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- 0:04Speaker 1: Hallelujah, hallelujah. Amen, blessed be the name of the Lord.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Thank you so very much for having me around. I
- 0:22Speaker 1: want us, while standing to bless and honor Reverend Julius
- 0:26Speaker 1: and his dear wife. God bless you, sir, Thank you
- 0:29Speaker 1: so very very much. I also extend my love and
- 0:35Speaker 1: honor to the pastor it and the organizing committee for
- 0:41Speaker 1: this conference.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Thank you so much. It is a privilege.
- 0:45Speaker 1: To be honored by your invite, and it's my joy
- 0:50Speaker 1: to be able to be a blessing made the Lord.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Bless you. In the name of Jesus.
- 0:55Speaker 1: I trust and pray that the moments who have to
- 0:58Speaker 1: share together will be moments.
- 1:00Speaker 2: That to be most impactful for Jesus name.
- 1:04Speaker 1: We pray, Please may I request that we lift our
- 1:07Speaker 1: hands to heaven and ask the Lord for a very
- 1:10Speaker 1: definite encounter. Just like Reverence said, a great program does
- 1:15Speaker 1: not necessarily translate to transformation and impact. It takes a
- 1:21Speaker 1: decision to take advantage of every provision available by the
- 1:25Speaker 1: Spirit and to put your faith to work.
- 1:29Speaker 2: So we're praying, ask the Lord to visit you.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Ask the Lord to visit you. Father, give me an
- 1:38Speaker 1: encounter in the name of Jesus, give me an encounter.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Open my eyes that I may see, open my ears
- 1:47Speaker 1: that I may hear. My heart is open to receive,
- 1:51Speaker 1: My hands are open to receive. My fate is prepared
- 1:56Speaker 1: to be directed.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Nah no caca suon nuka oh ca you sia nah
- 2:15Speaker 3: I give him a puson nanka.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Babe get.
- 2:22Speaker 5: You nah noksonnanta which nah give my past car.
- 2:33Speaker 6: Gijichi nah no cocon suicide car some wainigi gay sig give.
- 2:45Speaker 5: A soul and no car winch.
- 2:52Speaker 6: Nah no ca carnc car soon now car when you
- 2:56Speaker 6: get you way, guy, say.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Further than the name of Jesus will ask you to
- 3:11Speaker 1: speak to us. Bless our hearts, Let us sink be healed,
- 3:16Speaker 1: Let your press be delivered.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Let confusion come to an.
- 3:21Speaker 1: End over our lives in the name of Jesus. Open
- 3:26Speaker 1: our eyes tonight and be glorified in Jesus' name God,
- 3:31Speaker 1: bless you, please be seated. We're considering a very interesting topic.
- 3:37Speaker 1: When I saw the topic, I said, Wow, this is
- 3:39Speaker 1: a very interesting thought. So for a reference, let's go
- 3:44Speaker 1: to Hebrews, chapter eleven and verse six. The Word of
- 3:49Speaker 1: God brings enlightenment to the believer. The word of God
- 3:53Speaker 1: opens our eyes to understand the ways of God. And
- 3:57Speaker 1: do remember that our excelling in this kingdom depends on
- 4:03Speaker 1: the level of spiritual illumination that we have. We rise
- 4:08Speaker 1: in this kingdom not just by desire, not just by intention,
- 4:12Speaker 1: but upon the strength of the revelation that we have
- 4:16Speaker 1: access to. It takes more than a well intentioned hard
- 4:20Speaker 1: to rise and to excel. Our world is full of
- 4:23Speaker 1: believers would desire to make all kinds of progress, spiritually
- 4:27Speaker 1: and otherwise, but they are bankrupt of the requiside level
- 4:31Speaker 1: of light and revelation away together Hebrews eleven and verse six,
- 4:36Speaker 1: this is an archive. The subject here was a subject
- 4:43Speaker 1: of faith, and Paul began in verse one. He said,
- 4:48Speaker 1: Now faith is the substance of things hope, for he
- 4:52Speaker 1: calls it the evidence of things not seen.
- 4:55Speaker 2: He says, for by it the elder's obtained a good report.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Now, when we get to verse six, he says, but
- 5:03Speaker 1: without faith it is impossible to please him. The next
- 5:07Speaker 1: part of the verse is my emphasis for tonight. He says,
- 5:11Speaker 1: for he that combat to God must come believing.
- 5:17Speaker 2: That he is, that means he exists. And then number
- 5:20Speaker 2: two that he is a rewarder.
- 5:25Speaker 1: That every time you approach God, you must have the
- 5:30Speaker 1: orientation as you come before him.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Number one, that you are not coming to an idol.
- 5:36Speaker 2: He is meaning he's alife. Are we together.
- 5:41Speaker 1: Let it be at the back of your mind that
- 5:43Speaker 1: every time you come before the God of Heaven, you
- 5:45Speaker 1: do not come to.
- 5:46Speaker 2: Him as one of the many gods or one of
- 5:48Speaker 2: the many deities.
- 5:50Speaker 1: You must sustain that orientation like the woman with the
- 5:53Speaker 1: issue of blood before coming to Jesus.
- 5:55Speaker 2: The Bible says, she said to herself, so men can
- 5:59Speaker 2: say to them.
- 6:00Speaker 1: That I am coming to meet a living God. I
- 6:03Speaker 1: am coming to meet one who hears, one who sees.
- 6:08Speaker 1: And then the second information is that he is a
- 6:12Speaker 1: rewarder of them very powerful scriptures. There are many things
- 6:18Speaker 1: that the Bible tells us that God is. The Bible
- 6:20Speaker 1: tells us, for instance, that God is love. The Bible
- 6:25Speaker 1: tells us that God is faithful and true. The Bible
- 6:27Speaker 1: says God is light. Here Paul is giving us a
- 6:32Speaker 1: very powerful information about God.
- 6:34Speaker 2: It says that.
- 6:35Speaker 1: God among the many names, and I hope you know
- 6:39Speaker 1: that every time biblically, when God names himself after a dimension,
- 6:45Speaker 1: it means that he desires that that dimension be captured
- 6:48Speaker 1: in the experience of.
- 6:49Speaker 2: The believer forever.
- 6:50Speaker 1: Usually in ancient times, when they saw God move in
- 6:55Speaker 1: a certain way, they would name him after that dimension,
- 6:58Speaker 1: so that that name will be calling memorial that God
- 7:01Speaker 1: can also do this. Away together, now, the Bible says,
- 7:06Speaker 1: when you come to God, you must have it at
- 7:09Speaker 1: the back of your mind.
- 7:10Speaker 2: In other words, it is safe.
- 7:12Speaker 1: It is not on scriptural it is not inconsistent with
- 7:17Speaker 1: the Christian practice to know God as a rewarder.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Are we together now? Yes, that you must know that
- 7:24Speaker 2: He is a rewarder. It is his name. It is
- 7:27Speaker 2: not just what he does.
- 7:29Speaker 1: He is a rewarder, not just that he rewards. I
- 7:34Speaker 1: can reward without being a rewarder. But when I am
- 7:38Speaker 1: a rewarder, it's more than what I do.
- 7:40Speaker 2: It is who I am. I'm bound by the integrity
- 7:43Speaker 2: of that name.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Away together that whosoever satisfies the condition that provokes that name,
- 7:50Speaker 1: I am committed to saying that.
- 7:52Speaker 2: I live up to that name.
- 7:54Speaker 1: Say God is a rewarder one more time, Please say
- 7:58Speaker 1: God is a rewarder. It matters that we know and
- 8:03Speaker 1: we understand that God is a rewarder. Now we live
- 8:06Speaker 1: in a world where the motivation generally for believers is.
- 8:10Speaker 2: Twofold number one. Those who just seek God for things.
- 8:14Speaker 1: The entire scope of their Christian pursuit is just for things,
- 8:19Speaker 1: what to eat, what to wear. For such people, Jesus
- 8:22Speaker 1: took out time in Matthew chapter six to talk to
- 8:25Speaker 1: them and challenge them about an excessive obsession for things,
- 8:30Speaker 1: alongside the worry that that kind of template or pursuit brings.
- 8:35Speaker 1: That your Christian experience is built on just wanting things.
- 8:39Speaker 1: The side effect is that you can never be separated
- 8:42Speaker 1: from a life of worry.
- 8:44Speaker 2: Are we learning now? So that worry is a consequence,
- 8:49Speaker 2: is the.
- 8:49Speaker 1: Side effect of being excessively concerned about what to eat,
- 8:54Speaker 1: what to wear, and so on and so forth. And
- 8:56Speaker 1: he leaves them with an assurance in chapter six of
- 9:00Speaker 1: Matthew that even the birds of the air, they do
- 9:03Speaker 1: not soul, they do not reap. That means they violate
- 9:06Speaker 1: a fundamental principle, Yet in the Finder's benevolence, it still
- 9:11Speaker 1: makes space for their welfare.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Are we together now? Then?
- 9:16Speaker 1: We have, on the other hand, the second group of
- 9:19Speaker 1: people who say I love the Lord, And that is the.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Basis of my pursuit.
- 9:25Speaker 1: And that is scriptural, except that sometimes they go over
- 9:28Speaker 1: God and they close their hands to every reward system and.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Every advantage that comes with our loving God. Did you
- 9:37Speaker 2: understand what I just shaid?
- 9:38Speaker 1: Now, So that we have two groups of people, those
- 9:41Speaker 1: who are not interested in God, they do not love Him.
- 9:44Speaker 1: They are principally motivated by that which they receive for
- 9:49Speaker 1: seeking Him. The Bible cautions such a motivation. It should
- 9:56Speaker 1: not be the principal motivation of the believer. But then,
- 9:59Speaker 1: on the other hand, the Bible also cautions people who
- 10:03Speaker 1: refuse to receive simply because they are attempting to show
- 10:08Speaker 1: their love for Jesus Christ and they want to him
- 10:12Speaker 1: to know how selfless they are.
- 10:15Speaker 2: And then they go overboard, and they do not know
- 10:18Speaker 2: that the name Father.
- 10:20Speaker 1: The Bible speaking Jesus himself was teaching, and he taught
- 10:24Speaker 1: us that the hallmark of fatherhood is not having children.
- 10:28Speaker 2: The hallmark of fatherhood is the ability to give.
- 10:33Speaker 1: You are not a father just because you have a child.
- 10:36Speaker 1: You are a father to the degree to which you
- 10:39Speaker 1: are always in a hurry to give. He say, if
- 10:42Speaker 1: you've been evil, know how to give good gifts.
- 10:45Speaker 2: Is that true?
- 10:46Speaker 1: How much more shall your heavenly Father give? So a
- 10:50Speaker 1: true father gives. Refusing to embrace and receive that which
- 10:56Speaker 1: God gives is fighting his fatherhood. It's important that we
- 11:03Speaker 1: understand this. We are never called to reject the givings
- 11:10Speaker 1: of God. We are never called to frown at the
- 11:14Speaker 1: possibility of God rewarding us. We are only called to
- 11:18Speaker 1: prioritize our loving Him more than receiving from Him. I
- 11:23Speaker 1: need to put this as a very strong foundation, so
- 11:27Speaker 1: that when your Christian experience is entirely motivated by receiving, receiving, receiving.
- 11:34Speaker 2: From God, you are not wrong, but you are not complete.
- 11:39Speaker 1: If your Christian experience is motivated by loving Jesus, loving Jesus,
- 11:44Speaker 1: and when His blessings comes to you, you push it away.
- 11:48Speaker 1: The hymn writer says, praise God, from whom all blessings flow.
- 11:55Speaker 1: Paul was mentoring the church in Ephesus, and it says,
- 11:58Speaker 1: thanks be to the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
- 12:01Speaker 1: And he began to speak about the fact that He
- 12:04Speaker 1: has given us all spiritual blessings and that they reside
- 12:08Speaker 1: in heavenly places in Christ. So the first point I
- 12:13Speaker 1: want to establish tonight is the fact that God is
- 12:18Speaker 1: a rewarder. God is a kiver.
- 12:22Speaker 2: His very character is built on benevolence.
- 12:26Speaker 1: He says, for God's soul loved the world, not that
- 12:29Speaker 1: he asked, not that he demanded, he gave. It is
- 12:34Speaker 1: all right to factor it in your Christian experience that
- 12:37Speaker 1: as I live for God and as I serve Him,
- 12:40Speaker 1: there must be room in my understanding to receive the
- 12:44Speaker 1: blessings of God as it comes to me. He's called
- 12:47Speaker 1: the rewarder. One more time, say God rewards. He is
- 12:52Speaker 1: a rewarder. Are we together? What does it mean to reward?
- 12:58Speaker 1: To reward means to give something to someone in recognition
- 13:06Speaker 1: of a service rendered, an effort, a contribution, or an achievement.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Reward has to do with giving something a token of gratitude,
- 13:19Speaker 1: a token of encouragement. Are we together now in appreciation
- 13:24Speaker 1: for a service that has been rendered, your effort, your contribution,
- 13:33Speaker 1: or your achievement.
- 13:35Speaker 2: That immediately please look up.
- 13:39Speaker 1: That immediately suggests to you that God builds the system
- 13:43Speaker 1: of the kingdom. Please listen carefully. Not everything in the
- 13:48Speaker 1: kingdom is a gift. Because a reward is tied to service.
- 13:55Speaker 1: A reward is tied to contribution, a reward is tied
- 13:59Speaker 1: to effort, and a reward is tied to achievement. The
- 14:03Speaker 1: difference between a reward and make giving is that a
- 14:08Speaker 1: gift is not predicated on anything necessarily. A gift entirely
- 14:13Speaker 1: depends on the sense of benevolence of the giver.
- 14:16Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 14:17Speaker 1: Whereas a reward depends on service rendered.
- 14:24Speaker 2: Depends on that means.
- 14:27Speaker 1: I can be the most benevolent person available, but never
- 14:31Speaker 1: reward you because you have not done anything that warrant's
- 14:36Speaker 1: being rewarded.
- 14:37Speaker 2: I can give you a gift, but not a reward.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 14:40Speaker 4: Now?
- 14:40Speaker 2: You have to.
- 14:41Speaker 1: Understand that God is both a giver and a rewarder.
- 14:45Speaker 1: There are many people who will receive gifts from God
- 14:48Speaker 1: but never be rewarded. They will receive gifts as an expression.
- 14:52Speaker 1: That is a loving God. I give you an instance.
- 14:54Speaker 1: He sends the rein on both the.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Good and the bad. That is a gift, it's not
- 14:59Speaker 2: a reward. God.
- 15:00Speaker 1: The ability to breathe the sam is said, I laid
- 15:03Speaker 1: it down and I slept, and I wait for the
- 15:05Speaker 1: Lord to sustain me.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Are we together now?
- 15:09Speaker 1: The ability to breathe and all of these things, they
- 15:11Speaker 1: are gifts, but they are are specific things that believers
- 15:16Speaker 1: can do that will compel the lot to isolate you
- 15:19Speaker 1: and to bless you so lavishly. The difference will be
- 15:23Speaker 1: clear even among those who are in the faithful, that
- 15:28Speaker 1: this one is not just a gift.
- 15:30Speaker 2: It is a reward. May that be your testimony in
- 15:35Speaker 2: the name of Jesus.
- 15:37Speaker 1: So we've distinguished the fact the difference between a men
- 15:40Speaker 1: giving and a reward.
- 15:42Speaker 2: That reward is time to service. It is time to contribution.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 15:47Speaker 1: It's time to your supporting a cause very intentionally, whereas
- 15:52Speaker 1: a gift entirely depends on the benevolence of the giver.
- 15:57Speaker 1: It is possible to give to people who are even
- 16:00Speaker 1: on deserving, but you never reward somebody on deserving.
- 16:04Speaker 2: Are we together now?
- 16:07Speaker 1: You can meet someone by the road side and give
- 16:10Speaker 1: the person say ten nira twenty in era and say,
- 16:13Speaker 1: young man, go and buy something, But you cannot give
- 16:16Speaker 1: the person's salary every month because the difference the similarities
- 16:21Speaker 1: that both of them mandate releasing something, but one is
- 16:25Speaker 1: tied to effort service that has been vetted, scrutinized and approved.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Are we together now?
- 16:32Speaker 1: Because there is a theology around the body of Christ
- 16:36Speaker 1: that makes it look like because God loves everybody, everybody
- 16:40Speaker 1: should be in the same state spiritually, financially, and otherwise
- 16:44Speaker 1: you will be learning from this teaching that there are
- 16:46Speaker 1: many people who are Christians but will never have the
- 16:50Speaker 1: opportunity to touch certain level of spiritual, sociological, financial realities.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Why because some things in the kingdom are not lifts
- 17:00Speaker 1: their rewards.
- 17:01Speaker 2: If you're with me saying amen, it therefore means.
- 17:07Speaker 1: That you can have two believers, perhaps saved in the
- 17:11Speaker 1: same church, perhaps men taught by the same pastor, and
- 17:16Speaker 1: yet the possibilities that they command as far as their
- 17:19Speaker 1: Christian experience is concerned, can be east and west. Now
- 17:23Speaker 1: you know that the difference is not just the love
- 17:26Speaker 1: of God for them are we together? The Bible says
- 17:29Speaker 1: in Matthew twenty five. When we go in there shortly,
- 17:31Speaker 1: I just need to drum this basis for us to understand,
- 17:35Speaker 1: so that this discussion will profit us maximally, so that
- 17:39Speaker 1: many of us don't get beguiled with the fact that
- 17:42Speaker 1: reward and tells giving, but that giving is for one
- 17:48Speaker 1: who is deserving.
- 17:51Speaker 2: The Bible says in Matthew twenty five.
- 17:53Speaker 1: The parable of the talents that the owner of the
- 17:56Speaker 1: talents came and met three people away together.
- 17:59Speaker 2: Then the Bible says he gave on to one five talents.
- 18:03Speaker 1: Is that in your Bible he gave on to another
- 18:05Speaker 1: two talents, he gave on to one one talent.
- 18:08Speaker 2: What was common between all three is that he gave.
- 18:12Speaker 2: So there was giving.
- 18:14Speaker 1: But the distinguishing factor was a very silent statement that
- 18:18Speaker 1: was written there. He says, according to their several abilities,
- 18:23Speaker 1: And you would see at the end of that parable
- 18:25Speaker 1: that he was right in allocating it because their level
- 18:29Speaker 1: of stewardship justified what he did in the first place.
- 18:34Speaker 1: Are we together, Let's establish a few things very quickly,
- 18:40Speaker 1: and then we'll pray. So our work with God is
- 18:47Speaker 1: primarily motivated by our love for him. Our work with God,
- 18:53Speaker 1: the believer's experience must be motivated by his love for Him.
- 18:59Speaker 1: But gone to be motivated by your love for Jesus.
- 19:03Speaker 1: You are motivated by the fact that there is a
- 19:06Speaker 1: reward system that was built in this kingdom. You have
- 19:11Speaker 1: to understand this. That understanding that there is a reward
- 19:16Speaker 1: system built in our walk with God motivates you.
- 19:20Speaker 2: It gives you the energy to survive on bearable things.
- 19:24Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 19:25Speaker 1: Nobody remains indefinitely without some incentive that motivates you. Now
- 19:31Speaker 1: what I am teaching you is not only true for God,
- 19:34Speaker 1: it is also true for men. So this is both
- 19:37Speaker 1: a human and a divine principle. The principle of motivation
- 19:44Speaker 1: through reward is not only a divine principle, it is
- 19:48Speaker 1: also a human principle. Meaning everything you are learning here
- 19:53Speaker 1: is not only spiritual in context alone, it can be applicable.
- 19:57Speaker 2: To every aspect of your life.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Beings should be motivated primarily by their love for God
- 20:04Speaker 1: and their love for men. But when that is in place,
- 20:08Speaker 1: there must be the consciousness of a reward system. Say amen,
- 20:16Speaker 1: a woman who is pregnant, for instance, they there, she's
- 20:20Speaker 1: told that she's with child. She already knows that nine
- 20:24Speaker 1: months will not be rosy, But there is a motivation.
- 20:28Speaker 2: Are we together? Your Bible says that who for the
- 20:32Speaker 2: joy that was set before him? Is that in your bible?
- 20:36Speaker 2: The Bible says he endured the cross, and he despised
- 20:40Speaker 2: the shame.
- 20:41Speaker 1: So even Jesus, who is the epitome of love, did
- 20:45Speaker 1: not hide the.
- 20:45Speaker 2: Fact that he was motivated by something. Are we blessed?
- 20:52Speaker 6: Now?
- 20:57Speaker 1: Don't tell me to just south word only because I
- 21:01Speaker 1: love him. That is a very sincere but destructive theology.
- 21:05Speaker 1: The kingdom is built around the reward system. It is
- 21:09Speaker 1: only when my desire to be rewarded, or my desire
- 21:13Speaker 1: to receive from him now at waste my desire to
- 21:17Speaker 1: love him. There is a problem there. But when my
- 21:19Speaker 1: love for him is in place, it is not on
- 21:22Speaker 1: scriptural to be open for the rewards. Some of you,
- 21:25Speaker 1: by reason of this teaching and the prayer, you will
- 21:28Speaker 1: find out that there are many blessings you have rejected,
- 21:30Speaker 1: probably true ignorance, in a bit to show that you
- 21:33Speaker 1: love God. You have rejected a lot of things that
- 21:37Speaker 1: have been scheduled by God to come into your life.
- 21:40Speaker 1: I'm glad to announce you that the reward is also
- 21:43Speaker 1: a restorer. In the name of Jesus Christ. Everything that
- 21:51Speaker 1: was lost.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Shall be returned onto him. Everything that was touggled shall
- 21:59Speaker 2: be restored to him. Everything was lost everything.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Let's walk to a few scriptures to establish the scripture.
- 22:18Speaker 2: A basis for being opened for a reward.
- 22:22Speaker 1: First Samuel, chapter seventeen were people of scripture. So let's
- 22:26Speaker 1: walk to a few scriptures. First, sam Weel seventeen from
- 22:29Speaker 1: verse twenty four, this was the occasion of David and Goliath.
- 22:33Speaker 1: The young teenager called David at the time was sent
- 22:37Speaker 1: by his father to go and feed his brothers who
- 22:41Speaker 1: were at the warfront. And the Bible says that when
- 22:44Speaker 1: David got there, he heard a beast of a man
- 22:47Speaker 1: called go Liad roaring.
- 22:48Speaker 2: Watch this now we're reading to twenty seven.
- 22:50Speaker 1: And all the men of Israel when they saw the man,
- 22:53Speaker 1: the Bible says, they fled from him, and they were
- 22:56Speaker 1: so afraid. Twenty five And when the men of Israel said,
- 23:00Speaker 1: have you seen this man that has come up? Surely
- 23:03Speaker 1: to defy Israel. He's come up, and it shall be
- 23:06Speaker 1: that the man who kill led him, the king will
- 23:11Speaker 1: and reach him with great riches and give him his daughter,
- 23:16Speaker 1: and make his father's house free of tax in Israel,
- 23:20Speaker 1: say reward verse twenty seven. Okay, now let's go to
- 23:26Speaker 1: twenty six twenty six. Please, And David said to the man,
- 23:31Speaker 1: what shall be done to the man that killed the Philistines?
- 23:35Speaker 1: In other words, I'm not going to waste my energy
- 23:38Speaker 1: for nothing, as much as I'm an Israelite. What will
- 23:41Speaker 1: sponsor the stamina. It takes a lot to stand before
- 23:45Speaker 1: God Liad. If he was easy, everybody will stand there.
- 23:48Speaker 1: So what shall be done to the man that kills this?
- 23:54Speaker 1: And for this an circumcerns philistine, the man who will
- 23:58Speaker 1: go through the rigor of being rageous, being skillful to
- 24:03Speaker 1: endure and bring this man down? Twenty seven And the
- 24:08Speaker 1: people answered him after the manner, saying, so shall.
- 24:12Speaker 2: It be done to the man that he led him?
- 24:15Speaker 1: So there are things that are done for people who
- 24:18Speaker 1: do certain things that is not done for everyone. Are
- 24:23Speaker 1: we together now? Story number two. I'm hurrying on because
- 24:27Speaker 1: of time. My apologies. In Matthew chapter nineteen, please give
- 24:33Speaker 1: us from verse twenty seven. Matthew Chapter nineteen. From verse
- 24:37Speaker 1: twenty seven, were reading to thirty. This is Peter and
- 24:40Speaker 1: the disciples. Now they had worked with Jesus for a while.
- 24:44Speaker 1: Remember that when Jesus called them to follow him, they
- 24:48Speaker 1: didn't follow him just because they loved him. They saw
- 24:51Speaker 1: a celebrity and invincible man who was shaking the town
- 24:55Speaker 1: at the time, and so they left their ficion and
- 24:58Speaker 1: came to him, believing you give them a better sense
- 25:01Speaker 1: of living. And as the days went by, They didn't
- 25:04Speaker 1: see him say anything about reward, and they did not
- 25:07Speaker 1: hide their feelings. He started as a rumor. Mothers came
- 25:10Speaker 1: and were LIASI for their children. Eventually Peter our Peter again.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Peter broke the eyes. Now let's see what Peter said.
- 25:20Speaker 1: And Peter said unto him, behold, we are forsaken all
- 25:26Speaker 1: and followed you. What shall we have therefore? Twenty eight
- 25:34Speaker 1: Jesus said, Now, this is Jesus replying. He didn't say
- 25:37Speaker 1: you are canal on spiritual You are not even grateful
- 25:40Speaker 1: for the.
- 25:41Speaker 2: Privilege of following me.
- 25:43Speaker 1: He knew that the kingdom was built on a reward system,
- 25:46Speaker 1: and he said, I say unto you that ye which
- 25:50Speaker 1: have followed me.
- 25:51Speaker 2: That means not everybody agreed to follow.
- 25:54Speaker 1: But since you took the risk to follow me, not
- 25:58Speaker 1: everybody will take the risk to be rested possible. Not
- 26:01Speaker 1: everybody would take the risk to walk in integrity. There
- 26:04Speaker 1: has to be a difference, he said in the Regeneration,
- 26:11Speaker 1: when the son of Man Matthew's synoptic account now shall
- 26:14Speaker 1: sit in the throne of his glory, he says, you
- 26:17Speaker 1: shall also sit upon twelve throlls, charging the twelve tribes
- 26:22Speaker 1: of Israel. Let's stop there. He gave them a motivation,
- 26:26Speaker 1: and that was the end of the discussion. That all right, now,
- 26:29Speaker 1: at least we know that we can. We are not
- 26:31Speaker 1: working for nothing. Do you know the ridicule they would
- 26:35Speaker 1: have received for living what they were doing to follow
- 26:38Speaker 1: this man who did not seem like you were taking
- 26:41Speaker 1: them anywhere. There was a time Jesus went up to pray,
- 26:46Speaker 1: and the disciples took it upon themselves to test the
- 26:49Speaker 1: power of God and to pray for an epileptic patient.
- 26:53Speaker 1: You see the embarrassment and therd How could Jesus not
- 26:57Speaker 1: motivate them by telling them all of this is leading
- 27:00Speaker 1: somewhere Story number three, Philippians, Chapter two, from verse five.
- 27:10Speaker 1: This is Jesus himself Philippians two and verse five. Let
- 27:16Speaker 1: this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
- 27:19Speaker 2: Six. Now it says, who've been in the.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Former allelujah, allelujah, okay, who been in the form of
- 27:36Speaker 1: God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God.
- 27:39Speaker 1: Let's read on seven. It says, but made himself of
- 27:42Speaker 1: no reputation. Look what Jesus had to go through, taking
- 27:46Speaker 1: the form of a bond servant am I doing something wrong,
- 27:51Speaker 1: probably the feedbacks in front Allelujah.
- 27:55Speaker 2: And coming in the likeness of men.
- 27:58Speaker 1: Verse eight, it says, and being found in appearance as
- 28:02Speaker 1: a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the
- 28:07Speaker 1: point of death, even the death of the cross.
- 28:10Speaker 2: Here is the reward ready Therefore, God, this is for Jesus.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Now God didn't say, well done, you are love, So
- 28:19Speaker 1: find somewhere in heaven and relax. Therefore God also has
- 28:24Speaker 1: highly exalted him and given him a name that is
- 28:28Speaker 1: above every other name.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Verse ten.
- 28:32Speaker 1: That at the name of Jesus, every niche should bow,
- 28:35Speaker 1: those in heaven, those in the earth, and those under
- 28:38Speaker 1: the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus
- 28:43Speaker 1: is the Lord to the glory of the Father.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Say, God is a rewarder. Let me give you the
- 28:50Speaker 2: last example.
- 28:51Speaker 1: Ready for that second Timothy, please chapter four from verse
- 28:56Speaker 1: seven and eight. Why am I taking our time to
- 28:58Speaker 1: share scripture, Because it's important that your faith be founded.
- 29:02Speaker 2: Upon the integrity of God's word and not just the
- 29:05Speaker 2: opinion of a man.
- 29:06Speaker 1: That when you are trusting God to reward you, is
- 29:09Speaker 1: not just because Joshua Salman said, it is that I
- 29:13Speaker 1: have found from scripture that God rewards the last verse,
- 29:19Speaker 1: I have fought a good fight, my goodness, I have
- 29:24Speaker 1: finished the race. I have kept the faith, you thought, Paul,
- 29:30Speaker 1: mentoring his son in the Gospel Timothy, who just stopped there.
- 29:34Speaker 2: Paul did not stop there.
- 29:36Speaker 1: He said, finally, there is laid up for me a
- 29:41Speaker 1: crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous George will
- 29:46Speaker 1: give to me on that day. Good information, and not
- 29:51Speaker 1: to me only, but also to all who have loved
- 29:55Speaker 1: He is appearing. This is in your Bible, very powerful scripture.
- 30:03Speaker 1: So we know for a fact that in as much
- 30:07Speaker 1: as our ultimate motivation in working with God is our
- 30:11Speaker 1: love for him, we must find it scriptural to believe
- 30:16Speaker 1: and expect that He rewards us whilst we serve him.
- 30:22Speaker 2: Why does God reward men? And why do men reward men?
- 30:27Speaker 1: Why is a reward system important in our dealings with
- 30:31Speaker 1: God and also in our dealings with men? Paul gave
- 30:35Speaker 1: us the answer in second Timot the scripture we just read.
- 30:39Speaker 1: Because life is a fight, life is a race life,
- 30:45Speaker 1: and destiny is a trust. Nobody gets into the boxing
- 30:50Speaker 1: ring to fight for nothing. In fact, many times before
- 30:53Speaker 1: they fight, the prize is already there.
- 30:56Speaker 2: And all of them have seen it, both the loser
- 30:59Speaker 2: and the winner. See the price. Are we together? Now?
- 31:04Speaker 2: Life and destiny verse seven. Now is a fight that
- 31:10Speaker 2: the moment you find yourself on this side of God's.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Kingdom, you are going to fight against principalities and powers.
- 31:18Speaker 1: Is a fight to remain for Jesus in a depraved generation.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Is a fight to remain in integrity in the midst
- 31:25Speaker 1: of opportunities for compromise.
- 31:27Speaker 2: And then he says life is a race.
- 31:30Speaker 1: Probably many of us you have been involved in all
- 31:33Speaker 1: kinds of marathon races, and you do not see someone
- 31:36Speaker 1: running for three hours and smiling and rejoicing and singing.
- 31:42Speaker 1: There is dedicated concentration. Sometimes they breed as though they
- 31:46Speaker 1: will lose their breath and die. That is the price
- 31:48Speaker 1: it takes to run and to finish. Then the Bible
- 31:53Speaker 1: says life is a trust. There are things God gives you.
- 31:57Speaker 1: There are many people at the end of your life
- 31:59Speaker 1: a lot of things, and lose what God gave them,
- 32:02Speaker 1: for instance, your soul. He said, what shall we profit
- 32:06Speaker 1: a man if he gains the whole world and loses
- 32:09Speaker 1: his soul? So God rewards men because he himself has
- 32:19Speaker 1: a righteous George, the Righteous King acknowledges the fact that
- 32:24Speaker 1: life is a fight, life is a race, and life
- 32:29Speaker 1: is a trust. Now, God designed men to walk by motivation.
- 32:38Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 32:39Speaker 1: There are many believers today who can stand and die
- 32:43Speaker 1: for Jesus, like I said earlier on first before, because
- 32:47Speaker 1: they love him, but because they also know that there
- 32:50Speaker 1: is an assurance that they will be with him. He said,
- 32:54Speaker 1: to be absent in the body is to be present
- 32:56Speaker 1: with the Lord. That is a motivation.
- 32:59Speaker 2: Now.
- 33:00Speaker 1: The difference between Joseph and Nimrod, Nimrod, the son of Cush,
- 33:07Speaker 1: is that one puts a motivation in front, whereas the
- 33:11Speaker 1: other one puts only a dream in front.
- 33:14Speaker 2: Nimrod said, come let us build.
- 33:18Speaker 1: Let us build a tower whose top who reached the heavens,
- 33:21Speaker 1: and let us make a name for our selves. He
- 33:25Speaker 1: shared the honor among them, so everyone who would put
- 33:28Speaker 1: the brick and morton knew that I have a stake
- 33:30Speaker 1: in this. But Joseph said, I have a dream. Brothers,
- 33:35Speaker 1: In that dream, I saw you people bowing down to me.
- 33:39Speaker 1: It was all about him, And the brother said, you
- 33:41Speaker 1: will now know that even though you are our brother,
- 33:44Speaker 1: we cannot support you indefinitely. Without a stake. Listen, this
- 33:50Speaker 1: is not only a spiritual discussion. This is an organizational
- 33:54Speaker 1: principle that nobody will be part of your program and
- 33:58Speaker 1: your project indefinitely until they can find a space to
- 34:02Speaker 1: be relevant and to be rewarded in what you are doing.
- 34:07Speaker 2: Allelujah. We lie to people all across the body of Christ. Madame.
- 34:15Speaker 1: Follow your husband just because you love him first, just
- 34:19Speaker 1: at first, That cannot be the only reason.
- 34:21Speaker 2: There has to be a motivation that both.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Of you are going somewhere to achieve something, to raise
- 34:27Speaker 1: children that will honor.
- 34:29Speaker 2: The name of the Lord.
- 34:30Speaker 1: That is a motivation. Young man, as you go to school, read.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Don't tell him to read just because he loves the Lord.
- 34:37Speaker 1: Let him know the difference between a great destiny and
- 34:40Speaker 1: a destiny of mediocrity and failure. When you create that templature,
- 34:44Speaker 1: will wake up in the night to read, motivated by
- 34:47Speaker 1: that reward system.
- 34:50Speaker 2: Allelujah. Watch this.
- 34:53Speaker 1: In the military, there are younger military men who work
- 34:58Speaker 1: and aspire.
- 35:00Speaker 2: Number one to help the nation. They are primary assignment.
- 35:03Speaker 1: They are motivated first by their love for the nation,
- 35:06Speaker 1: but they also desire to rise to the highest levels,
- 35:10Speaker 1: and their motivation is with what is done with generals.
- 35:13Speaker 1: They see a general, whether serving or retired, there are
- 35:16Speaker 1: benefits and blessings, and the young man is encouraged to
- 35:19Speaker 1: still stand in the war field and to remain with
- 35:23Speaker 1: a person of integrity because promotion is a possibility. Allelujah.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Even in ministry with the young ones who God is helping.
- 35:34Speaker 1: We do it because we love Jesus. But we also
- 35:38Speaker 1: do it because we have seen what He has done
- 35:40Speaker 1: with those who went ahead of us. He did not
- 35:42Speaker 1: leave them in shame, so we know that no matter
- 35:44Speaker 1: they embarrassment that comes with bearing the cross. We love Jesus,
- 35:49Speaker 1: but we also know that there is nobility at the end.
- 35:52Speaker 2: Of this someone learning already.
- 36:01Speaker 7: Now.
- 36:02Speaker 1: For the sake of our discussion, I want to show
- 36:05Speaker 1: us three things that God rewards.
- 36:08Speaker 2: Because God does not reward everything.
- 36:13Speaker 1: Everything has a consequence, every seed has a harvest.
- 36:17Speaker 2: But God does not reward everything.
- 36:21Speaker 1: There are many others in the Bible, but I was
- 36:22Speaker 1: able to put together three things that God rewards.
- 36:27Speaker 2: What does God reward? Number one? Are you ready?
- 36:32Speaker 1: God rewards diligent pursuit for him and the things of
- 36:40Speaker 1: the spirit. The first thing that God rewards is a
- 36:45Speaker 1: diligent pursuit for him and a diligent postuit for the
- 36:50Speaker 1: things of the spirit. Hebrews eleven, verse six already tells
- 36:58Speaker 1: us that he that comment to God must come believing
- 37:01Speaker 1: that God exists, and He is a rewarder of them
- 37:06Speaker 1: that diligently seek him. Please say after me them that
- 37:10Speaker 1: diligently seek him. That means when you see a man
- 37:14Speaker 1: seeking the Lord, loving the Lord, seeking him in worship,
- 37:19Speaker 1: seeking him in prayer, seeking him in fascine, seeking him
- 37:23Speaker 1: in the study of the world, seeking him by working
- 37:27Speaker 1: with the company of wise people who love Jesus.
- 37:30Speaker 2: The Bible tells you that man's life will not be
- 37:33Speaker 2: an ordinary life.
- 37:34Speaker 1: Are we together? Let me tell you the truth. God
- 37:38Speaker 1: loves everybody, but our destinies are not the same. Our
- 37:42Speaker 1: destinies are a measure of the rewards that has come
- 37:45Speaker 1: into some by reason of.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Their passion and their love for God.
- 37:50Speaker 1: A man will not pray two or three hours every day,
- 37:54Speaker 1: study the Bible, walking through holiness and righteousness, and then
- 37:59Speaker 1: receive the same revie word with someone who is licensious
- 38:02Speaker 1: and careless and say it does not matter.
- 38:04Speaker 2: It is my life.
- 38:06Speaker 1: Don't forget that he's thrown is built upon righteousness and justice.
- 38:13Speaker 1: A student who reads one hour to the exam, and
- 38:17Speaker 1: a student who is always there in diligent pursuit even
- 38:21Speaker 1: with his knowledge. You will meet people to teach him.
- 38:24Speaker 1: Their results will not be the same, are we together?
- 38:30Speaker 1: Even among habilists and native doctors, their results are not
- 38:34Speaker 1: the same. Pairs on the degree to which they press
- 38:38Speaker 1: into the demonic. There are others. They said, this is
- 38:41Speaker 1: a powerful babilist. Why do they call him powerful because
- 38:45Speaker 1: of the depth of his consecration and his pursuit. We
- 38:51Speaker 1: have to be very honest with ourselves to know that
- 38:55Speaker 1: seeking God sha knowingly above money, above time, above charge,
- 39:02Speaker 1: above religion, that is a reward to it.
- 39:08Speaker 4: You were my strength when I am weak. You are
- 39:12Speaker 4: that treasure that I sick. You were my I'm seeking you,
- 39:24Speaker 4: who are so pressure not too gay for having me?
- 39:30Speaker 2: For you were.
- 39:38Speaker 1: When I began my work with God. There was no
- 39:40Speaker 1: comeliness and nothing to be desired. It was a blind
- 39:43Speaker 1: and sincere pursuit. Lord, I love you, and I thank
- 39:48Speaker 1: you for motivating me and helping me know that if
- 39:51Speaker 1: I seek you, you can build a great destiny out
- 39:54Speaker 1: of my life. And I brought my life like the
- 39:58Speaker 1: content of the alabastera and pour it before him. Look
- 40:02Speaker 1: what he's done today. No one should tell you that
- 40:08Speaker 1: God does not reward. The first thing God rewards is
- 40:11Speaker 1: the sincerity of your pursuit. Allelujah. So that anybody who
- 40:23Speaker 1: tells you discharge thing, this Jesus thing does not matter.
- 40:28Speaker 1: I just need to settle down and know who is who.
- 40:32Speaker 1: By reason of what you are learning in this conference,
- 40:34Speaker 1: you can call him and say, listen, let me tell you.
- 40:37Speaker 2: In this kingdom, when men keep God there everything.
- 40:41Speaker 1: When they pour out their lives a string of raids
- 40:44Speaker 1: to love Him, to seek him. And it's important that
- 40:53Speaker 1: God rewards our pursuit for him in the presence of
- 40:56Speaker 1: those who know us, so that they are motivated.
- 41:00Speaker 2: Used to know this young man.
- 41:01Speaker 1: While he used to clean a house near my house,
- 41:04Speaker 1: you would say, him listening to a message while he's
- 41:07Speaker 1: mopping as a houseboy.
- 41:08Speaker 2: To know that today he's a CEO. To know that
- 41:11Speaker 2: he's the great Man of God today.
- 41:13Speaker 5: You know.
- 41:14Speaker 1: I meet several people as I travel around the world,
- 41:16Speaker 1: and some of them used to know me before, and
- 41:19Speaker 1: most of them would say we knew it. I said,
- 41:21Speaker 1: it's not about me, It's about the message that God rewards.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Are we together for someone?
- 41:30Speaker 8: Right now?
- 41:31Speaker 1: You are in your season of work with God. You
- 41:33Speaker 1: are pressing into the things of God. While others are sleeping.
- 41:36Speaker 1: You are awake praying, while others are roaming around wasting
- 41:40Speaker 1: their lives. You are giving yourself to God. Can I
- 41:43Speaker 1: tell you your reward is shown. Don't be discouraged. It
- 41:48Speaker 1: may take a while. Only a foolish farmer plans come
- 41:53Speaker 1: today and by morning is complaining. No. You give it time,
- 41:58Speaker 1: motivated by the fact that God swore upon the head
- 42:02Speaker 1: that said time and harvest. Please listen, listen carefully, allelujah.
- 42:18Speaker 1: The first thing God rewards is diligent pursuit. Diligent pursuit.
- 42:24Speaker 1: Matthew Chapter seven, seven and eight. Jesus was teaching, and
- 42:28Speaker 1: he said, ask and you shall receive. He says, sick,
- 42:34Speaker 1: and you shall find I like this one sick, sick, trouble,
- 42:39Speaker 1: You will find it.
- 42:41Speaker 2: Sick. Peace, you will find it.
- 42:44Speaker 1: Seek a metocre life, Invest into a life of mediocrity,
- 42:49Speaker 1: you will find it. Invest into a life of dignity
- 42:52Speaker 1: and honor, you will find it, it says Nook. When
- 42:56Speaker 1: you read the amplified expression, it says, ask and keep asking,
- 43:02Speaker 1: Seek and keep seeking, Knock and keep knocking. The law
- 43:06Speaker 1: is in the next verse. For everyone that asked receive it.
- 43:12Speaker 1: Everyone who seeks finds.
- 43:19Speaker 2: Has thirty dancer for the words. My soul longer sorry
- 43:34Speaker 2: for you time, my heart is yummy.
- 43:50Speaker 1: When the reward comes to four square, he's not coming
- 43:54Speaker 1: to reward members.
- 43:55Speaker 2: He's coming to reward does who seeking don't say, I've
- 43:59Speaker 2: been here for a long time.
- 44:00Speaker 1: Ah ah ah ah, rewarding those who love him and
- 44:06Speaker 1: would serve him. Lord, my life belongs to you. Everything
- 44:10Speaker 1: belongs to you. You are the object of my obsession.
- 44:17Speaker 1: Number two, What does God reward is someone learning already?
- 44:26Speaker 2: God rewards faithfulness. God rewards faithfulness.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Anyone who is waiting to enjoy the ministry of the
- 44:37Speaker 1: rewarder must be one who is faithful.
- 44:42Speaker 2: God rewards faithfulness.
- 44:45Speaker 1: In Marthyu, chapter twenty five, from verse fourteen to thirty one,
- 44:49Speaker 1: not reading everything for sake of time.
- 44:52Speaker 2: This is the parable of the talent.
- 44:56Speaker 1: The Bible says he gave on to one five talents,
- 45:00Speaker 1: he gave on to one, two talents, he gave on
- 45:03Speaker 1: to one one talent, And the Bible says then he
- 45:05Speaker 1: went on a long journey a we together immediately. The
- 45:10Speaker 1: person with five said I need to get to work,
- 45:13Speaker 1: and he went to work immediately and made five more.
- 45:17Speaker 1: The person with two didn't sit down envy the one
- 45:22Speaker 1: with five. All of them had peculiar challenges that were
- 45:27Speaker 1: associated with the rem The one with five talents had
- 45:30Speaker 1: the challenge of complacency to overcome. He would have said,
- 45:34Speaker 1: after all, I have the highest talent here. But it
- 45:36Speaker 1: took a greater focus and concentration for him to multiply
- 45:41Speaker 1: to five. The one with two would have suffered jealousy
- 45:44Speaker 1: and envy and said, why is it not me? He
- 45:47Speaker 1: had to shelve jealousy and envy to focus. Then the
- 45:51Speaker 1: person with one. You see what the guy did. You
- 45:55Speaker 1: now see that the one that was given to him
- 45:57Speaker 1: was even messy because he was jealous and nonchalant person.
- 46:02Speaker 1: Very clearly, when the master came back, he called all
- 46:08Speaker 1: of them, and now he began to answer them. The
- 46:11Speaker 1: person with five said, you gave me five, and I've
- 46:17Speaker 1: given you another five.
- 46:18Speaker 2: Let's see what twenty one says. Watch this.
- 46:23Speaker 1: The Lord said to him, well done, good and faithful servant.
- 46:29Speaker 2: He didn't stop there. You were faithful over a few things.
- 46:35Speaker 1: He said, I will make you ruler over many things
- 46:38Speaker 1: and tie into the joy of the Lord. Well done,
- 46:44Speaker 1: good and faithful servant. He said the same thing to
- 46:48Speaker 1: the one with two talents. Then the one with one
- 46:51Speaker 1: talent came very arrogant, like many believers.
- 46:56Speaker 2: He said, I know you are a hard man.
- 46:58Speaker 1: You like ripping where you did not, so I even
- 47:01Speaker 1: did you a favor by not westeeing it away. I
- 47:03Speaker 1: buried it. Now here's your talent, and Jesus said, you wicked.
- 47:12Speaker 1: New King James says, lazy King James says on profitable savant.
- 47:18Speaker 1: That means you did not bring profit to me. You
- 47:21Speaker 1: are a weikcked and unprofitable savant.
- 47:24Speaker 2: He said. If you know that I got away, I
- 47:26Speaker 2: did not reap.
- 47:27Speaker 1: Why didn't you want to give serious people like the
- 47:30Speaker 1: bankers so that they would do something with it?
- 47:32Speaker 2: That means what did the rest do that you did
- 47:35Speaker 2: not see? Alle Lujah? Are together? The second thing God
- 47:44Speaker 2: rewards its faithfulness.
- 47:46Speaker 1: There are many people admiring estates and mansions, and yet
- 47:51Speaker 1: the one room you are staying in it does not
- 47:55Speaker 1: look like you are grateful to God for giving you that.
- 47:58Speaker 2: If your one room are we together.
- 48:01Speaker 1: Now you keep his Daddy is on captin and you say,
- 48:05Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, I know I'll be an
- 48:07Speaker 1: estate owner.
- 48:08Speaker 2: God is love. God is not a fool. You prepare
- 48:12Speaker 2: for where you are going by being faithful where you are.
- 48:16Speaker 2: Please hear me.
- 48:17Speaker 1: You prepare for where you are going by being faithful
- 48:22Speaker 1: where you are. I know God will give you an
- 48:25Speaker 1: anointing to raise the death. Someday I will speak to
- 48:28Speaker 1: nation someday. No speak to the two people before you
- 48:31Speaker 1: with sincerity and faithfulness, past toward the ten people. But
- 48:36Speaker 1: nobody will see me to reward me. No problem. There
- 48:40Speaker 1: is an all seen eye of this one who calls
- 48:42Speaker 1: himself a rewarder. Even another prophetess who hid in the
- 48:49Speaker 1: temple and nobody saw her, Jesus made.
- 48:51Speaker 2: Sure in his intelligence that reference was made to her.
- 48:55Speaker 1: Also, you never count those who play the role in
- 49:00Speaker 1: Jesus' life and ignore that woman.
- 49:03Speaker 2: Please hear me. Many people are unfaithful.
- 49:09Speaker 1: You may not be a sinner. But on faithfulness our
- 49:13Speaker 1: boughts your potential. Are we together now to experience greater
- 49:17Speaker 1: things and greater rewards. Today, by the privilege of God's grace,
- 49:24Speaker 1: many people see what God is doing through our lives.
- 49:27Speaker 2: And you know, very interesting.
- 49:29Speaker 1: How many people think we're just lucky, and I tell
- 49:32Speaker 1: them lucky, go and find out the story. For many
- 49:36Speaker 1: years I played the keyboard for someone who used to
- 49:42Speaker 1: have a prison ministry. They used to preach for They
- 49:46Speaker 1: were part of the people who went to preach when
- 49:47Speaker 1: no person Joe was in prison.
- 49:49Speaker 2: It was my own small keyboard.
- 49:51Speaker 1: I carried it by myself and I dragged to a
- 49:54Speaker 1: small hotel where they were using. Never did anybody ever
- 49:59Speaker 1: tell me thank you. You may have heard it in
- 50:01Speaker 1: my teachings. The only thing I ever got was one
- 50:05Speaker 1: bodle of Fanther and one cassette. And yet I did
- 50:10Speaker 1: it sincerely because I loved the Lord. No gody comes
- 50:13Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It's a joke.
- 50:15Speaker 2: Take Troy away.
- 50:16Speaker 1: All that that superstitious believe. When you just because you
- 50:21Speaker 1: saw David in front of Goliath for the first time
- 50:24Speaker 1: does not mean that was his first time of fighting.
- 50:34Speaker 1: I'm saying this because in this season God is coming
- 50:37Speaker 1: to discharge and then our people whose lives will change overnight.
- 50:41Speaker 2: Don't be surprised. Don't said they just came out of nowhere.
- 50:45Speaker 1: Find out their participation freachfulness in prayer meetings, freachfulness in
- 50:50Speaker 1: Bible study, even.
- 50:51Speaker 2: When it's not convenient, and God is said, I'm watching you.
- 50:58Speaker 2: God sees, O God sees.
- 51:06Speaker 1: One day you would say someone who is a cleaner
- 51:08Speaker 1: just cleaning the chairs, that there is time for God
- 51:13Speaker 1: to lift you. Someone will come here and say, young man,
- 51:16Speaker 1: what are you doing. You're a young man and you
- 51:18Speaker 1: are cleaning the church. Yes, sir, what did you study?
- 51:22Speaker 1: I studied ABC. Call this number tomorrow and in two
- 51:27Speaker 1: weeks you would hear that he's working in the top
- 51:29Speaker 1: boil and girl's firm, and people say he was lucky.
- 51:38Speaker 1: Listen when it was time for Isaac to get your wife.
- 51:44Speaker 1: When it was time for Isaac to get your wife,
- 51:47Speaker 1: the Abraham sent his salmon, and when he came, he said, Lord,
- 51:51Speaker 1: I am praying. Many young ladies come to fetch what
- 51:54Speaker 1: I hear, But I am praying that I will meet
- 51:56Speaker 1: the person I meet who is faithful. Knowing the routine
- 52:00Speaker 1: of faithfulness as a woman. Let it be that that
- 52:03Speaker 1: is Abraham's wife. As soon as he got there, he
- 52:06Speaker 1: met Rebecca. At the point of faithfulness.
- 52:09Speaker 2: There are many things you lose throuugh on faithfulness. Let
- 52:15Speaker 2: me tell you the truth.
- 52:16Speaker 1: You can be free from sin, but if you are
- 52:19Speaker 1: not faithful, there are many things you will still lose
- 52:21Speaker 1: as to you as a sinner. There are many people
- 52:24Speaker 1: today who have qualified for promotion, but cannot be promoted
- 52:29Speaker 1: because the executives know that by longevity you are here.
- 52:33Speaker 1: What sincerely is going to be a minus to that
- 52:36Speaker 1: organization to promote you? Please self time in the name
- 52:43Speaker 1: of Jesus, I obtain grace to be faithful.
- 52:49Speaker 2: Of course, of my own work is just to clean
- 52:51Speaker 2: the pulpit.
- 52:52Speaker 1: Do it sincerely as onto the Lord, knowing that you
- 52:56Speaker 1: are serving the Lord Christ, and knowing that your reward
- 52:59Speaker 1: is shown. My own is to scrub toilets. While I'm scrubbing,
- 53:03Speaker 1: people who come and be saying all kinds of things,
- 53:05Speaker 1: don't worry. Service and faithfulness in service is a deep
- 53:12Speaker 1: mystery for rising to on told rems in the spirit.
- 53:16Speaker 1: Run away from people who become great and don't have
- 53:19Speaker 1: a track record of service.
- 53:20Speaker 2: They're dangerous.
- 53:24Speaker 1: Elieshire a man who carried the double portion of Elijah's
- 53:27Speaker 1: anoint him. The Bible said he was the one who
- 53:30Speaker 1: poured water upon the hands of Elijah.
- 53:35Speaker 2: Are we learning.
- 53:38Speaker 1: Today there are many, many families that are willing their
- 53:43Speaker 1: inheritance not to the biological children, but to someone else
- 53:48Speaker 1: who is not even connected to them, but has.
- 53:50Speaker 2: Been faithful, saving, faithful, saving, allelujah.
- 53:58Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to pray one time, quite some
- 54:01Speaker 1: time ago, for someone to prey on their will, and
- 54:06Speaker 1: it gave me an opportunity to read it before you
- 54:08Speaker 1: see it. And I saw a sizeable person that he
- 54:12Speaker 1: will do someone, knowing he had only three children.
- 54:15Speaker 2: I said, why did you do this? And he said,
- 54:17Speaker 2: this young boy.
- 54:18Speaker 1: You see, he will take a bullet for me that
- 54:23Speaker 1: if today I trust this boy more than I trust
- 54:27Speaker 1: my own children. The hymn writer says, made the Lord
- 54:32Speaker 1: depend on you. May you be so faithful that God
- 54:36Speaker 1: can depend on you. No, I know that this man
- 54:39Speaker 1: is here, he will be faithful. The first thing God
- 54:45Speaker 1: rewards is a passionate pursuit, a diligent pursuit for God.
- 54:52Speaker 1: The second thing God rewards. And let me tell you
- 54:55Speaker 1: the truth. Everything that God rewards men also reward. In fact,
- 55:00Speaker 1: the way God rewards is by using men. So what
- 55:05Speaker 1: is applicable as fast your relationship with God is concerned,
- 55:08Speaker 1: is also.
- 55:09Speaker 2: Applicable within your work.
- 55:11Speaker 1: As far as man to man is concerned, faithfulness is
- 55:15Speaker 1: someone learning.
- 55:20Speaker 2: In Galatians, chapter six and verse nine.
- 55:22Speaker 1: Still speaking about faithfulness, Galatians six and verse nine, the
- 55:26Speaker 1: Bible encourages us to not be weary in well doing,
- 55:31Speaker 1: to not be wary while doing good.
- 55:34Speaker 2: New King James wus say.
- 55:36Speaker 1: It says, for in due season we shall reap if
- 55:40Speaker 1: we faith not or New King James says, if we
- 55:42Speaker 1: do not lose heart.
- 55:44Speaker 2: He encourages you to not be weary in well doing.
- 55:49Speaker 1: That means there are times that well doing does not
- 55:52Speaker 1: look rewarding for the short time. You can keep doing
- 55:55Speaker 1: a lot of things and it looks like people are
- 55:58Speaker 1: demeaning you, downplaying. Maybe this is a word for someone.
- 56:02Speaker 1: You're saying, I'm about to compromise. I'm tired. I've been
- 56:05Speaker 1: a nice person and I've been cheated. I would have
- 56:07Speaker 1: had two houses today if I just quietly collected the prime.
- 56:12Speaker 1: I didn't, and God looked at me as if he
- 56:14Speaker 1: did see me. The next time that money comes round
- 56:16Speaker 1: the table, God, it will not be my fault.
- 56:18Speaker 2: I will let it pass. Listen, let me tell you
- 56:20Speaker 2: the truth. It pays to be faithful.
- 56:24Speaker 1: The rewards of faithfulness does not come every day, but
- 56:28Speaker 1: the day it comes is arrears is accumulated together. First Corinthians,
- 56:41Speaker 1: Chapter fall from verse one and two. First Corinthians, Chapter
- 56:45Speaker 1: Fall from verse one and two. I'll tie up one
- 56:47Speaker 1: more point, and.
- 56:48Speaker 2: Then you pray.
- 56:49Speaker 1: Let a man so consider us as servants of Christ
- 56:53Speaker 1: and stewards of the mysteries of God, Paul.
- 56:55Speaker 2: Says next verse. Moreover, he says.
- 56:59Speaker 1: It is required in stewards that one be found faithful,
- 57:08Speaker 1: Be faithful, be faithful. The hymn writer against says, I'll
- 57:14Speaker 1: do as it beats me, whatever the cause.
- 57:19Speaker 2: I'll be a true soldier.
- 57:22Speaker 1: I'll die. And when a soldier dies in active service,
- 57:31Speaker 1: they give them the con salutes even to their comps,
- 57:36Speaker 1: because they were faithful to the end.
- 57:38Speaker 2: They kept their vow faithfulness. Number three, What does God reward?
- 58:00Speaker 2: God rewards? Are you ready for this?
- 58:04Speaker 1: God rewards the works of men. There are two dimensions
- 58:10Speaker 1: to this. God rewards the purity of the motivation, and
- 58:17Speaker 1: God rewards the degree to which you comply to the
- 58:21Speaker 1: pattern given to you. Please pay attention. The third thing
- 58:25Speaker 1: that God rewards is the works of men. God rewards
- 58:30Speaker 1: the works of men. He rewards the purity of the motivation,
- 58:36Speaker 1: and he rewards your degree of compliance to define patterns.
- 58:43Speaker 1: Revelations Chapter twenty two and verse twelve. The Book of
- 58:47Speaker 1: Revelation starts in a very interesting way. John is caught
- 58:51Speaker 1: up in the Isle of Patmos. He was banished on
- 58:54Speaker 1: account of his faith, Bible history tells us, and in
- 58:58Speaker 1: the isle of Patmos is giving access to.
- 59:01Speaker 2: The thirty heavens.
- 59:03Speaker 1: Then he begins to document his revelations, captured as the
- 59:07Speaker 1: things that were, the things that are, the things that
- 59:10Speaker 1: would happen thereafter. When we get to twenty two and
- 59:13Speaker 1: verse twelve, please give it to us twenty two and
- 59:16Speaker 1: verse twelve. Twenty two, it says, and behold, I am
- 59:26Speaker 1: coming quickly, and my reward is with me to give
- 59:32Speaker 1: to everyone, not according to my love for them, according
- 59:39Speaker 1: to his work.
- 59:40Speaker 2: Behold, have this at the back.
- 59:43Speaker 1: Of your mind, that I'm coming quickly, and my reward
- 59:46Speaker 1: is with me, not without my world, and that I
- 59:49Speaker 1: am here to give to everyone according to his work.
- 59:53Speaker 1: Let me tell you sincerely, the works of men will
- 59:57Speaker 1: be rewarded. Dimensions to your work that will be rewarded.
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: Number one, the purity of your motivation. That means as
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: God looks at me now from heaven. He's not just
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: carried away that I'm preaching here. The first thing is
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: he has to fetch the purity. And what is motivating you?
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: Are you preaching just because you love God's people and
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: you want to see the name of the Lord lifted.
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: I can come here and preach just because I want fame,
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: preach just because I'm trying to make a name for myself.
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: The motivation behind the works of men will be tried.
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: And number two, the degree to which you work in
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: keeping with God's pattern. That means if your assignment was
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: to stand here, and you as much as came up here,
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: but you stood here, it to be rewarded. The imagine
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: between God's will and where you stood will be rewarded.
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: There are many many people who will miss the reward God.
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: When the works are tried, God will say I called
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: you to be a man of God, and simply because
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: of the persecution you manipulated your way out and you
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: are something else.
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: It will be rewarded.
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: First Corinthians, chapter three, from verse twelve. This will probably
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: be our final scripture for tonight. I want you to
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: pay attention to this point. Three things I teach you
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: tonight that God rewards. Number one, God rewards passionate pursuit
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: for him and for spiritual things. Number two, God rewards
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: faithfulness at all levels. And number three God rewards the
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: works of men. Please give it to us First Corinthians three.
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: I begin my reading from verse twelve. Now, if anyone
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay straw.
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: Uh huh. We're reading to fifteen.
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: Each one's walk will become clear for that they will
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: declare it, because it will be revealed.
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: By fire, and the fire will test each one's walk
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: of what sort it is. Fourteen.
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: If anyone's walk which he has built on it and gires,
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: he will receive what he will not just receive a
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: reward because he built.
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: We have to look at what you belt on.
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: If you belt on jealousy and pried and just the
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: desire to be famous, that desire to outshine and pull others.
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: The Bible says, your w will we try.
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: That means there are many things we are doing today,
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: and while they are clapping for us, when that fire
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: of God's justice blows, want to be left to not
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: be a handfuls men of God that are many preaching
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: appost Joshua Sellman, while you are clappy, it's only God
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: that knows what is motivating it. It can be a
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: Canal Montaine pursuit just to make a name. And when
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: it is tried, you will find out that of the
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: two thousand preaching, only five were preached from a pure heart.
- 1:03:19Speaker 2: That is the reward you will get. Let's finish that scripture. Please.
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: If anyone's work is bonned, he will suffer loss, but
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: he himself will be saved at yes true fire.
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: So it's not about being a good or bad person.
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: The purity of your work while you were working in church.
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: For that, it is an honor for me to clean
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: this place, for the Man of God to come and
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: bless his people. It's a privilege to be part of
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: your house, and God is seeing it. Someone else can
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: come and work and you say he's the most hardworking person.
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: That is true based on your perspective.
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: It's only God that knows how many times he insulted
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: the pastor before he said yes sir, when he came,
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: He's been recorded in heaven.
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: Yes, sir, did I do my best to live for truth?
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: Did I live my life for him? Where it's all
- 1:04:22Speaker 2: inside and all my treasures feel thing. Only what I've
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: done for love Sprey.
- 1:04:33Speaker 5: World will stand the test of time.
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth. I'm made up my
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: mind as a man of God. Knowing this, whether it
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: is to talk to one person or a stadium of people,
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: little children or wealthy bilowiess my passion.
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: Does not fascinate.
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: It remains the same because I am serving the Lord Christ,
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: and as far as I live, I will give it
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: my best. If in the process of serving Him our
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: life ends. Whilst serving him, it is still gain. But
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: as long as it's granted us breath that will serve
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: Him with everything we had, believe us. Please hear me
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: as I prepare to run them. It is safe to
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: know that God is a rewarder, but for someone the
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: way you are living your life, and there is no
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: reward for you for sure, because God cannot count on you.
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: There is nothing about your life to them. Listen, I
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: learned this in my work with God. Before God maks you,
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: he must find out how your money, your influence, your knowledge,
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: your beauty, anything that does not contribute to the revelation
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: of Jesus to bring him glory, to draw souls to
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: him to transform lives and nations. From God's perspective, is
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: a total wist. Don't tell me you are beautiful. Show
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: me how your beauty becomes a tool to reveal Jesus.
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: Don't tell me you have money. Show me how your money,
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: like Joseph of Arimathea, can buy Jesus a grave site
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: so that will say, oh grave, where is your state.
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: Don't tell me you are a man of influence.
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: Show me how your influence contributed in a church, getting
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: land contributed, in secured in the stadium for the gospel
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: to be preached and to better the lives of people.
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: Nothing in itself is valuable. Accept and unless it is
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: connected to God's program.
- 1:06:43Speaker 2: This is a very powerful message to life.
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: You can know you are living a life that deserves
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: to be rewarded when you spend your life seeing that
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: everything about your life God gives you ten nairah and
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: you say, listen, ten nairah may not be able to
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: buy fuel for the generator, but I can't buy two
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: racks to help the sanctuary. Chief as God is seen
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: that motivated by your love, now he he wants you
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: by opening a greater door.
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: It's your breath in Nalogs, so.
- 1:07:21Speaker 9: We pow of breaks part of friends. It's your bread
- 1:07:28Speaker 9: in Nalogs, so we need a lot of.
- 1:07:32Speaker 2: Friends to you.
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: Listen, let me tell you how powerful a king rewards.
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: One uppointed time, it was a king's birthday and a
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: prophet was in prison. A woman wanted the head of
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: that prophet, but she did not have the power to fight.
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: And a young girl came before the king and impressed
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: him by dancing in a way she responded.
- 1:08:06Speaker 2: To his will and desire. When kings are happy, cleared
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: away for them.
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: They can't do anything what demons and principalities and powers
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: could not do, what strong men ascribes could not do.
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: Gave little girls dance before the King's what removed the
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: head of a prophet.
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: Don't tell me you are small. Serve the king and
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: see what the king can use you to do. Don't
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: say I don't have the money to give. Pray for
- 1:08:41Speaker 1: your pastor in the place of intercession every day, and said, Lord,
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: that is my little contribution. It's like dancing before the king.
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: When kings are happy, they'll say, what do you want?
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: The king said, even to half of my kingdom. And
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: she went to a wicked woman to advise her, and
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: the wo man said, thank you.
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: For clearing the way. The message is that it is service.
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: That opened that door. Can I tell you the truth?
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: There are many people to their side around them. I
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: hope I didn't waste your time. There are many people
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: today that no matter how stop on their children are,
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: they will always find faith and find hell. Do you
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: know why because some of their parents, when they were young,
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: they had a little poys quarters and they missionaries there.
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: They didn't have the power to preach in crusades, but
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: every time they hear that the missionary is coming to town,
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: it is their cooler that they'll put food for the missionary.
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: And one day the man said, before I leave, I
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: stand upon this place, Madam, your children's children, a man
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: of God will also come out of that person.
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: Listen.
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: That may have happened in nineteen seventy one. Now by
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: two thousand you have a top on child who.
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: Listen to you or anybody. He does not know that
- 1:10:02Speaker 2: the reward is determined to keep his found.
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: One day, what you could not do, what your husband
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: could not do, that convenant of serving the purposes of God.
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: That young man who will enter inside.
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: One who say may be drunk, maybe angry and fire
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: false of all him, and that boy will become a
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: man of God. That are missionaries today who have died.
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: But your words upon your life.
- 1:10:30Speaker 2: Is still speaking. Let me tell you something.
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: If you are here and you have spent your life
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: serving God and living for God, and it looks like
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: all you have seen around your life is reproach, maybe
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: from children. Maybe you are not doing well, and mothers
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: are even laughing at you and saying this to you.
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: On Christianity has not spoken. Hear me, The reward is
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: on his way. Yes, son, mama, what you want to
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: suffer for to make sure your children went to mission schools?
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: You didn't wear nice dress to give them an opportunity.
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: I tell you what, with God and man, your reward.
- 1:11:12Speaker 2: Is calling your reward school.
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: A very simple statement that the Man of God made
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: that blessed me so much. Congratulations, by the way, on
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: your twentieth anniversary. Congratulations alleluyah. They do you hear what
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: he said? Many of you did not pay attention to
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: what was said that whilst this branch was started, they
- 1:11:52Speaker 1: were doing the plaster and at the same time painting.
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: That is a level of passion that is unusual.
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: And God was watching, and he said, twenty years later,
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: you will still be standing.
- 1:12:08Speaker 2: Please Yeamy.
- 1:12:11Speaker 1: There was a man in the Bible called Abraham. God
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: mandated and instructor that Abraham would take his only child
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: and go to a mount, that he would show him an.
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: Offer as a bult offering. The Bible says Abraham arose early.
- 1:12:26Speaker 4: It was not convenient.
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: He got up.
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: Did do you know what it means to drag the
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: child after waiting for over twenty five years? I wonder
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: what he was going to tell Sarah at his return.
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: That would have been the end of his marriage. But
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: he was still willing to risk it, and he took
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: Isaac caught the long story shots. When he showed God
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: he could give everything. God now swore it bless him.
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: He said, Abraham, I swear by myself that in blessing
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: I will bless you. Please, yearmy do not claim Abraham's
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: blessings until you claim his passion. If you are the
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: children of Abraham, he said, you will do the works
- 1:13:09Speaker 1: of imor There are people who are untouchable, not because
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: they are anything in themselves.
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: They are so useful in the program of God. God's
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: jealousy defends them like a shadow. Are we together.
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: That when you sit down when you are planning evil
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: in the secret, before the plan is executed, the rewarder.
- 1:13:32Speaker 2: Himself says, No, this is a reader. I've taken out
- 1:13:34Speaker 2: a fire. Don't come to this family.
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: Every missionary has eaten because this is pular life. How
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: dare you come to take them in the name of cancer?
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: How dare you come to take them in the name.
- 1:13:44Speaker 2: Of any sickness? Please hear me.
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: In this end time, those who are going to survive
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: are those who will plunge themselves into the program of God.
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: Not everything you will receive in your personal experience as
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: a gift. Do not forget this teaching.
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: A gift depends on the benevolence of the giver, irrespective
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: of the attitude of the receiver. What a reward depends
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: on the contribution of the receiver to satisfying the giver.
- 1:14:20Speaker 7: Whatever you want to do, Lord, you can do through me,
- 1:14:31Speaker 7: whatever you want to say.
- 1:14:37Speaker 2: Lord, you can say through me whoever you want to bless.
- 1:14:48Speaker 2: Lord you can bless to whatever you want to start. Lord.
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: That is a true Christy.
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: That you are in politics, that you are in governance,
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: and you are like Daniel saying, Lord, for as long
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: as I am here, I would look for what pleases you.
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: And plunge myself into it. And God says, you have
- 1:15:20Speaker 2: vowed to do this for me.
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: Let me see who stand against you. Oh, I am
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: a man of God. I have found that I would
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: be a preacher of righteousness, leading many to Jesus, doing
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: ministry with painting integrity, regardless the consequence. And God says
- 1:15:37Speaker 1: you have made this decision. You will be sitting down
- 1:15:40Speaker 1: and God wake someone and said, giving me a car
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: that house.
- 1:15:43Speaker 2: That you are I told you to give someone.
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: There are manding people who will receive the prayer requests
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: of many as gifts and ask rewards because they have
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: plunged themselves into the program of God.
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: First square my message for you, and this extends also
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: to the body of Christ. Please listen carefully.
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: Your Christian experience is not profitable until it becomes an
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: active contributor towards revealing Jesus.
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: And bringing joy and glory to the Father. Don't tell
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: me about your achievements. Are not interested. Only tell me
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: how they add on to contribute it to the program
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: of God. This is where the real value of the believer.
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: Comes your value and your usefulness in the kingdom is
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: not in acquisition. Your desire to be a billionaire only
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: becomes profitable from a kingdom standpoint if you can connect
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: it to kingdom.
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: Come.
- 1:16:38Speaker 1: Your marriage becomes profitable not just because you have children,
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: but that you have used your womb to raise the
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: next prophet, to raise the next apostle, to raise the
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: next fictionary leader over a territory.
- 1:16:51Speaker 2: Now God's cost your marriage, and say this was marriage.
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: Indeed, there are many people who pride in being rich, respectfully,
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: begin pride in being influential, and Heaven is just watching them.
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: And say, as first, you are concerned your register has
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: not been opened because we have not seen any thing
- 1:17:11Speaker 1: that has contributed.
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: Listen, let me speak to the younger people here that
- 1:17:15Speaker 2: you hear. Make sure your life counts in this church
- 1:17:19Speaker 2: and to the program of God.
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: At the end of your life, you may have heard
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: me say you will be remembered for two things, the
- 1:17:26Speaker 1: trouble you created, the pain you put for people, or
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: the solutions and the contributions that you made.
- 1:17:34Speaker 2: Paul at the end of his life said, I have
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: fought a good fight. I have finished my.
- 1:17:39Speaker 1: Course It is my prayer here at this conference, this
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary, the first of your.
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: Professional, your convocation, your conference.
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: Here, it is my prayer that this tonight, alongside everything
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: you're going to be hearing.
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: In worship, in teaching, that it would add to your understanding.
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: God is a giver, and when it has to give it,
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: he gives everyone because the same Lord is rich onto all.
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: But God has a rewarder, does not reward everybody. Not
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: everything in the Kingdom is a gift. There are gifts
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: and their rewards.
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: He that comment onto God must come.
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: Believing that He exists and that He's the rewarder of
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: them that diligent me seeing, let's rise upon your faith.
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: Just two prayer points. Thank you for your time to prayer.
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: Points, and we're done for tonight. May I please request
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: that you join me as we pray prayer point number one, Lord, I.
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: Am available and I'm usable to bring your glory through
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: my life and through my lifetime. Go ahead and pray.
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: I am available and I am usable.
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: The Bible says, but in a greathouse there are many
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: kinds of vessels, Vessels of gold, vessels of silver, vessels
- 1:19:11Speaker 1: of wood and of clay, the Bible says, some vessels
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: are onto dishonor, while some are onto honor. If a
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: man will plaunch himself, that man will be a vessel
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: Onto honor means for the master's use.
- 1:19:23Speaker 2: Someone is praying.
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: Lord in your end time program, spiritually, governmentally, economically. I
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: declare that I am available, and you sable Ali Lujah
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: prays alone the last prayer point, and I want you.
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: To place pay attention. There was a man in the
- 1:19:52Speaker 2: book of Esther called Modecai. Modecai sat at the gates
- 1:19:58Speaker 2: that was his place of fund. Listen jerefully.
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: One time, Mother Kui, by reason of his effective service,
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: he heard two people who were conspiring to kill King
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: Ahazaras are we together now? And Mother Ki took up
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: that issue, reported it to the authorities, and the people
- 1:20:17Speaker 1: were brought to justice. It was written, but Mother Ki
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: was not rewarded. I'm establishing the next prayer point now.
- 1:20:25Speaker 1: The man who saved the life of the king was
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: not rewarded, and another side confined was enjoying his place
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: in the palace called her Man.
- 1:20:35Speaker 2: I'm establishing what you are about to pray now.
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: And the Bible says, one night when a man was
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: already plotting that by the morrow he was going to
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: execute this Mother Kui of a man and the Jews.
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: The Bible says that same night.
- 1:20:51Speaker 1: The king could not sleep, and the King said, bring
- 1:20:54Speaker 1: me the chronicles, and they opened, and he saw where
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: Mother Ki helped him and was rewarded.
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: And he said, what has been done to this man?
- 1:21:05Speaker 2: And those who serving the inner chamber said nothing.
- 1:21:07Speaker 1: He said, who is there? And he called the enemy
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: of God Mother Kai and the Jews. He said, what
- 1:21:15Speaker 1: should be done to social man? He thought he was him,
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: so out of his creed, he suggested superior suggestions. He said,
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: let none fail two days to Mother Kai and saying
- 1:21:27Speaker 1: this because many of you here have participated in the
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: rising of many politically, spiritually, economically, but then it looks
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: like you are being forgotten.
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: Joseph helped the.
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: One pressor to interpretish dreams and play there that when
- 1:21:46Speaker 1: he was restored by to the king, he should advocate
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: his inno sense.
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: The man for good.
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: And for two years he added Joseph's pain, But when
- 1:21:55Speaker 1: the knights came, it always happens in the night, the
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: king had a dream to pray, Father, I am soundly sincerely,
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: I open up for my rewards. Everybody has been a
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: sign to reward you, to bless you for your times
- 1:22:12Speaker 1: of prayer, for your times of fasting, for your times
- 1:22:15Speaker 1: of service. And like you to pray that the Book
- 1:22:19Speaker 1: of Remembrance be opened for you tonighte if someone pray,
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: let the book of Remembrance, that which archives the services
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: of men, let it be opened in heaven for my sake,
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: for the sake of my family. Someone is praying for
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: the sake of my husband, for the second of my wife,
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: for the sake of my children.
- 1:22:52Speaker 2: Service. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Please let me want more minute, let
- 1:23:00Speaker 2: me plead with you.
- 1:23:01Speaker 1: There was a man in the Bible call He's a
- 1:23:03Speaker 1: Kiah Chapter thirty eight of Isiah. The Bible says you
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: was a king and a genuine prophet. Isaiah came to him,
- 1:23:11Speaker 1: said you are sick. Put your house in order.
- 1:23:13Speaker 2: I have heard from God. You will not survive.
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: The Bible says he's a Kaiah told his face to
- 1:23:18Speaker 1: the world and say, Lord, remember this is not how
- 1:23:21Speaker 1: you are. Somebody is about to pray God remember when
- 1:23:24Speaker 1: you said, remember it's not because he has forgotten.
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: And like you to open up and pray. Lord.
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: Remember remember in the name of Jesus, Remember your messy,
- 1:23:35Speaker 1: Remember my service, Remember the prayer of my wife, Remember
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: the prayer of my children. Remember my see you said
- 1:23:43Speaker 1: it to speak for me in the tans of adversity. Lord,
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: Remember remember you were covenant keeping God. Remember you said
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: right business as rewards, You said godliness as rewards.
- 1:24:04Speaker 2: Share on ed and in the world after.
- 1:24:06Speaker 1: Remember remember my sacrifices in your house. Remember my participation,
- 1:24:14Speaker 1: Remember my honor for my passon, Remember my commits out
- 1:24:19Speaker 1: to spiritual things.
- 1:24:20Speaker 2: Remember my intecrity your God, Hallelujah, hallelujah.
- 1:24:36Speaker 1: Your love for God, your passion for God, your faithfulness,
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: and the purity of your works are weapons.
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: They can become systems of defense for you even in
- 1:24:48Speaker 2: an evil time.
- 1:24:49Speaker 1: Now, when the devil comes, you can lift up your
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: service as a whippon and say, how dare you touch me?
- 1:24:56Speaker 2: Lord? If I die? Who give during the next year's conference? Allelujah?
- 1:25:05Speaker 1: There is someone in this place right now, you are saying, apostle,
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: even though our time is up. While hearing you speak,
- 1:25:13Speaker 1: I would say I've defaulted in the place of faithfulness
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: because I have not opened up my heart to Jesus, sincerely,
- 1:25:21Speaker 1: Can I.
- 1:25:21Speaker 2: Tell you the truth? Place hear me?
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: It is important that we take advantage of this gift
- 1:25:29Speaker 1: of eternal life that has come from Jesus. Many times
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: we talk about this is beyond the church stay. It
- 1:25:36Speaker 1: is his desire and his will that all men be saved.
- 1:25:39Speaker 1: Perhaps there's someone here tonight. You are off the balcony,
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: or you are you know, down here, or you are
- 1:25:48Speaker 1: falling online, maybe by way of television or the Internet,
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: or even watching by way of your rebroadcast, and you
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: are saying apostle.
- 1:25:55Speaker 2: While I heard you speak, the Holy Spirit began to
- 1:25:58Speaker 2: speak to me through your words. I need Jesus.
- 1:26:01Speaker 1: I'm only looking for one person tonight who will be
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: bold enough to say I'm not a shame.
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: I want to make it right with Jesus and.
- 1:26:08Speaker 1: For someone you are saying, a person. I have truly
- 1:26:11Speaker 1: handed my life to Jesus. But as it is, things
- 1:26:14Speaker 1: have gone haywire. I need to start afresh. May I
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: please request I'm working on borrow time for the next
- 1:26:21Speaker 1: ten or fifteen seconds. I want you to boldly come
- 1:26:25Speaker 1: and stand right here. Don't wait for anyone to be
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: the first. You are convinced in your hand that you
- 1:26:30Speaker 1: need Jesus win that war. Come and stand here right now.
- 1:26:33Speaker 1: I will count one to three, and I'll begin my prayer.
- 1:26:36Speaker 2: One. Let's appreciate them as well as they come.
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: Come, Come, sab alright, Come on me, clean knagle.
- 1:27:03Speaker 2: Now come, I want to Jesus, Yes, listen to me.
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: Let me tell you sincerely. I had to be the
- 1:27:27Speaker 1: vera of bad news. But if the trumpet sounds right
- 1:27:31Speaker 1: now and your ways are not right with the Lord,
- 1:27:34Speaker 1: as much as God loves you, he's bound.
- 1:27:37Speaker 2: To his world. The Bible says, books were opened, and
- 1:27:39Speaker 2: another book was opened.
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: And whosoever's name was not found in that book, it
- 1:27:44Speaker 1: was cast into the lake of fire.
- 1:27:46Speaker 2: That this is the second death.
- 1:27:49Speaker 1: I want to appreciate you for coming, ladies and gentlemen,
- 1:27:51Speaker 1: young and old alike, and for those who are connecting
- 1:27:54Speaker 1: by way of television, as I pray with the ones
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: I wanted to connect. Prayed from the depth of your heart.
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: Here are four square sokor o were praying. And the
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: reward that has come to honor your faith. You have
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: believed that He exists, and you have come to hand
- 1:28:10Speaker 1: everything to him. He said, But I know whom I believe,
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: and I am persuaded that he is able to keep
- 1:28:16Speaker 1: that which is committed onto him, even against that day.
- 1:28:19Speaker 1: May I please request all of you who have come
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: to the frontier to lift your right hand as a
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: sign of surrender.
- 1:28:25Speaker 2: You are doing it onto Jesus. Please saylf tell.
- 1:28:28Speaker 1: Me from the depth of your heart, Say Lord Jesus,
- 1:28:31Speaker 1: tonight I have heard your word.
- 1:28:34Speaker 2: I love you with all my heart.
- 1:28:38Speaker 1: I declare tonight that you are my savior. I declare
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: that you are my Lord, and I declare that you
- 1:28:48Speaker 1: are my King. I declare from tonight that eternal life
- 1:28:55Speaker 1: is mine. I receive it into my spirit. And I
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: declare that the power of saying of Satan, of hell
- 1:29:07Speaker 1: and of the grave is broken over my life. I
- 1:29:10Speaker 1: am a child of God. I go forwardever and backward never.
- 1:29:17Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: We pray. Someone directs me. Do they return?
- 1:29:22Speaker 1: But okay, okay, So here's what will happen. May I
- 1:29:24Speaker 1: please request, ladies and gentlemen, you follow the counselors. They're
- 1:29:28Speaker 1: waving their hands.
- 1:29:29Speaker 2: They will just have a word with you. Where they
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: go in which direction? Okay?
- 1:29:32Speaker 1: So this way, let's celebrate them as they go. Please
- 1:29:35Speaker 1: give them a big, big, big God.
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: Bless you give them a big God. Bless you. Thank
- 1:29:40Speaker 2: you so very much.
- 1:29:41Speaker 8: It's not the best you can do for Square. In
- 1:29:51Speaker 8: the name of Jesus Christ.
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: Now I stand upon the grace of Reverend your Man
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: of God, and the Angel over this house. I stand
- 1:30:01Speaker 1: upon the grace of the Eldership and the past rate.
- 1:30:03Speaker 1: And let me speak over your life that, in the
- 1:30:05Speaker 1: name of Jesus, who is the Son of the Living God,
- 1:30:08Speaker 1: everything that represents reproach in your Christian experience that while
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: you have given all to save God, some things have
- 1:30:16Speaker 1: not yet been in place. Tonight I declare upon you,
- 1:30:19Speaker 1: by the power of the Apostolic and the Prophetic, let
- 1:30:23Speaker 1: things begin to change.
- 1:30:24Speaker 2: Now in the name of Jesus Christ.
- 1:30:32Speaker 1: I pray over everyone who is sick in your body,
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: plagued by a terminal disease, a recurrent health issue. In
- 1:30:40Speaker 1: the name that is above all names, healing surges through
- 1:30:44Speaker 1: your body. Now I pray for someone who is trusting
- 1:30:50Speaker 1: God for a job. Between now and the end of
- 1:30:52Speaker 1: the year. I decree and declare in the name of Jesus,
- 1:30:56Speaker 1: may my God surprise you. First, Square are SOCl right,
- 1:31:02Speaker 1: declare that between now and the end of the year.
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: You will not bury anybody in this choge. In the
- 1:31:09Speaker 1: name of Jesus, I declare that you are blessed. I
- 1:31:14Speaker 1: declare that you are lifted. I pray for your passion
- 1:31:18Speaker 1: and hunger for spiritual things. It will not dwindle with
- 1:31:21Speaker 1: the health embaments, rather to go from glory to glory
- 1:31:27Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. Finally, I pray that every
- 1:31:32Speaker 1: blessing that has been commanded to rest in this conference,
- 1:31:36Speaker 1: beginning from when it started even to the end. I
- 1:31:40Speaker 1: learn my faith and my voice with everyone who will
- 1:31:43Speaker 1: be ministering here in words in songs, to declare that
- 1:31:47Speaker 1: you will be maximally blessed. For Jesus' name, we pray
- 1:31:54Speaker 1: one more time, thank you so very much, and made
- 1:31:56Speaker 1: a lord bless you.