marry. Their sins. Will be revealed. Yeah, you. See that their husbands. Or their wives will come and sit before you. And bend down the head and cry. What she's? Doing to me. And you as a pastor will say that's sweet, innocent looking, virginistic. All of them. Look like virgins? Virgin Club. OK, Somebody should give me some water. They feel too good. Too good. Now listen, I just come. They didn't. Bring water or what? You brought. Yeah, no, you. Keep it here. Cannot just look down on us look. Down on us, even the married ones, they still look. Vaginistic Ato, I was saying something. Listen, listen. Some of you, you look too good to be true, but there's iniquity in you. Yeah. Some of your sins, I tell you, it's worse than some of us. Yeah. Because for some of you, your sins are hidden. Like pride. Yeah, those of you who are virgins who look down on the rest of us who are multiple serial strikers. One day a certain man married a virgin, and when his son was getting married, he told the son. I want to give you some advice, instruction. Yeah. He never advised him on anything else, only one statement. He said never marry a virgin. This is the only advice, the dad said. That means that the experience. That he had from the Virgin was so terrible that he wanted his son to marry someone who has been trained. Or plowed. You understand plowing has been. Plowed by other farmers. Can you imagine that? Yeah, the. The person he told me himself, he said this the only thing my father told me, Yeah. The only one. Thing my father told me before he died. Never marry a virgin, never said anything. He's just quiet. Yeah. He said that saying no, he cannot say every he. Cannot say your mother was this. Your mother is like this. Your mother was this. Your mother did this? As for your mother, did I've really suffered? No. He can only say one too. Don't worry that that's all. Wow. It's a dark saying, full of. A lot of things. So those of you who are standing here, you may think you are better than us. I be known unto you, and the Word of God has exposed you already. What do you think? Yeah, iniquity. So where's the water? Don't think that you don't need the anointing. You are just. Like us? Yeah. Some of us. We are hopelessly sinful. So we need. A kind of an invisible. Power, you know what I'm saying? To accompany us and help us so that we can do the work of God. Yeah. But if it's based on the. Power of morality and the power of holiness. That's why that's why even Peter when he when he raised. The boy from. The man from. The from the. Crippled state, he said. Don't think that we by our. Holiness have raised this man. Yes, I have healed this number. It's the name of Jesus, so even Peter wasn't. Calling. On His Holiness, how much more? How much more you people here? Is it right? Even Peter, he says. I don't think that. We by our. Holiness. Have been able to raise this one and you. Is it? Is it the right thing? Let it be the last time here. What do you have to tell them? Tell that you are just like us. Look at what you get discouraged and you see them like the good people versus ordinary people. How many feel that they also. Need the anointing do. You need the anointing. OK, before I release you from the state, lift your hand and. Pray for the anointing. Wow. Jesus name Amen. OK, you can go back to your seat next time. Don't feel too good.