12. 24 Reasons Why You Must Finish What You Started 7

Welcome to track #12 or finish what you started us to land. It's our world, it's our nation, It's our time of destiny. It's our time to believe. It's our time to love and live. There was no time we received, but now it's time for us to gain. Stand in hand in hand together, let's reach out and touch our world. Let's reach out and touch our world in. Spirit. You see, you cannot touch another world. You can only touch the world you are in. The world you are in is the world you can reach. There will be another world after you. Those who are now three years old, those who are now six years old, they are coming by the time those who are 6 years are 36 to be 30 years plus your age. And how much is that? How much would that be? Most of that you will be 70 something. If you are alive, you will be a 70 year old lady working in a church like this. And so she has been in this time for many years. She's one of her bishops, you know, whatever. So she's but you'll be 70 years old, you know, very old. There will be 30 year old fresh people. This there will be another world here. This is our world that we are supposed to reach. Now. It's only our world we can reach in our time. I'm telling you, another world is good. They have already been born. The other world have already been born and they are just coming up. I'm not waiting for you as you keep planning later on this later on that. Come on, shoot. Now don't talk too much. See the guys in the Bible school, they are my heroes. I know great things are going to come out of those guys. For you, yes, they have been in the school four years. And if Babu says in all labor there is profit, Babu say whatsoever a man shows he shall reap it would it would never be in vain. It cannot be in vain. Give himself full time to something. Oh. Charlie, those of you who are here at the camp, its not for nothing as you hear you see that I see something is like a is not a hook. A single hook is like about 3 or 4 hooks. Holding you here like that, it's like calling you, pulling you. You can't do anything again in this world, you can only work for God. Did you hear I say you can't do anything again in this world? You can only work for God. Shamaka and some of you, when you don't follow and serve the Lord with gladness, you will serve an enemy of your soul. You. Will bow to an enemy? Yeah, you will bow to an enemy. You'll be surprised. Mercy, it's our time. It's our time to believe. It's our time to love and live. There was a time we received. Titus. Now it's. Time for. Standing hand in hunt together let's reach out and touch our world. Can you hear the spirit calling? Can you hear the Spirit calling? Ladies here, the spirit calling. More than men. Yeah. Ladies here. More. More ladies here. The spirit calling. Brothers here money calling. More. But none of these things move me. Amen. OK, OK #14 all good works we have begun must be completed. That's the next reason. Philippians Chapter 1 The six Being confident of this very thing, that He who had begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Every good thing we have started must be completed. Have we started the Bible school? It must be completed. Have you started working the Bible school? It must be completed. Have you started the ministry? It must be completed. He who began a good work in you. He who began a good work. Is there a song like that? Can you sing it? He who began a good work, he who you know it, he got a good work, he. Got a good? Work in you. We'll be faithful to complete it. We'll be faithful to complete it. He who started the work will be faithful to complete it in you. Simple song Philippians 1 by 6. Come on. We got a good working. Be faithful to completed. Come on, give me faithful to completed. He who started the work will be faithful to complete it. You have taken away his music. OK, Are you, have you learned the song now? Can you sing it? If you say I'll call you to sing alone without poker, without piano, without anything. So learn it. Very welcome. I'm going to select somebody from this area as a soloist. You're going to sing alone to go. Come on. He'll be faithful to complete it. He'll be faithful to complete it. He who started the work will be faithful to complete it. Don't. Don't He who? They got a good work. He who? No, no, no, no. You're not singing it correctly. He who began a good work. He who began a good work in you. He who began a good work. No, no. The second he who began a good work in you, you understand that one is other people are supposed to sing that it's not the. Main song, you get it. He who began a good work in you, He began a good work in you. Start again. He'll be faithful to completed. He who started the one will be faithful to completed. I've chosen you. OK, Silence. No piano Ready. Go turn around and sing to them. You're wasting time. Hurry up. You began. A good wagon. You began. A good wagon, you began. A. Good wagon. Come on. Come on, I'm supposed to sing for him. He'll be faithful to complete it. He'll be fit. No. Why the police? Spiritual police? He's coming to bribe them, the one. OK, ready. Go. The. He'll be faithful to completed. He who started the work will be faithful to completed. All right. How many agree that the good work that has begun in you is going to be completed? I see it in the name of Jesus, I said. I see it in the name of Jesus. He who began a good work in you, He's going to bring it to a completed Eric. Stand up, Lumumbashi. He who began a good work, he's going to bring it to a completion. God, I started something good there yeah, he's going to he's going to finish it. He's going to finish it The. Beauty of the work, it's going to come out when you finish it. But before you finish it, almost all through your life you will not see the beauty. Of what you are doing at the end, when you get into the finishing side of that work, you see, oh South Africa, what God has begun. May God finish it. All may we finish what we have started here. How many would like to see it finished? Everywhere you go, you see somebody. So I'm born again. I. I go to Lighthouse Chapel. I gave my I was in my house and people came there. They told me about Jesus and I gave my life to Jesus and I'm here. I'm. Here, thank God, I was a Sinner. I should have been dead. I should have been singing in my grave, but God spared me because Pastor Penny came there, because Pastor Godwin came there. Talk to me. Wow. When we hear these testimonies from Soweto to Mafi King, anywhere far away, we don't want to drive in South Africa. We don't see the signboard lighthouse Chapel. We are not shy of smoke. There is no shame about the Smorchet. There is no shame. You may scream. How many would you mind being a pastor of 20 people? Would you love it? How many would love it? Oh, say I love it, I love it. 20 people that you are saving. Ask Noah what it. Means to be a pastor of serving people, save serving people. Three, you know, himself included in the church, three sons, 3 wives and himself. Oh, and his wife Noah. I had a wife, so they were 8. Wow, I'm sure Noah was singing. He when he was nearly. Go begin a good one in go, go to your old key. Be active so that we don't choose a new key. Otherwise we will choose different keys come. On, Noah was shuffling the play the song he was singing. He was cutting the wood, then his nails were finished. He went to collect some nails and he was singing. Come on then. He went for some wood. The wind was too long so he decided to cut it and he started singing. Come on. He did have some wood upstairs so he went and collected from outside. He said come and help me to carry and he asked you were carrying. You were saying he come on. No, he wanted to catch some monkeys. He decided to start with the easier animals. He left the Lions and those. Big guys. So he started to buy. Look for some snakes. The. Elephants. They are finished with monkeys, Snakes. How are we going to cut the elephant, Alice? Come on. Cast some elephant. Bring the elephant here, bring the elephant, Bring the elephant on stage. Come on. Hey, you see, every day he thought he had finished and they realized that there was monkey. He didn't have monkeys. He didn't have snakes, he didn't have lion. Now lions, the king of the forest. Because if you if you catch. All the animals and you don't catch a lion. How can you say you are finished your work? You have a snake. You have a monkey. You need a tiger. The. So now, now he needed a welder, a welder to make that lock so that he can lock the door so that when the rain starts and a lot of people want to come in, he can keep the people out. So he's not going to. This. That is how our work here is every time. When you reach there, you realize, Charlie, I don't have a lion. I've worked up. I don't have a tiger, no giraffe. We have to break a hole in the roof because it was too short. So we are going to break the roof. We are going to break the roof so that the giraffe's head can go come. On. The. Hey, we are ready, Paul said. I've finished. One day you must also say I'm finished. I'm finished. You know, it's possible to say I'm finished. It's possible. It's not. It's not only I'm not finished. It's possible to say I'm finished. It's possible, man. I wonder. You should say I'm finished. I'm finished. It's possible to say I'm finished. Amen. Sit down. OK, all right, all right, all right. Now #15 pray to Jesus for the grace to finish because he is the beginner and also the finisher. So the point here is that Jesus is not only a beginner of ministries but a finisher because Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2 says He is the author and the finisher of our faith. Looking unto Jesus, Hebrews 12 verse two, who is the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endure the cross, despising the shame, and is sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, Amen. So we must finish because the one we are serving is not only a starter of things, but He's the finisher of things that He has started. So whatever we have, whatever you have, you are a starter. God. The God you are serving is a beginner and also a finisher of the faith #16 you must be like David, King David. Who? That's the next reason why you must finish who completed all aspects of what God had called him to do. In Acts chapter 13, verse 22, Bible says when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, which shall fulfill all my will, all my will. Acts 13, verse 22. Acts 13, Acts 13, verse 22. I found David. Oh, I found who? What's your name? I found what? What's your name? I found who, I found who, who shall fulfill all my will. He will not fulfill part of my will. He will not fulfill 70% of my will. He will not fulfill 50% of my will, but he will fulfill all my will. May God say about you I found. You. Wow. I found your name and I found somebody who's going to fulfill all my will. So whatever you're doing in Port Elizabeth, finish all so that God will say I found Daniel, I found Della, who shall fulfill all my will. Is it powerful? How many know that there are different aspects of the will of God? Yeah. You must fulfill all aspects of the will of God. Amen. All right, The next reason why a very important reason why we must finish is because it is God who has put it into our hearts to finish. It's something that God is doing in our church. God has put it in our hearts to finish. God has put it in our hearts. How many realize that God is putting it in your hearts? How many realize that God is putting it in your hands? Yeah, You see, God put it in my heart to finish. He started to tell me about finishing. He started to talk to me about finishing. So for some time now, it's always finished. Finish what you started. Finish. Finish what you started. You have to finish the things you started. So God put it in my heart about South Africa. I saw that South Africa was a great work that we have begun here, but God put it in my heart a look, it's nowhere near completed. You have to finish. What has been started in South Africa? We have to finish what we started in all these different countries. This is not the end, this is not even the middle. It's less than 10% of what God wants to do in our time. I'm not talking about the future, eternity, one day, some other people. I'm talking about you and me whilst we are fresh here. Revelations chapter 17. What does Revelation chapter 17 verse 17 say? For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill His will. That's why we must be. Because it's not. It's not even something we are dreaming about. You can sense that God is putting it in our hearts to finish something. How many can realize that the Spirit of God is putting it in our hearts, making us understand it? That you need to finish, You need to finish. Amen. Wow. How many agree that God is putting it in your heart, powerful, the next one, so that we we must finish, so that we can please God, bring God joy to the uttermost, so that we can bring God the highest kind of joy. Amen. We must bring God the highest kind of joy. Amen. What do you think? How many know there's something like the highest kind of joy? Philippians Tutu. Fulfill ye my. Joy fulfill. You can fulfill the joy. You can let joy be complete, or you can let joy be half. Isn't it in sexual pleasure when joy is complete? Sexual joy is complete. I'm talking about those who understand what I'm talking about. Those who are married. If you are not married, say I don't understand it, so don't, don't even listen to what I'm saying. After you are married and come for the tape, you can have maximum pleasure, but you can also just have an experience. Amen. And many ladies don't have the ultimate joy. They have, I mean some 10% small percentage of experience. They don't have the full joy or the fullness of pleasure. It's just something that they are allowed to happen. You keep looking at me. I don't understand what I'm talking about. So I'm trying to explain when it says fulfill my joy, it's like you are having sexual pleasure. But it's not fool. It's some percentage. Yeah, you enjoy it up to your point. Some people even don't enjoy that. One day one lady went to come, she got they got married. He said. Is this what people have been doing? Is this it? And we're spending. This is it. Iona Kiona. What does it mean? That's it, Kiona. Is this it? That's it, Kiona, A book says only 40% of women experience full joy. I mean, or have experienced it before. Not that they experience, have experienced it before, Yeah. So that's why they don't like it. When they have nothing to gain from it, yeah. And when they are trying to get something, then they like it. So God is also saying, yes, you are bringing me joy, but not full joy. God is not fulfilled. God doesn't get to the orgasmic levels of joy when He sees you. When you have not, you have not fulfilled. What do you think? I mean, I understand it clearly you are giving him joy, but some minimal experience when he sees you. This is not. Yeah, a certain lady. Should I tell there are children here? OK, those who are not my close your ears now. You can still hear. Are you there? God wants maximum joy. When God looks at me, there is a certain maximum joy He can get out of me. I can make him happy to a certain. Ecstatic. Level. But God cannot look at me and say mercy. So when God sees you, does he get a? I just look at you and say, is that all? Have you finished? Have you finished where? Is the rest of it, do you claim to have finished? So South Africa, God is looking at you, Is that all? Have you finished a certain lady? She was sleeping with somebody. When he finished, she asked him, is that all brothers? If they ask you, is that all? Is that all? Have you finished just now? Is that, is that all? So listen, that's what God is asking. South Africa, is that all? Is that all 37 churches you finished already? Have you finished? Are you getting up and going just now? Have you finished in Mozambique already? Just now? Just now. Hey, you finish that. All you can do, God is saying. I remember one of my servants whom I sent here. This is what he was able to do. A certain lady, she started to climb the wall. And go and find other people because she could remember others. Jack Toronto used to do more for me. Jack Toronto needs to do more. He used to work longer. Fulfill my joy. Fulfill God's joy. God, have a joy up to a point. You can make the joy maximum, but you can make God know that you just existed. But that's all. Nothing much. There's nothing much about you. That's nothing much. Just start something, something measly. Is that all? Oh. There's all that you can do. But my old guy, he could, he could, he could really do a lot. He could stay for hours just now. Kabu, as good as nothing, is that what you want God to say to us? God was getting excited when Pastor Kingsley was here and he was getting excited when Pastor Klufio was here. Is he going to get discouraged when he sees Pastor Jake and the rest of you here and just just his joy that was climbing? Is that all? Now it shouldn't be. We have to take this thing to the end. How many are ready to take you to the end? Are you ready to take you to the end? Amen. How many understand what I'm saying? I want you to understand what I'm preaching. If you understand it, then I've achieved what I'm trying to achieve. You don't understand it. There's no point in me preaching. You don't understand. I want you to understand it. Amen. Are you ready? OK, Good. Good. Next one. How many do you have? There's a 19. Wow. There's nineteen. OK, you must go. The next reason why you must fulfill is that you must go to the ultimate and to the end, the maximum of whatever type of ministry you have received, whether it is Apostolic, pastoral, evangelistic, teaching, or prophetic, you must go to the end, the ultimate conclusion of your kind of ministry. Amen. So if you are a pastor, you must take the pastoring to the conclusion, to the logical conclusion. But many of us are taking the pastoral ministry. We are not taking it to the. End. And that's what I tell many lay pastors, that the end of The thing is full time if you are taking it to the logical conclusion. Yes, that's one of the conclusions. But you can be a better pastor. Than you are. And in closions Chapter 4, the 17, he says to Archipus, take heed to the ministry which you have received from the Lord, that thou fulfill it. Take it carefully. Attend to the type of ministry that you've received and make sure you fulfill it. Make sure you go to the end. Make sure you fulfill pastoral work, maximize, understand it, master it. Take it to the highest level that you can possibly take pastoral work to maximize pastoral work till there is no pastoral like you, you must be the best pastor in South Africa, might be the highest kind of pastor in South Africa. Wherever you are, whatever type to the highest. As I'm doing evangelistic crusades, I'm not trying to be just an ordinary evangelist. I'm trying to take it to the fullest ultimate that I can take evangelism to any possible extent that I can drive evangelism to. I'm trying to do that. What do you think, is it a good idea? Yeah, that's why the check that I have founded, I'm not just want to be a founder of a check, but I want to be see the check can be handed over and handed over and if I can see the check be handed over 3 * 3 different all the time and its still working, I think I'll be happy. But even just handing over from myself to somebody its not enough. You have to see the egg keeps passing. Your child can go here, can go here, can go here. So the child is still OK. Nobody can easily kill the child. Now you see that the child is strong, the child is mature, Yeah. So I don't want to just be a far myself. I'm a founder of a church. What type of church? That's why I'm doing all the things that I'm doing. I'm trying my best. To take it to the I don't want to just start a chair. I would start a chair that will be here if Jesus doesn't come for the next 100 years. I pray the lighthouse will be a strong. Church still in South Africa or Malawi or wherever it is. Amen. Is it a powerful thing? So what is your calling? You call yourself a shepherd. What is the maximum we can take shepherding work to? I've written a new book called Act of Shepherding. What is the highest level you can take the thing to let's take it to the left like singing. If you are singing what the highest level fulfill octopus, fulfill your ministry. Don't just go 10% of pastoral work, 10% of evangelistic, 10% of Apostolic. Go to the end If you go and start something so if persecution is going to. Ethiopia. You have to start churches live and by the time you are dead, you have to see that something that cannot easily be removed out of Ethiopia, something that can stand neck to neck with the Orthodox Church in Ethiopia. Like we all see that, yes, an apostle came here and he lived here for some years. What do you think? Is it a powerful thing? Yeah, there was a man who came to Nigeria in 1955. A white man, an American, and he came to start the Four Square Gospel Church and he stayed there for 11 years. Today I have been invited to the Four Square Pastors. They have thousands of pastors in Nigeria. I've been there several times. His eleven years of work has left something that cannot easily be removed out of that country. That's how you have to think. You take it to the end. I'm sure that man is dead by now, 11 years of work in Nigeria from 1955 to 1966. He has left something real that you can't easily move away. So Pazzoby, what are you going to live in Kenya one day? What about you? Are you taking it to the end maximum, the highest possible level or? I just want to be, I want to be a sweeper in the House of the Lord. I want to be a cleaner. I want to just be average. I don't want to just be average. I want to fulfill. I want to go to the highest. I want to have the best. I want to take it to the conclusion that it can exist. You have a church. You have to desire to have a building, a building with a church office such Sunday school, children's church, international speakers, coming and going with other speakers, conventions, programs, camps. What are the possibilities in the field that you are working? What are the possibilities? Take it to the end. What do you think? That's why I always go to Korea. I invite all of you to come to Korea. I go to Korea to. See the maximum ultimate possibility of a church this year? God, really, I'm going again. I mean, you see a church. The man is 70 something years old. He meets in the Olympic Stadium with his shepherds on a Monday morning, Tuesday morning, in the morning, he just calls his shepherds the Olympic. That might the biggest stadium that you can have for the Olympic, the big one, the Olympic Stadium. You see the sign Olympic Stadium this way. Olympic Stadium. When you are in Seoul, Korea, you see the science. Olympic Stadium, Olympic Stadium, Olympic Stadium. All the signs are in Korea, but that one is Korean and small English. Olympic Stadium this way, that's. Why I meet shepherds. The whole place is full. I mean we are talking of ultimate pastoral work. He has been a pastor for so many years. He has handed over his church and he just invites us and cause come fellowship at the. Stadium come in the morning. And every year you think that the church will get filled. I mean, just looking at the ultimate levels of pastoral work, what else can you do? So every type of ministry has its ultimate. If you are a doctor, you can take it far. You can become a private this, you can have the hospital, you can do this, this, this, this. You can have this. You can do any field. You can be a certain level. And God is saying to you, tell Archipos. That he better fulfill his music. Take the thing to the end. So what can you do in Swaziland? You must have your building church, children's church offices. This. Branches, branch pastors, branch buildings, this and that, whatever. What can you do? Take it to the end. We have been sent here to come and do something for. God, what do you mean by that? Are you dull? Ask your neighbor, are you dull or you are alive? What did he say? Alive. There's a church called Alive Chapel. Amen. All right, Grace, come sing one song for us next 1 #20 because I'm determined to finish this thing today. And then after that we close. All right, all right, all right. The next one you must ensure you must finish because you must finish delivering your message. You must finish delivering the message. Sometimes when you start preaching, you don't finish delivering your whole message. Amen. The message of loyalty must be fully delivered. We can't deliver it halfway. And that's why in Colossians chapter one, verse 25, Paul said, whereof I am made a minister according to the disposition of God, which is given to me for you to fulfill the word of God, to fulfill the word of God, to fulfill the Word, I must complete the word of God. Jesus said I have. Finished. I have given them the words that thou gavest me. Amen. There is a message that Lighthouse Chapel is bringing. We must fulfill it. We can't give it halfway. People will not understand what we are saying. Some people think that loyalty, when you are loyal to the Church, we are all afraid. It's almost, I hear the Bishop is very hard. Whatever. If you do this, this will happen. If you do, people come to the church and say what are you talking about? You don't understand what you're saying. The people, a lot of the people, they rather love him. They rather there's nothing like fear or whatever you don't understand, so they don't understood their message. They just sit outside and say, hey, that church loyalty, loyalty, church. You need to look a little closer. You need to hear it better. I met an old friend today in a cafe on the Hill. To see him after all these years somehow did not seem strange. We laughed and reminisced about the life we used to lead. But I could tell I lived with him nothing but you changed an invitation to a party was only had to offer everyone will be there and all the hiding thing. So as he checked the time and he paid the check, he said we're all out here. But I could tell the one he was talking to. This is a song of a girl who met her boyfriend, her old boyfriend, and she realized that he hadn't changed. All he was doing was inviting her to parties and so on. As she was looking at him and he was talking to her. So you realize that nothing much had changed. Or he could talk. I invited you to a party, so he wanted to tell the guy. Look a little. Closer and you can see that I've changed that God has done something in my life you need God look a little closer Hallelujah how many wonder unbelievers to look a little closer and see that there's a difference in your life come on sing it again I. Met an old friend today in a cafe on the hill. To see him after all these years somehow did not seem strange. We laughed and reminenced about the life we used to lead. But I could tell, at least with him, nothing much had changed. An invitation to a party was all he had to offer. Everyone will be there and all the high lead in vain. So I see check the time and he paid the check. He said we're all up here in but I could tell the one he was talking to was the old man and as he looked a little closer, look closer. Can't you see that I have changed? I'm not the girl I used to be. My life has rearranged. Come on and look a little closer. Look closer. I'm not the girl I used to be. I gave my heart to Jesus and He gave a brand new life to me. Wow, come on, give a lot of club offering. As we began to leave the table and we started toward the door, in my heart there was a staring and I knew there was something more. In his eyes. There was an emptiness that only Jesus can feel. It reminded me of how I used to be before I accepted him. After an awkward moment, he broke the silence and he said I heard about a savior. Or was it something that I read? But I don't need religion. There's nothing to wait anyway. I asked him him he wouldn't mind if we. If. We took time to pray. Lord, help him look a little closer. Look closer. Help him feel your loving touch. Remove the blindness and change his heart. Surround him with your love. Lord, help him look a little closer. Look closer. Another girl I used to be. Do for him what you've done for me. Lord set my brother free. Set him free. Would you do that for me, Jesus? Set my brother free, won't you set him free, Jesus? Please set him free, boy. Again, Jesus makes the deep friends. He is everything you need. Lord help you. Look a little closer. Look closer. Can't you see that I have changed? I'm not the girl I used to be. My life has rearranged. Come on and look a little closer. Look closer another girl I used to be I gave my heart to Jesus and he gave a brat new life to me. The closer helping feel your love in touch, remove the blindness and change his heart surrounding. With your love. Lord help me look a little closer the closer I'm loving God I used to. Be. Gave my heart to Jesus and he gave brand new life to me. Jesus sent me through. And he your Lord is born. Yes, He, your Lord is born. The. If not in you, I will ever find one who really cares. If not for you, how will they find there's one who hears their broken heart heals the captives. All right #21 #20 no, I'll give you 20 already. 21. Some of the missions God has given us, they are to fulfill all righteousness. We have to fulfill our work because we need to fulfill all righteousness. Some things you are not doing them because you need to finish anything great, but just to complete a certain protocol. Amen. How many have not been baptized in water, in mess, in water? Since you are born again, raise your hand. Raise your hand. You need to be baptized, not just because it does anything to you, but because you have to fulfill all righteousness. Amen. You need to do certain things so that you fulfill all righteousness. So sometimes God is asking us to do certain things, not because it's doing anything special, but because it's necessary to happen. Like you have to be ordained, you have to become a pastor, you have to be a shepherd, you have to preach, you have to do the work just to fulfill certain laws that are fulfilled. Amen. Sometimes when I send people, one time I was sending somebody, I say, look, the reason why I'm sending you is because it's not because you need, you are even going to do something there, but it's to fulfill certain righteousness because I said one day you need to be in a particular position. And you need to. Speak. But if you haven't gone to this place before, you cannot say what you need to say. All this theory, you understand. Yeah. Like you don't want to make you a commander in the Army. And you've never been to war before. You've never been to military training school before. Do you get it? So you realize that there are some things you need to do, not so that you do any particular thing or anything would change, but so that you have have some experience. And some of us really need to fulfill certain things in our lives. We need to fulfill certain rights. Some of us, our tides are not going to make any difference to the church. But you need to do it so that you fulfill the righteousness of being committed. And you don't steal 10%. How can you steal 10% and be an honest pastor? I mean that you need to be a real good hypocrite to some of you. Maybe you may be students or you don't have. Much money, but the 10% is necessary to fulfill something. You see, I never knew that when I finished school I will just work for one year and I will go into ministry. But throughout my student life, from a certain point, God revealed to me what is tithe and I started to pay tithe. And I remember one time I was living in London for a year. That is where I knew what survival was, but I had to learn how to pay tithe. My pastor wore shoes with alligator skin snakeskin shoes. The most expensive 1 shoe is $1000. And I was paying my time. Every time I paid my tithe, it means I wouldn't eat because I was not employed. And I had amount was I think 20 lbs when I took off the tithe and then my bus pass of 12, I was left with 5 lbs like that. And I could buy one meal a day for five days or six days, but remaining one day every week I paid my tithe. First thing I paid my tithe. And then I lived off the rest without being able to eat for one day. It was something that God wanted me to experience because one day I'll be a pastor and I'll be encouraging people to pay tithes. But if I myself have not paid tithes before. Not that those 2 lbs was making any difference to my pastor who was driving a Rolls Royce Jaguar with $1000 snakes, shoes and alligator. Any animal that is he wore it, he wore. He was very animals to walk on the on the road. How much difference do you think the 2 lbs made to that church? They used to they used to. They announced their their target 5000 lbs a week offering and 5000 members. It was their goal 5000 lbs a week, 5000 members 5. This is our vision. They announced openly that it was a prosperity oriented church. Fully my 2 lbs. I don't make anything to the 5000 lbs. A week that they were raking in. In those days with Jaguars, days that the people come ministers from America. It was not a small ministry. It was the top ministry in the UK at that time. But God trained me with my 2 lbs. I was faith. Today I direct millions of dollars in the church. If I want to steal, I can steal it. You wouldn't even know I was standing here. I'm a thief. You will not even know. How would you know? When you control a lot of money, you can steal too. You cannot easily know. So I mean, God has allowed me to see a lot of money that I have there. I can control it. I can say that you go here, you go here, you go here. I see there's some things that have to be proving me and it costs only 2 lbs, but it cost me a certain something. I felt it. Some of you, when you see with your 20 rounds, you don't pay offering, you don't pay tithes, tithes. You just mulliganize and bring some figure. You bring a figure to the church and you say it's your tithe. It's not your tithe at all. How do you think God can promote you today? Look at me, I can drive any car. That I want. But I don't drive it. I drive the old car that I've. Given for the last seven years, it doesn't mean anything, but now I can. What is the name of the car I? Can have it, I'll send a text and the car will start coming you you can only look at it in the glass and be praying and claiming. I'm claiming and miming window shopping. So Internet shopping without the ability to buy. But I see why will God give you authority when He has not tested you and He has to test you? He has to be tested even with the women. Will you sleep with the women in the church? Because when you are a pastor, the women can throw themselves on you and will do anything that you say. Will you sleep with them? Will you mishandle them before you give you such control and power and authority? What will you do when you have such powers? That's what happened to Eli Sans. They were misusing the money and they were misusing the women. I see some of you small protocol. God is expecting you. Oh, I just was, I was just trying to test you with this one year something, this situation that you had. I was just trying to analyze you and see how I could lift you to the next level and that one. Became a problem. My wife went on Sunday, my wife went to a program. She came back to tell me. She said hello, a pastor came there. He said that he came to he was, he was asked to speak. She said he told a story that was amazing. She said that the pastor got up and said he was a poor pastor from Ghana. I've gone to preach. I'm sure I'll be missed some details of the story, but it was like something like that. He went to preach and he went to preach somewhere and the pastor gave him $1500 and then he went to this other church where he was speaking, a small church and the prophet came there and the prophet said there is somebody here, you come from Guyana. He said Guyana also, maybe he was from Ghana, Guyana or Ghana. Then he mentioned his name. He said. I think your name is Obin and you have $1500 now in your pockets. And he said that it was all that he had, he had borrowed. Money from Ghana from somebody to buy a ticket to come to America, we had borrowed 1500 and that 1500 is exactly what he was going to pay and he didn't have any money and the man said. God wants to bless you and He wants you to bring the 1500 that is in your pocket to give it to God. And he was just about to go back to Ghana. And he said the money was so precious to him, that is why he had not left it in the house and he had put it in his pocket and brought it to the church. And the prophet was saying that the money is in your pocket now and you are standing, sitting here now it's exactly 1500 and you are from Ghana or Ghana and your. Name. Your name is Aubain, he said. Charlie, he was sitting there, you see, God was trying to test him. And he said he could not believe it, but the way it was, he could not escape. And I think he didn't go forward. And I think the next day he went and he brought them and said, look, I cannot keep it again and I'm going to go back home without the money to pay for that, whatever. So he packed his bags and left for Ghana. He said as he was checking in at the airports and was going, a lady came up to him and said, are you such and such? She said, look, I I had whatever God spoke to me. He said that you are from Ghana or whatever God spoke to me. It wasn't even related to that service, that there is somebody from Ghana and I should go to the airport or so and I'll meet the person. When I went are you such? And I said, yeah, I passed. I'm going this year. He said God told me I used to be a mission with my husband. He's dead and I have something savings and God told me to give it to you. I forgot how she got to meet the person he was checking. He was going with penniless. He said of course I should give you this envelope. He said, wow, the man who has been called to come and give the 1500. So he took them, Sir, God bless you. So he took the envelope, small envelope, and he opened it. He was going when he opened the envelope. 1002 thousand 3004 thousand 5006 thousand 10,020 thousand 25,030 thousand $40,000 In the envelope, the woman disappeared. He never saw the man again. 40,000 U.S. dollars. He could not believe it. He said I won't travel again. He collected his bags back back because he had nothing he was going with. He went instruments now. Yeah, he was going back to Yeah. And he didn't have any money to pay that debts in return. He said nothing Anytime he's discouraged, he remembers that thing. Now I see that God is rare. They call his name and the amount of money that he had in his pocket and told him that this is and God wants to bless you and this woman came at the airport. Yeah, and gave him the mindset. I was a mystery in Africa many years ago. My husband is dead and I have this savings and God told me to give it to you. I brought it to you. Some of the things that you are doing is not because you are going to help somebody's ministry with 1500, but it's to fulfill maybe the law that you should sow so that you should reap because without sowing you cannot reap. So when we look at our lives and realize that even that law to be responsible so that you don't still got 20 Rand or 30 Rand or $20.00 or $30, you cannot be in charge of a church. And if you are a pastor and you don't pay tie, we will suck you. Nobody is allowed to be a pastor of this year who doesn't pay tights and lay pastor. If you don't pay, you cannot be a pastor in Lighthouse. We will and we check pastors tights. If you don't pay ties, you can because it means you will not tell the people. To pay their tithe. You cannot have a different opinion on this matter. I hope it is clear how many agree with me. So some of the things God is asking you to do, it's not about you or something you are going to give somebody 2 lbs. It doesn't change the pastors. It doesn't change the pastors destiny. When you pay your tithe, your tithe will not change my destiny. Your tithe does not affect my life. Your tide does not change my future. Get it into your head and doesn't change anybody's future. It changes your life. And so when Jesus went to be baptized in the river, it was not because he was a Sinner. It was to fulfill some protocols, some things that have to be fulfilled. That's all just. It should be done, I'm shouting give me volume one day when I became a. Bishop, a Bishop. Is somebody overseas churches? So when I became a Bishop, I announced to the church, I'm a Bishop from now on, Bishop now. So the way I became a pastor, I did the same one for the a Bishop called me and told me, he said what you did is not the right way. It is true this, this, this, but it's not there. He talked for a long time. I said, I said no, you have to do the right way. You must be ordained or consecrated as a Bishop. It was just because he was talking a lot. I decided to just do what he said. When the experienced people are talking, be careful. Not because I was not a Bishop, because I was overseen about 100 churches. I was a Bishop, but. There are some. Things to be done in a particular way. And because I did it, later on, as the ministry went on, I realized I now needed to consecrate some other people as bishops. But because I have done it and I subjected myself to that ceremony, now I have the authority to also conduct such a ceremony and make the office of a Bishop something clear and defined. But if I had not done that protocol, John Wesley, he was challenged one day when he was preaching, Who made you a preacher? How can you get? Up and say this thing, he said. I was ordained by the Archbishop of Canterbury Anglican Church. I'm ordained. That's why I'm speaking. And the man kept quiet. Jesus was talent who gave you authority, said John the Baptist. I was baptized to the ministry by John the Baptist. Do you believe in him? They couldn't answer. So sometimes it's not about anything. Sometimes God tempts you with your Father not to just see how you respond so as to keep you from that same thing one day. Because you are about to make a mistake also and he's going to cover you now when you don't behave in a certain way because you struck. He has raised 7 hands to come and strike you down also. Are you listening? How many understand what I'm talking about? So there are some things you have to finish the protocol. You have to become a pastor, become ordained, do everything, finish the schools, finish the one pastor. We were saying to the school, why should I do exam? Why should I do exam? What do you mean you don't want to do exam? Go to another church where they don't do exam. Foolish boy, stupid don't want to do is go to a church where they don't do it here we do exams. We do exams here. This is what we do here. Don't like it get out. That's how our churches don't come and start. One guy he was saying one check that we join every day exam this and that he was a pastor. So he came for an exam and they asked him, what is John 16 verse 24? No, no, he they asked him, very verily, I say unto you, something, something. And he answered, is in Romans. Something, something, a pastor. When they ask you, Verily, verily I say unto you, Whosoever I shall do that you say in Romans, Is it not Jesus who said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, How can it be in Romans? And you are you are criticizing our exam. Some of the things is not because you are ignorant.