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09. 7 Characteristics Of A True Son
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Seigneur Ait Petie - Lord Have Mercy. Machaneh Collection - 75. Preached in 2011, Ghana (Akropong) 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 #9. Of senior epita Lord have mercy 10 steps that every spiritual son become a son. You can become a mighty mighty chapert. Amen. So Ida, I believe wants to sing a song, so I will allow her, but you can turn to me. First Corinthians chapter 4, verse 17. I don't want to say. What? Do. You want to say. Jesus, I forgotten the words you have spoken. Promises that burned within my heart have now counted. With the doubts in heart, I follow the path of family wisdom. Forgive me for my unbelief. Renew the fire again. Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Oh Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy. Holy. I have built an old time of worship, things of man. I have taken journeys that have drawn me far from You. Now I am returning to your mercies ever flowing. Pardon my transgressions. Help me love you again, Lord, but have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord, have mercy. O Lord, have mercy. Quite. Have mercy, Lord, have mercy. She's usually that I've OK to my D that. The mercy, quiet have mercy, O the Lord. Have mercy, Lord. Have mercy, quiet have mercy, Lord. Have mercy, Lord, Lord, have mercy, right
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Welcome to track #9. Of senior epita Lord have mercy 10 steps that every spiritual son become a son. You can become a mighty mighty chapert. Amen. So Ida, I believe wants to sing a song, so I will allow her, but you can turn to me. First Corinthians chapter 4, verse 17. I don't want to say. What? Do. You want to say. Jesus, I forgotten the words you have spoken. Promises that burned within my heart have now counted. With the doubts in heart, I follow the path of family wisdom. Forgive me for my unbelief. Renew the fire again. Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Oh Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy. Holy. I have built an old time of worship, things of man. I have taken journeys that have drawn me far from You. Now I am returning to your mercies ever flowing. Pardon my transgressions. Help me love you again, Lord, but have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord, have mercy. O Lord, have mercy. Quite. Have mercy, Lord, have mercy. She's usually that I've OK to my D that. The mercy, quiet have mercy, O the Lord. Have mercy, Lord. Have mercy, quiet have mercy, Lord. Have mercy, Lord, Lord, have mercy, right. Have mercy, Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy. The. Mercy. Christ happened. See Lord happened. See. Oh, Lord happened. See. Christ happened. See Lord happened. The. Oh Lord, have mercy, Christ happen. The. 10 steps you can become from a spiritual son into a Shepherd, First Corinthians chapter 4. Hello. For this call I send on you Timothy. Who is? My beloved son. And. Faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance. Of. My ways which be in crime as I teach everywhere. Amen. Hallelu. Hallelujah. Are you excited now? It is important that you become. A. True Son. Amen. All right. Daco. So the son, somebody who is a son, has some characteristic. Of certain characteristic. Before we progress into the, I want. To progress. How the sun let me define what is a sun 7 definitions? Set definition. Of a sun, the seven characteristic of a sun. Number. 1 a son. Of his. Resembles. Resemble. His father, John 14, verse 9. Jean Carter's best enough. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long with you, and yet thou has not? Known Me, Philip. He that has seen me has seen the. Amen. Now, when we the reason why we talking about the sun, The sun is far greater than an employee. That is why when you when you, when somebody dies, it does not leave. His inheritance back to the. Children. Amen. That's the value. Of. The Sun. Dufis. Amen. Son is more valuable, Amen. And they are very important characteristics. So we want to have sons and francophone. Now somebody asked, how can you have francophone son? What a question. Should I bother to answer this? Question. One day I was watching a funeral of Kenneth. Hagin. And there was a black man who was speaking at the funeral and he described one day Kenneth Hagan was a white. Man. Came up to him. And. Spoke about him. And I think he put his hand on him, he said. These are all mine. Amen. Because we have different types of fathers. Difference of the. Local. Fathers Local biologically, the physics. One place, those that have given birth. Yes. Thank you all. For the parts of the city, different regions. Then we have what we call sailor fathers or harbor fathers. These are sailors. Who? Have children at. Every where the boat have a child there, Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy. So they have children, children in Takoradi, children where in Lome, children in Kotonu Novo, Porto Novo, in Libreville, Abidjan. Lagos. Everywhere they stop. One day I went to Takoradi with my wife Monipus and I saw a half caste boy look like just like me. But when I look closely, I look at his eyes. If you seize you and. I saw that the. Eyes see if you can seize you. So I said, is he? It's like my color, but my wife. Told. Her. Family Korean when the Korean ship came, prostitutes and the women. We have one once in our church. He used to sing I want to be more like. You. And he used to sing always. I want to be more like. Jesus. I want to be a vessel. He had a nice little thing that he added. He was a worship leader. He just died suddenly. It was very sad, but he was one of the. Then we have international. Fathers. This don't follow any harbor different. Countries. Congolese, Ivoria, Nigeria. Paris, International American. So in the spirit we also have fathers like that, the national fathers. We have some children here, some children here, some children here. God has blessed me to be an international father. Hallelujah. I have children in Kenya, I have children in Phoenix, I have children in Congo, I have children in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe. Recently I went to. Bulawayo. And I was preaching in a cricket stadium. When? I was preaching. I didn't know who the people so. Many people. A whole section of the field. Were. Shocking. So I said this must be my children. I even have children in the prison. One day one of my father's went to preach. He was preaching. Suddenly somebody shouted and immediately some of the children are in the prison. What a shock. Shock. What an aftershock. So I don't want you to be members only, I don't want you to be employees. I want you to be son. I want you to be daughters, a man. And the first important sign of a daughter or a son is that the son resembles. Some. One day. Sue. A certain sister came to see. Me. And she said she call me Daddy, Papa or PP Amen. Amen. When she said that I said do not call me. Daddy, I'm not sure whether it was Doris. What a shock. And I said. JD. Why do you call me Daddy? Papa. Are you my child? You are not. You are a VNP, AVNPA, different from a VIPVIP is very important person. VVIP is very, very important. VNP is very nice person, always blessed with the message. Very dangerous. Person. But. I told her. You are a very nice. Person she. Was not happy. I'm not sure whether it was Doris. I said. I said JD. You. Must bear fruit. What do you preach? Are you preaching? Are you doing the things I'm? Doing, I said. When I was in school, I was preaching depression. I was teaching. Are you teaching? What are you doing? Are you doing any of these things? Are just smiling? I love your message listening to your I'm so blessed by your you don't do anything if you really my child look like me. Suddenly my children came. At that time they were small like this. When I saw them, my children look like me. There's something that is my child. So what about you? Don't. You are my son. You are my. Daughter, what about you have any resemblance spiritually? What aspect? What aspect are you preaching? I was a young and I'm still young. I look younger because I'm not allowing myself to become a slow coach. Sometimes. I behave younger than some of you. You are suffering from premature aging. Christ, Amen. Amen. Are you listening? Are you listening to me? So a son and a daughter resembles. The second important characteristic of a son and daughter is that a son is forever, but a daughter an employee. An employee. All right is not forever. The Bible says in John chapter 8 and verse 35 seven abideth not in the house forever, but the son abideth forever. When you are a child, you are going to be there forever, feminine. Amen. That is why I prefer to have you as a son. Because you prefer. An employee. Come this employee. If you are an employee. He was that employee. Your days of being around Bonjour that that. Contract. You be gone. Yeah, You got a new job, a new church. A. New church and you are off, but when you are a son. A. Son. A. For whoever. I prefer. What you prefer? In fact, not that I prefer, I only want to work with my own children. The more you are my son. The. More I am sure you are with me forever the more I relax with you because if you are going soon, I have to check. Somebody says I'm leaving. You have the computer, what do you have? You have the office key, You know the. I don't follow my members in different branches. I have a church member. Just for now. You go with all of them. I feel nervous. I want you to become a house. Help me for some short time in my. House we have had many house help. Shame on how you book with the Salvatore 7A Salvatore. One comes, yeah, one year. And now two years, three months from 1-2 months, five months sang one different ones different. But my children. Name is Alfa. Sofa. Hello. Applied Sofa for a new. Family for me. They have not applied for a new father, a new mother. There's nothing like. That. The only thing they mature and they go away. But they still we don't see them. So much of the same. New mother, new sister, and a new. Name. How many one will have sons and daughters? That is why fathers feel free to blast their. Children. To beat them one day, a certain daughter, she asked her mother, Am I your child because of the way you always blast? This mother, she had many children, she had more than 12, out of this, more than 12. Are. You listening? She had about four daughters and about eight or nine sons. Now. Hello. The daughter asked her one day. Lafi at the morning. Am I? Your child. The way you blast. Lamen Manya, don't you remark but. Do you know what? Let you say kua. Out of the four daughters. For me, say. Katfi, she was the only daughter who was really the daughter. The other three were children. Of. Three different mothers. So there was about. 5. Mothers of the boys and the girls of the girls. Family fee. One was from here, 1 was from here, 1 was from here. The real biological mother was the one that the daughter was asking. Are you my mother? Free. To. Blast. The Reprimande. The daughter, because she was her real. Daughter. But the other one she was not sure when I blast. You. I hate you. You say I'm your stepmother. That is why the daughter, real daughter, they can tell you everything. 1. Of the things that I have. Noticed. Really. Blasts? Is it true? It's not true. Sometimes I think they blast too much. Mothers can really blast the daughters. It is because of the freedom. But if it is somebody's child. Even. If I have somebody's child. In. My. House. Oh, it's time. For you to do this. Why? Because your son, your daughter forever open out fully. So when you are not being blasted, praise you only saying something good. I love you. I'm. So happy you are in church today. Such a nice member and there's no blasting. There's. No real blasting my friend. So Lady Pastor Doris. Lady Pastor Doris. How many realize that some of you have not been blasted yet? You are so bad and you know you need blasting. She knows that you are somewhere. She knows that you can leave. Number three sons and daughters believe in their fathers and trust them for everything. Amen. In the Bible, Jesus taught how to speak to a Father. Matthew, Chapter 6. Matthew says. He said our. Father, I will be done. You want should be done. I will should be done. Give me my bread. Not forever so that I don't need you anymore. Who is not a child? Can I have the bread for the next 5 years to come back to be coming every day? I don't like to come all the time. For today, I'll be back tomorrow. Every day I will come to you, the person who wants to leave. Can you give me what is for me the next 10 years? I'll write a letter to you later, but if Jesus told us how to speak to a. Father. It's in heaven, hallowed. How to? Talk to a father, your Kingdom. What? You are doing and what you want, not what I want. I will be done. Give me something. Don't give me a camp that will last me for 10 years, will last me for a few hours. Give me something I can last for a long time. I don't enjoy coming back. Forgive us and forgive us. I don't know our debts. No debts because you know. That's what you said. That's the Father who can forgive you. Let me tell you, everybody say capability, capacity, capability, capacity. When we say the ability capability. Capacity. There are people that do not have the capability. Capacity to forgive? The. Pardon. Especially. Brothers and sisters don't forgive each other. So. Don't. That's why we fight. Nations fight brothers fight Sergeant, brothers fight brothers always fight the. Person who has the capacity, capacity, capacity. Is the father, so that's why you. Should thank God for your Father. How he treated. Which says that. Shoes, kisses, dancing, who have the capacity? Capacity, capacity. To forgive. The. Watch out, that is why you must have a father, because you can be in the chair. That is the place you have a chance. When Jesus was on the cross, it is the Father into thy hand. Entertainment. I commend. You. You don't, my spirit. Hallelujah, I trust you to. If you then being evil. How to give good You don't trust that your Father will forgive you. So you lie. You see? Some of you you have committed grave sins. You do not believe you be. Forgiven. So when they ask you. Question. You say part you create part you. Create your. Party because you don't trust you'll be forgiven. When I pass you that pardon. If you are a true son, you will be forgiven one day. I had a son. In the ministry. Minister. And he did something bad, so he I had to suck him. But. After some time he came to ask me. In Monday. For money. He knows he can ask. Me. Do you understand? Because my son. Has the same office. But I have sucked. Him, but you see. You know when you are real, son. So when you don't trust. Don't sit in a paper. Tell lies, don't you, Mom? When you ask your question, No. No. No, no, no, No. You don't trust somebody. Trusted. I've done it. You get messy. You see the person as your boss. A person come share. Something else? It is different. Are you listening to Amen? So a son. What is the first character? Francophone. Francophone resembles. Father. I want people to start to say some francophones who have come back. From. Ghana. Pasta, Pasta. Making churches there are sons of and how will people know behaving the same way is behaving like this? Say Sandy abides in the house. 7 does not. I didn't write the Bible. Writing the Bible before I did not write reading the Bible to you I copy the Bible into my books, reading it to you, listening to. Me. Amen. So the son is always if you are my daughter. In. Ten years time you will still be my daughter. In 15 years you'll be my daughter, a son and a daughter forever. Amen. What a shock. Shock #3 What is the sign of a son? Amen. His son honors his father. Number. 4 characteristic of. A son. Malachi Chapter 1. His son honoreth his father. His Honor. Something his master. If I then be a father, where is my honor? Where is my honor? Amen. Ameliorates. Amelior. Your responses your. Response. To your father. Say it again. It modifies your responses. What response to your father? You. See honor is the thing modify. Modify. Your. That's why I say that your friend comes and slaps you. Then what do? You do when. You get one deadly slap from. Your. Father. So when you want to. Correct. You are modified. You. You talk nicely. You pray. About it. That's true. Amen. I am very sure. Most of. The things that I'm doing. Because this shows because you're fair. You don't understand. Them. Amen. And a lot of things I'm saying you don't even, I don't know. What you are writing? Amen. Are you listening? So the key amelioration or modification of your response to your father la milioracion must be to that is, in honoring your father must be. Responding criticizing what you don't understand, what you don't. Always create a response. From. That's the one number one thing. Premiere. Shows be corrected by just because of honor. Of course, the loner. You just shut. Up. Some of the people that I respect. Some of them are divorced today. Not. 1. More than one, please. Please. The other people I respect. Almost as. Much as not as almost as my, but as if we are the Lord. I don't like divorce. I. Don't. Like divorce nobody likes. Divorce. We don't believe in divorce. We don't want divorce to happen. One thing, Your Honor. Loner. Must shut your mouth. What the Pamela Bush? Pamela Bush. Zip. Otherwise, who will divorce twice? Divorcee. Three times. One for men. You'll be surprised. You divorcee. What a shock #5. How? Many are going to be good, son. How many? Are enjoying learning how to be a son. #5 sons obey. Obey. Obey is different from honor. Obey. Obey means obey, obey, obey, obey, obey, obey, obey. Obey. Obey a lot of rebellious people. Who could beson rebel? And disobedient people disobey. Sons call themselves Isabel sons. They say daddy. They say Daddy it is. Papa. They don't even have. Honor. One day. A certain son, a certain feast. At least he calls himself my son. In my pel Papa on the Isabel's office. I wrote a letter to him, but he had no time to respond to my letter. He would not even receive my. Letter. And when he responded, he rebuked me in his letter, so I ignored what he said. And. I wrote again to him and I invited him and I said just come to this, I want to talk to you for just one hour. And. All misunderstandings will. Be he. Would not even just to come. Then just. To talk. It's amazing. You disrespect. You disregard dishonor. Dishonor. Disregard disrespect, which is exactly the opposite of a son. The. #2 you disobey. It would disobey say. In fact, I remember I at the point I said, I said have this money. When people transport you, disobey, disobey this, respect you, rebuke me, he corrected me. And then and then then also when I wrote to. Him. Just totally disregard and then when I even. Are. Done by people who want to call themselves sons. Are. You listening, so don't call yourself a son. Sons and daughters do what they see their fathers doing. Amen. They do what they see their fathers do. John, chapter 5, verse 19. John, thank the cities. The Son. The. Feast can do nothing of himself. The. Remember what he see the Father do what things. Soever he doeth these also doeth the Son. Likewise when you are a true son. Don't you? Do what you see your father doing this I do that if this John 5. 19 are. You listening? Are. You listening? Are. You listening? What a shocker. One day. And you? Somebody saw me walking. And he made. A comment about the way I walk he was criticizing. Him a critic. The way I walk, so, he demonstrated. Don't you like demonstrate? How I walk, he said. Why do you walk? I don't know how he was. Whatever. How do? You walk. And then he said, you walk just like your father. My. Father was Mr. Heward Mills. He. Said. Swing your legs. Why did you say that? I thought to myself. Who else? Should I walk? I don't have any problem. I don't have any problem if it is because it is like. Him, you see. There are people when they say you are doing your church just like. Then. You want to change it. When, when they say, oh, this is just you. Are you? One time they told. One time they said you are a clone. It is there. I am Pastor Chian clone. Clone. Do you know clone? And he said a clone. Clone. Then I said, then he said, then I am a chief clone. The chief clone. Yeah, I didn't write the Bible. You. Must make. Sure. When you go home tonight, write it in Bishop didn't write this Bible so that when you see something, I'm trying to say something. I also read it, Jesus said. Wow, wow is it fantastic. Fantastic. Is it powerful? Amen. So as you see the Father, you can become what the Lord wants. You to. Become. Amen. Is it fantastic? Fantastic. All right #7 last one, sons, Harry. The words of their father. Amen. Proverbs. Proverbs, chapter 4. What was his son? My father. Tender and the only son in the side of my mother. Found. In the surface. Then he taught me. In my motree. Then he taught me singing and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my word, keep my commandments. Observe me precept. And live. Amen. A son A. Fist. When I was a son, you taught me Amen. Are you listening to? Me. Are you listening to me? Hallelujah. So what God is showing us is that you can be a true son and carry the Word as a father. The most important thing that is coming from me to you, not my shoes, because I have only one. My car. Thus is very old, you understand, it's not my money, it's. Not. Anything. The words my son. It. Will. Help you. It will help you. One day I was talking to a mother and I said to her, talk to your. Children. Because the words you say to your. Child. Your child will remember. They will guide the person his life. Found out to savvy. One day my son told me something that I had told him. We have AD. Many years ago, driving in a car and we came to a traffic light and people were selling groundnuts. Other things. They all choose. Oranges. And. I told him if you don't go to, don't work. Hard. You have to sell oranges. Because. These. People they. Didn't have the. Opportunity. Go to school. I was very surprised. When? Many years. Later. He was advising your father didn't tell you that. If you don't, I. Was surprised. Because they were. Small. And I wanted them. To realize. More people. Outside things, all because they are not educated somebody. Had opportunities. Opportunity. Taking things to certain ways. You know. It's important. Important go to. School he. Was telling me most of the people in his. School. University was. Telling them one day one of my children were talking among themselves and then they told they. Said Daddy always told us this person. Why is it? Particular example, you don't need to do well in. School instead of doing this course talking what you say. So could you be very important? That is why Solomon kept on saying this was my father telling me. My father told. Me. Don't. Drive. Somebody. 'S. Car, your father. Tells. You. Amen. Because a father knows something, you don't know something else. When a father. Is even a bad father? And he is not giving good. Advice. When you obey the bad advice. Obey. You also become blessed. Well, is giving you bad. Advice. Because the bad advice becomes a blessing to you. That's what I've. Seen. I've seen it because about the children obey your parents. But this is right if you want to know what the right thing to. Do. You may never know limited, so these are the signs of a true son. How many want to become? Sons. Wow. OK. We are going to take a break for 5 minutes, come back 5 minutes and then because we will take a proper break. Yeah. Let's go. Say. That song. Come on. Say yeah. Let the. Hallelujah. The. Yeah. Come on. Me close to you. Come on. The. Powerful praises besieged. Play. In the Lord. Only Senor. Characteristics of cold people. Like characteristic the Zoma play. When somebody is called. Conquer ETA play. What are some of the features? Quezon set and seen Quezette Pexon. Attributes. Let that see be. Of the lives of people who are called. De la vie de Jean quizon a play. Jean is called Jean ETA. Play. Isabel is called. Isabel ETA Play. What type of people are called? Quisen le Jean de Pecsen. Quisen, Apolle. What type of people would God like to use? Quisen le tip de pecsen K du emilaise. Would God like to use rich people? SKD Emilaise Le Jean Quisen Rich first class students Le Jean Quisen Premier class. The characteristics of called people. Like characteristic de zom a play. The first group. The Premier Group. God calls Phileas de. Appel is a Sheikh. God calls Phileas. De Appel is a Shui. God calls Phileas. De Appel is a Shui. If you are here and you have failed. Sit here, you see it here, Jamain Shui. You are the one. Tia Lapek song. You are the one Jesus Christ. The same yesterday and. Forever. He called. Moses. The first attempt God made to use Moses would deliver the people of Israel. Would deliver the Israel he failed. Instead of bringing the people out. Only the first subti de Jean he. Ended up killing the first attempt God made to make him a pastor. The Premier. He became a madra. He failed God miserably. Some of you, this was the first camp. God is speaking to you about the call He called you three years ago when he came to Ghana. The first time you you went to La Belle Iglis, the boyfriend you met spot all the call. My God is calling him again. Even though you failed the first time, God is going to use you again. I pray you will not fail the time should you fail. Your failure should not let you enter into permanent depression. Always believe that God hasn't given up on you. Failure, failure, spiritual failure. Should. Speak to you should convince you that God will not use you. Every failure in the past is gone. God is opening a new chapter through this camp. You will not fail this time. You will not fail if you read Jeremiah chapter 18 Jeremiah was sent to the protest house. Jeremiah and the Porter was working at the wheel. The first attempt was a failed attempt the. And he did it. Again the vessel. Became a nice. Vessel. God told Jeremiah that am I not free to do this? Am I not free to lead Israel this way? So if the first time he called you it failed, the second time you shall be beautiful. Believe God to respond to the call. Let's. Put our hands together and receive Lady Pastor Aida wants to sing. Shepherd of my soul, I give you full control. Wherever you may lead, I will fall alone. I have made a choice to listen for your voice. Wherever you belly I will go, Lord. You are the shepherd of my soul and I gave you full control. Wherever you belly I will fall, Lord, because I have made a choice. I want to listen for your voice. Wherever you belly I will go, be it in a quiet pasture or by a gentle St. The shepherd of my soul by my side, Should I face a mighty mountain or a valley darkened sea, Shepherd of my soul will be my God. Lord, You are the shepherd of my soul. I gave you full control. Wherever you believe, I will fall alone, and I have made a choice to listen for your voice. Wherever you believe, I will go Feeding a boy a pastor, a boy, a gentle St. The shepherd of my soul. He is by my side to that day. Is a fighting mountain or the valley dark and deep? The shepherd of my soul will be my God. The shepherd of my soul will be my God. The Shepherd of my soul will be my. God, Hallelujah, you may be seated. Some. Of you didn't. Pass your exams in school. You didn't pass your exams. You have two of 100. You run away from the exam room. As soon as you. Saw the paper, you ran away. Amen. The next group. The group. Of people God. Unworthy. If you look at yourself very carefully, I said. If you look at yourself, very. I said if you look at yourself very, very carefully, I pray that everybody will have a magnifying glass as your spectacles. You will realize that you don't deserve to be. Here. You don't deserve to be a pastor. Pastor all of us. There is none. Righteous. Amen. Most of the things God will use us to do. No affair. Most of the things God will use us to do. The shows of affair across the Jew. We have already criticized pastors doing the same thing. Shows. I have been in a. Meeting. This. Meeting has to end. Today I want to have a camp. When you look at yourself, you realize that you are not. But God will choose and use the people who don't deserve to be used. That is a mistake in your life. Believe that God was still overlooked and use. You. Put your hands together and continue to be blessed powerfully. Amen.