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11. Why Planting The Seeds Is The Greatest Job 1
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - The Bag of Seeds. Machaneh Collection - 66. Preached in 2010, United Kingdom (Kent). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.
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Welcome to track #11 of the Bag of Seeds. Preaching teaching. Amen. OK, so my topic is why planting the seeds Amen is the greatest job you can ever have on F Amen Hallelujah because it is the job of preaching and teaching Amen and it is the job that Jesus Christ chose to do when he came to this F Amen. So the bag of seeds is he that goes forth to and fro all right with his bag of seeds sowing, isn't it that sowing. I'm now moving to another type of seed, which is the word of God is the greatest job a person can ever do. Going up and down, going up and down, planting the seeds of the word of God. Amen. Now planting the seeds of the word of God is preaching and teaching, Amen. Matthew Chapter 9, verse 35. The Bible says that Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the Kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people, Amen. Now the main and the big question here is that the, the, the big question that we have here, the big question that we have here is what would be the job that God would do if God became a man? Do you see, if God was going to do something real
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Welcome to track #11 of the Bag of Seeds. Preaching teaching. Amen. OK, so my topic is why planting the seeds Amen is the greatest job you can ever have on F Amen Hallelujah because it is the job of preaching and teaching Amen and it is the job that Jesus Christ chose to do when he came to this F Amen. So the bag of seeds is he that goes forth to and fro all right with his bag of seeds sowing, isn't it that sowing. I'm now moving to another type of seed, which is the word of God is the greatest job a person can ever do. Going up and down, going up and down, planting the seeds of the word of God. Amen. Now planting the seeds of the word of God is preaching and teaching, Amen. Matthew Chapter 9, verse 35. The Bible says that Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the Kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people, Amen. Now the main and the big question here is that the, the, the big question that we have here, the big question that we have here is what would be the job that God would do if God became a man? Do you see, if God was going to do something really great for us all, what would he do? Huh, brother? What's her name again? Nana Kwame. Come, Stand. Come, come. If I wanted to do something. Really. Stand. Stand here. What can we do? Good for him. What can we do for him? Do you have a British passport? What good thing can we do for this guy? Give him a wife? Do you have a beloved? Hey, don't have a lot of things. Don't have a wife, doesn't have a British passport. You have money, I bet. What is the maximum good we can do for this guy? Marcella Camp? What is the maximum? Do what we can do? Stand Marcella. We can do for Marcella. You have a beloved. You don't have a beloved. Do you have a Ghanaian passport? No. What else do you have? A house. Do you have a house? Hey, Mary. No. Can you sit down? You are. Come behind. What is your name? Daniel. Come. Do you have a husband? Stand you have a British passport. Ghanaian passport. House Natasha, You have a Ghanaian passport, British passport, car, house. Beloved husband, child. What good thing can we do for these people? They don't have so many things in this world, huh? What the best thing we can do for them? If God were to become a man now and stand right here in front of these four people, what would he do for them? If he had three hours, it would take you quickly. Let's go to NatWest. Let's go to Barclays, huh? What's your name? Come. What's your name? A Rowena Marina. Come. You have a beloved. You have a car, you have a house, You have a husband, you have a child. You don't have anything. You have a Ghanaian passport. British passport. What would be the maximum, best good thing that we could do for these ones? If God were to become a man now, what would Jesus? What did he do? That's the question. What did he do when he did come? Preaching, teaching and healing. Yeah. This is the best thing you can do. I mean, you see you, you, you. I mean with our minds. Let me give you all a British passport and a Ghanaian passport, isn't it? So you have the two worlds in it. Let me give you all cars, all houses, isn't it? And what else, beloved? And it's like then suddenly we've done something very good for them. But I tell you, all those things, will, you can lose. All of the car will be gone. The house will be gone. The whatever will be gone. Me, when my father died, he had a car and he gave the car in his will. I was not included in the car. But I tell you, I didn't feel sad at all because a car, a car, you see, a car is not a valuable thing. I've told her you have to spend your money on hey, and somebody says he's going to give me a gift and you are going to give me a car. I mean, I appreciate it, but it's not the most valuable thing I can do with, you know, that a car called the same as a house. Nowadays, the price of a car can buy a house. Yeah. If I buy a car, the price of a house The price of a house can buy a car easy. Many. I can show you many houses that cause a car. If you're asking me what you're going to do, then I prefer to buy a house than to buy a car. The car that when you go know some idiot who just come back, just come and knock it. Or he will hit and run and that's it. You'll not see him again. That's the end of your new car. So you may think that it's all these other things, but I tell you, the best thing you can give to anybody is the best thing. You cannot be wiser than God, wiser than Jesus. Bible says it is good if you are as your Master, Amen. And our Master and our Savior. Are you listening When he came and he saw the needs amongst the men, felt that the best thing what to do for them for the short period that he had was to preach to them and was to teach them. And I think if you recognize the power and the ability and the greatness of preaching and teaching, everything in your life will change. You see, sometimes you have something, but you don't know what you have. You believe it's important, but you don't think it is that important. If you take Lighthouse Chapel International. Lighthouse Chapel International is built on the camps and the camps are preaching for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours. It's just a word. We are not praying. We pray, but we are not praying here and now. It's a weather, weather, weather. That's why people change so much when they come for camps, because preaching, preaching, preaching, preaching, preaching, preaching. Person is changing. Amen. Are you listening? Are you OK? Amen. Are you listening to me? Yeah. Preaching, preaching, preaching, preaching, preaching, preaching. So if I pass that, the longer you can get a chance to preach to people, the more effect you are going to have God effect on the people. And so the, the, The thing is like the key is to like to be able to have a camp like this in the middle of the week anytime because you need that flexibility is the key to be able to inject the people with the word. That's why doctors are trying to get places to inject people with the medicines they think are important for them, and we are trying to get more opportunities to inject the people with the web. 30 minutes on Sunday cannot do much. You cannot teach much on Sunday morning for you to understand the word necessary. Even what I'm preaching now, what I'm telling you now, that preaching and teaching is the most important thing that can be done to a human being. Hey, because Jesus. Why? Only because Jesus chose to do that when he came to this earth and saw our wretchedness, our skin rashes, our sicknesses, our problems, our diseases, and he chose to preach to the people and to teach the people. Whenever I was you, I would say, man, this is the highest job. So I'm going to spend my life preaching, teaching and healing. And when I'm an established preacher and an established teacher, I'm going to let my people that are following me be exposed to a lot of preaching because that is the main thing that changes the people, even as we have been preached to. And it's not easy for us to change how much for those who are getting 35 minutes sermons once a week, once every two weeks, once every three weeks, People who don't come to camps, how do you think that? Don't you think there will be a difference, all of you who are the way you are because you come for camps? Because 1 camp is like a whole year's messages. Yeah, 1 camp, you can be a whole year of messages that are just going all over the place. Are you there? Amen. So the best thing that I can do for you, it's not to give you money even though you don't have money. It's not to give you a car even though you don't have a car. You may not know. That is why it is as you grow older, for instance, it's the more spiritual you are, the more you honor the person who preached to you. Do you get what I'm saying? So some of that pastors become very disappointed when they preach. You know, they're to being pastors. Let's say they are being transferred, you are leaving to another church or it's your 40th birthday or their birthday. And then the congregation are not, they bring some coins or bring you some boxer shorts or something as a, as a, as a present. They give you a picture frame, an old picture frame that they have there. You feel so sad because you, you, you can see that the people don't realize what the importance of the web. But you see, you don't have to be so upset with them because it takes, it takes a lot to see that the most important thing is, is actually the preaching. I mean, it's like a lot of even as pastors, we don't realize what it is to have preaching, teaching given to us. So it must be your greatest desire to become a person who is doing their best job. I cannot compare preaching with medicine, even of medicine. It's true you have to learn for a long time to be a doctor, but there is no comparison. It's a far higher job. Why do you think I love medicine to come and do this? I do more good. That's why even though we have a hospital and I have a clinic in my, in the hospital, I, I, I don't go there much. And the more of the thing I do is to, is to preach. I am involved in medicine and all that, but it's a lower, it's a lower job. Recently, I, I, I spoke to one of our, the, the head of the hospital. In fact, the Lord told me, he said, I have made this person into a preacher and you have made him into a doctor. Hey, because the Lord was telling me you have made him a doctor when I have made him a preacher because he's a specialist radiologist. I want him to be. I'm afraid of that specialist thing, but he's a preacher, he's a pastor. It's higher than reading a photograph of bones, Taking a photograph of people's bones every day, this is all that you go through, pictures of bones. And when Jesus came to this earth, if it was the greatest or he would have also been looking at pictures of bones, but it couldn't even take his attention for 5 minutes. He gave his attention to preaching, teaching and healing. So when the Lord told me, I became afraid. I said hey, I called him. I said, look, you are now a full time pastor, forget about this bones that you have been looking at and concentrate on preaching. So you, you you wouldn't have any better job than to be a preacher is there's nothing higher. You are higher than the Queen of England when you preach. Far, far higher. Far higher than Michael Jackson. Yeah, Amen. Masala sing for us. OK, sit down for a minute. There's just so much to be done. Oh Lord, so many souls to be 10. Lord, this world is falling apart. Crying for love from a broken heart. Lord, here am I. Send me though. There's really nothing much I can do. What I have seems so small, but I want to give it all to you. Oh Lord, you said the harvest is great. Oh Lord, looks like the world has only it's getting hard to understand how we ignore your great command all but here am I send me though you said the ones that labor of you still my heart hears the call, and I want to give it all to you. Oh, just to do the work nobody does. Give up my pride and even work in the mind. I want to be like those who spill them alone. They gave it like wanted to you. Oh, oh Lord, there's just so much to be done. Oh Lord. So many souls to be 10. Lord, this world is falling apart, crying for love with a broken heart. But here am I. Send me though there's really nothing much I can do. What I have seemed so small that I want to give it all to you. Oh, just to do the work nobody does. Give up my pride and even work in the mind. I want to be like those who spend them alone and gain in life. God unto you, to you. Oh oh Lord, there's just so much to be done. Oh Lord, so many souls to be 10. Lord, this world is falling apart. Crying for love with a broken heart. Oh, but here am I. Send me though there's really nothing much I can do. Still, what I have seems so small that I want to give it all to you. Oh Lord, you said the harvest is great, but Lord, looks like the work has all late. It's getting hard to understand how we ignore your great commando. But here am I said to me Though you've said the ones that labor off you. Still my heart hears a call, and I want to give it all to you. Oh Lord, you said the harvest is great, But Lord, looks like the workers are late. It's getting hard to understand how we ignore your great command. Oh, but here it might send me. Though you've said the ones that labor off you, Still my heart hears your call, and I wanna give it all. I'm giving my all to you. Giving my all to you, the Lord. I'm giving my all to you. So I'm giving my best to you. Oh the Lord, I'm giving my best to you. I'm giving my best to you. I'm giving my all to you. I can't keep it to myself. Got to go out and tell somebody. I can't keep it to myself. Somebody's lost and the entire I can't keep it to myself. I've got to tell somebody for they've got to know Jesus loves them. So please don't keep it to yourself. You've got to go out and tell somebody. Don't keep it to yourself, 'cause somebody's lost and they're dying. Don't keep it to yourself. You gotta tell somebody else for them. Come to know Jesus loves their soul. We all have friends that cry and cry 'cause they don't even know there's a God who is willing to help them, let alone they don't know that He cares and He will see them through the darkest night. But how will they fight down? There's a God above who really understands and He can heal broken hearts if they just give Him a chance. So I must go. You must go and and let them know that I can't keep it to myself. I've got to go out and tell somebody. I can't keep it to myself. Somebody's lost, somebody's dying. I can't keep it to myself. I've got to tell somebody else for they've gone to know Jesus loves their soul. We all have friends that cry and cry 'cause they don't even know that there's a God and He is willing to help them. That alone they don't know that He cares and He will see them through the darkest night. But how will they fly? Hide down, there's a God above, he really understands and he can heal broken heart if they just give him a chance. I must go, we must go and let them go. That I can't keep it to myself. I've gotta go out and tell somebody. I can't keep it to myself, 'cause somebody's lost, somebody's dying. I can't keep it to myself. I've gotta tell somebody else for they've got to know that Jesus loves them. So please don't keep it to yourself. You've got to go out and tell somebody. Don't keep it to yourself, 'cause somebody's love and somebody's dying. Don't keep it to yourself. You've got to tell somebody else for they've gone to know Jesus loves them, so we can't keep it to ourselves. We've got to go out and tell somebody. We can't keep it to ourselves. When people are lost and they're dying, we can't keep it to ourselves. Got to tell somebody else for they've got to know Jesus loves their show. Please don't keep it to yourself. You've got to go out and tell somebody. Don't keep it to yourself. Somebody's lost and they're dying. Don't keep it to yourself. Tell somebody else, for they've got to know. Jesus loves this show. Tell them. Even if they don't believe you, tell them. Even if they don't receive you, tell them. For me, tell them. Tell them that I love them and I came to let them know. Tell them even if you are forsaken, tell them though it seems your heart and it's breaking. Tell them for me. Tell them. Tell them that I love them and I can't to let them go. Tell that lonely man who walks the cold streets all alone. Tell that crying child who doesn't have a home. Tell those lonely people dying and in despair. They don't even know that I can't. But tell them. Even if they don't believe you. Just tell them. Even if they don't receive you, tell them. For me, please tell them. Just tell them that I love them and I came to let them know. Just tell them though it sees you are forsaken. Tell them though it sees your earth, the shaken. Tell them for me, please tell them. Just tell them that I love them and I came to let them know. Ho ho, tell that lonely man who walks the cold streets all alone, and tell that crying child who doesn't have a home. Tell those lonely people the giant and the despair. They don't even know that I can. But tell them. Even if they don't believe you, just tell them. Even when they don't receive you, tell them for me. Please tell them. Tell them that I love them and I can't. You let them. Tell them that it seems you want to shake it. Tell them though we feel you're happy shaken. Tell them for me. Tell them. Tell them that I love them. And I came to let them know. Jesus, come and lay your head on me. Oh Jesus, oh Jesus, come lay your head on me. I know you must feel tired with the weight of the world on your shoulders. RIP me this privilege. Come and lay your head on me, oh Jesus, my sweet Jesus, come and lay your head on me. And oh Jesus, oh Jesus, come and lay your head on me. I know you must feel weary as you walk the dusty Rd. to Calvary. Grant me this privilege. Come and lay your head on me. Lord, I could not stay away when I heard that you were here. And. I brought to you my kids, but now I can't control my teeth. Oh before I even die, you forgave all of my sin and you have given me the reason too late and gone the sin of this world. They must be such a heavy Lord. Oh, but if you let me be your servant, the Lord, I promise I will follow you. Wherever. You go Jesus, Jesus, both human and divine. Jesus, Jesus, you never get tired sometimes. Jesus, Jesus, what a privilege it would be. Lord, just lay your head on me. Oh Jesus, Lord, my Jesus, please let me wash your feet. With the tears from my eyes. Lord, please just let me wash your feet. I would love to be your servant if you're only only let me be. Jesus, Jesus, let me wash your feet. Jesus, Jesus, lay your head on me. O Lord, Jesus, Jesus, let me wash your feet. Jesus, Jesus, lay your head on me. And burns heaviness. Animals have a place to rest. But you, you, the Son of God, you have nowhere that you can lay your head. But oh Jesus, Jesus, lay your head on me. My Jesus, Jesus, let me wash your feet. Jesus, Jesus, lay your head on me. Amen. Now what are we talking about? Hallelujah. So the Word of God is a powerful planting of the Word of God is a powerful seed, Amen. Are you excited about that? Now, why preaching is powerful, Why sowing of these seeds is powerful? Amen. Why sowing these seeds is so powerful? Hallelujah. Because sin number one is because preaching attacks the roots of man's problem, Amen. Preaching attacks the roots of our problems. Amen. Now not of their problem, of our problems, Hallelujah. What did Apostle Paul say? He said even though he was a great apostle, in Second Corinthians chapter 12, he said, For in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles. Amen. Then he went on, He said, I am the least of the apostles. Then he said unto me, who am the least of All Saints? Ephesians 3/8 And finally he said, This is a faithful saying full of worthy of acceptations, that Jesus came to say saves and is of whom I am the chief. First Timothy one verse 15. Amen. Job was described as an upright man, but he said, wherefore I abhor myself. He said now my eye seeth thee, wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes. Job said I abhor myself. Paul said I'm the chief of sinners. Peter said when he saw Jesus in Luke 5/8, he said depart from me for I am a sinful man. O Lord, you see, we are we, we are saved. Oh, I tell you, there's a problem somewhere. How many realize that there's a problem still, huh. Have you realized Daniel was a holy prophet? And Daniel said, And I, Daniel alone saw the vision in Daniel chapter 10, verse 7. He said, Therefore I was left alone, and I saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me, for my comeliness was turning me into corruption, and I retained no strength. And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto you, and stand upright, for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. So all this proves Romans 3, verse 10, which says there is none righteous. No, there's no good person on earth including, including and especially me. Amen. It's not just a cliche. Oh, it's not just a cliche. What's a cliche? Check, Check. What's a cliche? Check your dictionary cliche. A cliche is an idea of phrase which has been used so much that it is no longer interesting or effective, or no longer has much meaning. A phrase which has been used so much that it no longer has much meaning. Amen. A cliche. It's not a cliche that I'm a Sinner. A phrase which has no meaning. It has meaning. It is true. There is none. Righteous. No, not one. This message continues on the next track. Keep listening.