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You are Saved But Who Are You Saving? - Elder Kenneth Abanamsi

The Church of Pentecost, S.K. Baidoo English Assembly

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  1. The Lord Hallelujah, we thank God we want to minister a song

  2. to the glory of God. Amen.

  3. Hug the voice of Jesus calling. Who will go?

  4. And. We're today fills.

  5. The white dead harvest wit, and who will bear their.

  6. Sheeps away, loud and strong. Dead master holds.

  7. US rich reward ye your festive who will lie silently say yeah I

  8. yeah send me send the. Voice.

  9. Hug the voice, oh Jesus calling who will go and work to.

  10. Deal with the. Harvest waiting fills our and

  11. harvest we deep. Who will bear the shivs?

  12. Are we louder? Longer Master crossers history

  13. world, he offered free. Sad.

  14. Gladly see. Yeah, yeah.

  15. Send me send me numbers. 2 if you cannot cross the ocean.

  16. If you can not cross, they will. Sheep explore and therefore

  17. relax. Explore you can't find.

  18. You. Can't help if you can't, not

  19. giving time, you can't give the window.

  20. Smile and at least you give for Jesus.

  21. And at least you give for Jesus. Ruby, pray if you cannot speak

  22. like angels, if you can not speak like Angel, you cannot

  23. preach like. If you can not preach like poor,

  24. you can tell the love of Jesus, you can't tell that life love of

  25. Jesus, you can't see he died for all the wicked.

  26. If you can not rouse the. Wicked.

  27. You may lead the little children.

  28. You may lead the little children to the sea.

  29. Yes, we see now. Let's not hear you idly say.

  30. Let's not hear you rightly say I can do, there is nothing I can

  31. do while the Lord offeth. I die for you and Emma start

  32. call for you. Take that time He gives you

  33. gladly let his way your pleasure.

  34. Be hands are. Clean, clear when his quality.

  35. Yeah, I am. Send me.

  36. Send me. Loud and strong the master calls

  37. loud and strong. The master calls out richly.

  38. Walls ye are flat free you will lie.

  39. Yeah, I am. Send me say.

  40. Louder, stronger master calls. Louder and strong shall.

  41. We please give you my seat. Master calls sound rich reward.

  42. Here are facts free. Who is going to tell the Lord

  43. this morning that Father, I'm ready, send me, send me.

  44. And this is what the Master is looking for as this Gentile want

  45. us to prepare our hearts, our mind, as we receive the mind of

  46. God, we receive what God has for us this morning.

  47. And we have no other person than our own Elder, EDA Kenneth

  48. Abernamsea. Praise the Lord, Hallelujah,

  49. Hallelujah. This morning we want to thank

  50. God for the gift of life. I am thanking God on behalf of

  51. all of us, and I also like want to thank our district pastor, my

  52. presiding order, and then the local presbytery for this

  53. opportunity. I am grateful and I don't take

  54. it lightly. So this morning the Lord has

  55. placed something in my heart that I want to share with you.

  56. It's going to be brief. So therefore, I want you to pay

  57. so much attention so that whatever the Lord has for you,

  58. you benefit from it. Hallelujah.

  59. So today we are going to talk about salvation.

  60. That is the tune. Salvation.

  61. Can you say salvation? Salvation.

  62. Amen. But I would like to take a topic

  63. and the topic I want us to look at as you, you, you.

  64. You are safe. You are saved.

  65. But who are you saving? Hallelujah.

  66. Please turn and ask your brother and sister.

  67. You are safe, but who are you saving?

  68. I can't hear you. Please, I want to hear it again.

  69. This one is very dear to my heart, very, very dear to my

  70. heart. So I want you to listen to what

  71. God has for you. So when you talk about save or

  72. salvation, salvation is a gift from God.

  73. Amen. Salvation.

  74. It's a gift from God. You and I are safe, not because

  75. you are so handsome, you are so beautiful, you are so rich, or

  76. because you are coming from a particular family, but it's true

  77. the grace that you and I are saved this morning.

  78. Amen. But as I said, the question is

  79. you are safe, but who are you saving?

  80. That is my question, who are you saving?

  81. So we are going to look at some few things that the Lord want us

  82. to share together for you and I. We are all agree all we know

  83. that it costs heaven everything. It costs heaven everything.

  84. If I mean everything, I mean everything.

  85. It cause heaven everything for you and I to be safe as a

  86. church. If I said it cause heaven

  87. everything. I'm trying to say that God has

  88. given Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ has given his life.

  89. And the Holy Spirit is still. Drawing souls so.

  90. Jesus Christ. Is what I refer to as our

  91. salvation has caused heaven everything you can imagine.

  92. The love. That God has for us.

  93. So this morning what I'm trying to say is that you are safe.

  94. I am safe, But who are you saving?

  95. Jesus. God has given us.

  96. Jesus Christ come and save us. But the Bible says that he did

  97. not just say he did not save us, but salvation comes with what

  98. responsibility? Hallelujah.

  99. Tell your sister, tell your brother salvation comes with

  100. responsibility and what are these responsibilities when you

  101. read the book of March 28, March 28, verse 19.

  102. Kindly project that side for us. March 28, verse 19.

  103. OK, Therefore go and make disciples of all nations

  104. baptized, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the

  105. Son and of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah.

  106. So this is what I'm saying, that salvation comes with

  107. responsibility. The Bible or God did not say

  108. that. Go and sit down.

  109. He says that. Go.

  110. Therefore Jesus did not say that stay.

  111. He said go, therefore many. Of us.

  112. Here are comfortable sitting in the church.

  113. We are just comfortable sitting, coming to church, dressing,

  114. looking so good just for people to see and come and sit here and

  115. get up and go. But that is a mandate that has

  116. been given to us through the salvation.

  117. We are also been asked to go there and make us we write.

  118. God did not say come. And sit down.

  119. God did not say just walk. Into the church alone and go

  120. back. But God has given us an

  121. assignment that go, go, he didn't say come and sit in the

  122. church. So we have a.

  123. Responsibility to play, and that is to serve.

  124. Jesus Christ has. Served us, and he's asking us to

  125. serve. And that's why I'm saying that

  126. you and I have been saved. By whom are we saving?

  127. The world is. Dying people are dying in sins.

  128. Hello, people are dying in sin. People are dying in sin.

  129. Therefore, there is a need for us as children of God to go out

  130. there and save them. And let me.

  131. Tell you this, let me let me say this A dangerous a Christian, a

  132. silent Christian take my words a silent Christian is a dangerous

  133. Christian do you agree with me I will explain A silent Christian

  134. is a dangerous Christian I am saying this because.

  135. When I said. A silent Christian is a

  136. dangerous Christian, I did not mean to say.

  137. You are Violet. You are bad.

  138. You cause troubles. That's not what I'm trying to

  139. say. But what I'm trying to say is

  140. that a Christian who keeps quiet about their faith, a Christian

  141. who keeps quiet about their faith.

  142. If you are quiet as a Christian, you cannot go out to preach the

  143. gospel. You are a dangerous Christian.

  144. A Christian who? Cannot be faithful who cannot

  145. speak for his faith is very dangerous.

  146. A Christian who cannot speak about the gospel is a dangerous

  147. Christian. Hello.

  148. Do you agree with me? If you are silent, you are a

  149. dangerous Christian. That's what the Bible is saying.

  150. We can. We can get that from.

  151. Yes, so we can get that from the I'll get it for you.

  152. But what I'm trying to say is that a Christian who avoid

  153. defending the truth, it's it's very dangerous.

  154. You cannot speak for the truth. You cannot speak against the

  155. wrong. OK, so then what makes you

  156. different? But the Bible is telling us that

  157. we. Have been saved.

  158. We have been safe and therefore. We need to.

  159. Defend the faith. We need to be truthful.

  160. To our God. And the gospel must go out

  161. there. Who is going to preach the

  162. gospel? Who is going to preach the

  163. gospel? So when you find yourself in

  164. this, in this situation, why you cannot preach the gospel, you

  165. cannot speak. Against Rome.

  166. You cannot defend the truth, then your spiritual, your

  167. spiritual growth is very questionable.

  168. You need to answer or you need to question yourself where you

  169. are going. And that is why I am saying that

  170. a silent Christian is very dangerous if you cannot defend

  171. your faith, if you cannot preach the gospel, if you cannot share

  172. the gospel. With the dinosaurs out there.

  173. Then your Christianity is in danger.

  174. You'll be safe. Doesn't mean that you should

  175. come and sit in the church only No, you have a responsibility

  176. and that responsibility is what Matthew 20 that.

  177. God did not ask us to. Sit, he said.

  178. Go, go, go. Hallelujah.

  179. So we are going to read from the book of Matthew chapter 5, verse

    Matthew 5:14–16

  180. 14 to 16. Matthew chapter 5, verse 14 to

    Matthew 5:14–15

  181. 15. OK, you are the light of the

  182. world. A town built on a hill cannot be

  183. hidden. Please go on.

  184. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bow.

  185. A bow. Instead, they put it on its

  186. stands and it gives light to everyone in the house.

  187. In the same way, let your light. Shine before others that they

  188. may see your good deeds and glorify your God in heaven, your

  189. Father in heaven, Amen. So how will people glorify God

  190. if you cannot testify? The goodness of God If you

  191. cannot tell someone that God loves you, it is God who saved

  192. me. Had you not been God, I would

  193. have been an armed robber. I would have been the worst

  194. person if you. Do not go out that.

  195. Town. Who else?

  196. And the Bible is saying that we are light.

  197. Once you've accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior, you don't

  198. need to hide your identity, and the gospel is your identity.

  199. We need to go out there and save the dying souls.

  200. But let me. Say this once again, if I said a

  201. dangerous or a silent Christian, it's dangerous.

  202. In other words, sometimes you need to be silenced.

  203. OK, there are times that you need to be silenced.

  204. There are times that you need to be silenced.

  205. Sometimes wisdom needs or requires some kind of silence.

  206. It's not everything that you have to just jump in and say it.

  207. When you're talking, you should know what you're talking about.

  208. You should think about it before you say it.

  209. So sometimes silence is good, but when you are silent about

  210. the gospel, if you are silence. About the.

  211. Truth. That means you are a dangerous

  212. Christian and you need to watch out.

  213. Hallelujah. So now let's go back to what I

  214. mean by you are called safe. You are safe and you are called

  215. safe as well. So as I said, hell is real.

  216. Hell is real. I want you to turn and tell your

  217. brother sister that hell is real.

  218. Hell is real and time is coming. Or running out.

  219. How shall they hear without a preacher?

  220. So we read that one from Romans chapter 10, verse 14.

    Romans 10:14

  221. Romans chapter 10, verse 14. Romans chapter 10 verse 14.

    Romans 10:14 Romans 10:14

  222. So how then can they hear? Can they call on the one that

  223. How can? How then can they call on the

  224. 1:00 they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the

  225. one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without

  226. someone preaching to them? Amen.

  227. I think it's enough. The Bible is saying that.

  228. The world is. Dying with sin.

  229. Each and. Every day.

  230. People are dying. In sin now.

  231. Why are we there? Why are we there?

  232. We have been safe and people are dying in sin, but God has given.

  233. Us a mandate. To go out there and save and

  234. save. The dinosaurs.

  235. But you and I what? Do we do?

  236. Who are we? Who are you saving?

  237. Who are you saving today? We are fortunate to have the

  238. opportunity to go out there and evangelize, but I think that is

  239. not enough. We should make evangelism as

  240. part of our daily lives. Evangelism should be part of our

  241. daily life because souls are parenting and they need to hear

  242. the gospel and about. Saying that, how can they

  243. believe when they've not? Heard how?

  244. Would they believe people are dying in sin They don't know

  245. that there is a savior anywhere Also where it is the duty of.

  246. You and I. To go out there and introduce

  247. Jesus Christ to them. Do we have testimony to testify

  248. about the goodness of God? Yes, of course.

  249. We have. A lot of testimonies.

  250. We can testify so much about the goodness of God, but do we

  251. testify to the dinosaurs? Do we care about the the

  252. dinosaurs? This is a question that.

  253. You have to ask yourself as I. Say.

  254. As a believer, you have received salvation.

  255. Have you shared that same love with your brother out there?

  256. Amen. So you.

  257. And I there will be a. Time.

  258. There will be a time. That.

  259. God will be asking us. God will be.

  260. Asking you and I. There's a.

  261. Purpose of he putting you in that family.

  262. God has a reason of giving you that job.

  263. There is a reason why God place you in that community, if that

  264. community or if that your brother, your sister, your

  265. friend, your coworker is perishing.

  266. And you keep silent. God who asks?

  267. You and I, I have given you a mandate.

  268. Have you executed that mandates? That is why this morning I want.

  269. To. Draw your attention that God has

  270. given us mandates that are your. Brother, your sister.

  271. The community you live. Within.

  272. People are dying in sin. You cannot deny that you are not

  273. aware of it, but. What do you do about it?

  274. What have you done about it? This.

  275. Morning God. Just want me to remind you that

  276. we have a responsibility to play.

  277. Salvation come with responsibility, Hallelujah.

  278. And that responsibility is to go out there and declare the love

  279. of God to the dinosaurs yesterday.

  280. So let me say this, you know. It's not easy, but when you look

  281. at the sacrifice that Jesus Christ has.

  282. Made on our. Behalf and that's why I said

  283. that our salvation. Cause heaven, everything,

  284. because Jesus was given out for us to be safe.

  285. Amen. So if there's a sacrifice for

  286. you and not to be safe, you and I need to.

  287. Sacrifice for the dying soul to. Be safe and therefore what are

  288. we doing yesterday like. This.

  289. Myself and my. Boss Williams and then I come

  290. here. We decided to go out to share

  291. the love. Of God with.

  292. Those who claim. Their sinners with those who.

  293. Believe that they are. They are not important.

  294. I am. Talking about the ghettos, we go

  295. to one ghetto. And there's a lot of you see the

  296. smoking. And in fact, yesterday I nearly

  297. I, I. I in my spirit, I was like, no,

  298. I will not go out to do evangelism.

  299. I won't go out. But in fact.

  300. Yesterday was the happiest days that I've ever stepped out to

  301. make to, to do evangelism. You know why these people were

  302. willing to receive cries. But you and I, we don't reach

  303. out to these people, in fact. As I said, the consequences and

  304. the. Challenges are so.

  305. Enormous, but there is someone who sacrificed for you and.

  306. I and you and I need. To sacrifice.

  307. For that dying soul yesterday. Ladies before we left there.

  308. My truth was eating me. I was serving some kind of

  309. irritation within my truth. My brother Akumia was

  310. complaining of headache. Why?

  311. Because we have. We have eaten.

  312. A forbidden food. Hallelujah.

  313. Is because we want to save. We want to.

  314. Save a dying. Soul, that is why we went there.

  315. Amen. So there is a need for that to

  316. sacrifice. Don't just.

  317. Walk and come and sit here and go back for nothing.

  318. In fact, let me let you understand this, that Our

  319. Calling is as. Important as we.

  320. Going out there to share the love.

  321. Of Jesus Christ, you have been safe to go.

  322. That is what I want you to know. You have been saved to go.

  323. You are supposed to go the four corners.

  324. Of the church is nowhere, you have to serve, you must serve

  325. God. Amen.

  326. Do you know what you know that? Do you know the desire of our

  327. Lord Jesus Christ? The desire of our Lord.

  328. Jesus Christ. Is a dying soul.

  329. So if we say that, or if we are saying that we are followers of

  330. Jesus Christ, we must do what our Master wants.

  331. Our Master wants. Our Master is interested about

  332. the dying soul. Are we not supposed to be

  333. interested about it? Are we not supposed to look for

  334. the dinosaurs then? What are we doing this morning?

  335. I don't want to prolong my talks, but what goal want you to

  336. understand, and I am reminding you, is that there is someone

  337. out there dying. Going to ask you that your

  338. brother, that family that I put you there what have you done

  339. about it Have you served them? Your family are dying without

  340. receiving Christ. Your colleagues at the website

  341. is dying without receiving Christ.

  342. You are silent and that. Is why I'm saying that a silent

  343. Christian? It's a dangerous Christian, and

  344. I want you to know. That there.

  345. Is a reward. When you dedicate your life to

  346. whistles, I don't want to quote the Bible.

  347. That's a lot that the Bible is telling us.

  348. That when you whistles. There's a lot to benefit.

  349. And any soul that is very repent heavy rejoice.

  350. Just imagine if heaven is rejoicing of one soul.

  351. Being saved. Why are we?

  352. Quiet. Why?

  353. Do we have to be silent? Hello.

  354. Is that a calling? Is that Our Calling?

  355. Please, I'm asking is that Our Calling?

  356. Our Calling is to go out there. Jesus is saying that go.

  357. He didn't say sit down, just comfortable in the church, but

  358. go out there and save. The dying soul.

  359. So now this morning, who are you serving?

  360. Who are you saving? God is telling you, go out

  361. there. And save the dying soul.

  362. God bless us all. Amen.

  363. Oh, to. Jesus, I surrender.

  364. Oh. To.

  365. Him I freely, oh I will ever trust and trust his presence

  366. deeply. Oh.

  367. I surrender. I surrender.

  368. I surrender. To me, my as I see one.

  369. More time. I surrender, I surrender.

  370. I surrender. I surrender.

  371. And all head bow, you are here. You know that this man called

  372. Jesus. You don't know him.

  373. You've not received him into your heart.

  374. Today is an opportune time for you to receive this Jesus into

  375. your heart. Bible says that through him all

  376. things were made and nothing was made without Him.

  377. Nothing was made that has been made.

  378. You can't do life without Jesus. He is the.

  379. Very. Light of the world.

  380. He says that I am the light of the world.

  381. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness.

  382. But shall have the light of life.

  383. He is eternal life. He is life here and life to

  384. come. If you don't know Jesus, you

  385. will struggle in this earth, and you will struggle in the earth

  386. or in the world to come. Maybe you've wandered somewhere

  387. and then you've come to the realization that I need a

  388. Savior. I need to make things right.

  389. My life is not going well with me today.

  390. I want to recommend Jesus Christ.

  391. To you. When you receive him into your

  392. life, you suddenly have meaning for this world or for this life

  393. if you are here. If not accepted, Jesus, I want

  394. you to just lift up your right hand with me.

  395. All eyes close, thank you my sister.

  396. If not accepted all you've wanted and you realize that you

  397. need a savior, you need to make things right, or you are a

  398. Christian and you've wanted and you want to come back to Jesus,

  399. there is room for you. The blood of Jesus speaks better

  400. things than the blood of Abel. The blood of Jesus is enough to

  401. wash you from all your sins. It is enough to restore you

  402. today. You want to make it right.

  403. I want you to lift. Lift up here and come forward.

  404. Take a bold step and come forward.

  405. Take a bold step and come forward.

  406. You've wanted, you want, you want to come back to Christ.

  407. Take a bold step and come forward.

  408. Don't feel shy. Don't feel shy.

  409. Take a bold step. This is the best decision of

  410. your life. This is the best decision of

  411. your life. Take a bold step and come.

  412. You know that you need Jesus Christ in your life.

  413. You know in your heart that you don't have Jesus.

  414. You know it in your heart. Today you want to take a bold

  415. step and come forward. Take a bold step and come

  416. forward. I am waiting for, I'm counting

  417. one to five. If you don't know Jesus, if you

  418. want that and today you want to make things right, come, Take a

  419. bold step and come. There is room at the cross for

  420. you. Take a bold one. close all eyes

  421. close. Please come to Jesus now.

  422. He's the only one that can give you meaning in this life.

  423. He's the only one that can give you true peace and true, true

  424. joy too. Jesus is calling you.

  425. Jesus is calling you. Though no sin is greater than

  426. the blood of Jesus, there is no sin that the blood of Jesus

  427. cannot wipe away. 3 Come, come, come, come, don't feel shy.

  428. There is no blood. There is no sin that this blood

  429. cannot wipe 3.