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16. The Purpose Of A Branch, Privileged position, Promotion, Beauty & Counsel
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Warnings of Purpose. Machaneh Collection - 69. Preached in 2010, Ghana (Cape Coast). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.
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Welcome to track #16 of warnings of purpose. Hello. Yeah, I think what Sophia is saying is a very important point. And even now there are some churches which are which must be closed and the people should come to another place. Yeah, some of the churches should not should be closed. Smash it and join it and take the decision. Smash and join. You understand what I'm saying? Because. It would be better. Not to have a church than to have a church which is breaking away. Yeah. So that as we grow, maybe people are not even ready and have not had enough camps and enough meetings and enough maturity. We've got to go the small destiny. Because you think that when you go and do a church, you get money. It's just like when somebody says, oh, I'm going to do a church so that I'll get money. It's one of the more difficult things to get money from. You come and start your check 1st and you print tight. Envelopes. Who did that? Somebody that was did that first. You come with tight envelopes. You've printed your tight envelopes, you've brought it down. You have started your check on the first day with your tight envelopes. Instead of changing. The
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Welcome to track #16 of warnings of purpose. Hello. Yeah, I think what Sophia is saying is a very important point. And even now there are some churches which are which must be closed and the people should come to another place. Yeah, some of the churches should not should be closed. Smash it and join it and take the decision. Smash and join. You understand what I'm saying? Because. It would be better. Not to have a church than to have a church which is breaking away. Yeah. So that as we grow, maybe people are not even ready and have not had enough camps and enough meetings and enough maturity. We've got to go the small destiny. Because you think that when you go and do a church, you get money. It's just like when somebody says, oh, I'm going to do a church so that I'll get money. It's one of the more difficult things to get money from. You come and start your check 1st and you print tight. Envelopes. Who did that? Somebody that was did that first. You come with tight envelopes. You've printed your tight envelopes, you've brought it down. You have started your check on the first day with your tight envelopes. Instead of changing. The grace you've gone to Prince envelopes. OK. The purpose of the branch. I am the true vine. Amen. And my father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. The purpose of a branch, Amen, is to bear fruits. I will give you time to check out and to do everything, Amen. So just let's conclude this short session and then we'll be on our way. Amen. Let us go from here asking ourselves, are we bearing the fruits that we are supposed to bear? Amen. Are we bearing the fruit that we are supposed to bear? For instance, some churches are you listening to me have other importance apart from having a congregation. Let me give you about four OK, just just listen. It's not notes you need to answer any question about but I I want to give you an example. The purpose of a branch. The purpose of a branch can be to win souls and establish disciples and Christians. That's what we all know. In some cases, the purpose of a branch can be also to spread the materials, the books. For instance, in Trinidad, when Pastor Robert was apostle, Robert was there. The church did not grow very big or have any very big church or whatever, but he visited almost 200 islands. There are about 200 / 200 islands in the Caribbean. With books selling my books are everywhere pastors reading and people benefit when I say pastors reading you see you ask yourself am IA graduate of Rima Bible training center. I'm not, but I got. A book and the book has made me into what I'm doing today so the. Books are very much a part. Of the ministry and sometimes the pastor may not even be maybe doing something very big it is now that the church in Trinidad is even becoming bigger now rather sometimes the purpose of a branch so that is one another reason for the purpose of a branch can be to make. A way for people to. Come there, you see, it's like a beachhead. We call that in war where you arrive and your presence allows others to come there. That is one of the purposes that can be. So for instance, Apostle Robert has been able to do that again in Brazil, which is a very difficult place to go. He flew there and flew to the capital, not to Sao Paulo. They flew to the. Capital went and registered a church some years ago, waited for the processes to go through, translated into Portuguese, hired people, whatever, and was able to breakthrough so many protocols. And establish a church and get a special visa for he and his family to go there as missionaries. Same thing that he did in Trinidad, which has opened a door for all the Caribbean islands for so many pastors who are there in so many churches now. So some of the purposes. Are not necessarily to happen, so I'm not expecting a big church out of Pastor Robert Apostle Robert. In Brazil. Or Trinidad. He was breaking through with the books. He was breaking through with the church to make it enter. So now Pastor Aki, the doctors, and we have about 25 people that are on their way to Brazil. Now they have their own. They found their way to be there. Several doctors set up they are all going to Brazil so that that that purpose has been established. So the the studies yet also another reason why a church may go there. It's not even the church that will really be the thing A fourth I've given you 3 1/4 purpose that a church is can be important is to facilitate and help healing Jesus crusade and evangelism to come into a place. For instance, in West Africa as we've been going round to Guinea, to Sierra Leone, to Liberia. We have our own people there in these countries. When they arrive in Gambia, we have our pastors there in Guinea. If you look at some of the pictures or tell them some of the places there, you will see our pastors there who received them. Even in Nigeria, when we are going to, when we are going to those where we, where we went and where we are going, you cannot go there in one. Day. So we have to go to Lagos first and when we go to Lagos, we are we are met by our missionaries first of all, even at the border and the Ghana embassy and so on, all the protocols of the embassies help us through our Ghanaian church members. We have some of the embassy people in the church different. Even some of the people who work in bunkies ministry are members of our church in Lagos. We have all these people, you understand and they meet us, they sleep there, we have the mission house, whatever. So many healing Jesus thing have to be done because of the consular, the embassy, the security, the police, the military police and the soldiers that can cross interstates because not all the police can cross the one state to another. And the Secret Service and all kinds of people that have to at all, because there is a serious mission in the place. Without it, it's like saying we are just arriving in Alaska and when you arrive, you go to a hotel, you don't know what you are even doing next. And that's four reasons. A fifth reason is also to raise money. Now this one is different from all the other four reasons because it's, it's one that I had a vision for a vision. God gave me a vision and it was a vision he gave me about Switzerland and he showed me. I think I must have shared that vision with some of you before He showed me clearly that. It was like Switzerland will help us to help us to do the work financially. Yes, because so many things that you. Are now glad about and proud about are because money that was. Too much for a local. Church to use. Has been used in other places and anywhere where it is needed. So all this must be understood when I say the purpose of a branch is that if a branch does not bear food, or a branch does not do what it has been made and been put there to do, it should be cut off. I didn't say it is in the Bible. Yeah. So if you are a late pastor in America or Switzerland or any place where we all know that you are far, far more. Wealthy than anywhere else, you must also. Accept that that's also part of our purpose. It's an official, open, public and ashamed purpose. It's a purpose. That we have. There's no embarrassment. It's not a secret purpose and it's not wrong. Yeah, so Bibli. I read the reasons. I read the the what it means to be part of the family. Some gather too much. So we don't only plant churches in places that don't gather anything, We plant churches in places that gather too much. And we. Plant churches in places. That don't gather anything at all. And the two of them together balances out the equation. Yes, I could have sent Pastor Kweku somewhere else to start another something somewhere else. But we also need stability in places that gather too much. I hope you understand what I'm saying. Otherwise I say everybody should live everywhere. No, that's why we are starting new churches in Germany. We are starting more churches in Germany now and other places because we don't only need these places where there is nothing. The gospel is not only. Where there is nothing you know about, where there is something it balances. So I'm telling you, it's not something we are shy of. It's not something we are doing privately or something we are doing secret. We are saying that this is a. Clear objective. It wasn't our intention, but we discovered when we have farms here and farms here that oh, not knowing that the bananas from this farm can be used to make banana juice in whatever. So we we need all the farms. Yeah. Are you there? So the purpose of a branch. Jesus said I am the true for. Every branch in me. That buried nut food he taketh away. So it's. Time for us to analyse ourselves as pastors and as late pastors in jail as yourself. And mind fulfilling. The the the, the work. Properly and when something when you take an offering in a lackadaisical attitude, a nonchalant manner. You, you don't understand that you are also bringing upon yourself a certain judgment. And I want to show you that judgment from the Bible because one of the things we are learning at shuffling is the importance of judgment. Amen. Now to judge means to be able to see what is wrong. Amen. And pick it up. Now if you turn with me to Revelations chapter 3, OK, you will see right there the famous Scripture. He says that in verse 14 answer the Angel of the Czech in the Laudesians, right? I know thy words that thou were cold, thou were hot. I wish that thou were cold, thou were hot, but because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, Amen. I will spew thee out of my mouth, Amen. Now I want you to notice something. The word there, this terrible judgment, the terrible judgment of being thrown out. Are you listening, huh? This terrible judgment of being thrown out. It's not being passed on to the cold or to the hot. It takes the eye of a judge to know that the lukewarm is the worst one. The. Lukewarm is. Worse even than the cold and the hot. You see that a normal person will not do that. But there is some. There is some warmth and it's not cold and there is some warmth. Just leave it. And that is what we are having with a lot of pastors who need to be superannuated or removed altogether, whose branches need to be closed down. And that's what I'm calling on the. Bishops and the pastors, NGOs and shuffling conference. Look at the people. They are not this, They are not rangus and they are not zealous about what we are doing. They are the worst. Ones. He said I will speak you up. Unless you are spiritual, you will not know that this person should have been cast out. You will be dealing. Daling and dabbling and playing around and playing around and playing around. So I know, I know I'm not coming for shuffling. I'm not doing it, but I'm not doing anything bad to. And I'm also in the church and I'm not really this and I'm not really I'm not, I'm not that. That's the guy you have to deal with, my friend. That's the guy you have to deal with. That's the guy. And when you go out of this conference, you have to know how to diagnose. Is he like a doctor? That is why in 3rd year when you are starting clinicals, you are taught symptoms and signs, not of any particular disease, but the concept of symptoms and signs of things, how you notice things. So you you change. From an. Ordinary layperson who doesn't notice things immediately when you see her, a woman going to we win four times or five times, you will notice it that a layperson will see it. That is the fifth time that he's going to we win. But you who have been trained with symptoms and said that this thing is not that he's drinking water, there is something wrong with him. And that's that's how it is. When you come to this chaplain conference and we're going out of here, what you have to eye on. I should see that this thing which is neither like this and neither like this, this the worst one that we have. To deal with we are almost the most problems we have had are from people who are neither, and they are also not. They are not Rangus and they are not also lawyer. We are going to smash all of them. One of the only person who has taken a whole church in Zurich. Yeah, he was neither. He was neither cold, neither was he hot. When we are having homecoming, he will never come. The only time I've ever seen him in Ghana since the church began was his maddest funeral. That's the only time you know. They watch out for people. Who only come for funerals. Watch them carefully, they are very dangerous people. Very interesting. The only reason he comes for funerals when they are doing gathering of champions. Champions of gathering in the UK that when he. Goes. And even there, he does not attend Lighthouse in early. Yeah, he has never attended, which is not an evil thing. And it's also not. It's also not, yeah. It's and that is what I'm saying. These are the people and for a long time. So then the church member said we don't know him. We don't know him. All these instruments, we bought it. We don't, we don't know the Bishop, the people, the person we know is this, you see the one they said they want to take him to our Roberts. Yes, he's the one and then that's the only child I Bishop saying they took over the church and continued meeting that same meeting place and they didn't just go and rent another place. They just moved the banner and put the banner there. That's all. Yeah, yeah. Just taking over the church. James. Well, what is his name? James. What was some tree? Yeah, ochre. Yeah, they are. Taking our church and you can tell him in. Case you are here, you are one of the spies or people now don't. Let me tell you, you tell him, I said that he has got stolen property, he is a thief, and that my attitude towards him is the attitude to a thief and a thief come to steal, to kill and to destroy. And that as long as I have the ability and we have the ability, we are going to relate with him as a thief. That's what I say. And his name is James, a thief and a murderer and somebody who is out of his mind. I will deal with in that. Posture. Tell him that I said it. Yeah, I was expecting you to ask to have silenced me some time ago. I was. I was expecting you to have quieted me down. That Bishop, calm down. Don't talk about this matter again. We are on the ground. So that we should have shouted long ago that we are on the ground. Just don't talk about this thing again. All the people who would have been partners of Healing Jesus Crusade in that church, they have all gone. They've been told bad things about me and about the church. All of them whom I may have been able to train to become pastors, like how I've been able to train some of you to be pastors. If Pastor Richard have taken away all your hearts, wait, wait, wait. If Pastor Richard have taken away all your hearts from me and said that Bishop doesn't know because you can count the number of times I've been in the Landing Church 1234, but you can count it. You can count it 1234. But it's also they don't know you. It's been they know I've been here all these years since I married, I've been here. All these are my combat pastor Haruna, Pastor Steve, all of them. They all say we don't know him. I've never have had a chance. I never have a chance to have any, in fact. Yeah. What I'm saying is that if he, if he has prevented you from knowing me or from relating with you, that is a it's a wicked thing. I tell you, it's a wicked thing. I'm telling you, all these judges, pastor obvi and so on. Why in Kenya mission, they will not have known me. They will not have had anything to that. They cut off long as they say, who is Bishop? We don't know. He's sitting, He's sitting in Colegoma. He says the same things to be done in London. He thinks because he was born here, he can just speak anyhow over there. Listen, that's how we could have been. This thing is stolen the church. That's why I said he's a thief. He's a thief. He has stolen the church. He's a thief. He has stolen the church. It's a thief is officially in lighthouse is known as a thief. It's an official thief in our system and it's it's a personal non grata. All the people that trained as pastors I could have influenced in a certain way that would have established churches, gone to different things. I can't see them again. They have been taken away from me and the rest of my calves have have been robbed of my calves, of my children. You have taken my children. You have taken one of my children away. OK, I'm I'm calming down. I'm calming down. OK, OK, OK. Yeah, take easy check and go there. Easy check. Look, sometimes when you are married, the ladies, sometimes when the ladies are married and then a man, another, the man is chasing another woman. Sometimes the original wife will get her and for the clock I said aye to tell me today. Like she will go there and say this is my husband. I guess you, you are this and that don't have anything to do. And they will create a scene. Yeah, some of you, you must enter some of those and say, hey, this not your, it's not your chest. All these people are not your people. They are all stolen. Chopin. Chopin Hey. I tell you, the people, they are Tisho, they have taken our members, they have taken them. It's quite no monum. It's quite no monum in your life of my type of face. Wicked, wicked. These things, this James, what did he know? Pastor Opi. Pastor Opi asked me, Sir, when to fly from Australia to Switzerland. Please leave this Jonathan. When he's talking on the phone, you should hear him shouting at me. He said let me, let me, let me, let me fly. Together you waste money. I said you waste money, he and Quico said. You waste money, said Bishop. Bishop, please leave this smell for us. Leave this smell for us. I say you calm down. Calm down. I'm not. I'm tired of spaghetti children, I said. I'm tired of spaghetti, children. Those of you sisters, because of Christ you have stopped quarreling, but now Christ has also given you an opportunity to feel free and quarrel freely. The guns. All the guns. This is where your gift must be demonstrated if you are a gun. Chopper, chopper, chopper. You saw the buffaloes. The buffaloes were becoming. More, more. Lions were getting fewer because frontal attack. If you saw it yesterday that those who risk the frontal, you need about 8 lions to bring down 1 Buffalo. So when there are about four, they can't get food, they need to be a team and they were taking frontal attack and they die and they are injured after the fight. Do you see? And it's like that they will be chasing, trying to get a newborn just that day he was born. And they want to take and say no. And the alliance, but you are many, but you are many. But you are many. We want one. Did you see? Is it a? Buffalo who cannot think? Did he leave even? One child, a Buffalo who cannot think. Did he leave even one child they fought for? Every. Child with their lives. They risked their lives. Look, I will tell you, some of you, you don't know that you are getting older. As you get older, you will see what you are a part of. I was telling you, I don't know who I was today. I was telling Doctor Notch last night. I was saying that church in America, those of you in America. How many times have I been to America? You can count 1-2. 3456, maybe 10. Times since the church began. Yeah, you are the ones who are there, who have been building something for years. If you sit down for somebody to come and spot this thing that you have, because when you have you, you don't know how long you will live, you will die. At the point you will see that all these things you are, you are leaving some. And if you sit down and people come, they start to hear, they spot. It is not that I am a fool, that you who have been working, have maybe visited you 10 times. You are there working day and night, travelling up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down with your children. Night 5 in here, you sit down and there will sprawl here, there will sprawl North Carolina. There was Paul, California. Hey, so you don't understand. What you were doing don't understand what you were doing. The purpose of a branch. I'm talking about the purpose of a branch watershed. It's a watershed camp. That's why I'm mentioning names, I said to you. I said you have stolen my. Chest. I will not leave the issue. Yeah. I challenge my own brother-in-law. I said that just as you see these. Paintings here. If tomorrow you come to the Kardashian, you see this painting, this painting the Kardashian you smell, I said Bishop. Whatever you get. It's a secret. I said by the special grace of God, I don't know, I didn't ask them to come, that they, these paintings have moved to the Kodesh. And I asked, did the owner of the hotel, did he give it to you? Did you ask him? Did you, did they, did they move out of this conference hall with his permission? Is it against his wishes? He has many paintings. He has some answer. I just took 2. I'm just taking two of his paintings because he has many, he said. Jew law. I said he said do look. I said my members are there, my members are there, my members are there, the Belina is there, God is there, other pastors? Are there families? Antony, his wife. Other people, they are all there. Yvonne Yeah, yeah, the myths are there. James said that oh, he will bring all fruit to healing Jesus. He said twat. He said. Twat Jordan. You come to my house, you steal my house and you say you can have this bedroom from here. You said that is the reason why the Palestinians are not making peace with the Jews. They said that the land is for them. You have come to take our land and you are saying that take this upstairs, you can take downstairs this right side and how that is for them. That's what they say. That's that's the reason why they are not leaving the issue even when. Arafat got everything he got east in Jerusalem. And all the lands. They said no and the reason? Was that you cannot they say you cannot come to my house take my house and say you can be in the verse I have given from here to you. It's now verse notice there until you are going to send offering to healing Jesus like joking Phase 2 Sir watershed OK the next one. The purpose of a privileged position. The purpose of a privileged position. The purpose of a privileged position. And Esther obtained favour in the sights of all them that looked upon her. So Esther was taken unto king Ahazeros. Amen. And the king. Loved. Esther above all the women, so that he set the royal count upon her head and made her queen instead of bashed you. Amen. And when there was trouble, Mordecai came up to her Amen and said to her, who knows whether you are come to the Kingdom for such a time as this Amen. There is a lady called Shula the spy. If you get a chance to Google, you can get that she's a modern day Esther. She was a spy for Israel for many years. What happened was that she lived in Lebanon because Israel bordered with Lebanon and Syria up in the north and. With her family over there, she was in school and I think every year they had a programme or she was working there. She was married to a Lebanese man or something. She was working there, the younger something. And every year the school where she worked or whatever invited the Prime Minister to come for the programme. So she was given the job of going to invite the Prime Minister of Lebanon. So she just went, delivered the letter and went. And the Prime Minister asked who brought the letter. And then they brought her. She was a young, just a young lady. You wouldn't know that she's a Jew. And then the Prime Minister said, took a liking to her and said, I have three children, but now I have 4. You have my 4. You eat at my table. She's called Shula. She'll have a spy. So suddenly the Prime Minister adopted her as his daughter, and she will always be in the prime minister's house. And one day they were having a cocktail. Every year they were having this cocktail. And at the cocktail, all the generals, Lebanon, others is like Ghana, Togo, that's how Israel, Lebanon, that's a border. And she heard the generals discussing how they were going to attack Israel. And so she stood after she was serving drinks. Nobody knew that she was an Israeli because you mix with them and she has been the prime minister's daughter. I'm explaining. Esther. I'm explaining what it means to have a privileged position and Shula, when she heard it, she said my people are going to be attacked, what am I going to do? And she thought about it and said why did God give me this position? I have to do something. So she didn't know what to do. So she she said she had learnt in school how to write with invisible ink. There's something you you call invisible ink. I don't know how it is. And then so she took a paper and she wrote with invisible ink and she gave it to somebody and said, go to who was going to, oh, my cousin or my relative or something. And so she wrote another letter in pen and then wrote the invisible ink one also. And they gave it to whatever. So they gave it to, I think any Israeli soldier that they saw. And I don't know how they seem to know how to do it. She was in the house when a man came to see her from Israeli intelligence and explain to her, find out who she is and she's ready to. And from then she began to spy officially for them, prime minister's daughter. She passed on information after information after information for about 10 years or 12 years. No one suspected her. She was at every dinner, every function, she was passing on the information and one day she was in the house and she had a very important document to pass on. She was passing on to the border all the time. These people would come. No one knew what she was doing, and she was there. Suddenly her house was surrounded by soldiers. They came into the room, They came into the house. They searched her room. They said where is the document? Where is the door? They started beating her, a very prominent Lebanese citizen's wife. They started beating her. They said you. Are a spy. It's like they have found out for sure. And she said there was a document. She just put it under her clothes in the wardrobe and they searched everywhere, including the wardrobe they didn't see. She said it's one of the men and she doesn't know how they say. And they said we are taking it to the police station now. Come. So she told the police, you are married. I'm also whatever I need to change. She can go out. So they went out. She she took the paper. She said it was just there straight. You see it? They never saw it. Yeah. They took her to the police station for another. I forget the number of years they beat her. They tortured her. They pulled out all her teeth. Her nails, everything. Stripped her naked, bit her, hung her upside down with a doctor. Always there was a doctor present. Yeah. They bit her. Then they examine her, see whether she's alive. She's they torture. Pull out her teeth one by one in court. They put their finger here. Then they they bring their plies and they move it. And she never opened her mouth. It's also teach you how people can lie. They will never tell you the truth. She never said a word they put and they sentenced her to death and through. Connections The Lebanese husband tried and tried and tried and. They did not execute her. One day during one of the wars, Israel captured some top Lebanese, some soldiers, and they were doing an exchange with Israeli, whatever, she said. And Israel remembered me. And they, they remember. And they said, we want that woman. And so they added her to some prisoners that they exchanged. They pulled her out of prison after about a number of years that she had been there. And they pulled her out and exchanged her with the prisoners. And when she was going, her husband also had to give up everything. And he was exchanged in Israel and he was brought back. Yeah. And she said if I could have done anything to help my people and to help God because of the position that I was in, if I had, I didn't know that you were coming, I would have brought you my film. I will show. I will show you the film of this lady, Chula de Spa. Maybe next time. Yeah. The purpose of a privileged position When God gives you a privileged position, you should. Remember always what Shula the spy and Esther remembered that perhaps why did God make she was telling this, she was serving drinks. You see her in the film. She was serving drinks and here the generals are talking tomorrow this this stuff. We are flying there. We are going to surprise them to kill all the whatever Israel, Israel has. Been. And when we go to Israel, God willing, next year, you see how dangerous it is. You feel it when you are there. You feel tension. Oh yeah, you feel the tension. Will you come? How many are going to come to the Israel? Are you coming? OK, Pardon. Yeah. You are waiting for the announcement. OK. You're going to have to register and you're going to have to pay. But anyway, let me let me finish this. So some of your privileged Roslyn stand up. What is your hometown? Alavano, Somebody from Alavano, you are living in new, new, new what New Jersey? Do you think there's any privilege in how many 20 million Kenyans from Alavano or wherever? My brother, Stan. Stan, where's your hometown? Pardon. OSU. An OSU man. An eater of purple and you live in. Where do you live please? In New Jersey, New Jersey, NJ, your income, is it in the hundreds or thousands, Thousands. No, I didn't hear. I said, is it in the hundreds or thousands? Thousands. Remember, you have a privileged position. There are 20 million Kenyans who would like to be in America and 10,000. They would like to live in. 100 hundred. We would take it like that. Amen. You stand up. Where is your hometown? Jamestown. When you go, when you go back to Accra, drive to Colegono and on your way back you drive by James and you see people bathing grown-ups by the gutter. It could have been you. Now here you are. You live at where, please? Minnesota Where? Minnesota. Minnesota, Minnesota. She loved the spy. She said perhaps, perhaps God made The Prime Minister said I have three children and he said from now I will have. Four and he he said because he always had a table, I think 6 father, mother and he had only three children, but 6 tables. Six chairs. A dining table has 6. Chairs, so it was always an empty one. And he said you are my daughter from now and everybody knows the prime minister's daughter from there. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? I'm talking about a purpose. I'm talking about the purpose of a privileged position. How? Satama, please, you have had a privilege to be where? Which places have you been? Where can live where Just mention three. Central African Republic, Ethiopia. Where? Central African Republic. Central Africa. Good. Ethiopia. Uganda. KAMAMBUA, Zambia. Zambia. And in giggle, Cordivoir. Yeah. How many people will be paid? Well, were you paid in hundreds or thousands? Thousands. I cannot ask you a salary. So hundreds or thousands time protocol, isn't it? No. Bishop, I think you know, at my level, my last salary was $10,000 a month. Wow. Yeah. $10,000 a month and this has built churches everywhere here. Check buildings, churches and buildings with this money congregation with buildings. You can see it on the website Kawambua. Isn't it there, Zambia and then Central Africa and Ethiopia, the purpose of a privileged position. God bless you. You see, he, he just broke out of protocol and said it's 10,000. There's no, let's not, let's not play around. It's 10,000. Let's be clear. It's a clarity camp, the watershed camp. And many of you, you could build a whole church, a whole church. Doctor Nos. What's your hometown, please? Obwasi. Oh, Shama. Shama in the western region. Shama. And you leave that where please? New Brunswick, NJ New What? New Brunswick. New Brunswick, NJ Do you earn money in the hundreds or thousands? Thousands. Now, many of you are in a privileged position, though. Don't die to discover that it was a privileged position after your death, or don't wait for that position to be changed by God. Then you say it was a privileged position. Don't say a privileged position is not a privileged position when it is, because every position has difficulties. That's what Esther was bringing up when they were bringing up the position, she said. She said things. Are not we can't just go and what we are saying is that with every privileged position, there are challenges, problems as well. But you are supposed to use your privileged position. Sugar, despite she knew she was risking everything, she knew she was risking everything to play. Around. With this prime minister's protest position, she could have just lived happily ever after. And that is the point I'm making, that many people have this privilege. You have an American passport, Swiss passport, German passport, British passport, Whatever passport you have, you live there. You earn it, and you still keep on talking. The way Esther spoke at the beginning, that over here now, this, this, this, this, this, this, this. Yes, that's how people in privileged positions behave. That's why a politician, you see, one time a politician came to see me and he came to see me after. They won the election. He's the one of the only politician I've ever taken seriously, he said. Before we won the election, I didn't want to see you. But after we won, when I don't need your vote, I came to see you. Yeah, I don't need your vote. We already have power. I came to see you for friendship. Yeah, just friendship. He's one of the. Only. Politicians I've ever taken seriously. Now when when it's time for elections. Before the last elections, some candidates were. Calling me the night. Before that I was wondering, why are you? Why are you calling me the day before? Why are you now? Even when you have. Power. We go to see you. You. Are so arrogant and you behave. In a way, you don't use your privileged position to really help the work of God if you can, even you won't. So I want to say to all of you who are earning money in the thousands, I think you will agree with me that it's fantastic that some of you earn money in the thousands. And you. You. Still are. Coming up with reasons and excuses and whatever for not even being able to. The partners or even bought them tests of healing Jesus to give $1000 or thousands. If you wanted to really you could. People don't really want to when they get. Into a privileged position, everything changes. That's why I say that politicians, I know, a lot of them know me on first name basis. Sometimes when I travel, I'll be sitting here. The Minister of Finance is sitting by me, the minister of this sitting by me, Chairman of this is sitting by me. I'll sit. I sit by them in the planes all the time. I meet them on aircraft all the time. I sat, I sat the other day. I was sitting behind the president, former president. I was sitting here. He's also sitting here and. When he saw me. He came out today also. How are you? Listen, we chatted. So where are you going? I said I'm going here. So I'm going to Thailand to hear. To hear. I said I'm going from here to here. So. Oh, good. We chatted at bit when we all sat down. I'm sitting here. Sitting here. I see them for a month. I know them, they know me. Yeah. But whether when they are in those privileged positions and you ask them for whatever, whether they will, they will use it, they will start, You know, even when this calegonal thing came up at that time, neither the NPP were out of power. We called on. When they saw that there was a lot of politics. In it, when they were not in power, they didn't. No, this is a trouble. Don't touch. When I had a privileged position, there are people sitting here who are abroad. I will not mention your names because I used my privileged position. It's true. I used my privileged position. A. Position which has risks. They will never have been where they are. I used my. I remember one time something came up and it had to do with the some, not even, it had to do with the United. States. And I've never deployed such a position, but I said I will. Do for this. Person, I will use that position I went inside. I've used my mother, I've used my position. I've. Used my name. I've used things that I have for people. Yeah, for the work. For the. Church over and over. Listen, but I'm. Telling you, many of you, when you have privileged positions, you start to come up with excuses. That's why for me, I'm not, I'm not impressed with people who give me excuses. Let me tell you one of the things for me, you know, I met one brother in London. I gave him a job. I said do this, do this, do this. I came back some months later and when he came, he came with some clever excuse. I'm sure when he listens to the camp, he'll say, hey, Bishop is talking about me. He came up with some clever excuses. When he came up with excuses later, we were having lunch or something and I told him that let me just tell you something about me. And whenever somebody gives me an excuse, I just accepted what the person said, but I don't believe the person at all. Because I've learnt over the years that when you really want to do something, you actually do it. You make the way you do it. When you don't want to do it, you explain it. Because of this, because, and it all sounds good, but with experience over the year, you see two people exactly in the same condition. One is able to do 1 always has a. 1000 reasons why it cannot be possible I've. Seen it over and over and over and over. As a leader, you see my. Work is with. People, it's not with paper, it's not with computer. I work with people, so I know how people behave. That's why I can stand and tell you that the. Ladies they. Have mostly you will find they will say this is the way it is to be done, what are you doing? The men will say, oh, not all the men, but sometimes when they are going they have. There are other ways. Shula, that's for everybody, needs a little help. I wonder you may be the person who can help something, and I'm telling you have that in mind that today you can help this Bishop to be an evangelist, tomorrow you can. Help this church to be stable today. You can use a connection that you have you see. When you are going to Nigeria, one of our church members. He came to say, I know the. Governor of this State. Let's I want to make some calls. When I arrived in Lagos, he was there to meet me. He's a businessman. He's making the calls to the governor to this, to organize this to help. And as I look at him trying to help me, I appreciated him because he was just using whatever he has in whatever position he. Has. And during the crusade, while we were having the crusade just right the the main town that we were next to, there was an armed robbery. They entered broad daylight whilst I was preaching. 11:00 In that they entered the bank and shot, they killed people in the bank, took their money. 11:00 So suddenly whilst I was preaching all the soldiers and the everything but they had the news that there's an armed robbery here and the armed robbers have moved and they don't know where they are headed. Whilst I was preaching and during the crusade when? We were going. Our our buses were attacked by armed robbers in the evening after the crusade. The driver was shot and he ran into the forest. We didn't see him. Two AM 3:00 AM. Nobody could find him. 5:00 AM. He appeared somewhere. He had walked through the forest for 20 miles. He came out alone, a Muslim who worked with us. So the next morning. I was at the hospital. Here so I saw all the. Gunshots and so on. He survived. He had to remove all the the bullets. Yeah, there's such a small thing, the Crusader that when you look at you are sitting, you're safe, you start there is not going and people are giving whatever. And you maybe you have a privilege. You can call a governor, you can help this, you can give money, you can do this. Then you start, you see, OK, there are certain things I'm putting together. So this this is when I when I hear remember, if I don't tell you person, I'll just listen, OK? OK, but really, I don't believe, I don't buy it. I can tell you freely. I don't tell. I know I'm not trying to make you like me. I'm telling you I don't believe it. I don't accept it in my heart. I don't answer. You can say thousands excuses. I'll just look at it and say it's just, it's just a pity thing, pitiful thing. My work is not with. Papers. My work is with people. People have their way of speaking. When an experienced person is talking. You. Think that there is. Something it's because it's very experienced. This has been a campo of. I. When Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. And they sent a messenger. Genesis 50 Unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, Socially say unto Joseph, Forgive, forgive. I pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren and their sin. For they did unto thee evil. And now we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father, O Pierre. And Joseph wept when they speak unto him. And his brethren also went, and fell down before his face. And they said, Behold, we be thy servants. And Joseph said unto them, Fear not, for am I in the place of God, but As for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good to bring it to pass as it is this day. To save much people alive, Amen. To save much people alive, amma, amma, come. Amen. To save much people alive. Now what is the purpose of promotion? What is the purpose of promotion? Why does God make you a great person, make you into a Joseph make you into a Prime Minister? Because God meant it for good, to help others. Who? So you see, Joseph's promotion was not for his. Well-being it was to save the whole of Israel, you see. So some of you, you don't even realize the British passport that you have is to save so many people. The American citizenship that you now have is to save so many people. The medical profession that you are is to help people. That is why are you listening to me? I don't take it lightly that I have certain privileges that I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm a medical doctor. I, I that I, I, I come from this country and from this country. Oh, I use everything that from my family from the wealth of my for any promotion that I have. God meant it not for just my good, but as doctor nuns said, ages for chopsam. There are many benefits that Lighthouse has benefited because of those things. Amen. So you see, like the song says, where were you when I needed you? Joseph Esther Shula, where were you? Oh my. Sister, loving sister. And my brother, where were you when I needed a friend? When I needed a friend in America, I had Doctor Nosh. If I didn't have Doctor Nosh, why? Why do you think we don't have a church in Sai Samoa? I don't have a friend there. You've not thought about it? Where were you when I needed you? When I needed the formality to help me to do crusade? Are you waiting to see my face in the coffin? Then you say? Oh. Bishop is quiet. He looks just like when he was alive. He looks angry. He looks peaceful. He looks like when he was preaching at the camp. Is that what? Oh, here is whatever for the wife, funeral donation. I'm the most untraditional person that you can have. Don't bother with all that because I wouldn't see it. I wouldn't hear it. That is, if I die before you. If if Oh my brother. Oh, my brother. Oh, where were you? Where was I when you called out? For me to. Help. You did. I seem too busy. Too busy to? Hear How could you have known that I I had a problem up my home Oh, did it seem. Seem to you? That I just did not for my brother. Tell me where was I, where where where called on me. I will help you. Did I seem too busy you? Seem too busy? 'Cause we are not a big for. You busy? Too busy to hear? How could you have known that I I had a problem on my own? How could you understand? How did it seem seem to? You. That I just did not. That's what it seemed like. It seemed like. You didn't condemn me. OK, I won't. For not being there when you really need that being when. You need a being. Just understand that we all have burden that we got to. You know when you talk of help in there help is when you need help. You know, my, my, my big sister, she was giving me, I don't know, maybe 200 dollars, 300, I don't know. It was everything when I really needed sing that line again when when I. Really, really needed you. You see, there's a time. You wouldn't need it. Oh, my brother, where was I when you called out? Need to. Help you did I seem too busy? Too busy to hear? How could you have known that I I had a problem on my own and. How could you know? You see, if you are not in full time ministry, how can you know some things of what problem you can't even how many are supposed I'm telling you about armed robbery. See if you are preaching the study, all the soldiers and everybody around you is agitated and they are sending messages and they are you've entered them and not that they are even just doing they are killing people. They've killed somebody in the bank. And and when we when we drop that letter, you see smash the glove, gunshots, everything broad daylight in the morning. How could you know? How can you understand? I know you can't understand. So when I look at you and I ask you help me, you don't help me. You don't, you don't even talk to your your whole church is not even oriented towards helping anything or whatever. How could you know when I really needed you to? Help. You wouldn't help. How could you understand? How could you know? It's very wonderful. I hope you are listening today. Because I can see that with needs, you know, when it comes to need, like when I look at my sister today, I can even help my sister. Yes, I can. Even when I really needed her help, she helped me. That's why she's. Probably into this church. She's probably the highest. Donor to Lighthouse Chapel. Ever. Anyone because she sustained everything with that small at that particular point. They're all time biggest. Oh, my brother. Sing it, I love it. Where do? You love it too. When you called out for me to help you, did I seem too busy? Too busy to hear? How could you have known that I I had a problem on my own? Oh, did it seem. Seem to you? That I just didn't love her. Don't mind me for not being there when you really need everything all just understand that we all have burnings that we've got to bear. Or for this one, one who's always, always willing to help us have. And if she's my brother, just give him your cat. Oh, we all need each other at one time. Oh, another that we. Always leave this alone. Loving sister, tell me, where were you? Where were you? When I needed someone to talk to about a fault. A night that I've carried around for so very. Long, come on. I could not tell. I could not tell anybody because anybody, you see, anybody would understand. And when I couldn't talk. Oh. To you, that's where. I fell so. One day I went to America. I went to preach in a church. A white church. And somebody asked me, will you not raise fans for Healing Jesus Crusade here? I said. You can't just go to somebody's church and raise fans. I wouldn't just tell anybody what I need. You can't just just say I need I need this. You can't just tell anybody. What? Because not anybody would understand what you are doing. You think they're pretty completely different. You go in and you go out silently because you can't just tell anybody. Oh, my loving sister. Loving sister, tell me, where were you when I needed someone to talk to about a fault of mine that I carried around for so very long? I couldn't tell. I couldn't tell anybody because anybody, you see, everybody would understand. And when I couldn't talk to you, that's when I felt so old. I know. Woe. I know, I know you love me. But sometimes you you don't know what to say. You don't know what to say. You don't know what to do. That'll give me the strength to make it through over this one. One who's away standing right here, standing here beside me. Oh, and it's she's a loving sister and you know. Then the word of the Lord came to me saying Son of Man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations. That says the Lord God to Jerusalem. Your origin and birth are from the land of the Canaanite. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. See God is showing you your origins. As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. Many of us, we were not washed when we were born. You were not wrapped with salt or even wrapped in clothes. No eye. Look with pity on you to do any of these things for you to have compassion on you. I'm reading you cannot find it. Just listen. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field. Before you were aboard, on the day you were born, when I passed by you and saw you screaming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, live. And I said to you, while you were in your blood, live I made. You numerous like the plants of the field, and then you grew up and you became. Tall and reached the edge for fine ornaments, and your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare. Then I passed by you, and I saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love. So I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered the covenant with you, so that you became mine, declares the law. Then I bathed you with water, and I washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. And I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of Pepoi skin on your feet. And I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. And I have told you with ornaments and put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. I also put a ring in your nostril and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. That's where I've done with gold and silver. And your dress was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour. Honey. And oil so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty not only were you believed you advanced into royalty then your. Fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the Lord. When God is describing what he has done for us, whom it's very wild. Oh. Your fame because of the splendor that if God has made anything good in light, and it is a splendor that He has bestowed upon the Church. Therefore O hallow that says. The Lord your God, He continues. Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your hallow trees with your lovers and your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons you gave to I. Therefore I shall gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. I shall gather them and expose your nakedness to them, that they may all see your nakedness. And I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged. And I shall bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy, and I will give you into the hands of your lovers. And I will stop you from playing the hell. I will burn your house with fire. Execute judgment on you in the sight of many women. I will incite. A crowd against. You and they will stone you and tap you to pieces with their swords. So I shall calm my fury against you, and my jealousy will depart from you. And I will be pacified and be angry no more because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged me by all these things. Behold, I turn. I will bring your conduct down on your head so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of your other abominations. It's all in the same passage, same person. Why has God made you nice? Kujolinze. Kujolinze, stand, please. You see, I don't know where you were born. I don't know where you were born. But you see, when you read this passage in Ezekiel, you see it could be you. Quisida. Quisida, stand up. You could describe you. I don't know. I don't know which village you were born in, Marie. You were born in Mori. Do you know that sometimes when God makes us nice, we feel we are too nice, too nice, too good, too polished, too educated, too well positioned? To do certain things. May that not be your story. Jesus name. You are not too nice for full time ministry. You are not too nice to go and face an Orangu. Some of you, you think you are nice, that's why you don't want to. It's this type of I don't want to, you know. That is why you leave me to be alone, to be facing things so that I am the bad man in the chest. It's like I am the one who is exacting messy less. 50 less and yielding, inflexible. And what ferocious, rigorous, relentless, unremitting, never forgiving. It's like me, I don't forgive you are made that I don't forgive people because you are too beautiful, because I am the one who doesn't forgive. Are you dear? You are. You have good relations with all I'm. The bad I'm the bad person in the church because you are a nice person and I'm not such a nice person. You. Are too nice, nice people. That's why I'm taking my face Sunday. I'm going to that church, I'm taking, I'm taking my taste there, going to preach there. So that is that. I am the one who is merciless, pitiless, inflexible and forgiving. But you are nice not knowing that the niceness is from God. This is a watershed camp. That's your name, Mr. Nice. Are you prepared to put your niceness down so that you can do the work of work? OK, sit down, I said. That was the last one, but I'm sorry I made a mistake. The purpose of Council advice. Since we've been here, God has given us some advice and I want us to go home knowing that God brought you to this camp. Something to learn something even for your business to learn something for your secular work to learn something about your life, to learn something about the ministry. David sent out 10 men. Go to Kamel, go to Nabal. Greet him in my name. Now I have Did I give you the scripture for the last? You are OK, you know, you know. You know it all already, Sir, we are messy, less pitiless, inflexible. Richard Ricorrus, when they ask you to quote that you cannot quote, they will say. When you quote they will say you know everything. Otile John? Is it Otile John or otile Jew Jew or John Jew? And Nabal answered David's servant, and said. Who is David? Who is David Mercy, Who is the son of Jeff? Shall I take my bread and my water that I have killed for my sheriff's, and give it unto men from whom I know not? Wednesday be but Abigail. She rose up, David rose up to go and kill this man, and Abigail came to him. She saw David, she lighted off her ass and fell before David on her face. And he said and said, My Lord upon me, let this iniquity be. Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thy audience. Let not, my Lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and the folly is with him. Somebody talking about her husband today, we will use scriptures to say you don't have to say the truth. And she advised him, Amen. And he took that advice and saved himself from being a madra Amen at the wrong time to destroy his life. May the advice you have received at this camp keep you on the path of righteousness for His namesake and make you a greater, more successful minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Lift your hand and thank God for His great power and great counsel that He had bestowed upon you. Thank you all, Father, we are grateful. We are thanking you, We are loving you. We are praising you, Lord, for your great improvement, great blessing, great power that is released upon our lives. We thank you for the counsels, their advice, their inputs, the grace, the glory that has been bestowed upon. Just speak in tongues and thank the Lord. Lift your hands up, Ashley. Prayer, Final prayer out of this place. Manderi Boshi. Vulnerable kanderibos siki bahata. Oh, that the counselor we received at this camp. We go out at arrows. We are going out at arrows. We are going out as arrows. Kabata Terribosi, join your hands with somebody's hands lifted up and pray for the person. Pray for once you're left or your right. Pray the Lord, my brother will be an arrow, my still be an arrow that by this council we shall pull down. Every wall of the enemy, every wall of resistance shall be broken down. Rabaka baka tayyam pray for the strength of God that will be duest of the world. Shiki mahata pray, pray pray. Kandaramo shiki mahata mandaribo kabala bandariano rebaba. Oh Jesus help us of God to fight on and retired to win every bachelor ahead of us to God help us to stay focused. Help us to see the purpose, to fight for the purpose of God, all to the very end. Rabo kaba tataya Yan deribo, take away tiredness, take away anything that let us not make us fight well. Raban deribosi make thank you Jesus Hallelujah. Build your church Lord. Make us strong, Lord. Oh, because 1 Lord in their power, in your spirit of your son, for I'm building for I'm building a people for I'm building people of power and I'm building and I'm building a. Who will move through this light by my spirit, and will glorify and will glory by my precious. For I'm building the people. For I'm building the people of power. And I'm building and I'm. Who will move, will move through the land by my spirit and will glory by you, glory by mine. Oh, build your treasure, Lord, build your treasure, Lord, make us strong, make us strong. Glory in our. In the spirit of your sand, of your. The Kingdom of your son. The Kingdom. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Amen. Wow. It's been a camp. I heard this is a camp. Hallelujah. This is a camp. I tell you, I thought you should write an exam on this camp. It's too powerful. Wonderful. Are you blessed? Please be seated. We hope you have been blessed and transformed by this camp. To get the most out of it, you will need to listen to it over and over again. Make sure you listen to all the other camps in the machinaire. Don't forget to. Stop by our. Website at www.daiquidmills.org. Here you can download other messages, videos and find out about all the books and other resources available by Daiquidmills. Make God bless you in your ministry.