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Welcome to this message by

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Bishop Edwin Morgan O'Gogh. Bishop

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Edwin O'Gogh is a seasoned minister

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of the Word of God

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whose messages on Christian living,

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church building and the work

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of the ministry are a

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great inspiration to ministers all

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over the world. He

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pastors the McIner Cathedral in

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O'Yibie where he ministers powerfully

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in various services transforming lives

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and raising zealous church workers.

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You will experience the transformational force

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and power of God's Word as

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He ministers passionately to you

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today. Be blessed

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as you listen. Jesus,

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Bright as the

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morning star. Jesus,

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How can I turn? I'll

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be with you,

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dear. Jesus, I

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love that

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man, Jesus.

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Jesus,

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I love that man, Jesus. Jesus,

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I love that man, Jesus.

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Jesus, I love that

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man, Jesus. Jesus,

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I love that man, Jesus. Jesus,

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I love that man, Jesus.

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Jesus, I love that

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man, Jesus.

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Jesus, I love that man,

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Jesus. Listen

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to me, Jesus. How

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long do you are ready to receive from

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Him? How

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long do I need to receive from Him? How

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long do I need

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to receive from Him?

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How long do

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I need to

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receive from Him? How

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long do I need to receive from Him? Jesus,

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you are beautiful. You

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may be faithful.

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It's good

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to see you today, church. I

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believe that God has something

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special for someone here today. And

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I want

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to turn your Bibles to 1 Timothy

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chapter 4. I'm

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reading from the King James Bible.

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Let's start

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from verse

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14. This

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verse says

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neglect not the

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gift that

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is in thee, which

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was given by

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prophecy. With

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the laying on of the

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hand of the press, it's all right.

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I take it again. Neglect

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not the gifts, that

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is in Thee, which

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was given Thee by

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prophecy. With

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the laying on of

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the hand of

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the press, it's all right. Verse

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15, meditate

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upon these things. Give

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thyself holy to

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them, that

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thy profiting may

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appear to

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all. We

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are coming back to 1st Timothy 4.15. Send

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your Bibles to 2nd Corinthians

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chapter 9. Thanks

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be unto God for

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His unspeakable

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gifts. We

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are thanking God for

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His unspeakable gifts.

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The New Living Translation of

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this same scripture,

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it says, Thank God

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for this gift. Too

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wonderful for where?

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Lift your right hand and say, I have

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received a gift. Oh,

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I can't hear you. Say it loud, I

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have received a gift. Say,

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I am carrying a gift.

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What is the gift? What

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is the gift? Inefficient,

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chapter 4, verse

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7, the

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King James version

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says, but

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unto every one of us

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is giving grace according

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to the measure

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of the gift of

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Christ. Say

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the gift of Christ. In

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the church,

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in the kingdom of God, I should say,

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and also in the church, there

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are many gifts at

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work. We

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have the gifts, ministry gifts,

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gifts of prophecy. People

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operate in the prophetic gifts. People

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operate with the gift

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of sealing. There

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are many, many gifts. Some

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people have a gift to

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intertreat tongues. These

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are many gifts that are in the body

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of Christ. But

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there is one gift

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that is not in the rank of

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prophecy and interpretation of tongues

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and so on. That

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gift is

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the gift of

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Christ. The

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gifts, the gifts of

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Christ. Jesus

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Christ is

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a gift. That

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is, if you have Him,

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anyone who

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has received Jesus Christ has received

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Him. Has received a gift. I

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think that the Paul talked about it. He

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said,

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yes,

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the

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same

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efficient. Chapter

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2, verse

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8,

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He

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said, for by grace are

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ye saved through

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faith. But

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this salvation

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is not of yourselves. It

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isn't originally from you. It's

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not from some work you've done. It

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is the gift of

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God. So

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any Christian who is born

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again and saved.

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has a gift. Your

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salvation itself is a

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gift. For

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by grace are ye saved, in

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faith. And

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that it is not of yourselves, it

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is the gift of God. So

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when you come and stand in

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front of any service or your

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own, your room, you just surrender

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your life to Jesus. That

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moment, when

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you surrender to Jesus, something

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happens. What

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it is in front of a church, at

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a crusade, in your sitting room,

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in your car, at a small fellowship,

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the moment you

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call on Jesus as

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your Savior, a

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gift is put into you. Your

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salvation is a

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gift. If

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you are sitting here and you are saved,

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the Bible says in Ephesians 2.8 that

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your salvation is

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a gift. Now

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in the same letter you wrote

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to the church in Ephesus, Chapter

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4 verse 7, you

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see that it is repeated.

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That concept of

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you carrying a gift of salvation

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is repeated. once

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again, it says unto every one of

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us is giving that grace according

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to the measure of the

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gift of

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Christ. Anybody,

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like I found here, I have Jesus in

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my heart. I

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have Jesus. I

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didn't pay for Jesus. I

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paid for the shoes I'm wearing. I didn't,

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I paid for the microphone I'm

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using, but

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I didn't pay for Jesus. He's

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a gift. How

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many of you have got Jesus? You

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are saved. Okay. Then

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I feel that I am in the

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right environment. I

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sense I am

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in the right environment. I've

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pointed out to you that your

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salvation is

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a gift. Persistence

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to it. I've

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told you that you're having

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Jesus, Jesus in you is

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a gift. Persistence

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for seven. So

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with this background, let's

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start again. First

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prediction, Chapter Five, Verse

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Four, Neglect

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not the

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grifts that is indeed,

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which was given to

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you by prophecy.

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That way prophecy is not that there's

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an auntie of yours, she lived in in

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Kaswa, she has moved to

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Kettan in second D, she

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has two children, the first born died.

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What killed that boy is coming for you. This

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way prophecy is. Right

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now I'm prophesying, I'm

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speaking under inspiration.

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So when a

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word of God comes to you under

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inspiration and

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hands are laid

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on you, you

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receive a gift. Sometimes

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it is one or the other or

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both. Some

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of you receive that gift after,

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like right now, I'm prophesying for

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about one hour. I'm

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speaking under inspiration. Anybody

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who's surrender to Christ

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has received a gift that has come

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to the peasant by

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prophecy. Now,

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that gives us of

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salvation, which

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is in you. It

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was there. Tell

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your neighbor it was there. Tell

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your neighbor you have salvation. Tell

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another person you have Jesus. Say,

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it is there. Now,

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Paul is saying to us this

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morning that you

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can actually neglect.

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Mommy, take your phone and

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get me the meaning of neglect. To

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neglect. To

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neglect. To

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neglect. To

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neglect. Fail

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to care for properly.

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Fail to care for

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properly. Ab,

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just one more and let's end. Then

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that's the verb. Or

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fail to look after. That's all. You've

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done your work today. You

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can clap for her. I

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think some three or four of

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you are getting the message. of

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a dog before, but the dog died. Can

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I tell you one, there's some girls here and

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one boy. You

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can receive a gift and

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as a result of improper care,

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the gifts, can

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be lost. Is anybody aware, you

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see a gift before that? Somebody

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stole the gift. A

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watch or a mobile

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phone. Is

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anyone money,

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somebody blessing with 40 Ghana. You

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paid tight for Ghana. When

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you go to the first Ghana, you couldn't find it.

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So whenever you receive a

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gift, you

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also have a responsibility to

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care for the gift. Your

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work doesn't end when you receive a

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gift. Everybody

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has a moment in life if

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a moment of elation, if

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a moment of fulfillment. When

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you see somebody you give a

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dress to, after four years, the

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person still wears that dress. Something

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happens to you. You

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give a car to someone and

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after five years the person is still

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driving the car. It

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gives you a feeling. I

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mean if I give somebody a car and

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next week I get a thing that the car is

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crashed. It's

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not a good feeling. So

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ladies and gentlemen, whenever

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you receive a gift you

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also have a responsibility to

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keep it

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well, to

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take good care of that gift.

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Jesus is

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a gift. Your

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salvation you got 15 years

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ago in secondary school. What's

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a gift God gives you? You

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know a gift can

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make a very big difference. Imagine

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somebody gives you a gift of a plot of land. You

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don't know what

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it takes to buy

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a plot of land. I

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bought a plot of land when I was a young student.

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I started building on the land soon

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after investing. I

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was in church and I was, I got

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a message that land guards have come for

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the blocks. To

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cut a long story short, I

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paid for the land twice.

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And even that one, they are still skirmishes.

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I'm saying that when

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somebody gives you a gift, that

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gift actually can change your life. That's

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a gift of 10,000 cities. Maybe

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all you need to become

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a millionaire one day. That

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10,000 cities is what you use

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to start that little business with

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grew and grew and grew and

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multiplied and became multifocal. And today

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I am a millionaire because of

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the 10,000 cities gift. I

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met a man when I was in sixth form. I

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finished sixth form. I

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had gone back to my

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secondary school to

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receive a prize because I want

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a prize. I

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think physics also. I forget.

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Then I met a man, a

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photographer. Whose

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studio was that special? At

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that time it was the main station in the country. I

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don't know how we became friends. He

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invited me to his house, big

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house. He

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showed me the camera

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he used to build

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that house, which

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was a gift. So

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if somebody gives you a camera,

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depending on your level of

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stupidity, you have

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either become a proper or a millionaire just

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by the camera you have. I

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was nine years old, nine, one,

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two, three, five, nine, when

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my father died. I

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became fatherless at age nine. I

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was in class three in

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a certain private school. My father was paying my fees.

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And when he died, I couldn't,

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my mother couldn't pay the fees. The

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owner of the school gave

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either me or my mother a

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gift. I'm

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talking about how a gift can change your life.

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What gift he

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gave us was a scholarship in

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that school. And

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he said that my mother shouldn't pay my fees. So

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class four, class

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five, class

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six. My

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mother couldn't pay the fees. But I

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didn't taste this because the owner of the

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school had given me a gift of this

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class. Actually, in class five, I

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passed an

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exam called Common Entrance. I don't know what you call it

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now, which takes you to

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secondary school. I mean, past

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secondary school, not what we have now. Five

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years first, and then two

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years after that. In

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class five, I passed

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the exam that

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took you today to secondary school.

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My mother didn't have money to buy

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chalk box and mattress and mosquito net

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and trunk and white shirt and khaki

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shorts. So

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I stayed in class six, even

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though I could have gone to secondary

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school from

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class five because

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she had no money. I

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stayed because staying in class six, that one was

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a scholarship, so she wasn't paying anything. It was

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when I finished class six that now she has

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to find money to pay

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my students. So after class

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six, there was no money. Let

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me stop the story there. The

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owner of the school, when

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he saw that my

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mother was still having problems paying my

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fees, he said, OK, secondary

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school, he would still pay

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my fees. Fortunately

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for him, I had earned

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a Koko Makatin Board scholarship

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based on my performance in the common

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entrance. So Koko

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Makatin Board was paying. a

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big chunk of my fees, but whatever was

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left also, my mother couldn't pay. So

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the owner of the school

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paid the rent. Now, I'm

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standing here today as a medical doctor, a

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specialist, specialist in an area

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of medicine. Not

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because I am an intelligent student,

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but because a gift I received

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early in my life made

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it possible for me to stand here

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and open my mouth to say I

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am a medical doctor, a gift. Without

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that school owner's

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gift, I would have been

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something else or dead by

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now. I

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took very good care of that gift

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by studying very hard. I

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studied very, very hard, all

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my ... top, top, top, top, top, top,

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top, top, top, top, top, top, top, top,

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top, top. I

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don't know how to get a fee. I

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have not got a fee before. That's

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C. C5 or C4.

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C1, what do they call it now? C4.

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C5. Oh,

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they're C4, they're C5. Oh,

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they are different Cs. Oh, okay. I

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didn't know that. I don't know

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how to write an diagram and get a C. I

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don't know. It's either an

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A, A+, my failure is

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a B. I'm

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pretty metric, I'm joking. So

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you may not know what

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somebody's gift is. can

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do to your life. And

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the difference a gift can make to

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your life. That

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is why Paul told Timothy

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that don't

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neglect the gift that was given

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to you. The

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gift of salvation, the

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gift of Jesus. I shall

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sit here this morning. There is a gift in

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you. There is a gift in

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you. What

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are you praying this morning or

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not? What are you ready

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or Bible or not? What are you are

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even a spiritual person or not? There is

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a gift in you. And

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one thing you learn to do in

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life is not

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to neglect. Can

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I have

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the means again to neglect? Let

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me fail

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to care for properly. To

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fail. To care

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for properly. So Paul was

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telling Timothy

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that don't fail. Don't

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get an F. Don't

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get an F. Don't get an

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E. Don't fail to take care

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of the Jesus you have. Jesus

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must be taken care of.

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There are many types of

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Jesus. That

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Jesus who died on the cross, you

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may have only his right leg in you.

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When you receive Jesus, you

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must not fail to take care

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of Jesus in your life. If

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you don't take care of Jesus, you

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will lose your Jesus. You

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will lose him.

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Some of you that Jesus left in you is just an

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idea. Some

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of you that Jesus you have now is

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just a memory of your past Christian life.

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Some of you that Jesus you have in you

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is just from a book

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you have read because the experience of

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Jesus you had 20 years

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ago has fed that away. You

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are an unbeliever sitting here this

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morning. Why?

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You failed to

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take care of him. You didn't take care of him.

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I received the same Jesus you received 40 years

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ago. There

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have been also in here who

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are not Christians. They are just church

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goers, church members, church,

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I mean a relationship with Jesus because

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you may think of Jesus as a

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king of kings, as some

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warrior sitting on a horse. That

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is the Jesus. in

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the Bible. The

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Jesus in the Bible is

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completely different from the Jesus in

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you. Some

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of you have only the hair of Jesus. When

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somebody dies and

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you go to the grave,

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you will dig the coffin. Depending

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on the time you are digging

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the coffin, you may see only bones. Sometimes

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there's no bones, there's just hair and

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nails. After many

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years. The

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Egyptian mummies who

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died 7,000 years ago

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whose bones are still there today,

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those bones were properly cared for.

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They were mummified. Bones

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don't last long. Not

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a thousand years. Some

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of you sitting here have no Jesus. Everybody

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receives the full Jesus. When

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you are saved, Jesus enters your life.

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You give to that Jesus in

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you determines what is

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left. That

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is why in

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Ephesians 4 verse 7, our soul

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is saved. you something. It says according

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to the measure, the measure, the

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measure, the size of the gift

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of Christ, the size, the measure,

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the size, the amount, we

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have different amounts of Christ in

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us. Some

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of you have got thousand kilos Christ,

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some of you have got 800 kilos

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Christ, some of you have got five

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kilos Christ, some of you have got

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12 grams of

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the hair of Christ. According

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to the measure, Ulunka,

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my dream, milu,

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peaceful, the measure of the

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gift of Christ. Everybody

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gets one Ulunka, but

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after five years some of

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you your Christ is a spoonful

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of Christ left. It's there, the

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measure. That's why Paul said measure.

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You don't neglect a Christ.

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Some of you take care of

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everything in you in your life. You

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take off your job, you take off

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your clothes, you take care of your children,

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you take care of your wife, take care

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of your husband, take care

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of your academic life.

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You take care of

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everything. The only neglected

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part of your life

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is Jesus. That's what you

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are still here. That's not what you mean.

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What is left is lighthouse and

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your relationship with the pastor. Give

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me one Timothy four fourteen neglect not the

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gift that is indeed which was given to

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thee by preaching. Somebody

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preach one day and you

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got that gift. You

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went to a crusade and an evangelist preached

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one day. You went to a church service.

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You were a lord in your room and

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the holy ghost convicted

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you. Don't

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forget that

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the gift entered you at

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salvation. And

42:37

that gift you

42:39

can give

42:42

the meaning

42:44

again. Means to

42:46

fail to care for properly.

42:49

You can fail. Some

42:51

of you have got an S in

42:55

the care of Christ. You have

42:57

an A plus in the care

42:59

of your son who is going to be a

43:01

drug addict in just three years time. Just three

43:03

years. He's going to be on drugs. He's

43:06

just three years. If you live in the three years. The

43:12

man you are caring for is just a matter of time. He will show you that

43:20

he has never been interested in you. That's

43:32

a month in here. Who feels that your

43:34

wife loves you? She doesn't love you. She

43:36

has no interest in you. He

43:40

was the one wearing a ring. She's

43:44

having a good time somewhere here. In this church

43:46

service she happens here. She's coming back here. It's

43:48

like a man here. We

43:57

spend our time. on

44:00

useless things. I told

44:02

you the last two weeks to be thinking of a joty. I

44:05

told you that anybody

44:08

who dares to take some of his heart

44:10

to love a woman, he takes

44:13

some of your heart to love a man. Ha

44:15

ya ya ya ya. You are entering

44:17

into a dangerous room. Because

44:19

God is saying he wants all. Say

44:22

all. Thou shall love the

44:24

Lord thy God with what? 80%. Deuteronomy

44:27

82 96. You

44:40

shall love the Lord thy God with

44:43

what? Ask

44:46

for heart. You

44:49

gotta love God with all your heart. Not

44:51

98%. He

44:54

wants you to love your wife. But

44:56

what you are going to use to love your wife is

44:59

a different thing. Ask for him. He

45:01

wants the heart 100%. Don't

45:17

fail. There

45:19

are many failures. Many

45:22

of you have failures. You

45:24

are just promoted in your office. You

45:27

don't have first class. You

45:29

are the envy of this. But you have failures

45:31

in terms of the care of Christ. You failed.

45:33

You couldn't

45:35

care for

45:40

him. You

45:49

didn't know that it is not

45:51

Christ who is going to be, who is

45:53

one day going to help you to become

45:55

stable in your marriage, stable in your family,

45:57

normal children. Which parents?

46:00

has the ability to care for a child

46:02

in this world. Which parent is that?

46:06

You are raising which child? Imagine

46:08

out of your socket. If

46:15

a child were turned outright, it

46:18

would be because of God. And

46:23

he is exactly the person you're

46:26

things. Your commitment is

46:28

just like the commitment you have

46:31

for something very marginal and unimportant.

46:35

Some of you are here today because... You

46:38

can come to us. You can come. Next

46:42

week you can come. You are not here. Everything

46:52

else is important. Old

46:54

school bakes, everything funrals. Whatever

46:58

your office, work, your

47:00

school, everything is important

47:02

except Jesus. But

47:06

you are soon going to see that

47:08

the truth is

47:11

big. That except the Lord,

47:13

it is what the Lord has built

47:15

in your life. That will last. It

47:19

is what the Lord has watched over

47:21

in your life. That will remain. You

47:24

sit up. Continue

47:27

sitting up. A

47:49

gift. If

47:52

a gift I received at age 9 made

47:55

me a doctor by age

47:57

26, I was a medical doctor. a

48:01

gift. Somebody's

48:03

money gift made

48:06

me a doctor. How much more

48:08

a gift of Jesus Christ? How

48:12

much more a gift of Jesus Christ?

48:19

And Paul did

48:22

not just leave him to

48:28

imagine how

48:31

not to neglect the

48:33

gift of Jesus. In

48:35

the next verse he

48:38

told you exactly what he

48:40

should do. He said meditate

48:44

on me. Let

48:50

it be on your mind. But

48:52

more importantly, give

48:54

thyself holy. Give

49:01

thyself holy to

49:04

them. And

49:11

how true? Because

49:14

God has no intention of

49:18

receiving a fraction of your heart or

49:21

a fraction of your time. He

49:24

wants all. All.

49:37

All your mind, all your

49:39

strength, all your happy. All.

49:42

He wants all. He

49:44

wants all. So

49:52

I began to show you from

49:55

scripture how

49:59

you can for Christ by

50:02

giving yourself holy to him. That's

50:06

how you care for something. There

50:13

are many things in life until you've

50:15

given it your full attention. It is

50:17

going to spoil. Like a

50:19

baby you give back to. I mean

50:22

you must give it your attention. Day

50:25

and night you can wake up and

50:27

the baby is dead. No

50:29

fever is just dead in the cusp. You

50:39

must be a leg. It's

50:45

not everything you care for. Wait,

50:48

I mean as an afterthought

50:52

when you are free. No, no, no, no,

50:54

no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's

50:56

how when a woman delivers she's given my

50:58

tennity leaves. You must give

51:01

your fullest attention to that baby.

51:04

Otherwise you have yourself to bloom. So

51:11

how, how

51:13

do you give yourself holy to God?

51:22

Because it's not just Paul talking

51:24

to Timothy give thyself holy to

51:26

me. In determinants of

51:28

that faith, God has said you must

51:31

give me your all, all your heart.

51:33

It's holy. All

51:35

your heart, all your soul,

51:38

all your mind, all holy.

51:42

This type of part-time

51:44

Christianity, Sunday morning Christianity,

51:46

you are the one practicing it.

51:48

God doesn't know these things. So

51:50

in Matthew 7 he said I

51:52

will tell you that I never

51:54

knew you. It's

51:59

your invention. The Christian

52:01

life you are living is your invention.

52:04

It's not in the Bible. I

52:07

never knew you. I

52:17

never knew you. So

52:20

how? How

52:24

do you Give

52:26

yourself only number one. I've taught

52:29

you already Let's

52:31

go back You

52:40

give yourself holy to God Number

52:44

one give yourself only

52:46

to God by believing that your

52:48

life is in your power to

52:55

do what you want to do with it That's

52:58

a first Nobody

53:02

is in charge of your life The

53:04

measure of Christ in you is a result of what you have chosen to devote

53:06

to him It's

53:13

not the measure of Christ in you. It's the

53:16

measure of Christ in you What

53:20

you have chosen to devote to him It's

53:25

not that somebody had all of

53:27

Christ and you have got just

53:29

a fingernail no you

53:32

decide To

53:34

care for him once a week When

53:38

you wake up in the morning and you

53:41

are reading your Bible you are caring for

53:43

him I'm sure you give yourself holy to

53:45

God by believing that your life is in

53:47

your power to do what you want to

53:49

do with it Nobody is in control of

53:51

your life even in jail your life is

53:53

in your hands They

54:00

can take your body and

54:03

put you in cuffs. But

54:07

your heart is

54:10

always yours. Number

54:14

two, you give yourself

54:16

holy to God by giving

54:19

all your

54:22

heart. All

54:25

your heart. You

54:27

can't give part of your heart to your business.

54:30

You can't give part of your heart to a

54:32

girl. You can't give part of your heart to

54:34

mommy. You can't give part of your heart to

54:36

soccer. You can't give part of your heart to

54:38

baton. You can't give part of your heart to

54:41

a man. All ! He says

54:43

all ! You

54:48

can't give me all. Then I don't want you.

54:54

You can't give me all. Then you are not supposed to be

54:56

with me. Ah,

55:01

but you, you wouldn't want to marry a

55:03

man and have a wedding. Before

55:05

the wedding night, the man would say to you,

55:07

he wants to share you with three other ladies.

55:10

Will you agree? Will you be

55:12

in that marriage? So

55:15

why do you think that after

55:17

God, he can have you with

55:19

money and soccer and baton and

55:21

your boyfriend? Number

55:24

three, give

55:27

yourself holy to God by

55:30

building your life around

55:34

church activities. You

55:37

build your life around church

55:39

activities. That is how you give yourself holy to

55:42

God. Because the church is

55:44

an embassy. The activities

55:46

of the church in

55:49

the American embassy in Ghana. One

55:51

of the first July, what about

55:53

in America? They observe it here.

55:56

They need some importance in America. It's

55:59

important. in that building there. Whatever

56:03

is important in America, if there's

56:05

a change of government, it will affect

56:07

whoever is the ambassador here. You

56:12

belong to Jesus, you

56:15

build your life around the church

56:17

that he is building. I

56:28

saw you, the church

56:34

has to be planned around your schedule.

56:38

And when you are free, you plug it in. You

56:41

plug the 10-dance thing. Oh

56:47

no, no, I cannot turn that one. Well,

56:52

I'll see if I can come for that.

56:54

Yeah, I'll be here. Because my meetings start

56:56

at 12, so I can be here at

56:58

10. By 11, if you are talking too

57:00

much, I'll leave the service. The

57:07

activities of the church, give me. Point

57:15

about four, please.

57:17

1 Corinthians 16 verse 7. For

57:27

I do not wish to see you now, just

57:30

in person. I

57:33

hope to remain with you for some time. If

57:37

the Lord permits the

57:39

things. But

57:44

I will remain in excesses

57:47

until Pentecost. Paul's

57:49

itinerary was

57:52

built around church mile

57:55

soon. I

58:02

will wait till Pentecost. I

58:08

will travel after the Crusades. That

58:11

shows that you have respect for God. I

58:18

can only meet you after the service. I

58:22

can never attend a family meeting at 9am on

58:24

Sunday. I go to church. I

58:27

can't. I can't. On

58:36

Saturday evening, I have an area fellowship

58:38

meeting. I can't attend that

58:40

party. I have to attend that meeting. I

58:45

have an outreach in the afternoon. After

58:47

the outreach, I can come. If it's

58:49

okay, it's not okay, then please. That's

58:53

what we mean by building

58:55

your life around the activities

58:58

of the church. It shows that you regard. Number

59:08

five. Number six. This

59:13

is the point. You're

59:23

in the wrong position. Hello?

59:47

Hello? Give

59:54

yourself holy to God. Remove

59:56

water from the screen. Give

1:00:07

yourself holy to God by

1:00:10

being able to point to things or

1:00:12

people you have left behind to

1:00:14

follow Christ. That's

1:00:20

how you give yourself holy to God. You

1:00:24

give yourself holy to God by being able

1:00:26

to point to things or

1:00:29

people you have left behind. In

1:00:35

Matthew chapter 4 verse 19,

1:00:39

he said to them, follow

1:00:41

me and

1:00:46

I will make you vicious of men. That's

1:00:51

20. And

1:00:59

this straight way left

1:01:04

their next and

1:01:08

followed. So as

1:01:10

they were following Jesus, they could

1:01:13

point to next. They

1:01:15

have left behind. In

1:01:20

Luke chapter 18 verse 28, he said, lo, we have left

1:01:27

all

1:01:29

and

1:01:32

followed

1:01:34

Christ. We

1:01:44

have left all. I

1:01:57

want to ask you. What

1:02:00

can you point to? You see, you

1:02:02

can say you have given yourself holy.

1:02:05

No woman or no man, let

1:02:07

me say, no man can

1:02:09

say he has given himself holy to

1:02:12

his wife. When

1:02:18

he's still with his two

1:02:20

former girlfriend. Having

1:02:25

a former girlfriend isn't a problem. Isn't

1:02:29

a problem? I have

1:02:31

a former girlfriend. The

1:02:35

problem is that you are with

1:02:37

Esther now. And

1:02:40

on weekends, you say you

1:02:42

are going for some meetings and

1:02:44

you spend the time with Abigail and Natasha. The

1:02:49

problem is not that Natasha was a

1:02:51

former girlfriend. The

1:02:53

problem we have with you is that these two women

1:02:57

are currently actively in your

1:02:59

marriage. So

1:03:02

any man who has

1:03:05

given himself fully to a woman should

1:03:09

be able to point to a former,

1:03:11

sometimes say, that girl, yes, in the

1:03:13

university she was my girlfriend. I

1:03:16

felt I was going to my head. Yes,

1:03:18

that girl, yes, the short one, yeah,

1:03:20

that is the one. But

1:03:22

I have left her to

1:03:25

follow you. And

1:03:27

any Christian who cannot point

1:03:29

to nets and boats

1:03:31

and houses and things and

1:03:34

friends and music and

1:03:36

movies that you have left, you

1:03:38

have not left God. You've not given yourself

1:03:41

a little God. Leggon

1:03:46

is here. It's

1:03:49

the only place where you can get

1:03:51

80% and score A. Gentlemen,

1:03:55

hey, please don't just stand by me, please. Live

1:03:57

without... what

1:04:00

he wants to do. First

1:04:09

class, 90% is first class. It's

1:04:14

not with God. God

1:04:18

doesn't know 98%. If

1:04:26

you cannot, you will

1:04:29

say, I was into stone

1:04:31

boy fully.

1:04:35

This music, the

1:04:37

music we had when we were passing home, it

1:04:42

was my main nightclub music. But

1:04:44

now I'm saved. But

1:04:47

now, it's no more in my life.

1:04:50

Anybody who can point to something

1:04:52

you've left, but after you, all

1:04:54

your past things are still in

1:04:57

your presence. Then you can't say

1:04:59

you have given yourself fully to God. That's

1:05:02

all I'm saying. I

1:05:10

used to wear these type of dresses. I

1:05:12

had them. But now I

1:05:14

don't wear them again. A

1:05:18

dress must wear a little part of the breast. It

1:05:21

must push the little breast outside. A

1:05:24

dress that must let your nipples

1:05:27

sew permanently. A

1:05:29

dress that when you are walking, you have to walk like

1:05:31

this and you have to

1:05:41

pull in. Christian sister, you should

1:05:43

have them. But they should

1:05:45

be in your path like. But

1:05:58

we have left them. We

1:06:00

have left the next. That

1:06:05

man was my former boyfriend. He

1:06:09

took me to Dubai. He

1:06:11

took me to France. He

1:06:15

bought my first car, but now

1:06:17

I'm saved. I'm

1:06:19

no more with him. If

1:06:21

you can't speak that language, then you are

1:06:23

fake. Your

1:06:26

fate is fake. Number

1:06:33

eight. Number

1:06:36

seven. Give

1:06:40

yourself holy to God by building your life around the

1:06:42

people God is using. There

1:06:48

are people God is using. They

1:06:51

are called women of God. They

1:06:54

are called men of God. And

1:06:56

one of the ways to give yourself holy to God

1:07:00

is to give yourself. Jeremiah three

1:07:02

fifteen. God said, I will

1:07:04

give you past that after

1:07:06

my heart. So

1:07:16

you cannot say you are fully with God

1:07:18

when there's no man who is using voice

1:07:21

in your life and you build your life

1:07:23

around him. Literally

1:07:25

around him. My

1:07:30

pastor says I can't go. I

1:07:38

mean, there are lives that

1:07:41

are built around.

1:07:45

Pasta. I'm

1:07:49

in love with this girl. But

1:07:54

my past us is I cannot marry her. I

1:08:06

mean anybody

1:08:08

who has had like your life

1:08:10

you are living is totally and

1:08:12

freely being lived outside the influence

1:08:14

of a pastor that you whatever

1:08:16

you want to do is

1:08:19

what you do you are not properly

1:08:21

with God. You

1:08:25

are not properly with God. There are some things.

1:08:35

You wouldn't

1:08:38

expect a man in Sierra

1:08:40

Leone we say a mortal man, a

1:08:42

mortal man to make them. You

1:08:45

see Paul telling the Philemon in

1:08:48

Philemon 1. He

1:08:50

says don't push me. Don't

1:08:53

push me to tell you

1:08:55

how you owe your life to me.

1:08:59

I mean it's not your life to Christ

1:09:02

or your life to God. You owe your life.

1:09:04

In other words the life you are living now.

1:09:07

I am the reason why you are living the life

1:09:09

you are living now. A

1:09:12

pastor can actually make you live

1:09:14

a better life. Because

1:09:19

it's in Philemon 1 verse

1:09:21

19. I

1:09:25

Paul have written it with my own hands

1:09:30

and I will repeat. I

1:09:34

do not say to you how

1:09:38

thou oweest your all.

1:09:41

How thou oweest unto me even

1:09:43

thine own self beside. Give me

1:09:45

another translation. I

1:09:49

Paul am writing this with my own hand.

1:09:52

I will repeat not to mention

1:09:54

to you that you owe to me even

1:09:57

your own self as well. Thank

1:09:59

you. me your

1:10:02

life. That is, there are

1:10:04

lives that are left on

1:10:07

the account of a man.

1:10:09

It's the man who supervises your

1:10:11

school going, the choice of your subject,

1:10:14

who is your friend, where you spend

1:10:16

your time, what you do, whatever, a

1:10:18

man. He said, remember that you are

1:10:20

who you are because of me. And

1:10:25

this person Philemon, he was the

1:10:27

pastor of the church in

1:10:30

Colusa, the

1:10:33

Colusian church. Their

1:10:35

pastor was Philemon. Paul

1:10:39

had raised him from nothing and

1:10:44

built him on the

1:10:46

basis of instructions and guidance

1:10:48

and built him and guided

1:10:50

him. I'm saying that anybody

1:10:52

sitting here whose life, your

1:10:54

real life is cut off

1:10:56

from a pastor. You

1:10:59

don't give yourself to

1:11:01

God. You're on your own. In

1:11:05

the first Corinthians of the nine, New

1:11:09

Americans are not Bible. Verse

1:11:11

one. That's

1:11:13

Corinthians nine verse one. Am

1:11:17

I not free? This

1:11:21

is Paul. Am

1:11:24

I not free? Am

1:11:27

I not an apostle? Have

1:11:32

I not seen Jesus? Haven't

1:11:34

I seen Jesus? You've

1:11:37

forgotten that I saw him on the road

1:11:39

to Damascus. Then

1:11:41

he asked, he's asking questions. Am

1:11:44

I not free? Am I

1:11:46

not an apostle? Have I not

1:11:48

seen Jesus? So he asked, are

1:11:51

you not my work in the

1:11:53

Lord? When

1:11:57

will your life be a pastor's work?

1:12:06

When will your marriage be a past as

1:12:09

well? This is the Bible. It's

1:12:11

are you not my way? Not

1:12:14

that I would have thought that

1:12:16

you say that. Are you not in Jesus's way? I'm

1:12:19

not Christ's way, the work of the

1:12:21

Lord and the Holy Spirit and the

1:12:23

angels who came together and celestially made

1:12:26

you into a divine being. Say

1:12:28

you are my work, my work.

1:12:30

And Paul is telling Philemon,

1:12:32

you owe your life to me. Are

1:12:38

you not my work? And

1:12:42

I'm asking a question in English. When will

1:12:44

your life be a pastor's work? That

1:12:46

you are married, you are wearing a

1:12:48

ring because a pastor said marry that

1:12:50

guy. Why?

1:12:56

Why? Because the

1:12:59

internet has been printed,

1:13:02

the image of a pastor

1:13:04

is a trust. Because

1:13:10

there's no way on earth

1:13:13

to subject your life to a pastor. But look at this.

1:13:18

See, what is this in verse 2? If

1:13:23

to others I'm not

1:13:25

an apostle, at least I

1:13:27

am an apostle to you. For

1:13:29

you are the seal of my

1:13:32

apostles stepping the Lord. If to others

1:13:34

I'm not anointed, I'm not born again,

1:13:36

I'm a fake pastor, I'm a cook,

1:13:38

I'm not a real pastor. If to

1:13:40

others I'm not a man of God,

1:13:42

at least to you, you, you, you,

1:13:44

you, you know dread, there's something to

1:13:46

you. I built you. And

1:13:48

it's okay. It's okay.

1:13:59

Let me give you some. more on clothes. People

1:14:06

collapse. I can show you

1:14:08

videos. Girls

1:14:12

at a concert. My

1:14:17

Jackson concert. As

1:14:20

soon as my Jackson appears on the stage, they

1:14:23

start collapsing. Grown

1:14:26

up men. A

1:14:29

woman, a prop diver, a singing,

1:14:31

and the peak of every woman,

1:14:33

she removes her panties and throws

1:14:35

it at her man. When the

1:14:37

man holds it, he dies. He

1:14:39

holds the woman's panties, he dies.

1:14:50

They are properly connected. Connections.

1:14:54

They are connected. They are

1:14:57

connected. Where

1:14:59

is your connection? Where

1:15:02

is your connection to a leader? Where is your

1:15:05

connection to a pastor? What are you

1:15:07

doing that is preferable to an

1:15:09

instruction your pastor gave you? Where is your

1:15:11

connection? Number

1:15:17

eight. You

1:15:20

give yourself only to God by

1:15:23

building your entire life around

1:15:25

God's family. God's

1:15:28

family. God's

1:15:32

family. Not

1:15:37

some worldly family. Nobody

1:15:40

in this room should have a family,

1:15:42

a group that you are with that

1:15:44

are ungodly. Your

1:15:47

group, your

1:15:49

life should be built around God's

1:15:51

family. The

1:15:53

family of God, the church. One

1:15:58

of the things you must do. as a born-again

1:16:01

Christian is to take a knife, mettatorically,

1:16:04

I said, mettatorically,

1:16:06

and start slicing up wrong

1:16:08

relationships from you. Come

1:16:11

on. Because

1:16:15

the road, the way, the

1:16:17

way to the kingdom is too narrow for

1:16:19

you to bring a friend from the well.

1:16:21

Even you alone, your body can't go through

1:16:24

the gate. How much more a friend you

1:16:26

are entering with? It's

1:16:28

too narrow. It's

1:16:32

too narrow. Your hips can't be in good shape.

1:16:34

You must stand like this. And

1:16:36

the buttocks is also there. And

1:16:42

for you to add a boyfriend, it

1:16:45

cannot be. If you successfully

1:16:47

entered, anybody sitting here,

1:16:49

you have entered the church with your boyfriend, your

1:16:51

unbeliever friend, it means you are not in the

1:16:54

kingdom. You've lost your way. In

1:16:56

the kingdom, the gate will show

1:16:58

you how you enter. You enter alone. If

1:17:01

you with crutches on your body because it's

1:17:03

tight. People

1:17:06

literally must lose weight to enter the

1:17:08

kingdom. And

1:17:11

you are bringing your friends. Let's

1:17:18

go in 10 16 to the 3. Be

1:17:20

not deceived. Evolt communication.

1:17:24

Corrupt good manners. Your

1:17:28

good life in God is

1:17:30

being destroyed by unbeliever friends.

1:17:32

Don't be deceived. It's eating your life

1:17:35

away. Every

1:17:37

ungodly communication is

1:17:39

nibbling at the edifice of

1:17:44

your Christianity and spirituality. You

1:17:46

are finishing by the day. You do not know.

1:17:49

You are finishing. The

1:17:54

new American Standard Bible says, do

1:17:56

not be deceived. Bad company.

1:18:02

Good morale, corrupt good

1:18:06

morale. Nobody under

1:18:08

the sound of my voice

1:18:10

should be among unbelievers. You

1:18:15

cannot have unbeliever friends. Cut

1:18:18

them off. I

1:18:23

love the passion translation.

1:18:27

There's a translation called the passion

1:18:29

translation. These

1:18:33

people have no regard for God. I don't know whether

1:18:35

they even have it there. Well, I can

1:18:37

see they have it there. So,

1:18:41

no, I really noticed. I've taken

1:18:43

notes of who they are. I've

1:18:47

taken notes. I've really taken

1:18:49

notes today. But

1:18:52

I've noted their disregard for me. And

1:18:54

I've noted it. It's in my pocket.

1:18:57

At the right time, I'll take the card out. To

1:19:01

use me as I'm

1:19:03

preaching, you put a letter

1:19:05

on my voice and showing him which button to

1:19:08

press. Wow. Wow.

1:19:14

Malachi said, will you

1:19:16

do this to your governor? If

1:19:19

you were at a governor, a governor was giving a speech,

1:19:21

would you do what you are doing to a governor? That's

1:19:27

how we

1:19:30

are supposed to be treated as pastors. So

1:19:32

we receive it. We

1:19:35

are not afraid. But not

1:19:37

the life I live. I'm continuing to live my

1:19:39

life. In Acts

1:19:42

2 verse 42, in

1:19:44

the passion translation, it

1:19:48

said every believer was

1:19:53

faithfully devoted to

1:19:57

following the teachings of

1:19:59

the apostasy. Every

1:20:01

believer was

1:20:04

faithfully devoted. Like when

1:20:06

the teachings I'm giving today

1:20:08

and in this series, if you

1:20:11

were a proper believer, you'll be

1:20:13

faithfully devoted to this teaching. Wow!

1:20:16

This is what I must give. This

1:20:20

is how my life should be. Yes.

1:20:23

But you are not a correct Christian. That

1:20:25

is why as soon as you leave the

1:20:27

church service, you are not here and goes

1:20:29

with you. Not in here, no.

1:20:32

Bongala. But

1:20:36

those days, the beginning of the

1:20:38

text, the beginning, every

1:20:41

believer was faithfully devoted to

1:20:44

following the teachings of the apostles. Their

1:20:48

hearts were mutually linked to

1:20:50

one another. Habah! Their hearts

1:20:53

were mutually linked. My

1:20:55

heart is linked to yours. Yours is linked

1:20:57

to hers. No, no, we are having sex

1:20:59

or we are smooching or we are fondling

1:21:01

or whatever. Our hearts are one. It's

1:21:04

connected yours to mine, yours to yours,

1:21:06

there's the hiss. There

1:21:09

are hearts were mutually linked to one another.

1:21:12

Sharing communion and coming

1:21:15

together regularly for prayer.

1:21:18

That's what I pray. A

1:21:22

deep sense of holy awe

1:21:25

swept over everyone. And

1:21:28

the apostles performed many

1:21:31

miraculous signs and wonders.

1:21:38

All the believers were

1:21:41

in fellowship as one body.

1:21:44

All of them were in fellowship.

1:21:48

It's not just type of fellowship. The one you

1:21:51

are missing on Wednesday, you can't find it

1:21:53

because you've got a big job in town

1:21:55

which will not allow you to relate to

1:21:58

it. All

1:22:12

the believers were in fellowship as one body. All,

1:22:16

all were one. And

1:22:18

they shared with another one another. Talk

1:22:21

about the heart. They shared it. I have

1:22:24

money. You get some. You have your

1:22:26

love. My son gets some. She has ice

1:22:28

cream. She has ice cream. Her son gets

1:22:30

some. You build a school. The guy who

1:22:32

can be paid. It's

1:22:34

like a commune. And

1:22:39

they shared with one another whatever

1:22:41

they had. They

1:22:43

fortified out

1:22:46

of generosity. They

1:22:49

even sold their assets to distribute the

1:22:51

proceeds to those who were in

1:22:54

need. Among them. For

1:22:57

the first. Daily. Daily.

1:23:01

I said, this version of Christian life you

1:23:03

are living, it's your own

1:23:05

contraption. It's your conclusion. And

1:23:12

I'm not surprised you don't even feel it because

1:23:14

you are not a spiritual person. If

1:23:17

you are a spiritual, those

1:23:19

series I'm preaching will change your life. But

1:23:22

you're not spiritual. Daily.

1:23:27

They're made together in the temple. Of course. Daily.

1:23:33

Boom. And

1:23:37

in one another's home. So

1:23:40

they were either in the church, meeting,

1:23:43

or in Auntie Cecie's house. So

1:23:49

in the temple, King James says, and

1:23:51

from house to house. But

1:23:53

they saw themselves every

1:23:56

day. They

1:23:59

saw. themselves every

1:24:02

day. That's the touch.

1:24:04

It's not a lighthouse doctrine. It's

1:24:07

not a lighthouse teaching. That's not

1:24:09

the touch. That's not the

1:24:11

touch. Not

1:24:14

the type of submarines that disappear

1:24:17

for a week and appear

1:24:19

on Sunday morning. No. Every

1:24:21

day. The

1:24:25

medicine, the temple courts, and

1:24:28

in one another's homes to

1:24:30

celebrate communion, they

1:24:32

shared meals together with outcome

1:24:35

there. That's a point about

1:24:37

food. Give that self relief. That's a point. Outcome

1:24:39

there. I don't want to start. They

1:24:42

shared meals together with

1:24:44

joyful hearts and

1:24:47

tender humility. That's it.

1:24:51

You must have humility to help not

1:24:53

with us during the week. You

1:24:58

must have humility. Any eye

1:25:00

of power of pride will

1:25:02

never allow you to

1:25:05

relate to that. Because

1:25:08

look, it's a sign. Stand

1:25:10

up, please, and see.

1:25:12

These are. There's

1:25:16

nothing here. If

1:25:21

you close your eyes and you point to anybody you

1:25:23

want to relate to, it's likely your money will go

1:25:25

into the patient's life. The patient's money will not come

1:25:27

into your life. It's

1:25:31

just a set of area boys, area gays. You

1:25:33

need humility to get down from your high

1:25:40

horse and sit with

1:25:42

us in an area fellowship and

1:25:46

receive English language that makes

1:25:48

you bow your head. Can't

1:25:53

you believe it? They shared

1:25:55

meals together with joyful

1:25:57

hearts. We

1:26:05

are truly building a church. It's

1:26:07

in the works. Why we

1:26:09

will meet ourselves every day, one

1:26:12

way or the other, some way, somehow, at

1:26:14

least on a Zoom or

1:26:16

Google Meet. We meet in

1:26:18

and eat. We meet and pray. We're

1:26:21

part by each other. Some

1:26:23

type of thing. But just

1:26:25

Sunday only Christianity, okay. It

1:26:29

will be left only to you

1:26:31

to practice. It will never

1:26:33

be a part of the status quo. The

1:26:36

seven, the seven, the seven. They

1:26:40

were continually filled with

1:26:43

praises to God, enjoying

1:26:46

the favor of all the

1:26:48

people. And the

1:26:50

Lord kept adding

1:26:53

to their number daily

1:26:56

those who were coming

1:26:59

to life. This

1:27:06

church group, there's

1:27:09

no outreaching it. There's

1:27:12

no crusading it. It's

1:27:14

just that being together every day,

1:27:17

people just join them. That's

1:27:21

being together, moving up

1:27:23

and down together, that somebody will join, that

1:27:25

somebody will join, and that somebody will join.

1:27:27

And that's all. I mean, they said

1:27:29

these guys are a unique group. They

1:27:32

join them. I

1:27:34

pray that it will be the story

1:27:36

of this church. So

1:27:42

you see, this

1:27:45

is the solemn

1:27:48

life, solemn. When

1:27:51

the presentations came, they

1:27:53

built salons. We have

1:27:55

the dual salons. We have the Ushu Salons, Abu Khobi

1:27:57

Salons. They

1:28:00

are different. Because if they allow

1:28:02

the converts to be in their

1:28:05

original environment, they'll

1:28:07

be drinking libations. They'll

1:28:11

be processing witchcraft and come to

1:28:14

the church. So they

1:28:16

build silence and

1:28:18

build schools in their silence. And

1:28:21

they lived a Christian. It's a symphony.

1:28:23

It's not a church. It's also a white

1:28:26

man came to do something to Africa. That's the

1:28:28

church. They live together. If

1:28:31

I'm not in my house, I'm in Auntie's

1:28:33

house. If I'm not in Brother Fred's house,

1:28:35

they work together. Every

1:28:38

day. And

1:28:41

there were not some poor people. These are

1:28:43

the guys who had houses they could sell.

1:28:46

Bring yourself. There

1:28:52

were not some area boys and

1:28:54

some nincompoops. They

1:28:56

were rich and wealthy and a nurse and

1:28:58

Sophia. They were a part of this group.

1:29:01

People with houses. And then today with all our

1:29:03

mouths, oh, I sold the house to bring to

1:29:05

work. To bring to the church. Which house?

1:29:08

Have you seen this? All

1:29:13

the puffiness is for nothing. The

1:29:16

people who could sell houses and

1:29:18

sell lungs and sell cars,

1:29:21

they lived their lives this way. Don't start.

1:29:24

Don't start. Don't

1:29:27

start. Now

1:29:33

create your own brand of

1:29:35

Christianity. And you are living it. Keep

1:29:38

living it. Number

1:29:47

nine. I don't think

1:29:49

I want to go to number nine. Because the point

1:29:51

is a big difference. And it joins with 10, 11,

1:29:53

and 12. So

1:29:56

I want to end here today. Let's rise, watching.

1:30:09

Oh wow, what a way, what

1:30:11

a way, what a way. Wow,

1:30:16

Jesus Christ our God, what

1:30:19

a way. Oh,

1:30:22

thank you Lord for your way. What

1:30:25

a revelation. Wow,

1:30:28

wow, wow. That's not the gift of

1:30:30

the manifest.

1:30:47

There is a reason God will

1:30:51

give you Jesus. Don't angels,

1:31:17

you give now talk to God

1:31:47

morty heart.

1:32:02

I give you

1:32:04

my soul. I

1:32:08

live for you

1:32:10

alone. Every

1:32:13

breath that I take,

1:32:16

every moment I'm

1:32:18

aware. Lord,

1:32:22

have your word. Lord,

1:32:24

I give you my

1:32:26

heart. I

1:32:29

give you my

1:32:32

soul. I

1:32:36

live for you

1:32:39

alone. Every

1:32:41

breath that I take,

1:32:44

every moment I'm aware.

1:32:47

Lord, have your

1:32:49

word. Lord, I give you

1:32:51

my heart. I

1:33:02

know you.

1:33:07

Lord, with all my

1:33:10

heart I

1:33:13

worship you. I worship

1:33:15

you. With all

1:33:17

my heart we think.

1:33:28

I give

1:33:30

you prayer.

1:33:35

All that I, at

1:33:38

all, have

1:33:42

been

1:33:44

you. Lord,

1:33:47

I give you my heart. Lord,

1:33:49

I give you my heart. I

1:33:51

give you my soul. I give

1:33:53

you my soul. Lord, I live

1:33:56

for you alone. I live for

1:33:58

you alone. Every

1:34:30

word that I say Lord,

1:34:34

man, I'm away Lord,

1:34:39

I know All I need

1:34:41

is you Lord,

1:34:44

I give you my

1:34:46

heart I

1:34:48

give you my soul All

1:34:51

I need is all you All

1:34:55

I know All

1:34:57

the words that I say Every

1:35:01

moment I'm away Lord,

1:35:07

I'm away As

1:35:18

the Lord you save me As

1:35:22

the Lord you have messianic As the Lord

1:35:24

you gave me Let

1:35:30

the will be done in your land Father

1:35:34

we thank you O Jesus you

1:35:36

thank you In

1:35:39

Jesus' name every

1:35:42

head bowed and

1:35:45

every eye closed Somebody is about to receive the

1:35:48

full Jesus today Jesus

1:35:52

Jesus Somebody

1:35:54

is about to receive a gift Yes God

1:35:58

is going to give somebody today a gift I

1:36:01

guess. I guess. I

1:36:03

guess. I guess.

1:36:13

I guess. I guess. I guess. Oh,

1:36:15

yes. I have this vow.

1:36:20

I want to say pastor, I want

1:36:22

to give my life to Jesus.

1:36:24

Oh, pastor. Yes. Pastor, I want to

1:36:27

be born again today. I want to surrender my

1:36:29

life. My all to

1:36:32

Jesus. Yes. Pastor,

1:36:34

please. Please.

1:36:36

Lead me in a prayer. I

1:36:40

don't want to go back the way I came

1:36:42

to church today. I want to surrender my

1:36:44

life. Oh, I have to Jesus. Yes. Yes.

1:36:46

Pastor, please pray for me. Oh, yes. If

1:36:48

you are here like that, if you

1:36:51

want me to pray with you, just lift your

1:36:53

hand right there. Yes. I see your hand. God bless you. You

1:36:55

are here. I know you are here. God pray for me. I

1:36:57

want to be born again.

1:36:59

Pastor, I want to be born again. Pastor, I need Jesus.

1:37:02

I'm not an armed robber. I'm not a

1:37:05

drunkard. I'm not an evil person. I just

1:37:07

need Jesus. Lift your hand high.

1:37:09

Yes. I see your

1:37:12

hand. I see your hand at the

1:37:14

back. I see. I

1:37:16

see your hand. Pastor, I

1:37:18

want to be born again. I

1:37:20

need Jesus. If your

1:37:22

hand is lifted up, I want

1:37:24

you to come to me here. Come

1:37:26

to the church. Come here.

1:37:29

Come here. Come here. Come here.

1:37:31

Step out and come. Take your word, your Bible,

1:37:34

your phone. God bless you.

1:37:36

Come, my dear. Keep coming. Come,

1:37:42

my dear. God bless you, sir.

1:37:46

God bless you, sir. Keep coming.

1:37:50

Jesus, I'm calling

1:37:52

you. Good practice.

1:38:00

I give you my heart, I

1:38:03

give you my soul. I

1:38:09

live for you alone.

1:38:13

Every moment I'll ever

1:38:15

leave, like the

1:38:18

moment I'm awake. Lord

1:38:21

have you been alone? Lord,

1:38:24

I know that I

1:38:26

give you my heart. I give

1:38:28

you my soul. I

1:38:33

live for you alone.

1:38:41

Every moment I'll ever leave,

1:38:46

like the moment I'm

1:38:48

awake. Lord, I'll

1:38:50

ever be where I am. I

1:38:54

give you my heart, I give you my

1:38:56

soul. I

1:38:59

give you my soul.

1:39:02

Lord, I live for you alone. Oh,

1:39:08

every

1:39:11

moment I'll ever leave,

1:39:13

like the moment I'm

1:39:15

awake. Lord, I

1:39:18

know that I'm awake.

1:39:35

I feel in my spirit that somebody here, you

1:39:38

are standing with your friends. God

1:39:40

says, leave them. And

1:39:42

come to Him. Take

1:39:45

that step today. We

1:39:50

will receive you. I

1:39:53

don't know who you are, but

1:39:56

nothing I'm suggesting benefits

1:39:58

me personally. It's your life.

1:40:22

Close your eyes and lift your two hands. Lift

1:40:28

your two hands and

1:40:30

say after me, Heavenly

1:40:33

Father. Heavenly Father. I

1:40:37

can't hear you. Say, Heavenly Father. Heavenly

1:40:39

Father. Today

1:40:42

I've heard your word. Today I've heard your word.

1:40:47

The word of life. The word of life.

1:40:51

I receive you. I receive you. As

1:40:56

my Lord and my personal Savior. As

1:40:58

my Lord and my personal Savior. I

1:41:03

thank you. I thank you. That

1:41:07

your son Jesus died for me. That

1:41:09

your son Jesus died for me. And

1:41:14

shed his blood. And shed his

1:41:16

blood. I need that blood. I

1:41:18

need that blood. I need that

1:41:20

blood. I need that blood. Because

1:41:22

I am dead. Because I am

1:41:25

dead. Say, my sons cannot be

1:41:27

washed with Ummu. My sons cannot

1:41:29

be washed with Ummu. I

1:41:31

am dead. I am dead.

1:41:34

I have done many filthy things.

1:41:36

I have done many filthy things.

1:41:38

Only the blood of Jesus. Only

1:41:40

the blood of Jesus. Can

1:41:42

cleanse my son. Can cleanse my

1:41:44

son. Oh Father. Oh Father. Wash

1:41:49

me. Wash me. And

1:41:51

today. And today. I receive

1:41:53

your son. I receive your son. As

1:41:56

my master. As my master. As my

1:41:58

Lord. As my Lord. I'm not

1:42:00

as my savior as my savior.

1:42:07

You have helped me to take

1:42:09

the step. You have helped me to

1:42:11

take this step because the Bible says

1:42:13

nobody can come to Jesus. Oh, nobody

1:42:15

can come to Jesus. Yes. Except you

1:42:17

draw him. Except you draw him.

1:42:20

Thank you for drawing me today. Thank you

1:42:23

for drawing me today. And from today

1:42:25

and from today, I will not fail. I

1:42:27

will not fail to take the step.

1:42:29

I will not pay attention. I will

1:42:31

pay attention to my gift

1:42:33

of salvation. My gift of salvation. Every

1:42:36

day. Every day. Every day. Every day.

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Every day. Sunday.

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Sunday. Sunday. Will not be a

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new day. Will not be a new

1:42:45

day. Where I'm seeing Christian

1:42:48

friends. When I'm seeing

1:42:50

Christian friends. Today. Today. I'm starting

1:42:53

a new life. Starting a new

1:42:55

life. Please watch me. Please. Please.

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Please. Please. Please. Please.

1:42:59

Please. Please. Thank you for

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my great for my great salvation. Jesus.

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Thank you. Amen.

1:43:07

Hallelujah. Where

1:43:15

are you, Jesus? Oh,

1:43:19

you are here now. You are here now.

1:43:22

Sorry. Sorry. Please

1:43:24

come, Dany. Our

1:43:30

lady pastor is one. One. One of many pastors.

1:43:36

Who are going to visit you. Pray

1:43:39

for you. Counsel

1:43:41

you. Talk

1:43:43

to you. And help you

1:43:45

to be. Do you want

1:43:47

to be a strong Christian? Yeah. This

1:43:52

woman. You should be. You

1:43:56

should be. Hey,

1:44:00

wex. Paul

1:44:03

said, you are my wex. So

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what about they tell you to do? If

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they say by a Bible, if

1:44:16

they say attend a prayer meeting, if

1:44:19

they say stop working with these friends, some

1:44:23

of them will actually come to you and ask you to take

1:44:25

them to your friends, to

1:44:27

talk to them. But

1:44:30

they are going to guide you. And

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I believe your life will never be the same.

1:44:39

So I want you to go with hair now, this way. Go

1:44:42

with hair, nothing. Keep

1:44:53

clapping your hands for them. Don't

1:45:02

stop clapping. Don't stop. Encourage them. Keep

1:45:21

clapping. Keep

1:45:30

clapping. Keep clapping.

1:45:47

Keep clapping. Keep

1:45:51

clapping. I

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live for you.

1:46:01

Every breath I make

1:46:03

is all

1:46:06

that I'm aware of. All

1:46:11

I know is... Take

1:46:15

your communion. Why

1:46:19

do we eat it? It's

1:46:21

a remember Jesus. It

1:46:23

will shock you that you

1:46:26

can forget that Jesus died

1:46:28

for you. You

1:46:32

remember, you are from a pre-gal,

1:46:34

you remember, you are a fancy,

1:46:37

you remember, you are a

1:46:39

painter, you remember everything

1:46:42

except Jesus. He

1:46:45

said, eat this to

1:46:47

remember that I am in your life. The

1:46:54

body of Christ. Say, I

1:46:56

remember. Say, I

1:46:58

am remembering. That

1:47:00

Jesus is in my life. The

1:47:03

body of Christ. Say, I am a Christian.

1:47:05

I will live like a Christian. The

1:47:10

body of Christ. Bless you.

1:47:48

The blood of Jesus. Say,

1:47:50

it washed my sins. It

1:47:52

paged me. It makes

1:47:54

me whole. The blood of

1:47:57

Jesus. I

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will pass

1:48:06

away. Father we thank

1:48:09

you. Oh yes. We eaten

1:48:11

it. As we step out

1:48:13

this week. Oh yes. Remember

1:48:16

your death. Remember your

1:48:18

blood. Yes. Remember your goodness.

1:48:20

Oh jeez. We say let your world be

1:48:22

done. Remember. Help

1:48:24

us. Build us. Oh

1:48:27

yes. Amen. Amen. You

1:48:30

may be seated. We

1:48:46

trust

1:48:48

that you have been mightily blessed

1:48:51

and affected by the word

1:48:53

of God preached by Bishop Edwin

1:48:55

Morgan O'Gough. Do

1:48:57

join one of our lovely

1:48:59

services from the McIner Cathedral

1:49:01

near Valleyview University or UB

1:49:03

Accra this and every weekend

1:49:05

at 7 30 pm

1:49:08

on Saturday as well as 7 30

1:49:10

am and 12 noon on Sunday. Connect

1:49:14

with Bishop Edwin Morgan

1:49:16

O'Gough on Facebook live,

1:49:18

Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and

1:49:20

on your favorite podcast

1:49:22

app. Thank you for joining us.

1:49:25

God bless you.