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Celebrating God's Goodness: Sacrifice that honors God - Part 2

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

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  1. We will sell ingredients how our Lord, let us by now be raised,

  2. let us glory be seen. We will sell ingredients how our

  3. Lord. Amen.

  4. Amen. Celebrating God's goodness,

  5. Sacrifice that honest God. Briefly I want to touch on

  6. celebrating God's goodness. Then from there we zoom into a

  7. sacrifice that honest God. Amen.

  8. If there is, and when we talk of celebrating God's goodness, it

  9. is good as a church to celebrate God more.

  10. Especially when God does something good for you.

  11. It is very good to celebrate God's goodness.

  12. For SK Badu Islands, you are celebrating your sixth year

  13. anniversary. God has been so kind, good and

  14. faithful to you. I know this local assembly has

  15. gone through challenges and problems, but God has been so

  16. good, so kind. God has taken you through all

  17. the challenges over the years. And here we are celebrating the

  18. 6th anniversary of this. Lucas.

  19. In fact, God has done a lot. Amen.

  20. So we have every cause to thank God.

  21. We have every cause to celebrate the goodness of the law.

  22. So let us lift, be on our feet, lift up our hands, and say, God,

  23. we thank you for the second time and for the third time, Amen.

  24. Please. You may be seated.

  25. Yeah, it is very good to thank the Lord more, especially when

  26. he does something for you there. There were this 10 lepers who

  27. made Jesus on his way, on their way.

  28. And the Bible says they cried unto the Lord Jesus.

  29. And the Bible says he told them to go and show themselves to the

  30. priest. And when they're on their way

  31. going, the Bible said they realize that they've been

  32. healed. Then out of the 10 one turn back

  33. to the Lord Jesus and try to celebrate or appreciate what the

  34. Lord Jesus has done. Then he asked him, is it not ten

  35. that were healed? Where are the 9?

  36. And one astonishing thing is that out of the 10, the nine

  37. that came back to celebrate or give turns to the Lord Jesus was

  38. not from Israel. He was not a Jew, He was a

  39. foreigner. But the people who belongs to

  40. Jesus, the Israelites, the nine of them, none of them came back.

  41. And Jesus made some comments about that.

  42. He said, is it not nigh that were healed?

  43. Where are the 9? Is it not ten that were hid well

  44. at the 9? Go and you will be made whole.

  45. It means that only the one, even though they were healed but they

  46. were not made whole. It is only the one who returned

  47. to Jesus. This means that Jesus lives or

  48. God lives appreciation. So it is very good for escape.

  49. Baby English assembly to celebrate God's goodness for

  50. this says here's what the Lord has done.

  51. Amen. When you read Exodus chapter 15

    Exodus 15:20–21

  52. verse 20 to 21, something happened.

  53. I want us to read. I want us to read Ezodus 1520 to

  54. 21 Ezodus 1520. Then Miriam the prophetess, the

  55. sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all

  56. the women went out after her with tambourine and dancing,

  57. praised the Lord, and Miriam sang to them.

  58. Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously The horse

  59. and its rider. The horse and his rider he has

  60. thrown into the sea. Amen.

  61. This was after the Lord has taken his ride through the Red

  62. Sea. And in the course of passing

  63. through the Red Sea, Pharaoh and his soldiers tried to capture

  64. them even in the middle of the Red Sea.

  65. And the Bible said God delivered the Israelites and the

  66. Egyptians. Pharaoh and his army were

  67. drowned. And after the Israelite has

  68. crossed the Red Sea, the Bible said Miriam took a tambourine

  69. and all the women followed her, and they sang and danced to the

  70. glory of God. Brothers and sisters, the Lord

  71. has done a lot for us. As I have already said, He has

  72. taken us through many challenges and problems all all over these

  73. years. And today we have come out of

  74. the Red Sea and we have got the cause to bless the name of the

  75. Lord. So throughout this week up to

  76. Sunday, I want you to with 1 accord with one heart, celebrate

  77. the goodness of the Lord, Rejoice together, bless the name

  78. of the Lord, worship him, give chance to him for his worthy to

  79. receive Thanksgiving and praise, Amen.

  80. For great things he has done, Amen.

  81. And so Miriam took this tambourine and he sank.

  82. And the Bible says the women danced to the glory of God.

  83. And this time around, it is not only the women who are going to

  84. sing and dance, but all of us together celebrating the

  85. goodness of God. For this six years we are going

  86. to sing, dance, and bless the name of the Lord, Amen.

  87. So this will be part of whatever is going on.

  88. If you know how to dance, please dance.

  89. Don't wait for anybody, somebody, to come forward to

  90. dance before you follow. If you know how to dance, please

  91. know what the Lord has done for you and know what the Lord has

  92. done for this great church and celebrate the goodness of the

  93. Lord. Amen.

  94. Then in Second Samuel chapter 6 verse 13 to 14, I'm still on

    2 Samuel 6:13–14

  95. celebrating the goodness of the Lord.

  96. Second Psalm, where 613 reading through to 14.

  97. And when those who bore bore the ark of the Lord had gone

  98. sisters, take note, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened

  99. animal. The he there is David.

  100. And when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone, sisters,

  101. David sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal, and David

  102. danced before the Lord with all his might, and David was wearing

  103. a linen effort. Amen.

  104. This was when the ark of the covenant of God was captured and

  105. taken to the enemy camp. And after some time the Lord

  106. performed some wonders there in the camp of the enemy.

  107. And the people decided that they can no more stay with the ark of

  108. the Lord because the ark of the Lord is killing them.

  109. So they decided to bring it back to its original place.

  110. And when the ark of the covenant of God, you know, the ark of the

  111. covenant of God represents the presence of God, represents the

  112. presence and the power and the glory of God.

  113. So when the ark of the Lord was taken away by the Philistines to

  114. the enemy can what it means is that the glory of God, the

  115. presence of God to the Israelites, the glory of God,

  116. the presence of God and the blessings of God has been taken

  117. away. Then after some time, because

  118. God was putting pressure on them, they decided to bring it

  119. back. And when they brought it back,

  120. David and his people, his musicians, you know, David

  121. himself was a musician. David and his people, his

  122. musician and his kingmakers and all of them met the Ark of the

  123. Covenant. And as the Ark of the Covenant

  124. was coming into the city, the Bible says David was singing.

  125. All the group was singing, dancing.

  126. And one man was telling that the Bible said when David misses

  127. steps 123, 456, then he will sacrifice an ox every six steps.

  128. It tells you that David recognized what the Lord has

  129. done. David knew the value of the ark

  130. of the covenant in the presence of Israel.

  131. In fact, whenever the ark of the covenant of God is with Israel

  132. and they go into a warfare, the presence of the covenant alone

  133. puts fear on the enemies. Only the presence without

  134. starting the war. When the enemies lend that the

  135. ark of the covenant of God is with Israel, because whenever

  136. they are going to war, they will carry the ark of the covenant of

  137. God with them. And whenever the enemy got to

  138. know that the the ark of the covenant of God has come to the

  139. warfront, that alone puts fear on the enemy.

  140. So David knew very well when the ark of the covenant of God was

  141. taken away, and by God's grace, the ark of the covenant of God

  142. was brought back. So he sacrificed a bull or an

  143. animal to the Lord. Every sin steps this evening, I

  144. pray whatever has been taken out away from you for this week,

  145. that you are celebrating the sexiest and the goodness of the

  146. Lord. May God bring it back to you.

  147. May God bring back to you whatever has been taken by the

  148. enemy in the name of Jesus, and by so doing you have every cause

  149. to sacrifice unto the Lord, to give an offering to the Lord, to

  150. dance before the presence of the Lord, to give your worship unto

  151. the Lord, to sing and praise God for what He has done.

  152. Amen. Then let us move to chairman.

  153. We say the big one, we going to the second part of the team

  154. where we read that is first, second somewhere 2424 David said

  155. I will not sacrifice unto the Lord anything that does not cost

  156. me. And Psalm 50 also says gather

  157. unto me my people who have covenants, gather to me, my

  158. faithful ones who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

  159. Amen. So we talking about celebrating

  160. the goodness of God, and if God has been so kind, so good and

  161. faithful to us, if God has taken us through all these years, then

  162. we have every cause to also sacrifice or offer unto the Lord

  163. for what He has done for us. Amen.

  164. So we are going to look at some two or three biblical characters

  165. who sacrificed unto the Lord. The first one is let us move to

  166. Genesis chapter 4 verse one to five, Genesis chapter 4 verse

    Genesis 4 chapter mention Genesis 4 chapter mention

  167. one to five, Genesis chapter 4 verse one to five.

    Genesis 4 chapter mention

  168. Now Adam knew his Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and

  169. both came saying, I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.

  170. And again she bore his brother Abel.

  171. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and came a worker of the ground,

  172. and in the and in the course of time came brought the Lord an

  173. offering of the fruit of the ground.

  174. And Abel also brought of the first born of his flock and of

  175. their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel

  176. and his offering. This is, I don't know, this kind

  177. of the other version says that the Lord was pleased with Abel

  178. and his offering and the Lord also and Abel also brought an

  179. offering offering five portions from some of his first of the

  180. first born of his flock. The law looked with favor.

  181. This is another version on Abel and his offering.

  182. Yes. No, please go forward.

  183. But he did not accept Cain and his gifts.

  184. This made Cain very angry and he looked dejected.

  185. I want you to take no, please go back.

  186. A later Abel also brought gifts to the gifts, the best of the

  187. first born lambs from his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his

  188. gift. Take note.

  189. The Lord accepted #1 Abel. There is A&D there, that is.

  190. And the Lord accepted Abel and his offering.

  191. So #1 God accepted Abel himself before accepting his offering #2

  192. let's, let's go for it. Take note of this one too.

  193. But the Lord did not accept. Take note.

  194. But the Lord did not accept Cain and his offering.

  195. Here too there is something I want you to take note.

  196. So in the 1st place, Cain himself was not accepted.

  197. That is why his offering was not accepted.

  198. Please are you following me? Abel was accepted and his

  199. offering also was accepted and the Bible said can the Lord was

  200. not pleased. That means he was not accepted.

  201. That young man was not correct even before then went in to

  202. offer sacrifices. That guy, he was not correct.

  203. He was not correct. That is why the Bible says God

  204. did not accept. God did not accept that His cane

  205. and His offering. I pray this evening that God

  206. will accept you, that God will accept the praises and the

  207. worships that you make you make unto the Lord every time,

  208. anytime that will come in His presence.

  209. Because if God does not accept you, anything, everything about

  210. you is useless. It is a fact.

  211. These are realities in the Bible.

  212. If God does not accept you, you in person, if God does not

  213. accept me as a minister of the gospel, then everything I do, it

  214. doesn't matter what I do, the end result is useless.

  215. So I pray that May God accept accept you as a person, May God

  216. accept your offering and May God accept your sacrifices.

  217. Everything, anything that you do unto the Lord, May God accept it

  218. in Jesus name. God accepted a bell, but the

  219. Bible says he accepted a bell and his.

  220. God accepted a bell and his offering but for Cain, the Bible

  221. said God did not accepted his offering.

  222. He did not accepted him #1 and #2 he himself his offering was

  223. also not accepted. I heard this story, some people

  224. used to say that Cain brought in some rotten Coco yams and

  225. plantains and too bad of yams. And so it is not, it is not

  226. biblical, it is never in it is not in the Bible at all.

  227. But the fact is that the guy was not correct.

  228. And I'll prove it to you. Let's move on to verse.

  229. Verse. Why are you so angry?

  230. The Lord asked him. Ask him, why do you look so

  231. dejected? Yes.

  232. You will be accepted. Take note.

  233. You will be accepted if you do what is right, if you behave

  234. well, if you conduct yourself well, you will be accepted.

  235. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out.

  236. Sin is crouching at crouching at the door, eager to control you,

  237. but you must subdue it and be its master.

  238. Please let's go for him. One day, Cair suggested to his

  239. brother. Let's go out into the 1st, and

  240. while they were there in the third, Cain attacked his brother

  241. Abel and killed him. It tells you who that guy is.

  242. He attacked his own brother and the Bible said he killed him.

  243. So there was some kind of bitterness and some kind of evil

  244. seed in that young man. Yes, let's move on.

  245. After all, the Lord asked Cain, where is your brother?

  246. Where is Abel? I don't know, Cain responded.

  247. Am I my brother's guardian, Adama?

  248. She says, am I my brother's keeper?

  249. You see the kind of response that he gave to God, It tells

  250. you if there was no response even after he has sent, after he

  251. has killed his own brother. And God himself came in to

  252. enquire of whereabout of his brother and he said am I the

  253. keeper? I don't know.

  254. I don't know his whereabout. Am I the keeper of my brain?

  255. If you are looking for a bird, are you know God?

  256. Can't you find where he is? Why do you come and ask me?

  257. Yeah. When you read some Bible

  258. commentary, this is what he says.

  259. So you could see that the guy himself was not correct.

  260. I was reading some Bible commentary and said that after

  261. Adam and Eve sin and they were drove drove out of the garden of

  262. Eden, they conceived and gave birth to Eve.

  263. So the sin Incarnate in they conceived and gave birth to a

  264. cave. So the sin Incarnate in cave was

  265. so strong. This is by the way.

  266. But what I'm saying is, God said he told him that if you had done

  267. what is good, will you not be accepted?

  268. It means that you have right to do what is good and you have

  269. right to do what is evil. Then he warned him, be very

  270. careful because sin is encroaching at your door.

  271. It desires to destroy you. It desires to kill you, but take

  272. control. Don't give him master it.

  273. Yet God gave him this one. Yet this guy, because of the

  274. state in which he was, he couldn't repent.

  275. I pray that as we celebrate the six years of this great church,

  276. May God have mercy on us, and may no bitter root begin to grow

  277. in any of us. And May God accept you even just

  278. as you are. May God accept you as a person.

  279. May God accept you young lady. May God accept you young man,

  280. and may everything that you do, even you are clapping when you

  281. come to church and you are singing, you are dancing.

  282. Even the dress that you come to church with, May God accept it

  283. in Jesus name. And when God accept everything

  284. of yours, then you are done. Amen.

  285. When God accepts everything that you do, then you have God on

  286. your side. Amen.

  287. So May God accept the tides and the offerings that you've been

  288. given. These days on the social media,

  289. you hear people saying a whole lot of things about Titan and

  290. about offering and so on. And so my especially attacking

  291. the Church of Pentecost. So when I was studying this

  292. afternoon, I came to this point and this one came to me.

  293. If there are people who don't know our God, that one is a.

  294. But to us, those of us who know our God, one, one name.

  295. Yeah, yeah, me one someone. So in celebrating the goodness

  296. of God, we have to get a good heart before our sacrifices will

  297. be accepted by the Lord. Amen.

  298. So if there are sacrifices that honest God on the opposite side,

  299. what it means is that there are other sacrifices to who which

  300. does not honor God. And that is exactly what

  301. happened in the case of Cain. His brother sacrifice was

  302. accepted, but his was not accepted this evening.

  303. May God accept you and even the very mind, the thoughts that you

  304. have, your imaginations, May God accept it.

  305. Amen. May God accept you.

  306. So there was a time that Jesus was in the church auditorium and

  307. offerings and sacrifices were being made.

  308. It's one of your one of your quotations that is a mark 1241

  309. And as Jesus was standing by the offering war, people were giving

  310. off friends, fast envelope and so on and so forth.

  311. Then a woman came along, dropped in some money, went and sat

  312. down. Then Jesus called his disciples

  313. and said, I tell you the truth, this woman has given more than

  314. everybody in the room. Why was Jesus?

  315. Why did Jesus made that comment? He saw the mind and the heart of

  316. that woman. He saw the mind and the heart of

  317. that woman. Of course it is good to give fat

  318. envelopes and big man. We need it to develop the

  319. church. But whatever you give or

  320. sacrifice unto the Lord, whatever you do unto for the

  321. Lord, either by sacrificing money, giving an offering,

  322. paying of tithe, and so on and so forth, let your heart be part

  323. of what you are doing or giving unto the Lord.

  324. If not, you give it, and at the end of the day you gain nothing

  325. out of it. So Jesus saw the woman's heart

  326. and said, this woman has given more than anyone in this

  327. auditorium. May God accept your offerings

  328. and whatever you give unto the Lord.

  329. If I when I got to know about this mystery, I realized that

  330. whatever I do, every step that I take, everywhere that I speak,

  331. anything and everything that I do, I have to make sure that God

  332. accepts it. If not, the rest of whatever I

  333. do as a minister will be useless.

  334. So May God accept you, May God accept you.

  335. I say, May God accept you. And the Bible said after Cain

  336. has killed his brother, when God appeared to Cain, he said, your

  337. brother's blood is calling out for you.

  338. And when you read the book of Hebrew, the heroes of faith, the

  339. Bible said by faith Abel sacrifice an offering unto the

  340. Lord, and through that even he died.

  341. And the Bible said he still speaks.

  342. What does this mean? It means that people who

  343. sacrifices wholeheartedly unto the Lord, even after their

  344. death, the blessings continues in their family.

  345. It is true, it is happening in this church.

  346. We have seen it over and over again and it is still happening.

  347. Praise the Lord. So please, whatever you are

  348. doing, cleaning of the temple gander, cleaning of chairs,

  349. choirmaster, bandsmen, instrumentalists, Deacon,

  350. deaconess, elders, whatever you do, please do it with all your

  351. strength and do it with all your heart.

  352. It's a form of sacrifice unto the Lord.

  353. And when God accepts that one, the Bible says seek ye fails the

  354. Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all the other

  355. things, all the other things will follow.

  356. Amen. So May God accept you this

  357. evening even as he accepted Abel, and may the offering and

  358. the sacrifices that you are making daily in the temple of

  359. God, may He, may He continue on throughout the generations to

  360. come. Amen.

  361. Then we move to another man who sacrificed to the Lord, and his

  362. sacrifice was so much so that it baffles me.

  363. Let us move to Genesis 22 one to 8.

  364. Genesis 22 one to 8. I want somebody to read for me.

  365. Genesis 20, somebody who can read, if you can give it the new

  366. international version. I prefer that.

  367. The NIV. Yeah.

  368. Who is reading for us? Yeah, Genesis 2822, one to 8.

  369. Sometime later God tested Abraham.

  370. He said to him, Abraham, here I am, he replied.

  371. Then God said, take your son, your only son whom you love,

  372. Isaac, and go to the region of Moria.

  373. Sacrifice him there as a bent offering on a mountain.

  374. I will show you. Please wait, please go back, it

  375. says some time later, after some time after Abraham had gone

  376. through all these challenges, God called Abraham when he was

  377. 75 years and he promised to give him a son.

  378. And for 25 years later, this promise had not come to pass.

  379. Even in the course of time, his wife Sarah told him to at least

  380. take her maid servants. And we all know what happened,

  381. but at the end of the day, God fulfilled his promise and Isaac

  382. was born. Then the Bible said after Isaac

  383. was born, after some time, some time later God tested Abraham.

  384. He said to him, Abraham. Then he said, here I am Lord.

  385. Then his God said, take your son.

  386. You are only, take note, your only son that time.

  387. Is it true that Abraham had only one son?

  388. There is a mystery here. Is it true that Abraham had only

  389. one son? Ishmael had been born.

  390. But you know God did not accept Ishmael as a son of Abraham.

  391. That is why he told him, after Abraham took that young lady and

  392. and the lady conceived and gave birth, God came to Abraham and

  393. said, Abraham Nantimanim Nayapet, walk before me and be

  394. perfect when you study the Bible.

  395. Very well, after some years that that young lady conceived in the

  396. House of Abraham, till he gave birth God never appeared to

  397. Abraham. It was after some time that God

  398. appeared to him. Then he told him, drive away

  399. this house and the child. So Ishmael and the mother were

  400. taking us from Abraham's household.

  401. They were driven away. God didn't even want to look at

  402. them, so they went. So the time that Abraham Isaac

  403. was born to God, Abraham had only one son.

  404. That is why he said take your only son, take your only son.

  405. And Abraham knew that to God he had only one son.

  406. Abraham also knew that and go to the region of Moria sacrifice

  407. him there as an as a band offering on on a mountain that I

  408. will show you just go and when you study the Bible very well.

  409. They traveled for three days amounting to 50 to 60 kilometers

  410. miles, sorry, not kilometers miles 50 to 60 miles.

  411. Then at the end of the third day, please continue.

  412. Yes, uh huh. Only the next morning Abraham

  413. got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his

  414. servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for

  415. the bent offering, he set out for the place God had told him

  416. about. On the third day, Abraham looked

  417. up and saw the place in the distance.

  418. After the third day. After the dead, he.

  419. Saw the place in the distance, He saw Mount Moria far away.

  420. So you ask yourself, all these were working for three days, 50

  421. to 60 miles. What was going through the mind

  422. of this man? So after the three days, he saw

  423. it. After three days, he hadn't even

  424. read the place. He saw the place in a far away.

  425. Then he did something. Yes, verse.

  426. He said to his servants, Stay here with the donkey while I and

  427. the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will

  428. come back to you. Amen.

  429. Amen. He knew very well that God has

  430. asked him to when sacrifice his Son has bent off him.

  431. But after three days he got to a place he saw Maria far away.

  432. I had in front of him. Then he told the servant to sit

  433. there and wait for him. And he said, I and the boy who

  434. go over there, we will worship the Lord and we will come back

  435. to you. I pray that God will open up

  436. your eyes and your understanding that you know who Goddess when

  437. you read the Bible very well. The Bible says He knew that even

  438. though when he calls the Son, God is able to bring him back.

  439. That is why he did not ask question.

  440. I call this expensive sacrifice. Yes, we are about to finish.

  441. Yes. Abraham took the wood for the

  442. bench offering and placed it on his son's head.

  443. On his son Isaac, Yes, and he himself carried the fire and the

  444. knife. As the two of them went on

  445. together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham,

  446. Father. Yes, my son, Abraham replied.

  447. The fire and the wood are here, Isaac said, But where is the

  448. lamb for the bent's offering? Abraham answered.

  449. God himself will provide the Lamb for the Bent's offering.

  450. My Son. And the two of them went on

  451. together. Amen.

  452. Amen. May God provide for you, I said.

  453. May God, the Bible says he collecting that be not as though

  454. they were stored somewhere when the world was being created.

  455. God had no natural resources, He had no materials.

  456. The Bible says he collecting that be not, although they were

  457. stored somewhere. This building that we see the

  458. pillars and so are made of of iron rods and cement and sand

  459. and stones and so on and so forth.

  460. These are artificial flowers. It is made out of something.

  461. They took it through some machines and at the end of the

  462. day we had this end product. But when God was creating the

  463. world, the Bible says there was nothing.

  464. Like raw materials, he just collect things into being and

  465. they came forth. Amen.

  466. I pray that God will call the impossibility to be possible in

  467. your life. This young man, he had been

  468. seeing the Father going out there to offer sacrifice

  469. whenever the Abraham is going. He had a lamb, a sheep or

  470. whatever with him. But this time around he told

  471. him, we are going to offer sacrifices unto the Lord.

  472. They were carrying the fire, the wood, and all the knife and so

  473. on and so forth. But he saw no sheep.

  474. There was no sheep, the lamb or the animal.

  475. For the sacrifice for the for the sacrifice was not part of

  476. the agenda. So this young man had been

  477. thinking about it for all these three days.

  478. Then he opened his mouth. And as Father, so you said we

  479. are going to offer sacrifices unto the Lord.

  480. Yes, the firewood. I've seen that you are holding

  481. the knife with which you used to cut the throat of the animal.

  482. This is the fire. And the other thing that we went

  483. to made the offering and so on and so forth.

  484. But please, where is the animal? And the Father said the Lord

  485. would provide. May God provide for you, and

  486. indeed the Lord did provide. At the end of the day, when the

  487. God to Manmaria, the Bible says he set up that fire altar.

  488. He put the son Isaac on it, covered the fence and drew his

  489. knife. For the sake of time we cannot

  490. read. Or when you go, you can

  491. continue. He lifted up the hand, the knife

  492. and was about to slash the throat of this young man and the

  493. Bible said a voice from the from heaven shouted Abraham.

  494. Abraham, don't touch the child. Just lift up your eyes and look

  495. into the thick Bush over there. There is around.

  496. May God provide for you. Sometimes certain things in our

  497. lives seem to be impossible. We think where we are, where we

  498. have gotten to, there is nothing we can do and so on and so

  499. forth. But I want to assure you tonight

  500. that God is on your side and it is possible you provide it.

  501. The vision is yet for an appointed time, even though it

  502. tarries, the Bible says wait for it, it shall never prove false.

  503. It shall surely come to pass. And the right and the appointed

  504. time God provided a sheep, and which was used for the

  505. sacrifice. May God provide for you.

  506. And may the will and the purpose of God concerning your life be

  507. established. Even as we sacrifice unto the

  508. Lord, as we celebrate the goodness of the Lord, and also

  509. sacrifice unto the Lord a sacrifice that honors God.

  510. May God fears and foremost accept you, and may He accept

  511. your offering, and may He provide for you even as you

  512. sacrifice unto the Lord. God bless you in Jesus name.

  513. Amen. Please let us be on our feet,

  514. Let us be on our feet. Just be quiet.

  515. Just be quiet before the presence of the Lord.

  516. Kapasura tabi kadabaya LAN tuba shiki bredabayan dala Baba libro

  517. sabada yandala. My.

  518. Oh. Can you

  519. please forward? None.

  520. None. Brothers and sisters, God has

  521. been so kind, good and faithful to us.

  522. My special escape to English assembly for this past six

  523. years. As I did mention when I was

  524. starting to preach, you have gone through a lot challenges

  525. and problems, but God has been faithful, God has been kind, God

  526. has taken you through and God has brought you this far.

  527. None. None.

  528. The. None.

  529. The. As we celebrate the goodness of

  530. God for what He has done for us, I want you to turn back and look

  531. into your life. Go back into yourself and look

  532. into your life, where God brought you from and where you

  533. have reached the deliverance. God's divine guidance is

  534. provision. Just last week, young men and

  535. women who are going in for employment in the army.

  536. Some young men who has gone through to the university, they

  537. just told their parents, Mommy, I'm going, I'm going to a work

  538. stadium and I'll be by, I believe by one, one in the

  539. afternoon I'll be at home. And six of them never came back.

  540. God has been kind to you. God has been good to you.

  541. The God has been kind to you. So as we celebrate the goodness

  542. of the Lord this week for bringing escape to English

  543. assembly this far for this six years, I want you to look back

  544. into your own life, what the Lord has done for you, and begin

  545. to celebrate the goodness of God.

  546. Begin to bless the Lord. Begin to lift up the name of the

  547. Lord in the name of Jesus. Holy Ghost, we want to thank

  548. you, Lord, we want to. The.

  549. None. None.

  550. None. We studied, we studied Genesis

    Genesis 4 chapter mention

  551. chapter 4, and I made mention that if there is a God who

  552. honest, if there is a God who honest sacrifices, if there is a

  553. sacrifice that honors God, Yeah. If there is a sacrifice that

  554. honors God, it means that there is also a sacrifice that does

  555. not honor God. And we saw it in the life of

  556. these two young men, Cain and Abel.

  557. The Bible said God was pleased with Abel and his offering.

  558. He was pleased with Abel himself before he was pleased with his

  559. offering. The Bible said again that God

  560. was not pleased with Cain and he was not pleased with his

  561. offering. We are praying this evening,

  562. committing ourselves into the hands of the Lord.

  563. The first thing that you need from God as we celebrate the

  564. goodness of the Lord is that you will be pleased unto the Lord

  565. Jesus, that the Lord will accept your offering, that the Lord

  566. will accept you even just as you are.

  567. We are praying, committing ourselves into the hands of the

  568. Lord, that May God accept us. May God be pleased with us in

  569. the name of Jesus. Pray, pray, pray.

  570. I. In the name of Jesus.

  571. None. Yes, yes.

  572. The. None.

  573. None in the name of Jesus. We also studied about Abraham

  574. who sacrificed, who was about to sacrifice Isaac unto the Lord.

  575. And when you read from verse 15, after the Lord called from

  576. heaven to Abraham to stop killing his son, verse 15 and

  577. the Angel of the Lord called Abraham out of heaven the second

  578. time and said, I swear by myself, for because you have

  579. done this, I will not withheld. Because you have done this and

  580. has not withheld your son from me, your only son, I will bless

  581. you and multiply all your seed. Because you have done this, we

  582. are praying, committing escape to English assembly, to the

  583. hands of the Law. We are committing all the

  584. members into the hands of the Law because of your obedience to

  585. the law, because of your sacrifices unto the law, even as

  586. we celebrate the goodness of the law.

  587. May God call from heaven, May God call from heaven, May God

  588. call from heaven and shower down blessings unto this.

  589. Let us pray. Let us pray.

  590. None. Now take note of the 17 I will

  591. surely bless you and make your design descendants as numerous

  592. as the stars in the sky and as the sun on the seashore.

  593. Your descendants would take possession of the cities of

  594. their enemies. This is thousands of years ago

  595. that God said, but as we speak now, Israel is taking control

  596. over Gaza as we speak now. Well, superpowers has spoken by

  597. Netanyahu, stands where he stands.

  598. That small nation, that small nation is right.

  599. He was able to stand before Trump and say I won't do what

  600. you are saying. And no nation on that can stand

  601. before American President do what Netanyahu is doing and

  602. still go on fighting and possessing the land of the

  603. enemies tells you that what God said is true.

  604. He says your descendant to possess the cities of the

  605. enemies. We are praying as we we

  606. celebrating as we celebrating the goodness of the Lord.

  607. We are asking God the Holy Spirit, Jesus, because of our

  608. sacrifices. May God cause us to possess the

  609. gates of our enemies. Pray and commit yourself.

  610. We are praying our last prayer for this evening.

  611. We are praying committing Escapedu Worship Center, more

  612. especially English assembly into the hands of the Lord.

  613. For this says yes. God has been so kind, good and

  614. faithful. We are asking God for the years

  615. ahead to be with us, to strengthen us, that this

  616. assembly will possess the gates of the enemy, that the blessings

  617. of God will be poured abundant in this local assembly, that the

  618. glory of the Lord will be revealed, that God will accept

  619. our offering, and that God will accept the members of escaping.

  620. And. Let us resume our seats.

  621. The. This song is so we were praying

  622. somewhere in Kumar say and one minister had this song the same

  623. tune by a different May God.

  624. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we want to thank you.

  625. We want to bless you. We'll lift up your name on high

  626. for great things you have done. We thank you for what you have

  627. done, for escaping the English assembly, for this says yes.

  628. We thank you for what you have done.

  629. We thank you and bless you for what you are doing.

  630. And we worship you and assault you for what you are about to

  631. do. Our Lord and our God.

  632. We bless you even as we celebrate the goodness of the

  633. Lord and sacrifice, A sacrifice that honors God.

  634. We commit this assembly into your hands, O Lord, that first

  635. and foremost you accept this local assembly and the members

  636. in this assembly. Then secondly, Lord, you accept

  637. their sacrifices, you accept their offerings, you accept

  638. their services, you accept their worship and everything that I do

  639. here to be accepted unto you. Lord, let it be so in the name

  640. of Jesus. We also commit leadership of

  641. this assembly, our pastor Emmanuel Osakosan, the wife and

  642. children, our presenter, the elders, the kings and

  643. deaconesses, and every member of this great church, even Sunday

  644. school children. We commit them into your hands.

  645. O Lord, you started six years ago with them, and that's far as

  646. you brought them. That's far have you brought

  647. them? We are asking God in the name of

  648. Jesus, the Bible says you start a good word and you bring it to

  649. a good conclusion. So we are praying, asking that

  650. your presence will continue to abide with this church, and that

  651. the will and the purpose of you God concerning this assembly

  652. will be established. May the desires of the heart of

  653. your heart be established, and may the will and the purpose of

  654. God concerning your lives be established.

  655. Even as you celebrate the goodness of the Lord and

  656. sacrifice A sacrifice that honest God.

  657. May the will and the purpose of God concerning your life be

  658. established, and may He accept you and your offering.

  659. In the mighty name of Jesus. I've prayed with Thanksgiving.

  660. Amen. Let's clap on to the Lord.

  661. Let's clap on to the Lord.