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Camp Title - Who Is He That Overcomes The World. Machaneh Collection - 91. 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 #21 of who is here that overcomes the world. Just thank him. Just. Pray. Pray for yourself. Commit yourself in the hands of God, thanking him for tonight, thanking him for another session, thanking him. Pray. Everybody pray. Chatting has ceased now. Talking has ceased now. Now we are praying. We are praying to God. We are talking to God, we are talking to God. So everybody here should be praying, should be speaking to God. Everybody, everybody praying. Everybody praying, Everybody praying, Including you. Including you. We are praying, pray, speak in tongues. Thank God for tonight. God is about to. Speak to you again. He's about to speak to you, so thank Him for the instruction He has for you, for the direction He's bringing your way. The Holy Spirit is about to. Work on your life. Again, so thank Him for the Holy Spirit. That's about to. Work on your life. That's about to. Affect your life. That's about to. Touch your life. Thank him. Thank Him. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Yes. Lord, yes. Lord. Yes, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. Mala mashi talaba de libi Kappa. Paran de lebi Kappa lava duba
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Welcome to track #21 of who is here that overcomes the world. Just thank him. Just. Pray. Pray for yourself. Commit yourself in the hands of God, thanking him for tonight, thanking him for another session, thanking him. Pray. Everybody pray. Chatting has ceased now. Talking has ceased now. Now we are praying. We are praying to God. We are talking to God, we are talking to God. So everybody here should be praying, should be speaking to God. Everybody, everybody praying. Everybody praying, Everybody praying, Including you. Including you. We are praying, pray, speak in tongues. Thank God for tonight. God is about to. Speak to you again. He's about to speak to you, so thank Him for the instruction He has for you, for the direction He's bringing your way. The Holy Spirit is about to. Work on your life. Again, so thank Him for the Holy Spirit. That's about to. Work on your life. That's about to. Affect your life. That's about to. Touch your life. Thank him. Thank Him. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Yes. Lord, yes. Lord. Yes, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. Mala mashi talaba de libi Kappa. Paran de lebi Kappa lava duba lava. Lava. Lava de Lava Baka Baka baka baka baka baka prendo libi cabacata staffando la brata samba liba cabacatunda. Yeah, yeah. Cabata brendo shamda lava diva Caba lava diva caba Liba Navi mato Mali brandima subata pemiko libretto sabitasta macapa Brando shata Mali maco Mali mato Mali beta Bram de le de caba lava daba lava. Are you praying everybody? Praying everybody talking to God? Praying to God, Thanking God for this session, Thanking God for this time. Oh yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Mala Mato lava diva. Kaba lava diva. Lava Diva. Lava diva. Lava Diva. Lava diva. Lava Diva. Tobacco Lembe dosti Mahata mavi Kappa mavi. Kappa Mavi Kappa Mavi Kappa. Mavi Kappa. Thank you, Jesus Macho labrata chandeli baby mahata Lava Lava. Lava. Diva Lava. Yes, Lord. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Yeah, baa, baa, baa. Rubber baka rubber baka. Shabbat, Shabbat, thank. You, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your presence to speak to us, to teach us, to convict us, to heal us, to correct us. To liberate. Us mamala bhandala Baba. Yeah, yeah. Bata. Brandelebi Brandelebi. Brandelebi Maka. Babasta zemi tunda laba diba. Laba daba laba daba. Laba daba daba. Laba daba Mika bako batte lebra dima laba diba kunda laba diba. Bata Demitosa. Zendeleba Bendelebe Miko Laba Bandeleba Mahata. Remi Copa banteli batosta leverta lebrande libika. Balata mahasta mato madi maki mazo mati vendor lebre de Basonda Lebredista Lebredima Lebreduka Lebredita Femika Paparita sabiando Samata Malibrata sibo taba Sibo taba sibo taba lava diba lava diba lava Diba Lava Lava diba Lava diba Lava Makabata Predoste Makata Makata Makata Mikosta Fetebe Lebredibo Shandelebe IMA de Mama Kababa binde lebe Rendelebe candelaba Brahm de laba Banda laba laba Banda mamatola Brenda lebe capa pasisto la veste malamato Chandelebra de bocata Prem de lebe queba capa Laba de mojata Lava Prem de lebe Bicastata pande le precoste Y brende semito lebre de bocham de labra diva Capa Yeah este. Yeah este. Yeah, este miko la blade sabata labradorste Malo mato lebladi batonda labladi bahata labladi Boca pahata. Thank you. Jesus makaba tonde lebladi MO capata Papalian della Miki palabando papalia della bikita papando malima tonde lebre di bahata padeli bahata makabata Makibota malibata malibata. Thank you Jesus, Mato Chitata, la bla. Diva maca mato lebe daba laba diva Amanda lava botta mella bla que peste parimo yende lebre diva kaba liba donde leble dima Kappa liba toste Mali matafanda labra dimo shindo Libra diva tasta aliwa kosta aliwa kosta makuta labra diva hatta makuta labra toste palido Dada labra de Li mikata madilimi tosti vemi. Kappa vermi Kappa Vermi Kappa. Zemi Kappa badiko lebredisto mato mazi matte sende lebra diva Kappa Papa rito labratiste Papa ribro di botostita Papa ribro di vitostita cledista tongue de lebra de macanda labradiba Kappa labradiba Kappa lebra diva lebra diva lebra diva lebra diva lebra diva lebra diva lebra diva Macon de lebra diva Sion de labra diva Kappa hatta memme quisto. Memequipa. Memequita meme Vimbo meme diba le brendo Jem de lebredisto de dieta la hatta bahasto neco Pennsylvania venico patoste parindo la blata maleba de vasto maquindo lebleste palido landa lebrediste lebrequipa lebredimo labradiva sunde lebrediva hasta padasto St. bacoste my undestic and de labra de mihata van de limitoste van de liboteste van de liboteste machindo la blatisto baki baki baki baki baki baki baki baki baki. Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Yaboba. Zostiya Yaboba Zostiya. Yaboba Zostiya. Yaboba zostiya zemo la Banda la bla de. Basta vendela breasta mocha batasta Milo Mata liva dona la bla diva kaba liba tandela basta Prem de Libby tosta labratis tequende estafete de la mita. Malabaco, Chande. Lebejanda Emalo. Mata Jean de Libra di Bacaba labra. Di bacasta padela Bram de lebejeste yege. Grande de Vista rebeste indo Libra dista Libra vimo Libra di Bo casto ma de mazimo de blendisto Libra quisto. Adilio Dando Sandelia bacasta macapa. Asta. Casto cacadema cacadibles de presto male madomi caba toste yes. Lord maridosti abra costova papadimo labra dima Chanda labra diva pante la brata Chanda cabrella brande levita brande levita brande. Thank you, G Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus Shamdo. Lava television lever diva. Lava diva Kappa Shunde. Oh God, Oh God, oh God, oh. God Malemi Konda lava diva. Kappa daughter Sundar Lava diva. Kappa. Oh God, my Lord and my God. My Lord and my God. My Lord and my God, My Lord and my God. Yeah, yeah. Bratiston de labratistica KK bretos de parienda Labradive de pesti. Oh. My God. Oh my God. Oh. My God, thank you. Thank you, Lord. Papa Lido, Shem de Lebe keeper, thank you Jesus. Father, we bless your great name and we thank you for this great privilege we have to be in your holy. Presence, thank you for your Holy Spirit that is here with us to teach us again. To instruct us again. To convict us again. Lord, thank you for revelation, Lord, and for understanding that you. Bring to us. Thank you, Holy Spirit. In Jesus name, Amen. You may clap your hands and you may take your seats. Hallelujah. I think we are having a very powerful camp, isn't it? I think the camp is so powerful we can't believe that it's ending tomorrow. Is it ending tomorrow or Monday? Monday. OK, whatever you say. I don't know that one of you will continue preaching. Do you remember there is someone's wedding day tomorrow as you? Are saying we should be in the camp till Monday. When it gets to your wedding will be here. Hallelujah. OK, it's all right to. Have a quick recap, isn't it? So which chapter should we start? From what do you say? Chapter 13. OK, let's start from chapter. 13. Chapter 13. Is what dangers of worldliness? What is the world? What is the world #1 is what 2. 3. Wow, can you already see these three things operational in your life? However you can see it operational in your life, you can. You've seen wild people who are influencing you, who are contributing for you to become wealthy. The the the. 2% wealthiness that you have or the 50? Percent wealthiness that you have. Or the OR the 99% wealthiness that you have is either from people or from places or from the systems. So these three things are contributing to the percentage of wealthiness that you see in yourself as we've been here, here, I've seen some wealthiness in you. So it's either coming from some wild people or some wild places that you you live in, you dwell in, or you it's around you or some wild systems that are fighting you. You saw a brother who said he has tried three times to move closer into the ministry, but systems, systems keep calling him back. Just say come back, come back. You haven't finished your project. We have some, we have some contracts you can't just jump out of. We just can't jump out of a contract and say you are going to work for the Lord, you are going to serve the Lord, You want to run out. So there are wild systems that keep you away from what you truly and genuinely will want to do and you will like to become. And there are some people, There are some people. I don't know. Which one is easy to deal with? The systems, the places or the people? I mean, which one can you easily shave out of your life and say, look, I am going all out to have a godly life, a righteous life and a sober life. I don't know which one. Which one is easy to do? How made you think it's easy to shave away people? All our places, the little places are the easiest and all of our systems, hey, don't joke with systems. I think when it gets to systems you shouldn't joke with it because you'll be trapped and you'll not even. Know that you're trapped. You just need. To rebel and just. Leave it and say, look, after all what I'm going because to to serve God, you definitely have to lose something. You see the catch, the catch with people trapped in systems is that they don't want to lose. And the system also doesn't want to lose so that you are stuck because to escape the system, you have to lose something. You have to look at it and see all these things that I've spent 20 years of my life trying to put together, trying to have done with it. You have the way to think like Paul and say I come to all these things as toilets. Yeah. I count all as dunk, all as toilets and then just walk away. But it's not easy to look and say I count as toilets because when you look at it, it's not toilet to you. It still has some attraction. So it's a it's a system that puts some wildliness into you. The systems inject you with some wildliness if the places also inject some wildliness into you, and the people also inject a good amount of wealthiness into us. So as you all know what is affecting us and what is keeping us from living a sober, righteous and a godly life. There is is one of these three, or all three or two of the three that is preventing us from becoming as sober, as righteous, and as godly as we can become and as we. Can be? Do you understand? OK, so dangers of worldliness, the first one was what? Say it again, Destruction of your calling and it makes you or that makes you unfruitful. The danger of being worldly is that it destroys your calling. And we read Matthew chapter 13 and verse 22. Who will be kind enough to read it to us? Matthew 13 and verse 22. How many here believe that you are called? You have a calling. So if you have a calling, then you have to be careful about worldliness because that is what can snuff out the life of your ministry and your calling is worldliness. Matthew 13, who is reading? Is anybody reading? OK, we have just one mind. Matthew 13 verse 22, He also that received seed among the tongues is he that heareth the word and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches took the web and He becometh unfruitful. Amen. So you see, it's where it's where the seed has been planted. So it's whether the desire to serve God, the desire to do work in the work of the ministry, which type of vessel is it in? If it's in a vessel, a type of person who is worldly, then it becomes difficult for that person to fulfill the calling because the seed fell among thorns. That's what we read. The seed fell among thorns and then it throked. It throked the the seed of ministry, the seed of becoming a missionary, the seed of serving God full time, the seed of becoming a pastor, the seed of serving God was sown in a pestle. It was put in a heart that has that has a wild place influence in it, wild people influencing it and wild systems affecting it. So even though the person has a dream and a desire, I want to save God. But where the seed is, where the desire is has focus. They are focus. There are things that there are things that you care about so much. You care about it so much that you, it affects your, it actually destroys your calling. So the danger of whether your, your calling can be destroyed, your calling. So you have to mind things that you mind, things that are so important to you. You have to be careful about those things because when you are too careful about something, nothing can affect you. It's nothing that can bump you off. This course of the ministry and this course of working for God. I want you to serve God. I mean, you've been here since Tuesday night. What will bring you here since from Tuesday night to Saturday morning is not your desire, your love for God and your love for the things of God. So therefore what can point this desire and take you away from the reason why you have been here? It's, it's, it's, it's the cares of this world, the cares of this world, the things you want to have that the world office that the that the wild people offer, the wild places offer and the wild systems offer. So a good seed is being planted in you as we've been here, what we've been experiences as as sowing seeds, good seeds are being planted in you. Good ideas, good, good visions, good purpose are being put into our hearts. But the thing that will fight it and choke it, choke it. It's the cares of the things of this world, the cares for the things of this world. The cares we see, we've seen it over and over and over and over and over and over again. You see a young lady who loves God so much, wants to save God that she gets to a certain age even before children, even before children gets to a certain age. It's like there is no beloved but the care and the and the desire so much someone gave us a a cut off age as what God for God forgive you. But in case it's really 29, you see that by the time the person gets to 29, the person is changing. This is the person begins to change because something is affecting us. It's as though it's as though my dreams are not being fulfilled, my expectation not being fulfilled like this God. It's like this God that I have followed, this God that I have been following, and it it when, when when what you want, you don't seem to be getting what you are you, you you secretly desire to have. Is it like we all here? It's like we all have God. Is it? I'm in Fazio. Love God. Mm hmm. We all love God. But then along the line, things begin to change. As we love God, we also have hopes and dreams that some things will turn out a certain way. When those things don't turn out the way you want it to turn out, will you still be at a camp? Will you still want to serve God? That is when we see what is really and truly in your heart. That's why we see how wealthy you are, even though now you love this because from this, from this stage, from this stage of life, you're going to move to another phase of life. How successful are you going to be? When you're crossing over. When we crossover, when we move out of school into a system of working, what will your life be like? What will, what will her life be like? And that's why we see those who really and generally want to follow God and want to serve God and those who have a bit of wealthiness in them because nothing will be pulling you back. Is anybody understanding me? That thing will be holding you back and preventing you from good. And that is what will destroy the call that you say you have today. The call, the call that you say you have today. That thing will destroy it and that thing will affect it. When things don't turn out the way you want it to turn out and the way you have planned in your mind as you are dancing today and rejoicing today. When it doesn't work that way. It doesn't work out that way. When you marry and no child is coming, when your child starts growing and your child becomes some way when you don't have the job that you wanted to have, when your husband doesn't turn out the way you you thought he would turn out, what do you say to God? What do you say to God? So the things you care about, the things we care about, the things we care about are the things that are affected. The thing that affected Adam and Eve in the garden is what they cared about because they had everything apart from one thing. You see, be careful about what you don't have because it's what you don't have. Your careful things that you don't have that can actually there was, there was no temptation for those guys except that tree. And Satan managed to turn their heads and say look at that tree. This thing, you can have it. You can have it. That was their fault. That was their distraction. That's what changed everything. That's what changed everything for them. So that thing that you don't have at any given stage of your life is the thing that you must be careful about. That thing, that wealthy thing, that thing in the world that care that you seem to have so much. I want this, I must have this, I should have this. You see, unlike Adam, Jesus Christ, he said man should not not live my bread alone. He's like, I don't need it to serve God. I don't need it to live. So Satan could not get him to fall. There was no, there was no trait or trace, there was no trace of wealthiness in him. There was nothing in the world that he was desirous of. There was nothing that could be used to tempt him and to destroy him. Twice Satan came and he gave him the office. He gave Adam and Eve the same offer, the hardest, and he gave Jesus also the offer. But Jesus said he doesn't want it. He doesn't like it because if he had taken it, he would have destroyed his colon. That would have been the end of Jesus Christ. That would have been the end of us. There will be no salvation for us. So as we follow wealthy things, you don't know how many people you are sacrificing. You may think it's just you who are something that you want and stuff that you must have, but you are sacrificing so many people. So many people have been sacrificed out of your life. Churches. Churches will never be started because of your selfishness. Souls will never be saved because you chose to be a well. Hallelujah. OK, the second point was what you're mumbling. How many of you are going to stay away from wellliness because of your core? Because of the core that you said you have? By the grace of God. By the grace of God, you make it. By the grace of God, you will make it. You will not be a byword. You will not be a proverb. You won't be at all. You won't be a proverb. You won't be a byword. Because as we recently we think about real people, real people that we know, that we can use as very good examples, as people whose callings were destroyed because of worldliness. But that shall not be your story. Wow #2 please speak it out #3 is what everybody? One more time. Worldliness diverts your attention from heavenly issues. What are heavenly issues? We read what first Corinthians Chapter 7, Who is our reader? 1st Corinthians 732 But I would have you without carefulness, He that is unmarried, care for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord. Amen. Verse 33 By He that is married care for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. Hey, I'm a boy. But it's true. It's true, so it diverts your attention from heavenly things. So the Bible is pointing out to us and using the example of marriage, that marriage can affect your heavenly mindedness because now your concentration, your attention is divided how you will please this one and still please God. And if you are not careful, you will not be able to please God because you just want to please your, your the vessel, your wife. Yeah, you want to please her because wives like to be pleased. Why don't you like to be pleased? Yeah, you like to be pleased. Why so many wives are here? Is she a wife? To be OK. You would like to be pleased, isn't it? Yeah. Already she has a. Vision that she will. She will. Control her husband #3 #3 is what? Worldliness cancels the direction of the Holy Spirit because worldliness is a course on its own. Do you have that? So worldliness is like taking a course. It's like you're on a particular route in life. So it cancels any influence, direction, contribution the Holy Spirit can make into your life. It's not, it's not, it's not a part time, it's not a part time job when you're wealthy. It's not something that you just do on weekends. Like Satan wants you to believe that after all, you've been to church, you've been to a camp, you've done this. So why don't you just do this? It's just, it's only today, or it's only for an hour, or it's only for 5 minutes, or it's only for 10 minutes, or it's only for 15 minutes. Worldliness is a course. It's a course. It's, it's a, it's a road, it's a path, it's a journey you take. It's a, in other words, it's a lifestyle. It's a lifestyle. You, you remember the illustration Bishop gave us. The Holy Spirit was standing here calling him, but he was walking somewhere because he, he's well, when you are wealthy, you are going in a particular direction. You have something that you are doing, your mind, your affection, your thoughts, everything that is on is, is in you, is centered on something. It's it is not a part time job. It is not a part time course. Satan will want you to think it is only on Fridays that you become wealthy or it's only, it's only, it's only for an hour, or it's only for two hours or it's only for 15 minutes. But it is not that. It takes everything that is within you. It takes everything. It takes everything about you and it cuts off the influence and the leading and the direction of the Holy Spirit from your life. So a wealthy person is a wealthy person. We, we call some for wealthy Christians, but they are wealthy. They are deceived by the definition. Oh, you are wealthy Christians. I go to church yourself, but you are a wealthy person. It means that the the influence of the Holy Spirit. Daniel, if you could keep your eyes open, it means that the influence of the Holy Spirit is greatly reduced greatly. Well, am I that boring that Daniel is sleeping? Daniel, I'll go and tell everybody that I want to speak to you or poor people slept. When you become a wealthy person, you reduce in your life the influence of the Holy Spirit. You will think, you will think of the holy because you speak in tongues, because you speaking because people. There are people who even speak in tongues as they are going to sin, as they are going to sin. They pray. And then when they finish, the first they do after they finish sin is that they pray again. But you are on a particular course which is different from the course that the Holy Spirit will offer to you, which is different from the lifestyle and the direction the Holy Spirit will lead you if you are following the Holy Spirit. So there are not 2 roads that run side by side, there are two different roads. When you are wellbly, you are away, you are far, you are far from where God wants you to be. The slightest worldliness that you have in your life is taking you away from the purposes of God. Did we read our Scripture? Ephesians chapter 2 verse 2. Nathan would like to read. I read it in time. No, no, no, Ephesians chapter 2, verse 2. Wherein in time passed, ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the Prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 2. Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the Prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. When you see an unbeliever, you know there's a spirit that is at. Work in them which? Puts them on the course of this world. But we are supposed to be different. We are supposed to be different. We are supposed to be different from unbelievers. We are not supposed to be found where unbelievers are found. We are not supposed to be found doing what unbelievers do. Isn't it? It's not amazing that it's not amazing that we find Christians that do what unbelievers do and go where unbelievers go and dress, how unbelievers dress and talk, how unbelievers talk and fornicate as much as unbelievers fornicate and watch pornography as much as unbelievers watch pornography. A lot of young people today, when you meet them, you realize that once that that is missing, that is missing in their lives. Is, is, is the Christian word self-control. It's like there's no self-control. Do you know how I look? Because because there's a certain deception that is coming on young people. That's like when I sin, I'll just say that I have sinned. And it's like, it's OK. The number of texts I receive of people who say, oh, I've done it again. Oh, Bishop, I've failed, Bishop, I've failed. Yet I was telling someone that, look, shut up. Satan is talking through you. Shut up. Because a demon, a demonized person saw God once and saw Christ was crying and was crying saying that you are the Son of God, you are the Son and God rebuked him. So some of these confessions, I've done it again, I've done this again. It's not, it's not genuine and real godly repentance because there's something called self-control. When you feel like you control yourself, you control, you say to yourself, no, you say to your body, no, I can't do it. I must not do it. I do. Then I send a text. I've done it again, Bishop. I failed. Bishop. I I tried. I tried, but I couldn't. I just, I just finished watching this thing and I did this and this. I mean, what what nonsense is that? It's nonsense. Yeah. Because self-control. What you need is self-control. That is control the self-control the self. The self wants. It says self. You can't do it. You can't have it. You can't go on this course. You can't go on it because that thing is cutting you off your relationship with the Holy Spirit. If you want your relationship with the Holy Spirit to be cut off, you can't hear from him. He can't contribute into your life. He can't say the only thing that leads you is feelings the body feels. If the body fails then you do body fails, then you do then you say Bishop I've I've failed Bishop I've done it again. You only remind me of those demonized people who are saying the out sound of God. You are the only one. The out sound of God that's only that's the only thing reminds me of. It's like a possession. Every morning you say I have failed. May you stop failing. Hey #4 is what? How many people are going to exercise self-control before you read #4 the self-control coming into your body. Receive the grace of self-control. Receive the power of self. Control. May you be able to come. May you feel and say no, I won't. Some of you have been feeling things you feel. You feel even right now you are feeling. How can you be feeling in the camp? Your own is strong. I meet a feeling that come the enemy is strong. The prayer warriors have to get to work. Yeah. No, I'm telling you, it's it's it's rubbish. At a point it becomes nonsense. Every morning you have a confession to make. Why No I why is that you must say that this is how I am. This is what I am. There's a Bible that we should confess our faults one to another. So so when you wake up, the first text that is coming to the pastor, Pastor, I've done it again. So so where where is repentance? Where is repentance? Do you know what repentance means? Repentance means to make AU turn to turn away from that thing. So even your sorry is not sorry what you're calling sorry, zest information. So I'm giving you information so you know that that's how I am. Yeah, that's how I am. But I have no intention of moving away from that problem. I have no intention. I have no plan. I just want to tell you. So in case someone asks me, I'll say why I even told Bishop. I told, I told Bishop the other day that, you know, I've been doing this thing, isn't it? I told Bishop. I've been, I've been. Bishop knows about it. I've been telling him. I've been telling him, and he understands. He's still my friend. I still have his number. Control yourself. I going to control yourself control yourself, control yourself. Self-control is a Christian virtue. I can control myself. I can tell myself that self. You cannot do it, you can't. You can't have it, you can't have it, you can't. I don't have to do it #4. Wealthiness, that's what Wealthiness makes. You forsake the ministry. May you never forsake the ministry. I said May you never forsake the ministry. How beautiful it will be that everybody here enters the ministry. How wonderful it will be that when we are talking about ourselves five years from now, three years from now, every single one of us is in the ministry. Serving God actively, actively in the ministry. What can take you away from the ministry? What can take you away? What is better than the work of the ministry? If you choose anything other than the ministry, you are saying that that thing is more important than the work of the ministry. No matter how you explain it and how you talk through and how you try to explain, all you are saying is that this thing I'm doing is more important than the ministry. I pray that 100% of us here will be in the ministry, will be serving God and working for God and doing the work of God. May God give you that opportunity. I said, May God give you that opportunity. May God present you the chance to serve Him, a chance, a chance to serve Him. Otherwise, worldliness. Worldliness will take you out of the ministry because you choose something of the world over the work of the ministry. This on your mother's advice and your father's advice and your uncle who looked after you in school. I still wealthiness. It doesn't change it. Are you hearing me? OK, so this second Timothy, chapter 4, verse 10, with the demons as forsaken, forsaken Paul, isn't it? Having loved this present world, you want to read it? Second Timothy chapter 4 and verse #10. Wow, I have different readers now. Second Timothy four of his tense. For demons had forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica, christens to Galatia, titles to Dalmatia. Amen. Ask your neighbor, are you Dimas? I'm sure, I'm sure there are people who were at the last camp who are not at this camp for various reasons, various reasons, various reasons. If we are to write, we will write that this person has forsaken us and has gone to Thessalonica for various reasons, various legitimate reasons, but the truth is that ministry has become second place. God has become second place. Even though the person I read my Bible every morning, but there is more to our relationship with God than reading the Bible every morning. We all read the Bible every morning. Then in addition to that, we have time for God to work for God, to serve God, to attend camps, touch meetings and different things. But there are people out there that camp who are not here, and there are people who are here for the first time. And we pray that you will come the next time and I will not have to write about you, that you have forsaken us. Have you loved this present? Well, this present well, how many of you are here for the first time? This is your first camp. Oh, wow, wow. Will you come again next time? There's a camp. Will you be around Nathan? You've come to speak Chinese and all kinds of things. So now we know you and it's your first time, first time at the camp, you're speaking Chinese. Next time there's a camp, may you be here. Because if we have to write, we will write that. Go for it. But Nathan has forsaken us. And you have reasons. I mean, there will be reasons and explanations why he's gone. Yeah. Or if you're in China, maybe a missionary to China. Not everybody has a good reason. Everybody has a nice reason why they do what they do. But it is still forsaking of the ministry. Put your hands together for Jesus.