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10. The Purpose Of Disloyal People

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 2, 2025 46m 1s

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Camp Title - Warnings of Purpose. Machaneh Collection - 69. Preached in 2010, Ghana (Cape Coast). 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 warnings of purpose. Are you feeling kind of rotten because you think you've been forgotten by the One who said and never would forget? Maybe your little heart's been naked because you think you've been forsaken and the only thing you know to do is friend? You can worry all the problems if you think you must, but your life would be much easier if you learn how to trust. So give your life to Jesus and make him your delight up. He can work it out all right. Baby, you feel you've been mistreated 'cause you feel that you've been cheated out of something that ought to belong to you. Well, why do you have to worry? Why do you have to cry? God made you win his image or the upper love, his eyes. So give your life to Jesus. Make him your delight up. He can work it out all night and like you're feeling counted under. And do you start to wonder if anybody cares about you? Do your frown because the sin attempt to be the only winner. You wish that you could win a little too. Well, remember, since the man just only lasts a little while. And besides, you look much better when you decide to fire to give your life to Jesus. Make him.

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Welcome to track #10 of warnings of purpose. Are you feeling kind of rotten because you think you've been forgotten by the One who said and never would forget? Maybe your little heart's been naked because you think you've been forsaken and the only thing you know to do is friend? You can worry all the problems if you think you must, but your life would be much easier if you learn how to trust. So give your life to Jesus and make him your delight up. He can work it out all right. Baby, you feel you've been mistreated 'cause you feel that you've been cheated out of something that ought to belong to you. Well, why do you have to worry? Why do you have to cry? God made you win his image or the upper love, his eyes. So give your life to Jesus. Make him your delight up. He can work it out all night and like you're feeling counted under. And do you start to wonder if anybody cares about you? Do your frown because the sin attempt to be the only winner. You wish that you could win a little too. Well, remember, since the man just only lasts a little while. And besides, you look much better when you decide to fire to give your life to Jesus. Make him. You're delightful. He can work it out all right. So what's the hurry? Let him work it out all right. So what's the hurry? He can work it out all right. So stop your busting. Let him work it all right? And stop to trust him. He can work it all right. Everybody needs a little help to get their lives together. You're a no exception. Everybody needs a little hand that they can hold on to. Everybody needs a little help to get the life together. I want to give it to you. I heard the news about you a little while ago. Try to call, but Wooden World and I caught you at home. No one else in this whole wide world could be as much as you to me. So I thought I'll drop by for a little while in case you need a hand and everybody needs a little help to get their lives together. You're no exception. Everybody needs a little hand that they can hold on to. Everybody needs a little help to get their lives together. I want to give it to you. You can cry if you want to. You know I'll understand. You can tell me everything that's old in life, don't you? Keep it in. Don't you worry. Don't apologize for anything you do or say. For what? A friend's call, But be around when you're feeling that way. Everybody needs a little help to get the lives together, and you're no extension. Everybody needs a little hand that they can hold on to. Oh, everybody needs a little help to get their lives together, and I want to give it to you. I want to give it to you. Together, life together. Everybody needs a little hand that they can hold on to. Everybody needs a little help together, life together. I want to give it to you. Now look chapter 19, verse one, the purpose of disloyal people. The purposes of disloyal people. And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho, and behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. It's not a crusade. Evangelistic preaching and preaching on disloyalty, which was the chief among the publicans. And he was rich and he sought to see Jesus, who he was and could not for the press because he was little of stature. And he ran before and climbed up into a Sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. Now when you go to Jericho, has somebody taken my volume up? Don't do that. You can be smashed easily. I hope to be giving you a very important announcement about a meeting in Jerusalem. How many, how many are looking forward to our long-awaited Holy Land visit? I'm going to give you the price. I will give you the price today. How much, How much it will cost for you to to be there for the visit to Jerusalem and to Galilee and all the other places that we have done, Amen. So expect that announcement as we are flowing shuffling conference can be held in Jerusalem. All those we have never seen a shuffling will be there. Anyway, so anyway, I'm just saying because I when I saw the Sycamore tree, you would think that it's not real. When you go to Jericho, you will see Sycamore tree there. Yeah, big. And you can see how Zacchaeus would have climbed that particular tree because it's right in Jericho. There's a real place in Jericho. This is Jericho. If you are going to Jerusalem, you always go to Jericho first. It's like Kaswa and Accra. You always come to Kaswa. Then after that you, you see Accra, you go after about 15 minutes, then you are in Jerusalem, something like that. For 2025 minutes you are there, but you come here and then you ascend to Jerusalem. That's why you have the Psalms of the ascent. If you see in your Bible psalms, and so when they are moving from Jericho to Jerusalem, it goes upward and they sing those psalms. There are about 12 of them because it's it's high, it goes higher. You understand the Bible better if you stand there, you see the mountains and you see across there, you see those are the mountains that Moses stood on. And you see the whole place. That's where he stood in the law said you see all these places again, but you see, but you cannot come. He died up there. This is very wonderful. Yeah. And when when Jesus said, when you hear that those who are in Judea don't come, you understand, because you see where Judaism and Syria don't come to Jerusalem, That's why the mountains should flee. You see the mountains there, everything is just it's it's very wonderful this you see standing there. OK, the purpose of disloyal people, the purpose of this thy people. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and he saw him and said, There is a chaos, make haste and come down, for today I must abide at thy house. And he made haste and came down and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they murmured, saying that he was going to be the guest. You get it with your mam. That was a synonym. And Zacchaeus stood and said unto the Lord, Behold, I give half of my goods to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus said, This day is salvation. Come to this house for so much as he is also a son of Abraham, Amen. Is it not a nice story? And this is verse 1, you see. And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. Now you will notice, you will notice that Zacchaeus immediately repented. And in his statement of repentance, you he revealed the secret of a disloyal and a wicked person. He said if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, if I've taken any members of Lighthouse by falsely accusing the church or the Bishop or the partners of the church, I will restore them back. Because most of the disloyal people, they need a false accusation to defraud us of our members. They have to come up with because Zacchaeus was a tax collector, he has to tell say to people that you were this and this and that bring this money and it was not true, but the person was under pressure and so he took them their money. Can you you have this house, you have this, whatever you are this and that you'll be arrested whatever that through the false accusation last year you didn't pay one. Hey, you are penalty. This they pray give you and through false there to you. You are thief. You didn't do this without Caesar. You'll be putting the gallows. You know the gallows where Ben if you bought the Ben Hampton where they are under the ship and they are you are going to the Carlos next next next month you I'm reporting you to Sikka. He was working for Caesar. I'm reporting you are going to the people are afraid and through false accusation. He was collecting this person's money. Money taking things. He said that whoever I have defrauded by false accusation, I restore it back to all of them for fools. So you see that a destroyer person has the purpose of taking something from you. Yes, by false accusations. He wants to take your member, your church, your the meat in the soup. He wants to take the meat in the soup and leave you with those. He's he's not a good leader, he's not a good preacher. He is this he is a stammer. He doesn't know how to do this. He is this he sits in Ghana. He just talk whatever and through false accusation, mentioning things and casting in slight insinuations all over the place. You convince the people and take that you come look, let's go. God is going to do something great. This man don't mind him whatever this and through false accusations they take the people and defrag at the church and the pastor and the shepherd of his true members. Like I told one person that my church members are sitting in your church. Don't forget that they are sitting there every Sunday. People that belong to Lighthouse Through the funny comments you say we cannot pray to the Holy Spirit before we preach. Through this kind of comments and statements, you are destroying the Church of its membership. That's why when Zacchaeus, when Zacchaeus repented, he said what I have taken from you by false accusations, I'm taking them back. If you today, tomorrow, you say you want to break away from the church, you want to take me. You have to raise up something to talk about that I am chopping your money. Which money of yours have I chopped? Is it my underpants you want to see before you know whether I'm using your money? You have to create some false accusation. That's what you have to do. You have to come up with something for people to believe you, for you to take them, to take the check, to take the main meaty members that God has given to us. The film I'm going to show is called Relentless Enemies. Relentless Enemies. Enemies relentless. You see the response we will get to a thief? Yes. Are you understanding the message of loyalty better? Are you seeing what Zacchaeus did? All this? Yes. People have started churches by false accusations. I tell you, they have defrauded congregations of their members. They are Taipei members, they are juicy members, They are faithful people. They are defrauded. They are of their instrumentalists, They are shepherd, They are defrauded. You say don't mind, Bishop this and that, this whatever and so on. You say, oh the church, it is slow, it is this what is shuffling, this and that. And you keep casting words and statements and make things he said. If I have for taking everything from any man by false accusation, King James Version, I will restore him for hold. You sit there and you think you, you, you think that you, you will never restore. It will be restored more than for hold. God is far wider than any of us. Where he's coming to collect something from the house, we pray about it. So that is the first principal purpose of disloyal people is to defraud us of what belongs to us by false. It cannot work unless you you have to come up with something or you don't get what I'm saying. How many understand this loyalty in a different way today? That is why most men of God are accused all the time of everything you can imagine, anything you can imagine. They always been. You need to accuse them to be able to take away whatever. You know, one day I, I one of the greatest surprises of my life was when I saw Bonke and Benihin being together, lambasted and persecuted. These two people. You know, if you if you in Germany, when he went to this city, I think Ibadan or Benin city, there was some problem with the crowd, Benin city and then some people died. And when he described what the people said about him, he said the German people said his inflicted ego, he has an inflicted ego to gather a lot of people instead of whatever, whatever to feed his inflicted ego. Yeah, all these people, they have killed them. He says is that when somebody died in an accident, they said that he was whatever there is seen in his camp. He is this you, you. You would think that a person is freely just gathering crowds and pretty. No, it's not easy at all. I was in Orlando and I spoke to a pastor who is very close to Benny Hin and I asked him why did Benny Hin leave Orlando? He told me, he said I think he was that tired of the the the the the. He said that it was not easy for him in Orlando when he comes to church, people are standing outside the church with plaque. We hate you. We hate you, Benny Hinn, go away, this and that outside the church all the time. It's a liar. You are this, I'm telling you. But you see, I'm just explaining that it's a common trend. Why should we work in a hotel that we cannot sleep in? You see, you're accusing me of the one who is preventing you from being able to sleep in a hotel. Well, based on your education, your abilities, your job and so on, you cannot sleep in the hotel. It's not because I have built a hotel that you cannot sleep in the hotel. Rather, I have given you a job, you turn the whole thing into something else. Now I'm looking like a bad person. Why should I wash a car that I cannot drive? Now you are getting the more of the false accusations naturally. Why should I work in the hospital? I cannot afford to be sick in that hospital. Am I the one who I've needed made you sick? That's not right. But should I work in a restaurant? I cannot afford the food that is in a restaurant. That's not right. Messi #2 The purpose of a disloyal person is to prevent people from continuing, following or the purpose of a disloyal spirit. Hosea chapter 6 verse 3 says, then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord, his going forth is prepared as the morning Amen. Now many of us lay pastors do not realise that a disloyal spirit has affected you in the sense that you have been prevented from following on. You see then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord you understand and what what we are realising is that because a destroyer spirit, if you are following your chairman, they want to prevent you from following on. If a pastor takes away some of the members of the chair, he is preventing the pen from following fully. They should have followed fully. Chasvanaman, who died, some passers went to sit down with him to try to get him to sign a letter to write to me, to turn against me just a few months before he died. He said I will not do that, but he was trying to prevent him from following me. Just a few months more of his life that he was going to live. He was just about to die. He was just a few months later he died of a heart attack or whatever. They understand. But the the aim of the disloyal spirit is to prevent you from following fully. Now I'm going to say something. Pastors, listen to me. You are lay pastors. This is a conference for lay pastors. Let me tell you when you are following, if you are, if you are in this church in the sense you are following me, in the sense you are my disciples. So I want to tell you that you see, following me does not necessarily mean only coming to full time ministry. There are many things that I'm doing and there are many things that God is using me to do. So following me does not necessarily mean that you are following me into full time ministry. Like I said yesterday, some people have a different time, a different season, different. There are many aspects in the church that are also your portion, especially the things that are related to prosperity and doing well. You know, yesterday I was talking to one pastor after you know, and, and, and I told him are you, are you prospering? You see, because I said you have been to school for so long, you have been to school in Ghana, school here in America, school in America, different difference. I said, look, it is a case if you don't prosper because you have suffered so much, you have been to school, it's a seed you have sold. You are supposed to reap from it. I told him that look, I need you to prosper. It's a shame to all of us that you don't become or get some of the things that you have. You are aiming for your childhood dreams. It is like a cat because you ask yourself that I have gone away. I have gone to school here, school here, school here, about four schools and come past in about 30 years of existence. Why should you not have I told him I thought you should you should be full of dollars. You can say take thousand, take 5000, take 10,000. It should be if that is your aim and you have been aiming for it is my prayer that you should I must be a fool for you not to for to not want that. And what I'm saying is that unfortunately, because it has come to people's mind that kill yourself for Jesus, then their mind is that as of each of you, because different people see me, they are very spiritual. They just have spiritual words and spiritual things and so on. You can't be spiritual all the time. You can't be serious all the time. There are other things that we, we, we, we do and there are other things that are about this ministry that are supposed to partake of and benefit from a flow in the highest level of it turning into ministry full time is one out of 12. I'm telling you, it's one out of 12 things that you can follow and you can follow other things. But because the the mind is that this man, there's only one thing that he he needs from you is that kill yourself or Jesus, leave your job and come and that is the only way to follow him. Of course it is one, one thing, but there are other areas that you you can in finances, prosperity management, leadership, so many things that would really you would have become blessed by it. But other outsiders are taking those things and following them. And so the devil has worked on you with a disloyal spirit to turn your eyes away from some of that so that our other unbelievers, atheists are inviting you to come and give lectures. And unbelievers are inviting me to give lectures in banks and millionaires are inviting me to speak of they. The billionaires identify in me something with you, sitting with me who say you are my desire. You can't identify it if you are blind to it because you are blinded by that word full time and it has cut you off. It has cut you off. That prevented you from following fully what you could have benefited in the ministry, even in the anointing, even in preaching, in so many things. I'm telling you, following me, and even if all of you came after church, here are our letters. We will have to return all your letters back to you. There's nothing. We don't have anything for you to do You you come in over to load the system. We we don't even we can't even pay you. There's not many of you that have been the the minimum will even be to send you to a mission field and that mission field will need money to be able to send you there. So we have to wait for the money to be able to send you to that place. It's very expensive. So you you it is it has blocked your mind. The table is used Capitalize on that. Don't listen to this. If only full time is there No, no, don't listen to the man can I? Why you listen to the man? Can I? Even your marriage will be better. Even your marriage is better. Your depression and so many other things in your life will be will be healed. At some I I met one pastor or other better. He said that that thing, I don't listen to it because if I listen to it, I will be full time and I don't want to be full time. So you would have been a very great disciple and would have benefited. So in fact, maybe you would have known some of the things I know better because the children are supposed to be worse than the father. I mean worse in a good way. Like I said yesterday, Fred Price is worse than Hagin. The prosperity, the faith in the age. He doesn't have a what do you call it at all? Yeah. You see, when you read Revelations, the Bible says in the midst of the tree, in the midst of the city, was a tree bearing twelve kinds of fruits every month. So you see that sometimes there is a tree which is bearing 12 different kinds of fruits. And you may not bear a particular type, but you bear another type of fruit. You are not following. You are not following and it's affecting you. My my church started in the classroom. If you don't know my church, I started my church in the classroom without the support of anybody. I fought through all this royalty and everything without even knowing what I was doing. Through dreams, visions, different things. Yeah, you 2 started in a classroom, you see, with support. They're supposed to be worse than me. I have prospect financially and in every way that I would never have imagined that I have. But the church has prospect. You see, one day a bank started to take our money, and then another bank. But this bank was taking the offering of different churches in Accra. So they know the income, they know this church has this money. They know this church has this money, they know this church. So our church, other church, they see because on Sunday or whenever they go and collect the money. So they know lighthouse, this, this house, this, this house, this, this house, this, they see. And they see how much we have or we don't have. And then they wonder because you see other places with higher incomes that are not doing what we are doing, that are borrowing loans, loans upon loans upon loans. You get it. And they, they are interested. They are very interested. You are not interested because of full time Putan has become an allergy Pasadua stand up How do How do you How do you cure allergies? How how can you cure How many realize that you have and also having some of Pasadua's allergies Pasadua how can you cure these allergies I. Think I think, I think it is my, I think it is by having more faith and following more. I think, I think that's that's how the allegiance. Go out what I'm. What I'm saying is, I think, I think it is by having more faith, believing more and just following more trusting. I am I I. This is a camp of clarity, so don't be unclear. Everything in this camp is clear. Don't start mysticalizing things. I I I think. So I think, I think what what prevents a person from me, what prevented me from going from going all out? Yeah, I think that I didn't really trust and believe just. Like. OK, thank you for teaching us. Now evil spirit has entered the lay pastors to prevent them from following fully. That's all. It's no spirit of pornography. No, it's spirit of not following. And when you don't follow, you don't become a disciple. Jesus, that if you continue in my way, then are you my disciples. So you, you don't really become a disciple. That is why when you see the Son, you can't see the Father. The Son doesn't have the picture of the Father. Some of you, if you were to get more prosperity right now, first thing is Mercedes-Benz, when Pastor Robert travelled and he came back, I gave him a letter. We were going somewhere says you come, I want to discuss something. So as we were driving, he said something. He said, Bishop, with with all due respect, I think this car is very old now. I think it must be changed. I said, my friend, relax, don't worry. Yes, and other bishops have been harassing me. I should change my car. The reason why snakes are the most successful predators on earth. I will just advise you to get a film on snake. I can give you one. It's called serpent. You just get it. It describes it's the most successful animal on earth. Predator. It's more successful than all the animals. It's fun everywhere. They live the tribe. One of the reasons that it doesn't need much food. It can eat once a year and it will be there. It doesn't need much, but you need much. So every day you have to go hunting and then they will kill you before I realize you are being killed. Every day you must eat grass. Every day you must eat something. Every day you have to get this. Every day you need, you need this, you need this, you need it. That's why you are not successful, because you need so many things. I have a camp, I've never had the time to do it. 20 something ways by which you can be as wise as a serpent, and this is one of them. By not eating much. So you need so much to be doing well. You need this, you need this, you need this, you need this. I don't need so many things. You need you need to live in Europe. I don't need to live in Europe, although I'm European as well. I was born there and I'm half from there. Look at my color carefully because when you get angry you say I'm a white man and when you don't like me, when you don't like me, you say I'm a Swiss or I'm Ghanaian depending on which one is more derogatory. So you are that occasion. Look at me carefully. You have been affected by the word full time and your fearful full time to disconnect yourself from something that would have made you. More benefits in the thing you are doing better. And the few people who are not afraid have benefited greatly as lay people. There are some lay people, they, they, when I speak, they, they know my heart. My heart is full of love and encouragement for you. So they are not afraid of of me. But there are some who are cuts off there and they feel I'm, I'm angry with them. How can I be angry? Why would I be angry? Listen to the messages carefully. Everybody has a different level, a different. Some of you were to come full time. You will not be successful. You can't even do it. It's not it's not even your gift or your calling. Some people are afraid of me because of that thing. At Lay Pastors, you don't have to be afraid of your father. Then you are disconnecting yourself. And yesterday we said the aim of the devil number one is to deceive and disconnect you from what is important for you to be connected to. Now #3 I'm talking of the purposes of disloyal people. Purposes of disloyal people #1 is what to to defraud us of our members and our belonging by what false accusation and then #2 is to prevent us from continuing following and #3 is to cause the late pastors to see the Bishop and the church and the shuffling conference as exacting. The word is an English word exacting. I saw it in the Bible and that's what I want us to read that Bible and before Ida will sing it for us, sing something. From as far as you held the place in my heart, a place, and no one else will. Be. Saying, catch your spirit from working. Indeed, I couldn't look at his eyes answer until the day my will give way to the truth that I found in you. I never knew just how good it could be to stand in your breath. And daughters never forgiven. Now I have no reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and giving. Give until my heart over. Oh, I'm forgiven now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving and giving. Give until my heart over. Oh, I come to me as a person all free, even when I slip and go. You are regardless forgives and forget Now I want to give you my all, 'cause I'm forgiven. Oh, now I have a reason for living. Jesus gives, given, given, given to my heart over oh, and forgive oh, now I have a reason for living in death. Jesus keeps giving and giving giving to my heart over oh I know this love you plays in my heart is a love I've never deep heart stand by me here till the end of the robe. And now you've given me your brand New Hope. I'm forgiven for forgiven. Now I have a reason for living. Jesus keeps giving. Given, given to my heart open. Oh, oh, I'm forgiven. Yeah, now I have a reason to live in. Jesus keeps giving and giving. Giving and giving and giving. So I don't know. I'm forgiven. Oh, now I have a reason to live in. Yeah. Jesus keeps giving and giving. Give into my heart over Lord I'm forgiven. Now I have a reason to live in Jesus keeps giving and giving. Given to my heart over Lord, I'm forgiven.