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10. 7 Foundations - Escaping Pharaoh

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
December 18, 2024 1h 9m

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Camp Title - Mighty Foundations. Machaneh Collection - 57. Preached in 2009, Switzerland (Zurich). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.

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Welcome to track #10 of Mighty Foundations Season of power. Oh, it's a new season, It's a new season. It's a new season. Fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, anointed, fresh, anointed. Oh, it's a season of power and prosperity. Oh, it's a new season and it's coming to me. All right, all right, all right. Good, good. Maybe see that now. Escape from Pharaoh. Are you with me? On chapter 3, page 7, Second Chronicles, chapter 12, verse 8, it says that they will become his slaves. Amen. So that they may learn the difference between my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. Mercy. You see, there is a difference between the service of the Kingdom of God and the service of the countries of the nations of the world. Yes, there's a difference, and God promised to punish Israel with a particular punishment, and that punishment was I'll make you work for these kings so that you will see the difference between working for them and working for me. Wow, what do you think, huh? Who have you worked for before? Kingdoms of the countries? Yes. Aviation. I've worked for Pharaoh. So you've flown things for kingdoms of the countries? What about the

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Welcome to track #10 of Mighty Foundations Season of power. Oh, it's a new season, It's a new season. It's a new season. Fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, anointed, fresh, anointed. Oh, it's a season of power and prosperity. Oh, it's a new season and it's coming to me. All right, all right, all right. Good, good. Maybe see that now. Escape from Pharaoh. Are you with me? On chapter 3, page 7, Second Chronicles, chapter 12, verse 8, it says that they will become his slaves. Amen. So that they may learn the difference between my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. Mercy. You see, there is a difference between the service of the Kingdom of God and the service of the countries of the nations of the world. Yes, there's a difference, and God promised to punish Israel with a particular punishment, and that punishment was I'll make you work for these kings so that you will see the difference between working for them and working for me. Wow, what do you think, huh? Who have you worked for before? Kingdoms of the countries? Yes. Aviation. I've worked for Pharaoh. So you've flown things for kingdoms of the countries? What about the kingdoms of the Lord? You sing for the Lord, What about flying for the Lord as well? Why not so that you may learn the difference? Say, say it again. Say it again. I will fly Reverend Jimmy to Congo. You will fly Reverend Jimmy to Congo. First flight, Congo Pastor Jimmy. I didn't say to. I was thinking that he was going to say he will fly me to healing Jesus, crusades and other things, but his mind came straight to you. Can you fly helicopters? I don't have ratings. You don't have ratings. Can you learn it? OK, learn it. Yeah, I learned it. I'm serious. I told you I don't joke. OK, so now that you may learn the difference, there is a difference between working for God. Now let me tell you, when you are working in Spain, Barcelona, you, you, you don't work for Pharaoh, you work for God. Yes, you see, because you did not go there because of money, you were settled in England and I said go to Spain. So those secular aspects that you do, you are doing them to sustain yourself in the will of. It's just like building a house. It's not that you love houses, but you also need somewhere to stay. So as far as I'm concerned, you are not working for Pharaoh, you are working for God. Those of you who came to Geneva, like Vida, he bent Eddie, You didn't come here because of God or no, didn't come here because of God. Yeah, just the truth. You didn't come here because of God. You came here because of money. You understand? So if I said to you and I said to you, OK, move to Berlin and you are able to get this same job and even earning twice what you are earning in Berlin, but you go there because I've asked you to go there, even though you are earning twice as much, you see that it will be that. That's the difference between working for God and working for the kingdoms of the countries to me. You don't work for Pharaoh. You are not from that time honest. You are in full time ministry. Yeah. So that's what you have to understand. There is a difference. Yeah. And it's from the foundation of the thing, how it starts and why it starts. Do you understand that? Is it so Chris, although it look as if you are coming to full time ministry, what you are coming to is to being paid. But you've already been because you gave up Birmingham, your house, your life, your everything. You gave up London to Birmingham? Actually, yes. So from that time we were happy in London. So go, he went to Birmingham, then go, come to Paris, then go OK, now come to Johannesburg. It is now like he may now receive the first dollar as a payment. Not that you he's after money, he's after God. He's after God and now he's going to need some money to keep him alive. But there's no you cannot go and compete with S Africans who are also struggling for jobs now are you there? So there is a difference. You get it and you need to understand it so that you can do well. 4 Stages to escape from Pharaoh number one Exodus chapter 13, verse 15. What does it say? Pharaoh would hardly let us go. It came to pass that Pharaoh would hardly let us go. It's not easy to break away, Duke. It will not be easy for you to leave. Where do you work for WHO? It will not be easy for you to work from escape. From WHO? The change with the tie to your legs. You cannot easily walk away from it. Yeah. The promises they've made for your future, the security they seem to let to to give to you, it's not going to be easy for you to go away from it. So that's why I said Pharaoh would hardly let us go. So Stage 1, Pharaoh does not want you to leave his employment. Have you seen it in the book? Look at the vest. This when Moses was talking to Pharaoh. Let us go, let us go. We want to work for God. We want to work. Look at what happened. He said and Pharaoh said, who is the Lord? What is, What is lighthouse idiot? Who is the Lord? That I should obey his voice to let Israel go. I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go. You see, He did not want them to go. You want to go and say who is the Lord, What is lighthouse, what is mission, what is Congo, what is this, what is Rwanda? What do you mean? What is Paris #2? After you put some pressure on for some time, Pharaoh will change his mind. But listen to the condition that he will give Stage 2. Pharaoh will allow you to serve God but wants you to remain with him. You understand it's like serve God but be connected to him still. Do you understand not really be able to get away. So in Exodus chapter 8 verse 25, look at the verse it says and Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said go ye sacrifice to your God in the land. In other words, you can't go out of Egypt. Do your check things, but be with me still when you put pressure on Pharaoh for some time more times, yes, yes, I'm serving God in the land and so on, but I want to be able to go away free. And Pharaoh will agree that he will bring another condition. Look at stage 3, because Pharaoh wants you to work for for God Wednesdays and Sundays, Tuesdays, evenings. But God wants you to work for him every day, all day, every day. Look at stage 3, Pharaoh does not want you to go too far. It's like go, but don't go to Congo. Congo is too far. Germany is too far. Paris is too far. Perhaps Alton, perhaps Ben, perhaps 1000, perhaps Lausanne. They'll go too far. They're going too far now. You're taking this thing too far. They're too serious about every couple of lighten up, loosen up. Exodus chapter 8 verse 28 and Pharaoh said I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far. Not too far serving of this God is OK, but not you are taking me too far now. Yeah, you are taking it too far. What do you think? You're taking it too far. You came to church, it's nice. And so you did an exam, but it's now going too far. What you are thinking about is extreme. Please, it's too much. Hey, thank God, but please, there are some points which you have to be careful. Mature, be mature, use wisdom, huh? Yeah. Just just take your time. Yes. When you grow up, you will change your mind. Don't be a fool. Don't go too far. Listen. Oh, this is a prophecy to you. Moses said let my people go. My people won't go and say God, we want to make sacrifice to God. The Pharaoh said yes, but not just just to go too far. You see, You see how the devil is. You want to serve God, but when you are working for him, when you are working for the devil, he never said this is too far. Everything was not too much one and more. You had one girlfriend, not enough. Another girlfriend, not enough. Sleeping with more girls at the same time. Sleeping with three boys at the same time. Yeah. Being a subject of of gala. Do you know what is gala? Yes. Like more people are sleeping with you at the same day on the same. And then, yeah, everybody comes at a different. This one has this, this one has this one has that. Yeah. It's just not too far to become a homosexual. It's not too far. All the things don't Took a nightclub disco, Stay with a man, stay with a married man. Going here, travelling on the way. All those things are not too much when it comes to God's work. Please take your time. Not too much prayer, not too much singing. Don't sing too much. Sing one song. It's OK. Sing 2 songs, it's enough. Why do you have to change all your music to Christian music? Why? You're taking it too far. Come on, relax. Put on the radio. Come on. Keep the jazz. Keep this, keep that. What is it? You get it. Yeah. So Satan is a type, Pharaoh is a type of Satan. He is the symbol of Satan and how he restricts your, your, your, your being set free. Yeah, state #4. Pharaoh does not want you to risk your finances, Want to risk anything financial. What does he say? And Pharaoh called unto Moses and said, Go ye serve the Lord only. Only let your flocks and your heads be stayed. Let your little ones also go with you. Leave the financial aspect out. You want to serve God. Don't risk your career, your finances because your heads and your flock with their business. So don't risk your job at WHO or say well, NTKCTK, don't risk it. It's very dangerous and you're always there WHO don't. Don't risk it. Very dangerous. And you too. Well, WHO and you too? There is none. Like you, there is none like you who? So when I was going to work for the Lord, are you with me? He was like, no, you're going to risk your life. You're going to live off collections, collections, collection. Are you out of your mind? Everybody's going to America. You are not going to America. My classmate, my class, he helped me to start our church. When we started our church in America, in New York, I slept with him in the same room. My bosom, old timers friend, old, oldest type of friends. I stayed with him. We started as one of the pastors there. Yeah, everybody was going. He went everybody when I was there alone. Yeah, I risked. I put my flocks at my heads at risk, and Pharaoh was saying I should go back. I can save God. I can be a doctor and a pastor. I shouldn't sacrifice or put at risk any financial aspect of my life. Are you there? So brothers and sisters, it is very, very, very important. Amen. Now the next one you must work worthy of this great opportunity. Amen. In other words, behave in the right way. Like when when we were medical students were becoming doctors. We had to learn from tomorrow you are a doctor, a medical student to a doctor just in one day. Then you are a doctor. The day before you are medical student, the day after you are a doctor. So so that you are used to behaving like a student. Then the next day you have been told you are now a doctor, so you have to change your thinking quickly. So that. You can think like the how you really are now, how what you've become you become doctor so so that our student guy ish ways. We have to suddenly hey, remember you are now Doctor Mills instead of brother die. So when God calls you like he's calling you, now you have to quickly think and adjust how you behave. It's like somebody who's just become a doctor so that you behave according to your calling. And that's what baboon says when he says in efficiency chapter 4, verse one, walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called. That's the first verse right there. Did you get that? Live your life in a way when somebody like you has been saved. A very bad person like you has been saved, very bad person just like you have been saying. So you don't have to conduct yourself. That's why I said somebody like me 12 years ago, I should have been dead. I should have been dead sleeping in my room. Hey, So what am I alive for? To have more children to do this, to do? Oh please, I'm here for God. As long as I live till my last day belongs to Him and to His service and to His Kingdom, and it does not belong to my own self, to my life. Amen. Are you there? Wow. Now how do you work worthy? How many want to work worthy? You want to work worthy. Four reasons why you must work worthy #1 You must work worthy because it is a privilege to be chosen. What a blessing to be chosen among all your brothers and your sisters. How many have noticed that some of your brothers don't even believe in God at all? But you are different. Have you noticed? So why, why, why are you different? Why are you? Different what does the Bible says? Therefore see we have received Second Corinthians chapter 4 verse one. Notice the verse. See we have received this ministry as we have received mercy. We think not. We will not be discouraged because we have received mercy, Forgiveness. Sister, has God not forgiven you? Huh. Has he? Forgiven you, would you like us to play the DVD of your life? Huh. Shabba rabba. Suka ba baa baa ba rabba rabba. Oh shall we play the videos of our lives? How many will like your video of your life? You want the blood of Jesus to wipe away your your sins. If we remove the blood of Jesus and your sins, we play your video here, you will even be ashamed to come to church again. Even if they call you pastor and they ordain you, reverend, Bishop, whatever, you will be ashamed of the church because many of us people don't know how we were. How many realize that people don't know how? You were one of our pastors at the Kodesh. He has a very angelic face. Yeah. He looks very, you know, this type of nice looking people. Yeah, he has this type of television face. He's the type. Of person who would win an election. And I mean, I never thought of anything that he was ever even in the world. The one day when he opened his mouth, how he was a drunkard. I couldn't believe my eyes, my ears. Yeah. No, not even that one. Not that. A presidential one. You, you, you. You not know. But if God. Brings a DV. So ladies and gentlemen, we have a 20 minute DVD also then Pascal 20 minute degree of Pascal Vida stand up if I play a video. If I play a video now, he may be very shy from today onwards. Very shy. One day I went for a crusade, I went for a crusade, and after the crusade we went somewhere to have a drink in the middle of the night, about midnight, and when we finished we were just coming out. And then we came out and it happened that where the crusade was, where the place was, was a disco. And my assistant evangelist, yeah, as we were standing there by the car coming together was a door. Like these were the doors. And somebody came out, a wild guy with some muscles and some other gadgets and things on him came out. And then my assistant evangelist told me that this door. He used to. Come out of this same door at 3:00 AM in the night and from there he'll go to another disco and then from there he'll go to another disco before he'll get home in the morning. Hey, I said you you said me he used to have he said he said to me, I can't I at the age of from one with a value of 12, he could drink 1 bottle of vodka. Vodka. So me I don't know what is vodka. So one day I went to a restaurant. I was in certain town. I went to a restaurant. They said what would you have to drink? I said I'll have vodka. So I didn't know what it was I'll have vodka. So they said I said I want 1 bottle. They said no we don't sell, we don't sell a bottle we sell a torch. I said I want 1 bottle because my assistant evangelist has told me that he drink 1 bottle and collapse unconscious. He can drink one whole bottle at the age of 12 and I look at him and at that time he was not even coming to serve the Lord full time. So when I told him, I said you are not grateful. I told you. Don't appreciate your salvation. You. You should have been dead. Look at this guy, 3:00 AM coming out of this room with a certain girl. What can even save him when you look at how he is? Even when anybody talks to him, we even listen you, you have been talked to, you have been changed. I mean you have been and you, it's like your, your aim is to share paracetamol, Panadol and chloroquine tablets as your aim is to share medicine. You not you don't want, you want to give yourself to work. You see, there's a certain, there's a certain, a certain comprehension of how God has been kind to you that will make you want to give yourself to him. Yeah, I told you, you are not, you are not grateful for your salvation. You don't know your salvation. That's why you didn't say you want to practice medicine. God has saved. You, you should be so that I want to tell the whole world till I die how kind and merciful God is. That's what Paul said, that since we have received mercy, we would never faint again. We would never be discouraged from this world. Yeah, that's why I said that sometimes. I want us to get videos. Of your lives recently, you. Think that video is not possible. Recently, a certain rich woman, she was with a certain man, and then the man had been having sex with her with a very, very rich woman. And he said, look, I've had all the videos. Yeah. Yeah, just this man. Yeah. So I have all the videos. Yeah, I have all the videos. Play the video right now. See, God has all our videos. Oh, you see, what I'm trying to say is that a human being did it to somebody. And said I have the. Video of us. And she was ready. To pay so much money so that he will not release the videos. That's OK. So thank. God for the opportunity to go to Germany, Hey, thank God #2 why you must work worthy, It is more natural. Hey, why, why am I #2 You must work worthy because you have a limited season of opportunity. Amen. This is what applies to the Levites. From the age of 25 years and upward, they shall enter to perform the service in the work of the tent of the meeting, but at the age of 50 they shall retire from service in the work and work no more. Amen. For up to the age of what, 50? Pastor Jimmy. Have you passed that age? Yeah. Now what does it mean? It's not going to COGO anymore. So that is why I. Wonder how many young people you see? God said from the age of 25. Some of you you feel you are. Too young to work for God. It is not true. 25 from the age of 25, you start, yeah, you can't work for God. Yeah, I started work for when I was 16 years old. Yeah, started when I was. 16 Witnessing, following up, writing the maps to people's houses, writing the prayer list of everybody. This is how I used to pray for people. Give me your book. I write their names like that, and I used to sit down and mention the names in secondary school. I look at the name, I say Henrietta Linda. I have a list of that, mention the name and I speak in tongues. I mentioned that in George entry. Randy Mills, everybody. 'S. Name I mentioned and I look at and I pray. I was 17 years old. Sixteen. Yeah. Look for money. Where was money? I drew a map to everybody's house in the school. Yeah. There's a pen. I drew a map. Yes. You go here, then you come to a kiosk. Then you turn right. This one is going straight. Give me pen. Then you go, right. Then you come to a river. Then there's a watching seller here. Watches rice, rice and beans. Rice and beans, seller. Then you pass. You cross a bridge to the gutter. There's a big tree and there's a certain man here. That's the house. Everybody add the map to your house like that. Everybody in secondary school. I'm not talking about pay. I'm not talking about pay that somebody is giving me or I'm going to get something from you when I come. So that so that I know the weight you have to visit you during the long vacation to prevent you from backsliding. Yeah, to. Prevent you from backsliding. Yeah, yeah. So. Saying that you are not too young, How many are young? How many feel you are too young? From today, you are not too young. Let's starting like you are too young. Let's starting like you are too. Young. Yeah. When you are full of the word of God, you sound much older than your age. Yeah. You'll be far. Older than your age because of the anointed because of the word. Do you get it? So you read the map. I remember one day I went. To visit 111 sister she showed me the direction to a place at a shop so I went there. When I got there then they they told her your boyfriend has come. They chatted from your boyfriend has come. When I heard I said look at somebody, your idiot, you said your boyfriend has come. I'm coming on visiting. So as far back as that, people have started thinking bad things, thinking different things, thinking differently. It's not a new thing. We have been fighting all these ideas for years and years, hey. So you you must know. That you have a limited season and the season starts when you are young. The younger the better. Some of you brothers, you are afraid because of certain feelings that you have in you brothers. Are there not certain feelings that come when you see the members and you say, oh Lord, the feeling that I'm feeling, is it holiness or what is it? Because of these. Feelings me. That's one of the thing that's fighting me from working for God, because the feelings in my body, I feel the fire. I've seen the flames are moving. I'm not. I'm not sure. Of myself. But I still have to serve the Lord. Yeah. Still have to serve the Lord. Yeah. It's not easy. It's all part of the discipline. And to prove that you love God. What do you think? Yeah. So from 25 you are at the highest point of your fertility when you are 25 years old. From 25, your sperm starts reducing gradually. Yeah, sperms. By the time at 25, the sperms have become plenty. Friendly. Are you really? Ready to give them? Receive it. But you see, it is. At that very time that God is calling because you are going to direct the energy, the strength, the zeal. Yeah, yeah. Because when you are older, you cannot do certain things. Yeah, you send a. 60 year old man or a 21, almost 16, A 21 year old or a 25 year old guy to go and walk in Kinshasa or to go and walk in Lumumbai? What other town is there? Kungu. Apart from Lumumbashi? Yeah, mention one more. There's another one, another famous 1 Kisagani. I should send a. 60 year old man to go and walk in Kisagani or I should send a 21. You stand up. How old are you? 25 come. Don't you think this guy can survive by the Congo River? You can swim. This guy can survive and turn around and people can see. You don't swim in the Congo River. I I send an elderly 60 year old man. I think how many you? Prefer to say that somebody who can swim by the Gogo River, you survive. When I came to, when we came to start the church here, I was staying in the hostel as a student. Yeah. We stayed at our students all like 14. How many years ago? 1990? What? 92? Yeah, 92. That means I was 2029 years old. I must in my 20s. So I could learn. New things, how to learn the roads here. How I get a car, get insurance, get a license. Do this. Do that. Register here. Find a way. Stay in the hostel. Bath with people, go to toilet with people. Different things. Yeah. I'm only 29. I'm not only 29 years old. I'm not old. I'm not safe. I'm not. I can't do this. I can't. No, no, no. As you get. Older. More things that. Become more difficult. So this is the season. That's why you must work with, because God has given you a limited season. What do you think? He looks like a soldier. You're blessed, you're strong, very strong. The strongest so far. #3 you must walk worthy, because the grace of God has worked for you. Amen. What does the Bible say? First Corinthians chapter 15 verse 10. Read it there. What does it say? By the grace of God, I am what I am. By the grace of God, I am. What I am? You are what you. Are by the grace of God. Vidal, stand up. Have you been in a war before? Come here. Have you been in a war before? Where's the microphone? Have you been in a war before? Huh. That's for. Sure, you've been in a war before. Why? They were shooting Coco, Coco, Coco. Were you in your house? Were soldiers outside? Did they come inside the house? What happened to you when they came? They shut. The windows and the door. So we had to go underneath the bed. OK, and then they use an axe to break the door. Did. They kill you? No. Did they rape you? No. So. Why? Why didn't they rape you in your own house? Did you have raped you and they should have killed you after and as well? Did they cut off your hand? No. Did they cut off your hand? Hey, you see Now look at that. You walk for how many? How many days? Three days, Three days you walked to. Where to? Danales and Cote d'Ivoire you walked to Cote. D'ivoire And now you say you cannot take bus from Geneva to Lausanne. You walked to Ivory Coast from Liberia, from Liberia, and I said I'm coming from a camp and I'm coming from a camp. You cannot come from Geneva to Lausanne. I have to make a special. Phone call to be able to get you to camp. But you were able. To walk from like from where to Liberia to Ivory Coast for three days do. You see why I'm? Facing all these things. Did you bath? Did you bath when you were? From for how many days you didn't bath? 3 days a woman maybe she wasn't in her period and when we got to. Cordova they they took us from then and lead to the the ambassador of Ghana's house in Ivory Coast and Cordova and when his daughter saw my hair, it was. Spaghetti and the 1st. Thing, She asked. Do you want to have a bath? Because we're you're smelling, Yeah, stinky smiley. And somebody has married you. Somebody has married. You now you say you cannot. Come from Geneva to Lozanne. You cannot come from Geneva to Lozanne for meeting. Shall we pull there? Take it away. Yeah. Soldiers came into the house, they went out of the bed. They didn't kill them. They didn't cut off their hands, they didn't rape them. And you are really said by. The grace of God. And we hear you are in Geneva. I'm a lady, maybe working World Health Organization. I can't. So this I should come from you. I can't come. Tell Bishop I can't come. I'm not coming from the camp. Tell Bishop I can't come. You're math like you cannot come. You're math. You say you can't come. By the grace of God. I am what? I am. No, I see you can't come. Looking for here. We're pussy push up. We're pussy, idiot. You say you can't come. Oh so God, he. Looks at us. Oh, and he looks at you. You. You said what you can't do right now. He just looks at us. He just. He said he's just amazed. You can't come here. OK. I'll find somebody else who can come. You can't come and see. It's OK. When I asked the dead. Body, the dead, the dead bodies. One of our church members, he was a Carpenter, he told me, He said when I was leaving Monrovia, just like this, he said we were running. He was running with his, his, his, his, his wife, because this is with his wife. Have you seen that film? Rambo. Have you seen Rambo? When Rambo was with the. Lady. And the lady was shot and he buried her the same thing. He was running with his wife. I told you, is it? Oh, you know that story? We. Were running away, they were shooting bullets and some people were just falling off when we were just going. They were shooting. Bullets. And some of the people that were with you were shot and they fell down. Yeah, we are my father. 'S car, so the bullet just goes through the window. He has Pew, so he just And today you are lady. Viger in Geneva who cannot come from here to here. 25 minutes. It's fantastic. You can't come, Chris. Are you surprised that she can't come? You. Hey, you can't come. By the you see. So you see, by the answer he's not asking why did he spare you? Why did he leave you? Why did why like me? Why did I have that? Why didn't I die? Because the Reverend is two children dead 6. Sex to me. We were five in the car. Why didn't we die? So you have to. You have to remember I didn't die because of the crease of God for some reason. And I will never forget that reason. I mustn't forget. I must live. Always my life. To the end, thinking that I could have easily died, but God did not want me to die. Amen. OK, sit down. You are lucky that the brothers have not. I don't know why they didn't catch you. OK #4 page 16. And it's more. Natural to the To live the life of an unbeliever Amen than to serve God. It's more natural. That's why you must work worthy, because it's more natural to just live the life of an unbeliever and the Bible says do not live Ephesians 417. I affirm together with the. Law that you work no longer, just as the Gentiles also work in the futility of their minds. Being darkened in. Their understanding and excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them. Amen. So there are three things. Amen. Three main characteristics of an unbeliever's life. A to live as an unbeliever is to walk in the futility of your mind. Your mind is futile, it's useless. Don't use your just your thinking to live in this world. There's more to this life than how your mind. Hey what time is 7? Is it 6 to one? So we have some, a few. Minutes more OK to live. To live as an unbeliever is to work in the futility of your mind. Your mind is futile. Don't trust your mind. Trust God. Don't trust your calculations. Trust God Don't trust your working out of issues. Trust God. God is the one who you must trust. But unbelievers, they just think that's Europe is the best example. They have lived their life fully to the futility of their minds only to discover when they die that there is a God. Number B page 17 To live as an unbeliever is to be darkened in your understanding. When you are darkened in your understanding, it means that your understanding cannot go far when there is darkness. When there is darkness, are you there When there is darkness in this you cannot see far, so it means your understanding cannot understand far. So when you are an unbeliever, your understanding is darkened. Read the verse Ephesians 4 up there. It says being darkened in their understanding. So these are the three characteristics of an unbeliever in efficiency after 4 by 17, number one, to walk in the futility of their mind. Are you seeing it in Ephesians 4 #2 being darkened in their understanding, and then #3? Excluded. From the life of God. Through. Ignorance, Amen. Excluded from the life that God wants you to have. When you walk with the futility of your mind and your understanding is not very far because it's dark. You are excluded. From a certain life. Yeah, you're excluded from a. Certain life. So when you think the futility of a man, yes, I have a job, OK, my child, is this my this is that OK? My understanding does not go very far. You end up being excluded from the camp. You end up being excluded from the life. You end up being excluded from so many blessings that God has for you. You are excluded from your real colleague, your real full time ministry because your futility, your mind, the uselessness of your mind, you followed it and your limited understanding, understanding which was dark, so it was like limited. You understood only up to a point when God said give, it shall be given unto you. Your understanding is dark and so you don't understand that give it shall be given. You understand that give, you lose it forever. Give and then you will not have any more money. Your mind is limited, your understanding is deep. So you are excluded from a certain life of peace, a life of joy, a life of working for God, a life of full time ministry, a life of giving up yourself, a life of praising God, a life of ministry. You are excluded from it because your thinking is up to just up to this place. And your understanding? Is just small because it's dark. When it's dark you can't run fast. If this place was dark, I would take my time. So what you're understanding is that your understanding rolls slowly. So other believers are. Watching us this year's as idiots because of the futility of their mind. Why should you come here Monday when you should be at work? Look at you idiot. You are sitting here Tuesday when you should be at work working at UBS or Credit Suisse bank. You are sitting here, idiot. Wednesday when you're supposed to be or whatever you are here, idiot. It's because their. Understanding is darkened, so when you come and work for God, you work worthy and you walk away from the life of the unbeliever, you walk away from the mind of the unbeliever, and you start to be fruitful for God in His house. Amen. Are you there? How many are being blessed with this book? Walking worthy? Yeah. Chapter 5, How to walk Worthy. Amen. Number one, do not offer strange fire. In other words, you cannot just serve God the way you want to serve Him. God has prescribed what He wants you to do. Like me, I can't just do what I want to do. I have to do what God wants me to do. I can't just get up and start doing things. Ayudhia, Ayudhia Leviticus chapter 20, verse page 22, Leviticus chapter 10. It's right there in the book, and there came out from the presence. Fire from the Lord. Amen. OK. And consume them, and they died before the Lord. Amen. It starts from. Before Nadab chapter page 21, Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Iran took their respective fire pans and after putting fire and then placed incense on it and offered strange fire. Nadab and Abihu. Strange fire. They offered a ministry which God was not. They didn't know what ministry this is strange fire. There are some people who are offering strange fire to God. God hasn't called them and they have decided to offer strange fire. Nadab and Abihu and offer strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. And fire came out from. The presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. The Moses said to. Aaron, it is what the Lord spoke, saying by those who come near me, I will be treated as holy, and before all the people I will be honored. So Aaron therefore kept silent. Amen. You, you can't serve God the way you want to serve Him. You can't offer strange fire. You can't just do things because it's ministry. There is fire and there is strange fire. They were supposed to offer fire, but not fire. That God has not asked for strange fire, which was not something when he says something strange. I don't know about this one. When God sees you in his Tabernacle, but I don't know about I don't remember ever calling you. I remember ever calling you to come here. Who made Who made you a founder of a church? Who made you a founder? Who? Made you as I asked you to start any church who? Made you to who? Made you to break away from this church who made you to do what you are doing. They offer strange fire and the Bible says fast track Nadab and Abihu. I didn't write this book for anybody. I wrote it long time ago. I'm just reading the things to you, in case you think I mean Reverend Nadab and I, Reverend Abihu of Switzerland. Sons of Iran. There were sons of Iran. Oh, they were past the sons. They came from. Iran and now they were doing something different. God has not asked them to do so. Watch out those of you nadabs of Switzerland and are because of Switzerland. What to you? Because a second spear is coming in the Spirit to clear you out of the system. Because God said I will be hallowed and I will be honored by all those who come. When you come to serve God, you must come to serve God with holiness and with a setting fear and reference of the things of God. You can't just come and mishandle the church, mishandle the people, mishandle the Bishop, mishandle the servants of the Lord, and just offer any kind of fire that you feel that you want to offer a fire in Switzerland that God has not asked you to offer that fire. Hey, I would say Aaron was. Silent. Yeah, because God cleared them out. Nadaps and abuse. Yes. There were Aaron sons, OK, Yes, there were people that came out from him. Yes, they were supposed to be in the house a lot. But what they were doing, God did no records. And what are you doing? What is this? Different in the church. Strange fire. Shia OK, but strange fire. Shia alright, but. Stranger, that's what we talk about. Work worthy, the fact that you have been after the opportunity to be a lay pastor. Work worthy of it. Don't get up and start offering strange fires which God has to ask anybody to offer in Switzerland. You should rather become Switzerland, asking for percentages of the offering and taking away the church's instruments, and going to use that same instrument which you have stolen to offer a strange worship to God. You are taking our. Chest taking our instruments, taking the members and you are coming to use that same organ to offer a strange incense which God doesn't know about. What incense is this? And there were sounds of error no. That means that there were. Products of error. And I'm offering something that is different that God has not asked for. So be careful. You know, I didn't write the Bible. I didn't write the Bible. You better be careful when you deal with God. You better be careful when you deal with the things of God. Better be careful when you handle men, or even if you think they they are they have retired, or even if you think they are old, or even if you think they are outdated. You better be careful. Well, God has a reason why he likes every single one of his servants. Me. I had. AI had a servant in my house and he was he was stealing, but I like him. Yeah, I have, I have, I have. I remember 2 servants in my one dozen steal, 1 steals. And. I like both of them. Sometimes I even like the one who's still more than the one who doesn't still. Charlie. Be careful with God's service or sometimes you even see that you see their faults clearly and you'll be surprised that God likes this one with his photo are. You there? Nadab and Abihu, they offered strange fire. And God killed all the. Two of them. What is strange fire? Seen it's a type of ministry. The fire represents the ministry that they were. It's not like they went to sleep with women like Eli sons. Those are different things, but it's like they were trying to do ministry, but it's like a different kind of ministry that God didn't ask for and something disorderly out of order. Totally out of. Order. You do not. Break somebody's church to go and build your church. Where are my members? Every single member who came who stands in Lighthouse is our member. When you have our member in your church. If you have a Lighthouse member in your church, you have a stolen property and I am placing a spiritual arrest warrant for all, all thieves of sheep, all sheep thieves in Switzerland. I'm placing a spiritual arrest warrant for you all those who are taking my members. I came to Switzerland in 1992 to start a church. You have come for the members, You have come for the instrument, You have come for the chest. What do you want? To you, something will chase you in your house. You wait and see. Don't come for my people, people that God has given me. You have come for them. Where are my members? Where are my people? I'm asking you for the people. And fire will come and burn you in your house. You wait and see. You say you are offering fires and other incense. I'm not saying you are sleeping with somebody. I'm not saying you are stealing my, I say you are offering a different fire. You say you are. Also doing ministry, be careful where are my members? You have lied to them. You have lied to them, You have told them lies about me so that you could steal them from me. What to you? All the cases of a thief will follow you. You see, I will not kiss you. But the cases of a thief in the Bible, they will all follow you. You told them. Lies about me so that they will believe you. You told them bad things about me so that they will believe you. You wait and see. When your harvest comes, I, I will not kiss you, but Galatians 6-7 will follow you whatsoever a man, so it will become plenty, and he will come to him. You've come for my people. You've come for my chest. Lighthouse's name. Is on it. You've told them something so that they will follow you. Why? What have I done to you? Have I done only good thing? Babu said he that repaired evil for good, evil shall never depart from his house if that repairs good with evil. Evil shall never. Depart from his house the the good that I've done to you to make you a pastor and to encourage and let people honor you in this town and this city. How have you repaid it for me? What have you said? What is the payment you have given me? Why read your Bible? What have I done to you? And today you have made my own sons, Sons of Iran come and offer a tithe to do another type of ministry. So be careful. Many years ago, Archbishop Idahosa, he had a church and some of the pastors took the church and he sent some people to go and collect their instruments. And all the things. Because they are taking over the church. They killed those pastors, including his own brother or relative. Yeah, they killed all of them. They never saw them again up till today. From that day when I heard. That day, I said. I will never fight. Over chess instruments, whatever, I will never fight with all those things. I will commend you to God. I should take because I that thing was a message to me that never fight over chess instrument. If you want to take it, take it. Yeah. Penchant is mine, says the Lord. You want to steal my things? My members. Hey, my children. You told them lies about me. What did I tell them? Look, ask me here. Do I not tell you good things about all my pastors? I always tell you good things about them. This one has done this. This one is this this one. They are always encouraging the people to believe in you, Mary, as I tell you. Good thing I've honored her. Charles Bannerman. All these people they have done, Joseph, all I say. Well, what have I done to you? Why would you now tell people bad things about me To to to make them think of me as a bad person? What have I done to you? You have to be careful. Yeah, you must be careful. You are playing with something that you are repaying. You are preparing a good thing with an evil thing. I haven't done anything bad. And all of us as we are sitting, we all, we are all not perfect and we know ourselves. We have all had different defenses. But I always, I want you to be, I want you to be greater, greater, greater. Even when you see that even I'm joking with you and we are laughing, you can see that it's even out of laugh that somebody can even you become a laughter and a kind of something that is interesting. If you are not even favored, you will not be. You will not be mentioned in such a light. Saddam Therefore, I, the prisoner of the Lord, Ephesians 4I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to work in a manner worthy of the calling. If God has given you this great privilege to travel from here to here to go and work worthy, handle it with care. Handle it with a certain reference and appreciation. Of such an. Opportunity. I turn around and say you are warning us and you better answer you within the next whatever. Otherwise you advise yourself, what do you mean? What do you mean by that? You've not understood what it means to work worthy of the calling and opportunity. Collusion chapter. One verse 10. So that then you will walk. In a mother worthy of the Lord, Amen. To please him in. All respects are you seeing in coalition to please him in Lord, He bearing fruit in every good way, and increasing in the knowledge of God, not decreasing in the knowledge of God. Increasing in the. Knowledge of God strengthen with all power according to His glorious mind. For the attaining of all steadfastness and patience, you must attain a level of steadfastness and patience. Amen. Therefore, since we have this ministry, Second Corinthians chapter 4 verse one, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. Yes, don't be tired. Of travelling for the Lord. Don't be tired of preaching. Don't be tired of looking after people. Don't be tired of caring for them. Don't be tired. We do not faint because we've realized that we have a blessed heritage and a blessed permission from God to be here. How can you get tired and be where we start talking like a fool? We do not lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not working in craftiness or adulterating the Word of God, but by the manifestation of truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God, Amen. Recommend ourselves to people's conscience in the sight of God. Amen. All right, we. Shall continue after the break. 20 ways to. Work worthy. You see this is. These are. All lay ministry and full time ministry, they are foundational things. Without it you cannot. This work cannot do. Go on well. Amen. OK, Are you ready for lunch? Dinner offering. OK, take out an offering. OK, let's lift up your offering. Take out a good offering please. Father, we thank you as. We give this offering in Jesus name. Father, we thank you for. This time in Jesus name, Amen. Bless you.