22. Lessons On Loyalty 2

Welcome to track #22 of finish what you started. I was giving you examples of people who did not finish what they started. Isn't it? Lucifer did not finish his work, his work as a worship leader, And one of the reasons was this loyalty. So I was giving you lessons on disloyalty, lessons on loyalty, and the first lesson was what? Loyalty demands full persuasion. Amen. If you are really going to be loyal or faithful to something, you must be fully convinced about it. Amen. Now in my country, I could join a political party if I wanted to. We have two main parties, NPP or NDC. What do you have here? ANC or Hope party? DA party. But the reason why I have not joined is because I am not convinced about any of them being able, not even being able by being even. I'm not even convinced that even different from each other by much. There's a difference, but not even in terms of what they can do for the nation. So I cannot join, you see? Yeah. That's why I don't do politics, because I don't believe in that as a real way to help people. Amen. As I am doing crusades, I believe with all my heart in what I'm doing. So you need to be persuaded. Amen. If you are not fully persuaded, you can easily be set aside by rumors and by stories and by so many things. Now every great person or important person is surrounded by stories and slander is normal. Do you understand it? So a Christian must know how to even your first response to stories must be is normal. Just put it aside. Because the most effective people live in two worlds, a world of love and a world of hate. A lot of people love them and a lot of people hate them. If you are effective, usually you are not just liked by everybody. That's why somebody who is liked by everybody looks a little dangerous, like Obama, too nice to be true dangerous. But of course, everybody doesn't like him too. So are you there? Yeah. So it's very important that you are able to go while somebody is effective. You remember that master who's he went on a journey and he left 15 talents, 1-2 talents and 11 talent. The guy with one talent said that you are a hard man reaping what you have not sown. Is that not so? So here was someone who won two of the people, didn't find anything wrong with him, did whatever he said he should do. And the third. Person comes along and says you are a hard man, You reap where you haven't sown. You benefit from things you shouldn't benefit from. You eat things you shouldn't eat. You have things you shouldn't have. That's what it means when you say you reap when you have not sown. It means you have benefits you shouldn't have. You have cars you shouldn't have. You have houses you shouldn't have. You have money you shouldn't have. You don't deserve it. That's what it means when it says you reap where you have not soon, but if you reap where you have soon, there's nothing wrong with that. So he was saying something negative. So you see that the Master lived in two worlds, a world of people who float happily with the instructions and were blessed, and then the other world of people who criticized and found everything wrong with the person. Are you understanding? So every great man of God has that sort of thing. So to be an effective Christian, you have to you one of your one of your important things to overcome is to be able to overcome negative press and negative things about God's servants. Because you never know whether something is true or if it is not true, or even if it's true, maybe they they wouldn't. You may not know everything about it. That changes the nature of it. Amen. So, brothers and sisters, you need to convince yourself about the things you believe. One day I wanted somebody to write. I didn't really want somebody, but I was being advised that I should get somebody to endorse some of my books. So the publisher who was talking to me said, well, there are some people who you should not get ever to write anything on your book. And I said, such as who? And he said, such as Benny Hinn. Are you not surprised how many other things that Benny Hinn should write on the book? Because that person. Knows a lot of negative things about Ben Hin and has heard a lot of negative things about Ben so he told me specifically such as Ben Hin. I went to Sweden for a meeting of white Pentecostals and we were planning a meeting and some pastors gathered from that country and then they were saying were saying are we going to have this meeting? And the pastor said, yes, we can have the meeting, but there are some people who we cannot have here to preach here in Sweden. I said such as who? I mean which type of people, such as which type of people are not welcome here? He said that they are type. Of preach we need preaching that appeals to the mind and so some people type of preachers are not are not welcome here if we are part of the program setting people and I was sitting at the table. So I said such as who? Such as Bonky. Such as bone case. It's not. We don't need his preaching here. Now are you not surprised? As every effective person he lives in how many worlds? People who love him and people who hate him. Yeah. If he's from Jesus, he will have people who hate him and he will have people who love him. Yeah, one day Reinhard Bonke, he went to preach in Germany and they told him can you not lower your volume? They told we are not deaf. You know we are not deaf in Germany. Are you not surprised? How many are surprised? Yeah, he said we are not deaf, you know. And you know what he told them? He said, I've already lowered it. I've already lowered. This is the low. This is the lowered 1. Everybody who is effective lives in these two sections, people who like him very much and people who don't like him. And Reinhard Bucky will say, when I see Africans and I'm happy, I feel at home. But in Germany, he said, can you know? I said, we are not deaf, you know, we are not deaf. And he told them, I've already lowered it. This is the lowered 1. Jesus Christ was accused. Of so many things. In Luke chapter 23, he was accused of misleading the people. In verse 2 of Luke chapter 23, he was accused of teaching our people sedition. He was accused of preventing them from paying taxes to the Emperor. He was accused of telling them that it is wrong to pay taxes. He was accused of claiming to be an anointed king. He was accused of being in league with Satan. Paul was accused in Acts chapter 24, verse 5, of being a source of mischief, a plague, a public pest, a disteba of the peace, a fermentor of discord, one who stirs up disputes, a ringleader of the sect. In Acts 24, verse six, he was accused of attempting to desecrate the temple or make the temple unclean. Hey, meanwhile, you and I will read Paul's letters every Sunday and we are blessed. We take it as the word of God. Sometimes we are not even able to differentiate between the words of Paul and the words of Jesus. We almost put them at the same level. Well, somebody says he's a. Pest. He's causing discord. Opposite. Now let me tell you something. If you have not got to the place where some people dislike you, you are not called. You must have people who don't like you because of the church, not because you went to do something bad. Amen. Are you there? Paul said in Second Timothy chapter 2 verse 12. He said, I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded, Ameni, What do you think I know whom I have believed? Amen. What do you think? I know whom I have believed? Wow. Is it not fantastic? Is it great? Is it supernatural? Fantabulous. Wow. Thank you, Jesus. Do you know whom you have believed? Do you know what you have believed? I once met somebody and I said he said, well, I'm in Lighthouse. I said, what's your pastor's name? So I can't remember his name. You are in a church. You don't even know the pastor's name. You don't even know your Bishop's name. You don't even know your Bishop's wife's name. You don't even know your pastor's wife's name. Hey. What else do you not know? You probably don't know much about the church you see, and because you don't know much, it does not help you to be stable. That is why sometimes I like people to come to Ghana. That's why I want some of you to come to Ghana for some time because it will make you know. It says for I know whom I have believed. But when you don't know what you have believed or whom you have believed at a. Point. It's difficult for you to flow, especially when things get hard. That is why I encourage you come stay the people who have stayed in Ghana for some time with that, it's not just to teach them the word. We could send them faxes of all the messages, but there is something that you know in a different way by being there. How many understand what I'm talking about? That's why. I know who. I have believed, I know that Jesus have believed, I know the man of God that I'm following. Pastor Hemes did not know me yesterday. I knew him in medical school. Is that not true? But you're not in medical school? When I was in medical school, yes, he was in the hostel, I was also there. Its not just. Last three weeks. But I I knew him or he knew me. You get it. So you see that sometimes that is what makes people stable. It's not a shallow knowing of somebody or of something or about something, but it's very deep. When I was in medical school, it was also in medical school and all the churches, this church lighthouse at that time all. Our instruments in the world were kept in his room. His room was the House of the church equipment. For all instrumental. Lighthouse in the whole wide world had was in Pastor Hamish's room. It's one room. He, he, he, he, he. He made chow boxes and we put them in there and he would fill. If the room is like this, half of the room was filled from the ground to the floor up with books that he passed by the side and his bed was there and on Sunday he would move all the boxes to where the church hall was. Carried them one by one over there. So he did not come into the either the church nor his knowledge of me nor his knowledge of Christ, which was before that. I didn't lead him to Christ by his story of Christ some time ago and his story to the church is it is deep in terms of how it started, where we came from, those who hated us at that. Time and those who have been proved wrong because that small boy, he has his brothers and sisters all over the world. The boy who said he's going to prove to that the old man is not always right. He has his relatives everywhere. They are trying to prove that you are not right to go to Zambia. What do you think? How many understand what I'm talking about? Huh. That's why I said that we want you to know more. More. I want more. Say I want more. Say I want to know more. Yeah, that's what the. President, No. You know what? You know, it's not something I'm trying to prove to you. It's something so Paul said I. Know whom I have believed. Was that Luvia has stayed in my house before? Is it not true? My my personal house. He has lived in my house before with his wife. They've also lived in my house before. Yeah, maybe he has not. As a guest. He was still staying there. The points. And I knew his wife before he married her. Yeah. When she was a single girl working at the nursing school, she was called Elaine. Yeah. Yeah, she was called Elaine. And I knew when she was going to get my. I even know the time her wedding dress was brought to her one hour before her wedding. Yeah, I remember the I remember at the wedding. So many struggles for them to get married. Hey, so it's not last. Weekend that you know somebody. So when you. Know it to a certain extent. It's not so easy to just rub off certain things. Are you listening to me? Yes, that's why some of you, you see you are great, but what you lack is depth. You lack depth, you know, but you don't know to a certain extent. You believe, but you don't believe to a certain extent. That's why I invited Billy and Kumon to come to Ghana and say come, come, come. Stay with us, come stay with us, come be with us. Your knowledge will not be about, but you see me here. You're just seeing a part of me, even when you come to a crowd. You only see a part of me. Are you there? Yeah. But come around. Come. No more, no more of the church. Know how well what we are trying to do, What is our real vision and our heart. Because Satan is there waiting to distract you detract us from our path all the time. So we we work in the midst of. Bad. Stories, Press impressions When I started the church years ago. When we started the church years ago. Hey. You both said bad things about me, one guy said. When I see dark, I feel. Sick. So when I when I see dark, I feel sick. One guy, he said Dad. Who's dad? He said he reminds me of Jim Jones. Do you know Jim Jones? Huh. If Jones is a man who was in Guyana, he had a huge church and I think he was in America, and he took them to Guyana, made a camp. They made everybody take cyanide and they all killed themselves and they all died one or two, I think. They didn't die. Who told the story? So it's like a pastor who leads people to kill themselves. Kill yourself or Jesus. Hey. Today you say I'm Jim Jones. My classmates, like I mentioned his name, he said. I'm Jim Jones. Not only my classmates, but my teacher in school said I'm into my my lecturer. We needed a hall to have our wedding and the lecturer was a reverend in that church hall. So my parents in law went to see him. We want to use your beautiful church, was a nice church in Ghana. Accra, my man said your son, the one you want to marry, he's Jim Jones, dangerous person. We will only give him the church building if he closes down that church that he has started. Yeah. And that person is close to my family. So when my parents, my father-in-law and my mother-in-law who are 88 years old and 70 years old today, when they heard that, they were afraid, but their daughters come to marry somebody like me now their hearts were beating. In Spanish you say me corazon papita porti. Now if you miss it, you missed it. My mother-in-law and my father, now they were worried and I had another relative who said I'm into occult. I remember one guy said I've buried some cows which have turned into worms and the worms are members. Different stories, one person, so many things that you are supposed to have done. The basement, yeah, they said. I'm printing, man. I have a printer, I print money and they have seen the printer with their naked eyes. I will print money in the church. One guy said to me the economics does not add up. When I sit in the church and they are collecting, I cannot see how you do the projects that you are doing. I am also in the church and look and see. It cannot be possible. The economics does not add up. So now as Jim Jones and now I. Have to plow through that mind and you don't even know what people have been told about you. All those things have made me very quiet. But now I'm very quiet when I see people. If you see me in a certain environment, you say I'm I'm like deaf and dumb like my caddy. I told her about it. I had the caddy was different, quiet so that my mother asked me why is it that when my friends come you don't talk? I said this friends of yours, I don't know them. I don't know what they think about. And some of them don't think good things about me. But I'm saying that if you are not deeply convinced about somebody, you can easily think something bad. Wow. If you've been in there inside, you know it like one of the guys came who came to work. He was a bank manager, came to work for us, one of our pastors, he's in full time. He's a chartered accountant who is taking my. Volume chop What chop? What are you, police? This should be your last very last time. What was I telling you? I've forgotten chartered accountant. He's one of the early people who. Came full time, but he was a chartered accountant. He was he had been promoted in the bank to become the manager one day, he said, I want to be full time and I want to work with you. You know why? He has paid us for many years. He did the first accounts of the church. He handled the paper, the final, the money, everything. He knows what we are doing there, what is going on. So because he's more inside information, he was more at ease. And I think I would like to work in the ministry. Another guy, he was in another church, but he was an accountant and one day our church accounts went to that account office as auditors. And so he started to go through our accounts. Yellow red card to the back. And your police? Escort her to the to the back. There is no since 2006 December, some people are taking preemptive action. Are you listening to me? Yes. So, brothers and sisters, you got. To know more, I was telling about this guy who was working at the auditors. He was not in Lighthouse, but when he went through the accounts he got to know more. About us. And he felt in his hand, he said this is a good church and then something happened at his church and he decided to today's even in full time ministry. But he told me that's how I came to the church. I was not in this church. So brothers and says I'm just trying to say that helping you to know more. That's why Paul said when he was talking about Jesus. I know whom I believe and I'm fully persuaded. So that's why I would encourage you when you have the chance during homecoming, come for homecoming. All citizens, yeah. South Africa, you have not seen anything. You don't know Africa. South Africa is 1% of Africa. When I go to America and I see people say, have you been to Africa before? They say, Oh yeah, we've been to South Africa. South Africa is not Africa. Come to Nigeria, come to Ghana, come to Sierra Leone and you know what is Africa? You come to South Africa, you have all these Sheraton hotels, Hilton hotels, what restaurants, There's, there's that roads, highways, bridges, crossovers, intersections, whatever. Come to Ghana, you will show you a place that a bridge since since the independence from here to here, they cannot cross it. You have to go round about 300 kilometers round the river to be able to come to this part of the river, to the other side. You say you've been to Africa. When it's time for hope coming, come buy a ticket and come. You never know, you may be sitting on the plane and somebody will be sitting by you and and he's he may be the person you've been praying about. Oh, Lord, Oh, Lord, touch my life. Lord, send somebody into my life and ask you take the step. You never know. Yes, you can afford it. Tell your neighbor you can afford it. So in November, you must rent one of the South African planes. South Africa anguish. So we are 250. We are going for homecoming because it is our spiritual home. Yes, So our spiritual home, we are going to even Muslims, every year they go to Mecca, Medina, they pay and they go because it is a spiritual home of their religion. And Christians must also make pilgrimages. Come and be blessed and be touched by God and experience the joy, experience the power, the presence and the family from different parts of the world. Amen. Coming to to ministry. Come to Bible school, come and spend some time there. And it will help you to know a little more and you become more stable. You become like a rock. Hallelujah. Are you listening to me? We want to, we want you to be. We want you to know more about the finances of the church. Amen. When you know about the finances of the church, it will help you to be stable. You have to know that when you take an offering here. It can be used to to help somebody over there so that when you are in a branch that is rich you will not have a selfish mind and just want to develop 1 breast or one. Knee. What is that? And it destroys the rest of the body if we don't have our minds on Port Elizabeth, East London missions and other places. We will never have what we have. Look, let me tell you where I am already. I am successful by the grace of God. Before we had this, that I have one of the largest churches in Ghana. I have a car, I have a house. I don't need anything. I don't know when I go and start more church, it's just more issues. It's we are trying to do God's work. They're not trying to get us into it. I've already started more branch than anybody that I I really know in more countries than anybody I long ago. It's not making us accomplish something that we have not done before. We're trying to work for God. But some of you don't believe it. You don't understand it. You don't know really what is the heart that is at work. And that is why we want you to know more. Say I want more. I want more, Yes. You must want more knowledge, more insight, more understanding of what is going on. Then you become more balanced. Hallelujah, Salman. Is it not true you're coming to Ghana? They didn't help you to know more. Come where's the microphone? It's Selma. Is that the right name? Yeah. She came to Ghana for a year, isn't it? Yes, I came to Ghana for a year and I was really happy because I have learned a lot. They helped me to know the Lord and I believe in my Bishop very much. Where, where did you, where did you where when you were in Ghana? Where did you work and all that I awake. She was. She's from Namibia. I awake at the parch parchment house. Parchment House and I work at the Kudesh, also with Bishop's Books. Wow. So she came. Back How long were you in Ghana for? One year only. One year only, see, she said only. I want more, more I. Want. That more tell you that I want more? No, it's like I want more. I want more. No, no, you have to come to Ghana to understand. So did you understand more things? I understand more things about the Lord, not about the country. I didn't go there for the country. I went there to quit the weight of God and bring it back to Nolivia. She didn't come to find out about our river. Densua River Prow A Cosombo lake or what? Did you see a Cosombo lake when you were in Ghana? No, no. I. Didn't see. Yes, because you didn't come to see a lake, she came about God and church. So do you think you are a little deeper than some of the people who have not been there before? I believe so, Bishop. And you want more? I want. More. I want more, I want more. How many have come for homecoming and you want more? Yes. Give someone a club offering. Thank you. She's fully persuaded. We want you to understand the vision. There are some things that will make you more fully persuaded. When you know more about finances, it helps you to be stable. Because in almost every African way of doing things, there's a lot of funny things going on, isn't it? And openness. We want you to know about the finances, about the vision. Amen. What do you think? And it's going to help you to know and be fully persuaded. That's why sometimes I mention certain things when I'm preaching. Sometimes I mention you. If you listen, you hear. Because I want people to have an idea of how I, I, I come by setting things or I experience certain things. I want them to have an idea. Otherwise they'll, they'll find it mysterious. Yeah, there'll be questions in the mind. How do you, how do you get this? How do you have this? So sometimes I mention things keep openness to help you to be convinced and understand what's going on. Do you want more? There is no shame. If you want more, you may scream #2 Lesson on loyalty. Your loyalty must be to the higher authority. Amen. First Corinthians Chapter 11 verse one. Follow my example as I follow the example of Jesus Christ. In other words, follow my example as long as I am following the example of Jesus. Amen. Hey. So if I don't follow the example of Jesus, don't follow me. So you follow a leader as long as he is submitted to the leader just above him. If he's not following the leader above him, don't follow him anymore. Amen. So if one of your pastors gets up tomorrow and he says we are moving here and you have to ask him that is the general Superintendent over here, is he the one who is sending you? And he said don't mind him. We are just going. You say we will follow you as long as you are following him. If your general Superintendent here, who is Pastor Jake is saying we are going to do something as long as he's also following the Bishop of the. Church of our own Bishop, I should even say that shuffling council because now that is what is ruling the church. Are you following what the Shuffling Bishops Council or whatever is called Shuffling Conference have said? And you are not? Then we cannot follow you. And if the Bishop is also me, I am also. Going to do something? I said now we are all doing that and what I am doing is not what Jesus did. Then you must not follow me, and you will be a fool to follow me. At that point I can tell you free of charge, don't follow me. If I do not follow Christ, there is no shame in not following me. If I am not following Christ, you may scream, because we are all under authority. So you, you must follow. You must be subject to the higher authority. You must recognize that you are a man of authority because there is somebody over you. When that captain was telling Jesus I am a man under authority, I said to one go and he covered. He didn't say I am a man with authority. He said I am a man under authority. In other words, I am under somebody. There is somebody over me, isn't it? And that's why Jesus kept on saying my Father, my Father, my father, my father. Which sent me my father. Which sent me my father, Which sent me. You understand? Yes. So brothers and sisters, we do not follow people when they are not following the Lord. One day one of our pastors came and got up in the morning and he said he was changing the name of the church from Lighthouse Chapel to another church. So he said first he told us that he was living there. He was he was going to start a church. He told me I want to start a church. So I said, what church are you start? Are you starting? He said a church. So I said, which church is the church you are starting? Say a church. Is it Lighthouse Chapel? Or they said no, it's not Lighthouse. I said, oh, so in other words you are saying you are leaving. OK. So I said OK, then on Sunday I'm going to send Bishop Saki to come and announce so when we go. To the church lighthouse sign was not there. Another church sign was at the church place. So we ask that which church is this? He said or he said joint service. I said joint service. Joint service between who and who? He said between this new child, I formed a lighthouse which I was I'm a pastor of which is the same people you are having a joint service. I so boy, so boy. If you are members of such a church and the pastor is rising up to do something like that, you said to the Pastor Tomboy, Pastor tomboy, you see the door, Either you go by yourself or we carry you out. Angel Police, Are you ready to work? We carry you out of the church. Don't follow. Yes. Don't follow people who are doing wrong things if they are not under author accident. Me. If I get up tomorrow, I start on new ideas and it is tough from Jesus. Do not follow me. I'm telling you now so that in case I come up with something in the future, you will not be misled. Even if I am misled, you will not follow that thing. But I don't want you to be destroyed. You get it? Yeah, I'm protecting you by telling you to be careful of me so that when you see that I'm doing something different, that Jesus has also. You say, Bishop, we love you, but this one, we cannot go there. We cannot follow you for this one. Yeah, and that's as I'm. Telling you that I'm telling you that if your pastor here says something and he's not under that authority, you telling my friend. Go pastor, go pastor, go out with you now and you rise up and say out of the church. We are like our Chapel. We are not the angels delight Gobbling up Chapel International. What is Gobbling up Chapel international? You are from a new church Gobbling up Chapel joint service between Gublico Chapel International and Lighthouse Chapel International. What what? What do you mean? What do you mean one day? A certain pastor, he was going out of the church, and as he was going out of the church, he wanted to talk to different people, kind of talk to different people. Nobody followed him. He was surprised. He thought people would follow him. There was a man in the church who used to pay his children's school fees. Yeah, I didn't. Even know that the man was paying his children's school fees. Yeah, the man was in the chair, a member of the rich member of the chair. The man was touched by the pastor's work and all that. So he said, look, let me, I want to pay for your children's school fees. There were other people in the church who were close friends with him. When he said he was going, he thought that these guys who pay his school fees and all these things, they will follow. Not even one person follow. He went naked like a banana. He just went out like that. Do you have the banana here? Can I have one banana please? I need a banana. France, redeem yourself and bring the banana fast. Yesterday we sent you to bring a wild goose. You brought a domestic chicken. Are you there? Let them be surprised that the church is airtight. One day a certain brother came to the church. He was from another church and he was doing our church. After he had been there for some time, he told me something. He said Bishop, your church is. Airtight, airtight, Airtight means air cannot come out. He cannot go in. I or Rangus cannot survive in the system. It is airtight. Let them feel it that we don't accept all these things. We have been told about you, that you are coming one day we went for calm. They taught us that one day you will come and you have also come and we are prepared for you. Will you clear out of here before something happens to you? You. I he want to take you, Aquarius Test want to take. Organists want to take singers away. Look at the banana. But when he's going, he must go naked. These are the members that I said no, we shall not go with you. We shall not go with you. We shall. These are the Aquarius. We shall not go with you, the members, the rich people in the church, those who are paying school fees, even the children, your best friends. Then you be like this. Naked like a banana. Then you go like that, free like that, go. You and your wife, you go. That's all. Are the church members the quarry test? Yeah. The businessman, the J Chad, the Lilas. No way you go like that without anything. Charlie, the guy was surprised. If your wife, if you don't take her, your wife will say you have become a Lucifer. I should follow Lucifer. If you don't take care, you go without your wife. Naked like a banana. There is no shame. If you are naked like a banana, you go. You may scream OK, good, good. If you are hungry, you can come for anointed banana. He's followed the Orango. I come, come, come. Did you see that prophetic move? He swallowed the rangle with one blow like a snake. I First you were naked, then you were swallowed. There is no shame if you are swallowed. Jesus, Paul said, follow me as I follow. Jesus. If I'm following you, follow. If I don't follow, don't follow. Amen. Sit down, I want more, say I want more, I want more, I'll give you more #3 lessons on loyalty and loyal person does not withhold information. We we need church spice. Come and tell us or Rambus. When somebody talks by heart, come and say it. You can't talk by heart in the church. Come and start making comments. What do you think about this? What do you think about that? See, I am not thinking. What do you mean by what do you think about this? What do you think about? I don't think about that. What do you mean think alone? I cannot join you your thinking. First Corinthians chapter one, verse 11. It has been declared unto me, of the House of Chloe, that there are contentions. Amen. Are you there? If it were not for the people who came to report, that is the House of Chloe had come to report, then Paul would not have been able to write and solve some of these problems. So sometimes when things are going on, you have to come and say it. Amen. Come and say it. One day a second sister came to see me and she said I want to tell you something, he said. At that time we were having a crisis in the church. We were having a crisis in the church at Colegono and one of my pastors was siding with the people who were harassing us and he was saying. Bishop should take his time. To deal with these people, he's too whatever. He's got a humble, he's not deaf. I don't know what he said, but she came to me and she said I just wanted to know what such and such said because I think may not know. His attitude today, that guy is not even in the church. Yeah, you see, you can see the signs. But when she came to tell me it. Made me notice. Her forever until today. So then she's in full time ministry. Is he gonna have to talk with me? You see when you come and say. It's shows whose side you are on, but sometimes when you don't come and say it means you are on their side and you don't want them to all you want to protect. Yourself so that you look nice and you look good. Are you listening to me? So it is your duty to say the things that you need to say so that God can bless you and touch your life. Amen. Are you there or you are not there? Yeah. Oh, what a blessing it is. One day assertive brother came to see me and he told me something that saved my life. Yeah. You will always remember people who tell you things that you didn't know. Yeah. You know, the story of was a Moody car, some two guards were going to kill the king and Mordecai went and told the king that these two bodyguards are going to kill, kill just like the president of Guinea, he was assassinated and president of Kabila, is it Kabila, the senior Kabila, he was also killed in his room, isn't it? But there was a Mordecai. Those guys didn't have the Mordecai to come and tell the story, huh? So they died, but Mordecai told and the king was saved. And one day Mordecai was in trouble. But this guy, because of the thing that he told the king, the king remembered him, said this man saved my life. He he really. Likes. Me and believes in me. One day I told another brother. I said because of this I say I would never forget you. Even recently I remembered him. I said, oh, this guy, I cannot forget him. Yes, you must remember people who are like Mordecai who helped you and save your life and all of you in the church. It's not that you have to make yourself a storyteller or a bearer of pills, but your loyalty must be with your father, with your pastor, and your heart must be with him. And if you know something that is of use to him, you must say, even if you are not sure whether it's of use, you say, I think maybe to help you to know this. What do you think? Is it a good idea? Tell your neighbor. Loyalty does not withhold information. What is a fast lesson on loyalty? Full persuasion. What is the second step on loyalty? Loyalty is to the higher authority. What is the third lesson on loyalty? Amen. The next one. Loyalty is based on principles and not emotions. Amen. It's not about how you feel. Oh, I feel sorry for this pastor. I'm going to help him. Oh, I feel sorry for this person. It's based on setting principles, your loyalty to God. Amen. It's not based on feelings. Your loyalty is based on the principles of the Word of God. Is this man called by God or not? Is this man a father or not? Is this man my pastor or not? Not that the Orangu is your cousin or the Orangu is your sister. Amen. You must be faithful based on the principles. There are some people you are more faithful to your tribes than to the church. Yeah, that's what I found out in Ghana during the election. I was surprised that there were people because of their tribe were rather voting for people to come and harass us, even though they were in the church, in the fire, in the trouble when it came to voting their. Tribe came first. And they went the way of the tribe. So what is your loyalty based on? Is your loyalty based on your tribe? That is why that nationalistic thing, tribalistic thing, is a very dangerous thing. But you may not see it till you get to a certain point, at a certain level. Then you realize that, man, we are in danger because this person is from somewhere. But I should not, you should not be in danger from me because I'm from somewhere. If you are working by principles. Amen. Yes, because the blood of Jesus is thicker than the blood of your tribe or the blood of your country. And if you go into things, you'll be surprised to find out the person that you are against is your relative. One day there was a certain sister. She came from a certain tribe which hated another tribe. Yeah, every time you see she the tribe she came from was for fanties in Ghana. Every time they would. Talk about Airways. You see, she has something to say and she was always negative, negative. Those people, those people, those people. Because her family were fanties. One day she grew up. When she went to university, her mother called her and said, my daughter, sit down. I have something to tell you. I am not your mother. Your mother is this woman from the away tribe. And they mentioned the name something all my stories there's and there's no, it's not a joke. She says said I have something to tell you. I am not your mother. Your mother left you when you were born and I looked after you. Your father is your father, but I am not your mother. I have just kept up since you were a baby. This is your mother. And he showed her the mother and directed her to the voter region to find her mother, her motherland. So she went to look into the mirror. And she stood in front of the mirror and she said, I have certain features that look like that place mysteriously. I have never understood it, not knowing that I'm from there. And she started to go to her mother. Find her mother, looking for her mother and found out suddenly that while she was saying something negative again, she's one. So you see, when your whole life is based on you are from here and from there you find out that why you are against, you are against. From there you are also one. So what will you do with yourself? Cast yourself. Out of yourself. So I don't want to ask because you I may be against Nigerians then I'll find out I'm not because I found out that I'm partly Nigerian because the the gas in in Ghana come from Nigeria, gas come from Nigeria and there are words in the gang language that are from Nigeria and there are Gaan people in Ghana. They are quite the way they talk and fight and it's it look like Nigerian. So before I well, I'll be saying something against my own great grandfather who comes from somewhere. One day my wife told me her mother is 1/4 from Nigeria. Yeah. So I realized that my children are also Nigerians. Then one day I was told that the guns are from Brazil. Yes, from Brazil. There's some Brazilian connection. And then also from Israel, so before I realized I'm Brazilian, Nigeria, Israeli, Ghanaian, Swiss. So which one would I dislike? I'm Khaled. And you see when you look at it. You'll be surprised where you actually come from that you have based your life on such things. Base your life on the word of God. Base your life on the word of God. Don't relate with me and don't relate with it if the. Persons are no rangu. And the person is spoiling the church, and he's from your. Tribe or he's your brother. Do not follow him and do not accept him because he is your relative. One day I was talking to one of our past Pastor Oku. And there was a crisis in the church at that time. His brother was almost about to leave the church because of certain things that are affected him, not him. But he wasn't about to leave. But he was almost. You could have left. So one day I asked Pastor Ku, if your brother had left at that time, what would you have done? His brother hasn't left. His brother is still with us. One of our he has a church evening, one of our good brothers. So I asked him if he had left. Oh, this one would have left if my brother would have left. He said at that time that is all that I knew. If my brother goes, I'm going. I don't know why he's going. I don't know where he's going, but if he goes, I'll go. But now he knows better. But I say at that time when you are immature, you see your brother following something or going something. If my brother goes, I'm going to yeah. Is it right? Yeah. If, if a Ghanaian is doing, then I'll do it. Recently, a Ghanaian pastor did something to he. He was in charge of a church that was started from Nigeria and he destroyed the church and I was part of an association and that guy wanted to come and be part of us. I said if. That guy comes. To be in this association, I will not accept. I cannot stay in this association with such a person. What he has done to that church is not good, whether it's a Nigerian church or a. Zebra Church, I don't care. It's not because it's a Ghanaian. Or a Nigerian It's wrong. The principle is wrong. You cannot take backless bank and say backless bank in South Africa. We don't want to have anything to do with England. You have backless here. Absa, we cannot change. You say Absa, we can't change. You have you have stand back here. Stand back. Standard Bank. Yeah, so many. They say we are changing it. We don't want to go. We are. You can't do that. Amen. Stand to your feet, Grace. One day when you are preaching, may people walk out whilst you are. Work on while you have the light. OK, we are taking a break for 10 minutes because people are walking out. So we're taking a break, 10 minutes. Welcome while you have the light. Welcome while you have the light. This message continues on the next track. Keep listening.