17. Faith - 10 Qualities That You Need To Be A Missionary 2

Welcome to track #17 of Why are you not a missionary? You, you live by faith. I remember many times on Sunday, you know my wife and I will be looking for money to buy a tin of corned beef. Single one. Do you know corned beef? Do you know there's corned beef? Do you have corned beef in the UK? Charlene? Do you have corn beef? You know corn beef? Do you know how to make corn beef Stew? Look, do you know how to make corn beef Stew? As a born again Christian? Do you know how to make corn beef Stew? Corn beef Stew? No, but do you know how to make corn beef Stew? See me after church? How many things that you should see me after church? Hey, we have to sort out some family affairs. Do you know how to make royal corn beef Stew? We have royal. We have corn beef, and then we have royal corn beef Stew. You know that 120% of your life is gone. It's like rice and special fried rice. Yeah. There are two different things. Yeah. One single wanton Today I can be in my house and somebody will bring me a carton, a carton of corn. I'll have corn beef. I don't know how many I have. I just. That we were calculating. There was a shop that we used to buy combi from. The shop was called Juniors and we'll pack them then we'll calculate. What do you have? Do you have this? OK, I have this like that. My salary was 25 CDs or so, old kind of CDs, and I used about 16,000 to buy petrol and about four or five to buy engine oil. And I was left with four or 4000 and I said I won't go, I won't go to the hospital to work. I said I'm going to be a pastor. Without faith, without faith you cannot continue to live. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Yeah. But you see people say, no, Bishop, oh, you have a lot of money. That is why I just look at you and say I commend you to the current, the winds, the current in the atmosphere. May you be removed by like a bed. May climate change carry you away. The economics of global warming will catch you. Without faith, Without faith, yeah, People on the mission field, excuse me to say, excuse me to say, excuse me to say you see them doing certain things in calculations and certain things. Excuse me to say I cannot say. I cannot say them to get to survive. To survive. Yeah. On the field. OK. What about that? No, that's right. Right here. This beautiful, this beautiful lady. Doctor Benzoy, this beautiful lady. Give her a red card. No, Straight red. Straight red. You miss the next match. Straight red, living by faith. By faith you live every day, you breathe, you eat, you pay water. This, that, that. By faith. Bishop Saki wanted to be in the ministry also. So I said let us be in the ministry. Could not rent a car, a house. So I found a certain watching seller. Yeah. And the watching seller, you know, watching. It's a certain type of rice. We have it in Ghana. Kala brown. Kala brown with beans. OK. It's called what? Watching. Yeah. We eat it at homecoming. I found a certain watching seller and the watching seller will sell the rice in front of the house. Then one day we saw that behind the house there was a certain boys quarters and then they said that that place they are they are renting it. So we went there. I went with Bishop. The room is like this. One room is like from here to here, another one and another one is from here to here. Right now, 2 rooms and then the veranda. I told him that if we can buy mosquito net, we can put mosquito net from here to here and then we will add the small veranda. It will become something like a corridor in the house. Then you go behind there. That's the house. That's where we were there. That's where we watch Africa Africa Cup finals. When Ghana played with Cote d'Ivoire. I was sitting, we were sitting in that room. The the room is very hot. The watching the watches LS are outside. We are at the back of them. We are at the back of the watches LS. I'm saying it. We we live by faith. We live by faith. Yeah. We trust that God, that God will take care of a lawyer and a doctor believe that God would God would take care of us. Look after us. We'll be OK. But if you with your calculation, there's no faith is you are just suspended in the airline that you just will it work? Will it? No, I'll die or not die. I mean it. That's how faith is with us where we watch Africa Cup. Since that time, I lost interest in soccer and I was right in that room behind the rice. There was a Watcher seller and a Ricella. All of them. They have made a combination at the gates and we were behind it. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. We had faith. And I said, I said to Bishop that you can have a car, can have a car. So we saw a certain blue Toyota Carina that they were selling the body. The body is here. And then the the the inside of the car is also here. Yeah. So we bought the this place and then joined them. And then one day we had just finished repair, preparing the car and then he was reversing and there was a pool, this type of pool when he then he scraped the whole side of. I remember, oh, we have to find another way of repairing it. We couldn't buy fuel for our cars. We didn't have money to buy fuel. So we discovered that there is something that they used to join cooking gas, the gas that we used to cook. Yeah, gas for cooking. And we, we made a tube called a bimbola. We gave it our own name, a bimbola, and then we connected. You see the gas for cooking gas, we put it in the car. We connected, sparked the car. We went to Tema to make it or we made bimbolas in our car. We connected and we'll be calling us. Ah, my, my thing has lasted just Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. It has lasted. Yeah, today I cannot. When I if I stand at a fuel station to buy, all of them will be looking at me. I cannot even go and buy. Yeah, but in those days I was buying petrol, gas, everything. Bimbola connecting. And we believe. We never complain. I also. We are blessed and our wives too. They never complained. Throwing, throwing, throwing. Wives flowing. He had faith without without faith a mystery. Somebody who has been sent, he cannot even live. He would grumble, he would say our fish, what are the fish that we used to have, our meat, our meat. If I was to look back to my life, my life, my life when I was a child, I was flying first class, 1st class I was once I remember was how I alone and the Chief Justice of Gala, we were in the first class coming together, just the two of a child. My father never travelled economy class. I've never seen my father traveling economy class before. Ever. My father can stay in a hotel for six months. My father says, oh, he doesn't want to stay in somebody's house. What are you talking about? In London it doesn't stay. It doesn't stay anywhere other than West End. My father, oh, talk of Mayfair. And these are the places that he goes to. I am mighty. I've never seen. I mean Streatham and Braxton and all these type of places, Peckham and all. I don't know where they are through my childhood. Northern Line, Northern Line and Underlines going underground. We remember the fish, remember the leaks, people that have eaten the real fish, the real leaks. The first time that I ate fish and chips, I was with my father, a restaurant. After today, I'm looking to see such a restaurant in existence. Fish. And only rich people buy fish and chips. There only rich people. This fish and chip that you see. No, no, no, no, no, no. These are not the fish and chips that I was introduced to. Fish are not the fish and chips I was introduced to. We are talking of, I mean, another level. Oh, what are we talking? But when you have faith, you will not be saying, I remember the fish. I remember the, this, I remember the, that. I remember the, this. Oh, yeah. Where I grew up in Accra, in the city of Accra. I grew up on the Porsche side and I live on the other side. I've never found it a problem. So I'm blessed when I enter myself, I'm blessed. I knew that. So God, thank you for bringing me home. Thank you for your blessing. I'm blessed. I have faith everyday complaining some people who live abroad, you say hey, that's what Ghana this, I mean, excuse me, give me which which? Where? Where are you from? Where is your house? Where is your? Show us your actual house. Show us your actual. House. So as your real house and you'll be lifting up your nose when they are sending you some ways that you can no more live that way. I cannot live that way. Your mouth. So as your original house, one day a certain pastor, he was invited to America to preach. When he got to America, I will never forget that story because I was touched. I said that this is a a good pastor. I mean, As for me, people who remember things, they are good people who don't remember things. Be careful of them. People remember their aunties, They remember my uncle, remember my days, my days, my days. Those are good people. This is somebody who used to sleep outside. Some of us have the house, sleeps outside, sleeps on a bench, sleep in the church. He was invited to America. The carpet, the carpet in the they put him in the hood, the carpet white, this type of fantastic bed, whatever. When he saw it, he knelt down and he prayed and said, Lord, I give you the bed. I said no friend, I cannot sleep on from where I have come from that I should be in such a place. So he slept on the floor and gave the bed to the Lord. I said thank you Lord. He slept on the floor. A pastor is my friend. He slept on the floor and gave the bed to the Lord. I mean, I am not ready and I I mean, what an honoured. I should be here. So he slept on the board and let them bed for the Lord. Yeah. These are the kind of people that we meet. And they said where's that? I don't like them. I don't like the South of London, you know, the north of London, you know, all the same ending, like what we're saying, you know, I'm stunning. Yeah. Don't let me knock your head right now. And. Are you listening to me? You want to be on the mission field, need faith to live, just to let eat, to drink, to bring your children up. I met a lady in America, a white lady, an American. She said to me the first time that I attended school, the first time that I attended school class was in university. Yes. Is that all I was school with? It was in the house, Yeah. School in the house from Class 1 to whenever in the house. That never been to a classroom before? No. Her mother, homework and everything. Yeah. He has never been to school before. If you have to do that for the gospel, that is it. I met a white man. He lives in a village. There's no light, no water. I said, are you not afraid of things? Oh, if they come and we kill them. So as, as as a snake. I'm so, yeah. The other day I killed a Bay cobra. So how do you know that there's a cobra? There's, oh, in the night you hear the chickens because he has chickens as well in the forest. He lives in the forest. He has made love grass, you know, love grass the, the real lawn. He has made a lawn in the forest. He has made a hat. He lives there with his wife. They are white people, Americans. He's there to preach. He has been there for eight years. When I saw him, they make, they made, they made lawn grass, green grass in the forest and they made a place for chickens. And you hear that? I know that the stake that he take his Lantern, he take the Lantern and he go, they say a baby plastic. Then he find the stake and kill it. Then he comes back to his wife and his wife. And I said, what do you have children? I said I don't have children. I don't have children because of what I'm doing. I cannot have children. So I've said that I will not have children. So I saw little, little Ghanaian children. She said, oh, these are all my children. Oh yeah. If you don't have faith, if you don't have faith, you cannot do it. That's why people cannot be mission. They don't believe. You must believe something before you do something like that is one of the people I respect highly, highly in fact. I hope one of these, I'll have a company invite him to come and speak, if you even come. Yeah. So I said how much? Why would you say the work is early? Said that their roads, they go, they never end. And there are always people, people. People say there's no end to the roads, These roads, people all the way, all the way, all the way, all, every direction. When you drive and drive and drive and drive, you never reach the end. But if we have faith, then we can live in a village. You can make a loan for yourself. You can kill a snake if it was some of you say. That's Bishop, stay with snakes. Look at this in Singapore. We are here. We are about to die. It's like it's about to kill us. Hello. You don't have faith. Sit down. #4 Faith Co conditioner Faith is so important because without it you cannot please God. Hebrews 11/6. Without faith it is impossible to please Him. Wow. You cannot be a missionary. You cannot please God on the missionary field. If you don't have faith, you may have money, but you don't have faith. Never come. I don't have faith. You may love your wife, I don't have faith. You must have faith to be a missionary. Then you please God. That is why it doesn't really matter that your mission succeeded or didn't succeed, but that you had faith and that you went and that you believe in God. You believe in the man of God and you believe that he's sending you. That's what makes God like you, because I tell you, all of us are inherently dirty and sinful. How many preachers I want, I want, I want people. If you are not a pastor, close your eyes. I'm going to ask the pastor, Sir, close you ever you can look through slightly. Pastors, how many of you have preached before and you know as you are preaching that you feel sinful? No congregation, close your eyes. You can look just too small. Pretend to look away. Pastors, raise your hand if you OK put your house quickly before they open their eyes. Which aspects of you is going to make please God? Which aspects your holiness, your righteousness. And I've not fornicated before. Oh oh. Pastors, the rest of you, close your eyes. Pastors, how many of you have seen pornography before? I mean, as pastors, as pastors, as pastors, you've seen it. You saw it. You saw. Yeah. It was on the challenge. You didn't check the challenge. Raise your eye, congregation. I told you to close your eyes. Pastors, go and make sure they've closed their eyes before you confess your sins. There was pornography on the thing and you saw it and you washed it and you couldn't find the remote to change it. Raise up your hand. Congregation, what are you? What are you doing? Back on your head, back on your head, back on your head. Small boys and girls, grown-ups are confessing their sense. Who is a righteous man amongst us? What can you do? What can you do in this world and in this life that will impress God? OK, close your eyes. The congregation pastors, which of you you have paralleled with your wife before coming to church, Before congregation, close your eyes, you quarrel and you came to preach. Raise your hand. OK, put that hand, you can open your eyes and you came to preach of our love. One day a certain pastor came to church and he was preaching. Then a certain pastor came to church, and then it was time for him to pursue. He came on stage his Bible, and then he took his Bible and opened his Bible. Then he looked up and he saw his wife sitting on the front row, smiling, I mean not smiling, but sitting there like an Angel. Then something came over him and he said he told get up, get up, go to the back. You are sitting here like an Angel. When you are in the house, in the house you are quarreling, doing whatever. Go to the back, go to the back. And he sent her to the back of the church, his own wife sitting here looking like an Angel, angelically sitting down, smiling. You've made your face, your hair, you're this matching shoes, matching back, whatever, sitting like like some corrector perfecto, not knowing that when your face you have peppered your husband in the house to the back. And after that, he preached, but I don't know whether his marriage continued after that. Sandy No, no, It's a true story to the back. So yeah, I think we have not done it. We are sitting like an Angel. Angel, like joking to the back, but you are still a pastor and you are preaching. Yeah. How many persons have not divorced? I can mention big, big, big names that you know, all of them are divorced under. Some of that the divorce happened so long ago that you don't know that this is the second marriage. You are buying their books, reading them, watching them on television. They are all second marriages. Some of them Ted look, the Levite had more offerings than others. A Levite, a priest, he had sin, offering guilt, offering peace, offering birth offering. He only for that. I mean, and every time comfort for yourself, offer for yourself. There is nothing righteous about a priest or a pastor, I'm telling you. And that's why I keep encouraging people to be pastors because I know, as I am one myself, there's nothing special. We are just ordinary strugglers all our lives, our marriages, our women, everything is just the same as yours. Slight directions here and there. I mean you may marry somebody who cannot make convicts you or you may marry somebody who cannot mean royal convict or something just like occasional or who can make that will not make it only when visitors come and you see them coming with new forks and and plates. Will you have rice? Will you eat? Will you eat potato sauce? Will you have orange juice? OK, and they'll ask you honey, Honey. Would you want? Would you like summer? While I'm in the house with you, do call me honey. OK, come back to the front now. And I told her to come next time. You just just whatever. Then you come and sit here like an Angel. I think we don't know you. There is nothing you have to offer about your righteousness or whatever. There's only one thing that you can do. That's why the Bible says without that particular thing, faith, faith, faith makes you please God. Now sometimes, but that's for me. I want to be holy because I want to keep myself. The first person that kissed me was my husband. The first person that I, you know, I embrace was my husband. The first person that I slept with was my husband. I believe in holiness, not to keep myself as the Spirit of the Lord has also shown me, because I'm that type of person. I believe in holiness because the Bible says without holiness you shall not see God. OK, OK, OK. I accept what you are saying. So holiness, you have defined it as not committing fornication. So when the Bible say oh God, you are holy, holy, holy, holy, it means God is not committing fornication. Then when the law said this is a holy anointing oil, then it means that the oil is not committing fornication. Then when he anointed the garments and said these are holy garments means that the garments are not committing fornication and anointed the Tabernacle said this the holy Tabernacle. The tabernacles are not no, no, that's not the meaning of holiness. Holiness, holiness, holy, holy. I'll give you, I'll give you that from my from my dictionary. Sure. I'm high tech, I have the units. Read it. Who can read Who has eyes? Eyes. If you describe something as holy, you mean that it is considered to be special. Special because it is connected with God or a particular religion. To them, as to all Tibetans, this is a holy place. So if. You read again if you. If you describe something as holy, you mean that it is considered to be special. It is considered to be special because it is connected to God. It cannot be your your former definition of I didn't fornicate, so I'm holy. What about women who don't feel temptation to commit fornication? Does it mean that some of them are full of wickedness, jealousy, all kinds of other evils? Yeah. So holiness is more than to do with sex more or feelings? Yes, it more. It is more than to do with feeling. God is making you a special servant of His, separated, set apart for His purposes. This message continues on the next track. Keep listening.