THE GREATEST REWARD YOU MUST LOOK OUT FOR

child proof is is an anointing it's an anointing and it works okay so make sure you work it out uh one of the things i want us to do before we start speaking is to look at first timothy 2 first timothy 2 the bible admonishes us that he said i exalt that first of all supplication prayers session giving of thanks be made for all men verse 2 for kings and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty and this is right in the sight of our god of god but one and two is what i want to dwell on if you give me your attention for a few minutes i think one of the errors of the church that we've done over the years is the fact that we assume that as long as we are building our mega churches and we are growing and we are moving cities and communities transforming people we are good and we are okay charles de gaulle of france said politics is too serious to leave it a politician politics is simply about leadership and governance if you look at church growth it's not just about anointing it's not just about gifting it's also about understanding it's about understanding of rules of engagement what works and what does not work but the bible says my people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge and one of the things first group does is to give you illumination to turn your light on and and to eradicate and annihilate foolishness and darkness [Applause] please we see that in heavenly places once again it's good to be with you church group it is possible and it is critical and as never before we need to bring in the harvest the greatest harvest of all time i believe that we might be that generation that will see the coming of the lord [Applause] and i have been preaching on the many signs of the end time for a while now i believe as never before that we are in the end times we are in the end times i've been studying carefully about signs of the end times and before i talk about one of the signs of the end time because it's very very clear when you look at some of the signs and study biblical prophecy that we are truly in the end times and we are closer to the coming of the law than we first believed there are ten biblical prophecies for fail concerning the breath of christ and nine concerning his nature six concerning his athlete ministry and 29 concerning his crucifixion and form concerning his resurrection and his ascension 60 prophecies so far about jesus has been fulfilled we have about 14 prophecies more to be fulfilled before he comes and one of them is the capital moving from tel aviv to jerusalem the next one after that is the rebuilding of the temple and that that is a very dicey situation when that happened because the days may be cut short less the right shots be deceived because when that happens it will create a lot of issues in our world today and it has already begun and it shall be built the temple shall be rebuilt uh whether you believe it or not that's nothing to do with you believing that you not believing it shall be done and one of the one of the one of the signs also is the fact that the wealth of the wicked will be transferred to the righteous and we need to get the church ready but tonight at church group tonight i just want to talk to you for some few minutes about one of the signs of the end time talking about iniquity or lawlessness iniquity or lawlessness being one of the signs of the end time and if you look at the nations of our world cities and communities nowhere is safe anymore safety is of god there is no safety anywhere anymore when i was a young preacher and i began 40 years ago my journey in the gospel i never thought that a day would come that i will pray maranatha come lord jesus but for a while now it's been very strong in my spirit that i keep praying for the coming of the lord that lord jesus you must come because his coming is the only solution and answer to the challenges and the crisis of this world leaders of nations are confused and they don't know what to do they are torn here and there they've tried every economic principles to make it work and it's not working and it's not going to work until the prince of peace steps into the equation united nations cannot solve the problems of the world they don't have what it takes to tame the president of north korea they don't have what it takes united nations can't handle that it will take the prince of peace stepping in the equation and peace is not a commodity peace is not a principle peace is a person peace is a person and his name is the prince of peace he's the only one that can bring peace he said in this world you shall have tribulation but in me you shall have peace we want to look at iniquity reading from matthew the 24th chapter and the 12th verse and because iniquity shall be the love of many shall we school what is iniquity lawlessness breakdown of law of order anti authority anti-order and thai law doing what you please being in defiance of the rules of engagement and jesus said that because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold if you look at when we got born again some 40 years ago the kind of zeal and commitment we had in those days is different from the zeal and the commitment we have today to the things of god because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall walks go you don't see the love of god among us anymore like it used to be i was telling the preacher friend of mine said when we were young and we had nothing and we struggled in the faith and in the ministry we made time for each other we went out to eat every now and then we fellowship with one another and just when god blessed us and we are beginning to experience some level of blessing and success we have allowed the success to come between us and to divide us the success have some way somehow isolated us from one another that if we are not careful we might end up like the seven churches in the book of revelation where the bible says you are neither hot nor cold and the bible said in one of those churches in the book of revelation he said you say you are rich you lack nothing and you have everything but you are spiritually poor and you are blind and on and the seven churches in the book of revelation were all in turkey and according to bible historians the mother of jesus lived and died in turkey and john the apostle who jesus loved died and lived in techy and paul the apostle was a citizen of turkey and the church in turkey prevailed for one thousand one hundred years and did so well until they mega mega cathedral and churches and they started competing among themselves fighting among themselves and there was a lot of strife envy and jealousy among themselves to the point where they began to destroy one another is a very very sad thing when you study that the history of the seven churches in turkey and signs of those churches are still there up to today but there is nothing to prove that once upon a time they did existed apart from those foundations there and when i studied the seven churches in the book of revelation it scares me when i look at the signs of the churches today it looks like we are beginning to get to that particular place where they were where the success how we define success is beginning to have effect may i subject to you that success is not numbers and success is not money that heaven's definition of success is different from it and man's definition of success success as god and heaven ceases is different from the way man sees it and i think one of the reasons why we get to a point that we get stuck and we don't end well it's because we get carried away with what we define and call success but success from god's perspective and point of view is not what you possess or what you have for a man's life that not consists by the abundance of things that he possesses success as defined by god and by heaven is this one thing how you end the race [Applause] for it's not him that we left nor him that run it but god that's your word mercy see i hear you [Music] and the greatest thing i look forward for and to hear is that day when the master will say unto me well down down good and faithful seven that is true success that is heaven's definition of success for what shall he profit a man to get this whole world and lose his soul so we as we as we embark on chat growth and we are winning souls we must also check our motives for which we are doing what we are doing i've been dealing with motives a lot because actions are productive motives and god will not judge your actions he will judge your motives and so whatever we are doing the bible said we shall all stand before the judgment seat of christ on that day and every man's work shall be tested or tried by fire and even we ourselves shall be saved by fire so we must examine ourselves and look at the reason and the motive that drives us to win so because if we are winning souls only to be better and to prove that we are bigger than our brother or our sister the motive is wrong the souls will be saved because jesus shed his blood for them but you will not be rewarded for it because your motive was wrong so we have to check our motives for doing the things we do because god on that day every man's work you know every now and then myself and precisely bishop we talk we talk a lot every now and then and one scripture that is so strong that any time we talk that comes up is first corinthians four and five when the bible says let no man judge anything now until that day of the lord for when he appears the secret of men's heart which is motive shall be revealed and every man's work shall be made known then shall we all receive praise of the lord and that is the greatest reward we must all look out for on that day when we stand before god so let's take it how we build amen the bible said that because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall call iniquity lawlessness as we see today in the church in the nations of our world it's a clear sign it's one of the signs of the end times ladies and gentlemen you don't need anybody to prophesy to you that jesus is coming tomorrow or a week from now the signs are very clear these are words that came out of the mouth of the master and he said look at these they are part of the signs that will so fought by coming and that one of the signs is this that iniquity shall abound and the love of many shall wax cold i don't know how strong your love for god is i don't know whether your love has wax called or your love for god is alive but we will see as we go on second timothy three and two second timothy three and two for men shall be lovers of their own self lovers of your own self confucius confess yours looking at other people's wives you are in charge but you are looking at somebody's husband and you are looking at somebody's wife you are looking at that which belongs to your neighbor your brother your sister it is not yours but you want it and it doesn't matter what it takes to get it you will do it to get it covered yours love this of themselves that love is of god you're a friend of mine he has a good body rules royce and he used to be he used to be in the philippines a missionary and he's he was married to a very wealthy man's daughter and when the wise father died he was asked to come home and he inherited a lot of money and a very good business one day he bought a rolls royce and he was driving on the streets of seattle washington on a sunday afternoon after church praising the lord excited and the lord said i accept your praises but you invested so much to buy a rolls royce what have you done for my church and you say you love me but love is not what you say about what you do so if you say you love me prove it if you love me prove it he felt convicted and he told her why we have to go back to church and the wife said for what and he told the wife of what god told him he drove back to church and he gave a double of the amount he used in buying the rules royce to the church and he said a burden and wait something left him or lifted of him that he had done more for the church than for himself the difference between us and other religions is the fact that i personally don't believe that christians believe in heaven i'm telling you i don't believe it i don't believe that christians believe in heaven we don't because if i look at the attitude of christians today it looks like our eternity is more here than in heaven it looks like we build our heaven on earth and not in heaven and i'm going to say some very strong things i believe that if jesus announces today that he's coming back here in ghana for the church in ghana in the next one month some of us or some christians will go to the supreme court and take an injunction to stop him from coming i'm telling because we are not ready for the coming of jesus we don't want him to come right now because if we want him to come right now and if we believe in eternity we will invest more into the kingdom than we invest in ourselves and than our children we put more in ourselves and in our children than we put in the kingdom i'm telling you if you look at other religions like the jews if you look at their commitment and what they give to their religion it's more than what we do for our religion if you look at if you look at other regions like like islam or the muslims they are building temples everywhere when they build a house they build a temple in the house we build houses and even build garages for our cars but we don't build a meeting place for us and god and if we believe in eternal rewards and internal mileage we will spend more on the kingdom and on the work of god than we spend on ourselves there are christians when we are making our wills we don't wield anything to the church we will things to even our children or children that that don't have faith in god and we use the grace of god and things that god gave us ability and capacity to acquire we take it and we give it to even children who don't believe in the person of jesus and we use resources of the kingdom to advance our own cause and because of our children and we don't care about the future of the church that's why europe that's why the churches in europe are all bankrupt and they are selling the churches in europe and there is no revival in europe because when the fathers and the mothers were dying they didn't will anything to the church they wield it all to their children who have no love and passion for the things of god [Applause] lovers of themselves than lovers of god if we say we are lovers of god it's not just what we say it's not i love you lord but it's what we do for god so love the world that he did something if you love somebody you do something for the person you love your wife you don't wait for your wife to ask for money you love your kids you don't wish for them to ask you things you do things for them you do things for the people you care for or you care about the most if we care about god jesus at the age of 12 went to the temple his parents went looking for him and he said i must be about my father's business the church is god's business the kingdom is god's business the gospel is god's business and we must be about our father's business most times we talk about corruption we are always insulting and attacking politicians corruption corruption corruption how about the corruption in the church you know what corruption is let me tell you what corruption is from the bible point of view i've been dealing with stewardship for some time now corruption is a very simple thing diverting and using resources given to you for a particular assignment for something different than done for which it was given to you simple you are giving money and resources to ensure that a road is made a hospital is built or a school is built for a community and you divert that money into something else and the masses are suffering you are you are carrying a case and that is what you call corruption and there are people in the church who have been blessed by god we don't pay corporate tithes we hold back corporate height and there are a lot of business men and women one of the reasons why the business community in the church is suffering is because we haven't developed the capacity to honor god with what he deserved we haven't developed the capacity to give to god that which is due him his work and his church and and we keep god and he's very clear when you look at what we do with our money a businessman gets a contract the first thing he does is to buy a car it's corruption the first thing he does is take his family to dubai on a holidays is corruption it's direction resources given to you to advance the cost of the kingdom is diverted for other uses it is it is a form of corruption and it is also clear that you are a lover of yourself than the lover of god and it's one of the signs of the end time lovers of what self than lovers of world god now the problem here itself itself talk to me say self self that is the problem in the church there is too much selfishness in the church and selfishness is the mother and the womb of all evil selfishness is the womb and the mother of all evil and these are some of the signs of the end times and when we see these signs it's not just an attitude it's a spirit it's a spirit influencing people's behavior patterns thought patterns and attitudes there are forces behind these kinds of attitudes and we as church leaders if we are going to have successful church growth we must understand some of the signs of the end times that in the end time some of the signs will be this the fact that people will be lavish of themselves the lovers of god the bible says in in jeremiah 45 secret great things for you or for yourself seek them not turn to somebody and say are you seeking great things for yourself don't do it that's what he said he said secret great things for thyself do all seek them not if you're looking for it for you don't but if you are looking for great things and greatness for the kingdom and for the church you are blessed you are blessed you have no sweat god will back you and make sure you have it but if it is for you and for yourself seek them not seek out great things for thyself seek it not there is too much of everybody seeking to have their own thing everybody is seeking to be great to be better than somebody there is too much of self-self-self and it's one of the signs of the end time lovers of themselves and lovers of god [Applause] if you can pay corporate tithe it's very clear to me that you are a lover of yourself and you are a user of god and you have more faith and trust in money and in material things than you have in the living god and it's also clear to me that you value material things more than you value your salvation and your eternity with the son of god [Applause] [Music] go ahead please coverages cover you know many definitions of pride but from my perspective pride is simply refusing to give god the credit to him where people refuse to acknowledge what the grace of god has done in their lives the bible said it is not him that we like nor run it but god that showed mercy and god has shown us great mercy and most times we are ashamed to give god credit and we try to make it look like you know i went to yale and i went to oxford and princeton and cambridge and and i come from social so family and i stood here and now my master's and i have this listen i've seen people with masters and you name it phds and all that and i've seen them broke like a rat are you hearing me somebody so if god i've shown you mercy you see the other day let me tell you what i like about paul paul was an intellectual but he didn't have intellectual arrogance he said i am the least among them all i lived more abundantly than them all yet not i but the grace of god that was with me until you come to a place where you recognize that you have no achievement of your own that there is nothing you have achieved and accomplished that has to do with how smart you are how principled you are how hard you have worked but that it is the grace of god that enable you to achieve that goal until you come to that place you're a very proud person i'm just telling you there are a lot of proud people in the church and it's one of the signs of the end times proud arrogance and one of the things pride also does it isolates you from the brethren and you become a loner you can't relate to anybody can't relate to anybody looking down everybody and thinking that you are the only one who has it together nobody has it together god never intended that anybody should be an island to themselves we are interdependent you need me and i need you no one was giving it all so we need one another and that is the way it is and when it comes to a place you know you know what destroys something was not his weakness something was not weak something was very strong it was his strength that destroyed him not his weakness the man was so strong and so annoyed that by his bare hands he could kill a lion and he could kill a thousand of the philistines army he could remove the gates and the pillars and the columns of an entire city and put it on his shoulders and climb a hill with it he was so good so intelligent so smart so intellectually sophisticated and he had innovative ideas if you study the guy that there was no joke but he was so good to the point that he needed nobody and it was that that isolated him from his friend and his wife his friend ended up sleeping with his wife and he was isolated from his own family and became a loner that he had nobody with him and he died with his enemies i don't want to die with my enemies i don't want to lose my vision but there is a possibility there's a possibility and it's pride where you get to a place where you feel like i don't need anybody i'm self-sufficient i got it all nobody got it all i'm telling you nobody got it all everybody needs somebody and it is in giving to others and pouring into others that we ourselves are filled and preserved you know a true story that happened during the time of the second world war in germany hitler's army invaded a village with a lot of jews and arrested them and put them on a train and drove them out of the city during winter and threw them far out of the city without blankets without anything to protect them against the cold weather and dumped them in the middle of the winter and left them to die everybody was shivering they were shivering and looking at how they can keep themselves alive and warm there was a young man sitting by an old man and saw the old man shivering and he said let me reach out to this old man and help him out and he started he started massaging the old man to warm him and to keep him alive after a while after a while he looked around him and everyone was dead except him and the old man everybody was dead you know why everybody died because everyone was thinking about themselves everybody was focusing upon themselves and the cold they were physical about the cold and themselves the young man said let me focus on the old man let me keep him warm let me massage the old man let me help the ulma and in massaging helping and keeping the old man alive he kept himself alive true story they were the only two people who survived [Applause] everyone else died if we don't stop focusing ourselves if we don't begin to have a kingdom vision if we don't stop having visions for ourselves and begin to have a vision for the kingdom we may die and die alone blasphemous [Applause] blasphemous disobedient to parents disobedience to parents is one of the signs of the end time there's never been a generation like this generation when it comes to disobedience to parents and one of the dangers of disobedience to parents is the fact that the bible says to obey your parents in the lord ephesians 6 1 and 2 and he said honor your father and your mother that it may be well with you that thou mayest live long i have never seen anyone who dishonor their father or mother that succeeds in this life and lives long you will not live long that's why a lot of young men and women are dying prematurely and they are carrying the diseases of all men and all women because they have broken the protocol of heaven they have no regard and respect for anybody anymore in the name of achievement and success let me tell you something achievement and success does not make you a father or a mother and hear me hear me joshua had wisdom because moses laid hands upon him joshua did what moses couldn't do and took the children of israel into the land of promise and gave the twelve tribes of israel each one's inheritance to them it was just what that did it moses couldn't do it i want you to hear me and i want you to understand that when joshua and the children of israel fought amalek in the valley it was not the skill not the strength not the mind not the innovative ideas of joshua that gave him the upper hand over amalek it was the hand of moses lifted upon the mountain and let me say this to you elijah the father of elijah performed seven miracles elijah the son of elijah performed 14 miracles but it was the mantle of elijah that empowered elijah to perform 14 miracle when elijah left and his mantle fell upon elijah when elijah came by the jordan he did not say where is the lord my god he said where is the lord god of my father elijah hear me on the mount of transfiguration before jesus went to the cross it was not joshua it was not elijah that appeared to talk to jesus it was elijah and moses it was the fathers not the sons so success don't make you a father [Applause] you can have all the wealth in this world it doesn't make you a father we cannot destroy the protocol and the old landmarks in the name of success there's so much disobedience in the church and among the youth of today and it is shortening people's life people are dying prematurely in ministry they're dying at whose feet did you learn and study who laid hands upon you who anointed you by whose hands were you appointed and ordained joshua had wisdom because moses had listened upon him listen the ministry and the gospel is not innovative ideas neither is it intellectualism or logic or philosophy it is the power of god unto salvation somebody said i hear you too much pride and there's no more humility in the church there's no more humility in the church too much arrogance in the church we are importing the american way into our ways now we are beginning to do things the way the american does it we are not the american church and we have to be careful that we don't do things the way the american church does it let's do it the jesus way are you hearing me somebody shout yes we got to stop being arrogant and proud because of what we call our achievement and successes as long as god is concerned hear me even your money don't move god you know why because the streets of gold the streets of heaven are made out of gold so whatever money you have it doesn't impress god god is not impressed with your money so take it easy i know you are loaded take it easy i know you are connected take it easy i know you have foreign exchange in swiss bank account but take it easy none of those things moves god the things that moves god are worthy of matters not material things and hear me there are there are two kinds of riches we have material riches and we have godly riches and godly riches is better and is more than material riches the bible says if you haven't been faithful in mammal who will entrust you with true riches there's true riches we have blessings and even in blessings we have different levels of blessings we have general blessings we have additional blessings we have sure blessings we have extraordinary blessings there are levels and blessings then there is a difference between prosperity and riches for the blessing of the lord it make it rich so there's a difference between riches and blessings and the difference between riches and wealth and treasures i will give you the treasures of darkness and the hidden riches of secret places are you hearing me and the church we get blessed then we become big what is wrong with you are you hearing me somebody [Applause] blessings god uses blessings god uses blessings to show us what is in our heart blessings reveals who you are you never know who somebody is till they are to they get blessed till they have money till they have power till they have fame till they have relevance you never know who they are but but the rule and the law here is sons must do better than their father and if you are true father your sons must do better than you fans are not doing well then there is something wrong with you because elijah did more than elijah joshua did more than moses and jesus said greater ways shall you do than i did so if you're a good father your children must do better than you and a two and a good father must not compete with your children you must not kill your children you must not fight your children you must not oppose your children you have to allow your children to grow to become big and to become my god bishop and tefl is a good principle is good that you have 500 churches under you that tells you bishop that is that's the principle if your children are not doing well and you outshine them and you are bigger than your children every time you are not a good father for a good man leaving an inheritance to his children's children where is the inheritance [Applause] and i tell you i'm very proud of bishop dan i'm very very proud of him i'm telling you [Applause] you know in this life and in ministry you need somebody to speak for you one day and you know what speaks for you it's not your success because money has limitation and power has expired it is just a matter of time a time will come when money can speak and your achievement can speak and you need you need a human being to speak for you and it is the investment you've made in relationship over the years and relationship is very expensive i'm telling you relationship is no joke my relationship will be shut down has been there over 30 years but i have to make a deliberate effort to maintain their relationship if i tell you there haven't been interference i'm joking there's been all kinds of interference they've been voices they've been manipulations and chantes and enchantment incantations and divineness divination and sorceress they've tried everything and i put down my feet and i said no it's not worth it are you hearing me somebody so if you think relationship is common you are joking relationship is tough relationship is difficult [Music] but the relationships you fight for and you take your time to build today will answer and speak for you tomorrow [Applause] put your hands together and give god praise [Applause] come with me please go ahead go ahead boastful proud unthankful unholy unthankful on thankful unthankful unthankful all thankful that we deserve everything you don't deserve anything i don't deserve anything so this mentality of ingratitude you see in gratitude will cut you short but gratitude will give you longevity we have to develop the attitude of gratitude jesus healed 10 leopards only one came back to say thank you and the one that came back to say thank you was made whole not just healed but he had an overhauling the night that didn't come back to say thank you they were healed but they still had certain challenges in certain parts of their organs but the one that came to say thank you thank you thank you i don't deserve it but you did it thank you jesus said your faith has overhauled all your organs and has renewed your youth as an eagle and your faith has reser have reversed aging an attitude of gratitude will take you where ingratitude will take you [Applause] and honesty of gratitude is not just remembering who helped you before by doing something for those who help you once upon a time before you discovered yourself i've seen so many people in life in the ministry that have no sense of gratitude and sometimes if i look at them if i look at them i won't help anybody and i've been privileged over the years to her favor not just in ghana but many nations of the world i go to many nations of the world and the president was sent to pick me up from the airport take me to my hotel put security in my house all over i have i have some incredible favors incredible favors sometimes i'll be on the plane and the captain will announce when he's saying ladies and gentlemen welcome on board fasting your seatbelt i'm captain social and so and we are cruising uh 35 or 40 000 feet above sea level i would say we are in new zealand we are thankful that we have the young bishop on board [Applause] i am incredible favor favors that i don't deserve i don't deserve it so i don't touch it i don't touch it because i didn't do anything to warrant it i don't deserve it but yet i'm blessed and because i know i didn't warrant it i didn't do anything to disable i am very very careful of the way i behave myself because i never want to offend god and grieve him and never want to touch his [Applause] glory gratitude gratitude we don't thank god anymore and if i follow certain people who have shown ingratitude to me i will never help anybody in this life i will become very very wicked sometimes my kids will say daddy why are you so forgiving why are you so forgiving how do you do it and i said to him that i have received much forgiveness must learn to forgive even more are you hearing me and i have been forgiven of so much i have been shown mercy i have been shown mercy i have been shown so much mercy i used to live i used to live not far from here a place called old dansom army i used to hang at a place called chamuena not too far from here i used to live at akutolante my mother is bruce he's from tessie house our house is not just far from here a treasure house that's where i grew up i used to hang at bucham square i used to fight at the beach and i i've walked out those places and i'm still standing here i don't deserve it i don't deserve it are you hearing me somebody if i tell you the story of my life you will appreciate the fact that i said i don't deserve anything listen folks i've come a long way and i have to i have to show gratitude me i can be arrogant and i can be proud because i have nothing i have nothing whatsoever in the flesh to equate whatever anybody calls a success in my life i was nothing i was written off nobody believed that i would become anything and anybody it is too dangerous for me to be proud i can be the reason why i talk about it is because i didn't stay there that's why i can talk about it education education gives you knowledge it gives you knowledge and knowledge is the acquisition of information and knowledge is limited as of the knowledge we have when it comes to the english language itself it is a borrowed knowledge because in somebody's language it's not yours you lent it but put it aside what i have that many who call themselves smart and intelligent don't have is this you can have knowledge and be smart and be intelligent and not be wise because knowledge don't make you wise is wisdom that makes you wise and wisdom is the product of the fear of god and if you hear me hear me if you were a thief before you were educated you become a professionalist because that is what education does but i tell you what wisdom does wisdom is the ability to use the knowledge you have acquired skillfully and intelligently so anybody who has knowledge but lack wisdom is a disaster waiting to happen it's just a matter of time that's why a doctor knows dr antefa will tell you a doctor knows that drinking is not good for the liver and that smoking nicotine is not good for the heart but the doctor drinks and he smokes and you tell you don't drink don't smoke why is he drinking and smoking he has the knowledge of it but he lacks the wisdom to apply the knowledge [Applause] and hear me it's only god who gives wisdom and god has designed me to be so that unless you have reverence of god and you humble yourself you can never have wisdom people who are arrogant and proud don't have wisdom what they have is knowledge you can have wisdom if you're a proud person you can't it's knowledge you don't have wisdom because wisdom is a product of the fear of god somebody said i hear you [Applause] one of one of the things in the last days also with the bible jesus talked about it in martial 24 12 iniquity lawlessness unholy lack of sanctification and lack of purity there is no purity and sanctification anymore among us folks are living anywhere and anyhow [Music] there's no self-control anymore there's no self-control addiction is not just drug addiction nicotine or alcoholic addiction but it's also sex addiction pornographic addiction and the bible said he would become great the son of god through the spirit of holiness jesus said in john 17 he said i sanctify myself for their sake that they also through thy word may be sanctified so jesus who had no sin he had not seen the right he was he became sin for us who knew no sin that we may become the righteousness of god yet he sanctified himself so sanctification is a daily daily requirement it's a daily requirement it's a daily necessity purity sanctification is a daily necessity for every believer and one of the signs of the end time is this unholy attitude that people live anyway anyhow there are people living in the church sleeping with a woman you have been married sleeping with the man you have in mind there's all kinds of things going on immorality at the highest level these days we don't preach and we don't preach holiness anymore we don't preach we don't preach hell you know we don't preach hell anymore we don't preach about heaven anymore we don't talk about we don't talk about eternal rewards anymore we don't all our messages has to do with prosperity breaking through there's nothing wrong about breaking through but the gospel is not just prosperity it's more than prosperity we've got to get people ready for the coming of the lord this year what i said let me let me just give you let me close let me close let me close [Applause] you know i hear you they'll be in temple he's the man in charge not me but by listening for two minutes you know man of god if we are going to win this world and build mega churches we have to be aware of what time is it spiritually and we must understand we must understand the time spiritually and the signs of the times we live in and let me tell you something i know you are a powerful man of god but me i don't trust myself i don't trust myself i'm telling you i trust the lord the bible says be strong in the lord and in the power of his mind not in yourself but we say by strength shall no man prevail this body if you don't check it it will misbehave and embarrass you [Applause] the bible says the flesh profited nothing but the spirit quickens problem with man of god today is we take too much for granted we believe because we are anointed we are gifted we are powerful nobody is powerful it's only god that is powerful i'm telling you god is god is a spirit even god who is a spirit can be tempted so if god who is a spirit can be tempted who do you think you are [Applause] why you live here today why you live here when you live here today remember as for the principle of church growth it works your judges need to grow [Music] that's not the problem but maintaining the growth is another matter and staying on the scene for a long time and endure it's another matter are you hearing me one of the things i love doing these days is when i see young ministers like you i just want to talk to you church girlfriend as your church grow and increases satan will visit you yeah he's part of the things he does he visited jesus he visited david at the time of war at the pinnacle of david's ministry when men went to war he stayed in the palace he was throwing at the top of his palace and the bible said he saw satan can show you something he took jesus to a high mountain and the bible said he showed him the glory the kingdom and the riches of this world so it doesn't matter how you anointed you are satan can show you something and you know what he shows you he shows you things you have need of yeah some of you brothers you like a particular type and kind he will show you some of you sisters you like a particular type and kind he will show you and he shows you when you have broken through [Applause] when you are big not when you are small because when you are small and you fall nobody feels it nobody hears it if you fall from here if you fall from here you can get up easily but if you fall from the top so you know what's it undone he's a long term planner the the serpent the snake in the garden of eden which adam and eve feel to conquer to overcome and to kill became a dragon in the book of revelation so the things you don't deal with right now in your youth will become giants decades to come from now so whatever it is deal with it now and don't don't don't don't go around saying that you are very anointed listen demons don't respect anointing because satan is also anointed [Music] be honest with yourself know where your weaknesses are are you hearing somebody and walk with wisdom you go far may the lord bless you may the lord show you mercy may the lord grant you divine escapes may the lord cause you to master your feelings to master your emotions to master temptations hear me one of one of one of the attributes of christianity in self-control and self-control is mastering you have to develop mastering say mastering i pray that nobody here will bring a reproach to the name of the lord i pray that you will not be a disappointment i pray that you have power over the spirit of delilah that you have power over the spirit of jesus that you have power over the spirit of atalia and that you will not be ensnared in the ministry that the enemy will not ambush you nor set you up in any shape of all that you'll be humble enough at all times giving god glory look at this scripture i think i must leave you with this scripture to help you look the 17th chapter the 26th to the 29th verse of luke the 17th chapter i want to leave you with this scripture because it's important it's critical that you get it and as it was the days of noah as it was in the days of noah so shall it be also in the days of the son of man these are the days of the son of man keep that in mind the same time because it hasn't rained before before it rained in the days of noah it had not rained before so it was very difficult for people to believe that it was going to rain so there was doubt about what noah was saying people doubted his message number one it hasn't rained before so they didn't even know what he was talking about and said what is this whole rain rain rain rain they didn't believe it they doubted him he was mocked out one of the signs of the end time his own belief doubt and mockery mockery like some of the things i'm preaching and saying right now some of these intellectual arrogant preachers will be sitting there and wearing my message and thinking that why is he saying all of this but you are not saying all of this because you are self-appointed you are too much into yourself and you think that bible is stories you think that the bible is just talking about the letter i was telling my students the other day i said whenever you preach the gospel whenever you preach and it doesn't convict people it doesn't convict sin judgment and righteousness you are a lecturer and you lectured and you didn't preach because the preaching of the gospel brings conviction if you preach the word people will repent people will change and if people keep hearing you and they are the same yesterday today and forever more you are a lecturer and we might not we must not be lecturers our messages must convict our messages must save lives our messages must impact people our messages must challenge people to want to live for god if it doesn't challenge anybody to give up something and people still hear you and they still continue doing the same thing they are doing that is wrong you are a lecturer professor you are not a man of god [Music] the gospel is not to make people happy sometimes the gospel makes people angry i'm telling you if everybody loves coming to your church you are not a good preacher jesus said who are you if all men speak well of you and if we want church growth we need to preach the uncompromising and unadulterated word of god to convict people say yes read on quickly quickly they act the earth they marry stop are we eating are we marrying the married wives are we marrying wives they were given a marriage are we giving a marriage unto the day that noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all unto that day business as usual same signs go ahead likewise as it was also in the days of lord another event man didn't learn you know why history repeats itself because we don't learn we don't learn from history so he keeps breathing inside why did they are we eating [Music] they drunk are we drinking they bought are we buying this we're buying houses we are buying cars we are buying lambs hello they planted are we planting they built are we building we are building our heaven on ethel some of you are not building churches i want to encourage everybody before you die to build a church for god [Applause] yeah the centurion build a synagogue build a synagogue for god make a vow that before you die you build a church for god you build a building for god in one of the villages and make a vow instead of building a garage for a car build a prayer room listen the difference between abraham and lord was this any anytime abraham got to a place he would build an altar lord never build an altar lord will build but he didn't build an altar lord was in a spiritual person but abraham knew as a spiritual man that with all the wealthy heart without an altar he was nothing you have to be determined in life to raise an altar for god wherever you go as an individual build an altar build all this everywhere that people who come here after you who know that once upon a time one like you did leave build an altar for god amen how many of you are believing god to build a house do you believe god to build a house listen don't build a garage for your car tell the architect i want a chapel in my house on a small chapel every believer must build a chapel in your house for people to come there and pray somebody says it's a good policy say it as they say it is a good policy every man of god here all you men of god you are building houses build a chapel in your house for god let's live the life let's have church growth everywhere let's fill this city and our nation with our doctrine stand on your faith [Applause] do you receive what you've heard tonight [Applause] i want to pray i want to pray a simple prayer i want as many who are saying and bishop i don't want to miss the rapture the rapture is coming on and it's not for everybody not every believer will go when i teach you see not every preacher will go some preachers will be left behind a lot of believers will make it because they are not looking forward for his kind the bible say he will return unto those who are looking forward to his coming so if you are not looking forward to his coming he's not coming to you and the bible said this hope half day this hope has been that those who have this hope of his coming purifies themselves even as he is pure so the qualification to make heaven is not just that you are born again one of the qualifications to make the rapture is purity then i know we are under grace i know we are not under the law but the bible says in hebrews hebrews 10. he said after that we have known the truth if we willingly or willfully sin there remained no more sacrifice [Music] a young lady my church came to me the other day and said papa i've heard everything you've been preaching about the rapture but that hebrew scripture is a killer you have to stop using it and i said i appreciate you being honest with me but i can't stop using it it will help you willfully sing there we may need no more sacrifice so i'll go to heaven but i tell you the people who don't make the rapture this is how they make heaven according to the book of revelation there will be matters people who don't make the rapture who have to die they have to be beheaded to make heaven because there will be two ways in the times of the antichrist when the church and the holy ghost leaves to make it and this is it you either have to take the mark of the beast and you can't buy anything sell anything without the mark of the beast and the bible said anyone who takes the mark of the beast will lose their salvation and in order for you not to lose your salvation you have to refuse and resist taking the mark of the beast and if you refuse taking the mark of the beast you'll be beheaded and that is the only way a lot of believers who don't believe in heaven will go to heaven because a lot of believers don't believe that jesus is coming again and he'll come a lot of believers don't believe in the rapture even some preachers don't believe in the rapture but he's coming and a lot will not make it it is after when we live that those who weren't living right will now determine if right and the only way they will make heaven is for them to be beheaded because if you take the mark of the beast you will make it you will lose eternity with christ it is a very serious thing and it's caring i want to pray for as many as say as we shall pray for me i don't want to miss the rapture i don't want to miss the rapture i don't want to miss heaven and hear me when i teach on the rapture i will show you scriptures to defend my argument a lot of believers will make it all i'm done a lot of believers will make it and it bothers me not just preachers and not who make it and that's what i'm telling you and as i'm preaching to you i'm preaching to myself and let me tell you something missing heaven is not just immorality lying in line line we lie a lot of us we learn we laugh lying jealousy envy we backbite one another if you look at the qualification it's very scary look at you read the whole book of revelation if you like start from revelation 20 21 22 you'll see some things it's very very scary and i don't know why we are not preaching it but i'm telling you not every believer will go [Music] because a lot of believers are not ready and you know what after all these saving souls paul said i bring my body under lest after that i have preached unto others i should be divinely cast away or divinely disapprove then jesus said on that day i will say to many i know you not and they'll say was it not in your name we cast our devils raise the dead cleanse the leper and we did mighty words in your name hear me everything you did happened because of his name not because of you and you say because you did it in my name you see i can take i can take bishop intervals can key right now and go to the car park and when i start his car his car will not say you are not my owner the car will respond to the key and i can take his car anywhere i want do anything i want to do with this car until i'm arrested because the car is designed to respond to the key the name of jesus is a key [Music] at the mention of the name of jesus every knee of things in heaven and on earth and under the edge about so you can use the name of jesus to do all kinds of things and be successful in his name and he said in that day i was saying to depart from me workers of iniquity lawless blessing living anyway anyhow doing everything you want to do by using the name of jesus to mechanize the gospel i want to pray for those who say preacher i don't want to miss the rapture i don't know i don't want to know anything about you jesse i don't want to miss the rapture i don't want to miss heaven pray for me come forward come lift up your hands i'm going to pray a single prayer [Applause] simple prayer [Music] my g says i love you i know pleasure sing it now my grace oh [Applause] heavenly father we recognize that sin has pleasures but i pray tonight in the power of jesus name that the power of the pleasures of sin be broken over your children in the name of jesus that the yoke will be broken let the spells break let there be which men break let nobody hear from me to the list and from the list to me let nobody here miss the rapture let nobody here miss heaven and i pray that all of us will wake the works of god with purity and with righteousness and not lawlessly or with iniquity in the name of jesus we command the arrests of every foothold of the enemy in the life of your people anything the enemy has planted through their bloodline anything they've inherited through sex through food through any kind of union through any soul time we practice in the name of jesus we command them to be released in the name of jesus i declare you acquitted and discharged by the power of jesus name and declare that you won't miss the rapture you will not miss heaven and you will not go to hell in the name of jesus if you believe he said yes

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Published: Thu Sep 02 2021