15. Church Growth And Faith

Welcome to track #15 of Mission Africa. Now we are looking at the ministry of the Sower. And the ministry of the sower is intended to bring forth a harvest. The harvest is the is the souls who are sitting in the church. All of you here from Zimbabwe and Zambia, you must remember that lighthouse as a church started in Ghana. We didn't know anybody in Zambia. I've never met anybody in Zambia before Zimbabwe. I've only heard of President Mugabe. I didn't know anyone here. So we came here and we started preaching. Now you are here, you are an evidence, you are evidence of, of, of a harvest of somebody working, isn't it? And so, and you are glad that you are saved and you are glad that you are in the House of the Lord. So in the same way you must have that vision to reach out so that we can win more people to the Lord. We were happy in Ghana. Do you understand? We didn't have any problem there. We knew a lot of people. We had friends and family. Yeah. And there wasn't any problem there that we still came here. Amen. Do you understand we have accommodation, We have cars, some of us, if you have drivers, you see air conditioned cars with everything we have already in Ghana. So coming here was because of souls for people to be saved and here you are. So in the same way, we must go out there and do what we have to do so that a lot more people can know the Lord. We are not trying to build something that even belongs to us because the church doesn't belong to anybody. Even your house doesn't belong to you because you are just renting it for some few years. Even when your name is the one, when it is in your name, it's still a short lease. You by all means leave it. Even the person coming after you may sell it as soon as you die then. But he doesn't like it. It's like you bought a bad house or doesn't like the area. Yeah. So when you guys. Oh, this is my permanent house. It is just a temporary house. Messy. So this morning I want us to go onto another subject that helps lead to church growth and I'm preaching from my book on church growth and this subject is faith. Faith 10 to Hebrews 11 and verse one. Hallelujah. Have you found Hebrews 11 verse one right? Now faith is a very, very important thing in relation to in relation to obeying or in relation to serving the Lord. All right and, and faith is interconnected with many of the other important virtues. Unfortunately, people who have preached about faith have given examples like practical windows or examples to others to understand the concept of faith. And the practical examples that they gave had to do with money, houses, cars and so on. So with time, people took the windows or the examples they gave and left out the substance of what faith is, you know. So in the end, faith is almost like a tool for canality, you know, a key to greedy grasping. Do you understand the master key to greedy grasping of athletes? Are you with me? So a spiritual person, like very spiritual people now even avoid the topic faith and don't even look at faith as something great that we should have. So the other day I was praying, you know, I was praying about certain things. You know what I should do and all that, you know, and, and to my surprise, the Lord said, you know, faith, you need faith. Pray that you be a man of faith too. Yeah. And I was a lot, a lot of surprised because like faith is like something that, oh, you use it to get money and job. I need money. I I like money also. I use money, but it's not my vision. I cannot say that I don't need money or I don't use money or I don't like money if I have it, you know, but I, I, I know that it is not a good vision for a person to have. It's a very bad vision. I have it to want to be rich. It's a very, very bad vision. You never have that vision. If you have that vision, you can easily be destroyed. I mean, like when I say a vision, like it's a pending passion that drives you, you to, to, to have money, you know, but that is that is not a good vision. If you have that vision, you, you can easily Pierce yourself through with many sorrows and many heads. Are you with me? Wow. So brothers and sisters, I want you to also decide you're going to be man, woman of faith, Amen. A man or woman of faith. When you're a man or woman of faith, you are able to do great things for God. Hallelujah. And without without becoming a man of faith, you cannot really do great things. So actually a lot of people who are obeying God are actually men of faith. But we usually call a man of faith somebody who can pray for a car or can pray for money. Is it not true? Yeah. And you know, when, when you can pray for money or pray for a car, you know, then it's like, wow, this is a man of faith. You know, look at how he's prospered. Wow. Are you understanding what I'm talking about? Yeah. So I want you to be man of faith. Amen. And God is going to bless you greatly, All right? It's going to make you wonderful in his sights. Now in Hebrews 11 verse one, you find the great history of faith. Faith is the substance of things hopeful and the conviction of things not seen. OK, now faith comes from a word pistis, OK, which means having the power to persuade, right? There are a lot of words related to faith that are translated into the English trustworthy faith, assurance, belief. Do you see? Yeah, and mainly having to do with fidelity, faith, faith, faithfulness. But there are other words, belief, believing, true, trustworthy, trust for all right? So another one is to be easily persuaded. OK, so when is it? Now faith is the substance of things go for like to be easily persuaded is the substance of things go for. All right. One who is easily convinced, you know, to be firmly persuaded about something. Hallelujah. So faith is a very, very important quality. Now, as I have come here, I, I, I cannot say that I can give a good report about you from the first minute I came here and started the camp. I cannot say I can. But Hebrews 11 verse 2 says for by 8 the elders obtained a good report. But I, I cannot say that I can give a good report about you, Pastor Landy. And most of you passed it from Zimbabwe. I came with almost half the almost the number of people that you came with from just from, from your own country. Yeah, came with more people than you. You came by flights you to drive across the just to be two meters out of your country, it becomes a problem. So I don't think I can say I can give a good report in that regard because even you attending a meeting has some indication shows about your faith. All right, but I believe you can have a good report. Now, amazingly, the Bible tells us how you can have a good report. OK, it says you can have a good report. OK, Now the reason why I speak like that, you know, is because one day when you start to travel to work for God, you realize that it's very difficult to travel, very complicated because #1 when you travel, you may never come back home. You may never see your family again. Not only unbelievers, believers to travel and never come back home. When you travel a lot of bad things can happen to you on the way #3 When you travel, whatever you are doing at home, you have to stop it and it will wait. Either suspended in mid air until you come back #4 Sometimes when you travel what you are doing at home gets bought. By the time you come back home, you have a crisis on your hands because of your travelling. So Ghana's first president, for instance, when he travelled on a trip, when he got back, he was no more the president. In fact, they told him don't come back. So all his clothes, all his things were in Ghana and he had just his suitcase. The president even didn't have a house, and he now depended on the goodwill of some friends, friendly heads of state, who said, come and stay here with us. We cannot go back to your country. And number six, when you travel, your family misses you. So some people travel so much that the family grows up without the person. Yeah. And then #7 when you travel and you have small children, they, the children, miss the training and the upbringing that the parents would have given. And the training is delegated to somebody else or to the air of the atmosphere. And the child is left to find his way as though there is no parents. And #8 when you travel it can have an emotional effect on you. Because Kennenhagen said that when he travelled he used to drive out of his house and park behind the house and cry in the car for some time before he will re spark the car and continue his journey. Because he wanted to stay at home and he wanted to be with his children, but he had to go and he had to separate from his family. Do you understand? So due to these eight reasons that I've given you, travelling is not a small thing. And if I can travel here, you get it. And you cannot travel to come from here to here. It shows something that you are not prepared to do. Yeah, some years ago I went to a camp in America and I was astounded as it was a few days after September 11th had happened and I traveled. It was one of the most emotionally frightening journeys. Even when I got up because of my color, when I get up in the plane, everybody, when I look around, everybody's looking at me to see what am I going to do. And when I go to America, the place where this thing happened, I have to fly within America. I arrive at the Washington airport and normally it is Africa that you see soldiers at the airport, but this time I saw heavily armed soldiers inside the airport at every part with huge guns and I became even more frightened. I saw in the shop that were selling toilet paper, big toilet papers arranged, you know, they are written on it. Wipe Osama bin Laden out toilet paper so you can buy it, and then you use it to wipe Osama bin Laden out. Yeah. Toilet roll, toilet roll, plants, you know, selling it. But when I, when I risked my life to go to America, to go to the camp, some of the pastors didn't even bother to come from here to here. They said, oh, this and that. And I was thinking, wow, look at something. They come because I had fixed this program before the September 11th thing happened. So I had to come. I came and see that from here to here they can't come. From here to here they cannot come. So it's, you know, similar feeling here. From here to here you cannot come. You know, all these kind of reasons that we have shown you that like Mucianos, Publius, Crassus dives, all your reasons that you are given in nothing. We care. You will be flogged and whipped with your bare bottoms. So I want us to move on. Amen. And get a good report, OK. And to get a good report, you need faith. You need to believe now believe in. It's not by just the word believing, but it is by doing what you believe. Like the Bible says, show me your faith by your actions. You say you believe. You say even the demons believe and they tremble. So believing is not just a feeling or an attitude, but it is revealed in your actions. So you may say that for my faith the elders obtain a good report. Another way to put it is by is, is, is is to say that by their actions the elders would obtain a good report by their actions. Because you can show your faith by your actions. And usually the actions have to do with obedience. So a lot of the words in Greek that have to do with obedience are also usually words that are linked to faith. So obeying God and having faith is a very important thing for you to ever amount to anything with God. You know, trusting God and acting on your trust. All right, So your actions are a wonderful test for your faith. It's easy to say I have faith for that one. Everybody can just blend out. I have faith. But it is your actions that really show that you believe what you say you believe. Now, most of us don't believe in heaven and in hell to a certain extent. And that is why you have today people here. That's what I was explaining to you, that we were happy in Ghana. We didn't have any problem, but we wanted to reach out to other countries. Amen. We wanted other nations to know God and not just be happy with ourselves and praise ourselves that we are doing well. Are you listening to me? So out of that belief, we took steps to actively go. Take our pastor for instance, in Rwanda. He was living in London, actively asked him to move. Our pastor in Nairobi, we actively asked him to move to, to, to, to Kenya, whereas people are trying to move from Kenya to London. He moved from London to Kenya, London to Rwanda, from Ghana to Burundi, from Milton Keynes to wherever, from Nottingham to Mali. Where is she? Come, come, Irene, give me microphone. This is a missionary. I sent she and her husband to. Where did I send you to please our? First mission was in Mali. To Mali. I sent that to Mali. Where were you staying before? In Nottingham in the UK. Nottingham Wow. Were you living happily ever after in Nottingham? Oh yes. What work were you? Were you a cleaner? Were you? Were you a thief? What work were you doing there? Were you an employer? What work were you doing? I was a practicing lawyer. A lawyer, a lawyer, but were you working as a lawyer? Because you know that there are people who are there like they are lawyer, but they are working as cleaners or they are working as house help or they are working as security guards. So I know that you say you're allowed. Maybe it's just a paper. So were you working as a lawyer or as a cleaner? Tell the truth. Cross, cross your heart first, and shaved the devil. I worked as a lawyer, my first chambers was in Temple was the Queen Elizabeth Buildings and then I moved to Trench Chambers in Nottingham where I practiced for another three years. We used to have camps like this when I come to the camp and then she will she will come and she will say that she has sent a message to the judge that she will not be there for that case today. Yeah, this 10 Lala simple behind the the computer over there. Yeah, she used to always, she was always there. You know, she she would go out and make a call. You know, she sent a message. She has a case. The prosecutor said this and that. Is it not true? I used to be at Cubs and then I was supposed to be, perhaps I have a pothead case and I was supposed to be in court, the court, the court would be in session, but I wouldn't be there. So then the judge will call me asking me where I am. And it was difficult for me to tell him that I'm at the camp meeting. So I had to come up with the clever answers. It's very personal. If I tell you, Sir, you will be embarrassed to hear why I was not there. That was what Bishop said. I should tell. Yeah, don't lie. So she told the judge that it's a personal reason. She can't say if I tell you, you'll be embarrassed. So just. You don't want that judge to be embarrassed. Just take it like that. I'm not there. I'm not that I'll not be there. And I sent you to where? Where mission? In Bamako In Mali. Bamako What's the temperature in Bamako? 45 I mean. 45 watts. Degrees Celsius. Celsius or centigrade? Celsius. Wow. Desert conditions Desert conditions Desert. Yeah, Yes, I sent her. So I'm explaining to you that the people that you are seeing as missionaries coming to, it's not that they were not happy at where they were or where they were wasn't good or there were civil war there. So they migrated to Zambia or they migrated to Mali or they migrated. Oh, that's not it. Yeah, I want you to know it and understand it. And see nobody is looking for money. We have rather brought money to Zimbabwe and life and help to Zambia and Malawi. Yeah, all these countries, we have bought properties there, brought money from outside, come and pour it to the country, thousands of dollars. Nobody has less than $100,000 worth of money poured in there, just at least in one go. Yeah. So what are we trying to do that? Is it something? Why am I going to come and eat it there? Would you have? Many times I've not even had the camp. That's why I'm blaming myself that I've not come for any camp here before. That is why you people are behaving the way you are behaving. So I've now decided to come so that you see my face properly in the country. Now, I thought you would have even been very happy, but you don't even seem happy that I said that. I'm coming. No, it's just how it looks. Yeah. Are you listening? Thank you, Irene. So the point that I'm trying to make, the point that I'm trying to make is that we have to believe the call of God is that is that believing the belief that makes you do what you are supposed to do. And people don't really believe the belief. Ask whatever you believe the belief. What did they say? You believed their belief. If you believed their belief, you would do things for eternity. Yeah. Verse 3. Through faith we understand that the world's were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. So by faith, things that we see will be made out of things that do not appear. Amen. So the church you see is made out of something you can't see, and that thing you can't see is faith. So the church members we can't see in our churches will come out of something invisible which we can't see, but they can come physically if we can have the things. So the world was created by faith. So you are here because somebody believed the belief and started the church practically. Are you listening to me? Somebody believed the belief and practically started the church. Like Irene said, she was living in Nottingham. She was a lawyer going to court all the time, calling judges. Do you understand? And judges calling her in the UK, not in Ghana. Yeah. But the church in Mali that we see today was made out of something that is not seen, which is the face of the apostle sending the people and the face of the missionary or the also the apostle going to the country. You have to have faith. If you don't have faith, things will not appear. The only that you see, this faith message has been used mainly to teach you can have a car, a car can appear, a house can appear, a visa can appear, money can appear. But now we are looking at using it for a church can appear and church members can appear and church growths can appear and what we don't have can appear. Hallelujah. Souls can appear. Hallelujah. Are you listening to me? Amen. So we can do that Now By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, and God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead. Yet speak of. Now Abel and Cain both had sacrifices for God, but the difference was faith. Now faith is always connected to actions and actions that are obedient actions. So Abel must have been obeying something. You see, that's the difference in the elements of obedience. Are you with me? Yeah. So the difference would be that Abel was obeying something and Cain was not obeying something, even though both of them were sacrificing. Are you with me now? When a man ejaculates, a man ejaculates. OK, And there's semen. The semen, that liquid you see contains a number of elements which are all important, glucose, fructose for the for the sperms to drink, energy for them to swim all the way they have to swim. So many elements. All right, I don't want to go into all that, but one of the key elements are spams, Spams. If your ejaculate does not have any spams, the main work that it does, it cannot do even though it's there. So you have sometimes people before they marry, they say I'm going to test the man you see and they go, I want to test to see how powerful he is. So when you test the man from your inspection and your experience and your and your analysis and the ejaculation and everything that happens is normal. But there is one element which makes the difference. And that hidden element, again, it appears on something that is not seen. So you cannot see, Spence. You cannot see the matter. What you see are not. You cannot see it with your eye. Yeah. And out of what you do not see with the eye appears. You appear from what? Yeah. So if you have a whole lot of Christian activity and it does not contain a certain essential element, yeah, it's lacking something, the main thing and what it must contain is the element of faith. All right. And that element of faith is the element of. It's like where is faith? Belief is belief is not an attitude, though. It's like, what do you believe? What are you obeying? So there must be an element of something you are obeying, even if it's a big sacrifice. There must be an element of something you are obeying. That's what makes it powerful. So if the element of what you are obeying is absent, then even though you are making a big sacrifice and sacrifice becomes nothing. So the element of this, this thing that I'm fulfilling or this thing that I'm obeying is what changes your great efforts, See, because you have people who work hard, when they are confronted about their work, it looks as though they are not doing much because the person who sent them has them to do specific things. But they have done many things and many jobs and much effort, much time. But it's a particular thing they were asked to do. That's the one they are not doing. So the person, he's surprised when he's rebuked because it's like, but I've worked so hard all my time, all my life, I'm working. But then that element is out. That's what I'm saying, that the sperm ejaculations came. I had about 23 contractions tell there's no sperm in it. Yeah. But the essential element of what? Yes, it's not there. So it's like the question of what are you obeying? Is that something you are obeying? And once that element is out, it's gone. Yeah, you have singers. I've had different groups of singers and types of singers who would sing so well, so many things. And it's like what I like to hear or what they would obey based on belief that this man, like, even to believe that, like in a church, the pastor is the most important person as far as the music is concerned. I mean the one who can appoint you and who can say don't sing or sing. It must be the most important. Best of all, the people clapping as if you clap and that person doesn't clap, that's your last time. You will not sing again. So if you don't have that essential element within your activities, the activity become plenty and useless. I've had different singers and they wouldn't sing what I want them to sing, but they go for a lot of rehearsals and they practice. They spend all night, all day. They work so hard and they sweat and whatever, and I don't like anything that they are singing. So that essential element of even believing that there's a particular person who should be pleased with what we are doing and that you should even like what a person likes and do what that person wants as one at least before even all the other things you are doing. When you take that element out, you've taken out the life of your work. Even at workplace, you can, you can, you can wherever you work. Think of your boss. Every boss is different, just like every human being is different. So everybody you work for is different. And everybody has different things the person likes. Sometimes the people have queer things. We have what we call eccentric people. They have little quirks and things that they want. You get it? Yeah. Like some British commanders in the when they were fighting in South Africa, in the Zulu world and so on. When they sit down to eat, it's with a white tablecloth with glasses, champagne glasses. And I mean, they're in the Bush, but this is how to eat. You don't. You don't eat in another way. Yes, this is how in the Bush with the white tablecloth, this dust sieves, champagne, wine glass, this everything cutlery. And in the Bush, this is how they eat. But it's time for dinner. They come and they do their aristocratic things. Now you want to say that, look, I've put the food in the take away packet for you to just eat the take away container. I don't eat from take away container. I eat at the table with glasses. Yeah, white tablecloth in the Bush. So you must learn the little things that go with being, being under somebody and being under God. There's a particular element that must be there and it is the element of faith. It's like you can do a lot, but you don't have faith. It doesn't work well. So you can do a lot, but you must be believing something and obey like Adam here. I believe that I was praying the other day and the Lord was speaking to me about what I should do with my time and how I should have Trump's meetings. So as I'm here, even though you see me here preaching and all that, I'm not here because my wife wants me to come here or because I don't. I've never been to Zambia before, or maybe I've never been to the Victoria Falls. I've been to the Victoria Falls already in my life years ago. I've been here. These are not new things to me. Yeah. I'm not having a camp meeting here because I'm free. Let's say I'm free like I've got free time. Like I gave you 8 things that happen when you travel. Yes, I have a lot of things that have, have, have, have, have suspended so that I can be here and I'm doing many things at the same time. So but for a certain belief of something that I felt God told me has made me come here. So that element, that's what I was saying, that when you are copying somebody, try to know the hidden things the person is also doing. That is making the person do what he's doing because the Bible is giving us this element is essential for the thing to work. It's not only the things that you see that are worth copying. When I have to say it, the healing Jesus said it's like a belief that I had that God told me to go out of my church and to preach and to share what I have outside and what I pray for the sick too. I actually don't mind if they don't get healed because I had a vision where the Lord spoke to me clearly. I was sitting down in my chair and told me pray for the sick. It is always important for you to pray for it. So I don't even mind if they don't get healed. What I'm concerned about that I will pray for the sick. That's the that's the element in that activity that that is important to me. There's an element in the activity. Yeah. That element that I've been told to do something and that I'm doing what I have been told to do apart from all the other things that I'm doing. When that element is fulfilled, I feel OK, yeah. But not that the results that there should be these people should be healed or even healing. Jesus didn't heal everybody when he came. Maybe people were sick when Jesus left. That's how come Peter and John had some to heal later. Yeah, there were lots of people who were not healed. Yeah. So what I'm explaining to you is that look like if you go to work, see I'm telling you how to be promoted. Think about what your boss notices and what he likes. And then to that one sensor theft before you start cleaning the windows, which he never notices in your office. Maybe you like clean windows, so when you come to work, you start cleaning the windows because that is what you really like it clean. You want to see clearly or maybe you don't like the fingerprint on the on the window. But your boss when he comes, he likes fried lizards. First he wants it's fried lizard is the first thing that when he comes, you ask can I have my lizard better catch lizards on the way to work and fry them, freeze them and fry them. When he comes and he says is there any lizard in the areas? Oh yeah, there are. There are lizards here if you want to please your boss and if they never notice whether you have found all the things, whether you have cleaned the window, whether you have done this, whether you have you spend your whole day doing all those things when you feel you feel satisfied. I've freely wet, I've wiped all the windows. I've done this, I've found this. I've and only thing that he comes. Is there any fright lizard here? Just one thing that I want. Wow, not bald litter, fried litter with some small chili on it. And there are two ways to fry. They are fried soft or fried crispy, crispy lizard. So in the activities we are undertaking, whether it is preaching, teaching, praying for people, then that element that I am obeying something that I've been told to do must be in it central. It's never compromised. It is always the first thing. So when Abel and Kane went out to do sacrifices and a lot of activities, Abel ensured the faith path was there before all the other things. But Cain did what was good and nice and great and he was not his boss or God was not impressed with him. So you can have that, but you are your pest. The person who really sends you doesn't like you much and you will not like the person. Now remember, and being appointed is also connected to being liked too. You see, when you are, when you are sent or you are appointed or you are even given something to do, it's connected to being liked. Because the person who is sending you, you have to come back to the person. So when God is sending you and resending you, it's like He's likes you. When He's choosing somebody to send to go and do something they call you, you know, it means that Sally, the person who doesn't mind seeing you, you know, so try to do that essential. We are all doing many, many things, but what he has told us is not being done. Go into other world, preach the gospel, win the lost. We are doing everything going into other world. Make make Christian marriages the best marriages in the world. Go ye into all the world. Let there be prosperity among All Saints. Go ye into all the world and show one man, one house, one man, one house, one man, one car, every man to his tent, every man to his house. You know the essential part that. And then also apart from the ones in the Bible, there are ones that are spoken. They have to be believed. Like the Spirit tells you. They have to believe those type of things. For instance, one of the Holy Spirit spoke to me some years ago to honor Bishop Duncan Williams. I don't know if you know him here. Yeah, but you don't know a lot of things, so I don't. I don't know what you know. When the Holy Spirit told me to, Anna, there is not in the Bible. In the Bible there is general, there are general things. Honour your father, your mother, your this. But it was like instead of specific that honour this person, otherwise, whatever you know. And so it's spiritual. So it's like among the things that I do, it's something that is important to me to do and I do it. Yeah, I try to do it. At least I try. Do you see? So what I'm trying to say, my friends, is that essential element of believing something that has been told to you, doing something specific that has been told, and just doing it now. Faith is the substance of things. You can see things that appear from things that don't appear. So faith always has to do with things you can't see or understand. All the pastors who don't do well behave in the same way. They do the same thing. They don't have faith. They don't believe things that are said to them. When you tell, when they, when you tell them what should you, when you tell them, do this, they don't really believe it because because the evidence is they don't see, because you show me your faith by your actions. All of them are the same. All of them have heard the same thing and all of them don't do what they are told. All of them don't obey. All of them don't have faith. All of them don't listen. All of them are not convinced. All of them are not persuaded. All of them don't do what they are told, even when it's very specific. All of them don't do when they are told 10 times over. All of them, all my persons who are accepting with they are all the same. There is no difference. And one of the main characteristics is they don't obey, they don't believe. And you know, even because, because most of the time and when, when the obedience turns into belief and faith, when the things are not easy to see, you see, like if I tell you that's a, that's a cobra, it's coming to the left. Go here, you don't need faith. It's coming, you go. But if I tell you in 3 minutes, run out of this hall, in 3 minutes, run out of this hall, why I will not say I think 3 minutes, run out of this hall and you check in 3 minutes and you are not here. You need faith. Or maybe there's a bomb here, which I know I saw it in a dream, but I'm saying something to you. But you are you, You, you don't. You need to see all the persons who don't do well. They need to see and they need to understand before they obey. And many of them too, they are not so intelligent to see so far. So because they never see, they never believe. And God, they never believe, they never obey. That faith is something that has to do with believing things we can't see. They are not good at handling things they can't see, and they are not good at dealing with things they can't understand. They are only good when they can see it and when they can understand it. Or if it's something they can't see, they are not good at it. So to do well, you must be good in dealing with things that are not easy to see or that can't be seen at all. Yeah, so that element is missing in many. Look at the churches today. Look at look at the Church of God today. The Church of God is like a money machine. Pastors are more than, I mean, bank managers. Yeah. If you want to hear a good message on financial improvement, go to a church, watch television, Christian television, because finances you can see. You can see when you are rich, you can see when you are poor. You can see when you are suffering, you can see when you are not. But you can't see heaven. You can't see hell. You can't see your mansions. You can't see how it is going to be when you are dead. That one you need faith for. And that is where everybody withdraws. So let's work in the realm where we see. Let's work in the realm where we understand. Let's work in the realm where things are clear to us. But once it's in the realm of what we cannot see, then I'm sorry. I'm out of it. Amen. How many understand what I'm talking about? Yeah. So Please remember that faith is a very, very important subject. Amen. 5 That's five. Now is he noticed by which Cain obtained witness that he was righteous. So it's like that's what makes you good, doing the things you can't understand, doing the things which have lack of. You can't see and you can't understand why you've been told to do it. That's what makes you and by the which can obtain a witness that he was righteous. So you become good before God when you are doing the things which you can't really see through. Yeah, I can't see hell. I've never been to hell before. I can't see heaven, and I've never been to heaven before. We, you know, when I see people build big houses with balconies, especially with balconies, I just always have a feeling that that's how heaven will be like your house will have a balcony. Because most people who build balconies don't go on their balconies. They never have the opportunity to go and sit there. They don't even use it. They don't go out. Yeah, when I see people relaxing by the beaches, I get a feeling that there might be beaches in heaven, a lot of relaxing. It's like when I see people build big houses. I mean, the biggest houses I've ever seen in the world are in America. One time I was in California playing golf with a Bishop and I saw huge houses. I said, which hotel is? I was asking what hotel is this? There is what a hotel is a single. They call it single family dwelling, single use the word single dwelling is a home for one person, one house with 50 bedrooms, 72 bedrooms, single family. And I, once I went into one of those houses, I, I, when I was going through the house, I entered, I, we, we came to a room. I thought it was a bedroom. When I opened the door, it was a basketball inside the house. Like the house has his own basketball stadium. Wow. Yeah. There's nothing like you share bathroom. Oh, no, no, no, no. Finish. And I'm coming. And no, no, no. Are you still there? I've been there for a long time. Will you not come out? There's nothing like that. Your bathroom is pink. His is blue. Wow. Fantastic. There's nothing like that. The television. It is one of the many televisions you watch. I also watch Wow. Are you listening to me? So I want you to have faith, have faith. I want you to have faith here in Zambia and Zimbabwe. 5 By faith, Enoch was translated, translated that he should not see death because God had translated him. For before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God. Wow. When you please God, When you please God, you don't even have to die. So how can you please a complex person like God? Is by finding the element that makes him happy me I I have a feeling I haven't seen Jesus yet because God wants me to exercise faith have a feeling because I don't if if I was to see him. Maybe it's to say certain things. Maybe it will even reduce my reward in heaven because all that I'm doing by faith, I'm yet to see him for him to say to me. My son. I'll send it to the nations. My son. My son that shall speak my word. My son. I have a light for you. My son. Here is. Yeah. Go forward. My son. Hey. I believe the belief. I believe the belief that God has called me. I believe the belief, yeah. And because I believe the belief that preaching is working. Wow. Are you excited about that? Wow. So verse #6 it is now explaining Enoch's translation. Verse 6 of Hebrews 11 explains why Enoch did not die. You see verse 5 says he was translated and he before his translation he had this testimony. Where is a translation? Like if you take a book written in English and you translate it into French, it doesn't mean you take the book out of English in the world, you convert it into the French version. So when you are translated, you don't go out of the world, but you are converted into another version of yourself. Wow, how many would like to be converted? Instead of dying, they're just converted into another version. This is all of having to die and go into the ground. But before his convention he had this testimony that he pleased God that without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that He is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. You see this verse is the one of the best verses in the Bible. Without faith, you cannot please God because we always want to know what is it that I I should do like with me. You know, I've found that people who work with me, there are some things that if you don't, if you don't do that, I don't really. I can flow with you. But to a point, I've noticed some things I don't like at all. But I didn't, I don't even know that I don't like them. As time has gone and has come to see what I don't like. So everybody is like that. God is like that. With time you come to find another. Oh, sacrifice this God prefers obedience is better than every day. Look at the bullet game. You have brought a sacrifice. Maybe when Cain was bringing his sacrifice, maybe it was an articulator 2 Thrones of vegetables and cabbages and other things from his farm that he has harvested. Maybe the whole year, half a year's harvest, he has brought it. And what a sacrifice that they became. Abel came along with a little goat I love, and when God saw Abraham Abel's sacrifice, he was happy. He said yes. As for me, the only sacrifice I like is when you give your whole life, like the whole life of the goat is given. These vegetables have been just coming to work for God on Tuesday evening and work for him on Friday mornings and so I like the whole life. Wow, so that you may even see that some, you may think you are even doing more for God. But somebody who has given his whole life and especially a whole life also means youth. Now one of the main parts of your life is when you are young. I tell you, when you get older, you'll see that a large part of your life is gone already. Your beauty will be gone to change. Yes. Your neck will join with your shoulders. Your stomach will join with your chest. They're all one. It's called YouTube. Yeah, YouTube. Hi. You see that? Your sexual desires. Oh, you own a lemon, but there is no power. Wow. Are you listening to me? Yeah. So what I'm explaining to you? When you give your life, even as a young person, you are giving your beauty. When your face is nice without too many pimples, oh, now they're beautiful and it's truly beautiful. You are giving your breasts when they are fresh, like plums. You are giving your stomach when it is flat, like a like a flat screen. Wow, you are giving your strength to the Lord. When you are a man with strong erections, you rise up and you see that this is a man who is, who has walking up with energy. Not when you are lying down. They're just, I mean, you are just. You are just nothing. Old age has come upon you. You see your beautiful wife is like your sister. No fire. When you give your life to God is to give your youth is to give everything to God. So when Abel came with a life, a life which is repeated in the blood, it's like you gave a whole life. He was happy because the life is in the blood. So when you give blood, so you give it a whole life. When Jesus gave his life, it is all his 30s, his 40s, his 50s, his 60s, his 70s. All he gave it, he gave it to God. Like my 30s. I'll never be 34. I'll never be 35 years. I'll never, I'll never know what it is like to say life begins at 40. I'll never know what it's like. We'll say life begins at 40. Yeah. I'll never see what it's like to be 50. Never all that. He gave it away. He gave his marriage. Never. You never know what it's like to be to enjoy a marriage, to live happily ever after in paradise. Paradise with your spouse. Exotic, fantastic experiences, erotica. He never knew it. He gave it away. When it was time for his wedding, he gave it away. When it was time for him to have a beloved, he gave it away. He said no problem, I gave it all, I'll just go to heaven now. He explained it to John and Peter and Peter said never, never, never, never, never once. I'm your security guard. I'll never allow this to be. But you see, this is the essential element in serving God. He wants your life, not little bits and pieces of vegetables here and there. Salad can't give God salad. I mean, God has not told you that He likes salad. You are bringing salad to God. Wow, are you listening to me? So without faith it is impossible. You may do so much for God, but you don't believe the belief. You don't believe in things you can't see. You don't believe in instructions you can't understand. You don't do things you are told that you don't understand the implication of fully. Only when you understand it yourself in your way. And all those who don't do well at it, they are all like that. When they don't understand it fully, they will never do it. If you've never been blessed listening to a video or listening to an audio tape, because you've never experienced when it is told to you, because you have to experience everything before you obey. What I was telling one of my children, I said, look, you don't have to experience everything before you obey. That's why your life will be hard. And there are some children like that. They want to experience it. Like what you say aside, let me experience something, then I'll believe it. You see that, You see that that is going to make it difficult for yourself. Your life is going to be hard. Think of how many things you have to experience before you will know everything. And by that time you will, you've experienced this experience, that experience this what it's like to have one leg cut off, what it's like to have two legs cut off, what it's like to have one arm cut off, what it's like to have two arms, 2 arms and two legs without ears, without eyes. And how many things can you experience? It's too much. So I said that, look, God likes it when there is something that is not understood, something that is not clear that has been said that this rather what you do that one rather what you do. Yeah. That's why I believe that evangelism pleases God in a certain very highway. Yeah, I think so. You know evangelism. Look, when you go and preach and you when you are leaving the next day, there's nothing. No, there's no church. There's no it's like you just come to formally wasted time and energy and there's nothing to see. All the places we've had crusades, thousands of people have come attended all over. There's nothing to see for it. Nothing to see. And you'll notice Evangelist lived long. I mean, Billy Graham, he cannot die. He's there. Dear Osborne, he's there. I mean, he just died recently. A bonky. Yeah. You see, they are all old people. Very old. Like they are just there for years. So evangelism and things you can choose when you get to hell. Supposing it's true Pastor Silas Prophet that evangelism is really what do you call then Maybe when I'm I'm doing evangelism, I maybe we need more people to the Lord than all these churches that we are starting. Yeah. Because because if it is by that and through the crusade, I have one more people that are in my church. Yeah, more people have this and especially Muslims. I've won a lot of Muslims. If it is true that when I lead them to Christ they believe and they pray and all that, then hope when we get to heaven that it will be the number one thing that I I will be on par chalet those who are organizing plan more crusades we are going to do because chalet the crusade is the main thing I would want it. I do more crusades so be doing it more. Yeah, You know, it's like it is. It's an activity that needs pain. But you see, when you are pastoring a church, you need lesson because when I pastor you, you love me. After some time, people really love their pastor. You love you love their pastor. Like, I mean, they love the pastor so much. They really like your pastor cares for me pastor because sometimes you are even married when your husband doesn't care for when you are not feeling well. It's like find medicine and be there. You do something or when you you are sick of husband or your wife there, nobody really cares. They'll just show you go to town, you get a pen and all day go and see the doctor or whatever like that. Nobody serves you. You come to the house, there's no service. You serve yourself. Save yourself. Restaurant mobbed in America American star DIY self-service Serve yourself. Do it yourself. This place is called do it yourself restaurant people. People really love their pastor. When you like pastor, after some time you you see that it's good to be a pastor. The loving eyes of your followers, the admiration of your members. Because you may go home and your wife doesn't, She doesn't have any admiration. It's like, I mean, you are late. You are late. Turn off the lights. Hey, I'm sleeping. Don't touch me, Touch me. Not all that gentle Saviour, but for the pastor when they see you. Admiration. Eyes of love, eyes of feeling. Oh, this is a representative of God. Wow. Man of thought, wow. So after some time you see that you do the pastoral work more for the evangelist. When you preach and you go there, nobody knows you again. They don't even know your name. They say, oh, healing Jesus something, healing Jesus something, something, Jesus, healing something. Wow, isn't it fantastic? Is it amazing? Lift your hand and speak to the Lord for a moment. Speak to the Lord for a moment. Mandola moschen de le bequim mandala Mandela. Without faith, without faith, it is impossible to please God. Without faith, without faith, it's impossible to please God. Thank you, Lord.