11. Prepare The Way Of The Lord By Bearing Fruits, Dying and Suffering

Welcome to track #11 of Mission South Africa. So the next point, fruits, We must bear fruits. Amen. We must bear fruits. Fruits bring forth, therefore fruits. Matthew verse 3. That's how to prepare for the Lord. You preach about bearing fruits, and we must bear fruits in the Lord, Amen. Now, what does it mean to bear fruits? It means to bring forth whatever has been placed in you. There must be some result of it, Amen. There must be 1 some kind of result of the plenty books, preaching, investment, what has been placed in you. There must be something coming forth. That's what John the Baptist preached, praying for fruits, Amen. According worthy of of of the of the things that have been placed in you. Amen. OK, Bring forth fruits. What has been given to you the kind of country you have in terms of the stability of the country. And I don't think anybody can easily do a coup here. Who will you overthrow? I'm not I don't know who you would over. Where would you overthrow it from? Do you understand? I don't think anybody can do that because in Ghana, where we used to have coups, there was only 1 radio station, the whole country and one TV station. So when you get the TV station, you have the country and the airport, one small airport, one TV, one radio. So the coup was in three places, the TV station and the radios. They do it together. Then the airport, you get the airport and then Bermer Camp where the soldiers are. If you get these three places, you are in charge of the country. So it was easy to do coups. Now we have so many radio stations, so if you broadcast from one that you have taken over the country, another one will say you have not taken over the country, but if you get the radio station, you just announce the ranks. President Rollins, that's what he did. The ranks have taken over the country and that's it. Early in the morning they just play some music, the military music, ladies and gentlemen. This is Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings. And then they will announce all members of Parliament to report to the nearest police station. Yeah, the following should report to Neema police station to mention your name. 1234. The following under House of Red Parliament has been dissolved. The Constitution of the Second Republic has been suspended. The country is being ruled by decree. Everything is suspended, Judiciary, whatever constitution is suspended, and the A. Provisional National Defence Council has been established. Just take over the country. Easy. But if you look at your country now and even the way Ghana is now, it's not that easy to do a coup. You have been given a lot. And to whom much is given, much is expected. And so that's what John the Baptist was saying, bring forth fruits, fruits that correspond to what has been given to you. Meet for repentance. Fruit that show that you've changed. Yeah. Now one of the things that I'm going to expect from you S Africans is not even because you are needed in other countries, but I want to send S Africans to other countries so that the change will be real. What do you think? Is it a good idea? Yeah. That you. You can do it. I see no reason why I shouldn't have a South African in Zambia as a pastor starting a church and stand there to build a church in Zambia. I don't see why not. I can't understand why not. Or in Malawi, I don't understand why you cannot be in Malawi. Why should somebody come from West Africa to Malawi and you cannot go from just here to? Cross a bus will take you there. No visa. No visa required. I don't see why not Caleb community in Cape Town. Why? Why do you not be? Why should you not be in Johannesburg, also starting churches and elsewhere? Why do you only think of yourselves? Why do you think of yourselves? People are calling for you to be fired. There must be water. The military guys are not here. I don't know where they are. The bullets are now coming. There shall be water. Hey, why would you only think of yourselves? No, you are going to bring forth through. That show that you've changed somebody one day. Tell me, Bishop, you are the only one who can change South Africans. What you have done, you are doing. One test, 1 test. Hey, somebody who said myself Bishop, I saw a South African in Tameli with a church. South Africa? Is this Tamale? That is, this is a missionary in Tamale. I said wow, a South Africa, the missionary in Guinea? No, no, what? No Shakalaka. What is Shakalaka? No pause vos vos. There's no vos in Tamali. There's no chakalaka in Tamali. No pap in Tamali. We have Hauza. Coco and tho zafi, Tho zafi no biltong. I see why not. Somebody is going to thank me and say Bishop you have changed our lives home. We are, we are, we are now international. We are now capable of anything. Yeah, we we realise that we have a lot to give. You have, you have really helped us. You have really helped us. We are no more narrow minded with spiritual glaucoma and myopic with spiritual short sightedness. You have changed us. We are now. We like all nations we have. We have gone to all nations. Because you told us, yes, we have. We have really changed. So we are going to bring forth fruits wealthy corresponding for responding to the repentance of the change. Yeah. And we are going to have. Weddings. Also weddings. Yeah. Because one of the things of South Africa is not marrying. Isn't it only sex without marriage? I mean a. Virgin is a rare commodity in South Africa. A virgin. Check whether your neighbor is a virgin. Are you a virgin? You are looking at this, sister. You are. You are squeezing your face when I say a virgin. Yes. This one. This year. No, no, no. This one. Yeah. Now when I say that a virgin, When I say that a virgin is a rare commodity. Fire, Fire. Fire. Fire, fire. Listen to. Show that you have repented your change. That is weddings and marriages. Yeah, that is what we have to have more of it. Young people marrying and you have the sex inside the marriage. And learn how to have Christian sex born again sex, Holy Ghost sex, glory sex anointed sex Hey Jesus with power steering. Yeah, some of you have not enjoyed born again sex, Christian sex, anointed sex, spiritual sex, sex was listening to messages. Yeah, yeah, while praying in tongues. One day, one Sunday. School child in church. Her parents are in the church. She came to see the She came to see the Sunday school teacher. And I'm talking about anointed spiritual version of everything that God has given us. So she came to see the Sunday school teacher. And she asked the Sunday school teacher a question. Do you want to know the question? She. Said Sir pastor, does hat have legs? Does hat half legs, The teacher said. What does? Hat have legs? Is that the question? Does hat have legs? Yeah. And the the pastor did not understand the the Sunday school teacher child, she said. I don't understand half the hat half have had have legs and the and the and the father the the pastor said I I what what what is what are you saying because. At home I always. Hear, listen, if you if you shout, I'll not, I'll not read the story. I always hear Daddy. Say, sweetheart, lift your legs. So he wants to know that hearts sweethearts half legs. He doesn't understand it. No, listen, this is it happened in the church. It came to church to ask in one of the branches. That's half, half legs. Sweetheart, lift your legs. Sweetheart, lift your legs anointed. Hey, you see some of you, you only know sex as a bad thing. When I wrote my book on model marriage, people with bad minds, when they look at they say wow. But you see, because I wrote it out of a certain, a certain mind that nothing, nothing was bad about something. Recently I told one sister, I said do what you used to do in the world. She said, well, how can I do that? I cannot, I cannot do that. I have to give something different. And the different thing that the the the thing that you used to do in the world is nothing strange, but what we teach you to do. I only know that that is an evil thing. Yeah, yeah. You only know as an evil thing. So I met, I've been meeting people. You were wild in the world having sex from the age of 11/12/13. But when you marry your child, if your child is in this, you know, in Ghana, we have a lot of people staying in the same room. There's a kitchen between just you just hear voices. There's a veil, but there's no space. There's hearts up legs. Sunday school. Amen. So many of you are going to marry one day. I met with a group of South Africa, all of them young people. I asked for a virgin. There was no virgin. In fact, there was one virgin. There was one virgin. And the next day when I came and asked of it, she was no more a virgin. All the virgins were gone. That's why I fired that girl at the back there who made her face. Where is she? Are you happy? You're excited? Very OK. Amen. So marriage, you know, if you see cows having sex, they will do it in front of you because they have no evil mind like you and I. They don't. They never think twice about doing it. They can do it anywhere, just like you can wee wee anywhere. The the, the mind is not polluted. Many of our thoughts and our ideas about these things are because of sin. It's sin that makes you cover. The first covering started with sin. As soon as Adam sent, the first response is to cover. So every time you see somebody who is secretive always says it's private, it's personal and I don't want to talk about this, I don't. It doesn't say much. It's usually an evil thing that makes you quiet. Or even sit. At the back when you could sit in the front. Yeah. Like, it's not like if you have the back, you are evil, but like, you could be. Yeah. But you choose the back. It's like it's your first option. Even if the room is empty. You sit, you choose the back. It's different from like, you have to be there, or it's like there's no space, but you always want to be further away. Why so? Covering up and the inability to even talk about sex it's true it's from sin because animals with. Have you can learn a lot from animals they have. No sin. They can do it in front of There's nothing and we cannot even talk about it. Yeah, it's a sign of corruption. Yeah. So when I took my my my book to a church in a certain country, the when they look at, they say no, no, no, no, we cannot have this book in this church. Take it away. And later on, they called for the book. You get it. So we need to recognise when something is because of sin, that it's not, it's actually an evil thing. Your quietness, you know, your refusal to even come to your pastor to ask him questions, just normal life. What we're experiencing is it's been experienced, given by the pastor, but you are quietly covering up your life in secrecy. That is because of sin. God, Adam and Eve, they were flowing with God or every day they flowed with God. When they sin or they immediately sense they need not to, not to reveal which. Nobody has said those places are evil. Yeah. No, nobody has said those places are private or there's something wrong with it. You see. So when you look at your life, you realize that the more secretive you are, the more prone to evil you are. True, the more quiet you are and the less open you are, the more prone to evil you are. If you if you open up and you feel free realizing at all, it's the same everywhere. Just feel relaxed. You start to become cured of many things. Like if you go to the. Doctor and they have to examine some places. If you don't take off the show, what is under your shirt, he cannot see it and and, and and and know what it is. Yeah, because it can be many things. One day I was in I was on the water man Professor as of either a lady or a man or somebody had some some spots all over. So they he called and asked what is this? We were all mentioning this disease, that disease, that disease, because when we look at it, we were looking at the distribution because how it's shaped, it has spots where it is and the time. And the way it looks, we can come up with a diagnosis. So we mentioned so many things and he said it's mosquito bite. And then we sat down. Simple mosquito bite. We are mentioning so many things, so you've got to see to know. So find out from your neighbor. Are you there? You see, the child who asked the question does half, half legs is part of innocence, purity. It happened in one of our branches whose name starts with AK. Yeah, child came up to a few weeks ago. That's heart half legs. Because this is what Daddy always we all hear Daddy say every day, he says. I don't know. That's a heart, half legs. He don't say child. Sweet child And he asks another question, but I will not tell you that that question. You want to know that one too. These days I don't say everything. Sit down. Now Fruits 10 to John chapter 12. Verse 20 There were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast, and the same came therefore too Philip, which was of Bethaida, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. Verse 22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again Philip and Andrew tell Jesus. And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come. John 1223 The hour has come that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily I say to you, except the corn of wheat falling to the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruits. Amen. He that loveth his life shall lose it. He that hatheth his life in this world shall keep it unto eternal life. If any man serve me, let him follow me. Where I am there shall also my servant be. If any man serve me, him will my father honour. Amen. So I'm talking about something different now I'm talking about dying. Look at look at verse 24. But if it die or if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. That's it. You see, John the Baptist came and said, let us, John the Baptist came preparing the way for the Lord. And the way he prepared the way for the Lord was to tell the people to bring forth fruits, encourage fruit bearing. So I'm encouraging fruit bearing now and, and I'm encouraging you to bear fruit. As I encourage you to bear fruit and you bear fruit, you will be ready for the Lord. So the Lord is coming with his harvesting knife. So when it comes and you are not, you don't have any fruits, you'll be kissed. Remember what happened to the fig tree? When the Lord came to the fig tree and needed some fruit, there was no fruits. He cursed him. So sometimes you know you can be cursed because you don't have fruits, and you can die because you don't have fruits. How many want to die because you don't have fruits? All right, how many want to live? So now listen carefully. He says if it dies, it will bring forth fruits. This is the reason why some of our pastors and churches have not yet are not yet bearing fruit to a certain level is because it hasn't died. Some people take a long time to die, like for instance, to kill a pig, it takes a long time and it's really complex to kill a pig because it has no neck. You can't know where the neck is. It's very slippery. The whole pig is like 1 slippery plastic, big plastic bag you see, and there's nowhere particular to cut, you get it? So they usually shoot them in. Very difficult. So Christians are supposed to die like lambs, not like pigs. Jesus died as a lamb. There's not much struggle with the lamb dying, but some of us are like pigs. It's taking a long time for things to die in us. Now if you don't deny yourself and let certain things die in you, you cannot bear fruit because Jesus explained that unless the seed falls into the ground and, and what dies? It abides alone or it has no fruits around it. So anybody who bears fruit has been through a process of dying. OK, so if I am bearing fruit, I must have been through a process of dying. I don't know what the process is personally, but I must have been dying in certain ways. Certain things must have been dying in me over the years, otherwise I wouldn't be able to bear fruit. OK. And some of us, the reason why we like what I'm talking about, I'm trying to kill certain South African tendencies. They want, I want them to die. So if they die, you will bear fruit. So if you die from the glaucoma, the narrow mindedness, you will bear fruit. And if you if you die from the myopia, you barefoot, fine, white. OK, Yeah. So certain things have to die. If you can die out of just having sex as a young South African, don't get angry when I say what I'm saying. Don't get angry at all. Rather just say look this what you are saying is true. I one of our churches in England, I preached there and I mentioned certain things I said in South African music. There were some S Africans. They got angry and left the church. Yeah. If, if, if, if, if you. When you see what I'm saying, is it true or it's not true? I mean, are you not sexually, hypersexually super super active? It's a norm. It's common. It's true, Bishop. It's an it's the everyday living. It's how it is, yeah. Lifestyle. High school kids are pregnant from the from grade 8 or from one yeah, they get pregnant. Even primary school, they get pregnant. 90,000 pupils pregnant last year alone. 90,000 pupils. High school pupils. There's a 10 year old my street. There's a 10 year old who became pregnant. By the time she was 13, she had a second child. The campsite, 45 kilometers from here, that's where I'm from, 45 kilometers from here, yes, just three kids now from the age of 10. These are S Africans. But those here, those here are not saying, they are not saying much. You said it in UK at the family service that in England young people use contraceptives and everybody around me was like no, I was like but what is wrong? Like to me I was used to it. What is wrong with that? Are used to it At what age? No, I mean, I was. Not leaving. No, I was not shocked. I was in the UK when you said it. I was not shocked. And everybody else was shocked. Like, yeah, it's normal people when they start the when they start the menstruation, they they put them on contraceptives. The what? The parents put them on contraceptives when they start menstruation. Yes, yes, here. Wow. Who is that? What did she say, Corolla? I didn't. I didn't say that. I mean, I was not on that. But normally you used this morning after pills, you used them as a very young age. You started using as a young age. How old are you when you are using it? 15 I think 15. So if you marry and you you don't do well, so you are 15 years old, you are using contraceptives 15 years old, then when you marry and you start behaving like a dead body. That you are tired, that you are on retirement, early retirement. Yeah. So what you see when I'm preaching, some of you look at me in a very I feel even bad. I feel bad. Some people are making me feel bad in the church. I want one person who was started of contraception early. Oh, no, Oh no. So that you guys do that. Let let her come. Come. Why is she come? She doesn't want to come. If she doesn't want to come, it's OK. You can. You can come. Come, my dear. You'll be blessed. Yeah. What? What contraception were you using? I was given try for self to help me with my menstrual cycles because I started having my periods when I was 10 years and I was due instant at 5:00. I had my first child when I was 20. I was a TUT but the whole idea was the traversal was supposed to control my menstruation because I would go on pillars for 14 days. Yes. No, that's not what I mean. I mean, taking contraception to prevent pregnancy. Yeah. Who is the one who brought her? Who brought her out? Who is the one who, who? Who are those? Who are those who are signalling? Fire, Fire them. Lift up your hand. I just want one volunteer. It's not, it's not my fault this time one just one person to volunteer. Nobody is volunteering here. Keep your story. It's private. Keep your private story. Wow, is she volunteering? Come, come, my dear. Come. Huh. Doesn't want to keep it to yourself. You don't. Want to keep it to yourself? Uh huh. I started contraceptively when I was 13. My granny made. Me. Go to the clinic. Your grandmother made you go to the clinic? Yeah. She forced me to go. So you started using it? What? Did you take it every day or what? No, every month there was an injection. Wow from 13. Wow. Did it prevent the pregnancy? Yes, it is. Wow. See, thirteen years old, she started taking progression. So when I say you are angry with me, who are those who are angry with me? Yeah, sit down. Hey, So what are we talking about that has brought us all these things? Dying, Dying. So dying means that it's when you are dead, it's over. You don't talk again, you don't do whatever you were doing before it's over. So unless you die, said if it die, it brings forth fruits. So we must die to the South African. Like that's why I didn't allow anybody. People wanted to come from Kenya from that, he said. Don't come. It has nothing to do with you. You will dilute the responsibility. Yeah, yeah. So yes, so. This is an in house matter. It's our own South African concerns. Myopia, glaucoma, sex. Early sex throughout your life instead of marriage. Instead of marriage. Yeah, and you South African girls who have full experience and trained with multiple partners, you must be the best wives. But, but unfortunately a couple of South African wives that I've interviewed are on early retirement. Shall I point out some of them here? Shall I point out some of them here? It's it's personal. I don't want to say. Are we going to end those things? Die. Those of you who are phlegmatic in ministry, let it die. Rise up with some energy, those. Who are easily discouraged. So let it, let the discouragement and depression and all these type of moodiness and sadness and what? Let it die. If it doesn't die, it will not do well. You see, there must be a dying. There must be a dying. Yeah, those of you I don't like reading it must die if this. And when somebody is dead, he will not be here anymore. That's what it means. If somebody is dead, he is not. Around. So if that thing dies, it's not. Around. That problem is not around anymore. It ceases to exist and we must fight for certain things. Look, you have to accept it. We didn't come into this world perfect. We came in perfect with a lot of funny things and. Often when we come to Christ, instead of allowing the things to die, we do not allow the things to die. We keep them as pets. You tie the mouth of the snake and say stay here with me instead of cutting off the head of the snake so that the head is here and the body is. Here some of you have very bad attitudes, bad faces. Yeah, the face, the bad face must go. You can't have a bad attitude. I remember one sister who came to work in the office. What's the 1st? And I said, your face is not good. Your face is is is always you look to stand hungry, unhappy. I said change the face and I can tell you that she's really changed the face over the years. The face has changed. Literally. Huh. Yes, the face was so bad that that at a certain time she used to be in the branch and the pastor was affected by her face when he was preaching. Yes. Mr. was affected. He even requested. That she should be transferred to another brand. When he sees the face, he's intimidated and some of you, this is the face you have for your home. You smile and chat, Hello, I see you. But when you go home, you are so. Different at home. So. Different remove your hair you change. You just put it down and then you change. Oh. I mean, you know, the ladies around you, you should be careful. You don't have to touch their head by the stable, but a lot of the hairs it's not, it's just balancing on the head. If you touch it like this, you see that it will come up. So be. Careful that you don't greet any sister. In the sliding wheel over the head before you realize she's. Bald she will. Become as she is in the house. True or not? True. You take off the tent and this place, it changes. The lift goes downstairs. Oh, there's nothing on your head. Your mouth is smelling. Everything is different. They are breaking the hearts and their expectation. You have to change. You have to change your behaviour, your presentation, you. Can't say only be nice because the Bishop is there, a pastor is there, you are in church and people are seeing you when nobody is. Seeing you and your. Husband, the one who put a ring on your finger, among all the boys who slept with you, the one who put a ring on your finger and married you, he is the one that you have to give the best taste. People slept with you. They didn't marry you. But as soon as they slept with you, they never even WhatsApp you again or texted you again or called you and they don't want to see you again. And they they, they said to themselves you are a disappointment. After testing you and partaking of you, they change their mind. They say you know. Fine. And somebody came along, he didn't test you or partake and he married you and put a ring on your finger and look at the face that you are giving to this honourable man, this, this Prince, this king of kings and lots of, lots of your house. Let it die. Sit down. Those of you who think that marriage does not affect your spiritual output. It does, because marriage and the way you behave at home is the real you. What we are seeing here is the pretended you. You are pretending you are. If you are, everything about you is boosted, upgraded. Your face is improved, your smile is improved, your breasts are pushed outwards. Some of you, your bottoms have been expanded. Why? Nothing is real. But at home it is real. So that is where we actually get the real marks that we've changed. It's true. All artificialness is set aside in the house. The reality comes out, yes, that's why your wife should have been here to hear what I'm saying. Are you here? Are your wife here? They are here. Are you glad that they are here? Sit down please. I'm explaining to you that listen, and this not a marriage seminar, has nothing to do with marriage. I'm talking about change of a person. The change of a person is not. How you look? Nice in church even when you are full of. Evil, you look. Nice in church, you look nice in public, you present. People who are Paris are depressing. They don't speak. They don't talk when they come to public. They are very nice. Oh, hello. That's how they are in public. But even in their rooms, they don't want, they don't feel like talking. You ask a question, they'll send a text. Where's my tower? Then they'll send a text and what's up? It is downstairs. It is a real example. All my examples are real. I have a real example. If the story is not true, I will tell you that it is an imaginary story. How will I even imagine such a thing? Must have heard it I've. Heard all these things before? Yeah, you come. When is your husband just looking away? The the Prince who put the ring on your finger. Because most men listen. Most men, unbelievable men, they take one woman to the altar and 100 to bed, 100 to the bed and one to the altar. It's a ratio 100 to one, one to the altar and 100 to bed. You don't know that ratio. 1 to the altar and 100 to the bed, Only one woman that they take to the altar and you are the woman that has been taken to the altar. And look at your attitude. And you say you want to be a lady. Pasta. You say you want to preach. And there is no change. Even you cannot cook. Even you cannot even cook for your dog. Even your dog will reject the food when you cook it. Your dog will say, I will eat. I'm tired. This one. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't eat this food again. A dog will say whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The dog would say is this food? Is this take your food? Take your food so and. Listen, don't think we are talking about marriage. I think marriage here. I'm talking about dying. Yes. Dying to prepare. Dying so that you bear fruit. Yeah. Look, the Kingdom of God is like a woman who took a living and hid it in three loaves of bread, and the living, living, the whole land rose. And then this reveals to you that the towers in the Kingdom of God are hidden. Powers they are not. What is seen, if there is power in my life, it is not from what you see. It is from something that you don't see. Yeah, the Kingdom of heaven is like a woman who hedged the living in the bread. 3 loafs of bread. That it was the. Hidden living that empowered the the bread to rise you see living has an effect of exciting and inspiring and expanding by hidden so as you see the thing rises what is making it rise is this from here is it from here so it's something that is hidden and mixed in it and it's pervasive so your. Power. The power of Christianity is in hidden aspects, not in what you see looking nice, looking this, this and that, what you have on the outside, no. So how you are in the hidden the behaviour that affects your prayers, the anger effects prayers. You're angry. Always. Gabou says don't let the sun go down. Unforgiveness affects your prayers. It's the only thing God will not forgive you. Forgive everything but except unforgiveness. So when we. Sit here with unforgiveness. You can't even have a prayer handset, so how can you be blessed? All these things must die. But the dying is often in an in an in a hidden aspect. If you don't read, it is hidden from our My View God. Nobody's here to read. They are not here to read books. We are here at the camp. You will not read here. If you don't pray, it won't be seen here because we don't pray here. Our prayers are not going to be seen. Now in this camp, if you don't pray, we will. Not if you don't listen to messages, if you don't have the podcast at this stage of your life, you don't have podcasts. It will not be seen here because nobody is listening to a podcast. Some people want to listen to this message after on a podcast that you are here. I can't see whether you don't have podcasts. If you don't listen to DVDs, watch DVDs, listen, watch Nigerian movie. It's hidden. Even if you are watching Nigerian movie, I will never be there and your pastor will never be there. You'll be watching it alone and watching all these things. So all these things which really bring the power A. Hidden because in this Kingdom, which we belong, the power that is causing changes is a hidden thing. So when you see somebody doing something in the ministry. Your eyes should be like. X-rays, trying to see behind what is seen, you know. Yeah, because behind that is something you probably don't know about the hidden things. So what I'm preaching about, although it may sound funny and fantastic, actually it is real. That's why you are laughing. And you know that the change that should happen, it's not about smiling in church. Everybody smiles in church. Occasionally when we find one person not smiling, we fire the person and she starts to smile immediately after that. But the real bad face and bad attitude having think about it, I would rather work with somebody who doesn't know my bad has a good attitude than somebody who knows everything with a bad attitude. Once you are flowing, oh Bishop, we are ready. Can we do? Yes, we can do. We don't know how to do it, but we can. This is the. Attitude that we need and it's going to work. That attitude alone will get 100 things done. So change. Dying must come now. Dying goes with suffering. Almost everybody who dies has a bit of suffering. And so. At the moment when you die, you know whenever you hear somebody is dead. Often human beings sort of imagine how he died, whether it was painful or difficult, you know, and because we all know that dying by, by by, when you are finally dead, you are dead. So there are different ways to kill people. Shooting, when you shoot somebody within the next minute or two, it usually falls down just like it is in the film, maybe to the knees. And then it it just loses blood and loses consciousness. If you are in a plane that is descending and going to fall into the sea, usually you become unconscious long before the plane hits the ground. Yeah, you lose consciousness and black out. Most everybody will black out. So they don't really suffer so much except when they are alive and the fright of how they are, what is going to happen to them, The fright of death, the fear of death. Yeah. When people are drowned, you know, it is even a bit more difficult because of the sensation to breathe. And it's like you are swallowing water and it's like you need breath and you swallow water. And that that disconnection between the time you are breathing and you struggle and you go off, that is the small suffering that you have cutting off your head. It's the journey to the guillotine and the day before and the few days before that, you'll be thinking about it how it would be. But the guillotine was found to be a very smooth way. It just fell straight on your head and it just, your head just goes off in one and rolls down into your bucket. You know, then they have other ways of stretching you. Four horses. One would tie this hand, tie this hand and one horse, tie this hand and the four. And then they beat the horses and the horses go away from the person. You understand what I'm trying to say? Yeah. Which honestly, if your forelimbs are removed you are likely to still be alive, just the central part of you will be there and then you would die of bleeding so it would be horrible other forms of dying putting you in ice. You know to see how many minutes you can stay. Learning used to do that you can stay before you freeze. They, they, they use it even in Germany they did a lot of experiments on people to see how long they could survive before they invaded Russia, to see how they could survive in the cold. Many, many, many ways of dying. But dying always has some little amount of suffering. So even when they are executing people, they are trying to minimise the suffering, the suffering, the suffering death with the injection. But even the injection, there will be something you know and all that so different, but there will always be some, if not at all. The psychological fright before the death is even more terrifying, you know. So you cannot escape suffering as a Christian or in order to bear fruit. Your dying will make you suffer something. You know our pastor in Kenya, Bishop Obi, You know he, I, I first sent him to South Africa. Maybe. God was going to do certain things with him in South Africa, but he he couldn't come. He came here and he. Surveyed the land and he went back to England. He said, you know, when I call him, I can't even get him because he's varied. He didn't want to come on the mission. Yeah. And because he he saw something. He said wow. Then maybe some of you would have been these church members. Yeah. So after some years of running away from whatever, I was going somewhere. He said, oh, he would like to come with me. I said, oh, come along, come along. I always like to to go with a lot of people. This time I was coming 17 people. I come for a reason. Yes, for my crown. 17 people, you know, some of them couldn't make it for whatever. Evil reasons, but we take it as power of God. But I said come, come, let's go. When we went, I was talking with him. I told him one day I said, look, you will by all means lose something if you are going to do well in the because he was a pastor. I said there is nothing like doing well without losing something or suffering something. Even psychological suffering, mental suffering, social economic suffering, whatever. But there's going to be some kind of even if you died quietly in a hospital, the fact that you are dying, you are dying. Oh, it's, it's something, you know, I, I remember 11 phone call I got from one of my church members. You know, they went to see the doctor and the doctor said, look, we've done this, we've done this, we've done this, we've done this. Your blood, your blood is finished and you are going to die and said, if we operate on you, this what happened? We cannot operate. If we do this, this what is going to happen? I'm sorry, this is it. I mean, they have. Done. Many, many, many things in the hospital. But that was the last one. And they said so. They said you, you can die at any time. Now. That was quite something. So when they called me, I, you know, I was, I really felt it. And psychologically, it's like this is it. And it was in the house when he just was walking in the kitchen. And then he just came down and that was it. He died, you know, like that. It's like you didn't know that you are going to die. There's something about it. You know, one time a man helped me in the hospital, the ward, and he was scared. I could see fear in his eyes. It was scary. I remember his bloodshot eyes. He said take me to Germany and my brother is in Germany. You know, I was there before I came here. I want. To go, please, doctor, help me. But I was a medical so I didn't know what I didn't know what to do. And I also became frightened. I became frightened. It's scary. You know, I'm trying to tell you something, my friend, that there is no way to die without experiencing some kind of so, so economic, psychological, emotional, financial, whatever kind of suffering, there will be something. There must be suffering if you leave South Africa even to be in another country. The psychology, look, everybody's house is nice to him and every for this country is nice to him. Ghana is tenser than South Africa to me. I live, I live in Ghana, I live in Ghana. Oh my, Ghana is tenser than South Africa to me. If you ask me to choose whether I want to live in South Africa or Ghana and you ask me 99 times I will choose Ghana and 100 times I will choose Ghana and 1000 times I will choose Ghana. It is also nice to me. You to where you are. From It's nice to you if you are from Polo. Quanito, it is beautiful there that is this this oh, gardener is hot gardener is deep gardener yeah, everybody is a lot of Lords in his house and king of kings in his garden, you understand and it's very important at where he came from, you understand So to for somebody to move from here to here, it is also not it's also not easy for the. Person, you get what I'm trying to say. But there, so that is the psychology of even being away from home has an effect as all those who have been away, it's not difficult for me to call Carlo, to send him to America or anywhere I can call him. It's not difficult at all. Those who have been outside, it's like come go here, go here, go here. This is like something is killed. But I can't, I can't not stay in South Africa. To go to He Can Pay and Mr. Price and what what spa and what skill it's a form of. Suffering standing in church and holding a basket and asking the people to give. It's painful at a point. It's like you either at a point want to even insult the people. Do you think I need you? That's what you want to say. Do you think I need you? You think I want I want to I want to have anything to do. You think I need your money? You think I'm I'm selling books. You think that I'm trying to get from If I wanted to get money, would you know? Hey, it's painful. It's painful. Other people are looking at you with their faces. They are thinking things in their. Heads yeah. That's why a lot of persons can't raise funds. To raise funds and to take off, something has to die in you. Something has to die. It actually has to die. It's like some shame, shame and protection of your image and of your goody goodness and your your dignity and whatever has to die. It just become nothing. Yeah, it's true. All these are forms of dying that without you cannot have certain fruits. I'm telling you, it's just the way it is to stand and take off. So when I read about John Wesley that he used to stand with his heart to take offering, I was greatly encouraged because when I started to stand with my basket in front, my offerings greatly increased and I can take offering. People who have watched me take offering. I have learned how to take offering. Even one time one of my pastors, he said let's go to the Kodesh. You see Bishop Tuesday evening. When is you see when it takes off. I think it's an. Emergency. Yes, always when I take off in this, as if there is an emergency, I'm urgent, I'm determined. I can't be turned back. I'm more determined than Alexander the Great. Get what I need. Yeah. To preach, you have to set aside your, you know, some of you. Your preaching is, is dry. And it's not interesting because you, you, you, you cannot expose your life. You know, many of you. You see, that's why I don't like to be with people who don't talk. But I tell them, you know so many things about me. By the time I come and sit down with you, you've been listening. To a message. You heard me say this. You heard me say you know something about my shoes. You know something about my wife. You know something about my child. You know something about my house. You know something about so many things. Then what I see with you are flying around. Go away. I don't want to sit with you. I saw you there. You are some Secret Service James Bond. I challenge. There is nothing. You don't know any. And when they ask what is your name, Say my name is Bond, my name is Bond. I'm Sister Bond. Wow. Sister Bond. And I don't talk about marriage. I hear you. I hear you talk about marriage a lot, Bishop, but I don't talk about marriage. My name is Bond. Wow. Check if it is your neighbor. Who is that sister bond? Are you the sister bond? Secret Service bond? You don't talk. You don't talk much. You don't speak. Tell somebody I'm ready to suffer. How many are ready to suffer for God? Not for a foolish cause, but to suffer for your calling, because your calling includes suffering. Our Calling includes losing something. Jesus said unless a man take up his cross and follow me, he cannot not that he will be a modified disciple. He cannot be my disciple. Some of you, that's why you're preaching is so nice. You know it is painful for you, for people to see you, to know you. I don't. I don't know why they should know something about my. Sexuality. But you know something about my sexuality. But I shouldn't know anything about you. Yeah. You know. I mean, I shouldn't know about you. Have you noticed? Yeah. You. I don't know about you. You know about me. Yours is a secret. Mine is not a secret. Wow. Yeah. Mr. Secret. You are. You are Mr. Secret. This is secret, but you know about me. I don't know about how. Can we have fellowship? How can we be close? Sure, take your secrets time with me Philippians Chapter 1. For unto you it is given. I'm talking about we are going to best out into churches and one of the keys is what John the Baptist said bring forth. Fruit and there is no way for a seed to best out unless it dies, and that dying is the painful. I've described different types of dying. All of them have some kind of suffering. Even if you die in your sleep, when you wake up in heaven, you say, Oh, I should have said that I. It's not easy to know that you are going to die, even if you die painlessly. When my my wife's father was going to die, I could see that he was suffering mentally. Because you are 90 years old. I mean, you know that the next major event is not a wedding. Do you get what I'm saying? You are 90. I mean, the next major event is your funeral. Oh, you've not talked about it. The next major event of your life is your pestal funeral. There's no wedding, there's no party, there's nothing this this of them. I got 90 years old and you know that everybody cannot say by his waiting. Wow, he was always going to the hospital sometimes go this is that there was nothing wrong with him. So here here, here, but it was nothing. But I said, look, there's nothing wrong. It was see that agitation it's going to come soon, quickly. He'll he died peacefully, quietly. He just lay in his bed eating, lying down quietly, no struggle, no suffering. He he told his wife count up to 7 count up to 7 1234. And when he finishes, why did you say I should count up to 7? You understand, Seven days later, he died at 7:00 in the evening. Yeah, he told if I count 7, seven days, seven days at 7:00, he was there. He died at 7:00. Yeah. He just leave. But even the most peaceful death has agitation, huh? What do you think? So as you look at me, I've suffered though, and I'm still suffering. But you may not know limited till you come closer. Then you may see. There are some people who have seen me crying. Maybe you have not seen me crying. There are people who have seen me crying. There are people who have seen me weeping. Yeah, I really know that people have seen me agitated, depressed. Yeah. There is nothing like ministry without suffering. There's nothing like that. Yeah, there's nothing like ministry without shouting. Ajay. You see, in Ghana, when you are in pain, you shout Ajay, what do you shout over here? My way, my way? You call your mother's name Ma. My way, my mother. So why? Why, why? Why do you say Ajay? Ajay, AJ. My father OK, AJ. My father OK. I never knew his father. AJ and Maui. Maui. So S Africans S for their mothers and Ghanaians S for their fathers, but they are all suffering. There is nothing like Ministry without shouting My way or Ajay. There's nothing like that. There is not only that you are not Cruz. There's nothing like that. Philippians after one verse 29. It says For unto you, I'm talking about bearing fruits unto you. It is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake. It has been given to you to suffer, so why don't you? That's why always I say start now, start and so that the sufferings will. Pass as quickly as possible, huh? Get over with it. Wow. I have suffered financial difficulty. Financial hardships, yes. To be in the ministry. People don't know that I was so much in difficulty that on Sundays I used to park my car with my wife and calculate between the two of us if we could buy a tin of corned beef. You know, corned beef. Do you have, what do you call it here, Corn meat? Yeah, tin of corned meat so that she can make Stew for us to eat in the afternoon on Sunday. Yeah. Yeah, I remember parking on the road. Will be calculating and get it. Can buy one. How much is it? 14 rounds. Yeah. I've been in there. I've been there. Amen. Where I could not afford to put fuel in my car. So I changed the car from petrol to gas and I bought a gas bottle and fixed it at the back of the car in the boots and started using gas in my car because I could not afford petrol. Fill it with gas and spark and go. We could not buy cars. Some of you have nice new cars, beautiful cars. I saw a car which had had a terrible accident. The whole body was destroyed. The body of the car and I explained to Bishop Saki, this car can work for you. We would take the body and then separate it from there and then repair the body. So we repaired the body, put it on the car. Lo and behold, we had a car. Yes. Yeah. You remember? Yeah. And then we bought a car for Bishop Eddie. I went to, I think the car cost $700.00. I went to Kushet bargaining, he wouldn't reduce it from 720 to 700 and it was one of the few people who could not yield to my negotiations $700.00 Wow. Some of you are not prepared to experience any financial difficulty. You must always be. Keep it. Don't come. Sit down. No, not nothing. Nothing. Sit down behind the lady. Lady. Yeah, but why have you? Squeezed your face. Smile. Give us a smile. OK. Is she happy? Is she very happy? Hallelujah. I experienced suffering of how where to stay. I didn't have anywhere to stay because I was in the ministry. I lived in one room in my father's hotel for three years. My father's hotel had 14 rooms. I lived in one of the rooms for three years and had two children there. A hotel has 14 rooms. I stayed in, I think I stayed in room 14. And after that I moved to an uncompleted house and I lived in a house without windows, just the spaces. You know, in Ghana, you need windows. There's nothing like a window in my house. And the floor of the house was the red sand. We hadn't had money to do the floor. Yeah. Red. Red color red, me color red. But you see, I don't even think of it as suffering now sometimes when you see stubborn people who don't want to experience any form of. Difficulty at all that it provokes you to think and say, ah, so me at all have I ever experienced any suffering. So when I look I really I don't even see it as suffering. I see it as victory parade. It's a match to victory. I see it as a match to victory. I see it as a a privilege. It's a privilege to. Fight for God and for His work. Yeah. And that's how you must think that it's a privilege to be here. You see some people that come to Ghana, they are in a bus and say we don't have such bus where where we came from. And you know these buses squeeze, the people are smelling and they say what you mean you get to go to wherever you came from. Since one guy was saying all the people are pushing them this mother let the people what you mean. Your people too are also there also some way to ask. That's why God cannot use you as a missionary. Though you have something funny about everybody except yourself and yourself in the West. If we go into how you are you, you'll be surprised. I mean, look at South Africa. You feel South Africa is so look at the amount of murder. The amount of crime, the amount of. Evil that is here, drugs, homosexuality, so many things are here and you're so puffed up about about your nation, about your country, about why we South Africa take your country. Just calm down. Everybody is a king of kings in his country and a lot of Lords in his garden together. Everybody is a king of kings were in his house and it's a lot of Lords in his garden and it's a master of ceremonies in his bedroom. Wow so loose aspect. God has called us also to suffer. So anybody who refuses to experience suffering is saying I refuse my calling. Is it not in Philippines 129? God has called us not only to believe, we have not only been called to be believers, we say other believers, we should even have sufferers. Yes, we are sufferers. We should even call us not only believers but we should be believers and sufferers because we are called not only to believe that also to suffer. And we always use the believing part. And so we are believers and we should actually say we are sufferers. Everybody is a King of kings in his house, and a Lord of Lords in his garden, and a master of ceremonies in his bedroom. Wow, First Thessalonians chapter 3. That's verse three, First Thessalonians chapter #3 verse #3 that no man should be moved by these afflictions. For you yourself know that we are appointed thereunto. No one should be moved. Move. Nobody should be moved from today. No South African should be moved by afflictions, anything that is difficult. I don't want to hear of any South African who is being moved or shifted. Let us shift from your position. You must be more determined than Alexander the Great. Yes, yes, I'm telling you, it says we should not be moved by these afflictions, but some of you, you go to a town and it's like some smoke, difficulty, whatever this and this and that, and you are being moved. He said only six people came to your church. One of my persons told me when he said, look, that day, he said only one person came to church, only one. You have sex, why are you being moved? You say you feel embarrassed. You say you are a pastor, you say it's a church. You have the banner. Only six people are there and you feel embarrassed. Why you feel embarrassed? Embarrassment and shame. Jesus was on the cross naked. All his church members were watching him and they thought he had been defeated. Their pastor was up there naked. They are beating him. He was crying, calling for water and other things. He was struggling there. It was embarrassing. It's like your powers are finished. You have been raising the dead, preaching, doing things and now you look so weak and so stupid in front of all your church members. Shame is part of the sufferings we are to experience and the Bible says none of us should be moved by the afflictions that we are experiencing. Don't let affliction make you criticise or shift you from your calling and your position. Are you listening to me? Because we know that we are appointed there until this is a this. This scripture has stabilized me many times. When I experience it, I don't want to experience. I just say it is appointed for me. God has decided that this is what I have to experience and I will have to be in it. I cannot escape from it or shift from it. It is my calling. I'm appointed to experience this. Yeah, I'm appointed to experience this. Yeah, I'm appointed to experience that Is it, If you can accept that in your mind. Don't tell yourself I need to be happy. How do you want to be happy? You have eternity to be happy. Eternity. You'll be happy throughout of eternity. This is not a place to be happy. Don't have to think of being happy at all. Oh, you're happy. Happiness is for later. Here we are here to suffer. Shut up. Are you a pig? You was not dying. That you die squealing. We can't catch you. We can't hold you to kill you. You sleep out every time you slip away. You are dying. You are not a lamb. You are not a lamb of sacrifice for a pig. We can't hold you for the sacrifice opposite. They are LED like lambs to the slaughter. Lambs are just gentle. They say time to die, let's go. And they just go coolly. But when you are a pig, you are not a lamb. Nobody can help you jump out. Actually that India is out of the question. I don't feel like that. Squealing, screaming, running, jumping. No throwing tantrums because of some small shame. Small shame that you experienced for Christ sake. Small change of location. Just the address is changed. Even the new place is better than the old place. Just the change of addresses. I don't like changing addresses. I don't like change of things. I don't like change. I'm used to, I'm used to poloquales. I'm used to, I'm used to kept out. I don't want to change. This is what is by environment. I like mountains, I like the seaside. I don't know how to stay far away from the sea. You are a pig. You are a squealing pig. Squealing pig. Stop. That and let us lead you, let Christ lead you. When you see the guillotine, you just look and say man, Then you go in. Just experience it all right? Tell somebody, Charlie, I just received my new appointment. I just received. Oh, you're not saying it. Wello those at the back. You don't seem to be saying it happily. I just received my new appointment and ask your ask in which appointment you'll be appointed as what? What have you been appointed to wear? Wow. Sit down. Small breakfast that you are feeling some slight whatever. Then you see that an evil spirit wants to come out out of you because of breakfast. You cannot sit without Whewing. You must whew it by all means. Now one sermon that you listen to Whewing 3 times. I can't sit down. I can't stay here. I cannot get up. I have to get up. I can't sit down. I can't go without doing my hair. I can't go. I can't go without doing my makeup, my hair. You have to go all the time. Do your hair makeup. You have to paint your face. Come as you are. Come as you are with your plain face, natural, so that we experience you in reality. And we can decide whether we like you as you are. And we can choose really what we are getting These days. The brothers are becoming wiser. Oh, yeah, yeah. Their, their eyes are those who listen to the camp messages. Their eyes are becoming brighter. And they are scanning, they say. Is it your hair? Is it your hair or it's a Brazilian hair? Then they look at your chest and they say, is it there or it's here? Is it here or here? They'll be looking and say by certain calculations, activities, principles and others, this thing will be somewhere down over here. Sit down. Those of you here, are you, are you, are you OK? Are you excited at what I'm saying? That the that the brothers are becoming wiser. They are excited about that. OK.