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20. Characteristics Of A Disloyal Assistant 2
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Finish what you Started. Machaneh Collection - 56. Preached in 2009, South Africa (Pretoria). 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 #20 or finish what you started. OK, now we are trying hard to finish what we started, isn't it? So let's quickly finish signs of a disloyal assistance. Is that not so like Judas who never finished or Lucifer. Is that not so or it is not so Lucifer? I'm giving you examples of people who did not finish and this is their behaviour. Number one is what? I knew all along that it will not work. Isn't it #2 They have what? Why should you have no comment? It is wrong, isn't it #3 I will be a better. I'll be a better what? A better wife, better husband, better Bishop, better senior pastor, better everything that's in your mind. Zimbo #4 He's not happy about the differences that make him look subordinate. It's like he looks less. You see, his car looks smaller, his house looks smaller, his shoes look older. He doesn't like such things at all, Huh. He's not happy about such things at all. Mercy. He sits in economy class and the senior sits in a half class. Everything that makes you look. Your car is second hand. This car is new. Hey, no back seats. Your car. Hey, what type of car is that one too? You don't have a secretary, he ha
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Welcome to track #20 or finish what you started. OK, now we are trying hard to finish what we started, isn't it? So let's quickly finish signs of a disloyal assistance. Is that not so like Judas who never finished or Lucifer. Is that not so or it is not so Lucifer? I'm giving you examples of people who did not finish and this is their behaviour. Number one is what? I knew all along that it will not work. Isn't it #2 They have what? Why should you have no comment? It is wrong, isn't it #3 I will be a better. I'll be a better what? A better wife, better husband, better Bishop, better senior pastor, better everything that's in your mind. Zimbo #4 He's not happy about the differences that make him look subordinate. It's like he looks less. You see, his car looks smaller, his house looks smaller, his shoes look older. He doesn't like such things at all, Huh. He's not happy about such things at all. Mercy. He sits in economy class and the senior sits in a half class. Everything that makes you look. Your car is second hand. This car is new. Hey, no back seats. Your car. Hey, what type of car is that one too? You don't have a secretary, he has a secretary #5 his concern about his image when he starts running at full speed and it changed to what? Slow motion? Because he doesn't want to let the people feel that he's a small person who's just running around. When the people are around who say yes pasta or when people are around say yes pasta. Oh, yes, Daddy. Oh, yes, Papa. But but when people are around and you call when people are around, you say, can I help you? Can I help you? OK. All right. OK. I'll take care of it. Hey, now, when there's nobody around, then. Yes, Sir. Yes. But when people are around. OK. All right. Oh, don't worry. OK, That's OK. All right. It's like people you didn't feel that. It's like you are being sent or you are a junior to somebody #5 number six. He will look for opportunities to sit on the heads chair. Mercy everything that he does, he want to do the same thing you see there's a difference between being an A loss and being a replacement being an A loss is you want to do you see the person what the person does and you see that this like why do I play golf? I play golf because Yogicho played golf. I didn't know what was there. I thought that there must be something good about it. So that's what made me. So let me go ahead And also do because there are some things you'll never get a person to discuss. Why do you do this? Why do you just what? Sometimes it's mysterious. Just do it. Because apart from entering the ministry, it's one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. Yeah, And the effect that it has. But I didn't know. But I'm not trying to replace Yongicho. I'm trying to just learn from him, that's all. The other thing, you don't get a chance to see the person to advise you this and that and that. And apart from being in the ministry, perhaps one of the very best decisions I ever took for my life was that decision as I'm going to keep moving on. Oh, Amen. So, but that is not trying to be the person to replace the person in an evil way. It's different. Or when you just want the privileges that the person has, it's different from just wanting to work with the principles that the person has is working with. It's different from I want his car. I want a car just like his car. I want a house just like his house. I want a loose salary. One for you, one for me. There is no shame. You may scream if your salary is less. He always looking for opportunity to sit in the chair because if that fellow I was telling you about yesterday, who when I was not there, he went to sit in my chair. There's a few people who he could have sat at his normal chair and discuss with the people there. But that desire so much in him to sit in the chair and be something had consumed him. So one day he was not a pastor yet and I met with him and I said I'm going to appoint you as a pastor. Remember I told you one day a certain Bishop was meeting with people and he asked who made you a pastor? Because you are made a pastor by somebody. So I told him I'm going to make you a pastor. But at the right time it has its but I told him, told them. So he went and he was talking with some of his people and he told them I'm going to be a pastor. He couldn't. He couldn't control himself. He couldn't keep it to himself. I can keep it to myself. You see, what I cannot keep to myself is the gospel, not that I'm being made a pastor. Are you there? Yeah. He couldn't keep it in. So at the point he started to tell the people, say pastor strength, so we love you. Then everybody point your hand, say pastor, Pastor Doug, we love you. Pastor. I was not a pastor, I was a brother. Dad, Pastor, Dad, we love you. Pastor. Dad, we love. You have not been appointed as a pastor yet, but you can't keep it to yourself. I can't keep it to myself. I've got to go out and tell somebody. I can't keep it to you myself, 'cause somebody's lost, somebody's dying. I can't keep it to myself. I've gotta tell somebody else for them gods to know that Jesus loves them. So please don't keep it to yourself. You've got to go out and tell somebody. Don't keep it to yourself. Somebody's lost, somebody's dying. Don't keep it to yourself. Tell somebody else, for they've got to know Jesus loves them so we all have breaths now. Cry and cry 'cause they don't even know there's a God who is willing to help them dead alone. They even know that he can see them through the darkest night. How will they fight God above? He really understands and He can heal broken hearts. Can they just give Him a chance? I must go. We must go and let them know. I can't keep it to myself. I've got to go out and tell somebody and. You keep it. To yourself, keep it. To myself. Somebody's love, somebody's dying. I can't keep to myself. I've got to tell somebody else what we've got to know. Jesus does them soul. Please don't keep to yourself. Tell. Somebody to. Go out. You need to go out and somebody, Please don't keep to yourself. Somebody's lost, somebody's dying. Please don't keep to yourself. Tell somebody else God of God to know Jesus loves them so somebody needs to know that Jesus loves them so. Now what you cannot keep to yourself is the gospel, but not the fact that you are going to be appointed. Appointment must not be too important to you. Amen. Position titles. Ajman, cocroco, dasymbre. And what? Again, a tinker. A tinker is what mighty a tinker, a tinker cantinker, a sagiful is what a sagiful somebody who saves sagiful. These are the titles of a Utumfua is what he he can almighty owner of power. Owner of power. OK, Tinka is what almighty Ajman? Is what Conquest nations Conqueror of nations Ajman. Tell somebody Ajman ask what is your name Ajman? Whatever mention his name. Something Ajman. Casaprecu, that means what? Let's speak once. Casaprecu, don't, don't be too concerned. Amen. All right #7 about assistance is all the faults and mistakes in the senior ministers live. Oh, why don't you do something good #8 the destroyer assistant notices the good attributes of external ministers. Is that not so? But never speaks positively about his own part. He doesn't have much to say about his own pastor, his own church. But he also consumed with another church. Hey, you must be concerned, consumed with your own church. If you are consumed with that church, go there and consume so that we know that you are there #9 Constantly listens to tapes of external pastors. Is that not so? What do you think, huh #10 He always feels that things should be done in a different way. You know, he has a different. I thought we should have started five, you see. I thought we should have ended by now. I thought she should have sung 2 songs. I thought this is not the time for her to sing. Do you see? I think it's too early for this singing. You haven't preached much. You are singing, you just come. You are singing. You always have a different line of thoughts. Why is your mind not settled into accepting that what is being done is also a way that is also good? We are taking two offerings. I think one offering is enough. Why should we take two? Why should we take 3? Should should not sit there? Have a different mind? One day I was in a church, a certain church, and there was a certain pastor who was speaking and he was taking an offering. And he took his offering after he did some other things that he said, I want to take another offering. And as I sat there, I turned to somebody who was sitting by me, and I said to her, I think he should take another of three now, I should take another while. And she looked at me. Huh. The north wing. My heart almost became a stone. There was fear in the church. Well, she, she, her mind was not working the way my mind was working. My mind was working on different ways should be done. You should go about in a different way. You see what I'm saying? When it's your turn, you go about in a different way. It's just like everybody's wearing something different. When it's your turn, you wear something different. And God does not disallow that. So when the president is the leader, allow him to go about it the way he wants to go about it and accept it because that's the choice he has. It's just that when a person becomes a president, he chooses whom he will work with. So this business should be my Minister of Finance, this one should be in charge of roads. This one should be the IT is his, his choice, whoever he wants to work with. And as Pastor Crudio is going to Ethiopia, some of you are going with him. He may choose you and say come, let's go. It's a blessing. If I was a president of a country, I was after a Minister of Finance, minister of construction, minister of this. But this, the same people who are doing it for me now, those are the people I would choose. Yeah, because that is who I would choose. When is your turn? You choose another person. So when a person is a leader, he has a choice. And when he's exercising his choice, don't sit there criticizing his choice all the time. And if you criticize his choice all the time, then it means you are not following genuinely. You are always one step ahead with an alternative. It's not a good flow, you understand? Yes. So last week he preached about Abraham. I think he should preach a bit about David one day. I was preaching 40 reasons why he should pay tithes. And there were some people in the church who were not happy with my message because every reason was different. And I preach it every week until some of them left the church. Oh, they left. They left the church. They were medical students used to criticize. And you see medical students, a pride that was in them because they're medical students. Somebody who is a medical school has been a medical student before and has passed all his exams with honest and he's a pastor and he's teaching the word of God. And they come and sit there and criticize, go back to their hostel and discuss and criticize, criticize me, criticize my car. They used to criticize the car that I was driving. They used to criticize my message. See, criticism is one of the greatest symptoms of pride. I as a pastor I feel I should print 40 reasons every week. One reason my buddy Sundays. That is what I think I should do. It is it is my choice. I don't have to sit in the church thinking I should do it in a different way. Have you been a pastor before? Have you been in full time ministry before where you are? You are just in medical school. I have been in medical school before and gone beyond that. Actually half a check. And I mean full time is I know what I'm doing. Maybe if I don't know what I'm doing, I'm doing something. Do you get it? So as you are here, you are following your pastor. You know, I'm telling you everything that is done can be done a little differently. You see, everything that is done can be done a little differently. One day I went to a certain church and I saw a lot of people in the church and I look at the pastor and the pastor did not know how to take offerings. Yeah, it was offering. Taking is also an act. If you are a good pastor, less than several says something. If you are called, it will raise money. Your calling will generate money for your calling to support your calling. If you are called, if you are not calling to not generate money because the calling causes money to come to you to support you, God raises up money and people to help you. So I look at the pastor and he did not know how to take the offering and you could see that he was not. It's like sheep who are not being milked or cows are not being milked and you are complaining that we don't have milk. All the cows, they are breasts are full and you don't know how to milk. But I just mentioned to the pastor, sure you can. You can do that in Ghana. We know take offering like this. Me, when I'm taking offering, I'm serious. One day somebody brought a passage. But let's go to the Kodesh so that you see Bishop when it's taking offering, it's as if there's a crisis. I take offering serious anytime, anywhere. I don't joke with it. I've learnt it. I was not like that first. I did not even take offering. But I'm if my profession is my work, if I raise money here, all the money, every offering it stays here and we are building church. This man sent me a bill yesterday. He said we have found a church in Port Elizabeth 1,000,000 Rands is that what is it? 1,000,000 Rands This one is building in Swaziland. He needs about also told me yesterday 1,000,000 I need a lot of money. I don't need I don't need your rounds to go and do anything so that you have a church. You can have your weddings and people can be safe. You can come to church and everything is for you. I'm serious about what I'm doing and you sit there, you criticize me. Why is it taking two offering? Why your mouth? Be careful when you speak about your pastor, you start making comments about things. How many of you, you didn't know that somebody sent me a text yesterday that we need 1,000,000 runs for that? How many didn't know, right? Raise your hand. Have you seen? You shouldn't have spoken. And how many know that there was another one in Swaziland which used to be part of South Africa? Swaziland is part of South Africa, it's part of us. And they also need a million runs. They have finished their basement. They need to do columns and then do the roof and be able to move into the church. But Elizabeth, they found a nice church with office church, children's church, everything nice. One million runs. We could buy it if we possess our serious with offerings. So if I stand up and I'm teaching 40 reasons why you should pay ties 3 reasons for one Sunday 43 into 40 is how much 13 Sundays, three months, Claire to encourage the people and to teach them why they should pay that that you, you sit down and think that it should be done in a different way because you don't know all the things that I know neither are you aware of the pressures that are pinching me from behind as you see me standing here. You don't know that people are asking me for money and as I'm here, I'm receiving texts from Accra, text from here, text from here. Should we do this? Should we pay this? Have we paid this amount? This amount must be done. This has to be done. You don't know all that. You are just sitting here at accomplishing 30 reasons why laughing about this, laughing about this, laughing. I don't know all the other things. You just know a small part. So when somebody is doing something, you, you have the audacity to even comment about it. Like I have the audacity that there as I was sitting there commenting about the person who was taking the offering, that is, I don't think he should take an offering. Why does he take care? I was already taking offering. I was a very young new Christian. I was not a pastor or even a leader of anything. I was just new. That was one of my initiations to the church world. The lady looked at me. My heart sunk. I always remember her. She sang Life is So Short. She's the the lady who sang this. She was sitting by my side. It was body yesterday. You were a baby. When I hear that song, I remember her so song. She was sitting here and I look at her. Before you know it, now you are my lady, a man with children too. And then your health and strength begin to fail you. Then you say no, what shall I do? Because the days and years you may have wasted, maybe memories haunting you. So you see my brother, alive is so short, pass this so quickly and soon it's gone. You have just one life to live on earth. So remember your Creator while you have breath. So you see, my brother, the life is so short, pass this so quickly and soon it's gone. You have just one life to live on earth. So remember your Creator while you have breath. Cat with friends say see you tomorrow, but tomorrow may never come. They tell you your friend has left you in sorrow and your world comes crushing down. Life is just like a little fly. Come on, today it's here, tomorrow it's gone so don't just chase after riches and bless 'cause they will fail you when time is done. So you see, my brother, the life is so short the. Girl who sung this? Song so quickly and soon it's gone she was. Sitting by me. You have just one life to live on it, so remember the Creator while you have breath. So you see, my brother, the life is so short. We were sat on the bench to. Live on that. So remember your Creator while you have breath, because life is so short. Life is so short. Life is so so so. Remember your Creator. But you have read. Immediately after the service, I went to see the pastor. It was not even a pastor. He was a leader, our leader. And I said I need to see you. And he said, and he was talking, people were talking around him. When you're not proud, you cannot wait. When you are proud, you can always. A lot of people wanted to talk to you. A lot of people. You were busy. Myself, I wait because my situation is the ice that were giving me today. There's a lot of fear in my spirits. So I waited after and he came in some what is it came outside the door. We stood alone. He said, you know, today when you said you were going to take an offering, I, I, I spoke against it. I'm sorry. I just felt that I should tell you I'm sorry. He he was surprised. He just looked like he put his hand on my shoulder and said God is good to use you. I was a student. I was not a preacher, I was not a leader. Just please. I mean, God is going to use you, that's all. I'm sorry. I didn't know much about the church work and about what you are doing. I don't know what offering is useful and the inside issues of church life. And I was opening my mouth, my mouth to speak. So I thank God for the girl who sat by me, the one who sang that song, and the brother who forgave me and put his hand on my shoulder and said God is going for He was gracious. So that's why I said that when you see somebody, God's using somebody, it means what his mercies are over all his works. Yeah, I could have died from that thing. Look, when Jesus the woman or Xyrophoenician woman came to Jesus and she said even the dogs eat their bread. Jesus said for this thy saying most of these things that you said go. So when you are speaking, you should be very careful God for this thy saying so many things can change. So be careful of what you say. Are you there number what you see, like some of you may be thinking that by now I should have reached #20 We have gone over all these things already. Yeah. You should be starting something else. We've been through all this already. What are we doing again? Let's do something new. We have. We have the book. #11 have we done that #11A disloyal associate is a habitual and persistent receiver of complaints. In other words, he's a magnet for complaints and for complaints. That's why I was telling you yesterday that for somebody to be able to tell you this is a pull him down, there's something wrong with that. You shouldn't be able to say that. There are some things they should not be able to say. So where you are somebody whose people can say certain things, there's something wrong with you, very, very wrong with you. The wrongest so far are you in the complaining department of your church Ministry of complaints #12 this lawyer assistant. Do not clap when something is going on. They don't smile, they don't say Amen. They don't shout, they don't laugh. When the head pastor or senior pastor is preaching, nothing impresses them. They are not impressed. Others may laugh, but we know this message already. So watch out for those who don't smile. They don't clap, they don't say Amen, they don't shout. They don't do anything. Hey, one day a policeman stopped a setting car and the car was being driven by a beautiful lady and the policeman said roll down she rolled down her and he had his torch. He was looking gun and we have our policemen have torches. As he was looking to the car to see what was, he asked Madam, why is your face like that? But the woman had made her face and you know what she told the policeman? That is how it is. That is how my face is. No, that's not how her face is. Oh, she's a nice smiling, beautiful lady. That's how my face is. What do you mean by that's how your face is? You are sitting in charge. You can't smile, you can't say Amen, you cannot shout, you cannot clap. I say why? No, that's how I am. That is not how you are, and that's not how your face is. We know you, we know you, we know you. Now you say that's how, that's how my face is. The math #13A destroyer associate does not sing or lift up his hands during worship because he's not in the mood when he came around. Are you there? Yes. Instead of making it more difficult. You see, instead of making it more difficult, you must make it easier. Sometimes when your pastor is preaching, you must say Amen. Amen. Say Amen. Yeah. Oh, I believe sometimes you stand up and say yeah, meanwhile, you know the point already, but you are showing support so that the people will also be supportive and believe in the message. And look, let me tell you, if you are here, you are an assistant pastor, a lay minister, a shepherd or whatever. All the things I'm saying. I'm not just saying it. I'm telling you how to behave in your churches. Show support of the pastor. When PE and Pastor Daniel is preaching, you stand up. You stand up, brother, say yes, pastor, thank you. And then you stand there as he's preaching. And then himself will come more, more, more, aye. And the pastor will now feel more encouragement. And the people who are sitting there looking very dull, they will realize that there is something wrong with them because people are receiving something and they will be asking how come I am not receiving something like this? How come it is not having that effect on me? There must be something wrong with me because people are experiencing their feeling. These people are, I know I'm not having that experience. So you stand there. You just, you put your hands on pasta. Oh. When? When it's pretty, you say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. How did you think the past, the pastor's anointing, would just begin to flow? Oh, that's how to be an assistant. You don't sit down and say this is last year's message. Last year it was called the life of Abraham. This year it is called faith. Hey, I am teaching you how to assist your pastor. You are your assistants here. Andy. Your assistants are not here yet. You see, they have to be here to hear all these things. Yeah, if we are serious, they should be here. How many are glad that your assistant may hear something like this? How to behave when your pastor is preaching? You know how to receive and you see it is all, it's all an example for the members to follow, to listen, to receive how they are supposed to flow. You wish you had brought your assistance, Father. So is your assistant here? Where are you? Past as well as her sister. You see how to behave when he's preaching? You stand up and say, oh, pastor. Oh, yeah. At other times. At other times, you start to say it's too much, it's too much. It's too much, it's too much, it's too much. At other times, you stand up and say, pastor, I feel it. I feel it. And other times you say, Pastor, you are too much for me. You are too much. I people would think you are having sex with somebody as you are saying all these words say Pastor, you are too much for me. I'm dying, Pastor, it's too good. It's too good. Pastor, don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop now, pastor. Don't stop now. That is rich a certain Princess. Pastor, I love you. I love you. And when you do this, do not think that the pastors, the small grace that is on the pastor will multiply, give him. So you just always just imagine what to say. It's too much that you make your first action wife. Oh, no, no, no. Sometimes you'll be sitting down like that. You just get that too much. And those Tony members who are sitting there sleeping, snoring, no, they will all wake up because you are receiving. Sit down. It's too much. You can't sit down. I'm killing you. Listen, Pastor, You are killing me softly. You are killing me softly. Sit down. And if you can cry, if you know how to start, start and stop, then just stop. Occasionally, if you know how to cry, just stop. Seven or two tears. Oh, you will see how that church will work. Hey, man. The Lord is my light and my salvation. God is someone who shines his light on you to help you and to assist you. And I see God helping you in your church, in your nation. The Lord is my light in my salvation. Whom shall I be? He's the strength of my life, day and night. No need to be afraid. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Shall I be please the strength of my life day and night don't need to be afraid. I have a secret place where I seek God's faith. Come on us. It gives me peace from my troubled life. He carries me all the mountains. He covers me through the valley. When I'm going through a storm. I'm protected in his arms. Oh, my Father loves me. That's why I say the Lord is my night. He's my salvation. To whom should I be? He's the strength of my life, day and night. You'll need to be afraid. When evil tries to destroy me, try to make me fall, He puts me on a rock out of the reach of them all. When my enemy's tribe hurts me, I don't have to bore me. I'm in this care, not just here, but everywhere. I am going to a hiding place where I see my God's face. I find this trend to go on because He carries me over mountains. He governs me through the valley. When I'm going through a storm, I'm protected in His arm. Oh, don't you know He is my light. The Lord is my eye and my salvation. Who shall live? He's my strain, my strong tower. He's my hiding place from day-to-day. He's my the Lord is my strong tower. You walk through the valley of shadows of death unto Lord, that you're not alone. The Lord is my light, is my salvation. So whom shall I be here? These strength in my life, night and day, day and night. So don't need to be afraid. There ain't no no the Lord is my night, it's my salvation. Shall I feed No good God, He's the strength of my night, night and day, day and night. No need to be a friend. Hallelujah. The Lord is the salvation of our churches. He's the strength of your ministry. Lord is helping your ministry. Amen. OK, OK, good, good #15 about assistant is not happy 14 A disloyal associate does not flow with the general mood of the congregation is just like the ones before #15 A bad assistant is not happy at the wealth and the blessings of his senior pastor Phil. He has too much anyway, isn't it? Why should he have this? Why should he be this #16A disloyal assistant openly disagrees with his head pastor. Amen. He openly disagrees. Hey, one day I was preaching and I made the mistake of going to ask somebody a question as I was preaching, like how I'm preaching now. I was making a point, you see, You understand, I this lawyer, as I openly disagrees that I get your your loyalty book. You are writing too many notes. Its the same book. And when I got to him, I gave him the microphone I wanted. I want somebody, you know, so that you want someone to just say something, help the preaching. So I got to myself. What do you think? I don't know what he said. No, he said. Do you really want to know? I quickly collected my microphone backwards and I ran our way back. I told someone at the back of the jet. I ran to the front. Do you really want to know? Hey, he was about to say something to bring confusion. The whole Sunday morning service, Do you really want to know? Like maybe I'm preaching out. What do you think about the loyalty message that we had at the camp? And I asked, You really want to know, do you really want to know what I think? You really want to know what I think? I take my microphone away quickly. I don't, I don't really want to know what you think. There's no shame in taking your microphone back. Just you may scream, but I'm taking my microphone. Hey, what do you mean? Do you really want to know what I think about that loyalty message? I collected my microphone right away. So you should be careful and people, they will challenge you openly. One day a certain pastor was preaching. As he was preaching that somebody stood up and said, pastor, there are no verses in there. There are no verses yet, not that I'm imagining. I'm telling you something is put up. He said there are no verses in the preaching. He said your preaching is good, but there are no verses. Such people are in the church room. Stood that everybody heard him. The pastor, your preaching is good, but there are no verses in it. If there are no verses in it after church, you can tell it. Pastor, add one or two verses so that we will see the biblical basis of what you are saying. But you stand up. Pastor, please, your preaching is good, but there are no verses in it. And, you know, when I was giving you the points yesterday, a lot of the points, I didn't add any vests. So as I was giving those vests, I was wondering if that person was here, whether he was going to stand up and say there are no vests. Hi, Tom Wayne. Tom Wayne openly disagrees. Amen #17A disloyal assistant considers the privileges and honor bestowed upon his head as uncalled for and wistful. So we are wasting money on this guy. We've said that before #18 a disloyal person constantly has thoughts flashing through his mind about leaving the church. So as we are at the camp, thoughts are flashing at me. This church, I don't think I can stay here. Do you see? Why should you have such thoughts? Why do they thought somebody say, oh, it's not there. I've not decided to do that. It's just a thought. Why did that thought come? Is it nice to have such a thought? Yeah. How many? Some thoughts are not good at all. Have you had a thought that wasn't good? Good at all? How many? You became worried that that thought even came to your mind. That was the part that worried you, that the thoughts came. It's like, why does a thought like this come to my mind? Some people, when they see the pastor preaching, they'll be looking like a leopard. Who has seen the meat? Everybody. You want to sleep with the pastor? Why tell anybody such a nice thoughts? I don't appreciate such a thoughts. So why do you have such thoughts? Flashing, flashing, flashing of living. We are a limo. A limo. I'll leave. I'll leave one day. One day or five years time. I'll leave. Only one more year. Then I'll leave. I'll surprise you. What type of thoughts are these? It means that seed is in you. Lucifer seed. Seed of Luciferism. I will arise. I will ascend. I will be like I will sit on the throne. Hey, so there are certain thoughts. The thought itself is disturbing. So you don't have to say I haven't decided or it's not something that I mean it's not a serious thing or it's just tops that top plan mercy zigzag. OK, OK #19 this affected associate do not make any extra efforts. Amen. After all, they don't make extra efforts to do anything. They don't go the extra mile. So watch out. People who have become cool, they don't get much involved in so many things. You get it because. Because they don't really believe. So when there's a meeting start at six, come around 9:00 or 2:00, you get it. Yeah. I mean, those who are die hard into the thing, they are all here from morning to evening, from the beginning to the end. It's true. Those who believe is halfway to a point come in the evening, come at the end, come at a point. Yeah, all those you can see the extra effort is is a message. It's a message of the persons in I mean flow with what is going on. So destroy our people. They don't go the extra majors. I come for second service. One day. I had a certain pastor who was becoming this lawyer. At first he could do everything. When it reached a point he could only come for tech service. Only tech service. But at first he could come second. He could come from and he couldn't come for pastors meeting. He couldn't come for Shepherd's meeting. He couldn't come on Thursday, couldn't come on Tuesday, only Ted service. So one day I said, I call. I said, look, if you're a pastor, you have to come for second service. Ted service, you have to come on Tuesday. Because if you're a pastor, you're supposed to be even extra, more loyal, more involved. You can only come on Ted service. So I said, if you cannot come for this, this, this, this, you cannot be a pastor, Sir. OK, yes. Your pastoral isn't anywhere to sit at the back of the church. Yeah, he used to sit in front. He went to sit at the back. He sat at the back because the back is near the door. The next time I saw he was out of the door. He sat at the back for some months and then that's it. So you see all those signs. It's like I can't make the extra effort. Second service is at 830. Test service at 10:30. Come two hours as a pastor of the church, so, so are these people you think they are your main assistant. They can't make extra effort to be there at a certain time to do extra things, a little more than even the ordinary church member. And yet that person is a lay minister. He's a shepherd. He's a this, he's an assistant. He's whatever. What makes him an assistant, what makes him a helper if he cannot go the extra mile? I'm not a real assistant. I'm not a flowing person because I am the person. I'm there early to come and. Clean the chair to make things work. You have to come early and you have to flow and be there and be supportive and show the extra effort. Hey, that's where we can see. You see, I just love as I become quiet. Doesn't say anything, doesn't show the doesn't show the attitude, doesn't go the extra mile, doesn't do anything extra, doesn't pay tights. When when we say we are doing foundry so that we can buy a new guitar, you'll be looking at it. I'm sure it will not work. And instead of giving something proper that you can give to help, you just take, take 20 runs, take hundred runs when you could have given 1000. But you don't go the extra mile in anything because you're not a good assistant, You're not helping. Your flow is not positive. You can see it from fundraising. The main people who are with you, you see from their giving, Yeah. Even the Healing Jesus Crusade you can. I can see from the support of the Healing Jesus Crusade the level of belief in me and loyalty by the support that comes from that church. Yeah, because that's what I'm doing. You can see you go to certain places, you see that the healing just say is an important thing in that church, even though I am not in that church. And you go to other places, realize not even the people don't even know what it is. They don't even know what is healing Jesus Crusade and they don't go the extra mile in in relation to that thing that your head pasta is. So let's say you are the head pasta. You stand up and say I feel that our loud speakers are not good and I feel that I want us to do it and you're the assistant person. I said look every day fabrics every day last time daughter, you can make it today this today that today this today that now today's speakers. These speakers are OK. So say how many will give 10,000 runs? Nobody I knew, no, this man be disgraced today. Thousand runs, nobody will give. Hundred runs nobody will give. There's the USA also just sitting there, which is I knew it would not work. And you will not go the extra mile, you will not give anything extra because you have some way and you don't flow. You are not believing, you are not positive, you are not behind the pasta in a positive way. I'm telling you, you can see all these things. They are all symptoms and signs and you wait till it's your turn to be a leader. When you stand up and you now need people to rally behind you and help you and push you to make things happen. You see God will pull them back like this and say don't help him because he didn't help out. This let him reap a whirlwind because He sowed the wind. When you plant wind, you reap whirlwind. Whatever you didn't. That's why I said people when I'm preaching, walk out. I only pray for Lord. Many people walk out when they are also preaching. May nobody stay to listen to them. May no, may there be no one to show respect to them. You don't respect your pastor when when it's time. Galatians 6 says you not give your pastor an offering. You not honor him. You not remember him on his birthday. I also pray for you that may no one remember your birthday. May no one remember. May no one ever honor you. May no one ever give show respect to you in this world. May you always be disrespected and end up in prison. I show the wind, reap the whirlwind. So extra effort reveals your level of support for whatever is going on. Are you listening to me? So show your support. I'm telling you, I see it's been in healing Jesus Crusade and I'm not saying this so that you need to do when I go to land, there's a banner in the Church of Hilly Jesus who say there's a permanent banner there. I get my higher support for Hilly Jesus who say from that church in London. Yeah, and more people support all the everybody's support. Yeah. You see from the flow of certain things that kind of how much the person is even with you or in step with what you are doing. Why you stop by the church and we want to buy a church building. What is this project? Why should we buy a church? Why should we do this? Each project is very difficult. I'm telling you that you need people to believe in you and help you. Amen. One day a certain brother went out and he came back and I was his friend and he had found a sister that he wanted to marry. So he showed me the sister and he said look at who I have got and then he asked me for his for my support. And his question was very simple. He asked he fine or he no fine. What was he looking for? Was he support? Was he going to change his mind? He had already made-up his mind. If fine or in no fine. Ask your neighbor. If fine or in No fine. Yeah. All that he was looking for was because he has already made-up his mind. He has already proposed to the girl. He has already told her everything. But he wanted my support. So he asked me, Charlie, how? If fine or in? No, fine, what should I say? I say, oh, if fine. If fine, she's heavy. She's heavy. Even if she's not fine, you have to say if fine. All right #20 the last point, disloyal assistance. Listen to bad advice from empty and non spiritual wives. Zigzag. Look, your wife is not God even though she's so gentle looking. How many rather ladies look very gentle and beautiful, huh? I've actually come with your wife. Come with your wife. Turn around. Who looks nicer and softer? This or this? This. This one? If it is, or this one? This one looks nicer and softer, she looks gentle, sweet smile, harmless. But most of you ladies, you will prefer to work for the man rather than from the than for the lady. Ladies, is it true or it's not true? Because you see, ladies are like flowers. This presentation is very important. Colorful pictures. Most people house helps people who are maids and whatever they prefer to work with the man. Yeah, the woman often out, in, out, out, deletion, off, out, wipe her out, wipe him out. So even though they look so gentle, so sweet, so soft, they are just ordinary human beings. With the other parts, they have a right leg and a left leg as well. So this brother may not look as soft and as gentle, but within is a certain gentleness and a certain softness. And this one may not look so hard and so some way, but within and some, some weirdness and some hardness. But if they don't look like this, they cannot get husbands. If they don't look like this, they will never get somebody to marry them, because without the delusions, you cannot easily be attracted. This one and this one. Who do you think likes bathing? Which one do you think like batting more? This or this? This one? How many votes for this side? One for you, one for me. There is no shame. You may scream if you don't bath, but you will be surprised to find out. I don't know, I've never answered before, but you will be surprised to find out that this one does not bath as much as this 1. So I'm just trying to explain that even though they look so beautiful and gender, they are not God and then they are not perfect and they are not the the the the the repository does the right word of Gods words and Gods wisdom. God is the source of Gods word. The Bible is the source of Gods word, so you have to be careful even though, well I tell you they look more and they don't have brothers. How many relatives? Sometimes the sisters don't have as much lasts as you have, but there's how many relatives that you suffer from lasts. So now the sisters will be looking at that. They don't know what we are talking about. So you don't experience all these things you are saying. I don't understand what we are saying. Well, what we are feeling. So those feelings make you feel that you are not good. Then you look to your side and you see your gentle, beautiful, humble, calm, sweet, pretty, harmless Angel. And the harmless Angel says, Are you sure? Are you sure Pastor was right? He's not always right, you know, when such a harmless, gentle, nice, sweet, soft, voluptuous source, source of pleasure and peace and relaxation. In theory, it's in theory because when they go home, you may not get all those things. Like I say, like I say, it's now making such a comment. You always think that God is speaking as I mean when I first got married in for some years when my wife speaks out God, God has spoken because she looked so holy. She didn't seem to have the problems I have up to now. She does not have the problems that I have. She's only God, his word, the Bible, Jesus is speaking. But one day I realized that no, Charlie, what the lady is saying is not the word of God. It was, it was a revelation to me because you see, the person looks so harmless, so beautiful, so gentle, so sweet. I realized that no, this is not the voice of God that I'm hearing. It takes a very strong leader like Joe who told his wife, thou speak at like 1 of the foolish women in the city. What you are saying is the voice of the foolishness. Oh Jesus, who told his sweet, gentle best apostle, you are Satan. This voice is Satan voice. I was like to be a pastor and a leader you have to be strong, very strong, the strongest so far. It took me many years to realize that voice is not God's voice, Percy. It may be God's advice to you, but it may not be. It may be even the devil. Yeah, but it took me a long time because of the gentleness, sweetness, beauty. Who is more beautiful here? More gentle looking, nicer looking. This is on heart move to move away. Nice, beautiful, sweet. That means that the words that are coming must be the words of heaven, the words of Jesus, words of God. But I'm speaking to all of you who say you are called by God. You will answer to God when I'm done, followed the voice. I Eve said. Why don't you take some of the apple I've given you? I have taken nappy. You want me to die alone? Oh, do you die with me? Is that is that love? You did not say that we shall be tooken until death. Why are you leaving me? I'm scared and I'm I'm scared. I'm alone. I doesn't love me. I don't hold me please. I don't hold. Please. I love you love me. I love you. Tell me that you love me. You tell me you will be with me always, ever. And if you love me, if you like me, take a bite at me and I know you're about to dial I love. You are about to die. You are about to die because you claim you love your wife. You are about to die. You are about to lose your ministry because you are about to follow your voice, the voice of your wife, which is not the voice of God. You love me. Every man must grow up to realize that the tears of a woman are like the rainfall in London. It comes and it goes. When I got married, when I got married, I was moved by the tears of my wife. When she cries, I will go there. Oh my darling. But I remember a particular day that came in my in my lap. Keep crying baby, you will finish soon. Adam, you're about to take us all into apartheid, into Africa, into this, into that, into that, into that. All this. Please, Adam. Adam, she's gentle, she's soft, she's beautiful. And then Eve came in with her breasts and she pushed her breath. And when Adam felt, Adam felt exhilaration. Tell somebody exhilaration. You see the Bible say, why would thou be exhilarated with the with the bosom of a stranger? He felt exhilaration, hey. Exhilaration hey. Are you listening to me? Yeah. I see. Most ladies, they are looking for a strong man. Some of you men, you are more than women. You are like a Reed. When the wind blows, you bend like this. They say blows and you bend like this. The women are looking for somebody who is strong, very strong. The strongest so far. This is what they are looking for. Yeah. Somebody who said come on, let's go. We are going. We are go when heaven knows where we are. Go when we know we will. We will get that, Heaven knows. We know we will. It will be hard. It will be hard, we know. And the road will be muddy, that rock but will get that heaven knows how we will get. We know we will. We are gone where Heaven knows how we are gone. We know we will. We will get that, Heaven knows. How we will get that, we know we will. It will be hard. We know. We need a man who is saying we are going, we are going to the mission field my darling, and we will get there my darling, and your baby will ask. Heaven knows how we will get there. It will be hardly now and the road will be muddy and rough. But we are. Going anyway, we are going. We are going because God has told me to. Go, because thou listen to the voice of thy wife. That's what God told Adam. Come down. Listen, thou hacking to the voice of thy wife, in the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread? So this lawyer, one day he met Bishop Duncan Williams and he was just talking and he said, hey, see these associate pastors he was talking about. Some people don't mind that one day they will go to their houses and their wives will say certain things to them. When they come the next day, their attitude has changed. The wife will speak to them in the house. Why he said that? I didn't even know what he was talking about, but I realized that he's speaking from experience. He has said assistant pastors who when they go home the wife will say certain things to them. When they come their attitude has changed because of the woman that is in the house. Thou hacking to the voice of the wife. When when you see when, when sometimes maybe the pastor is dead and you love the pastor but your wife doesn't like him. You have to lead. Yeah. You have to lead your wife's likings to like the person that you like. Yeah. Like the people that are in me. There are the people who didn't like Bishop Duncan Williams, didn't like this president. You don't. You can't be here. You don't like it. You have to like it's. There is no shame. You may scream. You must like. Yeah, you must like it and be happy and flow. This is what we like here. Yeah, we like it. Yeah. They will go to their houses and their wife will say certain things to them. Certain things when they come see their attitude has changed. How many realize sometimes you certain things will be said and your attitude is changing. If you are not experienced, you will not know. And when you hear those voices, you must know God, you must be able to say no. I have decided to follow. And when you are young, you see the beautiful gentle sweets like this. You have to believe that no, this nice person is not God, because it's natural to say things. This is very angelic, good person. And when the person speaks softly, it says, My darling, be careful of that man. All that glitters is not gold. There are certain things about the man. Be careful. I've seen this before. The wife told me something yesterday. I was surprised. Anyway, pray about it before you go. Pray about it. Oh, you have already prayed? Oh yeah, I've whispered to your ear. Pray about it. What are they saying? Sit down, it's too much. So we finished that one. Now next one. All these are things that Judas, Lucifer and others should have studied. Amen. Lessons on loyalty, number one, if you are going to be law, I'm trying to teach you so that you will not fall into the same trap of Lucifer. You are built in with worship, anointing, pastoral gifts, everything. Everybody comes with some gifts that you must not fall into that now to develop strong stability, to be able to finish what you started, you need to develop strong loyalty. Amen. Number one, you need to develop the lessons. You have to understand the lessons. So please make sure you get your book. All the things you are writing is here. It's called the lessons of Loyalty. Are you there or you are not there? I'll just give you one note to them. We go for breakfast and come. Are you ready to continue? How many realize that God is saying one or two things to you? Don't stop since I feel it was such. You are killing me softly, Pastor. You are killing me softly. Now to be loyal you need deep roots, you need full persuasion, you see, if you are going to be a tree. So that's the first lesson. Loyalty demands full persuasion. Persuaded fully. You must be fully convinced. Not partly, totally and fully. You can't believe things partly if you are going to be loyal. It's like if you are a tree and you are going to stand through storms, you must have very deep roots. Amen. So loyalty demands full frustration. Now if God has called you and you are going to be faithful to your calling, you need deep roots. The thing you believe must not be shallow. Have you had difficulties in Botswana? If you don't have deep roots, you'll be pushed away back to England where it was easier. One of the rich people in rich jobs, if you are a pharmacist or some of these, all these people can do these way jobs. If you are not fully, fully persuade, a lot of things move you before you realize. Amen. You must be fully convinced as I'm having a camp with you. I am fully convinced in my heart that it's better for me to have a camp here than to have a three day power convention in Sunnyside. This is what I think is good for me to do. I'm fully convinced about it. And I'm fully convinced that I should teach you from this book that you have already. Yeah, I feel I should say it. So, no, none of your faces move me. Your attitudes don't change anything. You understand. Your eyes don't move me. I am solidly persuaded about what I'm saying and what I'm doing and about the necessity for me to say. And I wish more of you were even here and more of your assistants and your people, your members were here to listen to what we are saying. So anything you are doing, you must have a certain conviction. You see, one day there was a certain pastor and he was talking about his spirit, his spiritual father, because there was some bad stories going on about this spiritual father that he had. But one day he was talking to me and he said something. He said even if I see him lying on a woman, I mean having sex, it will not change my mind about him. That's what he said. Yeah. That is the mind that he had. He said even if I see that, it will not change my mind about him. Are you there? Yeah. You see, that's what happened to him. He saw his father drug, maybe for years he had believed in his father. Then one day he saw his father drunk and he's like, ah, you see, he's not always right. He is not always right. You see, there are people who are not fully convinced in a way. And when the person says something, they, they, they, they, it pays them that he's right. You know, sometimes somebody rebukes you, say you, you see, one day you also be rebuked. One day there was a certain old man. And this old man was a very wise man. And an old wise man, he had no job, but he made his job out of giving advice, yes. So he used to go from village to village, and everything he said always was right. But he was given advice. And when he goes to give advice, they pay him. And everybody knew that this old man is what always right. So one day there was a little boy in the village, and he said this old man cannot be always right. How can he be always right? You see, there are some people who don't like it when you are right and they want to prove that you are not right. So the boy decided to do something, prove that this old man is not always right. So he got up and he went to the forest and he caught a butterfly. How do you say butterfly Papatani, Papatani, papatani. How do you say Nigeria lapa lapa lapa lapa lapa lapa lapa lapa lapa lapa A prefronto. So he caught, he said I'm going to catch a lapa lapa or a babatani. Is that correct? Abatani And he caught a babatani, and he put the babatani in his hand and he said, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to prove that this old man is not always right. So he took the babatani in his hand and he said, I'm going, I know what I'll do. I'm going to see the old man. When I see the old man, I'm going to put the butterfly in my hand and I will ask the old man, dead or alive? Is the Babatani dead or alive? Because he wanted to prove that the old man is not always right? If the old man says dead, then I'll open my hand and let the Babatani fly away and say, you see, you are wrong. If the old man says alive, then I'll squeeze my hand. So he went and he caught the Babatani and he came to the old man, and he said, Old man, I have a question for you. There is a babatani in my hand a la Palapa. Old man dead or alive? And he was looking at the old man, dead or alive. You know what the old man said? It depends upon you. Man was right again. It depends on you, whether dead or alive, it depends on you, hey, it was right again. The old wise man was right again. There are people who are not happy that you are right and they want to prove that you are not right. Hey, so brothers and sisters, we need to have a full conviction about whatever we are doing, deeply, deeply, because there are always people who want to prove that you are not right. You are not right about believing in Lighthouse. You are not right about believing in your pastor. You are not right about loyalty. You are not right about the message you are preaching. You are not right about going as a missionary. And there are people who always want to come and prove that you are not right or you are not always right, dead or alive. It depends upon you. Hallelujah. Amen. All right, Grace, come on, sing for us. We've got one point and then we go in. Is it killing you softly, Pastor? Something is. Pastor, Don't stop. Please, Pastor. Please continue. Continue at the same place, at the same place. At the same place. The same place, pasta. That same point. I love you, I love you, I love you, pasta. I love you, Pasta. Hi. How many rebels are preaching this like that? Sometimes you reach a person. Please don't stop. Don't stop. I don't want you to stop at that same particular place. That particular place. Many years I've come and gone since he walked upon our. People have tried to prove that Jesus was not right. This lies don't last so long, so why is his story hanging round? Why do people stop and pray to a man who's dead and gone? When I ask them, they just say he's coming back to Take Me Home. Anybody here want to live forever? Say I do. Anybody here want to walk the golden streets? Say I do. Anybody here sick and tired of living like you do? Anybody here want a home with a love forever? Why? Why is it that people always want to prove that you are not right, that Jesus is not the way, that is not worth dying for him, it's not worth living for Him. They want to prove it, yes and yes, I'm going by they still can't believe and accept it. And they want to prove that we are wrong, that we are life. Heaven or hell, It depends on you. Life or death, it depends on you. Going to hell or going to heaven. It depends upon you. Want to prove us right or wrong. Sing it, sister they. Say you will never. When you look into his eyes of love. Oh, you never know when. You touch the nail, brain. I mean, you want to touch Jesus, you love by Jesus come. On And if you can walk away knowing all he's died too. That's what I'll just have to say. I guess he didn't die for you. So anybody he wanna live forever, say I do. Don't anybody here want to walk the road to the streets, say I do. Anybody here sing and tired of living like you do? Anybody here want to hold with love forever? Say I do. Does anybody here want to live forever? Say I do? Anybody here? Want to walk the golden? Streets say I do. Anybody here sick? I'm tired of living like you do. Anybody here want to hold with a lot? All right, all right, all right, lift your hand and just thank God for this morning. Thank Him for His blessings of His Word. I'm I pray that you'll be fully convinced about the things that you are doing, fully convinced about your church, about your pastor, fully convinced about your colleague, fully convinced about your mission, fully convinced about what God wants you to do. Fully convinced. Come on. Hello. And you'll be able to finish. You'll be able to finish and you'll be able to finish because you are fully convinced. You are fully convinced. You are fully persuaded about what God has put in you, what God has called you for. Thank you, Lord. We are grateful, we are thanking you, we are blessing you for helping us to finish all that you have given to us. Grant us the ability to be fully convinced in spite of 1000 people and prove that we were not right about what we believed and what we thought, what we accepted and what we received. Help us to be convinced. Let there be no person that can take away our convictions and our strength of belief in your colony, permanence of your grace given to us. We thank you, Father, in Jesus name, Amen. All right, all right, all right. You may be seated. OK, we take a break. 10:00 Is that OK? Oh, it's too small, too small. 1030 1030 OK. 10/30 10:30 We meet. Thank you. Tell your neighbour it depends upon you. The.