03. The Sufferings Of Christ - The Calling 1

Welcome to track #3 of the Sufferings of Christ. May I serve God since I was eight. I'm still young. Since I was young, people always thought out For by the grace of what I have, I've not yet fallen what they thought out for I've fallen in the eyes of God and in reality to what God thinks, because all of us have fallen. But what people have expected of me, I have not fallen by the grace of God. And then when you are a young man at home, always their thinking. So this guy, I give you some time, you stop all these things. You are saying the devil has a plan. You silence, You cannot preach again, but God will keep you. That's why I'm saying that when you are younger, that is when you can even say sometimes you think that is when you are young that you can't save God. But actually when he's young, you see Solomon, he was strong when he was young when his wives were trying to take him, sway him this way, sway him that we sway that he was rather stronger than but when he was old, that was when his wife turned his heart is he. So when you are young, you'd be surprised that the same strength that you have to have sex and do all these kind of things, you can actually channel that strength to serve God and be strong about what you believe. Yeah. So if you are here and you are a young man or yeah, I mean you are young, can I see, can I see any hands of any young people? The rest are old. All these section are elderly, elderly people. Thank God for your youth. That's what does. God wants to use that strength. Priests were supposed to be from the age of 25 to 30 to the age of 5055. Yeah. By the age of 5055 Finished. Yeah. So it's rather from 2530. Yeah. And even in in fertility, your peak fertility is when you are 25 years old, that's when you are high. And I'm sure spiritually from around 2530 you are picking. You say when you are picking, you've given yourself to HSBC Bank, that's when you are picking, picking your effective and your ability to learn things. Now dash yourself to Barclays Bank. And when you are elderly, you cannot pass even church exams, cannot remember any scriptures. Lay your head on me. Amen. How many want to help Jesus to come and lay his head on you? You want Jesus to lay his head on you? Jesus, come lay your head on me. Oh Jesus, come lay your head on me. I know you must be weary as you walk the dusty roads to Calvary. Grant me this privilege. Come lay your head on me. Oh Jesus, oh Jesus, come let me wash your feet. Oh Jesus, oh Jesus, come let me wash your feet. I know you must be tired with the weight of the world on your shoulders. Oh, grant me this privilege. Come, let me watch. The weight of the world, How many want to help Jesus? Oh Jesus, oh Jesus, come let me wash your feet. With his tears from my eyes. Oh come, let me wash your feet. I know you must be tired as you walk the dusty Rd. to Calvary. Run me this privilege. Come, let me wash your feet. I could not stay away when I heard that you were here. I brought to you this gift, but now I can't control my tears. Oh, before I even asked. You forgave all my sins, and you gave me reason to live all the weight of the world. They must be such a heavy load. But if you let me be your servant, I'll follow you wherever you go. Oh Jesus, Jesus. With human and divine. Oh, Jesus, Jesus. You must get tired sometimes. Jesus, Jesus, what a privileged movie. Come lay your head on me. Oh, Jesus. Oh Jesus, come let me wash your feet. Please, how many want to help Jesus? What a privilege. On my eye. It would be. What a privilege. Come, let me. Come, let me wash your feet. I love to be your servant. I love to be yourself. If you'll only only let me be. Oh Jesus, Jesus, lay your head on me. Oh Jesus, Jesus, let me wash your feet. Oh Jesus, Jesus, lay your head on me. Oh Jesus, Jesus, let me wash your feet. Jesus, Jesus, lay your head on me. Oh Jesus, Jesus, let me wash your feet. Jesus, Jesus, lay your head. What a privilege it will be. How many agree. What a privilege it will be. Jesus, let me be your servant. Let me be your servant, please. Let me be your servant. Stand up and pray that prayer right now. Let me be your servant. What a privilege it would be. Let me be your servant, please. What a weight of this world. What the weight of this world. Let me be your servant, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. What a privilege it would be. Jesus, oh come lay your head on me. Oh Jesus, oh Jesus, come lay your head on me. I know you must be tired with the weight of the world on the shoulders. 00 Grant me this privilege. Come lay your head on me. Oh Jesus, oh Jesus, Jesus, come let me wash your feet. As God, for the privilege of serving the Master, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lord Holy One, the Lord of you must. Be the. Creator of the universe. As you walk. What a. Privilege. Serve him What an. Honour. I want to serve you, Lord. I want to serve you, Lord Jesus. I want to serve you, Lord. Run me this privilege. Run me this privilege, Jesus. Run me this privilege, Master. Master Jesus I. Want. To help you, I want to do something. I want to be privileged, Jesus. I could not stay away when I heard that you were here. None. The privilege Jesus, you let. Me be. Please, please Jesus. Jesus. Jesus, thank you. Thank you. With the tears from my eyes. Please send us Lord. Use us Lord. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, come lay your head on. Me please. Please. Oh. Jesus, Oh Jesus. Jesus. Jesus, we. Are begging you Lord, we are calling of you Lord Jesus, please have messed the Lord. Please send U.S. law send some of U.S. law if you wanted to be send all of us send some of. Us please use. Some of U.S. law. Thank you. Right now. Thank you. Hallelujah. All right, you may be seated. Now I want to share with you what it means to be called number one. It means to be called out by name. Amen. It means God has identified you, your name, and is calling you out by name. Many times God calls people out by name. All right, And this is something where the Bible says many are called. All right, and it I'm going to give you some scriptures and it also means to to the word call. Also the word called comes from a Greek word Plato's, which means to be invited or appointed. Amen. God invites you and appoints you today I see God inviting you personally. Hallelujah. How many are glad that God is calling you and inviting you personally? God knows your name and he's calling you personally. Amen, Amen, Amen. He's calling you personally to serve him, to follow him. In Exodus chapter 3, verse 4, Bible says, and when the Lord saw that, he turned aside. See, God called him out of the midst of the Bush and said, Moses, Moses, what's your name? What is your name? That's the name God is calling. There is somebody who should have known better than to climb a tree. His name was Zacchaeus and he was out there when Jesus came by. And when Jesus came to the place in Luke chapter 19 verse five, he says, and when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and he saw him and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must abide at your house. I'm sure he almost fell out of the tree. Thousands of people are around and here comes Jesus walking into a town. He doesn't know anybody there. And he looks up and he says, Zacchaeus, calm down. How many agreed that he could have fallen down from the tree? God is calling you by name. Now this may sound obvious, but I tell you, it is one of the frightening things to be called and to be called out by name. When you think about it carefully, if God open this for a bit, if God calls you by name and you refuse to go, what does it mean? Yeah, supposing you are called out by name and God says to you, coffee, coffee, coffee. He calls you Christopher, Christopher Christopher. And you say tell him, tell him I'm not around. Or you just turn around like that. You are as good as dead. You lost your life. That's why you didn't answer, because you are dead. Don't die. Stay alive. Obey. Obey him. Amen. Are you listening to me? Very good. Then when he had gone further, he saw the sons of sons of Zebedee, James and John, who were with him, and straight away he called them. James and John were called Paul A7 of Jesus Christ in Romans chapter one verse one called to be a servant, an apostle separated unto the gospel. And Eli called Samuel and said, Samuel my son. And he answered, here am I First Samuel chapter 3 verse 16. First Samuel chapter 3 verse 4. Bible says that the Lord called Samuel, Amen. God called someone by name. Now Exodus chapter 31 verse 2, you are not being able to open the verses, right? It's too fast. OK, see I have called by name Bezalil, the son of Yuri, Amen. The son of who? Of the tribe of Judah, Amen. What do you think God calls you? So to be called means that your name has been mentioned. How many believe that you are called? You believe you are called. Raise your hand if you believe you are called. Hey, that means that your name has been mentioned in heaven and the Father has mentioned your name and he said John, Fred, Rita, Lucy, Luciana and you are still there. No movement. Then it means you are dead or you are about to die. Paul said, what to me, if I preach not the gospel, if God calls you, you better obey #2 To be called means to receive mercy. 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse one. It says, therefore see, we have received this ministry as we have received mercy, we faint not. 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 turn with me to verse one. It says, see, we have received mercy as we have received this ministry, we faint not. It's nice and cool out here. Have you found Second Corinthians? Let's read it together. Ready go way feign not yours says we do not lose heart. Amen. To be called is to receive mercy. Amen. Hey, think about you, a multiple fornicator who is being asked to come and teach about fornication. Think about you, an immoral person who is being asked to come and teach the precepts of morality. That's why I said possible. Since we have received mercy, we feign not somebody who was in opposition. And then he is called upon to come and be the vice president, like Clinton and Obama if Obama wins and he says she wants Hillary Clinton to be. But some they have fought each other and said bad things about each other, and then now it's OK, you come. So to be called is to be. It's like we are going to overlook. Yeah, an armed robber who is now called to be a police Sergeant. A man without virtues who is being called to come and espouse holy things. A jealous person who is being come to us to come and teach about love. A bad wife who is being called to come and teach younger women how to be good wives. A bad husband, very bad husband, wicked man who is being called upon to come and do marriage counseling. To be called is to receive mercy, Somebody who should have been put in hell. In fact, to be called is to receive mercy. I remember one man. I met him in Panama. He told me, listen, I was a murderer. I killed somebody. I was 20 something years when I killed a man with I don't know what happened. He he murdered them. I said I was arrested and I was sentenced. So once I was in prison, I received Christ as my Savior. He was telling me, he said, look, I was a Metra. And then one day they said that prison was full. They did some computerized reshuffling and the computer chose him and he was set free. So I was preaching. He was sitting by me and he was going to preach. He preached. I also preached. He has a huge church in America, the Madra. The madra and he has built over 200 churches in Kenya. Yeah, the madra. So to to be called is to receive mess. One day I was going, I was going, I was going down the left. When I entered left, there was the madra. He was right there. There's a madra convicted madra has admitted it. And he was in the left with me. And I asked, he stood there. He stood on this side of the I stood at there. I said, I told when I see you, I just see mercy. Yeah, the white man, American, Yeah, he said, yeah, mercy, the grace of God. He said, Oh yeah, he has two daughters or so. And he said, look, whenever his sons in laws are fooling around, he tells that, look, you know my background. I said madra, so you have to be careful. Better be careful with my daughters. Hey, this is a builder of churches. To be called is to do what? To receive mercy. Some of you, if you were to bring the films, the films of you in action, huh? I say, if I was to bring the films of you. But those films are in heaven. If we were to bring the films out now, perhaps what we should do is, as you are preaching, we show one film here of one year and another film of another year. Yeah, not before and after, both before. Different to the changing scenes of life. Tell the person next to you, I know you. It wouldn't be good at all in your case. In your case, it wouldn't be good at all. This Doctor Who is sitting here, he should have been dead. I should have been dead. Come and sing it for me. I could have been dead sleeping in my grave, but God touched me to see another day. Hey, one day we went for we went for a crusade in Takrani to preach the gospel. Now he's on the stage winning souls with me and helping me on this my associate evangelist. And as we when we finish the croissant, you know, I told you that sometime when if you want to recline at the table. So we went to recline at a second place and when we finished reclining we were going and then we came out of the place and there was a door to a room which was a disco and a wild guy with some hair and some bands and other things came out. It was about we reclined till about 3-4 AM and the man came out with a girl and then I turned to him and I said do you see yourself? This is you. He used to go from disco to disco at 3:00 AM they move to another disco, they keep move. What time do you start? 9 till when? Till 5:00 AM Visitation room. And he has been transformed. He used to drink what is that vodka, a bottle. One day we went for because of, because of what he said. I one day I went to, we went to had a crusade somewhere. Then we went to eat in a restaurant in Taqwa. You know, Taqwa is a place we went to eat in the restaurant and I asked them do you have vodka? They said we have and I said how much is it? So one thought 2. I said oh about can I not drink about it because I didn't know it's just a small 1 like this. They drink but he could drink one in a in a day. Hey, I could have been dead sleeping. I could have been dead sleeping in my grave, but God blessed me to see another day. Even when I did a wrong, He was still there. So bad that God still hear a sin of spread. I'm so bad that God still hear a sin of spread. I walked to the churchyard on a Sunday morning, stood outside, contemplate if I should walk through the door. See a lot of folks loom me from way back when. People hold them too, all those fast sins, but I know all I've seen I come short of is. But I'm glad that I'm here to tell the story. I'm good of him dead sleeping in my grave but God bless me to see another day 01 more day and even when I did a wrong he was still there. I'm so proud of God still hears I still his friends. I'm so bad of God still hears. I still. Sing that dress again. I walked to the church on a Sunday morning. I stood outside contemplating if I should walk through the door. You see, a lot of folk knew me from way back there. Mercy, mercy, people hold them to all those fast. But I know all I've seen and come short of his glory. But I'm glad that I'm here. Sleeping in my grave. Oh, but God blessed me to sleep another day, just one more day. Even when I did a wrong, you were still there. Yeah. I'm so glad the God still hears the sin is spread. I'm so glad the God still hears the sin is spread. He that is swear that sin, let him cast the first stone. Come on out. 'Cause everybody better but the man sitting on the throne now. It's about time for us to stop judging one another. Come on. Now. Stop acting holier than thou. I love you brother, for I know all I've seen and comes out of his glory, but I'm glad that I'm here. I'm. So glad to tell. The story Hey, I could've been there sleeping in my grave, but God blessed me to sleep another day or just one more day. Even when I did wrong, you were still there. Hey. Yeah. I'm still having God still here, I sin a spread. I still haven't God still here, I sin a spread. I could have been dead sleeping in my grave, in my dark, dark, dark grave. But God loved me to sleep another day, 01 more day. Even when I did a wrong, he was still there. Yeah. So God the God still hears a sin of spread. So God the God still hears a sin of spread. God is merciful. To be called is to receive mercy. God employs wicked people to preach for him, wicked people to preach kindness, immoral people to preach holiness, that is people to preach cleanliness, filthy people to preach holiness. He tell those are the people that he employs. He says since we have received mercy, because we have received, we will never be discouraged about this thing that we are doing. I'm so glad I said, I'm so glad. I could have been dead like this in my grave with HIV. I could have been dead like this from drinking, but I'm so glad. I'm so glad. Sing it. So when you see a preacher, just ask yourself, is this one a former drunkard, a former thief, a former madra? What is he? I mean, we start what person has been brought? Because that is how God works. He could have brought perfect angels and he's brought killers, wicked people, whatever God has shows Messi. Listen, I remember recently I was a lady who was a killer when she killed somebody or she killed some people in California, I think it was. And I, I don't know whether I spread them Bush or as a governor or one of these people, you know, they beg for clemency. Whatever. She's born again, She's reformed. And there were so many testimonies. Ministers of the gospel had begged for her. They said no, they executed her. Oh yeah, you see, because in the wealth system they will kill you. But God will say, OK, I will deploy you to teach the opposite of what you used to be in the Ukraine, in Poland. How many are ready to go to Poland? Only 6 of you, Yes. You must tell yourself I'm ready. I'm going to go. I'm going to do it. And if nobody does? I will do it. Amen. To be called means. OK. Yeah. It means I still under #2 It means to have compassion on you number. It means to have pity. God showed pity. It also means that see to how to show clemency. Clemency #4 It is to exhibit forgiveness. God exhibits forgiveness by calling you. Yeah, He exhibits forgiveness. His call of your life is an exhibition of, of what? Forgiveness. Amen. It means to show kindness. God has shown you kindness. It also means God has shown you understanding. Understands that you are weak and wicked by nature. The wickedness was in your mother and your father and your grand uncles were more wicked than you and you have inherited wickedness and you woke up as a wicked person and manifested wickedness all through your life. God has showed understanding of the since the wickedness she inherited. Many of us here are descendants of slave traders. If your parents are alive from I mean alive in Ghana or Nigeria or some of these W African countries your and they are there not in America, then you are probably the descendant of a wicked slave trader. Then the next one is God has shown has been lenient, lenient. Another one is God has been benevolent, Amen. But I think the one I I love most is that He has shown you pity. You are pitiful, Amen. How many are going to be ready to be shown the same pity, Amen. Towards someone else. What do you think? Is it a good idea? Amen. Very good. The next one to be called means to be appointed. God is giving you an appointment at this camp. How many want you appointment at this camp? You see, I've been mentioning the places that you are being sent to, but some of you are not receiving the appointment. Yeah, because we want to fill the whole of every country that we go to. We want to because there was a time everybody was in London, then we started to go Birmingham, Manchester, there's that. And now every there's a time that everybody has been in England. But it's a time for us to push out into Europe and to many place where there are people and there are a lot thousands of people who will listen to a place like Paris has thousands of people. Is it too much for you to learn a language? People go to Russia within six months, they learn how to speak Russian, and they start having lectures in medicine in Russian, Russian anatomy, Physiology, biochemistry in Russian. Within six months. Yeah, there are some here. Come and speak some words to us in Russian, Marika, Marika, speak to Russian. Tell us. Tell us about Christ in Russian. Tell us anything. You can come. That's with a Sivonia Yahoo ching glad. So yeah, yeah, it's this Prehadi. Yeah, put my, put my, put my git. I mean, yeah, he on now show me. Yeah. What? Are you saying? I'm I show me. Blast me on off, yes? I said I, I greeted and I said that time I'm very happy to be here and I, I thank God that he's helped me and he has found. Me said all that. And he has found me. Nacho means found, Pamagitia means helped. Pamagitia. Yeah. Wow. Tell us to obey the call. Tell us in Russian. Obey the call. Obey God to suffer. Suffer. Yeah, go ahead, tell us something Russian. OK, speak to us. You did all this for medicinal. Can you not do this for Christ easily? Preach and interpret say say something. Draft route here Sivonia muiz abralis this still be bog Buddhist pamagit Nam. We have gathered here today, we have been gathered here today by God so that he's going to teach us and help us. Now means us. We thought it meant meat. OK, clap for the Russians. Thank you. To be called means to be appointed. The next one, It means a point. And what does it mean to be appointed? It means to be employed. God wants to employ you. Amen. At this camp, how many want God to employ you? Are you sure he won't go to employ you? I see you being employed in the name of Jesus, Amen. The next one God wants. It means also. God wants to sign you up. To be assigned up. Wow. That's the meaning of our point to be signed up. God wants to sign you up. How many are ready to sign up for God? How many are ready to sign up for the mission field? Sign up to go outside to do something. Hey, if you have been for five camps, you are more than ready to go anywhere. Hallelujah. The next one means God wants to take you on all under appointment. God wants to select you. God wants to choose you, and then God wants to allot someone to an office or a position. Amen. So that's the third thing. First, it means to be called out by name #2 it means to receive mercy. And #3 it means to be appoint. Called means to be appointed. OK, And I want to read a Scripture in Numbers, chapter one, verse 50. It says, But thou shall appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of testimony and over all the vessels thereof and over all things that belong to it. They shall bear the Tabernacle and all the vessels thereof, and they shall minister unto it and shall and come round about the temple. Thou shalt appoint the Levite. So God wants to sign you up. He's signing you, He's taking you on, He's employing you. I said he's employing your services. How many won't go to employ and deploy your services? I believe. And also in Numbers chapter 3, verse 10, it says, thou shalt appoint Aaron, thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons. And David said unto Mikhail, It was before the Lord which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over all the people. To be called means to be appointed. Amen. The next one is that it means to be separated, separate, to be called #4 to be called. I'm telling you what it means to be called. To be called means to be separated, Amen. And the dictionary meaning of separate, it means to keep apart, to detach somebody or somebody from a larger group. God wants to detach you from a larger group. Amen. God wants to detach you from the larger group. To be called means to be separated. And throughout the Bible we see this Scripture. And at that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord, to minister unto him, and to bless his name. And to this day, Deuteronomy chapter 10, verse 8, Deuteronomy 10 verse 8, Bible says, and the Lord separated the tribe of Levi. So that means God detached the tribe of Levi from the larger group of other tribes. So when God is calling you, he's detaching you from the larger group of Christians. He's detaching you from the larger group of unbelievers. He's detaching you from the larger group of Londoners. He's detaching you from the larger group of people who are seeking things for themselves. He's detaching you from the larger group. Just allow him to detach you. Allow him to separate you. What is wrong with being separated and honor? I qualified from the medical school on the 10th of March 1989 with 55 other students and God detached me from the larger group. Is it not an honor for God to just separate me from the larger group? It's a great honor to be separated, so don't, don't don't don't be worried if you are different. It's the honor of God for you to be different, to be separated from useless socializing, separated from television, separated from the carnal life, separated from the the normal way of everybody and be made into a different kind of person. It's it's an honor. Deuteronomy chapter 32, when the most high divided to the nations their inheritance. When he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people. First Chronicles chapter 23, verse 13, the sons of Amram, Aaron and Moses and Aaron was separated so that he should sanctify the most holy things. Aaron was separated. He was detached from the larger group so that he could do what sanctify he could do what the most holy things. Amen. All right. Now the last one is that it means to to be separated means to be isolated, and it means to severe an association to seva. How do you say seva or sever? Sever an association? So God cuts you off from a certain association. Yeah, is to cut you off. I see God wants to cut you off from Londoners who have been here or UK people who have been here forever and ever struggling in this place. He wants to sever the association and make you detach you. And you see, he wants to sever the association of people who just look for money but who have changed their purpose in this life to work for him and to serve him. Yeah, it's a great privilege. It's a great privilege to be isolated. It's a great privilege to be selected. It's a great privilege to be appointed. It's a great privilege to be put aside for the will of God. Hallelujah. Romans chapter 1. Listen, let me read it to you. Are you listening? Paul? A 7th of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle and separated unto the gospel look to be called. I think perhaps the most significant meaning for me what I have experienced is to be separated. Yeah, although I'm with you now. I was separated from a group of people in in my country where I come from, there are few people with my color who go to church, go to charismatic church. I don't know anyone. Most of us with my color do all kinds of other things. Zimbo, half caste, we are called. They are different in the color half caste, red volato half baked or brony disappointed European we we have every kind of name has been given to us. This message continues on the next track. Keep listening.