04. What It Means To Have The Privilege Of Being A Shepherd

Welcome to track number four of the Privilege. OK. What it means to have the privilege of being a shepherd? What it means to have the privilege of being a shepherd #1 it is a privilege. Having the privilege of being a shepherd is a privilege that can only be compared with the privilege of becoming a king. The only thing you can compare it with that privilege is the privilege of becoming a king. It can be compared with the privilege of becoming a king. So when you are being invited to become a shepherd or to work, you can only compare you being invited to become a king. That's the only thing that comes close. Notice Revelation chapter one verse three. It says and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth, and to him that loved us, Revelation chapter one verse 5 and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and has made us kings and priests unto God and his Father. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Hallelujah. Wow, what an honor and what a privilege. You see this is what God has done for us. He has called us and made us kings and priests. This is the great privilege that has been given to us. So to reject this privilege is almost madness, I'm telling you. And so if you are here hearing this word, these words, you are privileged to listen to a camp, to hear, to attend, God is giving you one of the greatest privileges a human being can ever, ever, ever have. And it's only comparable to becoming a king on this earth and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness. Because I'm trying to find something comparable to show you what I can compare it with. The honor, the privilege. And that's what God has called us to become, kings and priests from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness and the first begotten from the of the dead, the Prince of the kings of the earth. And to him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and has made us not just washed us, has made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to Him be glory and dominion, forever and ever. Amen. Are you excited that God has chosen you, make you kings and priests? Hey, what an honor somebody like you. Look at the village where you come from. Look at the town you come from, look at the house you come from. Look at your father, your mother. Look at your background, how you have struggled in life. Now God has called you, making you. We are not even sure whether it's made as either a king or a priest, but the way you have joined the thing together and it's like has made us kings and priests. I don't know whether it's made some kings and some priests or some priests and some kings or, but it's that the two are together. This is the high thing that is done for us kings and priests. This is the great privilege. You know, when I see people struggle this, I don't struggle with people. As soon as you want to see me in the evening or so, it's OK. It's OK. No, no, no, no, no. It's OK. Thank you very much. Bye. I don't struggle at all. Yes, I don't struggle. And that is why when somebody wants to take up this privilege I don't have, that is that is the part that melts. That's my soft spot. That's the place that I don't know. I can't say no because when the person comes on that line, because I know that if I refuse the person, I'm refusing the person the greatest privilege that I could ever have. That's what I'm doing. And somebody wants to work for God full time and I'm when I, when you see me sucking the person, I'm just testing him. Some people come and say no, no, no, no. You are too old. You are too this, you are too this. I'm just testing them because I have to test you. I have to test you. It's true. When you come there, you start to say that if I sell my car, we can buy 10 cars so that all of us can also have a car and realize that you've not understood what you are doing. That's why you started looking at my car. You've come on the first day, you're looking at my car. Just come. You're looking at my car and saying that if I sell it, we can get 10 cars and all the passes will have cars. Your mouth like a frog. If it's not, you just keep smiling and look at nobody. Nobody will know that you said that thing. Amen. I said no, No, no, no, no. We don't have any. You see? Even even Bonky, that golden fish. Yeah, he said no, no, we don't have. There's no that is for you. It's only tracks. It's only this. It's only this, we don't have anything. It's a test. It's a test because it must be something that you really want. With everything, you don't like anything, only that. Because in it, like with everything else, there are challenge, there are challenges, there are challenges for everything. There's trouble in every area. It's not only the ministry. Even at your normal work, is there no trouble there? Every time you go to the politics, the problem, the issues, how can you work without all these things? This is a hard work is so when you come in the ministry and you have not worked somewhere before, you would think that something bad is happening to you. If you don't take care. But not knowing that, it's only grave digging that you start from the top and go down. Every other job you start from under and you start going up and it's not grave grave ministries like every other, just not grave digging, grave digging when you start before you realize, but but the one you are on top, are you there? Amen. So if God has called me to be a king and a priest, I see God has called somebody else to be a king and a priest. How can I say go and type letters in the bank? I cannot do that. Look up Pastor Obie. He was selling houses. Selling houses. Go and sell this house, make profit days that And he was in London and he was the person who used to bless me with the highest offerings and seats. When I go to London, OH, Doctor will come with an envelope full of pounds. Since he left London, nobody. There is nobody there. Yeah, what? Who come to me with such an offering? Fat offering thousands of pounds to honor me. So when he came and he said that he wants to give himself to a minister and said Oh my offerings are going to get finished. So I tried to play some delay tactics so that I will receive more offerings. But when it reached a point, I said no, to say, to deny this guy this privilege. I've, I've, I've killed him. I cannot. I'll feel like a thief. Amen. It's a privilege comparable only to becoming, being made a king. Amen. So briders and sisters, Amen. I remember what an honor #2 The privilege of becoming a shepherd is described is one of the only things in the Bible that is described as an honor. An honor, privilege of becoming a shepherd is one of the only things in the Bible that is described as an honor being done to you for being honored for every high priest taken from among men in Hebrews chapter 5, this one is ordained for men and things pertaining to God. He's taken from among men, Amen. And it's ordained for men. Hebrews after 5, there's one. You are taken from among men, and you are ordained for men in things pertaining to God, not things pertaining to men. Houses Pastor Dora was selling water. Do you know water drinking water? He was selling bottled water. And when I told him that he should come and work for God, he told me that he was allergic to that subject. I shouldn't say it again. He's I say he's allergic. I shouldn't talk about it again. God is giving him an honor and you say you are allergic to the honor. You are being taken from amongst men to be ordained for men in things that have to do with God. Nothing that has to do with water. Things that you are selling dresses and God is calling you are selling dresses now. You will no more be ordained for things pertaining to dresses and hair, but you are again with things pertaining to God. And you say you want to see me. Can I see you in two weeks when I travel and I come back and I come to see you in the house? Can I come to the house? You can go to the zoo, the zoo. He may offer gifts this man and sacrifices for sins. Somebody who can have compassion on the ignorance He's the shepherd and on them that are out of the way. God is calling you to have so not to be to be accommodating to put up with people that are out of the way. Are you with me seeing that he himself also is compassed about with infirmities? Shabbaya, He himself can see that he's compassed with. How many can see that you are compassed with infirmities? Even when you go to the toilet, you can, as you are in the room for some time, you realize that look, there are infirmities in my life you are compassed about. Hey, a such a smell coming out of me. Yes, it's coming from you and it's the sign of I mean put refraction and I mean decomposition, decay, corruption. Gosh, that's you. That's you. You're compressed. You're weak. You are nothing. You just have to marry you. Find out soon. She will point it out to you. Just now. She will show you that Charlie. People are impressed by Charlie. There's nothing to you. Oh, you don't understand my message. How many are married here? How many are married? How many are not married? Receive it now in Jesus name. 25 of you are getting married soon in Jesus name. Hey, you shall no longer be single in Jesus name. Receive a nice man in Jesus name. I see a man walking to you. Those of you who think I'm joking, sit down and then let it pass over your head. You see others will receive and say Bishop at the camp. You said it, you are getting married soon. At that time I didn't even have any beloved. Shortly after the camp, the Lord sent a man to me, I and he looked at me through love eyes. And when he saw me through those love eyes, he asked me, Will you be my beloved Shabbaya? Hey, when somebody's looking at you through lab eyes, he cannot see your faults, just seeing the nice things about you. But when the lab eyes are finished and he see you and say why are you so dirty, that means the lab eyes are gone. Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up quickly means what? The love eyes are finished. We are now left with reality eyes, reality TV. For that he himself is compassed with infirmity and by reason hereof he ought As for the people so also to offer for himself sins, to offer for sins. Now it goes on and he says no man take this honor, the honor that we've just described, the honor of working for God, things pertaining to God, ordained from among men for men to offer gifts, prayers, sacrifices, to have compassion, that honor, that's the honor. And he says no man take a dishonor. The honor he has just finished described, no one can take it upon himself except he that is called of God. Wow. So you see that it is in the Bible. The Bible describes the honor of working for God as an honor. I mean the work being chosen from among men as an honor. Hallelujah, Amen. I am, I'll tell you, people who work for God, those are the people that I, I can be close with. If you work for God, I find myself getting closer to you because you've joined a certain group. That's why, you know, people like Princess Diana and so on. They don't just marry anybody. You know, you can't just marry. You got to marry in a certain group, people that are only at a certain level. I mean, if you look at Princess Diana's life, even though she was the nursery school teacher, I mean, she was a millionaire in her own right. She came from a very, very well. In fact, her parents wedding, her parents wedding was like her wedding in their day. Yeah. When her parents got married was the society wedding of the whole of England, Princess Diana's mother and father. Yeah, so the Prince, you cannot just go to a family and say I'm going to marry you. You, you, you move with the same royal group. And that's why when you become a shepherd and a pastor, then you, you, you, you come closer to somebody who is a shepherd and a pastor. Amen. That's why you, you, you. Don't you not notice rich people around me? There are people that are rich around me, but like just because you have money how money is, your money is nothing. Money is nothing, I'm telling you. But if you work for God, then I realize that God has put that honor on YouTube so that we are now in the same royal family shabaya. How many want to be in this royal family? Ask your neighbor, are you in the royal family or you are in the bogus family? #3 The privilege of being a shepherd is called by Moses, is described by Moses as a great thing. It's privilege. Moses calls it a great thing. Hebrews calls it an honor that Moses calls it a great thing. In Numbers chapter 16, verse 8, Moses called it a great thing. Moses said to Korra, I pray you, you sons of Levi, they were rebelling against him. And he said, cement it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring himself near to you, to do the service of the Tabernacle of the law, and to stand before the congregation to minister. You are standing in front of the congregation to minister. Is there a small thing to you? Some of you lay pastors and lay ministers. Is there a small thing to you? Is it a small thing? It should not be a small thing to you. They don't understand when you are being given an opportunity to stand before the congregation, to minister to them. It's not a small thing. I had some rebellious pastors once. They were not asking for a percentage of the offering of the church. They said that when the checklist is offering, we pay the expenses. They want a percentage. Not even that they said. They wrote to me, I can show you the letter and I said that these people have not. They have, they have not understood the privilege. If you are a lay pastor, let me tell you something. If you are a lay pastor, let me tell you, let me just say something here. A lay pastor, a real pastor is a full time pastor in the Bible. There is no lay pastor that that is the ministry. A lay pastor is something that is allowed God, God hasn't got there's no like one way of doing something, but the Bible says God has ordained, he has ordained that those that preach the gospel should live from the gospel. This is what God has planned. Now, if in some situations, like the situation that Paul was in and some other peculiar situations, people need to work for God without being paid, it is a privilege, I'm telling you, and an honor that you should be called to come and minister to the congregation and minister some of these things as well. And it is in the Bible where you see people were lay people and they were also doing something for the Lord. So it's a privilege. You somebody like you, you're not a real pastor. You are a banker. You're not a real pastor. You are a doctor, not a real pastor. You are a businessman. What do you do from Monday to Friday, from 7:00 to 5:00 in the evening? That is your real profession. It's not a pastor and today you want to be paid for the check, the privilege that you've been given to add to whatever you are doing. You've been given this privilege to add to your life that one to you now want to capitalize on it to collect some percentages and other things and start claiming transportation and as it is some kind of a job. But it's rather a privilege that has been given to you to add to your life. When in reality your real work is that you are a banker or you are a lawyer or you are a doctor or you are a capital. That is your real work. The work you do from 8:00 in the morning to 5 below, that is your profession. That's who you are. Don't get up and don't. When we are, then we put call out you. We are just, it's just friendship. We are trying to allow you to fellowship with us so that I'm telling you you're not a real priest. You're not a real priest, you're not a real priest. We are trying to open up so that we did. There's so much work to be done. Yeah, fellowshipping with you. It's not like you are not. If you want to really take it, come and let's take it seriously. Let up, take up your cross, deny yourself and let's go. If you really want to do it, come on. This the way, the fact that I don't say this, I don't say them because I'm trying to encourage you. I don't want to discard you or push you away. That's why I don't talk about, I don't say all this. Read your Bible, which Levite or Whitby will do this thing. If you have your work that you are doing, tell your boss that you will come on Tuesday evening and Sunday afternoon. That is a work that will come on Tuesday evening and Sunday afternoon. Tell him that. See whether he will still accept you. What are you talking about? Tell him that you will come on Sunday in the afternoon to come and do the work. I have given you that privilege. Ladies in the church. Sometimes you see ladies, when we rebuke you about certainty, you get upset. Which church has allowed women? Somebody like you and wicked woman, even your house have cannot stay with you. I've allowed you to be a pastor. Instead of testing it as a privilege, you sit there, you say that we are speaking against women come Mass like Elizard. Elizard. We are giving you an opportunity to preach. We just have got lady, pastor, lady, pastor, lady by all over the place preaching. Now you say I'm against, I'm against women or that we are saying whatever against Ghana girls or or general girls. Don't bring yourself this afternoon, otherwise I'll sort you out right now. We are giving you a privilege to do something. You're not a real priest. If you want to be a real priest, come and let's do it properly. I'll stand there. You say you are whatever you are challenging people that are in full time ordained ministers. We have ordained you to encourage you and to give you an opportunity to just join us. We don't make distinctions. When you come and say, oh, don't go away. You are not really a don't do that. Obviously you come, come. There was a guy I tell you he did certain things and then so after some yes, he repented and he was he wrote, he said, and he wrote a letter is okay, yes, sorry for I said okay, fine. Then later on he repented even more and said that he was coming. So as he was coming, I started asking him about he said, oh, but I thought you have forgotten about it. So I know I said when you apologize, I didn't say anything because I wanted you to be coming gradually. Now that I see that you are coming, I'm now going to the issues so that we understand that we are all on the same level. The father, I didn't say anything. I was quiet. I just said, oh, OK, no problem. You are forgiven. You just becoming. We are now going into the issues. The fact I don't say this, I'm not trying to push people away. Most churches, if you are a layperson, you are nothing. You are nothing. You will never preach, you will never do anything. Started being the committee committee of this committee of this committee. Go to most churches and see Sunday afternoon, there's nobody there. We are given opportunity. Is it because on we also have a house to go to? It's because you, you are free on Sunday. That's why we have converted pastoral work to Sunday. It's because of lay people. We have changed our working hours. We should have been working on during the week also. We have converted it because of you. You don't see that privilege. You don't see that honor. You rather telling things around, telling things around, telling things around. You're not trying to attack. What do you mean if you don't move this thing? I will call for an extra leopard to come to that camp. Sit down, sit down. I want to see all the lay people. Very well, we have changed our working hours to accommodate you when you go to when you go to work on Monday morning at your bank or your whatever workplace. If we go there, do they take us as workers? Don't take us as workers. We just see us as clients. Even though we know accounts, we know how to do things, we are not taken as serious. People that go to any hospital don't take me as a serious person after I'm a Prince. Even Doctor Ogo, who works with me as a as a radiologist, he worked with somebody saw him. He said when I heard that you were following that he was Mills. That's a consultant radiologist who is a lecturer in the medical school. Instead they told him when I saw that you were following that. But Miss, I lost all my respect for you. That's the fellow professors. I lost all my respect. But when I saw that you were following that guy. Yeah, Well, I've also lost all that respect in that world. My friends are pastors, not doctors. It's a different world of transition into completely. If you want to really be a priest, come on, give it up and let's go for it. There's no, we are not closing any door. If we've given you the privilege, thank God and be grateful for the praise. Always thank me. Write letters to me every year thanking me for the privilege, the honor, the, the, the, the great thing that has been done for. That's why Moses look, that's why Moses wrote, I said, is it a small thing to you that the Lord has allowed you to come near? This is symmetric. This is a small thing to you. Is it a small thing to you? I mean, look at you ladies, when you put even women, they don't want a woman to be over them because of the eye, the eye of wickedness that they detect in each other. Even doctors, they would prefer a male doctor. I found out all the time and I say, oh, go to this person. No, no, I prefer this person because they see some kindness made you past this wicked. A person will be standing there. Look, one day I went to one of my churches. I saw one of my members was missing a smoker. I had a lady who smokes a lot and she was one of my church members. You see, the Bible says read it. It says who can have compassion on those that are out of the way? She was out of the way. I went to her smoking, just smoking. You see, where is it? I know we've loved that verse Hebrews. So when I went out, I went to visit her, this smoking member. I went to visit her. I said, where are you? She just smashed and said, Oh no, the church is only left with dear friends. I said well friends oh the pastor because I left a lady pastor in charge and the lady pastor has removed all of the only her friends are left in the church. She told it's not what somebody's all the things I'm telling you if it's not they say I will tell you it's real real. I left a lady pasta and she deleted all except a close circuit of acceptable people. They were gone. My smoker was no more there smoker that I love. I left the smoker with her. Now the smoker was gone and she told me you have deleted. She has left the word she used that only her friends but I left in the church. Now only her friends are left in the church. I've given you an opportunity. I ordain you. I'll make you general overseer women. Now you then against me don't move you a case tell you for that privilege that was given to the ground which has received the seed and water and privilege you 10 and bring 4 tons to me. It should have been better that nothing was given to you. It is only when water and seed and fertilizer has been put in there you bring tones. That's when you be kept. But the one that just brought tones on his own without having what time and it will not be caused by you, you brought what time do you see investment? And what you brought in return was tones. That's why the Bible says you are nice to be kissed if only the person will open his mouth. You'll kiss when it will happen. That's why you can kiss your child and it will happen back. A boy outside whom you didn't bring up. You didn't know him from anywhere. You didn't care for him. You didn't love him. You didn't when you curse it to not happen to him, but your own child. When a parent causes a child, it's because I put laughing to you. I put this. I did this, I did this, I did this for you. I cared for you. I love you. I brought you up and this is what you say. You'll be tired in this world, That's all. You'll be tired in the world. I tell you it's finished. You are finished, but if you see somebody you didn't look after and you just kiss because otherwise everybody will just be kissing as you drive by. I kiss all boys here. I kiss all girls here. No, you can't care all boys. You can't guess all boys and kiss all girls. You can't kiss all boys and kiss all girls. You can kiss people you look after. You can kiss people you've cared for. You can kiss people you have given privilege to and they are telling against you in dishonor. Those are the people you can kiss, but you can't just kiss everybody. And that's why the Bible says honor your woman said that cassette be the one that mocked his father and his mother. The Raven shall pluck out his eyes. That's what Moses asked. Is it a small thing? And I'm trying to emphasize the privileged aspect of the ministry. See it always think of it. This man gave me the honor of standing before the congregation to minister, to look after people that are out of the way. It's an honor. It's not. I mean like a job. It's an honor. People call you pastor. People say pastor, thank you, you. You. People say thank you. Thank you to you. You were in your house. Nobody ever said thank you at your workplace. They say thank you. They give you money and you go when you are going, resigns. OK, bye. Bye. They are even happy that you went because you are old. They were trying to find a way of changing you, but they didn't know how. You are eating Galatians 66 offerings, pastors, they are giving you offerings. Today's your birthday today. Galatians 66, whatever, whatever, they are honoring you now. Honor has come to somebody like you. You are receiving it and they are buying your tapes. They they, they are, they are traveling and they are calling. Say we've arrived as if you are God. They are telling you that we have arrived where we are going. We have arrived. We have arrived safely. We are just to inform you that we've arrived. See you. That's not a small thing. That's arrived, Pastor, I've arrived. We have given you that privilege as a layperson. You are not a real pastor. If you gave, you haven't heard those words. That's why that guy, he was surprised. Why are you bringing all this? I said. Because when you say I didn't want to discourage, I wanted you to be coming. But now that you are coming, coming and now let us go through the issues. This thing that you said, it means this and this, this thing that you said, it means this, this thing that means I said, why? You see somebody who's not saying everything to you, don't think that he's a fool. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't stand in front of my laborers. I say you are not a real pastor. I thought I would, I would do anything. Even if you bish, I have to make what is it so that you can also do something. I will do it. I will stand in your church and defend you. Once you are the pastor, no matter what, I will always defend you. I'm sorry. Once you are my pastor, I can't turn against you before your people. I've never done it before. By the grace of God everywhere, even if you fall to the lowest, I will stand and say you are meeting me. Now explain what your What is your problem? What is your difficulty? What is your problem? You don't like the church? Go. I will sack everybody from a church and stay with only my pastor. No matter what he has done, I will stay with my pastor. But you see some of these people, they will turn. They will turn back. You are coming now to fight me. I will say just one word. Then you will wither like this. Because if I have poured what time to you every day, I pour, I pour, then you give me tons. I have a right and I'm not saying I have a right Go. I have a right. It's in the Bible. And you, you have a right too. Any place you have loved, anybody you have cared for as a father or a mother. I'm telling you, once it is your child, pray that you, you will never speak. The house or the teacher in school may say something, but it's different from you. When you speak and you say you will be tired in this world. I tell you, let her not marry that person because the titles will be added to the the person. Is it a small thing? The God of Israel has separated you from the congregation to bring you near to Himself. How? How did He bring you near to Himself to do the service of the Tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister? And you have brought thee near to him and all thy brethren, the sons of Levi with thee. Then he asks the question, Seek ye the priesthood also. You see there always there are levels. Even though you are a lay pastor, there are higher levels. See, there are levels and there are levels. So sometimes you've been brought there, you've been given up, but there are there is more, but you may not know because of whatever you and I accept you. I accept you at whatever level you choose. What you choose, that's what I accept. And I'll pray for you to be blessed at the level. If you want to be a pastor, a lay pastor, a shepherd, a minister, an Asher, whatever, I will always pray for you to be blessed. That thing you have chosen, be blessed at that level. And I'm not angry with you because you do, because everybody cannot do and everybody will not. And everybody is not called to everything. But whatever you choose on your side, Bible says we are. Help us of your faith. Help us of your joy in a cry. We have a program called Help us of your joy with whatever your joy is. I want to help it. You want to serve God 3/4 I'll help you. I'll help you. Look at the animals, so many different types. God never made one of everything. The same, same, same, same, same, same, same, same everything. There's so much value. You must not force people. Everybody's the same thing. Everybody's a little different. And that difference, we, we need it. That's why I accept ladies, lady overseers, bishops, pastors, lay ministers, shepherds today, pastors, missionaries, singers, what have you. I mean, I don't think I'm not. I'm not trying to make her into an apostle. I just wanted to sing for I don't need an apostle. I don't need any apostles here. I need just a singer. Do you understand what I'm saying? I don't need an apostle either. I don't need that. I don't need everybody. If everybody is an apostle and preacher, these guys cannot say. Kisley, stand up. Can you? Can you sing a song for us? What can you say? I don't know any songs. All of you in the Are you workers at the hotel or you are with us? Yeah. Hotel workers. Are you shepherds? You are. You are doing something, isn't it? You don't know what you are, but you are. You are here. Isn't it sound controllers? It's a powerful thing, isn't it? You see, we have a lady sound controller. Yeah, Lady Sound Controller. Oh, it's your beloved you are sitting by. You never know. Do you want to the priesthood also? For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord. What is Aaron that you are memorying against him? High Priest, You are memorying against him. What have I done against you? What have I done against? If your car is broken down, is it my fault? What have I done against you? Have I Have I killed you? What? I'm giving you the privilege if your car is broken down. Me too. My car is broken down before. Not Even so long ago. Recently, my car killed. The wheel came off. I've repaired it and I'm stealing it. Yeah. What have I done? I've helped you. People are honoring you. They call you pastor. What else do you want? They call you Papa. Some of you, they call you Papa. And you are receiving it too #4 The privilege of being a shepherd is the privilege of joining a family. Amen. Wow. Now this family is a family of Levites. Amen is a family of Levites. Leviticus Numbers chapter 3 verse 5. And the Lord said to Moses, Bring the tribe of Levi near. Wow. And set them before Aaron and the priest, that they may serve him. Numbers chapter 3, verse 5 and verse 6 bring the tribe of Levi near. Is it all fantastic? Bring the tribe of Levi near and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister. It's a whole tribe that is being brought. So when you are being called to work for God and to become a shepherd and to preach, you are being called to be part of the tribe. Tribe of Lever. What's the tribe of Lever among the people of God? 112 One out of 12 will serve God in a special way. And if you are here, hey, out of the 12, you are being called and selected. Come and be special and be part of the family. Are you glad to be part of the family? Amen. You know, perhaps you don't understand the family, family thing. When you go to America, you understand it. Next time you are in America, tell your neighbor. Next time you are in the States. Yeah. You see, when I went to some American churches, I've been to some American church. That's where you understand family. Family. The church is for the family. Hey, if you are not in the family, No. The father, the son, the son-in-law, everybody wants his child to be the pastor of his church. They hand over to the son, the son's wife, wife's husband, this, whatever. It's all remains in the family. If you are not in the family, you can't really be. At a certain level. It's true. Almost every American pastor I know, if they get to leave the church with their son, they'll give the church to the son. And you see them. Unless there's no son. You see them. Can I take in, Can I take in Junior, Junior, junior. Oh, they are like that. Joel Osteen. This is all my Heggie, Heggie son. There's that all my Hickey or robbers. Richard, Robert, there's, there's, there's no son. It's the family thing. That's why you see that you are not included when you go and work and you work and realize that you are not part of a certain family. So a second level. One day I went to a church in America. The pastor told me that the one, the pastor or the pastor's wife, I don't know what, after discussion said of this guy, he was in this church and the pastor handed over to his son. He thought they would keep it. He was the youth pastor, but they didn't. They gave it to the son. So he came to this one and now he's been here to the pastor's also handed over by Lucinda. He's not going to give it to him even though he's a senior, but they're going to give it to the son. So he's now trying to live again to another place, keep moving so he can get a family that he will be part of You. You are here. You are not my biological relatives. Yeah. You are not related related to me biologically. I've given you a privilege of working. I could have also tried to do something family something B and just change the whole thing to a family church. You see, I tell you see people even without calling, without anointing, you see that they are your pastors. Yeah, you still family. Family. Maybe you haven't seen some before. We need to travel and see. I mean, thankfully many of them are also called. Sometimes you see that they are not as part of the family. You are not included. No matter what you do, how you stay, you are not. Some of you have been brought near. You are just just. You don't steal any. I'm not a part of the family. I don't know the privilege that you have. So that's how travel to Korea, different places with different pastors and other people. Oh, when you go and see the other people who've come, they have all come with their children. Yeah. Look up with these children, his biological children. I'm a biological around. You didn't see them having any special, at least as of now. Yeah, it's a privilege, but you don't know what it is when you see people funny looking and funny behaving. I've came with a lot of people. I treat them. I treat them like my children. So teach them this. Let's do this. Let's have experiences that I've already had with. But these animals, I've seen them already. I've seen all before. I've been on safari right before this to the first time I've been on. I've done all these things before. I've seen zebra. This this day. I've seen all. Have you seen hippopotamus before? I've seen one before. I've seen all. I've been in the Zambezi River. Hippo put everything. I've seen one. I've done 1 before. Yeah, with my biological I've done it before. This is not the first time. I don't see why I should come to Kenya, have a camp and there are no animals. That's what I said, unless they're animal, there's no camp. Well, this animal zone, you need animals. But I've seen it before. I've seen it before, but I want my other children to see things that I've also seen. You are being included in the family. So later when you become somewhere, you say that I may be very old and I will say something, see that it's true because you don't know what is involved for you to be there. If I came with 10 people, 12 people in a plane, if you take the cost of it, if only me comes, I'm cutting down cost. But I'm also, there are some things you will never know and you'll never learn. When you go to South Africa, you see there are black people there, they are doing well and everything, but you see that because they were deprived of something, it's not school. There's also you need to travel, you need to see some things for you to be able to be a set. Can you imagine South African coming to Nigeria to start a church or South African going? They don't easily do something like that. But you see a Nigeria will go, a Ghana will go because apart from the schooling they've had, they've had some exposure and exposure has a cost to it. There's a value to exposure and that exposure makes people of a certain quality and I know that. So I said come, let's go. Even though you see a zebra and you sleep in a tent with a resident leopard, it will affect your life. Shabbaya, that's true. Obviously, I'm saying this for you to see that it's a privilege because presumption is the arrogant assumption of privilege. That's the definition of presumption. When you say somebody is presumptuous is the arrogant assumption of privilege, he arrogantly assumes that this is normal. This is how it is. So when I'm preaching about privilege, I would have to necessarily not those things for you to not become arrogantly assuming of those things, you have to know that it's not normal. Or if you look around, just look around and you realize it's not just like that. Amen. We have joined a family, Amen. Is it a powerful thing? Amen. Then in verse 9 of Numbers chapter 3, verse 9, it says, You shall thus give the talents to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel. You give you shall just give the Levites to Aaron you shall just say the talent the Levites Levites are given. It's a special family. Verse 12 he says now behold, I have taken the the Levite. Am I saying talent? The Levites from among the sons of Israel, instead of every first born, the first issue of the womb among the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall be mine. Levites are a special family. The Bible called them the sons of Levi, family of Levi. There were twelve families. One of the families was the family of Mr. Levi, and Mr. Levi's family were going to be the priests and the shepherds. So when you are being called to be a shepherd, you are being called to join Mr. Levi's family even though you are not really. Did you say you are not really. You are not parts, but you are being brought in. It's a privilege. Totally take it cool in I mean privilege. You are being brought in. You are not part of the family. Wow, what a blessing. So don't, don't, don't, don't take it as a as something. Oh, yeah, me about one day I was having a camp and I asked several people how many of you would I would not have been past this if we have not come to you or shed. This one said. This one said, oh, I would not have been a pastor. This one said I would not have been a pastor. This one said I would not have been a pastor. I would not have been a pastor. This is I don't like to use people as examples, so let me hold my hand here. Then one person said, oh, man, I would have been a pastor anyway if I had not. Yeah. Is that what I would have been a pastor? When he said that, I noticed it in my spirit. I said, look at somebody and say, OK, because when I made him a pastor, he used to be in another church. And I know the Bishop of that church. When I made him a pastor, the Bishop of that church, who knew him only as a driver, his main work in the church was a driver. He was a driver when I made him. Then that Bishop said, hey, dark has made so so and so a pastor and he said Doug is doing wonders. Wonders. Yeah, his his former pastor rather saw it as wonders that I have performed to make this guy a pastor. And he was sitting this all out there being a pastor anywhere is the arrogant assumption of privilege. You I wonder too. I'm a wonder because I've made you a pastor. Somebody sees us a wonder that somebody like you has been made into a pastor and you say, oh, there's something I would have done anyway. I mean, that's that's how people become ungrateful. I say, oh, I would have been rich anyway if I didn't even married you. I would have been OK. This is not, I was going to marry this person. This one wanted to marry me, this one. So you are whatever. A lot of people still didn't want to marry me even though I married. A lot of people want to marry me still up till today. They still want to. They're still proposing shya. The person has assumed the privilege of being your wife, but is with a whole lot of man. A lot of people wanted to man. More than 15 guys have proposed to me and neither Haditha had not married you. I would have been I would have married this. I would have had this. I would have no, don't say that. I would have been this. And no, you may not have married Step 1. You may not have married all those guys you think will have married you. They may not have married you, sister. They may not have married you. And to have met a brother who married you One day I set him brother. He grew wild in his house because he wanted to have love with his wife and his wife didn't want to. Then he grew out. He pointed his finger and said, you, I'm not one of those boys. It's because she had a lot of boyfriends before. One of those boys that you were sleeping with, none of those guys took a ring. Put a ring on your finger. I'm the one who married you. Put a ring on your finger. All those guys who are jumping like a grasshopper, jumping all over the place as if you've seen a leaf, you are jumping into the the one who married you and I put a ring on your finger, giving you honor. Yes, honor. The rest, they just slept with you and move on. All of them. I got the list is there. The list is there. None of them married. I married you. Look at look at it. I have to bargain as if I'm buying a house. I have to bargain. Negotiation, negotiation. I need negotiating skills to gain access to that vagina. Outside you have been all this guy. No, no, you see, but you will not know where you you compare. You met this guy, one lady. She, she had HIV and she decided to just sleep with everybody. So she slept with everybody in the hospital. She was a nurse. She slept with about 300 people. And then she eventually she died. But when she died, when they were taking her thing from her nursing quarters in the room, they saw her diary and the diary she had. Everybody that she has slept with and the dates I slept with this surgeon she has slept with every month, all the surgeons, physicians, doctors, male nerves, security guard, everybody she has kept with everybody in the hospital, all of them. And she wrote in her thing. There was only one person who mentioned the word marriage. Yeah, out of about 300. It's not something I read it as they were standing at the graveyard funeral. Everybody was. They were not thinking about it. They were thinking about. Everybody was thinking about himself, hey, but you see how it is you come across 300 men out of the only one mentions man and he, she wrote he was not serious. He just mentioned one. I never saw him again. Just I won't mind. But will you mind 300 men? Nobody mentioned man. Then you get somebody who says marry, let's marry. And you don't take him seriously. When you are in the team, it's like, oh, and yourself has come, your passion has come, your big headedness has come. No, you don't know that it's even one out of 300 that will even say that they want to marry you. Joking. It's a privilege. As I said, go to any other church and see one day I went to a certain church and I saw one of my pastors that I've appointed. I realized that he, he, he had left the church and he now he had joined that church. So somebody told me that he saw the wife, but he himself, I don't know whether he was there, but he saw the wife. And I said, look at somebody, you were here. We gave you a privilege to be a pastor and an honor through criticism. You have left the church and now you are in another church. Nobody even knows you. Even as a member, you are there, a forgotten ghost. Like forgotten. When you die, you see nobody really know that you died. It's true. You had the privilege. You were talking, sharing. People used to call it pastor, this, pastor, this pastor this. It's a privilege. But you have to go to another church to see that. When you go and show us and say, who are you from where? Where's your Bible school certificate? We don't receive you. So please make sure that you take the privilege very, very seriously. Amen. All right. That's my golden fish. Hallelujah. I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone. I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a Tri stone, a precious cornerstone foundation, a strong foundation, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone. He that believed a child shall not make haste. I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone. I lay in dying for our foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a strong foundation, a strong foundation, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone. He that believe a child shall not think Hey, wonderful counsellor, the mighty God the in the lasting Father, wonderful counsellor, the Prince of Peace, I land Zion for the foundation, a stone. I lay and die for a foundation, a stone, a trite stone, a precious cornerstone, A short foundation, a short foundation, a trite stone, a precious cornerstone. He that believe a child shall not make his Oh, I lay in Zion for a foundation. A stone. I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a trite stone, a precious gone a stone, a strong foundation, a strong foundation, a trite stone, a precious gone, a stone. He that believe a child shall not make his Oh, wonderful, count it all Almighty God, the Amastin Father, wonderful counsellor, the Prince of. These. Wonderful Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father is wonderful Counsellor, the Prince of these the Prince of Peace, the Prince. Of peace. All right, OK, OK, OK, OK, good #5 The privilege, the privilege of having a high, the privilege of being shepherd is that it is a high calling. Amen. Is a high calling. Amen. Wow. Philippians, chapter 3, verse 13, verse 13, verse 13. Are you there now, brethren? I count on myself to have apprehended this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto things that are before. I pressed over the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Amen. The high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah. Now in Christ Jesus there is a high calling. There is a high calling in Christ. Some people feel that, oh, if you are a pastor and you have a high calling, then you have a big church because you have the high calling of a pastor, you know, but in Christ Jesus there is a high call. It could mean that. It could also mean anything, but it could mean that the ministry is a high calling, which it is. That's one of the meanings is that the ministry is a high calling. Amen. Very, very high calling. And that is why, and he said I lay in Zion a stone, a sure foundation he that believes shall not make his. And it goes on to say that that which the builders have rejected has become the main thing. So this ministry which people are rejecting is going to become the main thing. Wow. As you get on in life, you're going to find out that it is the main thing. All the things I'm saying, only old age alone will let you believe. Only old age, even without spirituality, old age will let you see. Old age will let you see that it's the greatest privilege. Sometimes. My father-in-law who is 90 years old, in a few months he, he makes me see how age alone and time alone will let you agree with everything in the Bible because even it's not a pastor or anything, but his recognition of God and of the ministry, It just challenges me. It's just wonderful and marvelous to me that somebody respects the ministry so much that somebody like me who has married his little daughter, whom he had when he was 40 something years old, he gave birth to her. He will honor me and let me come and sit by. He said, no, no, no, you must sit by me here. I just marvel. It's like the honor that he has for being a priest. I I realized that old age alone somebody and he says something. He says and I've never had anybody else in the world say that. He says there is nothing in this world that I've not seen one before. There is nothing in the whole world that I've been seen some before. Do you understand at the back? Do you understand what I'm saying? There is nothing. He hasn't seen something. His business has been bent, his shop has been bent before. His wife has died, people have tried to kill him. He has been to prison, he has been investigated, he has been harassed, he has been. Anything that has happened, he has. He has seen one before, accident, people dying in the car, surviving hospital, anything. He has seen some before. And you see him honoring the servants of the law. What a great and honorable. And that stone which the builders rejected, it will become the main thing I lay sing that part I gave up. I lay in Zion a sure stone. Today God is laying a sure foundation that will not be shaken, will not be removed in your life as time goes by. I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone. I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a trite stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation, a sure foundation, a trite stone, a precious cornerstone. Ye that believe a child. For a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation, a sure foundation, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone. He that believe a child shall not make it. Wonderful counselor, Almighty God, the everlasting Father, wonderful counselor, the Prince of Peace. Island Zion for a foundation, a stone. 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I lean Zion for a foundation, a stone island, Zion for a foundation, a stone, a trite stone, a precious cornerstone, a short foundation, a short foundation, trite stone, a precious gonna stone. Me that believe a child shall not begin for. The last time. Come on, I. Live. That's right, stone. That precious stone. A stone. That's your foundation. A short foundation, a tried stone. A precious stone that believe a child, John. Hallelujah, the thing that you rejected has become the main thing. Mercy. Every funeral. The thing that's is the main thing is whether the person works for the Lord. Yeah, it becomes the main thing at the funeral. So the person did. He was a professor. He was this. He was. But he got born again four years ago. And that's the main thing. The thing that was nothing. It becomes the main stone, precious cornerstone, a short foundation which cannot be moved. May you have a sure foundation that cannot be moved in your life in Jesus name, Amen.