12. Eternity Mindedness

Welcome to Track. #12. Of the road to Calvary. All right, the next thing that you see on the Road to Calvary or the Calvary Rd. is eternity mindedness. Eternity mindedness. In Luke chapter. 23 and verse 43 and. One of the manufacturers. Which were hand railed him saying. If thou be Christ, save thyself. And us. But the other answering rebuked him saying. Does not thou? Fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation, and we indeed justly, for we receive the Jew reward of our deeds. But this man had done nothing amiss. And he said, Jesus, Lord, Remember Me when thou comest to thy Kingdom. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, huh, verily, verily, what today? Thou shalt. Be with me where? Paradise, Jesus. Mine was on Paradise today. Yeah. Today with me in paradise, how many pastors minds are on paradise I would dare say that a Muslim's mind is more on paradise than. A Christian's mind. They, they, they, they are going to get a. Certain number of virgins 7 virgins, 70 virgins. When they get to paradise. Paradise is a Christian word. Paradise is a word which belongs to Christians. It belongs. To pastors, it belongs to the church. We must think of paradise, we must think of heaven, we must think of something coming up in the future and we must stop thinking about this earth. His mind was on paradise and listen. It's going to be good in paradise. Today. We are going to paradise today with me in paradise, today with me in New York, today with me in America, today with me in paradise. Look there. Was there was a saying that Christians are so heavily minded that they are? No. Ethnic good. How many have heard that? Saying before, but I want to tell you the correct saying now is that. People are too earthly minded that they are no heavenly goods. You are not good for the ministry anymore because your whole mind is on this earth. You must think about having constantly. You must switch your mind past. Us not to money. Not to how much more you can get, but to heaven and paradise and what you will have over there. Teach your people about heaven. Talk about God, talk about eternity, talk about jewels and and crowns and, and, and the truth that God is going to give us. Talk about this hope for it. Plan where you will meet when you land on in heaven. Palmer will meet at this gate at a Matthews gate. I'll meet at this Perli gate. I always say no. The gates are named after. The tribe of Israel. I'll meet at a Levi, or I'll meet at Judah. Judah Gate or I'll meet at which gate? Ruben Gate or I'll? Meet at Pitta's foundation, because heaven. Is big in. Case you have transferred to another area, what will you do? Heavenly mindedness when? Jesus was carrying the cross what do you think his mind was on when they were beating him when the. Tip was saying whatever. Say yeah, it's today, brother. Hang on there. Are you OK? We counted, counting, counting. We are getting there, we are getting there, we are getting there. We are getting there. We are getting there, we are getting there. I'm there. His mind was on paradise. His mind was not here. There is no way you can do what God. Wants you to do with your. Mind fix family on things on this earth never you will be never. Useful in the Ministry. Most of us are telling our ghosts poor imitations of. Christianity. These are the products. Of our churches because the pastors we are feeding the people with earthly minded things. And we have made the whole church an earthly minded group of people whose. Mind is always what I will lose, what am I getting, what is my portion and so on and so forth. Are you listening to me? Colossians 3. Calvary Rd. I said Calvary Rd. Calvary Rd. The road to Calvary. The Road that leads to Calvary, Colossians, Chapter 3. This must be a scripture you must print. Out in your computer. Verse one. Verse 2. Verse 3. Print it out. Get it out, stick it up, Let it be a verse that will. Stay with you, Colossians. 3. 1. 23. What does it say? If you be. Then risen with. Christ seek those things which are where above where Christ. Sitteth on the right hand of God and set. Your affection on things about and not. On things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hit with Christ. In God and verse 4. And when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. Your life is hit with Christ. In. God and when Christ, who is our life, shall appear. Then shall we also? Appear with him, that is when you will see us. That is when you see our show, when you see our cast, that's when you see our glory. That's when you see our houses, that's when you see our mansions. That's when you see who we are. That's when you see who is who. Because we are dead and our life is his with Christ in God. And when Christ shall appear, then shall we also appear in with him in glory, then shall we appear, That's when. You see who is who. General Banas the real stars. That's when you see who is the star, that's when you see who is living a life. That's when you see the real life. That's when you see the real. Not here, not here. I don't need it here. I just need to get along. I just need something that will not kill me. I just need to manage alone. I just need to hobble along. I just need to, to to to to step, step along the way. All I need to do is manage along till I get there. Now when he appears, then tell my life I shall also appear and then you will see what is life. Now we are going to blow time. You will never. Understand. Unless you believe in heavenly things. Beat me the more. You beat me, the more my glory is increasing. Seniors on me, the more you see Miazo me. Do you know Seniazo? I've got a tape called Seniazo Bite. The more you see Miazo me, the more my glory is multiplied. Dribble me pepper. Me. Fire me, Ginger me, Persecute me, Shame me, chastise me. The more you do it. Criticise me. The more my my. Wits lambast me, insult me. The Muslimi stupify me, crucify me. My goal is increasing. I said. My goal is increasing. My goal is secrecy. Take it away from me. Take away the car. No problem. Take away the house. Take away that day. My goal is secrecy. My house is getting bigger. Take my car, take my dream. Car break my wall, take my house, take what they say. I don't care. All I need to do is to be managing along, managing along, managing along, managing along over there. I said over there when guys also shall appear, this we also appear with Him and glory. My Shakima MO Sunday pendal. I'm OK. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. That's what we are looking out to. Where will Michael Jackson be? Where will. That girl that. Woman Oprah Winfrey. Where will she be? Where will all these stars be as they settle down to die? This is the end of their glory. Many people don't want to die because this is the only place. This is the end of your glory. This is the end of your life. This is the only place they will ever be saluted. This is the only place they will ever be honest. This is the only place where the things will be OK Just here. That's why they are free to die. But you and I are not afraid to die because our eyes are set up there. Our life is hidden. That's why people can't see certain things about our life is hidden with Christ in God, Paul said. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. I'm still moving in the system. I'm crucified with Christ. The original plan, the original life I was going to live, I've cancelled that whole plan. Now I live a new life and the life I live now, I live by the faith of the Son of God who gave himself for me. I have a new life. In this new life, I don't need a whole lot of things, Paul said. Having food and. Remains. Having food and remains, you have food. If you have remains, it's OK. I said it's OK. Your life, the real life, you are going to follow and you are hidden in Christ. Hidden in Christ. It's OK. They should go and search and other people have more things on earth. Jesus told me that I shouldn't bother. To lay up anything on this earth. I didn't say, he said. Don't drain it up. I'm OK if I can leave today and I can leave tomorrow. It's not bad for me at all. If I can work and I can get Coca-Cola to drink and I can eat some chicken today and tomorrow, no. But even there's no chicken, I get it. Give me 4. It's not bad. If I don't get give me 4, I can get some fish. It's not bad. If I don't get fish, I get some beans. I can money no problem. I think my life is my life is hidden. Seek those things which are above. Set your affection on things above your affection. Your interest must be in crowns. Your interest not being crowns, your interest not being the places that God is going to. That's why your interest and your passion and your love and your admiration and your effort and your energy and your time and your strength and your youthfulness and your intelligence must be for things that are out there. Your. Cleverness. Well, I don't know what you have. Your intelligence? Your wisdom. Your zeal. It must be set there. I said are you no interest? And I said me, my interest is on things up there, way up there, way up there. Seek not if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are about. Seek them. It's not just to know about them. You must seek, otherwise you'll get to heaven. You'll be surprised. Seek. That's why I'm now searching to know my full calling, because I'm a bit worried these days that I'm not fulfilling all my call. No, I'm serious. Because if God has given you 100 callings and you are fulfilling 75, you've got only 75%. But if God has given somebody only three callings and is fulfilling all the three callings, then he's got 100% and I've got 75%. And people will be praising me once I'm on this set and will be saying, hey, you're a real man of God, so how do you do this? Oh. God has really used you all over the world. God, meanwhile, I am down there at 75. Percent and somebody who looks like nobody. The person is used all his three callings. And he's 100% three talents. He has used all six talents, is used all 900 and I've used. I'm only 64. You see, my mind is up there, so I don't want mistake. Someone to come and tell me I don't need it? I don't need it. Don't come with your deceptions. Tell me I'm great. I'm nothing. I'm not. I'm trying my very best. And we are all hot. We are all hot. We are all. Trying to pack. That thing one the way we get that if you only he will say well done, good and faithful. Have you seen people who are going to do exam where you see one of the students who is doing the exam teaching another? How can I teach you about the exam? I'm. Also going for. How can I teach you about an exam I'm also going for? We are all going for the exam. I can share with you what I know, but how can I because of the thing I'm also going to write it. How can I be sure? Then I then I don't understand what an the exam I'm going to write. I don't understand the eternal exam as I'm being assessed by God. I don't understand it fully. That is why I'll be so you in heaven. You see you. I'll be sending you. You'll be sending who? That was the day that 10 minutes to righteousness shall shine at the stars forever and ever. It's my prayer that it will be good over there. How can I know? I'm praying and trying to humble myself before the Lord so that He will show me mercy and grace before that great day. Oh, it's time to turn the whole ship back, back to the deep. We have been sailing by the Shoal like that. That's why we don't catch a lot of fish and big ones. It's time to turn fearlessly towards the blackness of the sea. And we know that our eyes are set up there. If your eyes are set up, then what's happening on this air will not bother you. And when the Lord even blesses you with a lot of financial things and all those things, it will not confuse you and you will not be deceived. But you will know that this thing, let's have to do something with it for the Kingdom. You will not be deceived as I have to let people see how rich I am. And you know what? You leave it. My father died in 1994, ten years ago. He left everything. He left it. He left it instantly. He was gone. Sometimes when I pass by, I think of where he's lying. He's there. The rich people of this world, they die. Princess Diana, she's dead. What did she take? When Michael Jackson goes, he's been so famous on Earth already. The glory of this thing is fading here. They are trying to put him in prison. They are trying harder and harder and harder to join him to the prisoners, the one of the richest men on earth. And they are so rich that they are not happy. They don't know what to do with themselves. They are trying to put it so even those earthly gains we can see are fading right before our eyes. My my grandfather's house is a house called Albado. If you go to Albado, you will see the house. It was a top in town. Top in town Then do you know the top most area in Accra? It was British Accra, that is James Tanner. Now that British Accra that it moved to Adabraka. Adabraka was the top most area in Accra. Adabraka. That's where the elite Ghanian community live. Adabraka. Today your house is Adabraka, then Laboni Naniba Airport, now almost every house in Laboni Ringway Estate, all our offices, salons, pios, everything, pharmacy shop everywhere. They are taking it to East Ligon E Ligon too. They did it now. Trasako here. Here is wonderful. Nothing. Within a few years it's fading. It's becoming useless. That's why I've decided. I've decided to set my affection up there. I have sacrificed nothing. Medicine is nothing. Don't think about that at all. Honestly, when I use it, I just use it to preach you. But I think that I've not sacrificed anything. I'm blessed. Blessed. I just use it for preaching. But in reality I feel that God has blessed me. I don't think I've sacrificed. What have you sacrificed? What have I sacrificed? I'm blessed. I mean, what? What has God taken away from me? He has, He has. Honored me he has. Honored. Am I not honored if. I was a doctor at the hospital. Would you be here listening to me, a foolish person like me, preaching to you and an eternal rewards? Oh, it's an honor. Oh, you don't think it's an honor? Maybe it's an honor to me. To me it's an honor. I don't know. Maybe you are thinking of other things, but for me. It is an honor. Maybe it's a high thing to me, this valuable to me. Oh yes, I love my heaven. The Jesus Look, when I was sitting with TL Osborne, you know something when his head shakes. So he was sitting smiling. We were talking about, he said he had started help to start about 30,000 churches and he was smiling. He smiles all the time like this. Then he started to hear this. We were eating lunch and we finished and he said I'm going to die happy, I'm going to die happy, 81 years old. He started to smile. I'm going to die happy. I'm going to die happy, Smiley at us. I said I'm going to die happy, he said. Then he preached. He said my wife died 10 years ago. He was so sad, he said, but I'm keeping myself busy. I've been so sad since she died. I'm lonely. So I asked what about your daughter? Is she with you said, oh, she's she's also busy evangelizing, so she's also somewhere. And he's also, he's also keeping himself busy by his smile. Go to die happy. That's a man who has lived for God and worked for God. Preach for God, May you die happy one day. I said, may you die happy one day, not die the death of of established in numbers and let me die the death of the righteous. There's something called the death of a righteous, and there's something called the death of a Sinner, the death of a righteous man. You know, everything is eternal. And your eyes, I feel like Paul's henceforth is laid up for me, a crown of righteousness which the Lord shall give to me, and not only to me, but all those who love his appearing. You have it, you have it. Don't follow any pastor who is trying to put your mind on earth. Lift up. There is a new message in town. There is something that God is bringing us back to the cross. He's bringing us to the cross. He's bringing us to live for him and to serve him sexual affection up. Switch up like this. Up, up, up, up, up, up not on earth. Don't try to get anything here. If the Lord bless, I'm not poor. God has given me many things I don't need, I don't want, I don't pray for. I don't you'll never hear me praying for him. God has given me 100 times more than we ever imagined or used. I can't use it. I can't use what God has given me. I can't use it. It's not what I search for, but I can't use it and I have to praise the Lord. What am I going to do with all this? And the Lord had to give me wisdom. Use it for my work here. Use it for my work. Do this, do this, do this. Oh, yeah, I'm blessed beyond imagination, super blessed. And I cannot use my and I know I'm not a fool. By the grace, I hope I'm not a fool. I pray that I'm not a fool. It's my prayer that I'm not a fool. It's not easy to know whether you are right or mercy, mercy Lord, but I'm thinking he said paradise, paradise Jesus was. Quiet of the crossing. When the guy started to give his life to Christ, then because he was a so winner to the last moment, then I got a last. I got my last comeback. That's before I moved out. I got my last coma. And he told the of our heavens, you don't have to go to new comments class, you don't have to go to new believer school. No baptism today. We are landing there live. We are landing live. One day I went to Kuala Lumpur airport and I had to wait for my flight. I was waiting a long time. So I was pushing my cat and I went into a bookshop. When I got into the bookshop, I was just looking this evening and I saw a book on Ethiopian Airlines crash in I think Madagascar or so. And I just stood there with my luggage and I just opened and started to read. Two hijackers. They hijacked the plane and they hijacked the plane. Everybody was in the plane quietly and the pilot told this thing, our fuel is going to run out, Listen, our fuel is finishing, The people said no. Fly here. So they flew there as they were going, you know, in a plane there's a sound. Suddenly the sound engine went off, engine went off, fuel is finished and they were flying so that the place that had to come. So the man, this thing came on the intercom. This is your pilot speaking. We have been hijacked by these two men. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to crash. You may do whatever you wish with these hijackers on the plane. I saw that crash myself because somebody was having his honeymoon on the beach and he saw the plane coming to land and he filmed it. The guy. Who was writing the book was one of the few survivors on that crash. He said that you see the plane doesn't come down immediately. She was going to He said that suddenly the plane, the plane began to smell. Do you know why people were poopooing? People began to. Go to the toilet. People began to urinate. People began to vomit the whole play. Everybody was going to. It is not easy to die if you are not ready to. Die, I said. It's not easy to die if. You are not ready to die. He said that the whole play was thinking and they were. All waiting to crash. They said when they. Crashed, they saw. Water everywhere they fell into the sea. Water came into the. Whatever. He just swept up moving, moving, moving, moving before him. He was out with a chair and everything. A lot of people were in the plane. No, people couldn't come out. Some came out, some couldn't come. That's why it's when you sit on a plane, look at where it's exit. You see this? Exit here, exit here, exit here so that in case of you know that it's back, you'll just go to the back. That's the reason. For that instruction they say look at where because you must know that the nearest exit may be behind you and you'll be going forward, and they say I'm behind Ziza. If you're. Going to die, you don't know God there. He will be afraid. But John Wesley, when he was dying, he said the best of all is that God is with us. God is with me. He was surrounded. I have a picture of John Wesley when he was on his deathbed. Oh yeah, people were around him like that, All the people, big man, the founder of. I mean, he's a great man. He had his problems, but he was the great man. People were around him. He was dying. He told them the best of all. Now God is with us. His last words. What will be your last words? We said yes. Oh, how foolish, Lord Jesus. Have mercy on me, on my soul, if I have a soul. Thank God that our eyes are fixed on eternal things. Are you glad that you are a? Pastor, whose eyes are. Fixed on heaven. Go home and preach about heaven. Talk about the crown. Let the people see that you believe in it. As I'm. Preaching. Do you think that I believe in the heaven? Preach it like that. Let the people's minds start to lift up with look, I don't want to say anything bad, but I just want to tell you many of the problems we have will not be solved. I don't want to lie to you. I mean, I know that it's not a faith, so-called faith message. I just want to tell you a lot of the problems. They won't go. It won't go. Jesus said there will always be the poor. Some of the problems have causes beyond you. When David calls Joe up in case he says that may they never cease to be a man who is a leper who falls upon a soda is to die accidentally, which is has an issue that is a discharge or a sore or something like that, or that lacquered breath or that falleth upon a short. A poor man or I mean they should always be. So if there's a case on your family that by all means and comes to your turn and you are the one that falled upon a short or you are the one that lacked bread or you are the one that has an issue. It's a senior. So even when we are praying about it, you realize that it doesn't go away. The problem doesn't go Amen. Are you there? The problem doesn't go away because there's a deeper, higher cost from David's case. There's a higher case beyond your imagination. Hallelujah. Are you listening? Are you understanding what I'm talking about? Yeah. Some province, Hungo. Porprit for some of his province is going to lose his Hungo. Just be with it. Yeah. I won't go. It's going to be there. You're going to have to make it with the problem. Yeah, as I wanted to change Ghana, but I've come to say Ghana won't change. Actually, I don't think in my life. And so I. Won't try, I'm going to. Try and change the people that God has given me to change and minister. I'm not going to use my life for something like that. No, I can preach, do my best and finish and I clear if only the Lord says I've done my best does it, I'm OK with it. Tell somebody does it. Glory is waiting for you, sister is waiting for you. Glory, glory are you? Excited, pastor, I'm there. For that glory is awaiting, waiting. I want glory. I want an eternal weight of glory. Do you want it? Receive it, Yeah. And live that way. Set your affection. Seek those things which are about not things on this earth. And you'll be surprised. That when you seek things that are about the things of the earth will be given to you all around. It's amazing, you see, then you are wise and you know that this thing, it doesn't mean that God, He approves of me. It doesn't mean anything. What am I supposed to do with it? When you have wisdom, Hallelujah. So do you see, eternity mindedness is on the road to Calvary. How many have realized that eternity mindedness is on the way to Calvary? On the way to Calvary.