Latest / Apostle Joshua Selman / God Rewards
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Don't tell me to just self God only because I
- 0:05Speaker 1: love him.
- 0:06Speaker 2: That is a very sincere but destructive theology.
- 0:10Speaker 1: The kingdom is built around the reward system. It is
- 0:14Speaker 1: only when my desire to be rewarded, or my desire
- 0:17Speaker 1: to receive from him now at waste my desire to
- 0:21Speaker 1: love him. There is a problem there. But when my
- 0:24Speaker 1: love for him is in place, it is not on
- 0:26Speaker 1: scriptural to be open for the rewards. Some of you,
- 0:29Speaker 1: by reason of this teaching and the prayer, you will
- 0:32Speaker 1: find out that there are many blessings you have rejected,
- 0:35Speaker 1: probably true ignorance, in a bit to show that you
- 0:38Speaker 1: love God. You have rejected a lot of things that
- 0:41Speaker 1: have been scheduled by God to come into your life.
- 0:44Speaker 1: I'm glad to announce you that the reward is also
- 0:48Speaker 1: a restorer. In the name of Jesus Christ. Everything that
- 0:56Speaker 1: was lost shall be returned onto him.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Everything that was total shall we restored onto him, everything
- 1:07Speaker 3: that was lost, everything that.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Let's walk to a few scriptures to establish the scripture
- 1:22Speaker 1: a basis for being opened for a reward. First, Samuel
- 1:27Speaker 1: chapter seventeen were people of scriptures. So let's walk to
- 1:31Speaker 1: a few scriptures first, and weel seventeen from verse twenty four.
- 1:35Speaker 1: This was the occasion of David and Goliath. The young
- 1:38Speaker 1: teenager called David at the time, was sent by his
- 1:42Speaker 1: father to go and feed his brothers who were at
- 1:46Speaker 1: the warfront. And the Bible says that when David got there,
- 1:49Speaker 1: he heard a beast of a man called go Liad roaring.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Watch this now we're reading to twenty seven.
- 1:55Speaker 1: And all the men of Israel when they saw the man,
- 1:57Speaker 1: the Bible says, they fled from him, and they were
- 2:00Speaker 1: so afraid. Twenty five And when the men of Israel said,
- 2:04Speaker 1: have you seen this man that has come up?
- 2:07Speaker 2: Surely to defy Israel.
- 2:09Speaker 1: He's come up, and it shall be that the man
- 2:11Speaker 1: who killed him, the king will and reach him with
- 2:17Speaker 1: great riches and give him his daughter, and make his
- 2:21Speaker 1: father's house free of tax in Israel, say reward verse
- 2:27Speaker 1: twenty seven. Okay, now let's go to twenty six twenty six. Please,
- 2:33Speaker 1: And David said to the man, what shall be done
- 2:37Speaker 1: to the man that he led the Philistines? In other words,
- 2:40Speaker 1: I'm not going to waste my energy for nothing, as
- 2:43Speaker 1: much as I'm an Israelite. What will sponsor the stamina
- 2:48Speaker 1: it takes a lot to stand before good Liad. If
- 2:50Speaker 1: he was easy, everybody would stand there. So what shall
- 2:54Speaker 1: be done to the man that kills this? And for
- 2:59Speaker 1: this old circle, sanch Philistine, the man who will go
- 3:02Speaker 1: through the record of being courageous, being skillful to.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Endure and bring this man down? Twenty seven.
- 3:12Speaker 1: And the people answered him after the manner, saying, so
- 3:16Speaker 1: shall it be done to the man that he led him?
- 3:20Speaker 1: So there are things that are done for people who
- 3:22Speaker 1: do certain things that is not done for everyone. Are
- 3:27Speaker 1: we together now? Story number two? I'm hurrying on because
- 3:32Speaker 1: of time. My apologies In Matthew chapter nineteen, please give
- 3:38Speaker 1: us from verse twenty seven. Matthew chapter nineteen. From verse
- 3:42Speaker 1: twenty seven, were ready to thirty. This is Peter and
- 3:45Speaker 1: the disciples. Now they had worked with Jesus for a while.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Remember that when Jesus called them to follow him, they
- 3:52Speaker 1: didn't follow him.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Just because they loved him.
- 3:55Speaker 1: They saw a celebrity and invincible man who was shaking
- 3:59Speaker 1: the town the time, and so they left their fishing
- 4:02Speaker 1: and came to him, believing you would give them a
- 4:05Speaker 1: better sense of living. And as the days went by,
- 4:08Speaker 1: they didn't see him say anything about reward and they
- 4:11Speaker 1: did not hide their feelings. He started as a rumor.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Mothers came and were lias him for their children. Eventually
- 4:18Speaker 1: Peter our Peter day. Peter broke the eyes. Now let's
- 4:23Speaker 1: see what Peter said. And Peter said unto him, behold,
- 4:28Speaker 1: we are forsaken all and followed you. What shall we
- 4:32Speaker 1: have therefore? Twenty eight Jesus said, Now, this is Jesus replying.
- 4:41Speaker 1: He didn't say you are canal on spiritual You are
- 4:44Speaker 1: not even grateful for the privilege of following me. He
- 4:47Speaker 1: knew that the kingdom was built on a reward system,
- 4:51Speaker 1: and he said, I say unto you that ye which
- 4:55Speaker 1: have followed me, That means not everybody agreed to follow.
- 4:58Speaker 1: But since you took the reason to follow me, not
- 5:02Speaker 1: everybody will take the risk to be responsible. Not everybody
- 5:06Speaker 1: would take the risk to walk in integrity. There has
- 5:09Speaker 1: to be a difference, he said in the Regeneration, when
- 5:15Speaker 1: the son of Man Matthew's synoptic account now shall sit
- 5:20Speaker 1: in the throne of his glory, he says, you shall
- 5:22Speaker 1: also sit upon twelve throlls. Charging the twelve tribes of Israel.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Let's stop there. He gave them a motivation, And that
- 5:31Speaker 1: was the end of the discussion. That said, all right, now,
- 5:33Speaker 1: at least we know that we're not working for nothing.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Do you know the ridicule they would have received for
- 5:40Speaker 1: living what they were doing to follow this man who
- 5:44Speaker 1: did not seem like you were taking them anywhere. There
- 5:48Speaker 1: was a time Jesus went off to pray, and the
- 5:51Speaker 1: disciples took it upon themselves to test the power of
- 5:54Speaker 1: God and to pray for an epileptic patient. You see
- 5:57Speaker 1: the embarrassment and Gord, how could Jesus not motivate them
- 6:02Speaker 1: by telling them all of this is leading somewhere story
- 6:08Speaker 1: number three Philippians, chapter two, from verse five, This is
- 6:15Speaker 1: Jesus himself Philippians two and verse five. Let this mind
- 6:21Speaker 1: be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Six.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Now it says, who've been in the former allelujah, allelujah.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Okay, who been in the form of God did not
- 6:41Speaker 1: consider it robbery to be equal with God. Let's read
- 6:44Speaker 1: on seven. It says, but made himself of no reputation.
- 6:48Speaker 1: Look what Jesus had to go through taking the form
- 6:51Speaker 1: of a bond servant. Am I doing something wrong? Probably
- 6:56Speaker 1: the feedbags in front? Allelujah? And coming in the likeness
- 7:01Speaker 1: of men. Verse eight, he says, and being found in
- 7:06Speaker 1: appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient
- 7:11Speaker 1: to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Here is the.
- 7:15Speaker 1: Reward ready, therefore God, this is for Jesus. Now God
- 7:22Speaker 1: did is say, well done, you are Love, So find
- 7:24Speaker 1: somewhere in heaven and relax. Therefore God also has highly
- 7:29Speaker 1: exalted him and given him a name that is above
- 7:33Speaker 1: every other name. Verse ten. That at the name of Jesus,
- 7:38Speaker 1: every niche should bow, those in heaven, those in the earth,
- 7:42Speaker 1: and those under the earth, and that every tongue should
- 7:46Speaker 1: confess that Jesus is the Lord to the glory of
- 7:50Speaker 1: the Father. Say, God is a rewarder. Let me give
- 7:55Speaker 1: you the last example. Ready for that second Timothy, please
- 7:58Speaker 1: Chapter four, from verse seven and eight. Why am I
- 8:02Speaker 1: taking our time to share scripture Because it is important
- 8:05Speaker 1: that your faith be founded upon the integrity of God's
- 8:08Speaker 1: word and not just the opinion of a man. That
- 8:11Speaker 1: when you are trusting God to reward you is not
- 8:14Speaker 1: just because Joshua Sellman said, It is that I have
- 8:17Speaker 1: found from scripture that God rewards the last verse I
- 8:24Speaker 1: have fought a good fight.
- 8:26Speaker 2: My goodness, I have finished the race.
- 8:31Speaker 1: I have kept the faith, you thought, Paul, mentoring his
- 8:35Speaker 1: son in the Gospel Timothy, who just stopped there. Paul
- 8:38Speaker 1: did not stop there. He said, finally, there is laid
- 8:43Speaker 1: up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord,
- 8:48Speaker 1: the Righteous George will give to me on that day.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Good information, and not to me only, but also to
- 8:58Speaker 1: all who have loved He's appearing. This is in your Bible,
- 9:06Speaker 1: very powerful scripture. So we know for a fact that
- 9:11Speaker 1: in as much as our ultimate motivation in working with
- 9:15Speaker 1: God is our love for him, we must find it
- 9:18Speaker 1: scriptural to believe and expect that He rewards us whilst
- 9:23Speaker 1: we serve him. Why does God reward men? And why
- 9:29Speaker 1: do men reward men? Why is a reward system important
- 9:34Speaker 1: in our dealings with God and also in our dealings
- 9:38Speaker 1: with men? Paul gave us the answer in Second Timost
- 9:42Speaker 1: the scripture Wes read, because life is a fight, life
- 9:47Speaker 1: is a race life, and destiny is a trust. Nobody
- 9:53Speaker 1: gets into the boxing ring to fight for nothing. In fact,
- 9:56Speaker 1: many times before they fight the price this is already there,
- 10:01Speaker 1: and all of them have seen it, both the loser
- 10:03Speaker 1: and the winner sees the prize. Are we together now,
- 10:09Speaker 1: Life and destiny verse seven. Now is a fight that
- 10:15Speaker 1: the moment you find yourself on this side of God's kingdom,
- 10:18Speaker 1: you are going to fight against principalities and powers. Is
- 10:22Speaker 1: a fight to remain for Jesus in a deep preved generation.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Is a fight to remain in integrity in the midst
- 10:30Speaker 1: of opportunities for compromise. And then he says life is
- 10:33Speaker 1: a race. Probably many of us have been involved in
- 10:37Speaker 1: all kinds of marathon races. And you do not see
- 10:40Speaker 1: someone running for three hours and smiling and rejoicing and singing.
- 10:46Speaker 1: There is dedicated concentration. Sometimes they breed as though they
- 10:50Speaker 1: will lose their breath and die. That is the price
- 10:53Speaker 1: it takes to run and to finish. Then the Bible
- 10:57Speaker 1: says life is a trust. There are things God gives you.
- 11:01Speaker 1: There are many people at the end of their life
- 11:03Speaker 1: they gain a lot of things and lose what God
- 11:06Speaker 1: gave them, For instance, your soul. He said, what shall
- 11:10Speaker 1: he profit a man if he gains the whole world
- 11:13Speaker 1: and loses his soul. So God rewards men because he
- 11:22Speaker 1: himself has a righteous George, the righteous King acknowledges the
- 11:28Speaker 1: fact that life is a fight, life is a race,
- 11:32Speaker 1: and life is a trust. Now, God designed men to
- 11:39Speaker 1: walk by motivation. Are we together? There are many believers
- 11:45Speaker 1: today who can stand and die for Jesus, like I
- 11:49Speaker 1: said earlier on first before, because they love him, but
- 11:53Speaker 1: because they also know that there is an assurance that
- 11:57Speaker 1: they will be with him. He said, to be absent
- 11:59Speaker 1: in the body is to be present with the Lord.
- 12:02Speaker 1: That is a motivation. Now.
- 12:04Speaker 2: The difference between Joseph and.
- 12:08Speaker 1: Nimrod, Nimrod, the son of Cush, is that one puts
- 12:13Speaker 1: a motivation in front, whereas the other one put only
- 12:17Speaker 1: a dream in front.
- 12:19Speaker 2: Nimrod said, come let us build.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Let us build a tower whose top who reached the heavens,
- 12:25Speaker 1: and let us make a name for our selves. He
- 12:29Speaker 1: shared the honor among them, so everyone who would put
- 12:32Speaker 1: the brick and mort and knew that I have a
- 12:34Speaker 1: stake in this. But Joseph said, I have a dream. Brothers,
- 12:40Speaker 1: in that dream, I saw you people bowing down to me.
- 12:44Speaker 2: It was all about him. And the brother said, you will.
- 12:46Speaker 1: Now know that even though you are our brother, we
- 12:49Speaker 1: cannot support you indefinitely without a stake. Listen, This is
- 12:54Speaker 1: not only a spiritual discussion. This is an organizational principle
- 12:59Speaker 1: that your body will be part of your program and
- 13:02Speaker 1: your project indefinitely until they can find a space to
- 13:06Speaker 1: be relevant and to be rewarded in what you are doing. Allelujah.
- 13:16Speaker 1: We lie to people all across the body of Christ.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Madam. Follow your husband just because you love.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Him first, just at first, That cannot be the only reason.
- 13:26Speaker 1: There has to be a motivation that both of you
- 13:29Speaker 1: are going somewhere to achieve something, to raise children that
- 13:33Speaker 1: will honor the name of the Lord. That is a motivation.
- 13:36Speaker 1: Young man, as you go to school, read. Don't tell
- 13:39Speaker 1: him to read just because he loves the Lord. Let
- 13:41Speaker 1: him know the difference between a great destiny and a
- 13:44Speaker 1: destiny of mediocrity and failure. When you create that temperature,
- 13:48Speaker 1: will wake up in the night to read, motivated by
- 13:51Speaker 1: that reward system.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Allelujah.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Watch this. In the military, the younger military men who
- 14:02Speaker 1: work and aspire number one to help the nation their
- 14:06Speaker 1: primary assignment. They are motivated first by their love for
- 14:10Speaker 1: the nation, but they also desire to rise to the
- 14:13Speaker 1: highest levels, and their motivation is with what is done
- 14:16Speaker 1: with generals. They see a general whether serving or retired,
- 14:20Speaker 1: there are benefits and blessings, and the young man is
- 14:23Speaker 1: encouraged to still stand in the war field and to
- 14:26Speaker 1: remain with a person of integrity because promotion is a possibility.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Allelujah.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Even in ministry with the young ones who God is helping.
- 14:39Speaker 1: We do it because we love Jesus. But we also
- 14:42Speaker 1: do it because we have seen what He has done
- 14:44Speaker 1: with those who went ahead of us. He did not
- 14:46Speaker 1: leave them in shame. So we know that no matter
- 14:49Speaker 1: timbarrassment that comes with beering the cross, we love Jesus.
- 14:54Speaker 1: But we also know that there is nobility at the
- 14:57Speaker 1: end of this someone learning already. Now, for the sake
- 15:07Speaker 1: of our discussion, I want to show us three things
- 15:11Speaker 1: that God rewards. Because God does not reward everything. Everything
- 15:18Speaker 1: has a consequence, every seed has a harvest, but God
- 15:22Speaker 1: does not reward everything. There are many others in the Bible,
- 15:26Speaker 1: but I was able to put together three things that
- 15:30Speaker 1: God rewards. What does God reward? Number one, are you ready?
- 15:36Speaker 1: God rewards diligent pursuit for him and the things of
- 15:44Speaker 1: the spirit. The first thing that God rewards is a
- 15:49Speaker 1: diligent pursuit for him and a diligent.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Postuit for the things of the spirit. Us eleven and verse.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Six already tells us that he that comment to God
- 16:05Speaker 1: must come believing that God exists, and He is a
- 16:08Speaker 1: rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Please say after
- 16:13Speaker 1: me them that diligently seek him. That means when you
- 16:18Speaker 1: see a man seeking the Lord, loving the Lord, seeking
- 16:22Speaker 1: him in worship, seeking him in prayer, seeking him in fassin,
- 16:26Speaker 1: seeking him in the study of the world, seeking him
- 16:30Speaker 1: by working with the company of wise people who love Jesus.
- 16:34Speaker 2: The Bible tells you that.
- 16:36Speaker 1: Man's life will not be an ordinary life. Are we together?
- 16:41Speaker 2: Let me tell you the truth.
- 16:43Speaker 1: God loves everybody, but our destinies are not the same.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Our destinies are a measure of the rewards that has
- 16:49Speaker 1: come into some by reason of their passion and their
- 16:53Speaker 1: love for God. A man will not pray two or
- 16:57Speaker 1: three hours every day, study the Bible, walking through holiness
- 17:01Speaker 1: and righteousness, and then receive the same reward with someone
- 17:05Speaker 1: who is licentious and careless and say it does not matter.
- 17:09Speaker 1: It is my life. Don't forget that he's thrown is
- 17:12Speaker 1: built upon righteousness and justice. A student who reads one
- 17:19Speaker 1: hour to the exam, and a student who is always
- 17:23Speaker 1: there in diligent pursuit, even with his knowledge, will meet
- 17:27Speaker 1: people to teach him. Their results will not be the same.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Are we together. Even among habilists and native doctors, their
- 17:38Speaker 1: results are not the same. Pairs on the degree to
- 17:41Speaker 1: which they press into the demonic. There are others. They said,
- 17:45Speaker 1: this is a powerful harbailist. Why do they call him
- 17:48Speaker 1: powerful because of the depth of his consecration and his pursuit.
- 17:55Speaker 1: We have to be very honest with ourselves to know
- 17:59Speaker 1: that seeking God said knowingly, above money, above titles, above churche,
- 18:06Speaker 1: above religion, that is a reward to it. You are
- 18:13Speaker 1: my strength when I am weak. You are that treasure
- 18:18Speaker 1: that I sick. You were my I'm seeking you, who
- 18:29Speaker 1: are so pressures children not to give a ReLU You are.
- 18:42Speaker 1: When I began my work with God, there was no
- 18:44Speaker 1: comeliness and nothing to be desired. It was a blind
- 18:48Speaker 1: and sincere pursuit. Lord, I love you, and I thank
- 18:52Speaker 1: you for motivating me and helping me know that if
- 18:55Speaker 1: I seek you, you can build a great destiny out
- 18:58Speaker 1: of my life, and I my life like the content
- 19:03Speaker 1: of the alabaster box and poured before him, look what
- 19:07Speaker 1: he's done today. No one should tell you that God
- 19:12Speaker 1: does not reward. The first thing God rewards is the
- 19:16Speaker 1: sincerity of your pursuit. Allelujah. So that anybody who tells
- 19:28Speaker 1: you this charge thing, this Jesus thing, does not matter.
- 19:33Speaker 1: I just need to settle down and know who is who.
- 19:37Speaker 1: By reason of what you are learning in this conference,
- 19:39Speaker 1: you can call him and sayd listen. Let me tell you.
- 19:41Speaker 1: In this kingdom, when men keep God there everything, when
- 19:46Speaker 1: they pour out their lives a string of ferings to
- 19:49Speaker 1: love Him, to seek him. And it's important that God
- 19:57Speaker 1: rewards our pursuit for him in the presence of those
- 20:01Speaker 1: who know us, so that they are motivated. I used
- 20:04Speaker 1: to know this young man while he used to clean
- 20:07Speaker 1: a house near my house. You would say, him listening
- 20:10Speaker 1: to a message while he's moping as a houseboy. To
- 20:13Speaker 1: know that today he is a CEO. To know that
- 20:16Speaker 1: he's the great man of God today. You know. I
- 20:18Speaker 1: meet several people as I travel around the world, and
- 20:21Speaker 1: some of them used to know me before, and most
- 20:23Speaker 1: of them would say, we knew it. I said, it's
- 20:26Speaker 1: not about me, It's about the message that God rewards.
- 20:32Speaker 1: Are we together for someone. Right now, you are in
- 20:35Speaker 1: your season of work with God. You are pressing into
- 20:38Speaker 1: the things of God. While others are sleeping, your awake, praying,
- 20:42Speaker 1: while others are roaming around wasting their lives. You are
- 20:45Speaker 1: there giving yourself to God. Can I tell you your
- 20:48Speaker 1: reward is show. Don't be discouraged. It may take a while.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Only a foolish farmer plans come today and by morning
- 20:59Speaker 1: is complaining. No, you give it time, motivated by the
- 21:04Speaker 1: fact that God swore upon the head that said time
- 21:08Speaker 1: and harvest. Please listen, listen carefully, allelujah. The first thing
- 21:23Speaker 1: God rewards is diligent pursuit. Diligent pursuit. Matthew Chapter seven,
- 21:30Speaker 1: seven and eight. Jesus was teaching, and he said, ask
- 21:34Speaker 1: and you shall receive. He says, sick and you shall
- 21:39Speaker 1: find I like this one sick, sick, trouble, you will
- 21:44Speaker 1: find it. Sack peace, you will find it. Seek in
- 21:49Speaker 1: metocal life. Invest into a life of mediocrity, you will
- 21:53Speaker 1: find it. Invest into a life of dignity and honor,
- 21:57Speaker 1: you will find it. He says. No. When you read
- 22:01Speaker 1: the amplified expression, it says, ask and keep asking, Seek
- 22:06Speaker 1: and keep seeking, knock and keep knocking. The law is
- 22:11Speaker 1: in the next verse. For everyone that asked received, Everyone
- 22:17Speaker 1: who seeks finds has thirty answer for the words or
- 22:31Speaker 1: my soul longer.
- 22:39Speaker 4: For you.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Time, de yummy. When the reward comes to four square,
- 22:58Speaker 1: it is not coming to reward members. Is coming to
- 23:01Speaker 1: reward those who seeking. Don't say I've been here for
- 23:04Speaker 1: a long time. Ah ah ah ah ah, rewarding those
- 23:10Speaker 1: who love him and would serve him. Lord, My life
- 23:13Speaker 1: belongs to you, Everything belongs to you. You are the
- 23:16Speaker 1: object of my obsession. Number two, What does God reward
- 23:27Speaker 1: is someone learning already? God rewards faithfulness. God rewards faithfulness.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Anyone who is waiting to enjoy the ministry of the
- 23:42Speaker 1: rewarder must be one who is faithful. God rewards faithfulness.
- 23:50Speaker 1: In Mark Ju chapter twenty five, from verse fourteen to
- 23:53Speaker 1: thirty one, not reading everything for sake of time.
- 23:56Speaker 2: This is the parable of the talent.
- 24:00Speaker 1: The Bible says he gave on to one five talents,
- 24:04Speaker 1: he gave on to one, two talents, he gave on
- 24:07Speaker 1: to one one talent, And the Bible says.
- 24:09Speaker 2: Then he went on a long journey. Are we together?
- 24:13Speaker 1: Immediately the person with five said, I need to get
- 24:16Speaker 1: to work, and he went to work immediately and made
- 24:20Speaker 1: five more. The person with two didn't sit down envy
- 24:26Speaker 1: the one with five. All of them had peculiar challenges
- 24:30Speaker 1: that were associated with the rem The one with five
- 24:34Speaker 1: talents had the challenge of complacency to overcome. He would
- 24:38Speaker 1: have said, after all, I have the highest talent yet,
- 24:40Speaker 1: But it took a greater focus and concentration for him
- 24:44Speaker 1: to multiply to five. The one with two would have
- 24:48Speaker 1: suffered jealousy and envy and said, why is it not me?
- 24:51Speaker 1: He had to shelve jealousy and envy to focus. Then
- 24:55Speaker 1: the person with one. You see what the guy did.
- 24:59Speaker 1: You now see that the one that was given to
- 25:01Speaker 1: him was even messy because he was a jealous and
- 25:05Speaker 1: nonchalant person. Very clearly, when the master came back, he
- 25:12Speaker 1: called all of them, and now he began to answer them.
- 25:16Speaker 1: The person with five said, you gave me five, and
- 25:21Speaker 1: I've given you another five. Let's see what twenty one says.
- 25:26Speaker 1: Watch this. The Lord said to him, well done, good
- 25:32Speaker 1: and faithful servant. He didn't stop there. You were faithful
- 25:37Speaker 1: over a few things. He said, I will make you
- 25:40Speaker 1: ruler over many things and tie into the joy of
- 25:44Speaker 1: the Lord. Well done, good and faithful servant. He said
- 25:52Speaker 1: the same thing to the one with two talents. Then
- 25:55Speaker 1: the one with one talent came very arrogant, like many believers.
- 26:00Speaker 1: He said, I know you are a hard man. You
- 26:03Speaker 1: like ripping where you did not sow. So I even
- 26:05Speaker 1: did you a favor by not westeeing it away. I
- 26:08Speaker 1: buried it. Now here's your talent, and Jesus said, you wicked.
- 26:16Speaker 1: New King James says, lazy King James says, on profitable savant.
- 26:22Speaker 1: That means you did not bring profit to me. You
- 26:25Speaker 1: are a wicked and on profitable savant. He said. If
- 26:29Speaker 1: you know that I got away, I did not rip,
- 26:32Speaker 1: why didn't you want to give serious people like the
- 26:34Speaker 1: bankers so that they would do something with it? That
- 26:37Speaker 1: means what did the rest do that you did not see?
- 26:45Speaker 1: Alle Lujah? Are we together? The second thing God rewards
- 26:49Speaker 1: its faithfulness. There are many people admiring estates and mansions,
- 26:55Speaker 1: and yet the one room you are stay in is not.
- 26:58Speaker 2: It does not look like you.
- 27:00Speaker 1: Grateful to God for giving you that. If you're one room?
- 27:04Speaker 1: Are we together? Now? You keeping his Daddy is kept?
- 27:09Speaker 1: And you say in the name of Jesus. I know
- 27:11Speaker 1: I'll be an estate owner. God is love. God is
- 27:13Speaker 1: not a fool. You prepare for where you are going
- 27:18Speaker 1: by being faithful where you are. Please hear me. You
- 27:22Speaker 1: prepare for where you are going by being faithful where
- 27:26Speaker 1: you are. I know God will give you an annoying
- 27:30Speaker 1: to raise the death. Someday I will speak to nation someday.
- 27:33Speaker 1: No speak to the two people before you with sincerity
- 27:37Speaker 1: and faithfulness, past toward the ten people, but not GOODY
- 27:41Speaker 1: will see me to reward me. No problem. There is
- 27:44Speaker 1: an all seen eye of this one who calls himself
- 27:47Speaker 1: a rewarder. Even another prophetess who hid in the temple
- 27:53Speaker 1: and nobody saw her, Jesus made sure in his intelligence
- 27:57Speaker 1: that reference was made to her. Also, you never count
- 28:03Speaker 1: those who played a role in Jesus' life and ignore
- 28:06Speaker 1: that woman.
- 28:07Speaker 2: Please hear me. Many people are on faithful.
- 28:13Speaker 1: You may not be a sinner, but on faithfulness I
- 28:17Speaker 1: bought your potential. Are we together now to experience greater
- 28:22Speaker 1: things and greater rewards today by the privilege of God's grace.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Many people see what God is doing through our lives.
- 28:32Speaker 1: And you know, very interesting how many people think we're
- 28:35Speaker 1: just lucky, and I tell them, Lucky, go and find
- 28:38Speaker 1: out the story. For many years I played the keyboard
- 28:44Speaker 1: for someone who used to have a prison ministry. They
- 28:48Speaker 1: used to preach for They were part of the people
- 28:51Speaker 1: who went to preach when no person Joe was in prison.
- 28:54Speaker 1: It was my own small keyboard. I carried it by
- 28:56Speaker 1: myself and I dried to a small hotel where they
- 29:02Speaker 1: never did anybody ever tell me thank you. You may
- 29:05Speaker 1: have heard it in my teachings. The only thing I
- 29:07Speaker 1: ever got was one word of fanther and one cassette.
- 29:13Speaker 2: And yet I did it sincerely because I.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Loved the Lord. No God, it comes out of nowhere.
- 29:19Speaker 1: It's a joke. Take throw away.
- 29:21Speaker 2: All that that superstitious believe.
- 29:24Speaker 1: When you just because you saw Deavid in front of
- 29:27Speaker 1: Goliah for the first time does not mean that was
- 29:30Speaker 1: his first time of fighting. I'm saying this because in
- 29:39Speaker 1: this season God is coming to discharge and there are
- 29:43Speaker 1: people whose lives will change overnight. Don't be surprised. Don't
- 29:47Speaker 1: say they just came out of nowhere. Find out their participation.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Search fullness in prayer meetings, fearchfulness in Bible study, even
- 29:56Speaker 1: when it's not convenient, and God is saying, I'm watching you.
- 30:02Speaker 1: God sees, O God sees. One day you would say,
- 30:11Speaker 1: someone who is a cleaner just cleaning the chairs, that
- 30:15Speaker 1: there is time for God to lift you. Someone will
- 30:19Speaker 1: come here and say, young man, what are you doing.
- 30:22Speaker 1: You're a young man and you are cleaning the church. Yes, sir,
- 30:26Speaker 1: what did you study? I studied every sea. Call this
- 30:30Speaker 1: number tomorrow and in two weeks you would hear that
- 30:33Speaker 1: he's working in the top boil and girl's fair and
- 30:35Speaker 1: people say he was lucky. Listen, when it was time
- 30:45Speaker 1: for Isaac to get a wife, When it was time
- 30:49Speaker 1: for Isaac to get your wife. The Abraham sent this salmon,
- 30:54Speaker 1: and when it came, he said, Lord, I am pray.
- 30:56Speaker 1: Many young ladies come to fetch what I hear. But
- 30:59Speaker 1: I am praying that I who meet the person I
- 31:02Speaker 1: meet who is faithful doing the routine of faithfulness as
- 31:06Speaker 1: a woman. Let it be that that is Abraham's wife.
- 31:09Speaker 1: As soon as he got there, he met Rebecca. At
- 31:11Speaker 1: the point of faithfulness. There are many things you lose
- 31:15Speaker 1: trough on faithfulness.
- 31:19Speaker 2: Let me tell you the truth.
- 31:20Speaker 1: You can be free from sin, but if you are
- 31:23Speaker 1: not faithful, there are many things you will still lose
- 31:26Speaker 1: as to you as a sinner. There are many people
- 31:29Speaker 1: today who have qualified for promotion. What cannot be promoted
- 31:33Speaker 1: because the executives know that by longevity you are here.
- 31:37Speaker 1: But sincerely is going to be a minus to that
- 31:41Speaker 1: organization to promote you. Please self time in the name
- 31:47Speaker 1: of Jesus, I obtain grace to be faithful.
- 31:53Speaker 2: Of course, of my own work is just to clean
- 31:56Speaker 2: the pulpit.
- 31:57Speaker 1: Do it sincerely as onto the Lord that you are serving,
- 32:01Speaker 1: the Lord Christ, and knowing that your reward is shown.
- 32:04Speaker 1: My own is to scrub toilets. While I'm scrubbing, people
- 32:08Speaker 1: who come and be saying all kinds of things, don't worry.
- 32:12Speaker 1: Service and faithfulness in service is a deep mystery for
- 32:17Speaker 1: rising to ontold rems in the spirit. Run away from
- 32:21Speaker 1: people who become great and don't have a track record
- 32:24Speaker 1: of service. They're dangerous. Elieshire a man who carried the
- 32:30Speaker 1: double portion of Elijah's annoying him.
- 32:33Speaker 2: The Bible said he was the one who.
- 32:34Speaker 1: Hold what upon the hands of Elijah are we learning today?
- 32:44Speaker 1: There are many many families that are willing their inheritance
- 32:49Speaker 1: not to the biological children, but to someone else who
- 32:53Speaker 1: is not even connected to them, but has been faithful, saving, faithful.
- 32:57Speaker 2: Saving, allelujah.
- 33:02Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to pray one time, quite some
- 33:05Speaker 1: time ago, for someone to pray on their will, and
- 33:10Speaker 1: it gave me an opportunity to read it before you
- 33:12Speaker 1: will see it. And I saw a sizeable person that
- 33:16Speaker 1: he will do someone knowing he had only three children.
- 33:20Speaker 2: I said, why did you do this? And he said,
- 33:22Speaker 2: this your boy.
- 33:23Speaker 1: You see he will take a bullet for me that
- 33:27Speaker 1: if today I trust this boy more than I trust
- 33:31Speaker 1: my own children.
- 33:35Speaker 2: The human writer says, made the Lord depend on you.
- 33:38Speaker 1: May you be so faithful that God can depend on you. No,
- 33:42Speaker 1: I know that this man is here, he will be faithful.
- 33:48Speaker 2: The first thing God rewards.
- 33:51Speaker 1: Is a passionate pursuit, a diligent pursuit for God. The
- 33:57Speaker 1: second thing God rewards, And let me tell you the truth,
- 34:00Speaker 1: everything that God rewards men also reward. In fact, the
- 34:05Speaker 1: way God rewards is by using men. So what is
- 34:09Speaker 1: applicable as far as your relationship with God is concerned,
- 34:13Speaker 1: is also applicable within your work as far as man
- 34:16Speaker 1: to man is concerned. Faithfulness is someone learning in Galatians
- 34:25Speaker 1: chapter six and verse nine. Still speaking about faithfulness, Galatians
- 34:29Speaker 1: six and verse nine, the Bible encourages us to not
- 34:32Speaker 1: be weary in well doing, to not be wary while
- 34:38Speaker 1: doing good. New King James, who say it, says, for
- 34:41Speaker 1: in due seasons we shall reap if we faith not
- 34:45Speaker 1: on New King James says, if we do not lose heart.
- 34:48Speaker 1: He encourages you to not be weary in well doing.
- 34:53Speaker 1: That means there are times that well doing does not
- 34:56Speaker 1: look rewarding. For the short time. You can keep doing
- 35:00Speaker 1: a lot of things and it looks like people are
- 35:02Speaker 1: demeaning you, down playing you. Maybe this is a word
- 35:05Speaker 1: for someone. You are saying, I'm about to compromise. I'm tired.
- 35:09Speaker 1: I've been a nice person and I've been cheated. I
- 35:11Speaker 1: would have had two houses today if I just quietly
- 35:15Speaker 1: collected the prime. I didn't, and God looked at me
- 35:18Speaker 1: as if he didn't see me. The next time that
- 35:20Speaker 1: money comes round the table, God, it will not be
- 35:22Speaker 1: my fault.
- 35:23Speaker 2: I won't let it past.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Listen.
- 35:24Speaker 2: Let me tell you the truth.
- 35:26Speaker 1: It pays to be faithful. The rewards of faithfulness does
- 35:30Speaker 1: not come every day, but the day it comes, its
- 35:34Speaker 1: arrears is accumulated together. First Corrinturns, Chapter fall from verse
- 35:47Speaker 1: one and two. First Corinthians, Chapter Fall from verse one
- 35:50Speaker 1: and two. I'll tire up one more point, and then
- 35:52Speaker 1: you pray. Let a man so consider us as servants
- 35:57Speaker 1: of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God, Paul
- 36:00Speaker 1: says next verse. Moreover, he says it is required in
- 36:05Speaker 1: stewards that one be found faithful, Be faithful, be faithful.
- 36:16Speaker 1: The hymn writer.
- 36:17Speaker 5: Against says, how do as it beats me, whatever.
- 36:22Speaker 1: The causes, I'll be a true soldier. All die. And
- 36:34Speaker 1: when a soldier dies in active service, they give them
- 36:36Speaker 1: the consalutes, even to their comps, because they were faithful
- 36:41Speaker 1: to the end. They kept their vow faithfulness. Number three,
- 37:00Speaker 1: What does God reward? God rewards? Are you ready for this?
- 37:08Speaker 2: God rewards the walks of men. There are two dimensions
- 37:14Speaker 2: to this.
- 37:16Speaker 1: God rewards the purity of the motivation, and God rewards
- 37:23Speaker 1: the degree to which you comply to the pattern given
- 37:26Speaker 1: to you. Please pay attention. The third thing that God
- 37:30Speaker 1: rewards is the works of men. God rewards the works
- 37:35Speaker 1: of men. He rewards the purity of the motivation, and
- 37:41Speaker 1: He rewards your degree of compliance to divine Patterns Revelations,
- 37:48Speaker 1: Chapter twenty two and verse twelve. The Book of Revelation
- 37:52Speaker 1: starts in a very interesting way. John is caught up
- 37:55Speaker 1: in the Isle of Patmos. He was banished on account
- 37:59Speaker 1: of his faith, Bible history tells us, and in the
- 38:02Speaker 1: Isle of Patmos, he's giving access to the thirty heavens.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Then he begins to document his revelations, captured as the
- 38:11Speaker 1: things that were, the things that are, the things that
- 38:15Speaker 1: would happen thereafter. When we get to twenty two and
- 38:18Speaker 1: verse twelve, please give it to us twenty two and
- 38:20Speaker 1: verse twelve. Twenty two, it says, and behold, I am
- 38:31Speaker 1: coming quickly, and my reward is with me to give
- 38:37Speaker 1: to everyone, not according to my love for them, according
- 38:43Speaker 1: to his work.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Behold, have this at the back.
- 38:47Speaker 1: Of your mind, that I'm coming quickly, and my reward
- 38:51Speaker 1: is with me, not without my word, and that I
- 38:54Speaker 1: am here to give to everyone according to his work.
- 38:58Speaker 1: Let me tell you sincerely, the works of men will
- 39:02Speaker 1: be rewarded. There are two dimensions to your work that
- 39:05Speaker 1: will be rewarded. Number one, the purity of your motivation.
- 39:09Speaker 1: That means, as God looks at me now from heaven,
- 39:13Speaker 1: he's not just carried away that I'm preaching here. The
- 39:16Speaker 1: first thing is he has to fetch the purity. And
- 39:19Speaker 1: what is motivating you? Are you preaching just because you
- 39:23Speaker 1: love God's people and you want to see the name
- 39:25Speaker 1: of the Lord lifted. I can come here and preach
- 39:29Speaker 1: just because I want fame, preach just because I'm trying
- 39:32Speaker 1: to make a name for myself. The motivation behind the
- 39:37Speaker 1: works of men who will be tried. And number two,
- 39:39Speaker 1: the degree to which you work in keeping with God's pattern.
- 39:46Speaker 1: That means, if your assignment was to stand here, and
- 39:50Speaker 1: you as much as came up here, but you stood here,
- 39:54Speaker 1: then to be rewarded. The margin between God's will and
- 39:58Speaker 1: where you stood will be rewarded. There are many many
- 40:02Speaker 1: people who will miss the reward. When the works are tried,
- 40:06Speaker 1: God will say I called you to be a man
- 40:09Speaker 1: of God, and simply because of the persecution you manipulated
- 40:14Speaker 1: your way out and you are something else. It will
- 40:17Speaker 1: be rewarded. First Corinthians, Chapter three, from verse twelve. This
- 40:28Speaker 1: will probably be our final scripture for tonight. I want
- 40:31Speaker 1: you to pay attention to this point. Three things I
- 40:34Speaker 1: teach you tonight that God rewards. Number one, God rewards
- 40:39Speaker 1: passionate pursuit for him and for spiritual things. Number two,
- 40:45Speaker 1: God rewards faithfulness at all levels. And number three God
- 40:51Speaker 1: rewards the works of men.
- 40:53Speaker 2: Please give it to.
- 40:54Speaker 1: Us First Corinthians three. I begin my reading from verse twelve. Now,
- 40:59Speaker 1: if anyone builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood,
- 41:06Speaker 1: hay straw, uh huh, Well, reading to fifteen, each one's
- 41:14Speaker 1: walk will become clear, for the day will declare it,
- 41:19Speaker 1: because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire
- 41:23Speaker 1: will test each one's walk of what sort it is. Fourteen.
- 41:30Speaker 1: If anyone's walk which he has built on it and gus,
- 41:34Speaker 1: he will receive what he will not just receive a
- 41:37Speaker 1: reward because he built. We have to look at what
- 41:40Speaker 1: you belt on. If you belt on jealousy and pride,
- 41:45Speaker 1: and just the desire to be famous, the desire to
- 41:48Speaker 1: outshine and toul others, the Bible says you, what will
- 41:51Speaker 1: we try? That means there are many things we are
- 41:53Speaker 1: doing today, and while you are clapping for us when
- 41:57Speaker 1: that fire of God's justice blows, want to be left
- 42:00Speaker 1: to not be a handful as men of God. There
- 42:05Speaker 1: are many preaching appost Joshua Sellman, while you are clappy.
- 42:09Speaker 1: It's only God that knows what is motivating it. It
- 42:12Speaker 1: can be a canal montaige to pursuit just to make
- 42:15Speaker 1: a name. And when it is tried, you will find
- 42:18Speaker 1: out that of the two thousand preaching, only five were
- 42:22Speaker 1: preached from a pure heart.
- 42:24Speaker 2: That is the reward you will get.
- 42:28Speaker 1: Let's finish that scripture. Please. If anyone's work is burned,
- 42:33Speaker 1: he will suffer loss, but he himself would be saved
- 42:37Speaker 1: at yes true fire. So it's not about being a
- 42:40Speaker 1: good or bad person. The purity of your work while
- 42:44Speaker 1: you were working in church. For that, it is an
- 42:46Speaker 1: honor for me to clean this place, for the man
- 42:50Speaker 1: of God to come and bless his people. It's a
- 42:52Speaker 1: privilege to be part of your house and God is
- 42:55Speaker 1: seeing it. Someone else can come and work and you
- 42:59Speaker 1: say he's the most and working person. That is true
- 43:02Speaker 1: based on your perspective. But it's only God that knows.
- 43:05Speaker 1: How many times he insulted the pastor before he said
- 43:07Speaker 1: yes sad when he came. It's been recorded in heaven. Yes, sir,
- 43:17Speaker 1: did I do my best to live for truth?
- 43:21Speaker 5: Did I live my life for him?
- 43:25Speaker 3: When it's all inside and all my treasures feel me th.
- 43:35Speaker 3: Only what I've done for love, spree.
- 43:38Speaker 6: World will stand the test of time.
- 43:45Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth. I made up my
- 43:47Speaker 1: mind as a man of God. Knowing this, whether it
- 43:50Speaker 1: is to talk to one person or a stadium of people,
- 43:55Speaker 1: lead to children or wealthy belooniess my passion does not fascinate.
- 44:01Speaker 2: It remains the same because I.
- 44:03Speaker 1: Am serving the Lord Christ, and as far as I live,
- 44:07Speaker 1: I would give it my best. If in the process
- 44:11Speaker 1: of serving him our life ends. Whilst serving him, it
- 44:16Speaker 1: is still gain. But as long as it's granted 's
- 44:20Speaker 1: breath that would serve him with everything we've had, believe us,
- 44:25Speaker 1: Please hear me as I prepare around them. It is
- 44:29Speaker 1: safe to know that God is a rewarder, But for
- 44:32Speaker 1: someone the way you are living your life not There
- 44:34Speaker 1: is no reward for you for sure, because God cannot
- 44:38Speaker 1: count on you. There is nothing about your life to them. Listen,
- 44:42Speaker 1: I learned this in my work with God. Before God
- 44:46Speaker 1: marks you, he must find out how your money, your influence,
- 44:53Speaker 1: your knowledge, your beauty, anything that does not contribute to
- 44:59Speaker 1: the revelation of Jesus, to bring him glory, to draw
- 45:03Speaker 1: souls to him, to transform lives and nations from God's perspective,
- 45:08Speaker 1: is a total wist. Don't tell me you are beautiful,
- 45:12Speaker 1: Show me how your beauty becomes a tool to reveal Jesus.
- 45:16Speaker 1: Don't tell me you have money. Show me how your money,
- 45:19Speaker 1: like Joseph of Arimathea, can buy Jesus a grave site,
- 45:23Speaker 1: so that will say, well, grave, where is your state.
- 45:27Speaker 1: Don't tell me you're a man of influence. Show me
- 45:30Speaker 1: how your influence contributed in a church, getting land, contributed
- 45:34Speaker 1: in sejour in the stadium for the gospel to be
- 45:37Speaker 1: preached and to better the lives of people. Nothing in
- 45:41Speaker 1: itself is valuable. Accept and unless it is connected to
- 45:46Speaker 1: God's program. This is a very powerful message. So Litey,
- 45:50Speaker 1: you can know you are living a life that deserves
- 45:53Speaker 1: to be rewarded when you spend your life seeing that
- 45:57Speaker 1: everything about your life. God you ten naira and you said, listen,
- 46:02Speaker 1: ten naira may not been able to buy fuel for
- 46:05Speaker 1: the generator, but I can't buy two racks to help
- 46:10Speaker 1: the sanctuary. Chief as God is seen that motivated by
- 46:14Speaker 1: your love, now Lily wants you by opening a greater dome.
- 46:21Speaker 1: It's your breath in Nalogs.
- 46:25Speaker 4: So we part of breaks par out of friends.
- 46:30Speaker 1: It's your bread in Nalog.
- 46:34Speaker 4: So we are lot of friends to you.
- 46:45Speaker 1: Listen, let me tell you how powerful a king rewards.
- 46:51Speaker 1: One pointed time, it was a king's birthday and a
- 46:54Speaker 1: prophet was in prison. A woman wanted the head of
- 46:58Speaker 1: that prophet. She did not have the power to fight,
- 47:02Speaker 1: and a young girl came before the king and impressed
- 47:06Speaker 1: him by dancing in a way she responded to his
- 47:10Speaker 1: will and desire. When kings are happy, cleared away for them.
- 47:15Speaker 1: They can't do anything what demons and principalities and powers
- 47:20Speaker 1: could not do, what strong men ascribes could not do.
- 47:24Speaker 1: A little girl's dance before the king was what we
- 47:27Speaker 1: moved the head of a prophet. Don't tell me you
- 47:29Speaker 1: are small. Serve the king and see what the king
- 47:33Speaker 1: can use you to do. Don't say I don't have
- 47:42Speaker 1: the money to give. Pray for your pastor in the
- 47:46Speaker 1: place of intercession every day, and.
- 47:49Speaker 2: Said, Lord, that is my little contribution.
- 47:52Speaker 1: It's like dancing before the king when kings are happy
- 47:56Speaker 1: to don't say, what do you want? The king said,
- 47:59Speaker 1: even to have of my kingdom. And she went to
- 48:02Speaker 1: a wicked woman to advise her, and the woman said,
- 48:05Speaker 1: thank you for clearing the way. The message is that
- 48:08Speaker 1: it is something that opened that door. Can I tell
- 48:13Speaker 1: you the truth? There are many people to their surround them.
- 48:16Speaker 1: I hope I didn't waste your time. There are many
- 48:19Speaker 1: people today that no matter how s top on their
- 48:22Speaker 1: children are, they will always find faithor and find hell.
- 48:26Speaker 1: Do you know why because some of their parents, when
- 48:29Speaker 1: they were young, they had a little.
- 48:31Speaker 2: Voice quarters and they get missionaries there.
- 48:34Speaker 1: They didn't have the power to preach in crusades, but
- 48:37Speaker 1: every time they hear that the missionaries coming to town,
- 48:41Speaker 1: it is their cooler that they'll put food for the missionary.
- 48:44Speaker 1: And one day the man said, before I leave, I
- 48:47Speaker 1: stand upon this place, Madam, your children's children, a man
- 48:52Speaker 1: of God will also come out of that person.
- 48:54Speaker 2: Listen.
- 48:56Speaker 1: That may have happened in nineteen seventy one. Now by
- 49:01Speaker 1: two thousand you have this top on child who will
- 49:04Speaker 1: not listen to you or anybody.
- 49:06Speaker 2: He does not know that the reward that is determined to.
- 49:08Speaker 1: Keep his found. One day, what you could not do,
- 49:12Speaker 1: what your husband could not do, that covenant of serving
- 49:17Speaker 1: the purposes of God. That young man who will enter
- 49:20Speaker 1: inside one could say, may be drunk maybe angry and
- 49:24Speaker 1: fire false or ally, and that boy will become a
- 49:28Speaker 1: man of God. That our missionaries today who have died,
- 49:32Speaker 1: but their words upon your life is still speaking. Let
- 49:36Speaker 1: me tell you something. If you are here and you
- 49:39Speaker 1: have spent your life serving God and living for God,
- 49:43Speaker 1: and it looks like all you have seen around your
- 49:45Speaker 1: life is reproach, maybe from children. Maybe you are not
- 49:49Speaker 1: doing well. And what's are even laughing at you and
- 49:51Speaker 1: saying this to anst anything has not spoken? Hear me?
- 49:55Speaker 1: The reward is on his way. Your son, mama, what
- 50:03Speaker 1: you what you suffered for to make sure your children
- 50:07Speaker 1: went to mission schools? You didn't wear nice dress to
- 50:11Speaker 1: give them an opportunity. I tell you what, with God
- 50:15Speaker 1: and man, your reward is calling your rewarder scol a
- 50:30Speaker 1: very simple statement that the Man of God made that
- 50:32Speaker 1: blessed me so much. Congratulations by the way, your twentieth anniversary.
- 50:38Speaker 1: Congratulations all know yah? Did you hear what he said?
- 50:47Speaker 1: Many of you did not pay attention to what was said.
- 50:51Speaker 1: That whilst this this branch was started, they were doing
- 50:57Speaker 1: the plaster and at the same time and painting. That
- 51:02Speaker 1: is a level of passion that is unusual, and God
- 51:05Speaker 1: was watching, and he said, twenty years later he will
- 51:08Speaker 1: still be standing.
- 51:12Speaker 2: Listen hear me.
- 51:15Speaker 1: There was a man in the Bible called Abraham. God
- 51:20Speaker 1: mandated and instructor that Abraham would take his only child
- 51:24Speaker 1: and go to a mount that he would show him
- 51:26Speaker 1: and offer as a bult offering. The Bible says Abraham
- 51:29Speaker 1: arose early. It was not convenient. He got up the
- 51:33Speaker 1: do you know what it means to drag the child?
- 51:35Speaker 1: After waiting for over twenty five years? I wonder what
- 51:39Speaker 1: he was going to tell Sarah at his return. That
- 51:41Speaker 1: would have been the end of his marriage. But he
- 51:44Speaker 1: was still willing to risk it, and he took Isaac
- 51:47Speaker 1: got the long story shot. When he showed God he
- 51:50Speaker 1: would give everything. God now swore it bless him. He said, Abraham,
- 51:56Speaker 1: I swear by myself that is the blessing I will
- 51:58Speaker 1: bless you. Listen, yarmy, do not claim Abraham's blessings until
- 52:05Speaker 1: you claim his passion.
- 52:08Speaker 2: If you are the children of Abraham, he said, you.
- 52:11Speaker 1: Will do the works. There are people who are untouchable,
- 52:17Speaker 1: not because they are anything in themselves. They are so
- 52:20Speaker 1: useful in the program of God. God's jealousy defends them
- 52:24Speaker 1: like a shadow. Are we together? Yes, that when you
- 52:31Speaker 1: sit down while you are planning evil in the secret,
- 52:34Speaker 1: before the plan is executed, the rewarder himself says, no,
- 52:37Speaker 1: this is a reader. I've taken out a fire. Don't
- 52:39Speaker 1: come to this family. Every missionary has eaten because the
- 52:43Speaker 1: popular life. How dare you come to take them in
- 52:46Speaker 1: the name of cancer? How dare you come to take
- 52:48Speaker 1: them in the name of any sickness?
- 52:51Speaker 2: Please hear me.
- 52:52Speaker 1: In this end time, those who are going to survive
- 52:55Speaker 1: are those who will plunge themselves into the program of God.
- 53:00Speaker 1: Everything you will receiving, your personal experience is a gift.
- 53:03Speaker 1: Do not forget this teaching. A gift depends on the
- 53:07Speaker 1: benevolence of the giver, irrespective of the attitude of the receiver.
- 53:11Speaker 1: But a reward depends on the contribution of the receiver
- 53:16Speaker 1: to satisfying the giver.
- 53:25Speaker 2: Whatever you want to do, Lord, you can do through me.
- 53:36Speaker 5: Whatever you want to say. Lord, you can say through
- 53:45Speaker 5: me whoever you want to bless. Lord you can less
- 53:55Speaker 5: to whatever you want. And to start, Lord, you can st.
- 54:10Speaker 1: That is a true honesty. That you are in politics,
- 54:14Speaker 1: that you are in governance, and you are like Daniel saying, Lord,
- 54:17Speaker 1: for as long as I am here, I will look
- 54:20Speaker 1: for what pleases you and plunge myself into it.
- 54:23Speaker 2: And God says, you have.
- 54:24Speaker 1: Vowed to do this for me. Let me see who
- 54:26Speaker 1: stand against you. Oh, I am a man of God.
- 54:31Speaker 1: I have found that I would be a creature of righteousness,
- 54:34Speaker 1: leading many to chase us, doing ministry with patting integrity,
- 54:39Speaker 1: regardless the consequence. And God says you have made this decision.
- 54:43Speaker 1: You will be sitting down and God wake someone and said,
- 54:45Speaker 1: give him a card. That house that you are I
- 54:48Speaker 1: told you to give someone. There are lending people who
- 54:51Speaker 1: receive the prayer requests of many as gifts and as
- 54:54Speaker 1: rewards because they have plunged themselves into the program of God.
- 55:02Speaker 1: First square my message for you, and this extends also
- 55:05Speaker 1: to the body of Christ. Please listen carefully. Your Christian
- 55:09Speaker 1: experience is not profitable until it becomes an active contributor
- 55:14Speaker 1: towards renealing Jesus and bringing joy and glory to the Father.
- 55:18Speaker 2: Don't tell me about your achievements.
- 55:20Speaker 1: Are not interested.
- 55:21Speaker 2: Only tell me how they add.
- 55:23Speaker 1: Up to contribute it to the program of God.
- 55:26Speaker 2: This is where the real value of the believer comes.
- 55:29Speaker 2: Your value and your usefulness in the kingdom is not
- 55:32Speaker 2: in acquisition.
- 55:33Speaker 1: Your desire to be a billionaire only becomes profitable from
- 55:37Speaker 1: a kingdom standpoint if you can connect it to kingdom.
- 55:41Speaker 2: Come, your marriage becomes profitable not just because you have.
- 55:46Speaker 1: Children, but that you have used your womb to raise
- 55:49Speaker 1: the next prophet, to raise the next apostle, to raise
- 55:52Speaker 1: the next fictionary leader over our territory. Now God's costs
- 55:57Speaker 1: your marriage, and say this was marriage. Indeed, there are
- 56:01Speaker 1: many people who pride in being rich, respectfully speaking, pride
- 56:05Speaker 1: in being influential, and Heaven is just watching them. And say,
- 56:09Speaker 1: as first, we are concerned your register has not been
- 56:12Speaker 1: opened because we have not seen any thing that has contributed. Listen,
- 56:18Speaker 1: let me speak to the younger people here that you hear.
- 56:21Speaker 1: Make sure your life counts in this church and to
- 56:24Speaker 1: the program of God. At the end of your life,
- 56:27Speaker 1: you may have heard me say you will be remembered
- 56:29Speaker 1: for two things, the trouble you created, the pain you
- 56:32Speaker 1: put for people, or the solutions and the contributions that
- 56:36Speaker 1: you make. Paul at the end of his life said,
- 56:40Speaker 1: I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course.
- 56:45Speaker 1: It is my prayer here at this conference, this twentieth anniversary,
- 56:50Speaker 1: the first of your professional your convocation, your conference.
- 56:57Speaker 2: Here.
- 56:58Speaker 1: It is my prayer that this tonight, alongside everything you're
- 57:03Speaker 1: going to be hearing and worship in teaching, that it
- 57:08Speaker 1: will add to your understanding. God is a giver, and
- 57:12Speaker 1: when it has to give it, he gives everyone because
- 57:15Speaker 1: the same Lord is rich onto all. But God has
- 57:18Speaker 1: a rewarder. That's not reward everybody. Not everything in the
- 57:22Speaker 1: kingdom is a gift. There are gifts and their rewards.
- 57:27Speaker 1: Here that comment onto God must come believing that He
- 57:31Speaker 1: exists and that He is the rewarder of them.
- 57:36Speaker 2: That diligent me saying, pleas, rise upon the feet.
- 57:44Speaker 1: Just two prayer points.
- 57:45Speaker 2: Thank you for your time to prayer points, and.
- 57:47Speaker 1: We're done for tonight.
- 57:49Speaker 2: May I please request that you join me as we
- 57:51Speaker 2: pray prayer point number one.
- 57:53Speaker 1: Lord, I am available and I'm a usable to bring
- 57:57Speaker 1: your glory through my life and through my lifetime. Go
- 58:01Speaker 1: ahead and pray. I am available and I am usable.
- 58:06Speaker 1: The Bible says, but in a great hoouse there are
- 58:09Speaker 1: many kinds of vessels, vessels of gold, vessels of silver,
- 58:14Speaker 1: vessels of wood and of clay. The Bible says, some
- 58:18Speaker 1: vessels are onto dishonor, while some are onto honor. If
- 58:22Speaker 1: a man will lunch himself, that man will be a
- 58:24Speaker 1: vessel onto honor. Leans for the master's use. Someone is
- 58:28Speaker 1: praying Lord in your end time program, spiritually, governmentally, economically,
- 58:39Speaker 1: I declare that I am available and usable Ali Lujah,
- 58:49Speaker 1: praise alone the last prayer point, and I want you
- 58:52Speaker 1: to please pay attention. There was a man in the
- 58:56Speaker 1: book of esther Modecai. The Ki sat at the gate
- 59:02Speaker 1: that was his place of function. Listen carefully one time
- 59:07Speaker 1: more the Kui by reason of his effective service, he heard.
- 59:11Speaker 2: Two people who were conspiring to kill King Ahazarus.
- 59:15Speaker 1: Are we together now?
- 59:16Speaker 2: And Mother Ki took up that issue, reported it to
- 59:20Speaker 2: the authorities and.
- 59:21Speaker 1: The people who were brought to justice. It was written,
- 59:24Speaker 1: but Mother Ki was not rewarded. I'm establishing the next
- 59:27Speaker 1: prayer point now. The man who saved the life of
- 59:32Speaker 1: the king was not rewarded, and another side convented was
- 59:36Speaker 1: enjoying his place in the palace called her Man. I'm
- 59:40Speaker 1: establishing what you're about to pray now. And the Bible says,
- 59:45Speaker 1: one night, when a man was already plotting that by
- 59:49Speaker 1: the morrow he was going to execute this Mother Kui
- 59:52Speaker 1: of a man and the Jews. The Bible says that
- 59:55Speaker 1: same night the king could not sleep, and the King said,
- 59:58Speaker 1: bring me the chronicles, and they opened, and he saw
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: where Mother Kai helped him and was not rewarded. And
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: he said, what has been done to this man? And
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: those who serving the inner chamber said nothing. He said,
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: who is there? And he called the enemy of God
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: Mother Kai and the Jews. He said, what should be
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: done to social man? He thought he was him? So
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: out of his creed he suggested superrer suggestions. He said,
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: let none fail two days to Mother Kai and send
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: this because many of you here have participated in the
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: rising of many politically, spiritually, economically, But then it looks
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: like you are being forgotten. Joseph helped the One pressor
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: to INTERPRETI hish dreams and play there that when he
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: was restored back to the king, he should advocate his
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: inno sense the man for good. And for two years,
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: he added Joseph's pain. But when the knight, it always
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: happens in the night, the King and the three you're
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: about to pray, Father, I am sud sincerely, I open
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: up for my rewards. Everybody has been a sign to
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: reward you, to bless you for your times of prayer,
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: for your times of fasting, for your times of service,
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: and like you to pray that the book of Remembrance
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: be open for you tonight. If someone pray, let the
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: book of remembrance, that which are times the services of men,
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: let it be opened in heaven for my sake, for
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: the sake of my family. Someone is praying for the
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: second of my husband, for the second of my wife,
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: for the second of my children. Service. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Please
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: lend me one more minute. Let me plead with you.
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: There was a man in the Bible called Here's a
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: Kiah in chapter thirty eight of Isaiah. The Bible says
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: he was a king and a genuine prophet. Isaiah came
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: to him said, you are sicking. Put your house in order.
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: I have heard from God you will not survive. The
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: Bible says he's a Kaiah told his face to the
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: wall and say, Lord, remember this is not how you are.
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: Somebody is about to pray God. Remember when you said, remember,
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: it's not because he has forgotten. I like you to
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: open up and pray. Lord Remember Remember in the name
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: of Jesus, Remember your messy, Remember my service. Remember the
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: prayer of my wife, Remember the prayer of my children.
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: Remember my see you said it to speak from me
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: in the tens of adversity. Lord, Remember remember you are
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: covering and keeping God. Remember you said righteousness has rewards.
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: You said godliness has rewards. Share on her and in
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: the world after. Remember Remember my sacrifices in your house.
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: Remember my participation, Remember my honor for my passon, Remember
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: my commit out to spiritual things. Remember my intecrity your.
- 1:03:27Speaker 2: God, Hallelujah, hallelujah.
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: Your love for God, your passion for God, your faithfulness,
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: and the purity of your works are weapons. They can
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: become systems of defense for you, even in an evil time,
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: that when the devil comes, you can lift up your
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: service as a whip on and say, how dare you? Lord?
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: If I die? Who give during the.
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: Next year's conference?
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: Allelujah? There is someone in this place right now you
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: are saying aperstl even though our time is up. While
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: hearing you speak, I would say I've defaulted in the
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: place of faithfulness because I have not opened up my
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: heart to Jesus. Sincerely, can I tell you the truth.
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: Place hear me.
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: It is important that we take advantage of this gift
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: of eternal life that has come from Jesus. Many times
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: we talk about this is beyond the church thing. It
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: is his desire and his will that all men be saved.
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: Perhaps there's someone here tonight. You are off the balcony,
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: or you are you know, down here, or you are
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: following online, maybe by way of television or the internet,
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: or even watching by way of a rebroadcast, and you
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: are saying, apostle.
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: While I heard you speak, the Holy Spirit began.
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: To speak to me through your words.
- 1:05:04Speaker 2: I need Jesus.
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: I'm only looking for one person tonight who will be
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: bold enough to say I'm not ashamed. I want to
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: make it right with Jesus and for someone you are saying,
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: a person. I have truly handed my life to Jesus.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: But as it is, things have gone haywire. I need
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: to start afresh. May I please request I'm working on
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: borrow time for the next ten or fifteen seconds. I
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: want you to boldly come and stand right here. Don't
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: wait for anyone to be the first. You are convinced
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: in your hand that you need Jesus win that war.
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: Come and stand here right now. I will count one
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: to three, and I'll begin my prayer.
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: One. Let's appreciate them as well as they come.
- 1:05:49Speaker 7: Come, come, sab all right, Come on me, clean nagle, Jesus.
- 1:06:07Speaker 8: Now come, I want to Jesus, Yes, listen to me.
- 1:06:30Speaker 2: Let me tell you sincerely.
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: I had to be the bureau of bad news. But
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: if the trumpet sounds right now and your ways are
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: not right with the Lord, as much as God loves you,
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: he's bound to his world. The Bible says, books were opened,
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: and another book was opened, and whosoever's name was not
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: found in that book, it was cast into the lake
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: of fire, that this is the second death. I want
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: to appreciate you for coming, ladies and gentlemen, young and
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: old alike, and for those who are connecting by way
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: of television. As I pray with the ones I want
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: you to connect. Prayed from the depth of your heart.
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: Here are four square so goor O were praying. And
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: the reward that has come to honor your faith. You
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: have believed that he exists, and you have come to
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: hand everything to him. He said, But I know whom
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: I believe, and I am persuaded that he is able
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: to keep that which is committed onto him, even against
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: that day.
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: May I please request.
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: All of you who have come to the frontier to
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: lift your right hand as a sign of surrender. You
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: are doing it onto Jesus. Please saylf tell me from
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: the depth of your heart, said Lord Jesus, tonight I
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: have heard your word. I love you with all my heart.
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: I declare tonight that you are my savior. I declare
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: that you are my Lord, and I declare that you
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: are my King. I declare from tonight that eternal life mine.
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: I receive it into my spirit. And I declare that
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: the power of saying of Satan, of hell and of
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: the grave is broken over my life. I am a
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: child of God. I go for whatever and backward never
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: in Jesus' name, with pray. Someone directs me. Do they return?
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: But okay, okay, So here's what will happen. May I
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: please request, ladies and gentlemen, you follow the counselors. They're
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: waving their hands. They will just have a word with you.
- 1:08:35Speaker 2: Where they go in which direction? Okay? So this way,
- 1:08:37Speaker 2: let's celebrate them as they go. Please give them a big, big,
- 1:08:40Speaker 2: big God. Bless you give them a big God. Bless you.
- 1:08:44Speaker 6: Thank you so very much. It is that the best
- 1:08:46Speaker 6: you can do for Square. In the name of Jesus Christ.
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: Now I stand upon the grace of reverence, your Man
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: of God and the Angel over this house.
- 1:09:05Speaker 2: I stand upon the grace of the Eldership and the
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: Master rat.
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: And let me speak over your life that, in the
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: name of Jesus, who is the Son of the Living God,
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: everything that represents reproach in your Christian experience that while
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: you have given all to save God, some things have
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: not yet been in place. Tonight I declare upon you,
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: by the power of the Apostolic and the Prophetic, let
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: things begin to change. Now in the name of Jesus Christ,
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: I pray over everyone who is sick in your body,
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: plagued by a terminal disease, a recurrent health issue. In
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: the name that is above all names, healing solges through
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: your body. Now I pray for someone who is trusting
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: God for a job. Between now and the end of
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: the year. I decree and declare in the name of
- 1:09:59Speaker 1: Jesus Us, may my God surprise you.
- 1:10:05Speaker 2: First, Square a SoCal right.
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: Declare that between now and the end of the year,
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: you will not bury anybody in discharge. In the name
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: of Jesus, I declare that you are blessed. I declare
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: that you are lifted. I pray for your passion and
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: hunger for spiritual things. It will not dwindle with the emberments,
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: rather to go from glory to glory in the name
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: of Jesus. Finally, I pray that every blessing that has
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: been commanded to rest in this conference, beginning from when
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: it started, even to the end. I learn my faith
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: and my voice with everyone who will be ministering here
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: in words in songs, to declare that you will be
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: maximally blessed. For Jesus' name, we pray one more time,
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: thank you so very much, and may the Lord bless
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: you