06. 24 Reasons Why You Must Finish What You Started 1

Welcome to track number six, so finish what you started. Accomplish the purpose for which we came here. We give you thanks in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated right. It's nice to see all of you again. How many are from South Africa? OK. How many are from Mozambique? OK. How many from Malawi? OK. Where else? Botswana. OK. And where's Zimbabwe? Wow. OK. DRC. OK. Swaziland. Can I see your hand? Swaziland. OK. And Namibia. Wow. OK. Namibia, Zambia. Hey, wow. Lesotho. OK, OK, OK. Kenya. Wow. UK arrive and where again? PE OK PE and where again? East London? Petersburg. All right, all right. And where again? Cape Town. OK, OK Where's Billy? Around Somewhere. Not yet. Yeah. OK. Pharaoh's working. OK, great. Now at this camp, theme of the for the camp is to finish what you started. All right, I believe that God has already started some good things in Southern Africa. He started some good things in South Africa itself. He started some good things in all these countries that I mentioned, and it's important for us to finish. Amen. Do you believe that God wants us to finish? Yes. So whatever we started it, it's important to finish. One time I went to pray, I was waiting on the Lord and I came to pray about so many other things that were worrying me. And then the Lord said to me, Pray that you may finish your work. You know, just pray that you finish your work. So I prayed for about a week only for that I will finish what I'm supposed to finish before I die. Because we are no better than the chicken that are eating at the Kentucky Fried Chicken in the sense that none of us know the day that we will die. We don't know whether we will die this year or next year. We know that old age, if we die by old age, it will be 30 years, 40 years times 50 years if you die by old age. But all other causes, we don't know if any of them will apply to us, and therefore whether we will go earlier. And then if we go earlier, we don't know whether we'll go suddenly or whether we will have some notice. That's the truth. We do not know. No matter what you think. I mean, look at this Morgan Tsvangirai's wife. I mean, it's so sad. You don't expect or think you get it. And then suddenly you are no more involved in whatever is going on on the earth. And as life goes on, there are more things that take away our lives, you know, that make our lives on this earth risky and very, very, very uncertain. The Bible says that they shall be in fear of their lives by the day and by night. They shall have no uncertainty. They shall have no certainty of the day or what the moral shall bring, because they would not serve the Lord thy God with, with gladness for the abundance of all things. Amen. So because of that, whatever. And actually it's more normal to be dead than to be alive. It's more normal to be dead than to be alive. To be alive is the abnormality because your life on this earth is just a section of your life. Your life is an eternal life, a life that never ends. So your life here is the abnormal segment, the segment on this earth. Which brings us to a very important topic of why. Hello, What brings us a very important topic of why we are here. You know, as to what is the reason for us being here? Because if you think about it, most of your parents or many parents are dead. Relatives, friends and every past person is dead. There are more dead than alive. So it's more normal to be dead than to be alive. It's true. Oh, you don't understand what I'm saying. Yeah. So we must rather be thinking of the entrance into that place, wherever it is and whatever is there. And so we must think of, first of all, doing something with our lives, why we are here, the purpose for our lives. And thereafter we must be thinking of if you have started doing something good, finishing what you started. Yeah. Because if you are building a car and you build it and it has four wheels, three wheels instead of four tires, that's three. Can you drive it? If you are James Bond, you can drive it 3 tires. Then you drive the car on three tires and it will go, but not more. People like us, the car will not move. Is it not true? Yeah. So what is the use of building a beautiful BMW with a nice powerful engine? You know BMW is a very fast car. If you have a tendency to drive fast you should never buy a BMW or use one. One time I was talking to a brother, he was telling me he has changed his car to Benz because even though the Benz can drive as fast, it doesn't go so fast so quickly. So since he changed to the Benz he is going slower and he's fine. His life is safer anyway. So what is the use of building a powerful car that moves like a jet and then you don't put one of the tires on and we cannot move. What do you think? So even though you did a lot, but you didn't finish, you get it, you will not benefit. So all that we've started in South Africa, you know, we must finish it and we must believe God will have 1000 churches in South Africa alone. Only South Africa, all the other countries you must also believe God to have some of us must believe God will have 100 churches everywhere, 1000 whatever. But whatever God is giving us, we must finish it because there is much that we can do if we have the mind to finish whatever we've started. It's not good enough to start and not to finish. It's it's in some way, one day a certain man has a certain man had two sons and this man was getting older and in fact he got sick. And as he was getting sick, the two sons were looking after him. But you know, there are some people who don't die. You you expect them to die, but they don't die. How many know that? There are people like that every year. You think they will die this year, but they don't die. And this man was like that. He wasn't dying. Can I take it was like that when he died during his funeral, his son said at the very beginning of the funeral, he said, said that we thought we thought this day would never come, the day that we are standing here, that he, our father is lying there dead. He said we thought this day would never come. But it has come. Yeah. So this guy was being looked after by his sons. So his sons got tired of looking after their father. So they decided that, Charlie, we cannot look after our father again. You see they have done well after a point, you see, So they stopped coming to look after their father. So. After one day the father was lying in his bed and he he thought of a plan. So he went to see a Carpenter who was his friend and he has the Carpenter to make a box for him. So the Carpenter made a big box, like like a kind of a trunk. And after that, because he was an old man, he didn't have anything. So he debated for him as a gift and he took it to the house and he went and found a locksmith, a welder to make a special lock and trace it on the on the box. And then after that, I don't know if you have it in your country, but in Ghana we have people who sell bottles, old bottles. So Kaliba, OK, so he went and got a guy who sells old bottles and as a man to dash in some of the old bottles that he doesn't like. So he put the bottles inside the chest and broke them, do you see, and mashed them. And then he locked the box, the treasure box, you see, and he put the box in his house, in the kitchen, and he went to lie down in his bed. So one day the two sons who had not finished what they had started, do you understand who had been looking after, they decided to just pay a visit. So when they came, they were looking after them for trying to help under them. They saw the box and then they kicked the box and they had them stop switching. They said, hey, so they said, daddy, what is that? They said, oh, it is a treasure, special treasure that I had to give to you people when I die. The sons look at the thing they say, not knowing that our father was a rich man and that. He. Had some powerful treasures. There so they had a meeting and they decided that they should come and continue looking after him to finish what they had started Do you understand what I'm talking about so they decided not to continue so the father was just lying there cool and they were looking after him they looked at I thought that these. There are some people who they don't die, they look after him and after him enough and every day they were looking at the box, but they hate the box. We are going to be rich. One day. So one day the father died and they buried him. They did everything, funeral, invitation, cards, everything, because they knew that they were rich. So they came and then they took their locked. It wasn't easy to open. They managed to and then they finally opened. When they opened broken glass, they were so disappointed and they were so, I mean shocked. Their father had. Deceived them. So as they were standing there, then the other one said. Anyway, we deserve it because we were looking after our father and we stopped in the middle. Do you understand what I'm saying? We stopped in the middle, we didn't finish. What was so we. Deserved that broken glass as our treasure. May we never inherit broken glass. As our treasures because we didn't finish what we started to do in the name of Jesus, can I have an Amen from somebody? So this is just a little illustration that sometimes when you don't finish what you started, you will end up paying a price for it, being disappointed in heaven. When you go and you say I started 3 churches, you were supposed to start 300 churches and you have come happily with the three churches smiling. And you are wondering why Have you ever gone towards somebody smiling? The person is not smiling and you are wondering why are they not smiling at me? Because they are not so happy with you. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. So brothers and sisters, God wants us to finish whatever He has given us to do. So I want us to aim. How many churches do we have in South Africa now? 37 churches. OK, we can have 1000 churches. That is if you will, if you will work and not just sit down and make comments when we preach. So that is great. It is good. You see, all rich countries in the world became rich by 1 strategy, and all poor countries remain poor by the absence of this strategy. Amen. And they became rich in the same way. All because with everything you study, you can study historically. You can study by what I will call the methodological approach where you you just study the theories of the methods. If you do this, this will happen. If you do this, this will happen. But you can just look back, take the historical approach and look back and ask. Why? Did these people become rich? What did they do? And when you look at. All. Rich countries, they all did exactly the same thing and are doing exactly the same thing historically and the. 1st. Person to think in that way was a man called Sarah Antonio in a town called Naples in Italy. It's in Naples in Italy, Yeah. And he was asking him. So he was in prison and he wrote memoirs of that man. And he said, why is it? That. Naples, which is in a beautiful countryside surrounded by all these natural resources, it's such a poor town. Whereas Venice, which is built on a swamp. Is Venice a country or a city? It's a city in which country? Also in Italy, but that is built on a swamp. And I think they, they, they, they, they have boats and so on going up and down, but. Why did Venice become rich? There she was in prison. My town is poor, but Venice is very rich. Town and the reason was because Venice even they were not allowed to farm, there was nothing. So they were forced to do some things that made them rich, like Naples, paradoxically. Who? Had all the resources did not become rich, so rather than those who are giving much became poor and those who are not giving anything became rich. But eventually all the countries in Europe studied Venice, England and the different places and they all became rich. That is when you go to Europe and, and you travel one. I used to travel from London to Basel in Switzerland by, by car all the time. When I, when I come to Switzerland, I want to come to London. I come with a car. I I get a lift. From a truck, truck driver. So can you give me a lift so I can give you a lift When I manage, I meet at midnight. Then I go to the track yard because my mother used to work at that place. So I will go there and I get a lift to London and back. So I drive through all the towns and cities in Europe. Its exactly they say when you are passing through Holland, or you're passing through Germany, or you're passing through Italy or you're passing through England. If you don't see the sign you wouldn't know which country you are in because they all look the same and and what made them all the same was the same thing. But what made one rich? But what made all of them become? To the same level is only one thing which the economist or some people called emulation, which is to copy somebody or to try to equal what the person is doing, to just acquire the same and behave in the same way and all of them just did the same thing. So if. You make a car. We are also. Going to make a car? We don't know why. You make a, they say don't make. Us No. We want to make a car. We also want to make our own car. Because you made a car. You are you've become rich. Why do you tell us not to make a car? We want to do what you did. Emulation. And that is the same principle in alos, another of the same kind. What? What makes the church? Rich. Or What makes a person rich? You see, and they say, let's copy it and let's be like that. And through that. Norway, Sweden, all the countries have been to most of the European countries. There is no difference between them. Everybody makes a car, everybody has the road, everybody makes his own roads. No. There's nothing like a. Foreign company is coming to make a road for you from where? No, that's why when Americans made the plane, the Europeans said we will also make a plane. So it's very expensive. Don't waste your time. You can buy our Boeing services. No, no, no, no, no. We will make our own. And they made their own call. Airbus. Yeah, we will make ours. We want to be just like you. Emulation. Yeah. And that's what China, all those, they are becoming rich. Korea, they are doing the same. What? The same thing that the Europeans did, they are. Doing the same. Thing we want to make a cartoon we want to make a television, young Guicho said when they he first one day said in each other one day Koreans will make a television. They laughed at him and the television we are watching today, Samsung and Sanyo, Sanyo, Hyundai television, LG, Daewoo television, all are made in Korea. But when he said it, they laugh at them. So say. What you do, we want to do. So if you learn that principle, what made me a pastor of thousands of people, because today rather than since I've left the Kodesh and I've left them today, they have on Sunday morning. At least 5000 different people come to church there on Sunday. Yeah, I mean, the people that come, not the numbers, real people that are coming to the church on a Sunday morning. 5000 people come through those gates and go out. Different, different, different people. Yeah. Apart from over 150 churches in the in the city you understand so. You, you have to ask yourself what makes, what did the person do? Not what is he? What is he even teaching? What did he do? Did I make myself? Into a rich man. No, I didn't. Even after today, I still live in the the same house that my mother bought for me when I finished school. I'm staying in the same as in the same room. Yeah. Did I do certain things? Now watch carefully. So you see, and when England became rich, America also became a country. And then they said we want to also start making things. And England said no, no, no, there is no need. You, we will supply you with all the things that you you bring us your coconuts, bring us shebatter, cocoa, rice, zenu. And even they made a saying they said that. Do what the English people did. Don't do what they say. Do what they did that made them rich. Yeah, actually what somebody does is more powerful than what he says. That's why in the book of Luke he said what Jesus began to do and to teach and just. Yeah. So if you look at somebody, what the person is doing more significant often than what the person is even saying, because sometimes the person doesn't know what he's doing that makes him even rich or successful. He doesn't even know that it's a revelation. Because maybe sometimes it's natural. Sometimes you learn it from somewhere. You don't even know that it's a good thing. You just do it naturally. It brings something. So I'm saying that all the countries that we have Lighthouse Church can have a certain type of church. And all over in this country, we can have 1000. We can have 100 churches, 200 churches, 500. You can't do it. I started in the ministry with nobody to help me. Do you get it? Yeah. And so you too. You can. You can be a pastor if I can be a pastor who has not yet had a vision of Jesus sitting down talking to me for which I'm. Praying constant and I even have people who are praying for me for that because there are so many people that have heard me say this thing that they've started to feel sorry for me that I've not yet seen Jesus face to face talking to me and that I so much would like to see Jesus talking to me, but I havent. Mother have I had an audible voices. My son, my son, I'm sending you to the nations of the world. My power and my spirit is upon you. There shall not be any man able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. For a flame of fire I shall make you, and a flaming sword you shall be. I saw to the nations of the world. Now, I've not had it. I've not had it. I am just like you. Yeah. And many great men of God, if they will be very honest with you, will tell you that they are ordinary people, very ordinary. And that they just have it. I'll give you 2 examples of two great men that I met. The first one is TL Osborne. I met him in Seattle, you know, TL Osman, he used to have big crusades all over the world. So I I asked him a question. We were having lunch and I said, Sir, So what you did? He didn't understand what the question I was asking, but he thought I was asking how you know where you should go or that God wants you to go to a particular account. Then he got angry. He said, young man, don't be spooky. You see, do you understand? I said don't be spooky. It's like ghosts are being mysterious. Don't be spooky. Just go, go, just go. Don't be spooky, said the spirit says I hear a voice to the left. I hear something, this and that. You know, don't be spooky, just go. Yeah, we don't hear voices before we came into full time ministry. Don't be spooky. And that's why sometimes these prophets and so on, they can be so spooky. That's you, you, you when you look at yourself, realize that when I look at myself and I compare with this prophet, there's no hope for my calling for me. It's just I'm just by faith. I'm just preaching by faith when they say what they saw did the law said this? I was driving on the road and a. Voice came. A voice says Park, park the car because me the reason why I parked the car, but I feel like we win so I'm going to park the car. I feel like we win. So I parked the car so that I can when we win in the Bush and you, you park the car, but a voice says park the car and we all pastors of men of God. So when I hear this kind of things, I don't feel that I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm normal, or I mean, I'm, I'm at the second level, you see, But I've been ignoring these things for years, just encouraging myself so that I'm going to do what I can do as best as I. Can do it, yeah. And God will help me, you see, And I, I am desperate to do what God has called me to do without relenting or withdrawing. Are you listening to me? Very good. So all that we are and we have by emulation, by becoming an alluse, by doing what somebody did, you can also become something. Because I became a lay pastor. Do you understand? I became a pastor by conviction, I said I. Believe. I believe. I believe because I've been believing, believing, believing the one that I said I really believe. That's all that I have. And that's what I'm working with and I believe and I'm going to do it. So one day, 1988, I believe it was first January 88 or 87, first January after 30, first night I said I believe I'm a pastor and I went to the church and it was not Sunday. The next time I said I came to a church, it was a small fellowship like this group. I said I believe that I am a pastor. So from. Today, don't call me brother Dad again. I am now pastor. Dad does it. What do you think? Is it a powerful thing? Hey. God is kind though, and some of you, you know, you know yourselves, you know you shouldn't be here. Isn't it that God has been kind to you, huh? Is he not powerful? I feel like showing you a verse. Wow. Psalms 145. Have you found the Psalms verse 8? The Lord? There's a song like this. I think the Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and great and loving kindness. Do you know what it means to be gracious? Huh. Like sometimes when somebody has done something wrong and then he's come to say sorry, you know, that's where you have a chance to be gracious. You just say oh oh it's OK it's alright don't worry don't but I say no finish the apology properly kneel down do it also say to this person also because that person was there when you misbehaved so contact that person do this do this all those things like you are not being gracious so the. Person has you feel sorry. Do you see? But you are not being gracious, so God is gracious. Amen to all. So when he sees that you are slightly sorry, he pretends as though the other aspects were not even committed mercy. Verse 9 The Lord is good to all. So all of us here, God is good to you and he's going to do wonderful things in your life and His mercies are over. All His works, His mercy. Anytime you see God working, there is mercy somewhere. When you see me standing here preaching, some mercy is working, some forgiveness has been applied. That's how come I'm around. I tell you, his mess, when you see Lighthouse Chapel is working some, his messes are over all his works. There's a messy hovering over somebody, over something. That's how come you are when you look at a church like this, come from West Africa and Ghana. To be able to enter this country and build churches, you understand and have people in different parts of the southern African countries. There's some messes that are working somewhere. So he says his messes are over all his works. Why is he a singer singing? His messes are over that girl, that is how come she's singing? Why is he a brother singing, playing something? How many realize the fact that you are sitting here, His messes are moving around somewhere. If you are in touch today, you have not yet got HIV. You are sitting here. His messes are moving somewhere because you should have had it. Amen. Is it not true? So brothers and sisters, all I'm just trying to say is that God loves you, likes you, has chosen you, and also wants to use you to work for Him. And for us to finish something that we can have 1000 churches in this whole South African area. We can have 1000 churches only in South Africa its. Up to us to set the goal. Don't be spooky. Just start the churches. Is it 1000? Is it 200? Is it 500? That's what TLS want to don't. Be spooky. Just do go. Then the other person that doesn't like spooky things at all is Bonky. I met him in Indonesia. I couldn't. Even ask him to pray for me. Pray to God, he said. God will help a lot. I mean, let's pray. I didn't even try and. When you listen to him preaching, he blambasts those things. So you are going for somebody's anointing days. So many things you see people realize their lives are so simple. They are just ordinary people who have decided to believe God and I've decided to do the work of the Lord. Amen. Just a quick note here because this is a camp, I would not. Since December of 2000 and December of 2006 I do not allow anybody to sleep whilst I'm preaching or to close his eyes. Even if you are not sleeping, your eyes are closed. Not allow any of the two. So I'm putting you on notice. Not only am I informing you, but I'm also putting you on notice that I will have you removed from the congregation to the back outside, so if you are feeling sleepy, you can stand up. There's no shame. You see, one day, have you, have you watched Rambo before? One day they were going to torture him and they were going to put him on the electric current and the guy told him, he said you may scream, there is no shame at all. So you may feel sleepy. There is no shame at all. It's a camp. You may feel tired. There is no shame at all. Just be at the back or whatever. There is no shame. Tell your neighbor there is no shame at all. Are you there all right? Because I'm you're going to sit down for a long time, you know. So yeah, we have just started talking. So his messes are over all his works. And God wants to raise you up and use you. He wants to use you as full time pastors. Some of you, He wants to use you as lay pastors. Everybody, depending on who you are in a large house, there are many, many vessels. Some will be used like this, some will be used like that, different things, but everybody will be used according to what you believe. Can I have an Amen from somebody? So it is a powerful thing to do the work of the Lord. Amen. Right, right, right, right. So I want us because we started, we started in Malawi, we started in Zambia, we've started in Zimbabwe, we've started in South Africa, we've started in Kenya. But we must finish. We must finish it. Amen. We must accomplish everything God has asked us to do and to do that, to finish means you must be young all the time. You can never allow yourself to be a big shot. Do you understand? You cannot allow yourself to relax. You see, this year I had a meeting with the pastors and I told them that this year our team is youthfulness and desperation. I said we have to be desperate and young, but some of us because of 60 people that you see in your church, you have become like an elderly pastor because of 40 people that are now attending. So many things you would have done if you were young and desperate, you don't do anymore because you have seen 25 people before. You used to see 2. Today there's 25. So it it, it ministers. You see one of the most dangerous spirits you can ever hear, voices you can ever hear, is the voice that I have need of nothing. That is what the audition said. I have need of nothing. You see, I have need of nothing. I'm rich. I'm OK. I have need. We have need of everything. Recently I went to pray. The Lord told me that that mind that you have need of nothing. It's bad because in a certain sense I could say I have need of nothing. I don't have need of anything. In a certain sense, I'm blessed. I've got my church. I don't even go to church on a Sunday morning at a particular church. I got churches in so many countries. I can eat from any of these places if I want to eat. It's true. They are all my children. Yeah, they know if they will remember. Yeah, if they can remember. Yeah. You understand? I've got a car that I can use and it works nicely. Why not? Many people don't even see me. I have my own house. I have need of nothing I can minister to myself. I've written more books than any person that I know about. Yeah, and my books are in demand. I printed millions of books. I used to read about it, that Kennedy had printed millions. And me, look at me, a young person like me. I printed millions, millions. You get it. I don't understand what I'm talking about. Yeah. I've got a beautiful church. Our church recently came in the architecture magazine of Ghana. Meanwhile, it was not designed by an architect. I don't understand what I'm saying. So I could say I'm blessed. I have need of nothing. I'm ready. God told me a few weeks ago, sit up there, as I said, he said I cancel thee, but buy gold. Try to define another. Do something difficult and expensive. Oh, you see what we were buying the church in South Africa. We were doing something expensive and something difficult. You know. I see we all want. To get a place that now we don't do anything expensive, we don't do anything difficult anymore, you see, And that is what kills people who are successful in phase one and successful in phase two. Yeah, You see the cars that are parked outside today, Are those cars for some other people or it's for the people here? Telling you people are. Prospero, Why is France? France. Do you remember when we had our first meeting in that room there? You remember even you were not even married. Where is Zama? I remember them. You see, you were not married. And some of the other guys. Hustles. Today when we were coming from there for France was driving a BMW. I don't know what that is for him or he borrowed it by lighthouse. We don't borrow Castle. All those of you are borrowing somebody's car to come here, pray. That you shall drive safely and go and give it back to the person. You don't borrow cars in this church. If you don't have, you don't have, you have, you have, I don't have. You walk or you get a lift. If somebody wants to lend you his cash, you drive it and I'll be in it. If you go and crash it, then it is you who was driving it. Ask your neighbour, did you come with somebody's car? Let the owner drive his own car, that's all. But he was driving a BMW. But I remember he was a student, was the Kingsley's children. He met me at the. Airport The first time I came to South Africa and he asked me where is the Bishop? I said I'm the Bishop, he said. You are so young. I taught it to be somebody older. Yeah, so now you can easily sit. Like I said, we are rich, we are increased with goods we have. We have need of nothing. All I can. Say to is youthful, yeah. When you say to yourself I have need of nothing, it is not true. It is not true. We have need of a lot. We must be desperate. We have need of pastors, of churches, of members of souls, you understand of buildings. We need buildings for our churches. Yes, buildings and souls and bigger churches and more churches. If if you have less. Than 100 churches in your country, you have not started in the ministry yet. If you are, let anybody who has less than 100 in your country stand up less than 100 churches. No, no, no, no, no, no. You have not accomplished much. I have not started. You have not accomplished much. Amen. You have not accomplished much. Yeah, you have not. How many churches do you have in Zambia? 7 churches. You have not even returned. Instead of saying to yourself that we have 7, you should say we have not even reached 8. We have not even reached 8. Yeah. Do you see? So that you are not a big shot. You are a desperado. How many desperados do I have? Yeah, who are ready to work for God, ready to do something. Advise yourself. We do not have many churches, we have not done much and God has to help us to accomplish much. Amen. OK, sit down. So where is you said you have something to drink, right there is no shame in feeling tired tell your neighbor there is no shame at all if you are tired. 24 Reasons Why You Must finish #1 Number one, you must finish your work so that all the people that need to be saved through your life and ministry will be saved. Amen. Genesis chapter 6 verse we can read from verse 14, from verse 13. Then God said to Noah, the end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them, and behold, I am I am about to destroy them with the earth. Verse 14 Make for yourself an ark of Gopher wood. You shall make the ark with rooms and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you shall make it. The length of the arc, 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits and its height. Amen. You shall make a window for the arc and finish it. Everybody say finish it to a cubit from the top, and set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make with lower 2nd and 3rd decks. Behold, I am bringing a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh, in which is breath of life from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall perish, but I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall enter the ark, you and your sons, and your wife, and your sons wives, and of every living thing of all flesh. You shall bring two of every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you, and they shall be male and female. Amen. Now notice that Noah was told to finish the ark even in a particular way. He said finish it like this, a cubic from whatever. Now if Noah had not finished his ark, all the people who should have been saved through his ministry would not have been saved. You would not be here. I would not be here now if my ministry, I have not extended it also to Southern Africa. You or if God have not extended this ministry to South Africa, I should say, will you be here? No, no, no. Do you get it? Zambians who are the people from Zambia? Let me see your hands higher. Yeah, if we have not extended the ministry to Zambia. And so we finished when we were in Accra because in Accra we are very successful. I mean the church has grown so much that we have our own school, we have need of nothing. We have our own school, we have our own nursery school. We have our own. Hospital. We have our own water supply in the church. We are not connected to the Ghana Water Company. We are independent, non dependents. Yeah, we have several cathedrals. Yeah, cathedrals, different, different ones. We could say we have what are we going? What, what is in what is in Zimbabwe? What is in Zambia? What? What is in Botswana? Who is in Botswana? What is in Malawi? What is Mozambique? Why should we go there? You see, when you don't finish, it's one of the tragic things of a successful minister, you know. And I believe that the South African church or Southern African churches is a blessed church because it has begun. But I can tell you that to me, I see the weather has begun as less than 10% of what God wants to do whilst our lives are still here. That's what that's what I feel because it's like it's like a vision. You see like from zero to 100 hundred is you finished and you look at the people and realize that they are at less than 10. So it's like the work here is is is far from the even halfway mark. It's far from the. Halfway, man, you get it. There is no shame. If you are feeling sleepy or tired, you may scream. Amen. Are you there? Yeah. So listen. My my friends and my brothers. My friends, my brothers. OK, what I want you to understand is that this is the state of affairs. God sent me here to inform you, you know, this particular camp that I'm. I had a vision before I, I had this camp. Oh, yeah, I had a vision or a dream or whatever you may call it a vision. A dream is a vision in the night when you are sleeping. Might sound powerful to say they had a vision. They had a dream. It's like if you have spiritual people have. Dreams. So I like usually to say I had a vision, but Jesus was born through a dream. Yeah. Joseph was spoken to through a dream. OK, so there's no shame when you say you have a dream. Tell anybody. There's no shame when you have a dream. Happy with dream. You can scream. Amen. We haven't. We haven't God. God told me to come here first. You know, we have not done much of what we are supposed to do. Pastor Kingsley has started. He's done his best. Pastor Kingsley is a good church planter. He can start things that cannot be started. He can start things that can't be started. It's an Apostolic gift. It's an apostle. Pastor Klufio has continued the work and has taken it very far from what it was Advanced it, pushed it, stretched it, moved it. Now Pastor Jake has come. He's also coming to try to. Press. From below 10% to above the 10% in South Africa. I'm talking about the rest of you. You are at where Pastor Kinsley was. Do you understand? Yes. And now I'm sending Pastor Clufio to Ethiopia. Now Ethiopia. Wait, listen, Ethiopia has also started that. You see, God has designed our work such that nobody is important. You see, that's why I was saying that when I started to say that if I had not extended my ministry to South Africa, it's not correct. I did not extend that. Pastor Kingsley came here to school so that I sent him here. He came to school do. You understand? And then he started, he said, of course, he told me, should I start to start? Do do what you can do. And he started, so it's sort of like out there had the spirit go to South. Africa. God does. Yeah. God does things in such a way that your importance is reduced to its reality level because his messes are over all his words. You cry that you are there. There's some messes. That are moving around for you to be around. Messes are working. What do you think? There is no shame, you may scream, you get it. And sometimes as we keep changing over, it helps us to go further, a little faster. How many realize that sometimes you don't know that your house is not nice till you travel? Have you seen it before when you came back? But this place is very dirty. But you have been here all this time. You didn't see that it was dirty. Yeah. And that is one of the reasons why we change pastors and rotate and make changes. Because sometimes the new person has come, they have more energy for all problems, which you have even decided that this one. It cannot work again. So I believe that everywhere has to move forward, you know, and if you take a work like Ethiopia is just at the stage of web. Pastor Kingsley left South Africa some years ago. It needs to move, but it is South Africa looks as if it is working. But I see God is revealing to us that. It is. Less than 10% of where it is supposed to end up, not 10%. Less than 10% doing well. Do you understand? Like by the time Musola is dead, if I'm the one, if she dies, I'll. Come to preach at a funeral. If I die first, you come to mind, she says. Exchange. Either you go or I go. But if she goes first. By the time she's going or by the time she's gone, by the time Pastor Cruzio is going, Pastor Richard is going, by the time I am going, by the time we are gone, do you see there is a certain mark of 100 that we should have accomplished. And what God is showing is that we are very far from that, that that place. Maybe there are going to be 1200 churches in only South Africa. So if we are 37. I think you will agree with me that we are less than 10. Let's say by the end of my life we have 1200 churches in South Africa alone and we have 580. We are supposed to have 580 churches in Zambia. Alone and then and then you have what in Zambia now? 7 you less than 8. Don't say 7. Never say that number again. In South Africa, you say you have how many churches? You said 3730. It's less than 38. The answer is less than 38. Yeah, less than. If you have one church, what do you say? Less than two? There is no shame at all. You may scream Amen. Now all the people that have. To be saved are waiting Noah's. Ark. With all Sam, Ham, Jafeth and all the countries in the world would have perished if those three boys had died. That's why you have to be careful with fathers. Because when Ham was laughing at his father's nakedness, he forgot that if his father had not built the ark, even though today he was, he's drinking wine and he's naked in the tent, He forgot that if his father had not built the ark, he would. Not be alive to come and laugh at his. Father and his father's nakedness. So you have to be careful, very, very careful with those kind of people. You understand, because some of you, your parents would have divorced, but when they looked at you, how tender you were, realize it would disturb you if they divorced. So they didn't divorce. They managed an abnormal marriage for many. Years so that you will feel. Mommy and daddy are together, Mommy and daddy, mommy and daddy, mommy and daddy, mommy and daddy, mommy and daddy. So that you will be a bit normal, you see. And now you rise up and you say my father, the foolish man, this and that and that. Be careful. Amen. So a lot of people are going to go to hell if we do not finish our work. So many, in fact more people will go to hell by our not finishing than are being saved by what we have done now. Because if 7. Are saved and we have to get to 100 then it means 93 are going to hell accept you rise up and become a pastor and become a preacher and have a fellowship and share the word of God under a tree in a classroom in a. House somewhere you do something for the Lord. This is a camp to make you turn into a worker of God. It's not about knowledge. All the things I'm saying, you know them already. They are all things in the Bible. I'm not bringing any new book. Amen #2 You must finish building your churches. The churches that you are supposed to build, you must finish building them all. Genesis 6, verse 16 again, same verse. He said you shall finish the ark. The Ark. Was a special boat. That is life, a safe place for a certain number of souls, 7 souls, Amen. Our seven souls important, our seven souls important. Look at what the seven souls have brought. So if God is going to use you to build a safe place for 11 souls, thank God because out of those 11 souls are going to come nations. So don't shy back from building an ark. For seven souls. There is no shame. There is no shame at all. You may scream, you may scream, you may scream. Seven people whom you ensure. I saved. Wow. I'll be proud of you. At least if I don't know, I'm sure God will be proud of you as well. Amen. There is a lady, she's my, I call her my spiritual mother. She called Betty. She taught me how to have a quiet time. She took me to church. She took me to the group that brought me up as a Christian to me. When I see her now, she's not in full time ministry. But when I see I feel that in in my spirit. I may be wrong, but spiritually I feel that she has finished her work. Yeah, that's how I feel about her. She doesn't work in full time. Very good Christian in her church she does very well, everything and all, but she's not in full time ministry. But when I say I feel that she's fit, I feel almost like her work was to. Make me. Into a Christian she said she was a good girl. I didn't I didn't meet an evil woman if I had heard the Bible say wisdom. There are three reasons why you need wisdom. One is to keep you from evil men. Proverbs first reason. Oh I was surprised. And the second reason to keep you from the strange woman, her ways are the ways of death. And the third reason is to put you in the way of good men. Yeah, it's are the three effects of wisdom that it has on your life. When you read the book of Proverbs that I met a good person, I learned holiness in the hearts and the conscience, I feel so well natured as a Christian by this person. So sometimes God's calling is such that you will just nurture one person and that one person, you nature is going to do so many other things. So. Ham. Gave birth to Libya, Egypt, Sudan and all these African. Brothers and sisters, we were the fruits of Noah's. Pastoral work, building the ark, gave a protection for some time. Do you get it? Yeah, because I was growing up in secondary school. I was 1615 years old, sixteen. I come and I meet a good person, and the person takes a Bible and says, sit down here. When I say she says I don't remember. I remember. You don't remember. I remember when you meet a man of God and you be blessed by him, he does not remember. Don't get angry. You understand because many times when you are doing the greatest good thing, you don't even know that you are doing it because you are just plastic. You are the plastic pipe, the water is passing through. You don't even know what is happening. I said I remember. I remember the table that we sat on. She said she opened the daily bread on the left and the Bible on the right. She said read the verse here. I read it, read it, the passage, now read this. This is quiet time. This is how to handle quiet time. What do you think? Oh, my sermons are from. There people think I listen to tapes, I listen to tape. But the real source of my sermons are my quiet time. One thing I listen to tape about the real source of my The tapes help me to understand the Bible better. Yeah. So she kept me 15 years old. I could have gone like this. Think about how old you are. Is anybody who is 15 1616 stand up 1718, Who is 1717? Raise your hand. Are you afraid? 16/15/15 OK, so there is no shame in being 15. There's no shame at all. You may scream. If you have, you can raise your hand. 15 Raise your hand. I want to say 15. 1617 There's no shame. There's no shame. So 1818 my, my dear, you say you're 15. Come, how old are you, my dear? 50 What's your name From which country? But Elizabeth? Now think of a little 15 year old girl like this. What can be done to her? A. Lot a big muscular man can cut this and do bad things to her. Oh, you don't get what I'm saying, huh? There's no shame, you may scream. Think about it. By supposing you are a pastor. Who's your pastor? Pastor D? Pastor D Wow, Pastor D There's no shame in having a little girl like this. You may scream. And you are saving somebody's life and you don't know 15 you don't know how the person is going to be, how it's going to become, how it's going to go. You don't know, you don't know. And I was, I was as young as this or a younger or a little older. And you meet a good person. The person shows you all the Christian things. I used to like unbeliever music. No, I was, I was, I was being prepared for satanic exploits. Ish. I was being prepared, but just in the nick of time. That's why I said when you see somebody doing something, His mercies are over all his words. When you see me preaching, a mercy came from somewhere hovering around and then something good began to happen. That's why the Bible even say that His mercies are over all his words. So as you see her here now, mercies have come over her that have captured her before. Expecting muscular. Muscular man. Or a pot bellied elderly man can destroy her. Soul. And deceive her and rap her until she starts to cry. There are some men who can rap you that you cry. You see that you have started crying, the words are too much. Even if you wear glasses, the glasses can fall off. Has somebody rap you like that before? No, no, no, there is no shame at all. You can scream. You may scream Messi one day. A certain brother was a certain brother was preaching. Powerful message. Then a certain lady was sitting in the congregation. You see the? Brother, he does not remember so after the message. The sister came and told was just talking to another since I said, oh, the message that Pastor preach was that pastor preach was powerful and he is the one who broke my virginity too. That the pastor that came, he was very powerful and he also broke my virginity. He is the one that one. And the brother also cannot remember different different things. So when God catches you in time. He's showing you mercio. His mercies are over all his works. So I'm just explaining to those of you who think that being a pastor of 20 people, being a pastor for 30 people, being a pastor of 17. People, you are wasting your. Time. That's why I gave the example of my Betty as she was like my personal pastor taught me everything about Christian, even I think my mind on eternity, you see, because one day she told me that her friend had just died. He died of asthma, a young guy. And she said she was so sad about it. And she said when he was going, he turned. The last time I saw he said. See you at the. Rapture. That's what he told us. See you at the Rapture. So she will always tell me how he used to say see you at the rapture, See you at the rapture. I didn't know that. The next time I see we will be at the rapture. So I always had a mind about the rapture, the rapture, the rapture. See, you are the rapture. See all those things enter your young soul at the age of 15 and 16, and then seven souls are same because you finish the arc. Suppose I didn't finish and the arc was leaking because you didn't finish. He gave the height. Finish it to this one cubic. From up and you finish it below. Now that water comes in. Supposing we're supposed to have one. 150 churches in Johannesburg alone. Everywhere you go, you see a church, you see a church, you see a church and we say O2 are enough, 2 are OK. All these people will lose their lives and their souls. So that's why we must finish. We must finish what we've started. You know, I like what I see. This message continues on the next track. 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