08.What Is First Love? (Continued)

Welcome to track #8 or fulfil your ministry. If. You feel today like you can't make it, keep holding on, 'cause you can't take it. You just hold on a little while longer, just hold on a little while longer. Just hold on a little while longer. Hold on. Because you can't take care. You just hold on. Come on out a little while longer, just hold on. A little while longer. Just hold on a little while longer. Hold on. A little while long, you just hold on. Come on now. A little while longer, you just hold on a little while longer. All right, your food as almost here. The jollof has come, but the chicken hasn't come. How does the song go? I'm rushing home from work poo, feeling kinda hungry. Check my account, but I need myself somebody. Crab is gonna rhyme. So I called up my Mama, said Mama, what's for dinner? When? She said. Do we have Pepsi organize a Pepsi? No Pepsi, no light. Shake it on the slope, Pepsi on the poster when there's trucks to help it's light. At least the song has brought us some Pepsi Cola. You never know what blessing is coming out of a song. First love is the love you have #10 when you are fresh. She's fresh, she's fresh, she's exciting. When you are old and no more fresh. And no stress there. First love is finished. Is that not how to say it? It's finished, but just as Doctor Edwin was saying, you can have first love for a long time. You see, first love is not only love at the 1st, it's a type of love that usually comes at the first part of your love experience with anything. So if it's the first part of your experience with the Lord, the first part of your love is first love. First part of your love with your relationship person or with your whoever or usually with the first relationship, because even in a second relationship you are experienced. So when you see certain things you say, you say you know something. This particular behavior, I know it. I've seen one before. So you say, you know, I don't, I don't want that. I don't want that. Yeah, I saw somebody who had been a second relationship and every time he said, I think I needed the first relationship to make me strong in the second one. Yeah, One day, the second relationship, the person in the second relationship said something and he said to her, you don't drink blood, you don't drink blood, you don't fly, but you are a witch. No, you see, And he said that because you're trying to control me. But you see, in the first relationship, I didn't notice that I was being controlled. Yes, I didn't. You see, when somebody is controlling you, you don't know. Yes, in relationships you don't even know. And those type who are weepy and Moody, they use the weepiness and the moodiness to control. But it's after Nova Nake Chalenia, you have been controlled. So he told the second one. In the second relationship, he said you don't drink blood, you don't fly, but you are a witch because you are trying to control me. Yeah, but he could not have said that in the first relationship. But the first, you don't even know what is happening. That is why I am saying that first love is like a fresh thing. Yeah, you are moved by everything. You are moved by tears. You see, when you are old in the church and something is happening, I'll go to the ends of the you will be crying. But when you have been a rapper to the ends of the to the ends of the ends of the earth, this has we had all the ends of the earth. You have had all these ends of the earth and all these things before, but when you are fresh, oh how nice that is why even in certain religions they say they're going to have six virgins as they are rewarded in heaven. And not sure I say what you are going to have through 6 fresh ones on a six fresh. They believe everything they flow, they have zeal, kindness. But I think my favorite verse in all this little first love discussion has been Jeremiah chapter 2 #2 What did he say? He said, I remember your kindness, the kindness of your youth. And that is the feeling you you simply don't get when you look at some of the older ladies. I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness. My Lord and my God, I see you having first love for Jesus. He said, What when thou wentest after me in the wilderness? Do you know how many years I've been coming to this place to find God? This very spot? Yeah, years ago. We have been here for many years. Yeah, thou wentest after. Because all my life I I always go away to to wait on God. It's part of my life. Go away, be alone sometimes with people and to wait on the Lord. This very place. I've been doing that for years. I remember the love of thine espousals went out, went test after me in the wilderness. But after some time people don't go after them in the wilderness. No time for the Lord, because when you were fresh and you were new and you were serving the Lord, you were on campus, you were serving the Lord, you were young, you went test after the Lord in the wilderness. You can't serve the Lord without going after him in the wilderness. You can't serve God. Greater love is the lowest level. You can serve God properly with. You can serve him with that. See what we say, Is this love or is this first love? It has to have some characteristics. Yeah. If I am to marry again, there is no I can never say to a new person what I said the first time. Even I will not believe it. I'll not even believe what I'm saying. No, no, no, no, no at all. It's true. How can I? When I was saying those things, I had faith. Is it not one of the characteristics? Faith. I had zeal, I was fresh, I had no doubts. Is it not part of the characteristic? I had passion, sure. Anybody who has first love, enjoy it. Many people marry without first love. Yes, many people marry with, I mean, you know, we take it like that, Yeah. So you must decide to love God with these characteristics. And even when you are having a relationship, you can decide to look through these characteristics and inject all these things. Just even faith. Because when people are in relationship, they don't have faith in marriage. The one who doesn't believe the other one most is the spouse. When you say this, that's the person who doesn't believe it. Most others believe the spouse rather doesn't believe. It becomes an argument. Why do you think people argue a certain brother? He said to me when I used to visit my beloved, I was like, God, when I come, they'll say they will announce, oh, Pastor EBA, it was a gun family. Pastor EBA. It's like the pastor has come. Wow. And he said, if I speak, it's like an Oracle. He said back today, when I speak, the standard response is never agree, never say yes. If they know that you want to stay here, never say yes. If it's no, never say no. Never bow, never agree. Never. When I'm joking, I will tell you that I'm joking. No. When I'm joking, they're preaching. I will say that this is a joke. When I'm joking, I will tell you this is this part is the joke. I wish for what? I will not have to say what I'm saying. Never say that. Never say die. Never say live. If they want you to die, live life. If they want you to live, die. Never, never understand, Never accept, Never say sorry, Never bend, never bow, never chill, Never say yes, never say no. How different it is from first love. Love is gone. Is this love? This? Could this be love? Is this love I'm feeling? Could this be first love? Could this be love? Is this the first love? All of us must look carefully at our love. Thank you very much. Yes, all of us must look carefully at our love. Yeah. And see, you have that love. When God says to the ends of the F, to the ends of the F, when God says go, say yes, Lord. When he says do this, you are doing it. Keep on advancing into things that are more risky and more I mean you are more at risk when you serve God. When I was when I was coming into full time ministry and or when I was coming all out. I never me, I've never entered full time ministry. I only entered love. Yeah, I've never you see you people. So I mean full time, I didn't have this. There was not even anybody to pay. It's just the next thing to do. So I said we are going to full time. Which full time to be paid by who? There was nobody to pay. It's just the natural. That's why I said those who are saying they don't know what to do and don't have a gift. It's the natural way that you will operate when you laugh. Oh yes, Oh yes. I spoke to my sister. I said please give me money. The natural. I said I want to just save God. She said I will give you every month, I will send you money and she sent me every month, every month she sent me money. I took some, I gave some to Bishop sake. I said let's live. This is love that we are feeling, love for God, not entering a full time ministry, not there was nobody to apply to. Where you applying for a job now starting like this, This will be your level. This is this. This is how much you get. This is what you. When I see people today, I say, you know, you don't understand what we are talking about. The next thing to do in your calling, the signpost is love. It is tithing you strongly. Yeah. So unless you don't really have the love of God in you, but if you do, you'll be so fresh. Wow, it's nice to be fresh. Wow, a lot of people are not fresh anymore. Yeah, Black has become Gray. Fresh, fluffy hair has become. It has become a wig. Yeah. What? Mobs. Mobs. 2 mobs. What I'm preaching. If you take it seriously, your life will be better. Yeah, there are some people who really benefit. There are some people who. Tell me, Bishop, you know, tell us if you teach us who do everything and they do. I have people like that. They do what I say. I really do have people like that. Their lives are different. Their lives are. They just do tell me there are people who tell me you'd say. Then I tell them, you know, not everybody listens and does, but there are some. They benefit. They really, really benefit. You know, sometimes I preach about mortgages. You know, people like to take mortgages, especially abroad. A lot of the people, they didn't listen to you, but some listen to me. One brother said to me, you know, I tell when you build a house, when you have a real house, no mortgage, I will come to your house, I'll visit you. Reason he came to tell me so, Bishop, I have, yes, my house, I'm in America, I have my own house, everything. I don't owe even $1.00. I said I'll come to your house. God will give me the grace to come to visit your house. I will sit in your house and drink tea. And he showed me then he showed me the gradual increasing prosperity. There are some people like that where the rest of them they don't have. They don't have. You said it. You said shouldn't. I didn't as I came and said I will not borrow money. I said I will not follow that thing, unlike the rest of them who are subtled with chains. So. So I pray for you that you'll be one of those, one of those girls who say you know something or not. My face as a sweetie. It will be sweetie forever. Yeah, I would. I am. I am engineering myself. To conform, you know, I was in, I was in a certain country recently. And then her sister said to me, she said, Bishop, you know, when I'm at home in the house with my husband, I can hear your voice. I can hear your voice when it's time to do certain things and certain, I mean parts of aspects of life and marriage. She said, I hear your voice. And I say to myself, I don't want to be that person, the one he's talking about. I don't want to be that person. I hear it. And I just do what I have to do. It's possible. There are people who really benefit. Oh, they really benefit from being around. Yeah, they really, really benefit. So instead of just taking the fathers and mothers you have had as the only fathers and mothers you ever have, look, accept fully the fathers maddest that God is giving you in addition to your biological fathers and mothers. Yeah, from my own biological home, I became afraid of marriage. I said, is that what is marriage? When I listened to Fred Price, then I got another impression about marriage Pastor Fred Price. So I realized that I had been greatly affected by him and I had different things to learn. You cannot know much from only your biological Even Jesus said, who is my brother, who is my sister, who is my mother? Who are these? God gives everybody additional brothers, additional sisters, additional mothers, additional fathers, additional children. There are people, there are listen, there are people who make themselves your children. They add themselves to your children. There are people that are my children as biological as can be. They add themselves on. They say I'm added on, please. And it's not by calling you daddy or Papa or no. Those are people. People do that. That is easy. That is especially in our culture. Our culture, you know, you just, I went to visit one time, I visited an ambassador and the person was introducing the ambassador. The ambassador was a lady, The person was introducing the ambassador. So he introduced the ambassador and then he spoke to the ambassador and said mommy. So you see this is our pastor and you see mommy has been here looking after. I said this ambassadoria woman who you just met is mommy. You see, because in the culture, mommy doesn't mean something in a certain way that you may think. So you got to watch out for those who, you know, just say mommy and daddy. That's not what makes you a child. No, it is by actually doing. Then you start to see the blessings of the things that are being said. Oh, yeah. Look, by default, all the bad things I'm saying will happen to you by default. But by grace and by hearing, blessing and honor will come to you. Blessing and honor will come to you. Are you listening? Yeah. Listen well. So tell somebody I want to be fresh. You know I want to be fresh. Wow. One day I went somewhere a man had divorced his wife and this function, the divorced wife was there and then the new younger wife, far younger looking wife was there as I was sitting down observing the event. You know, you if you even like the man, you wish the other wife never even her teeth were seen. The first one. OK, Charlie, angry looking. So even you cry when you are even wishing for the man some comfort. You wouldn't wish the the the the first one, you will say, oh, he should have this second one to try to encourage the man, to encourage him small. Yeah, that is how all of you are going to become except you hear the word of God and you are hearing the word of God in Jesus name. Hilary, stand up. Turn around for them to see your beautiful face. Is she not sweet and nice? What does the Bible say? I remember what? The kindness of thy youth. Uh huh. You see looking kind. Kind but when this one changes into a ferocious irritated and get mutants. What Ninja Mutant? A mutation of this one. Now you wouldn't want to. And you now know recently Cristiano Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldo disguised himself and went into town in Italy, disguised himself. When you see, you will not believe it is him and went to play with some the people around. I don't know what he was doing, what was he doing there? You know what he was doing. He was just walking around. Nobody knew that it was him. Yeah. Cristiano. Cristiana. Cristiana on Cristiano. You wouldn't believe that. He's the same nice young looking person. He had a beard. I mean, his whole taste was different. Wild long beard like this. So change into an old man. He was in town, you see you. You just don't know how you can change from a fresh Cristiano Ronaldo to an old man walking the streets the same person. May you ever be sweet. Receive your beloved. Sit down my dear others, you get 2 beloveds #11 First love is the love you have for God when you do not know much about evil and you don't have evil thoughts Oh yeah, yeah when you don't have evil thoughts, that's the love you have when you don't have evil thoughts, no doubts, no evil thoughts. But when you first love is past, when you see a man who comes to you and says I love you, you just laugh. It's Barbara. I wouldn't like to love a girl who is full of evil thoughts. When you put your arm around her and say hello and then she will remove the arm and say excuse me, excuse me at the right time you can put your hand around. But I was just saying hello. I understand. Wow. Huh. 12 First love is the love you have when you are full of blindness. Have you heard it when they say love is blind? After 123 relationships sometimes 6 Your eyes open finally, when a man is coming to you, You see pain coming to you. You see pimples, you see heart breaks, isn't it? You see tears, crying. Oh. A lady whose husband died. A man came to propose to her. She had been married for so many years, but she was still attractive enough for somebody to want to marry her. When the man came, she just laughed. Are you joking? My husband was sick for five years and I nursed him. You think I have time to be a nurse again? You see her eyes have opened when she look at your age, realize that it's a nurse, that you need a nurse, and that she's actually being employed to be a nurse. So when she hears your proposal, she said, no, it's a nurse you need, isn't it? You want somebody to look after you. I've done that already. Yeah. And she said in addition to that, this open and close, open and close. I can't do it again. But you don't call it open and close, open and close. You call it love. But when you get married, you say this one is open and close. Your marriage will be the best marriage ever. You are receiving blessings for your marriage. Soon. Soon people will say I only want a first love girl. They say the first love girl said they are well disciplined and trained. Bishop has faced them. They are they all bath in the evenings. They're always fresh. You are going to be hot cake soon. In Jesus name #13 first love is the love that you have when you are mad. When people see you they'll say are you mad? Are you mad, Are you mad true, why? Why are you marrying him? I can't explain it. Do you know where he's from? I can't explain how I feel. I can't explain it. What do you feel? Something. How many want to marry somebody who is feeling something, Somebody who is like melting melted wax? I feel caddis. What do you want to marry somebody who is like when you say I love you? She said Please, I can't take it. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Ask against somebody what you say. I love you. Thanks. Oh, this is so. Thanks. Wow, this shall be your testimony. You watch and see you marry and the people say was she in first? She was in first at all. Then you are lucky. You are lucky because the camps you are coming for is more than a marriage seminar. We said we are doing ministry, but I see ministry is intertwined with marriage. You see without ministry you would have been a polygamist clearly going to heaven with your polygamy. Once David and Solomon are in heaven, you with your 6 wives will be able to get there easily. Now, because of the work of God, we are supposed to be the husbands of one wife, which makes it quite complex. Yeah. How to be a Good Wife of one husband. Are you listening to me? Yeah. Fantastic, fantastic. So brothers and sisters, oh brothers and sisters is very important, he says. There be 3 things which are too wonderful for me, 4 which I don't understand. The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea. And the way of a man with a mate. What I see is that I don't understand how it's possible. Yeah. So that's the love you have. When you are, it's like things don't add up. You are almost mad. Where are you going to live? Oh, we'll be OK. We'll be OK. Where Where are you going to stay? Do you have anywhere? We don't have anywhere. But we are happy. We'll be happy. We just want to be together. Isn't it a fantastic. Do you have a house? We don't have a house. We'll get somewhere. OK. I mean, we are we are we just like we want to be here. Do you have a bed or we on the floor is OK? We are OK. Once we are together, we will be OK. So do you have the kitchen? This new house that you are going to? The kitchen will be OK. We'll buy food. It's all right. No problem. We just want to be together. Together. Just you and me. Is that a song like that? What song is that? Ah, yeah. Together. Just you and me. Quiet time. We want to have some quiet times. Yeah, quiet times. It's those quiet times. Yeah, whether it's a house or new house. Day or night, it's all right with the That's when you tell me those secret things, all that you want me to be. It's those quiet times. Quiet times alone together, just you and me. That's when I tell you that I love you, and you remind me that you love me too. Together, there is nothing that we can't do. No, they can't take them away from me or no, they can't take them away from me. Those crying times. Crying times. This is Andre Crown Share. Your night, it's all right with me. My doubts and my fears, they disappear just because you are with me. It's those quiet times. Oh, right, time. Come on up. They put that sparkle right back in my eye. That's when I tell you that I love you and you remind me that you love me too. Together, there is nothing that we can't do. What a blessing.