13. 35 Qualities Of Becoming A Shepherd 5

Welcome to track #13 of the Privilege. Somebody found that page in your notebook delivered from a low ranking job, have you? If you found it, give me a wave. Give me a wave if you found it. Nobody at the back is weaving. Are you weaving? Is there a problem at the back? OK, so I need you to talk to me now. So what is #1? Everybody, shall we go? You've been elevated above a routine job. Is that what you have? Do you have something different? Is anyone who has something different OK? So what's #2? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I need to hear you, I need to hear you. OK. So everybody, shall we go #2? You've been elevated above the rank of a miner, of being a miner, of being a miner, OK? And then #3 Elevator above being what? A subordinate. A subordinate, OK #4 even elevated above an inferior job. Are you excited about that one? That you have a superior job? That you have a better job? That you are no longer a minor? Are you happy that you've been delivered from a routine job? That you have something exciting? Usually routine things are boring, isn't it? That I have something exciting? Hallelujah. Next one. Oh, backbenchers, are you with us? You see, I need to hear your voice more than I'll know that life is real. OK, so #5 is what you've been elevated above a lesser job? A lesser job? OK, next one. You've been elevated above a sub standard job number 7. You have been elevated above a second rate job 8. You've been elevated above a mediocre job 9 Average job 10 commonplace job 11 An undistinguished job number 12 the rank of an ordinary job. Even elevated above the rank of an ordinary job. Is that what you have? If you have something different, give me a wave. Even early. Because he didn't say rank of visa, ordinary job. So you've been elevated above the rank of an ordinary job. OK, you want to say that one again #12 Shall we go? OK #13 You've been, what, an exceptional job, number 14, a job that is not noteworthy, that is not worthy of being noted or noticed. You will not be remembered that you did anything. Have you done something you have not remembered before? Yeah, Now you've been delivered from that. And then #15 oh, dull job, a dull job next chapter seven reasons why Shepherdon is a high-ranking job. How many people believe that it's a high-ranking job? So why is it a high-ranking job number one? Because you are what? It involves leading people who are by nature ungrateful and forgetful. Have you met an ungrateful person before? How many have experienced ungratefulness before? What about forgetfulness? How many of you have been ungrateful before? Should I ask you when you were ungrateful, Pastor Abbi, can you tell us when you've been ungrateful? Come for Pastor Abbi, you said you've been ungrateful before. So. When were you ungrateful? I think with respect to Reverend Obi, I think there's a lot that Reverend Obi has done for me in my life up to this point. And there are times when he will ask me for things and my reaction sometimes is not the best. And I think it's a sign of ungratefulness when I do that. So there are times I encourage myself. I know that there are times when I forget what he has done for me. So like when he was trying to get me to come for the camp. But I'm grateful I'm I've changed by the grace of God. Amen. So. So you have to bring him some venison such as his soul loves. Who remembers that you have been forgetful before now? Nobody has been forgetful. OK, How many of you have been? Look, you can't. We're in church. You can't lie. Abhi Haka, are you now going to lie? Is it today that you are going to lie? How many of you have been forgetful before? Forgetful. Those in the front. Nobody has been forgetful. I think Lady Pastor Busola said she's been forgetful before. I'm sure she would like to tell us when she was forgetful. Welcome, Lady Pastor Busola, all the way from South Africa. Please come and share some forgetful expeditions. Please. Come, come. We're all listening. Yeah, and it's on tape. Even now I'm forgetful. Forgotten. I think that I think that in retrospect, when I, when I think of my dad, who is past now, I remember so many times when I challenged him over things and I it was as if I never remembered that he brought me up and he cleaned my my poo poo and I was his little girl. And when I when I got to my teenage and late teen ages, I was my Bishop was talking about it today. I could just see myself inside that she forgot that this man actually brought you up as a child. And most of the times we are like that, we are usually very forgetful. So stop looking at me because I'm. Talking. About you that's an insurance can go to the chair fast who also they've been ungrateful and forgetful faster myself come and tell us the truth and nothing but the truth ungrateful and forgetful. Hallelujah. I remember when I was doing my O level where I wasn't very good with maths. Yeah, so there was this guy. There was this guy who took me through some past questions. He spent the whole of that night, and then what he thought actually came and I passed. Now, I didn't go back to him to thank him. And after three months when I met him and I felt very, very bad. Yeah, But I apologize to him when I thanked him. So I remember that day when I was going home. I remember something Shakespeare said. He said ingratitude is monstrous. And for the Shakespeare said ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ungrateful was to make a monster of the multitude of the which we be members have made ourselves monstrous members. That day when I was going home, I was thinking about that thing I learned in this form, and I was applying to the people in the book. But I began to apply the thing to myself. Yeah. So I realized I had become very monstrous. I should have planned and I didn't. You are blessed and forgiven, Pastor Emmanuel. Let me share some ungrateful experiences with us first. Larry, have you been ungrateful and forgetful before in the work of the ministry? Yeah. So after him you come and tell us work of the ministry and ingratitude and forgetfulness. Well, I think again, my parents, when I was growing up, my parents, I mean, they, I now when I look back at them, I always tell them that they're the best parents that I could have had when I was growing up as a teenager, when I passed through my teenage years, I mean, I felt that they were very, very, very some way because like I, maybe I had friends who their parents will allow them to do certain things, go out to parties, go places. But like my parents were very disciplined and strict and protective and they will lash us, you know, and things. I thought that these are the worst parents in the world. And I used to pray to God that God, why didn't you give me better parents? You know, but but now, I mean, I remember, I think Mother's Day, I told my mom that you are the best mom like I could have had in the whole world. So you are saved and delivered. Pass up, Larry. Ministerial ungratefulness and forgetfulness. Yeah. Hallelujah. In ministry, Yes. I mean, there have been so many ungratefulness and forgetfulness on my part. I don't even know which one to share. But I think as a missionary, I had an issue once on the mission field. And, you know, it really got to me in a way. And but thanks to some of the teachers that we received in the church, you know, one quickly came back into the, the, the, the, the, I mean, one quickly came back on course and we are moving forward in the right direction. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Or you want me to go into details? Another kind. I said many to another one. I can easily think of one forgetfulness. Even my wife, I think sometimes I think I appreciated my wife. No, my wife is very phlegmatic. You know, she just flows. If I decide we are going, I mean, and I think I have, I remember once I was preaching and she had, she had just stopped breast breastfeeding our baby. And so the baby, I think she was in pain or something so that the kids were walking around. And I'm a bit choleric, you know, maybe I'm quite choleric, you know. And I, I told her, look, when I'm preaching, I don't want these kids walking around, you know? And she's so phlegmatic that sometimes I forget some of the positive sides of her. And I really rebuke her from the pulpit in a way that I tell you, you know, and but she's a good woman. So, you know, we've been flowing as though everything is normal. Yeah. So even sometimes, you know, we forget, I mean, we forget our wives in the ministry. It's not just the pastors or senior pastor, but the person, you know, close to you who is making things happen. Yeah. And I really appreciate it for that. Yeah. Very, very. It's better than the first parable, isn't it? Yeah, wonderful. Swats point #2 For the second reason. It involves people who will betray you. How many of you have been betrayed before you have been betrayed? Not many people have experienced betrayal. OK. How many of you have betrayed someone? OK #3 It involves directing people who are wicked. I mean, if you are dealing with people of this nature, it must be a high-ranking job that you have, isn't it #4 It involves working with people who can abandoned you suddenly. I mean, suddenly means without notice. Without notice you are just flowing. And then suddenly there's no flow. Yeah, that is, that is what will happen, that just we all flow in this way, then suddenly, no, I want to go this way and that's it, OK #5 Because people are equalizers. Equalizers and what? Disrespectful. How many of you know that it's easy for people to equalize? Have you equalized before or have you been equalized? Equalized. Me. We made we are made as equals and treated as equals. That we all the same. What you deserve is what I deserve. What you get is what I get. I give you respect. You give me respect. One for you. OK, let's move on quickly. Number six, it involves leading people who are disobedient. Disobedience. Disobedience is giving an instruction and it is not carried out. That is disobedience. When you are told to do something and you do not do it, you are being disobedient. So it involves leading people who you give instruction or a command to, and it is not done. OK #7 Oh, I think some of you have retired. Can we do #7 together, right from the back to the front? Shall we go? Communicating with people who do not understand and who do not respond. It will be very difficult to lead such a person SO does not understand what you're saying and will not respond to what you're saying. It's like dealing with a deaf and dumb, but sometimes that's our administrators. It's like communicating with people who do not understand and who cannot communicate and cannot respond. All right, next chapter, Shepherd is a privilege because what? It involves becoming a part of a government or a member of a government. OK. And then the next one was what? Oh, have you got the next chapter? I'm waiting for you. I show Shepherd in is what? Yeah. And then we have, what, 35? OK, so we've entered today 35 conditions to becoming a Good Shepherd. OK, so what's the first condition? You must have a desire to to be a shepherd. How many of you here have a desire to be a shepherd? Desire to be a shepherd, a pastor? A desire is an interest to be interested in that. I want it. I'll like it, isn't it? Immediately you have a desire to do more, a strong desire, a weak desire. I mean, you have a strong desire, strong desire, and you give me signs of a strong desire. I mean, say you have a strong desire. But if you say you have a strong desire, you need to explain to us what you mean by a strong desire. So let me ask you if you have a desire, a desire, you have a desire to be a shepherd and you have a desire. I've closed my eyes. If you have a desire, OK, put your hands down. Now I've opened my eyes. How many of you have a strong desire to be a shepherd? Strong desire. Strong, strong, strong. Those are that most strong desire. I like the people at the back. I really like that. Oh, back, backbenches. Strong desire. I want someone to give us signs of strong desire. Or Or what it means to have a strong desire. Who would volunteer to tell us why he's saying that his desire is strong? Brighter. Yeah. Where are you from? And. Yeah. From where? Tanzania. OK. Yeah. My name. Who's your pastor? My my pastor is pastor, Pastor David. OK, so tell us a strong desire of being a shepherd is like you feel like you are in a position, like you want to beat a Good Shepherd at the same moment. Like right now. Like I feel like this time I feel like, come on, give a shout of praise. Look, no, listen, listen, listen, listen. Listen, everything, everything has levels. Everything has levels. Some things are dormant, some things are quite active and then very active. What he's saying is that it's like when you have a sense of urgency that I need to do it, I want to do it and have to do it, now, now, now. That's a strong desire. We all understand strong desire. That's I want it, I want, I want it now, now, now. No, no, it's a strong desire. Rather, you have a strong desire. How many people sense that he has a strong desire #2 #2 is what you must have a divine core? You must have a divine core. That's Hebrews chapter 5 verse 4, isn't it? No man take this honor upon himself except or unless he's called of God. OK #3 You must have a willing commitment, a willing commitment. Do you have any points on a willing commitment? You only have willing commitment. What's a willing commitment? You are serious to to take the steps involved because you have a commitment, but you know you're really not doing what you have to do. Or you can say that I am committed, but you're not doing what you have to do to prove that you are committed. So a willing commitment is doing what you have to do to prove that you are committed, isn't it? Yeah #4 You must have a godly character. You must have a godly character. How many of you believe God that you have a godly character? OK By the grace of God. By the grace of. Yeah, by the grace of God, by the grace of God #5 Your wife must be qualified. Or your husband, Yeah, to whom it may concern. Or your husband or your wife must be qualified is what are some of the qualifications of a qualified wife? A flexible wife, A flowing wife, A what? A hospitable wife and then what? A spiritual wife, A missionary minded wife. And then what else? If you've seen a revelation, would you like to share with us? What's the revelation there? OK, yeah. A sexually active wife. OK And then what else? The what? The wife will base the word, the brothers have the point too. And then what else? What a role model? What's that? What does it mean? The wife was a good example. A good example too. Good example To who? To the other ladies? To the other? To the younger women. OK, I hope they will copy the good example. You have to be a good example to a good student, Is it not true? Because the good example is there, but they will not copy. So your wife must be qualified #6 you must be what? You must be blameless in conduct, Blameless in court. What does it mean to be blameless in conduct? What does it mean to be blameless in conduct? What's morally upright? Reverend Cliffier, please help us. What does it mean to be blameless in conduct? We're all sharing. It means your behaviour, the things you messy, the things you do in terms of, I mean within and without in the House of God, outside the House of God, you must do things that would not give a wrong impression of of the God that you save. For example, like as a Christian and found maybe fighting in public actually fighting, not not fighting in public fighting of I mean, or biting, biting the police and and fighting with somebody who is doing something wrong in the public bus. I mean, but generally you're you're the things you do must speak of the God you said in every sense. Amen. Wonderful. So you understand you must be blameless in conduct? How? If you think you understand it? How if you still do not understand blameless? OK. How many of you think you understand blameless in conduct? How many of you do not please? How many of you do not understand blameless in conduct? How many of you do not understand English? No. No, please. How many of you think you understand blameless in conduct? A lot of people here don't understand it. What about here? Excuse me, Let me ask. I don't know whether my English is not good enough. Please, how many of you understand blameless in conduct? OK? How many of you do not understand blameless in conduct? You don't understand After his explanation, you still do not understand. That's a good view. They still do not understand blameless in conduct. They've lifted up their hands that they don't understand. Blameless in conduct, OK? So please explain it. Is it an explanation? They don't understand all the English. They don't understand. I mean, conduct is your behavior, the things you say, the things you do as a believer, as and also as a shepherd, your behavior or yeah, the things you do must not give an occasion for somebody to speak negatively about your God, for example. There's a problem, yes, somebody didn't act well, but your response is also very inappropriate to the point that a comment is made like and you call yourself a Christian. Do you get it? They are not saying that or maybe what the comment is not, it is directed at saying that. Yes, maybe something wrong has been done, but your response must reflect, reflect who you say you are. And so that is what is blameless. And I mean, that's an example. Let's say there's there's problem at work, there's a problem at work. And then maybe a number of people were found to be causing trouble. As a Christian or as a shepherd, you should not be in that list. Yes, maybe something was not done properly or some money that was due you was not paid. But there's a better way of responding to that injustice than the way of, say, going to the company and pouring rubbish, I mean, at the workplace, destroying, I mean, property and all those things. Those things will not really solve the problem. And neither is that kind of behavior expected of a shepherd. Are you now clear? OK. So how many of us now understand? Blameless in conduct. A good teacher they all understand #7 Husband of one wife. What about wife of one husband? OK, so husband of one wife, OK #8. You must be vigilant, you must be vigilant, must be vigilant #9 You must be what? Sober? What does it mean to be sober? self-control, moderate, temperate, sound minded, not being influenced by external factors. Yeah, OK, so that's what it means to be sober. And then #10 good behavior, good behavior #11 is what? Lover of strangers? Lover of strangers given to hospitality, Lover of strangers. I think to be a Good Shepherd you must love strangers. It's very easy to love people you know and people who are like you, the people who look like you, and people that you have a natural fluid. But to be a Good Shepherd, you must love more than your kind and more than your type and more than people that you you would naturally choose. You understand. So you have to be a lover of strangers. A stranger is someone you don't know, then someone who does not look like you. Some may not like what you like and probably may not even speak the language you speak that you have to love that person that is a lover of strangers, given to hospitality. Amen #12. OK up to teach, up to teach. Do we all have up to teach or do we all have up to teach? That is being able to teach OK #13 not giving to wine. Is there anyone here who is giving too much wine? Much, Not much. Not giving. Not giving to to wine. Not much wine. Not giving to wine. Yeah. Oh, you have not given too much wine. OK, Not giving too much wine. There's another point. All the difference between the two, one has much, one has not much. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know how much is much, but in everything there's excess. So I think anything you're doing as you're approaching the excess, you know that you're approaching excess. I mean, you're going out of control and probably you're even getting addicted to it. So not giving to wine, not giving too much wine, Yeah. I think it's up to you to decide. OK, Next one. No striker, no striker. You're not a boxer, not a boxer in your house. You're not a boxer in public. OK, so you are not a striker. No striker, no striker #15 not greedy or filthy looker. What's a sign that you are not greedy or filthy looker? Something can help you. That you pay what? You pay your tithe. You pay your tithe and then you give offerings. Yeah. And then you do what you give to to the poor. OK? Needy people give to the poor. So you give your tithe, especially your tithe. OK. You start playing tithe. It's a sign that you are overcoming, you know, greediness and setting your heart on money, isn't it? Yeah. And then the last one, you must be patient. Please welcome the Bishop. Thank you for your blessing in Jesus name, Amen #1 the rod of the shepherd, functions of the rod #1 ruling. Now when I say the rod of the shepherd, it's a symbol of what you are expected to do. If you are a doctor and you are called, you are expected to listen to the chest, you are expected to listen to the heart, you are expected to examine the stomach, you are expected to press some places. Do you understand? So those are things that you are expected to do. Are you there? So number one, you are expected when you become a shepherd and you are giving your staff, I'm expecting you to. Rule, rule stand. You are supposed to rule Wes. Can I get a staff? Anybody should give me a stick. Is there? Do they sell walking stick in that shop? Oh, get me one of the Masai sticks. And so when you become a shepherd, you are given a rod in the Spirit, and with the rod you are expected to rule. What do you think? You cannot be a softy, Amen. What is that? My science? Do they sell it? They don't have some for sale there. It's for the God. When I give you, I say you are now a shepherd. With this, I'm expecting you to rule. Who is your first subject in your Kingdom? Yeah, because get her to stand up. Get her to stand up. This is your first subject in your Kingdom. I'm expecting you to. Rule her. You see, so now if you can rule subject citizen #1. How can you rule the rest of the citizens? How many can understand it now? Sometimes marriage can be likened to. Loto, you have Loto in you call it Toto Messi. OK, Now is it called Toto? Are you sure it's Toto LOTO? Yeah, they have that in Switzerland too. Toto, Loto. Toto Loto. No, but, but the LOTO is the lottery. We stay with the lottery. Sometimes you have one that is easier to rule. Do you understand? You may get somebody easier to rule, but you may get somebody more difficult to rule. But you have to rule. So come and stand here, my darling. Come this way. Yeah, come with your rod. And can I have AI want a smaller, smaller. Come, my dear, I want somebody smaller. Let us let us assume that ruling your best citizen is the same as carrying. Now you 2. Come. Are you a big? Are you big or small? Big. Are you small or big? Medium. OK, now you are taller than you got another small one. There you come. You are Eva, Pastor Kingsley's one citizen. Number one of Pastor Kingsley's tribe. So let's have 3 sizes come this way. No, no, no. Stay here. 123. Are you the smallest? OK, so now see if you can carry her. No carry her, she lift her legs. Wow. So you see, as he married this one, it was easier. Now come to this one. Oh, try how? You've been able to, but you're able to little but not so high, isn't it? OK, now come to that #3. Yes, Ready, ready. Study. Go now. So you see, you see my brother come back, three of you. So you see, ruling this fast citizen was easier with this one, was a little more difficult with this one, and was impossible. With this one. That is. That is why sometimes when you are criticizing somebody for what he has not been able to do, you may not know how. You may not know what weight he has been made to carry, that he cannot even his battling under that weight before he can go and add some. Other issues, yeah. So it is only certain men. Who can couples will you please come? Now, to whom much is given, much is expected. Now, it's not all pastors who can succeed in their ministry depending on. Whom they are married to, It's true. You may not know, but it's a reality. I mean, I'm showing you can it's. Easy to see, yeah. Because you may not have the strength of this Rambo that we have here. Now let's marry this one and let's see. Try lifting her I mean. So now you see he has been able to live that suppose maybe he's planting a lot of churches. He's doing so many things you are praising. So this guy is very anointed. He's prayerful, but maybe he's even praying less. But the weights that he's carrying is far less. I mean, this guy is praying for talented number sentencing number one that he's carrying. Now this. 1 citizen #2 Come on now, relax. Relax. No, no, I like the way you put it on your chest. Lift it up again. You are handy. Hair like bamboo. Champions League. Now my brother, this is your new calling. Let's see what you can do. So you see some people able to achieve certain things because they have some ability to handle the first citizen that they've been given. And whereas if you were to give that citizen to certain people and maybe maybe you chose the person based on lottery Lotto, Toto Lotto. Where's my my keyboard is come. I'll remove. I'll remove that jacket. Oh, no. OK. And Pinocchio come. Look at this mouse. Suppose I give this little boy, I give him this. Come, my dear, you see you're putting on weight has helped us. You get a reward, You get a reward, you try. This one is. That's not the preaching to be understood. Can you carry it? Try. He will fall down. You see some of the women, they know that they are destroying their men. She said that you fall down. When I marry him, I was palace ministry. I was palace Ministry. When he tries to carry, I was piling. She knows. She knows her own weight. She knows what she's bringing to the team. She knows he can only there he's becoming like small boy. Better try try try. You got to try. Lord, the power of God, the power of God, the grace of God, the power of God. This is what we call the grace of God, the power of God, the anointing of God. Chris, of course has has has abounded towards you. You have levered more abundantly. Look, this one is sweating. Look at the size of the two pastors. Not by might, not by power. So sometimes you don't know certain special graces allowing certain people to be married to similar beasts, similar beasts, and it is working, but you don't know the adjustment that are being made. Yeah, but some people, they can't. They can't. They can't do it. Sometimes they can't do it and they can't be head pastors. But sometimes they can't do it and they can't be assistant pastors. There are some people because of whom they marry, they cannot be head pastors. It's. True. Some people, because of whom they marry, they can only be assistant pastors. Some people because of whom they marry, they can. They can only be one. Of several pastors. Some people because of whom they might, they cannot be missionaries. They can, they can work for God, they can be in the chair, they can't be passed, but they can't be missionaries. Some people because of whom they might, they cannot be the main missionary. Oh yeah. Some people because of whom they might, they cannot be full time in the ministry. It depends on what weight you are carrying and your ability. The first thing is the 1st. Rule you you with the rod is a scepter. It's a symbol of your authority and you rule. He said he shall stretch forth his scepter and rule, you see. So the first thing I used to think that a pastor is somebody who's just nice smile, everybody. But if, you know a real leader, I was surprised. I was asking the people in my office, you know, I'm out. So I thought they were. So I'm very kind. And so you are hard. I was almost offended. Oh, you. Are very hard, very hard. I thought they would say I'm very nice, very successful, because I'm not hard. You see what will happen. Yeah. You have to be strong, very strong. Strongest so far. Have you watched Rambo? When they were torturing him, The guy who was torturing him, he turned to him. He said when he put him on the electricity and he was sugar. You are strong, very strong, The strongest so far. Lush me, lush me enough, lush me enough. So pastors, the first thing is to be hard. And the rule your citizen #1 the woman that thou givest me. She's saying why you're not allowing me to talk to people in the garden. I want to talk to people. I want to be free. I also want to go out and I want to have friends. I want to be normal. I want to be like everybody. Then you went and talked to the snake. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. You want this? You want this fruits. OK, go. Now you are talking to a snake. Then you've gone to eat the fruit. You've come. I'm OK. You have eaten it. You love me if you love me, Husband love your wives, husband, love your wives. That is the main card. The devil uses that verse. The devil also quotes scriptures. When Jesus met the devil in the wilderness he used the first 3 scriptures. He used scriptures that the Lord will deliver you if you do this this He used scriptures and Jesus said it is written if you be the Son of God this prove it show show the power of God this your chance. But if you are not armed with the scripture yourself. They will use the scripture, the devil will use the scripture and say husband love your wife. That's when you also turn around and say, well the scripture says that if any man come unto me and hate not his mother, his father and his wife and his children and his brothers and his sisters, yay and his own life also, he cannot be by this happen. I'm deploying that scripture on you today. If I don't hate my wife today, I am hating you. Even myself, I hate myself at times. It's a vest. Bring the scripture. Also bring the Scripture. Yeah. So all the brothers, phlegmatic brothers, weak brothers. Your weakness is not allowing you to be a leader. Your weakness are not allowing you to go straight every time somebody touches. Can you go and let? OK, OK. You are going straight, straight. What has been made for you. But can you please come this way? OK, Please. I want to. Can I? I want to pass it. They say I should come. Can you go this way? You also want me to go this way of it, isn't it? OK By now I've reached down there. But I'm following this advice every time they say I should. If I can, please would I OK this? I'm sorry. I want to please if you can come this way. I'm trying to go to the back there, so I just please, just to be nice to them, I want to just go this way. A straight Rd. has been made when I go here I can just go straight. Look, I've accomplished my calling just now straight, but because they keep on restoring my ears that this place is started so. I'm going here, but I'm excuse me, Hold, hold, hold. Yes, please. I should come back. I should come back here and go here this side. Oh. OK, these people should come here. My calling. I got finished by now. My first face, my first three churches would have been. I'm still here after five years. I'm still here after five years because of following, listening to things that I shouldn't listen to. Look, if you are a man, be a man. A man is not by the size of your penis. You want me to tell you that? There are more things that make you a man, yes. I. Think you are if you are a man. If you are a man, show us by where you can go and how straight you can go and what you can do. I shouldn't say it. I'll say you say. I might say you are a brother. You say you are a pastor. Number one you are to rule. And you, if he cannot rule his own house, he cannot, he cannot disqualify from ruling these small, small boys and girls in the church. Sit down. You say you are a man. You are joking. Revelations chapter 19, verse 15. By now the lions are getting wet. What does it say? I've removed it, It says. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword. And what Revelations chapter 19, verse 15. Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, and and the last passes, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. Amen. He shall rule them with what? Of iron. Hey, does he not denote some hardness? Iron, not wood iron. So pastors, rise up and leave your house. You don't have money. Your wife is making you take your children to an expensive. School, you are poor because of that and you want to transfer that bill to the church. The problem is you have to call because when the women, me, they say my child go where does your child, My child go to school, My child go to school, Montessori, my child go to this school, private school, public school. That's school. You are a fool. That's why you don't have money. You know you cannot put your food down. This is what we are doing now. We are here. When I bought, we buy the church. I brought one of my relatives to come and see the church that we were buying. When she saw the church, he said what? Place is this. If I was to have followed her nose the day that I saw that nose, we will not have a cathedral. That young Gicho came to the decades. That's the church. That young Gicho came to the decades. Which is such? If I follow that nose, you say you are a leader, you are following people's noses. You have to be strong. We are coming. The place was smelling Muslims outside doing whatever. Do a print outside people gambling. Rubbish heap toilet The front of the chatter, front of the. Urine house. No roof. It was just right. That is the very tell that Yongicho came with so many Americans and pastors, assemblies of commissions, directors and Koreas and all of I came to dedicate the plaque. Still, that's why he's too right. In that pulpit and dedicated it by following people. But by now we will not even be in Kenya. If you are not strong. If I'm not strong, I cannot send somebody to Kenya from London. Are Kenyans not trying to go to London? I'm asking you one question. Tell me the truth. Are Kenyans not trying to go to London? Are Kenyans not trying to go to America where I'm when there are not a lot of Americans? Are Kenyans killed in American embassy when the bomb came? Yes, everybody was trying to get visa. All the embassies of Europe and America are. Filled with Africans trying to go then I am standing in Europe, sending people away from Europe into deep Africa when their parents are advising them against their parents are saying what do you mean this man, this guy? What are you doing this by spoiling people's lives? What are you do. If I'm not strong, I cannot maintain my course. I cannot maintain my. Course if I'm not strong. Godwin, you are not strong. You cannot obey God. You cannot do what you are supposed to do. If Pasani is not strong, he cannot be in Nigeria. When he when I sent him to Nigeria, he said if I'm immediately, if I'm not strong, I cannot send him to Nigeria. First of all, I have to be strong to send him to Nigeria. Who go to Nigeria? If I'm not strong, I cannot see. If you're not strong, you cannot send people when you look at their face. You can't send them again when you look at them and you feel I cannot send this person there. Yeah, you have to be that. Sometimes I feel that if I'm not there, a lot of the missions will not come on because I know what it involves to say to somebody. Go. And especially now that when you love the people and then you know them personally, it's not easy to send them. And you know it's going to be hard. It will be hard, we know, and the road will be mighty and rough, but we'll get there. Heaven knows how we will get there. We know we will. We we are going, Heaven knows. Where we are. Going, We know we will. We will get there. Heaven knows how we will get there. We know we will. It will be hard, we know, and the road will be money and rock, but we'll get. In Kenya to send somebody away from Nairobi when he has moved to Nairobi city and now you are saying move from Nairobi? City to where? Kisumu, and to where again? Nakuru. And to where again? Where? Lochodio Loki Chodio? Loki Chodio. He has moved to Nairobi City now you say go to Loco Chodio. Hey. If you are not strong, you cannot look at somebody and say go to Loco Chodio, go to Loco Chodio, you, you, you, you look at it and say let's have a committee meeting. Then when you have everything, what do you think the people say? Yeah, you know, because of the remoteness of it. I think we need to emphasize in the city's first and when the city size tablet before we can, that's the end of it. It will never happen. When I sent Pastor NIA Jetutu, he used to be. He used to work at Shanteco for chief executive, not a chief executive. When I sent him to Nigeria, he told me something. When he said that thing, he struck me, my heart. He said that the decision to go to Nigeria is more difficult than the decision to come into full time ministry. That decision is far, is a different decision. I remember we were at the Chinese restaurant. Me my meeting, I don't have any. Official Place. I don't have any particular place that I have. I said cool. And he said it is the more difficult. He said place that he's afraid of in that place because if you go, then you hear. The stories in the place you'll be afraid. That's why I said you have there's a respect. You have to have. That's why I dedicated that book Take Up Your Cross to Pastor Chick. Because I remember when I came to Ghana, God told me I was in London, Send Chick to Nigeria. It was also not easy for me. So I called him, I'm coming to Ghana. Meet me. Meet me at Kwame Krumasaka. I will drive with you to my house. On the way I will tell you something. That's why I'm trying to do. All I can do whilst I'm here, I'll send people, I'll do their some very hard things. If you are not ruling with a rod of iron, you cannot do. If you come later with a rod of wood or rod of plastic, you see that it will be shaking. If we are not strong, we will not have had a crusade. In Tamali in Ghana, the northern Islamic city of Ghana, when Bunky Ranad Bunky went to his crusade there, he was stopped in the middle of the crusade. At the end he had to close down the crusade, but the Muslim did not allow and he had to leave the town and I said, let's go there. It will be hard, we know. And the road? If you are not hard, you cannot send people to go and die. You know they will die. When the D-Day came, 6th of June 1944, when all the allies invaded Europe to remove Hitler, General Churchill, the President they knew and the generals were the British. They knew most of the people would die as soon as they opened the boots. The Germans were with their guns. As soon as they open the board, they start to come out. They will die. So it's a matter of more coming so that the ones that survive will be on the sand, on the beach. That's what we call establishing a beachhead. And there is no way you can fight a winner when you are flying. You have to be on the ground and take from here to here to here to here. Then when we are now, when the Hitler, when they reach Hitler only killed himself when they were about 100 meters from where he was, that's when he killed himself. He never gave up. And he gave orders for the whole of Germany to be destroyed. He wanted to destroy Germany as it was earlier and he had lost. There are people like if you are not hurt, you cannot remove them. So. There are some. People you if you are not hurt and they knew. That. Most of the people would die, and then 50 million men died. And when Derek Prince was growing up, most of the young people that were not in the universities, there were no graduates. Everybody had died in the war. All the young men, all the universities, everybody was dead. Yeah, if you read his biographies, you'd be surprised to find that all. The young men in England were dead from the war. There were no more professors, no more deeds, no more that no more. They were all dead from the war. And you know when you ascended people, they will all die and they will achieve one step. They are dead in the water. Sorry to inform you, wife and children. Your father is dead. Sorry to inform you. Died in unknown cause of death. Sorry to inform you. Sorry. That's that's war. You are not hurt. So I'm telling you your, your, your strength of your, your accomplishment in mystery is often related to the level of hardness. If you are not strong, you cannot build. If you are wimpy milk toast, you know what? It's a milk toast. If you are a milk toast, have you seen toast when you put it in milk? Then it becomes. If you are a milk toast, you cannot go far. As we are in Nigeria, we have now been sending more. Last year I sent 20, about 20 guys, I don't know how many, but something like that. 20, yes to that. I've known them for years. When they finished myself. I'm sending you to die. Where are you sending us? I said when you finished, when I first said go to Nigeria, all of them different, different town, Bomosho, Osho, Mugbo, here, here, here, a Korean here. Go, just go. I close myself. Go, just go. I don't want to see you again. Vanish into the field. Hey. It's not easy. If you like, come and take my job and see if you can send anybody. You see that you stay with everybody forever. You never send anybody again. It's not easy, but that's why the first one is. So if you can't rule your wife. Wow. So you see, to be a shepherd, duty number one is to be what had #2 what am I telling you? What's the topic functions of the rod? When you are a shepherd, you are giving the rod. Number one is rule #2 is to we're making make a way. We're making you use your rod to make a way for people. Amen. Exodus 14, verse 15. And the Lord said unto Moses, Lift thou up thy rod, stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it, and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea, Amen. Hallelujah. Every good pastor must make a way for his people, Amen. What do you think? Moses stretched out his rod either and the sea opened, or his sheep. All the children of Israel, they all had a way and they were all able to pass through where they wouldn't have been able to pass through. So when you are a good pastor, how many people came from Tanzania? Stand up. We are all Tanzanians. How many of you are Tanzanians? OK, now put your hands down. You see, maybe you have a lot of members in your church and then they cannot come. What do you do? Take your rod, go to the Red Sea that your people cannot pass through. You stretch out like that and make a way to the sea path and call your Tanzania and say let's go to the camp. You don't have money, you see, I make a way. You don't have car, organize a bus. You don't speak English. I'm going to get Swahili interpretation. I put it back. I organize my own Swahili. All the Swahili section will be there. All done by the pastor. The people you make a way for today. Tomorrow they will. Then we will make a way for you in your in your ministry. Yeah, it's true. When you are a pastor, you have to help some people they don't have they cannot make a way for them. Big time pastors with big churches have big way of making ministries. Bishop Oh yeah, they PO with the biggest church in the world building. His attendance is 100,000. Now inside is 50,000, outside is 50,000. He has 52,000 churches inside the auditorium and outside. He has 50,000 benches outside. That's outside. He has moved there. He moved there. He bought chess. And he told us, I saw that he chose the chess in our cathedral. He bought the same chess. Yeah, he bought 52,000, put it in his chest and outside is 150,000 benches that were inside. Now he has the. Biggest. Way of making ministry in the whole world. He had the highest number of bus even more than the city of Lagos does not even have buses like that. When you see the buses like like ants, any check with a big boy has an equally big way of making ministry. The first time I saw buses that were like. Small, small cars. Do you have tiko? Daewoo tiko here. It was when I went to Korea buses. Buses are like cars went to the Olympic Stadium, 100,000 people bus. You would think that everybody comes with his car. Everybody. Buses have been organized and a way has been made for 100,000 people to come. And you see when you see Moses moving with 100,000 people, he has made a big way. He has made a big way for 100. 1000 people to come. So a pastor, if you're going to have a lot of people, you have to make a way. But most of the people are poor. The larger your way making, the larger your congregation, the larger your way making. That's why every pastor with a bitch has a big. Wave making ministry. Buses, free buses for the for the poor people, a lot of people, people who stay far away. You can't come because I'll make a way for you to come from that place to here. The bigger your way making, the bigger your congregation. So Moses stretch out. Moses is coming with 2 million people. He has to make a Rd. for 2 million people with their goat and sheep and all their luggage. Can you imagine how, how much and enough time you made a way for them to pass? Let's go children. Let's go, children. When you are a. Pastor, don't feel shy when you are paying transport for people. Don't feel shy when you are giving books to people free. Don't feel shy when you are buying things for people. Don't feel shy when you are buying clothes for you are buying ties for them, you are buying jacket for them. You have to make a way for people don't know even how to dress. Don't feel shy when you are showing people how to dress. Don't feel shy when you are giving them clothes. Your father made a way for you, that's why you are there. Maybe somebody's father has not been able to make way for. Big, big. Way making means big congregation. Go and look at the big churches in the world they all have big way making ministries. Don't don't worry when you are helping people a lot 1 day you you will stop helping them because they will be OK. Most of the people that have helped in the past, I don't help them anymore, but they are OK. They don't need, they don't need all those things anymore. So now some of the people, you have to show them who to marry because they they don't know how to marry. That's true. Pastors have to help their children to marry. We don't know who we are marrying. One day I saw one of my daughters in the ministry. She was in the church. She had AI would let me use the word handicap. She had a handicap and because of that handicap, no one was choosing her. No one was choosing her. Yeah, Nobody was choosing her. When they choose, everybody chooses her. But they don't choose her. They choose her, but they don't choose her. They choose her. They don't choose her. So I decided to make a way for her. So one day her brother came. I need somebody to marry. I remember my sister. You. Have you seen Sister? This message continues on the next track. Keep listening.