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28. Breaking Forth
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Breakforth & Become Who You Can Become. Machaneh Collection - 59. Preached in 2009, Ghana (Elmina). 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 #28 of break forth and become who you can become. Isaiah 54 Sing, O barren, Thou that didst not bear, break forth into singing, and cry aloud Thou that didst not travel with child. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife. Saith the Lord, Enlarge the place of thy tents, let them stretch, for the curtains of thy habitations spare not lengthen thy courts, strengthen thy sticks, for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left hand, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Amen. Hallelujah. So breaking forth is a very powerful thing, and through these prophetic words I want you to keep them in your heart. Say them, prophecy them, and tell them to your church. Tell them to yourself and say great and positive things because eventually confessions are like prayer. Confessions is like prayer. You don't see the direct effect, but eventually what you say happens. Yeah, yeah, eventually what you say happens. So keep saying it. If some of you don't say anything, so you don't get anything. So say great things, say positive things. Eventu
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Welcome to track #28 of break forth and become who you can become. Isaiah 54 Sing, O barren, Thou that didst not bear, break forth into singing, and cry aloud Thou that didst not travel with child. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife. Saith the Lord, Enlarge the place of thy tents, let them stretch, for the curtains of thy habitations spare not lengthen thy courts, strengthen thy sticks, for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left hand, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Amen. Hallelujah. So breaking forth is a very powerful thing, and through these prophetic words I want you to keep them in your heart. Say them, prophecy them, and tell them to your church. Tell them to yourself and say great and positive things because eventually confessions are like prayer. Confessions is like prayer. You don't see the direct effect, but eventually what you say happens. Yeah, yeah, eventually what you say happens. So keep saying it. If some of you don't say anything, so you don't get anything. So say great things, say positive things. Eventually you find out prayer has the same effect as confessions. Amen. So you find out that people who listen to these kind of messages find out themselves breaking forth, breaking out, breaking into. Now I want us now to study. I finished that first part. I want us now to study the breaking forth and the breaking out into higher civilizations. Do you understand what do I mean by that? A higher civilization. What is civilization? Civilization. Everybody should have a dictionary on your phone. You got it. And a Bible on your phone. I'll say to three years from now, you see some people will be dead. They will not have neither, neither dictionary nor We don't have money. We don't have money. What does it say? Civilization is what? An advanced stage or system of human social development. An advanced stage of what? Or system or system? Everybody say an advanced stage. An advanced. Stage. How many want to break forth into an advanced stage? And then the next one is what? An advanced system? Yes. Of what? Of human social development. Of human social development or an advanced system of human spiritual development Is a spiritual civilization or a civilization? All right, what's the next one? Obi? What does yours have? Not good And their way of life? Ancient civilizations of Egypt and Greece. Amen. Now, when you look through this world, you will find what I call civilizations, OK? Different groups of people have developed an advanced way, Amen. Of what life? Civilization. Mine says civilization is a human society with its own organization. No, but this one, it says civilization is the state of having an advanced level of social organization and a comfortable way of life. That's what mine says. OK. Our advanced state of civilization. Amen. Are you there? Yes, Bishop. Now, how many want to advance your church to advance into an advanced state? Amen. Of development. Now how about you yourself? Do you want to advance into an advanced state? OK. Now there is a group of people, if you like, we can call them people who advance was arrested, it was cut off. And even though they have many of the characteristics and capabilities that civilizations that we know today have had, they are unable, they have not been able to move forward, Amen. For example, if you look at the civilization of Ghana and you that's the advanced states that we have in Ghana, you realize that again, like the US embassy, as one would tell us, 90% of the people do not have an advanced way of living and they are not in an advanced state. Is this advanced state I'm talking about? Because you ask yourself, why has Ghana not advanced into a state of advanced living and comfortable living and improved state of affairs? Why? What has arrested our development? Are you listening to me? What has prevented civilizations of Egypt, which have these pyramids and all kinds of things, from advancing in the same way that the American civilization advanced What arrested it on the way? Amen. And what are the things that make a civilization or a group advance and continue to advance to the highest possible level? Are you understanding the questions that I'm asking? Because if you don't get the question that I'm asking, you will not understand the answer that I'm going to give you. Because instead of just telling you break out, break out, break out. I want us to look at a group that are not breaking out and find out why. What is holding them back? How many want to know what is holding them back from an advanced form of civilization? So we could look at the civilized ancient civilizations. That's what. See, that's why we need history. Ancient civilizations of Central and Latin America, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, the ancient civilizations of Persia. When I say an ancient civilization is like an old way of an advanced, like the ancient civilization of the Roman Empire, what is it that made a nation advance into an advanced system of of what? Living socially, spiritually, or whatever way? They seem to have an advanced culture. Then you see another group of human beings who are far behind in America. If you want to go from here to here, you take a plane. When you drive on the on the highway, they have a cruise control. You press like a plane and you give the speed and you press and you hold that thing like that and it will go. It's like a plane that you are driving at that speed. It goes for. It can go from here, Ghana to Ethiopia like that, and they'll give you the distance, the time you will arrive, everything. You get it. It's like a plane. It's an advanced state. Do you get what I'm saying? Yeah, They can operate on you, remove your leg, give you a leg, take your kidney, give you a kidney, take this out, give you this. So the question that we are trying to find out is what keeps back, let's say a civilization like the Ghanaian civilization and prevents us from breaking forth. What's holding us back from becoming like America? What's holding us back? How many would like to know what is holding us back? And you see those same factors are holding you back in your church life and in your ministry. And I'm not allowing you to break out and break forth and break into Yes. And I'm going to share them with you. And I hope that we will be able to cover a lot of them. Amen. So at this stage, I'm going to call my sister daughter Ida. Ida is a beautiful name, which means a distinguished helper. Yes, it's like the word 88A and you add 8 to it. So welcome here to give us a beautiful song of songs depending on the flow. Amen. There will be mountains that I will have to climb and there will be battles that I will have to fight, but victory or defeat, it's up to me to decide. But how can I expect to win if I never tried? I just can't give up now. I've come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me the road would be easy, and I don't believe it's probably this far to leave me. He never said there wouldn't be trials. He never said I wouldn't fall. He never said that everything would go the way I want it to go. But when my back is against the wall, when I feel like hope is lost, I'll just flipped my head up to the sky. I've said help me to withdraw. I just can't give up now. I've come too far from where I started wrong, and nobody told me the road would be easy, and I don't believe it's from me this far to leave me. But will our Lord, your dinner bring me out here to leave me lonely even when I can't see clearly, I know that you are with me, so I can't, I just can't give up now. Oh no, I've come too far from where it started from. And nobody told me the road would be say Oh my, don't believe me, it's from me in this spot to leave me. Said I can't give up now. Now I just can't give up now. Come too far from where? Starting from. Nobody told me the road would be easy. And I don't believe it's wrong in this spot to leave me. OK. Now the group that I have chosen to study for us to use for this study of breaking forth are the group that have been most severely affected by a lack of ability to break forth and break out. And this group will be the best teaching example for us to learn what is holding us back and what is holding many of us back. Amen. So the group that I have chosen, because I had to choose between Latin America, civilization, civilizations of Egypt, civilization of Persia, civilization of Africa and different. I have chosen the civilization of monkeys as the basis for this important study because they are our closest relatives in the sense that they have many, many similarities between US and them. There are so many. And for that I, I realized that they, they, they walk upright like this and they also work on their 4th like we do sometimes. Sometimes you do that and they eat vegetables, plants, and they also eat meat. They eat meat like chicken. And they have the same emotions that we have. When you see a monkey, an ape, when I say the apes, basically I'm talking about chimpanzees, gorillas, and another type of monk called the Borneo, or so I think that is the name orangutans. Also, I like that they are very similar. They have emotions so much they can communicate. And I'm going to show you a film from the, I think believe is Harvard University and other studies that have been done for years on monkeys, which show so many similarities, but they are not able to break forth. Yeah. Almost everything we can do, they do. And one of the things that provoked the study and this research and the whole research was based on one question. What is holding them back? And it happened because somebody went into the forest one day, they were studying the monkeys and saw something that a monkey has never been seen to do before. I've never been seen to do before. In all the history of their research and their study, I've never seen a monkey doing that before, which was to make a spear, actually make a weapon and go hunting with the weapon they had to kill another animal. They watched them take the branch, sharpen their tip with a spear and go out to kill another smaller animal with the sphere. Which ancient man, you understand, used to look not so ancient even. Not so ancient not not not not as ancient as you may want us to be. That I mean 20,000 years ago and so on. Even today, if people like Shaka, the Zulu and so on, you get it in southern Africa after the British came and so on, you see those films, you see people forming Spears. But what is it that have made some people break out and form even higher weapons than Spears do? You get it and form weapons which can throw fire. Weapons which can do this, weapons which can do that. Now when you look at a civilization that does not develop and use certain qualities, they are often very similar to monkeys. Yes, they live in the wild. They are subject to lions killing them, leopards eating men. Even recently in Mozambique during the war, they were all coming through South Africa and they were coming through the Kruger Park, which is a reservation for wild animals and the animals were eating them. I recently watched a film that Pastor Jake gave to me or showed me to get about animal lions that were man eating lions and that is one of the problems for monkey. They lived there without houses, very, very similar. And it's not as though I'm talking about thousands of years. So even today we can have human groupings which live very similarly to monkeys. And then you ask yourself what is holding them back. Now, sometimes when you look at the dullness of some of us and the dullness of some of our responses to things that are being given to us, you realize that the similarity between a monkey culture, the apes, and us is too much for acceptance. You are too much like a monkey to accept such a characteristic for your life and your ministry. How many understand what I'm talking about? Yeah. Now they eat what we eat. They have. They can make weapons. They have emotions. If a monkey's child dies, if a monkey's child dies, they will hold a dead child for a long time. They will not give it up. Yeah. And I'll show you. It's all in my film, short film. But it's there. They will not leave the child when his two children are dead, he has buried them just outside the house. There. He's suffering from the, the, the, the, the trauma. He's told me sometimes when he wakes up, you see that he he was dreaming that he was crying. When he wakes up, he's crying in the dream and he's crying physically. He's weeping over his children all the time. He's so discouraged and disheartened by this blow, which is a normal. This is what happened with a monkey. They hold them, they try to leave them for a long time before they eventually leave it and go away. Yes. When Bishopsaki's wife died, he would not let go because it's normal not to let go. You hold on. I remember one time a widow, her husband died. I took her aside. I said give me your ring. You cannot be married to the dead. It's not easy to let it go. It's just they have the same human beings have been known to bring up monkeys in their home with them and the monkeys hold them like their parents. And when I'm showing that film, some of you will sleep. Yes, whilst we are watching it, you watch and see. I'm telling you, I've been a passer for some years. Some of you will sleep. But it's so amazing you are showing somebody yourself in the mirror. It's not even interesting to you. And you realize that many of us if what you can, if you can learn what I'm I'm showing you, you will realize that. Look, I have to distance myself from apes. My way of life, my culture and my civilization and my ministry and my systems must be very different. Monkeys can count. Yeah, you say 6 and it will take number 64. It will take #4 yeah. Monkeys have been taught. There was a monkey. That's another film. I'll show you that one too. There was a monkey. It was taught the language that we human beings teach the deaf and the dumb. So you start with the monk. The monkey is here, you are here. You tell the monkey I love you. Then the monkey will respond whatever. Then you say, what do you want? What do you want? Then the monkey say to give the side. They have been known to teach several numbers of communicate so that now the monkey becomes just like a deaf and dumb, which is another thing I'm going to teach you. There are disadvantages of being deaf and dumb. Oh, you don't understand what I'm talking about. Yeah. Oh, you don't get what I'm saying. Yeah, because if a monkey. And so there was a big issue when they finished with that monkey, they brought the monkey up in the house. There was a woman who kept the monkey as her personal monkey and she was probably paid. She read the monkey as a child and they they talk like deaf and dumb and the monkey is OK. So when they finished the experiment and they wanted to take the monkey back to the zoo, that was the. Because the monkey is a human being. Yeah. So the whole thing became a big case that what is the name of the something, The gorilla, it would not be sent back to the zoo because it's not an animal, it's a human being. So that they're trying to redefine what is a human being. Yeah. What is a human being? Because I mean, what is the human that I can speak, I can tell you this. I want to do this. I want to go to the toilet. I'm doing this. I'm going upstairs. I'm angry. Whatever And every emotion of human being, they have it. Anger. Revenge. You show. They'll show you the person doing revenge. Yeah. Cooperation, different things. Teamwork. Oh, so you ask yourself, so therefore if you, they can cry, they can feel sad, they can make weapons, they can communicate, they can speak, they can count, they can count so much, 123-4567 they can do all that. Then the question is, what is holding them back from developing into an advanced civilization and becoming great building houses, doing this, doing that. And so that the film that we should watch is the film called Planet of the Apes, where apes speak and human beings don't speak. And you realize that the most severe, debilitating strike that can be made against you is to take away your ability to speak, which many of us don't have. Amen. Are you understanding what I'm saying? So what makes you different? What is holding them back? Why do they not break out? Why do they not break forth and become the next? So that they'll be human beings here. Monkeys here have filled their cities, they've conquered animals days they've done. Why? What is holding them back? Since they can think, they can plan, they can calculate, they can count, they can do so many things. There are some few things that they cannot do. And those few things is what makes you move into a far more advanced culture and advanced civilize it that they are so small. But I see it's the little things that make the big difference is what we are going to look for as we are studying this. We are trying to find out what is the little difference that makes the big difference? How many understand what I'm telling you? What is the what the little difference that makes the big difference? Because there's a big difference between animal, monkey and ass. There's a big difference. But what is the little difference that is making the big difference? How many understand what I'm talking about? What is the little difference that is making the big difference? Amen.