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17- Give Yourself Wholly To Doctorine (Bible Study)
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Give Thyself Wholly. Machaneh Collection - 86. Preached in 2014, Ghana (Mampong Akuapem). 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 #17 of Give thyself holy. This is your life Fresh full candle by here. In fact, we should be marking the candle. 25 years 203032 married tired right here children, grandmother small 1 like this Say Jesus, I give you my life. I'm going to put a candle here so that you can see that your life is going. You may never know. Limited. It's a message. OK, Give thyself holy, how many do you have #18 Give thyself wholly to doctrine till I come. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine. Doctrine. Amen. Wow. Now what is doctrine? Doctrine is knowing the Bible and being able to explain a line of thinking or a concept with by picking different aspects from the Bible, different things from the Bible. So if you take the doctrine of salvation, we start and we explain that all have sinned. We take that from Romans 323 and then we go to say that the wages of sin is death. Then we go to Romans 623. So it's like a concept is plain that and God so loved the world who had sinned, that He sent his only Son, which is from John 316. Then as many as believed in him, He gave them power, which is from John 112. You see that He ca
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Welcome to track #17 of Give thyself holy. This is your life Fresh full candle by here. In fact, we should be marking the candle. 25 years 203032 married tired right here children, grandmother small 1 like this Say Jesus, I give you my life. I'm going to put a candle here so that you can see that your life is going. You may never know. Limited. It's a message. OK, Give thyself holy, how many do you have #18 Give thyself wholly to doctrine till I come. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine. Doctrine. Amen. Wow. Now what is doctrine? Doctrine is knowing the Bible and being able to explain a line of thinking or a concept with by picking different aspects from the Bible, different things from the Bible. So if you take the doctrine of salvation, we start and we explain that all have sinned. We take that from Romans 323 and then we go to say that the wages of sin is death. Then we go to Romans 623. So it's like a concept is plain that and God so loved the world who had sinned, that He sent his only Son, which is from John 316. Then as many as believed in him, He gave them power, which is from John 112. You see that He came to his own, and his own received him not, but as many as received him then became the power. So that's John 112 and then what else? And if you believe in your heart, and you confess with your mouth, you shall be saved. Romans 10 and 10. So we have jumped from Romans to John and back to Romans. So different scriptures bring up a doctrine. Do you understand? And so to be able to do that, you must know quite well different sections of the Bible and you must study the Bible. Otherwise you will never be able to share a doctrine. Like for instance, of late I've been sharing about Nina Holiness Code about angels, isn't it? Or watching and praying. It's like a doctrine. It's like an idea that I'm able to teach about and pick from here, from here, from here to support or build a story. Do you understand now? That kind of thing must be done by Bible study and you must know how to study things yourself. You see, until you know things yourself, you are not able to really use them or develop them. Can I have drink, please? Until you, you know things yourself, you are not able to use them well. For instance, you find out that the people who made the railway stations for us in Ghana many years ago, because we did not make the railways ourselves, we don't understand how it's made, how it's used. So you can see 58 years have gone by and we are not able to run a a train in this country because we don't know how to make it. Are you listening to me? We don't know how to do so many things. So that is why when you don't do it yourself, but it's just sort of superimposed on you, you are told it's never really deep in you. So you never really know how to do things. The same thing goes with the doctrines of the Bible. Until the day comes when you search for yourself like you are sitting in one place. I want to check this scripture. I want to check this scripture, and I want to check that and check this and check that. You're never really deep enough to be able to build a case. Many years ago, I was leading a Bible study in Legon and I was sitting in the E9 on top of the university bookshop. That is where I used to have my Bible study group. I started exhortation and at that time, I've never preached a full sermon before, but just sharing of questions. And I remember I tell you I went and brought a topic and there was a person there that day who was into asking of questions. Hey, it was not an easy thing for me. I tell you, I got into serious difficulty. Are you listening to me? All right, so ladies and gentlemen, we need to become Christians who can study the Bible. Amen. Now, when it comes to studying the Bible, it's much easier today because of the iPad and so on. How many have received iPad since we came to the camp? You've heard of an iPad that is coming to you or you've received an iPad since you came here? Stand up, stand up. No, not by faith, like you, by faith, everybody has to see, but you've actually received an iPad. I believe some people, either you've had a call or somebody's you. 1-2, that's more people. Yes, 234, yes. Since you came here, you've actually had notice of an iPad or Galaxy or whatever being given to you. Yeah. Isn't it not fantastic? So God is confirming his word with science and wonders. Amen. And as you, as you as you study the Bible, I mean, this age, it becomes even easier. You know, sometimes you haven't even studied the Bible. Right now, there are three types of Bible studies that I want you to be involved with. The first type in order to develop your doctrines. The first type is microscopic Bible study. Microscopic Bible study is Bible study which brings most of the revelations you hear when you hear people preaching and you are blessed by the preaching that they are giving. You get it? Most of the time it is from a microscopic Bible study. So we have microscopic Bible study, telescopic Bible study, and topical Bible study. All right, So microscopy, telescopy and then topical. So microscopic Bible study. All right, what does it mean? And if you hear somebody preaching say, ah, but we all read the Bible. How can we you all read that somebody studies. We all read that for reading. We all read that somebody studies it and somebody does microscopic Bible studies. Now what is microscope? Microscope looks at something small and sees things that you can't see. If we take some of your saliva or any of the fluids from your body and we look under the microscope, huh, you'll be surprised at big things that are there. Wow, all these guys are there. They are all living in you. Is it not amazing? Is it not fantastic? Yeah. So when you look closely at a Scripture, you'd be surprised at all the things that are in there, Revelations, all kinds of fantastic things. Amen. So every verse in the Bible can be subjected to a microscopic study. And it is microscopic study which brings revelation and which people who teach and preach or exalt have to do. You have to do microscopic Bible study. Now, how do you do microscopic Bible study? Number one, you take only one vest at a time, all right? Or sometimes a part of a vest and then you focus on it. For instance, we take one drop of your blood, one drop of your saliva, 1 little piece of your feces, 1 little bit of your urine and put it under a microscope and what do we see? Wow, Look at all the things that are here, you understand? So you take one vest or one part of a vest, one part of a Scripture or one vest, and then you look at it and you stay on it. So when you're having your quiet time, most of the time you should have a microscopic Bible study every time you're having your quiet time. OK, then there are a series of questions. You have to look at it and keep looking at the webs with your eyes, because as you keep looking at the webs in the Bible with your eyes, some of them jump out at you. You sort of. Notice it. You know, I have something that I do for my quiet when I know the Holy Spirit is on me, you know, and with me in a certain way, especially in the mornings when I have my quiet time. I just read that the best that the Holy Spirit is going to teach me will just jump. Like that's what I was sharing you about. When Herod saw that he was mocked, you know, I was just having my quiet time. I knew that one of the bestest would jump and I was reading, I've read it 1000 thousand. Suddenly, when Herod saw that he was mocked, then he suddenly jumped beside Herod was mocked by and how was he mocked by the people who didn't say anything, but it just went this way. That's how you mock somebody. You don't say anything, you just pass it. It's just the Holy Spirit. I always know, you know that. That is how I know the Holy Spirit is with me. I mean, I can sense and I know that one of the best. I just have to start scanning and one will become the focus of my microscopic study. True. Are you listening? Holy Spirit is real. And I mean, if you have a very close relationship with the Holy Spirit, you will not need an alarm clock. Yeah, you ask him to wake you up. You see that he wakes you up, give him the time. But he's been sent to help you, help you to pray, help you to wake up and all that. If you don't have a close relationship with the Holy Spirit, you need your you need your phone to, to, to, to wake you up. Even that one, the phone cannot help you. OK, now so the first in microscopic Bible study is what choose the vest and and I was trying to help you see how do you choose the vest? Like sometimes you choose the vest that the Holy Spirit has decided to reveal to you. And sometimes that's why I say look at the vest and you notice that something jumping out at you. OK, then you ask yourself a question. What does it mean? So each word, that's why a person who is doing Bible study, there is another book you need apart from the Bible, which is as important as the Bible, and that is a dictionary. Without a dictionary you can't really study the Bible because all the words have meanings. All the words have meanings. When you say give thyself holy, you see, the word holy has a mean. That's the first study we are doing. We are doing my best study on a on a vest. This was my quiet time. The Lord give thyself hold. And I took it to me that I should give myself all out into the ministry. Yeah. You see, So a vest would strike you, but then you need a dictionary. What does this vest mean? And what does each of the words mean? So in my, in my, in my, in my, in my iPad. And we have a lighthouse page in all pastors, shepherds, workers who are supposed to have the same page on your iPad. Did you know that? And it has some particular things on it. There's a picture that we'll give you. And if you don't do that, you'll never really develop in using the iPad. You know, sometimes you make some pastors who are not in, in lighthouse and so on, and they use the iPad only to take pictures because they don't know so many things that it does. Yeah, you see. And in the in the Lighthouse pastel's iPad, you are supposed to have these two ones here, this blue and this red one. These these two are dictionary. And this green one is the Bible. And it must have a certain number of Bibles if you are a lighthouse worker, you see. So make sure you get one write to your your cousin, anybody you know about agents that I need an iPad for my school, my education, my life, everything. It's a very important thing to know the meaning of all the words. So if we want to do a microscopic bamboo study, let's take a common You didn't see that these two, these two, these two, the blue and the red, they are dictionaries. The dictionary. You must have two dictionaries. The reason why you must have two dictionaries actually you should have 3 dictionaries. Yeah, you should have 3 dictionaries. The reason is that the dictionary was written by a human being explaining the word and some people explain the word better in some cases. OK, but there is a dictionary which I really like and so it's also an important part of my, what do you call it? So you can see I have 3 actually three dictionary, 123. So these are three. That is the one, for instance, which gave me the definition for holiness. Yeah, you see, because when it is defining something, it defines it different. If you say that, if you say something is holy, that's how all is definition. And you mean that it is special because it is connected to God. The rest of them don't define words that way. So this third one, that's how it defines all the words. So if, if, if you say we are doing a microscopic Bible study on Sikhi plus the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all things have been added on them. And you say seek and you check the word seek from it. You say if you say you are seeking something, it means you are looking for it. It means you are this, it means that that's how it exists all. So it's a very nice dictionary. It's like for simple thinking people like myself you understand too, others will be giving you all kind of complex. It is the ACTA searching for an innermost and outward discovery of the intricate details of a hidden object. That is the video Sikh. You need another dictionary to explain all the words. Give me the other kind of. What I'm going to do is that I'm going to. Ha, obedience. Give thyself. Holy See. This is the whole. This one is finishing. Yeah, it's going since we came to the camp. You are older. The life is burning, panning away. The day of your departure is getting nearer. I'll give you another vision. Would you like another vision? Yeah, I'll give you another vision. The wildest of all the visions. Yeah. It's better early in the morning. So tomorrow, early in the morning, I'll give you a vision. Remind me so that I don't forget. Look, let's. Refill. There must be something to drink now. We were on our microscopic Bible study, isn't it? What are the points you have? You must tell me the points you have because number one is what? And how do you choose the best? The Holy Spirit will bring up a verse, but even if the holy. Spirit doesn't bring up a verse. Choose it with your mind. Don't be spooky, just choose a verse. Don't try and say that I've been scanning about 7 chapters. The Holy Spirit hasn't chosen my friend. Don't be silly. Whatever verse you were on yesterday, the next verse is the is the one. All right then #2. Ask yourself one, what does this verse mean? Isn't it? And what does every word mean in English or whatever language you are used to? OK so every word Sikh, what does it mean? First what does it mean? I wrote a book called Proton because of my microscopic Bible study. On the word first there are a whole book 1st and I checked you know we come to doctrine how many times Jesus said first. What you should do 1st And there's surprisingly a number of things that Jesus said you should do first, including stop quarreling first before you come and pray. Are you listening? So then you check every scripture that Jesus gave of every word, what it means and think about it, OK, the meanings of the words. Now when you have your iPad, alright, which you are, you are having too. Because I knew some people had received, because supernaturally I could sense that some some of the prayer had already started being answered and some can be answered. If you can make certain key text messages. How many know somebody abroad or somebody, I mean, who has send their message from here and tell the person you need it for the school and that you've never asked for anything before, but this is something that you wanted to ask for. You don't know anybody? Then pray you know Jesus. Wow, Charlie, give thyself holy yes are going by. You cannot say that you giving thyself holy yes are going by. You are getting older, your beautiful face is becoming pimpled, your stomach that was flat is becoming bulla is becoming like a pouch. Your breasts are becoming Charlie Waters. Have I told you that story? No. A certain brother was passing by and he saw a lady carrying a baby on her back and the baby was crying for breast milk so she took the breast and just pass it over your side. Just pass it. To the back and the child just received it on the side. Things are changing. It's a truth. Stop. Stop not making up. I can call the person who saw the lady. All right, so then you are now looking at what does the vest mean then with your iPad. If you don't have an iPad, you should have a Strong's Dictionary. But there's no need to buy a Strong Dictionary. You get an iPad. When you get an iPad right, the whole of the Strong's Dictionary will be in your Bible. You need to have a particular Bible called the King James Strong's. Every single letter in the King James strongs is there. OK. Do you have it? You don't have it. What is that? A King James with strongs. You don't have it. You see? Come. That's what I'm saying, that some people don't know. How do you come? You come, You see? He's using it to take pictures. Hold it, be careful. You can receive. What do you call it just now? Look, now go to Matthew 633 quickly. I'm going to Matthew 633, Matthew 633, OK. My friend, you are lost. Don't try to make excuses. OK? Now what is the Hebrew word for Kingdom? The Greek word for Kingdom? Priscilla, come here. You don't know. The little girl is going to tell you there must be. Look, hold it. When I ask a question, OK? When I ask a question, he doesn't know. Then you tell. Get a microphone. I need a microphone. Yeah, that's why I said some people are using the iPad for taking pictures now. OK, what is seek ye first? The Kingdom of God. So after we have asked ourselves the meaning of the words, OK, right, We can check from our dictionaries. Now when you have your iPad or your Galaxy, you can tap the word and find out what is the what Greek? What Greek word is Kingdom? No, you just tap it touch Kingdom. Pasilia. Pasilia, you see, she's a Greek scholar. She's a Greek scholar. Like magic. Yeah. And give us the meanings, my dear Pasilia. And. From proper properly royalty. That is actually the rule of concretely A realm, literally or regrettably. OK, so just crawl it up here like this. See this is the mean is right here. Read this one. Royal power. Kinship. Dominion not to be confused with an actual Kingdom, but rather the right of authority to rule over a Kingdom. Explain You both have iPads, but you don't know much. You don't know NATO. Do you know NATO? You don't know NATO. I think he needs encouragement. Last time you didn't have one. You had an iPad. How long have you had this iPad? One month. One month I received it from you. You said receive iPod and I received it and it came. You see, he doesn't know. OK, what about righteousness? Righteousness. What? What, what? What word is translated righteousness. My iPad has nothing. Such righteousness, the Kaisini. The what? The Kaisini. The Kaisini and what does it mean? In a broad sense, state of him who is, as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God. Yeah, so she's already a Greek scholar without having gone to any Greek school. She just taps and she's into Greek. And when you, when you meet and say that, oh, it's a first lap, she's into Shebrews and Hebrews and Greeks, Shebrews and Greeks, exhortations with Greek words. How many realize that you need one of these. You cannot, you cannot really do well in Christ without. So now we want to check the meaning of the word seek, Isn't it? So seek, meaning of seek you don't have. If you don't have a dictionary, that one will be serious. Now search for it. Sick. No, we are talking of iPad. Sick. My darling read. Let's see. If you seek something such as a job or a place to live, you try to find one. If you seek this additional laptop that if you do this then you have this this one. When someone seeks something, they try to obtain it. Yeah, if you seek someone, if you seek something. Yeah, if you seek someone's help or advice, you contact them in order to ask for it. So to seek something is to contact something. That's what it means. Seek your peasants. Contact the Kingdom. Is it going up? That's the last one. Yeah. And you seek? No. This is too bad. There's no escape. Surrender your iPad so that something small. OK, So of you. Ah, OK. Of you who have iPads. All right. Hello. What's the problem? Hello. Hello, all right, glory to God. Are you sure you didn't do something to the sound? Go and sit down. So you see you are well equipped with the iPad to hello to I mean to get Bible study, microscopic Bible study microscope. We are looking at Matthew 633. OK, so dictionary, Hebrew, Greek will give you more. And all this will take. You time. So that's why I don't know how you can ever have acquired time on more than one vest in the Bible. Do you understand? I don't see how you can have acquired time on more than one vest in the Bible. Yeah. Now the next thing is, you ask, what does it mean to me? Yes. What does it mean to me? Because seek ye first the Kingdom of God. It's nice that it means something. If you seek something, it means you contact the person. If you are seeking someone, it means you are contacting the person. So what does it mean to me? Me, Hillary, me What does it mean to me? Stand up 12345 What does it mean to you to contact? What does this best now mean to you? Start from Hillary. What does it mean to you? You are having a quiet time and you have seen Seek ye first the Kingdom of God. What does it mean to you? To you uh huh? Personally, it means that uh huh. It means that before I take any decision or something, I should take it to God in prayer. I should talk to God. Seek Ye first the Kingdom of God. What are you need to see Chong? I believe that one of the definitions that she read said obtain, so it means that there are other things I can obtain but saying seek ye first. So I must obtain the Kingdom of God first before I obtain. Any no so, so, so particularly in your personal practical life today, like is there any particular thing that is telling you today? Thank. You so today right in my life now what explained to me today? Yes. Is I'm a student, uh huh. I would rather chase after my course towards that direction, my profession. But to seek the Kingdom of God first means that I must seek to do God's work first. So what are you going to do? So what I'm going to do is give myself holy to the ministry. You OK, Abigail? OK, personally to me, what it means to me is OK now I've completed. School OK. And I'm working now. OK. And before I become a like before, OK, before now I'm a Christian, before I had a lot of dreams. And even as I've become a Christian, like I have a lot of visions and a lot of things that. Allow please. I have a lot of things like things that it's not God or church, the things that I wanted to achieve. But now that as the Word said, I should seek in the Kingdom of God first. It means to me that I have to put, I have to try and put everything aside even though I want it, but I have to try and put everything aside and seek Him first. And if I seek Him first, all the things that I wanted, I will get it. That is what it means to you all. The things that you wanted. OK, So what are the things that you wanted? There must be something you want I. Want I want. It. I want a nice love it. Quiet and yes. And that is please, the beloved is like, I have time is like. Quiet. You are all jealous of her. Let's speak. OK, that was when that was before I become a Christian. So not like I had like I have OK the type of a guy I wanted or I was like do before I became a Christian like a a tall guy. Yes. Go on, all tall brothers, take me. Yes. Quiet, please. A tall guy. Tall. Guy of any complexion. Any complexion? And muscle. Muscular. Very muscular. OK, who is that iffy? Chico. Chico stand up. Why are they calling you? Is that is that? Please, you know, time is going. It's getting late. We have to go for supper. Yes, my dear. Is that what you mean? Kind of OK. Yes. So how does the Bible study bring up all these things so. Now that appliance that. Give me the water. Anybody I see. Yes. Uh huh. Now that the Bible appliance that the Bible that I should seek in the Kingdom of God. Yes. Anybody I see laughing or making yes. Now that's like I've learnt that the Bible says you seek in the Kingdom of God bless, which means I have to put this interest that I have or this type of guy that I have in mind aside and just focus on God and pray to God to give me what you want. No. What? So does it not mean that you rather look for somebody who is the Kingdom of God, righteousness pressing down what you wanted? Isn't it? Yeah. Rather than without the six pack. Even if it's a Bony Bony M brother or whatever short Bony brother, isn't it? OK, yes, does it not mean that since you are rather putting the Kingdom first before 6 packs and tall and whatever, What? Comes before. Spirituality and God first before is it tall? Is it this? So you seek first the spirituality and the godliness of the person first, and then whether is he tall, is he short, is he monkey nose or monkey ears, whatever, it's secondary. So if you don't get that, but you got a godly whatever, you took that one first, that was your priority. That's what it means. So in what does it mean to you? So when she's reading, Abigail is reading Nina. What's the best call? Matthew 633 on a morning, John. It will mean that, but in my case, it will not mean because I already have the beloved. In my case, I already had a beloved about 30 years ago. So I would not think of beloved loses like seeking first the Kingdom of God. But so when you say what does it mean to you, it will mean something to you, something to you, something to you, something to you. Everybody means something different to you. Are you understanding? That's what I mean by what does it mean to you? Because if you've had a Bible study and doesn't mean anything to you, then God hasn't spoken to you today. You've just seen verses and English words and God explanations, but it hasn't meant anything to you personally. That is where people don't get blessed by reading the Bible. That's why the Bible is not so powerful to people. But the Bible is such a powerful book. All my writings are based on the Bible, like a verse in the Bible. And I'll write some few words about that verse. That's all. I don't have anything else to write. It's the Bible that I'm sharing, so it might mean something to you. And what about you? What's your name? Abigail. Also Abigail. Uh huh. Yes. Does it mean the same thing to you? To. Me, see, he says, the Kingdom of God, What I think about it, or what it means to me is that if I want to do something, let's say in that day, either as I have studied in that day and somebody offends me, or any temptation comes my way. What I think about it is what does God say first before I would like to react to whatever is happening to me at that moment, in that day? No, no, no. Thank you. What does it mean to you? That you please. It means that everything I do I should consider God faith before I do them. So if. Today, what does it mean to you today? Like today, does it have a special meaning for today for you? Yes. What's that? That. And in every decision I make. Not every today's decision, what is there? I mean, today's decision today you've woken up, you are reading it. What does it mean for you today? It means I should do the things of God's faith. Anything that concerns Christ must come first before my other things. So if I'm to come for service and take my bath and I haven't taken my bath. And it's time. So for you, for you it means it means you should come to church without taking about if you are going to miss the church. So it's like first, the Kingdom of God embassing second, very good. Thank you very much. Now the next question you have to ask in Bible study is what does it not mean? So you are having the formula, isn't it? What does it not mean? Hey, shall we look at the candle? It's going down crowd now 30 years old. What does it not mean? Or sometimes you can ask yourself what is like the opposite of this vest. So it does not or, or what is it not saying I should say What is it not saying? Not what does it not mean? What does it mean and what what is it not saying? So it is not saying Seek ye fest the political Kingdom, sit down, seek ye fest the political Kingdom. As Kwame Kruma said, yeah, he did not say that. He did not say sik ye fest the financial Kingdom. So what is it not saying seek ye first the Kingdom of America? Some people, that's the verse they are following. They are following the exact opposite of this verse. They have spent all the candle becoming an American citizen, that's all, only to die shortly after. So it is not saying seek ye first the American Kingdom. What is America? But you see, people give all their life to be a citizen and they say, oh, by the grace of God, I now have my papers and by the grace of God, I've now got my permanent residency. And by the grace of God, I've got to be made a citizen by November. And my wife too soon also acquire supervision. We have been here for 73 years and we are getting our supervision. Make sure we are now ready for anything that we have to say. Whatever you say, we are ready to give ourselves holy to the Lord Holy. We are ready to give the remnants of your life. Look at it. Small one is getting finished. Every day we live is getting less, less and less. So what is that saying? Sikhi fest America. Sikhi fest Europe. Sikhi fest. Political Kingdom. Sikhi fest. The educational Kingdom. Yeah. You know when I started? When I started the church 198788, I was in school. Supposing I I go and do my PhD and come five to seven years later, I would have come back. But after doing the PhD, I would need to probably use it for some time, isn't it? So at least maybe some 5 to 10 years, by which time maybe my zeal and the people that I've met who even speak in a certain way about God and the church, they will not even want. And then I'll come and I would have come to see pastors in town and I would have looked at them and I'll start to criticize. I would have criticized Bishop Duncan Williams. I would say, oh, look at this man. Look at this man, say he's a pastor. I believe in God. I cannot be like this. And dear doctor he was, he went to visit one of these churches, his big churches in town in Ghana. I don't mention the name of the church. And they were having first service, second service, third service, I don't know how many service. The pastor, the pastors welcome him to come in, to stay. I mean, in between the services, he was there with them and then they served them tea, I think. I think he was a medical student or just became a doctor. When he went to that church and he came back, he came to make a comment. See them sitting there drinking tea in between the services, They feel so good. They'll be serving them. They're drinking like that's what's the man of God today. I was wondering what is his problem? You see, you realize that you see just small medicine that you've done. You are just a doctor and the, the pastors have allowed you to come near them to see them in between the services. Just in between the services. You see them drinking to, I don't know, whatever they were. You came back to the medical people. And then we started talking to all these people. And he was, he's somebody who wanted also to be a pastor, but he didn't become an actor today. He's not a pastor. Oh, yeah. You see, you, you, you. You will. Even become a critic. Be criticizing everything that because it's easy to criticize when you sit aside, somebody come and stand and say this guy is just come to talk to young people, just deceiving them, this and that. You can easily criticize me. Yeah. So I would have criticized. That's what I think I would have criticized. Some people don't know when you give your life to the Lord, you are actually saving yourself from your own destruction. So it does not say Sikhi first, the educational Kingdom. God is first, God will always be first, God will never be second. Then nobody should deceive you that God comes after America, God comes after politics. God. All the people who've been coming to see us say, oh, we were this, we were this. But because of politics, look at whatever they shot the political Kingdom first. What has become of them? They have turned into smoke. Can you watch and see on the day it's going to be like this regret, regret. And I think that people think it's just regret, like, oh, you feel so bad anyway, you are there. Yeah. Like, we'll see. I don't think it's going to be as simple as that. Yeah. So what does it not mean or what is it not saying? What is it saying? What is it not saying every verse he studied? God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son. What does each word mean? God the greatest person love so love the greatest. Love the world not part of the world He did not say. He did not say God so love America, God so love Ghana, God so love Nigeria. God so love the world that he gave. When you laugh, you give. You think about it. What does it mean? Give? What does it mean to you? Because I love this person, I will give. I will give. Because I love our God, I will give my life. What does it mean? What does it not say? It does not say God so loved the world that he gave his Angel or that he wrote a letter. You see, God so like he did not say that he sent an Angel or he sent a letter, but he gave his Son, He gave his all that whoever, what does whoever mean? Whoever means everybody is included is welcome, is wanted. Beliefs. What does belief? What? What does it not say that whoever can pay? He did not say that whoever can pay, or whoever is this, or whoever knows the connection, whoever is intelligent, no, whoever believes shall not perish. What does that want to mean? Hell, what does it not mean that whoever believes shall have a house, if it is a whoever believes shall have a house shall have a camp he says shall not perish. That is what it does not say. So Bible study involves what is he saying and what is he not saying? Because you'll be surprised that it is what it is not saying that we are practicing. It's rather than what he is not saying that is happening in the world today. Like what does the Bible say? God so love the word that he gives only because that whoever believe in him should have a house, should have a car, should become prosperous, should be. That is what many churches are actually preaching without saying it exactly in the words of John 316 but it's in an unspoken way. We are teaching that God died for you, that everything in your life would be OK, that you'll prosper and that you'll be blessed in this world. That's why God loves you and sent his Son. That's why Christianity came at you. John 360 That is not what he is saying. That is not what he's saying that that is what it looks like. I I was listening to somebody the other day. He said he was preaching at Christmas, but he said not so loved the world that he gave his only because so that you will never be in need again. Yes, Jesus died on the cross and he came to save you and so that you will never be defeated again. Yes, this is the gospel today. That is what it is exactly what the Bible is not saying that is being preached and taught, but it is not being used with the terminology or the phraseology of John 316, but that is what we are actually saying. God so love the world that you will never be defeated again in this life. God so love the world that you will never be poor again. God love the world that you will never be down anymore. You will always be up. Bhagava Shabaya. I see you up, I see you up, I see you up. Take it 16 people are going up. Take it one, Take it 2. Take it three. You will never be down again. You will never be defeated again. I see a section over here. I see a new chapter, a new day. Receive it one, receive it two. You will be up and you will never be down. God so love the world that you will always be up and never be down. Without being conscious of what we are doing, this is what we have turned the gospel into. And you'll be surprised. Somebody can take John Christie and it will be so powerful. God loves you. I came. God spoke to me this morning. He told me to tell you that he loves you. Receive the love of God one. Receive the love of God. 2 You shall never perish. Your business will not go down. Your finances will not perish. Your your life will not go down. Everything about you will not be down. I see you up, I see your marriage up. I see your life up. Receive up and not down. Christ did not come for you to be down. He came for you to be up. That is what receive up. Receive us. And it sounds. Does it not even sound anointed and powerful? Prophetic. I feel it, I said. I feel it. Listen, the Bible said whosoever, what is whosoever? Whosoever includes you. I don't know where your house is, but whosoever your house will no longer be adopted. You no longer. You no longer stay. By the powers of Don't 316 I transfer you from that data. You are not staying in that area again. You shall not perish. Have you never rest? You shall never perish. Don't 316 Whosoever you are included today, receive it one, receive it two. You shall never perish in Neymar again. You will never perish at that area again. Yes. Are there not armed robbers in your area? God is taking you to another area where you cannot perish. There shall be no more armed robbers in your area. You shall never perish again by the powers of God. Chapter 3, verse 16. We say that whosoever whosoever receive the whosoever blessing. Whosoever, whosoever shall not perish. But shall have everlasting life, that word everlasting life, that everlasting life has started from now. Everlasting life, it means a better life. It means a good life. It means a higher life. I see a higher dimension in your life from today. We see it now. In the name of Jesus, everlasting life has been started from now. Those who are saying everlasting life is coming in their future, they don't know what that meaning. It's a Greek word which means chava, lavalo. And instead you start start your life from today. Everlasting, you everlasting is the meaning. There is a meaning to this word everlasting. A lot of people don't know the meaning of that name. He thinks your prosperity will never go down. It's everlasting prosperity, whether MDC or MPP. Everlasting prosperity. You are always above only, and never be low. Everlasting. How many received everlasting life today receive everlasting prosperity. Your cow will never be old. Your cow will never be small. Everlasting car, everlasting house, everlasting prosperity. Everlasting, everlasting prosperity. Those whose prosperity got finished when NDC came to power by the anointing upon my life, I declare an everlasting life upon your prosperity. Life into your prosperity that received life will last forever. My God, my God, whosoever receive everlasting life, life into your business, that's milk. I do know that you are selling. Everlasting life has come into it. Your hairdressing saloon, everlasting life has come into it. You are trading, you are trading. Plumbing items and electric house receive everlasting life. It will never go down again. In Jesus name. So what is the best thing and what is it not saying? One day I was watching television and I saw a pastor preaching and he read Romans chapter 8 and I got ready to fasten my seat belt to see what is going to come out of Romans chapter 8. And he said for whom he did foreknow, he did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. And I was listening. Moreover, he did predestinate. Then he also called, and whom he called he also justified. And whom he justified, he glorified. Then he said tonight whom he did for? No, He gave a predestination tonight. Your destiny is changed. You see, the Bible says he did predestinate, that you should be conformed to the image of his Son. It just slipped into a destination of destiny. Destiny of blessings? Yes. Your year of destiny. It was, I think, about the 31st of first message. Destiny. Yeah. Divine destiny. You are a child of destiny. You didn't come here by chance. Your destiny is secured under the blood of the Lamb. Seraphims and Seraphim are taking your destiny tonight. Everything that is written about you in the stars, in the Mass, I wrote in the Pleiades, I cancel it in the name of figures and I release a new task. For your destiny, Yeah, Like Sign of Destiny. Wow. But he's that's not what he said. What did he not say? Bible study is about what he did not say as much as it's about what he's saying and what is it meaning. It's also about what did he, what is it not saying that is microscopic Bible study. How many things you can do in microscopic Bible study Tomorrow morning before you come here, you think you can do it? Telescopic Bible study I told you the truth. Bible study telescopic is where you look at it from afar. So telescopic Bible study would involve reading quickly to look at the overall picture. Amen. That is not the same as microscopic Bible study. So when you read that you may want to read the whole story of Esther to do a telescopic Bible study on her her life. Then you get an understanding of the whole story of how the whole thing happened or Samson. That is telescopic Bible study. Then the third one is topical Bible study. Topical Bible study you take a subject, love or hope or patience or marriage or belovedosis, and you can have a Bible study on what it means to be a beloved. And you start looking through scriptures. Is there any bride and bridegroom in the Bible? This is betrothed to this, this is told to do this. This is the one who does this. And I, when I did a Bible study on beloved doses, that's when I had the revelation that I should enter a relationship and I should be in a relationship for a long time. Because I found out that Jesus had a beloved and the beloved was the church and that he has been in a relationship for a long time with the church, working on all our things to see whether we are compatible with heaven. It's good to have a long relationship. Wow. Rather than a lot of short relationships which we are having today after you find out that you're married in the night. Bishop, I didn't see it. Well, there was light off. When I entered a relationship, There was light off. All right. You hold my destiny. Destiny change? How many are a bit worried? The fact that we are preaching what is not the Bible is not saying. Is it not a bit disconcerting?