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09. Violently Remove Certain Things From Your Life And Follow Righteousness, Faith, Love And Peace
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - The Beautiful Job. Machaneh Collection - 82. Preached in 2013, Ghana (Elmina). 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 the beautiful job. Second Timothy. Violence. Embassy Violence. If a man therefore perge himself from these he shall be a vessel, and to honour sanctified, and meet for the master's youth, and prepared unto every God work. Amen. Wow, what does this mean? It means you must pedge yourself. What is pedging? Have you been pedged before fugitive. How does it work? Is it violent? Explosively or removes things from there? Isn't it true? What's your name? Ren. Yeah. Ren. Are you listening? Violently removed. Now? Some of you, some of the things you want to move from your life, they will not go gently. You need hedging. That's why some things need hedging. If you are gentle about it, it will not easily go. One of the things that doesn't go easily are relationships. Yeah, relationships. They don't easily go when they should go. They can linger on for a long time. How many have had lingering relationship that was not good raise raise your hand. It was lingering, and you decided that it shouldn't continue, but it was what lingering people You see relationship between a boy and a girl double say that six things or four t
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Welcome to track #9 of the beautiful job. Second Timothy. Violence. Embassy Violence. If a man therefore perge himself from these he shall be a vessel, and to honour sanctified, and meet for the master's youth, and prepared unto every God work. Amen. Wow, what does this mean? It means you must pedge yourself. What is pedging? Have you been pedged before fugitive. How does it work? Is it violent? Explosively or removes things from there? Isn't it true? What's your name? Ren. Yeah. Ren. Are you listening? Violently removed. Now? Some of you, some of the things you want to move from your life, they will not go gently. You need hedging. That's why some things need hedging. If you are gentle about it, it will not easily go. One of the things that doesn't go easily are relationships. Yeah, relationships. They don't easily go when they should go. They can linger on for a long time. How many have had lingering relationship that was not good raise raise your hand. It was lingering, and you decided that it shouldn't continue, but it was what lingering people You see relationship between a boy and a girl double say that six things or four things are wonderful in the world. One of the things is the way of a man with a maiden. You see our attraction to each other is supernatural. It's wonderful. You even wonder, you know, when you see people in my ancestor, what did he see in this person? One day a certain lady came to see me. She said my husband is the bad man. He's a terrible man. Then she described terrible things. I said wow. Then she came again. I remember where we were standing at some classroom block. My husband is evil man. Terrible man. And she I will, I listened to her. I didn't. I didn't have so much experience. I didn't know. So then one day she came again. My husband is evil man. I've left him. In fact, not that I've left him. He has left me and I've also left him. Then she came again. I saw her. So what's happened? We are divorcing properly. He's a terrible. She inventions all the bad things that he does. Even after separating, the bad thing. He doesn't look after the children. He's like this guy. That's why again, no, I had this like a terrible man. So as she was talking, I was looking at her like this. So I decided to look down like this because I looked down to the stomach. Then I saw the stomach was getting bigger. I said is it your stomach that I have seen? It's a bigger stomach now. Is it one of the days when he came to the house and from arguments and things? And then so in the midst of the divorce, terrible man who was not looking after the child who was divorced and actually divorced, she got her stomach and she gave birth fully. So she gave birth again with this terrible man. You see, the point I'm trying to explain is that some things are lingering the way of a man with a maiden. Even as they are quarreling, they are having sex with Fantastic. That is why the Bible now begins to speak of something. And again I'm saying don't say it in public because we cannot talk about such things. Pedging. Some things are like poo poo that is inside you that needs to come out. So you take something to pedge and it comes out and it's gone. There are some boys who need to go out of their life and it's gone out. It's not about lingering. And they say it's terrible, She's terrible. It's like this, she's terrible. It's a Papa and Siris. Because as it lingers, it doesn't work. Oh, it doesn't work. Lingering friendships. So that's why the Bible says those who can page themselves cut off. It's as if you are now wicked, as if you are now evil, as if you are now unfriendly, as if you are now a beast. That's the only way to disconnect yourself from certain things. That is how some things are. They need pedging. When you bathe, it doesn't go. Yeah, you need to pedge it and then flush it out. Yeah, that's why some of you never get healed of certain things. Do you understand? Yeah. And it's all of you girls you have chipping yourself. When a boy is showing that he doesn't really choose you, he hasn't really chosen you, and he doesn't really like you. He has in his mind what he's going to marry. And you are a marry first. Too much, agorica. Too much. There is no need for that. Step back. You know what I said? Step back and patch this fellow out of your life. Make yourself too lingering and he knows he can get you any time. Oh, are you cheap? Don't let yourself be cheap again, OK? Remember that you are becoming a minister and you are going to be a golden vessel. Don't forget to you are not just a member. How many know that this is an elder scam? Those who came, they don't seem to know what is happening. No, why is no come and talk to them. I don't think they know why they are here. I don't think they know why they are here. You are here to be elders, to preach, to win, so to save lives. That's why you are here. So why did they come late? So why did you come late? Because there were some computer errors with your names, that's why you were late. So you came under second selection. So those who were here first are first selection elders and then some of you are also in the second selection, you know. And so you are about to become elders. So it takes so that you don't you don't miss the camp. Now we can't have to organise another elders camp because of it to go through these 50 points. We cannot easily do that. The points are too many. Yeah, that is private. You can say it only once. Is it clear? That's whatever. Is it clear why you are here? You seem, you seem not to understand why you are here. It's not an ordinary camp. It's an Invitational camp. Amen. OK. I think they understand now. Glory like God. Hey Eigen, come this way. All righty, glory to God. How many are going to take your pagetives? Pagetive is different from Panadol. Panadol is for pain relief. This one is for removal. How does the how does the removal sound #26 follow righteousness. Oh sorry, OK follow righteousness, Second Timothy 222. Amen. Now righteousness, OK, is something that you would assume that because you are an elder or becoming an elder, you would naturally be pursuing, isn't it? But when you get deeper into the ministry, you see as you, you, you always remember what I said yesterday, which is that the things that you are told to do, usually those are the things people don't do. So that is why it's even said that do this, because you can go deeper into the ministry and find out that people who are in the ministry are even more, can be even more flowing in unrighteousness. Do you understand to the point that you can become disgusted with the ministry? So you must decide not to be that kind of a person. So do things that help you to become more righteous and more holy. Amen. Then follow #27 follow faith. So righteousness, follow righteousness. Follow faith. Following faith means doing things that help you to have more faith. Amen. And one of the ways is to listen to messages. Faith comes by hearing what best Give me the gun, give me the gun. Faith comes by hearing. Faith comes by hearing that the lady in red yeah stand. Faith comes by hearing. What best that get ready to fire fire OK behind her there are some people hiding behind her. The lady in yellow Faith comes by hearing. You've come for elders camp. You must know what best Faith comes by hearing fire. OK, you don't know if it comes by hearing By now they have told each other. Everybody has said above, listen, there are four or five scriptures you need to know about faith that a Christian should know #1 faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the word of God. Romans 10/17, that is one another verse. Now faith is the substance of things. Who for? Yes, the evidence of things. Also faith is a what substance or assurance or substance of things you can't see. OK, it's a vest. You should know then. Without faith, it's not possible to please God, isn't it? That is where Hebrews 11/6. You should know it. You cannot be an elder and I. We need all these vests. Now you are doing a Bible study. That's why we need the Thompson chain. And the Thompson chain, you go to the word faith and all the verses about faith will be there. Are you listening? So you need the Thompson Chain Bible. All right, the next one, the just shall live by faith. Which verse is that? Hebrews 1038 OK, then just shall live by faith. We live by faith and we walk by faith. What verse is that? Second Corinthians 5, seven. We walk by faith and not by sight. That one too you should know. So if you say you are following faith, you must have these few verses. I mean, you must be able to preach a sermon on faith. OK. And you see, that's what I'm saying, that you may not have any message that the Bishop has preached, a message of people. You can do your own Bible study on the subject of faith and go and preach it. Now, you still don't rise into ministry until you do. Point number. Which point was it? The one I said that separates the boys from the men. Point number one, point #1 13. What does he say? Yeah, consider the things that I said to you. And the next one says the word. Expect God to give you your own understanding of it. So when you say you work by faith, the just shall live by faith. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, evidence of things. You have to ask yourself for an understanding yourself which you don't have. It's only when you do Bible study that the Lord will give you your own understanding. That is where we start to go as apart. It starts the place we start to become different. Somebody has a personal understanding because the things I share with you, I don't tell you. Can I take in this? Can I tell you sometimes some of his stories? But I tell you a lot of my own stories, which if they were to listen, you realize that I have my own understanding of all the scriptures that I'm sharing with you. And that is the point that I'm making, that that is where we start to go in different directions. You go here and that's where ministries don't work anymore. People say I want to be mission and they want to be mission. They go, it doesn't work. We have people we've sent, it doesn't work. We have ministries we've sent 10 years, it doesn't work. You just come and say there are people over there they don't like this type of they are not into churches. Are you listening to me? Amen. Glory to God. So following faith is all about knowing some of these vessels and developing confidence and faith. And I mean, if you don't know the basic vessels or even how, how do you study? Now all these words, how do you follow them? Each one is a Bible study righteousness. You do have a a Thompson Jane, do you have a Jakes Bible? Now? How can you study righteousness? Stand up. Look at somebody who came to be an elder. How can we study this word? Follow. How can you follow righteousness? How can you do a Bible study to know what is righteousness? You don't have the tools to do even to do the study because now we need to go into righteousness. OK, Let's find the verses on righteousness. Come. I will show you. OK, You wait. I will call you. What is happening? All right now. OK. Do you have a Thompson Chain Bible in your iPad? OK, all of you on the front row camp, I'll show you how to do Bible study. I can only show the ones here. OK, now I want to do Bible study on righteousness, so I'm going to my Bible. All right, and then I go to my all these are my Bibles. You see all these Bibles, the National Bible, this Bible, King James with John and ESB, NLT, Daig's Bible. You see all these ones and I'm coming to Thompson Ching. There are two types and I go to reference Bible. OK and I'm going to look for righteousness, so I'm going to Did you get it? I go to Anne. I'm looking for righteousness. Righteousness. Righteousness, righteousness, unrighteousness. Sure. Three O 772-3085 All these are righteousness. Let's go to it and see what it says. You see plenty. That's why I told you if you don't have Thompson Chain, I don't know how you are going to do Bible study, righteousness of God, righteousness, purity of heart and rectity of life. So this righteousness of God. So even you can preach, you can just press this one, any one of them fear the Lord in charge and take it. For the Lord our God has not already prevented justice, speciality or take your breath or any of these. You can press them. See what it says for the righteous Lord. So this is righteousness of God then righteous see God's holiness if I want to study God's holiness if I want to study divine protection or righteousness of Christ 3078 it's a different 1 examples of righteousness. All these see examples of righteousness young person but David, Adam was pleasing in the sight of the Lord. This is in King James. Let me change you the Bible, King James. OK, it's now in the King James so examples of righteousness, piety and examples of all these obedience, carelessness, sanctified ones prescribed. That means God is asking you to do right be righteous. All these these are these Proverbs 21 he that flows after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness and honor more verses. How can you say you are doing study that said the Lord execute judgment and righteousness. How can you say you are doing Bible study when you don't have this, huh Abigail, true or not true? Are you joking? Godliness and righteousness. Look at this and with all this evidence of unrighteousness, there's John 19, your personal sin. Forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. You see, you have done a study before. Ungodliness, impunity, iffy fire, all of these people, they don't know. They don't know anything. Do you want me to be shot down as well at just a fast rate? This way. OK. All right. Next time you'd better do Bible study. Are you going to get a date? Thompson 10 Bible. OK, this is your last warning. Wow. Sit down. Look, we are the first Lab Church is a digital church. So that's why I'm not even telling you to buy these ones. Everyone of you becoming a pastor, one of the things you will see on your is going to be on the website soon. It's going to be on your website soon. You will see the A/B SIABSI. You will see your picture and all your things. One of the things that gives you some marks, a lot of marks to go for it is a tablet. You see, a tablet is something you should all have. When you have the tablet, OK, so many things can be on it at the same time that you will not be carrying, and then all that you need is on it. So you have to have a tablet. And on that tablet, it's not for sending WhatsApp, it's not WhatsApp, it's not for WhatsApp. It is for Bibles, books, libraries that you need equipment to be a pastor. So when you have that, then you and you will all soon have one. How? How many of you, how many of you have 1A tablet, a iPad or Galaxy stand up? Yeah, Tell the person behind you I was once like you and you soon be like me. Tell them I was once like you and you will soon be like me once. Brother. This brother looks very serious. Why? Why is he so serious? Why are you angry? Why don't you squeeze your face like that? Which school are you from? Huh. UEW. But why? Why? Why is your face going hard? This is your last one here. OK, relax. There's no there's no problem here. We are laughing and his face is very serious. And why? I think he's planning something. Are you a spy? OK, so everybody, everybody here is going to have a new phone and a new tablet. Lift. Lift your right hand. Let me pray for you, Father. I asked for the release of iPads. Galaxies, Chinese iPads and all surfaces and all new gadgets necessary for pastoral work, necessary for the beautiful job to be released among the people in the name of Jesus. Thank you for this great blessing in Jesus name. And also we are asking for new digital modern phones with new capabilities, extended memories, high speeds, newest technologies. We ask for it in Jesus name, Amen. Wow, sit down, believe it. Most of you others you are not going to be holding this O Asian, something that was invented in the 17th century. I mean pepper printing, it's an old thing. It's very old that we have stopped using all those things. Don't make yourself a poetic chairman of the chair and say to yourself, I don't know how I can have something like that. You can have it and you have it in Jesus name. Wow. Amen. Yeah. So you cannot, you, you cannot do studies is how are you going to follow righteousness? You don't even know what it is when we open the righteousness. So many verses you have to read and read and read and read and be thinking and the verses are too many. You have to stop only one and think about it for some time for the Lord to give you understanding. This is where people don't actually go further. They don't start to think for the Lord to give them understanding. And because you never stop to think for the Lord to give you understanding, you never have revelation. And so your preaching is not powerful and you cannot, you never rise to the point of having an original ministry. You see, even though I listen to Kenneth Hegel most, I mean, if you lock me up in a room, my best person to give me is Kenneth Hagin. No music, nothing, only Kenneth Hagin preaching. I have all his preaching. It will give me the best and even the messages where people sing and I like all those tongues, everything. It's nice to me. I I can be in that atmosphere. One day I went to I was invited to Malaysia to an island in, in the, in the ocean there. And when I was preaching there, after I finished preaching, they had not heard me preaching before. I preached different things, mega chair different things. The pastor told me that. He said that you, your, I said, I said to him that oh As for me, I'm a product of Kenneth Hagin. Then he said well what you are preaching, what you preach, I don't see Kenneth Hagins things in it. I don't recognise it. He said. A lot of of you are saying is original. That's what he said. But you see, when you listen to me, you, you hear me telling you that my main person is Papahagian. And actually, if you go into, I can show you the connection. But when, when I'm preaching, you may not easily know what the connection is. Because if you listen to, you won't even know what the similarity is between that and that. Are you listening? And what I'm saying is that what makes you even sound original is that you pause to think, consider what I say to you. This is what Paul wrote to Timothy and the Lord will personally give you some understanding that he has not given to Nanama. He will give it to you. What's your name? Emma, not from where he has not given to, but he give it to you. And and when Nanama hears you preaching, he says, ah, but I read the same Bible. Even I have that best for my I don't care that that's the difference between people. This is the point on which we we packed. This is the airport where someone flies and someone stays in Accra. No, most people don't stop half time to dig deep. When I went to South Africa, I went for the first time underground to a mine. My first impressions were to think that man is very greedy because you go so deep down. Sometimes you can go down far as one mile, 2 miles into the earth and you see tunnels under and they are still there for good, for rocks. They bring the rocks out. How greedy can we be? But this is what can I take instead. It's only those who dig deep who find the gold, those who just stay on the surface. They just have some small, small rebel bishops preaching. So we got it. So you are just for vomiting what I have preached again and again, but you yourself have never got your own understanding of these same things that I'm preaching. When I hear you preaching one day a message message that I have preached, I will be blessed. Because that's if you have also got your own understanding when I hear you to be a blessing to me amongst my pastors, those who have their own understanding, when I listen to them, I get blessed because they themselves have their own understanding, but they are taking time to think about it. And the Lord has given them their own understanding of mega church, of loyalty, of things, of God. Because in your own life you have your own set of experiences. So I'm honestly trying to show you that's what I said. This is what other churches don't have and this is what God has given us. This is the grace we have that you have been shown practically. Instead of me to keep my things, just walk in and out silently. I've called you to stand behind the pulpit with me and shown you my personal Bibles and how I find the things and how to do it. See, I'm trying to make you help you to become. I'm not trying to be alone over there. That's the anointing that I, that is also in my life to encourage you and help you to become a minister. And that is the grace that is in the church. So we need to be strong in it. And more of you are going to become, in fact, not more. All of you, all those who are not becoming should live now. Check your neighbor. If he's not going to become a minister of the gospel, he needs to leave the camp now. Those who they need the next coffee break. OK, I hear it will be during the next coffee break. That will suck them. Wow. Follow faith, follow love. Oh God, Oh God. Oh God, oh God. Where are the chief elders? Come. You are all chief elders. OK, You have come already. Sit. Come. They are all chiefs. Chief of where? Chief of Valley View. Is it Miriam? Chief of where? Heathers nevertheless, OK, come around. I expect to be fired after, you know, come around, come to the back. We are going to do our Bibles. The next one is follow love. Love. So here we are, isn't it? You see, we are going to all these Bibles. I have all these Bibles. You have all these Bibles, you have NLT study Bibles, spending money and evening Thompson chain marginal loans. American Standard version dictionaries. What is this dictionary living translation ESB amplified homeland Bible Atlas decks Bible chemistry. You have, you don't have and you called yourself an elder. You have these, some of them, and you achieve of well Pentecost and you achieve of well UDS and Chief of where, Ma'am Pong and you are standing fire. You will not come near to look at it. What do you think about him? Oh God. So look, I'm going to Thompson Chain, OK, Not the notes. I need this one. Thompson chain. All right, now what am I going to look for? We are going to study love. So let's look for LABCJKL. Do you see L? Press L? Look for love. Where's love? Love. Hatred. You see it? Press it, Cadella. Press it All right. What's happening next? Love, hatred. All this is love and hatred. So now love we are going to do brotherly love. Special teachings on love. All these verses when you press any of them, it's coming. These things I command that you love one another. Digital digital naked you closely. I was sick. You visited me in prison. Anyone Philippians 4 fulfilling my child that you'll be like man having the same love. Oh God, impartial love, unselfish love, proof of discipleship, price standard benevolence, examples of all these Conjugate love. Wow. Conjugate love that's marriage press anywhere, maternal love, you see, we have gone. Conjugate love that's lovers together her husband praises her. Ezekiel, son of man. Behold I take away from the desire than eyes with a stroke. Mercy, maternal love. All this maddest love, maddest love. Parvest love paternal love. Husband's duties, wife's duty, parental duties, wife's counsel, correction of children, structure, plenty things. What do you think? Is it amazing? So you say you are elders but you don't have Thompson tea and you don't know how to do it. Chief Elders line up, line up. No. But why? That was a rebuke, not an elder. Why? Why are you? Somebody should take him and fire him. OK you are blessed next time have a word Thompson Ching Bible you do that Bible study OK Oh God, how can you follow love? One of the key things with following love as a pastor and elder is forgiveness. Yeah. Love is just another word for love is forgiveness. Keep forgiving, keep forgiving. Keep forgiving and loving as you keep going. Older. How many have been hurt before? Hey, but you are so young. How can you be hurt? I mean, in this short time that you've been around, what has hurt you? No, no. What has hurt you in heart? A little, a little? You don't understand. Grow up, you understand. So if at this age you have been hurt, Can you imagine how it's going to be as the years go by? The heads are going to be more disappointment, shocks, shakings, fears. What? You didn't think that's how life is? Yeah. I wish it was not like that. But you know, I told you this camp. I can't tell you. This is a private letter, somebody's private thing telling you. Follow love, forgive. Amen. The more you can forgive, the more you will have a good life Yeah. The more you can forgive, the more you will be. You have a good life in this world. Yeah. If you can forgive, you will become you will have a good life. Yes, the less you can forgive. So, so we have a forgiveness Somita, Somita, forgiveness Somita and that forgiveness Somita determines the quality of your life. Forgiveness Somita, and I'm going to prove it to you. The more forgiveness, the more light, the more light and brightness in your life. The less forgiveness, the more darkness. So the quality of if I'm to use the level of light is determined by the level of forgiveness, because I must have forgiveness the same amount of light. OK, Shall I prove it to you? Shall I prove it to you? Do you really want me to prove it to you? When you see somebody who has, like if you see some very, very melancholic people, they can't have big churches. A very melancholic person cannot have a big church. Yeah. When you see somebody who is very melancholy, they are pastor, very melancholic. Your chest can't be big. Yeah, because you don't, you don't understand why somebody should come at 9:10 when we tell you are starting at 9. You get what I'm saying? But we said nine and you are here 10 past 930, not anybody who is out at 9. Go out. Let them go back to a car. You are out. You are down for. Yeah. And if somebody goes to do anything wrong, you are done for. I said come for the primary, You didn't come, you are finished. I said hedge All these things you didn't hedge, you are done for. I told you, don't commit punication. You're going to commit punication. Finish out. You can no more do this. No more. You are out of this. You are no more finish. Most of your people will get finished. And even when you don't even say your melancholism in your heart, reject the people. You have rejected the people because they are not strict. Yeah, because most people are not strict. See, when you are a leader, you must know that everybody smiles. People smile when they see me, when they see me or they start smiling. Yeah. I'm a leader. I I I watch. I watch. I say a person hasn't seen. When is he? Yeah. Never think that's a leader. That is how they are. People are not ask you, they look to you. Yeah, oh God, yeah. So everybody is saying this and also some people there, they are going to do well later. But a melancholic person can understand why you should do well only from final year onwards, when the first two years you should go to beach parties, do this, be pregnant, have a biscuit, a number of pimples before you now become serious. A melancholic person cannot relate with it at all. When you are too strict, you have less accommodation, less forgiveness, you have less light, less happiness and less of a certain quality of life. If I have people or children and people that are flowing around and all that, it's not because they are perfect, neither is it because I am perfect, but it's because come it doesn't matter. No, no blowing of whistle, no red card, no yellow card. Wow, your people in your life become fewer and fewer. So that's why, for instance, some people cannot have people staying in their houses or house health or maid. They're always finding a problem with them. This a push. A push girl. She's a poor villager. She's broken all my things, broken all my glasses. She has spotted the iron, she has spotted the kettle, she has burnt my dress. Why would she not? Why would she not spoil the kettle? She where she's coming from, there's no kettle there. And if where she came from, there were kettles and she was having a certain life, she would never be a house up in your house. So the only type of person that can be a house up in your house is that person who doesn't know how to use a kettle or an iron. And the person is going to learn how to use it gradually and there will be some casualties, one or two. And also the kettle or the iron was not meant to last forever. It was intended to be spot true or not true, true or true or not true. Oh God, listen home. So you have every time this person is not good, this one's go. No, not good go, no, not good go. So there are fewer. Your quality of life gets less. You are confused. Your house is always in confusion. If it's if it's not you, is your mother you've seen it before. True or not true. One day I was in the office and somebody bought me a nice glass. I think it was a glass or a mug or a cup. And this one came to serve me. She came to serve me with a she came to serve me. She came to serve me with a drink or something with it. On the first day, I never, I never had the chance to even hold the cup and it's not broken. So I said to her, never be angry with any help in your house who is breaking your teeth because you have broken my teeth. On the first day I didn't even pick my mouth on it. I never had the chance to hold it and either cup or glass or something special one they bought for me, just one, just one and was like that. Oh, I said never, never. I don't want to hear your voice in your house ever say that my iron is this or they have bent my dress. Some of your dresses will be bent. Keep buying buyer. The cost of employing a graduate to be your house health is the equal to the dresses you are buying without the cost. You should have hired somebody higher. You will not have friends. Every time you say this person has done this to me, this person did this, this person is like this. Your friends will be fewer, your marriage will be less happy. Because every time he's not done this, they have not come. Now they are late, they are not doing this. I thought you would do this. And I hear some husbands, he didn't do this for that. They help with their children, they help with this, They do this. They are gentle. They are not gentle. They are not nice. You don't help. You are not this. You don't have. Sit down. Follow love. I say follow love, forgiveness, follow forgiveness, be a forgiver. The forgiveness. So meter is the meter that determines the quality of and the quality of your life is the happiness of your relationship, happiness of your marriage, number of friends you have, number of people that work for you, number of people that help you, number of people that are in your life is because after he was alone in the garden, God said it is not a good thing. He has everything, but he is alone. I'm going to make him happy. I have to give him company in his life. Company of all types of company of a family, of children, of people around. Yeah. So it's not good to have everything but to be alone. Wow. John 8 John Chapter 8. Forgiveness. Somita. Jesus went to the Mount of Olives, the scribes brought him a woman taken in adultery, and when they set her in the midst, they said, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act. We had to stand there for her to put on her clothes, and we had to ask the man to excuse us. We caught her lie. Now Moses in the law commanded that Sasha be stoned. What do you say? This they said, tempting him, that they might accuse him. Jesus stood to the ground, and broke with his finger on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first tomb. And he stood down and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest. You see the eldest. When you think about it, realize you the eldest, you have been around longer, you have more sins and more accumulated things than the younger. And Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst. And when Jesus lifted up himself, he saw none by the woman, and he said, woman, where are your accusers? Has no man condemned me? She said no man. And Jesus said neither do I, I forgive you, I don't condemn you. Go sing no more then then everybody see the word next word, then, then, then Jesus speak again to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness that shall have the light of life. Hallelujah, that's the end of the past. That passage ends in verse 12. You see, Listen, when Jesus forgave the woman, there was no bloodshed. This, the man was going to die. Do you think that that woman didn't have a brother? She had a brother, she had brothers, she had an uncle, she had a father. She was connected. As you are killing her, all of you are gathering there. You Pharisees, they know you have also slept with somebody's sister, somebody's mother, from the oldest guy up to now. True or not true. So as you kill her, others have also meant your life. Is it not true? So the revenge will continue and there will be some other assassinations and other things that will take place. And the confusion comes. Look at every unhappiness in the world, every war, let's say today's war in Syria or wherever they are fighting. If one person forgives, I forgive you everything. Life will come immediately to that place. So where there's no forgiveness, there's fighting, there's war, there's anger, continuation, continuation. If you bomb like the Koreans, they are now gearing up to fight North and South. The South. I was, when I was one time I was in Seoul, I was sitting with the military commander, United States military commander of the forces in South Korea, and he said that there are several gangs. All the gangs in Pyongyang are directed at Seoul. Seoul is right on the border. Seoul, the city, the capital of South Korea and South Korea have also directed all their gangs at them. So they are waiting. Once one person fires, they will also fire back and everybody will be burnt. That's what they are. That's the game they are playing, the two sides. It's not a small game. You touch me, I'll touch you and that's it. So forgiveness, Summita, determines the light. That's why Jesus, when when he's calmed the thing, I'll not forgive. I forgive you, Vonneke. It's true. You, David, no one condemned you. You were caught in the act. You were OK. The others all left away and everything. Then Jesus said I'm the light of the world. He that follows me will not walk in darkness. There will be no darkness in your life, but you will have the light of life. So the light of light, the brightness and the good things of this life are going to come to you more by your ability to forgive. And light will be coming to your friends. You have more friends, you have helpers. People will be able to come to us when you are not there. They will break the door, enter, take what they need, get a Carpenter, fix the door and send you a WhatsApp. But I came to the house to pick something. I was around. I passed by or just passing through. I said no. Fantastic. You have how many would like to have a friend like that? That did not sound nice to you. You know, I, I, I had an uncle who described a friend who he has quarrelled with. Yes, a very good friend whom he had quarreled with or a relative, I think a friend. And he was explaining how close he was. And he's the one who gave me that description. Now this is how close I was. He could come to my house, break the door, fix something and fix, get the Carpenter to fix the door and go away. And that is how he was with him and that that friendship had broken. So I'm explaining that you see that it sounds nice to you. Does it not sound powerful? When you see love such a beautiful thing, does it not? Does it not sound powerful? Does it not feel nice? It feels nice. It feels good. Nobody gets too much heaven no more. It's much harder to come thy I'm waiting in line. Nobody shows too much love and. Nobody shows too much love anymore as. High as a mountain, but harder to fly. Oh, I'm going to let you know there's a party of the sky made of pearly gates. Precious trees are cold. No more painful tears to grind. I believe we'll live in love forever. Peace will always rain and never die cause love is such a beautiful thing. Is it a beautiful? So just take his hand, your mind at ease, He will take you there. If you just believe that nobody gets too much love anymore, it's much harder to come by. I'm waiting, I'm waiting in line. Nobody shows too much love anymore. It's as high as a mountain. That is why beloved doses look nicer than marriage, because if you go to the beach here and you see a boy and a girl walking on the by on the beach and they are beloved, they are beloved dosing, you will you will see them holding hands like this. Oh God. But when they are married, they'll be working together like this. This one will. What about take the phone? OK, OK, I'll call you back. I'll call you back. What did you say? OK, I'll call you back. Yeah. So when they'll be, when they'll be like this, they'll be working. Then the women start skipping. They'll be skipping and thinking and just say to me. Nobody gave too much love anymore. It's much harder to come by. I'm waiting in life and nobody shows too much love anymore. It's as high as some bounces but harder in life. I'm going to let you know as I have enough above made of pearly gates, fresh streets of gold. No more painful tears to cry. I believe live forever this will always rain and never die because love is such a beautiful. One day, One day like that. What about relationship? Come and dance with me baby. But when they are married. So I'm tired, I'm tired. I don't I don't feel like that. What time is it? I'm feeling cold. I'm I'm feeling cold. I'm tired. When are we going home? I want to go like I'm tired. I'm talking too much. So you see, love is like some light. That's why people come for weddings, not that they have good marriages, but just for a glimpse of that light of that love that that, that imagination, that feeling just to see it again for just one hour. It just looks nice and makes everybody happy, and the only way it can be maintained is by forgiveness. That's why I said forgiveness. Summita shows the quality and the strength of life in your life. In your life. Those would have been skipping. Nobody got. Sit down. Love is beautiful. It's love, not a beautiful thing. Isn't it fantastic? How many want a higher quality life than follow love? Follow Love. Follow love, Follow love. How many are going to follow love? Love with your house, house, love with your beloved. Love with your husband, love with your wife. Love with your friends. Don't cut off lifelong friends whom God has given you. A friend can be some important person. One day you'll be surprised. Yesterday I got a text from one of my friends from medical school. I was surprised that he was contacting me from. He's visiting us and visiting in Ghana. I've never seen or heard of him since then that he's contacting me based on our friendship from school. Yeah, long standing friends, both he and his wife. I like such things. Amen. How many numbers do you have? 2028? Follow righteousness. You got it. Follow faith. You got it. Follow love. You see it in the Bible. Second Timothy 222. Flee youthfulness. Follow righteousness. Follow faith, follow charity. Follow peace with them that call on the Lord with a pure heart. This is a private letter. It's private. Don't tell anyone about it. Follow peace. The next one. Follow peace. Amen. Anything that brings peace is not just peace. At any price. That peace is better than war. This air condition is gone off. What's the problem? What's going on? It's gone off. We're starting to feel heated up. It is amazing. What was that you said? What? Peace. Now. Why is peace important to a pastor? Why does anybody know? And if you, if you know, I'll give you a prize. If you know, I'll give you a prize. It's a particular verse. Yes. My dear Anistina, you, you need to give a verse. You know, a Scripture. You can't just give a narration. We are not writing essays here. OK. Yes, come here. You don't remember what I don't. Remember exactly where it is. But now I will say that where there is contention and strife, there is every. Evil wit There's a scripture like that? No, no. I mean, I understand what you're trying to say, but it's not really the the. Yeah, Hebrews 12/14 says follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see God. It's a good verse on peace when you are doing Bible study on peace. Not bad. But there is a seventh verse which is very important for an elder like a pastor that Francine. The peace of God surpasses all understanding. Mentioning verses you don't understand the relationship. Where is the where is the gun? You cannot just mention a vest. I mean, what does it have to do with the pastor? The peace of God passes all understanding in terms of English language. Why do you mention it? Why did you mention it? Fire. OK, All right. You don't. You don't just mention scriptures. Yes, Michael. Uh huh. Is he not forcing the scripture to say something? Where is the machine gun? Look, just one shot you are you are taking too long to. OK, yes, I guess I want to say something. Is he not forcing something? Does he deserve to be shot? I'm at the first too much for the scripture to say what it is not saying. So first Timothy. Two phase two and down, I was talking about praying for all, all men who are in authority so I may live a quiet and a peaceable life which is good and acceptable in the sight of the Lord. So living a peaceable life with everyone is good and acceptable. I am not asking for the importance of peace. I'm asking that what is peace important to an elder who is trying to work for God. I didn't say quote all vertices that you know about peace. If you know that you are going to mess around, I don't leave you. Why do we not have another microphone? OK, Thank you, Bishop. I think that's and the other needs peace to be able to build. Because when you read the account of Solomon in first Kings 4-5 and six, he was able to build the city only when there was the first Kings 4/24. He says that there was peace all around. So I think that you need peace after another to build your church. You are the nearest sofa. The rest of you who have gone to four scriptures. When I have taught you yesterday to rightly divide the word of truth, you are now wrongly dividing the word of truth. You are in danger. 4 Bishop, please in Matthew 1012 says, when you come to a house, say and the peace of God be to you. But if you are coming to somebody and you don't have peace, how do you give the person peace? So you are forcing to write an essay that Yes Obi can I read the scripture? Yes OK First Timothy 3 verse 16 says sorry hey, how have the scriptures? First Timothy 367 Moreover, he must have the good reports of them, which are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. So an elder should have a good report of them. Outside that, he leads in peace with people. So when he goes out to preach, he'll be accepted. Does he need to be fired? Yes. Behind. What is your name? Ken. Ken what? Ken? Simon. I'm calling. Simon. What I'm calling. And you are the chief. Out of where I am an elder of you love campus. OK, Second coincidence. Yeah. We get a remote. Who is that? Who is that, please? Has he got the remote? Yes. I think that if an elder should have peace, it gives him a sound mind because in Second Corinthians 212th and 10th it talks about poor going to trust. And then when he got there he didn't find his brother titles, so he left Macedonia because he did not find peace there. The firing squad is getting longer and longer and longer. Yes, yes, McDonald. It's a simple vest. It talks about it shows why an elder must have peace. Some 23 verse 2 says that he leads me beside he leads me beside the still waters. Look, shoot him down. I've been provoked beyond measure. Is it Adam I? Also Adam I? I think an elder needs peace so that he can keep the group united. The Ephesians 4 three talks about keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Without peace, an elder cannot flow with his followers and they cannot also build a church and elder. When there is discord and difficult. My friend, we are talking too much. We need a scripture. We know that. We need peace to build. That's what is it. Richmond. Richmond said. Epicence 4 three. Yeah. We are not giving. There is a clear vest. Yes, Yes. You, brother. Babo says what? Let the peace of God reign in our heart. That's Colossians 315. I know that it's Colossians 315. So I believe that the peace of God which rules in our heart. You see, listen, when you preach like that, people are not blessed because the verse you have quoted is not connected to what you are saying. It's not linked. That's what I said. You should fire them because the verse you are quoting is not connected to water, so people don't connect it. So in the end you think that when you just mention verses and preach it works, or you preach that the vest must be connected to what you are saying so that people can understand. When you read my books, you realize that the vest is exactly saying what the point is, and so I just put a vest in the Bible. Then if I say that the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit on your intelligence, you'll find verses that help you to see directly that there is a connection. Otherwise, I don't bring a vest. I don't bring that point. OK, all of you who have misused the Bible should line up here. Do you promise not to do it again? OK, Forgiveness will bring light. So I've forgiven you. At least you try to to read a verse. James chapter 3. You see, you should have just Googled peace in the Bible in your iPad. You would have seen someone, a verse somewhere and you don't know it. James 3, verse 16. That's the verse that you need as a verse. What does it say? The fruits. Of righteousness are you not trying to bear fruits? Is and are not trying to bear fruits. The fruit of righteousness is shown in what? In peace of them that make peace. The fruit of righteousness is shown in peace is that the fruit of righteousness can only be shown in peace by people who make peace. So you have to have peace between you. One time I was quarreling with my wife, you see, and the holy speech showed me this scripture, that the fruit that I need to bear, I need to have peace to bear fruit, that I should stop quarreling because the fruit of righteousness is shown in peace by those who make peace. You have to make peace. Is it clear? Is it not what you are trying to do to bear fruit? Why do you sow these sweet seeds of righteousness in the midst of what? Peace. By who? The one who makes peace is the one who can sow those seeds. Are you listening? How many understand that it's powerful? Yeah. Wow. How many numbers do you have? 29. Are you hot? No problem. Are you cold? Are you hungry? Are you tired? OK. What? Are you blessed? They are flowing. Amen.