23. Lessons On Loyalty 3

Welcome to track #23 of finish what you started. Hallelujah. All right, we are continuing. The next thing is First Samuel chapter 20 verse 13. If it please my father to do the evil, I will show it to thee. This, in this case, Jonathan, Jonathan was hello. In this case, Jonathan was telling David that if my father is some way towards you all right, I will not be on the side of my father, but I will be on the side of what the Lord is doing. Amen. So you got to be on the side of the principles. So I'm trying to cure us of this. My brother, my brother, my cousin is my countryman. It's my tribes, man. Because God can reveal to you your real tribe. And one day you find out that your tribe is not a tribe you thought it was, that you are actually from somewhere else. How many will be surprised if your mother comes to tell you one day you are not my child. One day accepting medical sister went to do a blood test. When she did that blaster, she came to see me. She said Bishop hey based on the results of my blood test, my father is not my father and she explained it to me. She showed me when you have AB your your if your mother is A A and your father is BB and your group is AO or AO, why is the B's part that should have come from your father who is BB? He should have given you one of the bees. She said. Hey, I also said so before you realize your father is an Edward who you despised. Yeah, fully so that too much tribe, this thing, its not a good thing. It's a it's a destroyer of nations. Ghana, we have never had so much of that till this last election. It's so strong in the country now, very strong, the strongest so far, yeah. Now it has become this tribe and that tribe. We never had that before. Since I was my best friend have been Airways and I never knew that they were Airways. I never thought that they were from a particular tribe. It never kept me. This place is from this tribe. But now even my children were in secondary school and they were fighting in the class in secondary school Airways versus non Airways in the classroom in secondary school in Ghana when I was in second, we're not even conscious. Even in university we're not conscious of that. But now the country is so sensitized about tribes. You see all these things are the foundations for future conflict, wars, genocide and all these kind of things. It's very bad and that's why I'm saying I'm preaching against it in the church because especially a church like ours, which is so international, you know, you can easily find yourself as some odd one out somewhere and start feeling negative towards people who are really your real brothers and sisters. Because who are my real brothers and sisters? If I take my real life, the Bible tells us that your brother may be far, but your neighbor may be near. In real life, you see that the person who you claim is your relative is nowhere to be found. Then your real brothers and sisters come down to the people that are there with you. So you may say that I'm from here, but practically what is going to practically happen? Now? You see, one of the things that is very powerful is that when I was talking to Pastor Klufi, I was asking him that who do you want to take with you to Ethiopia to go and help me? He did not even mention any single Ghanaian person that I know. The only people that this South African brothers and people that have worked with him all these years, these are the people that he has chosen said I want these people to be with me. There's no Canadian or God or anybody from West Africa or anything. All the people that those are, these people that they have become your brothers and your sisters and your children. That is how strong the word of God is and how strong the Kingdom of God is. And we have to get out of that mentality and stop there. And when we see that tribalistic thing is coming, you rise up to win a war. We must become war and we must become war against all those tribalistic tendencies. Amen. So that xenophobia, you had it in in South Africa, isn't it fighting against Zimbabweans, Mozambiqueans, Namib. Why? Why nobody is the cause of your poverty. That's what you must realize. And the black people in South Africa take care that you don't come become like the black people in America. Because the black people in America, even though they are one of the most blessed groups of people in the world, they have the mind that the white people owe them something and the white people cheated them. So their whole mind is about the whites. What the white people did to what the white people did, what the white people did. The white people have cheated. That we are victims, we have suffered. We have to get back, we have to do this, we have to do this. And that's how come when you go to America, all the black people, there are some down, down, down group of people. They can't do any data. One day I went to a Church of black, black church, huge church with film stars, basketball players and whatever. And when they were talking about their missions, no, they have the missions director told me I don't have even one missionary long term. Meanwhile, it was a missions conference room. No, there's no one. Meanwhile, they have people in the church, millionaires. Because see, the black people, they're thinking about themselves, that they themselves have problems. How about they're going to think of Africa. They are so much looking at their whole life and how they themselves are there. We are not we are lifted their eyes. They cannot send missionaries to Africa. You know, you see white people come as missionaries, not black people, White people who are Mr. White people don't have that mind that they somebody has cheated them. Even if you've been cheated, all of us have been cheated. All of us have been cheated. And you have also cheated somebody before. So you got to grow up and not think that mine somebody has done something. The white man this, the white man this. You can never have any white man in your church. What do you think? Yeah, when you come out of it. But white people, they are missionaries. You see them going somewhere, die. So what we are doing, how we are sending Miss Time from Africa, go here, go here is an unusual thing. It's unusual called black people always say we, we don't have money, we, we are poor. We need black people to help us. We need somebody to do this for us. Let's rise up. We can also do something. We can also rise up and work for the Lord. Can I have an Amen? Are you listening to me? Yes. Once you have that, you get out of that mind. You will not become like the black people in America, all the black people in America, basketball, film star, this finish, that's all working hard, go to school, this stuff really. Do you see a black American man who is a doctor or whatever? And my my friend told me a doctor, I said you cannot see a black, a lady who comes to the hospital with her child or the child has a father is very unusual for the child to have a father. And that's what is happening in South Africa too. And ladies have children. There's no father. Is it true or it's not true? It comes from that thing that is destroying the men in the country. That's why I want the men to come to Ghana. I want you to come to Ghana so that something new will come into you and freedom and free spirit. Why you free? That you are just a normal person. You just come into the world like anybody else. You have a good chance to make it in this life. Hallelujah. Yes, that's why, That's why I keep on inviting you. Come, come and be healed. Come and be free. Come and be selfish. So you don't have that mentality that's downward and inward looking. Look out, see that you are just a normal. Even if anything, you have an advantage when you come to Ghana where all Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell and Obama and where they were taken from as slaves. Many years ago I was going on a tour with some Americans in the castle and I asked the tour guide if we bring the ship back here to cut slaves, do you think people will go on the ship? You know what the tour guide said to me? He said I will be the first person to go on that ship. If that ship come. We were standing at the door. It's called the door of no return. If you come to Ghana, you have a chance to go to Cape Coast Castle. They said small dog where when you go out the slave you never come back, you go to the ship and you are taking to America, the Caribbean and so on. He said to me if that ship come there, it will be filled and it will sink and I will be the first person to go. So many canyons are so underprivileged compared to the black Americans and the same thing in South Africa. So many Africans who are not from South Africa are so underprivileged compared to you and yet the people are here, they can see and they have something. Is it not true? Go just to Zimbabwe next door. That's why there are so many Zimbabweans here. You see cholera, you see sickness, you see difficulty. When you see Godwin stand up, you see him looking normal and all that. He gives you this little deceptive picture about Zimbabwe. See he's he's misleading us. He's misleading us. He looks too juicy. Angel Police, somebody's deceiving us here. A lot of what? Trillions? It's a trillionaire, trillionaire mercy. But I tell you, just next door you will see that to be a South African, there's a great promotion and privilege. But instead of seen as a privilege, I have some. Have you seen South Africa missionaries anywhere in West Africa? No, because something has been killed in their minds and in their hearts that the minor has that we are nothing and that we have rather lost and we are down. But Nigerians who are far poorer than S Africans, they have their mind that we have something to give. And Ghanaians, we also feel that we have something to give. That's why we have come here. Well, we felt we have something to give even though Ghana is far poorer than South Africa by 500 * 1,000,000 times from poorer than South Africa by 1000 times. Far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far poorer. Oh, you cannot compare Ghana with South Africa. Somebody came to Ghana from South Africa. He said I want juice, I want more. I said we don't have more here. Then he said I want milk, I want milk. He said we don't have milk here. I said I want meat. He said meat, you have a small 1 like this small one. We are used to small meat with big bones for the day. He said I want more, I want more. Do you think you are in South Africa? But how come the South Africans don't arise and say we are going to the well, we are going to Zimbabwe, we are going to Mala, we are going to Nigeria, we are going to Have you ever seen the South African pastor who is in Nigeria ministry? He started the church. Have you seen some before? They cannot do it. They don't do it. Something he has gone out of there. There is a mentality that we are rather than we need help and the white man has done something to us and we have to kill him. Yeah, What I'm saying is not true. South African brothers, is it true what I'm saying? And that's what I want to see with my eyes the day that I see South African. You are in another country. You have been able to send you, You have been able to start the check. You have been able to stand, preach, build the check, talk to the people. Then I know that God has used me to heal something and raise up some people about whatever problem they have. That's when I know that something has worked. Even when we first came to the check. You're dressing. See them dressing like that, They'll be coming as if you are working in the mine. It took time to tell that you are an important person. Wear a suit and a tie and dress properly. Don't dress like the shabby, you know. Do they make yourself? I mean, because the way you feel about yourself, it shows in your dressing. Oh, that's why I can't learn how to wear a tie and a suit. No, man, not as some. There's something you also put because you are also an important person. You get it or you don't get it. You get it. How many brothers? I don't have a tie. Get one. Take it one. Anybody else? 2. There is no shame if you have no tie. OK, sit down. All right #5 loyalty will cost you relationships. Wow, relationships. I mean, you know, you cannot be friends with everybody. You cannot. You're going to lose some people, hey man, and through loyalty you are going to be able to keep some friends and lose some friends because not everybody has the same mind that you have. They don't think the same way. And it's going to cost you to be loyal. One day a second brother came to see me and he told me such and such is what this man of God said, and he talked and talked and talked, but he was not expecting what my response was going to be. When he finished saying all that he said I told him, are you prepared for me to call him and tell him that this is what you said? He was shocked. He hadn't thought that I would say that. I said, are you prepared for? I said when I tell him and I ask him, why did you say this? Why do you say this? Why do you say he'll be so surprised that I hear something like that? And then my next question is, are you prepared for me to call the guy and tell him that you are the person who told me that and that you are a witness that these are the things that he said. And he was quiet for some time. And he said, OK, I'm willing, but it will, it will cost me my friendship with the guy, the guy who hate me from that day. And I said, yeah, loyalty cost friendships. It costs relationships. Sometimes you lose certain relationship because you have decided to be faithful to the church. You have somebody who speaks like a witch all the time, and you are maintaining friendship with that. That's why I said that there are some things people should not be able to say. It's not that they said it, that you did not agree, but even the fact that they said it, yes. I mean, one of the things I don't know, when I hear, when I hear people say Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, I mean, like, yeah, so be like Jesus. It offends me because I would say that shall not mention the name. Use the name of the Lord your God in vain. Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ. Don't use the name of the Lord like that. That's you. Don't you know, I'm saying, oh, that that is whatever that is saying. He said, excuse me, that's my pastor. Don't talk about. Don't speak that way when I'm here. What I said, don't speak that way when I'm here. That is it. And if you can't handle that, you have to get out of here. It's as simple as that. Yeah. Get out now. Walk out. Amen. You have to learn it. And in the end you go, You go higher and higher and higher and higher. Loyalty makes you go higher to the top. You people, sometimes you think that when you just play half and half, it can make you friends here and friends here. When you play half here, half here half. When you play half, half, you lose your best friends. One day I had a certain friend, and this friend was play half and half. He'll play half with me and half with somebody else. And one day I realized that no, this guy, I cannot try. And he lost me as his friend. And I was the best friend that he could have, that he could have had, but he lost me because of the half and half. But he was not straightforward. Play a bit like this and a bit like this, a bit like this and a bit like this. You say this to this side. After a while I realized that no, the guy says this when he comes here. Then he says this when he goes here. He says this when he comes here. Then he says this when he goes here. I realized that guy was not correct. You should fear people who have two tongues. Are you there? Amen. So we are going to build a mega church because God has started something great here. Hey, they're going to build hundreds of churches and it's going to be built from faithful people like you. If you are less than 20 years, we'll be up in the frontier now, 20 years and below quickly. There is no shame. All right, all right, turn around. Turn around and faze the people. Wow. These people are going to be great. These are pastors. You see them like as little boys and girls. They are pastors. How many of you are going to be pastors and preachers? Wow, Yeah. How many are going to be prostitutes? How many are going to sleep with a lot of different, different people? How many are going to be into drugs? How many are going to know the Bible? Yeah, yeah, You are powerful people for the future. When I say the future, I don't mean like five years. I'm talking about future. Like from tomorrow morning, How many I go to sing for Jesus? How many I go to dance for Jesus? I mean, I go to dance in the disco. How many realize that it is fun to dance in the church? It is such fun. No, To dance in the church. Yeah, it's equally nice to dance in the church. You don't need to go to a disco, isn't it? Hey Father, let these young people be used for great things in South Africa in Jesus name, Amen. Look, God is up to something great in this country. How many can feel that there's something great? Yes, that is why we are fighting hard to teach you loyalty so that Satan cannot bump you off at the wrong time in the ministry. Amen. Are you there, those of you in front? Lift your hands, say I pledge myself to the gospel, to Jesus, to preaching, to fighting for Jesus. All my life, from now as a young person till I'm old, I shall finish my calling. I shall go forward and never backwards. I shall fight for Jesus to the very end in Jesus name. So help me God, help me God, help me God never to fall away in Jesus name, Amen. Congratulate your neighbor, say congratulations, congratulations. Wow. Tell the person you are a holy boy of God. You are a holy girl of God? Yes. Boy of God or girl of God? Wow. I believe in you. How many readers Something good has been started in you? Do you like what you see? Is this something good that you think can work out? I think he can wake out. Will a boy be able to take your heart, to steal your heart away? No, no, no, no boy is worth your heart. You are too precious or anything or anybody to take away your heart. Father, finish whatever you started. Finish what you started. I like what I see. Finish what you started in me, Lord, 'cause I love, I love what you do. When in me, I used to spend my whole life trying to figure me out, blaming everybody but me. I used to like to listen to people talking about in spite remedy. I just kept on trying, but it doesn't mean I change. It seems like all the answers to what I wanted to be never apply to me when I came to Jesus. Tired of the kind of life, I asked him just what to do. Come. On young people. Said we're starting over. No one looking inside. The answer is not in you. This is the beginning of the world. It's changing me completely. Everything I can see she's eyes working in me. So finish what you started in my eye, but I see me finish what you started. I love. I love to do it in me. Yeah, Yeah, I love. Yeah. So finish what you starting. I like what I see. Finish what you starting you know, 'cause I love, I love what to do with the me. Come on, I love it. I love what to do with the me. Love it. I love it. I love it to do with the me. The. I used to spend my whole life trying to figure me out, blaming everyone with me. I used to love to listen to people talking about. It's that remedy I just kept from trying. But it does listen when I change seems like all the answer to what I wanted to be never applied to me to when I came to Jesus tired of like an eye. I asked him what to do said we're starting over. No one look in the tide. The answer is not as you this is the beginning of what I want to be is change and think of being every I can see Jesus. So finish what you started. I like what I see. Finish what you started. I love. I love to do with me. I love it. I love it to do with. So finish what you started. I like what I see. Finish what is that in below 'cause I love, I know what to do in the meow. I love what to do in the meow. So finish, What is that in? I like what I see. Finish what you started. You know, 'cause I love. I love what you do with me. Yeah, I love what you do with me. Yeah, I love what you do with me. Yes, I what you do with me. This is the beginning I want. I want to be. It's changing me every day. I can see she's eyes working to me. So finish what you started. I like what I say. I love to do with me. I love what to do with me. Now you guys, I'm going to be great apostles, prophets, how many of you have committed some sins since you were young people? Raise your hand on this side. But I want you to know that you are forgiven. I said I want you to know that you are forgiven, and God is saying that. Now I'm going to use you for greater works and you ever imagined come. On the spot, you held a place in my heart, a place that no one else could feel, but then kept your spirit from working in me. I couldn't look in life honestly. Until the day that I will give way to the truth that I found in you, I never knew just how good it could be to stand in your presence totally free. Now I'm forgiven. Now I have no reason for living. Jesus keeps giving, given, given. Till my heart overflow, I'm forgiven. Now I have no reason for living Jesus, please give it, give it, give it to my heart. I have to be as a person. I'm free even when I slip back home. You are my God Forgives. I forget now I want to give you my all, 'cause I'm forgiven. Come. On everybody. Now I have a reason. For living Jesus keeps giving and given, given to my heart over the earth. Have my now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and given. Give into my heart over the earth. OK, look, you people are going to do better than us because you started early and your sins which are being forgiven are fewer. So go back. I want those who were leading with sins, thieves and robbers, liars, fornicators to come here and let us dance that we are forgiven. So you people, God bless you, thank you, go back, you are promoted if you know that Christ forgave you real sinners. I want real, not this real sinners to come and line up here from the. Start. You have to listen my heart, the spirit, before I can leave. I'm going to look alive until the day I will get back to the two that I find you. I never knew just how good it could be. Just stand in your friends that was going to live free. Now I'm forgiven. Hey now I have no reason for the heaven. Hey Jesus is given. Hey, give it to my heart over there. I'm forgiven. I have a reason for living Jesus. Gives given, given. I'm forgiven. I have a reason for living Jesus. I'm forgiven now I have a reason for him. Jesus be given, given, given, given to my heart of Lord. Sing I'm forgiven, I'm forgiven now I have a reason for him. Jesus beeps given, given to my heart of Lord. You want more, You want more. Say I want more, I want more. Look, I want only real sinners in front. Those of you who are not really sinners, please go back to your seats. I need thieves, liars, fornicators, adulterous Madras, bad dealers, bad boys, bad girls. If you are here, you know this one. If you are not a Sinner, you cannot relate with it. I I start to have a place in my heart, a place and no one else but think of just me when I'm working in me. I couldn't look at my eyes until the day that I will give away to the truth that I found you. I never knew just how good it be to stand in the press that stolen and I'm forgiven. Oh, I don't have a reason to live. Jesus is given, given. Oh, give unto my heart of the blood, how I'm forgiven. Oh, how I have a reason for living. Oh, Jesus will give it, give it, Oh, give unto my heart. Oh, Sing, I forgive her. OK. I want advance sinners only advance one line of advance professional sinners who have been saved. OK, OK, OK, OK. The rest of you should go down only hardcore advanced sinners. Unforgiven. Now I have no reason for living Jesus given, given, given to my heart of the world. Now I have no reason for living. Jesus keeps giving, given even to my heart of the world. The. OK. I think you can go back to your seats now. You want more? Go, go, go, go, go. I could have been dead sleeping in my grave, but God blessed me to see another day and even when I did a wrong, he was still there. I'm so glad that God still hears a sin, a spread. I'm so glad that God still hears a sin, a spread. Alright, sing it. I walked to the church on a Sunday morning, stood outside contemplating if I should have walked through the door. You see, a lot of boats knew me from way back then. People hold them too. This message continues on the next track. Keep listening.