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01. Definition Of What It Means To Taste
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Tasters or Partakers. Machaneh Collection - 64. Preached in 2010, USA (Orlando, Florida). 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 #1 of tasters or partakers. Hallelujah, thank you. Hallelujah. Let us pray. Father, thank you for this blessing to be here tonight in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. It's powerful to see you again. Amen. Do you have a banner? You didn't have a banner. All right. All right, all right. We have just tonight, tomorrow and then we end the next morning. So let's go straight into action, our theme for our campus tasters. Or partakers? Tasters or partakers. To taste or to partake, All right. So Psalm 34, verse 8, all taste and see that the Lord is good, Amen. Who taste and see that the Lord is good, how blessed is the man who takes refuge in him, Amen. To taste or to partake all right now. 20 meanings of the word. Taste. To taste #1 means to nibble at something. Amen. Now when we talk about tasters or partakers, we are talking about the ministry. Amen. I'm talking about the work of the Lord. We have two groups in the church. There's one group that is tasting, and I've been tasting for a long time at the work of the Lord. Amen. And then we have another group that are partaking. They are going further, going deeper, a
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Welcome to track #1 of tasters or partakers. Hallelujah, thank you. Hallelujah. Let us pray. Father, thank you for this blessing to be here tonight in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. It's powerful to see you again. Amen. Do you have a banner? You didn't have a banner. All right. All right, all right. We have just tonight, tomorrow and then we end the next morning. So let's go straight into action, our theme for our campus tasters. Or partakers? Tasters or partakers. To taste or to partake, All right. So Psalm 34, verse 8, all taste and see that the Lord is good, Amen. Who taste and see that the Lord is good, how blessed is the man who takes refuge in him, Amen. To taste or to partake all right now. 20 meanings of the word. Taste. To taste #1 means to nibble at something. Amen. Now when we talk about tasters or partakers, we are talking about the ministry. Amen. I'm talking about the work of the Lord. We have two groups in the church. There's one group that is tasting, and I've been tasting for a long time at the work of the Lord. Amen. And then we have another group that are partaking. They are going further, going deeper, and they are taking up the whole thing. And the Bible says all taste and see that the Lord is good. So testing the ministry, number one is to nibble. To taste means to nibble. Do you know what it means to nibble? OK, not nipple nibble. Right, All right #2 they need to have a sip. All right, so have a sip #3 and what is the difference between having a sip and drinking the whole thing? Yeah, sip is a sip, isn't it? Taste #3 to try something on the tongue, OK. To. Try something on the tongue #4 it means to sample. So there are people that have sampled the ministry. Most of the lay people have just samplers. If you are a layman, you are a sampler. You are a taster, that's true. #5 it means to have a bite. I see. When you have a bite of my hamburger is different from having eaten the whole hamburger, isn't it? Number six? It means to eat a small amount. I'm just giving you the meaning of the word taste, all right? Are you there to eat a small amount #7 it means to experience. A sensation with your taste buds Experience a sensation with your taste buds. So many people are just having an experience with their taste buds. Amen. Are you there number? Eight to have a brief experience, you see there are people who have had. Brief. Experiences with pastoring, evangelism, shepherding work, you get it counselling. But that's just a brief experience that God wants us to have full experience to partake of the thing that. All right, all right, It is good to be excited when you see a pastor Amen To have a brief experience We are talking about what it. Means to taste #9 it means to savor #10 it means to sense something. Amen. All right, I'm talking about tasting. Or. Partaking and I'm saying that. All lay people are tasters. Of the ministry, yeah, they are all tasters. You get it. That we are talking about whether. You're going to taste. Or partake. Don't be offended with what I'm preaching because this is a smaller, this is a smaller camp. This is a smaller camp. I'm here to tell the truth. To sense something, the next 111, to be aware of something. So a lot of lay people have just become aware of the existence of the work of the law. But most of us, my darling, sit down and enjoy the camp. Don't walk around serving food and meat. Pies and you're wasting your time. Sit down. Don't make yourself too busy over over nothing. Things that people don't even need, you are serving them. Do you understand? Things that we don't even want? Just waste all your time doing it for us. So sit down and, and, and be part of the camp. OK, what's the next point? Become aware. You know that many Christians are not aware that there's work to be done. But when you become a lame pastor or a lame minister, a shepherd, you become aware. Of the work that there is to be done, but it doesn't mean that you will actually partake of it. Yeah, they become aware that. Wow. There are a lot of problems. It's a lot of work, a lot of people, a lot of places. That's what becoming a lay person does, a lay worker, isn't it? Where is Louisa? I saw some people go this way. Yeah. Is there a room this way? What are they doing there? What? What is happening? Is it food? OK, sit down. I honestly don't like people running around when I'm preaching. Just just everybody said that all the things we are doing, we don't even want them. Isn't it true? You see them? I mean, I went somewhere. I, I, I wonder, I went somewhere, you know, they were organizing food. I went out and I saw the food that they had organized. The chicken is from here to here. The rice is from here to here. Some meat is from and I didn't eat anyone. The next time I came, they, they, they noticed I don't even eat the thing too. Then they did, they did it again right from here to here, this from here to here. Let's go from spread. So the price I began to suspect. I said no, they are doing it for they said they are using me as a reason to organize that thing. So I caught them. I said no, I don't like all these things anyway, but I'll, I'll drink your coffee, don't worry. So to be aware of something. Did you get what I was saying? I said a lot of lay pastors, lay ministers. Lay workers have become aware of some work by doesn't mean that they are going to do that work Yeah, do you understand so God wants you to become a partaker of something, not just someone who's. Tasting. So a lot of people are tasting when they say all taste and see that the Lord is good. He's trying to say taste and see. What there is so that you take when you go in America, even they have this, you know, in the shopping malls, these Chinese, you know, you see the Chinese person with a, with a, with a toothpick. They'll be giving it to you. Why do you think? Because they like you? No, they want you to taste it so that you will come and partake of the thing properly. You buy No, so try, try, try. So that is why God allows us to taste so that we will come back and and and and you see how the. Those Chinese people feel so sad when you taste, you eat, you taste and you walk away like it's not nice. And that's that's what a lot of lay passes are doing. And shepherds, they've tasted and they become aware and they turn away from it and they walk away. So don't be offended with what I'm saying because I'm here to tell the truth, OK? I'm trying to help you to get onto a better Rd. There's no better Rd. than the work of the Lord. Amen. OK #12 it needs to consider you when you become a lay person working for the Lord you Now for the first time consider the option of even being a pastor. The options you consider. A lot of pastors who are lay pastor, permanently lay pastor, have considered ministry before. They've considered it because that's what lay ministry does. It gives you a chance to consider. What you like to really do? Yeah, when they give you that chicken teriyaki, you consider whether you really like to spend your $1.00 on this chicken teriyaki or not. That's all that it does. So you consider, you become aware of the needs that there are in this world. When I stand before Chinese, American, Malaysian, Indian, Africa, South Africa, I'm I can do an altar call for the same thing. That I'll do in Africa, I can do for Americans, and I know they will come because you become aware after some time that everybody's the same, everybody's needs are the same, problems are everywhere. You can preach, you give the same examples because you've become aware. Of the fact that the things are the same everywhere. Are you there? You've gone home. Yeah. So, brothers. And sisters is to become aware, to consider #13 to feel. To have a feeling, so to be a, to taste. I'm just giving you English. I'm not even preaching. I'm giving you meanings, English meanings of a word. It means one word, taste, feel. Do you get it? Yeah. You feel That gives you a chance. What it feels like to preach, what it feels like to help somebody is there's a feeling that you have when you have somebody you don't have until you help somebody. There's a feeling you have when you give that you don't have when you receive. Do you see there's a feeling you have when somebody says thank you for helping me to know Christ. You never have that feeling until that person tells you There's a feeling up when somebody tells thank you for being my mother. Thank you for showing me thank you for advice. Thank you for counseling. Thank you for helping me to cry Juicy. Thank you for that. There's a feeling you see and to test the ministry, God gives you a feel what that feeling is like. You understand it's a feeling, so that's. Us all that that's all that has been happening in Lighthouse all these years is God has been giving people a feel of what it's what it's like to be a priest. He's made you aware of the work that there is to be done. He's made you consider what it we what it may be like to be in the ministry, to consider it. Many churches, you don't have a chance to even consider it. So I will be a missionary or go somewhere or do this. It doesn't even come in. You just serve God, you pay tithes, you read your Bible, have your quiet time, and you just carry on. But you have a chance to consider it, to feel it. Hallelujah. And you wonder how God feels when 99.9% of the people who feel it become aware of it, consider it, turn away from it, and choose. Something else. Choose everything else until either they are old or they are sick or their visions for their life didn't happen. You know, anytime somebody comes and says he wants to work for God, check his medical history very carefully to see whether. There's no diagnosis somewhere or any question somewhere that is now encouraging the person to see things differently. It's true when I started to check people's medical history when they wanted to be. A ministry I started to fight all kinds of diagnosis. It's true. One brother had a condition. He was taken to hospital. They couldn't find what was wrong with him. Then he decided to operate and they operated and they finish operating. They said that the operation was a mistake. They have that they have operated at the wrong place. Yeah, I'm talking about somebody who is applying to be in the ministry. Yeah, neither's, neither's can. Know anything could locate the sickness even though when they operated them they finished operation No when we operated I was couldn't see anything Yeah So what is the sickness? I want to wait for God. You allow coming. You are now coming. Yeah. Another one was admitted, Yeah. And they they were searching for the back news and they were threatening. All. Kinds of things. They have been admitted for some time. I want to wear for more chair. You are now coming when you were fresh and young and nice wouldn't come. Now they have diagnosed you or even they are threatening to diagnose something. See that you are surrendering. All. To Jesus. It's true. You know, when I'm preaching, none of the things that I'm saying are imaginary tales of. Yeah, none of them are fiction. They are real things. It's what I've. Seen it's true, people wouldn't come into the ministry and they wouldn't even send allow their children to come to the ministry. They send their the body, you know, sometimes in a in a family and they have one person who is not good. Whenever I give this example, three people come to my mind instantly. Three people immediately come. To my mind. Who came to our Bible school? Instantly they come to Mama and. And those three families are all rich families. Yeah. So sometimes when somebody is even coming to the Bible school, check the history very carefully and you will see that there may be a problem somewhere. Yeah. It's true one guy had some kind of a problem in the brain. It's true. And the brain was not affected. It's true they had even operated on the head. They operated on the head and you see the scars and everything. The other family members are in London, here, here, here. Different places but this one I said go to Bible. School, that's true. Another another one the the family members, the other brothers and sisters. Some are doctors, some live in this part of the world, in this part of the world, Europe, whatever. And they had one. He was a weed smoker. And I've gone mad. Then they called. The family said can we? Then they called, can we bring our brother, the brother who is mad, to our Bible school? It's true. So you see. How? How good. And that's why I say heaven. Heaven will be the absolute reversal of this earth. The richest will be the poorest, the famous and the whatever will be the lowest. But what Jesus said, the first shall be last, and the. Last shall be first because the ministry, the last option. People have chosen it as the lasting of their lives, the last option. But it will be the first to be the first. The first will be the last. And then another person comes to mind. His relatives are businessmen, 11 owns a H1 is into other business, but the brother had no. Future destroyed his life. Then the parents came to see us. Can our child go? Not Not that I'm reading stories. Oh, I'm talking about people. I can mention the name 1 by 1 know all of them. I know their families. It's true. So that's how God looks at us as we despise his work and put it as the last thing. God gives you a feeling. So yeah, I got the feeling, but I don't like it's like. You sleep with the boy, it says, oh, I got the feeling what it's like to sleep with you. But. I don't like you. I slept with you, but I don't like you. You're not nice. I. Know the feeling what it's like to. Sleep with you. I don't like you. Yeah. That's why. That's why girls go mad. Because there's a feeling that comes with being rejected. I mean, even if they hadn't tasted you. They are not. Tasted you and you're just be working, but it tasted you. I remember 1. Sister, after she had one relationship with her brother, left her. All her beauty left her. It's true. Her beauty, it was like her beauty bought a ticket and traveled and has not returned. Another sister, I asked her, I asked her why did he why? Why did this person leave? She said. I don't. Know, I don't know. I don't know. He's also very puzzling and and scary. It's like what is what is wrong with me? That's how God feels about his work. What's wrong with my work? Is it not a work the people that I have called and I have I abandoned them. Have I blessed them? Have I looked after them? Why? What is wrong with me? What's wrong with my work? That's how God also feels. It's true. That's why I said, oh, tasting see that the Lord is why so that after you've tasted. They do it in America, then you. Buy a thing properly. Amen #14 it means to go through #15 it means to have knowledge of something. Huh. God gives you the knowledge of the work. So prayer, visitation, counseling, interaction, you have knowledge #16 to have the know how, you have the know how. You have to have the know how #17 to have an understanding of something. Don't we have an understanding of the work of God being For some camps you've got a machinae. You read a. Couple of books, rules of church work, rules of full time ministry, mega church loyalty, laypeople, isn't it? Yeah, to have an understanding of something, but still, after having an understanding of 99.9%, see, I don't want it. What is the next 1 #18? To think about something, to taste something is to think about it. You see, like before someone commits murder, he thinks about it. I'll get a gun, I'll go here, I'll shoot, I'll get a knife, but doesn't. Mean you do it too, isn't it? There are two different things, all taste and see. So to taste means to think about it. Or you may think I'm going to, I'm going to sleep with somebody so you may think about it. So I'll do this, I'll do this, I'll do this, but doesn't mean you do it. Many of us think about this is that we don't do them. But to think about it is like virtually to taste it but actually partake of it is a different thing. Amen #19 that means. To be familiar with something. Amen. To be what? Familiar. Wow. And that, this is the part where deception comes in, because when you taste something, you can get so familiar with it. You taste even your eyes closed, you taste this is teriyaki chicken. Your eyes closed, say this is what apple. This is what General Sow Ciao. Ciao. General Chu. General Siao Chicken. This is coconut shrimp. You you could close your eyes because you are familiar with it. In it, in it, in it. When I say in it, Yeah. You're familiar this. A lot of people are like that, especially pastors who are very intelligent. You know, we all, we all have intelligence, but there are some persons who are very intelligent. They know about the ministry, they know about the work of God, They know everything about it. They know what you are doing, what you are not trying to do, and they are very familiar with it and they are almost like full time pastors, but they are not. They're very familiar with. All the workings of. What we do, I know you do this and I do oh wow, this and that, but they are not, there are people like that. A lot of I can just mention them off my off the calf like that. A lot of pastors like that. They know everything that they can talk about it. They can sit as if they are full time but talk about it, but they are not. So what it is, is God has allowed them to be familiar with it, to know a lot about it. To see so that they are close to the full time pastors, but they are not. I want to talk about full time talking about doing something all the time. I'm not talking about doing on Tuesday evening. Come. On let's. Be serious. Something you do Tuesday evening. Cannot be compelled something you do by Monday to. Friday, every day. What are you talking about? There's no. Comparison in any form or fashion. Go. To your boss and tell your boss I will come in the evening on Tuesday and I'll come on Sunday afternoon and see whether they will retain you as soon as it's a serious work that you are doing. What are you talking about, man? Don't irritate me this evening. Yeah, you become familiar, but you are not in it. Yeah, fellow people are very familiar. So even like I'm preaching as Oh yeah, you know what, I'm going to preach. Oh, yeah, that's OK. You know, it's like he's a camp, OK, he'll do this when he'll come and he'll say this. OK, He's going to give a story now. OK. He's going to give this. OK. He has this four points. Usually you have about 20. Then you say this. You know everything. You are familiar. But you will not be in, you will not come into it. You know everything. You know every. When he come to a church, there will be two slow songs and three fast ones. And then after that there will be an offering. After that there will be this, this. You know everything, but you're not anti. It's true all like that. You are familiar with the thing, but you are not in it. It's true that people who know where I'm going lay people anywhere I'm going. They follow me even by text. So I'm with you. You are going OK, you've arrived. This they know. They know my website. They know how he's here now he's going here. But they will not be in it. If I say come, they will not come. They just advise I'm. Very familiar with it. Oh, no, Bishop. You eat this. Bishop likes this. Oh, Bishop will do this. You know everything. Very familiar with everything. But to come as a rule, please. This is up to where it ends. It's true. I shouldn't say it. You say it. I am just talking about tasting and partaking. Amen. Tasters or partakers. And Lighthouse is full of tasters. And there are. Jobs. There's a job for tasting wine. It's this job, people's job. They are paid for it. And the church has become filled with professional permanent tasters, ministry tasters. It's true. Permanent testers, Professionals familiar with it. Who so that by now Bishop is talking about isn't it the camp is over, kill yourself for Jesus, isn't it? Do this, do this, the camp isn't I camp. Oh, by now, by now is going to say this 2 messages, isn't it full time and kill yourself for Jesus by now he started and truly I've started. I have started, I have started. It's like I have only two 2 messages. You see, you are familiar with what I'm. Well, all that I have to say. Yeah, they know. They know. And then he's going to take an offering. He'll take an offering. He'll say 100 and he'll say 50 then. It's you do everything. I tell you, but you're not entitled. So after a while, when you stand close to something, you're very familiar with it, but you do not enter you. No one said the. You will lose. That privilege because after a while, when you realize that the person has considered up and down, consider, has seen it become familiar, there's nothing the person doesn't know. Because sometimes people don't. Take decisions because they don't know enough. But after a while, when you know and you know and you know and you know, then you realize that there is something else that is in your mind. The which is the basis for you never coming into something it's. True. Did you get it? Yeah. Like you work, working with a girl, you want to like her, you want to marry her. Now she allows you to come to her house, to her flat. And now you've seen her flat. She allows you to. You cook for, she cooks for you. Isn't it? You didn't know whether she could even cook. You've seen her in church. You've seen her on Sundays, You see her on Tuesday, Wednesday. At first you only saw her once in church, but now you've seen her. Seen her when she's happy. You've seen her when she's sad. You see? Then you even now have opportunity to really sleep with her. You see her, I slept with her a number of times and everything. Then you say no. I, I I. Don't want to. I don't want to marry you. You see. Then, then you. Then you ask the person what? What is this? Oh, nothing. No, no, no, it's not nothing. For what? You know, there's something. There's something because you've come so far. You know so much, you've tested so much. All aspects that they are. Yeah. And now you. You say you are pulling back. There's something in your. Mind oh I can always remember this particular sister she look into my face. I said why I don't know, I don't know. And another one why, why I don't know. And I wished I could give her an answer, but she she did not have the answer and I did not either. As Waldo, when somebody walks away without a reason because you know that there is something in his head and. That's what it's like. When you see people who are walking around, they've come so familiar, so close that they don't want it. Then I get to know there is something in their head, so my trust for those people so begins to go down. That's why my close people are full time people. Those are very close to our full time because let's have work with somebody. I've allowed you to sleep with me, I've allowed you to cook for me. I've allowed to do everything. But I don't want to be there's something. So yes, I like you, but I don't know why you don't like me. I'm not sure. I don't know what is in your head. That you are not saying. Yeah, what are you thinking? What is in your mind? It's true. So then you begin to tell, OK, those who want to come in, then you say you start to be. It's not what you like, but at a point you look at the person has seen. It's like what is it? It's true. So God is calling you to go further than tasting. Tasting the ministry. Sampling to nibble at to have a set. To do A to try something on the tongue, to sample, to have a bite, to eat a small amount, to experience a sensation with your taste bud. To have a brief experience. To saver, to sense something to be aware of, something to consider, to feel. To go through, to have knowledge of something, to have the know how to have an understanding of something, to think about something, to be familiar with something. And the last one is to be acquainted with something or someone and still you will not. Like to go into it? There is. Something in your head and I will give you 10 reasons why tasters do not become partakers. Now the Hebrew word for the word taste is the word Tam, which means to perceive Amen. It means to take notice of something. Are you there, TAAMTA apostrophe, AM to take notice of, to observe something, to recognize, to distinguish one thing from another, and to be sympathetic about something. Hey, are you there? Have you got A5? Another 20? Amen. Are you there? I'm giving it to you again. This is another 20 to take notice of, to observe observers. A lot of us are interested in ministry. We are just observers, recognize to distinguish one thing from another. And now you can even tell Bishop's anointing for this has come. You can, you can recognize, you can even distinguish between. Now Bishop is using this anointing. Now look at you. Fantastic to be sympathetic. A lot of us are sympathetic about the ministry, Amen. Number six, to have inside of something, Amen. You have insight, you can explain it. Amen. To be able to descend #7 wow #8 to be sensitive to something and it. Are you sensitive to the ministry work? Oh yes, you like it, You love it, isn't it? So I want to encourage you to go beyond tasting or taste and see that the Lord is good. Now that you see that the Lord is good, that you go for the Lord. Is it not powerful? Miriam, get your coffee. You are looking sleepy yourself to have an awareness of something. Amen. The next one is to have a view about something #10 wow #11 is to be able to make a judgment about something. Wow, now you see lay people OK, right are given so. Much that they make good judgments about God's work is He? Is he a? Pastor who is wearing a collar, who is a lay pastor, He knows a lot. He has a view about something that he's doing. He can give you even advice on it. Are you with me? Yeah. It's not just there. A pastor is a pastor. He is a pastor. A minister is a minister. Whether he's. A layperson or a full time but he. Is actually, and that is why to taste something means. In the Hebrew term it means. To have an awareness of something. Did I give you that? And it means to. Have a view about something. So you will see that people who are lame, they have a view and many times their view is a good view. It's not like they are not really. They are really in the ministry. They have a view. They are aware. Of the ministry #11 means to be able to make a judgment about something, isn't it? Yeah, they can even they can even tell you the reason why this is happening. They can, they can even they can even tell you why. Oh, this is the reason why this oh, the reason why this pastor is divorcing is this, isn't it? They have insight. They they even pass judgments. Oh, it's this and that and that the reason why only four people gave their lives today is because this the reason why 20 people gave their lives to crisis. They know no, the reason why no one was healed is because all the people here are well, or the, the reason why because the past time the church is not working is because of this. They, they, they can give you a good judgment. They've read books, they've read books, they've taken notes, they have textbooks, they've heard their messages, they've gone to listen to things that were preached to full timers. #12 to advise on #17 to give a verdict on that is number 17 #18 to express an opinion on something #19 to draw a conclusion about something. All right, the others are similar to the other ones I've given, but that's just the Hebrew. Word. Amen. OK, now a taster are you There is a Christian who has a small I'm giving you definitions, official definitions of a taster. OK, I was giving you the English mini, but now I'm giving you. OK, I'm just giving you the whole thing out. This drink is going to be very strong for me. Very strong. I cannot drink it. Yeah, just. Number one, So how many are tasters or partakers? Are you going to be partakers of the ministry? Are you sure? Are you sure America has not caught you? A lot of bright lights here. Orlando is a very beautiful city. Is that it? Is this the first time that you come here? Yeah. Bright lights. And a lot of fantastic things, fantasies, a lot of fantasies here. Mickey Mouse is moving around a lot to taste and see, so you need to decide early that I'm going to. Partake of a. Real ministry. Let me tell you something. You know, people who have become You see if I take a. Good example like a pasta in TEFL who is a full time pastor now. He was. One of the. Best lay pastors that we ever had as a lay pastor. I mean, if you want a good example of a lay pastor, he, he had his own hospital and he, he was very, very zealous who is working for the Lord, travelling up and down, driving from one end of a car to the other. If you ever want a good example of a lay pastor that was a good example of a lay pastor. You can't even distinguish between himself and the. Full time pastor. But today he's in full time anyway, and he will probably be the best person to tell you that there is no. Comparison between being a lay pastor. Somebody who is in full time ministry. He would tell you it's true. But you see, that's what I'm saying, that there is you, you, you can become. So. Good. In the ministry you are aware you have a judgment on things, you have an opinion, you understand if. Consider you have the feel of it. You have the know. How you have so much? But it's different. It must be different. Do you understand, to actually partake of something? So many of us are already your, your senses have already been stirred up, you've already tasted something about God and about the ministry, you see. But what many of us have not done is to actually decide that I'm going to rather partake with my whole life. Amen. And see, that's my calling. My calling is to encourage people to work for God and to teach them how to work for Him. And with me prosperity comes. In that way you understand, because prosperity comes as you seek God first. So in my case. The call of God has to do with working for him and with the people that God has given to me is related to working for him. So I don't really have to preach about prosperity to prosper. I have to work for him and it leads to it leads to anything that people are preaching about. And it will lead. To that for you as well. So I want to encourage you. To decide, you see, To jump in to what? God. Has well, that's, that is what that is why I'm here and that and that is why you are here and that is why you see, we are not, we are not trying to have. Everybody here at this camp meeting, it's not a general camp. It's a camp. I mean, I hope you people are young enough. Because when you are a certain age onwards, you cannot follow these things. You cannot. Follow all these ideas from a certain age onwards. It's not possible and. You you you may feel. Condemned. When you hear what I'm preaching, that is why we are not. Inviting everybody to come. You may feel, oh, I might do something wrong. Or maybe Bishop is not happy with me because I'm. Happy with you. Because that is whatever you, you are supposed to do. You see, when you grow up, you realize that God has God's way of thinking is different. You know, sometimes He hardens our hearts to certain things. And when people don't decide to do things, and that's God is the one who has made them decide not to do that, Yeah, You see, when Moses was coming out of the land of the. Wilderness, the Lord told him. This place is for the sons of Amun. Don't fight with them, Buy food from them. Don't fight with. I've given. I have given it to Amun. Then he got to another place. At this place I've given it to Moab. Don't fight with them. Buy food from them peacefully. Another place he came, he said these are for the sons of. Esau, I gave it to them. Don't fight with them. Buy food from them and pass through. When he came to another king called Sion, the king of Heshbon, he said that I've given you his his. Land. So yeah. Cyhon, the king of Heshbon, he said I've given you all his land, I want you to go in and possess it. So Moses sent a message to Cyhon, the king of Heshbon, and he sent a message to him, and he said, we want to pass through your land, like how we pass through the land of Ammon and Moab. And we bought food from them. And the sons of Esau, we passed through their land, which he had done equally. When he got to the stands of Esau, Amon, Moab, he told them the same. And they said come and pass. For when he sent a message to Stein on the King of Hershborne and he was like no. Then the Lord said, The Lord said, most See, I have begun to deliver him into your hand. For I have. Had in his heart. I have see the Lord says, see, can you see I have begun to deliver him into your hand? Yeah, yeah. See that I, the Lord, have begun to deliver him to a pardon. He said that he will never allow you to pass so that you have to fight with him. And Moses killed he. Killed all of them, said men, women and all. Today left only animals. There were only animals left in that among those people. Mothers were talking to their children. My darling, we go to school. You have to get quickly. We are going to school. No, that was the last day of school because. Moses was coming. Moses was coming with his armies, and he has had in the King's heart. So. At my age and with my experience, when somebody says no or somebody says yes, it's not a problem to me because when he said God to. Why read it? He says. See. See, I have begun to deliver. Him into your hand? Yeah, No fault. I've begun to deliver him into your hand. By the no. So it that is not, it doesn't make you. Like I'm angry with you. Oh, I just see it as the bull of whatever God the Lord is doing. But there is also a group. Who will say come and pass? There's a group who will say don't come, you see. So all of us are different. And you must make sure that whatever group you belong to, you just better join it fully. And I believe that in America also there, there are some people here. Do you understand you also belong to a group that will not just be tasting forever, that God has also touched your heart not to? Taste forever and ever until you die. Oh, do you understand? There are some people here like that. Yeah, or you, not that you. You say that you are moving from the testers to partakers when you are sick or when there is a diagnosis on you. You see, whenever there is death in question, you think differently. I went to preach in a certain church one day and the pastor had a number of children, but one of the children had a sickness. All the children were working for God, but one of the children had a sickness that he was going to die. So the pastor, the father of the children told me, he said this my son thinks differently from the others because of the sickness that he has. He can die at any on any particular day he can die. So he said he thinks differently from all the other children. God death. It has the way of changing the way you think. I tell you all the things become useless. One of the turning point. I wrote a book and one of the chapters I wrote at a 10 points of my life. One of the 10 points of my life was when I had an accident on the road to Tamil and I almost died. Yeah. Because when you. See, death like this, it has an effect. Are you there or you've gone home? Yeah. So some of you are not born to be sons of Ammon or sons of Moab. You are born to be Sion King of Hedgebourne. Some of you are. Not born to be Sion, King of Hedgebourne children, but you are sons of Ammon and Moab. It's going to go through easily, so choose your group. In a church, there may be only one person you see. I'll tell you in my class, when I finished the medical school in 1989, on the 10th of March, around 4:00 that I saw my result that I become a doctor. We were 55. From that day, everybody went in a different way, Everybody writing exams, to live, to come to America, to do this, to do this, to do this. I stayed because I chose to be in the ministry, whether they were going or they were staying. One of my classes is Doctor Nosh. Yeah. I slept in the same room with you. Yeah, that is how that is where our friendship came from. We have we are we are friends from school long ago. It's not last last week or three weeks ago. Are you listening? Yeah, but even if my. Friend is going to America and I'm staying and it seems I'm going to be. Poor. It doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is the cost that I've chosen for what God. I've never been to America. It is when I first the first. Time I ever. Stepped in this country came. We had a car with only two doors and he came with that car to pick me at the airport. He was the only person I knew in America. Yeah. You're familiar with the stories? You know everything. You have the know how, you have the stories, you have the windows. You. Have the feeling you have considered it. Yeah, there are people. When I'm preaching, the women say the story before I cannot even preach again. When I say, they will say that whatever, I cannot even take my time and say the story. They know everything, but they will not enter. Permanent testers, professionals, your mobile. How did how did I get here? No no no. My thing has moved. I think I was banging it no problem. A tester as a. Christian has a small experience of the So what God wants to tell you today is that your experience of the ministry is small is this and your numb Natalie Natalie your not only your experience of the ministry is. Small. You may think it's playing. Are you the one who's playing that thing? The pipes? Hello I am calling it pipes. You want to follow with me? Listen, your experience of myth is very small. Yeah, small. You think you know a lot, but I'm telling you experience of myth is very small. And I will tell every lay pastor, even you may be the Lahini of the Church of the. Lay lay whatever of the test layman check. The Queen of Lay, Principal of the lace, King of lace. The experience of the ministry is very small because to taste is to have a small experience, have a very small experience of the ministry. One real ministry come. Recently I have deleted my text one of my pastors in South Africa. He has been a lame mancher for many. Years. Yeah, he is the king of olives in. South Africa has established a big church. He has a feel, he has awareness, conceded, thinking inside everything. So one day he said he wants to be full time. I said OK, come, I will send you. So I sent him to Ethiopia. I sent him to Ethiopia and I was. Waiting. So when he's there, he's there now. And he sent me a message. He said, Bishop, thank you for sending me to see what I didn't know, to know what I didn't know. Yeah, see. Because when you I lay, you would think you know it. Yeah, like you don't know. Are you there? I've told you the story of the pig, and you know that story. The pig and the yeah, you know everything. The pig and the chicken were walking in the farm in Florida. They were in Florida and they saw some children. Like crying because their parents had travel, had not given them food, lunch and all that. So the chicken said to the pig. You see, she knows everything. You know, they really say before you finish preaching. But it doesn't mean that you work in the ministry. You know, everything, the story that you said before, so come and say this #2 when they say, yeah, there's no point #2A tester is a Christian who has a little bit of ministry. Amen. A little bit of ministry #3A taste is a Christian who has sampled, sampled ministry. Oh, yeah. Sometimes they've even had, you see some of the passes. They will do miracle services. They are sampling the different aspects, sampling what it will be like to be a healing evangelist. Yeah. So I try to do some crusades, sampling what it would be like to be an evangelist. Yeah. Sampling. So they try singing, see what it would be like to be like Clint Brown. Yeah. Different things. Sampling. They have a mini camp something what is would like to have camps, Samplers it's true, but never actually settling down. That's why there are many many boys. They can tell you. I don't even know how many girls I've slept with. Is it true? It's not true and they don't even know who they slept with and and many girls as well don't even know how many people they've slept with and but they never marry any of them. You see, are you there? Number 4A taster is a Christian who has had a brief. Encounter with ministry. Brief encounter with Ministry. Now, if you consider somebody who has been preaching from the age of 20 in full time ministry to the age of 4020 years, now he's been in full time ministry. And somebody who has been in ministry on Tuesday evenings for the last 20 years. Two hours over how many hours someone should do the calculation is that your computer calculate 2 / 24 No 2 / 24 * 7 is what is point what? 2 / 168 times 20 years is what you have been in it from the age of 20 full time after the age of 40. That's the only thing that you've ever done from Sunday to Sunday and somebody two hours because normal Christians will come to church on Tuesday, they will also come to church on Sunday. And you, let's assume that you, your small extra, you stay 2 hours. 2 / 7 * 24 * 20 is how many years? How many years is that somebody has been in 20 years and yours is how much are you, not you? I don't you know everything here. You don't have phones, you don't have computers. .238 times then multiplied times 365 is how many days? 86 days? So compared to a person who has given himself into full time ministry for 20 years, you have given yourself into full time. Ministry for 86 days. There is no comparison between you as a layperson and. Someone who is giving himself to the ministry. From a certain point onwards, there is nothing to compare the two, but because of your awareness of ministry and your knowledge and your brief encounter and the considerations. You've had and the closeness you've had to it. You are deceived into thinking it is the same thing. That's why I said that. If I have been since I was 25 years old, assume. That I'm now. 45 years old. That's 20 years. Of my life. I've just, the only thing I've done is to be in the ministry full time. And you have been in the same lay ministry as a lay pastor from the same time for the last 20 years. It's equal to you being in ministry for 86 days where I've been in for 20 years. Yeah, but because you also have a feel of it, you understand. And what are the other things? You have a feel and you have insight. You have a bite, a small amount, you have some sensitive, you have a feeling, you've considered it, you have an understanding, you are familiar with, you acquainted with it, You think it is the same thing, but it is not the same thing. So and you ask yourself, why shouldn't I talk about it? Why shouldn't try to actually talk about? Because some people have made themselves permanent tasters permanently. They are only going to be the thing for 86 days. I shouldn't say. I should encourage people whose calling it is to pass through and to come through. I shouldn't say it. Oh. I have to say it when I don't say it is a sin, when I don't tell you the truth is it's a sin. It's a sin, yeah. It's not the same. So brothers and sisters, I'm here to encourage you to throw away all forms of careers, useless careers that are not going to get you anywhere, all operations of financial gain that you are going to get, all phantoms that you are chasing, all delusions that you are following with your life and. Rather, come and work for God. Stop all those foolish things that you are doing what I'm saying the day that you see you are going to die. You will remember today the day that you see that now I'm about to die. You know why I'm saying that All the funerals have done the people that have? Buried. I tell you, none of the things that people have done in their secular world has any value at funerals. It's true. I mean nothing. What the But the most one I remember most was a person who died five years after I think he gave his life to Christ. I think he became a pastor. Five years or no? Everything. He was a professor. And he gave his life to Christ, became a Christian. It's only from the time that he became a Christian, even from the time became a pastor that was mentioned at the funeral, the professor and all those things was just in the Bush. So when I call all those things fully, don't tell me that I'm speaking against your career. That's why I told you you shouldn't come to the camp. Now you've come. As you are here now, as you are here now, when I'm preaching, bad thoughts are occurring to you. As I'm preaching the word of God, Paul calls it down. And now I'm even calling it foolish. Paul calls it down. So I count all things by loss for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ. I count it back. Down no higher than down and if you takedown until you start eating down that is higher you go into madness is called prophagia. We are going into mental problems. I once read up one person when he goes to the toilet, he goes to the public toilet after people when he takes their feces is. It one of my books. You've not read up that book. Oh, I think I mentioned it sometime. And he takes the feces, he puts it into a, what do you call it, A? Foil. And he takes it home and he warms it. Yeah, he warms it, isn't it? And then he, he smells it. Yeah, he does. He gets. Orgasm from it, Yeah. Orgasm. Sex, yeah. So you see, you see your it's madness. That's what Paul is saying about earthly things, because I counted by Dan, Dan for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ, for whom I've suffered the loss of all things, and do count them by Dan, that I may gain. Christ, what? I call it foolish. It's a lower this thing. It's a nicer way of insane about lower. I've reduced the strength. Oh, if you like. Let's watch and see. You'll see funeral after funeral, after funeral after funeral. All the things have been saying they are all true. It's true. One after the other. It will happen like that. And then you see that. Yeah. There was nothing worth doing. One day I was with one of my pastors. The doctors diagnosed this pasta so it is a number of days. So I start with the person said, have I? Told you the truth. Have I been a good pastor? Because as you see, the person is about to go and ask herself that hey, so me cry, did I tell the person the truth? Said you did. You did. So listen to carefully to what I'm saying. All right. OK, OK, OK. Brief Encounters Acquainted with ministry A tester is a Christian who has some awareness of ministry. The awareness again has come again #7A tester is a Christian who has some knowledge. You see, people know it's in the makanen. This one knows the story of the pig and the chicken. Everybody knows. Knowledge has come, isn't it #8A taste as a Christian who has considered the ministry, considered the ministry, Wow, considered it in it. The next one is 1A taste as a Christian who has enjoyed ministry a bit. OK, he has enjoyed ministry a bit. Wow, isn't it? Oh, you enjoy ministry a bit? You enjoy ministry a bit. Ministry is enjoyable, isn't it? Enjoyable? It's powerful, isn't it? Ministry is enjoyable. It's a nice to preach sometimes, nice to do the work of God. It's nice to have crusades, nice to sing, nice to have a concept, nice to have a program, isn't it? Nice to be in a convention, a program? It's nice, isn't it? Fridge and people come say I was so blessed and so touched. Thank you for ministry. Thank you for sharing what you shared. I'm inspired by you so encouraged. I mean you never you never in life. People don't come and say I'm inspired by you or thank God for your life. When you go to work as a nest and you come back, what is inspired by your life? There's no inspiration and you go to work as a bank and you come, nobody is happy. I mean to see you and thank you. Nobody thanks you for Oh what you talking about? #10A taste as a Christian who has a view of our ministry. Amen #11A taste as a Christian who has an understanding of ministry. You understand everything. Hey #12A taste as a Christian who exercise caution, You see, when it comes to the ministry. Now that was one of the definitions you see you exercise cautious like just a taste, not much. You exercise cautious like, you know, just as a little and then you, you really. Hold back the rest. So when it comes to the ministry, you are cautious, but when they are sending you to Iraq to go and fight because you get a green card, you don't exercise caution. You don't exercise caution. One day I was watching a television and I saw a lady with one eye. The other eye was covered with a black patch, and then she had a rope, a black. Rope. Coming here and another black rope. It's a pirate. Is that what they call it? She looks like a pirate, a beautiful lady. One of her eyes was gone and she had gone as a journalist to. Iraq, somewhere like that. And the bullet or something had gone into her eye and her eye was out. So she was being interviewed on CNN as a journalist with the. Black eye like that, I said hey, and she's continuing her her job. She's not tired. Why should we be tired? She's not. She's not exercising. Caution when it comes to getting money Why should I exercise caution when it comes to working for the Lord I'm. Going to work for the Lord. OK, listen, I'm talking about working for God full time and all. I have only two messages. I've told you one is full time. What is? What are the two messages? Kill yourself for Jesus and #2 is what? Full time ministry? Yeah. So if you don't want to hear that tomorrow, Disney, all the people are here, just go plenty. Amen. Cautious, cautious, sister, Cautious, very cautious when it comes to the Ministry, Caution. But it's time to throw caution to the wind. Take a step and work for the law. Pastor Kakra, stand up so they can see you now. When he finished school. In what year 1981, 90 what 93 he finished school. In 1990 he finished school. In 1993 or 94. He he, he, he said he want, he got. He want to work for the law. Yeah, Janet, no, no, don't be too hasty to be clapping and just, you know, try to get what is being said. He said that he want to work for the law, you see? Yeah. So he came to work for the Lord, even if there was no salary. I thought there's nothing like salary here. But he still work for the Lord, you get. And his twin brother. His twin brother. Twins mean that. You came on the same day, and twins mean that you have the same mother and father, and twins mean that you were brought up in the same house. His brother, who is his twin, did not do something like that again. You, you it is. That's what say that everybody's an individual. What God has for you may not be what God has for that other person. So everybody must make sure that you go according to the way because they will not even die on the same day. This is the thing, you'll be surprised. The fact that you came on the same day does not mean that you go on the same day. So one day you hear that oh, one of them is dead, that the other one will wait who attend the funeral and do everything for the other one and then the other one will wait for his tent and then he will also go. This how it is. And everyone was done before God according to the calling and what is expected from you. Juicy. So that's why I keep preaching, because maybe there's only one person here. And for that one person, it's better that I tell you what I'm telling you because that one person may lead to many people being saved. Yeah, and when I preach what I'm preaching, I preach it at the risk of offending some lay people who may feel that, oh, what are you saying about us? I'm not saying anything bad about you. I praise lay people all the time. What I'm saying is that maybe God didn't touch your heart that way. It doesn't matter. We accept it because we have learned to know that God is the one who turns the hearts of people. So we are happy with everybody. Yeah, I'm genuinely happy with all my people. It's true. I've learned to be content with such things as I have. If I was God, I would do certain things. But I'm not God, you see? And I'm glad that I'm not God. Because if I was God, this world will not be easy. So I'm glad I'm not God, I'm just, I'm just one of the servants. I do this. I do and I see what God does. Amen. So God wants you to you know some of you are not called to be lay. People. At all you know you're calling at all. Your calling is not to be tasting. Forever and ever. No, no, no, no at all. It's wrong for you, but not for everybody. Some people you are. Called to be testers eternally testers who are testimony until you die. You get it. But if you are supposed to be in the ministry and you decided to stay as a taster, don't expect to live for long. Don't expect to be around for a long time. You will be. Picked like I don't understand what I'm saying, but you may wonder why you should die. Death comes because ministry is about life and death always. Ministry is not about being happy or not being happy. Ministry is life and death, always. Because your failure to obey God kills a lot of people. Is it one day there was a guy in Ghana. He said that he did. If you steal money from the government, you should be sentenced to death. So when he becomes the president, he's coming to with a death sentence for stealing. If you steal. Money and he was explained that when you steal money and they can't make the road, a lot of people will die on the road. So it means you are a killer. That's the logic that he came with. And people were afraid of him. They they didn't vote for him. But he explained, he said the money that would have used to build the hospital, we couldn't build the hospital and people died. So because of that you are a Meddra. So because of that, when we catch you for still, we will kill you. So you may not know how that when you don't obey the law, you do not know how many people go to hell because of your disobedience. You don't know what it means. Now there are islands around America and there are places around us. We are going to go to those places and preach the gospel. Did you hear what I said? We are going to go there and we are going to preach or there will not be even an island. That we will live freely, that you should just be there without us coming there. No, no, we are not going to live even 1 island. Free once we are here. Hey, we are coming there. This is what we can do. And we are, we are being called from America. We are going to go to those places because from Jerusalem you go to Judea before you go to Samaria, before you go to the outermost part of the world. Those of you who call yourself Americans with American passports, American Green Card, there are many places I am going to send you. You are going to go where Americans can go. See, I have already given you the land. See, I've already given you. I've begun to give it to you. Yeah. You have to respect God when something occurs to you and it keeps occurring to you. Off in the Holy Spirit. This morning I was up at about 2:30 or three. Then I kept on thinking no. I think that Aquila and Co were not here. They were there and I was saying that no, because they were selling books at the conference. So. I just said, I said let me call Pastor Joel, and Pastor Joel doesn't sleep in the night, he sleeps in the morning. You get it. So I said no, by now he's going to sleep. So I called him, but he didn't answer. That was in, that was nice. It was dark was 3 or 4 or something like that or five something in the night like that. Then I decided that no, because all throughout I kept praying the thought, OK, let me call Aquila myself. I've not even tried to see what I had number. So I picked my phone and I called her. I said you must. Be at the conference this morning. You must sell books. I said well. You say I'm boarding. I said come out. She came out. They said I was bored. You were just just walking onto the plane. They don't get to me because I remember Kenneth Higgin. When Jesus appeared to Kenneth Higgin, he told him, you know, I've been telling you something this week. He told when he appeared to him, he sat down. Jesus was here. Yes. Can I take it here? Jesus, he told, I've been telling you something. This we have been trying to give. He had been meditating on the best. Yeah, I've been trying to explain it to you, but you will not be able to get it yet. So yes, I have been trying to explain it to you. So that the thought that he was having, not knowing that just being putting something in his head. Throughout that time since I read that vision, I am very conscious of setting ideas and thoughts that keep. Coming to me. And I realized that maybe the Lord is by my side, is trying to explain something to me wildly. Yeah. Wow. It's like it's something that keeps coming. Yeah. So you see, today, it was coming like that all the time then. And I just called in the night. I said I'll call up. I don't care if I wake up. Why is I'm boarding? I say you have to be at. We are coming back out of the plane. That's it. Yeah. So they came out of the plane and went back. I mean, they came backwards. So you, you got us, called you. You'll be sitting there, you know, go when it comes to stand by. As I said, he's talking. You are the one. Then you'll be saying something something something, my friend. You would die so early and be so surprised that a young person like you can be dead. Nice person like you see that your life is finished because you wouldn't go where God is sending meanwhile he was coming to bless you. You want to be old when you cannot think you. Want to be old when nobody likes you? Look, it is not always that you will be nice. It's true. It's not always that you'll be nice. Your niceness in your life is time related. A lot of. Ladies, you know, they say me and my husband dies, I will not marry again. Me and my husband dies, I will not marry again and my husband dies. But you see, it's not just that they will not marry again, but they may not get somebody to marry them in that state. When they have passed the flower of their age, everything has changed as it used to be. It is not so anymore. You are not going to be nice always. You are not going to be energetic always. You are not going to be beautiful always. You just get used to yourself. But you are not as nice as you. Used to be. I dare you to take your old pictures and look at yourself today. Stand in front of the mirror and see there's a difference. So you see, I hope you are young. I don't know how many old people are here, but I hope you are young. But this message doesn't work for old people. I see an island and I see somebody walking there. Look, God is going to send you where nobody knows, where you don't know anybody. It's true. You are going to arrive with your passport like this when you enter the way because I'm going somewhere. Who do you know? I don't know anybody, but I will know people. Many of you are going to go to countries. Where you would just you are. You are. You have been sent by God through you. Salvation will come to people through you. Through you, life will be saved through. You you'll be surprised most of your calling will be revealed in a foreign country. It's true. But you don't even realize your calling will be revealed in the foreign. You see, Joseph was a nobody small boy in the. House so he was transported to Egypt. When he went to Egypt, as when he saw that he was the Prime Minister. It's true. Get away, disappointed European go away, go and bring food. Go ahead. Come, come. Foolish boy. Every day you dream, every day you dream. But but it was Egypt that they saw that it was the Prime Minister who saw him. This guy is not a normal person. Let me use. Him as the Prime Minister, Yeah. So my friend, when God sends you, you must go. Those who struggle with God are struggling with the wrong person. Never fight with the wrong person. Choose your battles. You don't fight with people that are oversized. That's why I rarely do, you see. A lion hunting an elephant. And that is why whenever you have lions hunting elephants, they film it because it's unusual. Yes, because elephants are very big and dangerous to fight you. A lion wouldn't take any and. By the way, just let me give you this as a quick if ever you are in a jungle. And you meet a lion, you know, you know what to do. You have to raise your hands like this and if possible take off your your shirt or whatever and make yourself look big because the animals go by sizes you go by, said you attack. Something that is smaller than you so when you stand in like a big thing like that, they don't easily come so just remember that in case one day when you're on the mission field and you. See a lion coming your way? I was taught at a setting time how to deal with. This thing sit down. Are you listening? Yeah. The day is coming when you will be on a ship, you will be on a plane, you will be walking and you are going to a foreign land because. You have decided I will not be a taster of this thing and be aware of it for years and years until I die. What are you waiting for? How many complex situations do you want to get yourself into before you realize that God has called you? Can't you see that this message cannot be preached to everyone? You see, a time comes, you cannot preach certain things, and sometimes you cannot be. Preached. To with certain things, you know, sometimes a pastor goes through certain experiences. He can't preach about certain topics again. When he measures the topic is himself, you see that he leaves those topics out. Is it not true? Like when he says the topic now everybody starts to think about the person who is saying it similarly. It is not everybody who can be preached to when they see your face. They don't I mean a good and wise pasta. If you know somebody has a particular problem specific and if I'm preaching, I know. And I told this sister here has a problem with specific that means she was once sitting on an elephant and she fell into the water. And I started using example of people who sit on elephants and don't know how to sit on elephant. And I know that she has sat on an elephant before. When I see her face now, I'll change. Somebody sat on a hippopotamus. I wouldn't say elephant because I know she's in the church. If I know I will not because I don't want to offend you, a pastor. We are not yet to offend people. We are not trying to offend people or trying to see how much we can offend before yourself comes. You understand? Yeah. So that is going to come when you when they see your face on certain topics will not, will not be preached. Oh no. When your when your face is preached, when your face is sighted in the church. Today we are talking about patience. Share about patience. Three steps to patience when they see your face. Today we are talking about love. Then fourteen ways you can show love number one two number three number four number what is your face though we are today we are talking about hope. What are the attributes of hope? What are the difference between hope and faith? How can hope be used to improve your life? These are what will be said, not tastes and. Partakers. Yeah, it's. True, you see. Some recently I came to a certain country and I and I and I was pushing out a camp, another camp. I preach predestination. Yeah. Now when I saw the people in that country then. I decided to preach about predestination. You listen, listen. Predestination now. Then I went to another country and then when I saw the people that I I. Made a measure, I said. Why are you not a? Missionary. Now there is a difference between this. Even the topics 1 is philosophical run about and he's saying something and he's explaining it to meandering. It's like a river that is going left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right. Because there are some people when you see their faces, no, you have to picture hope, love, peace, patience, what is your life and so on. And there are some people you still say all out kill yourself for Jesus. Why are you not a missionary at this stage, at this stage of your life, at this stage, why are you not a missionary? So you may be laughing at pastors and saying that some pastors cannot preach about certain things, but you too, certain things cannot be preached to you at a certain stage of your life. So when they see your face. Now they say today we are studying the Levitical priesthood. Today we are doing Bible study on psalms, Psalm 119. We are studying the word of God, the importance of the Word of God. Thy word is a lamp to my, to my path, light for my path, lamp for my feet. What are the seven things the word of God can do for your life #1 is a sword #2 is a light #3 is a hammer #4 These are the messages that would. Be used to you. So you may be laughing at some person or you pastor you are divorced, you can't preach up a divorce again. You person you have had this problem. You can't say this again you person you are sick. You can't preach up a healing again you person you are this keep laughing not knowing that you yourself when you are even spotted in the congregation, the topic will change. I am sucking you people from America as I'm sucking you from America. What is America? I counted that down that I'm a gay Christ. Oh, shame on America. Queen Margaret. Queen Margaret, You know, Queen Margaret. Queen Margaret of England. Yeah. When she was dying, she turned and she said shame, shame on, on life. And she died. Shame, life. Shame. Yeah. Shame on life. And then she died. Yeah, it's a similar thing that Solomon was trying to say when he said that's all useless, all is vanity. It means marriage is vanity. Husband is vanity, children are vanity. America is vanity. Money is vanity. Car is vanity. Houses are vanity. Everything is vanity. Jobs are vanity. Green card is vanity, Credit card is vanity. You, you will see it if you haven't seen it. Now you see, when you are about to die, if you have some time to think before you die, you will remember. So, my dear friend, I know that God has called you. Otherwise you cannot be here. Discount you. You are moving from an awareness. To partaking of the real calling of your life. Hallelujah. Okay, sit down.