02. Examples Of Tasters In Ministry

Welcome to track #2 of tasters or partakers. #14 A taster is a Christian who has drawn some conclusions about ministry. Amen. Your mind is made-up, a permanent taste, I should say. Make up your mind. When you taste the cherry teriyaki chicken, you make up your mind that no, I will not buy it. John. Some conclusions 15-A taster is a Christian who thinks about the ministry #16A taster is a Christian who is familiar. I've shared all these ones already. A taster #17 is a Christian who has some insight to the ministry #18A taster is a Christian who is sympathetic. Who? Yes, sympathetic, isn't it? I mean, your interest is ministry. You are sympathetic to the idea of ministry. Amen. A tester is something who has someone who has done something little, a little bit, a little bite, and #920 A tester is a Christian who delights in the ministries. Wow, that's nice. Oh, that looks very nice. Amen. Are you there very good. Now examples of tasting the ministry Hallelujah. Number one Jonathan in the Bible famous. I'm sharing with you famous tasters of the Bible. You are the famous tasters of lighthouse. But I see you moving to partaking henceforth. No more be called tasters by partakers. But these are the famous tasters from the scripture #1 Jonathan. Jonathan tasted the honey. Amen. And then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou has done. And Jonathan told him and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand, and lo, I must die. Amen, First Samuel 1443. Amen. Now, this was a story where Jonathan was very hungry, and his father had declared them fast. No one was supposed to eat anything. But he tasted, you know, just a taste sometimes all that we want. And it are you there? Are you there? Yeah. So, tasters, Jonathan tasted some honey. Amen. Now, when he tasted the honey, what? What do you think you would have? You would have a feeling of the sweetness, isn't it? Don't you have a sort of a feel? That's why sometimes it's even deceptive because you have that sweetness in your mouth. You sort of feel you have everything there is to have. It's true. So Doug, he what Mills creating and allowing lay people to be pastors has actually at times prevented them from going further in the ministry. It's true. Or you don't get what I'm saying because they have said to themselves, but I have it, but I know it. There's nothing else. So they have rather been. Deceived. Into not going further. Because you think about it, if I, if I put honey on your tongue, all of you here. I mean, you say I've had honey. I know honey in it. Yeah. You say I know it, I've had it, and I can still taste it. I had some, Isn't it? Yeah, but that's just a taste. Just a taste, but a taste can linger. A taste can be remembered. It's true. So it is deceptive. My grandmother used to make honey, special Honey Switzerland, and it was special. She used to make jam. She had this honey. That's where I first tasted it. But having a little bit of honey and having a whole jar of honey, there are two different things. So many of the pastas have tasted honey and they say, wow, sweet, it's nice, it's good. I know the stories. I know the I know I have it. I know you don't have it. You don't know it. You just had a little bit like that. Don't deceive yourself. Don't let the blessing that was given to you be the greatest distraction to your life. The God never intended a pastor to be a lay pastor. Go read your Bible. When he made the Levites priest he said that you have no inheritance. I the Lord, I'm your portion. You shall minister about holy things, and I'll share the land for everybody. You don't have any land. And I the Lord, I'm your portion. And they should bring offerings to you. And part of the offering was he. Gave them 60 cities for the Levites 60 cities and he gave around. Each city, he said, 2000 cubits. For the pastures, for your animals, the Levites, they also have cities and they had whatever, but those things were to be given to them by the people and they were supposed to minister about the things in the temple. That was that was not supposed to be something that they do part. Time. They were supposed to give themselves to it and they would live through offerings. That's the real priest and Paul said they that preach the gospel should lead off the gospel that they preach. That's the real ministry. Don't let that little sample that has been given to you delete, delude you and deceive and misdirect you into thinking that you have the real ministry and real ministry. Go and read your Bible yourself. You'll see say that those that minister about holy things should partake of those holy things. I want to be a pastor. You see, I blame myself. I have ordained pastors, made laypeople, general overseers, super general, Superintendent, whatever. I've made anything because I've always come. You can also do so Collar. I wear collar. They also wear collar. We all, we all wear the same things. They have a cross, also have a cross. Like we are all overseers. We are all whatever. Yeah, Just go, come, come, come and work for God. You see, they are wearing collar. We all reverend say they call it reverend. They also call me reverend. So we are not the same. Look, since I was 25 years old, I've been a pastor. And since I finished medical school, 25 years, I was 20, just 26 years old. I started I believe. All the time we are not the same you have done. 86 days. And I've been due for 20 years. Obviously there must be a difference. So my dear friend, so you see my brother, my sister, there's a difference. But you see the taste of honey the way it is right now. I don't know if somebody has sugar here, but I'll put sugar on everybody's tongue. Everybody else, I've had sugar and I've had enough. But you don't know. There's much more. Amen. Are you listening? All right, so don't let it, because a taste of honey can be like the honey #2 The Israelites, they tasted the manner. Exodus 16 verse 31. And the House of Israel called the name thereof mana, and it was like coriander seed white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey Mana. Amen. All right, the House of Israel gave it a name, and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. Amen. Once again, you see, the Israelites tasted manner. When they tasted manner, notice that they now began to have information that they never had before. They said it is. Like this. So now it's like after you've had a little taste of ministry, say a taste like this and a taste like this wafer, it's like wafer. Ah, it's like wafers made with honey. So it's like, now that is how it is with taste. Like when taste, when, as soon as you taste something like there is knowledge which can it's like you know too much. You see like. Generally like as I preach, people genuinely know the things that I'm preaching, teaching somebody analyze me because somebody who said it that Bishop is going to preach kill yourself for Jesus. I didn't say somebody said it like his analysis of my preaching is that it will be summary. Yeah, summarize everything because he has tasted something. This is like this. This is how it is like this and this. If I one day I went for a camp somewhere when I picture. I asked for Question Time 111 brother. Stood up and said we have heard. I mean all this you have all this, all this that you have said he didn't say we have, we have, you have, you have said it before. He said that that when you say we've had it before, it's like a sound a bit funny, rude, but he didn't say that. We said it in a in a nice way. And he said, I mean, you've preached about this before and you said it and so. And it's the first. Time I've ever preached that I can remember, I can see his face. I know the camp, the particular camp, the name of the camp, the name of this pastor. It just strikes me because you, you, and it was like completely, I've never, since I preached, then I've never gone over that thing again. I've never preached about that again. And that was the first time that I preached about that. But in his mind, you see, it's already been, it's like this, it's like way first, it's like this and it's like, these are the things that this is composed of. So when the thing comes, you can't even see or hear anything else. 'Cause you had we made the mistake of letting you taste it. That's why I said, girl, don't let anybody sleep with you. He will not marry you again when he slept with you, not like you again. Because they find out that you are just like you are just like all the others. You didn't have anything special. As soon as they sleep with you, you are so you are like a wafer. You are just like this. You are like coriander seed. I don't want the rest of your coriander seed. You're just like Coriana City Mercy. You are light, so you are light. You are light. You are like a wafer. You know, you know. You know, you know, you know this is the mistake. Believe pastors are wearing collars, they are wearing crosses. They call themselves a reverend at their workplace and the IT has entered their mind that they now lose like coriander seed. Ministry is a coriander seed and I've eaten one. Before it's a coriander ministry. It's true coriander seeds so I know how you see LE passes officiating weddings so. Happy that the officiate is like now I've read the pinnacle of ministry. You don't know that it's our duty that we gave you because we couldn't. We couldn't. The workload is so much you have to share it now you shouldn't have. Done such a job based on the burden. That is why it has been given to this so much. But it's not a promotion to you. It's just I mean, you see, I went somewhere one day and the pastor told me everybody in this country had HIV. The pastor is a white man and he told me that everybody has HIV so much. And he said they we do not bury the past. The people lying down, they stand up because there's no space in there. But then he told me something that shocked me. He said at first I would even do a funeral, he said. But now the assistant part, you see, you know everything. The assistant pastor will do it now. We went from the assistant pastors to sell leaders ordinary. Everybody performs a funeral. So now, if you are now officiating funerals as a cell, you don't have to say to yourself that I know coriander seed. I know. I mean, I'm in the ministry. You are not anything. It's just overload of the work that has made us share our certain things like we will never share. It for you. I will never give laypers officiate somebody's wedding or a funeral or whatever. They are not real. They If you are If you are a doctor, you work from morning to evening, Monday to Friday, and then you get two or three hours in the evening. You are a doctor, not a pastor really the time that what you really do is doctor, not pastor. The. Pastor is like a. Hobby or something that you do. I mean the fact that the fact that I can ride a bicycle, I'm not a bicycle rider. They are real bicycle riders. That's their job. But I can ride a bin. I'm reading and I do ride, but my real work is not bicycle riding and I'm not a professional bicycle rider. But I can ride and I do ride and I have a bicycle. This. Is a different thing. So when out of overload things are being shared to you and now there's so. Many people dying in this country. That even cell leaders and assistance cell leaders, everybody performs it. It's not a. Promotion to you. It's rather an indication of the width of the work that is so much that even people who should not. Have been drafted in, but you see them say, oh, this is, this is. And it makes you even lose respect for it. It's true. So don't, don't you see we are, we are deceiving ourselves with. Wrong things, wrong things are administered to us by the opportunities that have been given to people. I see before God. It may be a different thing. So don't, don't, don't, don't pray. So I'm not appreciating whether you are cell leader. Have you appreciated funerals at the Kodesh? We can have 7 weddings on one day. Every Chapel is full. It's true. 710 sometimes. All Chapels Hall. They will use rooms everywhere. People come differently. We ask which we have to put signs. This person is ready. This one is here. This place upstairs. This place upstairs here. This place over here. Hagen Chapel. This Chapel. That's Chapel. Solomon's Hall, Kodak. They all share. It's true. So the work is so much, but the Father, I've asked you to go and baptize somewhere doesn't mean that. So yeah, I know. I'm. Yeah, I am John the Baptist. You are John the Baptist. You are joking. Small test you've been given, it has affected you. It has gone to your head. It's true. Now you know everything. So ministry, like coriander seed ministry, it's like wafer with honey. I mean wafer with, Can you imagine wafer with a bit of honey pasted on it? You know, cream crackers is the hand with some small, small honey on it. You know everything, isn't it because you just had a little taste. One time I had an assistant and I I gave him, I say you should be the leader. So I stepped back and said, will you be the leader? So I gave him a taste of being in charge When I came. I didn't want to give the I traveled when I. Didn't want to meet because I've given you a small test of the ministry. So. In the end, I wrested control of the fellowship from him and after today he's not even like a leader of any whatever or whatever you see. But it's like you get that when you are given a privilege to taste something, then you start to think of yourself more highly than you ought to. Yeah, you start to think of things that you are not because you had a little taste. Of something. Are you listening? Yeah. So you have the chat. Lighthouse is full of people. Who have tasted and now you hear they know everything about everything because God allowed it from the overload I've got, of course I've got members in Australia, I've got members in. Am I going to go to New Zealand? Every time I'm go to there's somebody's getting married, New Zealand or America? Am I going to come here every time somebody's getting married or England or Kenya? You know how many weddings they've had in Kenya and South Africa? Am I going to be going to South Africa every time there is a wedding? Hey, I don't have time for that. People are getting mad every day. I'm going to fly here, here, here for weddings. Am I going to be at the Kodesh for every wedding? No. I cannot. I don't. Go for people's weddings. I don't I don't go for outdoors. I have headache every day outdoor, every day outdoor I. Cannot. Are you listening? Yeah. So do not let the overload work that we have shared. We can't preach everywhere, can't preach. Pasado used to preach in Baltimore and New York. You see how he was tired when he drive the car, he hold the he hold the steering wheel. Like yeah, the person is tired. He's tired. He preach 5000. He doesn't even hold it. Use his finger to hold the steering wheel like this. He's dying of the of the work that he's doing. Should I allow him to die? I will get some lay pasta and give them a taste. Then when they also take they say oh it's a coriander, this one is a coriander, coriander, coriander ministry like wafer. It is high and then they are not interested in it again. How many women have made the mistake of sleeping with the guy? And after that, when he's putting on his pants, he's staying his, he's staying his dead. He's not fine. The girl is not fine at all. You shouldn't have allowed him to taste. Now that he has tasted, he's putting on his pants. He's saying to himself. Oh, OK, no, fine. No fine at all. Messi, you don't understand. He's still don't understand it. You understand it well. And I said, oh, she's a coriander. It's like a wafer that is going since Edison, her breast is like this and here. Is like this he has made-up his mind because you allowed him to taste. Yeah. Now he's tenner. Yeah. So now God has allowed you to be a shepherd, allow you to come for six camps. And even if you come for 28 camps, you will never change because your mind, you have made-up your mind. It's true. And some of the people they've made-up their mind from the first day that they sleep with you that they will not marry you. But they continue tasting and tasting and tasting so. Well, let me just be tasting. Let me just be tasting free of charge. I know myself. I cannot hear me marry something that is like a wafer, a coriander seed. We allow you to officiate and you turn against the ministry. We allow you to bury somebody. Now. You say you won't be a priest. We allow you to bury somebody from after I say you will not be a priest again. At first you wanted to be a priest. Now we allow you to bury somebody. You say you won't be a priest again. We allow you to. Stand in front of a church and preach. Then I say, you won't be a priest again. You won't be a preacher again. You will be an accountant. You'll be a bank manager. You work for and what? And what something something Barnes and Nobles you work for. You work for what? Citigroup. We allowed you. We allowed you to stand. In front of the people and preach. Since then you've decided you will not. You have decided that you will not be a preacher again after we allowed you your. Mouth shouldn't have allowed you. Hey, since you slept, we think. Yeah, On the first day that you slept, you sat in your head. It is too light. It's a wafer. It's a coriander, sister. Coriander. You should have kept yourself. You never have removed that thing. If I remove. It now he has lost a desire for that thing. God should have kept his work from you. You should have allowed you to officiate even a wedding or outdooring naming a child you held a baby like this, you are dedicating this and that and that's everybody will say oh. Suffer, oh suffer Pastor. Oh priest. Reverend, this reverend they were honoring. You are receiving the greetings. Since you received those greetings, you have decided you will not be a priest again. You have received Galatians success offerings. When they say Galatians 6 Sunday when you have to receive offering some passes have received. Cars. Yeah, cars. Cars have been bought for people as Galatians. Success, appreciation. Since then, you, you've decided that you will not be in the ministry again. Your mask after they say it's too light, Coriander seed, it's a wafer. I cannot be the reason for people to be sending me $5 and $10. It's too light for you. It's too light. We shouldn't have allowed you to receive Galatians. We should have said only the Bishop will receive Galatia appreciation of pastors. Then you not have tasted that. Now that you have tested, they've taken offering for you $300.00. You have despised it. It's true. The first time that I received an offering in America, I went to preach somewhere. The jet was full of America, not lighthouse. When I finished preaching, the pastor said we are going to receive an offering to bless the Bishop Dad. So he stood, then collected the offering for me then. After those who know the soil says what? I don't say you don't know it. You are familiar, you are aware, you have knowledge, you are the know how, what the feeling when they finish, when they finish. They called me to a small room. When I went into a small room they gave me the envelope. Now the envelope could not contain that offering, so it was a more than one envelope like this. Fat. And the dollars, not any other currency, dollars, U.S. dollars. So when I saw it. About like this, something like this, I said the Lord. I didn't want Pastor John and all the people to see what the Lord has done. Well, I go to the house. I took the office a lot today. I am richer than anybody else in the world. So I started to. We face coriander seed when I added the whole offering just at 200 and something dollars. Hey I thought about 10,000 or something but even though. It was a coriander I didn't despise. It I said I would still like to be a priest. Amen. I'd like to be a priest because all my life in the ministry I never received offering before. I never received offering, but I don't despise it, even though it's light. Amen. As you see some people, they have received Galatians. Success. They receive flowers cards. Words, speakings, offerings they look at when they Add all 150 me I should be a pastor 2. Lights it's a coriander. It's true. I see it is in their head because it takes that someone who has come to certain conclusions. So when they give you the teriyaki chicken, you. Look at you eat it, you come. To a conclusion. I won't buy, I won't buy. Come to some conclusions in your head. I remember that sister who was asking, I asked her, why didn't he marry you? And not only that one person, there was another person like that. Mysteriously, they just move away from her. And I wanted desperately to. But if I was to give an answer, I would be creating answers that I think I didn't know because the guys didn't say anything. They just go away. Why are they afraid? Yeah, they were afraid of her. They. Were afraid of her. But they had come to some conclusions, girl. So you see, my brother, my sister. Oh, God has allowed you to taste small in the ministry. Don't take it for granted. It shouldn't spoil you. You gonna say that? It's light. It's this, it's that. It's now. It's not anything substantial. It's it's just, it's light. Is it a small thing to you or to allow you to officiate a wedding or to allow you to officiate outdoor in something I was coming to do myself. I couldn't come. I should have officiated it, but I couldn't come. Yeah, we have shared it for you. You are rather despising it. Do you know that whenever you something you have seen from my fan, you do it for the first time. It is a novelty you aspire to do. I'm like, for instance, to officiate a wedding for the first time. It was a great thing for me. But after you've done it for sometimes, like, you know, be anything easy. Yeah, everything haven't done it before the first time. You do it at some, some when I was consecrating bishops. I've never done it before. That was the first time I did it. I'm going to be confiscating a Bishop again. Somebody asked me to do that, and our own bishops too, by the first time. It's always I see. Even after you do it, you have to respect it. Are you there? All right, Sit down. #3 Solomon tasted fruits. Hey, it's late, we have to sleep early today. Songs of Solomon, chapter 2, verse 3. Ask the apple tree. Among the trees of wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. Amen. Are you there? His fruit was sweet to my taste, Amen. Now this is what I've been saying about the beloved. The beloved is among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. Now this one had a beloved. He tasted his beloved, isn't it? And it was good, isn't it? But surprisingly, after people taste, then they reject. Sometimes people see a man of God and they are attracted to the man of God and say, oh, if I was married to this man of God, I'll be the happiest lady in the world. Isn't it true? I mean, how many? I've seen a preacher on television and you thought to myself, oh, what a powerful. I mean, his wife must be the happiest. So sometimes you are surprised when you hear of the them announcing a divorce. And what else does she want? Isn't it? Yeah, and sometimes you don't know whether the wives are telling them at home. See, nobody knows you, as you really are the only one who knows you. They are facing them swelling because after testing for some time, they are not impressed. You see, tasting surprisingly has almost sometimes a negative effect on the person who tastes. It's amazing. I remember 1 pastor, his wife left him and then there was a lady in the church who didn't have a husband because every she was like some outcast. Now the pastor decided of all the ladies in the church to marry that particular lady and he married her. Oh, even because he married her, people left the church. Is that what kind of person is this? But after this lady who has seen her pastor in the church for years and admired and being envious of the wife, probably saying that she's. Really. Lucky, you know, she now became the wife. Not something far away, something that I know we have seen with my eyes now when she became the wife. So it's now the Madam. One day she said I can't take this, you know, and I tell you some people are very wikido. You, you know that the man's wife has left him. First one has left him. Now you have become the second one. Yeah. And so now I also leave him. And she left. She threatened to leave him, but then she came back. Then recently I heard that she had also left him again. So now here is this poor man of God or this man of God. Now it says like wives have left him, you see, so. But this is a pass of a. Big church he has. Not slept with anyone. He has not had any immorality or anything. It's just that I can't. And it's like, that is how it is. Like you look for my face attractive when you taste it then rather rather you go away from what you've tasted. That's why sometimes it's like people will dangle before you the attractive thing but never give it to you to keep your interests. Or that's what Queen Elizabeth the First did. She never mind. She was called the Virgin Queen. She never married anyone. Everybody. Frederick, this one, that's my Prince of Sweden, Prince of the Duke of that everybody. She never married any of them. She dangled her attractiveness before days before that, she never accepted anyone. But she would discuss with you possibility of marriage, everything. But she never married them because she had seen her mother was executed. Her mother was, I think, Anne Boleyn, if I'm right, who had her father had killed her sister, one of them. But her father had executed his mother, his mother. So she was afraid of marriage, you see, But she knew that as long as she dangled bits of flesh in front of these guys and she kept on being enticing and, you know, being pretending to as though she was interested. She may, she may, she may, she may give in. She kept all of them coming shooter after shooter. Princess, kings, Queens, Dukes, all of them wanted her. Sometimes it is the fact that people have been allowed to be ministers, be ministers, leave pastors, that is what has even kept them away from the obeying the call. Yeah, because they've been given the. Taste. Now that they've tasted, you rise up as a second wife who has tasted because look at all the all the sisters in church. You see the man of God up there. Great guy. Wow. I'd love to be Mrs. I'd love to be Mrs. Creflo. Dollar I'd love to be Mrs. TD Jakes, I'd love to be Mrs. Whatever. And then you come, you taste it and you say rather rather when you've tasted it because you see you don't want it anymore. Yeah, if you have said that, you'd have been OK. It's amazing, isn't it? So you see, lighthouse passes as they come ordained. They will do exam, do this, become reverend. No. That's why I'm speaking to you now before. Because as you go along, you stand forming conclusions in your mind. But you won't say it openly. You never say I've decided. I will Never. No, no. You always it's true, Bishop. The message was very powerful. My favorite message is others. My favorite message is all out, but you will never be all out. Are you there? It's fantastic because you tasted my beloved. Many people. One day somebody got married. When she came back, she asked a question. I have only one. Is this what people are doing as fornication? Is this what people are doing as fornication? This is the only question. This what they are doing? Is this what they do? What is enjoyable about it? That was her only. Comment 1st about after getting myself. Is that what people are doing as fornication? After tasting this, what is this? What is this? Gosh. What wafer is this? Job, Chapter 6, verse 5, the next one. I'm giving you examples of tasting Bible. Does the wild ass brave when he has grass or lowest the ox over his father? Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? Is there any taste in the white of an egg? The taste of an egg white? And I saw pasta dwell making fried egg white. I said make sure you don't die before we die. Is there any taste in the white of an egg? Some people have tasted the ministry and you have come to say that it is like the white of an egg. There's nothing to it. It's true. One day I called a pasta. I said we have 3 services. You are a pastor. When I was making you a pastor, you were eager, you were coming come for meeting, you come do this, do this. Now that I've made you a pastor, you are asking me whether there is any taste. In the white of an egg. And you are not coming for meetings. You will not come for any meeting. And I said. Every person must at least come for two services. Do not come. You have made yourself an ordinary member. Yeah, because the taste has rather brought up the question to you, that there's nothing special about it, about being a pastor. That is why when they are going to be made pastors, they will come for homecoming. They will come for this program. They'll come after they've been made pastors. They will say is there any taste in the white of an egg? Or math. Is there any taste in the white of an egg? Yeah, that's why now we have a Good Shepherd website we are monitoring. You see, if you don't comply, we will clear you from that thing. You will not be a pastor in the church. Again, we will clear you. That's what we have decided to do. We are clearing. Yeah, because after you've tested small, it's like you are not impressed. Again, testing has made you not impressed with your with your. But first we are prepared to do this. You go here, you do this, you do this, you come this. OK, study this book. OK, exam on this, this and that. Now that they've called, they call you pastor, they call you reverend. You are asking me whether there is any taste in the white of an egg or math. It's true, that's what is happening. Amen. Are you there? You've gone home. Ask your neighbor. Neighbor, Is there any taste in the white of an egg? Hallelujah. #5 First Peter chapter 2, verse 2. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby. Amen. If. So be that you have tasted, that the Lord is gracious, Amen. Now you see, Peter is not encouraging people if they have tasted. To desire the web to grow thereby it's like the taste should rather make you want to grow. Is it not Tutu? Put Tutu there as newborn babes desire. Can you put two and three? Where is the person doing that thing? Look, don't struggle with me as newborn babes desire The sincere milk of the word that you may grow there by if whether the colon is there or not is even just cover if so be or if it be that you have tasted you see if it be that you've tasted the desire to grow. Amen. You know anything you taste in God, desire to grow in it, not desire to stay. You know we had healing Jesus Crusade when we started it, we had 600 chairs and it's been growing. We didn't even think of growth, but it's been growing. And at time came we had 5000 people coming for a crusade. 3001 thousand, 2005 thousand 10,000. I'll never forget 10,000 because I always remember some Benny, his programs that he has here. The hall sees 10,000 people. So I said to myself, if I have a program with 10,000 people in my country, it's not bad. But that was the largest we could ever have. Then we started to go higher. But every time we would have a meeting, sometimes on the first day of the crusade, new ideas will come. I said, look, we can have a better crusade. We have a bigger crusade. Bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, better. Because after the taste of 600, I wanted to grow. After the taste of 3000, I wanted to grow after the taste of 5000. I didn't say, oh, is a, is a coriander, is a sea, is a coriander? Is there any taste in the white of an egg? No, I rather wanted to grow more 10,000, 45,000 I remember in Asim Fusu, 40,000 in Sampa, but I still wanted to grow. More, more, more, more, more. In Salaga we have over 70,000 people, which is a very fantastic miracle because the Salaga town alone probably has about 5000 people or some small amount like that, people from all over. We have accuracy Abbasi over 300,000. I mean, one in the five days that we were there, one of the days it was even rained off. When we put it all together was almost 1,000,000 people attending. Yeah, Jackson Park. We went to Coferridua recently. We were told Jackson Park is the place where you must have it. There's a park called the Jackson Park. We're so bonky. When Bonky came, that is where he had a crusade. This is where it happened. And we said, no, we went. We went and cleared the forest. Yeah, we went and cleared the forest and they took me up to a mountain because Caporidua is the town surrounded by mountains. So they took me to the highest point on the mountain to look down. When I saw the field that we are clear. I couldn't. The Jackson Park where Bongi had this crusade, It would be like one chair and where we had cleared was about like 6 or 8 times. Yeah. And the whole place was full on the last day. The whole place. They couldn't believe Pastors, four people in Accra to come and see. When I was coming to preach, I turned to the state and I saw one great man of God has come from Accra. They have called him come and see for yourself and that's the only reason why I came. And pastor, I have told him to come and low and behold, he was there. Having 5010 thousand people rather made me desire. Having tasted it rather made me desire to grow. And that is? What tasting of the ministry should do to you and for you and should make you desire to grow. So OK, I want more of this thing. It's it's it's nice. I want more. I want, I want you've, you've officiated a funeral or a wedding. It's a hoe. It will be anything. No, there's more work to be done. You should desire more of what it means to be a pastor, what it means to be a priest. You've been a you've been a priest. You've been a pastor here. You can be a pastor of people. Even not from your own country, you can be a pastor for people in a different country. You can be a missionary. There's more. There's more to the ministry. You see, I'm reading books. I'm reading books. People read my books in Ghana, but I want more people to read my books. I want more people to read my books from different countries. I've seen people, Russians, reading my book, the most popular book, my book out of you that is more popular in the the country that is most popular in this in Russia, which I've never been to. It's more popular in Russia and Ukraine than anywhere else ever. Because I wanted also to have my book. I pay. We pay a lot of money for people to translate the books. Yeah. We. Pay for people to translate it because I'm not just happy that all some Ghanaians are reading it in Ganeshi. No. After I've tested what is to be an author and somebody reads your book in Ghana, I want more people to read it. So you see, it's a taste. Have you ever written a book? Even a letter is trash struggle, isn't it? So to ever have become an author is great. I remember when I became an author. But after tasting, you desire more, something more, and I wanted more people to read my book. Do you understand? More and more and more, I want more. People to read more books. Amen. So I do anything for more of what I've just tasted a little of because there's more. You are author, so you are happy. You've printed 2000, You printed 5000. I want to print millions, 1,000,000 millions is I'm not thinking of 5000 or 2000. I'm thinking of 1,000,000 because right now we have over 5-6 million books already. I'm thinking of 150 million books. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking about. I'm not thinking of three million. I'm thinking of 100,000,100 and 50 million because I read Bonky's book, he has share 170 million books and so on. I'm not thinking of 5000 books. After having taste of being an author, I want to have more. Than you and you. You you've tasted a small camp, tasted a shepherd, you've tasted this. Suddenly you don't like it. Again, you are asking me is there any taste? In the white of an egg your mouth. What do you think? So I believe the Lord is blessing us. Amen. Is it powerful? Tend to Hebrews chapter 6. And go to verse 3. Where's the girl? Look, if you don't change your thing, you could easily get into trouble. Or your thing only allows 1 vessel at a time. More vessels 3456 345 S. And this we will do, if God permits. Verse 4 OK, good, for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, Amen, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, Amen, and were made partakers of you see, for the gift in heaven they had only just a taste by the Holy Ghost. They partake it, but partook. And they have tasted the goodwill of God and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again, and to repentance, seeing they crucified to themselves. The Son of God are fresh and put him to an open shame. Now here again you see the same pattern of people tasting things and going away from what they've tasted. You see that's what I'm fighting because I've identified it as something that is there. We are tasting things and we are falling away from the thing that we've tasted. And God just give us a little drip drop bit. You see what I'm explaining? Many people have written books. Many people have reading books. They print 2000. Go and ask how much it cost to print 2000. You have to pay. But you see, you have now you tested it. And I want to grow more. There's more to it. Or I've written a book. I want to write more. You get it. So instead of falling away. From that persists in it. Amen. So now that you've tasted the heavenly gift and you are made partakers. So it's like some things you even partook and then you've tasted of the good word of God. Now the word of God never finishes. You see, I'm preaching to you something. Already, isn't it? You would have thought the Word of God is finished by now, even if I'm preaching only about give yourself, kill yourself for Jesus and then full time ministry. You see that there are still more verses and more ideas that even help you to understand it better. Even though it's the same message, you may think it's the same message. We know it, Bishop. We know what you are going to say, but even. Though, you know. What I'm going to say you can see that you've just tasted. You just had a taste. That's why there's more, because the taste is just more, that's all. That's just a taste of it. What do you think? Have tasted of the heavenly gifts and the Holy Ghost. If they should fall away to renew them again. This is difficult. Yeah. Rarely the people who have tasted and fall away ever come back. It's true. That's why I prefer to find some young people and preach to about about your missionary work. Look, where is your map? I need your map so that I can put you on the chairs. Do you have your map where you can go from America? Do you have a map? Look tomorrow, bring a bigger map. I don't have time for such small maps. OK, get a bigger one or you can get one on the screen. I'm sure you can. You show us. How many of you are American citizens? Raise your honey for American citizens. How many of you are green card people? Green carded. You are not American, but you have green cards, so it means you can live in other American colonies, isn't it? Yeah. You can move to other American centers, like where Puerto is it, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Saint Vincent, Saint Thomas, St. John, St. Croix. Yeah, all these are American, American territories. And there is one American territory near near New Zealand. What is it called? American Samoa. It's an American country, isn't it? American Samoa. Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, I'm sending you to these places because you are Americans. See the losses? See, I have already delivered them into your hands. Through Hawaii. Yeah. Alaska, Huh. You are saying something. Arizona. No, no, I'm not talking about land. I'm talking about islands. Are you tired? You are too young to be tired. Sit. Down. Sit down. I'm not talking about tired tonight. I'm not talking about now feeling that you feel sleepy. Are you tired of you see? Soon. You will cross a certain threshold and you will not be usable anymore. It's true. It's just you are a few comes away from that, maybe two or three comes more and that's it. You will be just like this. You've tasted of the good words, but you will fall away and to be difficult to renew you again, very difficult. It is what to to renew them if they shall fall away? Is it? It's where is that word impossible? Where is it is impossible? That's what I was telling some people. I had a camp when I was telling them they shouldn't think that at my age. I've come to preach to them that they should come to full time ministry. Huh. Here's a setting camp. It's on the Makana, I'm sure. Because there are some things that are impossible. It's impossible. One brother, I sent him as a missionary. At that time, I was not experienced sending missionaries, so I sent him as a missionary. He had about four or five, six children. Yeah, at that time. Anybody who says I want to go now, if you say you want to go, we shall even look at your age. At a certain age you cannot do it. You may like God that is past. It's true. I mean, if you take a woman from a certain age, you cannot have a baby. You may want to, you may like to, you may be zealous about it. You may be determined that it's just you have just passed that stage. You can't have a baby all the time. God didn't design us to be fruitful all the time. God designed to be fruitful for a particular window, a period, just a season that you can do certain things. The same thing for preaching or being fruitful. I mean, what I'm doing, I've, I've now finished getting all my money. I live in Minnesota. I've got all this. I'm surging of this surging of that's OK. I'm now I'm ready for God now I'm coming, I'm going to my home country, Ghana. I'm going to start a ministry. Where will you all be? Yeah, where will you all be, Mercy? I'm now coming to start my ministry and I've got this amount of savings of dollars. I've got this, of that, that, of that. I'm going to Ghana with everything. I'm going to continue. I'm going back to Kolebu where I started to pick it up from there. May I know many Ghanaians who came? They came to Europe, England, whatever, and after some they came back to Ghana to try and pick up the ministry from where they were. What happened when they came was that the people they left behind did not accept them as their leaders. Yeah, most of them. And they have to start all over again. And most of them have got little midgets. Midgets Ministries. It's true. So there's a period, young man. You come. Come to me. Come. No, not you. Not you. Come. You. Not you. Behind you. Come here. Yeah. Come. How old? How old are you, 20. Come, stand here. You see his face? Young enough. There is a period. You can't do certain things. And the guy in front the next come. How old are you? Yeah, I can see that you are older. Is he? Is he that he's older? Suffering. Suffering has changed. Has changed his face. Can you see? Can you see how many can see the number of years of the sun shining on his face, a number of years of the wind blowing on his face as changing. And then unless you come, you come. Yeah. When you see me, I'm seeing you. You get it. Watch out. No, no, no, no. Not you. Here. You come. Stand. Stand over there. How old are you? 28. Look, Turn around. Face the people. You see 20. You can see 20. You can see 28. You can see that he's shorter, but he has suffered more. He has suffered more. Are you married? Yeah. You can see from his face that he has suffered. And you come. Your brother. Yeah. When I see you, you are seeing me. How old are you? Yeah, you see? And the brother here come. Yeah. How old are you? 31, stand there. 31 come. We are going to arrange now by H You stand here. You are 20. You are 28. Brother to the end. Come 31, 313333 Come this way, 37 come this way. OK, You see the window? I can't. I can't do this with the ladies. Hey, do not like me again. I will lose my popularity. I will lose my popularity and I will not. At my age, there are certain things I know. Brother, come with the glasses. At. Your age, 37? Yeah. Hi, brother. How old? 39 you've taken away from this guy, you see, can you see the difference? The window not even in a man you find that even their sexual desire and ability, it goes down. That's true. So sometimes you see that like like a brother here 39 right? They're going to be 39. Is there any 20 year old girl here? 20 years, 20 years. Any girl who's 2020 or 19 or anybody like that. Hey now, how old are you people? 2222 OK. 22 stand up. Who's 2221212221 Come, you come. 21 stand by. Go, go back, go back 21, stand by her. Yeah. 2139 -. 21 is what 18? See, it looks they did. If he said this is his wife, it would, it would look, it looks as though it's it's it's it's OK. But he's almost 20 years older than her, and you see it's not. Easy to see the. Difference by just standing here like this, but if they marry after a while, this one is going to start complaining. She's going to custom from here by him. Not, not that somebody said what I have seen practically and they yes, at my age and they will be saying I've married an old man. It's true. You said I've married an. Old man, He's an old man. He's an old man because he does not even know that he's an old man. You, you, you will reveal it to him. But they do. They look incompatible. They look very compatible. I can work. Do you have a wife? It's too late. So you don't even realize that your ability to do certain things is going away. It's going away. You will not even know, even, like, physically you will not know that you're 20 years. You can give birth to this girl standing by. You give birth to her directly. She could easily be your daughter. Yeah. You would have been, what, 18 when you gave birth to her? And tell us what? Mary was 19, so I was 18. It's true. So that's how it is physically you don't even notice, but especially it's even worse, you don't, you don't see it at all. So when you are preaching certainly to certain people, you rather they cannot even they say they want to, they can't do it. That's why I said that was a brother. I said you have so many children. So. Many, I said. I thought, that doesn't matter the ones you want to go. But now I've seen that we have. It matters how many children how. Long mortgages, death, school fees, this, car loan this that. So many things come in and change everything. So you may be laughing at some pastors. Saying that this person I cannot preach about this for what has happened to him. Are you too? When we see we cannot preach about certain things, when we see you know, we preach of steps to abundance, steps to abundance, hope, patience, love, faith, Christian messages, it's. True. Messy. Are you understanding? Yeah. Viagra. Is is sold because men, some of the men's or a lot of people's have do not able to have erections? You can't. And Can you imagine that it is the most sold? Drug. In the world. So that means that the greatest problem is erections, which you take for granted when it is there. But as it starts. Going down, you will not even notice. Are you listening? So even as you are mentioning your ages, I'm even wondering whether I'm preaching the wrong message true. Where are the commandos? Are they here? They are not here. Are you all here? Not all. Yeah. Because even these people, they look quite old. It's. True. I'm sure you have responsibilities. Isn't it more gauges? How many of you have got more gauges? Raise your hand 1-2. You don't have mortgages working for nothing. It's not easy. Look, life is so short, it's difficult to believe that it is you that they are talking about. So short, so quick, everything is over. We are different. We don't even notice the difference that is coming. Huh. Is it not amazing? Yeah. So please, the message I'm preaching, you know, I don't know if you are part of the people that can obey it, but if you can, do it. Because very soon your name will be cancelled. Not by me, but by the harsh, hard realities of life. The Bible says that the case of this world they took the word, they took the calling, they took the sending, they quenched the sending. Councillor 123 cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel. And so there's no one that can go, are you there? So go and God sends you. Do we will not all be 70? How many want to be 70? But we won't. I have not yet buried any pastor who is 70 years old. It's true. All the pastors are buried are in their 30s, forties, 20's. The last person I buried was in his 20s. Yeah, I've not buried in any old person before. And that I can't even remember. They are all young people. And now we have so many pastors who are dead that I'm. I'm making a special wall of remember every pastor. If you are a pastor, that I'm making a small plaque if your name. I'm going to put it in the kodesh to remember. Yeah, to remember you. We remember, you know, like Major Mevo. I'll make a small one as I will remember your contribution to the church. Yeah. To honor all the passes that are born. Anybody who's a pastor has been a pastor. Was eating some of the coriander before. I'd never thought that we would die. You know, I had a vision once. Have I told you that vision? I'm sure you know all these things in that vision. I was in my house and two men came to visit me. And these two men were pastors who had died. They were dead past. They were dead human beings, and they came from heaven to earth, and when they came to it, they went to the churches they had been involved with. They tried to teach the people in those churches the songs that they used to sing, and they tried to preach their messages that nobody was interested in what they were saying. So they turned around and they were going back to heaven. And on their way to heaven, they came to my house in Dansoumen to come and visit me as their last topic before they went. So when they came, I had dinner with them in my vision or dream, whatever it was. I had dinner where I sat here. They sat here like this. And as they were eating, they told me that there are three things that they want to tell me. I don't know if I remember, but I've written it in one of my books. They said the fact. They said that the first thing they want to tell me three things. The first thing is that they want me to know that they were very surprised when they died. They said they never expected to die at the age that they died because they were working very actively for God. They never thought that someone like them could die. Yeah, that was their greatest surprise. And then the second thing they told me that their messages and everything they had were no more people are no more interested in them. And then they pointed to me and they said, this is your. He said. He said the worst. He said was you have your best chance now. This is your best chance now. This is when people listen, you can do anything is now give it your best. And that was the end. And then they went back. They came from heaven to visit me. Visit and visit now was the last person they saw and they will return like this. You will go and there is nothing you can come and add to whatever it is like the person who is here is the one who can do something. It's amazing, isn't it? Yeah. So you see your best chances. Now you get it. So if God has called you, you are not a bad person. You are a very good person. And you may not know the things you can do. So you find yourself out the way people are listening to you. If only you are prepared to follow the steps and their principles. You'll be surprised to find you are the Prime Minister instead of the stupid boy who is always having foolish dreams. You people call you Prime Minister. Hallelujah. All right. You are blessed, powerful guys. Are you there? OK. Good. Are you still around? Are you going back? You can always leave tomorrow morning. Amen. Now Hebrews chapter 2, verse number. Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 9. It says, but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with. Glory and honor that he, by the grace of God, should taste death. For every man, Amen. What's the next verse? Where is that? For it became Him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons, and to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Amen. But if you look at this name, he said that Jesus, where is He? Where's the girl? That Jesus should taste death for every man. Now God has allowed you to taste something, so that you rather become an encouragement to others, but rather. People have tasted of the ministry and become a discouragement to others so that instead of them surging forward after they have tasted for everybody to encourage everybody to help everybody else. It's rather reversing. So sometimes you see that some of the lay passes are very bad. Examples of what we should do in the ministry, of their attendance, what they do, certain things that they practice and so on. Not all and not that many, but some are. Those are some also very good examples. The the the. Testing of the ministry should have been something that they should have experienced to help others. Others should have been encouraged. Like I was giving an example of a person. Therefore, I remember speaking to one of his church members who was like a business executive and he told me, I want to be like pastor interval who was AI told you that he was a very good lay pastor. He said, I want to be a very good lay pastor just like my pastor. He said. I'm so impressed the way he's able to combine his running his hospital, doing what he does and so on with the ministry. And. That is it. And he also became a lay. He also became a lay pastor. Do you see? So you see that the pastor is supposed to lit and rather taste some things which is going to help others. So that way you have the pastor who is now sleeping in church or we are having a camp. The pastor is rather falling asleep. When you are preaching, the young one is awake. Or you have a pastor. You're having a prayer meeting. He is falling asleep. The young nobodies are moving up and down. The pastor is fast asleep. Then you ask yourself that this one has tasted the prayer to destroy prayers in the church. He has tasted the camp. Now he's destroying camps in the church. Come to sit down and sleep. And you now have to. Ask that that person should not even attend, lest his presence would cast a cloud and discourage everybody else. Whereas Jesus brother became the captain of those who are going to experience suffering by going through the suffering, showing us that it's possible and that through that suffering you become great. So brothers and sisters, tasting of something is not the end, but it's even a kind of encouragement to others that look after you've tasted this, we can. All experience it as well. Amen. So tasting is something that should be leading to higher and higher and higher things in your life. And I want to ask that from today, those of you who know everything, God will now use you to encourage people who don't know everything. Amen. Hallelujah, Colossians chapter 2. And let's read verse 20 and verse 21. And we are going to be ending. What does it say? Touch knot, Taste knot, Handle knot. Rudiments of the world. Don't try full time ministry. Don't try. Somebody wants to work with me and you, a pastor in the church. You are advising the person not to to come and work in the ministry. I don't think it's the right thing. You think it's the right thing. You're rather telling people don't taste, don't touch it, don't handle it. You should have rather tasted it and encourage others to come. But now you've changed the whole thing. Don't touch, don't taste, don't handle. They are all rudiments of the world. So brothers and sisters, taste and see that the Lord is good, and when you see that is good, now taste not just taste to. Taste and see the good. Because you can always come to a place you taste and you don't see the good. One day I had a pasta. I suspected he was going to be rebellious. Long before he became rebellious, I suspected him. You somehow have a feeling about some people this guy is going to be somewhere. So I decided to take him to so many places. To show him things everywhere I took him. He was not impressed. Hey, I'll send him here. I'll send him here. I give him. I said go to this place. And I wanted him to learn more about the church so that he would learn to be humble. I appreciate what he's a part of because he was he was he was new. But all that I tried to do did not really work because he his taste. Did not make him see the good. You see, taste and see the good. But you may taste and see. The bad it's. True. Isn't it or? Taste. And see that, see that there's something good. But you are tasting and seeing something bad. Hey, which kind of human being are you? All test and see that the Lord is bad. No, All test and see that the ministry is good. So try to see something good because there's something bad Every. I can show you some bad things about this place, but I can also see a lot of good things. America. I can show you many good things about America, but I can also show you many bad things about America. Yeah, Alana is a beautiful city, but I can show you some bad things about it. All right, So what What do you want us to see? They're good. So taste the ministry and see all the good aspects of it. Think, think of it. I mean, you really do something that you really believe in, something that you laugh, something that you you think is useful, something that is this, something that is I mean, see the good, see the good, see the good, See the good in ministry, See the good in God's work, See the good in I mean ability to do something that God wants you to do. See the good in it. Don't only see the negative. Where will my children go? Where will I? Where will this, Where will that? Where will this? How will I? How this? Why this? Oh, see the good. Oh you see good, you will experience good in Jesus name. May you taste from today and may you experience the blessings of the Lord. Stand to your feet, everybody. Hallelujah. OK, tomorrow morning we shall continue. Lift your hands. Thank God for His word this evening. Thank you Jesus for your blessing. Oh Hallelujah, Mandala, balaji mandala. Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for your blessing. Thank you for your help, Lord. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, ferry, land, anything. Father, we thank you for your blessing today. Thank you for your healing of our lives as we move from being tasters and becoming partakers of your great calling. We love you. We thank you in Jesus name, Amen. God bless you. Tomorrow morning we shall continue. What time 6? No. What time 6 getting to 1? Is it a different time here? What time is it here? Oh, I got a wrong time. Oh, I see. I didn't know. Sorry. I didn't know that it was so late. So it's 12:30 now. It's 12:30 now.