SUNDAY SERVICE MORE SYMPTOMS OF BACKSLIDING

are you glad to be in church wonderful thank God for an opportunity to be in church you may easily not have been in church this morning it could have been dead buried sleeping in your grave but a lot had mercy gave you a chance to see another day amen we are continuing our series on backsliding who hasn't got the book yet oh don't feel shy to it sir I mean I'm not a policeman I don't have any I'm just ask you whether you got the book or not all right get a book it will bless you amen all right we are looking at symptoms of backsliding this is the last but one message on this book so I just want to share very quickly a few things that you must look out for to help you in your Christian race amen you know it is not only buildings that are built let's say personal houses banks and so on that have no lasting value but even church buildings don't have lasting value you know buildings and properties that belong to the church they don't have much lasting value as what the things that we impart spiritually have the lasting value where we are looking for because many many church buildings you know I'm not used as check buildings after some years you understand many great ministries that have huge buildings and properties after a while you know especially when they the the leaders are gone and our groups come along people don't have the same spirit and attitude many of them are not used for the purpose for which they were built so we need to really see the the need to invest in spiritual things amen because that is what has lasting value your body doesn't have any lasting value can see that it is getting older and it's changing do you understand and you can see that this thing is wearing out it's just a matter of time so I want us to be focused on heavenly things and spiritual things for yourself the beginning of the service of pasta was leading us in the prayer and the scripture that he read was explaining what God was trying to do they said that whom he did foreknow he did predestinate that they would be confirmed his image God was trying to God aim is to make us be a certain way amen he's trying to make us like Jesus that's what he's trying to do that's what the Lord is trying to accomplish are you understanding he is not trying to build anything physical not trying to build something some business are you there hello I'm the one preaching okay he's not trying to build anything physical buildings the Apostle Paul built many I mean he had many churches in what do you call it tacky and so on today Tech is an Islamic nation I'm sure many of those churches are most today or they don't even exist so you must understand the value of spiritual things but what Paul wrote and the words that he wrote the Lord has graciously used his words to minister to the church for 2,000 years so I'm just trying to show you that God is trying to build something in you so my main job in relation to you is Christ Jesus and him crucified and that's my job with you amen I'm not trying to make you rich I will not lie to you God is not trying to make you rich on this earth at all it's not he's a he does wish I love all things that after your soul has prospered you should also prosper there's no doubt about that but that is not his aim to like make you very wealthy or whatever I mean and to make us compete with the world no no no my my goal and when you come to church I don't have I don't want to deceive you you know because the churches are passing out deception that God wants you to be rich so people come to church with the mind that you know God's will to make you prosperous person he wants to make you rich and have money and be just like the world and so we are just happily transferring our worldly ambitions into the church context you understand and using the church to propagate this kind of thing God is not again our church is one of the wealthiest and blessed churches I guess what else at all but if we keep on saying is because you see it is the pursuit of heaven and of God that even brings about blessings beyond what you can do at one time my wife asked me a question this week she said to me if your sons want to marry when they are 21 years old or whatever very young going school will you help them and what would you do will you help them and I said to her if my son's do what I want them to do and they follow what I want them to do I will do more for them than they can even ask for when I said those words I immediately thought of the Lord that when you do what he wants you to do he will do more than you can even think about and tell you and that's what I told my wife I wasn't thinking about I just thought of that I will do more I will give them things they don't even know I importance I will give to them more and what did Jesus say wherefore does my father love me because I lay down my life that I may take it again he said my father which sent me has not left me because I always do the things that please him every fact that will hug his heart will be open towards his son he will give me a child but when a child you don't know what's important you don't even know you know that maybe a house is important or inheritance is important even a child you just think of Playstation or something stupid trivial things but your father knows what is important more and you will find our words important later and he says to you I will I would give more than but if they do not and they rebel if you what I would have given out take it from them and I will give it to another oh yeah that is why in the Bible you find the first moment born of an exchange because the first balls many of them are rebellious I don't know where else because they are too close to their parents and they see their parents weaknesses and so they become familiar and they become rebellious so if you have felt rebellious facebones you know yourselves the exactly what God was you too have a soft enhance and there is nothing I'm telling you you won't even ask for it you will not even ask for it did you know that you can carry or think about our use I don't want to boast but I have more than I can use I don't want to boast I don't want to talk like a fool but what people are struggling for it is for me to use I have it and you may listen to me preach you may think that this person is against witches or against well I am telling you this that gospel is not a gospel and understand it and do not be deceived when you see somebody using money it should not minister deception to you you see the reason why I am saying all this is because of the symptom of backsliding that I'm about to share with you which is having no spiritual ambition when you don't have a spiritual ambition it's one of the sentence of something wrong with you there is something wrong with you when you don't have a spiritual ambition you just want to exist in the church but you have ambitions for money and missions in terms of Education and business marriage and business having children and business for everything are the most spiritual ambitions and Paul said in Philippians 3 this one thing I do forgetting those things that are behind I is a mock he had a dream and a vision and a goal and something that was driving him he had a spiritual ambition most of us have monetary ambitious I want to make this amount of money by this time I want to build that this sum of houses by this time I want to do my math test by this time I want to do my PhD I want to get married I want to have two children okay what do you want to do spiritually what do you want to do spiritually and this is a lot a spiritual ambition makes you a floating boat without any direction the wind can take you this way can take you that way can take you this way and can take you that way and so you can go in any direction because there's no Drive and there's nothing that you are heading for spiritually you just exist in the church you ask them do you want to be a pastor Oh No do you want to be this what do you want to be in church walk into a bank and desire I want to be the bank manager or a bank manager you walk into a hospital you don't say to yourself I would like to be there the cleaner of the hospital one day it's my goal but you say I would be the doctor would V&S how come you don't have a vision to be the security man at Buckley's bank one day you want to be a manager or an accountant or something but when it comes to the church you ask what do you want to do so if I have even done if your care to you you just happy to hang around here unless you just run around in the bank you want to be somebody in the bank and the reasons of our eyes are glittering with things that are sparkling before us I start weekly your eyes begin to sparkle when you see money and cars and the bank managers going it alone and your eyes begin to sputter but when you've got a Methodist Church on you see that little house and you see the priest and so you do not just have to be a priest you don't have to live in the Mission House you know that's how to do anything past era and you don't want to be anything like that oh it's a good message I don't care look my job is to do with you spiritually try and understand a hospital will try to help you physically and by a politician will try to help the nation and so on a teacher will try to help you in school my job has to do with you spiritually I am a spiritual leader how can we added a dream and a vision that I press for the mark of the high calling I'm trying I'm trying let's I read it because you may say you've not read the Bible's when you came to change Philippians 3 quickly are you there by setting its a brethren I can't let myself to have apprehended but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ Paul says this one I don't count myself to be okay complacency is one of the sentence of something that is going to fail I was worth listening to something on one of the channels CNN or something about IBM you know IBM used to be one of the top companies and then it collapsed or if you didn't do so well I don't know if it's still doing well it's not doing so well and then the guy was saying you know all the ingredients for failure were there when they look at IBM they said he said all the ingredients for failure were there and then he started to mention the ingredients for failure he said complacency malaise models bureaucracy and arrogance right you think you're okay pride bureaucracy arrogance malice complacency lethargy you think you're okay those are the ingredients for anything that is going to fail and that's what happens in a large system see when you are around and you feel okay I'm I'm I'm all right you know I'm okay I'm okay Oh glory to God I'm all right you know it's a symptom of someone who come back slide amen the second symptom today is I have 25 of these you know I cannot tell you all of them if you are interested to get a book I know many of you are not you are not interested in what I'm even preaching about because if you are interested you would buy the book how many I interested in what I'm preaching about yeah but I don't think you are interested you are saying it but you I don't you are interested by your actions you are not interested do you get what I'm saying I'm you may say to somebody I love you and so on but you know you don't do the engagement you get it you don't do that you know you don't do anything I mean I love you I love you I love you I'll marry you I'll marry you you know but you don't do anything there's no big man there's nothing you get it there's no date at all you don't fix that date you don't say anything you don't introduce you don't reduce me to your parents you don't even tell your parents about me you get it like every day I love you I mean you are the only one and I mean it's a good message that I'm saying it [Applause] okay the next one is anger at correction you know that some of you sit here I get angry when I preach all you get ugly when somebody talks to you personally Bible says reprove not Ascona less he say to me rebuke a wise man and he will love thee now let me tell you some it's not only enough to correct somebody or rebuild them but you must also rebuilt the persons under when he is angry at correction so sometimes rebuke Authority have phase one and phase two you will build up as I you watch the presence response when the person becomes some way will not take him again and point out to the person that you have been collected is and it shows that you are not repented because when you get irritated when your father corrects you or somebody corrects you or so many preaches the weather what is in the Bible is irritates you you get angry then there's nothing wrong with you why don't you want to hear the truth why don't you want to get the truth how do you get irritated when you squeeze your face why do you get angry why what's your attitude like that when you hear something that apply to you because nobody can talk to you personally we always have to say from the pulpit and in general and you sort of a studio self at the time nobody can say call your name I said listen a jumpring Jonathan this is what I want to tell you we have to say from the pulpit generally one day I want to preach in a waterhole and I said look we've been doing don't broadcast every day they don't listen to us so let's let's be let's zero in let's do in you get what I'm saying so we decided look we're going to call out their room numbers we preach to them personally instead of standing in the yard saying we came to tell you about all this money God balls to save you God wants to bless your life it's time for you to repent what are you gonna do today is whatever no in dead of pitching water ha we said we just take the one by one room so we started III info if 5 is 6 and we call them letters listen to outside the window we just took to the window is 7 then we preach then the vapor was that we say that if it had been a general message you get it they wouldn't have listened to us or they wouldn't have even minded us how they became angry they were so angry some of them were so angry it was so annoyed although somebody came down one person even came down running - when we measured her room numbers it what block is it on the two sides de quelques case or a KL when I say K 1 K 2 so I think what kate 25 okayed 19 or so when we miss a k-19 she jumped out of her room and came down I want to give my hat but others were so angry with us and they were so angry they complained to the Christian community and the Christian community published and noticed and put a notice on the noticeboard dissociating themselves from us who came to do that don't broadcast blessed are you when all men shall persecute you and cast out your name as evil are you listening so bum get angry when somebody speaks to and obviously man ask your pasta in all your leader whoever you have that tell me the truth you know is that something you don't tell me what is your father thinking that he's not saying the prodigal son went out his father never told him he was a fool or he was lost or his money was finished but he told the servants he said this my son was lost when he saw happy get a ring get a rope and so on then his son is I'm a boy came and I was angry said I have this way you don't have anything it's about the boy Tim said he never told him to his face you are you don't have anything it just was happy gave him a robe and so all these things we are it for you the bear is penniless he's broke he's uses inherited he's not at your mercy even the prodigal son was lucky that he came home before his father died because if he had come a bit later when the father was there to come and meet Allah ah developing easy product without early look um you go to the trouble you caused in this house because of the struggles and difficulty that you causing was always cry here because of you cool you get that on the hug before go back to your pigs I'll call the dogs right now alright the next symptom is not playing tides the next engine is not paying times you know the Bible says where your treasure is there will your heart be also you want us to read it all you know it you've had it before is that also say where your treasure is your heart will also be there now it is important for you to know that wherever your treasure goes right your heart follows your heart follows your treasure for instance you know right now we are two missions in the Caribbean do you see Trinidad and Jamaica and we are just about to open to other missions in in the Caribbean in Barbados and Guyana which is on the South American continent we are sent from here Accra because we are reaching out we are missions oriented Church God forgive us if we agree something wrong but that's what we are doing now I have never noticed the Hurricanes that come to America every year never I mean other culture when I see the fellows in the Hurricanes passing as the weather report says hurricane something is doing something hurricane something Charlie Eric Eric different types of hurricane I just look at myself this America they have a lot of problems well you know the hurricane start from Africa they build up and then they go there so some people believe is a punishment you know from the Africa because of the slaves and so on hurricanes are coming to catch them because we have people when the hurricane came to Jamaica Kingston it passed through system that the hurricane is going somewhere by his passing other places offered by by will come for our real visas I was concerned and no one beholding Jamaica Pastor David an image they were there the hurricane came and blew of their if they were in the house and the whole group was taken off and fortunately there was one room in the house which has a concrete roof so they know in reserve at the house became a swimming pool with new roof and they were in the hurricane so let I send them a congratulation that one day see Paul in heaven they can also do and policin have been in a shipwreck three times be in the deep at night and a day I have been beaten by Ross five times I've been beaten by the Jews three times that he can also say I've been in the hurricane once give the lettuce salad please and survive amen what have you been through what have you survived are you listening to me the hurricane was pacified he said everybody said there's no matches in the town does not like this boat battering nothing everybody had barricaded his house in because and there's not as sue is moving anywhere everybody's waiting for that I've never talked about hurricanes they said there's another one going to pass through Bahamas and so on and so forth so as soon as your treasure is somewhere your interest goes there ladies and gentlemen when you love God you will put your treasure in his house and you have to be in the house in which you have invested because you know your treasure is in the house but as your treasure is in the stock exchange or get a commercial man or npp on NBC when they are losing is it for me I don't care who wins or who loses what I don't have any investment in I love them it doesn't matter to me at all who wins or who loses whoever comes will pray for you after all none of them seem to care for us when NBC was here they came a block away and we became they have not come to repair a lot of them have come to pass by so nobody cares for us Jesus cares for us [Applause] I'm pitching a very good message this morning so ladies and gentlemen where your treasure is your heart is there my heart is not in NBC my heart is not an MVP I have mistakes that my stake sighing Gordon is in his kingdom but I see something happen in the winner's chapel it affects me because my heart is in the kingdom of God and my husband killed seven pastors and churches all that is going on it consents me and I am concerned about it and anything happens to any man of God who sends me what a good a little bad because my treasure is the kingdom of God God is my treasure in this wreck is my treasure that is where my investment of my heart and my life is I pick my wife out of attorney general I pull it out of private practice I put it into the ministry I put all my friends anybody that I can get in or anybody that's valuable who was to do it well the kingdom of God is available if you today's Bala you will like anybody who is vulnerable to be in it when a person stops paying tithes it's a system that the person is doesn't pay taxes not with God so help me God you see people who call themselves Christians they don't peptides but they pay money to MVP and to NDC hypocrites you claim to be a Christian a political party instead of supporting the house of God then you sit down and join believers to criticize the church may God bless your soul if you have Jesus and yet to him there's other people you trust and give you work to do not like you to be a priest or a pastor may God have mercy on your soul chapter 2 look my concern with you spiritual so don't worry when you come to check expect to hear spiritual things I want to share with you about what I call a bag with holes then came to a guide chapter chapter 1 a guy you can find it on page 91 for it one for all right hi guys have to one then came the head of the load by hug on the Prophet SAV is it time for you on you to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house live list now death that dust said the Lord of hosts cause today race you have so much and bring in little you kiss but you have not enough are you with me I'm invest six of Haggai chapter one you Club you but there is none wrong and we've got ended wages and net wages to put it in a bag with holes does say at the law Olson I always go to the mountain and build a house and I the Lord and when you brought it home I did grow up on it why say the Lord of Hosts because of my house that is waste and you run every man to his own house that's all the husband over you is safe from do and the earth is safe from her fruits I share a joke upon the land and upon the bones is and upon the cone and upon the new wine and upon that which the ground bring yourself and upon ellinikon castle and upon all the liver and their hands I called for the draught listen to me let me tell you something in my experience it's not the amount of money that you a know that makes you blessed instead you went to show that you've got little you got this and you put it into a bag with holes what is this bag with holes many of us have web bags with holes you see in the United Kingdom remember in in London because I go there I've been there quite a bit I notice how they they're supermarket they are large supermarkets you know their greatest investment was in security because people steal so much you know even in a book shop when people let people enter the bookshop the bookshop attendants are very jittery because people just steal a few Bibles they still books they still whatever so we have people watching all the time as you catch them you know you just have another people coming in and these are Christians so you know every business that you do you may think you are making profit by one person maybe still a bunch of is not a business business by the way you know sometimes we need to say that that bookshop is not it's not even a limited liability company it makes no profit it runs at a loss so that we can provide books for all of us it allows us a lot you when the people come from abroad America and England they come and buy a lot of Bibles and thism because they can't believe the price is far cheaper you ask them how are we able to do it it's not a business it's not a company all right and also myself I don't earn money from writing books that's also another thing you get it so take that that somebody needs to know that you get it alright as the person next you are you the one who seems to need to know such in who may have such information are you that somewhere person in the church who is here or the investigations right now listen many times we are we waste and got it lists the holes to you and bad with holes what are the holes of life number one is stealing it does not carry well weapon somebody who come and steal your video your dance your DVD your ability and it's good I grew up on it it's gone God is the one who can cross upset in horse sickness when Kathryn Kuhlman went many people died in cattle Commons ministry they would write there was I live all my property to Kathryn Kuhlman diamonds dual gold all sorts of things and people began to criticize her I know other people said this I would have spent all on hospital bills I would have died in the hospital and out of spent or you see there is a way you can't be sick and you see before you die and they tell you that if you have a house the house they'll sell the house when you die to pay your hospital bills is a common thing he said you gather and you put it in a bag ecology that's why people work work work you see they don't happen it I mean if it was so that people were to have so much I remember when I used to go to America in the earlier years you know we have doctors from Ghana who going back there and so when we do fundraiser can you help and so on and so you know we are we are intense and not intense we are ready stress or something so you know we are doing our program and we don't end much you get it we don't have much that's where they used to say all of them said that also we are no $1,800 nothing we just we are just struggling in America love to pay rent business family whatever we have nothing yes now you have them they finished some of them to specialists and you see a surgeon and a basic an accommodation battle pediatrician and positions I will be studying the same check receiver to get $1,000 sometimes I can get it easier in a crowd than over there it's a mysterious thing and sometimes you find out that you look for my it goddess in soda who you will get another Pole it will pass away can also take it away Bombay met Toby said I used to not pay tithe it is a he said to me thank you for preaching using my example to preach when I preach about it he said thank you he was a taxi driver in Europe he said o my time is up he says look I went to cut my customer when I was stuck in the car my car it's the neighbor so he said I walked by number because if you know you have to write your number and give it to that so that they can call he said one of them not the well of the life in an honest or two three three four four six four is one of the most social the people try to call they couldn't get him so they say it's now hit-and-run so they came for eventually they found him they got him the circuit and run to pay for the man's car to pay for his car to pay for police and by the time he finishes man about $16,000 he said to me all this is it's because God likes waste and he said I'll run to your own houses message I tell you to hear the word of God in a chat and they said to him listen we want to expand the church and the people said no you are stretching the chest too man these protests are too many you are tired the toilets at this time from the last order and now you are wearing out the church the pastor was supposed to abandon because these boards sometimes they are powerful so he abandoned the church one day he built a beautiful house on a hill in America this I'm telling what the man himself said he said I built a beautiful house on the hill and just the fact we're moving I was taking my family there to have a look at our beautiful house that we built he said us they were going they saw ice cream run were selling ice cream and his two daughters [Applause] himself [Applause] [Music] picking up the pieces of his children I'm not telling you the story of it we had a pastor preach I'll tell you what the man said you got my watch but you got a tick little you you look for much in common why I read it to you as a prophet said because you don't go your way to your own houses opportunities will come by you foolishness will be in your mind you will never take the opportunity because God will not release to you the wisdom the other gods told me somebody told me as a chaser we should give something to someone after we gave the thing to the person suddenly the Lord gave me some wisdom sadly what I needed was answered things that we needed not by money or by even buying anything but just by wisdom the fame suddenly became available I was amazed and the word to me is part of the blessings that come from giving because because and it blow on it you go ahead and flip for lots and tens it to nothing let's have God to do my time is a stand to your feet hallelujah alright let your hands to the Lord you just want to ask the Lord Lord I don't want to backslide I don't want to put money or anything else before you I want to slap you I'm gonna do your will I want to do your way Lord I want to live for you Jesus thank you thank you for your blessing speak to the Lord in a moment as we close the sense father we thank you we praise you we give you glory Oh God how we love to serve you one oh I'm gonna put you first we're gonna put your first line save us from foolishness Lord give us wisdom love tell us don't waste him the things that are given to us close out the back filled with holes and issues that take away everything we have and we have work for we thank you for your blessing upon our life to live to serve you WI so God and to put you first we pray we thank you we honor you O God we love you Father in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth amen as every head is bowed and every eye closed want to say pasta please pray for me I don't know Jesus as my savior and I want to be born again I want to give my life to God if you are here like that what is it master please pray with me I want to give my life to Jesus lift up your right hand up not right now just lift up your right hand just your right hand won't you be born again I went to pray with you before I take my seat lift your hand god bless you god bless I see your hand I want to pray with you before we close this said if you've lifted your hand you would you give your life to God you want to be born again and you've lifted your hands come to me in front here just work from the back and come right to where I am I'm going to pray with you right now god bless you god bless you come from wherever you are come on the front here I want to pray with you god bless you [Applause] all right hallelujah let us pray say this prayer with me close your eyes say this prayer say Lord Jesus forgive me for my sins I am a sinner but I receive Christ as my master and my Saviour from today I will serve you coming to my heart Lord Jesus you are mine and I am yours right now I pick a decision to serve Jesus to follow God Heavenly Father please write my name in the book of life in Jesus name Amen

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Published: Tue Sep 26 2017