07. 7 Foundations - Unselfishness 2

Welcome to track #7 of mighty foundations, self oriented, selfish foundations of unselfishness now. Five types of biblical selfishness number one self enhancement Ezekiel 23 verse 40. And furthermore, that you have sent for men to come from far unto whom a messenger was sent, and lo, they came for whom thou didst wash thyself, and painted thy eyes, and deckest thyself with ornaments. Mercy thou diswash thyself and deck thyself with ornaments. Self enhancement. Even as you put ornaments on yourself, think about ornaments that must be put on others and on God's house and on God's servants. Don't just think of making yourself great in this life, having a good life for yourself. Think of having a good life for others. Somebody else can have a good life too, through your life and through your ministry. Can I have an Amen from somebody? Self enhancement? Ezekiel 23 verse 40. Thou diswash thyself, paint thy eyes and deck thyself. Your eyes, yourself, yourself, everything improving of yourself. That's not how Christianity works. Christianity works through helping others. Amen #2 self love. You love yourself if you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. James 2 verse 8. You're supposed to. God knows that loving of yourself is such a strong thing. That is why, he said, the love you have for your neighbor should be the at the level of the love that you have for yourself. That means that if you earn 100 francs, you should use 50 francs for yourself to love yourself, and with the same 50 francs that you used to love yourself. You should love others or you didn't understand what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that they love that you love yourself. Ask thyself, love your neighbor with the same amount of love time. Are you there? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. So ask your neighbor. Do you love yourself? What did they say? Thank you. Huh. What did they say? Yes. You love yourself. It's true. #3 Self interests. Proverbs Chapter 9, verse 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself. Proverbs 9 verse 12 If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself. So as you can see, people are applying wisdom for themselves, love for themselves. But the day that you apply, you start to apply the love that you are applying to yourself to others and the wisdom that you are using for yourself, you, you give it to others. God will give you even more because the Bible says give it shall be given unto you. There is a, there is something that I always remember. You know, it was a day that I, I sat down to advise somebody. I'll never forget that day. I thought that I was wise and that this person lacked wisdom. So I called the person to share something with the person that I normally don't share with anybody. That was one of my greatest blessings that day because when I told the person what I told the person, then he rather said to me, Bishop, you are mistaken. Yeah, not. He was not rebuking me then. He showed me something that I had not seen. I was. I will never forget that day. But what I remember about it was that the fact that I thought I was helping him, but I was the one who was who helped. He really helped me. So that's how I realized that when you give even your wisdom, your love, you see, as I share with people through this, God gives me more wisdom, more love. As I share the love that I would have given only to my biological children, I share with other children, other people's children. God has given me more children, more children than I can. I was coming here with some children that I have in Port Elizabeth, you know, Port Elizabeth, and since is in South Africa. Yeah, some young people. Yeah. When I went for the campus, South Africa. Oh, you were dancing for me all the time. Did you see them? Yeah, I was bringing them. I've just fallen in love with them. And all of them. They came after the camp or during the camp. They come to my room. They come and sit on the floor, talk with all of the whole group of them, about 15 of them from Port Elizabeth. You know, even once out here, they send me a text or I said, I mean, pastor sent me a text. I said, well, how are my children? They are all, they are all missing you. We are missing you. Oh, I have other children. And by loving others, God has given me more children I can, I can even control. Yeah, that's why I said that if you love thyself, if you are wise for yourself, you see, there is a wisdom you apply to your life. There is a love you apply to your life. But God is showing us that Christianity is based on denying yourself, you see, And this time you are not applying the wisdom for yourself. The wisdom you have for salvation is not for you only. It's for somebody else to hear that wisdom and be saved. The love that you have so intensely for your two children or whatever children that love intensely for others who you didn't give birth to, you didn't give, you didn't give birth to them. And it's it has turned out to be my greatest blessing. Yeah. Many times I go to churches to preach. You know, when I see the church, I just feel that I want the church to be stable. So I just preach, you know, I can do miracles, falling downs, all those. I can do all those things. I know how to do all yeah, yeah. Blowing of winds and other things. I can do all those things. I saw that many times I look at the church and I say this will be very good for this church. This church will be stable and I will preach about a lawyer without any miracle, as if I don't have even a miracle. Nothing, just to make the church better so that people will believe in their pastor and follow their pastor humbly. When I go, that thing has rather I thought that, you know, it's like everybody who can preach powerful things. The Holy Spirit will be moving different things. Hey, then I come with my number one test #2 #3 Independent Spirit 4. Critical Spirit 5A. Rather through that, as I've been loving other people's churches and other passes, it has rather made open more doors to the whole world that I can't even believe. A recently a church in Colombia was ordering 20,000 books of loyalty. 20,000 Hi Spanish in Spanish a spirito independent independent spirit. Are you listening? I've learned something. When you take your wisdom and you'll give it to others, you may think you are just helping them, but it's their seat. You will be the one who will benefit one day. Yeah. You know, right now if I want a car, I can, I can say, please, I want a car. I mean, to my pastors, to my children, they will get they will give me a car. No, I'm not talking about the church's car. The church's car. You see, by by the grace of I don't need it. It's fantastic. Oh, you don't think so? If I ask you for lunch, will you buy lunch for me? How will you buy lunch for me? Just sausage and roast tea. Will you? Will you buy for me? How many you buy for me, Roshti? Yeah. I have so many people who like to buy lunch for me and dinner too. Somebody said you buy dinner for me too, you see. So when you give wisdom, so when you see somebody, let your heart be taxed instead of just thinking about I'm wise for myself, professional. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. Think of how to be wise for somebody. Look at the person. My person said I, I can actually whip out sadness if I when I sense that maybe they are not prospering as I wish they would prosper in Switzerland. It's it is one of the most painful. I even wrote it in a book. I said it's one of the most painful things for me to see that here you are in Switzerland, whatever Germany land, and you are not prospering. It's one of the hurting. It hurts me. It hurts me deep down. And I realize that it's like wisdom is great. Wisdom is not just about being here, This place, Yeah, I've been here. I've gone. I've seen people who've come and I've left. It hurts me. Businessman. That's how Businessman asked me, are you laughing at me? I said, I cannot laugh at you. I pray for you all the time. How can I laugh at you have prayer warriors who are praying for you. I'm laughing at you. I I want you to be to be blessed and I feel happy. You know, it makes me happy. So my wisdom, I'm trying always to keep my way about whether people want to receive it or not. So that's now I explain to people about these mortgages and eternal bills and things that they go and get they say, look, this thing I've seen one before 2:00. I've been in houses, people have written letters with red paper capital letter final warning this and that that and that. I've seen all before. It's not that somebody told me that somebody ahead of it. I was there. I've seen the thing come, go, come, go, come, go, come, go. So brothers and sisters, you to share your love, the love that you have for yourself that you don't want to go to hell and the love that the wisdom that you have for yourself that makes you prosper. Share it, share it. Ezekiel 31 Understand the next one self promotion in the Bible. So we have seen self enhancement in the Bible, self love in the Bible, self-interest in the Bible, self promotion in the Bible. Now therefore, thus saith the Lord Ezekiel 31 verse 10, because thou has lifted up thyself in height, and has shot up his top among the thick bows, and his heart is lifted up in his height. He's talking about somebody. But notice he says thou has lifted up thyself. OK, you lifted up yourself. That's selfishness lifting up yourself. Now let's try to lift up somebody else. What do you think, huh? My children from Lausanne stand up. You see, I don't want to lift myself up. I want to lift you up. You can't imagine I'll be jump like a rabbit if I see you people past test preaching, doing whatever. Have you seen a rabbit jumping before? That's me. That's all that I want. It doesn't even have to be lighthouse. But if I see you, you've become real men of God. Preacher. Oh, what is my use in this world except to see that happening? That's why sometimes I say to people, sometimes they are starting churches. They want to leave the church. Leave the just don't spoil the church. You can't be a pastor. I will even help you. But what I don't want is that a child that we are building, then you come and spoil it in order to start your church. That's one. I don't want it at all for that one. We will react to it, but you can do. You can leave because I will even help you. Somebody was asking, has there been anybody who has ever left Lighthouse who? You have a good plenty. There are people who are pastors who have even the people in my book, I wrote about that. They are some of our best friends today. They know they are in the book and they always say when he sees that place or I preach and I mentioned that he'll be saying, yeah, but he's true and we will help him financially. Different things. All that we are saying is God bless you. If you want to do a separate thing, praise God, but do not spoil something that we have been building together. That is the only thing that we don't want you to do. We don't want it and we will fight it. We will fight it. For that we'll fight it. Yes, yes. We'll come down hard on that. As for you being a man of God and Pastor, it's to my credit that you have become a great man of God or whatever you are. It is. I don't mind, not I don't mind. I want it. If you do it in Lighthouse, great. If not, Lighthouse and Gobly Gob Chapel go to Gobly Gob. I'm also happy with that. But just do not start something and spoil it. That is all because it's an effort. It's very hard to start a church. Very hard for us to start a church. Is it not hard to start a church? Very hard for the church to grow. Have a choir do this, do that, do that. Hey, hey. I will be happy when I see you. I'll start jumping. I say look at them. You wouldn't believe it. Pastor Richard who invited eating sausages in London. And today he's a Bishop elect. But you can see that the person has actually been able to swallow the seeds and become a lion. That's true. That's what I want. You people, I I beg you, please don't. Don't feel me in that regard, OK? Don't feel merry. The first member of this church. Don't feel her. She cared for you for years. She left you intact. And she didn't steal your hearts from me. You love me and you are interested in me. Somebody who works in an UPS bank which are trying to lay off people. You have been able to take days off and come and sit here when they are looking for people to lay off. Is he an idiot? See, that's why some people want to make us passive. We are idiots. That's why we came here. We don't have we don't have anything to do. So please, you must grow up nice. Are you, are you girls married? This is your wife. Are you being nice to him? OK. And then you no marry beloved. Where? John. And you beloved. No beloved. Receive it one. Are you listening? Yeah, my friends, please, please, please don't live for yourselves. Think about others who are just nice, just like you. And they're just waiting. And grow up and become somebody who has thought of another person and has given your life for others. And you'll be surprised what you think you are losing. You'll get it all back to Alexandria. Sometimes we look at our children when we are travelling and you look at the eyes of children Crying. Crying at the gate. Just crying. Daddy going. Yeah. Why are you going again? You can't. Can I take it? Said he used to cry his little boys when he turns around and he goes. He said when he turns right then he will stop the car and cry. His start was broken as you leave his little children, but he had to go. He talked about saying look it has not been easy to do this work and the only thing you can say is if you also think about others and also do what God has called you to do, then it will be worth it. Yes, and I know that when Papa Hagen sees all of us, he will see all of you are his children because you are children's children. It's a seat that went down, down, down, down, down, down. Please don't let us down. Don't be deceived by what is good. Every everything that glitters is not good. Every pastor who is daily is a pastor is thought representing us the way what we what we really believe in. That's why I'm talking about the things now. So all the things. I have not said that before. I don't say anything. I just go like this story. I'm telling you that. I call you. I say come and you say you are not well. Then later I call you. 11:00 You are not in the house. It is raining too. I remember the rain beat me as I entered the telephone booth. Yeah. You've heard me say that story before. Have you heard me say that story before? You listen to them. I can help properly. It's here. Every story is a real person. Are you there? Are you people? You are going to do well. Not everybody speaks English in this world. Who said English is the most important language in the world? In the everything revolves around English language. Every ministry. When we started going around with our church, with our crusades to Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, they don't have French books, they don't have French. They don't have pastors coming there, don't have because everybody American English, everybody feels everything is English. So the French side is dry. You only love yourself. So that's why at great 'cause we are translating the books. God bless Alex, Alex. Alex translating all the books. You know Alex, You both know her. Yeah. Alex translating, working the night, the day to do these books. I hope she's coming. Come to Accra soon. Hey. She's done marriage Model Marriage counseling in French. It's been printed. Now you have it right here. Yeah. Are you there? Are you are not there? Yeah. So please don't think about. I don't. I'm not trying to promote me. And now my concern is you. Yeah, the older pastors, I'm not trying to promote you. I'm trying to edge you onto the next part of your course. But these younger ones, I'm trying to lift them up into the first step, the first step of their whatever. But many of you, you are already on your course. I'm just trying to make sure that you, you get into if it's two more steps or three more steps of your life of your course. That's, that's what I'm, that's what I'm trying to do. I'm not thinking of myself. I'm not thinking about, I'm thinking about you. I really want you to do well, that's what I want. And that's what this this verse is saying. You have self because thou has lifted up thyself. I'm not trying to lift up myself, I'm trying to lift you up. I want to see you there holding the microphone. I become so happy when I see them holding a microphone, talking, speaking preachy and having the same problem that I have. Then I know you love me more because you understand me. So this is what Bishop was saying. Oh, let's go for that thing and listen carefully to how he said it. The same. You will see what I'm saying exactly. Yeah. You see it, you see it, you see it. And you say, well this thing I didn't know. I are you there? First one is for self, you can sit down, self enhancement. Second one, self love. Third one self-interest, 4th 1 self promotion. Amen. And the last one is self consciousness. Brethren, if a man is overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness. Galatians chapter 6, verse one. Considering thyself, think about yourself. This one is the importance of consciousness. Amen. Sometimes you need to think about it when you are rebuking somebody, then think about yourself. That's why for a long time I haven't rebuked anybody. I just flew along without saying anything. But there's a time that you have to also rebuke. And that's the time that we've reached now. Yeah, First, I just, I just said these people there somewhere. And I just go. I say it in my head and I go. And I said to myself, I won't come here again, you understand? But now is the time to speak and come again. Yes, I'll come by the grace of God. Are you there self-conscious? You need to think about yourself. Sometimes you need to think about others. Amen. Psalm 35 Stir up thyself. 23 Psalm 35, verse 23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause. So here again he's thinking of himself. Stir up thyself. So God is showing us a person can be oriented towards himself. More and more he slanted towards himself, all himself, himself, himself, himself, himself, himself, himself. But I want you to be oriented towards the other person, the other person. If you are a son, be oriented towards the father, Go towards the mother. Amen. One day I was speaking to a certain man of God. This certain man of God had divorced his wife. And as I spoke to him, I explained to him, I told him something. I said I know that you love your family. And he was quiet and I told him and I, I reminded him of something that he said some years ago. I said, I know that you love your wife, you love your children. And it was a very, very difficult thing for you to divorced. Then he said something. He said I would not recommend anybody in this world to ever be divorced. Somebody was divorced. I would never recommend it to anybody. Yeah, you see. And then as I spoke, he was quiet. And I spoke on and on and on, you know, and he realized that I do not believe in divorce. But I realized that I was not condemning him. And he realized that I was in understanding his problems. That was even telling him he was quiet. You see, rarely do you get people who are thinking about how you must be feeling. The only thing of themselves. Everybody who has gone to do something wrong, think about the person didn't wake up and say I am a bad person and I'm going to do bad things in this world. Let's go and perform. Let's go vadnais no how many I've done something bad before. Raise your hand. Did you plan to do? Have you made a mistake before and you are here by the messes. The Bible says his messes are over all his works. That means that anytime God works messes, there's some forgiveness. Like you see, me standing here means that some plenty forgivenesses are happening. Are you there? Yeah. So when you are a child, like, like you think about me like, oh, baby Bishop, this how this one day somebody also speak that you'll be surprised. Let's just think of. So my job, my child, my work, my school, my days, my exam, my dad. If I was to think about my school, my exam, my whatever, I would not be. I would not be a pastor. I've now started Lighthouse Chapel. I just think of my future, my career, my life, my medical career. I have to specialize. I have to be this. I have to. I'm not a specialist. I'm just a normal doctor. I have to lose something. Yeah. So don't you just think about me, about what is what is good for me or my children? No, I sent my children to school. I sent my children to a normal school just near my house. My son is even a founder of a school. When I say a founder, the first students, the only student in the school that the school was starting somebody's house because my child was not accepted in the Catholic school. Yeah, I said, well, that's that's what that's the child at the school and my child will go to. I'm not just thinking of my children. I want my children. I want my child to go to Ivy League. This. I want my child to be this. My child. My child should be OK. I'm not putting them in any bad thing. But I'm not going to sacrifice the whole world. Just my my mind is not oriented on my children. No, no, it's not. It's not at all. God will take care. I give them to the Lord. Delight thyself also in the Lord, Psalm 37, verse 4, many people are just delighting themselves. But you see, instead of just enjoying delights in marriage, I've written a book on delightful marriage. Isn't it model marriage so that you will also delight yourself? You can open the pages and see what to do. Huh. I know you're not married. Don't read that book, please. And you take a book like Model Mark, you see those, some of the pictures and the drawings and how do you think those pictures were there? Somebody had to draw it. Somebody had to draw his wife. That those pictures is somebody's wife. Yeah, that's fine if he was. If he was just thinking about himself. Do you think we can have such a book? What a sacrifice. Yeah, somebody has to model stand there like this for some time. So we are not just thinking of delight for thyself, but delight for others. Amen. Psalm 37, verse seven, Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself. Don't be worried about, don't be worried. You're within yourself because of Him who prospered in His way. Psalm 37, verse 8 Cease from anger, forsake rat. Fret not thyself, don't be angry within yourself. Amen. Self consciousness. And the best example of self consciousness is found in Genesis chapter 1, chapter 3, verse 8. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself. You hide yourself because you become self-conscious. If you take off your clothes, you started because all the things that we are wearing under our tone, some have become brown, some have become brownish, some have become bluish, yellowish. It become concerned and some things which look very whatever on the outside, in reality it looks flabby on the inside. So you become self-conscious. So they were, they were afraid. Now what is it that makes you? As soon as you become self-conscious, you start to hide yourself. You want to sit at the back, you want to sit outside, you want to stay somewhere, you want to be far away. You don't come there. You don't want to be there. You don't want to be seen. You understand. And it's it's because of sin. There's something negative, something negative. But when you are full of positivity, you want to be seen, you want to be there. You're ready to smile. I'm not afraid, you understand. But when there's more sin in your heart and your soul, you get it. Then you want to be away, and it causes you to stay. Cover yourself. And the more you cover yourself, you prevent yourself from receiving wisdom, knowledge, ideas, spiritual input, and it causes a severe reduction in intellectual and spiritual capacity, resulting in a distortion of what you are supposed to be severely severe. How many will agree that those that are not at the camp can be severely reduced in their intellectual and spiritual capacity to understand a lot of things? Yeah, because we are addressing a lot of things clearly. And you are understanding why some things are some way, because sometimes you know that something is some way, but you don't know why it is some way. But as we are here, gradually begin to understand that this whole thing is the foundation of the church. Not thinking about yourself is the foundation. Pain tight is a foundation. Sacrificing is a foundational issue. It's the beauty of the church. You take it out of the church. You take away the beauty of the church and you are left with a desolate place. It's all gone. Like the woman I told you about, the unforgiving you, you sacrifice. You take away sacrifice. You are scratching the beauty and you are taking away the glory because sacrifice brings glory when you sacrifice for God, when you make that move. Actually, I was living in Switzer, but because of God, I decided to go and live in Germany. I got a job that was paying even less, but I went to live there because of God. It brings the beauty to your life and your ministry. Oh yes, look at Pastor Robert. Look at Pastor Robert who came here. He was the first person who came to take over the church when I, when I started with God willing, God by God's grace in 1992. You know what happened to him when he came here, when he, he was living in Brussels and he couldn't stay because he didn't have the papers. So I told him, I said, Pastor Robert, we need to think of something because he would come in, he would go, come in three months. He had to go. I said, we have to think of something. And I said, look, can, can we go to school? He said this school, 'cause he has already gone to school, he's finished going to school. He's a pharmacist. So I said, look, try and see if you can go to school here. I grown apple. So he came and said, let me apply to the University of Geneva. You applied to the University of Geneva to do a course, something that he has no intention of doing. So he went to the university. I applied and went for lectures in French so that he could live here and do the work here. Yeah, when I lift up the under of the Church, you will see what is there. What what we are all standing on. People have made sacrifices. So he, I remember something, he'll be quite a useless 'cause that he has no need of. He did it and he was able to. By the time he finished the course, he had his citizenship and he could now move in the Schengen whatever. So he was just in E free. Yeah. I see these are what people have done. And some of you, you say I can't move my school. I can't do this school here. I have to do. There are people who have made all those sacrifices for school. They've sacrificed their school. They've changed their courses. They've done this for the church. That is why the church is there. That's what I've brought beauty to the church. You, you, maybe you don't know. Maybe you don't know what people have done that makes the church exist. A lot of people have done so many adjustments. That's what brings is the foundation. When Yong Gicho was coming to Ghana, I wanted to be, I wanted to be at the program. My wife was pregnant, nine months pregnant and her date that she was to give was when Yong Gicho was coming. Yeah. So I said, look, this is going to affect the program. So I decided to rather have a premature baby so that I can I can do the work. So I talked to the doctor. I said look, cut out the cut out the baby earlier by a week or two, Yeah, yeah, you may not know. So that the because I if my wife is coming and I wanted to be there. So, I mean, I did, I organized a premature, I have a premature child. And all through a school, see that it's always a little slower. Yeah. So, so that the church can go on. I'm looking at my face. That's why I'm ready to wash my my face. So I'll never see you again if that's what it means. You don't know what we do to be here, what the things that we are doing for the church to exist. Yeah. I think that we just came and then God's church just suddenly blows up out of nothing. Only my my child was in school, everybody could read, but she could not read and I was just looking at all because I'm a doctor. I know you know, it's actually your age when you are premature, your age is actually your age is not the age that you are born. You have to actually have the the ones because they were the ones in the womb that you didn't fulfill before you came out. That's why in Korea, when you ask you how old you are, they don't give you how we say our age. They add plus one year because you are only consider from the time you are in the womb is one year plus the other one. So if you are 69, you are 70. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You are older than you are. You have been in existence, you've been alive all this time. Only that your house was in there. Look, nothing comes around. Just it just comes. No, no, no, no. It's nice. It's there. No, people have been paid is the under of the church. We don't say everything. So it's not nice to say everything, But you must know if God is going to use you, you will also be the under of a church somewhere. You also pay a price. You will also pay a price. Yeah. Now Christianity is based on this one thing, unselfishness. God so loved the world, not God so loved himself. God so loved himself that he made the universe even nicer. No, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. That the whole of the church is based on only that thing, loving other people who are not having, who are having problems that you personally don't have, you are OK. They have a problem. That's the world. The world has a problem. God doesn't have a problem. The world has a problem. And God loves the people who have a problem even though he doesn't have that problem. So when you see that God has protected you and shielded you from having certain problems, you must know that God wants to use you to help people who don't have the kind of peace that you have, who have far more problem than you have. But what is happening is that people whom God has shielded and as blessed and as helped and as educated and as covered, they rather tend to not love themselves even more. Instead of lifting up their eyes to see that over there, over there, over there, over there, those people are far worse off than I am. And I have to get out of myself and go to those people and do something for them. Christianity is based. Christianity is based on only this one thing that you are your castle, Nicopo. Your castle is good. Everything is good. Salary good, wife good, child good, money good, stable nice, everything peaceful, city good. But there, there, far away, there and there and over there console love the world, the world which was dying and sick in darkness. He loved them from heaven, from his beautiful path glory. He came from heaven to earth to show the way from the earth. And unto earth too slow the way from the earth to the cross I dare to pay. From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky. Lord, I lift your name on. Sing it slowly. He came, he came. From heaven to earth to show the way. From from the earth to the cross, my legs to play. From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky. Lord, I Live Today on high. Listen, Christianity is based upon the unselfishness of a blessed person. Write it down. Christianity is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. Christianity is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. Yes, yes. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Christianity is based is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. God blessed so loved the world. He was unselfish and he loved the world. Amen. He did not sit in his glory. He did not sit in his peace. That was a peace. Perfect peace was with God. He did not sit in his peaceful environment. He came to a world of confusion, a world of wickedness, a world full of demons. He did not leave us to the demons for the demons to do a finish us off and take us to hell with them. Christianity is based on on on a blessed person, a blessed person who is not unselfish. A blessed person. What did I say is based on what a blessed, It's based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. Yeah, that's Christianity. It's based on the answer not just of anybody, but somebody who is blessed. And that's why, that's why that's why when we come here and it's like you are so blessed when I say you are blessed, I know you have difficult, we all struggle to pay bills, days that that nobody has so much money. But I tell you what, you look out of your window when you look out of your window, when you look out of your window and look across and you see, Lord, you see that? Yeah. That's why to me, I, I see myself as so blessed. So somebody are. So what do you have that you say you are so blessed, But to me, I am blessed. I feel blessed. And Christianity is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. You see, that's why when God bless us at the Kodesh, God bless us in our churches. You know, Christianity is based on our unselfishness. We have to get up and go. That's why even the countries we are going like in Codepa, we are not going to the capital, we are not going to Abidjan. No, no, no, we are going to places. They are going inside the forest. The people are there, people are there, they sleep in sand. Poverty, written, perfecting, written, depressed. The struggling witches, wizard, what have you? We have been to towns where there is a wizard who controls the whole town. Anybody who does something, say I will go and tell this wizard to come and catch you. Christianity is based on the unselfishness. How many? You realize that you are blessed? Yes, very, very blessed. You're super rich. Super rich? You just say I'm rich. I'm so rich. What type of rich person are you? Hey, hey, so Rich, I mean, I mean, but some people have this and I don't have this and I don't have shut up, shut up died of this type of thinking. Look at the find out who is the one who was saying that? Who was the one who was saying that? Christianity is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. It's based the Christianity of many souls in Germany will be placed on the unselfishness of the Swiss Church, on the of the blessed Swiss Church. And you are blessed. You have choirs, you have musicians, you have singers, instruments, halls, projectors. Yes. It's true. So when I see you, anytime you see that you are blessed, God has blessed you, shall I start to know that some serious responsibilities are coming on you? Yeah, serious. That's why probably America keeps attacking other countries, because they see it as a responsibility. They are blessings and they are riches because America is actually a very small country. It's actually a very small country. But when you see the continent of North America, America is actually the upper part. The lower part is Mexico. America is not the whole continent. America is just the upper middle part there, and then the lower part or from about halfway down is Mexico. That small place is so blessed and you see, and that is and thank God, most of the missionaries in the world have come from America. From a certain time. Most of the Christian television has come from America because Christianity is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. When you go to Tanzania, Americans have opened a Christian television station there. Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, they have Americans. All are done by Americans. It's based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. When you go to Liberia, they open a radio station called Radio Elwa. It was based on the unselfishness of blessed, a blessed person. Yes, that that, that, that all Christianity is about a blessed person who God so loved down the world that he gave. And what what does a blessed person do? He gives. Gives gifts and gifts that's why when you come and you see blessed people they don't want to give to the surface is so much. That's why I I call this a foundation of Christianity. John 316 I wish grace was here She made us sing so many songs. It's a pity she's a sing for you. John 316 God so loved the world and he gave his only huh? I would have been dead in my grave, sleeping in my grave, knocking the coffin by now 12 years ago. I was somersaulting in a car 12 years ago and I came out thought it's nothing. Why He had something for me to do with the blessing that he put on my life. That is the reason why I didn't, and that is what I must live for. I must not have any other reason or be a secondary reason. I must not be a second or third reason. In addition to the main, the reason I it's a foundational. It's the under of the whole churches based on this that there's a blessed look at me. I'm not blessed. I went to secondary school, huh? I do well in school, huh? Yeah. I mean, I just, I just think in a certain way. I don't know why I think that way. When I do exams, I I rather learn the question before I learn the the book. Yeah, that's how I always did very well in school. What has doubt? That doubt is not received everything. Have you received it even the way you think? Exam passing everything is from God. I came from a home. My father never divorced my mother. My mother never divorced my father. I saw daddy and mommy till I till my father died. Stable, stable. And when you when you don't have a stable home, it affects you so that you don't have to be a daddy. You don't know how to be a mommy. Some of the some of the ladies, they don't know how to be. They know how to be ladies don't know how to sit even to close your legs. You see they're sitting like they'll be sitting anyhow like that. They are not ladies. They don't bath. You see that? You think that they will. They don't. They don't cook. They cannot cook. Can't cook, won't cook, Shan't cook anyhow. Because not because they are battle. But they didn't have money. They didn't have daddy. They didn't have money. Yeah, I had money. I had Daddy. I'm blessed too. Christianity is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. Are you understanding it better? Christianity is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. And look at some of you here. You should not have been in this country. People cannot easily come here. But you have been able to come here. How are you able to be here? You are blessed. Oh, hey, you must say that again. Like you are not blessed. No. How? Look at what you earn. You know what people are earning. You know what people are earning? Ladies, touch your breasts. Hold your breasts. There's no lamp in it, no cancer as of today. You say you are not blessed. Hold it well and say thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus person. Richard, people don't believe what we are saying. No, one of our churches, one of our chests, one of the ladies singing the child doing everything, just check her breasts. Everyone they say, oh, this is told, ah, you have cancer advance. You have to come to by next week. I have to cut off just like that, just like that, a flash like that, it's gone. And now your life is now just ticking, ticking, ticking bomb. So that's why I say hold it and say thank you, chief ladies. Chris And it's gone. Us. When that happens to you, it means to the grave it's over. One guy married his wife. He was happy in the house. Baby wasn't coming. Baby wasn't coming, baby wasn't. So his wife went to hospital to go and do just to see why the baby was not coming. So then the doctor said let me just check your breasts since you are here. So just check the breasts. Oh, I didn't know carcinoma. Do you know I didn't know carcinoma. Introductor carcinoma advanced with lamps in the axilla and other places. Just a young 20 something years old you are sitting here. Yeah, just going free. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise you say I'm not blessed. Bishop is talking about people who are, but that's for me. That's for me. I have a lot of problems in my life. You want to see real problem? You want to see a problem. One day I saw a certain wife who was complaining about husband. I said, my friend, let me show you want me to show you a real problem, a real problem. Then I showed her three real problems. She became, I said please, I'm OK, OK, I don't have any problem with this world. Please yourself, I'm blessed. How many agree with me that you are blessed and Christianity is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person? The advance of Christianity, the furtherance of the gospel, is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. Yeah, Paul Crouch, who made TBN a blessed man and he made a station and through his unselfishness, the satellites goes everywhere in the world. Yeah, the Arab world. What's the name of those God Channel boys and girls, Rory and Wendy, a blessed couple and true they are blessed, their unselfishness, they are making the gospel in India and here and here and here, so many places. Day Star was this man Johnny Lamb, through his blessing, millions of dollars. They didn't just sit in America and say we are blessed, they want to make it available. Maurice Cerullo, a millionaire, blessed whatever, through his blessing also made a station. Do you understand? Christianity is based on the unselfishness of someone who is blessed and all of us here, we are blessed. We may not know we are blessed. Yama, what is your name? Andy. Andy, how old are you, 21? Do you have a child? It's a blessing. That's all in itself is a blessing. I know people, your idea, have already given birth. Yeah. You are blessed. You are. You are in a church on a Tuesday in the in the morning. There you are in a church in the in the afternoon. So your friend just like you, they are in prison gangs you say and every day they are asking for asking for what? Don't talk. Oh God hears things. Oh, when the Xyrophoenician woman said even the dogs eat from the bread the crumbs, Jesus said because of this thy saying this thing that you said you are healed because when you say something the heaven was a because of what you said when the Buchad Nizar was walking in the in the in the city that was he said himself, my arm and my strength have created this beautiful city. And God said, Oh, I see, I didn't know. I didn't know to the garden. He became an animal. When you speak to the book for 87 years, when you speak to them you say hello, the book at least I say moo, moo. Sometimes a cat, meow, meow, meow. In Lego we used to have 4 levels, the whole some would say the top floor we are cows, the 2nd floor we are dogs, the third floor we are cats and the first floor we are what? Chicken. Chicken says what? So you are chicken, you are, you are cuckoo, you are cow MU, you are dogs. Whoa, whoa, whoa. And then you are what? Cats meow, meow. So when I say ready, go there ready. Go. OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK. Only these people, only these people. Only these people, only these people together. This is the sickness that in the book and Lisa had after saying that he has built the city, he said I have built a beautiful city. The Bible said he developed a sickness that made him an animal and he went out in the water. I'm telling to you that it's less because he was eating grass. He was like this. Meow, meow, meow. The king, after seven years, he was healed and he came back to his throne. So please be careful of what you say. I am me. I'm not desert. Why are they always asking for that? Ask for me, please, I beg you for your own sake. Because when God hears it, God may say, oh, I see. OK, go and bath, you say. Go and bath tomorrow and you'll be bathing tomorrow. What? What is this? What's this tone? How's this tone I'm feeling? You go and they say we're sorry to tell you. I'm sorry to tell you. Now please say I am blessed, Say thank you Jesus. 1000 * 1000 milligrams a day everyday say thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. I'm blessed, I'm blessed, I'm grateful, I'm thankful. I thank you, I'm blessed. I thank you. I thank you Jesus. I'm blessed, I'm healed. I thank you, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I thank you, I'm grateful, I'm blessed, Thank you. I'm a blessed person. I'm blessed. That's all I want from you. Gratefulness. Be thankful every day to God. Thank God. Thank God for everything. In everything. Thank you, God. Thank you. I'm here. I shouldn't have been here. Yeah. Look at myself. I'm a pastor. What am I doing as a pastor? As my family? Which part of my family are pastors? Yeah. I shouldn't be here. This is not how my life was supposed to be. God has shown me mercy to me. I'm blessed. Everything I have is a blessing. That's what I think. That's how I see it. Look at all of you churches. People love me. I go, they come to me. They talk. Got my wife go and program more than 1000 women in leads. What else do I want? And it's a blessing to me. I'm black. Whatever problem I have, I to God, it's all I Thank you. Yeah, I'm thankful, you know, and I owe. I have a debt to pay. Do you understand? And that debt is a debt of love, Paul said. Oh, no, man, anything is set to love. And you owe God your love. You owe God your life. You owe God everything. Everything you have, you owe to God. You owe God your very life. Don't boast. Don't boast about anything. You owe God your life. Don't shout, don't be too say many things. Don't talk about things that you don't understand. You owe God your life. Yeah, please, please see yourself as a blessed person because it is the is the first step to delusion is to think of yourself as not a blessed person so that you don't have any debts to pay. See that's the reason it's like I want to see myself as nobody so that I can say, but I'm not. Oh no, no, I don't have. I don't have any. They have something. They they are blessed. They, they they it's Bishop. It is them, but not me. For me I have nothing. Don't say that again, please. Once I have nothing you you may remain as nothing forever. For this thy saying. Look at your wife and thank God for her. Hey, look at you. Don't get angry with your wife. It's OK. Whatever she is is good. Even the bad side of her is good for you. It's medicine. Wow. Christianity is based on the unselfishness of a blessed person. How do you say it in French? OK, so I've been Say it loud, say it loud. Come and say it in the microphone. Is it correct? One more time, say I want to say, say like a preacher, the Christianisma a bazisma trisma two person Benny. Say for the last time, the Christianism a bazisma trisma two person K Benny. It is powerful. How many have learned something about unselfishness? How many have seen that is a real foundation of everything that we have and everything that we. And once you take away unselfishness and you move into selfishness and self consciousness and self-interest, the whole system becomes, yeah, something self-awareness, self-conscious, self catering, self aggrandizement, self-centered, self promoted. Gosh, Amen. All right, all right, all right. Good Father, thank you for your blessing in Jesus name, Amen. Introduce yourself as Blessed Jimmy Blavo. I'm blessed whatever your name is introduced about Blessed Emerus. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, All right, All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Good, good. Now we are going to take a break for we are going to take another break. Amen. Want to get yourself some lunch for one hour. We come back at 3:00. Is that is that what's correct? Because I keep looking at it. Is it correct? All right, So 3:00, please. Thank you very much.