10.How are we to relate with the world - 24.07.2014

Welcome to track #10 of who is he that overcomes the world? Hallelujah, praise you Jesus. We praying or chatting? We're sharing some revelations. Deep revelations. Wow. Are you here? Are you happy? How much we are able to wake up? I mean, of course we are all up here. But I mean at 3:00, 3. I mean, if you did 4, four, OK, 330I mean if you did 3:30, what about 3:15 for about 327? For about 443, There's also a time, but you'll be able to pray a bit. So you feel you feel charged. OK, stand to your feet. Let's thank God for this morning. Have you prayed since you came in here? No, OK, you just ran in here. OK, So let's thank God for this morning. Let's thank God for today. Pray that God will speak to you. God will bless you, that the words that you will hear shall minister to you, shall change your life, and shall affect your life greatly. Just pray, commit yourself into the hands of God. Just pray briefly. We are just praying briefly. Let's thank God, thank him, thank him, thank him for this morning, thank him for his mercies, thank him for today, all the sessions for today. That God will speak to you and God will direct you and God will help you and God will minister to you today. That his mercies will be new on your life. Today by revelation, by knowledge, by understanding, Council will come to you. The Spirit of Council will be real to you. Spirit of wisdom will be real to you. Spirit of understanding, spirit of knowledge will be real to you today. Pray to God, pray to him, pray to him. Thank you Holy Spirit, Thank you Holy Spirit. Thank you Holy Spirit for your workings, for your workings in our lives, on our lives today. Thank you, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Father. Thank you, Father, for your sweet Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Help us, Lord. Save us, Lord, and deliver us, Lord, convict us. Lord. Teach us, Lord, teach us, Lord. May we increase in wisdom, May we increase in understanding, may we increase in revelation, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Mala Bashitaya Sabradishthota Mahasta Makili baka Tundalaba Dibakaba. Lava Dibakaba. Lava Dibakaba tunda. Oh yes, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord, for today that your spirit will influence us. Your spirit, Lord, will be here to teach us, to bring us understanding, to convict us, to give us strength, to give us strength, to give us understanding, to give us wisdom. Thank you, Jesus. Mado laba diba diba kuba laba diba kuba liba doba luba diba kaba Tata Papa liba tunda shaba liba taba shaba liba taba. Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit. We thank you, Lord, We thank you, Lord, we bless you, Lord. We bless you, Lord. We thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you Father, Father, we thank you for this morning. Thank you for your powerful presence in Jesus name, Amen. Put your hands together and take your seats. I must go away. I must go away for my work down here on earth is done and why I'm gone away. I will be building you away and I'm coming again to take you back to live with me. I must go away. All my work down here on Earth is done, and while I'm gone away, I will be building you open. Then I'm coming again to take you back to live with me. Why must you leave us? All the people cry as Jesus as he said his last goodbye. Why must you go? Oh, how we want to know. Then Jesus dried dear eyes, and then reply. My little children, I hate to leave it, but I must go away. I must go, Go away. All my work down here on Earth, it's done. But while I'm gone away, I will be building you away. Then I'm coming again to take you back to live with me. If I stay, the comforter cannot come. But what he said made my name. Everything in my name can be done. And he shall lead and hide you in his love You hide you. So go and wave in prayer until he comes. Oh, I must go away. I must go, go away. All my work down here on earth is done. While I'm gone away, I will be building you a beautiful place. And I'm coming again to take you back to live with me. Glory to God, thank you Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. Sit down number one. Yesterday I started from #2. So #1 how do we relate with the world? You are supposed to become fools in this world so that eventually you become wise. You are supposed to become fools in this world. I'm on chapter 4, isn't it? And I said you're supposed to become. I gave you from #2 and other numbers, so I'm now giving you #1 First Corinthians chapter 3, verse 18. Let no man deceive himself. If any among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness. With God it is written. He ticket the whys in their own craftiness. Best Corinthians 318 Please remind me to show you a film tonight. You want to watch a film? Why not I maybe show you 2 films? All right, so let no man deceive himself, OK? If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise. One of the things that I want you to accept, OK, is to become a fool as far as the world is concerned. OK, maybe you're going to get married and you're not marrying the richest brother who doesn't seem to have bright eyes for the future. Wow. But you are marrying this brother who is so spiritual. All that he has to say is Amen. Let the church say Amen. When he was proposing to you, instead of saying, I love you, he said, Sister, when you receive a word from the Lord, your answer must be Amen. Let the church say Amen. This is how he proposed to you. But you have to become a fool. When I took upon myself to be in the ministry or not took upon myself, I followed what I believed the Lord was calling me to do. You get it? I look like a fool. A pastor of who? Nobody in the church had a car. I was the only person who had an old car. So I was a fool. I became a fool. And maybe in heaven I may be seen as wise. You never know, so let let's just say Amen become a fool and you're going on the mission field and then sending you to Burundi, huh? You look like a fool. Burundi genocide war. Hey, why not? It looks wider than, what do you call it, Stanchart. Isn't it Stanchart job on High Street or Anglo gold Ashanti? Wow. You know Vodi technique, Motus, you don't know Vodi. Years ago when we were inviting people to come full time, it was one of them powerful companies in Ghana that was selling Passat and Audis and Passat Vodi technique. You see them driving through town with flashy cars waiting on a Vodi technique motors. Yeah. So you are working for Light Water Light What lighthouse? What is that? One man church, A one man, another one man church. They call us mushroom churches that have cast I I know his father has Ozoy. I know his father. Da da, da, da man. Yeah. What they're going to do? What church? Are you mad? The Bible says let no man deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he's wise in this world, let him become a fool. Now, don't think that all that has to do with, you know, Bishop. You know, Bishop is, you know, look, you also have to be a fool. Yeah, you have to be a fool. You've seen a beautiful girl with good Christian qualities, a sister who says Amen when the when the when the Lord has given a word, her answer is always Amen. And here comes this girl with a lot of calves, very succulent, very voluptuous, very juicy. And you have the sister who says Amen. And have this voluptuous girl become a fool. If you see the character, because I tell you after a short while and you see that although you were attracted, you have become like an afflicatee. Do you understand afflicity? You don't know afflicity. The, the, the, the termite that fly and attracted to the light, they fly and then they hit the land, then the father, they die. You have become an afflicity. You were attracted with great zeal to this thing. You see, the problem is that the problem is that it is the mind makes associations. Everybody's mind makes associations. When you see a soft, voluptuous, delicious, no, I use the word this. The word delicious is in the Bible says for she has lived deliciously. It's like she she's lived like a plate of jollof rice, attracting you all the time with chicken on the side all her life. She, she looks like a plate of food that must be eaten, slipped deliciously. I've even forgotten what I was saying. What was I saying? The mind makes associations, so you cannot believe you can. You only associate nice things with the nice looking. That's the value. It's only faith that will tell you that this nice looking is is not associated with nice. This nice, this nice this. Not always. Sometimes it is. It is, but you don't have to go by that. But without knowing, by default you go by that. Once the person is nice, it goes with this, this, this. But when you, you, you go a little further, you find there's so many other things that you are not expecting to be there. It's the opposite of what you want. So that is why you need to be led by the spirit you know, and so become a fool when it comes to living in this life. Let the world laugh at you. If people don't laugh at you, you've not yet become a good Christian. They must. People must make fun of you. At a point. People must. People have laughed at me all my all my life. All my life. They've made fun of me. They've not chosen me. To not choose you Is, is, is, is to confirm your their despisement. Yeah, they've not chosen me in class, in school, made fun of the church, fun of the classroom we were in fun of the drums, fun of the church. Is this a church? Is this a branch? Is it a church? Pastors have made fun of me. They've made fun of my books. It's fantastic. Ghanaian Pastors. He made fun of my books, huh? And today people are flying the the higher jets, full jet of Kenya Airways, full jet of whatever, fastest coming from different countries in East Africa. They've had the whole plane. They're coming to listen to, to be read with my books, the books that they were making fun of in countries from all over. So let the let, let people make fun of you. If people having laughed at you before, you have not practiced Christianity properly. Yeah, he said let him. He said, let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him rather become a fool that he may truly be a wise person. They are associating with that church. Is it a is it a church? Oh, people make fun of my when I, when I preach about, what do you call it that about working for the Lord? They say I'm preaching against honest work. Yeah. And I wouldn't want to tell you. I wouldn't want to tell you the end of the people who said those things with their mouths unless it look as if I'm. I'm rejoicing. I didn't want to tell you about the end. Yeah. When I preach about John 316, even in the church, you can become a fool because the church has become worldly. So the wealthy church laughs at spiritual things. Yeah, because the church is wealthy. It laughs at the spiritual pastor. Fantastic. I'm preaching about John 316. You laugh at me. Archbishop was telling me. He's listening to some of the pastors who talk about me and say that he doesn't have revelation. Don't mind him. He doesn't have revelation. I don't have revelation. Fantastic. He does speaking basics. He doesn't have revelation. So you'll make fun of what I'm teaching, make fun of the books, make fun of this, make funny remarks. It's OK. Let let him become a fool. Do you understand? Yeah. When I was not taking loans, people make fun of me not taking loans. When I move into my house, people found it funny because when I move into my house, I didn't have luves. You know, these are these are luves. These things are luves. It prevents the wind from blowing into the house. There was no, we didn't have luves. When I move into my house, the floor was wrecked. The floor was signed. The, the, the floor, the downstairs floor was red sand. I didn't have money and I didn't, I didn't have a loan. I didn't have anything. That's what I had. Yeah. But I can't even tell you how much I'm blessed. I I I can't even bother to do that. I would like to. I would love to give you details and you see that when people are laughing at you often it is because you are rather doing the right thing. That right thing you are doing is really going to help you in the future one day. Wow, Come two of you. Sit here. You can sit on my chair. Got 2 chairs here. Be tired. OK, I'm still over there. Is that with Winnie? Got a chair right there. Be tired. I don't want you to have back ache pains. Why floppy now? How many people have been? How many people don't like being laughed at? It's a very wild feeling, isn't it? Yeah. There's a film I once, once what is called Unforgiven. Unforgiven. Yeah. And that whole film started by a young man going to visit a prostitute, and the prostitute laughed at, laughed at him, and he took a knife and threw out in the room. Yeah. And cut the woman's face. Yeah. Cut the face and cut her. Pete fought with her. Yeah. And then the next part of the film is revenge, when the woman and her fellow prostitutes went to hire somebody to kill the guy for what he had done because she they cut her face. She couldn't work again because when the people come, her face was cut. She was no beautiful. She was no more beautiful. Are you understanding what I'm talking about? But is it this, that there are different realities in human life, You know, revenge and this. But but it starts with being laughed at. I tell you, it's one of the things we cringe from. It's like this. You will laugh at me. You will, you will, you will despise me or I will look funny to you. That's why sometimes people don't want to break up relationships. Sometimes they don't like the relationship. That's like if I break up and maybe people will say this or they will even laugh and say, ah, you said that you were prin. Princess. What? We shall see which Princess you are today. It's not even that they even they even need that relationship. But it's like, Charlie, that people will laugh at me. I don't want anybody to laugh at me. So that film is all about being laughed at. You get what I'm saying? Is this Elena? Yeah. Where's Edenham? Huh. OK, I'm getting to know the difference. It's good. We are going to get married soon. Wow, are you listening? Yeah. Nobody likes to be laughed at. The Bible is teaching us the greatness of being laughed at because of Christ. And when look at the person who is laughing at you, the world is laughing at you. Let them laugh. Yeah, when people who are borrowing a lot of money are laughing at those who have not borrowed money, let them laugh. Time will tell. Those of us who say you are, we are preaching basics. Basics. Wow, I don't have revelation. I'm preaching John 316. One day I went to a church and they gave me a short time to preach. That's what I said, let them, let them make fun of you. And I asked the Lord, where shall I preach? Because when I was going there, somebody had told me, somebody who had been there told me that that place be careful. He said, I've preached there before. And I mean, of all the places you preach, people don't come and tell you after that it was not good or it was good. But he told me that in this case they called him after he told him your preaching was not good. And we know that your preaching was not good. And you know, because of the offering that was taken after, it was very low, very one of the lowest. You did not preach well. So as I was going, I was now with this information I need to preach well, so I prayed, I said, Lord, what shall I preach? And then I just felt what I should preach. It's what I love to preach about God sent his Son Jesus to die for me for you. Oh write your name in the book of life forever should be with the Lord. What a blessing will you get poor? So I preached about that and I was afraid of the pastor because I didn't want to, you know, the pastor was sitting on one side and I preached mostly this way, preaching in this direction. And I was watching the clock because they had also told that here we don't like long preaching given the time. I, I was following the time to my altar call and everything. And at the end of the preaching, when I was just about to calm down, I saw the pastor standing there crying, whole face was wet and his wife also crying. I said hey, and I, it was 39 minutes and I'd been given 40 minutes. I was on minute #39 I've finished and said the prayer. So the micropodal rushed this way down. I thought they were going to just end the service because of the way they had spoken about it. No, I start came to stand there crying, talking. This is the original calling. This is what we were called to do. This is what brought us here, was crying. So I was waiting to hear about the after. What are they going to say to me? Yeah, My, my basics. Preaching without revelation. A preaching without revelation. When they came to see me, I was shaking. And the pastor said this is the highest offering that we have ever taken since the church began. He said maybe except one person, maybe it is about the same. But I ever since this church started, yeah. And I was also blessed with the highest offering I've ever received in my life with my basics, without revelation. Your math like basics. Let people laugh at you. They said, let no man deceive you. If anyone think he's wise in this world, let him become a fool. Become a fool. Yeah. So don't. Don't let. So because the church has become worldly, it puts pressure on the rest of us to become worldly. And when you are not becoming worldly, you look foolish. And they are because they are the majority. They laugh at you. Yeah. My book, you know. Loyalty, I mean. It is a particular book which a number of people, a professor at live on. He took my book and threw it on the floor. Yeah, he said this is this a book? He said, look, I know books. That's not a book. No. And that is the book which is like people are flying to Ghana from Brazil, from Venezuela. They are invite, I don't preach. Oh, they invite abbess once the person is holding that book in different languages. It's amazing. That's the book. So you see, sometimes the devil you know one one of the ways of the devil is is confusion. You see, when he tempts you or he's deceiving you, he would deceive you. That what? Is wrong, is right. That is the deception that he gave to Eve. He said what is wrong is right. Then the other way is that he will tell you that what is right is wrong. Uh huh. Then the next one is a series of different ones. What is right is wrong, what is wrong is right, and what is right is wrong. Then you stand and you look, and then that is called confusion. So deception is often associated with confusion. Confusion is a stage which you bring somebody to before he's completely deceived. So when Satan wants to deceive you like he's come to you to deceive you, his first, but when he can't take you outright and fully deceive you, he lets you be confused because confusion is a weapon of darkness. And Satan's deception is not only that, what is wrong is right. Telling you that this bad thing is good, like he told Anami bad also this good thing is bad. Don't touch it, but you should actually touch it. And then a series of them until you don't know what to touch. So let me just stand back because I, I don't know anymore. So that is called confusion. And they are all weapons of darkness. Yeah. So then you tell me that loyalty is not important. Oh, this Loyalty. Loyalty. Whatever. Oh, Ducky Ward Mills. He's an administrator. He hasn't got an anointing. He doesn't have miracles. One guy loved her. You know, one day I saw the devil in my room, and he had the face of a pastor who was laughing at me. I remember the teeth of the pastor. Yeah, it was a huge, like a man, but the face was that pastor who was laughing at me. Yeah. It's because mockery is so painful. And Satan knows that we don't like to be ridiculed, so he will put ridicule on the way. And then before I well, I, you die, they say anything that will make somebody laugh at me, I'll just avoid that thing. Oh, yeah. It's one of the strong weapons of darkness. Why they laugh at you? No. Oh, that guy. That guy is your beloved. Tell you why they get there people, they get 5511. Look at the person that is, oh, that person doesn't have that person has no proposal at all. And I'm explaining to you part of satanic maneuvers is to tell you that what is right is wrong. Not only what is wrong is right, but what is the good thing is wrong. It's not good. It's one of the strong. And then a series of them until you stand back and say, hey, this was wrong, Bite was right, this was right, was wrong. This was right was wrong. This was wrong. It was right to save myself. Let me stand there. That is why confusion is used in war when you want to take your enemy and destroy and confuse him. If you can't deceive him, confuse him. Have you watched this film where Eagle's there? These are all McKenna films I'm telling you about. They teach lessons because the films are plain out playing of human life. In that film, the the, the good guys were in the middle of a castle up in a mountain and they did not know how to get out. So the guy said, let us create confusion so that we can get out of here. So they planted bombs at different places. So a bomb went off here. Now the other soldiers would run there. Another one will come here, another one will come here. Pull, pull, pull. Everybody was that's that's the place. That's the place, that's the place. So then the two of them just walked coolly through the confusion and they went out. So when the devil can create confusion, you don't know what is right, what is wrong, and then at the confusion space that you become paralyzed. Then he passes through and he achieves what he wants to achieve. So confusion is a work of darkness. And one of the things that confuses you is when you touch something that is right, and then just as you are touching what is right, you're going to get that beloved. But he's slightly shorter than you. And then you have got a silly girlfriend, fellow girlfriend. He's what she love and he's just no fine. Short, beloved, Short, beloved, too short. Wow. What is right is wrong and what is right? Yeah, so watch out, watch out as you get along and you are serving the Lord. Expect Satan in all his formats to arrive. How many numbers do you have? Tell your next door neighbor. Let them laugh. He who laughs last, laughs best is a proverb, and it's true. Number six, You are to show the world I'm teaching you how to relate with the world. You are to show the world their coming condemnation by your righteous lifestyle. You are to show the world their coming condemnation by your righteous life style. Amen. OK by faith. So listen. So when the world, when the world sees you, they should realize that they are condemned by how you are. Now notice Hebrews 11 verse 7. By faith Noah the warned of God, of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an act to the saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. Amen. Wow, wow. Noah did what? What did Noah do? What is the point? What is the point, by the way, Why did you wake up so early to pray today? Why did you wake up early this morning to pray? Because. Because what? Because Because what? The grace of God. Too slow to explain your lifestyle, but too slow to explain your lifestyle. Why did you wake up so early this morning to pray? Because there is salvation as a fear of man teaching us a denying and wealthy life. We should live soberly and godly in this present world. I just have this morning. Ah, did you enjoy the morning prayer? Yeah. When you, when you, when you wake up in the morning to pray, you can be prayerful if you, if the day comes to meet. You know, that is it. I'm telling you that, that that is it. You can do everything in the world to be prayerful. You have to sleep early and you have to wake up. Otherwise, Charlie, you need to go for a retreat. When life begins, it's over. You. You say you are praying, but truly, truly. And Yongicho, he said, for 30 years I've been waking up at 3:00 AM Yeah, every game wakes up at 3:00 AM. Sleep early. That's all. Eight o'clock 9:00 So people will look at you and say, are you at all? Now? My wife was asking me something, Say, hey, I'm like something. She was saying sleep 8:00. Nine o'clock you are going to sleep. Yeah, that's the only way. But if you sleep a little later, it's difficult. When you wake up you'll be struggling. So it's just about change of the times more and you have the same number of hours in the day. So why did you wake up so early this morning to pray? Wow, so ask your number so that you've not been waking up early to pray. So why why why why why was that the the answer is because I did not know that the grace. That is why I was not waking up. So what you should have said was I did not know that the grace of God that bringeth salvation had appeared. I didn't know that it had appeared, teaching us to understand. So why were you not waking up to pray in the past had appeared and teaching us that the godliness and Wellness that we should make soberly, righteously and godly in this present world. I was not waking up, but now I know. Wow. Now Noah was warned of God, OK, He was warned of God and he was moved with fear and he built an act by which he condemned the world. You see your righteous acts, by what you do, it condemns the world. No, I didn't say anything to them, but by his behavior they were condemned. So when you live in the right way, it condemns the world. They realize that they are condemned as Noah was dirty and painting his room that he was going to stay in. They were they were laughing at him again. Don't worry if people laugh at you, let them keep laughing. If any man thinks he's wise in this world, let him become a fool. And he may be wise because God has chosen foolish things to condemn the wise. All right, so let's say, my friend, just live in the right way and your righteous life will throw condemnation on the world. He will see that they are condemned, and therefore, therefore they have to change. They have to change because they see you. A lot of witnessing is backed up by your lifestyle. So when you are preaching, you know that is why sometimes you cannot preach. Where you are a well known Sinner, yeah, where you are well known for your evil ways. And now you've changed that people, God will forgive you. That people don't forgive you and they don't forget. And they see you pretty. And they say, hey, please spare us. Hey, is it you today who is saying, saying this? So your lifestyle confirms and people look at you and say, yeah, yeah, what you are doing? I mean, she preaches, he preaches. And then the life is also part of it. Another day we say. Ozopo has it #7 You are to keep yourself unspotted from the world. Unspot. None of the spots of the world must be on you. James 4. James 127 Unspotted, unspotted, no spots, pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless, Amen and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Wow. Now notice this is pure religion to keep yourself without any spots of the world. Wow, what does that mean? It means the world has little spots it can put on you. So when we look at you, do we see the spots of the world in your dressing? So much of it, you know, before girls were not allowed to wear trousers to church. When girls wear trousers, they say, wow, so many things, you know, will not allow you to wear trousers, Jeans, hey, we can see all the caps. And now so much of the world has come into the church that it's almost indistinct. What what is the world? What is the church? Yeah. As long as you just have to draw the line. When we went to Nigeria, they didn't, they didn't allow our, they didn't want our, our ladies to wear jeans or trousers. So they to wear climbing, filming and so many things. All the ladies had to wear skirts. Yeah. They, they, they, they didn't like that. It depends on the culture and the extent to which the world has come into the church and that you don't even know what to say is right or wrong. One day I went somewhere to a conference and then the pastor was speaking and the pastor's wife came to speak with the daughter. And they were from Brazil. Was it Brazil or they were from North Brazil, from South America. And the pastor's wife breasts were like apples. And these apples had mostly come out, almost all just left with the nipples. And that was the abnormal dressing from there. So she she stood there in just a few executive board members. She was there giving her speeches. It was like, it's normal to her. Yeah. He spoke confidently. And the apples were just. The thing is that when you get used to it, you don't even notice anymore that we must take out the spots of worldliness from us. There's so much of the world in the church that you can't even tell when it's a spot or it's not a blanket that has descended on us. Yeah #8 You must recognize and love poor people of this world because God has chosen them. This is how to relate with the world, with the world. The poor of the world must be your favorite part of the world, Amen. The Who? The poor. Because the world has sections rich, poor. The poor of the world must be the group that you love most, Amen. Why? Because God has chosen the poor people of this world to be rich in faith. James 2, verse 5 Hacking, my beloved brethren, has God not chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he has promised to them that love Him, Amen. Hacking, my beloved brethren, has God not chosen the poor? God has chosen poor people. Amen. So let us decide. Are you listening to flow with the poor of the world? Amen #9 You must not develop friendship with the world. Do not be friends with the world. No friendships. Tight Pennsylvania. Is that what they call it? Tight Paris, James chapter 4 and verse #4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, mercy. Know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Wow. Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God. Now you cannot be friends with the world. You cannot be, you cannot have friends in the world. I said, Oh no, you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God. Friendship with what? What's the world? What's the world made of wild people? Wild places? Again, let's start with people. Let's make people first. What is the world? Yes, wild people. So when I say friendship with the world is not talking about the places and it's not talking about the systems. It must be talking about the people. So do not etherealize it. Friendship with the world is banned. As a Christian, you cannot have any friend in the world. You can have only classmates, schoolmates, coursemates, roommates. Sometimes that you should try not to have a roommate who is an unbeliever. You can have brothers who are unbelievers of the world, sisters who are in the world. Amen. Can somebody give me some water? Who is outside? Come. I see some people sleeping outside. OK. Why? 2 Fire this man, this one OK, Come. This one, I didn't see him sleeping. They are always to spray them. Oh, you see a pastor? You are. You are still a pastor. You are spraying him. Kneel down. Somebody should take the gun and shoot him. Suicide. OK. All right. Are you there or you are going home? You cannot. You can only have people that you know, business, acquaintances, whatever, but you cannot have friends. Now, when you see people going to get married, my best man, my maid of honor, you see some girl from somewhere, it shows that you are not well established in Christ. That's why your best man is from somewhere and you're made of honor. It's another person from another world. Yeah. How do you get such people when you these are your main people? Bridesmaids, some different characters, all kinds of characters and people from your own wealth. And you, if you come into Christ, you get defiled. All your friends are in the church. Oh, oh, see, I'm showing you symptoms because we don't like admitting things. So God is showing us symptoms. And when you see that symptom, deal with yourself and say, Charlie, it is true what a man is saying it is true. So I'm going to deal with it. And brother, yeah. But the church before you know the church, there are some way they are spiritual, be some WAVY and they are not nice friends and and they are not you are the one who is some way there's something wrong with you. They are not growing spiritually. That's why you are not blending into the church. They are worldly. That is why you flow. They are the world. They speak of the world. They understand themselves. It's because you are worldly. You understand the world, worldly people. Your friends. Now show me your friend. I will show you your character, your future, your everything about you. So you gather me, you gather, he said. Know ye not that friendship with the world ace enmity with God. It is as soon as you have friends in the world, your world are your friends, Charlie, you are an enemy of God. How many want to be wonderful enemies of God? How many want to be wonderful friends of God? Have we not been singing? I am a friend of God. I am. A friend of God. Friend of God, I. Am a friend of God. You're in the wrong key. I am a friend of God. He calls me friends. That you are my love. You as you give me when I go. Oh, is it true yet? Is it true that you are thinking of me, how you love me? It's my baby, It's my baby. I AM. Please call me when I am a friend of mine. Why I that you are my full love me, that you hear me when I cry, Is it true? Is it true that you always Make Love me and how you love me? It's a man. I am a friend of her I am a friend of. Her, I am a friend of her. Now all those who have the world as friends, when we are singing this song, don't sing some. Don't sing some again. Yeah, please, please don't sing this song. You can sing other songs. How great. How great? Great is thy faithfulness. Great is that? How sweet the name of that. But when we are singing. I am a friend of God. Don't sing some. OK, let's go. Are you affected? Thank God Almighty God, Almighty God, Oh my God, you have gone. And he's chosen me, and he calls me his friends. Wait, I want everybody to monitor your neighbor because whoso God, he's a friend of this world, it's an enemy of God. So I don't want any enemies of God to be singing such a song. So if you know that your neighbor is the friend of the world and therefore it's an enemy of God, don't allow him to sing this song in the church. He should sing how sweet the name of Jesus sounds. He should sing Sowers of blessing. We need that. He shouldn't sing. I am afraid of God. Is it clear? OK, let's go. I'm a friend of God. That's why I like to dance to God songs. Dance for the Lord, I dance for the Lord. I am a friend. I dance for the Lord. Yeah. And that's why I like to sing God songs. Sing for the Lord, I am a friend. Or I sing for the Lord, I sing for. The Lord, I think I I let's do this for the last time. If you are afraid of the one we get to that part, then you lift your hand like this. But if you know that your neighbor is on a friend, just put the handbag. OK, OK, go. 123 go. I am a friend. People are fighting in Frontier. They they lift up their hand and they pull it back. They pull it back, they pull it back. They don't let anybody make you an enemy of God. Tell your neighbor This is the last time I allow you to tell lies in the church. This is the last time I allow you to tell lies in church, so go and change your ways before we sing this song again. You can go back to your seat. This is the last time I will allow lies in my area where I where I'm standing, I'm not allowed this again. How many are going to get rid of all friends? Well, friends of the world. Hey, that is why even if you go and sit on a platform, NPP platform, it means you're an enemy of NBC. Or if you go and sit on an NBC platform, it means you're an enemy of NPP. Because once you show friendship with one side, it means you're an enemy of the other side. So that is why pastors and some of us are unable to even go there, go anywhere, because as soon as you show your face here and show a little friendship with one group, it implies there's nothing like Gray. It's black or white. You are an enemy of here because I saw you with this person. That's it. You know, So once we see you moving with the world, I mean, I don't know what somebody like you will be doing in in a club or in a party of full of wild, wild, wildly boys and wildly girls. Hey, what are you doing there? So my friend brought me here. Which friend do you have? You see, you shouldn't have such a friend. I'm fighting those friends in the spirit realm in Jesus name. We are breaking all those links in Jesus name. Don't say you are overcoming the way when you are maintaining people like that as friends. If you maintain homosexuals as friends, don't be surprised if you become one. You will not know how, you may not know how, because one day they will teach you how it's done. And we have so many problems. I mean, already we are struggling with fornication. We are struggling with last. Are we going to add that one too? I mean, don't you have enough problems in the world? I'm just asking whether you don't have enough problems. Well, that's with Camiso. A small place. It's a wild place. Yeah #10 You must expect afflictions, troubles and problems in this world. Be sober, be vigilant. Because your adversary, the devil, you must have a certain expectations or I'm planning to have a peaceful life. There's nothing like that, you understand. Be sober, be vigilant, because you are vestry the devil, as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world first. Peter 58 and 9. You must expect afflictions, troubles, and problems in this world. Write it that way. You must expect, and this is point #10 in chapter #4 you must expect troubles, problems, and then afflictions in this world. I'm tired. I'm my God. I can't. Yeah. You can't be tired. You get what I'm saying? Have had enough about you can't have enough because we are not finished. That's why we write on your grave. Rest in peace. Once you are here, there's going to be trouble, problem, difficulty, struggles. Wow, these things I have spoken unto you, that you might have peace in the world. You shall have tribulation that be of good cheer. I have overcome the world. Wow, I have overcome the world. In this world you have tribulation that be of good cheer. Once you are here, you're going to have it's going to be a struggle. Somebody will say, you know when I listen to you preaching, it's time like you are really struggling. I mean it's I say, yes, I'm struggling. I mean, the world I'm in the world, I'm a struggler just like you. How many are struggling in the world? God didn't choose angels because angels don't have our our nature. They have different bodies and their celestial bodies are not subject to what we are subject to. The angels have some different kind of experience. You know, there's a bit of confusion about that because we know that polling angels came in, they were attracted to women, and they seem to have sex organs. Yes. Which brings to question the possibility of having sex in heaven. Yeah. And And if there is sex in heaven, maybe those who have had a lot of fornication here may be denied when we get to heaven. Yeah, I mean, there are a number of scriptures that give that picture. You wonder. But the Bible says in heaven they do not marry by these days, they do not have sex. Yeah. And the Bible says at your right hand are pleasures ever more. It's all right. And what are these pleasures? You never know. You get it. So listen. So on this earth, I tell you it it is not easy at the beginning, it is not easy in the middle, it is not easy at the end to be a Christian, expect continuous. You see, if you are, if you are not doing much, there will be not much conflict. But if you start to invade and move ahead, really, truly doing something good for God, the devil does not attack a dead piece of wood. He will attack something that is dangerous to him. So you can expect trouble, trouble. And sometimes when we are preaching to people and teaching them to expect trouble, are you being pessimistic? I mean, what you are saying is negative. No, it's better that we teach you to expect trouble. And then when you go and it's like there's something less or something easier, they say, I wasn't expecting that. I thought it would be anyway. Wow, this guy wasn't even expecting all this. I'm so blessed. Yes, But we, we teach you, you will die. You suffer. Yeah, brace yourself for the West if it's not as bad and gone. But Jesus didn't teach his people everything's going to be all right. It's not that everything's going to be all right. Everything. There's not going to be any problem. If I never had a problem, I wouldn't know that God could solve them. I wouldn't know what faith in this world could do. Yeah, through it all, through it all, I've learned. To trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God through it all. Through it all, I've learned to depend upon His word. I've I've had many tears and sorrows. I've had questions for tomorrow. There were times I didn't know right from wrong. You were confused. But in every situation, God gave blessed consolation. Consolation. That my trials come to make me strong. Is that a Christian song? Sing it again. Had many tears and sorrows. Christian. I've had questions for tomorrow. I thought the Bible answered everything. There were times I didn't know right from her. Wrong you were. Confused. I was telling you about confusion. But in every situation, God gave blessed consolation that much. Relation. Only come to make me strong. I've been to many places and I've seen lots of faces. But there were times when I felt old, alone, oh, but in my lonely hour. Why are you lonely? Too. Those freshers are lonely. Oh Jesus, let me know that I I have his own. Tell me more. I thank God for the mountain moon. I thank God for the. I thank God for the storm and. If. I never had a problem. I wouldn't know that God saw them. I wouldn't know what faith in God could do. Do it all. Do it. All. Trust. I would like to. Trust to trust in God and do it all. This song you are singing is not appropriate for these people because these are young people. They haven't seen the things you are talking about. They haven't seen all these things. I mean, study often. You see you, they haven't seen what you are singing about. How many tears and sorrows Tears? These people. Have had questions for. Tomorrow. There were times people like. You. I didn't know right from wrong. But in every situation God gave blessed consolation. Consolation of all my trials only come to make me strong and I've been to many places. I have seen lots of faces. I've seen a lot of faces. But there were times when I fell so alone have. You got alone, alone. In my lonely hours, lonely hours, all those precious lonely hours, Jesus let me. Be lonely before. And I thank God for the mountains. Of the high mountains. I thank God for the valley, I thank Him for the storms he brought me through and if I never had so many problems. Many problems. I wouldn't know that God could solve them. I wouldn't know what faith in God could do. Now why don't you let your honey it applies to you and see it? Do. It all do it all. I've learned. Learn to demand to the oldies world. Through it all, through it all, through it all, I learn to trust in Jesus. I'd. Like to try learn to. Trust it all through it all. I've. Learned to depend upon his word. Sit down. I mean, you see, I was explaining to you that these people are not as old as Solomon. A Solomon who would say I need consolation. If at your age you need consolation when the evil days have not yet come, then how is it going to be like when the evil days come? This one is not a small place, though it is not a small place for us. You've come. It's like being sent on a on a after missionary to a country. When you get there instead of hair, this place is wild. One day I went, I traveled and I went with some people. And one of the people that I went to, when he got there, he said no, no, no, no, I cannot stay here. He said why? He said that girls are fair and their bottoms are very big. I can't stay in this country. He said take me back to Ghana. Truly when he saw the people said no, no, no, I know myself, I can't stay here. 2 characteristics. What's happened to my microphone? Have you done something special to it? I feel a difference. Hello, he said. Charlie, the girls are fair and their bottoms are very mountainous. It's like as soon as he arrived there, he knew that this is a wild place. I can't stay here. And I and I decided that I would not send him as a missionary to that place. Yeah. And, And many of us, we've landed in the world. It's not easy for us. We've seen so many wild things here. Yeah, so that's why God's messages are mixed sometimes. Consolation, encouragement, telling you what to do. Wisdom, encouragement, encouragement, comfort. Mixture. Consolation, encouragement. Teaching, instruction, command, encouragement, consolation, comfort. Huh. Facing Yeah. Facings, blastings, rebukings, oh mixer. But there might be some consolations. You see, you see how the song is like as if it's a hymn. It's because the words are powerful. That's why when you sing, you must sing for the people to hear. When when people hear what you are singing, your singing ministry will be very powerful. So this is not a hymn. This is a solo song, somebody's song that is made everybody's singing as if he's singing. I'll see the name of Jesus. It's just it's just a song. Yeah. That's why singing for people to understand is more important than singing with a nice wow, wow. But I see you surviving the afflictions, problems. How many realize that your broken heart have sort of been healed since you came to 1st Lap church? How many realize your broken heart have been healed? Raise your hand if your broken heart has been healed. It's not so bad, isn't it? Not so bad. All right. OK, next one. How are we to relate with the world #1 is what #1 is what? You are supposed to become fools in this world so that eventually you will be wise #2 crucified to you. Are you crucified to the world? Say bye bye world. What is the world made of? Wow, places #3 you're supposed to shine as the light to the world. Amen #4 No, that is number 5. I've not given you #4 #4 You must not plan to carry anything out of this world, for we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. You brought nothing into this place, and in all points as you came, so shall you return. Think about when you came out of your mother's room, what were you holding, huh? When you came out of your mother's room, what were you holding? How many were holding some money to spend? Spending money? How many were wearing clothes? How many had shoes on? How many had some gold in your hand? You came with some gold to spend in all points. As you came, you shall return. So this world, as you've come here, don't be impressed. And so I'm going to carry this and this and this and this out of this world. Nay, you can carry nothing out of this world #5 So that verse is First Timothy 6-7. For we brought nothing into the world. And in this setting we can carry out nothing #5 You must live soberly and godly in this world. Amen. Number six, come in condemnation by your righteous lifestyle #7 Check your e-mail if there are any sports, worldly sports, any worldly sports. Any worldly sports #8 Recognise the poor people of this world because God has chosen them to be rich in faith #9 must not develop friendship with the world #10. #11 You don't have 11, isn't it OK #12 So just keep a space for 11:00. I've told you that this point is number 12. Do not be conformed to this world. And be not conformed to this world. Wow. Be not what to this world world be not conformed. So do not be conformed to the world, isn't it? Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good, acceptable and perfect will of God. Now when you read this verse, it's a popular verse, isn't it? Do not be conformed. But you understand a little different now, isn't it? Do not be conformed to this world, which is what the people, the wild people, wild places and wild systems, Amen. So let's take it one by one, don't be conformed another, don't be like. So listen, if you are very similar to the world in everything, there is something wrong with you because you are conformed. You are just like them. Yeah. So what are you? If all students give me my chair, If all student girls are wearing shorts, small small shorts to walk around the campus, boxer shorts, they are walking around the campus, shorter than boxer shorts, hot pants and are walking around the campus. You see you when you see the world and you admire the world, then you want to be like the world. Just don't take pride in being different from the world. So in whatever capacity or level you are, there is a worldly version. One of the chapters talk about the worldly version and the godly version of everything. We are the worldly one of different things. So if you take a a, a person, a student, you see this is how Jews are. Where you see a Jew, you will recognize that this person is a Jew. From the name you say Kohen, I mean certain names, you know that this is a Jew. Ephraim Cohan, this that. No, this person is a Jew. Number 2. When you see their dressing, you see that the person is a Jew. Yeah. They stand out and they, they take they take joy in being different, I'm sure. But we want to be like the world. So what is a what is a student like? He has a boyfriend. You don't have to have a boyfriend. I don't have a boyfriend. They are not virgin. So I'm a virgin. And I don't intend to lose my virginity on a frolic of my own. Yeah, I'm. I'm like this, I go to church. I don't do this. I you don't, everybody is doing this. You don't don't you see, Christianity is to be different from the world. Are you ready to be different as a pastor? Like if, if you are an important person or you are the head of whatever, you are supposed to have a driver. You see, there are some things you are supposed to have. You're supposed to have a driver. They are supposed to wear certain clothes. They are supposed to have certain things entourage Amour bearers supposed to have a a towel hyper bearer, special shoes, oil carrier, hyper carrier, hyper bearer. So what I'm saying is that every version of this world, every level, there is a worldly copy, and you can choose to be different. Yeah. That's why sometimes I dress in a setting where you can choose to pick me as a little boy. Oh, and I as nobody, when I went to pick Ben and I pick him and I pick up, I said which car said this? The car sits here. Yeah. I used a pickup to pick him. I drove him myself, so I don't have a driver. Let's go. So what I'm trying to explain to you, it's not that those things are wrong, but I'm just trying to say that trying to be just like them. It is not a good thing. It will destroy you. So take pride in reality. That's how the world is. I'm I'm different and and everywhere when you go to England, there's a wild place. Nobody goes to church on Sundays. Nobody goes to church on Sundays. They go, they watch soccer, they go to pubs at 5:00, when they close, they all go to some a place, they call it a pub. They go stand there. You would think that there's a crochet or something is happening there. They're all holding a glass, a big glass of beer, lager, big, tall. They stand and they drink it slowly. It's their social life. So when you go there, you have to be different. Yeah. It's not easy to be different if you are in that group. Yeah. Are you listening to me? Yeah, So how to be different? Everybody is wearing hot pants. Yeah, I'm aware. Show your stomach, and that's the new style that has come. Show your breasts. You see them on television, They can. They cannot even sit down except the dress is very short. And you see that it's for what? Condom skirt? Condom skirt and transparent transparent dress. That's a condom, skirt, bodycon. Yeah. When you move to a country, don't be like them. That is, this is what has caused people not to prosper. You see, Ghanaians go to America when they get there, the place everybody has got a loan, everybody has gone to borrow money, everybody lives here and people qualified as doctors. So when you are a doctor, you have to live in this rich house, you have to say so when they qualified then, oh, as a doctor, every doctor lives here, so I also have to live there. Then they went and bought houses, millions, whatever. The company for years and years all their life is trying to pay 3 * 4 times the price they live. And so you see that even after going to a place, it has not benefited them the way it would have benefited them because they, they were conformed and made themselves conformed to this world. Are you listening? Somebody should get a chair for a doctor to come all the way here. Doc, when you go to South Africa, everybody's got a mortgage loan for television. When they go by television, take a loan loan for what are the things you get loans for in South Africa camp. Hello, so basically everything starting with clothes. You get a loan to buy clothes. Yeah, because it's high purchase. You go to a shop, you, they check your, your payslip and they give you what they call buying power. So for instance, they can give you like 10,000 rents like $1000 to spend on your clothing. Like the shops like Edgars. So many people who buy the don't buy cash. If I most clothings, an average South African doesn't buy clothes cash. So you go and you have cuts. You see when you see somebody swallowed, it's fat like this with store cuts, you know, and then you swipe. Then at the end of the month you pay small, so clothes. And then you hardly find somebody driving a car that is paid for. So everyone you pay small, small every month. So it's like no one owns, I mean, you don't own the car, so. And then As for a house, I mean, it's a standard 20 years. Yeah. Furniture. Furniture, television, sound system. So if you go to. Kettons. How about Kettons? I mean, the the lifestyle, the system, the system in South Africa is, I mean higher purchase. You buy everything on credit. Yeah. So it takes a higher wisdom to live, I mean to be able not to live like that. So I mean you, you have to deliberately, because the pressure you feel, you know, when, when you are talking about the world, you feel the pressure to do the same things. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's real. What do you what you are saying when you said, you know, wild people, wild place and wild system? I was just thinking about the system that we have in South Africa. So if like, like what you just said now that some people go into a country and they want to be like the country. So definitely it will run you down and you will not. So I'm, I'm glad that you know, I'm associated with you. So wow. Because I remember when I was in school, I mean, I got, I got born again in school and in Lighthouse in South Africa. And I heard you saying that you shouldn't borrow. And it was one of the decisions that I took that I will not borrow anything. I mean, anything today I have everything that people borrow. And and he decided not to be conformed to his wealth in South Africa. Yeah. And you see, you may not know that South Africa is ruled by it's it's evil spirit that all over. Where we'll come to the Princess. Yeah. I'm going to talk about the Princess of the world. Yeah. As soon as you enter that world, the wild people, you have wild people in South Africa, very wild. What type of people are there? I mean. Are they fair? I mean, if, if, if you say Ghana, you have fair, I mean you are tempted by the ladies in Ghana then come to South Africa because the dresses that you are talking about, it's just a normal you know what, when when you say that the people came, you know, presenting a speech with breast apples after some after apples after some time, we just get used to it. I mean, you are used to people coming to church just wearing. Anyhow, we talk about it, but it's like the world really. So in fact, as we are preaching this message, I said, well, this will be a very good series for me to go and preach it for, you know, I mean, I will just say for a month or two just to preach how to overcome the world is a very good is a very good. You have wild, You have wild girls. Very wild. Why? Why do you say they are very wild? I mean from #1 from their dressing, the way they dress is very, very suggestive. Do they have big bottoms? There was OK, There was, there was a Museum in London, a Museum in London, yes, where they kept a certain woman, you know, the the remains of a certain woman from South Africa. OK. And then the distinct thing about that woman is she's called, I think, Mata Bartman also. And the distinct thing about that woman that she had. Very big. Buttons so now you can imagine the descendants of that woman. So you have all the variations. The caves if you want to see the are. They do. They have sex. A lot of sex. A lot of sex in South. More than Ghana. Oh, I mean, I always when I came to Ghana, I thought, I mean Ghanaians were very holy. So when when I hear them talking about having sex, I said wow, I thought we were very holy. In South Africa. It's the order of the day. When you are still young, we are having sex. I mean very young, start very early. So you see teenage pregnancies, you see HIV rampant in the country. I mean is. Do they immunize them against pregnancy? Yes. So it's very common to see young girls at the clinic queuing for injection, you know, against pregnancy and even your parents will advise you, you know, because they can't control, let's say your lifestyle whether you fornicate or not. So one of the common advices they give you is, you know, go and you know, humanize yourself against. Against what? Pregnancy, I mean, I mean against you are going to what you call it the contraceptives. Yes, injection, injection, injection or you taking pills. When I was young, I've I've I've known, I mean almost every girl takes a pill in school, in high school, you see that every girl takes a pill or they go, you know, to the clinic for an injection. It's it's a normal life. So if you say you are falling in difficulty in Ghana and you are going out of missionary to South Africa, you, you better stay here and go to Ketekrachi. That's what I'm saying, that there are different places. Yeah, there are different lifestyles in the different places. Yeah, So I've been to many places. I've seen so many faces, isn't it? I've been to many places. The world. And I've seen lots of faces. This world. But there were times when I felt all alone. Because I was in the injection, they were in the world. But in my lonely hour. Oh, because I was. Precious lonely hours. I was alone. Jesus let me know that I am His. Own how many want to belong to Jesus, even if you are all alone. Thank you. OK brother. Do you have wild? So that's South Africa? Yes, wild place. Wild place. Systems the. System is very wild. System of what? I mean this the borrowing. Borrowing. Borrowing, I mean. Higher purchase, higher purchase of clothes, clothes. So these clothes you are wearing you've not borrowed. No, no, no. I have everything. Everything that they borrow, I have. I mean everything and paid for. Because he refused to be conformed. So. I will not be conformed. I will not be. Do what they are doing. I just will not do it. And the same thing with our church. Say borrow, borrow. I said no, I don't want to borrow. I will not borrow. I've refused it. I've come under pressure to borrow. Oh, yeah, I've come under pressure to borrow. Borrow here. Borrow said. No. Borrow said we don't have. That's it. We wait. When we have, we pay. We don't have. We stop. That's all. And it makes you rich. Very wild places. What is the world Wild? Places wild. Places wild system. Yeah, and then do people marry much in South Africa? They don't marry, in fact. Venezuelan system, you see the way of life. We we have what we call fat and set. What? Fat and set, which means which means take. You know, it's like you take and sit. You just take the person from a girl from the street, let her sit in your house. So fat and set it's like. Fat means what? Fat take. What language is that? Afrikaans. So fat and set. Set means sit. So it's like most people have fat and sad so they behave like married people. But most people are not married. So they have children, everything, but they are not married. Take and set. Yeah. Fat and set so so so they behave just like married. People. So when we first went to South Africa to start a church, we saw all of them. They were all fat and set people and they were not marrying. So when they came into the church then they started to marry because one time we had PFI like all the pastors were there few Ghanaians and S Africans only the Ghanaians were married because our system here there's more marriage there. No marry thickens and what? Faten said. Ask your nearest that you want to be taken to sit in the house. Thank you, brother. Nana Yao. Come tell me England. Is it a wild place? Yes, Bishop, it's a wild place. Why is it wild? I think the first time I got to England 2001 I met a lady who told me she wanted to have a child and she needed a guy. So basically. So she was she was, she didn't want to just have a child with anyone. She wanted someone that she felt was intelligent so that when the child grows, she can say that this is your dad. So she spoke to my friend and then my friend came to talk to me and then she came to see me that if if I want it that way, then I could have the child with her and then she would also let me have papers there. As you let you have papers. Well, because, yeah, if you have the child there, it means that you have a right to stay there because of the child. So you did it and you had the papers. No, so that was. That was one of the systems that I saw there. And then another thing was when I was in Ghana, I think these days it's changed a bit, but formally you hardly see the breast of a lady. But there is a common sight. I mean, the other day I was with a friend and I was telling him we went by a poster. They were doing avian water post Island. It was a naked lady and we went by we we didn't feel anything. And I was saying that we have actually backslided because because normally in Ghana we would have felt that this is strange, but we didn't see it to be strange. Wow, do. They have a lot of sex in in England. Yeah, I think you just choose and pick when we're awake. Now. I joined with a group of guys and we're all in the same office and I think we can't go. When we were started, they didn't know I was a Christian, so we can't. They have what they call pop crawl, so they draw a map of different pops and then they share the map. So basically there's a time. So we start from say 77 to 7:15 will be in this pub, then 7:15 to 7:30 we go to the next. So in case you come late, you know where to find them. And then after the pub crawl, they end up in one person's house. And then both girls and boys sleep. And then the next day, the Monday, when we come to the office, they'll be discussing among themselves what happened and fool us with fool, and then everything else so. When you just share randomly. Yeah, I mean, because everybody's drunk, so. Wild places, you see that? Wilder places, yeah, Pop crawl and then you go and end up in one place. Then we are all drunk. Then we share ourselves. Yeah. Wow, is it easy to prosper there? Not at all. I mean, if you want to prosper, I think it's the last place I will advise you to come to. Really. Yeah, that's most, most of my friends. I was working in the mining company and I was being paid in dollars before I left. Most of my friends are far richer than I am now, even though they see me to be more prosperous than they are. But in terms of hard cash, I think they are far better because you get the money but the money is taken away in a very nice way. So system in a very nice way. So at the end they, you, you know you've earned a lot of money, but then by the time you finish paying everything, all the money is gone again. And then you wonder what is happening. And you, you tell yourself, OK, next month is going to be OK. And then next month comes, the same money comes in and then everything is direct debit. So everybody goes to take gas, goes to take electric, water insurance, cancer tax. By the time everybody takes what they have to take, you realize that you've got no money and then you go to the next month the system. So you are forced to either go into credit card and things like that. And that's, that's the biggest danger because once you go into the credit card, I think in, in 2004 when you came, you said we shouldn't do mortgage, we shouldn't do credit card, all those things when you said it, we had. But I had a friend who told me that in order to fit into the system and then in order to also go forward, you need to have a credit card and then you also need to have a mortgage and all that. Because sometimes when you want to do something like you go to the bank or you apply for a mobile phone contract or any of those things and they see that you have a credit card or you have a mortgage, so you're a home owner, it gives you high marks. So the first thing we did was went for credit card. And then he gets very nice terms like interest free for two years. But then there's a small print somewhere which says that if for whatever reason you are not able to make a payment or either you do a withdrawal, then that interest fee is cancelled, which is not something they say to you. So if for for whatever reason either that month you are unable to make the full payment or you happen to make a withdrawal or use it in a way that they did not expect you, then the interest free is cancelled. Then you start paying and the interest rate is very high. So you now start struggling to make the payment. Yes. So went for the credit card and then the same friend advised that we should go for the mortgage. When your pastor had told you something else. He was in the church, Miguel, he was. And then what happened? Yeah. So with the mortgage, the first time we went, you know, when you do the calculation, everything looks nice on paper because you look at the price of the house. I think at that time they were even doing 100% mortgage. So they give you 100% of the value of the house and I think my friend even got one that they did, I think 120. They give you value of the house and then they give you extra money to buy things or make some repairs in the house. So we we went into it, he got a few houses, but I went for two and based on the calculation everything was OK. And then all you do is just get people to live in. So when we started, I think we were getting most of these people who were being housed by the council, so they get their rent paid by the council direct, so housing benefits. So it was easy because the money is paid every month direct to you. Then I think along the way the government changed the system and they said they wanted the people to learn how to pay bills on their own. So instead of giving the money to you, they give the money to them and then ask them. They give the money to them and then ask them to come and pay you. So that was the beginning of my troubles because the first guy was not paying and then after about 3 months or so I went and I said OK, you need to move out. Then he called police. So it was a whole big issue. Tried to get him out, moved him out. I think for about 6 months I was not getting any rent. I was staying somewhere and I was paying the mortgage for the house. So basically I was having to pay two different rent. And then along the way, one day I was there and then I was told he had moved out. I got a new person in. He also started messing up. I had to get him out. Then I got a lady who came, she was pregnant and had about five children at that time. So the, the, the, the council guaranteed to pay the rent because she was homeless and with the children. So as soon as she moved in, she paid one month deposit and then that was it. She didn't pay anything. And she was the worst offender because I think for about a year I was not getting anything. So I remember any time I go there, I want to suck her. She's locked the door. I had a spare key. But once she puts her key in, I can't go in. So there was one day I went there early in the morning. And when I went, she had taken her kids to school, but she had a friend in the room. So I knocked the door and the friend opened and then I put my leg in and I said, oh, I, I want to see her instead of she's gone out. I said, yeah, I'll wait for her. So I was there when she came. As soon as she saw me, he said, ah, I'm going to call the police and say you are harassing me. So I was there when she called the police and then the police came. So I explained to them. So I spent the whole day there because I said I won't go out of the house. So the police called. They called the Citizens Advisory Bureau where they get people like lawyers to advise them. So when they listen to the case, they'll come back to me. They'll speak to her. Then they finally they said, OK, I think my case is good. So she has to move but then because of her state they will beg if I can allow her to stay there. I said no no no no I can't. So I think finally I allowed her to stay for the weekend and then had to move her out and then we went for camp. I was at camp when I got a call from the police. She had broken through the back door with the boyfriend and they had opened the tap Abscess and flooded the whole house. So it was the next door neighbor who saw water coming out of the house. So I had to go and then refit the whole place. So I mean, I just went down. So your deaths became more. Yeah. So I think just around that time the guy in the other house also just disappeared at the window. So basically I couldn't pay for the 2, so I had to get them to repossess the first one. So I I called them, they came in, took over, sold it, and then they sold it for less than half the price. So basically the other half was supposed to be my debt to pay. So I had to go to court, make arrangements to pay every reduced amount. So no, I think my friends, I always tell them they are far richer than I have. I went to visit one of my classmates in Taqwa and he's got two big self-contained houses, pickups, everything, bought cash. And I said Oh yeah. And I said he's richer, but he was coming. So I don't know, no visual. I think the first thing is when you spoke about the Father, even in the church, we have worldly people in the church. I think that's one of the problems I had, because I don't have friends in the church, didn't do it. But because I was close to this guy, he was the one who showed me how to do everything and even along during the time we applied for all this, we were not really qualified, but he had ways of jumping all the loopholes. So we jumped off and then got it. So it's like the the friend you have will always lead you somewhere because those other friends of us in the church at that time who were not close to him, they didn't have, they don't have mortgage, they just rent and I think they are better off. I've been in debt if it was not for the mortgage. I think the credit card I paid, I paid that off, but then the the mortgage was the biggest blow because the amount I couldn't, couldn't pay. Therefore, how many years? 12 years now. You are a confirmer of. I think along the way you professor, that everybody at this camp would not be a confirm at all. I've taken that professor. But yeah, I mean, basically what, what what you're saying is true that the mortgage and loans, they, they, they look good at that time, but it's, it's not the best. Wow. So you have to be careful of the system. But you see, when we talk about being conformed, when you talk about being conformed, it's like the pressure is to be like what everybody does. You're also doing something. So that's not Even so much of this is a good thing, but everybody does. So you also should do. And it's also showing us wealthy friends in the church. Thank you brother. OK, breakfast is here so that we are on number what? 12, huh? Without 11? Do not be conformed to this world. Wow. OK, we'll close and then continue because #13 is a very important breakfast is for how long? One hour, Exactly 1 hour we start. If you come late, you'll be shot at the door with a gun. So Amory, get your ammunition ready. All those who want to feel cold during the next session, you'll receive it. Thank you Jesus.